Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1840-04-09

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country are Impoverished and enslavcd.
The doctrines of the present admlnistra
ton with regard to the safe keeping of lht
public money, are worthy of the darkest ages
Of the world. They place man In office. ant
pretend to expect hhn TO discharge his duties
wholly from The sentiment Of fear. lie is Z,
be surrounded by spies and threatened witt
fine and imprisonment, al every step, not OF
the principle Of u general law that applies 4
all his fellow citizens alike, who may be gull
ty Of offences Of the SAME nature, but an es
pecal law Is passed TO operate oil smal
class alone. is il possible that under these
circumstances, an honorable and high minded
man will ever be found filing these Offices
The thing Is ne impossible as that the rays oi
The sun should mlngls with darkness. And
moreover, IL is never intended such men shall
hold these Offices. Mr.. Van Buren, and bis
associates would feel themselves but III at
ease in the presence of such men.
The French have a proverb which implies
something like thls--that the world makes
"A man what it believes him to be-" than which
a more Important trnsn, has seldom been ex'
pressed. Most mems characters are formed
by northumberland II the habits, customs
or institutions OF any community, single oni
any particular class or calling, aud habitually
treat and consider them az knaves, they will
soon become so, even were they previously y
ever 80 honest. Every state paper that has
been issued from the government since the
election Of General Jackson, TO the people
while they have been full of expressions OF
unbonnded confidence in the Indulgence OF
the people, have contained at the same time
the inherent evidence that the writer's ol
them had no belief in the integrity of non.-
Whole classes of The community have been
denounced as worthless, and rs Stoindters,
who if they were compared as individuals
with the men who denounced them, they
would appear like angels when conlrasted
wlib demons. And yet this constant and un-
fenitting stream Of SANDER has not been
without its eff Ct even OIL the characters of
many uf our pnrest and most honorable clli.
zens. In confirmation Of The truth Of the
French proyerb, many have been degrade
in their own estimation, and have become IN
reality what The Executive and his mnions
accused them Of being, at a tlple when they
were perfectly Innocent Of the charges made
against them as a class. Pops, who well un-
dcistood human nature, says
! .Vice is a monster of so fighful onien,
! As TO be hatred, needs but to be seen
| Ye, seen too oft familiar With her face,
! We first endure then Pity then EMBRACE"
Witness for instance the effects produced
on our banking system. When General
Jackson came into power this system migbt
be said to be almost perfect. Probably the
whole losses that the people had been sub
jccted TO Tor the ten years previous, both N
individual aud the public business, did not
amount 10 the interest alone they would have
been subjected TO on necessary amount OF
specie currency for six months. The public
money was kept safe without noise, and with
out cost and was always ready at any point
where it was needed. in ls29, an attempt
was made by the friends of Gen. Jackson, 10
oct lhe control Of the United States Bank foI
political purposes (of which more will be said
hercatcr) They failed, however, IN tho at
tempt, and upon the receipt of Mr. Biddle's
!, DECIDED letter dated July 18th, 1923, in
which he tells The Executive that the "TRUE
relation of the Bunk 20 the gorernnr'a, is
that Of an impartial anil indepenaem friend,
NOT A PARTIZAN" il was determined nj
Washington TO destroy the Bank TO pave the
way for an institution more subsorylent ts
to the views Of the then Executive, and the
future rrpecidnis The Bank was forthwith
charged with being guilty OF interfering IN
eieciionS-whe the truth was, It's refusal so
10 do was the ptry reason that caused the
charge TO be made, viz: the refusal To lend
itself TO the Executive to oe used as n PO-
LITICAL MACHINE. The constant abuse and
con,umey beapcd by the Executive and It's
minions upon the conductors of th0, Bank
and more recently upon all others connected
with Banking institutions, has in great
measure destroyed the high character, thcIi
managers as a class formerly possessed
! And whenever these institutions have beer
! OF late years solely in the hands of the min
! ions of tic Executive, they have been al
most sure to be plunderod or used ms political
/ machines For the truth Of this, the writer
/ appeals to the public in every section OF the
] country. Witness for instance The La IA
I yet,e and the Commonwealth Banks o: Bos-
! ton. and the Manhattan Bank IN New York
all managed by the most inscriptions ad-
hercnts OF the present aud past adlninlslra-
I tions, aud host Of others. In TACT, nearly
+ if not quite all the losses Of the public none
by our banks, have occurred IN those insii'
,ntions where the Executive had managed
either 10 nsnuote its own adhcronts or II
I the language of Southern Friend of the nd
I minis,ra,ion had debauched" those who
= already pussessed their control. The chcc
'of this evil influence is not confined Strictl!
/ TO banking or TO party limits--but there ha
! been n looscness engenderod ~ every de
pariment Of business, from the same causes
and many rnen who would otherwise hav'
lived and lied honest, have been degraded II
their own estimation by the constant iorrcn
of abuse poured upon them os n class, IT,
the Executive and its orgons-and they hav
been gradually prepared to yield to templa
ton. and have disgraced themselves AM
country, by the betraying OF important trust
rcposed in them.
Some time since. nj public dinner o' IN
friends of the present administration IN Dos
ton, partizan Of Mr. Van Burep's, gave n
/. his toast the following sentiment" CHRIS
: iiorify and The Banks, may her dowrJdH b
sDe,dy." Ten or twelve years ago. TINS sen
!, ,imenl could not have been spoken or rca
in an assembly Of the most degraded part {
our population, without calling forth on eS
; preston of indignation from all. But not
so familiar have the public become with 81
in high pieces, that such sentiment ~oul
{ in mann assemblies find advocates, aud ncsrl
all would read ard pass il by withou, pTOba
, bly, noticing it, even IN hongM
! Al experience goes To prove that on u
[ crease of pun shment--also increases crlm
Ii. II IL quite as necessary 10 reward good a'
| tons as IL is to punish bad ones, u we WIS
4 10 elevate the moral character OF con,inun
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