Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1841-09-25

speak on the part OF tnat convention sig
nal instance of recklessness and want of
consideration! The party, he says, were
intent on the one great obi ect of an old
fashioned Bank of the United States. and
they knew that bill chartering such bank
might be dependent for its fate on the cast.
ing vote of the Vice President in this body,
(aS it was when it was negatived by the po-
tential voice of George Clinton.) Surely
it would have evinced most extraordinary
want of foresight, when such issues were
depending, to select candidate for that
chair without the most careful inquiry into
his constitutional opinions. Was John Ty-
Ter so insignificant a character that they
knew nothing Of his past history! Where
is the man whether member or spectator
within these walls, to whom his political
principles and character were not more or
less familiarl If there is any one thing
which has distinguished him above all other
traits in his character, it is his undertaking
adherence to the school of strict construc-
ton and State rights. Who has forgotten
W, IN he stood proudly on this floor in mi
norty Of one ION the occasion of the reve-
nue. collection bill in 1889 in vindication of
W iidL u uCCllCu VIAL VI tIldt
school?
Who was ignorant of the part which had
been assigned him by the Senate, as well
known but honorable and high minded OPP
ponent of the late Bank of the U. States on
constitutional grounds. to conduct an nves-
tigation of the proceedings and affairs of
that institution? One would think that if
gentlemen acted under due sense of their
responsibility to great and patriotic par
ty and if they attached grave Importance
to the establishment of National Bank
they would of course take care to select as
their candidate for the Vice Presidency one
on whose decision they could rely. How
was it in regard to General Harrison him.
self. the candidate selected for the Presden-
Cyl Was he Bank mani Was he den-
tilted with National Bank? Not at ALL
He, on the contrary expressly disClaimed it.
He repealed the imputaton as political
SANDER, and defed those who made it to
the proof. If that had been the true issue
at Harrisburg, all will concur with me wher
| say land it gives me pleasure to pay {
merited tribute to the high character of the
gentleman from kcntucky) that he himself
and he only. would have been thought of a.
the candidate for the Presidency. On tho
contrary. it was because his party were un
wiling to make that the issue before the
| People in the Presidential election. that thu
honorable and distinguished Senator from
Kentucky did not oL.ain that civic crown
which he so well deserved, as the reward
of life devoted to what he considers tn,
true interest and glory of his country. Blu
the issue was avoided as hazardous.
Let me 90 a little more into detail as tc
the opinions of General Harrison. VIVA
was his course in the other House of Con
gress, in 1919, when he and President Tv
Ter were gallant compeers in the first wal
with the Bank of the United States. II,
went even further than the President die
in his opposition to the Bank. TYLER, il
conformity with those conservative princi
pies q use the term in its broad and genera
sense) which form part of the political ed
ucation of every Virginan, was unwillin!
to revoke solemn charter. once granted
but General Harrison brought up as he hat
been in the holder and freer school of the
West, was for a summary act annulling the
charter of the Bank. To this vote he him
self referred, showing that he was no bank
or federal candidate TO use his owl
words) for the Presidential office In 1899
in unpublished address to- the people of his dis
trict, he openly and distinctly avowed his op
position to a bank. He there proclaimed
himself to be a disciple of the Republican
school of 1898, and explicitly declared hi
opinion that the Bank of the United State
had been established in violation of the Con
stitution of the United States. In his let
ter of 1886, to Mr.. Sherrod Williams. dis
tinguished member of Congress from the
Senator's own State, he said he would no
give his sanction to Bank of the United
States, unless, by the failure Of all other ex
pedients, it should be demonstrated to b(
necessary to carry on the operations Of the
Government, and unless there should be
general and unequivoca manifestation o
the will of the nation in favor of such al
institution; and then only as fiscal, and no
as a commercial bank.
IN reluctant, Mr.. President to refer t,
any thing that | may have said or done il
the comron cause during the late contest
but IN, be permitted to say that 70
one, with an honest conviction of the trut
of the statement, and founding myself upo
authentic declarations of General IIarriso
himself, did, in published address to IN
fellow citizens, represent his personal lean
ing and opinions to be decidedly against
Bank Of the United States. Certain it
that hundreds and thousands of our country
lcn voted for him without the least refer
ence to bank, The issue of bank or n
bank was not made in the Presidential cleo
tiOn In the mind IF the honorable Soma