Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1842-09-17

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Ga that day the Extra Session com.
aud then it was that those meas.
lres were proposed, which express the
real motives Of the leaders, and which
have brought the Government and the
country TO their present condiuon. They
were then vlctors over the whole field Of
power. With the Execulive-with
majority, overwhelming, in both branches
Of & ngreess, there was loihng to restrain
the full sway OF their pleasure or their
principles. This they knew, aud this they
telt; aud therefore il was, that their Chief
iii the Senate, with all the staggering
Indelicacy OF one unaccusiomed to success
openly proclaimed to the Democracy Of
the body, that we had been brought to.
gcIher only for execution; and that all we
uttered was to be heard as nothing, but
The complaints oil Indicators, on their wav
to the scahoId. Such was the deIirium OF
meritess triumph, and vulgar revenge,
with which the Federalists began their
work, and without preparing any thing in
lis stead, laid hold upon the Sub. Treasury
and tore ii 10 the ground. Thus, did these
infatuated men--lhey who had most false.
Iy charged the Democratic party with
having committed the public treasure 10
the sole custody Of the Execuliye-with
having united, in his person, both the
sword and the purse, thus did they, among
the very first acio of their power, do, them.
selves, the very same things so unjustly
ascrlbed TO Others, by the repeal of the
only law which place the money of the
nation out Of the reach of the President.
No bank, no law, no resolution had they
passed, to take the place Of the &C, repeal.
ed. Nor is there, TO this day, any such
provision, or any such likely to be, while
the present Congress remains.
And why is tins? Ii the majority can.
not get The iiscality they desire, can ;hey
not pass an act 10 secure the revenue? or
do they intend TO have it, as il is, exposed
to the hazard of official pllage, IN order
to try, once more, the coersion Of the peo-
pie into a National Bank?
These men came into power, as we
were told, upon the holy mission Of guard
ing the sanctiiy Of the Constitution, the
law, and all human obligations. So pious
WAS their reverence for the observance OF
contracts, that some OF The number were
willing that this Government, though pen
nyless itself, and pIunging into debt,
should assume The debts OF the States, ralh-
err thar their reputation. Nevertheless,
Ihese same men, the chosen aud the an
pointed guardians of all things sacred, by
one general act, with the name Of bank.
ruplcy for It's caption, repudiated the debts
IF the larger debtors throughout the entire
nation. BY this single oath, they allow
I'd the interested party, if his debts were
arge, and his means considerable, 10 can
eel his bond, and thus 10 ruin The friend
n the neighbor, who, as creditor, or secu.
'ity, had confded in his honor. say,
t the debts we're large, because if small,
md The debtor poor, the expense Of the
process makes The law unavailable, and
therefore, annul;y to him. To execute
he act, the Federal Judiciary passes over
he Constitution, usurps the rightluI juris.
fiction of the local courts, defes and
purns the sovereignty Of States. But no
natter for that-lhe greater bankrupts,
he magnificent milIIonaries Of The paper
ystem, were brought TO bankruptcy, not
" misfortune in Legitimate trade--not by
ccident beyond the power of discretion,
ut by the eagerness Of an avarice seeks
ne to crafty itself in the gambIings OF
and then wasting in splendid il
all that the fortune Of the haz.
I'd placed within its reach. As men all Ii
eady ruined and desperate, they had en- {
cred the contest Of 40, with the pledge of /
he Federalsts, that their debts should be
-eated as gambling obligations and spong. I
by the law and an oath. And this s
ledge alone, of the many made, has Fed. a
ralIsm faithfully fulfilled. la
Economy, let it be remembered, had q
cen promised as a policy proper 10 itself,
nd especially SO in the then necesitous a
late Of The Treasury.-And yet by This S
cry convention Of Congress, at a time $
OF appointed by the law, three hundred il
nd ninety Que thousand dollars, were i
aisted IN the payment Of its members 4
nd other expenses of the session. f
Twenty-Jfre thousand dollars were next 0
astowed as as gratuity upon the widow [,
the late President, and this, without y
ny request from her, or necessity in her N
circumstances. So far from c
ny such necessity then existing or likely m
exist, il was fact well known and de- al
AIRED at The time, that the private fortune n
that respectable lady, placed her above a
10 humility Of asking such favors, from Il
ny quarter whatever. SlIll the money III
0s voted from the treasury as If taxes .,
ma nolhinu 10 the penDle and waaia .ha Ia,