South Branch Intelligencer

Gross Inconsistency.

In a reply to an invitation from the citizens of Huntsville to attend a public dinner, the President of the United States has written an answer, declining the honor, but thanking them for their politeness; which reply concludes with this sentence:

"We can never yield to the pretensions which are now set up for The NATIONAL Bank, or A National Bank, without engrafting upon the laws a principle of irresponsible power, hostile to liberty, and poisonous to the public morals."

The "public morals!" "Still harping on my daughter." But that is not the object of our comment. The reader will see that the above is an unqualified objection to the establishment of the Bank, or a Bank, or any thing like a Bank. In his famous Veto Message, this same President of the United States made the following equally unqualified assertion in favor of the Bank or a Bank:

"That a Bank of the United States, competent to all the duties which may be required by the Government, might be so organized as not to infringe on our own delegated powers, or the reserved rights of the States. I do not entertain a doubt. Had the Executive been called upon to furnish the project of such an institution, the duty would have been cheerfully performed."

And again, in the same message, he said:

"A Bank of the United States is in many respects convenient for the Government and useful to the People."

Now, what are we to think of such a political satyr, blowing hot and cold almost in the same breath? What are we to think but that he is entirely incompetent, on this particular subject, to give a correct opinion, or even to maintain an opinion once formed and expressed.

Alex. Gaz.