The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-02-19
THE EXCHEQUER BOARD OF THE UNI
TED STATES.

TED STATES.
The era of better days, in both financial
and political point Of view, may now be safely
asserted to have dawned upon our latterly de-
pressed and distracted country.
Events, the most difficult to control by human
skill or option, whether exerted through the po-
litical institutions of the country the popular inn
pulse, have concurred, during series ofyears Ell
ther by rapid succession of each other or an accu
mutation of their influences, to bring into lamenta-
bic confusion both the 6nanc political opera
tions Of the National and Stale Governments,
and TO a like extent under them, Of individual
citizens also. And none need deny that there
was, at the opening Of the present session OF
Congress, wide spread and heavy gloom rest
ing upon the minds of the people of all classes
the agricultural, mechanical, and mercantile
as we'll as upon the statesmen and professed po-
liticians of the country arising from the dis
tracted condition of affairs, monetary and po
litical, on the enc hand, and anxious doubts on
the other, in regard to the means that might be
adopted for restoring order and energy to the
operations of Government, and to the enter
prise Of the citizen, and harmony Of feeling and
action among political men.
But, thanks to the firmness Of President TY,
LER, on the one hand, and to the patriotic spirit
of honorable perseverance on the part OF one
branch, at least, of Congress, on the other-in
which we doubt not that the other branch will
in due time exhibit equal mert-past expert
ence, present necessities, and searching intel.
inf fho fut hay Mt
the way for the nations deliverance and the
construction of platform broad enough in ex
tent and deep enough in its foundations for the
patriotic of all parties to gather upon in safety,
and to start with union Of effort, OF hope, and
Of interest, in what may be emphatically de-
nominated THE GREAT CAUSE OF THE NATION
Let ultraism ofevery species for once give way
to the sober dictates of actual, ndubitabe expe-
rience, and personal interests of ambition be
hushed for the sake OF one united struggle for
the common welfare and honest enterprise in
our land will regain its wide and efficient
sphere of action, under the mild influence OF a
wise national Administration, and the turbu-
pnce Of conflicting, disjolnted systems of tinan-
cial operation, now exhibited in the different
Of ALL and alike deprecated by every body, will
be at an end.
Into the history of the ills 10 which we have ad
verted, and the origin or motives Of their pro-
genitors, whoever they may have been, it is
useless now to inquire; the remedy at which the
steady sagacity Of President TYLER has aimed
without faltering, since his acce ssion to the
Chief Magisuacy of the Union, is now brought
to the public consideration, under the judicious
notifications of the Select Committee of the
House of Representatives, In the report which
is concluded in our paper to-day.
To call the special and scrutnizing attention
of our readers to that document, would be, we
arc sure, to confess ourselves tagging in the
rear ofther first ardent impulses. To say that re-
port is able, lucid, comprehensive, instructive,
and deeply imbued with the spirit of vigi
liant and cautious craftsmanship to degree I'M
surpassed by any production, upon this pro
life and perplexed topic, that has emana-
ted from any heads or hands to which i,
has at any previous time been specially
committed for consideration, would be to say
only what every impartial and candid reader will
feel to be just towards its authors, and the i'm
bodment into language of a conviction that vii
be found wherever the report shall travel among
the reading, rejecting, independent people o
this country
The Board of Exchequer is happy accretio'
to the Treasury, if we may be allowed the term
Of all the ndisputably safe and concurring quail
ties Of all the three prior systems of Treasury
finance and national currency-we mean, Of tn
United States Bank system, of the State Ban
system, and OF the Independent Treasury :