Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1834-02-06
EXTRACT
From M. Benton's Speech on the Renoval Of

mere instrument Of the President in re
moving the deposites and violating the
*Contitution and laws of The land.-H How
far hewas this mere instrument, making
up his mind in three days to do what 9th
ers would not do at all, rnight be iudgec
by every person who would refer to the
opposition papers for the division in the
Cabinet about the removal of the depos
ties, and which constantly classed Mr.
fancy, then the attorney General, on the
-f'ee Or removal. I ms classification wa;
correct and notorious, and ought to ex
en-. an honorable man, if any thing could
exempt him, from the imputation of be
ing a mere instrument in great transact
ton Of which be was prime counsellor
The fact is, he had long since, IN his char.
acter Of legal adviser to the President
advised the removal of these deposites
and, when suddenly and unexpectedly
5 called upon to take the office which would
make It his duty to act upon his own ad
vice, he accepted it from the single sense
of honor and duty, and that he might no,
seem to desert the President in fhncsiine
from the performance of whit he had re
commended. His personal hoppr wa:
clean; his personal conduct magnanmous
his official deeds would abide the test Of
law and truth.
Mr.. B. said he would make shori work
OF long accusations, and demolish inthree
minutes what had been connecting for
three months, and delivering for three
days in the Senate. He would call the
attention ofthe Senate to oertaipipasages
of law, and certain Treasury instrufioi,s,
whieh had been left out Of view, but Which
were decisive Of the accusation against
the Secretary. The first was the dause
in the Bank charter which invested the
Secretary with the power Of transtdrlns
the public funds from placcto place. 1t
was the 18th section Of the charter he
/, would read il. II enacted that, whenever
required by the Secretary Of nc 1reasty'
the Bank should give the necessary fsf'i
tiles for transferring the pubic tunds frpm
nlaco To Mace within the United STATES OF
=, s.,,..eS Mereef; and for distributing the
same in payment Of 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 of 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 writer's had been worrying
their brains for the last three months. In
virtue Of this clause, the Secretary 81 me
Treasury gave certain transfer drafts to
the amount Of two millions and quar-
ter; and his legal right TO give the draft
was lust as clear under this clause OF the
Bank charter as his right to remove the
deposites was under another clause oil IT..
The transfer is made by draft; a payment
out of the Treasury is made upon srdri
rent; and the difference between trans
fer draft, and Treasury warrant, was a
thing necessary to be known by every
man who aspired to the illuminating OF a
nation, or even the understanding of him.
self. To make This clear, Mr.. b. read
extracts from the Treasury instructions 10
Banks Of deposite in 1929, and from Ger
tain letters from the Treasurer Of the Y.
nited States to the Cashier Of the Bank OF
the United States in the month Of Novem
her last. which would justify the issue OF
The transfer drafts, and quiet the alarms
Of all those who thought the Treasurer
had forfeited the penalty Of his bond, and
The o..re,aiy nad violated the clause oil
the Constitution which forbids money to
be drawn from the Treasury except upon
warrants and under appropriation laws.
, They would show that the transfer drafts
were not warrants; that they drew moth
ing from the Treasury. but made Treas
ury in every place into which they car
ried money within the limits Of the Uni
led States, or its Territ pries, whether
there was branch Of the United States
Bank there or not.
Extract Of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES to NE Banks
employed as repositories Of The Puddle Mo
v neys, dated,
.TnEAsuRy DEPARTMENT, May %, 1929
GAN public moneys received on or SUI.
s.ouently to the LIST Of june will be placed
I, The credit Of Mr.. Campbell, as Treas
wer. They will be drawn for by him
i the following manner.and no other.
/. The Secretary Of the Treasury will
issue his warrant upon the Treasurer, di
Il xuhich xwarrant will