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te2IM 5611BilaSIRIo
—" With sweetest ilowersenrieh'd
From various gardens cull'd with care."
4 .F AI R FREEDOM'S HAPPY HOME."
111 MILZAIL dAIIDII6I
Awake the glad shout—let the sound ring out,
Like a trumpet's thrilling tone;
And the song shall tell, to the world how vi ell
Was the prize of Freedom won !
'Twu a gloomy day— no cheering ray
Shone on their untrod path.
When a patriot band, first m
For Liberty or Death !
But the work was done—the .
To us the boon has come;
While rolls the sea, our lend
Fair Freedom's happy horr
Their hand. unstained—the.
ed—
In battle's dead array,—
They had nerve to bear, and ,
The terrors of the fray.
Tttelr nerves'were meet. DUI tr
feel
The wrongs their country
And they braved the storm
firm--
To Gun, alone, they knelt
And the work was done—the
To us the boon has come;,
While rolls the sea, our land
Fair Fracdoriee happy horn-
On bunker's height, at deep midnight,
The band of heroes stood;
Ye may trace their toil. on that holy soil,
They moistened with their blood;
And all that day, the fearful fray,
Raged on that battle field;
And the foeman's dart, pierced many a heart
That had been Freedom's shield !
But the work was done—the prize was won
To us the boon has come;—
While rolls the sue, our land shall be
Fair Freedom's happy home I
O'er land and tide—our country's pride—
Her FLAo—to the breeze was given !
From its starry gleam, by hill and stream,
The foe was backward driven !
They have parsed away, like a quiet day—
Like a ripple on the deep !
That banner—waves o'er the quiet graves,
Where its bravo defenders sleep I
But their work is done—the prize is won--
To us the boon has come;—
While rolls the sea, our land shall be
Fair Freedom's happy home
znowoaakatuarDwo.
THE REWARD Or GENIUS.
DT J. R. B.GARDINIXR
They were seated in a rich and shady ar•
bour, over which the creeping vines wan•
dered in every variety of curve, suspending
large clusters of their precious fruits, while
the atmosphere was laden with the mellow
fragrance el the gorgeous plants which grew
in wild untutored luxuriance about the sha.
dowy retreat. The fading light of day yet
lingered and gave a rosy hue to the lace of
the maid who sat therein, as she regarded
with mournful tenderness the youth seated
at her side.
"Nay, Quintin," said she, "say not so; it
is feeling which actuates mo—it is feeling
which prompts me to say—it must not be.
Had I nut feeling for my father, do you be
lieve I would act contrary to my own de
sires—would cause you unhappiness?" .
'gee this your love?" said the other, with a
tono of fretfulness. "Methinks it cannot be
a very ardent flame when it is so easily ex
tinguished by the perverse and obstinate
tyranny of a
"Stay your words," interrupted she as
she laid her delicate hand tenderly on his
lips. "You will respect the father if you
obteem his child."
The noble mind of the youth was struck
with the reproof, and although it was
averse to his desires, her filial obedience
told olio much pure and holy excellence,
that he instantly made reparation.
"Forgive me, dearest," he entreated; "I
spoke hastily and unworthy of myself. But
your words have craved my soul, which
builds its happiness on the possession of
you. If It may not be that I shall ba
your husband, oh promise me that no other
.-hall !"
"I would fain do so," sighed the afflicted
virgin, "but if my father commands, can I
disobey? 1 have had no mother's care
since childhood, but I have scarce felt the
loss; he has thrown by the coldness of a
man and been a very woman in his affec•
turn for me. Shall I repay his kindness
with ingratitude? Alas! Quintin, if he
tells me to love another, 1 cannot do so;
but if he bids me wed—Quintin, you would
not censure me?"
The expiring ra) of the setting sun fell
on her features as she earnestly glanced
upon her lover.
"Ah," cried the youth with a sudden
start, as he struck his hand upon his brow,
"why that blush, that agitation? Deceive
me not, Elzia, you are not supposing a
case. This has already happened. I see
it all. He has selected a bridegroom."
The maid sank her head upon his bosom,
and through her struggling tears she sob
bed—
" Quintin, thou bast said it."
Desperate was the conflict in the bosom
of the youth as he sat like one in a trance,
his eyes fixed on hers, which, like the dun
breaking through the clouds of the passing
storm, gleamed from under their dripping
lashes, and soon ho dreamed he saw the
rainbow of hope.
"Who is,my rival?" he asked with voice
scarce audible.
"Van Deg," she answered sorrowfully.
"Do you love him, Elzial"
"How can you ask?"
"Will you marry himl"
"My father's happiness is doarer to me
than my own. Think you I would wanton•
ly sacrifice it?"
"But why Van Deg?"
"Because he excels in my father's art."
" " led the despairing lover, "why
n a painter !"
"Quintin was one of thorns,
limselfon it and yielded to his
ight.
yet bow ardently had he lov
otriously had he laboured to
attachment, and just when he
the victory over her coufi
-3 that he struggled for was
ot—he could bear the thoughts
be could weep over her grave,
e the vegetation above it—he
think that the prize must be
to be given to another's =-
Nue madness in it.
Tan Deg, that rough, haugh-
In, how unworthy he to pus-
If such value, how unfit to
a tender plant, how unsuitable
_shit for the angel who need
ed some congenial soul to ensure her felicity.
, 4W ill she not droop, whither, die in the
cold atmosphere about him?" he asked
himself, when at length exhausted nature
yielded to weariness, and he fell 'asleep.
The mind, though, yielded not to the fa
tigue of the body; on the contrary, it seem
ed more filled with life. He imagined
himself in the street. The bills rang, the
people shouted, and gay equipages passed
by. It was a day of public rejoicing, for
Elzia, the daughter of Algini, was to wed
Van Deg: the nation's favorite, the cele
brated painter. People recounted the
scenes he had delineated, and lauded the
artist to the skies. All this grated in the
mind of the dreamer, but he trembled, and
the cold perspiration gathered on his fore
head as the nuptial cavalcade approached;
they halted at the chapel, and the groom
conducted the bride, all pale and trembling,
to the alter; he looked up the aisle, when,
as the father was about giving his love
away, he rushed up and seized her; she
shrieked and fell dead in his embrace; her
relations and the priests all gazed or hor
ror; he raised his eyes, saw the misery in
their countenances, and as his face fell full
upon the bosom of his lovely burden, he
expired, and at that moment awoke. Still
the forms were before his eyes, fresh in
his recollection as if he had beheld the
awful scene by the noonday sun. Impelled
by an unaccountable impulse, ho arose and
lighted his lamp, and taking a coal frcm
the extinguishbd embers in his chimney,
he commenced the portraiture of the group
upon the wall; as he drew each face, each
lineament, he recoiled in surprise as their
perfect resemblance to the individuals
became more and more impressed upOn
him. As he concluded the outline, he
beheld in it a faithful transfer of his dream,
wanting nothing but the variety of colour.
A thousand thoughts darted through his
brain; he was wild and wandering, he
flung himself on his bed, and when he next
awoke, the rays of the risen sun gilded his
apartment.
His first object was to seek the murel
picture, and ne trembled lest it had all
been a dream; but there it stood, as if ex•
ecuted by a magic power.
"If this is the result of an efl''ort with
charcoal," cried he, striking h;s breast in
a delirium of joy, "what might I not effect
with other means? what might be my re
ward?"
As daylight sought its slumbers in the
bosom of night, the lovers were again
together.
"I am doing wrong," murmured Elzia,
"in meeting you again, since I am an affi
anced bride. This night must bo our last.
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It is a sad thing to part with those we love;
yeti act as virtue dictates, and we must
meet no more as—"
"Say not that we shall meet no more as
I oversl Say that we shall meet no more;
that will be sufficiently severe, for, Elzia,
could we meet but to love—to upbraid fate,
which so cruel!) divides us?"
"I must away," said the girl; "if Quin
tin's affection is pure, he will condemn me
for tarrying."
"Farewell, then, sweetest ! If I lose
thee I will wander to some distant clime,
and strive to bury my regretb in now scenes
and amid new companions."
He imprinted a kiss upon her willing
lips. Ho watched her retiring form as it
appeared and disappeared amid the foliage
at intervals, till it was finally lost to his
view—then turned slowly and sadly away.
Never did father loye his daughter with
more fondness than Algini his child Elmo.
Iler good was his great aim; and as he was
an enthusiast in the art of the pencil, he
deemed that ono of that profession would
be most worthy of his child. These two
passions of his soul mingled together in
such a manner that they became but one.
He considered the canvass as a lasting
monument for genius, and that he would
best consult his daughter's happiness by
uniting her 16 one who would be alive to
all posterity by his woiks.
Van Deg had been selected, as he was
the boast of his country, and ithe figures of
his creation wanted nothing but motion to
make them such as their originals. Be.
sides, he was wealthy, and would add to
the affluence of the family. Finally, his
daughter was not old enough now to judge
for herself; and though she had confessed
that she was prejudiced against her propo
sed husband, a few years of connubial in
tercourse would overcome that, and she
would ultimately be benefited.
Just as he was at this point of reflection
on the ensuing day, a letter carrier enter.
ed his apartment arid handed him a letter,
saying he would wait without for - en rimier,
and had been bound by - an oath not to
disclose who had commissioned him to de
liver the communication.
Algini was astonished at these words
and as soon as the other retired, broke the
seal and read—
"If the parent consulted the daughter's
happiness, would he nut seek from her if
she does nut lave anotiseet I thmk she
does. But if Van Deg is to possess the
fair, being, may Ibe mistaken I May her
marriage to the man of your choice not
hurry' her to another world ! Her obedi
ence causes her to submit. I lay claim to
her affections; but with these do not pie
tend to alter your determination. You
have the reputation of patronizing merit as
it appears in painting. Defer the nuptials
to this day twelve-month, and let Van Deg
on that day place his chef d'auvre on the left
of the altar. if the one which appears on
the right does not tell of a more skilful
master, I abide the result. If it dcies, then
it is but fair to leave to your danghter the
privilege of choosing her partner from the
two."
The father was delighted with this pro•
petal, as it suggested a trial of skill in his
favorite study. He accordingly Returned
word of his acceptance of the terms, and
_notified Van Deg'theroof.
A year passed away, during which the
lovers nevor met. Elzia had lost sight of
Quintin, and in answer to her inquiries
concerning him, all she had been able to
learn was, that shortly after their last in
terview he had left the city, and gone, no
one knew whither.
The day was now arrived when she was
to become a wife. Sad to her were the
kind offices of the bride's maids who assis
ted at her toilet; yet she sustained a smile
upon her face, although her soul was
weighed down by grief.
The chapel was thronged by people anx
ious to view the ceremony, and as the
bride, richly clad, was led to the altar by
her father, the latter announced that her
hand was to be bestowed on the artist
whose skill was the most undeniable, to be
determined by the merit of the pictures
which stood veiled on either side of the
altar. Van Deg glanced triumphantly
around at this proclamation, and, striding
to the picture he had painted, he uncurtain
ed it to their view.
A burst of applause arose from the au
dience as he did so—and well merited was
that cry of approbation.
The scene of the piece was the chapel in
which they stood, and the whole represen
ted to the life. There was the priest all
but breathing, while the bride and groom
and their friends appeared as if in the full
flush ofjoy.
Algini was about to speak in raptures of
the performance, when suddenly the other
curtain was drawn aside, and a cry of hor
ror bust from the multitude as they press
ed forward to behold I Van Deg gazed
breathless in wonder, and Algini uttered a
wild sliriek of despair—"My daughter!"
It was the delineation of Quintin's dream;
each countenance in the picture was easy to
recogiiiie except that of the youth, which
was hurried in the boiom of the bride.—
But eta, with wondering eyes, they bad
fully scanned it all, it was thrust aside and
another appeared in its place. Thi.s repre-
sented a lovely arbour in which Algini was,
advanced to old age, dandling a beautiful
infant, on his knee, which bore au expres
sion in its face of Elzia, who oat on an ,op
posite seat with her head resting on the
bosom of a young man, whoie arm encir
cled her waist.
Every one was charmed and delighted
beyond measure; and as they beheld the
youth they recognized him in a moment,
and every tongne cried—
“ The Blacksmith !”
"Blacksmith no more," said Quint's,
stepping from behind the canvass, "but the
artist, who demands his reward !"
It is unnecessary to say more than the
genius was rewarded; and to the happy bus
band, Quiotin Malays, once blacksmith o
Antwerp, the world owes some of its fines
relics of art, and, among the rest, the inimi
table painting of "The Misers," now a
Windsor Castle.
REMARKS OF THE
lion. James . Cooper, of Pa.,
ON THE TREASURY NOTE BILL,
In the House of Representatives of the [Joked
States, January 10, 1842.
CHAIRMAN: Ido not design to
inflict a long or set speech on the commit
tee; and only rise for the purpose of exprea.
sing my opposition to the manner pro
posed by this bill of supplying the wants of
the Treasury, and to give a few short rea
sons for such opposition. I feel bound to do
this, from the tact that I have hereto
fore opposed the issue of Treasury notes.
Yet, Mr. Chairman, I would not have it
understood that, because I opposed them
once, I must oppose them always, without
inquiring whether my former opposition
was right or wrong. Ido not do it to pre
serve an apparent consistency, but because
I still look upon the measure as a poor
timeserving expedient, calculated to per•
petuate a system of quackery, unworthy of
statesmen, and full of mischief. I am not
one of those who adhere to opinions for
merly expressed, after experience has de
monstrated their error. 1 trust I shall never
persevere in error for the sake of consisten
cy; and I regard the man who does so as
something worse than a fool. ' But I have
not been convinced that my tormeg. opposi.
lion to Treasury notes was founded4sin v er:
ror. I did not oppose their issue on fac
tious principles when Mr. Van Buren was
President; nor will I support them on par
ty principles, now that Mr. Tyler is Presi
dent.
One of the grounds on which 1 opposed
the issue of Treasury notes was the fear
that they would tend to produce extrava.
Banco in the administration of the Gov
ernment, ending in a national debt, of
which the people would be ignorant until
involved in its embarrassments. That this
measure will produce extravagance in the
administration can hardly be doubted.—
While the wants of the Government can
be supplied by the easy process of an issue
of Treasury notes, costing no more than
the price of the paper and the printing, it
is not likely that a very strict economy
will be observed in its administration. It
will go on, issue its notes, involve it•
self deeper and deeper in debt, conscious
that any embarrassments which may en
sue can be relieved by resorting to a new
issue. In this insidious way a large public
debt will be created, of the existence of
which the people will not be sensible until
it is unavoidably fastened .ipon them. Bnt
if Government were compelled to resort to
!onus to supply its wants, it would find itself
under some degree of necessity to avoid
extravagance and profligate expenditure; its
dependence on the people would be greater;
they would always possess a knowledge of
its condition, which would operate as a
check to extravagance.
Mr. Chairman, in providing means to
supply the wants of the Government, we
are bound to adopt such as will at the same
time produce relief to the people, at least
as far as it is practicable. The question,
rhea, which addresses itself to us, is this:
Will Treasury notes producti this effect
to the same extent as a loan? If they will
not, we should resort to a loan. If Treasu.
ry notes be issued, bearing an interest of
six per cent., they will soon find their
way into the vaults of the banks or the pos
session of capitalists. This has been the
case heretofore and tt will continue to be
so. These notes never find their way into
general circulation. The most important,
and by far the most numerous classes of
the community, the agriculturists and me
chanics, will derive no benefit from this
measure. Sir, let me ask what advantage
your constituents or mine will derive from
the issue of the five millions of Treasury
notes contemplated by the bill? None, or
next to none. But if a loan be negociated,
especially if abroad, the amount borrowed
will soon find its way into the general cir
culation of the country, and measurably
relieve the pressure which exists in the
money market. Thus, while a loan will
afford effectual relief to the Government,
it will at the same time benefit the people.
This end—the benefit of the people us well
as the convenience of the Government
we should keep in view. It is the chief
end of government, and, when we lose
sight of it, we are neglecting to perform
the highest and most important duties of
legislators. The doctrine that the Gov
ernment should take care of itself, and
that the people required to much when they
asked at its bands a sound and uniform cur
rency, was one of the highest offences
commitii d against the people by the admin
istration of )Ir. Van Buren. To legislate
now for the special benefit of the Govern
ment without regard to the interests of the
people, would be to act on the same princi
ples—on principles more selfish and sub.
verity° of the end of government than were
ever avowed, even in the worst despotisms
which have existed in the world.
But we have been told by the Hon. Chair
man of the Committee of Ways and Means
(Mr. Fillmore) that the Government is in
a state of embarrassment, which requires
immediate relief. I have no doubt that
its condition is embarrassed; but let it not
be forgotten that embarrasmenta prevail
in other places as well as in the Treasury.
They extend to the people; they, too, have
need of immediate relief. A loan will op
erate to relieve both. But we are told
that a loan cannot be negociated in this
country, and that, to obtain one, it will be
necessary to go into a foreign money mar
kot; that this will require a delay of three
or four months; and that, in the mean time,
the Government will be left without funds
to meet its engagements. But let the gen
tleman recollect that the entire American
people are in a condition of great embar
rassment; that multitudes of creditors have
not only had the payment of their claims
delayed, but have lust them altogether.—
Let the gentleman bear in mind that the
condition of the people is as bad as that of
the Government; and that the creditor of
an individual suffers as much from the post
, ponement of the payment of his claim as
does the creditor of the Government. I
desire to see the government meet all its
engagements with punctuality and to pre
serve its faith inviolate; but, in our anxiety
in this respect, we should not forget the
sufferings of the people, nor fail to provide
a remedy fur them, if there be one in our
power. Do they not as much deserve our
commiseration as the Government? I
confess, sir, I am unable to understand the
excessive sensibility manifested in behalf
of the Government. The people, it would
seem, have none of our sympathy. The
Government—the Government is every
thing! The people, the country, are for.
gotten.
Mr. Chairman, it has been argued that a
loan negotiated at home will increase the
e) , sisJing pressure, by absorbing or with
drawing so much money from active circu
lation. This argument is fallacious in two
respects; first, because the amount borrow
ed will not be withdrawn from circulation
at all, even on the supposition that the
loan will be taken by banks and capitalists,
whose means are nuw afloat, constituting a
portion of the circulation.. The money
will only change hands; it will pass by the
draft of the Government into the hands of
the creditor of the Government, and still go
on in its round of circulation, without im
terruption, perforiu'ing its customary func
tions. But, in the next place, the loan will
not be taken by those whose money is now
in active circulation. It will be taken by
those capitalists who have locked up their
funds, through want of reliable securities
in which to invest them. These hoarded
millions, instead of being withdrawn from
circulation, will be added to it; relief will
thus be , afforded, and the existing pressure
mitigated.
It has been likewise argued, that ifa loan
be taken at all it, will be taken by the banks,
and that they will be compelled to curtail
their discounts. This argument,, in my
Jugdment, is without force. The bonds of
the United States, bearing an interest of
six per cent., will furnish as safe a basis
for banking transactions as specie; for on
such bonds specie may always be raised.—
There will be no necessity, therefore, fur
contracting their circulation. It will not
be their interest to do so; nor is it at all
probable that they will. But if they should
do so, the community will be no worse off.
The amount of the loan will be paid out on
the drafts of the Government, and go at
once into circulation.
Mr. Chairman, when I recollect the for.
mer determined, persevering opposition
made by my political friends to the issue of
Treasury notes, I am something more
than surprised to see that they have be
come their advocates. 'flat the party,
recently denominated the Van Buren par
ty, should be found supporting this mea
sure, does not surprise me. That party,
notwithstanding their disclaimers and as
sertions to the contrary, were always the
paper-money party. It is true that they
made war on the old Bank of the Ur, ad
States, and destroyed it; but they ado, `
in lieu of it, tLe State banks, removed
public funds from their legal deßository,
and placed them in the custody of these
banks.
[Here the Chairman (Mr. Hopkins, of
Virginia) called Mr. Cooper to order, on
the ground of irrelevancy.
Mr. Cooper said that he was addressing
the committee in opposition to the contem•
plated issue of Treasury notes, and was
about to show that one of the great parties
of the country might consistently support
such a measure, because they had always
been the practical advocates of a baseless
paper 8% stem, but that the other could not.
He said it was not his intention to discuss
the propriety of the removal of the depo
sites or the State bank system; he only re
ferred to them as historical facts, to illus.
trate his argument.
The Chairman said he was unable to see
any connexion between the removal of the
deposites and the issue of Treasury notes;
and, adhering to his decision, Mr. Cooper
took an appeal.
The appeal was briefly discussed by
Messrs. Cooper, Cary, Stant), and W.
Cost Johnson. The appeal, was then with
drawn, end Mr. Cooper proceeded.)
Mr. Chairman, when L was called to
order, I was proceeding to prove that one
tVetsborblit diPOsa (DU.Sa
of the great parties of the country might
consistently support this bill, but that the
other could not; and, in view of this, was
about to advert to facts which form an im
portant part of the political history ()filmes
not far remote, to show that one or these
parties, Idler having destroyed the old
United States Bank, became the patron of
the State banks; gave them the custody of
the public money; encouraged them to dis
count liberally—nay, profusely; incorpora
ted myriads of new ones; and that from
these issued that overwhelming 'flood of
paper, out (dale min:mess of which, like
reptiles from the slime of the Nile, way
bred that spirit of pro fl igacy which, enter•
ing into men and Governments, produced
ultimately that foulest of all infamous
things, the repudiation of State debts.—
This party, Mr. Chairman, I admit, may
consistently support the bill under consid
eration. it is true that it proposes en
issue of paper money, based, not upon
specie, but on twelve or fourteen millions
of a deficit. It ittrue that it is intended
for the relief of the Government, without
any regard•to the benefit of the people.—
But what of this t It only accords with
the Cornier practices of the party. But.
Mr. Chairman, when i see my friend from
New York, the honorable chairman of the
Committee of Ways and Means, support
ing this bill, it not only surprises but con-
founds me. ls it not strange, ay, passing
strange, to witness him, and those of his
political friends who act with him, support
ing a Measure which they have heretofortt
denounced, not only as inexpedient, but
fraught with the worst of mischief. to the
country? What excuse can they give for
the abandonment of principles for which
they formerly so trenuously contended?--
W hat a commentary is their conduct oh
the consistency of the Whig party?
The hon9rable chairman of the Ways
and Means, by way of apology, has told
the committee that an exigency has art
sen; that the wants of the Treasury era
pressing; that its drafts have been protested,
and that an instant supply of means is ne.
cessary to prevent the Government from
being dishonored. This is hardly' a suffi
cient excuse to justify us now, if our for
mer course on this subject was correct.—
None of its can have forgotten with what
pertinacitylwith what factious pertinacity,
if we were' wrong) we resisted a bill similar
to this two years ago, notwithstanding we
were tolchby the gentleman from Virginia.
[Mr. Jones] the then chairman of the Coat-
mince of Ways and Means, of the distrest
ing embarrassments of the Government—
its urgent need—that many of the public
creditors were Ma state of actual destitu-
tion, an consequence iitthe inability of the
Government to pay them. Yet, sir, we
turned a deaf ear to his appeals, and steadi
ly refused to grant relief in such a form.
We opposed the measure at every step.
When driven from`one position, we in
trenced ourselves in another. We first re
fused to go into committee to take up the
bill; and when, after weeks of delay, the
rules were suspended, and a was taken up
in committee, the debate upon it was con
tinued, it I recollect right, for nearly a
month, in the face of repeated admonition,
from the chairman of the Ways and Means,
that delay was fraught with disgrace to
the Government. The battle was renewed
at every step—on taking the bill out of
committee, on ordering it to its third read
ing, again on its final passage, when only
five or six of the 110 Whig members vo
ted for the bill. But two years have
elapsed since the period to which I refer;
yet the very same men who then so reso•
lutely opposed this measure, or a similar
one, have become its supporters. 1. it
strange, Mr. Chairman, that a plain, sun.-
ple minded man, should be confounded by
the spectacle?
For myself, sir, I then opposed the issue
of 'Treasury notes on principle, not front
any factious opposition to the administra
tion of Mr Van Buren; and 1 will not now
support a similar measures merely became
another administration happens to be in
power. I shall never in the discharge of
my duties as a legislator, be governed by
a motive so little in consonance with the
interests of the country. This measure, I
have no doubt, will answer the end for
which it was intended. It will relieve the
Government from the embarrassments into
which it has been plunged by the obstinate/
folly of the Executive; but it will not a
chieve the end which we ought to have in
view—the relief of the people.
But, sir, 1 am not very anxious to pro.
vide ways and means for the relief of the
Government which do not extend to the
country. lam not sure that a little adver
sity might not have a wholesome effect on
the Executive. I know his head is slow to
learn, when the overwhelming diquiters of
the late elections have not taught him to
retrace his steps and return to Whig men.
surea, as the only means of conciliating to
his administration the confidence of the
nation. His acts have produced the em
barrassments which this bill proposes to
relieve? Who doubts this? Who suppo.
see that, if the measures recommended and
passed by the Whigs at the late extra sea.
sum had been carried into effect, there
would have been any difficulty in obtaining
a loan, or that a resort to this huckstering
expedient of Treasury notes would have
been necessary? This exigency, of which
we have been told, would net exist. -The
credit 01 the Government would not have
been dishonored by protests. There would
have been en institution which would have
supplied its wants and saved it from die.