Litchfield enquirer., 1838-03-29

S@A@S VI AA0 6OVStusAhGup SuCy WOulo nave nothing
left with which they could sustain their circulation in
the hands Of the people, and that the whole system
must fall at once. Fellow citizens-what could they
do? Should they enrich that government, which
cannot lawfully have wish but in subservience to
your interests, and at the same time sacrifice them
selves and bring you tornado Of misfortune from
the terrible effects from which you could never recov
err? 1t required but small time for delberaon your
interests preponderated. The government banks
shut up shop and were followed by almost every bank
in the country, and we owe them our thanks. Had
they taken the other alternative instead of oppres-
sion should have had ruin, utter and rretrevabe
How did this affect the U. S. Bank, the grand object Of
this war She STOOD but shared, it is true in the
lamity; but in the transaction she was no more
amenable to blamethan all others. They were now,
Pets and ALL par, and the interminable howl of
the government, was turned against them all-they
would neither pay nor break. Congress could not re-
woke their charters, and the people and the State Le
gislatures promptly manifested disposition to
Them The government saw itself again defeated in
their darling object, "but like the hardened villain,
detected but suffered TO escape they retired from the
contest only to project powerful plan, leaving
however, their agents in the field with the whole
treasury in their hands to buy specie at large pre-
mium in order to prevent if possible the resumption
fspecie payments until the people could be made to
believe that their bills "rags' in truth. What
was this mighty plan by which the government should
at length be able to destroy the banks 1t is the sub
treasury BILL bill to transfer by law the specie in
to the hands of the government-to transfer it from
where it is wanted basis for that currency so vi
tally necessary for your welfare to be first locked up
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and then lavshed political favorites Will it get
back to the people? No-the government pauper
will sell itfor premium to the government debtor,
and back it goes into the treasury to goat again the
eyes of the government, to reward again the hreng
partisan to be sold again to the importing merchant,
travelling perpetualy the round of this small circle,
within the outermost circumference of which your
hands can never enter. Were the banks then so
wicked for suspending payment? Is the bank in our
county such monster? If she is not, then are not
other banks. Can you see in any Of her transactions
that speculation which initiates against your inter-
ests2 Where is the monopoly? Does she receive
interest on one dollar more than she sustans in actual
circulation and do not those vile spectators pay this
interest? Has she not watched with kindness over
your interests, and especially for the last year OF
gloom Though humbled and crippled, with the
iron rod of the government over her head, the Sub
Treasury, like the yawnng grave open for her specie
the whole Locofoco kennel at her heels has she not
sustained currency in the hands of your employers
(ca them Spectators if you pleased which has ena-
bled you to escape threatened starvation You are
told that her bills worthless rags" and the go
vernment calls on you to believe this against the evil
dence Of your own eyes and your own mouths IT'S
an abomina5le .falsekood. / have never seen man
but who was better pleased with this monsters bills
than with any thing he had for sale. have the
avaricous man holding them in his possession, and
coveting more Ihave seen the most scrutnizing and
suspec,ing give in exchange for them his receipt in
full have the tear Of gratitude roll down the
poverty.stricken cheek on the receipt of Of this
monsters bills of the smallest denomination. In
Short have never seen one received without smile,
parted with but with regret and am irresistibly
forced to the conclusion that if that bank monster,
it is Of conely FORM cannot deny but that in
judicous and perhaps dishonest men may have avail
ed themselves of those facilities which liberal bank
and generous community have proffered, and that
partial evil to very small extent may have ollowed
and so have evils occurred under this government
whose sun shines not only on the good, but on the
"evil and unthankful." But does he blot out that
sun as consequence I am reminded of fa-
bic which strikes me as being appropriate. 1t may he
from Esop, and may not-no matter from where, it 1t
is only to the point. Some young men once lived in
a country where game was very plenty, and on which
they entirely subsisted and to aid them in taking
their prey they had beautiful dog, and good as he
was beautiful On a certain day there went into
their neighborhood Doctor, very wise man-inhi
own estimation. He noticed the dog, and heard the
young men speak of his good qualities But the Doc
tor found fault with his form he said his tail was alto
gether too long and thicky coated with hair. that
in running took much wind, and moreover made
him very liable to get caught in the brush. In Short
it must be cut of, which would add greatly to his
health and strength To this some objected, but a
majority thought with the Doctor for, said they,
the Doctor be wrong? The Doctor now. after mi
mute examination of the part to be amputated laid his
hand on the small Of the dogs back, and said his tail
must come off there. Some again objected, saying
that the amputatcd part would include his hinder legs
and how could dog run with but twolegs But the
Doctor called them fools, and asked them how they
knew where the tail bone ended and the back bone
commenced, and swore "by the Eternal" that by
cutting his tail off there if he could not tree many
squirrels, he could tree them better. This brought
QUARREL but the majority with the Doctor, who
became so exasperated at the minority for doubling
his skill that by way he cut the dogs
tail off just back Of his ears. There says he, is his
nose left; do you think dog that follows by scent
needs to be numbered with any thing but his nose p
What thought those young men Of the Doctors skill
when. after three or four days fasting they found
themselves on oil fours smelling out their game
Why is it, fellow citizens, that that eternal howl
continuous as the rnnr Of Niarara ahnnt bank mon