The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1841-10-05
.Messrs. Gales & Ssaton.
s IA T E NJ Z y T.

| called 10 see the President on official business
on the morning Monday, 18th Auaust] befn:e
the first Veto message was sent IN. found HIM
reading the mess3Ie 10 the secretary oil The Treas
NV lie did me the honor TO read the material
passages to me. Upon reading thar part Of it
which tr is of the superior importance and value
of the business done by the late Bank of the Uni
ted States in furnishing exchanges between the
different states aud sections of the Union, was
so strongly impressed with the idea that he meant
TO intimate that be would have no objection TO
Bank which should be restricted Ia dealing in
exchanges that interrupted him in the reading,
and asked if was to understand By what he had
Just read. that he prepared 10 give his assent
TO Bank in the District of Columbia with OFF
ces or agencies ir the States, having the privi-
lege without their assent. 10 deal in exchanges
between them and in fOIeign bills. He prompt
ly replied that he thought experience had shown
the necessity of such power in the Government.
| could not restrain the immediate expression OF
my qualification upon hearing this avowsl. |
said 10 the President at once, that what had
feared would lead TO fatal discussions among our
friends now regarded as rather fortunate than
otherwise that his veto of the bill then before
him would lead TO the adoption OF a much better
one. | also congratulated him upon the Happy
circums ance Of the delay which had taken place
in his sending in his veto message. The hea'
and violence wh;rh might have been txpe6tedh
passage of the bIl would now De "voited- Time
lad been given for cool refecti IN, and as the
message did not exclude the lfea IT bank ~
some form, no unpleasant consequences would he
likely 10 follow. He expressed bis great surprise
that there should be so much excitement Upon the
subject; said that he had had his mind made up
on lie bill before him from the very hr>t but had
DELAYED his message that there should be time for
the excitement to wear off that nothing could be
more easy than to pass bill which would an
swer all necessary purposes; tliat IL could be
done in three days.
The mex: day. having occasion 10 see the Pres
ident again, he requested me to furnish him With
such information as the War Department Afford
Ell Of The embarrassmenis attending the transfer
and disbursement of the public revenue to distant
points on The frontier in Florida, &c. He al ne
same time requested me 10 draw up brIel stale
ment of nv views upon the subject, showing The
prac ical advantages and necessity OF such tScal
Institution as he had thought OF pr posing: such
as | could h'stily collect from The
heads o. the principal discussing bureaus OF me
Department handed 10 him on the evening OF
the same day. knowing that time was oil the ut
most imporfance in The state in which the ques-
ZION was He received tile statements | give
hin with manifest indifference, and alarmed me
bv remarking that he had began to doubt whether
he would give his assent las understood hIm)
10 any bank
The next day "wednesday, 18Th Aug 'st) was
The stated lime for the weekly meeting IF tive
Cabinet with the President. Mr.. Webster, Mr..
Ewing and myself went at ten O'Clock in the
and were informed that the President
was engaged with Mess-s. Berrien, Sergeant, aud
think, Mr. Dawson of Georgia. We wailed u
I'll they retired and The President made his ap-
pearance about three quarters oil an hour after
wards. Mr. Badger came in som after the Pres
ident Ioined US. Messls. Cu,tenden and Granger
Did not attend. The conference which ensued
was long one lasting two hours at least, accord
ing 10 nv recollection. cannot pretend o detail
all that was said neither can undertake u give
the language of the President upon every point,
nor Of the members of tine Cabinet. can only
state the substance OF what was said upon those
points which most attracted my atlentIon.
The President commenced by stating that ne
had been wai'ed upon that morning by com
miitee of Members OF Congress, who desired TO
know his views upon The subject of a bamk-su h
one as he could sanction. He had given them
no satisfs cton upon that subject but had Inform
ed them that he would first consult with bis con-
sritu:ionsl aG7isers-his Csbine.-through whom.