Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1837-10-25
RELIEF ELLIS.

a RELIEF BILLS.
Business ST the Session. The interest
as to the important measures of public poll
icy is transferred from the Senate to the
House of Representatives. Every ques-
tiov (save that of postponement of depos-
it with the States of a surplus which does
not exist in the Treasury is now before
the House. The opposition have resolved
to make war ON all the measures that pas
;sed the Senate. Their object is agitation.
They perceive that if the recommendations
of the Message, as embodied in bills, and
sanctioned by the Senate, should become
laws, that quiet will be restored to the
country, and that the pecuniary Affairs
of banks and individuals, separated from
politics, will at once fall into their natu.
raj channels, and pursue that even ten.
or which leads to prosperity, when un.
interrupted by party conflicts. Seeing
this, the opposition have resolved to fight
down, by long speaking, every proposition
calculated to produce this favorable result.
The Treasury Note bill, which received
almost the unanimous vote of the Senate,
There were only FIVE dissentients,) has
been for days, and is still, the subject Of vi
-olen federal oppugnation in the House,
1t is connected with every measure of re-
lief that has been proposed in either
branch Of Congress. 1t is measure de-
signed to enable Government TO convert its
credit into the meaus of raising ten mill.
ions of money to meet the demands of
the creditors Of the Treasury, while time is
given the merchants to pay their duty
bonds-the banks to pay their deposits
and tine customers of both the banks and
merchants an opportunity to raise the
means of meeting their engagements to
their creditors. 1t is in this way that the
Government, as far as it is creditor, en-
deavors to relieve the pressure On every
class of society; !. and yet the effort is flu.
riously opposed by that very party most
DANGEROUSLY crying out for relief from
Maine to Georgia, and throughout the val
ley of the Mississippi, from the Gulf to the
Lake of the Woods! Until these relief
patriots discovered that the bills which pas
sed the Senate were likely 10 give repose
to the country--until they found that their
predictions, that no good would come of
any thing that was proposed, would not be
verified, they were perfectly willing that
what their suffering friends so eagerly ask
ed might be extended to them. But the
moment they saw that the passage Of the
bills in one branch had the instantaneous
effect to make the money market easy,
and inpart activity TO business, that mo-
.ment they changed their plans of operation.
They determined to oppose every thing
even those to which their leading men in
the Senate have given their sanction. And
now their eAort will be to speak away the
remaining week of the session, and SO de-
feat, by. indirection, what they came; sue.
cessfully combat in far parliamentary
course.
The great object will be to avoid the de.
scision upon the bill for he separation of the
banks from the Government. If this be-
comes a law, the bone Of contention will be
taken away, through which alone they can
hope to agitate and harrass the public mind.
They cannot bring the banks into the po.
litical canvass cannot bring their ipflu-
once to bear upon their debtors; cannot
bring their secret service money to send
agents aid missives around, unless they
can promise some Government boon
through future Legislation, to repay tho
present sacrifices they are pressed to make
by their federal managers. The opposition
well understand that peace would reign, if
the sinews of war which the banks arc Sc
d,,ccd to bring into full play in our political
controversies, were cut of, by separating
those institutions from the Government and
putting an end tolthe delusiye hopes of
profit INDUCED by some, and the still more
lallacious projects of ambition which others
connected with them, build upon their asso-
citation with poltics.--Glote.