The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1842-08-24

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to he "my Lord Duke''-"Count'-''Bar
on" and how sweet for our wives am
daughters TO be "your grace" and "my
Lady."
am not a whit less pleased with oul
friend "Tncsin's" mn,Ie of cracking hi:
bone, than | am with the taste Of the mar
row. it is n,as'crly-profonnd--incom
parable. Frs: YOU, perceive, he breed:
distrust of its condition, by all sorts ofin,
nendocs and insinuatinns against the Bank
and all who are its friends. This is wise
as regards the Bank, and oh, il is "cute" as
to its friends. Who will care a fig fnl
them, after he has called them names?
What if every Legislature since 1920 had
sent their committees to look over cucry
book, 21 per aud transaction az tie BHAE, q
they have always reported the BaEI sound!
Who cares! Who'll believe 'cr1 now!
Elliot was knave and Colcack worse,
and their successors no better than they
should be. The last Legislature sent three
Committees TO examine the Bank G. its bran
chcs, and, | wiIltcll you who they acre, and
show you what they reported, just to let
you see what asses they were, and how
'Tocsin' hicks them! They seat, in
Charleston, Senators Quash and Fielder
and Representatives Hunt, Eckhard and
Middleton--at Colunbia,-Senators Boo
ger and Withcrspoon, and Representa-
lives Herndon, Adams and Pope. And at
Camden, Senators Buchanan and Gregg
and Representative l.. ]. Patterson, Pal
mer, and Wondward!! 4
Such pack Of ninnics never went into
Banks. They don't know howto sum up
20 per cent. Has not his "moral Sirocco"
already blown them to old nick?-Who'll
believe them, after "Tocsin's' blast? Now
just for instance, see what they had the
folly 10 say, and that too, after they had
loohed at and orer crcry thing In this
peoples Bank. First, at Charleston they
say-"The general resul, (of their exami-
nalion) is, that The Bank of the State is in a
sale and lourishng condition, and capable
of continuing its business on a safe and
permanent basis, and preserving sound
and healthy cilculalion-that its debts, I'M
der ah efficient and able direction, will be
realized with as little loss as is iUrident to
SO eXtensiveand variuuS-lhat
the Bank has sustained the best interest of
the Safe in her loans, and in every stage
o. fits existence, lis officers have exhibited
Ike most unhlemished integrity, AMI have
committed as few errors, as, from the diff
(iculties and uncer ainty of business, cnul,l
be eXpecled-lhal its creditors are secured
beyond the most distant doubt, and its
ability TO redeem its circulation in specie
the capital also is secured.
and its future action promises a punctual
ofaHhc debts ofthc State, prin-
ci pal and interest, at the day"
Then al Columbia, they say "your COM
mttcc will now turn their attention to the
debts due to the Bank; including notes dis
counted, bonds and drafts,
s.your Committee have availed themselves
of all the means within their reach, to OBJ
tain satisfactory Information as to the real
condition of these debts, and The result of
this examination is that The Committee
have DO reas,n to believe that any of,hem
are not well secured! and lastly, at the
Camden Bra 1ch, they have the inconceiv-
able impudence say4Ou the whole,
the Committee was of=opnion that the
Bank is in a sound and healthy condition,
and that it has been ably and faithfully
conducted"
New l repeat the question, after that,
who will believe word they say-even
lhroughsa Kershaw Representatives was
one ofihem?S Has not Tocsin "belched
out on them his moral sirucco," of decor
ous and gentle insinuatioas, as "satr0ps"
and ''bank tools" "fetteredb by Bank debIs"
"bnught and silenccd" "sentincls, subsi-
dcd' & "muzzled?" How can they, erany
others, dare again say a word for thesBank
Of the State! Were they panoplied in
honesty, thousand times tried and pro.
ven, in lives spent in honorable and useful
iabnrs for themselves, their families or
their country, they will trcmble when they
Eear as from.,he the tomb,
ssThis rams horn that blew down
The walls around Jericlo's old town.
But if, after all. my good friends, this
peoples Bank should be little tough and
won't fall down for this "srocco" our
friend has it on another hook-He has
fixed it-lransfixed it-transiixed and cru.
CITED i,-Micheval couldn't beat him
the thing is cxquisi,c-.excrucialing! Don'l
he say Let the names of those who owe
the Bank be exposed with the
humbug about bank SccrctS"-Tetegit acu