The Weekly register., 1843-10-07

~ ~''uohCO noW DelOTe your
eyes; and will you shut them against the
light? Is it not as clear MS the light o
dayf And will any one inquire what is
the obJectto be obtained by such an un.
pafallelled procedure? Can any one
DO at loss to conjecture what may be
the motives to such an abandoned and
suicidal conduct? When a common
calamity comes upon a people, and where
all are in some degree to blame-when
the rulers Of nation are ignorant.
wicked or corrupt, and the people are
senseless Indifferent or supine 10 refuse
to lend them a helping hand to assist
them out of any difficulty, would seem TO
be unmanly and unchristian in any sit
na'ion whatever. But if we ourselves
have been in any degree instrum6nt3I
IN producing that ca!umity-still more
II we nave been the very agents in eff.
fectlng it, to refuse assistance in extri.
eating them fromit, would be consider
ed base and Infamous in the extreme
NO" these banks, however ienorantlv.
wlckedly and corruptIy they may have
been organized, still it has been done bv
the constituted authorities Of the State
and must and will have TO be submitted
TO- but the people themselves were in
sreat desree to blame, for they neither
pe'i'ioned or demonstrated against them
oot suffered their agents TO concur in
producing them. They might have
sent other members to the Legislature
who, though they could not
repeal the charter after it was granted
could at least have arrested the proceed
ngs IN completing the loan, or guarded
LIT some degree, if i. had even been
But all were pleased and
olned in the common mania. If the
armer had his lands, or stock. or me-
'roes for sale, he got the highest price
or them. If the merchant had his
ooas' or the mechanic the product Of =
IS Skill Tor sale, the highest price was 6
eaoHy obtalned-all, all seemed TO be =
ngulphed in this common delusion. Bu, :
nat can or will be thought Of those F.
nti-bond men, who concurring with al -.
hers IN producing this state of THINGS n
a who' perhaps, have been the mos,
1--WE OF any in efecting it, and when be
ey nave gotten into their possession ad
e very funds of the Bank, have the. /;
and wickedness to turn roupd (.
d endeavor TO raise hue and crv a. -
INST the Banks, as if they alone had n
en- the cause of all the mischief. and =,
is hope to escape the payment Of their "'
n debt, or refunding what has been CO. -,
rrowed, TO the injury ofthe Bank and do
fraud ofthe State. But worst of He
) and more alarming still, when thew ze,
We the artifice TO deIdde the people SO no
as to put them into office, to the man
1t injury and destruction of the tris did
crest of the people. That the debt Pre-
have TO be paid eventually, there roc
be no reasonable doubt; but it will mu
many years before the principal is cha
and payable; and until then no suit gro
be brought to compel the payment
t. If then, the interest is suffered [
until the principal is due. necl
debt will become so enormous that mai
ny honest but timid men may shrink "Jat
n yielding their unqualified assent to pros
discharge Of it by taxation. Blu. if getb
must be done at last, why not meet her
difficulty in the first instance? Is it his
better and more prudent to avoid ture
state of things by reasonable fore he k
= ana making provision for the evil they
before 1t comes upon US? Will YOU es tie
your eyes and hazard your proper each
such visionary scherhe7 the t
ANXIOUS. statu