The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-04-26
THE MADISONIAN.
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[The following is from Wing paper-at true
Wing paper-that prefers country to party %
mote it be- So we hope II wiH DC sene'anV
with the press throughout the country IL IS SO
with the People, and it soon musi De SO WIN
politcians, or they will lind themselves without
constituents So much for the course OF the
President The country will bless the day that
made him Chief Magistrate.
From the American Eagle.
THE CURRENCY-THEEX CHEQUER BILL
Never since the formation of our national compact
has our country been ia a situation deplorable as
ut the present time regards the state of its monea-
nv affairs The must be apparent to every re-
fleeing mind still left to regret that SO little ef
fort is making the part Of the Federal Government
to put period to our embarrassment we view on
all sides general arrangement and depreciation OF
the currency and feel most foclby Its melancholy re-
suits Deep distrust and difficulties, insurmountable
in their nature, pervade the business community
the merchant is shacked and has no power to act,
while the avenues to speculation or prontape invest
ment are closed against him; the industrious and
working class of the community, while their ef-
forts are paralyzed feel most keenly the burden of
opuression under which they labor, and the depres-
sion and distress to which they are subject public
and corporate securities are daily on the Decline while
confidence in their efficiency is from day to day
becoming more seriously impaired
The credit of the State Governments as well as of
our countrymen self-governing people is shame
fully dishonored and plorable in the last extreme,
and, this too, at time when cloud hangs over our
foreign relations and circumstances fully within the
reach Of the most limited comprehension connected
thus as they are with our domestic embarrassments
are likely to become fearful obstacles to our security
and honor as nation. To what causes can these
melancholy results be attributed but to party feeling
an unhallowed desire for party achievement and party
superiority? As long this state of affairs exists
the imminent difficulties to which the people are sub
ject and under which the country labors, will remain
unmitgated. desire for party ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
without any matured specific object, is well cacu
lated to enhance and prolong those difficulties, ant
render still more pressing the burden under Which
we labor both individually and as nation. VIVA
party objects in comparison with the prosperity
happiness, and still rising dignity Of the American
nation. They gnObe in the last extreme, anc
conflict most openly with the interests and wishes Of
the American people
The Executive is fully alive to the Importance o
the enactment of some measure calculated to give re-
lief in the present emergency, however much he may
have acted in contradiction to the wishes OF the people
during the earlier period of his career In message
transmitted to Congress on the 18th utmo ne urges
upon that body the Importance of such immediate &C
ton, will be calculated to supply the wants OF the
Government, and sustain its credit, and some hopes
are felt that something will soon be carried into
effect with view of concentrating these important
designs.
The people of the United States looking eagerly
forward the time, if ever it should arrive when tht
propositions, emanatng from the present admnistIa
tion pending before Congress, and recently favor
ably reported on by Committees of the House of Re-
representatives. and of the Senate for the establshmen
of Government Exchequer, shall be carried in eff
feet. Recognizing it does, the power and duty Of
the Federal Government to provide sound currency
for the people, il should be object of deep conside-
ration with Congress, as 1t most assuredly is with all
who appreciate the Importance of an indsputabIe
rency suited the present wants and future prospe-
rity and dignity of the country The enactment of
such measures calculated to give us a sound
uniform and equal currency will strengthen the bonds
of union renew the now almost dormant energies of
an oppressed and suffering people and at restore
our country to its former prosperity Any attempt to
postpone this all absorbing question: or to make 1t
sabservent party wishes designs, should receive
as it deserves, unqualified Reproduction.