Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-02-13

wears after the Constitutioncame from the hanas
of it's trainers. and within two years after It's
adoption by the people. While the chafter OF
that Rank was under discussion IN the Senate
of the United States, the several STATES were
renresented in that body by the following Sen
ators, viz po.o. W.,
New Hampshire-John Langdon Peter wan
gate. Massachusetts-Tr istram Dalton, Calep
Strong Rhode Island-Joseph Stanton, heo-
dore Roster Connecticut Oliver Ellsworth,
William Samuel Johnson. Newly ork-Rutus
King. Philip Schuyler. New-Jersey-Jonath
Elmer Philemon Dickinson. pennsylvania
William Maclay, Robert Morris. Delaware
Richard Bassett, George Read Virginia
lanes Monroe. - - North Carolina
Samuel Johnson, Benjamin Hawkins. South
Carona-Pierce Butler, Ralph lizard. Georgia
William Few, James Gunn-23
Ofthese Senators, it will seen, that John Lang
don. William Samuel Johnson, Rufus King Ro-
bert Morris, George Read, Pierce Butler, and
William Few, were members of the Convention
which framed the Constitution, and signed it
They were emphatically of the "wise men, of
whom Mr.. Wright speaks And these men not only
uoted for the charter Of the first Bank Of The
United States, but so did erery member Of the
Senate; for altho' divisions were called on some
of the details of the bill, yet, on the final cues
ton there was no opposition 1t was, In effect
AN UNANIMOUS VOTE!
But let us examine further The following is
an extract from the journals of the House OF
Representatives on the day Of the final passage
of the Bill:
TUESDAY, February SM 1891.
The House resumed the consideration OF the
bill sent from the Senate, entitled, I" An act to
incorporate the subscribers to the Bank OF the
United States:' upon the question " that the said
bill do pass" whereupon,
Tbn ctinnh pin al 1nH Ky
members; to wit shall the main question be now
put?"
1t was resolved in the affirmative-Ayes 3S,
Noes 20.
And the main question being put-that the
said bill do pass,
1t Was resolved in the affirmative-Ayes 80,
Noes 20.
OF those members of the House, who voted
for the Bank, Nicholas Gilman, Roger Sherman,
George Clymer and Thomas Fitzsimmons,
were members of the Convention which franz
ed the Constitution. And of those who voted
against the Bill, Daniel Carroll, James Madison,
Hugh Williamson, and Abraham Baldwin,
were also members Of that Convention. But
Mr. Madison in the days of the rich experience
and maturity of wisdom, has distinctly avowed
the constitutonality of d National Bank.
The result then, is that of the thirty eight
members Of the Convention who adopted and
dent of that body, the immortal Washington,
SIXTEEN were members Of the Congress OF
1871, which chartered the first Bank; TWELVE
Of these sixteen wise men," voted FOR the
Bank, and only four against it--and one ofthese
has snced expressly avoWed the constltudonali-
ty of such an institution. SO that the ascertain
ed vote of the "wise men" of whom Mr.. Sc
nator Wright was speaking, was as TEllR-
TEEN to THREE!
But this in not ALL There were certain 9TH
er gentlemen, members ofthe Convention, who
were friends of the National Bank. Among
them were GEORGE WASHINGTON and ALEXAN-
DER Observation-Disclosures in those days thought to
be entitled to some consideration, whatever the
pretended "second HnShingt0ns" may think OF
them now. Washington signed the Bill, and
sent message OF congratulation to Congress
on the filing up of the stock. Hamilton wrote
his celebrated report in favor of National
Bank, by way OF showing what was his con-
structiOn of The Constitution upon this subject.
Nor need rest the as to the opinions
of those wise men" here. OF the members OF
the Convention of 1877, who were not members
ofthe Congress which chartered the first Bank,
were Nathaniel Gorham, of Massachusetts;
William Livingston, Judge Paterson, and John
athan Dayton Of New Jersey; Thomas Mfflin,
Judge Wilson, and Governor Morris, of Penn
Sylvania; John Dickinson, and we believe all
his colleagues, of Delaware; and John Rutledge,
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and Charles
PInckney, Of South Carolina, who were all in
favor of the old Bank of the United States and
of course believers in its constitutionality. SO
that, of the THIRTY-NINE members who signed the
Constitution, at least THIRTY-Two Gncuding Mr..
Madison, for the reason before stated were in
favor of the Bank. Benjamin Franklin, and
perhaps some Others were dead when the Bank
was chartered, else they would doubtless have
swelled the list. But as it stands, Uirty-two Of
the Mirty-nine of the trainers of the Constitu-
ton. SANCTIONED THE CoNsTlrUTIoNALrTY OF THE
INSTITUTION. And yet we are now told by a
member of the National Senate, from the state
ofNew York, that the Bank ofthe United States
must be destroyed, in order to bring back the
Constitution to the construction intended TO be gi
zen to it by the avise men ooho framed IT."
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