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The WHIGs AND THEIR BELOVED BANK.
The wings well know, that without a
national bank to regulate the members of
Congress, or that part of them who rep.
resent dollars and cents, and the unprin.
cipled editors, such as We BIB, Noah, Gales
g. Seaton, &C., who regulate all their mo.
tives and sentiments to the tune of thou.
sands, they are dead as party. Hence
their never ceasng clamor for bank
They want it as a political machine, BY
which to CIRCULATE" president making
They sighed with bitter anguish when
they saw it fall before the majesty of an
insulted people. And now they IongVas
absent mothers for their infant babes for
its re-establishment. But as long as III.
people remember the use the wings made
of it when they regulated the politics Of
the country by its cgency, or as long as
such testimony as the following, from one
Of its ablest and most honest presidents re.
mains on record, their efforts will be vain


We Gllude TO Mr.. CHEEvEs, whose ad.
ministraton of its affairs saved the bank
from insolvency. In 1887 he expressed
his opinions in the following language
mark ii.


81 am of opinion that a national bank
will not aid but embarrass the restoration
of the currency Of the country; and that
afterwards it would be an institution in
finitely dangerous under many circumstan-
ces and in many views. Iadmit that, un-
der very wise and circumspect manage
ment, it might be useful; but it is as GER
tain as anything depending on human ac-
tion and human will, that it will not be
, so managed. Besides, have no doubt,
Congress have no constitutional power to
establish such an institution; and this, |
think, has been the clearly expressed
Judgment of that school fpublic men who
claim Mr.. Jefferson as their head, and who
have administered the government for al.
, most forty years. The institution of the


late bank, was departure from the prn-


ciples of that school badly justified, or ra-
! ther lamely excused at the time, since


generally regretted by them, and finally,


by themselves, atoned for, in the best


manner in their power, byputtIng it down.