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The Plain Trtah-Mr. Benton, in his speech in the United States Senate, the bill to revive and extend the charters of the Banks m the District of Columbia, told who the debtors to the Banks through out the Union were, very plainly Said the Senator

 [" Why not make the Banks of the District take sides with the honest specie-paying Banks of the country, instead of the side of the broken aad sus- pended ones9 and to assist the Banks of Virginia and North Carolina in their efforts to bring about return to specie paymens2

 But it was said the people owe the Banks, and the question is not whether the Banks prepared to resume specie payments; but are the people prepar- ed to pay their debts to the Banks in specie? Mr. Biddle in his famous cotton bag letter, with great deal of pertness asked the question, Are the peo- pie of the United States prepared 10 pay five hun dred millions in specie to the Banksl'' All know now, many believed then, that the people owe the Banks comparatively nohing-that it is the Presi- dents, Cashiers and Directors of the Banks that owe the Banks; that the Banks owe themselves, while at the same time they every man in the country, from the merchant down to the shoe black, who has their {" promise to pay one dollar' in his pock- et The United States Bank is fair sample of all the rest; and when we hear pathetic appeals made to us about the hardships of the people, it is the hardships of bank presidents and bank drec- tors that is meant-those afflicted gentlemen who spend thirty thousand dollars in furniture for their dwellings; who think themselves stinted if they have Oi Wlnt on Lnelr taDle at dinner; and who roll about in their sumptuous coaches with splendid equpage ,and the peo- pie have to jump out of their way for fear of being trodden down and run over

 When Mir. Riddle wrote his cotton bag letter, how much did he owe the Bankl Millions. Look at his palace at Andausia-the beautiful temple, mnia- tre of the mammoth Chestnut street, and his splen- did grapery, which he expended forty thousand dollars-and all the other appurtenances of that princely establishment. Where did all this money come from? From the friends of the bank. And while he was thus nine millions in debt, what pow CT of brass did it require make the assertion that the people owed it? And who is It owes the Banks of the Districtl The farmer or the mechanic, when he borrows money, has to pay it day certain, or his note is protested, and suit commenced for the amount. But the Bank presidents, Bank directors, and Bank favorites have more leniency shown them, and the loan is extended month after month and year after year, as an examination of their books would demonstrate. The people had been taking lessons from these corporation sohooimasters for some time past-they were apt scholars, and were getting an education rapidly. In little while he thought they would graduate and be able do without their mas- ters"