The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1840-07-02

1 SOiiibOh1Su 'uS iifcsti5dtiuuf 4 HuFc IouHu
beautiful specimen Of economy in the Su.
pcrlnlcndent's accounts. | wish to remark,
Mr.. Chairman, beforehand, that | do mol
know this Superintendent If ever saw
him, do not remember it, am not opcr.
a,ed on By unkind feelings. discharge my
duty, aud, in SO doing if give offence, |
must answer for it, aud hope am ready
10 do SO.
But, sir, he IS regular protesting dem
ocrat; he thinks the banks are dangerous
institutions, no doubt be goes Tor hard mo.
ney, too, suppose. He certainly under
stands waStage Of gold : pretty well, this
document speaks the truth and, coming
from the department, | suppose i does.
This Superintendent, besides other things,
IS, | learn, bank stakeholder and bank
director ! es, sir +" tell il not IN Gath. !"
The Superintendent Of a branch mint, CON
ing hard money, belonging TO the party tia,
promised the people gold and silver as
common currency, attending political meet.
lngs, advocating a divorce Of Bank and
State, IS really, am informed, a bank stock
Mr.. Montgomery asked Mr.. Stanly what
evidence he had that Col. Wheeler, the
Superintendent, was bank stock holder /?
Sir, have never seen the bank books
have never heurd this Col. Wheeler say
he was bank director bu, | ask the gen
tleman, does be deay II? | am Informed he
IS, by respectable authority. II viii mol be
denied if II IL, | will undertake to prove it.
But, sir, let Us come TO the wastage Of
gold +" and the contingent expenses OF an
anti bank, auH corporation, hard money,
' an Buren, bank democrat. In the contIu.
goat expenses Of the branch mint, found
one iiem charged S2ls -, to d. Landreth
q Co. for trees les, trees, for the branch
mnt-2l9 dollars worth Of trees and flow.
ers for the branch mia
Here follows Lnndrclh's bill for Trees,
&c. which We have already published.
T. q, sir, is copy Of the bill, and for
The benc6, of my economical, hard money
colleagues, viii read the items.
ain not sure, Mr.. Chairman, have
called these hard names properly. Some
Of them | certainly seldom il ever heard
before. Ne such things grow ~ my dis
trict, either in the swamp. or turpeutne
woods, although we have flowers in abun
dance. Fifty dollars for horse chestnut
trees Why. Mr.. Chairman, there s no, a
country under the sun where the chestnut
grows more abundaniiy than in Western
North Carolina. Il is land abounding IN
beautiful trees. But plain North Carolina
trees would n0' suit the taste Of the Surper.
lntendent. Some gentleman here remark.
cd that the horse. chestnut was the same
treo called the buckeye Mr.. SrANLY
SAID, well, sir, have no doubt the buckeye,
from present Indications, will flourish in
North Carolina, though | do not on this &C,
count justify tbs expenditure 10 these hard
tines. Bat the Superintendent, besides the
American tree the buckeye, has also the
" ma snoa granditlora aud the macropbyl
Ia, as It IS speIt here, and silver. eaved ma.
pies, aud, SIT, tie morus multlcaulls The
hickory tree is no longer honorcd. But
the motus muttcauls, fit emblem of this
hum5ucglnr Administrator, is transplanted
TO North Carolina.
Probably, sir, when the Superintendent
bought the mulicauiis he remembered the
prediction Of the Globe; in that paper, Jolly
10Th, 1884, il was said, /" in eight or nine
months from THIS time, every substantial cit.
lzan will have long stIkcn purse Of fine open
net work, through the interstices of which
the yellow gold will shine and glitter "
He may have intended, with his " garden
reels" and scufila hoe and " swan neck
hoe, to make silk for the purses to hold the
yellow gold" This Is really mul,icau.
lis Administration.
Well, Mr.. Chairman, have given this
as a specimen of the administration OF ut.
fairs ct Charlotte. Just so the affairs of
our nation are managed every where. This
Administration holds GU, Inducements TO its
partisans TO disregard the will of the People ::
it rewards negligence in public officers
If they have served their party, no matter
how much their country has suffered by
their misconduct, they are sure TO be re.
membered. forbear, sir, from saying
more for the present. | do not wish to &C.
cupy the time of the House unnecessarily.
There arc other matters relative TO this
branch mint, Of which | may speak hereafter
After some remarks from MIR. CONNER,
of North Carolina, Mr.. SrANLY said 90
Mr., Chairman, did not Intend to tres,
pass on the Committee again but | cannot
permit the remarks Of my colleague to pass
entirely mnoticed.
i. My colleague says, sir, be did not expect
thus attack from North Carol9a. do not
suppose my colleague did expect this, sir.
1t is hard to say what he expects from any
quarter. Blu, does he approve of this ex'
penditurel No, sir; he admits it is wrong,
and utterly unjustlfable. No man has said
ii was proper. Why, therefore, should il
surprise my colleague chat | object TO il
Is it because this branch mint is in North
Carolina that my colleague thinks ought
to suffer these abuses TO pass unnoticed =
Sir, my constituents would be ashamed o
me if they thought could harbor such 1
thought.
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