Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1834-10-13
Mr.. TANEY AND Mr.. WEBSTER

made by MIR w. in his speech on tho Presidents
Protest, and afterwards repeated in his address a,
the Salem dinner. As il is probable that Mr.
Webster will reply TO Mr.. Taney's attack in some
shape or other, We have determined 10 pu, our rea.
ders at once IN possession Of the facts connected with
the threatened controversy. The statemcn, made by
Mr.. Webster, and complained of by Mr. Taney, is
contained IN the following extract from his speech
OIL the Protest:
We sre officially Informed that an officer is ap-
pointed hY the Secretary OF the Treasury To inspect
or super,arend these selected banks and tbs Off.
Ger is compen stated by salary fixed by the Execu.
tive, agreed to by the Banks, and paid by them
ask, SIR, # thcrecan be more irregular, Ell a more
illegal transaction than this 7 Whose money is
1t out of which this salary is paid Is it not mo-
ncv justly due to the United States, and paid, be-
cause is SO due, FOR the advantage of holding the
dcpos,es2 II dollar is received on tina, account,
IS not its only true destination irto the general
treasury OF the Government And who has au
'h1rity, without law, to create an Office to FIX sa
ary, and 10 pay that salary ont of this money 7
Here Is an inspector, supervisor OF the deposite
banks. But what law has provided for such an
oiicer2 What commission has he received Who
concurred in his appointment What cath does
he take 7 How is he to be pun shed, or mpeach-
ed, Il he collades with any of these banks to en-.
bezZle the public money or defraud The Govern
ment The value of the use OF this public money
to the deposlte banks is probably Two hundred thou
sand dollars year. or If less than that, IL is yet
certainly, very grea, sum. May the President,
appoint whatever officers he plcases, with whalev.
er duties he pleases, and pay them much as he
peases,out ofthese moneys thus paid by the banks,
for the sake Of having the dcposi.es p
Mr.. fancy, in his Elk,on speech, con,rovcrts
this statement, and asserts that such " official
information" was ever laid before the Senate as s
spoken ofby MIR. Webster, upon which his state
ncnt is based, and from winch his differences are
dcduced. Mr.. fancy read, on the same occasion.
the oalg Report made by him % tho Senate, touch
ing this subject, in which II is stated in substance,
that the business OF the Treasury with Banks, is
performed by Mr. Samuel Nj. Mexican, by whom
1t had been discharged for upwards Of four years,
at salary of $1,000 per annum, and that no other
agent had been employed since he transfer Of the
public deposes from the U. 5 Bank to the State
Banks.
MIR. fancy alleges tina, Mr. Webscrserror was
pointed out bv various papers Immediately after his
speech in the Senate, a,d complains, that although
he must have b9en aware of this fact, he has never
acknow lodged that error, but that, the contrary
he has since taken occasion deliberately 10 repest
it. He charges Mr.. W. therefore, in broad terms,
with having " stated the contents of an Official
| communication in direct and unequiyocal oppos-
ton to The truth, and comments upon his conduct
| with great seyerity-and We will add, that, if Mr.
Webster cannot satisfactorily explain his conduct,
| with as much justice as severity.
But, we will venture to predict that Mr.. Webster
wiU satisfactorily remove this lmputa,ion upon hi,
verac,Y and entirely vindicste his personal honor
from the assault of MIR. fancy. We think, indeed,
that we very clearly see Mr.. Taney's own misap-
prchcnsion Of the marer. Although it be true, us
he states, that there was no other report from
! the Treasury Department, the subject Of the
appointment of a Bank agent, 70 supervise the de-
posites in the local Banks, than that read by him
al the Elkton dinner, yet there was another docm
meHt before the Senate the contents Of which fully
warrant every assertion made and every difference
drawn by Mr. Webster, in the foregoing extract
from his speech in the Senate, and which he after
wards, TO the great annoyance Of Mr.. fancy, re-
peated at the Salem dinner. That document is The
agreomcn. entered into between the Secretary of
The Treasury and the several Deposlte Banks, in
which the appointment of an officer "by the Sc
cTctary of the Treasury, 10 snpcSin'end these Sc
lec'od Banks" is expressly made the CONDITION of
uiaion ina, the solary O. tins officer is to be " fixed
by The Executive" but 10 bn paid by the Banks y
Here, then was Mr.. Webs,ers authority, and not
the Report quoted by Mr.. fancy, which Mr.. w
neither named nor alluded to, as the basis of MS
remarks. Nothing is easier than 10 charge n mnn
with fasehood, and even TO conrict him of IT, in the
opinion Of prejndced or superficial Observers If the
accuser is allowed to throw ont ofyiew all test.
mony which he pleeses, and to select that TO which
the patty accused never had reference. For exam
plc-A. charges the President with having claimed
for the Executive the light Of custody to the pub
lie money-B denies that the President ever set up
such IA claim, and referring TO his cabinet Mani.
icslo," in which not n word is said upon the sub
jcci, he convicts A. 10 the satisfaction of all who
had never read who had forgotten his Protest"
that the President had been basely slandered. So
with Mr.. fancy and Mr. Wcbstcr.-The former
accuses the latter Of having stated un'ruy the
contents ofone of his Reports in his speech in the
Senate and at the Salem dinner, when, in truth
MIR. Webster had no reference in the remarks
complained Of TO that Report, but drew his state
mcns entirely from another document, Likewise
emenating from the Treasury Department. but the
existence of which Mr.. fancy seems very conve-
ncntIy for his purpose, entirely TO have forgotten
We shall not be very much astonlshed if our cx-
PLANTATION of this apparent violation of veracIty by
Mr.. Webster he subs antialIy that which will be
given by himself should h" reply to the attack Of
Mr.. Taney--And fitb", it evidently places the
Ex-Secrelary in the very dllcmmo in which he
seeks 10 involve Mr. Webster. He has not, it is
true, n,isstatcd any Report, but he has concealed
the exis!cncs Of document, the existence of which
fine had admitted, would have deprived his assault
upon Mr.. Webster Of the sembancc Of justice