Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1837-03-21

else, told the people IN your next annual mes
sage, that tho cuitoilment Of their mail priv
legcs was chorgeable upon Congress because
ii refused the means Of continuing them.
But to return moment TO your agent at the
head of the Post Office Department Con-
scous OF the inquiry which disclosure Of this
.srtra allowance system would give rise to, and
the ignominy which ought 10 attend upon II,
he,-for the double purpose OF screening him.
self from censuro, and heaping injury upon an
innocent and already injured man,-made an
infamous but abortve attempt TO faston the
crime Of lavshing gratuities upon particular
favoriies from the treasury of the Nation, upon
the late assistant Post Master General.
Sir, the notorious and long continued NAL.
administration Of this Department, afforded
ample matter against you, for impeachment
and virtuons House OF Representatives would
have iinpeached you.
Before leaving the Post Office permit me to
advert TO passage in one of your early mes
soges TO Congress. You say, IN reference TO
the Post Office Department abuses have been
reformed, increased expedition in the transport
talon Of the mail secured, and its revenue
much improved The compliment TO Mr.Bar-
~, and the Islander contained in the italicized
part upon Mr.. Mclean, are alike unmerted
A more Efficient upright, and independent
Post Master General than Mr.. Mclean, was
And if there is a spot upon his fair fame, it is
his prctering you before either Of your compe-
titors for the Presidency. But though one of
your supporters, he was, as you well know, by
far too vrtnous and independent man TO per-
form the nauscous duties which you designed
10 impose upon your Post Master General, or
TO permit the laws regulating that Post Office
Department to no set aside by your arbitrary
will.
L.. Il. l.. IL ID. 4.
of the United States, requires passing notice.
1t was indicative Of neither the Statesman nor
the Patriot, but Of a violent and ungry man.
II appears that in very short time after your
installation into Office, attempts were made TO
introduce your new system of reform iuto that
instltution,-which means 10 apply the 'rota-
ton principle TO every officer, from the Presi-
dent down to the Porters, who would not sub
nit TO your dictation, and thus secure to your
self the entire control Of the Bank. And TO
the rebuff you then met with may be traced
your envcnomed hostility TO that Institution.
AZ is no part of my design to advocate or de-
iend the Bank fthe United States. Towards
il feel neither affection nor enmity. Nor do
know but that many OF your charges against
il were well founded Some were however in
themselves palpably contradictory, and others
VIGOROUSLY untrue and it is in these that you
betray the reul motives and feelings which ur.
ged you on to make war-war to the knife,
upon the Bank. For example;'in your first
open attack upon it, needless Of the injury
you were nhictng upon thousands Of unof-
feu6ng stock holders, including widows and
orphan children, you insinudted doubts as to- its
soirency. And then, at a subsequent period,
when 10y Withdrawing from it large amount
OF public money, and threatening 10 throw
back upon IT, some millions of its notes in the
shape OF Bank orders, you compelled the Bank !
20 distress the country by considerable and !
unavoidable ourtailment of its discounts, you |
told the people that the Bank ioas abund-
anHy able to afford them the usual accom-
mediation if so disposed, aud that il had an un-
precsdenied amount Of specie in its vaults, ETC. |
1t seems you could gratutously youch for |
condition Of the Bank, favorable beyond its
own pretensions, when you thought it would |
bring down public odium upon its managers. |
There are two or three passages in your an
nual messages, relative TO the Bank, which if
not contradictory, are inconsistent with the
plain truth and which are chiefly worth re-
ferring 10, as specimens Of the reliance to be
placed upon any statements Of yours, which
relate to subjects on which you are known 10
have u strong personal bias. In one Of your
early messages, speaking of the Bank Of the
u. S., you assert in express terms that il has |
failed in tee great end Of establishing a uniform
und sound currency And in your message Of
1885, in compacently alluding to the admra-
ble working of your favorltc scheme, Of with
drawing the public treasure from bank which
refused 10 become political engine in your
hands, & extending the Executive influenccby |
distributing II amongst multitude OF more |
pliant Institutions, scattered over the whole
Union, you declare, that the business Of ex-
change both foreign and domestic has been
conducted ,oith convenience, ind The ci-cula-
fling medium has been greatly improued' And |
again, that 'all the wants Of the community in
relation TO exchange and currency are suppli- |
ed as ,1sli as they hare euer been betore.' Now,
sir, that these several statements were nbso-
lutey the reverse of truth, is matter of almost
universal notorieiy. In whatever other re-
spects the Bank Of the U. S. failed 10 answer
the ends for which it was created, it was COM
plotely successful in establishing uniform |
and sound currency and also in furnishing |
facilities in the business Of domestic exchange, |
such as never were equalcd in any other coun-
try Of the same extent, where the magnitude !
OF mercantile and commercial transactions de- |
manded currency, and medium Of exchange,
other than the announcement one OF metals |
And neither you, sir, nor your friends for you,
can point out parallel.
On the other hand, however completely your
new disposition of The public treasure answer
Cd The great end oil extending the influence Of
a grasping Executive, it deranged the curren-
cy Of the country to degree that wac, and is,
intolerably inconvenient, and threw back the |
business Of domestic exchange, into the hands !
of mercess money and exchange Brokers'
You, sir, first commenced violent attack up
on the credit of the Bank Of tho United States,
and upon The integrity Of lis officers, and
brought the whole weight Of your official, and |
victory Of Now Orleans influence, 10 bear
upon 1t, and then raved like a mailman be-
cause the bank had the presumption 20 defend
itself against you, Andrew Jackson Against
VOL al whose fierce denuncintions even free