Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1840-09-22


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any person y. common ,nie-gsroe aa. ord
nary understanding, can suppose that the use
Of paper, as circulating medium, will be dis
continued, even if such discOntinuance were
desirable, unless the Government shall break
down the acknowledged authority of the State
Governments to establish Banks We believe
the clamor against state banks, state bonds,
and state credits, to have been raised by the
friends OF the Administration to divert public
attention from its own msmanagement, and to
throw on others the consequences Of its own
misconduct. We heard nothing of all this in
the early part of Gen. Jackson's administra-
ton, nor until his measures had brought the
currency of the country into the utmost disor
der. We know, that in times past, the pres
ont chief magistrate has, Of all men, had most
to do with tie systems of state banks, the most
faith in their usefulness, and no very severely
chasencd desire to profit by their influence.
We believe that the purpose of exercising
money influence over the community has new
er departed from the Administration. What
it could not accomplish by an attemp to bend
the Bank ofthe United States to its purposes,
we believe it has sought, and now seeks, to
effect by its project Of the sub-treasury. We
believe, that in order to maintain the princi-
Piles upon which the system of the sub-treasu-
ury is founded, the friends Of the adminsira-
ton have been led to espouse opinions des-
truciive to the internal commerce Of the coun-
try, paralizing to its whole industry, tending
to sink its labor, both in price and character,
to the degraded standard of the uniformed
tbo t,a lnbn ,>ct ia
parts of Europe. Led 10y the same necessity,
or pushing the same principles still farther,
and with kind of revolutionary rapidity, we
have seen the rights of property not only as
sailed but denied the boldest agraran notions
put forth, the power of transmission from ia
Their to son openly denounced, the right of one
to participate in the earnings of another, TO
the rejection of the natural claims Of his own
children, asserted as a fundamental principle
of the new Democracy, and all this by those
who are in pay of Government receiving large
salaries, and whose offices would be nearly
sinecures, but for the labor performed in the
attempt to give currency to these principles
and these opinions.
We believe that the general tone of the
measures of the Administration, the manner
which it confers favors, its apparent prefer
ence for partizans of extreme opinions, and
the readiness with which it bestows its conf
dence on the boldest, and most violent ARE pro-
ducng serious injuries upon the political NOR
ais and general sentiments of the country.
We believe that to this cause is 20 be attribu-
ted the most lamentable change which has
taken place in the temper, the sobrety, and
the wisdom, with which the high pubic coun-
sells have been hitherto conducted. We look
with alarm to the exciting state of things, in
this respect; and we would most earnestly,
n xNlt hall nnr hpD rita far fhn hnp
of the country as for It's interests, beseech all
Cood men 10 unite with us in an attempt to
bring back the deliberatve age of the Govern
ment, TO restore to the collected bodies of the
peoples Representatives that self respect, de-
corum, and dignity, without which the bust.
ness of Legislation can make no regular pro-
gress, and is always in danger either of ac-
complishing nothing, or reaching its ends by
uniustiiable and violent means,
We believe the conduct of the admnistra-
ton respecting the public revenue TO be high,
" reprehensble. 1t has expended twenty
millions, previously accumulated, besides al
the accruing income since it came into power
and there seems at this moment TO be no doubt
but what il will leave to its successors a pub
, lie debt of from five to ten millions of dollars
) 1t has shrunk from its proper responsibilities
with the immediate prospect of an empty treas
ury. 1t has not yet had manliness to recon-
( mend to congress any adequate provision
has constantly spoken ofthe excess of receipt
I over expenditures, until this excess has final
ly manifested itself in an absolute necessit
for loans, and in power conferred on tn
President, altogether new, and in our judge
Q ment hostile to the whole spirit Of the consti
{ tuition, 10 meet the event of want of resources
: by Withholding, out of certain classes of appro
= priations made byCongress, such as he choose
t TO think may oe best spared. 1t lives by shift
4 and contriyances, by shallow articles and de
S lusve names, by what it calls facilities,
1 and the exchange of Treasury notes for spt
e cie;' while IN truth it has been fast contract
i ing public debt, in the midst of all its boas
), ing, without daring to lay the plain and make
e truth Of the case before the people.
We protest against the conduct ofthe hous
i OF representatives in the case of the New Je
: sey election. This is no local, but gener
j. question. Ia the union OF the states, on wha
{, ever link the blow of injustice or usurpaiic
falls, II is felt and ought 10 be felt through Il
z whole chain. The cause Of New Jersey is II
y cause OF every state, and every state is Their
E. fore bound To yindicate il.
al That the regular commission, or certifca
J. OF return, signed by the chief magistrate of /,
le state, according 10 the provisions Of law, en-
e. ties those who procure II 10 be sworn in as
Of member Of Congress, 10 vote in The organi,