The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-11-29

II luis experimentation IS one OF those pamph
lets published under the personal revision
and correction of Mr.. Walker himself
But our chief object in publishing thi.
speech isq ute above and beyond Mr.. wal
ker. It is to prove to all candid and refiec.
ting men that the administration party ar,
rushing on in violent and rapit strides, hand
ling banks, currency, exchanges, laws and
constitutions, in violent recklessness and
disorder, without settled representation
any agreement among themselves as to wha
they will, or ought to do; but changing al
the winds chang to day and es-
tablshing as their political faith, doctrines
which were vehemently denounced by them
yesterday, and which thay will repudiate
and abandon tomorrow if the wind changes
or quarrel amongst themselves as to what is
or shall be the party doctriue. We wish to
prove to all rejecting men to whom we can
get access, that the important and delicate
machinery of finance and currency are at the
mercy of political party who handle them
with about as much care, discretion or Judge
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were he to ascend the work table of watch
mak'rin his absence, where various machinery
was arranged for nice mechanical operation.
We want to show to the people, By Demo
cxGtic Testimony, that Democratic thinkers are
fast running the whole business, trade, COM
merce and industry of our country. If whig
testimony is objected to on this subject, we
wish to bring forward some democratic wit
nesses, that persons of all tastes and inclna-
tons may be suited with testimony precisely
to their liking. We wish to show the peo-
pie that ''exclusive gold and silver curren-
cy'' is a S'aOiEd, customary, ruiaous and i'm
practicable scheme, that it will ssbring up
on the country scenes of ruin and distress
without parellel.' That if the present de-
mocratic doctrines are adopted by the people
"the country would be invOEved in one uni
UersGL bankruptcy, and near the grave ofthe
nations prosperity would perhaps repose the
scattered fragments of those great and gIo-
rious institutions which give happiness to
millions here and hopes to millions more of
disenthralment from despotic power" We
wish to shew 10 the people that to blow bot
and blow cold in regular annual, semianu9
or bieinual succession, is not "GbsoEute con-
sistency." We wish to show to the people
by ''pure democratic" testimony (the United
States Senate Al to 5, and the House 143 to
50 upon democratic question: that refusal
by the Government to receive any thing but
gold and silver in payment of public dues
would render it necessary to ''employ hun
dreds of seperate iaGtViduaL agents, constan-
thy traversing the country in all directions
with mules or Wagons loaded with gold and
silVer."-That t'such system, and to this
it would come, would require an army Of
agents, greater, than our whole standing ar
my, to receive, transfer and dis6urse, the for
ty seven millions of gold and silver, the a.
mount of this years (1837) federal revenue"
That such system (as the Sub-Treasury)
''would enlarge the PATRONAGE and the pe.Uer
ofthe General Government to an almost UNL1-
MITED extent and if successful, pGraIixe the
state Government By The destruction of STATE
BANKS, STATE CREDIT and STATE INSTITUTIONS -
We wish to give to such of the members
elect of our next Legislature, as have per-
mission to think, that RobertJ. Walker, de-
nounces fthe whole system" as ''impracti
cable and declares that ''it is time that the
country should known that such is the opin-
ion of the whole Senate, with the single ex-
ception of the Senator from Missouri himself
And that such was the opinion of the Senate
II to 5, in February 1897.
These things and forty others oflike charac-
ter, we wish to show to the people who are
not chained, in thought word and deed, to q
party doctrine. And for those who prefer r
democratic" testimony upon the subject, /
we here furnish the description precisely S
suited to their liking. /
It is very true that this speech was deli '
vered few months before the Sub-Treasury :
dill was proposed in Congress; but it is quite t
rs true that this discussion embraced al the '
Important features of that scheme. The inn '
mediate controversy was, whether the Gov {
srnment should receive bank notes in pay for 0
lues Or demand specie! Mr.. Walker and al f
o of tn Senate, insisted that it ought to re- '
,eive bank notes. Because there was no k
rood reason against tit was strictly legal; a
md to refuse paper money ''tOOuld PROSTATE y
tate Government and STATE BANKs''-create D
'an army Of agents to receive, transfer and T
Iisburse the public funds; would enormous $
y increase government patronage. "His'' h
avs Mr.. Walker, ''G declaration Of aOar By e
his government against the people Of the States il
ND THE BANKS OF THE STATEs''-s'It demands
hat out of gold and silver currency Of
wenty-eight millions in circulation we
hould pay in this currency, a revenue of
,rty seven millions. II demands, then. an \
unless AN EXPLOSION OF :