Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-06-18
UNITED STATES BANK.

We have heretofore presented several views which satisfy our mind that the Bank of the United States is unconstitutional and wholly incompatible with our system of government. The objections to it on the score ct policy are not less conclusive. ..-
 The friends of the Bank deny its disposi- tion to interfere with the political conflicts of the country. Those who understand human nature, and the motives by which monied aristocracyis is always actuated, need no argu- ment to convince them that the power of the Bank is, and always will be, felt in the po- litical contests whenever its interests are in- volved in them. As for ourselves, we arc not left to doubt or speculation on that point. We are acquainted with facts one of which is worth thousand arguments. Introductory to this part of the discussion, we shall sub init some of these facts to the reader.
 In 1925, violent political contest ragged in Kentucky between two parties designated "the Old Court Party" and "the Ne7o Court Party" The Managers of the U. States Branch Bank at Lexington and Louisville took decided ground in favor of the Old Court Party, and facts were furnished from the books of the former to injurc some New Court men, while the means of defence and retail ation were refused. At Louisville, the means of the Old Court Party were pretty we'll ex- hausted before the election came on, and they wanted money to complete their arrange ments. On Sunday preceding the first Mon day in August, when the election was to com mence, a number of them, in consultation, determined to apply to the U. States Branch Bank for aid. They got some of the Direc- tors together and stated their wants, when it was agreed to give them S250 of funds which belonged to that Branch, to aid in carrying the election. On tlIe same day, they get the money from the Bank. One hundred dclars ct it were put into the hands of two men who went down to Shippingsport, place situated at the foot of the Falls of the Ohio, two miles from Louisville, where large number of boatment and floating population is always to be found, and where it is easy to introduce auxiliaries from the neighboring State of In diana. There they opened several grog shops with the money of the Bank, collected to- gether the boatmen and others preparatory to the operations of the next day. The other S150 were put into the hands of other men, who opened grog-shopsin in Louisville and hired all the hacks in that city for the three days of the election. Flags and mottos were prepar- ed, and every thing arranged by the money of the Bank for severe contest the next day
 On Monday morning the hacks were set in motion, and with flags hoisted and mottos upon their pannels, were constantly employed in bringing up voters from Shippingsport and other points. Whiskey flowed in abundance, and the affairs of the Old Court Party went on swmmingly by the aid of the timely SUD- ply of money from the Bank. The same scene was exhibited during the three days of the election which terminated in the triumph of the Old Court Party by majority of about 400 in the county of Jefferson. If we rightly remember, over hundred votes were given at the pclls more than there appeared by the official returns, to be voters in the county
 That the result was produced by the power and money of the Bank, is made apparent from the fact, that the very next year the New Court Party carried the elections in the same county by majority of about 300!
 The facts in this case are derived from those who constituted the meeting on Sunday and participated in spending the money.