Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1839-10-24

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-,. - me Dry Cseds Merchants as City
Eaesel-Firss movement for susPensiom
~f specie Payments III they can.
On Tuesday evening a secret meeting of jobbers
and auetioneers was held in the lower Of the
City Hotel, John Haggerty in the Chair; Commit
tee was appointed to draw up resolutions in refer
ence to the present crisis. The meeting then ad
iourned and met last evening to receive the report
Of the Committee. p. ii. Schenck, Esq, was APP
pointed to the Chair, and after preliminary
marks, resolutions, in substance follows,
then read by Robert Jeffrey, Esq
Resolved That the Of cotton tobacco and breads
coming market viii, their appearances afford
abundant relief from the present dfeultes aud that assist
i. wanted for three or four months only.
ID That committee be appointed to want upon the Banks
and them grant such relief and ascertain which
Of them will comply with the request and which will not aud
report in writing.
Of Safety Fund banks they designate
That the Bank Presidents be requested to call meeting
of the directors Of the several Institutions to take into con
sidera ton The above resolutions
That immediate relief necessary arrest the impend
ing ruin Of the manufacturing mechanical and mercantile
classes.
The amendment to the % resolution, to the effect
that the names of those banks which complied with
the wishes Of the meeting, and those which did not,
should be reported, was moved by Thomas Denny,
ESQ aud was carried after SHINE debate The same
amendment was proposed to the Sd resolution but
objected 10, and withdrawn. On the reading Of the
closing resolution, Mr. Lathrop, Of the firm of Ay
mer Lathrop, proposed that the banks should be in
cluded part Of the ruins of the present crisis.
This produced a laugh, was objected to and with
drawn.
The resolutions were then finally carried, and a
committee consisting Of David Leavitt, Archibald
Oracle and another, were appointed to nominate q
committee often TO carry the resolutions into effect
and report at a meeting be held at the City Hotel
this evening
A list Of names reported among which were A.
Lockwood, James Herriot and Others, and objected
TO- the ground that the most Of them bank di
rectors. During the preparation of another list,
Thomas Denny offered resolution that the proceed
ings should not be made public. Gen. Lloyd said
that he objected to the resolution; garbled state
nent would doubtless appear in the Wall street
papers, and it was better that the state
ment should appear under the signatures of
the officers Of the meeting. otherwise it might
seem that they were ashamed of what they had
done. 1t was finally resolved that the proceedings
shonld be published. The committee then reported
the following a committee to wait upon the
banks, which agreed upon:-
Thomas Denny, Charles WaddeIl n,
p II. schenck, Jss. Tucker,
Rob Jeffrey T.. Dissos~sy,
A. o. Thompson, w. Townsend,
@. Stout, d. A. Cushman.
Now what is the meaning of all this secrecy. and
fuss, and effort, and talking about and about point
Ills plainly and simply to ask the banks to suspend
specie payments Many Of the persons present were
the very who urged the suspension Of the banks
in 1887. Whatever might have been the policy Of
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sure in ls39-and il the banks listen to the insane
advice for moment, they ought to lose their char
tiers, and be wound up in ten days. Nothing can
save the country reform the times but resolute
determination, in the banks OF New York, to main
tain specie payments, at all and erery hazard
And as there is TO be public meeting tonight the
City Hotel, we call upon all honest, conscientious
men, opposed TO dishonesty and Fraud to attend this
meeting, and TO put down all attempts to disgrace
the character Of New York. and 10 PROSTATE her bank
ing institutions. This whispering-this secrecy
this attempt 70 produce suspension Of specie pay
ments by stealth, 10 one Of the most impudent and
Audacious things attempted in a civilized, hon
est Christian country Let the whole people rise in
their majesty and put il downtown.
The Cenaa grafton Or Mebile-PubIic sym.
pathy-PubIis Meeting.
since the dawn OIL the present month, the doomed
city Of Mobile in Alabama, has passed through
several CONGREGATIONS, involving the utter demolition
offour hundred and serenfyfre houses among which
were churches theatres banks, and hotels, equal in
value to Sl750,0oo more, solid gold and silver.
not Philadelphia shin plasters.
Such a series Of awful conaagrations, following
together in rapid succession, is without parallel,
even in this country Of fire and confagration. In
Philadelphia and New York, during this same
month, we have sustained fires too, but not by any
to the extent, although in possession Of
far greater ability to bear the loss Probably the
loss by beth the fires in New York and Philadel.
phs is not equal to half Of the destruction
tanned by Mobile.
Look al the doomed city in every point Of view.
After being half depopulatsd by the pestlence the
csndiary appears among them, applies the torch al
the dead hour Of midnight-and in a few days the
great portion Of the fair capital Of Alabama is laid
low in ashes II is said that their calamites spring
from the malevoence Of the blacklegs and gamblers
70 the respectable classes Of society. BE this
as il may, we cannot at this distance Of place look
upon the eaa~ities Of sister city without feelings
ofsympathy and coincidence. public meeting has
been called in New Orleans and apublic meeting has
b~en talked II an Nev York But il IL not time for