Now
everybody knew that it was not the habit of the district judges of the
United States in other States to hold anything like that number of
courts; and he therefore took it for granted that this must happen under
a peculiar law which required that large number of courts to be holden
every year; and these laws, he further supposed, were passed at the
request of the people of that judicial district. It came, then, to this:
that the people in the western district of Virginia had got eleven courts
to be held among them in one year, for their own accommodation; and being
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.
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