The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-10-10
From the Massilion Gazette
SENATOR ALLEN.

This gentleman has been making an extensive
tour of the State of Ohio. He was al Worcester ON
the 14h and at Canton on the 18th inst His speech,
in Canton was the 10th, which he had delivered
since his setting out II is rather stereo,yped con-
cern-and the report OF it. which we have seen pub
lished in the Wooster Journal, is rigdiy exact
be handsome, as all the Aliens are. He is also
man OF some considerable talents; another trait of
the Allen name-but he is an arrant loco foco
genuine, upo thehub Bentonian, and that as one OF
the Allen family we do most sincerely and solemny
| abure and repudiate. We like him, however, for
| his honesty Unlike most of our uproarioHs Van
Buren, men, he invokes no salvos for his political
he practices no ,ia H nc
text is, emphatically Perish Credit perish Com
meroe-Doon ac,th tie Banks, and to the deuil Nth
Nick Biddle." To this text he sticks, with con-
sstency and pernacity that would have done honor
to the most unfinchng martyr that ever sealed his
religious faith in the flames Of Smithfeld. While
some of our loco foco acquaintance, with minds
half made up and their consciences shVerng IN the
wind of public opinion, are deVising gun traps 10
lure the modern democracy to their Standards Allen
comes boldly forward, and, at one stroke fells the
whole credit system, banks and ALL to the earth, and
scatters their disointed fragments TO the four winds
! of heaven. He sails under no decepious, janus
faced flag do the loco focos Of our own neighbor-
hood. They will talk learnedly about bank reform
| and, on OCCASION they will buy and sell bank
stock-they will curse all banks to-day, and tomor-
row advocate their existence-they are, however,
bank men, in the main-with just enough OF the re-
forming mania about them to make them appear re-
| spectacle
Senator Allen is, however, brilliant exception to
the pseudo Loco Focos hereabouts There is no
mincing of matters with him. He takes his javelin
in his hand and he goes FORTH with his oins girded,
the champion of metallic currency, and the avow,
ed and uncompromising enemy Of paper credit and
paper money. We like an undisguised foe, and,
therefore, we like Senator Allen. Garry out his
doctrines, and we should not have canal rail
road, cotton factory, steam mill in the whole
| Union. We should be brought back to a glorious
state of federal barbarism. There would be no
credit and, matter of course there would be no
incentives to industry. There would be no money,
except that made Of metals, and il would be apPro-
prated 10 the exclusive and behoof of the mobiles
! and the usurers. The laboring poor would be COM
PEELED to delve the stubborn earth, with unwashed
hands and uncheered hearts, without recompense
and without hope. Occasionally Robin Hood and
Little John would appear the stage, just TO vary
the They would facilitate the circulation Of
the currency by the summary process of cutting the
throats of its holders. These would be jolly times,
if Senator Aliens notions could become established
doctrines But we trust there is still little eaven
of common sense, even among the Loco Focos, and
that this nation will soon be doomed to meet the
desolation which must inevitably attend the abroga-
ton Of the credit system.