The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1837-09-23
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POLITICAL.
From the Key Stone.
BANK AND STATE.

March, 1896, and thus terminated all corr
nection between the general government
and any monied corporation deriving l'seN-
istence and power from its authority. Inc
general failure of the state banks to pay
their debts in the only constitutional cur
rency, gold and silver coin, has produced
an actual separation of the fiscal concerns
of the u. States from all corporations, crea-
ted by the state or territorial governments,
and the people of this great country ale
now enabled, untrammelled by any express
or implied contracts with any man or body
of men to collect and dispurse their own
revenues in the only manner sanctionedby
the spirit of our face constitution. The
details of the constitutional system simply
require arrangement, in order TO complete
the entire and total independence of the
United States of all corporations, whether
national or state, foreign or domestic.
This is plain but brief statement of our
actual fiscal condition, which has been so
admirably pourtrayed in the able, eloquent
and patriotic message Of President Van
Buren, which we cannot too earnestly re-
commend TO the careful and dispassionate
perusal of every true hearted American.
Whilst ihe general government, under
the auspices OF Jackson and Van Buren, has
thus enlranchsed itaclf from the aristocracy
of wealth, the great state of Pennsylvania,
under whig and antimasonic control; has
been made subservient to the views of bank
ers and spectators, and the liberties and
energies of her citizens have been deliber-
ately and corruptly sold to British Mobiles
and TO British bankers, and to their hired
agents, the American renegades who teach
and practice the reasonable doctrine, that
our FIRST duty is to FOREIGN nations,
principle which would have sanctioned the
blue lights Of the last war, and have immor-
talised the tories of the revolution. That
this is not an exaggerated picture of our sit
uation under the benign influence of the
British bank party, which has now the com.
mand Of our state administration. and of its
sapient head, few words will suffice to
show.
The English aristocracy have always de-
spised and trampled upon the democracy,
and it has been their study TO incucae the
same doctrines in America by their ennis
sarics and agents. If the individual agent
is an American citizen he is paid more
literally for aspersng the character and in
stitutions of his own country. The late
and the present bank Of the United States
were, and are notofiously British agencies,
nominally managed by Americans, whose
souls and bodies were, and are wrapt ND in
the accumulation Of wealth, and in the honor
reflected upon them by strict imitation of
the language and prejudices of their foreign
masters.
"From its nature" say the titled bankers,
"the influence of bank must he allied TO
the ARlSTOCRACY OF WEALTH, and
not to the DEMOCRACY OF NUM-
BERS," and in order to prove the truth of
this assertion, their .fmerican Vfcerov, in
addressing the youth of Princeton College.
thus eXhorts them: ''From your own oui-
ct elevation watch calmly this SERVILE
ROUTE (thc people, as it triumph sweeps
before you." Youth Of tie rising genration
separate yourselves from the democracy
of numbers, it is "the vulgar dominion Of
ignorance and profigacy," they are 'ban-
ditti," "its worst Ca. 'zens," "fugitivcs" from
'the penitentiary," gladiator slaves"
"robust barbarians," "your country's Gu
emies," {" vultures," "betrayers," .'dcgen-
crate children" and ''prohigate men," Such
is the decent language of the aristocracy or
wealth, as delivered by their Anarcharsis
Clootz, the Cicero of paper money.
The oanks of the United States. under
the lead of its president, avowing such anti.
American aEd anti-republican sentiments.
has particularly aimed at the destruction of
the prosperity Of Pennsylvania, and the
elections Of 1885 had finally settled tbe
question, that a large majority of her CHI.
zens were opposed to it as a national or
state institution. By division in the dem
ocratc ranks, Joseph Ritner was elected
Governor, with majority of whigs and
anllmasons in the lower house, and in his
inaugural address he pledged himself p
gainst the increase of banking capital and
paper in the following strong terms: .In
this point Of view, the increase of the sub-
stltute (papcr money! beyond the actual
Uatue and amount ofts principal, (speciel
is Jra'd upon the public. The man mh6
tdhes IN payment for his labor, his Goods
or his lind, is cheated" and he also : stated
that it was one of the indispensable dutie,
OF those who administer the jsta,c) govern.
ment' to maintain ga sound curr ncy."
At this very moment he had determined
IN secret, and by a combination with tbc