Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-10-04
Correspondence Of the Baltimore Patriot.
WASHINGTON, Sept. %, 1887.


GEoRCIA.-Huzza for Georgia! Nine
cheers for that gallant and patriotic
State Her sentiments, wishes and
determinations have this day been pro.
claimed and advocated on the floor of
the Senate, with clearness, energy,
and eloquenco seldom surpassed-and
they will afford matter of Joy and gratu-
latlon to the opponents of corruption
ofthe spells policy-of executive fnan-
ceering--and the whole system Of this
Follow. in-the footsteps Administration
throughout the Union. rejoice that
Georgia has now ONE true representa-
| tive in the Senate, as well as in the
House. Mr.. KING today made
speech on the Sub. Treasury Bill,
which was one Of the best, in every
respect, that has been heard in Con.
gfess for years. 1t was more valuable
as coming from Southern Senator
who has been ranked by all parties a.
rnong The most intelligent, patriotic and
high minded men, Of whose support the
administration Of Gen. JACKSON or of
Mr.. VAN buren, could boast.
Mr.. KING wishes 10 postpone the
consideration of the whole subject, IN
I'll the regular session that begins in
December, and he has made motion
TO that effect. The State Bank Sys-
TEN is no favorite with him; and the
arguments adduced by the advocates Of
the Sub Treasury scheme, have fright.
ened him from giving his aid and influ-
ence 10 the establishment of that
scheme. He contended that the State
Bank Experiment was a failure from
The ffst--it never succeeded in the
smallest degree; and (making differ.
ent application of the terms lately used
, in the letters which Gen. JACKSON
Numbered from the Hermitage) he de.
clared that never were more perfidy,
treachery, and fraud, exhibited in the
history Of the world, than were exerci.
sed to recommend this system to the
| people He proved these charges by
numberless citations of we'll ascertain.
ed facts and showed that the whole
system tended only to benefit the veal
thy capitalist, and shrewd spectators
aud that their profits were wrung from
the hard earnings Of the people. He
compared the conduct ofthe anti. Bank
men oflS34 to some great Temperance
Apostle, who would break up one large
aud respectable grocery in Chestnut
street, and establish in It's place five
hundred little grog. shops. He said
that those who denied that the State
Bank system had failed, must admit
those institutions had a hard time un.
der the auspices of their Executive
Patron. He sincerely believed that if
the late President had kept his hands
Off he had not been continually
screwing them into conformity with his
hard money financial notions, they
would have done much better-but be
maintained they never would have an.
Swered the purposes of fiscal agents
perfectly.
He poured into BENTON a tremen.
dous fire rallery and sarcasm. The
Missouri Humbuggor is famous for
examining Ito use college phrase) Just
before an oratorical disTIay, and then
dlscharging right and left all the Itera
ny food he has eaten, but not digested.
He boosted the other day Of his knolsI.
fge o(the history Of finance from the be,
ginning Of the aoorld ! and referred to
the practice Of those admirable collec.
tors Of the public money the Roman
Quastors~- that ilustrous Demo.
cratic Republican NAPoLroN-and of
those free, and fiourishing commercial
States, Spain and Turkey, by way of
argument in favor Of the system analo.
gous 10 theirs, -lhe Sub. Treasury
scheme ofPresIdent VAN buren,. On!
It was rare sport TO see the writings
OF this pompous and peGantic rwAp.
DLER when Mr.. KING turned against
him all his learned and elaborated ar.
guments. If there is one fact, said he,
connected with the Roman Qunsters,
mlre strongly impressed upon the mind
OF the student Of history than another
1t IS their character Of greedy ertor.
TONERS, fattening by the poverty, and
clothing themselves by the nakedness
of THE PEOPLE. We read their rio.
orous exactlons, their fragrant injustice,
their tormenting oppression and when
their hard earnings were wrung from
the industrious poor of the prorinces to
support Roman Heroes and Armies, in
Plundering and numbering the human
race, where were the sums thus arbi-
trarily extorted deposited? In Ro.
MAN Bank ! Are we to adopt this
part of their financial system?
Then, as TO the practice ofNApoLE,
ON how did he fill his coffers2 Let
his impoverished country-let the blood
and tears of ruined Germany answer
One large accession to his Treasury
was made by the robbery of bank in
one OF the freest commercial Giles in