The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1837-05-19
From the Nsu . IaieIlisenesr.
THE .EXPERIMENT."

HIs " LAA AshANINA
ST. nj such an accident! Mercy on usl
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Hmls, jun. Where's your patent IRE. en-
quail
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ST. I'D. Never.
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Vt. p 'aaps Il will ~ ou, Of nselii
HsaIs jan 60 out, il increases every mi.
aa,s Lei us run for assistance. Let us alarm
las tsmlIy
ST. I'D. Ye., dear mel dear M!
SprsI Waaoal Here. joint Thomas
pns villain hes set IRE 10 the castle. II you
eai h he 'asCal. throw him into the ilamts -
81 AsEL sau a. and The alarm bell riagsI
The condition Of the country, al the
present moment, is but family imaged in
the above extract from a good old come
dy, which We dare say has afforded to
must OF our readers. before now. many
81 honest laugh. at the expense of 4" that
ingenious machinis,," as he calls himself,
Sr Abel Handy. In the midst of the
experiment" instituted bv the late Pre-.
salient OF the United states Just as the
!aErHdien:s Of his d" substitute" for the
test currency the world has ever kno Sn
were in 4 state Of complete fusion, and
sbout To precipitatc the ingot of GOLD
which the jugglers had promised him. the
grand substitute has blown up, and sci
IRE to the financial edifice which il was
10 gid with an immortality of glory!
Our readers will fnd, from \ parusal
81 various articles in other columns o
'Hs days iaper, that all the banks in the
cities Of New York, Philadelphia, and
Baltimore, have suspended specie pay
ment, TO resume il when il pleases zoe
10 bring our rulers sufficiently to tlreil
senses to cease their lawless experiments
and content themselves to he sharers, in
siead Of inventors, OF sound and whole
some currency. E.s
Ii is hardly worth while now TO ente
into an elaborate review of the history o
The Experiment" II will be suihcien
here TO allude briefly to its main points
to which perhaps a sense Of sufTerin,
may noW induce some TO pay attention
who have heretofore sighted and con
,emned the warning voice Of the tru,
friends Of popular rights. The funda
mental vice, then, Of the experiment, wa
not the antipathy OF General Jackson Il
The late Bank of the United States, pro
'OSed by the political integrity of tina
institution, which would not yield its in
dependence even to his command. Iii
Ill-wlll alone could not have produce
The mischief caused by the destruction @
s'at valuable fiscal agent and regulator O
Tie currency, had his animosity bee
confined within the proper limits of hi
constitutional authority. Notwithstand
ing his hostility to that institution, bi
was passed by both Houses Of Congress
under strong convictions of its utility,
reeharter it; and against that expressio
81 the will Of the People by their Repr,
s,entatlves, he opposed his single will, b
The exercise of the veto power, and thu
defeated the will of the People. Whe
ne subsequently, again called the attel
non OF Congress to the subject, II
House Of Representatives, by vote
TUB TO 46, declared their confidence
'le solyency Of the Bank of the Unite