Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1801-02-12 00:00:00, page 4

Os the Nra Bank, from the 2d page.
The Governor himfelf as well as his
particular friends and connexions were
already largely interested, not only in
the Newhampfhire Bank, but also in the
Bank of Newburyport; two of the Sen
ators, at least, and many members of the
House of reprefentative^ were Rockholds
ers. The State too by the stratagem of
a few individuals had become interested
to larger amount than before, and in adv
dition to all these, the Stockholders of the
Newhampfhire Bank, about this time,
voted an additional number offhares for
the purpose of purchasing still greater
influence in the legislature, as was evi#
dent fromlhe peculiar tranfa&ions of the
meeting,## the singular mode adopted
for the afrpolal ofthofe shares.
In the face of every discouragement,
however, which interest or prejudice
could oppose to our wishes, a second pe
tition was presented to the General Court
at the June session, praying for an aft of
% incorporation, or that the " refraining
&&' might be repealed- This petition
was again met by a fccond memorial of
the Stockholders of the Newhampfhire
Bank, who were admitted by their agents
to oppose the petition, and to shew why
their fellow citizens should be deprived
of their natural and conftituiional rights,
and why they (the Stockholders of the
N. H. Bank) ought to enjoy the excluv
five privilege of loaning money as a
company, in the state of Newhampfhire ;
and at this time, as on former occasions,
the petitioners were indecently charged
with views inimical to the Government
and to the Constitution, and with infti
The END ts the WORLD.
TljE philosopher Whifton, among other of
hi, reveries, fixed federal dates (which el
gpfed during his own time) for the end of the
world. People had such a ftrsnge confidence in
this man's whimsies, that implicit credit was giv
en jo them on two or three periods of denuncia
tion, the left of which was in t 746. On one of
the former periods the whole city of London ap
pear'd to be in a state of con'fteroation at the prof
pe& of the world being conflagrated. Endless
were the alifurdities committed on this occafioo ;
a Dutch captain of a Ship in the Thames, laden
with gunpowder, laboured day and night tohave
it landed before the day of doom ; and the then
diredor of the bank gave orders to the fire men of
the city ' to take special care and have the engines
well Supplied with water, and pay particular at
tention to the Bank of Old England !'
[This equals Connecticut blue la^s.]
RURAL LIFE.
YE Gods, p,c Monarchs what ye pferfe,
Give mi but homeland rural case ;
Give gold toevery sordid f^l,'
But keep me from its mean control ;
Give me a modest fa ire of wealth, ,
With books, a friend, and peace end health :
These bound my withes—speak, ye great.
If this be pride, or pomp, or state.
<=^¥!3¥ra*^^^^
A PRATTLING lawyer lately observed to a
mechanic, that were he to open an cffi:eia
a neighbouring town, they would mzke a little
god of him :To which the la,ter replied, that
fhwld they co fj, it would not be more extraor
dinary than the conda& of the Egyptians, who
wot flipped a turfy or an enics.
fl^@.
[WE hope our readers who look for a raifceUane
ous feaft, will pardon a want of variety, which is
excluded by the observations relative to the New
Bank, the fubjed being highly interesting to all J
Court OF THE Riises.
©)e ^umor®
tuting their bank as an engine to accom
plish those hostile intentions. \At an
epoch like that, when he who persecuted
a man of republican opinions thought he
did God service, when, to have been dec
cidedly opposed to American independ#
ence, to have despised and ridiculed the
efforts of our most disinterested patriots
and heroes in its accomplishment, and
even to have been a profefled partizaa
with Britain, were but so many recomc
mendations to offices of honor & profit;
what opposition could be made to such
insinuations with the least profpeft of
success? In vain were pleaded, in op:
portion to their malignant and grounds
less assertions, our (hare of anxiety and
filtering through a long and tedious war;
our loss of property, of health, and of
friends, in support of the glorious prin:
ciples of our revolution ; our inviolable
attachment to the federal Constitution of
government, and ready obedience to the
laws ; while many of our opponents,
who were thus calumniating us as un#
worthy to share with them the privileges
resulting from that government, in the
purchase of which they had no share,
and not only withheld their assistance in
its establishment, but for want of oppor
tunity, would probably have taken an
a&ive part on the fide of our enemies.
In vain did we state the private and pub#
lie utility of a second bank in Newhamp#
fliire, and the many evils inseparable
from a monopoly in this as in every otb#
er branch of commercial business. In
vain did we urge that as citizens and
freemen we had rights and privileges in
common with our oppofers. That the
state snd general conftitution# guaranteed to us
the right of acquiring, pefeffing and proteaing
property ; that they forbid rirolpedive laws, and
laws impairing th: oblig^fou of contrads: The
prayer of our petition was rejected, and the law in
all its severity was fuffered to operate on us, to
the tofi of our property lawfully acquired and in
vested ; to the great injury of the commerce of
this state, and the public in general. Even so
reasonable end moderate a request as a postpone
ment of the operation of that extraordinary ad
to the next frffion of the legislature, that those
indebted to the bank for loans might have the
advantage of the produdive season to make their
payments, and that the public might have fur
ther experience of its operation, was pointedly
rejeded by the Senate by not even joining a com
mittee from the House on the petition for that
purpose.
Believing in the justice and importance of their
cause, a cause involving, not the interest of a few
individuals only, but principles both moral and
conftrutional, highly interfiling to the public at
hfge, perfevera nte was confidsred ndt only hon
orable, but indifpeofable. The Stockholders of
the Newbampfhire Union Bank again petitioned
the General Court at their last session, as they
had repeatedly done before ; the petition was de
cently noticed by the Houle of Representatives,
and a committee on their part immediately ap
pointed, which was refufed to be joined by the
Senate with the fame fuperciliqus disdain as on
foimfr ccdafions; in ibis fixation it was foffer
ed to rest. As it is the prerogative bf the legifl,
ture to ena& such laws as, in their opinion, will
promote the public good, hot repugnant to the
Constitution, which they have solemnly sworn to
support; so it is alb a privilege referred to the
people by that constitution annually to tied such
of their fallow citizens as they may judge best
qualified to difeharge this important trust ;—if,
therefore, ft flull appear that at any time their
rulers have exercised arbitrary powers, unreason
ably deprived their fellow citizens bf fbeir prop
eriy ahd their rights, in violation of justice and
the conftitutibn ; and to ,he injury of th,com
munity at large ; beihg their duty, it will un
doubtedly be the inditratibn of the free dadh
of this state to withhold their fuffrages from such
charaaers in future, and bestow them on those in
whose abilities and integrity they baregreatq
confidence..;
Some further observations and enquiries on
this bead, will be attended tods opportunity may
by A STOCKHOLDER
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