The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1839-08-06
Danville, Aug. 2, 1889.

MIR. EDITOR Your remark in your last that
the war cry Of the Van Buren, presses of"Fedoral
Wig Bank party,' "Bank reform," sc is all for
effect and deception.
Allow me to present 10 the consideration OF
plain common sense men of the reasons
which with conclusive that this cry of"Bans
reform" DC. is mere pretence--a very humbug
calculated to catch the votes of the misinformed.
First, it is stoutly affirmed by the Van Buren,
presses that the Wing party in favor of the
adjustment of Banks upon principle that is I'M
safe, and that the leaders of the Wing party are
friendly to unsound, irredeemable currency
Now sir, without going into discussion of the
merits of any system of Banking, let sensible men
look about them and see who compose the Wing
party-who are the most prominent men of that
party. Will sir, you find large portion ofsfhe
spectacle and we'll informed men of business
Farmers, Manufacturers, Mechanics and Merchants,
in whom, in all the common affairs of life you
have perfect confidence? Very few of them have
anv interest in any Banks that all are interested in
the currency, and consulting their interest,
would do nothing which would have a tendency to
derange it, in much as they would be essentially
the sufferers. Their Interests therefore being so
clearly identified it'll a sound and safe and uni
form currency not the charges of the Van Blu.
not evidently in sincere
In the second place, I infer that these presses
nsncere from the fact that candid soeU inform.
cd Fan Buren, men admit in private conversation
that the schemes proposed are impracticable
have myself conversed with gentlemen of this de-
scription. One man in particular, a judcous OBJ
server of character, Il will say nothing of his
dor) remarked in my hearing that eve" the Van
Buren, party-"do not expect to carry these meas
ures" Gelation to Banks) awe know" said he
"that the Banks well enough, but then one half
of you Wings real locofocos and dc
just what we please with them on this question"
Another Van Buren, gentleman, more candid, re-
marked that "the Banks institutions that we
have created for our own and the public good, we
need them, and it is absurd, by this ncessant po!t-
cal slang, to destroy what we cant dispense with. "
In the third place, the insincerity of the Van Blu
presses is proved by the fact that in New Hamp-
shire, Pennsylvania and other States where the par
~ have undisputed majores have
been adopted or even proposed like what is prom.
ised by the selfstyled Anti Bank party in YER
mont
Another consideration evidencing the decepti We
jnteDhons OF the Van Buren, presses in denounc-
ang the Wings as the "Bank party" is the well
known fact that in many of our Banks majority
Of the Directors are Van Buren, men, and in most
Of them, more or less of the Directors and Stock
holders are Van Buren, men. One of the lowest
and most odious ranters in the county of Caledonia
against the Federal Wing Bank party" and who
processes great sympathy for the poor in view OF
the manner in which they trodden down by the
"Bank aristocrats'' is himself Director and a
large Stock holder in Bank.
have further which wish to lay be-
fore your readers in 4 future number
REPUBLICAN.