New-York tribune., 1841-09-15
PRICE ONE CENT.

ruptons and are wholly unnecessary u e"'OC 'tie
Bank to discharge It's duties to the Country ano me
Government
observed in reply ,hatI was proposing nothing
but simply endeav0ring to state what han uhder-
stood TO be YOUR opinion as TO the powers which
Congress might con.titutlonaliy confer on q BANK
,h,, ~, thar point stood corrected. | then pro-
caadsd ~ saw that understood you be OF opinion
,ba, Compress might authorize such Bank 10 estab-
l;.b agencies in the several States with power TO
doaI in bills OF exchange without the assent OF the
states; TO which you replied Yes il they he for
oirn bills or bills -rawn in State and payable
in another. That is all tie power necessary for
transmitting the public funds and regulating OK
changes and the currency.
Mr.. Webster then expressed, in strong terms,
his opinion that such charter would answer all
lust purposes of Government and be satisfactory to
the People; and declared his preference for il over
any which had been proposed, especially as 1t dis
penscd with the of the States 10 the creation
OF an institution necessary for carrying on the lis
cal operations Of Government. He examined 1t at
some length, both 10 It's constiiutonalliy and It's
influence on the currency and exchanges, in all
which views you expressed your concurrence, de-
shed that such bill should be introduced, and
especially kat it should go nto the hands of some
of your friends. To my enquiry whether Mr.. Ser
geant would be agreeable to YOU You replied hat
he would You especially requested Mr.. Webster
and myself to communicate with Mcssrs. Ber1en
and Sergeant on the subject to whom you SAID you
had promised to address note, bur you doubted
not that this personal communication would be
equally satisfactory You desired US, also in com
municating with those gentlemen, not to commit
you personally, lest, this being recognized as your
measure, it might be made subject OF comparison
to your prejudice in the course of discussion. You
and Mr.. Webster then cenverscd about the partcu-
lar wording of the 10Th fundamental article,
tanning tho grant Of power to deal in exchanges,
and of the connection in which that grant should be
introduced you also spoke Of the name OF the in
,,itutian desiring that tia, should be changed. To
this | objected, as i, would probably be made
subject OF riiculc but you insisted l.ia there
much in name and this institution ought not to
be called a bank. MIR. WEBSTER undertook to
adapt 1t in this particular to your wishes. Mr.
Bell then observed to Mr.. Webster ard myself that
we had no time to lose that If this not I'M
lately attended to, another bill. less acceptable.
might be rot up and reported. We replied that
we would lose no time. Mr.. Webster accordingly
called al Messrs. Bcrrien and Sergeant mmcdl-
atc!y, and waited on them by his appointment at
) o'clock on the same day. and agreed upon the
principles OF the bill in accordance with your
pressed wishes. And am appraised of the fact,
though it did occur in my presence, that after
the bill was drawa up, and before it was reported,
1t was seen and examined by yourself; that your
attention especially called to the 10Th tuHda-
mental article that on full examination you CON
Cured in the provisions that at the same time It's
name was so modified as To meet your appreciation
and the bill reported and passed, in al essen
tial particulars it when it came through
your hands.
You asked Mr. Webster and myself each to pre-
pare and present you an argument touching the
consti,utiona,y of the bill and before those args-
ments could be prepared and read by you, you de-
clared u, | heard and believe to gentlemen, Mem
bcrs of the House. that you would cut off your right
hand rather than approve it. After this rcso-
luton taken. you asked and earnestly urged
the members of your Cabinet To postpone the bill;
but you would neither give yourself, suffer them
to give any assurance of your future course
of such postponemcn,. BY some of Va, ard | was
myself one, the effort was made 10 crafty your
wishes, in the only way III which ii could be done
with propriety that is by obtaining the general
concurrence of the Wing Members of the two
Houses in the postponement. 1t failed. rs | have
reason to believe because you would give no assur-
ance that the delay was sought as means and
occasion for hostile movements. During this sea-
son of deep feeling and earnest cXertion upon
part while we were zealousy devOting our talents
and influence TO serve and 10 sustain you the very
secrets of our Cabinet council made their appear
ance in infamous paper printed IN neighborng
CITY, the columns of which were daily charged with
hattery of yourself and foul abuse Of your Cabinet.
All this bore for felt that my services, so long
rs they could avail were due 10 the nation-to that
great and msgnsn mcu' People whose sufragcs
elevated YOUR predecessor to the station which you
now fill, and whose united voices approved his act
when he summoned us around him, to be his coun-
H..
~ to the injunctons which he left US in his las;
DYING words, and 10 the People. whose servants we
were, had all been performed until every means
was tried and every hope had failed of carrying
out the true principles upon which the mighty
movement was founded that elevated him and YOU
to power.
This BILL framed and fashioned according to YOUR
own suggestions, in the initiative Of which and
another member of your Cabinet were made by
YOU the agents and the ucsotators, passed by
large majoriues through the two Houses of Con-
src>s, and sent 10 you, and you rejected it I'm
poriant US was the part which had taken. at your
request, in the orisinaiion of this BILL and deeply
as | was committed for your action upon il, you
never consulted me on the subject OF the mes
sage. You did not even refer to it in conversatisn
and the first notice had OF its contents was de-
rived from rumor.
And to me, at least, YOU have done nothing 10
wipe away the personal indignity arising of the
act. gathered, ii is true, from your conversation
shortly after the bill had passed the House, that
y.u had strong purpose to reject it; but nothing
SAID like sottenirg or apology to me- either in
reference y myself or TO those with whom had
communicated your request, and who had acted
themselves and induced the two Houses TO act upon
the faith of that communication. And, strange as
it may seem, The Veto Message attacks IN an cSre-
cial manner the very provisions which were inserted