Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-10-10

! eve its professions in favor of hard money cur
! rency TO be insincere; because we do not believe
that any person Of common information and ordi-
nary understanding can suppose that the use of
| paper, circulating medium, will be disconin-
| ued, even if such discontinuance desirable,
| unless the Government shall break down the ac-
! knowledged authority of the State Governments
to establish banks. We believe the canor against
State Banks State bonds, and State credits. to have
| been raised by the friends Of the administration
to divert public attention from its own mismanage-
lnent, and to throw on others the consequence of
| its own misconduct We heard nothing of all this
! in the early part of Gen. Jacksons administration
nor until his measures had brought the currency of
the country into the utmost disorder. We know
that in times past The present Chief Magistrate,
Of all men, had most to do with the systems Of
State Banks, the most faith in their usefulness and
no very severely chastened desire to profit by their
influence. We believe that the purpose Of oxer-
cising money influence over the community has
never departed from the administration. What
it could not accomplish by an attempt to bend the
Bank of the United States to its purposes, we be-
lieve it has sought ana now seeks to effect by its
project of the Sub-Treasury. We believe, that in
order to maintain the principles upon which the
Sub-TIeasury is founded the friends of the admin
isrRtion have been led to espOuse opinions destruc
tive of the internal commerce of the country, par
aly2ing to its whole industry, tending to sink its
labor, both in price and in character, to the de-
graded standard of the uniformed, the ignorant,
the suffering labor Of the worst parts of Europe.
Led by the same necessity, or pushing the same
principle still further, and with kind of revou
tiUnary rapdiy we have the gifts of property
not only assaed, but denied-the boldest agrarian
notions put fUrth--the power of Transmission from
father to son openly denounced--the right Of one
to participate in the earnings of another, to the
rejection Of the natural claims of his own children,
asserted as fundamental principle Of the new de-
mocracy; and all this by those who are in the pay
Of Government, receiving large salaries, and whose
Offices would be nearly sinecures but for the labor
performed in the attempt to give currency to these
principles and these opinions.
We believe that the general tone the measures
of the administration the manner in which it con-
iers ayorS its apparent preference for partsans OF
extreme opinions, and the readiness with which it
bestows its confidence on the boldest and most vo
lent, producing serious injuries upon the polit
cal morals and general sentiments of the country
We believe that to this is fairly to be attri
bnted the most lamentable change which has taken
place in the temper, the sobriety and the wisdom
with which the high public councils have been hth
erto conducted We look with alarm to the exist
ing state Of things, in this respect; ard we would
most earnestly, and with all our hearts, well for
the honor Of the country as for its interests, be-
seech all good men to unite with us in an attempt
to bring back the deliberate age of the Government
to restore to the ELECTED bodies of the peoples re-
representatives. that self-respect, decorum and Dig
nifty, without which the business of gslation can
make no regular progress, and is always in danger
either of accomplishing nothing, or of reaching its
ends by ust and violent means.
We believe the conduct of the administration
respecting the public revenue to be highly reprehen-
sble. 1t has expended twenty millions, accumu-
lated, besides all the accruing income, since it
come into power; and there seems at this momen-
to be no doubt, but that it will leave to its success
sors a pnblic debt of from five to ten millions of
dollars. 1t has shrunk from its proper response
bilities. With the immediate prospect Of an emp
ty treasury, it has yet not had manineSs to recon-
mend to Congress any adequate provision. 1t has
constantly spoken Of the excess Of receipts and
overeXpeudtures, until this excess has finally man
! Tested itself in absolute necessity for loans,
and i'll power conferred on the President, alto
gether new, and in our Judgment hostile to the
whole spirit Of the Constitution, to meet the event
Of want of resources, by Withholding, out Of GER
tain classes Of appropriations made by Congress,
such as he chooses to think may be best spared
It lives by shifts and contrvances, by shallow art-
fees, and deusive names, by which is called 'u-
clities," and the Exchange Of Treasury notes for
>pece;" while in truth it has been fast contracting
a public debt, in the midst of all its boastings
without daring to lay the plain and naked truth of
! the case before the people.
We protest against the conduct of the House of
/ Representatives in the case of the New Jersey
election. This is not local. but general ques
! ton. In the Union Of the States, on whatever
link the blow Of injustice usurpaton falls, it is
felt, and ought to be felt, through the whole chain
The case OF New Jersey is the cause Of every
State, and every State is therefore bound to vindi-
cate it.
That the regular commission, or certificate Of re-
turn, signed by the chief magistrate of the State,
according to the provisions of law entities those
who produce it to be sworn in as members OF Con-
gresS, to vote in the organization of the House, and
hold their seats until their rights be disturbed by
regular petition aud proof, is proposition of con-
stitutional law, Of such universal acknowledgement
that it cannot be strengthened by argument or by
analogy There is nothing clearer, and nothing
better settled. No legislative body could ever be
organized without the adoption OF this principle
Yet in the case Of the New Jersey members, it was
entirely disgrearded.
And it is Of awful portent tAat on such a ques-
ton, ii question in its nature strictly judicial, the
dominance of party should lead men thus lagrant-
" to violate FIRST principles 1t is the first step that
costs. After this open disregard of the elemental
ry rules Of law and Justice it would crea'e no sur
prise, that pending the labors Of u committee es-
| pecaily appointed to ascertain who were duly
| elected, set Of men calling themselves Represen
tatives Of the people Of New Jersey, who had no
certificates from the chief magistrate Of the State
or according to the laws of the State, were voted
into their seats, under silence imposed by the
previous question, and afterwards gave their votes
for the passage of the Sub Treasury law. We call
most sOlemuly upon all who, with US, believe that
these proceedings alike invade the rights Of the
States, and diShOnOr the cause of popular govern
ment and free institutions, to supply an efficient
and decisive remedy, by the unsparing application
Of the elective franchise.
We protest against the plan Of the Administra-
ton respecting he training and disciplining Of the
i9s IlIn l,st. h.