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promptitude which all parties have heretofore in the legislature
displayed in devising the means to pay the claims against the
government.
Now I should regret to see Kentucky forfeit this high stand-
ing for honest legislation for what some might call relief, but
which in reality will in the end be no relief.
The great change of which you speak in the political atmos-
phere in the United States, is not to be much wondered at, it
always will be the case, while men are influenced, by their
hopes or their fears, their passions and their interest, rather
than by cool and honest reflection, with a disinterested devo-
ton for the good of the country.
Again from all I read in the newspapers from the United
States, I am inclined to the belief that the Bank question is
unpopular at this time, the unfortunate manner which the
United States Bank of Pennsylvania has wound up its career
the system of swindling and robing which has become so com-
mon among many of the local institutions, the many individuals
throughout the country, who were interested in the state and
local Banks, with the acts of selfishness, favoritism and parti-
ality so notoriously practised by all Banks with an almost total
destitution, of feelings of politeness and a spirit of accommo-
dation with many of the little upstart Bank officers are all
well calculated to make the Banks odious
I have always believed as I now do that Banks are an evil
in the country. But that a national Bank was a necessary evil,
without which the fiscal concerns of the nation could not be
prosperously managed, and that an enterprising commercial
people like the United States, could not get on prosperously
without Bank facilities. Could I believe as some do that com-
merce would prosper and that the revenue of the nation could
be collected and disbursed without the aid of a National Bank,
I would be among the warmest advocates to wipe out all Banks.
I have but recently returned from Washington where the
Texan Congress is in Session, Captain Elliot the British Charge
of affaires to Texas accompanied me, on our arrival we were
received with every mark of politeness and kindness by the
President officers of government and members of Congress,
The Presidents house is about 16 feet square and not a glass
window about the whole palace. The house of Representatives
convene in a very indifferent court house, and the Senate in a
small private building.
There are two taverns, Capt, Elliot and myself were put into
a room, not ceiled or plastered, without a fire place or stove,
and without windows, with four other persons to sleep in the
same room, The landlord was very attentive to us made many
appologies and done every thing in his power to make us com-
fortable, he was building chimneys to his house we determined
however to make but a short visit.102
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