The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1844-06-22

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What security for the future! Docs III
policy OF our opponents even admit tn
usefulness of a Currency which shall ht
OF the same value to the man who enclo-
scs it at Portsmouth and him who by
mail receives it at Du Buque or Gaena
to him who sends it from New Y orl
to Wisconsin to buy lands and him who
RENTS it-irom Wisconsin To New y orl
to Ivy goods2 Do they propose any
safeguard against excuses III Paper issues
or sudden contraclIons IN the Circulating
Medium? II we admit that the best efforts
TO secure or preserve public good may
sometimes fail, is it not certain that al
utter absence of cHorl--a denial even o
the duty to make any ellort-must be far
more frequently and widely disastrous?
How can you expect that they will do any
good who frankly tell you that they con
slider it wrong TO do any thing at alI}
But the sub-l'reasury is unburicd. by
the late Polk Convention at Baltimore
and we are told by its resolutions that
''lhe separation OF the moneys of the Go
yernment from Banking institutions is in ,
dIspensable for the safety OF the funds of
the Government and The rights Of the poo
! pie" Now it is a very short answer to
1hiS sophism that lis authors and advo-
! Gates are caretNl not 10 reduce ii 10 Drac-
lice rterc they hare full pomer. Most
mauiIeslIy, if this separation is SO 'ndls-
pcnsabc' with reward to the funds and
luuclonaries Of The .NaU0nai Government
ii Is equally so with regard 10 those OF the
States Governments. Why, then, do not
lh"se politicians put their principles III
practice III those seventeen or eighteen
States III which they have been in power
the past ycar2 Time after time has the
gross Inconsistency of their practice with
their proies sions been pressed upon their
notIce-agan and again have they been
urged To give some reason or at least some
excuse for not merely depositing with
and borrowing from, but largely lending
to our State Banks, and III every way
compicatipg and Interviewing our State
Finances with the fortunes Of those Banks,
while they are so voclIcrous fora divorce
of Bank aud State but not Il word Of
reason OF apology do lhcy offer! Is not
this silence their i.CondCmnallon?
Docs it not hetray even their 0wA convic-
ton that the cry of divorce is but Il trap
for the uniu!ormed and unwary? And
how dare they talk Of the safety oil the
funds of the Government being promoted
by their scheme, when it is on record that
not dollar Of the four hundred millions
deposited through forty years III two Ma
uonaI Banks wa. ever lost, while scores
Of individual repositories proved deaul
tiers under their own rule, and all the bars
and bolts Of well-manned and costly
Sub-Trcasury could not prevent their last
Collector at New York from absorbing
over 100000 of the Public Treasury, III
addition 10 the prIncely income allowed
him by lew?
On the old issues of 1910, then, Eel
low Citizens! we are ready and ANXIOUS
to meet our opponents. Let them deny
and misrepresent the Wing Tariil--let
them rail against the policy of securing
TO New Y DIRK hel just and equal share of
the Public Land Proceeds, which would
largely aid her to complete her unfinished
Works and dispense with her direct Tax
let them dislort and bewildcr the Cur
reney question as they may-we are con-
tident that struggle like that of 1910
would result in similar Wing triumph.
But such contest is not allowed us.
Our opponents, drcading defeat Oh the
broad National grounds on which they
were SO decidedly beaten before, have
introduced new and exciting sectional
question they have disgraCed and oslra-
cised their late leader, Van Buren,, and
chosen one in his stead of more slender
ability and humber reputation, whose
chief recommendation to his supporters is
his advocacy of the Immediate Annexation
Of Texas 70 this country, in palpable dis
regard of the Federal Conslilulion--in
open violation of our Treaties with II
friendly Foreign Pcwer--in utter con-
tempt of the outraged sentiment Of the
civilized world--and under crcunstanc es
which now we only, but Messrs. Van
Buren, and Benton, the late chiefs Of the
adverse host, declare in effect, must in
volve us in the deep guilt OF perfdy, ra
paciiy and aggression, and iii the horrors
OF unjust and unlermlnablo War.
Fellow Citizens! do not imagine that
you can evade the responsibility to God
and your Country, Of the, course You shall
pursue in relation to this matter. Every
man Of you who votes for Polk ann Dial
las. both carly and unqualified champions
of Immediate Annexation, votes Ia pre-
cipilale the Union into an unjust, perlidl-
Gus, nelarious War on Mexico, III which
the sympaihics of all nations from the
outset. and very probably the arms Of
some of them III the event, will be array
cd on the side Of the injured Nation.
But, even apart from tins, let us not VAIN
" imagine that, because no National ca
amily has as yet PaIpubly connected il
self with our pcrlIdoua robbery and exile