Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-02-08
G5~ tits stated, OH the authority ofa let
ter from Columbus, that the session of the
Court of Common Pleas for this county vii
commence or tile cd of March.
From the N. Y. Times.
25th CONGRESS-. FIRST SESSION.
IN ssNATE-January 90.

25th CONGR E5S. FIRST SESSION.
rs7 IN sENATE--January 22.
The Senate resumed the consideration Of
the SyD-TRRAsuRY BILL to-day. Mr.. Buch-
anan of Penn, was entitled to the floor.
He rose and announced his intention to re-
ply to the arguments advanced by Mr.. Clay,
Oh Monday, rather than make a speech in
explanation and support of the measure.
Mr.. Buchanan is a pleasing speaker. His
manner is courteous and gentlemanly; and
his style of elocution fluent and torcible.
In very ingenious, though perfectly
manifest straln Of sophistry, he contended
that the Sub Treasury Bill made no altera-
ton on the settled financial policy of the
country, except in depositing the public
money, between the period ofrecepton and
that Of disbursement, in the hands of dc-
countnbie agents, instead of unaccounlable
Banks; and in requiring all the receipt and
dish ursments of Government to be paid in
specie, at the end of four years from the
date of its passage.
He controverted the idea that tho meas
ure created Government Bank; and if
such Bank was couched in the Bill, then,
he maintained there had been Govern
ment Bauk from the establishment of the
Constitution to this time. He noticed the
charge that the Bill produces union of the
PURSE and SWORD: and admitted that if
such should be the effect, it would certainly
establish perfect despotsm. But he main
tanned, in defence that all who will care.
fully consider the measure, must perceive
that it gave no such powers. And further,
he argued, that if the President should
usurp them, that officer would on the very
principles of the bill, be transferred from
the White House to the Penitentiary.
Although it was late--indeed very near
the hour at which it has been customary
for the Senate to adjourn-whcn Mr.. Bu-
chanan finished his speech, and although
Mr.. Clay has been laboring under indispo-
stion for some days, still he declined to
ask the Senate to indulge him with adjourn
ing, which he must have been taught
by experience the majority would grant
with an i'll grace, if they granted at all. He
rose at once, and with that promptitude and
energy which never fails him, he applied
himself to the work of overlhrowing the ar
guments, and replying to the general re-
marks of the able Senator from Pennsylva-
mia. Sudden as was the occasion, venture
to say that his friends have seldom seen
more strlkingly exhibited those extraordina
ry talents which euable him to render the
most abstruse questions of finance easy and
ineligible to the cOmmonest understand
ing, and that radiance of wit, humor, and
vivacity which thrown over his deepest ar
gument enable his auditory to hold on untr-
ed to the last.
In referring, at the outset, to Mr.. Buch-
anan's speech, Mr.. Clay noticed in the only
proper manner, the fippant attack made
upon him by the little ,ohippersnapper from
Mississippi, yesterday. He said that al
though the game of two pluck one" had
been played against him, he intended to con-
fine himself to the grave and momentous
matters that had been presented on this
side of the chamber (turnlng to Mr.. Buch-
anau) without passing over to the smaller
concerns of the other side. (Mr. Walker
sits cpposite.) The allusion created general
laughter.
Mr.. Clay then reiterated and reinforced
the views and arguments he had before ad-
vanced, to demonstrate that Government
Bank turks in the Sub Treasury system.
The condensed and vigorous form in which
he presented this position will render the
speech valuable as document to be spread
before the people. 1t embraces the whole
case. es4 -s.t ms
From this lie passed to notice the extra
ordinary claims which Mr.. Buchanan is, /
halaua fret IN tIn cl " for tho la In
or the present Executlve-namely, that
their whole struggle was to strip themselves
of poper, while the whole effo:ts of the
Opposition, and Of Mr.. Clay in particular,
have been to clothe the Executive with
power! In proofof this, as respects Gene
raj Jackson, Mr.. Buchanan had the hard-
hood to refer to his veto of. the Maysyille
Road Bill and to applaud "the self-denying
magnanimily''of that most arbitrary act Of
the man who, as Judge White well said on
a recent occasion, had, beside his moral and
physical courage that might be designated
as immoral, which prompted him to do
whatever he PLEASED, right or torong. Mr..
Clay exposed the iousineonsistency of
the late President and majoty of his sup
porters, in reference to works of internal
improvements. History will record the
fact that when the purposes of party were
to be accomplished, the power of the 60
vernhent was freely exercised, and the mo
ney of the people freely lavished; but when
norhing was to be gained to the Admlnistra-
ton, no consideration of advantage or con-
venience to the public would avail to open
the purse strings.
One of the most notable proofs, which
Mr.. Buchanan presented, of the moderation,
and furbearance of Mr.. Van Buren-of his
absolute desire to strip himself of power and
patronage-was his bringing forward and
persisting in the Recommendation of the es-
tablishment Of the Sub -Treasury!--that is,
Government Bank, of which he, this same
Martin Van Buren, is, at once, President,
Cashier and Teller. Mr.. Clay comment
ed on this point with uncommon spirit and
force, showing the tremendous power
witch the Bill would give our. modest, mode
rate and powerrretusing President; and
here it did not escape the notice ofthe dis
tinguished Senator from Kentucky, that
some Of the banks sustain themselves during
the last recess only by the interposition of
the General Government. Il .i.tgsd s,sr.
The President notin pursuit of power:
when he has been ransackiug all Europe--.
sending interogatories to almost every men,
-berIcfthe Diplomatic, Corps hereto find
some apology, some excuse, for this over
shadowing scheme Of despotlsm, in the e.
nancial system Of countries sunk in Orien-
tai bondage, or, at best, subject to mon