The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1837-11-10

ume ~ Nnes lHry would have Return
ed back in small streams similar "a Hose
BY which they had collected, anisnsting.
snd improving. and frucliiying the whole
country. There would have been no vast
surplss 10 embarrassing Government; no
removal Of depnsiles from HE Bank Of The
United States % the deposIle banks, 10
disturb The business Of The country; no
accumulations in the deposile banks of IN
mense sums Of public money. augmented
BY The circuit II was performing between
the land Offices and The banks. and The
banks and the land Offices; no occasion for
The Secretary Of lhs Treasury 10 lash The
deposiIe banks into he grant Of inordiuais
accommodations; and possibly there uopld
have been no suspension Of specie pay-
ments. Boz that bill was suppressed 6y
most extraordinary and dangerous ex-
ercise Of Executive power.
The cause Of our present difficulties
may be stated in another way. During
the late Administration We have been de-
priyed Of the practical bedefl Of free
Government; the forms. til rue. remain
ed and were observed. but the essence
did not exist. Ia free. or sell-goyern-
ment. the collected wisdom, the aggregate
will of the whole, or al least Of maiori.
~, moulds and directs ihe course of
public affairs. In despoiism, the will
Of single individual governs. In q
practically free Government, the nation
controls the Chief Magistrate; in an
arbitrary Government. tie Chief Magis-
irate controls The nation. Aid has not
this been our situation in The period men
toned! Has moi one mar forced his own
will on the nation! Have not all those
disastrous measures-lhe veto of the
bank; The removal Of the deposites; the
rejection of the land bill; and The treasury
order, which have led 10 our present un-
fortunate condition been adopted, in spite
of The wishes Of the country, and in
opposition, probably, to those Of the
dominant party itself.
! Our misfortune has not been the want
of wisdom, but Of irmness. The party
in power would not have governed the
country very III, if II had been allowed its
own way. LIS fatal error has been to
lend its sanction, and 10 besicw its subse.
quent applause and support upon Ex-
ecu,ive acts which. in tseir origin, il
previously deprecated or condemned.
We have been shoeked aid gri.ved 10 see
whole Legislative briies aud communities
approving and lauding the rejection Of The
very measures Which previously they had
unanimously Recommended To see
whole States abandoning their lung
cherished policy aud best interests IN
subserriency to Executive pleasure! And
| the numberless examples of individuals
who have surrendered their independ.
ence, must iniiict pain in every patriot
bosom. A single case forces itself upon
my recollection as an illustration. to
which | do not advert from any unkind
feelings towards the gentleman to whom
refer, between whom and myself civil
and courteous relations have ever exist.
ed. The memorial Of the late Bank Of
the United States praying for rechar,er
was placed in his hands, and he present.
ed il TO the Senate. He carried the
rechar,er through the Senate. The veto
came; and, in two or three weeks afler-
wards, we behold the same Senator a, the
head Of an assembly of the people in
j., the State House yard, in Philadelphia. ap-
| plauding the veto, and coademn,ng the
bank--condemning his own act. Motives
, lie beyond the reach Of the human eve,
! and il does no, belong 10 me 10 say what
they were which prompted this selfcasti-
cation. and this praise OF The destruction
| OF his own work; but ii is impossible to
overlook the fact that the same Senator,
in due time, received from the author Of
the veto the gift of a splendid foreign
| mission! -
The moral deducible from the past is,
that our free institutions are superior to
all others. and can be preserved in their
purity and excellence only upon the stern
condition that We shall forever hold the
obligations Of patriotism paramount to all
The ties of party. or 10 individual dicta.
ton; and shat we shall never openly
approve what we secretly condemn.
In this rapid, and, hope, no, fa,igus
ing review of the causes which think
have brought upon us existing embsrrass-
mems. ] repeat that il has been for no
purpose Of reproachins or eliminating
those who have had the conduct Of our
public affairs; bcs 10 discover the means
by which the present crisis has been
produced. with a view tosascertain. If
possible, wha. (which is by far much
more impor.anD should be done by Con-
gress to avert its injurious effects. And
this brings me TO consider the remedy
proposed by the Administration.
The great evil under which The coun-
try iahnrS is the sus nansion of The hanEs