Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1840-10-06
NEW YORK, TUESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 6, 1910
speech OF MIR. Rives at Auburn.


speech or MIR. Rives at Auburn.
[ooSoLUDEpl
Gentlemen, have been told, and Virginia has
been told, that you are bound and fettered 10 the
support Of Mr.. Martin Van Buren,. (lt is not So.
No, il is not so. You have done all you could to
him. You have done all that fond doting mother
could do for son from whom YOU hoped Tor better
things. What have you done! You seat HIM aoroaa
under the sole sanction Of your coniidence-y"u Ia
bored in season and out of season, TO build up his
forunes he left that post for the one he now occu-
pies SO unworihy, and, on the faith OF yoar recon-
mendation, Virl ina took him We took him be-
cause we knew New York. and loved her because
we had stood side by side in ali our republican bat
ties, and we were proud OF the opportunity to sus-
tain you in what we had reason to believe YOU bro
Their ireemen, took an interest In accomplishing
But you have told most impressively, and by con-
vincng tcstimony-by that second Der thong Il
which MIR. Van Buren, himself has told you Is never
that you feel
How sharper than a serpent's tooth il is
To have an ungraeiul child!
You have nursed him AVID brought him up; you
have reared him with affection, and what is his
return! He has waged war against all the pecu-
liar and distinctive interests and glories OF the
State Of New York. What my friends, is his
Sab Treasury, but special war aimed against
the better interests of the state of New York.
But you put Mr.. Van Buren, where he is, for
il was on your endorsement that he was put there,
and that Virginia came to your support eve wont
do any more-and we ask pardon for what we
have done) Gentlemen, you have need to ask that.
But know you each acted, as feel acted, as an
honest man. You believed him to be an honest and
true of New York-that he cherished those or
thodox principles of democracy, to the profession
of which his life had been devoted; and how have
you found hint A traitor to your interests. II
then, after all the fragrant proofs of his treacaery TO
you, you still hug him to your bosom, and again
seek TO impose sisters confidence, you will have
reason to ask pardon IL is human TO err have
erred with you, my Republican friends OF New York
Virginia has erred in common with you. And
10 nds therxv han =
carding him, and placing our confidence IN better
and truer man Gentlemen stand here before you,
and as New York has given the lead, promise you
we will follow. Mr.. Van Buren, has SAID it was ho-
nor enough for him to have served such "a chief
tain" Virginia, though in proud consciousness of
devotion to liberty and her own sovereignty, stood
too in the same ranks Mr. Van Buren,, but she
never felt it glory enough to have served "such a
chieftan" We have ever congratulated ourselves
that we have stood side by side with New York;
and we esteem IT an honor stu, and higher glory
"a more distinguished honor than ever has been
vet enjoyed, when have stood by her side and
have seen her exercising Roman virtue; not imi-
tating the dwelling, miserable wretehed, King
Lear, by merely complaining
How sharper than a ssrpents tooth il is
To have thankless child
But payin the noble part Of the Roman Brutus,
wnen he found his son betrayng and sacrificing the
liberties of his country, how much soever you may
fee mortified and BUNDLED give the stern sentence
to a free and betrayed people What, then, has
New York said to us to make good the injury al
rad done. (DIscard the traltOr.) IL, anu
Virginia will be by you still as she ever has been.
Gentlemen, have been speaking discursively;
May 20 on! (Go on, go on)-will you bear with
mel (Yes, all night.) Gentlemen, feel the So
lemnty Of this occasion; l feel the honor you do
by listening to the words of truth and soberness
which have uttered this day in the presence OF
that sacred building, the theological seminary con-
secrated as il is TO the maintenance Of the great
truths and duties of eligon-of that duty which
owe to the common Providence which rules the des-
TIMES Of the word-in the presence OF all these me-
mentos | feel how solemniy l am called upoa TO
speak to you that should never utter before
sacred audience oil freemen hat has not the sane
ton and concurrence ofhis whole heart. (Appause.)
Geatlemea, will you permit me 10 call your atten-
ton another voting scheme Tor the subiu-
CATION OF the people of these States, which MIR. Van
Buren, originated What do you think II Is have
told you what his great object in obtaining posses
sion Of tho public purse, AMI the sword 81 the coun
try let me tell YOU another prominent measure OF
his administration, W hich he has incs Gated himself,
and how destructive it is TO the prosperity OF the
country and am the more prompted to call your
attention to the subject, because il exhibsin its true
light the question, who has changed whether Mr.
Martin Van Buren,, or these old unchanged Demo
Gratis of New York and Virginia, who would not ss-
crfce their principles Tor The paltry service OF
chieftain.
What did Mr.. Van Buren, propose on the occasion
to which have alluded Why, he made PROPOSE
ton to take and other state Institutions out OF
the hands Of the legitimate state ssvercigntes-tho
institutions which have been identified with the in
teres,s II every man in the eeuntry-and expose
them TO the control OF the Executive head OF the go
vernMent. | aliuds to his recommendation TO Con-
gress in declaration OF principles which was for
rly made by him, to take all our State Institutions
and subject them to ruthless federal government
1 allude 10 the State Banks. lie did not recommend
bankrupt law for the reef-csnstitu ional as be-
leve il TO be, for the Constitution gives power to
pass uniform bankrupt law-not a bankrupt law
applying to individuals, but ruinous law applying
TO State Corporations. What was his propositisn
Why, ift the State Banks under an emergency, shall
fail, for period of tmc-howcvcr tansitory, to re-
deem their notes In sPecie-what was TO be done
Not TO leave the ate "gsl ture to correct the 'e'
rasgemcnt, but the Federal government was TO come
in and subject the State corporations 20 the supervi-
sion and correction, and destructive acts OF the Fee
deral government-to give the President III the Un-
tel States power to step in by his Commissioners
and their SecTetares-for tell you, with the vora-
city OF the horse leach hi. demand for Executive
power at the expense o the people to send his com
mssoaers with heir &c day TO take possession of
these Ste Institutions, to seize their accounts, to
coerce the payment OF every debt duo TO them, To
draw in their notes, forming the currency OF the
eonntry and to bring you down to hard money eur
rcncy. Gentlemen, am told that Mr. Van Buren,
says that posterty will do him justice. Posterify
is very near him now-(laug land will be near
er before the fourth Of March next, too. (Ckeers
We gentlemen, shall be the PosterIty to him, can
tell ysu. We know how 20 appreciate the treason
he has committed TO us We know how TO apPr.ci-
ate his attempt to gain power TO eoec all the debts
due to these institutions at once, and in hard
money and to call in all their notes, and bring us
down to the Procrustes bed Of hard money currcn-
cy.
In 1877 what was the state OF the banksl They
had suspended under necessity which your State
Legislature, and the Legislature OF Virginia, deemed
an apology for It for were not dupes enlugh TO
be the foot. balls Of demagogues Because banks have
not at all moments, specie enough to pay dollar for
dollar for their notes, are they insolvent, and ar.
they therefore be subjected to the tender rces
of the Federal government 7 How many are there
here Of you who deem yourselves solvent are ready
at all times, when the day Of payment comes round,
to meet il We farmers-for | am ono oheers)-
am virginian farmer-I am one Of yourselves, I
have had the honor to-day 20 clasp the hands Of ma
pleasure and pride TO clasp them, as IL is ever TO clasp
the hands Of my brother virginia farmers, some OF