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# Changing Tune--If there ever was a rabid partizan for Van Buren's Sub-Treasury and hard money currency, it is the Charleston, S. C. Mercury. But "circumstances alter cases," and the inexorable editor who had denounced almost every northern man as an abolitionist and rag baron, thus mildly discourseth Nov. 1, in the subdued tones of Peccavi! Peccavi!" "Those who call upon the Bank of the State of South Carolina to redeem its small bills in specie just now, are selfishly opposing the convenience of their fellow citizens for the sake of petty gains, and ought to be discouraged. The Bank issues those bills only to supply change, and a man who calls and gets a specie dollar instead of a dollar bill, does so evidently not to get change, but to make the premium. If the Bank was to stop issuing those bills now, it would be a great inconvenience. It ought not then to be annoyed in this petty way." Ultra politicians are poor statesmen. The fact that small bills are universally demanded by the working classes, because specie cannot, nor never will, exist in quantity sufficient for a substitute, proves conclusively that the credit paper system in this country, to a certain extent, is established upon an immutable basis that no clamor or frothy sophistry can affect. --We take facts for our argument. Look at Pennsylvania-look all over where banks have suspended! Small bills, in of large bills of $10 and $20 only, that the poor may be kept under foot, are being universally adopted by acclamation. Public will is omnipotent, and agrarian Loco Foco pledges and doctrines will be left in the vocative sooner or later. It is one thing to theorize, and another to reason from stubborn facts. New York Star.