The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1834-02-26
MIR. PeytOn's Remarks i'm the
House Of Representatives.

N1r. PeytOn's Remarks I'm the
House OF Representatives.
Gentlemen who had formerly stood
like tigers, ready to spring at each 9TH
er's throats, now embrace each other in
their patriotic arms. Are not the lead
ers of this coalition those who recently
brought the country to the brink fruin
What had united them Was it love,
or deadly hate, or patriotic zealf 1t
was patriotic in gentlemen to guard the
peoples liberty for man should love
hls country moro than self and next TO
God. Should tO-morrow's sun behold
this administration swept away-if eve
ry member of 1t should meet his Brutus
while he sleeps, would the new attach
ment which has thus sprung up between
these individuals cOntinne As soon
would winter combine with summer, as
those factions with each other. Their
fixed and settled determination was to
rule or ruin. They talk of Cesar all
other tyrants whom poets or historians
have handed down TO us. Now, he
would SIX any man to reflect on all the
examples Of the subyersion of popular
liberty, and then say whether it has not
always been effected through the means
of disappointed factions. They induce
the people 10 consider themselves as
slaves shed their patriotic tears over
the constitution, and on either side of
the same question ; and then they are
prepared for the struggle. Mr.. p wen,
back to see how Cesar obtained his
power, aud showed that it was by uni
ting two con,ending factions and thro'
them, breaking down the influence oi
Cato, with the Senate and the people. -
In this way would the liberties Of this
country be destroyed. Some gentlemen
of transcendant talents, and mortified
ambition, would unite to WELD the press
and the money power Of the county,
! But the gentleman from South Carolina
gives us his plan for preventing the un-
! ion of the purse and the sword, the APP
prehension Of which SO much alarms
! him.
He says that the Bank Of the United
States, ought, by constitutional provision
to be compelled to take the politics al
field on every election, for he wishes the
Bank to throw ITS weight agains. the ad-
ministra,ion. Thirty. five millions mus,
be thrown into the scale Of him who is
the opponen, of the incumbent AS the
Bank has elected one candidate, it mus
turn round and oppose him. la this
way, the Bank would elect all the Pre- 81
dents, and the sword and the purse
would be effectualIy united.
1t seems that the present incumben,
is governed by impulse aud passion, ano
has no fixed principles. The gentleman
from South Carolina had never discov
the President, but he had told US that he
! derived the information from the ex- Sc
cre,ary of the Treasury, who himself
had not discovered it till he went home
and consulted his daddy.
He should like to see one question set
tied. 1t had been SAID that seventy-fve
men elected the incumbent. They must
deserve great credi; for their talents
But he was inclined to believe that those
who claimed the least credit for the SER
vice, had most to do with It /; 10 wit-the
people.
! Mr.. PEYTON adverted to the power
and influence of the Bank. its control
of the State Banks, and its power to iiA
the value of property in any part Of the
United States. by expanding and con.
tracing its currency as furnishing a
strong reason for prohibiting it from in
terlering in any manner with elections
The power Of the institution was now
felt ia every part Of the country. High
charges were made against 1t, and II tor
tured the people, to wiring from them
their reluctant support. IL the Bank
could, at this day, move the people by
Il torture, at another and later period, u
nigh, say of an opponent, "Of with hi'
head"
The President, with all bis power
cannot print a single document of any
kind. lf the nnk can do this. with thu
public money, they can find da gers fo
public servants, The Bank asserts, IL
fact, the rish, to spend every dollar IL
its vaults in carrying on war with IT.
adversaries.
Here Mr.. PEYTON, without conclu