The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-03-05

free laborer and the produce.raiseS Of the
West and North are the sufferers There
might possibly be nothing in this view of the
case. Ii there was moi, the Seuator from
South Carolina was the dupe; If there was,
then he held those who acted with him from
the North and West in the hollow Of his hand.
That Senator was sometimes mistaken. II,
however, in this instance, he should be right,
Northern and Western Senators, from the
grain growing and produce-rolsing States.
might possibly find themselves wrong.
Mr.. 5. had said that Senators over the way
could theorze finely they could speak like
the book, and sometimes they even spoke
from the hook but he had become sick and
tired OF their theorizing speeches, while the
whole experience Of the nation spoke, in Ian
guage not TO be misunderstood, in direct OPP
position to the results TO which they had come.
The Senator from Ohio, Mr.. Allen, had on
yesterday delivered long dissertation on de-
mocracy and federalism, tracing all the NAL
administration Of public affairs TO what he was
pleased to call the HamiItonian doctrines, and
winding up with a eulogy on this administra-
ton That Senator, at the outset, had taken
his stand upon a portion of the history of
England. Mr. 8. had thought, while he was
eulogizing an administration that had reduced
the people Of his State TO their present condi-
ton of distress and embarrassment, that por-
ton Of the history Of Rome would have suited
him much better, which speaks Of a Nero
fddling while Rome was in flames. Had that
Senator turned his eyes to his own State, Mr..
5. was much mistaken if he would have found
in the condition Of affairs there any thing to
require at his hands eulogies or hosannas,
even at this time ; and unless all the signs OF
the times are deceptive, he would have less
cause 10 rejoice over course Of measures
which must bring even deeper distress upon
those whose interest he should have at heart.
Did that Senator suppose he could fasten on
the policy of the nation, previous to the admi-
nstration which preceded the present one, the
situation Of his peoplel He, 10 be sure, at
tributed it to the effects Of inflated paper and
credit but did he not know that il was the
late administration that had given impulse to
and had been the dollhouse of that imitation if
It existed Did he expect the farmers Of his
State, when returning home with fifty cents
bushel for wheat in lieu Of dollar, would
thank him Tor his eulogy on the cause OF the
depression II might be possible that the
people Of Ohio were different from the citizens
OF other States, but he did nor believe it.
Mr.. S. said he would turn his attention a
moment to the Senator from Pennsylvania,
(Mr. Buchanan.) He had listened to the
speech of that Senator with some feeling.
The Senator had delivered il in fine STYLE.
He had fallen in with the hard-money doc
trines. He had adopted as orthodox the doc
trines of a reduction in the price of labor as
essential to even manufacturing prosperity
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most especial manner the United States Bank
of Pennsylvania. Those around The Senator
appeared delighted; but Mr. S. had very Diff
ferent feelings He believed the Senator
wrong in his principles, and that destruction
would be the effect produced by his doctrines.
The sound of the Senator's fine voice had
scarcely died away from the dome of the
chamber before the noble proclamation of the
Governor of his own State reached us. The
Legislature Of Pennsylvania, like majority
here, were pressing on to the destruction of
the banks, to the destruction of the currency,
credit and business of the country. Whether
prompted from ead-quarers here, or not, was
not the business of Mr.. s. to inquire. The
destructive bill had passed the House of Re-
representatives.. and was in the Senate for ac-
tion, when Governor Porter rose above the
atmosphere Of party, became the Governor Of
the State, and spoke, in voice that made the
hearts of the warinest partisans around him
quail, Stop, stop in your mad career; remove
the rack; take away the torture ; the patient
is expiring; Pennsylvania can bear no more.
Mr.. S. said Pennsylvania was his native State.
She was his real, while Indiana was his
adopted mother; and, as one of her absent
sons, ever interested in her welfare, he could
not do less than say that Governor Porter, in
his opinion, had won for himself, in that sin
gle act of his life, claim TO a greater degree
of the gratitude of his fellow citizens than in
all the rest put together Mr.. S. would let no
political considerations prevent him from do
ing justice TO political opponent, when it
was so well deserved.
Mr.. S. said he had noticed very briefly the
position which the Senators over the way had
assumed, as satisfactory to their minds, upon
the great matters before the People, in an at
tempt to account for the embarrassment and
distress that pervaded the whole country. lie
had showed that all those causes existed be-
fore the close OF the administration of Presi-
dent Jackson and that when he left the ad-
mnsration of public affairs, he left the Peo-
pie, in his own language, prosperous and
happy" He had showed that Mr.. Van Bu-
rem received it in that prosperous condition,
as admitted in his inaugural address, delivered
at the tne and stitched, up with the farewell
address Of President Jackson.
Mr.. S, proposed TO examine the condition
Of the country in less dian three years in the
hands of the present administration, and then
submit the matter 10 the people, whether this
Government is now administered, in the Ian
guage Of President jackson in his inaugural
address, " for the good Of the people, and re-