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gainst him, and no reason can be shewn
why il should be disturbed.
A YOUNG COON.
From the New York Ameyicas.
THERE is ANOTHER END A LONGER
HORSE 4 q AZ CItRRIEn


From the Nes York American.
THERE is ANOTHER END A LONGER
HORSE 10 BE CuRRiED.
What has Van Buren, done that consli-
tutes claim in his fayori His immediate
friends say ''he is generous 10 Msm--he
rewards his friends and Furnishes his enc.
mics scratches his back he
iickles their eIbow"-bui the question is
Eat whose exp, nse is all this tickling and
scratchingl" For whose benefit is the
patronage OF office created Is il Tor the
good Of the Country, or for the cool Of a
particular, selfish Ta.ty! AT period
when the country was overrun by vie
currency OF State Banks trhich his sgs.
TEN madeniabiy had ereafed-he ungene.
rously turned upon the Bsnks, aud de-
nounced them and went exclusively for
hard currency. lie thought that the peo-
pie would be capiiva,ed by the Jingle oil
coin--snd many no doubt we're so capt.
waited, thinking that coin was preferable to
bad bank paper-and so il was, and SO II
is, and always should be. He knew iha,
the mass Of voters would not reflect UPON
the possibility of improving bank cur.
rency, and thus retaining good curren-
cy based on coin-but that they would go
from the system he couertiy mtrojuc, d
and which had exploded. to system he
now openly advocated. SO his cry was,
"Down with all Banks, and 60 for hard
currency entirely"
lfihis doctrine could have controlled
the world there might have b en- some
coed sense in it. But as il is, il was like
saying Down with all Steam Power;"
and whist it put down steam in one coun.
try !. only gave more power to it 10 other
countries, who continue to use it iE all the
arts useful to nan. The same remark
would apply to all other human and USE
ful inventions, which being abused here
were still used usefully elsewhere. lfnot
ignorant himself, he prs sumed on the ig.
norance of Others, and hoped to triumph
on that ignorance.
Money is now very abundant on the
sea coast: is il so in the interior? l., /
the interior answer. Can man borrow
money-aye, hard money, at 3 per cent.
per annum in the interior Ii not, let hun
come to our salt water cities, and he can
do SO, il he brings with him such security
as will answer in Europe, us we'll as on
the seaboard Of our own county.
And why is this Simply because, in
the present state of things all this coin
now on our s,aboard pill, d up in banks,
lies there subject to the control If Euro
pean policy the holders dare not as they
know not how, t. use it to general nation
al benefit, there is no system existing with
Us, on which We can rely. Starving pow
erty, seeking for productive employment,
absolutely stalks round the very depos:to-
rieS where all this hard currency lies idly
piled up. Should such things be, and we
as people, an intelligen. people, no, s. elk
changel That change is now off, red
to us; and the choice lies between two
/. aiding HENRY CLAY, OF
KENTUCKY, and Martin Van Buren, Of
Kind, rhook.
One whose avowed principles tell us
all, in all the diversified branches OF our
Industry that constitutes national W, aith
and prosperity, that he stan Is to go for.
ward and develope all our vast resources;
and the other, that he is ready ito To-
ward his friends and punish his enemies. 4"
The question then is simply, shall we go
for the country, or shall we 60 for Mr..
Van Buren's political partisans There
are 20 other questions now before the
country. AN AMERICAN.