The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1844-08-23
VOL. 9, No. 7.-Whole No. 414.

tCithout the expense Of single dollar to
the government" The committee further .
say: 1.-The snrest test Of its (the bank) I
sOundness and sufficiency, is to be found .
10 the simple fact that every dollar received |
in the renotest parts of the interior. is pith- |
out charge, concerted into siIrer dollar
at eUery one of the UdSt number of pLaces
tOhere the services Of the gortrnment re
quires disbursement. Such were the
monlrosities Of the bank. For those mon.
trosites she must be sacrificed TO propitiate
the idol. However, at that time she had
strong friends. There was one George
Mel uffie who pronounced the attempt TO
strangIe he "monsler'' worse than demoni
cal. He said the bank as San instrument
of the finances and currency, was not sur
passed by any institution in the world. -
He also said (upon the removal of the de-
postes by Gen. Jackson) solemnly and in
dignaniy-"Bef that God to whom Il
am responsible, (said hey for what / say
here, | do believe the annals of human
idolairy and delusion cannot furnish an ex.
ample of more impudenf, dudacious and
monstrOWS impOsture, than that which the
administration is attempting, and fear with
TOO much success, TO palm upon the people,
Here is deadly thrust under the fifth rib
at his present political friends and their de-
funct "Pet Bank" scheme, which Gen.
Jackson in his annual message of 1884,
said twas found fully adequate to the per-
: Torrance of all services required of the
Bank Of the U. State, quite as promptly,
and with the SAME CHEAPNEss" Mr.. Sec
rotary WOOdbury's report of the same year
said; 1.-THE general currency Of the country
; had greatly improved instead of deteriorat-
ed''-a noble pair Of political soothsayers!!
! This ''Pel Bank" scheme which was work
ing so beautifully-like the harmony of the
spheres, was soon vartardiZed, and then
without any Of the "compuncrous visitings
of nature,' consigned TO the charnel house
: by its unnatural locofoco parent There
\ let it remain, but as the wings gave the
: Sub-TreasuTy a decent interment, ne re
!, sist all resurTectory attempts-let it sleep
that sleep Of death brought on BY the gan
= creme of its many corruptions-leti it lie IN
: its grave, ''unwept, unheard and unsuDg,'
Requiescat in pace.
2 The ''Pet Bank" system and the Sub
9 Treasury had the same paternity, and were
: alike rickety; neither scarcely escaped from
: their muling pulling juverality, before they
= persisted. Comparisons are Odious, but the
{ must be made. The u. S. Bank was in
operation trenty years, and the gOrernncni
o lost not one cent. The Sub-TreasurV was
y in operation three years under the manage.
!" ment Of the "progreSsire democracy" and
II the people whom they so dearly love onl,
LOST agreeably 10 Secretary Woodbury's re
~ port in 1889, the small pile of S2,064 ,2OG
~ S6. Let us suppose that the Sub-Treasu
~ !, ~ had continued in operation twenty years
) and its losses continued in proportion (anC
- the fairness of the deduction cannot b,
ct disputed until that we'll known principle i
l5 overthrown, which tells US that "lke cause
IT, produce like effects,'') what would be th
y result? A loss TO the people Of Sl3 ,76I
! 1891! Follow me little further-a furthe
o. consequence has followed the loss ef Sd
{ 064, 200 Sc. Add four years interest, an
aS it makes the sum of S2,639, AIT %.
II will be TecOllected that on the first of Jan
nj uary last our national debt was about S25,
ne 0OO,OO Well, if the ''black tarifl - shout
er extingush this debt by yielding a surplu
IT. over the expenditures of government, til
us people have been taxed So, 639,417 90 I
I" pay for the Sub.TTeasury "expeTiment."-
I'm Money had to be borrowed, and treasuI
nj notes had TO be issued, to meet the deliI
3D. quency Of $2,O64, 200 s6-pay it whsr
De- you will, it was out of the pto ple's pocket
no Let every rejecting man ponder well upc
err this view of the subject. And should /
IN not arrive at the conclusion that the chaTl
me fancy of locofocOism is not transcendeni
s. great, it will be "passing strange"
al The simillude between Mahometanis
en- and locofocosm, may be carried still fur,
OF er. When the Mahometan prays he mt
nd turn his face towards Mecca. The ii,
Gc mitage has become the Mecca of locofoc
ted ism, the faithful must turn their eyes
nue. wards it. Pilgrimages are made to it
;es, Benjamin F. Butler and others. The
ter spOnses are promulged from thence as I"
5 Of authority" Who is TO 'rule over US a
GERS cur sOns?n Our senators in Congress
OC0 denounced as traitors IN advance, if III
ion, exercise their constitutional privilege a
rom vote against "Texas annexation" Tt
the represent the sovereignty Of the States, a
$50, him of the Hermitage nOught but ''reti
has ief"-compairC by senator Buchal
lde~ to the Sybels bOOk-afler he took the P
'urs- leaf from it nought can remain but the
niles cover Of calf. Our early ox-presdents
col ioyed the Otium came dignit0te. The
and hero should have said on his retiring f
! the the presidency,