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Of your Cabinet were made by you the
agents and the negoliators, was passed by
large maiorites through the two Houses
efCoogress, and sent TO you, and you re-
lected It. Important as was the part
which I.had taken, at your request, in
the orignation Of this bill, and deeply as
] was committed Tor your action upon II,
you never consulted me on the subject Of
the veto message. You did not even ro
er to ii in conversation, and the first no.
tice had of its contents was derived
from rumor'
Aud to me, al leaet, you have done nothing
to wipe away the personal Indignlly
arising out of the act. i gathered, ii Is
true, from your conversation, shortly af'
Ter the bitl,had passed the House, that you
had strong purpose TO reject it; but no
thing was SAID like soitenlng or apology
TO me, either in reference to myself or 10
those with whom had communicated at
your request, aud who acted themselves
and induced the two Houses TO act upon
The faith Of that communication. And,
strange as it may seem, the Veto Message
attacks in an especial manner the very
provisions which were inserted al YOUR
request; aud even the name of the corpo.
ration, which was not only agreed to by
you, but especially changed TO meet your
expressed wishes, is made the subject OF
your criticism. Different men might
view this transaction in different points
Of light; but, under these circumstances,
as matter Of personal honor, It would be
hard Tor me to remain Of your counsel
to seal my lips and leave unexplained and
undisclOSed where lies IN this transac :
tiou the departure from straight forward
ness and candor. So far, indeed, from
admitting the encouragement which you
gave TO this bill in It's inception, and ex.
planning and excusing your sudden &
violent hostility towards 1t, you throw
into your Veto Message an Interrogatory
equivalent TO an assertion that it was
such bill as you had already declared
could not receive your sanction. Such
is the obvious effect Of the lnterogalory
clause on the second page, 1t has all
the force Of an assertion, without its open
fairness. have met and refulsd this,
the necessary inference from your Ian
guage, in my preceding statement, the
correctness OF which you am sure will
not Gail in question.
Your veto to the first bill YOU rested on
constitutional ground and the high con.
VIctions Of conscience; and no man, in
my opinion, had right TO question your
sincerity. ! so said and | so acted, for,
through all the contest and collision that
arose out Of that act, you had my adhe-
renee and support. But how ls it with
respect to thisf The subject of bank
is not new to you: it is more than twen-
ty years that YOU have made it an objecI
OF consideration and Of study, especially
in its connexion with the constitutions
powers Of the General GOvernment.-
You, therefore, could not be, and you
were not, taken unprepared on this ques.
ton. The bill which reported 10 Con
gress, with your appreciation, at tho com
mencement of The session, had the clause
relallnglo agencies, and tho power tC
deal in exchanges, as strongly developed
as the one you have now rejected, anC
equally without the assent of the States
You referred specially and with approba
lion 70 that clause, many days after, in {
conversation he'd in the Department o
State. You sanctioned il IN this parti-
cular bill, as detailed above; and no doub
was thrown out on the subject by you
in my hearing, or within my knowledge
until the letter oil Mr.. Boris came to YOU
hands. Soon after the reading of tha
letter you threw out strong intimationt
that you would veto the bill il it were
not postponed That letter | did and
do most unequivocally condemn, but il
did not affect the conslitutionahty OF the
bill, or Justify you in rejecting 1t on that
ground; it could affect only the eKpedien.
cy Of your action; aud, whatever sou may
now believe as 10 tho scruples existing
10 your mind, in this and in kindred
source there is strong ground to believe
they have their origin.
III be right in this, and doubt not |
am, hero is a great public measure de.
manded by the country, passed upon
and approved by the Representatives, of
the States and the People, rejected by
you as President on grounds having no
origin in conscience, and no reference
to the public good. The rejection of
this measure, too, continues the purse
with the sword in tho hands Of the Ex,
eculive, from which ws s;rove to wrest
it in the contest which elevated your
predecessor and you power. cannot
concur ia this your course Of policy.
In or out of Office my opinions remain
unchanged. | cannot abandon the prin.