The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1837-09-23
,vno ISSUED rnE SnINrLAslERs'

Coy. Ritner and the Lbank, they wrIggle,'
sI,mmer. and eyade it, as if they knew their
answerto it was to be aplea Of guilty to
the charge. They have been, ever since
the suspension of specie payments, assldu-
onsly labouring 10 prove that the democrats
wore the indirect authors of the shin plas-
ters. but thus far they have so grossly failed,
that they dare, cnot look an honest man IN
the face when they make the assertion.
The facts onthis subjct are too notorious TO
leave any man in doubt. 1t is well known
that the whig councils Of Philadelphia,
which are composed of the noisy friends OF
Gov. Riner, issued the vast amount OF
1870 900 dollars the very next day after the
banks suspended specie payments, they
have been increasing the amount almost
every week since, by divers large additions.
The banks received them for circulation,
and Immediately paid them out at their
counters, in the place of the specie, boarded
in their vanlts. On the same day the banks
suspended paying out specie; notices were
stuck up at the corners of the streets in the
city of Philadelphia, announcing that the
next day these shinplasters would be issued.
These facts prove incontestbly that be-
fore the banks stopped paying specie, they
had made an 0rrdn cement with GoC. Rit-
ner'S whig FEDERAL friends offhe city com
cils, 10 issue these ShingIdsters for the
accommodation ofthe banks. This infer
ence cannot be disproved. The charge
has been reiterated again and again, in
Philadelphia, and has not, so far as we
know, been denied.
1t is said by Gov. Riner's adherents
that certaiu democratic councils in the interi-
or of the state, have also issued shin plas-
tiers. Let us grantit-but they did not do
so, till the interior of the whole common
wealth was flooded with counterfeit and
spurious city shin plasters, and it became a
grave question whether the honest people
of the country should be cheated out of
thousands of dollars by these nbtes, the sig
natures, and devices of which they were
unacquainted with, or whether the corpora
tidns In their immediate neiahborhood,
should Issue certain i;nited amounis of
small notes, to eXcl,tde the civ counterfets
from circulation in the country. We say
nothing Of the policy Of issuing small notes
by these democratic corporations. but this
we say, they were generally made to defend
the people against the fraudulent spurious
shinplasters that came from abroad.
The first great emission came from the
friends OF Governor RitneF, to aid and ac-
commodate the banks with a substitute for
specie, and as they have been approved by
his supporters every where, we think il
exceedingly probable the project was
known, and ratified by him before it was
carried into execution. Why is it not so'
The issuing Of these notes s a palpable Vi
oIatlon of the law, and yet the banks, over
which Gov. Ritner promised, in his last
proclamation, to keep a strict eve, have
been most actively engaging in this syste-
matte contempt ofthe law ofthe land: & the
iilustrious "'Supremacy ofhe law" gov
ernor, has not breathed word upon the
subject.
II he did not approve of the issuing or
paying out of slin-plasters, by the banks,
why has he not Illuminated his thunders
agalnts them, for their manifest DISREGARD
of the law! Why did he not hold M to
them the penalty Of SHINING! Wins did he
not tell them black and bitter day of reck.
oning Vas at hand when they must answe,
Tor the offences! This "rcform" governor
who gnashes lis toothless gums at the Ma.
uonal Government of his country. and de-.
nounces war and blood, is silent as tbe
grave when he secs his friends, the whig.
oil Philadelphia, allied with the banks, h
open day, trampling the laws in the dust.
Gov. Ritner and his friends DENY tha
they issued the shinplasters!! "Out upor
the hiyPocrites." The proof against then
would hang every man of them, in copr
ol justice, if the crime ofissuing them wa,
punishable with death. We call on IN,
people to reflect upon these facts. If the,
desire to have the reign ofshin-pIasters ner
petuated, sustain their aulhors-If tbe,
would have them reformed, and gold on5
silver restored, go to the election and bur
'hem from power-'Lay the axe NJ III,
root OF the tree" if YOU would extirnot
snniIn.piasters-do it by terminating the rsig,
oil RItnerlsm and fcde:alism.-B.
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