The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1837-09-05
POLITICAL.
Read! Ponder!
HON. ASHER ROBBINS SPEEC

We would call attention to the subjoined ex-
tracts from very able speech recently delivered
alta Wing meeting in Providence by the Hon,
Asher Robbins, the Senator in Congress from
Rhode Island. The high character of the speak
er, his unimpeethed integrity and enlightened
candor, added to his eminet talents and long ex-
perence in public affairs, give unusal interest
and weight to his opinions We bespeak for
them the consideration of every rejecting and
patriotic citizen. s...,..a 81, .--s..ff
rt"a.- OUR PAST PROSPERITY. -..'.- #~..s d
We had national currency Mt par value with
gold and silver, not only all over our own country,
but all over the world; it was the Exchange in
London, and in every mart in Europe /; il was so
in Calcutta, in tho East Indias,and at Canton, in
China; a currency, thai gave the character of
currency to all ouri inland exchanges. Every in
land bill with responsible names to it became
part of the currency; passed from hand to hand
as such and at all the banks as such and this
species Of currency had grownto the astonishing
amount of six hundred millions annually. These
curences gave incessant activity to all the CAPT
tai and all the credit of the country; and
were abundantly sufficient to sustain all their
operations for all were conducted with safety,
all with success. Under the auspices of these
currencies the country was moving with giant
strides to national wealth and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
She exhibiting a scene of national growth in
the rapid development of all her faculties and
resources--in improvements of every kind-in
unfolding the grandeur of those proportions,
which she seemed destined, ultimately to attain
and to dispuy--a scene without parallel or
II e..
in the history Of this Globe In an evi hour, our
own Government has causelessy, la,clessty, ARBr-
TRARILY,d eprivcd our country of theirtwo cur
rencies Zone directly, the other by necessary con-
sequence, and of all the facilities which they gave
to her; and the present state OF things is the re-
subtitle necessary resmt-the melancholy result.
find ,ohat slate ofthings! ,chat conrustto that
high and palmy state Of prosperity ice had! con-
trast ,cidenng day By day, and to ,oiden get more
and more-God knotos! to ,ohat extremity al last /!
l shall not attempt to describe the present state
of things we all see many, ve,y many feel horo
cdidnsitouS IL IS. t... ......- {. ..s-. ......,
CRIMINALITY OF THE ADMINISTRATIONS.
We see the whole enterprise of the country s,,s-
suspended the whole industry paralyzed,-and
when the one will be resumed, and the other re-
certainly not, while the present dynasty reigns
over and rules the country. Not because the
means of restoring our country to her wonted
prosperity, are iii fficult to be devised-for these
means are obvious; they obtrude themselves
upon every rejecting mind: hut because they
will not be adopted by that dynasty will not be
adopted by the men now in power.
know it is the effort of the administration and
of the administration party to wash their hands
of tho blood of this massacre which they have
committed upon their country-but the effort is
vain all The acaters Of The ocean IF Letheaa) could
not do il: no. all time, present and to come, shall
see their hands stqiaed sOi,h tis blood 1t is no,
they, they say) who have done the fatal deed !:
it is ertrading forsooth! and our men of b,si-
ness our merchants have done it. Over-t,adisae
Did ouer- trading deprive the country of National
Cnrrency? Did ouer trading deprive the country
of a currency in inland Bills of Exchanged A
man here in Providence who has thousand dol
lars in New Orleans, must now pay one hundred
dollars to get it home; and may find it difficult to
obtain it at that sacrifice. Has over trading pro
duced thisstate of things? produced this difficult
ty? made this sacrifice necessary? When we
had national currency there was no such diff
cuity-no necessity Of any sacrifice. His thou
sand dollars in New Orleans was thousand
dollars to him here; for his draft for it here Cat
the trihing discount of one quarter of one per CT
was turned into money--hs draft passed from
hand to hand for money, and at all the Banks as
money. Now his sacrifice, in the same case, is
forty fold what it was when zoe had a nat ional
currency, and caused by The ,oant Of that currency.
WHAT MEASURES DO THE ADMINISTRATION
. w sPRoPosE?
The first, the leading one is, the establishment
of that foul and poFtentous thing, Treasury
Bank. This, IN the hands fthe Erecutiue, aeould
be engine of entire destruction TO The ac3le co,
try; 1t acould be Ike the Upas Tree, ,ta,der ,oRose
bateI influence every interest Of the country must
aoither and perish it ,oould be the Juggeraut, un-