Weekly national intelligencer., 1853-06-04

large number Of public vessel now on pay in thu harbor
loaded with rce which to SAIL but the State s 50
much soured that ney win grant exclusive privileges
to tho Cont. mental vessels from the embargo"
In 1873 he writes to the effect from his heauar
ters at Charleston;
Tbe people of this State much prejudiced aanst
CONGRESS- and the Financer Those who came froa the
botb In their dstresses. Their general dsposoneads
more 10 an independence of Congressional connuon
than could wish, is for their peace and welfare
IT. as it appears from these extracts ga preud' .
against Congress is disease chronic and heredit yv in
South Carolina we do not why the good naole Of
that most respectable State are not to S5t;sd
than blamed
The earliest documentary discriminat.n hetwee the
advocates of sufficiently strong Federal Government
and the jealous partizans Of Ststssyohts is contained
we suspect, IN the following ext ract Of letter from
HAMILTON, dated 18th April. l7e,s:
"There are two classes Of men, sir. in Courres Of
very different yiews-one yttached to State the otr
Continental politics. The last have been strenuou ad-
the former have gveyl every Opposition in their
and have only been dragged into the measures whc are
now near being adopted by the camors Of the
other pubc creditors. The advocates for Contirkal
funds nave blended the interests Of the urmy With
creditors from conviction that funds for partial
poses win 60 through those States to whose citizens
United States are largely indebted or If they shou
carried through from impressions Of the moment wld
have the necessary stability. 4 ~ NJ
The matter with respect to the army which has oca-
stoned most alteration in Congress and most dsssis-
facon IN the army has been the halpay The opin,ns
on ts mead have been two One partywas for referring
the several lines to their States to make commutatio
ney should think proper the other for making the
mutation by Congress and funding it on Contnentase
curty was of this last opinion and all tose
who will be represented having made use of the amy
nrtnc cinal fret hx rxar-
ring the lines to their respective States those who
opposed to the halfpay would have taken advanat of
tne ohcers necessities to make the Communication far Sort
OF an equivalent; secondly the inequality which wuld
nave arisen in the different States when the officers me
to compare las has happened other cases. would Save
been new Of discomfort; thirdly, such refer
ence was continuance of the old wretched State sys-
tcm by which the ties between Congress and the army
have been nearly dissolved by which the resources of
States have been diverted from the treasury and
wasted system which your Excellency ha often Justly
reprobated.n -
From many other letters like this, reativeo questions
of finance and political economy, the reader an readily
understand why WASHINGTON on his aecesspn to the
Presidency, found no hesitation in selecting ts young
but profound statesman and thinker as his Secre-
tary of the Treasury
The measures above intimated relative to tie COM
mutation Of officers and the "funding os tie public
debt furnished the entering wedge that hry des-
tined to divide the Republic into great paes It
was our intention to have made than passing allu
sion to the political history of this most interesting and
critical period in national life The have
studied it themere profoundly have been cdynced of
the deep philosophy II contains That the American Re-
yoution should have occurred just the time actually
dds that it should have found just such it
ally did find that present constitution shuld have
been formed when it actually was and by the who
actually did form it that the political partywho first
assumed the rens of Government should hayebeen the
party which actually did prevail; and then that this
party having served its end should hare displaced
just when and how it actually displaced many
facts and events which, in judgment have Constituted
net only the ORDER the strength and the durat of the
republic but its very existence they each furnished
element that was vital to the being of embrn state
ard it is only their due apprehension and appreciation
that we can rightly understand the difficulties angers
and gores of revolutionary era or fully reze the
wonderful coneatenation of propitous circumstances
which, under Goa, have conducted us to the uneaamped
prosperity and dignity enjoy the peculiar de-
postaries of human freedom and representatives
our race in the highest of subunary interests to which
can aspire and such retrospect, by scquainring us
with the grandeur and difficulty of our position would
teach US as the pGnest dictate of sefpreservaton the
careful avoidance Of all that shall leopard the safety or
symmetry of fabric which il cost our fathers so much
labor to erect-a fabric reared by their hands and ce
mented by their blood -.