New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-03
FROM PHuADELPH1.


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PuuApELFHIh Dss. 9. 1857.
Doytp Gee .se snSs vh;co ,te D, e,aesi.
ssitos for .ss RepabNcan cppo.i,i51 or re SAB
BET .ie c1neroJ' Co3gess nil assemble nsz:
vssh, nd the fsvorito Goa OF Pennsy lvsais will
have Lis bss5s fpl Dot OF coio, bG. Of bank n,.es
Bsips invested With ne whole power Os tie Gov
esmcst and osashc 10 q Dsrrou " plsos b. the con-
sespeDees Of the Free Trs5e imOos.urs they hiVe
surud tie country with for pea, twelve years they
re, feel and .remAls at tie responsibility thus un-
s1ysctseJ forced upon them, Of proydos rem
sdy for their owo persistent miss overDment. They
have stupidy paid of wLl.oDs ofthe public debt at
premium Of fifteen per cent yesrs before it fell doe,
and will now have - borrow money 10 pay Con-
zress. They have burst up all the bsbks and now
ery cut for e1teImibatiDg them NOT meaning 10 per-
fvrm any ouch operation, but only n setuce the
Respbbcsn opposition iatO beseeching them nOt 70
be guilty Of sncb Madness 50 as ~ trap toto being
fr Tho second time the bank party OF the cou Try
Bot bands of let them alone 40 they have IN ide
tAsir bed, 80 let them o in il. II is no bsr'eI for
~ thar for them. They have made this issue thsm-
sslvss; move let them 20 before Congress with their
hard Money iree-.rade aud drec; tsIstipn, AMI see
II We int nd 10 oppose them. We shall do no soc1
tang. The Hour and the Man are not yet
Let the Constitutional Currency" party haze
its Own way. Our opposition to Democratic
dossas is utterly full; why then waste our
strsI 9Th in hostile demonstrations that will haveDO
other retul. than that Of putting US into false po-
siionf An organized efi,ut apparent 70 place the
Republican party in attitude of especial sympathy
RrA banks ard paper currency. Beware vi tho
iTitk, hold back, and wait with patience for the
fat coming confusion of the phsrasaicsl worshpers
of the golden calf Col. Journeys Press says, III
49, 4. haA han
believes it the intention of The trainers OF the
"Constitution to establish hard money currency
"snd that the acton Of Congress since has been q
stesdy departure from that Intention. IL will be
bis bject 10 retrsce the false steps taken and to
bring the Government back to tho true ground"
Other ftelers Of the same kind are thrown Out
daily The Democratic organs in the interior OF this
Stafe are announcing the banks 10 the same way 80
that Another war on the currency ia promised. Let
those who make the quarrel be tho only ones to
fight. The issue is to b. made in Congress whether
Slate baDks have the Cons itutiOnal power to issue
circ ulatDe notes, and the Supreme Court is ready
f. decide jus. ss the Black Power that has the
nation BY the throat may find it policy to have judy
neht pronounced. The Tennessee Legislature have
Instructed their Congressman 10 secure the passage
of law taxing all bank notes of less amount than
$25, and the Ohio LOcOiocos throw up their hats 10
iubilsDt appreciation. Boston is moving the same
way, the Governor of Georgia has pledged himself
% clofe up al the suspended banks down there, and
the Democracy Of New-Jersey has denounced them
10 tn,s Of great bitterness. Now lot these worthy
yeope have their own way for time with the cur.
l.ncy,( Ms they have had with the tariff. We have
but one duty to peffOrm-lle low and hold our peace.
But there is another object concealed beneath
His show Of hostility to the banks. Ia this State
there institutions have been for many years the
hvcrite subjects Of legislative plumber. The lobby
men have xlwsys found them ~ be the goose which
not only laid the golden egg, but actually dropped
Il into their hands. The relief law Of October last
was paid for with money. 1t reaches only into
April, just long enough to make more legislation
Necessary the coming session; SO new hue and
cry got up in anticipation, and If the banks expect
moro indus enee they must pay moro money. The.
banks in this city were told in terms that if they
would pay so many thousand dollars they could
have What legislation they pleased. But they sturdi
" refused to pay dollar. Message after message
Was sent 10 them from Harrisburg, offering to do
iAe job at a greatly reduced price. They tele.
grsphed back their determination Dos 70 pay cent,
and the bill then up was immediately defeated.
Here was o great muss. Certain friends OF the
banks happening 10 be at Harrisburg at the mo-
ment, took round hat on their own responsibility.
Money must be bad, and the next day was tue last
Of the session. One distinguished gentleman put
in the hat thousand dolisrs; a merchant of this
city pitched 10 another tbo usand then there were
sums Of all fszes from hundred dollars down to as
bow a. tep thrown in by different classes, until the
whole amounted 10 the magnificent pile Of $4,000.
This money went-but hold -someb0dy knows
where, and if sworn upon sufficient number OF
evangests could tell. Next moroiDg, the bill passed,
though the price demanded by the thieves had been
$lCO 900. Here was a clear loss or misc srrage to
the amount Of 49,, 600, which the lobby men are
ttund 10 make up this Winter, by again blackmail-
ing the banks. The hue and cry against them is q
premCnitory Of the game to be played. Our banks
Know it lke book. But if they would stand square
= al 20
uiDd up rather than be puOdsred they would thus
effort the right kind OF legislation free OfcOst.
Iwoah have You keep an eye on the leaders in
The Press. Col Forrey, having tried hs prentice
hard on Mr.. Buchanan, has cast about for q new
subject upon whom 10 practice his manpulatiOns
1t 10 no secret that be intends to make Robert j.
Walker the next Presidential be can. Nor is it q
Sscret thst in his elaborate vndicat0n Of Walkers
rejection Of the bogus election returns in Kansas he
cut clean lose from Mr.. Buchanan; nor that the
batter will never forgive Forney for having by his
SILENCE appropriated h himself the whole credit Of
making Buchanan President--that IT, that while the
Aewspspers said that, without FOrneys sde-d0or
operations, Buchanan never could have been elected,
Fornsy held his peace, appropriated the honOrs,
made no denial aud thus let il appear that Buchanan
bad no merit Of his own sufficient tOelect him. The
fsce old msn has never forgiven him for not forth
with der yng this story. Indeed, it lie believed that
3be seeming harmony which now prevails between
The Ptansylraaisn, Mr.. Buch.nsn's admitted or
gan, and The Press, will break out, before Congress
rises, INTO IN open rupture. But strange as it may
sound, the object new had in view by Col. Forney,
In his remarkable defense of Walker, is 10 put him
on the Presidential track 10 have him in traiaiog for
1be pelt race This accounts for the milk 10 Douglass
ccceanus, and gives the cue 10 his impetuoa, on
sleu2bt against the LecOmptDn Constitution. Doug
las sees danger If Walkers appropriatng oil the
Thunder that may be made to explode out Of the
prspises, and hence bis prompt adhesion TO what
he fears 10 likely TO be the determination of the
Northern Democracy that the Constitution shall be
anhuifi al 10 a nnnnlar vote Wen pe Eunin nm