The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-11-27

net to take the matter into serious consideration
and consult their friends about it, But does il
follow that the President was committed to The
bill he vetoed2 Cannot person be in favor OF
Bank of the United States, and yet have a
scheme of one presented to him, so objection
able in detail as to compel him to oppose il D
What does Mr.. Ewing declare the President
said on that occasion? Does he not say that
the President asked his Cabinet if they could
not aid him in establishing a scheme, without
showing Inconsistency to the country2 Did he
not further say, most emphatically, that he would
have no bill which admitted of discounts either
directly or Indirectly And does not Mr. Ew-
ing add that the President said, in speaking Of
this very feature of the exchanges, that the
Bank should have the power to deal in bills of
exchange, "if they be foreign bills, or bills
drawn in one State and payable in another
That is all the power necessary for transmitting
the public funds and regulating Exchanges
and the currency ~ Now, will Mr. Badger, or
any other man in the community, have the au-
dacity to maintain, before the American people,
that the bill, called the "Fiscal Corporation"
which was vetoed by the President, did not
eminently and positively, conflict with the prin-
cples of an Exchange Bank bill, here laid down,
and which were to be observed by the Cabinet
in meeting the views of the Chief Magistrate 2
These facts 60 to prove, beyond question, the
complete innocence of the President But they
60 to prove something else They just as un-
qualifedly 60 10 show that these men, calling
themselves the confidential advisers of the Pre-
sident, deliberately took advantage Of the
anxious desire manifested by him, TO conciliate
the $50 called) Wing party, in calling upon them
to assist him to construct financial scheme
that would suit both himself and them, by at
tempting to impose upon him scheme, noto-
riously profigate, and which some of the best
constitutional lawyers in the country have pro-
nounced to be, decidedly and palpabIy, uNcoN-
sTITuTIoNAL. How stands the case2 We hum
bly, conceive that the "Head Salt Boiler" and
Mr.. Badger have both "headed" themselves
They are dead. Requiescuti in pace!
One more remark, and we shall conclude
Mr.. Badger ascribes the result OF the late cleo
tons to the disgust the People felt at the course
of the President. This was strange way for
the People (st,oo thirds Of them being in ia
DOR Of u. s. Bank") to show their disgust
by sustaining the vetoes of two bank bills No,
sir "Lay not the fattering JUNCTION to your
soul" 1t is useless to disguise the truth. Your
wickedness and folly have been repudiated and
condemned by the People. They have put the
seal of ,unalterable disgrace upon, YOU. You
have dsfranchsed yourself, in their estimation,
by your own stupid conduct The people know
you no longer, or know you only to your dis
comfture and sham. You and your compeers
have endeavored to traduce spotless character,
which even your hypocrisy could not initiate /;
and you have your retribution in the scorn and
derision of all honest men who may be attracted
by your miserable cries, uttered from that moral
Siberia, where the divulger of Cabinet secrets,
and the would-be betrayer of the Chief Magis-
trate, are doomed by the voice Of an indignant
nation to abide eternally.