Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1841-08-21
SATURDAY, AUGUST 81, 1871.
Mr.. WEBSTERS LETTERS.

pcnse in reference to the fate Of the Bank
Bill with the President Should it pass the
House in its present shape) we have
deemed it but Just to the administration
that the People and the country should
see ITS TRUE POSITION, from the commence
ment in relation to this great question.
This is very properly and fairly disclosed
in the letters of the 10th and 18th ultimo,
which, as has subsequently transpired, were
written by the Honorable DANIEL WEB
sTER to Col. kErCHuM, "a friend in New
York; and by him handed for publications
in the Commercial Advertiser of that city.
We need scarcely say that they have
wrought a profound conviction, every
where, of the sincere desire of President
TYLER, to go the full length permitted by
his constitutional opinions, in favor Of the
restoration of sound, safe and uniform
currency; and we apprehend but few will
rise from their perusal uncandid enough
to pretend that the bill from the Treasury
identical with Mr.. Rives' amendment, as
to the branching poweT would not have
answered every national purpose as well
OF better than the one over which the Sen
ate and the House have been so long dis
putting, and which may end, not in better
! bill, but NO LAW AT ALL
In connexon with these letters, we hope
the reader will not rise from his seat be-
fore he has also perused two articles from
the Baltimore Patriot-one editorial and
the other communicated. The latter,--in
showing up the profound incapacity Of
Messrs alexander Brown & Sons" and
the other Baltimore merchants who under
took to adCiSe Senator MERRICK, upon a
subject which it seems they had not prop
erly examined themselves. will not be lost,
we hope, upon such gentlemen in this coun-
try as have decided the whole bank ques-
ton a hundred times within the last six
weeks without ever having read the bill of
Mr.. Ewing, or reflected even upon that
Distinguishing portion of it which was re-
embraced in the amendment of Mr.. Rives.
If men would read more and talk less
they would not half SO much expose them
selves as many do, every day, on this same
bank question: and this remark is as appli-
cable to the denunciations we have heard
against Mr.. Webster, for the sudden change
so falsely imputed to him, as to the gen
eral subject. Read the editorial from the
Patriot--takc it in connexion with his let
ters to kctchum (already referred to-
! in short, take all the articles on our first
| page together, READ THEM ALL,-and if
the bank bill is finally lost--or If, after
passing both houses and being vetoed by
the President, Congress at last set them
selves about the common sense business of
passing bill which may certainly become a
lar and which will answer Ill legitimate
purposes,--if these things ShaHhappen, alive
desire to say at present is, that neither
President TYLER nor his cabinet will be
answerabic for the unnecessary consump-
ton of the public time, for they have been
ready, from the commencement, to coop
crate with Congress in the passage of such
a bill as they ,0ere calied upon far by a res
0lWiOa Of the Senate. Let it not be object
ed, either, that this would be debating to
Congress, for Henry CIay himself pas the
author Of the rcsolHtion-the father of the
call ! Lastly, let it be borne in mind that
of all that bill Of Mr.. Ewing, the admin
istration has yielded all aircady for the sake
of compromise except the power to To-
cate branches without the assent of the
Statcs-and with all this before the mind
of the country, let each actor in the scene
bear his just proportion of praise or cen
sure.
In the language of the Georgia Journal,
0he leading Wing paper in the Statc) and
in language which will soon be general all
over the country, we but desire to repeat,
omphatically, that " if the country does not
get bank, it will not be the fault of the
administration-bu of others
GENERAL HARRIsoN's BANK OPINIONS.
Perhaps no man knew better-certainly
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