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Eyom tae National lateItigenccr
SalE INNARiABLE PRINCIPLES OF
THE DEMOCRACY.

10 answer as follows late paragraph Of
ours:
"The National In,elligencer lie an
nouHciDg that the Bank is a republican
measure and quotes Mr.. McDuffie' 3
speech in 1880 in support ofIbe cor
Tectness Of its position. We suspect
our worthy contemporaries Of The Intel
ligences are rather in the rearward oil
public opinion, ss derived from expe
Tience, in this once interesting matter.
Since 1880 its republican measure has
jguominiously measured its length upon
the earth, having fallen to peres'bV lis
own corruptions. But what The Bank i,
in its creation, were republican mea
surer Suppose that every republican
IN Congress, twenty or thirty years
ago. didvote for it-what ihenY Why,
nothing but that they did not understand
Ghe subject as we'll as it is understood
now. That which was approved 10
theory exploded IN practice, and it is not
thS first time tina, such result has en-
Sued both in politics and mechanics"
! This, the Pennsylvania will allow
us TO say, is rather sophistical reply:
foT, ia the first place ii does moi and
cannot overthrow the absolute, uudenia
Bile fact that the Bank was, in 1916,
voted for by she Republican party, as
both a highly expedient aud entirely
constitutional measure. 10 1928 the
new or Jackson Republicans set up
violent opposition TO it, as both Oexpo.
dent and unconstitutional, while their
leader nevertheless proposed (even in
deneuncing ~ a greater institution Of
the same sort,
II, as the Pennsylvania pleads, ex
perience has shown the Bank 10 be bad
measure, then it is only necessary to
Say thatthe opposition to The Bank can
moi justify itSeBin Matway; for the OK
perlence in question is Of 1886, and the
opposition was older by some eight
years.
But, further: The experience, there
suit, could only, at most, decide the
question OF expodiency. That OF con.
slilulonaIity it could not touch; unless,
indeed, the present party doctrine be
(as it would SEEM that things are con-
sliIntonal or not merely according to
the event.
Now, the measure was'not adopted in
1916 without previous trial Of twenty
years -Four yoars Of financial confu-
sion had satisfied the Republicans OF
that day that Bank was an ndispensa.
bic public agent. II was tried, with
great genera success, up to about 1884,
when the violent and unprinclpIed ex.
erIion Of the whole power Of the Gov
ernmenl, welded by he despolc will Of
one who made Of the Constitution and
Laws Just what no pleased, broke it
down, by compelling il 10 engage in 20
liticS and fight for its life with the samo
sort OF weapons which It's unscrupuIous
enemy used 10 destroy il. Experience.
then-which 10 really all that The Penn.
syIvanian NlIeges--is here every way
an inadequate plea: first, because it APP
plies only TO the matter Of variable
expedioncy; second because oil expe-
rience was favorable when tho Jackson
opposition began; third, because the
final result is, TO say the least. such that
no candid Jackson man even can well
dare affirm that the Bank would have
fallen but for The fatal, the ovsrwhoIm
ing means resorted 10 for its desruc.
tion.
Let the Pennsylvania. since il has
taken up this argument, answer US with
the cleArness, the cSndor, and Tho good
humor which Il givesus pleasure TO say
il 80 much observes.
We hope it will, at The same time,
explain some Of The difficulties which
democratic daleclics offer; is, for IN
stance, those presented by tho following
sentences in The paragraph we have
cited:
"Butif the Bank in ils creation were
a'TspublicOn measure" Suppose that
every republican in Congress, twenty or
thirty years ago, had voted for it--what
then! Why, nothing but that they did
not understand the subject as we'll as it
js understood now. That which was
approved in theory exploded in prac
tice; and it is not lhe first time that such
a result has ensued both in politics and
In mechunics,"
The peNnsy lvanion avows, then, in
effect, that tho repOblieauism Of the limo
oil Madison waS, as to the Bank, most
Federal: for the Bnnk--ouce The test
question Of Rcpubicnnism, supported by
every Republican 10 Congress'-is now,
TO the new Republicans, tho very arch
enormily, tho 'unpardonabo sin Of Fed
eFalism, What sort Of principles, and
especially constitutional principles, are
those which are white 10. day, black as