Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-07-29

item by item to improve all the harbors the seaboard while
theirs in the West left to remain in statu quo
He took another objection. While he would vote for
general bill for internal improvements and while be believed
the system consuonanot TO the extent laid down by the
gentleman from Indiana Air ssnTn) at an early part OF the
session. that shoat upon the without
chart compass, but that there certain wedefned
principles in the constitution which justified these aPpropfa
tons-whe he would vote for bill Of this kind, he would
legislation evidently intended for political
purposes Gentlemen the other side might qnlbbe might
prevacaie much they chose but this item had been In
oduced into the general appropriation bill for the purpose OF
making argument against the Democratic pay--fo the
purpose of provoking veto Of charging the President
with inconsistency No other motive could be reasonably
assigned.
The gentleman from Ohio had said Yesterday that he
anxious 10 carry the recommendations Of the Executive
department of the Government in its various branches
So why had these Western improvements been put into
this bill if this legitimate Legislation When the other
day they had had up the question of appropriation for the
surveys the public and the Western had asked that
recommendation Of the Department should be carried
that 900 might be placed in the bill for these surveys
Why had the majority Of the House, upon the recemmenda
ton !. the committee refused give them 0O0i
But he could not spend too much time ON thus point.
He had alluded to the inconsistency of gentlemen on the
other side of House, and the fact that but for the honor
able gentleman from Georgia his side, (Mr. Conn., this
bill would sleep the sleep Of DEATH After majority Of
this House had defeated gentleman had risen that
side reconsider the and the bill by striking
out the obnoxious em He should say few words in rela
ton the propriey Of this legsaon and then he should
He spoke OF the respect which due to coordi
branch Of this Government Differing did honorable
gentlemen The oher side with the present Executive of the
United States upon this constitutional question: be asked
respectful Was that respect which they demanded
his hands Were the denunciatons which they had often
heard gentlemen Of the President Of the United States
misceant the greatest enemy known to the country
of the constitution and liberties of the people, that respect
which due the Executive While honorable gentle
men on the other side constantly declaring that gentle
men his side here but register the edcts of the
President and that they should govern their action by the
principles Of justice and due regard the rights Of the
people, why did they not pay that respect to the President
which the rules Of the House made incumbent upon hem and
keep out Of this bill appropriations not rightly there
But the gentleman from Indiana had amused the House,
and he confessed had amused him. Of the positions he
had taken He did the honorable member in bis sa
but nasmuch was his duty to be there he hoped he
would be 1t strange for who, Ike him. knew
the early political history Of this country only by reading it.
to hear Whg Of this day claiming to be Jcersonian. The
gentleman had proved himself British Wing by reading
definition of Edmund Burke, and if he would to Black
woods Magazine, which equally good British authority he
would find il there declared that the devil the first Wing
and he put to the gentleman that if he resored British
authority prove himself Wing, he take British
thory erenso. Let him ask the gentleman what
respectively of the Executive of the United States did he
object He would like to hear the gentleman any other
honorable member that side of the House, specify which
Of the of the various Presidents Of the United States
they objected From the foundation Of the Government to the
present day. there man, he venured to say who
harbor and river Improvements There ranking in the
heart of the gentleman from Indiana and the gentleman could
entirely suppress it, that old desire for national bank
True the gentleman had the moral courage
and declare himself for it. but he said the people want H.
10 and behold he for it. He had constitutional opn-
IONS opinions of expedenc except those which be might
imagine from the people, The gentleman told the House
that the people of the United States had again and
cared in favor national bank. 1t was judged from
their representatives lamenaby but if judged from
the conduct of the people alone Of those who engaged
their agricultural and mechanical pursuits who outside
Of and beyond the influence Of the dollars that might operate
upon gentlemen the throne they rad been in
favor such institution Mr. Madison nerposed his veto
but session yielded 10 what be supposed the
desire of the people, That yielding had been the subject of
the lamenaon of the Democracy of the country from that
time the present had millions of money pros
raed the producing classes in the dust for twenty years had
the Democratic party foughto throw off this incubus and they
had shaken off 'as lion the dewdrops from his
The Democracy OF this country stood erect never to be
incumbered with another institution Of the kind.
But the gentleman asked are TO be told in this year
eighteen hundred and forty" and that turned out TO be
The end Of bis He presumed the gentleman
dng up of his old speeches of lS40 when TO the De
mocray of Indiana he had denied that the Whg party had
any intention to charter bank but bad hey
tised the creduy and confidence of the people, and
CURED the power, than Immediately they let slip the dogs
Of war-immedately the cloven foot had shown ITSELF and
he first and the dying too, OF that Administration was
an effort to charter bank
Mr. DUNN said that far from the Wings OF Indiana in
1910 taking ground against National Bank pretending
that they were for National Bank, it Of the
main issues the main ssue and earnestly pressed
/ by them.
Mr.. PETIT said he could not speak for his colleagues
portion Of Indiana but he could for his own and he could
give Wing electors who had denounced from
end Of his district the other it Henry S. Lane his
predecessor this floor
Mr. DUNN disagreed with his colleague and repeated his
declaration that the Wings of Indiana in 1910 had made the
question Of q bank prominent ssue and that the leading
Wing journal Indianapolis took ground both for the cons
tutona power and the expedency of bank.
Mr. ROCKHILL said far his district concerned,
he 10 S40 heard any eec,or other Whg ostorand
they had had all of meetings and log cabin and hard cider
crousals-declae in favor of National Bank. The Demo-
cratic party had charged upon them, and in every it
was denied
Mr.. STUART lived the borders Of Indiana, and knew
something Of the facts himself II had been declared that
time through all the region ofcountry and distinguished
Senator from sad that Bank
an obsolete idea" 80 Tar from having agreed upon in
any States, there scarcely two Congressional districts
where the Wing proclaimed the principles
Why Because they dared not go before the American peo
Pile with their principles Inserted their banners In 1914
they had told the country that Mr. Clay the great em
bodmcn of their principles and soul and body he stood forth
living monument Of Whiggey. But il was too late
for gentlemen say that they had carried the Of
1910 principles Why they and drank the people
Of that election hard cider dodgers songs skins
miserable embems indicated any thing but adherence
to and principle.
Mr. Clay, and he told them advance he had particular
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