The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-03-25
ANALYSIS OF THE INAUGURAL
The Curreucu.

The Curreucy.
An Inaugural contains principles. 1t is our
office to consider their practical bearings. g If"
says General Harrison, "there is one measure
better calculated than another to produce that
republicans, by which the rich are daily adding
to their boards, and the poor sinking deeper into
penury il is an exclusive metallic currency"
There can be no dispute, that this doctrine is
in direct opposition to that which has been
openly avowed and fatally practsed by the late
dynasty. We have now to build up that which
has been SO many years in being pulled DOWN
The ruin is seen and felt by all the people are
convinced; and the peoples leader here comes
forward with his flag unfured for monetary
system which commends itself to the country
by all experience.
General Jackson actually frightened this coun-
try into compliance with his arbitrary and
despotic control OF this great question, and no
thing but the fruits of long, bitter, and disas-
trous experiment have been sufficient to restore
the dominion of sound sense, and to give cou-
rage TO the public to speak out their minds
Mr. Van Buren, suffered himself to be acted up
on as an automaton, and the people, as he well
deserved, have swept him from the boards. He
could not oppose the hand that created him, and
was literally forced into the Sub-treasury
scheme, which has opened the eyes Of the ma
ton. The Jackson-Van Buren-Benton Mint
drops, taken as morning dram, have spoiled all
the business OF their day, by being at last, and
of necessity, converted into Treasury notes for
the Government, and a ruined currency for the
people. There never was in the history of ma
tons more disastrous, more fatal expert
ment-never one more indicative of quackery in
craftsmanship, or more rife with the elements OF
tyrannical sway. The history could not be bet
ter told than in the sentence above quoted from
General Harrison's Inaugural He has boldly
put upon il the stamp of its genuine character,
and we thank him. The people, too, will thank
him. The matter is not minced, but the truth
comes out in bold relief The whole nation
calls aloud for treading back upon that platform
of principles, under the operation of which the
country had prospered beyond comparison Of
any other, till its affairs unluckly fell into bad
hands.
The denunciatons that have thundured forth
from the abolition press against Gen. Harrison,
since his Inaugural has been submitted to the
public, will probably satisfy the South that the
President is not likely to be much of favorite
in that quarter. The abolitionists have burst up
on him with a terrible vengeance, and made war
"to the knife"
We are glad 10 observe, that the true princ-
lumbia, are getting to be understood, and that
General Harrison has announced them so dis
tinctly. "The people Of the Distrctof Column
bia are not the subjects of the people of the
States, but free American citizens.
The grant to Congress of exclusive jurisdiction
in the District can be interpreted, so far as res
poets the aggregate people of the United States,
as meaning nothing more than 10 allow TO Con-
gress the controlling power necessary 10 afford a
| free and safe exercise of the functions assigned
10 the General Government by the Constitu-
tion.n
General Harrison has here recognized what
we regard as the sound doctrine, viz: That the
powers vested j.. Congress "to exercise exclu-
| sivc jurisdiction in all cases whatsoever "over the
District of Columbia, were of two fold charac-
Ter, first, Federal for all purposes properly ma
tiona and municipal for all purposes appertaIn-
ing TO the Domestic interests of its citizens. In