Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-06-03

which, with all its fawning professions of respect
for it, the Baltimore Convention has, in this respect,
for the purpose of securing the votes OF Southern
Democrats, scorned and contemned. In the pre-
sent Congress, for instance, the House Of Repre-
sentatves has passed, by the overwhelming vote of
1913 10 54, the following resolution, having direct
reference to the principle of the Veto Of the Presi
dent upon the Internal Improvement bill of the
cond session of the last Congress " Resoiped
:. That the General Government HAS THE POWER
to construct such harbors and improve such rivers
as necessary and proper for the protection Of
our Navy and our Commerce, and also for the
2. Defences Of the country
Well Now, here is a Convention, calling itself
Democratic, but whose avowed political princi1
ples-not party principles but principles of public
policy-so far from looking to the good of the Peot
pie, or making that cardinal Republican principle
their rule of action, have presented Candidate for
the Presidency whom they herald to the People
with the cry Of /" Long life to the Veto Down
with Internal improvement This is the SUBJ
stance of the most palpabe part of the Platform
on which they have placed their man. How can
the People of the West whose prosperity depends
upon the Of the policy of Internal Improves
ments, and is destined to stagnate and perish under
the policy to which the Baltimore Convention candi-
date for the Presidency is pledged By that Conve,a-
tion, support such candidate and such policy
Party feaIty, supposed obligation to party, may,
and doubtless often does, bind man to painful sa-
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to cut his throat. Nor can it so bind communities.
The People of the whole region of the West are
false to themselves and to their posterity, if they
cast single electoral vote for candidate presented
to them under circumstances offensive and revolt
ing to due sense of what the Government owes to
them and their interests as a part of the National
Family.
THE BANK QUESTION.
! We purposey pass by string of truisms CON-
prsed in the third fourth, and fifth propositions of
the Convention. The next is that which declares
National Bank unconstitutional, inexpedent as to
commerce. and most dangerous to the public Free
dom. Now, a National Bank we hold to be capa-
bic of great good. But, at present, no party would
choose to make The experiment of one, against the
they drove the former one to its ruin and to that OF
great body Of unofending citizens. 1t is a pub
lie advantage which is no longer possible to us.
Locofocosm which renders many other good things
impracticable, has rendered that so, for some time
to come But what is Bank A great money
lender. Now, certainly it is usual enough to hear
spendthrifts rail at the very people who supply
i her III eafx huff u
sake, we would advise party who have, since Mr..
Folks accession for no public good and every
public ILL., triDled the national expenditures, and
duced us, for wears to come, the borroc, not TO
denounce their friends the lenders, without whom
they might have begun but could not have car
red on for month their Mexican war.
Surely, if National Bank is unwarranted by the
Constitution, State banks, which they have greatly
multiplied, are directly prohibited by it. The old
Republican party, TO which they profess to belong,
set up that very bank which they denounce. Are
they better Republicans than MADISON who signed
its charter, than CRAWFORD who fostered it, than
CALHOUN, to whom lis paternity has been attribut-
ed If they, and not the war party Of 1872
who created but the Federalists who opposed it, are
! tlle true hepuDHcdHS, lHtH Wndt nave ulcy W cay
TO Mr.. JEFFERSON, who as Secretary Of State ad-
Uised President WASHINGTON to sign the old United
States Bank bill What of President JACKSON,
who in one Of his messages recommended bank
of fifty millions capital and in his veto itself declar-
ed that he could have furnished Congress, il they
had asked him, with the plan of a National Bank
which should be constitutional! The question of
National Bank is, however, paraded on the Plat
form a bug-bear merely, it being perfectly un-
dersood to be, at this day, if not an obsolete idea,
dead question.
THE DOMESTIC INSTITUTIONS
The seuenh proposition may be very wise, very
right, very democratcal but, unhappily, it is Just
that which they split upon. And, however much
they may have tried, by its inscrutable terms, to
mystify their constituents at home and huddle up
the question of the " Wilmot Proviso,'' they know
that good part of them dare not openly oppose it.
THE sUBTREAsURY SCHEME.
The eighth axiom is short and general, being
upon subject which, though they could not avoid
it, they fear to handle-namely, that profound and
happy system Of carts and safes called the Subrea-
sury under which they have been obliged to wheel
to New Orleans million upon million Of specie for
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