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management of your great Bank struck every sober minded man with amazement.

 There is but one opinion on the subject, and that is, that the funds of this Bank have been recklessly squandered-that the un- suspecting stockholders have been betrayed and outraged in their rights The wonder is that they bear these fragrant wrongs with so much patience. In some communities the sensation would pass the bounds of restraint If there ever was an occasion for the most overpowering censure, it is found in the transactions connected with the recent history of this Bank We are not only wronged at home, but we are dis honored abroad. We are not only defrau- ded, but we are also defamed The press es in your city begin to wake up on the subject Why have they slumbered so long? They have long known that all was not right; and yet they have been silent as the grave. Yours may have spoken out but what spell has chained the rest? The alarm should be given when the wrong is doing; it comes too late when it has been conSummated.

 We shall have no settled currency with out National Bank; and no permanent re- lief in that, unless fixed principles of fnan- cial wisdom and integrity obtain in it's ad- minstration But bad as human nature is, and sad as our experience has been, l do not despair of an institution of the right kind. The errors of the past will be the lights of the future There is lesson in calamity full of sage instructions. Let then the counsels of experience and foresight be brought to bear gravely on this subject It is great national question, and one into which no predjudice, no passion, and no party interests should enter We should meet it as honest men, engaged in an hon. est work, and with all that deliberate wis dom which becomes subject of such vast moment

 I have increased confidence in the eff ciency of those placed at the head of the present Administration. They grapple res outely with the difficulties before them. Obstacles before such minds must give way There is power in the human intellect which when thoroughly reused, becomes almost inevitably victorious. A stronger cabinet than the present, has not perhaps graced the annals of this nation. Public expectation, large as it is, can hardly fail to be realized. Let all good men and true, who love their country, and sympathise in her calamities, give them their countenance and support. Let even party press sus- pend its blind hostility. Disapprobaton comes in season when errors have been committed