The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1841-09-02
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Thursday, September =, 1871.

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Through the rpliiouess Of the Hon. Mr..
JAS. Graham, we have been favored with
a pamphlet containing the Speech Of Mr..
Washington of this State, delivered in the .
House Of Representatives upon the Bank
Bill. Mr.. Washington bids fair TO become
an ornament to Bis State and district
young and inexperienced, yet he proved
himself match for Mr. Saunders, the To-
co loco champion. Mr.. Saunders the day
before, asserted in his speech that North
Carolina never gave her sanction TO a bank
the last election for Governor in this State,
should have convinced him that such an
assertion WIS untrue. Mr.. Washington
thus happily replied to this allegation Of
Mr.. Saunders:
But, sir, il happens that about the time
that speech Nas delivered, my honorable
iriead and colleague Nr. SAUNDERS was
nominated as the Democa,ic candidate
for Governor Of North Carolina, and was
opposed By that sterling Wing and patriot
10 citizen, John NJ. Morehesd, the present
Chief Magistrate Of the State. For tie
first time, sir ia the history Of the State,
those distinguished competitors for guber-
Material honots :. .ook the stump" to ad.
yocate their respective claims 10 popular
favor. " Greek met Greek, aud then
came the tug OF war; They travelled
from county to county, and from district
to district, for nearly lge months, untl
they had thoroughly canyassed the whole
State. Daring that time, they visited my
own section Of the country, | had the
pleasure OF hearing them several times,
and heard my honorable friend aud col.
league sometimes, ! must confess, with
fear and with trembling. Few men, eth
CT on this floor or elsewhere, possess the
power OF making the worse appear the bet.
4 ter causc'in more eminent degree than
that gentleman. And, sir, though be was
defeated by a majority Of 5000 votes,
mus do HIM the justice to say, that be-
lieye no other man Of lis party could lave
received as many votes as he did at the
time. Whoneyer and wherever | heard
them, sir, the question Of the currency was
the principal topic &c discussion. VIVA.
subjects occupied their attention ~ other
pottious OF the State ! Of course, cannot
know, sir, from personal observation. |
have, however, IN my possession letter
from Governor Morehead himself, IN which
fl,nt sts,4ta
vass, the repeal Of the sub.Trcasury and
the establishment of national bank were
the prominent issues made up between
himself ana its Competitor, and submitted
directly 10 tue People--and he confidently
expresses the opinion that the bank ques-
lion is stronger in North Carolina than the
Wing party.
Not only, SIR, was the haul, question dis
cussed BY those distinguished gentlemen
throughout that whole canvass, but the
Democratic papers in or State were teem-
ing with phIippics against banks and bank
ing and The g North Carolina Standard,
one Of tho most efficient party organs IN
this Union, placed at its head as one Of
is mottos, "the People againstt the Bapk,
At the same time Of the election ior
Governor, elections were holden through.
out the State for members of the Lcglsla-
ture; and never was any election more
warmly contested. The result was, that
F, of one hundred and seventy members re.
turned, one hundred aud four were Wings
, and sixty six Democrats. OF the one hun
1 dred and four Wings, one hundred anc
three were advocates of a national bank
/ and one was slightly tinctnred with Nlr
GINA abstraction" \ laugh.1 During
the session of the Legislature, two Sena
tors were elected 10 the Congress Of thu
I. United Siatcs-the very able and distn
; gnished gentlemen now in the other emf
of the Capitol, who do honor to themselves
= and the State whose sovereignty they re
present. Before they were nominated to
that distinguished station, they were re
CURED, in a primary meeting, to p'edg'
n themselves for a repeal Of the sub reasu
). ~ and the support Of a national bank ant
have the authority of each OF these gen
!, temen for saving, that without such
:, pleduc, they could not have been elected
] But. sir. IN the month Of May last, lon
after the Presidential election, under
g special proclamation from the Goyorno
I, OF North Carolina, elections were hoide
: throughout the State for Representative
10 in the twenty-seyenth Congress, which ha
been ordered to convene at period earle
than usual, on account of the great &c
rannemcnt Of the finances of the Govern
80 men, and the currency of the country, an
!, with direct reference TO an entire chang
% in the whole monetary system. And III
!, result, was, sir, that instead oil eight Demo
n Gratis and five Wings, eight wings an
=, five nemocra,s were returned; and thos
70 eight Wings represent federal popula
ton of AS 900, while the five Democrat
represent federal population OF only 2l9
- 600. NV Wing friends on this floor tie
- me- that in all their districts the repeal
- the subTroasury and the cstabilshmeI
:. ola national bank were issues directly mad
- before the people. In my own district,
an -. ea,, s,r that | came here on I'll