Southern marksman., 1839-02-06
THE GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK
AGAINST A NATIONAL BANK.

Mr.. Seward, the late Installed Governor
of New York, was notoriously one Of the
most devoted partisans of the United
States Bank. AT the very last session of
the legislature of the State, before the
election, he exerted himself, and brought
the force of The federal party to make the
Bank policy that of the State government.
Gov Seward is, in heart. still in favor of
a Bank Government, but The object is now
to be reached by stealth. The popular
voice has been so loudly and decIsIvely
expressed against it, that the project must
he disavowed, and the effort made TO bring
in Federal Administration to charter
hank, with all It's previous professions "a
gainst il. The willy Seward has begun
he game Of deception i'll the passage OF
the message commenced on in the article
below, from the Evening Post:
s.We muStnot attack Governor Stewards
Message with too much acrImrny. Thee
arc good hings in it. According 10 Asp,
Chantic'eer once found jewel in dung
hill. The story is probable enough, for
we have found amidst the rubbish of Mr..
Stewards message jewel of great price.
1t is, IL we are not deceived in our inter-
probation of the passage, frank admission
that the Wing doctrine on the subject of
National Bank is gross fallacy; that such
an institution is in no manner necessary
to the proper administration OF the tinAn-
ces, while it is dangerous to the public
liberties; that General jackson was right
| in his hostility TO the bank, and Daniel
Webster and Mr.. Clay, and the whole
Wing phalanx, Governor Seward among
the rest in defending the necessity of
such an institution, were the champions
of wreiched quackery. Here is the
passage in which this confession of The
error and delinquency of the Wing party
occurs:
''Permi'. me 10 express the hope that
since that Government the General Cox
vernment] has asccrtaiacd that its f nan
cial busi ess may be conducted with0ut a
Bank, will speedily adopt some fixed
and permanent system for the collection
aud disbursement of its revenues; sys.
TEN that ,riH neither bring our liberties in
to jeopardy. nor spread alarm for their
| security By the cation of Il banking IN
stiution IN any form, whether corporate
which will not again exact that mprac-
ticability, The payment of the precious
metals Tor duties, taxes, and other revenue
I--uor again embarrass and derdnge all the
operations of business By rejecting for lis
demands the only currency which, in the
present condition of the civilized world
can be used or paid mixed currency
ni gold, silver, and redeemahle paper"
"'Fhe Wing prints, we perceive, in their
comments on the message, pass by this
remarkable passage in silence. They
must have been startled at seeing res
preventative of their party, in so dIstln-
uuished 4 post, suddenly plead guilty IN
their name at the bar of public opinion.
Two wears ago, the man who would have
said the same things openly, in Wall street
or Pearl street, would scarce have escaped
being mobhed. The merchant who vens
tured to dissent from the grand Whig doc
trine of the necessity of a National Bank,
was regarded with so much horror and
avoidance by the rest Of his class, as a
Hebrew Ieper by the rest of the nation. =
Governor Marcy was regularly assaiied
with abuse by the Wing prints, every year.
for saying The same thing which is now
said bv Governor Seward.
ave think il worth while TO separate
! from ihe resi- of the message, and leave
on record by itself, this memorable ac-
acknowledgement uttered in high places,
that the doctrine which the Wings have
toiled for so many years to persuade the
American people 10 embrace, was a deiu-
sion and a falsehnod, and that the institu-
iion lhev Iabored to uphold and to revive,
was worthless 10 the finances and danger
Gus 10 the liberties Of The people.
MORE FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE
/ ON DEFAULTS.
/ In the tirades of abuse on the President