Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1840-06-11

been one unOrOken SUITES VI suheIlhS ulsastOis
and misery. do most sincerely believe that
nothing can restore prosperity 10 the country
but taking power from his hands; nothing else
will restore public confidence, and confidence
is all that is now wanting Ii is true that maay
OF the causes OF embarrassment existed before
The lasr election; we should have suffered some
what; but that the troubles and EMBELLISHMENTS
of the country have been infinitely aggravated
by IFS measures. do not doubt. We have had
other periods Of deranged currency, but they
have passed speedily away. Why has this
been so protracled and severe9 For noAotherI
reason than that the whole power OF thy Gov
eminent has been exerted to the destruction
instead of to the sustaining OF credit and con
6dence. lis said that Mr.. Van Buren, has
come to our principles. He says not; but that
he is carrying out his own nclples-those
of his iuslrlous predecessor, in whose loot
steps, with much more Of policy than OF dignity
he was pledged to follow. Has he come to our
State rights principles? 1t is not to be denied
that he makes an annual profession OF some OF
these principles; so did his proclamation and
force bill predecessor. do not look to his
professions; what has been his practice!
propose to examine that, and to contrast the
opinions of his competitor with his, on every
one Of these points. FIRST, as TO the tariff;
General Harrison regards the compromise oil
1882 as Of the highest obligation, and is dis
posed to adhere to it; and, if more revenue Is
required, not TO increase the duties on protract-
ed articles, but 10 impose duties OH those art-
ces which are now duty free-such articles as
the people of the North use and do not manu-
lacture, and as TO which The exemption from
duties is more beneficial to them than to us.
What are the opinions ofMr. Van Buren, on
this subject? No one knows. say no one
knows what are the present opinions oil Mr.
Van Buren,. We do know what his past opln-
ions are that he voted for the bill Of abomna-
tons the tariff of 1898; and that he boasted al
Albany, Oh his return from Washington, in
a public speech, Of his unVarying support OF
the tariff. 1t was then said at the South that
he gave that vote against his own opinions, and
under the coercion of legislative instructions
This never believed, and i, has been lately
charged, and Mr. Tallmadge, of the Senate
! referred to as authority to prove, from unde
the hand of Mr.. Van Buren,, that he wrote t
This friends in The New York Legislature tina
those instructions we're only in conformity /
his own fixed opinions; and it has not bee
denied. As to internal improvements, Gen
cral Harrison holds precisely the opinion O
General Jackson-that Congress posSesse
the power to appropriate money to works OF
national character. dissent from that opin
II ion. But he is, at the same time, opposed t.
5 the exercise oil the power. Mr.. Van BureI
PROCESSES to believe that Congress does not pos
scss the power, but habtua ly sanctions Its eX
ercise. More moQey was appropriated Tor III
. ternal improvement in the first year oil III
+. administration than wa; done in the whole lou
years of the administration OF Mr.. Adams
Now. would rather have President who &C
t mitted the power, but was opposed 10 It's eXei
= else, than one who denied the power, bu
: habiually eXerted it.-As to internal Improve
g ment, it is no more practical question ina
{ would be the embargo, except us to the CumOeI
j land road and harbors; Mr., Van Buren, sane
!. ton both of these regard this as the yer
Il worst form in which the power, can be eXertet
d 1t is not only necessarily partial, as II Is cor
r fined in its benefits to the seaboard, but that
g is the very region where from vanity Oh ma
h kels, these improvements are not needed, ant
0 if they are, the people, being wealthy, ca
g make them for themselves. Its IN the remot
n interior where they are needed, and where III
II people are generally too poor to make mem
r. A National Bank.-Gencral Harrison denIe
81 the power under any express grant IN the Co'
n stitution; but says, that II It shall DC oe"'o'
e sraied that the public revenues cannon DC co
Is ected without such an institution, he thlnt
a that Congress may, in that event, estaollsh
1t bank. have never seen any man, even
le the slricteSt sect, who denies the power th'
oE Qualified. No Government can exist wltho'
leI revenue it would not, in such acase, DC aque
is ton of convenience, but of necessity, aOso'u'
n, imperious, aud involving the very existence
IN the Government. If Congress may not
n such case, charter a bank, that clause oi III
It, Constitution which gives all "Powers necesS
It. ry and proper to the execution o. s'un.'
d. powers is mere nulity, and Its trainers we
lg not that body of sages that we nave suPPos'
al them. II was on this ground that 'he cnarV
te of a bank in 1916 received the support VI =, :,
Vel ms. Crawford. Lowndes, and Calhoun ana u
,s- Republican party Of that day; ana at 'aV
5, ldav. i, was on this ground that the CONSTR
stltionality of bank has been advocated oy AZ
in McDufie, and every leading politician Of eou .
,r. Carolina. depressed these views IN q lotl'
les published during my last canvass. ! 90 Ut
Oh however, think the establishment Of nul'o"
se bank within tho powers OF Congress- as
le- such necessity has been demonstrated anS
- do not anticipate any such. But am not .
vi. posed to denounce those as either kl'a'eS
les fools who think differently, when remomu
is, that the first chartersigned in 1871, Tour yea
CIV after the adoption Of the Constitution Oy ue
40. WosLinUion. President Of the Convent