The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1841-09-23
Debate in the Senate.
SPEECH or
NIr. Clay, OF Kentucky.

"a Ssaais uaiird s'aie,. August -. lsII.
Mr.. RIEEs having replied TO the re-
marks Of Mr. Clay
Mr.. CLAY rose in rejoinder. Ihave
no desire, said he, 70 prolong this unplea-
san, discussion, bur | must say thai l
heard with great surprise and regrei the
closing remark, especially, Of the hOnora-
bic genllenla from Virginia, as, indeed,
dill many Of those which preceded il.
That gentleman stands in peculiar silu-
aiioa. ! found him several years ago in
the haiEuIy hoHss, where he seems afraid
n remain, and from which he i vet nm
willing 10 %. | had thought, after The
thorough Riding which the roof OF the
house had received in the breaking up OF
the pst.balk system, he would have fed
somewhere else for refuge: but there he
sill staads, solitary and alone. shiyering
and pelIed By the piiiless storm. The
sIb.Treasnry is repealed-the pet-bank
system is a5anlonrd-ihe United States
bank bill is veioed-and now, when there
is as complete and perfect a reunion Of
the purse AMI the sword in the hands Of
the Executive as ever there was under
General Jackson or Mr.. Van Buren,, the
Senator i for doing nolIingl The Sana-
TOR is for going home, leaving the Urea.
sIry and the country in their lawless con.
dilion! Yel NJ man has heretofore, more
than he has, deplored and deprecated
state Of things so utterly unsafe and re-
pagnant 10 all just precautions, indicated
alike by sound theory and experience in
free governments. Aud the Senator talks
70 US about applying to the wisdom Of
practical msn, in respect to banking, and
advises further deliberaiion, Why,
should suppose that we are at present in
the very best situation to act upon the sub
ject Besides the many painful years we
have had Cor elaboration, We have been
near three months almost exclusively en-
crossed with the very subject itself. We
have heard all manner OF facts, statements,
and arguments in any way connected with
il. We understand, il seems to me, all
we ever can learn or comprehend about a
national bank. And we have, at least,
some conception too Of what sort Of 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 10 US for bank--with the people
throughout the whole valley Of the Mis-
sissippi rising in their majesty, and de-
manding il as indispensable to their WELL
being, aud pointing to their losses, their
sacrifices, and their suiferings, for the
want of such an instilution-in such a
state Of things. we are gravely and coldly
told by the honorable Senator from Vir.
ginis that we had best 60 home, leaving
the purse and the sword in the uncon-
trolled possession of the President, and,
above all things, never TO 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 IA
vor of it, in opposition to the votes Of an
other party against it! | deprecate this
expression Of opinion from that gentleman
the more, because, although the honorable
Senator PROCESSES not to know the Opini-
ons of the President, it certainly does turn
ont in the sequel that there is most re-
markable coincidence between those OPT
Mons and his own; and he has, on the
present occasion. defended the motives
and the course of the President with all
the solicitude and all the fervent zeal Of a
member of his PriUy Council. A laugh.
There is a rumor abroad that cdb0l ex-
i,ts-a new sort of Kitchen Cabinet
whose obicc, is the dissolution of the re-
glar Cabinot-.he dissolution Of the
Wing party-,he dispersion of Congress,
without accomplishing any of the great
purposes of the extra session-and total
change, in fact, in the whole face of our
political affairs. hope, and | persuade
myself, that the honorable Senator is not,
cannot be. one Of the component members
6f sqch babal; but must say that there
has been displayed by the honorable Sc
nator to-day predisposition, astonishing
and inexplicable, to misconceive almost
all of what have said, and persever-
ancr, after repeated corrections, in mis-
nderstanding-for | will not charge him
with wilfnlly and Intentionally misrepre-
selting-.he whole spirit and character OF
the aIIress which, as man Of honor and
as Senator, felt myself bound in duty
to make to this body.
The Senator begins with saying that ]
charge the President with "perfdyr
Did use any such languagel appeal
TO every gentleman who heard me to say
whether have in single instance gone
beyond fair and legitimate examination
of the Executive objections TO the bill.
Yet he has charged me with "arraign-
ing" the President, with indieting him
II various counts, and with imputing to
him motives such as / never even init
mated or dreamed, and that, when | was