Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-01-09


politicians in Bank are jist as BAD as SKuhs III
the cellar-there amt one grain OF dlnefence.
Some on YOU say we don't want Bank aoao
well that may be so-but when got up tiliS
mornin it was plagy emily III 81. d 10y need
coat--but think if take my coat on IN leei
chilly again-and am so certing OF this wont
make trial ont.
Some on you say the oweners OF this BANK
haint got no right to charter-they nave llau
it long enuf-and its time now to have new
shuttle and cut-well that amt my notion ana
I'I tell YOU why-tho' this Bank was chartered
for twenty years-it had good rlghtto oelleVe
we would renew its charter il 1t behaved Wen
and did its duty-jist as Congressman mas d
right to expect his constituents Will send MIN 10
Congress agin if he behaves wel--and Its goou
way to keep folks strait and make EN- do thef
duty-but if we are to mock this Bank down,
and havea new shuttle and a new cut, then
say that them folks who make money out OF
rise of stock in the new Bank, ought to pay the
loss that all these old folks and young children
will suffer by hooking down the old Bank--to
say nothin about the innocent foreigners VINO
put their money in this Bank, thinking 1t was
safe. And let me tell you another thlng-the
longer a Bank stands, and theolder 1t gifts, the
better folks abroad and at home like lt,--peo-
pie who have got money to lend don't ike chal-
ges-particularly government changes. Would
any on you like to lend folks money in South
vernments could make Bank that folks would
have any confidence in? / don't think they
could--jist because they keep chopin and
changing evey year.
Will any on you say that it amt good thing
for country to make folks all about think it is
a safe one to lend money to? amt good credit
woth nothin?
Well now does any man in trade git credit,
and make folks think him safe to trust? Will
he break up his stand every year, and change
his business, and try new plans? | say that
amt the way; and no man ever prospered
after that fashion; but when he finds things 60
we'll with him, he hangs on; or else he haint got
no wit in him.
Now, my notion is, that none on us alone can
make folks all about creation think we are safe
folks to trust But all on us together can do so;
and that is the reason a good big Bank can man
age this for us Folks abroad know the Bank:
and the Bank know us; and so we can man.
age things through the Bank better than we can
alone
Some on you say it aint right to pay interest to
foreigners; that when we gtmoney from foreign
erS, they keep drainin Of interest. Well,
that is all chalk and water. Now know we
have got an everlastin new country TO clear up
yet; and if an honest industrious man go and
buy good many acres and clear it up, and
sell it to these very foreigners, who are all the
while coming out here to settle among us, and
they pay fifty times more for it than the land
first COST and SO our foulks go on borrowin,
and can well afford to pay ntererest, and find
themselves in few years with money to lend
too. And as long as this business goes on,
for one am willing to say to foreigners, as the
Cape Cod fisherman says to the fish, when he
gifts on the hook, and is puin him in-"So
long as you hold on one eend, will t'other,
But folks abroad who have money to lend
don't know our folks who 90 on new land;-and
good M ny on old land mother. But they know
our Bank, and our Canals, and Railroads, and
we sell 'em the stock, and make em pay good
premiums too: and our folks can lend their mo-
ney to our farmers. But if we go on, and mock
down this Bank when its charter is out, and
bring trouble on the country, foreigners say,
| =" Aha! there's trouble there!"-back they come
with their stock, and git their money, and keep
it; all our prosperity is nock'd in the head! We
CHARTERED this bank for twenty years; and so we
do Canal Companies, and Rail Road Compa-
MES; but did we mean when the time was up,
to mock 'em all up too, and say we don't want
no Bank nor a Canal, nor a Rail Road? It
amt common honesty to say so; and | won't
shuttle and cut with you after that fashion: for
make what might by new shuttle, would be
asham'd to look one of these innocent foreign
ers in the face-to say nothin of this long list of
Widows and Ortans and Trustees Of Estates,
and old folks, many on EN-, when they bought
the Stock at high premium, | suppose never
thought about the charter, or how long it had
to rum but trusted to the Government And
now if you can chizze them out of their proper
ty, as you will by putting down this Bank, Jest
to git a new shuttle and cut at new one-with-
out turnn as red as a beet when you meet en-
for one say can't, and won't
/ And now Pm most done--ifI have trod on
any ones toes, it amt SO much my fault as his
en-; for tread the strait line, and tread onv on
toes that stick out beyond the line, and that's
too often the case with folks nowadays in Of
flee
Pve telTd you now pretty much my notions
and tell you for the last time you have made a
mistake, and that's no disgrace to any man I'M
less he tries to stick to it after he knows he has
NADER lfyou don't know how to git the coun-
try out of the scrape you've got it in, the peo-
pie will tell you pretty quick, or aint no hand
people don't do thern it aint my fault. If they
say my notions are right they'll act on EN-; if
they say they are wrong, then things will go on
as they now go, and hope they won't git worse
but that won't promise. If things come to
the worst | shall suffer as little as any on EN-,
tor haint got no wife and children to support
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