The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1841-11-18
TIE BANKS, AND PUBLIC OPINION.


is wonderful to see wha, changethere has been in
Ihs federal ranks in regud 10 the Ohio Banks since
the election Scarcely Federal paper comes to hand'
that does not ambase the Banks about right ana lelh
talk about winding them appealing on their friends to
hello the democracy reform them -appease party spirit,
&c, Sc. Now thus all looks very well on paper, and
proves what effects Democratic victory has had upon
the minds ofthe cider suckers. The only difficulty Is,
tia, we can't beeve what they say; their anahema'
against tho Banking System, is all foderol "a mere
shift to ward of the flown ofpubc opinion. The fed
oral leaders, and federal papers, arc under too many
obligations to the banks to he sincere in their proes'
sions of Bank Reform. They are too many OF them
owned body and SOUL by corporations to make the peo
pIs believe they are honest now, when they say they
will help the Democrats in their Reform DON be-
ieve federalist when he talks in favor making the
banks Iesume or wind them is contrary to
whiggery nature, and only ruse to impose upon the
Credulity o honest men.
We are happy TO see the unanlmity that prevails IN
the Democratic ranks on the Bank question: There is
but one feelngone opinion and that is to Compel The
banks to resume, or wind up We rejoice in the
course of public opinion this subject, lhasmuch as
every Legislator will 90 to Columbus with knowI-
edge of his constituents wants and thus be enabled TO
act at once on the bank question.
10 sbov our readers how the whig presses are kick
mn the cider barrels over quote from one or two
wing papers.
From the Norwalk Reflector.
"OHIO BANK NOTES.
The holders of Ohio hank notes are now co npeled
10 stand shave oftwelvU and half on dollar,
for Specie no farther east than Butiao. This s;ale of
things ought not TO be endured for a moment. 1t the
Ohio banks cannot keep their notes in better epuethey
had better wind up their affairs, and that speedily.
'There is now but one way for the people OF this
state to secure better currency than they now have,
and that is for all classes of individuals to refuse all
hank notes in payment ofsums due them, unless they
are the notes Of specie paying banks
So long the citizens Of Ohio continue to receive
bank notes par. which worth no more than az cts
on the dollar Just so long will the State Ohio be cur
Eed with an irredeemabe currency. Let the farmers a
rtea TO rcreve nothing but specie, or specie paying
hank notes. for their produce and the worthless irre-
Jenmable trash which now forms entire circulation,
will wholly disappear from among us, or be taken for
pomore than its real vaue-S7 cents on the dollar.
That's pretty hard dig under the 9th rib we should
say, III was only sincere and not back handler.
Another federal paper, the Ohio STAR in speaking of
the officers orthe German Bank Of Wooster, filings out
the following:
"Savng hard words, now and then, from men who
speak their minds suppose the officers Of this ns
tuition must go "Unwhipt oriuslice." Any system un
der which Frauds like those which have been witness
ed in Ohio are perpelraled, will inevitably 60 down.
ought to go down; the quicker the better 90
But the coolest wet blanket we have seen thrown o.
yer whiggeys shoulders is call from Federal paper,
upon all note hol'ers suit at once against
any institution th, fuses redeem its issues in specie
when called upon. Surely the millennium is coming,
when we see the very presses who were supported by
the banks-who prosecuted the democrats so long and
loud for their hostility 10 the swindlers-now turning
in and helping the democracy to bring their old friends
and patrons the rag baons and robbers to ustce Why
gentlemen fsderaIists if this your course, you
nod You can lay more 'Pipe, get no more "ac
commodaons.' or oans or bribes, and all that sort Of
thing. No, MOI it will never do to gap the life blood of
Whiggery that way. Better far, if your old friends
must go to the penentary, that you go with them, rath
or than play the traitor. Besides, democracy wants
no traitors. Mind that