Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1837-01-04
From :he Detroit Free rress.
The House adjourned.

The opposition papers are now publish
ing two letters from Nicholas Biddle to the
Hon. John @. Adams, in relation to the
measures Of the administration with regard
to the bank and the currency. The tone
and style of the letters are in the highest
degree abusive and insolent towards the
public authorities, and must satisfy every
one Of the truth of all that has heretofore
been charged against the bank. with regard
to It's meddling with the politicul affairs of
the country. A writer in the N. Y. Even
ing Post who wields a caustic pen, has re-
viewed them in style which shows up
the great egotist in his proper colors.
We make few extracts from the Re-
view.
at would be tedious, and indeed use-
less, to follow the bank president step by
step, in his luminous exposition Of the
causes of the alleged money pressure in
New York, because it would be only chas-
ing shadow in the hope of running down
reality. Let every man walk the streets
of this city, and see what scene of luyury
and expenditure they exhibit; what humid.
reds, | may say, thousands, of splendid
houses and stores, five or six stories high,
are rising up in every direction, greater in
number than all the capitals in Europe ex-
hibit. Let him count the equipages, admire
the wives, daughters, and little children,
clothed in all the colors of the rainbow !;
and above all let him dine with these very
men who are raising the cry of universal
distress, assist in discussing all the delica-
cies of the season, and top off with few
bottles of wine which cost sixty or seventy
dollars dozen, and then Judge for himself
what right these luxurious nabobs have to
stun the nation with their opstreporous lam
entations. The distresses they suffer
are brought on their own heads by bound.
less extravaganza, and desperate eff.
forts TO support it by overtrading and spec.
uation.
Il have little doubt" says the bank
president, "that the specie order is the re-
vengc of the president upon congress for
passing the distribution laws" and only
quote this passage to exhibit the peevish re-
sentiment Of this Little man o1ards -one
who occupies sphere, AID acts on princi-
pies, so entirely different from the bank
president, that the latter can no more com.
prehend his motives or his acts than the
caterpillar that crawls up I e oak of the for
est, can estimate Its uses, its strength or its
duration. His invectives against Andrew
Jackson are somewhat analogous to the
tale of the rat, who found fault with noble
and magnificent house, because he could
not gnaw his way through its walls and
plumber the inside.
To conclude-"I go for my country,
[does he not mean my bank 2 best loved
when worst governed. 1t will afford me
more qualification to assist in repairing its
wrongs than to triumph over those who in
Aict them" Docs not the judicious read
or laugh outright at this exhibition of puny
self complacency? The maggot that de-
yours the cheese, thinks he can make the
cheese. The bank president expects to
triumph over the people of the United
States, and then he means to be magnan-
imous, and forgive them. | should be as
tonished at this over estimate of himself,
did not recollect that he is at the head OF
millions, not of men, but Of money; and
that beyond all doubt Philips ass, which
opened the gates of city by means OF
the bags of gold he carried, erected bis
ears, prayed in triumph, and assumed all
the airs of hero.
1t is stated in morning paper, that the
money market is becoming easier, and that
this pleasing circumstance is ascrbed
to the letter of the bank president.
Craat l;,tla mani Talk of Mr. Van RI,
rem being Magician and Matthias a
prophet.
am yours &c. A. B.