Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-08-27

am not only willing but desirous that
the people Of the United States should
be fully informed Of the precise ground
occupy on this subject. | desire more
especially that they should know it now,
when an opportunity, the best our form
Of ofGovernment affords, will soon be pre-
sented, to express their opinion of its
propriety. Ifthey are in favor of a Ma
tional Bank, as a permanent branch of
their Institutions, or ifthey desire Chief
Magistrate who will consider it his duty
10 watch the course Of events, and give
or withhold his assent to such an institu-
tion according to the degree of necessi-
ty for it that may in his opinion arise from
the considerations to which your question
refers, they will see that my cooperation
in the promotion of either of these views
cannot be expected. If, on the other
hand, with this seasonable, explicit, and
published avowal before them, a majority
of the people of the United States shall
nevertheless bestow upon me their suffra-
ges for the Office ofPresident, scepticism
itself must cease to doubt, and admit their
will to be that there shall not be any
Bank ofthe United States, until the peo-
pie in the exercise Of thier sover-
eign authority, see fiji to give 10 Congress
the right to establish one.
SIT is because | cannot doubt that the
expression of the popular will, made qn-
der such circumstances, must have a
tendency to arrest further agitation of
this disturbing subject, for four years at
least, and most probably, from the great
moral influence which the often express
ed opinion of the majority Of the people
in Republican Government is entitled
to, for a much longer period, that l am
thus full and explicit upon the point to
which you have called nv attention.
However much we may differ upon tine
abstract question involved in this co9tro-
versy, no rehecting man can doubt the
healthfnl and invigorating effects which
any thing that looks like settlement of
this question must have upon all the bus
mess, as we'll as political relations of the
country. The public mind has been
long and painfully agitated by it, and
needs repose. The fruits oil this agita-
tioR have been bitter and abundant. -
Men of business require to be put in a
situation that they may adapt their affairs
to state Of things which promises per-
manency. That character is alone ne
cessary to give success to the present
system. No rational plan for the'regula-
ton of the fiscal affairs Of the country
can fail to succeed, if the mass of our in
dustrious and enterprising population,
without regardto local, sectional or po,
litical dstInctins, are only sincerely de-
sirOus for its success. Once satisfy
them that things are in this respect to
remain stable, and it is not in the nature
of things possible lat they can refuse
their aid and suppdt to that which con-
Germs them SO nearly, and upon which
their prosperity, private as we'll as public,
is so essentially dependent. If our cor
respondence shall have the effect to con-
tribute in any degree to bring about a
state of things in which we all have so
deep an interest, and which should be
desired by all, | will rejoice that it has
taken place"
My conviction of the truth and justice
of these views upon this yitally import
ant question, have been confirmed by all
my subsequent experience, and will,
doubt not, from the principles upon
which they are founded, endure to the
end of my life.
My opinions upon the tariff, which is
the subject of YOUR third question, were
asked when | was candidate for the
Vice Presidency, by portion of my fel-
loW-citizens of North Carolina, and free
ly given, Their application reached me
but short period before the then ap'
preaching election, and to secure in eve
ry portion of the Union, as general and
early knowledge of my views as was
practicable, caused them to be forth,
with published atAlbany. They were
reiterated in 1886, when a candidate fol
, the Presidency, and contain the genera
principles by which it is my intention K
, regulate my official course. 1t was sin
} cerely friendly to the passage the com
promise bill, and have always been, ant
! still am, disposed to carry it into full an,
5 fair effect. The opinions Of which | bav
/. spoken were expressed in The following
g terms:
Although my official acts in relation
Q to the protective system might we'll b
a regarded as rendering the avowal unne
/ cessary, I'think it nevertheless proper +
v saJ, that / believe the establishment q
! commercial regulations, with view I
! the encouragement of domestic product:
n to be within the constitutional power {
S Congress. Whilst, however, | have er
) tertained this opinion, it has never bee
is my wish to see the power in questio
e exercised with an oppressive inequalit
i. upon any portion Of our citizens, or f
D the advantage of one section of the Vi
,t ion at the expense Of another. On th
u contrary, ! have at all times believed
le 70 be the sacred duty Of those who al
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