. JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN.
lose; that if this w'ere not immediately attended
to, another bill, less acceptable, might be got up
and reported. We replied that we would lose
no time. Mr. Webster accordingly called on
Messrs. Berrien and Sergeant immediately; and
1 waited on them by his appointment at 5 o'clock
on the same day, and agreed upon the princi
ples of the bill in accordance with your express
ed wishes. And I am apprised of the fact,
though it did not occur in my presence, that af
ter the bill was drawn up, and before it -was re
ported, it was seen and examined by yourself;
that your attention was specially called to the
iGth fundamental article; that on full examina
tion you concurred in its provisions; that at the
same time Us name was so modified as to meet
your approbation, and the bill was reported and
passed, in all essential particulars, as it was
'when it came through your hands.
You asked Mr. Webster and myself each to
prepare and present you an argument touching
the constitutionality of the bill, and before those
arguments could be prepared and read by you,
you declared, as I heard and believe, to gentle
men, Members of the House, that you would
cut off your right hand rather than approve it.
After this new resolution was taken, you asked
and earnestly urged the members of your Cabi
net to postpone the bill; but you would neither
give yourself, nor suffer them to give, any assu
rance of your future course, in case of such
postponement. By some of us, and I was my
self one, the effort was made to gratify your
wishes, in the only way in which it could be
done with propriety; that is, bv obtaining the
general concurrence of the Whiff Members of
ihe two Houses in the postponement. It fail
ed, as I have reason to believe, because you
vould give no assurance that the delay was not
sought as a means and occasion for hostile
movements. . During this season of deep feeling
and earnest exertions upon our part while we
; ere zealously devoting our talents and influ
ence to serve and to sustain you, the very se
crets of our Cabinet councils made their appear
ance in an infamous paper printed in a neigh
boring ci:y, the columns of which were daily
charged with flattery of yourself and foul abuse,
of your Cabinet. All this I bore; for I felt that
my services, so long as they could avail, were
due to the nation to that great and magnani
mous People whose suffrages elevated your
predecessor to the station which you uow fill,
and whose united voices approved the act when
he summoned us around him, to be his counsel
lors; and I felt that was due to his memory, to
the injunctions which he left us in his last dy
ing words, and to the People, whose servants
we were, had not all been performed until eve
ry means was tried, and every hope had failed
of carrying out the true principles upon which
the mighty movement was founded that elevated
"him and you to power.
This bill, framed and fashioned according to
your own suggestions, in the initiation of which
I and another member of your Cabinet were
made by you the agents and the negotiators,
was passed by large majorities through the two
Houses of Congress, and sent to you, and you
rejected it. Important as was that part which
3 had taken, at your request, in the origination
of this bill, aud deeply as I was commited for
your action upon it, you never consulted me on
the subject of the veto message. You did not
even refer to it in conversation, and the first no
tice I had of its contents was derived from ru
rnor. And to me, at least, you have done nothing
to wipe away the personal indignity arising out
of the act. I gathered, it is true, from your
conversation, shortly after the bill had passed
ihe House that you had a strong purpose to re
ject it; but nothing was said like softening or
apology to me, either in reference to myself or
10 those with whom I had communicated atyour
request, and who had acted themselves and in
duced the two Houses to act upon the faith of
that communication. And, sirange as it may
seem, ihe Veto Message attacks in a special
manner the very provisions which were insert
ed ai your request; and even the name of the
corporation, which was not only agreed to by
you, but especially changed to meet your ex
pressed wishes, is made the subject of your
criticism. Different men might view this trans
action in different points of light, hut, under
these circumstances, as a matter of personal
honor, it would be hard for me to remain of
your counsel, and to seal my lips and leave un
explained and undisclosed where lies in this
transaction the departure from straightforward
ness and candor. So far indeed from admitting
the encouragement which you gave to this bill
in inception, and explaining and excusing your
udden and violent hostility towards it, you
throw into your Veto Message an interrogatory
equivalent to an assertion that it was such as
you had already declared could not receive your
sanction. Such is the obvious eilect ol tne lirst
interrogatory clause on the second page
has all the force of an assertion without its open
fairness. I have met and refuted this, the ne
cessaTy inference Irom your language, in my
preceding statement, the correctness of which
you I am sure will not call in question
Your veto to the first bill you rested on con
stitutional ground and ihe high convictions o
conscience; and no man, in my opinion, had a
ri"bt to question your sincerity. I so said, and
I so acted, for through all the contest and col
lision that arose out of that act, you had my ad
herence and support. But how is it with re-
enect to this? The subject of a bank is not new
to you; it is more than twenty years that you
, I . ! 1 f
tiave made it an oojeci oi conjaerauon ana o
study, especially in its connexion with the con
titutional powers of the General Government
You, therefore, could not be, and you were not
taken unprepared on this question. The bil
which I reported to Congress, witn your appro
datum, at the commencement of the session
the clause relating to agencies, and the
' power to deal in exchanges, as strongly det el-
oped as the one you have now rejected, and
equally without, the assent of the Slates. You
referred specially and with approbation to that
clause, many days after, in a conversation held
in the Department of State. You sanctioned
it in this particular bill as detailed abdve. And
no doubt was thrown dut on the subject by you,
in my:he'aring, or toit'h'in my knowledge, until
the letter of Mr. Bolts came to your 'hands.
Soon after the reading of that letter, you threw
dut -strong intimations that you would veto the
bill if it were riot postponed. That letter did
and do most unequivocally condemn, 'but it did
not affect the constitutionality of the bill, or jus
tify you in rejecting it on that ground; it could
affect only the expediency of your action; and,
whatever you may now believe as to the scru
ples existing in your mind, in this and in a kin
dred source there is strong ground to believe
they have their origin.
If I be right in this, and I doubt not I am,
here is a great public measure demanded by
the country, passed upon and approved by the
Representatives of the Slates and the people,
rejected by you as President on grounds having
no origin in conscience, and no reference to the
public good. The rejection of this measure,
too, continues the purse with the sword in ihe
hands of the Executive, from which we strove
to wrest it in the contest which elevated 3rour
predecessor and you to power. I cannot con
cur in this your course of policy. In or out of
office my opinions remain unchanged. I can
not abandon the principles for which, during all
my political career, I have struggled; especial
ly 1 cannot be one of the instruments by which
the Executive wields these combined, accumu
lated, and dangerous powers.
These, sir, are the reasons for the important
step which I have felt it my duty to take, and I
submit them as its justification.
I am, very respectfully, yours,
' T. EWING.
To the President.
JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
Stroudsburg, September 22, 1841.
Terms, $2,00 m advance; $2.25, naif yearly; and $2,50 if not
.a. VmA- a flit Strut -I C Vi fflfll"
FOR GOVERNOR.
J UN BANKS-,
OF BERKS COUNTY.
Communicated.
Pike County Meeting.
The office holders, office seekers, and would
be leaders in Pike county, together 'with sun
dry citizens attracted thither by curiosty, col-
ected in the Court House on Tuesday evening
the 14th inst. for the purpose of hearing the
great guns of Loco-focoism fire off. A com
mittee was appointed to invite Messrs. J. M.
Porter, Luther Kidder, A. H. Reeder, and R.
Brodhead, Jr. to address the meeting the two
last named did not appear, for the reason we
suppose that they were not willing to assist J.
M. Porter in manufacturing public opinion in
favor of his brother. The Committee on reso
lutions having retired, J. M. Porter who stands
in the front rank of Democracy and who will
be Governor of northern Pennsylvania should
D. R. be re-elected, fired off the first gun. Af
ter stating that he "hardly knew what to say as
the Old Dutchman said when his britches would
settle down having no suspenders to keep them
up," he proceeded to give an account of the
rise ai.d progress of Parties talked much about
Demccratic principles and his own Democra
cy, omitting to say however, that he had be
longed to all parties, Federal, Antimasonic, Na
tional Republican, Whig, &c. and neglecting
to tell his audience (unintentionally no doubt)
that he was the author of the Coffin Hand Bills,
&c. The Col. has the name of making a very
good Humbug Speech, but unfortunately before
he closes he always kicks over the pail and
spills the milk. In his speech here, when he
alluded to the bribes given to certain Senators
for passing the United States Bank Bill, he
neglected to say a word about the 99,000 dol
lars given to D. R. Porter, himself and others,
for sanctioning the suspension resolutions, of
1840. This fact has been going the rounds in
Pennsylvania for the last month or two, but
Col. Porter did not choose to deny it to the
meeting, as every one was expecting he would
the fact is too stubborn for the Col. to get
over. Luther Kidder next appeared, and said
that he did not really feel able to fire off, on
account as we presume of his hatred to D. R.
and J. M.; but because he expects to be a can
didate for the Senate it was necessary for him
to make some noise; so he loaded with Buck
shot, knowing very well should he load with
Ball as all good marksmen do, he would hit
nothing, as he is so bliuded and confused with
ihe honesty and integrity of John Banks, that
he could not see the sights sufficiently clear to
shoot at him but with Buckshot he probably
thought some scattering shot would hit Stevens,
Burrbws&0o. and Inal would be"sufficient to as
sist him inserting to the Senate, fie presumed no
doubt that the tremendous explosion of his gun,
and the scattering of Buckshot (for this seemed
to be the substance of his whole discourse)
would be sufficient to make the people of Pike
county believe he Mr. 'Kidder was 'lit for the
Senate, and wilhall a big-gun. He closed by
saying "that he never saw a better specimen of
real genuine Democracy than existed in Pike
codnty."
The Committee through their chairman A.
G. Brodhead, reported the humbug resolutions,
but he'fore their adoption the chairman -fired off
his Antimasonic gun at Thaddeus Stevens,
and we presume could time have permitted him
to discharge all the contents of this Antimason
ic fuse, we should have kmrtvn all about Anti
masonry, for ho told us he once attended an
Antimasonic meeting at which Stephens was
present!! But the evening being far spent, he
closed by staling in substance, his firm 'belief
"that John Banks if elected, would be governed
by Stevens, Burrowes, & Co." What a per
fect Solomon in wisdom!!
The Hon. John Westbrook noxt prepared for
the target, mid every one expected 'that he
would fire a very large gun, having just re
turned from the extra session of Congress
where the best humbug amunition 'is supposed
to be manufactured, and having as was sup
posed, a good supply of Benton hnmbugery,
Buchanan federalism, Ingersoll toryism, &c.
but lo: when the trigger was pulled there -was
a flash in the pan. He then said the amunition
was not good, that he was disappointed with
the Washington amunition, and advised all who
wished to have good Democratic amunition not
to go further than Pike county for it he had
been to Washington and had seen all the man
ufacturers of Democratic amunition and 'he de
clared there was danger in using it, fearing
(we presume) a Van Buren explosion would be
the result. He closed by a solemn admonition
to all good citizens (office holders) to be satis
fied with Pike county Democratic amunition !
A motion was then made by Mr. Milton Dim
mick to have the resolutions read and separate
ly adopted, which was agreed to, and they were
all unanimously adopted, with the exception of
the last, which was objected lo by Mr. Dim-
mick, who thereupon fired a small gen at it; but
not having much practice the shot did not take
effect, although his adversary is somewhat crip
pled (so much so that doubts are entertained of
his recovery.) The resolution above refered
to is in substance as follows. "Resolved, that
we are in favor of the Delegate system, and
pledge ourselves to support all regular nomina
tions."
Mr. Dimmrck objected to this resolution upon
the ground that the nomination of John H. Brod
head as a candidate for the Legislature was not
regular and according to usage; that a possum
game had been played in Wayne Coimty, and
he would oppose the resolution, and also John
H. Brodhead. Mr. Dimmick also said that Ma
jor Eldred (who is also a candidate for the As
sembly,) had not been well treated, that he had
always been placed in the front ranks, and had
to take the hottest and heaviest firing from the
opposition and that he deserved promotion in
preference to John H. Brodhead. The resolu
tion was adopted after an interchange of shots
from Messrs. Westbrook and Brodhead, and
the humbug closed.
' .
Communicated.
Agreeably to notice, a meeting was held in
the Court House in Stroudsburg, on Monday
evening, for the purpose of presenting the sub
ject of Temperance to the consideration of the
public. John Cooper, Esq. member of the
Bar, at Danville, Pa., upon invitation, address
ed the meeting in a speech of about an hour's
length, in a clear, feeling, and forcible manner;
setting forth the woes innumerable that attend
the miserable victim of perverted appetite, and
depraved habitywoes which none can adequate
ly comprehend except those who feel, or have
felt them. No one, certainly, could listen to
such a description of intemperance, and coolly
contemplate the parts, one by one, that go to
constitute the sad picture as a whole, and not
acknowledge that the picture was graphic and
true lo nature. Ahi3 that it should be so that
any one of of that order of beings who were
made only "a little lower than the angels,"
should fall so far below their noble privileges,
and so pervert their excellent nature. Intemper
ance has been well denominated, the loa con-
stricter gehenna. Around his victim he throws
himself, with the seductive blandishments and
artlul wiles ol the great hrst tempter; and ere
his prey is aware of danger, in many a fold he
is fearfully enwrapped!
One topic of great importance was touched
upon, which we hope to hear more fully treated
at the nroposed meeting of rriday evening.
The reformation of the drunkard, once consider
ed almost hopeless, has been shown, by the qx
perience of these last days, to be an object
really attainable. Yes there is hope for any
one, no matter how deeply sunken there is
hope. Let it be proclaimed on the house tops.
The Washington Temperance movement is one
of the encouraging signs of the times. Now
let the slave of appetite assert his native digni
ty, and be a slave no longer. Thousands, with
in these last few months, have so resolved, and
nobly have they adhered to their purposes.
What can be done in Baltimore can be done
any where.
The public are invited to attend a meeting to
be held at the Court House in this borough, on
Friday evening the 24th inst. An address by
Mr. Coapet mav; be expected.
Complete list of Acts
Passed at the .Is Session of the 27th Congress.
An act making appropriations for the present
session of Congress.
An act authorising a loan not exceeding the
sum of twelve millions of dollars.
An act for the relief of Airs. Harrison, widow
of the late President of the United States.
An act making appropriation for the pay, sub
sistence, &c. of a home squadron.
An act making further provision for the main
tenance of pauper lunatics in the District of Co
lumbia. An act to revive and continue in force, for
ten years an act entitled "An act to incorpor
ate the Mechanic Relief Society of Alexan
dria." An act to repeal the act entitled "An act to
provide for the collection, safe-keeping, trans
fer, and disbursement of the public revenue,"
and to provide for the punishment of embez
zlers of public money, and for other purposes.
An act to provide for the payment of navy
pensions. J
An act to establish a uniform system 'of bank
ruptcy throughout the United States.
An act further to extend the time for locating!
Virginia military land warrants, and returning
surveys thejeon to the General Land Office.
An act to authorize the recovery of fines and
forfeitures incurred under the charter, lawsand
ordinances of Georgetown, before justices of
the peace.
An act to revive and extend the charters 'of
certain Banks in the District of Columbia.
An act in addition to an act entitled "An act
to carry into effect a convention between the
United States and the Mexican Republic."
An act to amend the act entitled "An act lo
provide for taking the sixth census or enumer
ation of the inhabitants of the United States,"
approved March third, one thousand eight hun
dred and thirty-nine, and the acts amending the
same.
An act making an appropriation for the fu
neral expenses of William Henry Harrison, de
ceased, late President of the. United States.
An act lo appropriate the proceeds of the
sales of the public lands, and to grant pre-emption
rights.
An act making appropriation for various for
tifications, for ordinance, and for preventing and
suppressing Indian hostilities.
An act to provide for placing Greenough's
statue of Washington in the Rotunda of the
Capitol, and for expenses therein mentioned.
An act authorizing the transmission of letters
and packets to and from Mrs. Harrison, free of
postage. i
An act to make appropriations for the Post
Office Department.
An act making an appropriation for the pur
chase of naval ordinance and ordinance stores,
and for other purposes.
An act making appropriations for outfits and
salaries of diplomatic agents, and for other pur
poses. An act to provide for repairing the Potomac
bridge.
An act relating to duties and drawbacks.
An act to repeal a part of the sixth section of
the act entitled "An act to provide for the sup
port of the Military Academy of the United
States for the year 1838, and for other purpo
ses," passed July 7, 1838.
JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
A resolution relating to the light-boats now
stationed at Sandy Hook and Bartiett's Reef.
A resolution for the distribution of seven hun
dred copies of the Digest of Patents.
A resolution to provide for the distribution ol
the printed returns of the sixth census.
A resolution in relation to the purchase of "do
mestic water-rotted hemp for the use of the
United States Navy.
Joint resolution making it the duty of the At
torney General to examine into the titles of.the
lands or sites for the purpose of erecting there
on armories and other public works and build
ings, and for other purposes.
From the New York Express.
Major Downing.
Wo lay before our readers the Major's first
letter from the White House since his return.
He has not been long enough in station to give
much news, but as ho and the President have
had one grind, we expect the axe will get its
edge shortly.
To the Editors of the N. Y. Express the same
paper my old friend Mr. Dwight printed t spell
ago.
Washington, Sept. 2d, 1841.
Sirs, I suppose you began to think that I
was never coming back from the North Bend
when 1 went to seethe body of our old Gener
al snugly laid down along sido of the Ohio.
But hearing that matters had got into a tangle
at Washington, 1 push'd off and arrived here
preity considerable beat out. 1 was a leetle
stagger'd at first to knoy where it was best for
me to go to enquire, into matters, so for all along
the road I was hearing all kinds of stories.
Some said " the government" warn't in the White
House, and some said that ihere
. .i .1 . .
was more rr0.
ernmeni man mere ever had been siiil- Cm..,.,
al Jackson's times, but what scared nu more
than any thing else was meeting Mr. Kye,
who was firsi mate under Capi. Jumper of l0.
"Two Pollies," who had quit going to sea and
was going West to buy "a quarter section "...
He had come through Washington and he tell'd
me that things there was pretty much like the
old story he once told me about a sailor goimr
on a farm and undertook to drag stone on a
sled with two oxen and an old mare ahead
and flies biting pretty sharp, the oxen somehow
turn'd their yoke and got wrong eend first.
and that old Brindlc, the larboard ox, got on the
starboard side, and Buck, the long horn and
the starboard ox, got on the larboard aide, and
the old mare got tangled in the rigging and was
kicking up and flouncing about and ihe whole
consarn going to everlasting and eternal smash
"Well," thinks I, "if any thing like these re
ports is going at Washington, its high time for
me to be there, and I buckled to and pushed
on about the spryest, and as I said afore, I
was a leetle stagger'd where to go first, but
as there is no way so sure to find a fresh loaf,
as going right up to the oven, so I made a.
pretty strait track to the White House, and.
when the President heard that I had come, he
was about as much tickled as when he first
heard folks all about creation sing the son" of
" Tippecanoe and Tyler too,'" he took me by
the hand and nigh upon shook my arm off, and
chuckled and sprung round as spry as a boy,
and called out to one of his help to "tote" my
napsack and axe right up chamber, and afore
I knew what was joing on I was about as sniwr
to hum as ever I was in old times.
"Now," says he, "Major, if there was a lime
when I wanted to see a man fresh from the Peo
ple, this is that time, and if you and I can't
hammer crooked matters strait, they must re
main crooked, that's all. And just then in come
a drift of folks, some I knew and some I didn't
and some was quite glad to see me, and some
looked considerable sour, but I hope to be able
to sweeten 'em all afore long. After wo got
alone the President ask'd me what folks said
along the road about the Veto. "Well," says
I, "some folks say a good deal about it, but a.
great many folks don't say nothing at all about
it, and it's plagy hard guessing what some folk's
think," when they don't say nothing, but scratch
their head." Coming to think on't says I, "hare
you got a grindstone any where about here?
for on my journey I got tangled among the vines
and briers, and had to Use my axe considerable
to chop my way, and it is somewhat off its edge,
and I somehow cant sleep sound without dream
ing about it till it is put in complete order"
and he hussled round and got the old grindstun.
in order; and as he wanted a little exercise, he
insisted on turning it a spell for me, and in sich
matters 1 always give in, and sich a turning"
and grinding as we have had I have heVer heard
the beat on; and he and I talking politics and
state rights, and currency matters, and Bank
Bills, Bankrupt Bills, and Revenue and Land
Bills, all the while. " We "Virginny folks Ma
jor," says he, always like to keep a lose eye to
the constitution. Congress has no right to put
a "U. S. Bank agent," or "fiscal agent," in any
state without the consent of that state it ain't
in the constitution. "That's true enuf," says
I, "and I see nothing in the constitution about
Sub-Treasury, and yet Mr. "Van Buren orded
a good many of 'em made of iron, and stuck
em till about every state wherever he pleased,
and without asking 'state consent'
'Nor,"
says I, "if one congress chuses to collect and
transfer the public money one way, and another
congress thinks it suits the people better to col
lect -and transfer it in another, what has the
constitution to do with it, so long as it is done
in a way people like best? That's what puz
zles me," says I here the old grinslun went
slow and says he, "Major, that is a shocking
dull axe." "It is so," says I, "but I'll make it
split a hair before we sleep." So he cha'nged
hands and took another bout at it, till we both
got considerable tired and broke off and as
we are to havtj another grinding spell shortly,
I'll tell you more about it. As for news, there
aint half as much stirring here as you can find
a hundred miles off; and what is very curious,
I have been able to tell the President a thous
and things that folks said took place right un
der his nose, and that he never heard a word
on before. The people away off know more of
what is going on here in the Government, lhan
folks know here themselves and that is as it
should be, and comes from sprv guessing and
quick steam and railroads; and in a republican
government the people always should know
more than the government itself.
Yours as afore,
J. DOWNING, Major, &c.&c.
IfXARKIED,
In Stroudsburg, on the 18th inst., by J. W.
Burnett, Esq. Mr. Charles Hasard, formerly
of New Jersey, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter
of Isaac Delong of Stroud tsp.
ESTRAYS.
Came to the enclosure of the subscriber
on
the 1st of September inst.,
Two young Heifers,
one red and white spotted, and the other red,
with a white face. Also a young
ISriiidle Steer,
wearing a bell. All of them coming three year
old noxt spring. The owner is requested to,
come forward, prove property, pay charges and
take them away Avithin 6Q days from t,he date,
hereof, or they will ho disposed of as the law
directs.
JOIIN M. DEIBLER.
Smithfiuld tsp,, Sept, 3$, Qilx
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