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

me eA % ne COM The mn section Of
n1tttee declares: " From he deDoate act decareS:
and after the passage Of " Nor shall the notes or
this act, the notes OF no bills of any bank be re-
bank which shall issue ceived in payment Of
or circulate bills or anv debt due 10 the
notes of less denomi- United States which
nation than five dollars, shall, after the said
shall be received on ac- fourth dav Of Julv
| count Of the public 1885, issue any note or
dues;" extending the bill Of a less denomina-
prohibition in Deem ton than FIVE dollars"
Der, l84l, to the notes
OF all banks issuing bills
or notes under twenty
dollars.
Where is the distinction in principle as
regards the reception Of bank paper on pub
lie account between the two provisions 2
and the senator from Missouri, in this de-
nouncing the bill Of the committee as a re-
peal Of the constitution, denounces directly
the President Of the United States. Com
gress, no more than state legislature, can
make any thing but gold or silver tender
in payment Of debts by one citizen ~ ano-
Their; but that Congress, or a state legisla-
ture, or an individual, NAV waive their con-
5titutonal rights, and receive bank paper or
drafts in payment of any debt, is principle
of universal adoption in theory and practice,
and never doubted BY any one, until at the
present session, by the senator from Mis-
souri, The distinction of the Senator, in
this respect, was as incomprehensible to
him (Mr. W. as he believed it was to every
senator, and. indeed, was discernible only
by the magnifying powers Of solar micro
scope. 1t was pOint-no-point, which, like
the logarithmic spiral, or asymptote of the
hyperbolic curve, might be forever approach
ed without reaching an infnitesmal, the
ghost of an idea, not only without length,
breadth, thickness, shape, weight, or dimen-
siOns, but without pOsitioH---a mere imagi-
nary nothing which fitted before the beWil-
dered vision of the honorable senator, when
traversing, in his ftful somnambulism, that,
tesselated pavement Of gold, silver, and
billion, which that Senator delighted to oc-
cupy. Sir, the senator from Missouri might
have heaped mountain high his piles of me-
tai he might have swept, in his Quixotic
flight, over the banks of the states, putting
TO the sword their officers, stockholders, d.
rectory, and legislative bodies, by which
they were chartered the might, in bis reve-
res, have demolished their charters, and
consumed their paper by the FIRE Of his elO-
quence he might have transacted, in fan
CIV, with metallic currency Of twenty-eight
millions in circulation, an annual actual bu-
sinsss of fifteen hundred millions, and Mr..
w. would not have disturbed his beatfc
visions, nor would any other senator-for
they were visions only, that could never be
realiZed-but when, descending from his
ETHEREAL flights, he seized upon the Commit
tee on Public Lands as criminals, arraigned
them as Violations of the constitution, and
prayed Heaven for deliverance from them,
Mr.. w. could be silent no longer. Yes,
even then he would have passed lightly over
the ashes of the theories Of the honorable
senator fof, if he desired to make assaults
upon any, it would be upon the living, and
not the dead; but that senator, in the open
ing of his (Mr. W.'s) address, had rejected
the olive branch, which, upon the urgent
solicitation Of mutual friends, against his
own judgment, he had extended to the ho-
norable senator. The senator from Mis-
souri, had thus, in substance. "declared his
" voice was still for war" Be it so but he
hoped the Senate would all recoIlect that
he (Mr. w. was not the aggressOr and
that, whilst he trusted he never would wan
tOhiJ assam VIC lSOttA3S VI AOpuldbtuuO VI al y
senator, he thanked God that he was not so
AFFECT OF degraded as to submit, with impu-
nifty, to unprOvoked attacks or unfounded
accusations from any quarter. Could he
thus submit, he would be unfit to represent
the noble, generous, and gallant people,
whose rights and interests it was his pride
and glory to endeaVor to protect, whose
nonor> and character were dearer to him
than life itself, and should never be tar
nished by any act Of his, as one Of their
humble representatives upon this floor.
NorE.--This bill, thus denounced by the
Senator from Missouri, as a repeal of the
Constitution, has since passed the Senate
by vote of Al to 5, and the House of Re
personalities, I43 to 50.