Piney Woods planter. (Liberty, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1838-1840, 1839-08-03
From the MississiPPian.
RECORDED FACTS

From the MississiPPan.
RECORDED FACTS
PROOFS INcoNrEsrIsLE THAT THE wings
HAVE BEEN TAI: AUTHORS OF THE
BANKS in MISSISSIPPI.
We defy them 10 Tie proofs. $. Prentiss'
The recent attempt of some OF the
/. wing party to disavow their advocacy
Of the banking system and their agcn-
cy in chattering the multitude OF rot
ton corporations which now curse the
land with worthless currency, will
prove idle, futile, and vain. The abb
surdity of such an effort, on The part OF
this shinplastcr wing party,is only sur
passed by its unparalleled insolence
and open defiance ofthe truth OF pub
lie events. The echo of their hozan-
mas for the banks has notyetdied away
but Is still ringing in the public ear,
when these Protcuslikc wings assert,
that they are and always were opposed
to the creation of bank charters by the
State legislature. They whose clam
or loud and long, for these last ten
years, has been, give US more bank
capital. we have too little banking
capital, have now the weakness to say
they were always opposed TO banks.
They who not six months ago denoun-
ced the democrats as agrarians and
Jewellers for opposing the banks, and
who were cIamorous for the ''institu-
tons Of the country" as they termed
the banks. arc now, with an effrontery
which is truly laughable, claiming to be
the opponents of the banks. The
wings who have charge the democrats
with being the advocates Of an exclu-
sirc metallic currcncytdenounclns 1t a.
barbarious and war upon credit, and
holding up the banks as the subduer'
of the wilderness, and the only savlour'
oftha country, now suddenly SWUNG
from heir ancit Mt moorings, not only
danounce all banks, but most positive
~ allcgc, Tint they have always beer
opposed to the creation Of banks
Was there ever such arrogance ant
such presumption on the intelligence
of the people!!
No sooner had the charter OF th'
II. S. Bank expired, than the whlg par
ty at once besiegcd the State legisla
lures for the creation Of banks to nj
what they called the void occasione'
by the withdrawal Of the u. 5. Bank
This was the never ceasing cry 0
the wing party, from one end OF tn
Union to. the other. In this State TIN
wings from the river counties, poure'
like so many Goths and Vandals int
the halls and lobbies of the legislature
clamoring for banks. In the legisla
turc, they were heard by the presen
a whig candidate for Congress, Adam l.
Bingaman, who during the many year
n of his service ir the legislature, un
formiy voted for every bank charte
that was projected, and brought all y
influence to their support. Under h
Influence the Agricultural and Con
mcrcial Banks of Natchez came I'M
being: and he has always been site
Ter Tor all the river banks as well ev
ny other bauk project eyer started
the legislature.
We affirm with confidence, an
challenge controversy, that the opp
sition to the multiplication OF banl
and the banking system has come fro
the democratic party throughout q
IJnion. as the act of party organic
lion. 1t has often been the case, th'
norton of the democrats have bee
led off by the wings in the support
banks; but the opposition to these CO
variations. whether feeble or stron
has come from. and been led on |
democrats, while the wings have gol
for the banks in a mass, almost witho
an exception. AS a party organic
ton. the support Of the banks has be,
bv the wings, and the opposition
tIo democrats. In this State this
emphaticalIy true, and the journals
both branches ofthe legislative, for
series ofyears, will proveit beyond
We have lately read with no SIM
astonishmentthe proceedings ola me
;nS Of the whig party Of the city
W;oLshnrp bv whom it is attempted
he asserted, that the wings are oPPos
- hanks; and particularly i is stat
Nv the wing press OF that city, that
Hon s. s. Prentiss addressedthe me
inc. asserted that he had ALWAYS Gee"
possi 10 tie STATE Banks, and that
whig party had also been oPP?o1Iu
these corporations. 1t IS certainly