Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-09-23

hold our need Of applause to the President,
for his somewhat unexpected declaration of
what we are bound to believe are his princi-
pies, we must be excused from giving an un-
qualified assent to the opinions themselves.
1t will be perceived, that the President has
espoused the dogmas Of that faction of the
Administration party known as the Loco Fo-
co.'s, whose favorite measures are, the pay
ment and disbursement of the revenues of the
country in specie, and the consequent disso-
luton of all connection between the Govern
ment and the banks, preparatory to the ulti-
mate destruction of all banking interpretations,
and the annihilaton of paper credits of all
kinds, substituting in their stead, an exclusive
metallic currency-and the establishment of
sub-treasures in different parts of the coun-
try, for the purpose of forming repositories
for the safe keeping and convenient disburse-
ment of the revenue. Such are the main fea-
lures of the system as developed in the Mes
sage, involving as it will be seen new and
hitherto untried experiment in the financial
operations of our Government, an experiment
upon which experience has not set it's seal,
and which has many Objectionable features
aside from that of novelty, which alone should
in some measure at least, render it an object
of suspicion and scrutiny.
H. . <bo &c
to recognise the commercial interests of the
country, as one of the great subjects Of super
vision and protection, cannot but serve to re-
fleet discredit upon one of the greatest sour
ces of our National prosperity. 1t is throw
ing our legislation back to the state in which
it was placed during the early days of the
confederation, when many of the first men of
the nation, and Mr.. Jefferson among the mum.
Der, honestly doubted the proprety of foster
ing Commerce by Legislative acts. Success
ful experiment has, however, triumphanty
demonstrated that those fears are groundless,
and the falacy of those doubts has been re-
peatedly acknowledged by those who held and
acted under them. Why then should our
country be thrown back in her progress to
greatness again to travel over the same ground
which she has heretofore traversed with SO
much success, and why will those who pro-
fess to follow in the footsteps of the illustri-
GUS Jefferson, prefer to follow him through all
the stages of that school from which he drew
his stores of wisdom, rather than to snatch
from his lips the bright lessons Of his expert
ence, and go forward in improving upon them
in the pathway to success and glory? During
the first stages of our Government, every thing
was an experiment, Republican Government
was an experiment, and the proprety of gi-
wing encouragement to our now immense
Commercial interests was equally so but
shall we again throw ourselves into a state of
colonial dependence upon foreign power, for
the purpose of again trying our skill in build
ing up new Republic, or shall we, with
equal folly, throw our Commercial experience
into the crucible, and try over hat expert
nent, whose hitherto successful result has be-
come matter of history, and source of
pride to every American citizen. The pro-
ect of keeping one species of money for the
Government, and another for the people, is
censurable on other grounds. In Govern.
nent eminently popular above all others, the
attempt to sever the interests of the people
from those of their own Government is impos-
sibe, if not ridiculous. 1t is an attempt to
divide that which is of itself indivsible, SO
ong as the people make the laws, and the
servants of the people administer them. IfI
carried into effect, its tendency will be to
place the rulers above the people, and to final
y place the high Offices of the state in the
hands of some popular favorite, who shall 60
vern the people through the influence of their
own money, and hold his Office during his own
pleasure.
Time and room has precluded us from fol-
lowing this subject further we may resume it
at some future opportunity, or we may not.
At any rate, sufficient has been said to leave
no person in doubt as to our opinions, though
I'VE do not often intrude them upon the public.
' PARTIES IN THE UNITED STATEs.--The po-
litical parties in the United States, as repre-
sented in Congress, have been classed as fol-
lows. "Loco Foco," of which Messrs. Blair,
Kendall and Benton are the heads, and the
Globe the organ; Conservatives" led by
Messrs. Talmadge and Rives, and supported
by the Madisonian; and the "Opposition'' or