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81. has stamped The character Of your party
With fraud and dapIieiiy, which viii stick
q Il iike lhe poisoned shirt Of Ncssusi viii
ri61Fe 10 Il. even 70 he end 81 time. You 81
sthis writer iays ne wings have taken Up this
Rank ii Penn1ylysnia.' and ak how Wheng
i will tell YOU when. when this same Bank
succeeded b bribery and corruption. In procus-
Ing is chtrier from The Legislature 81 PeHns,l-
sania, aimos. every Federal press iE the Unlon
rang with The notes OF triumph. II was pro-
klsimed from Mine 10 Georgis,asa grand Fed-ll
erai conquest over The old Remea--the destruct-
ives, The tile Loco Focos. The praises Of Nj
eholss Bipdle were ehaunted nfresh BY thou
sands Of His devoted worshipPers, and his IA
lAous deolarstion shat the Bank was Is efficient
f1r al useful purposes ~ before, vas sung with
fapgufous applause b. his bIind sdherents.--
fiay6 Soa forgotten this, sir Il your memory
upon ghls occasion As seeom tAodAting, as upon
nome Others or wilt you put = bold face upon
the matter, and deny IL FATTY The tears Of
many 4 widow and orphan will testify against
yoH that this rotten institutions instesd OF being
robbed 81 the democracy was engGged during
Is brief existence ID system Of pundeF and
rohbing sApArelleied. II IS oneof the peculiar
hies of your party, that when the tools with
which they worked became worn out and worth
less Ia their hands, They discard them. and cast
them aside 10 rot upon The dung hill. So has il
beau with this Bank. Your party bribed il into;
sxislence -st0cd by, supported. and praised il.
uutIIn trokeEin your hasds and then you tore
OF the himseJ veil, exposed is rotlenness 10
The public gazes and denounced Il ~ an instru-
ment Of The Democracy.
IS fcannot excuse the call Of your Extra SEES
sion. because cannot sec that there was any
necessity for il. You say is was 10 provide
funds 70 carry on the operations Of Government
And pray, what funds did il provide, or attempt
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proceeds OF The Public Lands, providing funds to
carry On tho Government or would your
Bank Bill have had that effect, or your Bankrupt
Billl Or what methodsdid you resort to which
did succeed IN accomplishing that object? You
voted 81 least three millions Of appropriations
over and above the sum which had been deem
cd sufleien. for the current by the exiraya-
8ant administration OF Mr<fVsn Buren,, to carry
On the Government, and indeed as even exiraya-
CANT, according to The speeches and recorded
Hotes Of the active leaders Of the Wing party il
ne then House Of Representatives,. What con.
lsmptible hypocrisy Mr.. Van Buren's Extra
Session was called under very different circuln
stances. Tbs Bankss then the repositories of
The public money had suspended specie payments,
and panic and distress pervaded the whole com
Try, and the pubic debtors were unable to meet
their bonds. The Government was thus depriE-
I'D Of almost every resource.
Because could not justify the unwarrantabIe
net of~xiraTaganee whichlbesiowed a graiuiiy
Of $4,000 upon Gen. Harrisona widow. you
Affect great Indignation, and win moi trust your.
helf to reply, lest ypu should ufe uubecomfpg
language. II Is pity you should be exposed 10
20 severe a trab though there can be little dam
ger. should think, that one who writes with so
much elegance anddigniiy as Mechanic. ! should
be betrayed into the excess OF 'unbecoming Ian
guage,' even though be should accuse his adj
yersafy ofieffronteryt and 'stulticitT.' 1
Next follows your enumeration Of the expen-
diturss Of Mr. Van Baren's administration. To
this borrowed statement il is sufficient TO oppose
the full refutaiion given TO top the floor of the
senaleofthe U. s.@by Mr. Woodbury. and others.
that Is to be found published 10 the columns Of
The National In,elligeneer, or in the Globe
Read i, and cease your attempt 70 revive an ex-
pioded calumny. You say, what may be the
expenses Of Mr.. Tyler's administration you do
moi know, yeu have no doubt that they will be
large, forlhe will not cooperate with the wings
in Congress, hardly in any measure Of import
nnce.' Do you suppose any intelligent person
no ignorant Of the recorded fact thai Mr. Tyler
has signed every appropriation bill which the
Wllg cokgaess passed. Or do you cousiderthe
] Bankrupt BILL the Tariff bill, the Distribution
bill, and The bill making the donation to Harri.
sou'rwiaow, and oil the other Appropriation
bills passed BY your Congress, and signed by
your President, (Tyler.fas measures 81 no i'm
portaneea Was not this 'eo-optrGdonr What
say you Your brother Wings will read you
ont Of church, If you thus dsparage their Iegis-
lalion, without rendering reason.
And now for the Constitutional power 10 es-
tabllsh Bank. You insist upon il that Mr., JEFF
fersou. Madison Monroe and Jackson, all adj
mis,ed this power ia the Constitution. Ildeny
that either of them eyet admitted it. Nov, such
being the issue between US, let us 10 The proof.
Your holding the affirmative shonld have esiab-
iisked clearly and coHcfusiVey that position -
Have you done SO - Let us begin with MI JEFF
ferson He opposed The incorporation 81 the
frs, Bank Of The United, States, and then used
the following powerful language consider the
foundation OF the Constitution as laid on the
ground, that allpoEers not delegated to the Uni
TED States BY the Constitution, nor prohibited BY
& 70 the States are reserved to the States or the
people. To take single step beyond the boun-
dafies thus specially drawn around the power Of
Congress, y to take possession OF boundess
field Of power no longer susceptible Of definition
The incofporation.ofa Bank, and other powers
assumed by. this Bit, have not in my opinion
been delegated to The United States BY the Con-
sttatioh. Il Is known that the very power now
proposed IS means was rejected as an end by
The Convention which framed the Constitution.
proposition was made 10 them to authorize
Congress 10 open Canals, and an amendatory
one TO empower Them 10 incorporate, but the
whole was rejected, and one of the reasons urged
in debate was, thai they vouid hare powerto Gre
ate Banks
Now, what think you Of that opinion lof Mr..
Jefersoni Have you ever seen that argument
fairly answered, or-will you condescend to an
swef il yonrselft Mr.. Madison took The very
satae groune in opppsitonlo The same Bank
He wound up one Of the most mastery arga-
uents ever made By any man, against the power
Of Congress to incorporate Bank, wihth fol-
lowing conclusions :--sIt appeared on the whole
(Mt Madison concludedl that the power exer.
cises by the bill, was condemned by the silence
Of the Constitution, was condemned by the rule
Of Interpretation Arising out of the Constitution ;
vas eondemned BY It's tendency 10 destroy the
main characteristic Of the Constitution; was con-
demned By the exposition OF the friends Of the
Constitution, whilst depending before The public;
was condemned BY the apparent iaisaiioas Of the
partses which ratified the Constitution; was con-
demned by the explanatory amendments pro-
posed BY Congress themselves 10 the Conslitu-
lion, and he hoped i would receive is fnal con-
demnAiion BY the vote Of this House, Will
sou, after reading this, still claim Mr. Madison
as one Of your Bank advocatess Mr.. Madison,
IN his Veto Message Of 1916, admits thai he had
not changed and become convert 10 the opin-
ion Thai the Constitution, as he understood IL,
conferred upon Congress power TO establish
Bank. He, on the contrary, expressly placed
his sanction 10 its exercise upon the ground that
previous Congresses and he Supreme Court had
declared the power 10 exist, and that the people
bad acquiesced thereiu- Bat you insist that Mr.
Jefferson admitted The power Of Congress to char
ar Beaks because be signed the bill establish
Ia iuG 0nS h. r. Al.