Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1841-09-23

in that State, about Bank Of the United
States my honorable friend replied, ''No !;
we were so much occupied with the Sub
Treasury that we said nothing about Bank
of the United States" would appeal to my
| honorable friend now on this point.
Mr. TALLMADGE. attended altogether
to the Sub-Treasury.]
| Mr.. RIvEs. That, so far as the financial
| question was concerned, was every were,
| within the limits ofmy observation, the course
of political discussion by our friends, who
thought the interests of the country demand
cd change of administrations Sub-Trcasury
or no Sub-Treasury" was the issue, aud not
Shank or no Bank" SO odious was the Sub
Treasury to the jealous spirit of American Ii
berry, and SO determined was the opposition
ola republican people to it, that they resolved
to put it down Mt all hazards, willing TO, leave
| to the future, and to the wisdom ond eelibe-
rations itwould bring along with it, to decide
which of the various plans that had been or
might be suggested, should be substituted in
place of it.
Mr. TALLMADeE Although did not dis
cuss the matter myself, still the newspaper
organs of the late Administration displayed at
tonal Bank."]
that our a,iversaries were eager and anxious
to force the issue of National Bank upon us.
But we declined it. had the honor myself
of being IN the empire State, in the very crisis
of that great political contest which had bro
ken up the fountains of that mighty deep SO
long swayed by the leaden sceptre of party
discipline. ] met my honorable friend there
in noble assemblage ofhis countrymen. en-
bracing ten thousand enlightened and gallant
ireemen, collected from every quarter of that
great State to deliberate upon the destinles of
our common country; and, while all voices
were raised in unanimous reprobation of the
odious Sub-Treasury system, not a solitary
word was uttered pleading the merits ola Ma
tional Bank. IL the history of the late can
vass could be impariially and faithfully writ
ten from contemporaneous materials, such, j
am convinced, would be found to have been
its actual course in, at least, three-lourths of
the States of this Union.
The Senator from Kentucky has reminded
me-rather ungraciously, think, considering
how long he took shelter with me under the
same roof--of the humble half acay house,
(the State banks,) for which he supposes me
still to retain a preference For four long
years did the honorable Senator himself i'll
habit this half aray house, valiantly defending
it with all the vigor of his powers and elo-
quencc against the fierce assaults of the forces
of the late Administration and, if am not
greatly mistaken, even as late as his celebrat-
ed Hanover speech last summer, he recognis-
! ed 1t 10 he fair competitor of his own pre-
! ferred eypedient Ga National Bank) for the
public favor, declaring that the choice between
them should be left to the future and delibe-
rate Judgment Of the People.
Mr.. CLAY. No; you are mistaken.
recognised it only as PTS aller.
Mr.. RIvEs. A pts aller is about as much
as is left to us Not having the speech of The
honorable Senator before me, will not now
contest the matter with him, though may take
occasion hereafter to refresh the recollection
of the Senator. What sir, was the bill of the
Senator which was sent to the President but
a pis aIler9 According to the Senator's own
statement it was very different thing from
what he would have made it. In its location,
In its name and character, and especially in
| the so called compromise section, which the
Senator tells us he introduced in spirit of the
EXTREMIST concession, he agreed to make it a
! very different thing from an old-fashioned
Bank of the United States, the beau ideaI of
currency and finance in the eyes of the Sena-
tor. The Senator's own bill, then, was but
prs aller, and there cannot be much choice,
presume, between one pis allcr and another
The Senator from Kentucky says he found
me several years ago in this half-'cay hoUss,
which; after the thorough Kidding the roof had
received in the breaking up of the pet bank
system, he had supposed would have aban-
doned. How could ] find it in my heart, Mr.
President, to abandon it when l found the
honorable Senator from Kentucky (even after
what he calls the Kidding of the roof so anx-
lous to take refuge in it from the ruins of his
own condemned and repudiated system, and
where ne actually took refuge for four long
years, as have already stated. When first
had the honor to meet the honorable Senator
in this body, found him not occupying the
humble but comfortable halfway house, which
has given him shelter from the storm for the
last four years, but more lordly mansion,
gaudy to look upon, but altogether unsafe to
inhablt, old, decayed, rat-caten, which has
since tumbled to the ground with its own rot
tenness, devoted to destruction alike by the
indignation of man and the wrath of Heaven.
ct the honorable Senator, unmlndiul of the
past and needless of the warnings of the pres
emit which are still ringing in his ears, will
hear of nothing but the instant Reconstruction
of this devoted edifice. In one thing, at
least the Senator does me great injustice.
when, in the teeth of my explicit declaration
that was for regulating the custody of the
public money by law before our adjournment,
*Mr. RivEs' version Of the Hanover speech
seems TO be abundantly sustained by the follow