The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1840-04-10


iris said that ssstraws show which way
the wind blows" But we are sure that :he
falling Of trees before hurricane does inui-
cate the course Of the storm.
H1ho expected TO see SO soon the head OF
democracy in favour Of credit and bankingi
and opposed to the hard money yisioni
Noothers than Senators Buchanan, King
and Grundy have 50 declared themselves:
The Washington correspondents Ofthe n:
b. Bee remarks as follows:
But. besides this per5onal conirofersy, which
must have been painful TO ell who would have the
dignity Of the senate presefveds there VAS yeater-
i day, the most extraordinary Teeant py 9ol
prominent senai0rs in the administration ranks q
lmanv ortho doctrines Of the party. MT. buehas
Imam. Mr. Gru1dy and Mr.. King now DECLARE tof
themselves and their phrtys thar they are NOT and
lneper hare been, adverse 70 the banking insttu-
Itions 81 the country !that they are not, and me-
q yer have been, haEd-money men! W
Do these senators imagine that the people are
"a be deceived BY these disclaimers az this time
Of day, IN the lace q theirown svoweiS ana ae.
elaraiions and those Of other leaders Of their par
". and Of all their daily, weekly and monthly or
cans. from the Globe and Democratic Review, %
Tie most insignificant locotoco Journal which
echoes the orders OF the executive The people
will Give them no credit for these late avOWals!
They are intended FOR the nonce; Or extorted nom
The fear Of that tide of popular indignation WHICH
lis swellinga and will c0htinue 70 roll on, until the
! destroyers of the tfedit and prosperity Of the
s country are oveEwhelmedi
{ MI. Clay, Of Kentucky, W no appearad ID the
senate for the FIRST time since bic visit to YirgnaS
commented in strain Of ihimitable pleasantly on
1 the extraordinary recantatiopS which had Just
!; been made. ssWheTs am ~ he asked. This
5 Is the Scnate-that is the portrait Of ashington
(p0intng y the picture Of the Fathet OF HE ,copn-
try which adorns the chamber,) but really gentle
4 men seem TO have lost their personal identity
! What sir the senators on the Administration side
not in favor Of specie currency opposed 60
banking insiitutions--not enemies Of the credit
5 system! Why sir, what have We heard REPEATED
t " from the mc1heFs on that side but uenuncla-
s lions against banks, against credits against Paper
money, and eplogy % splogy q specie cur
rencygn ~ m aE
MI. Clay proceeded 10 expires his regret that
It the recanlation was not genefa-tlIat the sens
8 tofs from Ohio, and North Caroinas and the die
s linruished senator from Nissongii did not come
! out in the same way. Fl hoped that since gen
s. ttlemen had abandoned 30 many 81 The dOcirnel
~ connected with the subtrc1suIys they would gl
= one step Further, and Cite up that scheme lissi
He very properly attributed lhess Iec9a satinns 6
die forcs 81 public senimentf which ~ also de-
'e sfonafed as the potent cause Of that long seeT
Is (which ths subtfeosury bill has been allowed Z
eniov On the speak ers table In che ho1st d repre-
sentatiyes.
Mr.. Calhoun was The only man AZ ne ~, eife.'
snfy ranks, who had the Dol dness 20 ayoV his I'd
1n herencc 10 tie nisaures uhie nIs sntked viii
4. that party. He unhestatingy deelpged va
whatever course others might pursue, be TOOK ~
~ responsibility of FepeatuF, that be regarded ~
70 banking system q The greatest calamity % ~
en- nations and was opposed g eneIeiung ., ~ IN
~ form Whatever, on the Constitutional fhe Unite
States; which, he remarked lew days ag'
+, would Be the effect Of M. Bpchmatl,a cnElenc
lio resolution. ~