Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1837-1839, 1838-11-10
FROM THE MAssILLoT CAzETyE.1
BANK REFORM.

lature. We-so m1ie II be. We shall now
have a reformation OF the Banks, or else we shall
have beggarly non-perl,rmance Of empty pro
misses. For PopuH Uor Uei-the voice Of the
people is the voice OF Gods tbs fundamental
tenet in our political creed; ani if The voice Of
the people has decreed that the B .nks shall be
reformed-why, Should Just soon pretend
to oppose the holy mlnIate wold dare pre-
to oppose feeble eff,riS ~ inst rl; fot
of Heaven The State OF Oaio has Il Legis
iature, elected By the Sovereign People, The
express stipulation that The Banks shall lie rotor
med. For a long tune we have booked upon the
Bfnk Reform pr,]ec; as a more matter Of shllia-
mlhoy-. sort oil nn:neaL,ug, wiredrawn. sophs-
teal, intangible text for dcrI4gogues 10 preaeh
from--but perhaps We have been mistaken. The
people have flied legislative hall with reg
uIarly pledged majority of bank reiofmists--and,
bank reform we the people must, shall and will
have. The ma icsty OF the people y not thing
to be sncczcd at. Bank elorm is The word, and
we, tho people, have determined, in all solemn
seriousness, by votes, that ii the Banks Of Ohio
shall not be all reformed. by next spring, shall
hold our Senators and Representative, in the
present Legislature, rocreants To their solemn
pledges, and rs fllsc knaves and traitors. We have
now, seeing the clearly expressed determination
of the the people; become regular. fall built
bank ref,rmis, oursef-and we shall hold any
and every Senator and Representative of our pre-
seat Legislature personally and politically re-
sponsiblc for every infraciion Of The popular Will
TO our friend and neighbor, Matthew Johnson,
Esq has been entrusted, by ma iority OF nine
hundred and twenty of his fellow citizens, the
great and sacred duty of assisin. IN the rcgone |
ration, If not determination, OF all the banks OF
Ohio We shall hold MIN strictly accountable to |
u.s. his constituents, for The faithful performance of
his duty. There must be no cozening, no dolging !
the question. He mast walk boldly up to the
great work of reform, neither looking to the right
hand nor the left, and NAV God and his constit-
uents Judge him as he shall honestly redeem
his pledge.
Bank reform must and shall be obtained. The
people have wiIIed ii-and the will of the people
must and shall be observed. The banks have
been playing the very devil with the country {
They have furnished facilities for wheat buyers to
purchase up the staple OF our state at price that
exceeds all former experience. They have been
the means Of placing in the hands Of the farmer ?
81 80 for a bushe of wheat for which had they S
not existed he could not have obtained third 4
of the price They have built up, rather, dug
out, great, laundering, mammoth, aristocratIc
canal, right through the contre OF our state
alongside of which, and on which, some thousands tt
of aristocratic plebians, arc now earning com b,
Portable subsistence, who, without 1t, would have In
been Justly compelled TO perform day labor all ie
heir lives, under task-masters, or be starved pc
There iS telling all the evils OF tho banks pr
They take the money -oaning privilege from the de
lands of and extortoners and give it to be
BUSINESS mon, men who seem to have earth da
v object than the promotion of commerce and the
uilding OF towns, manufactures, canals, rail- cit
Dads, and turnpikes What right have farmers to
and laborers to become rich? What 20,
pht have people, in "A republican country, to tou
u:ld up towns and canals? The idea IL perfect cor
prepos ferrous; and yet here, in very teeth, In
e sec the Ohio Canal, built, as if in spite, by 70
ank money, just give industry and enterprise 1t
n equal chance with hereditary capital! Here, des
this town of Massion, built on piece OF ground INF
lat in 1896, wild swamp! Had 1t not con
zen for these Internal banks, never should inn
I'VE had our eyes offended, with this rascaiiy in in
lance of pIecocous' magniticence! What are 81
banks good for, but to furnish markets for the Thu
rmer and give employment to the mechanic gov
I'd manufacturer? Instead OF leaving coun- ing
in the blissful possession of its prmeval for sho
is thew must needs go work, to open farms. trial
canals, build towns locate railroads, and, at be
@ DASH kick all Indians, buiialos, panhers, this
ID rattesnakes two thousand miles further to- que
,r1s the Pacific, and substitute, in their stead pref
reel of villainous human beings, audacou, e.
ugh to infringe upon the sacred SOLITUDE Of ma 7
re- by tlipg the soil. and cutIsaing the arts In r.
that ridiculous hunbug, called PEACE! inha
Here have the JoiiIisouS, tne Neilinans, the
cCuyS, the Nlliicrs, the oVeTy-DodIcs, who
We become rich. They have become rich on mo
nix accommodate lions. The theatre of their op. try
atoms was erected by bank money, and all the pos
,alth around them has been the product of in tier
stry and enterprise, melted and directed by Mic
nix operations. 1t there had never been bank max
existence, that eyesore to democracy, the Ohio but
mol, would not now be nifronting our VISION thei.
decorating our sensiblties with It's pompous Sir
of boats, and cargoes, and warehouses, self
commission merchants. No-liae the tabled and
Dpia, It would have been amongst the things ism
Il never were! Who, then, who prizes the r
ssings of that glorious primordal state of teer
G. ed Il
ssWhen wild in woods the noble savage ran,'' direC
IAN resist the outpourings OF his Indignation arms
IN those viiiainous institutions which, by their
,ncy, have transformed forests fields, on p
bears and panthers into browsing and half
INIT info Ind tl<a
fling Yankees, miasmat tic ris into health tons
canal basins. Who, that has an eve for the a
uties of nature, untrammeed by the adventi- writ,
Is shac!les of art, would curse the busy If the
chief that has dccked us with the tinsi and by pit
,pines of civilization? But-we wax warm they
h our subject, and had better quit it. Let it, him
rover, be understood that shall henceforth. with
amongst the loudest disclaimers in favor of consi
reform We shall, therefore. take the liber tdris
# drawing up series OF instructions for Mat our
Johnson and other democratic legislators rebel
his vital, this all absorbing subject. ing IL
uprisis-A whole hoo bank reform commit would