Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1841-02-19

pIlEEipleS OF
ikifS more. Fro
policy to permitl5
tleupor the public u
the first tune, eslabl
against them in a pre
now, at this late day
policy of the county, bIV
shall pursue the system adopt
of our predecessors.
But the Senator has asked me
willing 10 accond4these privileges
$50 jealous Of foreigners holding b
in petty liiilfbank." This qaestiol
endeavor 70 answer. Sir, said Mr.. B.,
the classsof foreigners who do produce
insmy mind--,hey excite my terror. NJ
BENTON: Yes, the miIiionaires.'1 These
are not the men who fly from poverty and OPP
preston abroad, and settle in cur country to
share in its toll as we'll as its advantages
They are not the poor pre-emp,ioners Of the
West, who have indissolubly fixed their fate
with ours, and have no other human hope bu:
TO live and die upon our soil. No sir, no.
Very far from it. The foreign stockholders
in our banks have no intention Of becoming
American citizens. Their object is to increase
their. own fortune by the spois Of our land, to
suck our young life blood for the purpose of
strengthening ~and invigora,ing the decaying
institutions Of other countries. They seek to
acquire political influence over us that they
may turn it to their own advantage ard our de-
slruction. Of such foreign influence con-
less thatI ann jealous. firmly bsliese that
the day on which you shall establish new
national bank in this country. with capital Of
one hundred millions of dollars, and with the
power Of spreading lis branches over every
portion Of the Union. and more especially if
you shall permit foreigners to hold the stock,
will be the darkest and most porten,ious which
has ever shone overthe Republic. From that
day we shall most probably forfeit not only our
liperty but our independence. You will then
concentrate and for,iiy a central money power,
foreign and domestic, in this country, which
will exercise a controlling, an overwhelming
influence over its des.nies. Senators them
selves may live to rae the day when they call
ed such vast, such an Irresponsible power in
to existence. 1t is snch foreign influence
that dread. and not the ''log.cab:n men, Of
the far West, q thought never should have
usedsthe expression whose fortune and whose
fate are necessarily identified will, that Of the
country. II is the foreign millionaire who
seeks 10 control the politics of the country for
me Purpose Of gT9aE aS bis own ;atsss. and
cans here aud every where onght to be Jealous.
The Senator has said, and he appeared to
place some stress on The argument, that some
vast country beyond the Rocky Mountains
might be settled by foreigners under this law,
they might sell 1t out to every body and any
body theySlhought proper. But this country
the present bill, until the Indian title should
hs sl,o ,vbo no ~. 81.
should be extinguished in that region, Con-
gress may then establish such laws for its set
Element as may be suitable tc its condition.
The Senator has gone far away for this argu-
ment. 1t will be long time, Notwithstanding
the sanguine expectation Of some Senators,
before this can become a practical question.
Before that day it is probable that the Senator
and myself will have passed from the theatre
Of public action. In regard to this remote
question, which has been invoked as an aryu-
mont to affect the present interests and policy
of the country, he would answer in the
words Of the other Senator from kentucky.
[Mr. CLAY,] on late memorable occa.
sion. When he was appealed to few
days ago to inform the country what he intend
ed to introduce as a substitute for the Inde-
pendent Treasury, in case he should succeed
IN repeating II, his answer was, sssuth lent for
the day is the evil thereof" We must not
look too far ahead. When the time shall arrive
for considering the Oregon question, hope
there will be wisdom enough to settle it Alright.
We are Yet far on the eastern side of the
Rocky Mountains; and hordes of Indians &C.
cupy the intervening space.
Mr.. CRII.TENDEN said Of course it must
be natural for him to desire to escape as soon
al Ne could from any contest with the Senator
from Pennsylvania; it was one in which Of
course he gould hope to gain but little. Yet
he did NOT admit it TO have been such very bad
logic that hS should have imputed to him the
sentiment ofpreferring settlement on the pub
liz lands to wTilaen declaration before ma
gistraie al ! lsst On the part Of foreigner Of
an inteniion to become an American citizen
True, it was not ia terms that he proposed SO