Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-01-06

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defore ed Missouri OF her place in the Union 20.
tho entire session which he first attended,, not
served. in the Congress OF the United STATES is
nolitcs could not be severely tfIeu ~ tue 'he "
-. alien and sedition law, whenshe was scarce
If ace: hut wereswell tried during the late war
when he sided with his country and received tue
constant denunciations OF that great organ OF ieu
erallsm-the Federal Republican newspaper
Nor the rest. Mr.. B. admitted that the oecre'a-
rv had voted for the elder Adams to De PRESIDENT
RI the limited States; but denied the right OF GER
tain persons to make that an objection 10 MIN. =
MIR. b. dismissed these personal charges Tor .ne
nresent. and would adjourn their consideration
until his trial came on, for which the Senator
from Kentucky (Mr Clay stood pledged; ana
after the trial was over, he had no doubt Dnt that
the Secretary of the Treasury, although Cain
oIc and federailst would be found to MAINTAIN
his station in the first rank OF American gentie-
men, and American patriots
Mr. B took up the serious charges against the
Secretary. that Of being the mere instrument OF
the President in removing the deposltes and VI
olating the Constitution and laws OF the iand.-
How far he was this mere instrument, making
I'D his mind in three days to DO what olhers
would not do at all. might be judged oy every
person who would refer to the opposition papers
of the deposites, and which constantly classed
Mr.. fancy, then the Attorney General, on the
side of removal. This cassIhcatlO was correct
and notorious, anil ought to exempt All honorable
man. if any thing could exempt him, from the
imputa,ion of being mere instrument in great
transaction of which he was prime counsellor.
The Tact is, he had long since, in his character OF
legal adviser to the President, advised the reno
val of these deposites; and, when suddenly and
xpectedIv called upon to take the Office which
| would make ii his duty to act upon his own adj
vice, he accepted it from the single sense OF hon
or and duty, and that he might not seem to de,
sert the President in flinching from the perform
ance of what he had recommended Ills person
al honor was clean; his personal conduct mag
nanimous; his official deeds would abide the test
! of law and truth.
Mr. B said he would make short work of long
accusations, and demoish in three minutes what
had been cOncocting for three months, and dellv.
ering for three daysin the Senate. He would
call the attention of the Senate to certain clauses
of law, and certain Treasury instructions. which
| had been left out of view, but which were deci-
sive OF the accusation against the Secretary. The
first was the clause in the Bank charter which in
vested the Secretary with the power OF transfer
ring the public funds from place to place. 1t
was the 18Th section of the charter; he would
read it. 1t enacted that whenever required by
the SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY the Bank
should give the necessary facilities for TRANSFER
ING the public funds from place to place within
the UNITED STATES or TERRITORIES THEREOF;
and for DISTRIBUTING the same in payment oil
j the public creditors, &c.
Here Is authority to the Secretary to transfer
the public moneys from place to place, limited
only by the bounds of the United States, and its
Territories; and this clause, Of three lines oil
law, puts to flight all the nonsense about the
United States Bank being the Treasury. and the
Treasurer being the keeper of the public moneys,
with which some POLITICIANS and newspaper @ri
ters had been worrying their brains for the last
three months. IL virtue Of This clause the Sc.
cretary of the Treasury gave certain transfer
drafts to The amount Of two millions and quar-
ter; and his legal right to give the draft was just
as clear under this clause of the Bank charter as
his right to remove the depnsites was under anO
Their clause of it, The transfer is made by draft;
payment out of the Treasury made upon ,Oas
rant; and the difference between transfer draft,
and Treasury warrant, was thing necessary
to be known by every man who aspired to the H.
Illuminating of nation, or even to the understand
ing of himself. TO make this clear, Mir Is read
extracts from the Treasury instructions TO Banks
of deposite in 1929, and from certain letters from
the Treasurer of the United States to the Cash
Ter of the Bank of the United States in the montt
Of November last which would justify the issue
of the transfer drafts, and quiet the alarms of al
those who thought the Treasurer had forfeited the
penalty of his bond, and the Secretary had VIC
lated the clause of the Constitution which forbid;
money to be drawn from the Treasury except up
on warrants and under appropriation laws
1 They would show that the transfer drafts. were
not warrants; that they drew nothing from 'ht
Treasury, but made Treasury in every place
into which they carried money within the limits
Of the United States, or its Territories, whether
there was branch of the United States Bank
there or not
ITO be continued