The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-12-09
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

he TREoiDtN NEoOhoE
We think no scheme could be more tempe
rately and modestly urged than that scheme Of
finance which has been presented TO the consi-
deration of Congress by the President And
we must confess that we are at loss 10 per-
ceive what measure will meet with the sanction
of the People if this does not Unless we are
TO fall back upon the repudiated Sub-ueasury,
or run into the excuses of banking corpora
ton, we cannot conceive what else better can be
accomplished towards regulating the finances
and incidentally furnishing the facilities Of ex-
change 10 the commercial interests of the coun-
Try. Those who have advocated the Sub-trea-
sury, il seems TO US, should pause and reflect
deeply, solemny, before they throw themselves
in opposition to financial proposition submit
ted TO their deliberate consideration by an i'm
partial, unbiased, and always admitted to be, a
Republican Jeffersonian President. Mr.. Tyler
has proven himself, by his course since attain
ing the Chair of the ChiefMagistracy. obe above
the influence of party prejudces and party ties.
Can those who recognize party restraints, who
labor under inveterate antpathies, whose hearts
are filled with honest indignation, it is true,
against the abuses Of paper currency
but who from constantly dwelling upon the
evils and disasters of bad system, come
finally 10 confound measures and principle,
and to fancy that because measure is OBJ
noxious, that the principle out of which the
measure grows must also be in every att-
tude an evil and disgrace. Can il be nationally
presumed that one laboring under such mono
mania will not, as matter Of course, oppose
every thing that does not rigidly comport with
his own wishes and views? Can legislation
be conducted, however, with due regard TO the
harmony and interests of all, upon such prn-
ciple of conduct? Can all men think alike
We had an exempli6cation Of the effect OF pre-
JUDGE, and Of the influence of e.rtreme opinions
in Congress, upon the reading of the message.
While Mr.. Benton, an ultra on the one side, and
an especial favorite of the Globe, was opposing
the principles Of the message in the Senate, Mr..
Mason, an extreme Bank man, discovered in
the House vast deal Of i'll temper, because the
editors of the Globe had printed the message,
as he supposed, by some confidential arrange
ment. Such we observe TO be the operation OF
party feelings, and of prejudices inseparabe
from narrow and prejudlced view Of subject
There is financial project upon which, the
heads Of wise and honest men have been al
work, patriotic men, statesmen, men alive 10
all the onerous duties and solemn obligations oil
their responsible positions, and which they
have presented after weeks and months of la
4 a. ,La lax tplr snn ant q
of the assembled Senators of the country. Ii
is to operate, for veal or for woe, TO an almost
ncalculable degree, and it is to affect not only
every interest in the whole country, the farmer,
the artisan, the merchant, but in a great mea-
sure also, to effect the honor and dignity OF
their Confederated Republic. What will the
People say--the great constituent body-that
body TO which tho President now looks, and on
which he has always depended for kindness and
favor, when they come to learn that the conclu-
ding words had scarcely passed from the lips OF
the Secretaries reading the Message in either
House, when Mr.. Benton, in the one Chamber,
and Mr.. Mason, in the other, with no moment
elapsing, in which correct judgment could be
formed, arise and oppose it without STINT or
compromise? What does not this necessarily
prove2 Does it not show that those gentlemen
are either too much prejudiced by preconceived
ideas and opinions, to be willing TO mete out
even measure Of charity to the President; or
that for the attainment of their own peculiar
object, they had determined TO oppose any
thing unless it might be that peculiar scheme
which they prepared, and which made them
political capital, which the President might
have presented TO them
We hope the majority Of neither party, the
so called Wing party or the Democratic party
will follow this incorporate lead. We serious
ly ask if any member Of Congress thinks the
country or the Government can, for any length
of time, stand up against the shock of ertreine
legislation, -extreme legislation encourages par
~ names, party designations, and huzzas, and
necessarily engenders the most furious political
wars-whch the history of all Republics proves
have ended finally in bloodshed and an armed
civil war. We hope that even these gentlemen,
of ultra views, Messrs. Benton and Mason, will
think better Of this, and at least pay the people
and the country the respect Of thinking before
they condemn.
Those who oppose Bank OF the United
States-with the exception of few State rights
men--ol pose such an institution, upon the ground
of its having been repudiated and abjured by the
People. Is not the same argument pertinent,
and, in fact, controlling, when we speak Of the
Sub-Treasury? Can we, without doing injus-
tice to the will Of the People, establish strictly
the Sub reasury2 We think not; and, more
over, think that most persons in the country will
concur with US in this sentiment. What, then.
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