thus better accommodated than neighbors elsewhere, they wanted their
judge to be a little better paid. In Illinois there had been until the
present season but one district court held in the year. There were now to
be two. Could it be that the western district of Virginia furnished more
business for a judge than the whole State of Illinois?




NATIONAL BANK

JULY, 1848,
[FRAGMENT]

The question of a national bank is at rest. Were I President, I should
not urge its reagitation upon Congress; but should Congress see fit to
pass an act to establish such an institution, I should not arrest it by
the veto, unless I should consider it subject to some constitutional
objection from which I believe the two former banks to have been free.




YOUNG v.s. OLD--POLITICAL JEALOUSY

TO W. H. HERNDON.

WASHINGTON, July 10, 1848.
DEAR WILLIAM: