Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1842-11-12

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! between The two branches Of The Legislature.
Having glanced IN rapid tev lew at the business
/ of the Extra Session, Mr. CLAY passed TO The
/ transactions OF the last. He was member OF
Congress curing The whcle war-was elected
to the Senate during his absence at Client. bat
doubling the legality OF that choice, resigned md
vas again elected IN lSl6-and he would declare
that he never knew Congress more devoted or
more patriotic Than the present Its Wing mem
bers seemed GHxtOusIy resolved 10 carry out the
measures supposed - be secured by the election
81 GCu. IanKI They had much &c contend with
Be sides the regular and legitimate opposition Of
the democrats, hey had TO encounter The veto pow.
er, encouraged by kind Of quasi oppOs ItIon. lie
believed the democratic party honest 10 The man !;
but tho leaders OF the party 1t was VINO stimuli :
ted Mr.. TYLER 10 his acts of treachery. While
speaking Of leaders, let me. said Mr.. G, do
sheer act Of rstice to one OF them--a man with
whom have not spoken for years. aud NAV new
again speat-i mean Thomas HART BENTON.
IF Missouri The contempt and disian with
which he treats jim TYLER may be inferred
from The fact that he never crossed his threshold
he had not, at least up TO April last, and am
told by the mods of my friends around me, that
he still continues to treat him and his treachery
they deserve, win barking and scoIn Bat
wha, were the measures and policy Of the Wings?
The democrats accused US Of having no prInci-
plies before tho election Of 1870 and now they
upbraid Us for not having carried on, what We
promised And what. tcIinw-"ltIn~ne arc fh@'r
principles? hard money currency. h-G-r Il y
gor! Laughter loud and long They say thai
Bank Of the L. States will overturn our hber.
ties-strp If all the forms Of freedom--as if
The liberties Of this country could be over thrown,
and yet all those connected with tho 3 inks
main freemen! Mr. WOODBURY. mud Gen JACK
soN-Gnd bless the oil IIero!--I wish him
harm. and although he has injured me much,
would not, 4 in my pawe,, soil hair OF his ven
cradle hend--the old General and Mr.. WOODBURY.
did say that the local Banks had succeeded IN ma.
king exchanges cheaper, and furnishing a better
currency, than the United States Bank had done.
We made predictions, painful i, was our duty
to do, and anticipated the suspensions HIGH have
since occurred, bnt we wero laughed at for our
pains | told the country in 1884. nd employ
ed figure when said, TINT you might as well
expect flee, Of canoes, dashed together with
hickory wlhe, e brave and T:de on. an ocean
and regular currencv for this extended country.
There is now eff rt making BY the Banks in
this State, in Kentucky and elsewhere. 10 resume
specie payments (and hope, said Mr. C, they
will be able to maintain it.) but whenever the
time Of diff Guilty shall come (and I am not
ious 10 predict 'hcy will snap and break again.
Oar dem1cratic friends. notwiths nding their re-
commentator Of a local currcncv, what do they
say when tho banks suspend? D. 1hev try TO
sustlin and defend them mol The u. States
Bank was monster, they said, and that must be
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failed, all banks denounced board Of little
monsters, and they, too. must share the s4me fate!
He did not embrace nil his democratic friends in
this category, bat thoir leading men. Col. BEN |
TON, for instance. whom he conp'inented a few
moments ngo for his sagacity in another respect,
went yainst all banks-against every thing but /
a hard money currency--and desires that We
should copy after some uf the nations Of the old
world. The examples nf England. Ireland. Scot
land, and France all a5andaned. and misera-
bic and wretched Spain md Portugal, and the .
neighboring colony of Cuba. held up 10 sam
pies Of a hard money country! We Wings 60
for all lie money honestly GET and
good rs we get. We 60 for welregulated
Banks Tor Siate purposes, and we'll regnlated
National Bank for the Union. to furnish a Nation
al currency. Manv cry for hard money although .
the juggling Of dollar has not as,onshed their
pockets for many day. They reminded him of
the anecdoe he once heard Of a coed homes,
grant from North CaroIins. who met on tho
SUNNI; OF ClInch Mountain, returning back to
that State, after visiting and settling for some
time in one Of the fertile valleys o. the Vest
His whole appearance, and ,h-t of his retnue,
bespoke the most abject poverty II 9 wife was
IN tatters--his poor old horse mere skeleton OF
tones--a carcase on which the buzzlrd's might
be supposed to bold pre- -emption Of many years
sandIng--a half dozen children sat suspended IN
a bag either side of the poor beast--,he good
man and his spouse waking IN apparent conten-
teGness, alter the mOrIn0 speNtac!e. lie was ask
ed where he going? Back TO North Caro-
lina--I don't like your Western coun,ry--you
hare market for surplus products out here!"
Rnars Of Iaugh.e No.--there no mar
ket for such rags and horses out IN this vely val
ey. Renewed laughter Our democrat friends
md the good honest North Caroliniau-and some
IF the Wings ioo-are IN the same condition -
They cry for hard money. when they have no,
dollars worth IN the worlc!
What is The next question Of difference between
he two p1rtes9 The Triff-the protection of
'ur own Industry. The Wings favor this policy,
md the democrats oppose il. He meant he DEM
cralic leaders, always. moi the democratic peo-
lie. He begged to illustrate this subject by
efefsnco plain and practicalin itself He would
av that when thew had shoemakers. hsiters and
ailors, IN indianapolis. who can furnish you eve
y article in their line. he citizens Of town and