TENUIS OF THE AMEllICAX." HENRY 0. MASSER, JOSEPH EISELY. J PtiBLianmii j Paoraii-roa. . B. JttJtSSEH, Editor, ottlCI IS MAB-IT STKIIT, MtAB DIM. THE AMERICAN" in published every Satur day at TWO DOLLARS per annum to be piiJ half yearly in advance. No paper tlisconiin ued till a Lt arrearage! are paid. No subscription received for a le period than ix mouths. All cornmunicationa or letter on buiincs relating to the office, to insure attention, must be POST PAID. From the Al Y. Sunday Mercury. Machine Poetry. Sammer la Nigh. Mis Spring. The fickle thing. This year has l en upon a spree ; One day Quite gay. And full of mirth and glee ; The next sad. The next glad, And next da after, melancholy j JJut I ciin see That we Shall he Coon rid of all her folly Eor the welcome comer. Summer, Will be here soon, Upon the rosy car of June, To deck with flowers Those half-trimmed bowera That Irzv Spring so carelessly ha slighted, And aee that all things once again are righted. I love to hear The hum Of bum Die bees; And listen to the sum Mrr bieeze, While murmuring mid the trees, Willi acceni loud and clear. I shouldn't wonder Not at all. If we had thunder, Ere next full, To which big guns mut all knock under. Well, let it come With its fierce bomb, And knock things all to smash t We cannot guide, Nor turn abide Its course, nor dodge the lightning's flash. Wont it be hoi In dig days 1 Aye like a pot Above a scorching blaze, Man's blood will boil and bubble. Dogs will run mad to cause us trouble; If thry don't bile, Musqueter Darn the creetert S Sorely will at least, at night. While we're asleep, And make us keep Fighting, Smiting, Thrashing, Clashing, Till morning shrds its light. Yes, summer's nigh, Its hard by The Irene its message bears ; 'Twill soon appear Wis now close here; Well, let it come who cares! Seon-. SUNBTOY AMERICAN. AND SIIAMOKIN JOURNAL: Absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of Republic, from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. JirriBso. lly Itlasser & Elscly. Sunbtiry, laortliumbcrland Co. Pa. Saturday, Juno 12, 1811. vol. i xo. xxxrni. 'obacco A Short Patent Sermon. The following by whom I know not, ;ither do I care must serve as a texl my present discourse : Tobacco is sn Indian werd. It was the dev J that sowed the seed. My indulgent and indulging hearers -it was the devil, beyond all question, ho first sowed the seed, and who is ill the sole owner and proprietor of all iat is, or ever will be, raised of this uI-contaminating vegetable. Oh, you Je tobacco worms ! 1 hardly know hether it is best to poke you about ith a long stick of rancor, or stand far ter off and rely upon the enticing nvers ot persuasion. 1 expect, how ser, to accomplish but little, any way. My hearers to such of you who are i the habit of chewing, allow me to jdress myself, butt-end formost. If du don't leave off the filthy practice, I lall put you down upon my catalogue ' unclean beasts, to be shunned and voided by all decent society. It is a ractice productive of no good whatc jr, and fraught with more evils than a .avenger's horse can carry. It ren ;rs your carcasses as loathsome and sgusting as those of buzzards. It ams your dickeys as well as your mo tl characters : blackens your teeth and uls ; causes an odoriferous stench to )w continually from your mouths; id not only infuses a deadly poison to your blood, but leads you to an in- ination for occasional dissipation om that to semi-occasional intoxica in. Man's mouth, my friends, was jver made for a tobacco-box; and I onder how any one can have the cou ce to chew that which he dare not vallow. I'd like .to see a man stuff me of the Trash in bis abdominal pan v. Ifhedid'nt feel uncomfortable a ut the waistbands soon after, it would j because sickness was afraid to come jar him. Snufflnjj, my friends, is nearly, if not lite, as bad as chewing, and 1 grieve observe that females as well as males e addicted to it. When I see a wo an who sneaks as though her nasa can was made of bell-metal -who o .... j i i .: ys "pud n lor puaaing wnosc wu as vellow as the latter end of autumn, know she takes muff in sufficient quantities to make and Egyptian mum my sneeze in its sarcophagus; and I also know that her brains ure equally as dirty as the handkerchief she uses and that's enough to throw a pair of tongs into convulsions. Many pretend that they take snulTto clear their heads. It clears their heads in time of all spark ling, brilliant, and original ideas, and leaves instead a confused chaos of un finished thoughts ; wrecks of fancy, and any number of untamed chimeras. That is the only way in which it clears their heads, my friends. The less dust you admit into your noses, the clearer your heads will be, the better your health, and the more transparent your morals. From the lloatim Transcript nf May 21if. Reminiscences. Wednesday was the aniTersnry of the mcmora lie "dark day," which occurred on the 19th of May, 1780, sixty-one years ago. A friend has brought ua a copy of Nathaniel Low's Almanac for that year, in which ia the following memoran dum written on a blank leaf: "May 19th ; A remarkable darkness overspread the Heavens, insomuch that candles were lighted at Noon Day. A dispute among the Philosophers about the cause Some attributing it to Smoke, othera only to the detached appearance of the clouds, many to concurrence of both these. A inong the last the Professor of Mathematics in Har vard College." The Almanac fiom which the above ia copied, belonged to a venerable and highly distinguished clergyman of this city, who was accustomed to note down what he termed, "important oceunences." Among other events which he chronicled during the year were the following t April 29. Marquis de la Fayette arrives in Boston. July 19. French regiment landed in Boston. August 25 The Students of Harvard College present a petition against the President and he promises to resign. It was the custom in those days for the parishi oners to make numerous presents lo their Pastor. Those which this distinguished Clergymen received during this year (17S0) we find duly recorded in the almanac. Some of them would hardly be deemed appropriate in these temperate times. They are as follows arranged by months. Phesimts. January Mr. Parsons, 3 gallons Ja maica Spirit ; Mr. Carter, one quart shrub ; CapL Kunny, one box wine. February. My Brother Sammy, a trunk ; Dca con Sharpe, 2 quarts Hum; Mr. Townseud, a 60 dollar bill; Mr. Vernon, in Esquebo, cloth and trimmings for a suit ofclothes. March. Capt. Thompson a lb. Green Tea. Mrs. Uarrett, a pattern for breeches ; Mrr Welsh; a cambric bankerchief ; The Society a black coat. April ! !!!!!!! May. Mr. .Ingram, a pair of aiik stockings ; Ax ora, half a guinea; My Mother, a curious pipe stop per, tipped with gold. June. CapL Soyer, 12 dox. wine, 12 in- rum 1 bottle sweet Oyle; Mrs. Homes a guinea; Mr. Parsons, Velvet for Shoe trimmings, 6lc; Mr. Hainmrt, 12 dox wine, 2 lb. tobacco j Brother Sam. my, Soles for pair of Shoes. August. Mrs. Holmes left me a Guinea; Mrs. Fowle gave me 20i hard money ; Mia. Welsh, a pair ofSilk fj oves; Mrs. Hall, 5 boi ilea of Wine. Dfiucon Simpkina, a pair of silk stockings. September. Capt. Jama, some Orsnges and lemons; Deacon Sharpe, 6 lb. Sugar; Capt. Bige low, 3 doz. lime. October. Mrs. Hammctt, Hankerchif; Broth er Sammy, a pair of Shoes; Cspt. Jama, 1 doz. pipes; Deacon Barrett, 3 Gallons Wine; Dr. Ap pleton, a beautiful inhatandUh ; Mr. White, a quire of paper; IS'eio S(.car, a pstr of fowla. Novemlier. Mr. Sara'l Skillings, a Cane; Pico & Avis, some linen ; Capt. Runny a dozen of limes; Mr Mitchell, two Hankerchiefs. December. Mr. Larkin a turkey ; Mr. Howard, Oranges and limes ; Capt. Kunny, a dozen cf lirncs, Mr. Barrett, 3 Gallons of Wine; Mr. Vernon, 210 dollars Mr. Adams, pair Silk Gloves, Trm iterance. It may be noted, as one of the eviJencea of the beneficial effects of the temperance reform which is now going on throughout the land, that on the last election day, the pollt exhibited quite another scene than the usual one of violence and confusion, of pro Canity and indecorum, which has heretofore usually disgraced them. Let the good work go on, and society will reap the benefit throughout all it chan nek Frederick Herald. To tick Ink oct or Liaan. Take apiece of mould candle or common candle will do nearly as well melt it, and dip the spoiled part of the linen into the melted tallow. It may then be wash ed, and the spola will disappear without injuring the linen. Bote leaves dried in the shide, cloves Wat to a powder, with a small quantity of scraped mace, all mixej together and placed ia a eilk bag, is a choice article for a lady's toilet. The fcli-ka of (be Hand. The hand of the heart is the index, declaring If well or if ill, how iia master will stand ; I heed not the tongue, ot its friendship that's swear ing i I juJg of Bum by the ihaltt of hit hand. rilESIDEXT'8 MESSAGE, I weakest Gf ,nG fnmilv of nations as well To the Senate and Houae of Representatives . . . , rA..:.,l of tit tnitad state i as to tlic most powerful. Uccasional Fellow-Citizens : conflicts of opinion may arise, but w hen You have been assembled in vour re J the discussions incident to them arc spective halls of legislation under a conducted in the language of truth, and proclamation bearing the signature of with a strict regard to justice, the the illustrious citizen who was so lately scourge of war will for the most part be called by the direct suffrages of ihe peo- avoided. The time ought to be regard pie to the discharge of the important cd as having gone by when a resort to functions of their chief executive office, arms is 10 uccstcemea as ineoniy pro Upon the expiration of a single month Per arbiter of national differences. rom the day of his installation, he has The census recently taken shows a Caid the great debt of nature, leaving regularly progressive increase in our ehind him a name associated with the population. Upon the breaking out of recollection of numerous benefits con the war of the Revolution, our numbers ferred upon the country during a long scarcely equalled three millions of souls; life of patriotic devotion. With this they already exceed seventeen millions, public bereavement are connected o- and will continue to progress in a ratio ther considerations which will not e- which which duplicates in a period of scape the attention of Congress. The about 23 years. The old States con preparations necessary for his removal tain a territory sufficient in itself to to the scat to Government in view of a maintain a population of additional mil residence of four years must have dc- lions, and the most populous of the new volved upon the late President heavy States may evn yet Imj regarded as expenditures, which, if permitted to but partially setttcd, w hile of the new burden the limited resources of his pn- lands on this side of the Kocky luoun vatc fortune, may tend seriously to the tains, to say nothing of the immense re- embarrassment of his surviving family ; gion which stretches from the base of and it is therefore rcspectlully submit- those mountains to the mouth ol the Uo- ted to Concrcss whether the ordinary lumbia river, about 770 millions of a- principles of justice would not dictate cres, ceded and unceded, still remain lo the propriety of its legislative intcrposi- be brought into market. We hold out uon. iy me provisions oi me lunaa- to tne people oi omor countries an invi mental law, the powers and duties of tation to come and settle among us as the high station to which he was elect- members of our rapidlv-growing familv; cd have devolved upon me, and in the and, for the blessings which we oiler dispositions of the representatives of the them, we require of them to look upon states and ol the people will be lound our country as their country, and to to a great extent a solution ol the pro unite with us in the great task ol pro blem to which our institutions arc for serving our institutions, and thereby the first lime subjected. perpetuating our liberties. No motive In entering upon the duties of this of- exists for foreign conquest. V e desire fice, I did not feel that it would be be- but to reclaim our almost illimitable coming in me to disturb what had been wilderness, and to introduce into our ordered by my lamented predecessor, depths the lights of civilization. While Y hatever, therelore, may have been we shall at all times be prepared to my opinion, originally, as to the pro- vindicate the national honor, our most priety of convening Congress at so car- earnest desire w ill be to maintain an ly a day from that of its late adjourn- unbroken peace. mcnt, I found a new and a controlling In presenting the foregoing. views, 1 inducement not to interfere with the cannot withhold the expression of the patriotic desires of the late President, in opinion that there exists nothing in the the novelty of the situation in which I extension of our empire over our ack- was so unexpectedly placed. My first nowledged possessions to excite the wish under such circumstances would alarm of the patriot for the safety of necessarily have been to have called to our institutions. The Federative svs- mv aid, in the administration of public tern, leaving to each State the care o affairs, the combined wisdom of the its domestic concerns, and devolving on two Houses of Congress, in order to the Federal Government those of gene take their counsel and advice as to the cral import, admits in safety of the best mode of extricating the Govern- greatest expansion, but, at the same mcnt and the country from the cmbar- time, I deem it proper to add that there rassmcnts weighing heavily on both. I w ill be found to exist at all times an am then most happy in tinding myself, imperious necessity for restraining al so soon after my accession to the Pre- the functionaries of tins Government sidency, surrounded by the immediate within the range of their respective representatives of the States and peo- powers, thereby reserving a just ba- pie. lance between the powers granted to No important changes having taken the Government and those reserved to place in our foreign relations since the the Slates and to the people, last session of Congress, it is not deem- From the report of the Secretary of cd necessajy on this occasion to go into the Treasury, you will perceive that the a detailed statement in regard to them, fiscal means present and accruing arc am happy to say that I see nothing to insufficient to supply the wants ot tne estroy the hope of being able to pre- Government for the current year. The ;rve peace. balance in the Treasury on the fourth The ratification of the treaty with day of March last, not covered by out- Portugal has been duly exchanged be- standing drafts, and exclusive of trust tween the two governments. This Go- funds, is estimated at SG0,00O. This vernment has not been inattentive to the includes the sum ol is.uin) deposnea interests of those of our citizens w ho in the Mint and its branches, to procure lave claims on the Government of metal for coining and in process of coin- Spain, founded on express treaty sti- age, and which could not bo withdrawn pulations, and a hope is indulged that without inconvenience; tlms leaving the representations which have been subject to draft in the various deposito made to that Government on this sub- ries. the sum of 13,000. By virtue jeet, may lead ere long to beneficial re- of two several arts of Congress, the Sc- su ts. crctarv ot the 1 reasurv was aumorizca A correspondence has taken place be- to issue, on and after the fourth day of tween the Secretary of State and the March last, Treasury notes to the a- Minister of Her IJrilanic Maiesty, ac- mount of 85,413,000, making nn ng- credited to this Government, on the sub- grrgate available fund of &0,059,000 ject of Alexander McLeod's indictment on hand. and imprisonment, Copies Ot Wllicn are But this funJ was chargeable with outstanding herewith communicatee! tO Congress. Treasury nolea redeemable in the current year, and III addition to what appears from intere.-t thereon to the estimated amount of 6,280,. these papers, it may be proper to Slate OOO. There is also thrown upon the Treasury the that Alexander JUCL,COd lias been Heard payment of a large amount of demands accrued in rniCKs or ADvnRTisrvo. t square I insertion, fO CO 1 do 8 do . 0 75 1 do S do 1 CO Every etibeeque nt ingertirn, 0 55 Yearlr Advertisement, fwilh the privilege ni alteration) one column 23; half column, (18, throe S'liinre., 512 1 two squnres, ; J ; one eriiiar 5. Without the privilege of alteration a lirul discount will be made. Advertisements left without directions si to the lenetli of time thee are to be pub'inhed, will l a continued until ordered out, and charged accord mgly. CfSixtoen lines make a equnre. by the Supreme Court of the State of I whole or in part in former years, which will exhaut New York, on his motion to be dlSChar- the available mem of the Treasury and leave the ged from imprisonment, and that the de- accruing tevmue, reduced aa it is in amount, bur- cision of that Court has not as yet been dened wi'h d. bt md charged with the current ex- pronounced, pensea of lb. Government. The aggregate amount The Secretary of StOtC lias addressed of ouUandmg appropriations on the fourth day of to me a paper upon two subjects, inter-1 March las', was 144.429.6i6 do, oi Dicn.,.iiy esting to the commerce of the country, which will receivo my consideration, and which I have the honor o commu nicate to Congress. So far as it depe-,, js 0n the course of this Government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations. The true American policy will be found to con- sist in trie exercise oj a spiru oi jusm to be manifested in the discharge of nil our international obligations, to the 000 wi 1 be required during the current year ; and there will elwi be required for the use of the War Department additional appropriations lo ll amount of 2,511,133 98, the special objects of which will be seen by reference to the report of the Secretary of War. The anticipated means of the Tressury are great. ly inadequate to this ilrmand. The receipt from curloma f-r the'last three quartera of ihe hut year, and the first quarter of the present year, amounted to l.,U 0.000 j lUreceipa for landa for the same tiro to f 2,748,450 showing aa revtwua) from both aourcre of f 1,236,870 per month. A rnduil exparision of trade, growing outof a resto ration of confidence, together with a reduction in the epenes of collecting, and punctuulity on the part of collecting officers, may cause an addition to he monthly receipts from the customs. They are stiinatrd for the residue of the year from the fourth of March at 12,000,0(10; the leceipts from the public land fir the anme time are estimated at $.500,000 ; and from miscellaneous sources at $170,000; making nn aggregate of avails). lo fund ithin the year, of $ 14 670,000; which will leave a probable deficit of f 1 1,406,132 99. To meet this, soma temporary provision ia necessary, until the amount can be absorbed by the excess of revenue which are anticipated to accrue at no distant day. There will fall due within the next three months, Treasury notes of the issues of 1840, including in. tereat, about $2,S50,0OO. There is chargeable in the same period, for arrearages for tjking the 6th census 294,000 ; and the estimated expenditures for the current service ere a'.-out $9,100,000, ma king the aggregate demands upon the Treasury, liorto the first of September next, about $11,- 340,000. The way and means In the Treasury, and eiti- mated to accrue within the above named period, consist of about f 094,000, of funds available on the 28th ultimo; an unissued balance of Treasury notes authorized by the act of 1641, amoimting to $1,- 965,000. and estimated rcccipte from all source of f 3.S00 000, making an aggregate of about $6,460 000, and leaving a probable deficit on the 1st of September next, of $4,P4 5,000. In order to supply ihe want of the Government, sn intrlligrnt constituency, ir; view of their best interests, will, without hesitation, submit to all ne- cess.irv burdens, lint it is nevertheless important so to iine them as to avoid defeating the jut ex pecta'ionn of the country, growing out of pre-exist ing laws. The act of the 2d March, 1833, com. monly cdlcd the compromiac act, should not be altered except under urgent necessities, which are not believed at this time to exist. One year only remains t. complete tire erire of reductions provi ded for by that law, al which time provUions made by the ame law, and which then will be brought actively in aid of the manufacturing interests of the of the Union, will not fail to produce the moat be neficial result. Under a system of discriminating dutie imposed for purpose of revenue, in unison with the provisions of existing laws, it i to be hoped that our policy will, in the future, be fixed and permanent, so ss to avoid those constant fluc tuations which defeat the very objects they have in view. Ve shall thu bebt maintain a jo.ition which, while it will enable us the more reidily to meet the advances of other countries calculated to promote our trade and commerce, will at the same lime leave in our own hands the means of retalia ting with greoter eflVct unjust regulation. In intimate connexion with the question of reve nue is that which malics provision for a suitable fis cal agent capable nf adding increased facilities in the collection and disbursement of the public rev enues, rendering more secure their custody, and consulting a true economy in the great multiplied and delicate operations of the Treasury Department. Upon such an agent depends in an eminent degree Ibe establishment of a cuircncy of uniform value, which is of so great importance to all the essential interest of society ; and on the wisdom to be msnU fested in its crea'ion much depenJs. So intimately interwoven are its 0 cration not only with the in terests of individual but with those oftheState. thit it may be regarded in a great degree as con trolling both. If paper be used aa the chief medi urn of crcilalion, anJ the power be vested in the Government of issuing it at pleasure, either in the form of Treasury drafis or any other, or if banks be used as the public depositories, with lilerty to re gard all surpluasea fiom day to day as so much ad ded to their active capital, prices are exposed to con stant fluctuations, and indu-try to severe ulTering. In the one case, political considerations, directed to party purposes, msy control, while excessive cupid Ity may previil iu the other. The public is thu constantly liable to imposition. Expansion and contraction miy Lllow each other iu rapid sue ce.-sion, the one engendering a reckless spirit of ad venture and speculation, which embraced States a well as iiuIiv-.Juals ; the other causing a full in pu ces, and accompUhing an entire change in the as pect of affaire. Stock of all kind rapidly decline individual are ruined, and Si ite embarrassed even in llieir effort lo meet with punctuality the inter est on their debts. Such, unhappily, is the stuieof thing existing in the United Slat ie. These ef fects may readily be traced to the cure above re ferred to. The public revenues, on being rcmov cd from the then Hank of the United Statea, un der an order of late President, were placed in e lected State bank, which, actuated by the dojble motive of conciliating the Government and aug menting their profit to the greaWtt possible extent, enlarged extravagantly their discounts, thus ena bling all other exiling banks to do the same. Large dividend were declared, which, st mutating the cupidity of cpitali!s, caused a ru-h to be made to the Legislature of the iesctiv State for similar acta df corporation, which, by msny of the Ktatea, under a temporary infatuation, were readily granted, and thus the aJtmeululion of tha circula ling medium, cou-iaiing ahnofl eielusively of p. ir, produ-d most fatal delusion. An illustra lion, Ueiived fiom th land "lea of tha period allu- ded to, will actvo best to show ibe clTjct tf the whole system. The average eale of the pub'ia lmide, for a period of ten year prior to 1334, bed not much exceeded 2,000,000 per annum. InlS3i they attained, in round number, to the amount of $6,000 000. In the succ.cJin? year of 1535 they reached $16,000,000. Ai.d the next year of 1836, thry amounted to the enormous sum of 000.000. Thu crowding into the short rpict of thiM years upwards of iwcr.ty-three year' pur chase of the public domain. ! i tppar.rit had be come the necessity of arresting this course of thing, that "he Executive department assunv d the highly questionable power of discriminating in the fund to be sed in payment by different classe of publia debtors a discrimination which w douVlo-a do cigned to correct this mot ruinou late of thing by the exnetion of specie in oil pnj rr.-it for th public lands, but which could not at ones arrest tha tide which had i-o strongly set in. Hctice the de mands for pecio bme meeting, and corres ponding prostra'ion rapidly ensued under ne cessities crested with tha ba-;ks to curt .il their dis count, and thereby to reduce tlie'r cireu'ation, I recur to thce thing with no disposition t censura pre-existing administration cf the Govcrnmen'.bul imply in exemplification of the truth of iho posi tion which I have assumed. If, then, aoy fiscal agent which may be created shall be p'accd, without due restriction!", either in the finds of the odminii- Iratori of the Government or thoso of private inJi vidua!, the temptation to buse w i,'l prove to lm resicless. Objects of political ajsrandiicnient may seduce the first, and the prompting of a boundleea cupidity wiil assail ihe larf. Aided by the . ::,-rri-ence of the past, it will bo the pleasure of Cengre so to guaTd and fortify the public interests, in tha creation of any new agent, as to p'ace them, ao far. a human wisdom can accomplish it, on a footing of perfect security. Within a f w years past, three different chemeshavelee! before the country. The charter of the Rank of the United Siates cxpi red by its own limitations in 1836. An effort wa mad to renew it, which received the sanction of the two Honae of Congress but the Then Presi dent of the United State exercised hiVc.' pirar, and the measure wis defeated. A r"?ird to truth requires me to sy tb.nt ihe President wi fu'ly uv tained in the coursa he had taken by the popn'.r voire. Hi successor in the Chair ofitate unquili fiedly pronounced his opposition to any new charter of a similar institution ; and not only the popular election which brought him into power, but tha election through much of his trrm seemed clearly to indicate a concurrence w th him in sentiment on the part of the people. After Ihe pub ie money withdrawn from ihe United States Hmk. thry were placed in deposite wi'h the Stulo btrk. and the result of that policy has b en before t'.ie coun try. To say nothing as to th-? question wl.".!ier that experiment was made under propi ious or :v.lcrsj circumstances, it may safely be asserted that it diJ receive ihe unqualified cundr:nni;tion of most of its early advocates, and it i? Mieval was alsJ con demned by the popular aentiment. The ciijtinj sub-Trcasury em does net se- to s'nnd ia higher favor with the people, bi't has recently bern condemned in a manner too pl.v.niy mdica'.ej O admit doubt. Thus, in the s'.crt period of eight years, the poputsr voice r..; be re;;irdf' 'I'l :rr auccessive'y coiuh'Tnrd each r.f th'rc schemes ol finance lo which I have adverted. As to ihe first it was introduced at a time (H16) whrn tbo Sttta banks, then comparatively few n nu:i;Vr. hJ been forced te wj.peivl rjcjie payments, ly reaori of the war which had prrvio-iVy pn-vrloj with Great Britain. Whether, if ibe Untt. l Siatr Bank charur which exp re! in 1311 hiJ hem re newed in due season, it would lm" been enabled to continue specie payments iloriiij the war and the disastrous period to the rvn;r.cice of the cjon try which imme 'iat.'y succeeded, is to ny tha least. problematical; and whether the United State Bank of 1816, produced a re-!jrti.m of speeia payments, or the same wa accomplished through the itistrumentali'y of other !...-..-, wui a rnVerof ome difficulty al thit time to determine. Certain it is that, for the first years of the otra'.ion of that Bank, its course was as disastroua as for the greater part of it subsequent career it became eminently successful. As to the ec;:id, tiie experiment wc tried with a redundant Treasury, wbi.-h continued to increase until it seemed to be the part of wisdom to distribute ihe surplus rrvtuue among the States, which, opcrut'ng at the same time wiih th? specie circular, and the cause Icloio adv. ia.l to, rs J them to suspend rpecie payments, and involved the country in the greatest ciubarra.;rnmt. And, as to the thiid, if carried th'oueh all the stages of its transmutation, fiom pirwr and specie to ni'':in but ihe precious metals, to siy noih'mi; of the inse curity of tha public money , it injurious effect have Wen anticiotl by the c. unity in its u:i quhficd condemnation. What ia now ti be re garde 1 as the judgement of the American people on this whole subject, I have m aectira'e mean of do ti rmiiiin? but by apiwa'ii' to ir m1re imme diate repre-rnlative. The late cont 'ft, which ter minated in the ehvii n of Gen. H umo- to tha Presidency, was decided on piincipie will kuowu and openly declared i ond, while the sub-Treasury received iu lLa result the nio-t decided condemna tion, yet no other scheme of finance aocm ta have concurred in. To you, then, who htve coma mora directly from the body cf our common constituents, I submit to t'. entire question, aa best qaaiified la gio full upoakiiM of their wish tat apUuoaev
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