The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1840-08-08

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the bank and against the amendment.
The object of the speeches did not aP-
pear very clear. Mr.. Wick, Of Indiana,
whose remarks we give below, hit upon
the true object, in our opinion, when he
thought tha. they were intended "to let
! it leak out, through his friends here, in a
modes, kind of way, so that it may be un-
derstood by the knowing ones, but not
by .hc farmers, or the homes! hearted old
Jackson men, who stood by the old chief
in his battle with the monster, that he
fGen. Harr;son) is not hostile to United
! States"
Mr.. Wick said that he had been much
puzzled to comprehsn end the drift and OBJ
iect of debate in this House; but never
more so than on the present occasion: The
chairman Of the committee Of Ways and
Means (said hey has proposed an amend.
ment to the bill under consideration, plain,
simple, explanatory, and precautionary,
and in no respect dangerous or obnoxious
+ to objection: and 10! it has been made an
occasion to get up n regular set to upon
the old party theme-the United States
Bank-and of a last, final Congressional
charge upon the Administration. At first,
said he, did not know-as it is now the
wi!cbing hour of night-but that my
friends of the Administration party were
J dreaming, and had seen the ghost Of the
defunct monster stalking through the hall,
accompanied by witches and warlocks,
and long nebbed things. Rut moments
reflection satisfied me that, in stopping at
this conclusion, was more smart than
wise, (bowng to MIR. Wise Of Virginia,
for remembered that the United States
Bank was not only dead and buried, but
that nv Administration friends have, by
the passage of the Independent Treasury
bill, turfed over its grave, and laid its
ghost in the Red sea. Then, sir, said he,
why, at this late hour of the season, have
we been called up to sit here patiently
under the infliction of regular attack and
defence of that old concern-to. as dull
prosy details about it as we have ever
heard here or elsewhere-to another and
another attack upon Martin Van Buren and
Levi Woodbury.? Why have we witnessed
sundry manifestations of what must here,
I suppose be called chivalry, but which,
in the hoosier State, the boys would call
gostration!
Is not the Administration yet demolish-
ed? Have we not heard it proclaimed in
this House, at our lodgings, and in every
street; by the gentlemen of the opposi-
ton that the Administration is bodacous-
ly used up, tetotaciously exfunctifed!
That in few weeks Levi Woodbury. is 10
absquatulate 10 New Hampshire, Martin
Van Buren to 90 to Kinderhook, to trun-
die cabbages, and that the friends Of old
Hickory will find him smoking his pipe
in the deserts Of Arabia! Why, then, TO-
mahawk the slain' Why bring declame-
tion to bear upon the Administration?
Why pummel and beat over again that
which is already beaten to jelly, jammed
into cooked hat, flung into the middle of
next week! Surely the gentlemen of the
Opposition do not wish to labor in vain.
Sir, have thought of two reasons foi all
this flourish. First, it has occ, rred to
me that the Opposition party, being lit.
tie scant Of doctrine, parsonage, called
General Mum, has seen proper, at the
precise close of the session, when the new
issue cannot be met and exposed, TO let it
leak ont through his friends here in mo-
dest kind of way, so that it be understood
by the knowing ones, but not by the far
mers, or the honest hearted old Jackson
men, who stood to the old chief in his
battle with the monster, that he (Gen.
NUM- is not hostile 10 United States
Bank.
But as this does not fully account for
the tone Of this evenings debate, | have
looked around the hall for its exciting
cause. could surely find no cause in an
attentive audience on the floor, for scarce
member has paid any attention to word
which has beel: said. Every one has been
talking at the top of his voice. The din
has been such that one has had to think
by feeling, like one walking in dungeon.
But, sir, | have looked further and
higher, and there! and there! and there!
(pointing TO the galleries, crowded with
ladies,) find fifty or an hundred good anL
beautiful reasons for making splash on
this floor. Sir, it is time to quit speaking:
voting will be more appropriate.
THE DIFFERENCE.
There arc only these little differences
befvepn the Federal and RenphEc.n mr.