The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-08-09

i last means with atfengt IS 81 adequate 4
| the end il view, md, moreover, q casT,
. on corrupt system 81 Buying i llen'I
FOULS the opinions md preiudiess of oppos
ms paEtlzans which system, 30 81 know
/ did and eth does exist. .aieney was mos
Obvioasly and ABSOLUTELY necessary and 6
etiecl thus much, al entire control Of 81 lhs
public funds was deemed ID all probability
not more than sufficient. Il then became
the paramount object 10 set, some way q
other exclusive possession of tie national
!. revenue--and that, Il il very rational % sup
pose from the subsequent course Of things.
in7the form Of legal tender. which, il obtain
ling the desired end would necessarily BE,
under any and I'LL circumstances, perfectly
available. II other words, the paramount
obiect was to establish " hat Col. Ben ton calls
Ian independent Treasury Independent
Eof the People, the States, The other depart
ments Of Government, and "a other consid-
Ierations whatever, AZ this lime, the public
money vas deposited by law q Congress,
lin the vaults Of the q. S. Bank, surrounded
BY such legal safeguards and checks, that
the executive. party could not lawfully ham
die il with the desired and necessary free
dom, unless the bank chose 10 further and
become an accomplice in the fulflment Of
the foul design. Rather than openly set law
at defiance, the administration party very
soon after the election was over, proposed to
the Bank to premit it, and also that the
Bank ghould itself join in the measure, to
use the public money on deposit, for he adj
vancement Of political purpose. Thu pro-
/ position was made in the above genera man
ner.
Mr.. Webster informed the public o; such
a nefarious proposal; and Mr.. King. Of Ca,
who at the time the proposition was made,
was himself member Of the executive psrty,
Afterwards declared in the Senate Chamber,
on his honor as gentleman, that what Mr..
Webster had said was, to his personal knowl-
edge, entirely true. The Bank refused to
accede to the proposition; and for such re-
fusal, Gen. Jackson and bis minions declared
war and avowed destruction against the
Bank. Then commenced the Disgusting
hue and cry of "down with the nonster!=
Away with bank favoritism and monopoly!
Destruction to the rich and all nloneysd aris-
tocracy! Justice, and freedom, and wealth,
to the poor! Keep the gold and silver in the
country.''
s'Oh gold! still prefer thee unto paper
Whichmakes Bank Credit like bank of vapoE.''
But this quotation is inappropriate; il is taken
from source altogether too elevated. Be-
sides, it would not tally well, for democratic
consistency, with broken State Bank paper,
and irredeemable Treasury notes, were it
notthat the democratic party, as by soma is-
has been said Of the willy and polite Jesuiss,
have ever been, as it yet is, characterized
by . belief and practice Of the false maxim,
that ssthe end always justifes the MEANS =
and were it not also, that the end is, as we
have before said, to obtain entire control Of
an Independent Treasury, the Golfers Of
which are to be filed with the legal tender.
Judging of the future BY the past, it may
well be doubted, however, whether that In
dependent Treasury, if finally established,
will be ever filed, or if filed, remain SO long
the present dominant party continuing in
power. The propriety Of dividing the spoils,
and the principle that sscharity begins at
home" are too highly esteemed among the
loco-focos, those true disciples of Angus
tus Tomhnson, to permit them to ferego the
qualification Of their acquisitiVeness and their
love of the noble art of appropriation. At
the commencement Of hortiliaies against the
u. S. Bank, General Jakson and his party
charged the Bank with being political parti-
zan machine, most highly dangerous to the
prosperity and liberty ofthe Union; charge
the bank, the tenor cf the several bank in-
vestigations and reports thereon conclusive
~ falsifes, and 10 support which there was no
other authority than that Of the groundless,
mean suspicion and prejudice Of the Execu-
tive and its party, growing out of the fact
that the bank had refused to become &c poll
cal machine. But the contemplate maxim,
so much At war with peace and SO indicative
Of the tyrant, that e.Who is not for me, is
against me, z has ever distinguished General
Jackson smoraI creed-if, indeed, his deprav-
ed and uncomfortable passions could have
ever permitted him to possess such thing.
It was enough, however. that the 'sRepre-
sentatives Of the People, sanctioned the
charge. 4 dew from mouth 70 mouth with
the rapidly Of heavens lightning was
Iechoed and re-echoed over the hole Union
--and having every change rung upon il that
could be devised, quickly became % essen
tial ingredient Of Che hue and CRY Is which
we have before alluded.
] The Bank warfare, having thus connen-
Iced, was in accordance with the well known
character Of Gen. Jackson, carried 81 with
Il the utmost zeal and ardor-vEifh ! 49, 81