Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1840-03-26
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II cdce uS from our friends.
The tories must be hard pushed for
champions to defend their sinking cause,
when they employ such addle-headed
scribblers as the last Of the Mohe-
gans" to hunt up authorities on which
to found assumptions that the Whigs
are identified with the numerous pecu-
laiions, ptunderings, and roJberies per-
petrated on the people by the Locofoco
Presidents, Directors and Cashiers of
Gen. Jackson's Pet Banks. "Mohe-
gan" must be sadly ignorant of the
whole of the Pot Bank Deposite system,
or consider his readers SO, or ho never
would have cited the .Manhoitan Bank
for the purpose of bolstering up his
cause. He might with the same pro-
Priety have pointed to the MeGs of
Swafpout, Price, and host Of other
Snb-Treasurers, to prove that the Ad-
ministration were honest. Is it not n
matter Of history and familiar to every
one ut all conversant with politics, that
when Gen. Jackson seized the public
money contrary to law, and removed it
from the place appointed by the peoples
representatives for its safe keeping and
distributed it among so partizan banks,
that they were selected from the mass
for no other reason and allowed on no
other condition to hold any part of il
than, having first evinced the most SER
vile acquiescence Of all his measures,
and finally pledging their votes and in
lluence to the support of his nominee,
Martin Van Buren And is not a no.
torious fact, that the leading Wings
and Wing journals throughout the coun-
try, denounced the whole scheme as
disgracelul, ruinous and subversive to
the best interest of the people. and pre-
dicted the identical results which
" Mohegan " is now pompously parad-
ing before his readers as an ans,ver to
" Narragansctt," and intended as
reiutaton Of his statements And is il
not also notorious, that when this very
Manhattan Bank was selected, more
than haT its stock was owned by an
English .Nobleman, (the Earl Of Car
marthen) in the face and eyes of Gen.
Jackson's affected hostility to the U.
=. Bank on account of some of its stock
being owned by .toreig igners Go on
with the good work Mr.. Mohegan,"
and show the people the bottom line of
few more of the experiments Of jack
son and Van Buren, and while you
are about 1t, give us an extract from
Gen. Jackson's Message to Congress
when he was so happy to nave it in his
power to assure the people that the Pet
Bank deposite system had worked ad-
m'rably, and had exceeded his most
sanguinc expectations in furnishing
better currency and regulating foreign
md domestic exchanges than the U. s.
Bank had ever been able to do in its
best days.-1hen if you please give us
IN extract from his reru nert message,
in which he denounced this whole nest
of Executive taroriies, of his own crea-
ton, as set of SWINDLERS, de-
serving the Peni!eatiary. BY your own
showing, and from what you are pleased
to call the best Wing authority, the
Manhattan Bank owes its present diff
culties to the fact, that "four of its
WI tOdUS W tic
amount Of half million of dollars,
while hundreds Of merchants, traders
and others, with good business paper,
have been turned away from that in
stitution with the declaration that they
had no money to loan. "A pretty com
mentary this on the honesty and sagaci-
ty Of Gen. Jackson in selecting fiscal
agents for the government. We hope
in your next Mr.. "Mohegnn, to have
some account also Of the manner in
which the Commonwealth and Lafayette
Blnks of Boston, managed their affairs,
with host of other pets Of the same
political stamp. Such an exhibit would
no doubt be very gratifying to the
Wings in general, and to none more so
than to ZENO.