Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-12-03
THE SUB TREASURY.

foilJCai questions like cats, have nine lives;
there Is no killing them oil. The whole land
may b. asitated into what is called crisis,
and undergo the process of fictitious ruin, doc
uments may be multiplied until they would
sink navy, aud speeches made that would
OUTFLOW IEolus; but all in vain. The matter
may be scttled-but it will not stay settled =
The tedious journey through the question may
be accomplished, the fires OF the locomotive
eAunguishcd; but scarce can we turn before
we find them e-kindlcd-the steam up, and
the bell ringing for return over the same
track. The Sub-Treasury, after violent
death and decent burial has turned in It's
coihn, been disintcrred, and the galvanic bat
terry oil party Is now applied with force that
makes IL KICK as violently as its anxious friends
can desire.
Why It's canonizcd bones. hcarsed in death,
Have burst their ccremcnts; why the sepulchre
wherein we sdwit quietly inurnd,
las oped lis pondcrous and marble Jaws,
10 cast II mp again,-
we are not prepared TO say. Perhaps because
we have not already subjects sufficient before
the country 10 excite and disturb; and because
repose Is dangerous and prosperity discredita-
Die. III Is generally believed that the Presi-
dent Will break ground in his message i'm favor
OF the exploded system; and considerable
portion OF the administration press urge the
policy with ardor. They allege that the Sub
Treasury was never sufficiently tested: that
lhs Congress OF az supplied no satisfactory
substitute; and that the present condition of
the Treasury is calculated TO expand the DOW
roi banks, induce improper speculation, and
result III another ruinous contraction of the
credit system. So the age OF experiments is
not over. But III whose hands is the control
oil the treasure OF the nation now left? Ger
tainly not with the opposition. Do those
who possess IT distrust themselves or their
officers, that they demand change? What
ever detects there may be in the present sys-
TEN, and no one is noto to be expected that
Will be free from defect, ii is at least doubtful
whether the country will be prepared to 20
back TO the Sub-Ireasury-a scheme which,
under the belief That il was corrupt, ineffec
tive OF good and dangerous for evil, was dis
cdrded b. an immense majority of the people
in 1910. We will see; buk mesftvhile the
Sub-Trcosury is well selected ingredient for
the congressional casf,slron, around which are
about TO dance the worihisIsy no would
"DoublcdoubIe, 80
Toll and trouble"
With war and its pickings, Sub Treasu-
ry and its stcalings, contracts at home ami
prlvateeTing at sea, there will be fair SCOPE for
the expansion Of political honesty. One Sc
rlous objection TO a revival of the Subtrcasury
9upull, AT proper tfmc, be considered; ii is,
that Texas has been annexed, and the laws of
the United States extended over il: where can
those who appropriate the perquisites of office
TO their own use now retirt2-North Am.
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II IS related to Us that ON recent occasion
when the subject Oi lotteries was before the
gland jury Oi the Session Court, the m.mbprs
81 The grand Inquest argued at much length
on The policy Oi finding an Indictment a
gshist ccr;ain dealers. The foreman did not
enter much into llic dispute, but, when he
thought tlc matter bad been sufficiently talk.
ed about, without much prospect of an a.
Grccnicnt, nc opened upon his fellow Jurors
something alter this fashion: "Genticmen
Of tic Grand JuIy;--As yet have said moth.
ing on tie important subject now engaging
TIE attention Ol this august body and / now
propose To- have my say will not stop To-
argue the pros aud cons OF the matter. but
wish TO make proposition, and by the result
oil an experiment determine what shall be-
ihe course Of this Grand Inquest on the sub.
Jet Oi lotteries. What have To propo4,. h
That every member OF tie Grand Inquest shall
la MS p etct look upon The tail < if. upon
opening them, maJonty Of them shall be
q be without lottery tic..et in ihcm. we
will hnd ill, II not, not. Come. toe M.
hdrk. genIicmcn;- there's my poo ket book 10
bcsin with, and am free to c5nlsss tbat f,eo
tickets viii bci0und iuitr
The ingenious aud candid propositson If
'hs ioIsMan was at once accepted by his Eel.