The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1842-11-17

90 power over members OF Cougress.- L
Both ave equally the servants OF the PEG. G
ple-elec,ed BY the People-and subject I
alone TO their correction. was sustained
by the People " DO elected me, and to them |
| dare appeal for my Justification. In re-
gard to the Bankrupt Bill | was never IN
strucled. The House passed resolutions
to that effect; they were sent 20 the Sen
ate, amended, returned 10 the House, the
amendment not conquered ~, and the mat
ter fell between the Two branches Of ibe
Legislature.
/ Having glanced in rapid review at the
business Of the extra session, Mr.. Clay
passed TO the transactions Of the last. lie
was member Of Congress during the
whole war-was elected tc the Senate dur
ing his absence at Client, but, doubling the
legality of tina, choice, resigned and was
again elected in 1916: and he would de-
clare that he never knew a Congress more
devoted or more patriotic than the present
It's Wing members seemed anXously re-
solved to carly out the measures supposed
10 be secured by the election OF Gen. Har'
rison. They had much TO contend with.
, Besides the regular and legitimate opposi-
I ton of the Democrats, they had TO encoun-
{ ter The veto power, encouraged bya kind
! of quasi opposition. He believed the Dem
e ocfatic party honest, IN the main; bot the
leaders Of The party it was who stimulated
/ Mr.. Tyler to his acts of treacheFy. While
: speaking of leaders, lei me (sald Mr.. CO.
e do sheer act OF Justice to one of !hem-a
j. man with whom | have not spoken for
years, and may never again speab-l mean
q Thomas Hart Benton OF Missodri. The
. contempt and dsdain with which he treats
Il John Tyler may be inferred from the fact
!, that he never crossed his threshold he
. had moi, at least up TO April last, and an
\, told by the mods of my friends around me
10 that he still continues TO treat him and III
n. treachery, as they deserve, with loatblns
a. and scorn.
f Blu, what were the measures and polio
q. of the Wings? The Democrats accused u
#. of having no principles before the eleciio
II. of 1910, and now they upbraid US for nc
"a. having carried out what We promised :
re- And what, fellow ci,izans, are their prime
ia. pies hard money currency, hdrdE
he got Laughter, loud and long. The
"a say tba, bank Of the Tinted States WI
a overturn cur libcr,ies-s,rip Us Of oil ii
Ike forms of freedom-as if the liberties OF I'll
m, country could be overthrown, and yet a
N. those connected with the banks renal
TO freemen! Mr.. Woodbury. did say ,ha, th
IN, local banks had succeeded in making e!
rs changes cheaper, and furnishing bette
or currency, than the United States Bank hs
be done. We made predictions, painful as
oh was our duty to do, and anticipated the su
he pensions which have since occurred, bl
,er we wero laughed at FOR our pains. ioI
nd the country so in 1884, and employed
ed figure when said that you might as we
ed expect feet Of canoes. dashed togetht
III with hickory wiEhe, TO brave and ride OF
,se an ocean storm, as 10 look for local banl
tey TO furnish sound and regular currency t
this extended country. There is now :
), effor. making BY the banks in this State,
w Kentucky and elsewhere, TO resume spec
W Va payments (and hope, said MIR. c., tn
~ will be able 10 maintain it,) but whenev
~ the time of difficulty shall come, [snd a
'o' not anxious to predict,) they will snap a
Gu break again. Our Democratic friends, a.
~" s' wihstanding their recommendation OF
'"e cul currency, what do they say when
70 banks suspend Do they try to susta
"a and defend theml No The Unli
y States Bank was monster, they said, a
Y OF ,"a, 'Nu'. - ~ r. ~ - dono,no
'ne as brood Of little monsters, and they
must share the same fate lie did [
anu embrace all his Democratic friends IN Il
VI" category, but their leading men. c
20, Benton, for instance, whom be complime
- ed few moments ago for his sagacity
~ another respect, went against all banks
W against every thing but hard-money CT
- reucy-and desires that We should copy
W. ter some Of tho nations Of the world. l
~ examples OF England, ireland, Scotland a
France, are all abandoned, and miseral
., and wretched Spain aud Portugal, and
~ neighboring colony Of Cuba, held up to
~" as examples Of hard money country /.
rrhh We Wings 90 for all The money We C
=" honestly get, and as good as We can get
"a "a We 90 for well regulated banks fox Sia
i tn purposes, and a we'll regulated Nator
9. currency. Many cry tor Rdrd-WoHey,
20 20 though the jngllng of dollar has not {
~ tonished their pockets for many day
They reminded him Of tho anecdo.e
~ !, ;, once heard Of good honest enigrant fro
North Carolina, who was met on the So
~ nit Of Clinch mountain returning back
that State, after visiting and settling
some time IN one Of the fertile valleys
the West. HIS whole appearances, q
lha, Of MS relInus bespoke the most abi'
poverty Ills vito v1s 10 tatters.--i
poor old horse mere skeleton OF bones
80 carcass on ahch tho bczzards might
!, supposed to hold d pre- empiiou Of uIa
- years slauding-a half dozen chIldr
80 sat suspended IN bag on either side
~ the bras,- the good man and his spouse wa
,iar, ing IN apparen! conteniedosss, after the N
ing spectacle. flo was asked where
was gong. Buck 10 North Carolina
don't like your Western coun,ry-you liz
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