The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1834-02-12
UNITED STATES BANK.

UNITED SIAIfS BANHs
Disguise the matter as we will, the Bank
is tyranical despot, and its most able and
devoted defenders are to its nod what the
mercenary Swiss guards were to Charles X
So far as its power extends
1t but comman DIS, 1--WE must obey,
No more can slave to des?ot say"
What weight ought the frothy harangues
Of Henry Clay and the whole body of Bank
hrelings to have in the scale of a people who
boast so loudly of their unadtIltcrated liberty,
when it has been proved that these same
men arc either the feed attornes of the bank,
or men who have, ct stake, in the issue, some
large pecuniary speculation, advantageous
only to themselves, but porte ntous to the free.
dom of the people. Henry Clay was once,
the able enemy of the bank. god whom he
now idolizes! Why does he now pour ou,
| his grateful incense at the shrine which in
earlier days he would have oyerthrown? He
could not be bought then but he has since
received vast sum of money from the al
tar of his present devotion. The bank god
has been lavish ofits treasures upon the hope.
ful convert, not to mention the vast sums that
have been dealt to others who have proved
themselves " grateful for facilities" by max.
ing sale of the country's freedom for the
false god they have set up. It's alarming
power is proved in the distress, or alleged
distress, of the country-.for if it be ground
less panic, the bank and its mercenaries are
responsible for creating that panic--or, iftho
distress is reality, the bank has caused it
by using. its powers TO that base purpose with
the intent of making the nation feel the ne. /
ecssity of bowing to, and tolera,ing mono
poly, already so strong--as 10 sway the dss !
TIMES of the nation.
Mr.. M'Dufie, though defender of the
bank, comedies the point that " the man who |
controls bank controls all who are indebted |
to that bank I; and thus, by sanctoning the .
neretricious union of money with power, you
deliver up your country into chains, which
lo,hing but divine nterpostion can ever
freak or dissolve"
Editors and politicians have been bought
~ the gross to sustain the bank in its shame.
ess assumption of power. They have had
loud calls" They have obeyed those calls
--aDd with all the canting sanctity of priest
hey pretend that the call was from the Ge.
nus of Lberty--that they have had spe.
a vision, wherein the scales dropped from
heir eyes--and 10 and behold the Bank
ppeared under different aspect--not, as
eretofore, the enemy of the people --bu, it {
vas found to contain the germ of the golden
ge--ibat it was an institution on which the 9
cry existence and welfare of the nation dc.
ended. II was now that they felt the sa. !
red obligation of preserving the liberties of t
,e country on another hook. The $4,000 G
eighed nothing in the call. The $4,000 c
facilities" was matter Of no moment 1t I
as the deep sense of patriotism. The edit. I
RS of $4,000, $4,000, $4,000, $1,000 I
beyed the same loud call. 1t was the call '
liberty, county, and the people--and not
'e call from Squire Biddle's breeches pock- 4
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An institution that thus exercises its " ia. Ii
lities" for rearing a despo,ism- for sup u
,rting horde of unpripcipled hirelings in p
! train-for putting the bread Of corruption I,
to their mou,hs--a reckless ambition into Il
eir hearts, end terrible power into ;heir h
'nds, ough, to be annihiated. The contest Il
between the bank nd the people. and An. tC
ew Jackson is not thu jus, patrio, we hold q
IN TO BE-, he lays down his hickory before b
; shall have smitten off erey seonee Of this d