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THE OLD WHITE LION.

THE OLD WHITE LION.
The plot thickens. As September al
proacl,es we have the deveopenent of the
s'upendous project Of plumber, (that is The
proper word, which is to be proposed tc
Congress. 1t 10 TO take the peoples mo-
Dey from the control Of the people, anc
place in The hands of Blair, Kendall, Var
Buren,. Wright g. Co., under the name o
a Government Bank--to give to them the
power and the right Of disbursing millions
Ito make the Collectors of the Revenue,
receivers of public MONIES, Post Masters,
&c. &c. agents Of the Treasury to organ
ize and perfect a system Of fraud and cor.
ruption unkno,On hitherto TO any Gorern-
ment on earth! Van Buren, having de.
stroyed the Bank of the United States
having broke all the State Banks, and
nearly bankrupted every merchant, is now
in favour of SEEING upon the public reve.
nues and using them for the perpe,ualon Of
his own power and the benefit Of the
"spolls" party. Abandoned and bold as
such scheme is, he did not venture TO
breach it without the Endorsement of Gen.
Jackson. Accordingly Blair was insruc,>
ed to procure the recommendation from The
old White Lion, whom his own People of
Tennessee have put into coventry at the
Hermitage. Here it ISL
HERMITAGE, July %, 1887.
My DEAR SIR IL have just received the Globe
of The 18Th. and am pleased 10 discover from il
and other papers that the democracy are uniting
upon The plan OF separating The Government from
corp 'raIons Of all kinds, and TO coec the rev nue.
keep and dsburse it, by their own agents. This
alone can secure safety 10 our revenue, and control
over issues of paper BY the state banks Tile
rerenue, reduced to tile real ,cants of the Gou.
eminent, PAYABLE IN GOLD AND SILVER COIN,
(No CRFDITs,) To BE Discussed BY The
GOVERNMENT ~ GOLD AND SILVER. WILL
GIVE US AN UNDEvIATING METALLIC CUR
REkCY, prerent hereafter ouertnding, and
gire prosperity TO all branches of business
whilst the banks aud The CONNER ca community
will be left TO manage their exchanges, and all
matters between them, IN their own way. hope
and trust that the whole democracy OF The whole
Union will unite in adopting these measures, and
The democracy Of numbers will never have another
contest with the aris,ocracy OF The few ana their
paper credit system, upon which they al present
rely 10 rule the country.
] hope no Treasury noies will he issued. The
Treasury drafts upon actual deposits are conslitu.
tiona, and do not parIake Of paper credits as
Treasury notes, which are sub jet TO depreciation
by The merchants and banks, aud shayers and bro.
kers and will be, if issued. and The Cove, nment
cannot avoid it. Different must il he with Treas.
ury drafts, drawn upon actual deposmes and
from the conduct Of The banks and The merchants,
they deserve no favors from the Government, which
they have attempted to disgrace, and 10 destroy its
credit, both al home and abroad. II is the great
working class that deserves protection from The
frauds of The banks.
We have only word more to say.
Let Van Buren, make that proposition to
Congress-glve him clear fied-don't
interfere or coax him from his plan. His
own party will make him smell sulphur or
we are mistaken. The Fox has doubled
once too often.--[Star.
No doubt now remains that the Execu-
tive has determined upon the "Experi.
ment," or the new "Expedlent," as its
distinguished principal advocate calls it,
as il changing the name would change the
nature of the thing itself--of the substl,u.
ton Of individual agency for bank agency
in the receipt, custody, and disbursement
of the public money. The following state.
ment, by the Richmond Enquirer. places
beyond question the intention of the Exc.
cutive in this respect:
I'VE under stand that the substitution of
the State Bank System by the Sub. Treas.
'ury System, may be brought .(orpard by
Mr.. Pan Buren, in his Message-and that
1T will be supported by some of his friends.
lin an out of Congress. BY how many,
and what are the chances of its success,
1T is of course impossible for us TO say.
we will not even exercise the Yankees
privilege 1--WE mean not the slightest dis.
'respect) of guessing"
HoRRID. AN attempt to poison a whole
wedding party was made at the house of
Mr. John Harris, of Morgan county. Gcor.
gia, in the last week of July. Thirty six
out of forty present, says the Athens Wing,
were made sick--but all recovered. The
poison was mixed with the dressing of the
turkey, and the cook is suspected,