Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1841-10-02
them should be left TO the future and delib.
crate Judgment of the people.

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 pis aller? Accord
ing to the Senator's own statement, it was
avery different thing from what he would
have made. In its location, in its name and
character, and especially in the so-callcd
compromise section, which the Senator tells
us he introduced in spirit of the extrem-
est concession, he agreed to make it diff.
ferent thing from an oldfashioned Bank off
the United States, the beau ideal of cur
rency and finance in the eyes Of the Sena-
tor. The Senator's own bill, then, was but
piS dller, and there cannot be much choice
] presume, between one pis dller and an
other
The Senator says he found me, several
years ago, in this halfway house, which af-
ter thorough Kidding the roof had received
in the breaking up of the pet bank system,
he had supposed would have abandoned.
How could | find it in my heart, Mr.. Pres
ident, to abandon it, when found the hon
orable Senator from Kentucky (even after
what he calls the riddling of the roof) SO
anxious to take refuge in it, from the ruins
of his own condemned and repudiated sys-
TEN, and where he actually took refuge for
four long years, as have already stated
When | first had the honor to meet the hon
orable Senator in this body, | found him,
not occupying the humble but comfortable
halfway house, which has given him shell
ter from the storm for the last four years.
but more lordly mansion, gaudv to lock
upon, but altogether unsafe TO inhabit-old.
dccayed, rat-eaten, which has since tum-
bled 10 the ground with its own rottenness.
devoted to destruction alike by the indigna-
ton Of man and the wrath of heaven. Yet
the honorable Senator unmindful of the
past and needless of the warnings of the
present, which arc still ringing in his ears,
will hear Of nothing but the instant recon-
structon 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 moneys by law be-
fore our adjournment, he says am for 60
ing home, leaving the Treasury and the
country in a lawless condition
owe it to myself, Mr. President, before
close, to say one or two words in regard
to this Gorgon of a Cabal which, the Sen
ator tells US upon the authority of Dame
Rumor, has been formed to break up the
Cabinent, to dissolve the Wing party, and to
form new or third party. Although the
Senator was pleased to acqut me of being
4 member Of this supposed cabal, he yet
seemed to have some lurking iealousies and
suspicious in his mind on the subject. |
will tell the honorable Senator, then, that
| know Of no such cabal: and | should
really think that | was the last man that
ought to be suspected Of any wish or de-
sign to form q new or third party. !
have shown myself, at all times, FESTIVE
under mere party influence and control
from any quarter. All party, in my hum
bic judgment, tends, in its modern degener-
acy, to tyranny, and is attended with Sc
rious hazard Of sacrificing an honest sense
of duty, and the great interests Of the
country. TO an arbitrary lead, directed by
other aims. desire, therefore, to take
upon myself no new party bonds, while
am anxious to fulfil, to the fullest extent
that a sense of duty to the country will
permit. every honorable engagement i'm
piled in existing ones. In regard to the
breaking up of the Cabinet, had hoped
that | was as far above the suspicion of
having any personal interest in such an
event as any man. have never sought
office, but have often declined it; and will
now give the honorable Senator from Ken
lucky full quit-claim and release of all
cabinet pretensons, now and forever. He
may rest satisfied that he will never see me
in any Cabinet. under this or any other Ad.
mnistration. During the brief remnant OF
my public life. the measure of my ambi-
ton will be filed by the humble. but hon
est part | may be permitted to take on
this floor in consultations for the common
good.
Having disposed of this rumor of a ca
Gai to the satisfaction trust of the honor
able Senator, will tell him of another ru.
NOR | have heard, which trust NAV be
equally destitute OF foundation. Rumor
is busy in alleging that there is an organ.
lied dictatorship in permanent session in
this Capitol, seeking to control the whole
action of the Government, in both the Leg
islative and Executive branches, and send
ing deputation after deputation 10 the Pres.
ident Of the United States, to teach him
his duty and bring him to terms. | do moi
vouch for the correctness of this rumor.
humbIy hope it may not be true but, if it
should unfortunately be SO, will say that i
is fraught with far more danger to the reg
ular and saIutary action of our balanced
Constitution, and to the liberties of the
nennla lhan any sncrnt cahal that nunr In,