The Arkansas advocate., 1834-01-31


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 lions of public money 10 be distribnteI among various local Banks throughout the country, according to the complexion of theT political sentiments. Sir, this reo,lires no eAaggeration. And speak not the lan- gHage ot eXaggeration when say, as God IS my Judge. had rather trust Andrew Jackson, with 50,000 mercenary soldiers. with the bill passed at the last session for ms authority to use them, than permanently to el3the hun with such power as this sl 1t would be impossible to resist 1t. Resist .ance will bo out of the question: With the twenty millions of our revenue. the pres;- dent can get the absolute control over 40 or 9G banks, ,1Udlseaoasfy selected, i. e. with s1Y tId t,, ssss7 Ago44I1u,toII luIIl- leal power ot the country God forbid l oh no! But, sir, every man in the least ac- qualnted with the principles of human na- tlre, knows, must know, that the banks se- lected would become just so many political i partlsans of those in power. Sir, we have ] some little light on this already. It is not quite two months since certain Banks were selected to receive the deposites unlawfully removed from the United States Rank; and already We have seen two of their officers ] Tn the arena. X President of one of these Banks. in Baltimore, is out in the public papers, yindicating the course of the Sec retary. And there Is another,I understand, somewhere in Virginia.
 The President says that the moment m officer of Bank meddles in politics, that moment he must be turned out of office Sir, have not heard of the turning out of any of Htese officers, as yet. But have no doubt, had they dared to say one word against the President, they would before this time have received much such HINT as was given to the late Secretary of the Treasury.
 Sir, 1 would be more disposed to rely on the declaration of the President concerning his anxious desire to separate the Banking and Executive power, were 1t not for the experience we have already had of the wo- ] fal discrepancy between profession and practice. agree with a late distinguished member of the Cabinet, Mir. Duane, in at least one thing. 1 do not attribute this striking discrepancys to any thing in the ] President like wilfal duplicity. believe that when he makes the profession, he feels what he speaks, but believe, with that gezi- tlemaa, that the President "has no fixed prnciples-that he does not arrlve at con clusions by the exercise of reason. hut ttseyt isaafss,l.eee and peeeions have ruled" But what, Ill point of fact, has been the differ ence between the Presidents profession and practice 1 had been told a little about his principles, q beg pardon for using the word, believe 1t Is nearly out of fashion, on which the President came into. power; for l stood, then, in tho very midst of the brunt Tn the contest, waging with principali- ties and powers; aye, sir, when the n1isera- ble syeophants, who have since then lite- rally craWled, in their own slime, to the footstool of Executive favor, stood upon the side of those who still hold patronage and power. When, therefore, 1 speak of the principles on which the present Chief Magistrate was brought into office, l claim to know something about 1t. Well, sir, and what are they? Why we all had an idea that the officers of the Federal Govern ment were somewhat too pragmatcal and interfering in the political contests of the country, and that as matter of principle, they ought to be restrained; and the Presi- dent, when he came into power, told the na- ton that one of the crying evils of those who had been his predecessors, was the meddling of office holders in the politics ol the country.
 Now, put 1t to all men who have eyes and ears, whether ever there was time since the foundation of this Government when all the officers of the Executive Gov 1 ernment, from the highest to the lowest. ap- preached so nearly to an army of merce. naries in the hand of the President. Why sir no man now can breathe the air tha f surrounds the palace of the President, tha does not think precisely as the Presiden l thinks; and who IS not prepared to stretch himself at command, on the bed of Pro. f fE.crustes, to have his political sentiments I docked or stretched to the true Executive , dimensions. What is the meaning of al
 this change that appears Oh, that IS Re form. The Government has been reform 7 ed. Yes, sir, and the reform has proceeded l until the word has become synonimous wit : turning man out of office.
 t 4 reform is made, when one man is turn { ed out, and another man IS put in. An' fl the rule on which the operation proceeds 5 seems to be this-to turn out the man wh' r has only his merit to recommend him, an' : put in the man who will with the readies 5 obsequiousness adopt the Executive oPn n ions, and bow to the Executive pleasure e Every body knows that the meddiing of oi Q fee holders in politics has been reformed 2 by putting out every man who did not vot' : for the President, and putting in the mos
 notorious open mouthed partlzans in thel 1t places. This is truth known to the whol :. world. When, therefore, the Presidential