The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1841-02-25

be left to States. A principal reason 70,
desiring union Of the States was, tina, we
might have currency which should MOI
vary with each State, but be of uniform
value throughout all the States. The
people, in order to secure this end, plac.
ed the whole subject of the currency
under the control Of the Federal Govern.
ment. If we have decided that our cur.
rency shall be paper, assuredly i,
should come under the control of the
Federal Government. The interests OF
trade, nay, of industry, of labor, inperi-
ously demand that the currency of Mas
sachusetts and Mississippi should be of
the same value. Does any body believe
this can be the case, so long as our cur.
rency is paper, and this paper is issued
by State institutions, and subject to the
action of the State Legislature! Itmay
be truly asserted that National Bank
cannot, under any circumstances, do
much to remedy the evil; but there is no
question but it can, to some degree, miti-
gate it. Its own notes will pass current,
at the same value, throughout the Union,
and thus afford medium of exchange
between the remote sections.
Now the administration party has OPP
posed the United States Bank, without
opposing paper money; it has sustained
the paper monopoly policy, while it has
opposed the only measure which can pos
sibly render that policy in any degree
tolerable. This has been its error. If
you have paper currency, you are
bound to place it under the control of the
Federal Government, by subjecting it to
the direct or indirect action of that gov
eminent. But the administration party
has said, no, we will retain paper cur
rency, but we will leave it to the States
to furnish it. Where, then, is the sound
and uniform currency, for the furnishing
OF which the Federal government was
created? Assuming that paper curren-
cy is to be the currency of the country,
Mr. Webster's arguments on this point
are unanswerab!e, and have been so CON
sldered by II majority of the people of the
United States.
The New YORK CONTROVERSY WITH
VIRclNIA.-The N. Y. Express gives
the following exposition of the circum-
stances, which have caused the political
difficulties between the government of N.
York and Virginia.
at is known to our readers, that a ves-
sci belonging in New York, when at
Norfolk, (Va.) in 1899, brought away a
slave employed on the vessel as car
penter, the owner of whom proceeding to
New York by land; arrived here before
the vessel, when he recovered his slave.
The captain of the vessal denied all
knowledge that the slave was on board,
but cheerfully assisted in a search; and
the slave was found concealed in pile
OF timber. The owner Immediately pro.
cured from the acting governor of Virgin
la, a requisition for the arrest of three
free colored persons, employed as hands
on the vessel, on the charge that they
had stolen the slave. The requisiton
was made under a provision of the Con-
stltution of the United States, which is as
follows:
"a person charged, in any state, with
treason, felony, or other crime, who shall
flee from justice, and be found in another
state, shall, on demand of the executive
authority of the state from which he fled,
be delivered up to be removed to the
state having jurisdiction of the crime"
In the meantime the three 'fugtives'
were brought before the Recorder of
New York, on a writ Of habeas corpus,
and discharged by him for want CT evil
dence to prove anything more than le-
gal conclusion Of their having committed
the act charged. This discharge was
made without the knowledge or aid of
the governor, by judicial officer not
under his control and not belonging to
his political party.
A correspondence, however, sprang up
between the then acting governor of Vir-
ginia, and the new governor (Gilmer)
and Governor Seward, which is very vo.
uminous-Governor Gilmer contending
under the article of the Constitution we
have quoted, that the governor of New
York is bound to deliver up the fugilives
from Justice, and Governor Seward, that
the fugitives are charged with no crime
known to the laws of New York, or the
laws of nations"
A LOCO FOCO BLUNDER.
Our readers all know that there was last
summer, revolution of all the taxable
property within the state of Ohio. In