The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-05-24
CORRESPONDENTS.
New YoRK, May 81, 1893.


Dear Sir-The attempt on the part Of Mr. Wright
to captain array the injurious tendency Of the fnan-
cia measures of the Administration in his late re-
port, is something like the effort of the quack who
assures his dying patient that he is doing remarka-
bly, well under his treatment and that the tears and
lamentations of his afTectionate relations but
many articles calculated to destroy his professional
celebrity In vain do the suffering people conplain
ofthcir misery. Doctor Wright, physician in chief,
assures them that the death rattle is altogether llu
sorry, and that every assertion to the contrary is
device of his federal rivals Do point 10 deserted
streets closed warehouses, and silent workships7
The Destrucves assure us that these are bnt so
many evidences OF Bcatoniaa prosperity. l am not
much given to quotations, but compelled in this
instance to exclaim in the language Of Shakespeare
| :" Can such things be,
! And oercome us like a summers cloud,
Without special wonder"
I like the nerve and perseverance of Mr.. Boon, Of
Indiana in pressing his very proper resolution
There must be some innate independence Of charac-
ter in his composition, which will not permit him to
| be muzzled la Ha1qer. The vote, too-nearly two
| TO one in favor augurs well. The members Of the
House of Representatives will not, feel assured,
adjourn without petoiac the Specie Circular; and
their constituents will take good care to reto its au-
thors | learn that the friends of Mr.. CLAY in this
city are taking measures to call public meeting TO
express their sentiments in relation 10 his fitness for
the Presidential nomination ] have no doubt it
will be responded to BY an immense number Of our
citizens. ..a. #0..
All we now want 10 enable the Banks Of the
country to feel safe in moderately extending their
loans is, to have Congress pass some measure which
will prevent future meddling with the currency BY
Executive Officials. There must be something on
record to restrain the capricious exercise OF extra
official power We must have no more specie cir
cuars Although stocks rise, and every thing indi-
Gates slow but certain return to good old times yet
the reaction has not reachedthe business classes nor
have the mechanic and laborer yet found return OF
employment. The winter being past, the throng Oh
mendicants which thrust themselves on the notice Oh
the passersby at every corner oil the streets, are
somewhat less numerous and importunate, but still
the wall of feeble childhood and helpless age Is
heard in tones Of supplica,ion which sadly contrasts
with the merry laugh and cheerful countenances of
the fortunate pedestrians whose buoyant step bounds
along the pare. Indeed, until the Administration
began tnkering the currency, the appearance OF
street-beggars in New York extremely rare
but during the last winter our prosperous communi-
ty had been suddenly stricken by the hand OF power,
and we beheld the sad evidences OF It's desoia'ing
effect in the horde OF suppliants which impeded our
steps throughout all the principal thoroughfares Of
our CITY. Thus has the experiments Of our rulers
broken the spirit and Frustrated The Independence Of
a norton of the laboring classes, and had not the
people interposed We might in time either have
been driven to revolution or sank down in hearess
Iehargy and mendicity That the evil is now in tho
process of being remeded is cheering and consola-
tory