Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1842-01-22

cumuIated, that its business would absorb the
whole of that amount. Let the demon Of specu.
aton once be conured up and turned loose
upor us wild schemes Of adventure, and no man
could set limits to its demand. To offer 10
fsnlioIng People supply like this was, he re-
peated it, the greatest bibe which the history of
modern times could show An ambitious PIes.
dent, with q term Of three short years to run,
having at his disposal drilled corps Of Office
holders, and holding under his control subsi.
died press, ruling over People whose spirit |
was broken by a long pressure Of want and ca
lumity, and with the means Of presenting them
with an immediate relief in their distress, might
perpctuate his power in spite Of all efforts to re.
sist him.
The plan proposed to add to the business CAPT
tai Of the country sudden and vast increase,
to be effected by mere stroke Of the pen. The
immediate effect would be sudden and universal
relief comparative ease, and apparent a1luence;
but, as had been ably shown by the Senator from
Pennsylvania the entire history of the world
went to show that while this was always the first
effect, the certain tendency was to depreciation,
| and the final issue in every case had been gen.
eral explosion
What a spectacle did the Senate exhibit
When the parties it contained were Just upon the
eve Of great contest, while the Wings wore in
a position in which It WAS supposed they might
dictate terms 10 the President, and while gentle
men on The other side seemed 10 exhibit dispo-
sition more yielding to the powers that be, and
when many held an adverse attitude towards
each other who ought to be fast friends there
came in this project. 1t was presented among
others, to the gentleman from Pennsylvania, (Mr.
BucnANAN.) and what was his course. Though
strongly disposed TO regard any thing from the
President with favorable eye, and though speak
ing OF him personally in the kndest language,
he still expresses the most decided opposition to
The measure. He could not go for it; and why?
Because he held the project dangerous to the
: public liberty. And the honorable Senator ap
pretended that, should a second Aaron Burr
mount the Presidential chair, an engine like this
might tempt him to perpetuate power in his own
E, hand and might render him the most absolute oil
: rulers Certainly the temptation would be great
: the bride was enormous. Thirty millions Of cap.
, ital springing up as an exhaIation, as sudden,
, and vet as unsubstantal: branches spread all
over the Union; productive tariff the Briarear
power Of the Pos Office Department, with it:
Ipaht millions Of drafts: a universal system o.
: railroads and canals. and all this in an agrariar
i ard n7rrcenarv age !, did certainly present
mass Of power 1icuil TO resist, and appalling L
5 contemplate. Then 10 all this must be added the
% entire power Of patronage; the ability to confer
- the distinctions Of place; the more substantial
i profits Of office, and all the weight Of political
j. donors and confidence Put it all togeher and
i NJ. NJ would not trust any mortal man with il
: possession. II even the Father OF his country
h could return from the grave, and would ask FOL
y such trust, Mr.. NJ. would not put it into h
hands, unless he had first received revelation
from heaven that he would live forever. He con
sidered it as among the worst signs Of the times
y and fact well calculated to Gil the bosom o. tn
! patriot with dependency, and TO turn his eye
" with doubt upon the future, that this project wa
! looked at in The country simply in its none,
" aspect 1t was examined and discussed solely AZ
:, measure calculated to give efficient relief an;
:, to remove men from that grdron OF suffering or
= which they were now bound. Certainly it was
} scheme well pitched to suit the present tone o
Z the public mind. 1t exhibited shrewd acquant
ance with the character and present condition o
> the American People. The manner in which thu
" project was in some places received and that to-
: where there was an accumulation both Of know
It edge and Of intellectual strength, seemed, il
! this respect, to justify the anticipatons Of its au
> thor. Even minds like these could look at it a
i, money measure alone, and seemed entirely t
~ disregard the deep and dangerous tendency whic
lay COnCcdIbu beUedlll LIS sutldCe.
hS But it was said that the project was to be moo
~ fled. 1t was TO return from the committee i
t. quite different shape. Now, if his HONORABLE
IL friend from New York, (Mr. TALLMADGE.) VIII
C. was at the head Of that committee, and for whol
~ no man entertained a more sincere respect, an
Us on whose purity and patriotism, moderation an
j. sagacty, no man could more implicitly rel!
)" should be able to accomplish such modifcao
- Of the scheme as should str p it Of its more dan
III gerous and alarming features, Mr.. M. would NJ
g. merely receive the proposal with candor, b.
al would leap to its adoption. His heart would +,
st ioice within him al the thought that such thin
t. were possible, but he greatly feared that it new
~ could be accomplished. That master mind whic
oe was supposed to have conceived and elaborate
- this production, seemed to him, by expression
~ scattered in various parts Of it, to present to Il
a. Senate this alternative, ''eher lake this or su
IS nit to the sub.Trea>ury." If that were the ate
st. native, Mr.. NJ. would not hesitate for a IN
H. ment He would incomparaby rather adopt Il
eF sub Treasury than this monstrous Juggernar
us whose murderous car would make its way ov
x the necks of PROSTATE people.
la regard to the sub. Treasury, Mr.. NJ, 0
~ served that he had formed his opinion Of it whi
81, in private lile and he confessed that it the
~ struck him that, considered per SC, in the la
" guage OF the Comt, it was measure whose ber
cn fits were mere enhanced by its friends, al
." whose evils were more exaggerated by its er
III mics, than truth would Justify. As measu
"a" for the restoration OF the currency, he consider
he it wholly inc licient; but his chief objection
IS' it had been on account of that spirit of s0ltut
l" and isolation which so strongly pervdded it., al
Ie which he did not deem respectable, and WhiC