Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-11-24
From Ia. ": Y. Couritr spd Eas 4ir.r.

" II.
Mr. BENTON has recently addressed letter to
his constituents in which he says. when the Wing
party came into power, one Of its most conspicuous
members, MIR Webster, had tho effrontety to ssy,
shat they would lay away the old books used by
the former administration and open new set, and
that in the new entries made 10 these were taxes,
loans, unredeemed Treasury Notes, National debt,
prohbory tariff. distribution of land revenue. non
payment of public creditors, protested bills on the
Government, disgrace, the borrowing agent OF the
Government insulied in Europe, prescription. a
mandamas act, habeas corpus act, and an outlaw
ry act against the States, ihs las, poeke,cd by Mr
Tyler) reputation OF private debts under the pre-
text Of a bankrupt Law and new British Treaty"
This may all do very well far Missouri, but sure
ly tho people OF the United States will not believe
such egrcsrious misrepresentation. The tariff, tho
distribution OF the land revenue and the bankrupt
law, certainly all the sins that the Wing party
can Justly be charged wiih and these, VIC take, II
they are very wiling 10 Tear. VIVA, does Mr Ben.
ton think OF MS old plan of giving the public lands
away the squaters, or that of Mr. Calhoun giving
them 10 the States IN which they lie ? Either
would at least obviate the necessity Of mixing any
entry OF them Oh the books a; all.
Its however en- the subject ofa Currency tha,
Mr. Benton. - as usual mos, eoqaen,: a base
currency" he says 81 fiiets the State, and is for
The approaching general assembly to apply the re-
lief Small no,es. deprecated papcr, spurious
banking, Unauthorized issue Of paper 'rasn, laweS,
corporations, ard the introduction of base paper
from other stctcs, have been the curse ol Missouri
for some time past aud is the only ours, that
affiicts her"
Now We eau conceive of no piece OF more bare.
faced impudcnce, than th attempt OF the Leo 70
cos 10 throw ffSm their own shoslLeIs the disgrace
they should bear for the fetal destruction in which
they have involved the whole noneIary system Of
the country, and above all, when made Ivy the man
who bore the foremost part in affecting this di,lsue
ton, Who vas in rower when the suspe aston Of
spscic payments took plactl Was i, not MIR Van
Buren,. Whose a,ures they that brought il
about WAS IL those CT his administration and
that OF his preiccessor1 Add so totally ignorant
seFc they of the ruin impending over The cccnIy,
und TO which their measures tending, that they
actually gave cut that the state Of the currency was
materially Improved, that gold would flow up IL
Mississippi, and nothing tut gold be r.en through
the meshes .f the farmefe' parses The utter iascy
md 40. urdiy Of all their preionsoGs and promises
does ot reduce then. even 10 modest silence but
thsy have the a-iaciy inpu.e the blame to par.
~ who were at the time entirely helpless either for
good or for evil, and whose cnJeavors, when they
had The power TO produce a beuer state OF things,
they successfully ttwar;ed.
THE iimes," says alr B, nlon, very empha'i
caly, care changed and changed about as much for
the worse, as modern Federalism NOV al the head
OF our government in the person Of Daniel Webster
Is worso than The Old black coekade Federalism CT
John Adams and Alexander Hamilton."
Very well! We shall see who snd what will change
them. viii II be the Loco Foco party and Sub
Treasury