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Mr.. CLAY rose in reioinder. have 70
oesire' SAID he, TO Prolong this unpleasant dis.
cussion, but must say that heard with great
surprise and regret the closing remarks, espe-
cially, of the honorable gentleman from Vir.
ginia, as, indeed did many of those which
preceded it, That gentleman stands in De-
culiar situation. l found him several wears
ago in the half-,cay house, where he seems
afraid to remain, and from which he is vet un-
willing TO go. had thought, after the thorough
Kidding which the roof of the house had re.
ceived in the breaking UP Of the pet-bank sys.
tenn, he would have fled some where else for
refuge; but there he still stands, solitary and
alone, shivering, and pelted by the piti!ess storm.
The sub Treasury is repealed-the pet-bank
system is abandoned-the United States bank
is vetoed-and now, when there is complete
and perfect reunion Of the purse and the
sword in the hands of the Executive as ever
there was under Gen. Jackson or Martin Van
Buren,, the Senator is for doirg nothing The
Senator is for going home, leaving the Urea.
sury and the country in heir lawless condition!
Yet no man has heretofore, more than he has,
dePlored and deprecated state of things so
utterly unsafe and repugnalt 10 all Just pre-.
cautions, indicated alike by sound theory and
experience in free Cover mcnts And the
Senator talks to us about applying to the wis
dom OF practical men, IN respect 10 banking,
and advises further elaboration WHY |
should suppose that We are at present in the
very best situation 10 act upon The subject.
Besides the many painful years we have had
for federation, We have been near three
months almost exclusively engrossed with the
very subject itself. We have heard all man.
ner offacts, statements, and arguments as any
way connected with it. We understand, il
seems TO me, all We ever can learn or compre
bend about National Bank. And we have
at least. some conception too of what sort o
one will be acceptable at the other end of the
avenue. Yet now, with a vast majority of the
People of the entire country crying out to US
for bank-with the people throughout the
whole valley OF the Mississippi raising in their
majesty, and demanding it as Indispensable 10
: their well-being, and pointing 10 their losses
} their sacrifices, and their suffcrings for III,
want of such an institution-in such state Of
: things, we are gravely and coldy told by the
honorable Senator from Virginia that we had
best 60 nome, leaving the purse and the sword
in the uncontrolled possession of the President
and, and above all things, never 10 make a
party bank Why, sir, does he, with all his
knowledge of the conflicting opinions which
prevail here, and have prevailed, believe that
we ever can make bank but by The votes of
one party who are in favor of il, in OPPOSITION
to the votes Of another party against itl
deprecate this expression of opinion from that
gentleman the more, because, although the
honorable Senator prof sses not 10 know the
opinions of the President. it certainly does
turn out in the sequel that there is Il most re-
markable coincidence between those opinions
and his own and he has on the present occa-
sion, defended the motives and the course of
Of the President with all the solicitude and all
the fervent zeal of member of his Priv
Council A laugh There is rumor abroad
that a cabal exists--a new sort of Kitchen
Cabnet-whose object is the dissolution of the
regular Cabinet-,he dissolution of the Wing
partv--the dispersion of Congress, without
accomplishing any of the great purposes of
the extra session-and total change, in fact,
in the whole face of or political affairs. |
hope, and persuade myself, thai the honora
| BILE Senator is not, cannot be, one of the COM
ponent members of such cabal but must
say that there mas been displayed by the hon.
orabe Senator TO day predisposition, as on
ishing and inexpicabe. TO misconceive almost
all of what have said, and perseverance,,
alter repeated corrections, in misunderstood
ing-for will not charge him with wifully and
Intentionally disappearing tile whole spirit
and character of the address which, as a man
of honor and as Senator, felt myself bound
in duty TO make 10 this body.
The Senator begins with saying that charge
the President with "perfidy :" Did use any
such language | appeal to every gentleman
who heard me 10 say whether | have in single
instance gone beyond fair and legitimate
examination of the Executive objections to the
bill. Yel he has charged me with ''arraign ming"
the President, with indicating him in various
counts, and with impuling to him motives such
| never even intimated or dreamed, and that
when was constantly expressing. over and.
over, my personal respect and regard for Presi-
dent Tyler, for whom have cherished an in
timate personal friendship of twenty years
standing, and while expressly SAID that if
that friendship should now be interrupted, it
should not be my fault Why, sir, what pos
sible, what conceivable motive can have to
quarrel with The President. or 10 break up the |
Wing partyi What earthly motive can imPel
me 20 wish for any other result than that that
party shall remain in perfect harmony, undivI-
ded, and shall move undismayed, boldly and
unitedly forward TO the accomplishment OF the
all.important public objects which ii has a
vowed to be its aim? What imaginable inter-
est can | have other than the success, the
triumph, the glory ofthe Wing party7 But that
there may be designs and purposes on The part
of certain other individuals to place me in mi.
mical relation to the President, and 10 repre-
sent me as personally opposed 10 him can
| we'll magine-individuals who are beating up
recruits, and endeavoring 10 form third party
with materials so scanty as to be wholly insult. ,
fcient TO compose a decent corporal's guard !
fear there are such individuals, though do