Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-09-24
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For the Democratic Standard.
Mr.. EDITOR: In looking over the Mays
vile Eagle, / find Ex.Governor Metcafe
spoken of as having addressed the peo-
pie Of Ohio, at the Dayton celebration.
What new hope inspired this old gentle
man, am unable to conjecture. After his
Governor services in Kentucky, he had
led many Of his old friends to believe that
he was going TO retire to private life, but
in '34 he became candidate for the State
Senate, ia the counties of Nicholas and
Bracken, and got beat in Nicholas coun-
ty "a votes by his competitor Samuel
Keene. MetcalEe beat Keene in Brack-
en- upwards of one hundred votes, prin-
Cipally on the score of he (Metcalfe) be.
ing opposed to the establishment of
State Bank. After he was elected, the
FIRST session he served, he voted to es-
tabIish the Northern Bank with four or
Ave branches. This was done, too, after
the previous Legislature had chartered
State Bank with three or four branches.
Thus you will find that while he was can
vassing for the office of Senator, knowing
the citizens Of Bracken were opposed to
State Bank, and in favor OF the recharter
of the U. s. Bank, Ex-Governor Metcalfe
made political capital, and to the utter
establishment Of many of his political
friends, as soon as he got himself seated
in the Senate of Kentucky, he turned
right about and voted for the Northern
Bank and its four or five branches, there
by adding another batch of banks in Ken
lucky. 1t 'S6 a leading whig introduced
a bill to add another Bank with host of
branches. The democrats were in
minority of some ten or fifteen, but with
the help of some honest wings, this third
Bank of denominations was knocked stiff.
However, the wings in 'SS, being decided
ly a majority, chartered another Bank
with its branches, which has not gone in
to operation as yet. Still we, the
people, are told that the democrats
have established this host of defaulting
Banks. Is there no shame or blush on
the check of wings! But to return to
the Ex-Governor; he is cunning old fox;
he will tell the people of Ohio if they
can get Gen. Harrison elected, that the
currency will be much better, while at
the same time he knows that his whig
bretheren of old Virginia have published
in an address that he, Gen. Harrison, is
opposed 10 a National Bank, and urge
that the wings of that State ought to
vote for him.
see handsome notice of Col. Cham
bers. Do the people of Ohio know who
shis great Colonel isl do they know that
he has made some of the severest speech
es against the Abolitionista that ever was
madei | was at Augusta on ono occa-
sion at Court, and this admirable Col,
represented these people as being devils
in human shape. This same redoubtable
Col. some years since, thought that his
big dog would m4ke good candidate for
elector for John @. Adams. That was
at time when Mr.. Clay had paid 100
dollars for the publication of certain
charges against said Adams. This same
electioneering turner and twister in pol
itics said on another occasion, that he
was astonished at the people for electing
Gen. Jackson-thathe was foreigner
that he was not native born citizen Of
the U. States. Yes, Mr.. Editor, this is
the man that is now traversing the State,
making speeches, thinking to delude the
fresmen of Ohio. Had he not better go
back to Kentucky, and there attend to
his negro farm and his big dog, and let
Ohioans attend to their elections in their
own way. These gentlemen Kentucki-
ans are afraid the corrupt banking system
is about to be broke up in this country,
and then they will have to get their living
in the way the working class gets theirs,
BY the sweat ofthe brow.
A WORKING MAN.