Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1837-09-06
OPINIONS OF THE BANK.

Tho following sayings and opinions Of distiu-
guished statesmen ara mostly copied from tho
Ashtabula Ohio Democratic Free Press by
whose editor they were compiled in 1884. They
are a sufficient comment upon the inconsistent
and anti-republican course which some of their
authors have taken on the important subject TO
which they have reference.
"Banks and other vilc frecks have thrown the
majority into the hands of those who were shapen
in toryism, and IN British idolatry did their
mothers conceive them"
JOHN ADAMS.
AS soon as the bank charter was obtained, it's
friends began to build up princcly fortunes for
themselves at the cost of the widow and orphan,
and all honest persons who had subscribed for
stock. The people have furnished thirteen per-
sons "a majority of tho directors) with cudgel to
break their own hoads for they can fix tho val
ne ofevery acre ofland from Florida to the Lake
of the Woods" Miss Register, 1919.
For long time saw with pain tho advan-
ces Of an aristocratic moneyed institution, hich
threatened TO cast poisonous mildew over our
precious liberties They would have rendered
our fair country passive instrument in their
hands in which case freedom would have van
ished from among US"
) GEN. LAFAYETTE, 1884,.
1.-The establishment of a national bank not
being CONSTITUTIONAL and not being, in his opinion,
the proper remedy for the then existing evils, he
proceeded to examine what was"
DANIEL WEBSTER, 1916.
John Randolph warned Congress against es-
tablishing that bunk, and the truth of his fore
bodings seems likels to be fearlessy VERIFIED
"Charter bank" said he "witL thirty
millions of capital let it establish and learn its
power, and then find, if you can, means to bell
tho cat.' 1t will be beyond your power said no
it will overawe your Congress and laugh at
your laws" Is
Mr.. Randolph, if he had survived another year,
would have seen his prophecy verified.
."What am | TO think of a moneyed corpora
ton welding funds larger than the revenue Of
this nation that tells the nation to its face that it
will spend as much it pleases on the press.
and deal with Presidents as it would with fclons.
have only time to say, go OH with your patriotic
work of extirpatng such corporation. In such
a warfare with it, am with you heart and
hand" RICHARD RUSH, 1884.
81 conceive tho establishment of this bank as
dangerous to the safety and welfare of this Re-
public" HENRY CLAY, 1911.
Let the principle of constructive or implied
powers be once established in the extent to which
it must be carried in order to pass this bill, bank
bilD and you will have planted in the bosom of
the Constitution viper, which, one day or other,
will " sting the liberties of the country to the
| heart" PETER Ii. PORTER, 1911.
81 can never give my sanction to an institu.
ton which is capable, in any emergency, of con-
trolling the mercantile interest of thu country
cannot recognise the authority of Congress to
charter bank" JAMES MADISON.
And last though not least, hear what the illus
trious author of the Declaration of American In
dependence says
81 conceive the establishment of the United
States Bank as direct violation of and DANCE
to the free spirit ofthe Federal Constitution,
and oppressive and hostile to the free institutions
of the American people,"
THOMAS JEFFERSON.