, 1843-12-09

misrepresentation were the tools the.
worked with,-PowER, was their object
and they gained it. But, what has beef
the result? They found the government
comparatively free from debt, and in
prosperous condition-respeoted abroad
al peace with all the world. What
different picture presents itself since
the new books were opened. Barely
respected at homeland so clamerou:
were they for office and Treasury pap
that an extra session must be called, ant
long sessions held-and what have they
produced? A debt of nearly forty mill
ions of dollars; a part of our territory
together with a portion of our military
positions surrendered in the north; the
right Of search conceded; contracts yio-
lated, and just debts discharged by the
operation of the odious. Bankrupt law;
the collection of the proceeds arising
from the sale Of the public lands, and the
distribution of the same, which was in
tended as a bribe to the indebted states
and lastly, their leader ard champion,
Henry Clay, %dcnouncing the poor but
honest settler On the public domain as q
squatter and a robber.
But their f~avOrite banlling, a National
Bank, has failed. 1t received its death
blow from their own hands. This an
cient institution. which has long been
lookedsupOn by her worshippers as the
foundation ofour commercial prosperity,
and 10 whose presiding genius was as
cribed all the'munificence ofthe times
the great regulator of exchange and
trade-the long approved agent of the
government, which many a trading poll
tician worshipped with more devotion
than he did his God-and, in the plcni-
tude of such power and such popularity,
where is she? Where now, are the PHI
hosts of admirers VINO once bent "the
pregnant hinges of the knee, that thrift
follow tawning? Babylon is fall
len-disclosing a system of legalizcd
and pent up corruption al which
all revolt, with most holy horror. Shall
again suffer such an institution 10 re
upon us, that a few men may
.ask in the sunshine of power ,'consum-
ing Ii substance, and hanginn over our
energies like an incubus. l. u
committed, as revealed by
us caution. Let us 1t
TO be deceived by subtle
ongues cf her favorites, or be led astray
~ q division among ourselves on ac-
,ount Of preferences for particular men,
1ut let us nail our banner 10 the mast
lead, and go for the candidates that may
nominated by our democratic friends.
Fellow citizens: We would respect
call your attention 10 the vast ex-
1ense connected with the subject Of
Permit us 10 say 10 yon, that
sum not far short Of fifteen millions Of
is annually extracted from your
in the way Of interest, and to
1ay for bank presidents, cashiers, clerks,
md bank attorneys. Who, We ask, is it
hat pays this vast amount for the use Of
paper money? Is it he who speculates
4 becomes rich from your labor? Is it
lot a conceded axium, that he who per-
orms no labor adds no real wealth TO the
1t is, then, q draft on the in.
ofthose who open the fores: and
the soil, and on the mechanic,
Is daily employed IN his shop and
,arns his bread by the sweat of his brow.
t is their labor which pays for the con
~'enience of paper money, and which has
he effect to keep the precious metals,
he real substance, locked up, leaving
you to deal in the shadow, & suffer the
osses occasioned by bank failures and
,ank robberies.
Resolred, That we approve the hold
ng ola State Convention, at Jefferson
2ity, on the first Monday in April next,
the purpose Of nominating some tried
nd competent republicans as a cardi-
for Governor, Lictcnant Governor
nd members of Congress, and also to
ppoint delegates to attend the national
invention, to assemble in Baltimore, in
ar ~a-