The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-11-05
HONORABLE CALEB CUSHING.

This gentleman addressed the citizens of Bos-
IN. last week, in Faneuil Hall.
BE defended the Administration of President
Pierce. and assumed that the opposition in Mas
ssebusetts vas simply personal, being known as
the Banks party, &c, and in this connection de-
voted three fourths of an hour to reviewing Mr..
B,nks's speech on the financial question. The
merits of the Kansas question were explained
he Mr.. Gushing as he understood them, and it
was a-gued that speculation in the public lands
was the one leading object of keeping up the
excitement, both North and South, and that it
acted as sort Of advertisement after the man
,sr of Blrnum. 1t was then argued that the
ableeding Kansas" idea had exploded; that
tse bred Scott " case had died out and that
the elaborated CONSTRUCTED platforms of diseord
on which the Republican party had stood for
three years were completely broken down-there-
fore. Mr. Banks had taken new ground, and
enieavorei 10 pervert financial questions to the
ser,ice Of the negro excitement. The speaker
urrad the support Of the Democratic State NOM
;neas. and appealed to the merchants of Boston
al people of Massachusetts to rebuke section
aism, AID closed with an eloquent peroration
in r.f renee to the future of the nation.
". Cushing may as well wait little while
b-fore he pronounces the bleeding Kansas
IDEA exploded and before he is certain that
the DEED Scott case has died out" The pol.
ician who imagines that the Slavery question
s at rest-that the propagandists will let it
rest-hugs delusion to his breast. 1t is more
than pfoblble that the question will agitate the
rev Congress to its centre.
HARD MoyEY.-Several of the leading Dem
oeratic journals (so-cslled) advocate hard
money currency, and some of them represent
the Democratic party as opposed to the mod
ern banking system. By these representations
the Administration journals have gained thou.
sands Of votes for their party, and they will
probably retain them on this account in future
elections. Yet the votes in question were
gained upon false pretences. The Democratic
party IS not in favor of an exclusive specie
currency. Democrats engage in shin-plaster
bank in every State aud city of the Union.
Not only that, but Democratic Administrations
have encouraged paper banks in this city, by
depositing United States funds with them. In
this case the act has been the more remark.
able from the fact that the banks in this city
we're refused charters thirteen years ago, and
have lived till now upon the pretence of wind
ing up Yet the Administration allows them
to set at defiance the laws. If the Dem ocratic
party were opposed to paper banks, of course
Democratic Administration would put these
banks down. The truth is, that the currency
question does not as yet enter into politics.
Democrats are in favor of and opposed to an
exclusive specie currency; and in election
times Administration editors fool the people
in the rural districts with the pretence that the
party is an enemy of the banking system of the
country. We trust that the question will not
center the arena of political warfare, but that
the intelligent people of all parties will unite
to encourage safer currency.