The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1841-09-16

tf.ue Of that school
Who was ignorant Of tie part which had
been assigned bin By the Senate, as a well
known bul honorable aud higbmlnded o.
poueht OF the late Bank Of IL, United
States on constitutional grounds, to conduct
an investigation Of The proceedings aud af
fairs Of that institution Oac would lAuk
that If gentlemen acted under due sense
Of their responsibility 10 a grea, aud GATH.
otic party, AID II they attached a grave
importance 10 the establishment Of a Sa
t0ual Banb, they would Of course take
care to select astlelr candidate for the Vice
Presidency one on whose decision they
could rely. How WIS il ia regard &c Gen,
era! Harrison LimseiE tie candidate select.
cd for the Presidency ? Was he a Laal,
man Was he Identified with d Nauuua.
Bauk Not at all. lie On the contrary
expressly diaciaim,d it. lie rePeleI lbc
impalauon as political s.aaler, aud deG.d
those who made Il to tue Fout Ii lAai
had been the tue issue at Harrisburg, all
vii concur wi.A ne when | say and ii
gives ne pleasure 10 pay i iGerIlgd lrLu!e
10 the high character Of the gentleman
from keutucky) tia. he hluselt, and be
only, woad have been thought OF as Tue
candidate for the Presidency. GA the con
trary, il was because his party were uDwd
ling to make that tie issue before the PEG
pie ia the Presidential election, that the
honorable and distinguished Senator from
Kentucky did not obtain that civic crown,
which lie 50 well deserved, as the reward
Of life devoted to what he considers the
true interest and glory Of his country
But the issue was avoided as hazardous.
Let me 20 a little more into detail as 10
he opinions Of General Harrison. " bat
was his course IN the otner House Of Con
gress, 10 l5i9 when he and President Ty.
sr was gallant compeers 10 the FIRST war
with the Bank Of the United States lie
wen, even further than The President did IN
his opposition TO the Bank. Johu Tyler,
IL conformity with those conservative prin
clples Il use the torn in lis broad aud gen.
esal sense) which form a part Of the polite.
al education Of every Nr2i8iau, was IN
wiling 10 revoke O so'ema charter, once
granted but General Harrison, biouehtup
as be had been in the bo!der and ffeer
school Of the West, vas for a summary act
annulng the charter of the bank, To this
vote he himself referred, as showing tina, lie
was no Bank or Federal candidate
90 use bis own words for the Presidential
office. Ia 1922, in published address 10
the people Of his district, he openly aud dis
tiactly ayoved his opposition TO bluk.-
lie there proclaimed hImselfto be a disci.
/ pie of the Republican school of 1893, and
explicitly declared his opinion that the
Bank Of the United States bad been estab
lshed ia violation of the Constitution Of the
United States. In his letter Of 1886 10
Mr.. Sherrod Williams, q distinguished
member Of Congress from the Senator's
own State, he said he would not give bis
sanction to a Bank Of the United States, un
less, by the failure or all other eXped!ents, il
should be demonstrated TO be Reeessa.
ry to carry on the operations Of Govern
neut, and unless there Should be a gen
eraI and unequiyoca manifestation Of The
viii Of the nation in favor Of such an ins;l
tuition, and then only as 4 fiscal. and not rs
/. a commercial bank.
am reluctant, MIR. President to refer 10
any thing that | may have said or dane ia
the common cause during the late contest,
but | may be permitted TO say that for
Que, with an honest conviction of the truth
oil the statement, and founding myself upon
antheulic declarations Of Gen. Harrison
himself, did, in published address 10 NY
fellow citizens, represent his personal lean
ing and opinions TO be decidedly against a
Bank Of the United States. Certain ii S
that hundreds and thousands Of our coun
trynleH voted for him without the least re
ference 10 a bank The issue of bank or
no bank was not made 10 the Presidential
election. In the MAD Of the honorable
Senator, no doubt, it was a prominent issue
but il was an issue his friends never ven.
turcd TO propose to the country. Gen.
Harrison, 10 the latest expression Of his
opinions 10 the Presidential canvass, On his
Dayton speech said that there was no
grant in the Constitution Of power to ere, f.
ate a National Bank, and "It could never
be constitutional save in the event that the
powers granted to Congress could not be
carried INTO effect ifjthou! such an institn.
luton" That dyrG necsssitas must be
clearly shown, or the power to charter
bank did not exist. Yet We are now told
tina, John Tyler, by accepting the nomina /
ton OF the Convention as their candidate for
the Vice Presidency, although his opinions
against National Bank had been fully and
repeatedly proclaimed, aud were borne on
the mos, familiar records of the national
history, incurred an unqualified obligation
to sign bill for bank Of the United States
in the contingency which has msdo him, IN
the place Of The lamented Harrison, Pfesl'
deat Of the United States,
am firmly impressed with the belief
Mr. President, that If General Harrison
we're now living, and in the same clrcum
stances that surround President Tyler, he
would, like INN, never yield his sanction to
the establishment of branches Of such a
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