The Madisonian., 1840-02-13
roR THE MADisoNIAN,

Mn. ALLrNIt is time that the sober attention Of
the people Of the United States should be especially
directed to The gross and shameless Inconsistencies
Of The President and his constitutional advisers.
Without recurring TO all the heartess and dsho-
norabe schemes by which he has risen tot the exalted
station he now occupies will advert merely to one
or two passages in the history OF Mr.. Van Burens
elevation, and then submit to the candid considera-
tion OF your readers plain slaemen of facts, which
challenge the boldcS of his slipendiarcs TO contra
dict
With highly respectable talents, united to n cum
ming and industry rarely surpassed, after the death OF
the great and lamenled Clinton. Mr.. Van Barren
toilcd necessarily TO promote The ultimate object of
his ambition; he very fastidious in the use
OF means by which this object was at length accom-
plished With an INSCRIPTIONS and vena press at
his command, under the broad agis Of popular
name, MIR. Van Buren enabled not only 10
strike down the towering spirits of the day, bu also
10 disseminate such principles and notions Of nation
al policy as would best subserve his own personal
views. This press continued for years, and still is,
the powerful instrument by which The party in power
incucate their doctrines upon large portion Of the
people Of this country; and man, however re-
spectacle, unless he SubmiSsvely accords with the
views oflhe party can hope TO escape its coarses
vituperaion. But enough ofthis.
Much credit has been Gained for Mr. Van Bu-
ren by his parsans, for his paernal care of the fs
cal and commercial interests of The country and
moreover, in his late message TO Congress, he pro-
fesses the most emphatic kindness for the sound
banking institutions Of the States. To what extent
he merits the public commcndalion in this regard
the honest Of all parties cannot fail to perceive.
In the report Of The Treasury Department of the
6tho January last, wherein given the names OF
certain banks in the Vi tied States, which had stop
ped payment, the {" Bank Of Plsburg" is among e
number noted as having " suspended in part" Now,
the cashier of that institutions the 29th of October
last TO the Department. expressly advising Mr..
Woodbury. that the bank was then paying specie for
all its Liabilities, and rould under all circumstances,
continue 10 do So: Nevertheless, Mr.. Van Buren
permitted 81 his Secretary" subsequently 10 embody
this false statement in an official report to both
Houses OF Congress; thereby deeply injuring the
credit of the institution and imparing the interest
Of its stockholders.
Afrer all that has been said or done 10 impress the
public mind with the extraordinary forbearance Of
the administration towards banks, that maintain
their credit unimpaired, and Of their special care
and vigilance the public treasure; is il not
prisng that all the government deposites al the city
of Pittsburg have been and are placed in the
vaults Of institutions which have entirely suspended
payment; and that, too, when il was perfectly well
known at the Department a, Washington, that the
Bank Of Pillsburg" pays and has paid all its legal
Liabilities in coin, when demanded
Comment is unnecessary. The President and his
Secretary can hardly escape the censure of the good
people of Pennsylvania SNYDER.