Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-05-18


 However, Mir. Langdon's speech was rather st,H horn affair, producing excitement and dong iit''e harm 1 only regret that when he was sneeTng at all who connected with our Banks, as Presidents stockholders and attorneys, he should have passea ny that numerous class called Bank UebtorSi On that hdopc he might have been as touching and pathetic as Mi. Shields could have been on the Demopols bank | ViRTUS. r. For the Register. l.. MR. EDIroR:-As the conductor of apublic Jour nal, the columns of which open to all who write resr eu.ully Eask the faso pf you give an oppor- | tunty o6ae who is, and has estr been democrat, io address few words to that large number o o'r fellow townsmen, whem the new city chartensl slsi.an, chizes The odious property qualifications contalhah l in il, by which so many honest men were by heir own apathynot with their consent, deprived of their right of suffrage, and made subjects to political mas ters in whose election they have ho voice, are moi less odous for the lapse of time. On the contrary, every days development of the operation of those exclusive privileges demonstrates their antrepubii- oan character strongly and strengthens the de- termination of those whom it proscribes, to continue their resistance by every lawful means, until Il be- comes successful and their rights are restored to them. They will and cannot be patient any longer under this badge of humiliating serstude, and how | silent they may have been the midst of the loud din of parties either of which in the heat of contested election would ndenfy itself with them or endanger itself by taking ground against the power of the associated land owners and cod De arstocrats of the city, but they will that the heat of the
 test is over, make themselves heard and felt, wher a voice can be raised or blow can be made, to weaken the system of hateful and ungenerous excu- | sion, which have made them subjects to moneyed and money o,tan cass-not citizens of free commu- l pity For one, and know many who of the same opinion and believe in the honest self.respsct of the whole class of the pfoscribed that they will all rejoice in the opportunity of doing likewise-l mean
 in every election where this question can be raised to keep up the remembrance of the wrongs, and to sti
 mulae the resentment of the wronged, and to bring about as far ns in me lies firm and rigid determina- ton among them to resist the advancement of any man or I,arty that refuses repair this injury and restore them their equality as freemen. | Up to tue extra session of the Legislature, am not that the two great parties divided this question by the usual party lnes In getting up ihe charter, wings and democrats participated indisc,i- Innatey. anI s0fryto say, that democrats bore at least large share, ifnot larger on, than Nhig. in making up the charter, and putting into it the oi- | ous clauses against which the working and poorer classes revolt. It was grievous ault-and grieyous- | ly as democrats have they answered for it, They might have foreseen that they were forging weapon which would be used for their own destruction; that 1 they were building up a.power that could not fai from it's nature, be the esemy of everything like equality. They had read human nature Ito little purpose, if they did not know that the party possess ing the majority of the wealth, would become the sole possessors of the exclusive power thus in- providentafly ceded-and h!ymg obtained, would it to perpeluate it among themselves, for party well clanish purposes They have seen tie fruits O. their departure from the old standards of the faith they profess in the conyertion of the city government into antideuocratic government not only of wigs but of wg clique, who by their facility of conte- rence, the with which they can uite the power of wealth and patronage which they weld, and the activity and corruption of well trained forGe of of
 fee holders, eager to continue their drain and sup port from the city Treasury, combines an influence and power which is we'll calculated to maintain them
 in the mastery of the peoples money and liberss-- not only against the nuited efforts of democrats, but | large division of the whig party, who from their republican character can hase no sympathy with this band of mopopoists who wisld the -destines of the fcity. -s
 do not know whether this lesson has been, lest on those democrats, who made the mistake of giving their assistance to build up this arrogant class and make them irresistible with in the city, But there are enough of the voting and working class of both parties if they use their strength rightly, to do with out the leaders, who may choose to go with the ex- clusives, They can, if they choose to unite all I occasions, only in favor of those who will go with them in repeating this odous charter force the par ty leaders to do them justice. The deveopements fthe extra session show the necessity of union noi
 for it is evident that the chig leaders, some of whom 1 were originally opposed to this city charter, have fodnd its political advantage to the clique which sup- ports them-and presumng on the apathy of the reo- ple hate made fhe support oft property qualifications | ef ths charte, party question at Tuscaloosa.
 It demonstrable from the record, that our repre- sentatives in the Legislature only refused to aid in obtaining the relief of from this badge of serviude but actually obtained the vote of the whole | Whig party n the Legislature, to defeat propos- tion introduced for that object. The name of every member of the House of Delegates from tkis county, VIE Langdon, Prince, Bates, and Hoiiager is found among the nays with thirty-yne others all Wings the influence exercised by our representatives our injury--ro maintain the power of the Wbig property- holding clique, to which they found it expedent to attach themselves by bringing up their party friends in body against us but carried it still further by bukng our exerons, and endeavoring to demonstrate the proprety of these odos provisions of the char l teri' Mr. c. c, Langdon took good deal of pains in speech to maintain that there was no real hard ship to complain of-but that the city had some of the characteristics of a' Bank, in which none but stockholder ought to be allowed to vote, h the. opinion of this gentleman. free spirit, an honest | heart hands to ainr, long fesidonce among uv. strengthened by family ties of the strongest kind nay, the possession of personal property of magni- tude ia addition, do not entite be considered | "stockholderr in this corporation, much the | possession of Houre, (wteh may hape neper been paid for) the rents of which he may draw from the
 industry of the prescribed class and spend them a. l broad. Mr. Langdon was once, if we believe his professions of different way of thinkng-hut the poticai pofof this great wrong in the hands of his particular friends have brought him into the support of it Probably if the Democrats could have welded " hostty.to it than there noy is among them, and we should have seen transformations as complete into ihe support of antireppblcan privileges as that of Mr. Eaigdon. ttis one of the principles of human nature, against which its true democracy 10 strive, that power is always stealing from the many to the few-aDd one of the corruptons incidents to the pos- session of power, is that t will ally itself too often, eveu in the hands of protesting Democrats, to anis repubcan principle, in order to maintain its asccn. daney and perpetyate its influences. It is the good fortune of the Democratic party in this county, if it Qwes nothing to it's position or its princples, that Inc Wings have possession of this deadly instrument against equal rights-and it is the interest as we'll as the duty of Democrats to make against this prin- epe of evil. They, at least, bound to help all who will join with them for the restoration of equal rights and republican liberty in this cy-apd they, if they will force their adrersaries to pay an equal homage to principle. If they will put into practice the theories which ever fresh upon their Rps and foremost in the declaration of faith by which they demand to be triad they w in this county, ip- corporate among them measures to which their can- ddates are plcdgedbostility to the charter of pris ileges which disranchises many honest men, and by 50 dolng, will compel their adsersaries to follow thcir example, throw off .thelr present leaders who govern the city, the county and whig party by this detestable machinery and return the same repub- lican platorm-under the peril of boosting the mllf. tude of voters who will not consent to be disfan, cbieed, that they may be made tools, The Demo- crats can, if they are true to themselves, force the Whiss to do this justice by yielding these hateful priyeges. The I.eople of both parties can force