Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-07-25

played no insignificant part there. His hiogra-
pliers beiuIe him sadly He was two years in
the most eminent Legislative body in the coun-
Try, when nearly every great measure and IN
teres, passed in review there. His votes. his
speeches. his propositions, are all of decided
consequence. He had enjoyed no opportunity
to Distinguish himself before he has enjoyed
none al all equal to this since. Should we not
suppose that his Senatorial career-,he mea-
sures he supported, the important votes he gave,
would be held up in bold relief in work which
s intended 10 make him known 10 the country?
Yet not one vote he gave is cited, not one prop
osition he made is held up 10 view We are
very foggily told that he made a Pennsylvania
speech on The Tariff, and we are allowed to
guess that he went against Notification. But
the facts that he made an out-and-ont Protec-
tive speech, aud voted as a s,raight-out Tariff
man would, and that ne was so thoroughly for
Protection, or anxiops TO lie, slip the dogs
Of war on he Nullfers, ,ha, he voted even
against the Compromise Act, are kept wholly
out of sighi! Yet this is The Life Of George
NJ. Dallasr
Not one word is there here concerning his
course on the Bank and Distribution questions
you could not suppose from he body of the
work that such questions were discussed and
voted on while Mr.. Dallas was in the Senate.
Blu, on the most obscure pages of the cover, we
have brief chapter on Geo. NJ Dallas and
the United States Bank" which says:
"In 1892 and 333, Mr.. Dallas represented
Pennsylvania in the U S. Senate. In obedience
to positive instructions from the State Leglsa-
lure, he ro.ed for the extension of the Charter
of the U. S. Bank"
The above is all ,ha, is said directly TO the
point. Is this true7 Why not publish these
positive ins,rucrons! We have done so, but
the Dallas eulogis,s dare not do it. They will
not let their readers see that the positive in
s,rucions' were just no instructions at all, but
mere expression of opinion that a United States
Bank contributed 10 The prosperity of the Coun-
try We are quite confiden, that this resolution
was passed long after Mr. Dallas went 10 Wash
ingron with the draft in his pocket and intro
duced a bill 10 recharter The u. S. Bank.
But more Mr. Dallas declared, on present
ing the bill, tha, he came there a milling well
as uirtually instructed agent of Pennsylvania in
supporting this recharler He does not inti-
mate the least reluciance-qulte the contrary.
He moves a Select Committee on his Bank
bill is of course appointed Chairman; reports
back his bill, and takes the lead III defending
il. He voles against every amendment offered
by Benton, Marcy. Grundy & Co. 10 cripple
and feter the Bank, and The Wings vote with
him. Messrs. Clay, Webster, Frellnghuysen,
Clayton, sc. only vote as he argues they
should Together. they kill any quantity OF IN
sduous bul often plausible amendments. They
carry the bill through the Senate; /, passes the
House; (boih Jackson )--goes to The President,
and he ve,oes it, s,ulnfying Mr.. Dallas's threat
ening prediction tha, he dare not. 1t Is return
ed to the Senate, and Mr.. Dallas again votes
10 pass it. over the head of the Veto and in de-
fance Of Gen Jackson. All these are matters
Of public record--no man dreams of disputlng
,hern-hul they are concealed from the eyes ot
the readers of the Samese biographies OF Polk
and Dallas Those readers are expected to
believe that Mr.. Dallas was in all his BankIsm
a mos, reluctant victim of the Democratic doc
trne of Instruction. But the authors well
know better. They know that Mr.. Dallas, II
! instructed al all, was not instructed 10 vote
against Benton & Co. on every minor PROPOSE
ZION and in favor of the cOuner-proposliOns
supported by The Wings. How then can they
| hope 10 cram this fraud down the ihroats OF the
People
| Then on The Land Distribution, Mr. Dallas
voted with the Wings throughout, and against
the great mass of the Loco-Focos. Here, GER
tainly there is no prelence of Instructions. lie
was ready and eager TO help veto The Veto on
| this bill. had not Gen. Jackson resorted TO the
still more arbitrary and unlawful step of with
holding it ia his pocket, so that ii could not be
passed over his head He voted three times
with the Wings to once with the Loco-Focos
while in the Senate. But of all this we have
not one word in the life OF Polk and Dallas!
We ask the public to reflect on these facts,
and Judge whether these men ought, on their
own showing, 10 be entrusted with the Gov
eminent of the Country. Mind that we are not
obieciing 10 The roteS of Mr.. Dailas--we think
they were mainly right and proper. Neither
do we object 10 his subsequent change oi opn-
ion. if change i, be. What we object TO is the
guilty suppression of facts by his blographers
= the dishonest concealment ofiheir candidate 5
most irnporan, acts and votes. How can they
hope to elect a man whom hev will not allow
The public TO know? Is no. their deceit their