The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1841-01-20


ton; and the policy it pursued was in di-
rect hostility TO the nature Of our govern
ment; it was ever a venomous viper, war
med into life and vgor in the bosom of
the Republic; fetid cancer, loathsome
leprosy upon our civil institutions; it con-
tributed nothing to the support of the 60.
yernment; if it loaned money it exacted
principal and interest to the last farthing;
ard yet there are those who wonld have
us believe that bank is the sole benetac-
tor Of the nation-one Of the pillars Of
American glory-while it is swallowing
Up in its Unstable maw our property and
our libcrty.-Where is there an individual
labouring under such dire infatuation and
delusion, such fatal blindness, as that he
can continue TO league with the enemies
of those hallowed principles which they
most dearly prize! Are there any so
completely trammelled by mercenary
sefshncss, as to aid in the incalculable
mischief such an overrhadowing monopoly
would inevitably produce? Would they
Willingly assist in creating soulless cor
poration which would etfectually control
the political destinies of the country,
merely to crafty the cupidity of privi-
legged few? Have the people forgotten
the Systematically contrivcd panlcs and
pressures. brought about by bank agency,
in order to compel Congress to resort 10
National Bank for safety and shelter
from the alarming dangers that threaten
ing them upon every side? Have they
forgotten the stupendous fraud, the unpar-
alleled infamy, the premeditated, reeenp'
tionless scoundrelisrn, practised upon
them by the suspension Of specie pay
ments-brought about by the lubberly
Juggernaut which has rolled its car over a
PROSTATE people, at once covering them
with its slime and crushing them to the
earth? Do they remember the dark do.
ings of this chartered gaming house
this mass of pecuniary iniquity-in buy
ing ffty.fve members of Congress in
1880 with S192, 2,164-fifty-nine members
in 1881 with 1922, l95-ffty-four in 1882
with AIS, ,766-ffty-three in 1883 with
1914, 766-and in 1884 it purchased fifty
two members of Congress with S23S,5S6.
Do they need to have the $4,000 paid to
Webb and Noah of the Courier and En-
quirer, the S52,l70 paid to Gales & Sea-
ton of the National Intelligencer and the
S6,54l paid to Walsh's Gazette, again
brought before their view! Do they need
to be reminded that the Bank paid 10 the
lawyers of the United States Congress
between one and two hundred thousand
dollars in addition to the above, viz: $685.
900 to Daniel Webster, $4,000 to Henry
Clay, $4,000 10 John Sergeant, $4,000
10 Johnson and Poindexter? Has all this
startling bribery, this moastrous ccrrup-
ton, faded from your recollection?
From candid review Of the signs of
the times, the conclusion is irresistibly
forced upon NO, that unless this uventful
crisis in our national history is met with
untiring faithfnlness, with unslumbering
watchfulness by the sentinels upon their
watchtower of freedom, our magnificent
temple of liberty will be overthrown, its
pillars become mass of shapeless ruins,
its altar buried beneath the crumbling frag-
ments of our country's pride, and the Re-
public will perish in the days of its youth,
and with it, the hopes of freedom through
out the world.
Let the strong arm of the people be in
terposed-let tho army Of brokers, stock
jobbers, and money SPECTATORS, who
would pawn the industry and property of
the nation, be taught salutary lesson
Let no considerations Of dishonest policy,
no cold calculations Of temporising expe-
diency, induce you to band with the ene-
mics of constitutional liberty; let the
purse-proud see that your tufrages are
unpurchaseble with bribes, uninfuenced
by force; we look with unshaken conf
deuce for display Of those unbending
principles of fdisconstitutional right, which
will never yield to fraudulent taxation and
legalized pillage; we look to the Farmer
and Mechanic, who never falter in seasons
Of danger, or cover in the moment of Pc
ril, to preserve the land from the palsying
influence of monarchy bank--a despn.
tism of paper money.
The question again rcturns-are you
prepared to sanction this great chartered
abomination-are you willing to see the
foliage Of the tree of liberty, whose bran.
ches we hope one day will over shadow
the whole earth, blasted and withered; its
gigantic limbs scathed as with lightning
understanding leafess, solitary, and
bare, dry and sapless, a canker at its