The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1837-12-14

Our friend Of the Onondaga Standard will
perceive that he has misunderstood the posi-
ton" which he deems unienable--we should
regret sincerely If the able and sagacious edi-
tor Of that paper should regard our position as
untenable if he correctly understands it. Has
any objections been urged to the cred we
have published to the world We have heard
none. Mems minds seem more employed in
the argumeniuna ad hominem--in investigating
our quo amino, than in discussing with Us the
doctrines we advocate.
We commend our friends to the rule Of "do-
ing as they would be done by" We beseech
them to "be just and fear not"--to seek the
true cause of their difficulties. and to exercise
little more forbearance towards us. We ask
nothing that is not clearly right, and will sub
NIT to nothing that is wrong.
Let them strive to tear off the poisoned
shirt from their defeated party, and in their
reviying strength they will find US less OBJ
noxious to their censure.
We expressed our regrets that the Message
causes Of the late defeats, and especially to
attribute them to the influence of banking cor
porations. This war upon the banks, il seems
to us as not only unjust and unnecessary in
itself, but as absolutely suicidal in those who
urge it on. The people will not surely give
up their banks they may modify the present.
system, and all admit that modification and
reform are necessary, but they would as soon
destroy their schools and colleges, which
disseminate learning, as those institutions
which break down the monopoly Of associated
wealth, and give universally to capital :
1t may strike us differently from others, but
we are astonshed that men Of sagacity and
experience cannot see that these assaults
upon the banking institutions of the country,
are direct attacks upon the people themselves.
When tho Government attempts TO force the
banks to resume specie payments, they are,
in fact, forcing the people to pay their debts.
Why, then, can it be expected, that the banks
will grind the faces Of their customers, and
withdraw their circulation, while the Govern
ment maintains this threatening attitude!
The people will not dispense with banks
it is not proper that they should dispense with
them but they are not, nevertheless, liable TO
the charge of subserviencyt to those institutions,
nor are they superior, or likely to be superior,
to the absolute control Of the people. Bankers
have their money to protect and husbandmen
their farms; and one is as much entitled to
the forbearance and favor of Government as
the other. An assertion that an election is
carried by bank influence. seems to us bold
and hazardous imputation upon the integrity
Of the voters. This charge made upon the
people of the State of New York, is not likely
to be borne with IMMUNITY.
We give the following from the Cayuga
Patriot an Administration journal, as one in
dication, amongst others we have, Of the state
Of public feeling on this subject.
"We regret that the Globe has thought proper to
charge the result of the election in this State to the
influence of the Banks. We infer from an able ar
ticle, which we copy from the Schenectady Demo
cra that the Globe was led into the error by the N.
Y. Evening Post. We agree with the Democrat in
the opinion that the Banks have stood aloof from the
contest. So far as the Banks in our villarge are
concerned, one of which is controlled b. Republic
cans aid the oher by the Wings, we have not heard
the slightest ntmation from any quarter that either
of them exerted any influence, or endeavorcd in the
least TO control the result There seems to be dis
position in some quarters to charge all the evils past
present to come, upon the Banks. For own
part, think they have sins enough Of their own to
answer for, without being made the scape- goats for
all the evils that may befa the country-t appears
to us, too much like the meat-axe disposition Of the
Wings in charging all the caamities of the country
upon the Administration"