New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-06-15
Bank, Bank! Bank!
Session.

Looking about the Country somewhat during
the last two weeks, we have been considerably In
terested in noting the weapons resorted to by ouI
opponents, who rally around the banner Of Polk
and Dallas. Although their party has, III us
nomination, its Baltimore resolutions and rs
Congressional action, declared itself detcrmin-
edly hostile TO the present any Protective Ia.
riff, yet you do not hear one OF them, IN steam
boats or rail cars, voluntarily discussing the
Tariff question. Although their party has dis
carded the first choice for President of large
majority in its ranks and nominated another
whom nobody originally preferred, expressly on
the ground Of the Annexation Of Texas, yet you
do not find one Of them DESTROYS Of talking on
that subject. They would much rather not hear
1t mentioned. The only string they venture 10
pull, when they can have their own way, is the
old story of Biddle' and Bank with misrep
reservations and false statements of the views
and position Of the Wings on the Currency qucs-
ton. Although their candidate for Vice Fresi.
dent is the very man who introduced in 1882 the
bill to recharter the last Bank of the United
instructed advocate of the measure they hope to
fnghten away the good sense OF the Country
with the ghost OF Nicholas Biddlc Their ex-
cuse for Dallas's support of the Bank is mosl
fimsy and futile one. His instructions to sup.
port the Bank were in truth no Instructions at
all, but a mere expression OF opinion by tic
jackson Legislature OF Pennsylvania that the
Bank ought to be rechartercd lie was never in
any way instructed to bring in the bill for a re-
charter-wus no wise requested To yotc III comps
ny with Clay, Webster and Frolinghuysen against
every restriction of the Charter proposed by Ben
con, Marcy, Grundy, &c: he was not required
TO press the measure at y time stigmatized by
Gen. Jackson as most unreasonable he was not
required to vote TO pass the bill the head OF
Gen. Jackson's Veto, when such vote could have
no other effect than to cvncc his condemnation
of the grounds of that Veto. The other Jack.
son supporters of the bill declined TO vote against
the Veto; Dallas and his colleague Watkins (now
Secretary of War; stood by the bill Till the last
gun was fired. Their, when he was obliged to
take his choice between his party and his opin-
ion on the Bank question, he went with his party
of course; for thus alone were Russian Missions
and sniffs at the Vice. Presidency 10 be secured.
He rallied under the new war-c,y of Andrew
jackson, Bank or No Bank y and maintained
or gained hi, standing with the party Prob
ably his conviction was just as clear and strong
on one side on the other; but we find that he
long afterward r,atfirmed his opinion that a Ma.
tional Bank might be constituted 50 as 10 be con
stituGonal and great blessing 10 the Country.
Gen. Jackson said the same thing in his Veto
Message. And yet 1t is on charge that the
Wings are of this opinion that our opponents
hope to secure the election OF this Mr.. Dallas as
Vice President.
1t is most unlucky Tor them that Mr.. Biddlc
died recently, SO that they cannot now cram
the less informed with the assertion tina, the
Wings are fighting to make BiddIc President of
new National Bank but they stop very little
short of this. We rccently met one OF them who
unqualifedly assured a listening crowd that the
Wings were pledged to create new Bank with
a capital Of Fifty Millions! This is scarcely
moro than an average specimen of their cleo
assertions.
1t is in vain, SO far as these gentlemen arc con.
cerncd, that Wing Conventions and Wing jour.
mails declare and elucdate the grounds which VIC
is in vain tina, we declare ourselves
pledged to nothing but to restore 10 The Country
a uniform National Currency by whatever means
shall appear to the Representatives, OF the People
most wise and beneiccn.-it is in vain that
.hoss Of US who believe, as Jackson and Dallas
professed in other times, that Bank may be 50
constituted to obviatc all reasonable objections,
md that 1t affords some advantages 10 the public
which no rival plan secures, declare that We arc
not committed to any precise plan or formula,