Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1837-08-30
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY MEETING
AT MONROE.

| convened at the Court House IN Monroe on
the 10th inst.
The Meeting was organized by appoin.
ting Col. HENRY SMITH, of Monroe,
President, ELIPHALET CLARK ESQ.
Of Raisinvle, Vice President, and CARLOS
COTTON and ALBION BENNITT Secretaries.
A communication from Lenawee coun.
ty was presented TO the meeting by Mr..
Ellis.
On motor off. Johnson, a committee of
five was appointed to report resolutions ex-
pressiye OF the sense Of the meeting and to
whom was referred the communication
bove mentioned. Warner Wing, Frank.
lin johnson, +. ID. Ellis, VIM. ii. Mont.
gomcry AMI Saba Murphy constituted said
committee:
The committee retired and in q short
time returned and reported the following
which were sevorally adopted:
Resolved, That we congratulate the De-
mocracy of this county upon the organiza.
ton of the Wings; many of them have
gone out from US, but they were not of
us. We only wish they may publish their
principles believing they will then be cs.
teemed by the people as they were by the
Democracy, when they affected to act with
us-unworthy Of confidence and always 10
be closely watched.
Resolved, That in the opinion of this
meeting the federal Wings are the friends
of Banks and corporate monopolics, those
lecches that drink dry the substance of
the people, and in tho excess of their rio.
ting wickodncss arrogate to themselves
privileges and immunties denied to the cit
liens, privileges directly at variance
with the first principles of self government
in violation of our equal, political and
civil rights, restraining US from our natural
freedom and adverse to the doctrines of
Democracy, more openly evinced in the
nominations recently made at Ann A rbor.
Resolved, as the sense Of this meeting,
Tqat the present pecuniary embarrassment
and distress were brought about by over
trading, over-borrowing, and the encour-
agcment thereby given to holiness and
visionary speculation, a succession Of
seasons unfavorable to agriculture, scarce
crops, and an extravigant importation and
consumption of foreign goods, greatly dis
proportonate to our exports and means OF
payment; which nothing but a specie cir
cular, of some other test, could have ava
flencd us from, until bankruptcy, insolven-
cy and gambling in stocks and lands,
should have accumulated a weight of woe
upon our beloved country, which must
have resulted in the destruction of every
thing valuable in our civil rights and insti.
tutions.
Resolved, as the sense of this meeting,
That the old Bank Of the United Sites and
the Bank of the same name chartered by
the Legislature of Pennsylvania, having
FILLED TO regulate tho currency or render
any important service to the public in the
present crisis, but having on the contrary
fraudulenty evaded the payments of its
just debts, and lent its aid to the extent of its
means TO promote general mania for spec
ulatlon, ovcrtrading and extravaganza ; we
as lovers of our country, the freedom and
equality of IFS people, and the pcrpetuity
ofits institutions, will oppose openly and
unequivocally every attempt ofthc enemies
o! equal rights to effect measure which in
its nature and tendency is calculated 10
subvcrt ard destroy the very foundation
of our invaluable fabric ofRepublican Gov
eminent and that we believe it is the i'm.
peralive duty Of the Democracy of Mich
gan to exercise their undeniable rights us
citizens by inslructng the Representatives
Of this State in the Congress of the United
States to vote against the incorporation Of a
National Bank.
Resolved, That United States Bal
created for the purpose of regulating tho
oycrissues of the State Banks, would be
but an attempt of the blind TO lead tho
blind, and would result, taking the expert
cncc of the past as guide TO the future, in
plunging both in the ditch that experienc
the best Of all tests, proves the imperious
necessity Of the entire separation of Bank
and Stale, and of the absolute Importance
and necessity of dsbursing and receiving
the dues of government in gold and Silver
or its cquvient; and ;hat the evils growing
out of rcpundant local paper currency
can be most, judiciousy and properly reg
, ulated, by the wisdom, honesty and integ.
, riy of the respective State Legislatures
/, through the fundamentally OF laws con
filming the issues Of the State Banks to an
increased specie basis, founded on real.
CStutC SCCuItys uiiu liIHilcuiulc Iiduhity VA
, the part of individual stockholders for all
notes in circulation with suitable restrlc-
tons us to the denomination OF bills to be
issued, and the unlimited freedom OF all to
enter upon the business of banking in nc.
cordance with general, instead OF seperdtc
and crclusic laws.
Resolved, That the suspention of specie
payments by the banks, during period Of
profound peace and of comparative plenty
Is an evil, tho existence of which is greatly
to be rcgreted-and which can only, il al
all, be justified from the recurrence of a
variety of unforeseen causes; from tho CT
ftcts of which il is highly important to re-
cover as speedily as possible and that we
cannot justify the recent suspcnfIon act up
, on any other ground than The necessity
{ then existing that We viii not support
any person as a candidate for the LegIsla-
| turc of this State, who is not in favor Of
: its repeal at the earliest practicable pc.
Rod
Resolved, That we fully acquiesce in
the Democratic principles supporting regu.
! lar nominations, where those nominations
\ are made in accordance with the public
will, and were the nominees are in prine'.
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