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

SltStSu sSIV1CeS TeHueTBu 10y tbC O1iio y
from Missouri to the democracy OF the I'm o
: he would pass by many of the remarks mad
by that Senator on this subject.
MIR. BENTor here arose from his chair
and demanded, with much warmth, that Mr.
WALKER should no, pass by one of them
Mr. W. asked, What one? Mr.. B. replied
: in an angry tone, Not one, sir. Then Mr.
w. said he would examine them all, and, in
!. spirit Of perfect freedom, that he would
endeaVor TO return blow, and that, if the
Senator from Missouri desired, as ii appear
ed he did. an angry controversy with him,
in all its consequences in and out of this
House, he could be gratifed.1
i Sir, (said Mr.. W. why has the Senator
from Missouri assuiled the Committee on
Public Lands, and himself, as its humble or
gan? He was not the author Of this meas
ure, so much denounced by the Senator
from Missouri, nor had he said one word up
on the subject. The measure origionated
with the Senator from Virginia, (Mr Riyhs J
He was the author of the measure, and bad
been, and still was, its able, Jealous, and
successful advocate. WHY, then, had the
Senator frum Missouri assailed him, MI
:. W.) and permitted the author of the meas
ure the scape unpublished? Sir, are the ar
rows which appear to be AIMED by the Sena-
tor from Missouri at the humble organ of
the Committee on Public Lands, who re
ported this bill, intended to inf1ict wound
in another quarter? Is one Senator the APP
parent object of assault, when the Senator
from Missouri. without any proVocation, Ike
thunderbolt from an unclonded skv, broke
nn0N thu IN vnrfoCt 4
wrath aSd fury, bursting upon his poor head
like a tDpical tornado, did he intend TO
sweep before the avengng storm another i'm
dividual more obnoxious to his censuref
Sir, lsaid Mr.. w. the Senator from MIS-
souri, has there repeated the PRAYER, ''God
save the country from the Committee on
Public Lands" hut Mr.. W. fully believed
| that if The PRAYER the country could he heard
within these walls. il would be, .iod save q;
from the wild, visionary. ulinons, and i'm
practicable schemes of the Senator of Ms
souri,, for exclusive gold and silver currencys
and such is not only the PRAYER of The conn |
ty, but of the Senate, with scarcely dis |
senting voice. Sir. il the Senator from Mis- |
souri, could, by his mandate, in direct oppos- |
ton to the views Of the President, heretofore !
expressed, sweep from existence all the
banks of the States, and establish his exclu-
sive contitutional currency of goli and silver
he would bring upon this country scenes of
ruin and distress without parallel-an I'M
mediate bankruptcy of nearly every debtor,
and of almost every creditor to whom large
amounts were dine, prodigions depreciation
in the price ofall property and all products.
and an immediate cessation by SAFES and
individuals Of nearly every work Of private
enterprise or public improvement. The
would be involved in one universal
bankruptcy, and near the grave of the al
TONS prosperity, would perhaps repose, the
fragments of those great and glo-
rious institutions which give happiness to
millions here, AMI hopes to millions more Of
from desposic power Sir. +,
in resistance to the power ofthe bank Of he !
United StOtes, in opposition to the re- estab-
ishehmen. of any similar institution. the ,
Senator from Missouri would find NJ ".
with him, buthe could not enlist as a recrui !
n this new crusade against the banks Of his .
Dwn, and every other State in the Union.
These institutions, whether for good or evil,
ire created by the States, cherished and
sustained by them, in many cases owned in
whole or in part by the States, and closely q
United with their prosperity; and what right
rave we to destroy them9 What right had
Re. an humble servant of the people Of Mis-
Isippi, to say to his own, or any other State,
Your State legislation is wrong-your State :
your State banks, must be an = =
and we willlegs!ate here to effect i
his object? Are we the masters or servants !,
# the sovereign States, that We dare speak *
O them in language like this-that we dare
.ttempt to PROSTATE here those institutions q
which are created and maintained by those o
cry States which we represent on this floor? b
These NAV be the opinions entertained by u
ONE Senators of their duty to the States CT
hey represent, but they were MOI his mr. g
V'sl views or his opinions. He was sincere p
Y DESTROYS TO co operate with his State inl g
uniting any dangerous powers Of the banks, Y
4 enlarg:ng the circulation of gold and sill 6I
es. and in suppressing the small note cur sa
8ncy, so as to avoid that explosion which NJ
Yas to be appFehended from excessive is Ter
nes Of bank paper. But total annhila to
on Of all the banks Of his own State, now ba
assessing chartered capital of near forty
lillions of dollars, would, Mr.. w. knew, Or
reduce almost universal bankruptcy, and liz
as not, he believed, anticipated by any one tn
his constituents. frC
But the Senator from Missouri tells rs, ffc
lat this measure of the committee is a re- is
sal of the Constitution, BY authorizing the an
,ceipt Of paper money inrcvenue payments US
so. then the Constitution never has had rel
j existence; for the period cannot be de- by
grated when paper money was not so re- ma
sivable by the Federal Government. THIS lie
,ecies of money was expressly made receiv- We
lie for the bubble dues By an act Of Con- di,
ess, passed Immediately after the adop- iof
Dn ofthe Constitution, and which remained a.
force until eighteen hundred and eleven, m