The Arkansas advocate., 1834-05-16
The question on the renewal of the char

The question on the renewal of the cnar- ter of the old Bank of the United States, was made a pdrty one by the /" Democrats tof '9S, because of a very generally enter tained belief whether well or i'll founded 1t is not worth while to inquire, that it grant- ed or refused its accommodations to indi- viduals, in proportion to their zeal for or against the :. Federal party. Sach 1pas ths general belief. But until the assault of the President of the United States on the present bank. who ever suspected that 1t meddled in politics? Did not Mir. Van Bu- ren, Vice President, even so late as 1926, with Mr. Butler, the present Attorney Gen eral of the United States, MT. Marcy, the present Governor of New York, and others of the highest class of present politicians, earnestly entreat the bank to establish u branch at Albany? Would they have asked the location of monster" in the midst of them? Had 1t ever been said that political party influenced the appointment of Di- rec;ors of the bank, or it's offices? Was not the generally acting president of the bank, in the absence of EIr. Riddle, until lately q < Jackson man?n Ire there not ss Jackson men" even yet in all the officers! Indeed we are informed, that in several of them, d majority were Jackson men,o at the time of their appointment, and perhaps, yet re- main so, except on this weiehty question How was it in the s democratico Penusyl- vania, less than two years ago? Every body was in favor of the bank How with Gov. 1 Wolf some months ago? The bank had not better friend than he wasi And so we might go on for an hour, but Il IS unneces- sary. Ii is President Jackson who has caused the results on the bank questions to be made through the force of political party. The bank, admitting all that Is said to be true, has not, in our opinion, expended so much money in defending herself, as has been expended at the late election held in the city of New York, alone, by persons holding offices there, that the spells of vic tory may be and remain with them.
 The question even concerning the reneu- dl of the charter of the bank, was not made vsto q s qat Bf foreed fo bE the dd PTesideqts , House of Representatives on the 3d of ,Ju. Ily, 1882, l07 to S5, many of the most stur. dy and .entire" friends of the Presiden l voting for 1t, having passed the Senate or the lth of the preceding month, 2s to 20
 Messrs. Dallas, Wilkins, Ste. in the affirm ative. In both Houses there acere lcrae Jackson mGjorsiies. The veto, however came, the act of one man against such de- cided vote. in both houses, on the 10th of July-and then, for the first time, did the affairs of the bank begin to assume polit- ical character, so far as the "Jackson or anti-JaclSson parties" were concerned.- And in further proof, yet, even yet, Mir. DaI- las and Mr. Wilkins voted to pass the bank bili, the veto of the President notwitilsfand- ing, though as throughly party men as any in Congress, in pursuance of the almost unanimous instructions of both branches of the !" democratic" Legislature of Pennsyl- vania And t will be recollected, that. only about thirteen months ago, and in 1883, the
 House rejected a proposition to sell the
 stock, and declared that it was a safe de-
 pository of the public money-which, how
 ever, was withdrawn by.the President, six
 or seven months afterwards-to wit, on the
 lst Octobcr, ls33.--.A .Aalea.