CFA’s four papers, entitled “The Democratic Address” and signed “A Conservative,” appeared in the Courier on 2, 3, 4, and 8 Aug., each at p. 2, cols. 1–2. They undertake a review of the “Address to the People of the United States” by a Committee of Administration supporters in the Congress. To that document’s confession that “political elements of the country never were in greater confusion,” he asks, “How came they so?” and holds the administration’s poli-88cies responsible. If the Bank was such a failure, why have pecuniary affairs run into such great difficulties two years after its demise? A national banking authority is essential, he asserts, simply to promote a uniform currency, “to check the State institutions in their tendency to saturate the circulation with paper,” but it must be subjected to severe public oversight. However it has been impossible for the Administration to devise any nationally directed scheme because it has been crippled by adherence to a strict constructionism enforced by its Southern, proslavery adherents. Finally, he alleges that the threat of nullification is invoked in the Address to stifle national initiative on the currency and to prevent legislation on slavery in the District.

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