The Daily Herald

Why dont they hand over ?-If our affairs with France are all amicably adjusted, and Mr. Van Buren's glory is satisfied by having kept the real owners out of their money for two or three years, to gratify the spleen and pugnacity of an irritable old man,-why is not the money paid?-and why are the legal claimants, to whom the money is awarded, suffered to linger in disappointed expectation and "hope deferred,"while the Treasury of the country is full to overflowing, and the pet Banks (the little monsters)are rioting upon the public spoils, to the tune of more than three millions a year?

If the French government has not yet paid the money, if the treaty is secure, the money is at interest, and it surely would be better for our government to assume and pay off these claims, and thus render the national funds productive, than to suffer them to lie in the Manhattan Bank, for the benefit of an English Lord, its principal proprietor, while many poor and unfortunate American citizens are waiting with anxious expectation to obtain their dues.

Can't the Kitchen men spare a small portion of the forty million surplus, justly due to many widows, orphans, and aged men, instead of wasting it in electioneering? One would think that the spoilers had quite enough without distressing the needy, and many an honest merchant and hard handed sailor, cannot but feel that the surplus money in the national treasury could be quite as well appropriated to their use as to swell the untold coffers of the Earl of Carmathen.

Nick Biddle is now out of the way. He has beaten Gen. Jackson, Van Buren, and all their minions, at a fair fight, and shakes his monster in their face, in the pride and spirit of moral integrity and independent worth, which it is in vain for them longer to assail. They can have no motive any longer to attempt to break down an institution, to which they were opposed only because they could not render it subservient to their purposes, and it is time that the national resources should be turned into their legitimate channel, and that the people should have the advantage of the revenues created for their use.

Let the government assume and pay the French claims, as they ought justly to do.--let them divide the surplus millions among the States to which they belong,-let them cease to buy patronage with the power which they possess over the public treasure,-and we may yet have some hope to perpetuate those republican principles and measures which have hitherto been the boast and pride of our federal Union.