Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1841-12-17
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.

Dec. We'll, what think YOU of the message o
captain Tyler| II has been read here an,
with the many Of the wings | believe is well re-
ceved Upon all questions, save one, among tho
wings there is an unanmty ofopinion and upon lha
quostlon-the Currency mean OF course,-there ar,
more disposed TO second the views of the Preslen
| than 10 " head HIM in his wish to make them the
law of the land. The plan is precisely what it was
reported to be IN the Express days since and the
details do not change It's operations there reported
have heard many comments upon thl.,the inpor-
tant branch OF IT, upon the Others and my conyc-
tons are as state them above that with the MAORI
ty of the wings 1t will be well received. The locofo-
cos however, will give the Currency plan of the
President no quarter whatever and as a foretaste of
the opposition which IS TO come Mr.. Benton is out
SO soon IN open war against the plan submitted 10
Congress The choicest terms If the Missouri Sena-
tor are employed TO express the measure of abhor-
renee which this ,cise and patriotic statesman feels
for the plan submitted One branch oft sis borrow
ed from Sir Robert Walpole who borrowed il from the
high tory times of Queen Anne" The other branch
sis borrowed from Nicholas Bddle who was its in
ventor, and who few weeks since in WASHINGTON
palmed it off upon President Tyler!' at is emf
nently unconstitutional" utterly dangerous sad
verse TO the hard money SYSTEM" "roes beyond
Alexander Hamilton" proposes TO revive the Ey
chequer system of Great Britain" &c &c to the end
of very long chapter of and so-forhs as you will
see by reference to the speech submitted. The oppo
sltlon of Mr. Benton is equivalent, | premise 10 the
opposition of the party. During the reading of the
document and as is his habit, he wa, in close COM
munion with the senators and with the Ex Secretary
of the Treasury from New Hampshire in particular
laying down the law in a peremptory manner. and
eNpoundng in loud voice the denominations of the
system presented. The message read and the mo-
ton made TO print, Mr.. Benton though quite indis
posed, rises and delivers himself Of the speech Won
part in the discussion, and Mr. Benton therefore has
the merit of saying all that has been thus far pro or
con upon the message.
Mr. Benton, however, can speak only for himself
and party. The Wings will find no fault with Tho
message as whole, though many of them, it is true
are warmly and honestly opposed 10 any fiscal ,gen
but an old fashioned United States Bank " So,no
few there also who may think that even ox;s,;,
laws are better than the proposed in the MESSAGE
and It this opinion should prevail To any extent. we
can have nothing, during the present Congress n,
least but existing laws. pray that better f,elina
may prevail by and bye, and il we cannot have nil wc
could wish, that al least we may be content. for the
present 10 take what we can get Some there nrs il
may be- and IL, who think we sacrifice qreat prin,
pie IN adopting the plan submitted, In answer it
may be SAID that the Wing. never united IN oppos
ton Ia the issue Of Tr5n'iry notes while part Of the
opposition that va, c'r,',i gov out II preference