Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-06-05

LHlS DTIEt HOtiCG III dAtiSiputlOh, OO-
cause, as the author of the project for
extending the Bank charter, and as
Chairman of the Financial Committee
of the body to which he belongs, the
views which Mr.. w. takes of things,
as they stand at the passing moment,
will be of deep interest to all our read
ers.
From the National InteIligencer, May "a.
Mr.. CLAY took occasion, yesterday,
in presenting to the Senate some memo
rails, and especially one from Doyles-
town, in Bucks county, Pa. TO animad-
vert seriously for the most part, but in
part playfully, on the present state Of
the country. Among the opinions ex-
pressed by the memorialists is one
which Mr.. Clay said he most decided
ly entertained in common with them,
that, after the vote by one branch of
Congress that the removal of the de-
posites by the Secretary of the Trea-
sury was unjustifiable, and unconstitu.
tional, it was the duty of the Secretary
of the Treasury instantly to have re.
stored the deposites to the place from
which they had been illegally taken;
and such, he said, would have been
the course of a Secretary of tho
Treasury who entertained a proper
sense of the fallibility ofhis own judy
ment, and of the respect which was due
TO the deliberate opinion of the Senate,
or of the House Of Representatives on
such question as this, when it came
in conflict with his own. Mr.. Clay
added, that if there was, in either
House of Congress, single individual
whose private Judgment approved Of
the removal Of the deposites as an ORR
ginal act, independently Of party con-
siderations or posterior circumstances,
he had yet to meet with that man.
AS to the question yesterday address
sed by the Senator from Massachusetts
to those who hold the power, whether
they meant to adjourn without taking
any measure to relieve the country
from its present suffering, Mr.. G. said,
he verify believed that they do not
know what to do: they are afraid to
stay, and afraid to return: they are be.
tween two fres-afraid of Jackson if
they remain, and Of their constituents
if they go home. If, however, they
mean to do nothing to recover possess
sion of the public treasure; if they
mean to do nothing to relieve the pub
lie distress which pervades the country,
Mr.. G.. said, he was himself ready to
concur with them in fixing the earliest
practical day for adjournment, after
passing the bills necessary to carry on
the government.
What would be the consequence OF
such contempt, by those in power, of
the successive evidence of public OPT
Mon, presented from day to day, and
from week to week, it was easy to
foresee. Already, he said, the whole
"party" was crumbling away; sinking
like the banks of the Mississippi, under-
mined by the torrent, whole acres at
time. Why (said Mr.. CO. am told
that the whole Regency of New York,
taking alarm, has fled from Albany,
and taken refuge in this city. Wheth-
er they would or would not be re-
demanded by Gov. Marcy, under the
laws in such cases made and provided,
he could not say; but if they remained,
he hoped they would be allowed the
benefit of all the rights Of hospitality
due to such distinguished strangers.
For himself, he condoled with the gen.
tlemen, in this the trying time oftheir
misfortunes, andtrusted that they would
be able to bear them with manly forti.
tude and Christian resignation.
If any one who heard this part of
Mr.. C's speech was able to look grave
upon it, thank Heaven, it was not we.
The case fairly stated.-The Alex.
andria Gazette takes the following cor.
rect view of the attempt to justify Gen.
Jackson's protest by pretended pre-
cedent set by Mr.. Jefferson.
The Richmond Enquirer publishes
paper, written by Mr.. Jefferson, to be
given to Gen. Washington, to be by
him sent to the senate, protesting
against resolutions officially commune
Gated by the senate TO the president, in
relation to eGecutire business. Gen.
Washington never sent the protest.
the whole affair is uncertain,--the case
itself is entirely different from the re-
cent presidential Protest: and yet the
Enquirer is driven to the miserable
shift of quoting Mr.. Jefferson's paper,
never sent into the senate, as precedent
for Gen. Jackson's protest!
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