JEFFERSONIAN REP UBLICAN.
MESSAGE
PROM THE
President of llic United Suites,
Returning with his objections, the bill "to pro
vide for the better collection, safe-keeping,
end disbursement of the public revenue, by
means of a Corporation to be styled the Fis
cal Corporation of the United Saw."
To the House of Representatives of the U. States :
It is with extreme regret that 1 feel myself
constrained, by the duty faithfully to execute
the office of President of the United Stales,
and to the best of my ability to preserve, pro
tect, and defend the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, to return to that House in which
it originated, the bill "to provide for the bet
ter collection, safe-keeping and disbursement
of the public revenune, by means of a corpor
ation to be styled the Fiscal Corporation of
the United States," with my written objec
tions. In my message sent to the Senate on the
6th day of August last, returning the bill "to
incorporate the subscribers to the Fiscal Bank
of the United States." 1 distinctly declared
that my own opinion had been uniformly pro
claimed to be against the exercise " of the
power of Congress to create a National Bank
to operate per sc over the Union;" and enter
taining that opinion, my main objection to
that bill was, based upon the highest moral
and religious obligations of conscience and
the Constitution. I readily admit, that whilst
the qualified veto with which the Chief Ma
gistrate is invested, should be regarded, and
was intended by the wise men who made it
a part of the Constitution, as a great conser
vative principle of our system, without the
exercise of which, on important occasions, a
mere represcntativemajority might urge the
Government in its legislation beyond the lim
its fixed by its fratites, or might exert its just
powers loo hastily or oppressively; yet it is
a power which ought to be most cautiously
exerted, and perhaps never, except in a case
imminently involving the public interest, or
one in which the oath of the President, act
ing under his convictions, both mental and
moral, imperiously requires its exercise. In
such a case he has no alternative.
lie must either exert the negative power
intrusted to him by the Constitution chiefly
for its own preservation, protection, and de
fence, or commit an act of gross moral turpi
tude. Mere regard to the will of a majority
must not, in a constitutional republic like ours,
control this sacred and solemn duty of a
sworn officer. The Constitution itself, I re
gard and cherish, as the embodied and writ
ten will of the whole People of the United
States. It is their fixed and fundamental
law, which they unanimously prescribe to the
public functionaries their mere trustees and
servants. This, their will, and the law which
they have given us as the rule of our action,
has no guard, no guarantee of preservation,
protection, and defence, but the oaths which
it prescribes to the public officers, the sanc
tity with which they shall religiously observe ,
those oaths, and the patriotism with which
the people shall shield it by their own sove
reign will, which has made the Constitution
supreme. It must be exerted against the will
of a mere representative majority, or not at
all. Ii is alone in pursuance of that will
that any measure can ever reach the Presi
dent; and to say that because a majority in
Congress have passed a bill the President
-should therefore sanction it, is to abrogate the
power altogether, and to render its insertion
in the Constitution a work of absolute su
pererogation. The duty is to guard the funda
mental will of the people themselves from (in
this case I admit unintentional) change or
infraction by a majority in Congress And
in that light alone, do I regard the constitu
tional dutv which I now most reluctantly dis
charge. Is this bill, now presented for my approval
or disapproval, such a bill as 1 have already
declared could not receive my sanction! Is
it such a bill as calls for the exercise of the
negative power under the Constitution? Does
it violate the Constitution, by creating a na
lional bank, to operate per se over Union?
Its title, in the first place, describes its gen
eral character. It is "An act to provide for
the better collection, safe-keeping, and dis
bursement of the public revenue, by means
of a corporation, to be My led the Fiscal Cor
poration of the United States. In style, then,
it is plainly national in its character. Its
powers, functions, and duties, are those
which pertain to the collecting, keeping, and
disbursing the public revenue. The means
bv which these are to be exerted is a corpor
ation, to be styled the Fiscal Corporation of
the United Stales. It is a corporation crea
ted by the Congress of the United States, in
the character of a National Legislature for
the whole Union, to perform fiscal purpo
ses, meet the fiscal wantu and exigencies,
supply the fiscal uses, and exert tho fiscal
agencies of the Treasury of the United Slates.
Such is its own description of itself. Do its
provisions contradict its title? They do not.
It is true, thai by its first section, it provides
that it shall be established in the District of
Columbia, but the amount of its capital the
manner in which its stock is to be subscribed
for and held- tho persons, bodies, corporate
otid politic, by whom its stock may be held
the appointment of its directors, and their
powers and duties its fundamental' articles,
especially ihut to establish agencies in any
part of the Union the corporate powers and
business of such agencies the prohibition of
Congress to establish any other corporation
with similar powers lor twenty years, with
express reservation in the same clause, to
rnodifv or create any bank for the District of
.Columbia, so that the aggregalecapital shall
riot exceed five millions; without enumerating
other features which are equally distinctive
anl characteristic, clearly show that it can
not be regarded as other than a Bank of the
United States, with powers seemingly more
limited than have heretofore been granted to
such an institution. It operates per sc over
the Union, by virtue of the unaided, and, in
my view, assumed auihority of Congress as a
National, Legislature, as distinguishable from
a bank created by Congress for the District
of Columbia, as the local Legislature of the
District. Every United States Bank here
tofore created has had power to deal in bills
of exchange, as well as in local discounts.
Both were trading privileges conferred, and
both exercised, by virtue of the aforesaid
power of Congress, over the whole Union.
The question of power remains unchanged,
without reference to the extent of privilege
granted.
If this proposed Corporation is to be regar
ded as a local bank Xjf the District of Colum
bia, invested by Congress with general pow
ers to operate over the Union, it is obnoxious
to still stronger objections. It assumes that
Congress may invest a local institution with
general or national powers. With the same
propriety that it may do this in regard to a
bank of the District of Columbia, it may as to
a State bank. Yet who can indulge the idea
that this Government can rightfully, by ma
king a state bank its fiscal agent, invest it
with the absolute and unqualified powers con
ferred by this bill?
When 1 come to look at the details of the
bill they do not recommend it strongly to my
adoption. A brief notice of some of its pro
visions will suffice.
First. It may justify substantially a system
of discounts of the most objectionable charac
ter. It is to deal in bills of exchange drawn
in one State and payable in another, without
any restraint. The bill of exchange may
have an unlimited time to run, and its renew
ability is no where guarded against. It may,
in fact, assume the most objectionable form of
accommodation paper. It is not required to
rest on any actual, real or substantial ex
change basis a drawer in one place becomes
the acceptor in another, and so on in turn the
acceptor may become the drawer, upon a mu
tual understanding. It may, at the same time
indulge in mere local discount under the name
of bills of exchange.
A bill drawn at Philadelphia on Camden,
New Jersey; at New York on a. border town
in New Jersey; at Cincinnati on Newport,
Kentucky, not to multiply other examples,
might for any thing in this bill to restrain it,
become a mere matter of local accommoda
tion. Cities thus relatively situated would
possess advantages over cities otherwise situ
ated, of so decided a character as most justly
to excite dissatisfaction.
2d. There is no limit prescribed to the
premium in the purchase of bills of exchange;
thereby correcting none of the evils under
which the community now labors, and opera
ting most injuriously upon the agricultural
States, in which the inequality in the rates of
exchange are most severely felt. Nor are
these the only consequences. A resumption
of specie payments by the banks of these
States, would be liable to indefinite postpone
ment; for as the operation of the agencies of
the interior would chiefly consist in settling
bills of exchange, and the purchases could
only be made in specie, or in notes of banks
paying specie, the State Banks would either
have to continue with their doors closed, or
exist at the mercy of ths national monopoly
or brokerage.
Nor can it be passed over without remark,
that whilst the District of Columbia is made
the seat of the principal bank, its citizens are
excluded from ail participation in any benefit
it might afford, by a positive prohibition of the
Bank from all discounting within the District.
These are some of the objections which
prominently exist against the details of the
bill; others might be urged, of much force,
but it would be unprofitable to dwell upon
them; suffice it to add, that this charter is
designed to continue for twenty years, without
a competitor; that the defects to which I have
alluded being founded in the fundamental law
of the Corporation, are irrevocable ; and that
if the objections be well founded, it would be
over hazardous to pass the bill into a law.
In conclusion, I take leave most respectful
ly to say, that I have felt the most anxious sd
licitude to meet the wishes of Congress in the
adoption of a Fiscal Agent, which, avoiding all
constitutional objections, should harmonize
conflicting opinions. Actuated by this feel
ing, I have been ready to yield much, in a spi
rit of conciliation, to the opinions of others,
and it is with great pain that I now feel com
peted to differ from Congress a second time
m the same tession.
At the commencement of this session, incli
ned front choice to defer to the legisla
tive will, I submitted to Congress the proprie
ty of adopting a Fiscal Agent which, without
violating the Constitution, would separate the
public moneys from the Executive control,
perform the operations of the Treasury, with
out being burthensome to the people or incon
venient, or expensive to the Government. It
is deeply to be regretted that this Department
of the Government cannot, upon constitution
al and other grounds, concur with the Legisla
tive Department in this last measure proposed
to attain this desirable object.
Owing to the brief space between the period
of the death of my lamented predecessor, and
j my own installation into office, I was, in fact,
j not left time to prepare and submit a defini
tive recommendation in my own regular mes
sage; and since, my mind has been wholly oc
cupied in a most anxious attempt to conform
my action to the Legislative will. In this com
munication, I am confined by the Constitution
to my objections, simply to this bill, but the
period of the regular session will soon arrive,
when it will be my duty, under another clause
of the Constitution, "to give to Cohgress in
formation of the state of the Union and re
commend to tueir consideration such measures
as l shall judge necessary and expedient.'"
And I most respectfully submit, in a spirit
of harmony, whether the present differences
of opinion should be pressed further :tt this
time, and whether the peculiarity of my situ
ation does not entitle me to a postponement
of this subject to a more auspicious period for
deliberation.
The two Houses of Congress have dis
tinguished themselves at this extraordina
ry session, by the performance of an im
mense mass of labor at a season very unfa
vorable both to health and action, and have
passed many laws which 1 trust will prove
highly beneficial to the interest of the
country, and fully answer its just expecta
tions. It has been my good fortune and plea
sure to concur with them in all measures
except this, and why should our difference
oh this alone be pushed to extremes? It
is my anxious desire that they should not
be. 1 have too been burdened with ex
traordinary labors of late, and I sincerely
desire time for deep and deliberate reflec
tion on this, the greatest difficulty of my
administration. May we not now pause
until a more favorable time, when with
the most anxious hope that the Executive
and Congress may cordially unite, some
measure of finance may he deliberately
adopted, promotive of the good of our
common country.
1 will take this occasion to declare, that
the conclusions to which I have brought
myself are those of a settled conviction,
founded, in my own opinion, on a just
view of the Constitution, that, ir. arriving
at it, I have been actuated by no other
motive or desire than to uphold the insti
tutions of (he country as they have come
down to us from the hands of our god-like
ancestors ; and that I shall esteem my ef
forts to sustain them, even though I perish,
more honorable than to win the applause
of men, by a sacrifice of my duty and my
conscience. JOHN TYLER.
Washington, September 9, 1841.
JOB PRINTING.
Having a general assortment of large elegant plain and orna
mental Type, we are prepared 10 execute every des
cription of
Cards, Circulars, Bill Meads, Notes,
Blank Receipts,
JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER
PAMPHLETS, &c.
Printed with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terms.
TOBACCO AND CIGAR
MANUFACTORY.
The subscribers respectfully inform those
engaged in the Mercantile business and Hotel
keepers, that they have constantly on hand at
their manufactory on Elizabeth street, in the
Borough of Stroudsburg, a large and splendid
assortment of
Chewing' and Smolang Tohacco,
Cigars, &c.
manufactured from the best Leaf, and warranted
to be good, which they will sell wholesale and
retail, on the most reasonable terms (with cred
it!
Orders for Tobacco and Cigars will be strict
ly and immediately attended to.
Those who come in or pass through, the place
will please call and examine for themselves,
as we are determined to use our best exertions
to accommodate the public, and merit a liberal
share of their patronage.
EYLENBERGER & BUSHv.
Stroudsburg, July 14, 1841. St.
Wholesale and IS etas I
CABINET WARE,
A3VO IOOKItfG-G&ASS MAWUF AC
TORY. npiIE subscriber respectfully informs the citi
JL zens of Stroudsburg and the public gener
ally, that he has removed his Establishment to the
building on Elizabeth street, one door west of the
Stroudsburg House, where he intends carrying
on the Cabinet Making business in all its various
branches.
lie shall keep constantly ott hand or make to
order all kinds of furniture :
Sideboards, .Bureaus, Sofas, Cu time
tables, Breakfast and Biiiiisg Tables,
Wash Stauds, JBedsteada, &e. Al
together with every other article usually kept at
such establishments ; all of which he will sell at
the Easton prices.
As his materials will be of the best quality, and
all articles manufactured at his establishment will
be done by first rate workmen, he confidently as
sures the public that his endeavors to render gen
eral satisfaction will not be unrewarded.
lie respectfully invites the public to call and
examine his stock before purchasing elsewhere.
Chairs, Settees, &c. will be kept constantly on
hand and for sale.
CHARLES CAREY.
Stroudsburg, May 5, 1841.
SIGN OF THE ZSAKIEV SHEAF,
NO. 195, NORTH SECOND STREET,
Philadelphia.
Grateful for the generous patronage he re
ceived during the last year, lakes pleasure in
acquainting his lnends and the public general
ly, that his house has undergone a thorough re
pair in all its parts, and is now completely in
order.
The tabic will be furnished with everv deli
cacy the market affords. The Bar will bestored
with the choicest liquors.
There is also first rale stables attached to the
establishment.
Well knowing that an enlightened public wi
always judge for themselves, he feels confident
that they will favor him with their patronage
a
uysa
X the Electors ol
MONROE CO.UNTY.
Fellow Citizens: Being encouraged by a
number of my friends from different parts of
the County, 1 offer myself as a candidate, at the
next October election, for the office of
County Commissioner.
Should I be so fortunate as to receive a major
ity of your voles, I pledge myself to perforin
tile duties of said oflico with fidelity and justice
to the people and to myself:
"ROBERT BROWN.
Stroud tsp. September 1, 1841. to.
Coach Body Varnish.
5 Barrels Coach Body Tarnish, warranted not to
crack, just received and for sale by
JOHN DICKSON, Druggist.
Easton, March 31, 18-11.
A NATURAL REMEDY,
Suited to our Constitutions, and competent to the
cure of every curable disease will be found in the
INDIAN VEGETABLE PILLS,
OF THE
NorSh American College of Health.
THESE extraordinary Pills are composed of
plants which grow spontaneously on our own soil;
and are therefore, better adapted to our constitu
tions, than medicine concocted from foreign drugs,
however well they may be compounded; and as
THE INDIAN VEGETABLE PILLS are found
ed upon the principle that the human body is in
truth
SUBJECT TO BUT ONE DISEASE,
viz: corrupt humors, and that said medicino cures
this disease on
NATURAL PRINCIPLES
ly cleansing and purifying the body; it will be man
ifest, that if the constitution be not entirely ex
hausted a perseverance in their use, according
to directions, is absolutely certain to drive disease
of every name from the body.
When we wish to restore a Swamp or Morass
to fertility, we drain it of the superabundant wa
ters; in like manner if we wish to restore the body
to health, we must cleanse it of impurity.
THE INDIAN VEGETABLE PILLS
Will be found one of the best, if not the very best
medicine m the world for carrying out this
GRAND PURIFYING PRINCIPLE,
because they expel from the body all morbid and
corrupt humors, the cause of disease in an easy
and NATURAL MANNER; and while they every
day
GIVE EASE AND PLEASURE,
disease of every name is rapidly driven from the
body.
The above named Indian Vegetable Pills, have
been three years befoie the American public; and
we can now say withont fear of contradiction, that
of all the various medicines which have heretofore
been popular, not one has given such universal
satisfaction, or obtained such a permanent hold
upon the affections of the people. Not only do all
who use it invariably experience relief, and re
commend it in the strongest terms: but it has ef
fected some of the most astonishing cures ever
performed by medicine.
Hitherto, very few of the numerous testimonials
which have been received in favor of this extraor
dinary medicine have been published, as the med
icine obtained its present great celebrity more by
its own intrinsic goodness than from extensive ad
vertising. It has been deemed proper however to
offer the following opinions of the public press,
together with a few extracts from letters of Agents,
merely to show, that the fame of the Indian Vege
table Pills, is not confined to any one section, but
is rapidly extcndingitselftoeverypart of the Union
From the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post.
THE INDIAN VEGETABLE PILLS.
Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills are attaining
great celebrity in New England as well as other
larts of the United States. The attempt of per
sons to defraud the public by the sale of spurious
articles, meets with general reprobation. Mr.
Wright is an indefatigable business man, and
shows an array of cures by the medicino which
warrant confidence in the virtues of his Indian
Vegetable Pills.
From the Philadelphia Spirit of the Times.
THE INDIAN VEGETABLE PILLS.
People are pretty well satisfied by this time,
that Calomel, and the other thousand and bne min
oral preparations of the shops, are better adapted,
as a general rule, to kill rather than cure the pa
tient; as a matter of course, vegetable medicines
arc therefore in great request. There arc very
many humbugs, however, among the latter, and
we would advise all those who have the least re
gard for their health, to try the INDIAN VEGE-
PABLE PILLS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN
COLLEGE OF HEALTH, sold at 1C9 Race
street, Phladelphia ; as they are the preparation o
one intimately acquainted with the healing art.
From the lloston Daily Times.
INDIAN VEGETABLE PILLS.
Of all the public advertised medicines of the
day, we know of none that we can more safely re
commend for the 'Mils that flesh is heir to" than
the Pills that are sold at the depot of tho North
American College of Health, No. 198 Tiemont
street, Boston. Several instances wo know of
where they are used in families with the highest
satisfaction; and no longer ago than yesterday, we
heard an eminent Physician of the city recommend
them in high terms. There used to be in the
community, a great repugnance to tho use of
QUACK medicines, as they arc all indiscriminate
ly termed, but it was mainly owing to the regular
M. D.'s constantly denouncing them. They are
however, becoming more liberal in this respect, and
the consequence is that good vegetable mediVines.
are now more extensively used than formerly.
jj.viil ui a kuci iiuiu i uiur tourist, ivtuontmvn
Carrol County, Md., Nov. 17th, 1838.
Dear Sir: About two months ago, . had busi
ness in Baltimore, and called at your office, ami
bought a few boxes of the Indian Vegetable PihV
and upon trying them I found them to be far supe
rior to Pills, or any other mqdicine I had
ever used. I had been subject to a cough for five
years past, and during the time have taken a vari
ety of medicines without any relief, until I got the
Indian Vegetable Pills, and by taking four doses,
the cough began to leave me; and I now enjoy bet
ter health than I have done for years past After
I found them to be a valuable medicine, I imme
diately sent to Baltimore for a large supply. I
have received so much benefit in using the IN
DIAN VEGETABLE PILLS that I cannot
help but recommend them to every invalid I see
and think so well of the medicine that I have sent
two dozen boxes to my invalid friends, in tho.
State of Indiana. Signed,
PETER CHRIST.
From G. C. Black, New York-.
Mr. Wm. Wright Pear Sir you will please to
forward as soon as possible, some of your Indian
Vegetable Pills; as we are almost out of the arti
cle, and they appear to be getting into general use
here. We have a great call for the medicine at
present, and those that have used them, speak very
high of them. One gentleman attributes his being
cured of Dropsy to the use of them; and another
has been cured of Dyspepsia, solely by the use of
your Indian Vegetable Pills, and is willing you
should publish his case if you think proper.
G. C. BLACK,
No. 1 Chatham Square, New York.
Extract of a letter from Mr. A. Larrimore, Indiana..
Doctor Wright Dear Sir Havingsome knowl
edge of your most excellent compound INDIAN
VEGETABLE PILLS, and not knowing how to
get a fresh supply, my stock being nearly exhaust
ed, and wishing to always have them in my family,
I take this method to open a correspondence with
you. The pills alluded to are well thought of here
and very much wanted. I wish to make arrange
ments with you for a constant supply, as I think
a very great quantity could be sold in this section
of the country.
Extract of a letter from Samuel Griffith, Stewart
town, York County, Pa.
Mr. W. Wright Dear Sir I am selling the In
dian Vegetable Pills by the dollars worth, and at
that rate the stock of Pills, left by your travelling
agent, will soon be out.
I am pleased to find they are such ready sale.
Those who have used them, speak in the highest
terms of them. Many have already found great
relief from their use, and when the cures are final
ly effected, I shall do you the justice to inform you
of the same.
Extract of a letter from Washington City.
Mr. Wm. "Wright Dear Sir You will have tho
kindness to forward me as soon as possible, too or
three gross of the Indian Vegetable Pills. The
sales have, for the last two months, increased rap-
dly; tiiose who buy, generally remarking, "that
they arc the best pills they have ever used;" and
my opinion is that they will in a short time super
cede all others in this city.
ROBERT FARNHAM.
Washington City, D. C.
Extract of a letter from Lycoming County, Pa.
Mr. Wm Wright Dear Sir On being appoint
ed Acents for the sale of the INDIAN VEGE
TABLE PILLS in this place, we only took one
gross on trial; but it would have been better if we
had taken a half dozen gross; for on a fair trial
they have far exceeded our most sanguine expecta
tions. In fact so much so that wo have been obi ic
ed to send to Mr. Zimmerman, at Lancaster, more
than a hundred miles from here, for ten dozen; but
these will last but a very short time, the way wo
are selling them since they have been fairly tested.
In the first place, I gavo some to our Physicians,
to make trial of since, which they have purchased
a number of boxes, and highly approve of them. A
few days ago, there was a lady sent 30 miles to get
a box of the Pills, she at the time was very low.
and unable to turn herself in bed; but in two days,
my informant says she was able to help herself.
We could mention many other cases, but deem
it unnecessary at this time; but would merely say?
that as the season is fast approaching when there-
will be a great demand for the India Vegetable:
Pills; and if we only could get a supply of the med
icino, we could establish other agents, which would
be of immense advantage not only to the. NORTH
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF HEALTH; but to
the public generally. Please let us know your
views on tho subject, and any directions relative;
to the same, will be promptly attended to by
Very respectfully, your friends,
S. WINCHESTER SON,
Jersey Shore. Lycoming county, Pa.
AGENTS for the sale of the above named IN
DIAN VEGETABLE PILLS:
Charles Boys, Stroudsburg, Monroe county
John Lander, Craigs Meadows, Monroe cu
John Laforge, Milford, Pike county.
Stoli. & DutMicii, Dingman's Ferry, Pike $
Peters & Larar, Bushkill, Pike county,
OFFICE AND GENERAL DEPOT,
FOR THE SALE OF THE
INDIAN VEGETABLE PILLS,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
19 RACE STREET, Philadelphia.
August 23, 13-11. ly.