The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1848-07-07

the Vetoinvokedby the Baltimore Convention
for the pupose Of crushing t,and with the es-
%Esentiai interests Of the whole Western region
of our country, we are not without evidence
more substantial than our own belief TO prove
what is tho public will, which, With all its
lfawni1 professions DC respect forit, the Balii-
more Convention has, ia this respect, foF the
purpose Of securing the votes IF Southern
Democrats, scoraed and condemned. In the
present Congress, for instance, the House Of
Representatives haaFassod, by the oveFwhelm-
ing vote Of 1888 to ga, the following resolution,
having direetre(erence tQ the principle Of the
Veto " tic President upon the Internal Inn
p~rovoment bill Of the second session Of the
last Congress-
" Resolqcd, That the General Government
has the power to construct such hatbors and
improve such rivers as are necessary and pro-
per for the protection Of orr Navy and our
Commerce, and also for the DeEences Of the
country
Well: Now, here is a Convention, calling
itself Democratic, but whose avowed political
pfinciplcs-not party principles, but principles
Of public policy--so far from looking to the
good Of the People, Or making that cardinal
Republican principle their rule Of action, have
presented a Candidate tr the Presidency
whom they herald to the People with the cry
Of /" Long life to the Veto! Down with Inter-
a4p nue. l., a., arks.,noan C
the most %poIPable part Of the Platlrom on
which they have placed their man. How can
the people Of tie West, whose prosperity de-
ponds upon the success Of the policy Of Inter
nal improvements, and is destined TO stagnate
and perish under the policy to which'tho Bali
timore Convention candidate for the Preside n
cy is pledged by that Convention, support such
d candidate and such a policy! Party lcalty,
supposed obligation u party, may, and doubt.
, less often does, bind a man to painful sacrifices
: but it cannot bind him to hang himself OF Il
scut bisthroat. Nor CAN'T SO bind communal,
ties. The People Of the whole region Of the
q West are false to themselves and 70 their pos
:. terity, il they cast a single electoral vote fo
5 a candidate presented to them under cireum.
0 stances so offensive and revolving to a due
: sense of what the Government owes ID lhen
and their interests as a part Of the Nationa
Family.
i TEE BANK QUESTION.
h we purposely pass by a string Of troism
j. comprised in The third, fourth, and fifth proPo
d sitions of the Conventions The next is tia
ii which declares a National Bank unconstitu
%tionaI, inexpedient as to commerce, and mos
g dangerous to the public Iresaam. Now, a Ma
y tional Bank we hold to b capable Of grea
d good, But, at present, no party would choos
to make the experiment Of one, against the or
IS gained prejudice and party warfare with whic
they drove the former one to its ruin, and t
ii that Of a great body of unollondiDg citizens
re 1t is a public advantage which is no longer POI
le siblet to us. Locofocoisti, which renders man
le other good things impracticRblo, has reHdere
re that SO, for some time to come. But what IS
IN Bank? A great monoy-tender. Now, ce
tainIy tits usual enough to hearsPendthflltsra
$ at the very people who supply them with tn
lis means: but, for decency's sake, we would q,
1y wise d party who have, since Mr.. Polk's az
@cossion, for no public good and every public il
rs tripled tie national expenditures, and reduce
ed us, for wears to come, to the borrow, not to d
of no unce their friends the lenders, witho'
on whom they might have begun but could n
he have carried on for a month their MeNie1
he war.
er. Surely, II a National Bank is unworrant'
he by the Constitution, State banks, which "a
rn- have greatly multiplied, are directly @pTohlblt'
he byIt. The old Republican party, to Whit
is they profess to belong, set up thatyery bal
he which they d%enounce. Are they better \
publlcansthan Madison who signed its chart
ia than Crawford who fostercd it, than CaIhou
arv to whom its paternity has been attributed!
hat they, and not the war partyof 1912 who cree
,be cd hut the Federalists who opposed i, are I
lis true Republicans, then what have they to s
re- to Mr.. Jefferson, who as Secretary Of Sta
advised President Washington to sign the
WI United States Bank bill? What Of Preside
rec Jackson, who in one Of his messages reco
in mended a bank Of fifty millions capital, and
d his veto itself declared that he could pave \
ing nished Congress, If they had asked him, v
ans the plan Of a National Bank which should
the constitutional! The question of a NH'ioI
If Bank is, however, %paradod on the Platform
to a bug-bear merely, it being perfectly und
IL stood to be, at this day, lGnot an obsolelold
and a dead question.
OK THE "DoNEsTIC INSTITUTIONS"
the The seventh proposition may be very "
the very right, very democraticali but, unlaPP
the it is just that which they split upon a
fors. however much they may have tried, by its
,uld scrutablo terms, to mystify their constitute
d Of at home and huddle up the question Of
lure {" Wilmot Proyiso,' they know that . g