The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-10-18

e pher he meaning of.tae teller, he says
I Tits fiscal agency den0mindtedb Mr..
7 Jefferson, General Jackson and aI,IsEf, "a
: bank Is nothing more than tie Iudefadent
i Treasury bin, ercept that tie Bill noD
proposed By the democratic party isStrip--
ped o eDc'y feature ofa Hank"
In the name ofthe English languag -and
: in the name ofall that is candid, honkt and
fair, was ever such an argument pulupon
paper! The letter meant then, thar the
writing Of it, Mr.. Walker was III fdor Of
a Sub Treasury!9 Reader, please turn
back and read the letter again, then Tad the
Interpretation again, and then an&ver US
which the letter is most Gin favor of'-s'the
Independent Treasury bill'' or the bunding
Of city in the moon! Why the an ument,
if we may so misuse our mother tonale as to
call it such, is torn utterly to piecesby Mr..
Walker himself, and with mucl more
home and deadly thurst than we could do it,
for he says that ''the bill as now proposed by
he democratic party is stripped Of eueyy .teG-
ture Of a bank"
We assure our readers that we quote Mr..
Walker correctly, and give the whole of his
Interpretation OF this, as he now seems to
conceive il, difficult and mysterious letter.
But reader, suppose we take off the glorif-
cation spectacles moment, and look at this
letter again with our natural eyes.
It was written to Judge Black, then in the
Senate Of the United States-Congress in
session. What financial questions were
then before Congress, and what political con-
tests was Judge Black then engaged in
how stood he towards sfhe Deposiie Dues
lion" in which he was exhorted to ego onl''
Mr. Walker says he told him to go on Gin
resisting the adoption of the State Bank de-
posite system. But it is notorious that the
wings were battling for the Bank of the Uni
ted States, and "a restoration Of the depO-
SITES p as Mr.. Walker himself expresses it.
This is what Judge Black was doing, in
which he was exhorted to go on. Mr..
Walker, as he says in the letter, was with
Judge Black on the deposite questionable
says also, "the public Voice loudly demands
a restoration Of the depOsites '--'' Mississippi
will with great unanimity sustain you on
the Opposite Question: And still he says
that he was in 1884, as he is now, ''in favor
of the complete separation of the government
from all banking corporations, state or ma
tiOnal." Though he was in favor of ga res
toratiOn Of the depOsites." He says further,
ssand here is it not little remarkable, that
the only measure of General Jackson's adj
ministration to which ever declared my OPP
position, was the State Bank deposite sys-
tenn" and yet he was in favor of ''G restorG-
ton Of the deposits, and the creating BANK
to supply generally currency" He says,
81 warmly supported in 1882 as in 1884, the
veto of General Jackson upon the Bank of
the United States. / opposed the re-char-
tering of that Bank or the establishment of
any similar institution, as / now dos and
yet he does not deny that he wrote the let
ter above which we ascribe to him! He urg-
ed Judge Black forward in the battle for the
recharter of the bank of the United States,
and yet he was always opposed to it and in
favor of the vetoi Why this is insulting to
common sense. 1t is absolutely an insult to
decent community.
But we tell Mr.. Walker and his friends
that they have more to get over than this
letter. Mr.. Walker, at various times and on
repeated promiscuous occasions, in Natchez
and elsewhere, said a hundred times more
than is contained in this letter. His COM
mon conversation upon the subject of the
veto message and the removal of the depo-
sites was an inveterate and hostile opposi-
ton to both. He was absolutely clamorous
in opposition to these measures. He de-
nounced them in the most unmeasured
terms, and he as boldly and emphatcally
denounced Gen. Jackson, personally! He
was in favor of the bill to recharter the Uni
ted States Bank. He was in favor Of 'sthe
creating bank 70 supply general curren-
cy," which he says the Sub-Treasury bill
contains not a single feature Of.
In further proof of our assertion that Mr..
Walker is being made use Of by his party 10
deceive the people, we recall the same witness,
Mr.. Walker himself. He has recently pub
lished twelve or fifteen newspaper columns
to show tie EVIL Of banking, or the issuance
Of paper money, ander any possible circuns-
stances or cO,ttngences. According to Mr..
Walker of 1889 .sthe very system Of banking
is founded in fraud and falsehood." 1t is
immoral. irreligiOus, dangerous to liberty,
disadyantageous to the people, great evil
that can only be cured BY its perfect annihi-
Ilation. Nothing but an exclusive metallic
currency is honest, safe, or advantageous to
the country and the people. He entertained
these sentiments in 1884 and in 1886. for he
says he has not changed whit of them this
whole while. And yetin 1884 he declared
to Senator Black in favor ofssthe creating a
BANK to SUPPLY a general currency" Qt