Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1841-09-14


there was not voice raised against it,
They had declared to the people before
the election, that it was a salutary re-
form, and that they we're its friends
The guilty and false wretches who had
betrayed the people, we're dumb; their
tongues adhered TO the roofs OF their
mouths.
Mr.. Brough inquired why it was that
there was no voice raised from the ma.
iority on this floor, in opposition 10 this
amendment Why is il that I'VE have no
expression upon this provision by those
who call themselves the exclusive friends
of the blli There was not an express
ion-not an issue rased-not a word ut.
tered to show that they deem The princl-
pie unsound or impracticable. He (Mr.
b. considered the principle one ofes'
sential importance and vital necessity.
IF he (Mr. By should get a note dis
counted at bank, he was liable 10 the
last cent of his property for the payment
of that note. And why should not the
bank, against which lie held notes, be e.
uualIy liable for their debts? Mr.. B.
called upon gentlemen 10 show the jus.
tice in lifting up from the mass of socie-
ty an order of men, confering upon them
''sovereign power" and thea releasing
them from all the dulles and obligations
of citizens? This was an invidious dis
tinction, which no just government should
recognize. What is it that has crippled
and broken down the banking institu-
tons ofthis StateH 1t is want Of pub
lie confidence. A man felt apprehen-
sive, when he laid his head upon his pill
low, that, when he raised il, his money
would not be more valuable than rags
and ampblSck. Ifthe bsnks of the State
had been placed upon sound fOunda-
iion-if this sautary principle had been
incorporated in those instituiiOns,the con-
fdence of the public would have been in
great measure retained. We cannot
complain that the people have no conf
dence in our banking institutions, when
you refuse 10 adopt those principles in
the incorporation of bank charters, which
alone inspire connuenCS.
The mechanic and the day laborer toll
! for their subsistence because they have
confidence that the property of the en-
ployer is liable for their survices. This
is a principle which runs through every
ramifcation and department of business.
It IS a principle that exists in every de.
partment of private business, and why
should the obligation be thrown off bank
ers5
When the vote was taken, every dem
ocrat voted in the affirmative, while every
federal member, true TO the banks, and
= false to the people and the principles up
on which he was elected, voted in the
{ negative. The vote stood, yeas 90, nays
D AZ, as follows:
0 YEAS-Messrs Aten, Baldridge, Bart
5 ley, Brough, Burns, Dunn. Harlan, Jenk-
8 ins, Johnson, of Monroe, King, Morris,
! McGugin, Raffensperger, Riblet Shreve,
: Smith Of Stark, SpindIsr, Warren, Viii,
y son and Wood-20.
d NAYS-Messrs. Allen, Bell, Bliss,
g Brown, Carothsrs, Carpenter, Clarke,
s Cochran, Cooke, Durham, Florence,
= Gddings, Hamilton, Hawkins, Ilinkle,
Israel, Johnson, Of Cuyahogd, Kaler,
Koontz, Lamme, Lawrence, Marsh, Moore,
Nye, Perkins, Probasco, Recce, Robbins
Reynolds, Scott of crawford, Scott OfHar'
0 rison, Shober, Smith of Adams, Streater
. Stinson, Toland, Vincent, Van Vorhes
Watkins, Way, Weaver, WeIch, Wheeler
9 Worthington, Young and speaker-47.
2 See page 396, Of the Journal All
Democrats in the affirmative-all federal
l. lists in the negative.
f Mr.. jenkins moved 10 add, at the clos
" of the 95th section, tho following:
/. "That each and every steckholder O
Y the said bank, or any Of its branche:
y shall be liable in his private and lndividr
h al capacity for any debt contracted b
a said bank or any ofits branches, ,either b
h, issuing or circulating its notes or othe
of wise: and any person holding any note {
or other legal claim against said bank or ar
of of its branches, may proceed by actic
or to recover the same from any individu
C. stoc kholder of said bank or any of i
k branches, after the same shall have bee
he presented at the bank Of any of its Bran
IS ches for payment, and pigment thereofr
ny fused or delayed by said branch or banE
land demanded the yehs and nays thor
as on, which we're taken aud resulted as ft
TX lows:
ok Those ,oha Doted d tie affrmaf
snt Dere,
IN: Messrs. Aten, BaIEridge, BartI'
ad- Brough. Jenkins, JOhAson Of Monrc
on King. Norris, McGugid, RibIet, Shire
the Spiadlsr, Warren, Wilspn and Wood
rem Is.
son Those who voted in tie negative we
MIS- Messrs, Allen, Bell, Bliss, Carothe
ted Carpenter, CIarke,s Cothrsn, Dunha
" a Florence. Gil dinps, Grbwo!d, Hamiltt
1e- Hawkins, Hinkle, Israel johnson Of u