Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1841-08-19
From the Charleston Courier.

Ia " w IN " II We. T. A l. Ill O II NJ
We learn from Lowndes No. 8, that Mr..
Caihoun-after having fought the bank Hill
inch by inch, from 1914 to 1916, until he
tlomphed over tremendous odds and all on
position, insisting that the ''coNsrurvrloNAL
qaesfto" had been 80 freely and frequently
discussed that all had made up their minds
on n' mat 'the power to regulate the cur
Iency OF the United States is given to Con-
gress, tn crpress terms, by that instrument
lthe federal constitution; )" that ssthis power
was intended to be Exclusively given to Con.
gress;" that ''the money OF the u. S. was
attended to be left exclusively under the con-
troll OF Congress-" that "Conuress should re-
sumo its constitutional control - and that
National Bank was the ''legitimate," "the
proper "he only remedy" for the evils of a
appreciated currency-ventured to assert, in
SePtember 1887, that, in supporting the Bank
OF 1916, he "openly declared that as ques-
ton dc ,sOro ho would be- decidedly against
The Bank, and would be the last to give il his
support -! when there is not recorded
syllable TO that effect In any of his numerous
speeches on the subject, at that era, but
words, and deeds, in goodly number, proving
directly the reverse. Lowndes, however, in
uuiges him 80 far as to take him even on the
untenabie ground that in supporting the Bank
OF 1916, he only yielded to the necessity
growing out Of the connection between Bank
and State already formed, and comp letely I'M
horses him, by showing that the same con-
nexlon and the same disorders (growing out
OF the State Banks furnishing the national
currency exist still, to an aggravated extent.
VINO can read this exposure without being
convinced that for Mr.. Calhoun to deny his
former belief in the constitutionality of a
Bank, which he literally fought into exis-
tcnce, and as late as 1884 proposed to renew
or substitute by thew Bank engrafted on
the old ard TO CONTINUE FOR 12 YEARS." is
neither more nor less than to eat his own
words, and that with cormorant swallow
The following lecture read Mr.. Calhoun, for
his threat to raise the Jacobin flag of repeal,
is just rebuke, merited castiyation and
must reach any but scared and callous SEN
sibility. The threat to violate solemn con-
tract, to disgrace the republic by an act of
national peridy, certainly sinks Mr.. Calhoun
to the grovelling level OF the modern agra
rian, and sells
1.-The mighty space of his largo honors,
For SO much trash as may be grasped thus. ~
81 had expected here to close this nara.
tive, but am constrained to add another
chapter, and sorry l am 10 add it, because i,
Will record the utter degradation of one OF
the first minds in America, or OIL the earth.
''fhero Is enough. Heaven knows, in YOU,
past course to call up emotions of disgust
10 see you doing valiant fight for the public
liberty and then joining the vandal horde tina,
were Its invaders; to behold you Camillus
Today and Brennus tomorrow; one dayrea-
ny las was once said of you) "to face the
cannon 8 mouth-yea, march up to the stake
and be burned alive--to redeem your bleed
ing country from the vandal hands of the
spoliers'-yet leagued with those spoilers.
the next; to hear you, at one moment, stip-
matislng certain party as the spoils party,
without principles and without policy. held
together by nothing but the hopes of plumber
at another, using your best exertions to re-
instate that party in power; to hear YOU
characterlzlng Martin Van Buren, as of the
Fox and WEASEL race, broadly intimating
that ne Purlolned letter from your posses
sion, voting him unfit to represent YOUR conn
try at a foreign Court, and then to eye You at
the polls, casting your vote for this ..Fox and
Weasel" creature these "reminiscences of
your changeful career, sicken the heart; but
the measure OF your disgrace was not filed,
until, few days ago, you enlisted under the
black flag of the Jewellers and Destructiyes.
and owned yourself the Agrarian disciple Of
Robert Owen and Fanny Wright.
"a few days since, you declared from your
seat In the Senate, that should Congress-
charter Bank, you would go for its Repeal.
Repeal, you said, would be tho watchword
of yourself and your new Democratic, Re-
publican, State Rights associates! Great
God! Is this the same John c.. Calhoun,
whose sensitive soul, few short years past.
sickened al the corruptions of the dav! and
recoied, with holy horror, from the dangerous
and revolutionary doctrines avowed by the
dominant party then cursing the country!
Repeal vested right, whether there be for
feiture or not! Revive the radical, disorgan.
lZing, destructive doctrines of Dallas and In
gersoll, which sprung few years ago from
the rotten hot-bed Of party, and which have
since received the well-deserved execration of
every friend of order throughout our Union
Sir, had thought that your appetite for pull
ing down the characterand credit ofthe coun-
try, was satiated upon the anti-assuinption
Resolutions of the winter before last-ab
stract Resolutions purely, which having no
practical reference to the public good, could
have no other possible effect than to throw
suspicion upon the integrity and credit of the
States. But no. restless ambition must
goad you on to the embrace of doctrines
which attack the great conservative institu-
ton of property and threaten not only the
foundations of the public faith and the public
honor but the very existence Of society ITSELF
Dir, have not the time nor the patience to
dwell on the disgusting picture. Suffice it,
that if there is any power in this Government
which can abrogate charter or annul a vest
ed right, there is within it, principle of de-
which cannot too soon work
out its horrd results, in order that man may
seek elsewhere than in America, an asylum
from anarchy, violence and robbery. The We
~ same principle that, without forfeiture, re-
yokes vested privilege, may rob us of our
property and life. Establish it. and no man
can say how long his property or his life will
be his own. This is, indeed, the principle of
the "Spoils'.-the principle of Plunder--in