Piney Woods planter. (Liberty, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1838-1840, 1839-06-29
From the vicksburg Sentinel and EupOsitor.

1
THE SECOND WAN OF THE REvoLU
TIoN; BY A VIRGINIAN.-A friend has
handed us most ably written pamph-
let under the above title, extracted
from the Democratic Review for May.
tits soul-stirring, truth-telling, bank
thief and corrupt-corporation killing
document. Would to heaven that it
was in the hands ofeyery freeman in
Mississipl. Every sentence is fraught
with lessons Of wisdom, drawn from
dearbought experience. But it is as
tonishing how rapidly whole nation
becomes insensible to the beacon lights
which mark the wrecks of ages gone
by. Even the panics, and reyulsions,
and expressions which have afflicted
society through banks within the mem
DRY OF man seem to be totally neglect
ed, and like the innocent bird which
has the natural means OF escape, man
kind succumbs an easy prey to the fas-
cinations ofthe serpent. tits imPossi-
BILE that the degrading vassalagc which
| VIC HOW CHuuIC HOlli IlC uOhlHutloh
Of soulless, brainless corporations, can
be much longer submitted to. The
sufferings of a brave and generous peo-
pie in the Bastile were borne long; but
outraged humanity at length awakened
TO sense of its degraded condition,
and soon battered the walls ofthat en-
CINE OF power and pride TO the earth.
So will it be with the banks, and the
vile thieves by whose management
they have oppressed and plundered the
people of this country.--Light has
broke in on the popular mind, and rev.
olutions never go backwards. We
would not be surprised to see, in less
than two years, those bank officers.
who for years past set the law and the
officers of the law at defiance, dictated
public opinion, and boldly and impu-
IDENTIFY asserted their powerto use their
institutions for any purpose that they
might think proper; we would not be
surprised in two years to see these We
ry men seek safety In fight, and beg
their lives from an outraged, long-en-
during populace.. Among the most
suspicious signs ofthe times is the i'm
mens6 change of opinion manifest
among many Of the strongest Wings
OF Vicksburg on the subject of banks
and the credit system. This change
was manifested | st summer; but with
in the last two months it has advanced
with gigantic strides. We would like
to sec the spectators now attempt to
get up meeting to beg their masters
at Jackson to issue post notes. They
were admonished that such paper would
be at Il discount Of Is to % per cent;
but "pious Harry" and the "Roaring
River" told them it would be eagerly
sought after by capitalists, and would
maintain par value in all parts of the
Union. Now they are at discount of
IS per cent, and '.pious Harry" the
"Roaring River" and all the rest Of
the spectators and swindlers are 81
lent. We will recollect the last meet |
ing got up IN Vicksburg by the specu-
lators; we recollect the disgusting and
humiliating incense which they offered
up to Governor Runnels, and the man
ayers OF the Union Bank-just as the
ignorant and degraded slaves Of Egypt
worship isis, the crocodile, the ichneu-
mon, and the vilest reptiles that draw
out a miserable existence from the
slime Of the Nile.
But our object in commencing this
article was to call the attention Of the
people Of Mississippi to the shortest and
most appropriate remedy for the tyran-
ny, injustice and oppression Of the
bank thieves. We might refer them
to the glorious example of Kentucky;|
but at present we will call their at
tention to an earlier and purer period
in our country's history, in the good
old republican state Of Pennsylvania.
We extract the following from the
Minutes Of the assembly, March 81,
l785-The state ofpublic feeling and
here developed, was produ-
ced by the action oil the "Bank of
North American" and it is a pretty
fair picture ofthe operotion ofthe sys-
tenn to the present time. Occasionally,
the exactions Of the system have been
with more prudence anu eau ,
ton; they have then been less felt, and
have by many for the time being been
considered an advantage to commerce
and industry; but then they have. only !
been stall-feeding their victims, that ,
On the day Of execution their prey I
night be the more rich and tender to I