Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1837-05-06
THE IMPORTERS-THE PRESSURE.

THE IMPORTERS-THE PRESSURE.
The following article from the New York Cour-
Ter and Enquirer, will give leaders some idea
|of the REAL EFFECTS Of the destruction Of the Uni
ted States Bank, and the consequent establishment
|of State institutions for banking purposes;-,he
Specie Order, and ignorance or "ickednes of the
Executive OF our government.
@1'he Evening Post in commenting up
ION our recommendation to Importers to re-
fuse the payment of their Bonds at the Gus
tom House, says:
''The next step will doubtless be propo-
sal to march to Washington and piLage, to a
somewhat more violent, but not less effectu-
|al manner, the National Treasury"
This, like most Of the articles in the papers
which sustain the Administration in its infa-
nous crusade against the country, is only
another evidence Of ignorance. We do not
doubt but the Editors Of the Post really be-
|lieve, that we have ut this moment ma
tional Treasury" at Washington, in the vaults
of which are deposited the fifty millions Of
surplus, now at the disposal of the Govern
ment. And yet, believing this, they daily
advocate the existing state of things! Why,
bad as the times are,we can tell these rise
acres, that if what they believe to be the
case. really were SO; if at this moment, the
Government had locked up in Washington,
fifty millions Of specie, the suffering OF the
people of the United States would be even
greater than they now are. But fortunately
fer the country. we have no Treasury at
Washington TO pilage. for if there had been
one, the wretchcs under whose control it
would have been, would long since have rob-
bed it of its last dollar.
With regard to our recommendation to
Importers not to pay Bonds we have only TO
say that it was made in good faith, fearlessly
made, and should be promptly acted upon.
Not only are the hundred of thousands thus
weekly drawn from the Merchants locked
up and kept out of circulation, but by these
payments, the very creditor who causes all
the distress is getting his full and regular pay
ments to the injury of the honest and inno-
cent merchants who is in no way RESPONSE
blc for the evils which there is two much rea-
son to apprehend, will result in the prostra-
ton Of the very Importers who.how regular
Is pay their Bonds as they fall due.
But we recommend this measure on higher
grounds. We contend, and the public are
well aware, that the President of the United
States has assumed powers which do not be-
long to him, and in open defiance of the
wishes of nine tcnths of the People of the u
nited States. clearly expressed through more
than two-thirds Of their Representatives, he
is pursuing a course which has already bank
rupted more than TWO rHoUsa.I, MERCHANTS,
and thrown OUT Of employ at least fifty thou
sand labourers, and deprived of the means Of
living not less than tuo hund,ed thousand
souls! Thousands are daily being added to
this list Of sufferers; and the question arises,
have we no redress? Are we indeed the on
ly pc ope on the face the earth, who in such
a crisis. arc compelled to permit the work Of
desolation and destruction to go on without
possessing either the right or the means Of
sta>ingt! We think not. We believe
that when the people Of this country are set
at defiance, their plainly expressed wishes
disregarded, their liberties invaded, and their
very means of existence taken from them.
they have not only the right to resist, but that
II is their imperious duty to do SO. The
right Of the rerolution, if that word suits our
adversaries better, is an inherent right, which
belongs equally to the enslaved serfs of Rus
STA, and to the oppressed freemen Of Ameri-
ca. Our fathers exercised it, and the decen-
dants may, and will resort to it when neces-
sary.
But we do not ask for revolution. We
call for resistance to oppression. We would
appeal from the mad acts OF the President to
the people themselves: and instead Of tamely
submitting till every merchant, every me-
chanic. and every trader in this city have
failed, and every laborer IN the country has
been thrown out Of employment and left
without bread for his children;-instead we
say. Of waiting till this crisis has arrived,
and an impeachment of the Executive takes
place after he has ruined the country, we re-
commend resistance, open. manly resistance,
while yet resistance may save the country.
We would show the Tyrant at Washington
that the people of this city not only know
their rights, but also know how to exercise
them, nd we would have cur Importing Mer-
chants while yet they are solvent, refuse to
pay any more bonds SO long as the Govern
ment Expresses US, and appeal to the people
to sustain them. Ours is Government of
laws and Of opinion. But the laws are tram
pied mo, and public np;n;op b,. b.ap I;e |