, 1843-01-07

ta.ivesa- Come, no more lodging, Mr..
"Farmer"-give as the proof, specifical-
ly and in detail-vague assertions and
sweeping generalities are but bad testi-
mony by which to convict a man of
misrepresentation.
Let none infer from the above that !
am aiming to vindicate the whig leaders,
or to exculpate them in any way from
the charge Of a full measure of political
from it. Our prominent
politicians of all parties, with some few
honorable exceptions, have a fearful ac-
count to render for the ruin and degra-
da.ion which their selfish ambition has
brought on our once prosperous and hap
py country, within the last eighth ola
century. But in spite of the wide
spread mischief which party warfare has
produced-so manifest in the decline Ct
public virtue, public credit, and national
and individual bankruptcy, our resources
are still immense-the great body of the
people, in the main, are honest and in
telligent, and if each individual who con-
constitutes a political unit in our confed-
eracy, would absolve himself from party
allegiance, and become so far Invested Of
prejudice as to enable him to examine
great public questions, as if they were
entirely isolated and detached from the
narrow, selfish and contemplate interest
of mere par,y-having exclusive refer
ence to the general welfare-a rectifica-
ton of the universal arrangement which
now Expresses us would be speedily eff
fected.
Nothing but sectarian bigotry is equal
TO. party prejudice in obtunding the NOR
al and intellectual perceptions Of men.
Of the truth of this, "a Farmer affords
a striking exemplification. While do
nouncing Banks in no measured terms.
he unwittingly acknowledges himself a
bank man by advising us 10 receive
"specie or our own bank paper" thus
putting paper on a par with snscie.
This is all the most inyeterate ''ragocrat"
or "Bank Wig contends for. He is
eloquent, nay, poetic, in portraying the
sufferings of widows and orphans, re-
sulting from the failure of the U. States
Bank Of Pennsylvania, which. by the
way, was just as much a national %institu-
ton as the State Bank of Illinois. But
he has no tears 10 shed for those who
suffer from the last named swindling es-
Establishment.
Perhaps starving to death would be !
very comfortable affair to a jealous pr
tizan lift was brought about by the mis-
management of his own party.
"a Farmer" has assumed a position
for me in favor of a National Bank, ap-
parently 10 show us how many naughty
charges he can make against the old Mon.
saer.
Sir, did | say one word in favor of the
establishment Of such an institution:
Not one. You have heard the story o
Don Quixotte and the Windmill.
But ] am wrong nj any rate, ir
saving that the Bank which the gov
ernmen, Of the L. s., it was pledged
: To sustain, never failed 10 redeem il,
bills, because fnrsooth 81 farmer
: sold one 10 a broker for IS per cen
; discount. He can sell Missouri Banl
= paper nov III the eastern cities I,
shavers at a discount. but not at pm
O by from 8 10 10 per cent nj The best
9 because it is worth all of that 10 spnt
. lrom n. York to St. Louis and con
vey the specie back 10 n. Y. Hon
0 est criticism required That he shoulr
0 have shown that The L. S. Bank Ia,
n refused To redeem liz paper. wliel
o presented III the counter. and this to-
before it ceased to he n national in
siitution. or before the expiration c
the period prescribed for the REDEEM,
ton Of lis iSSueS--or not have den
ed the correctness Of my statemen
y at all.
The press is a tremendous encin
:, for veal or woe, and no one ca
serve his country better than bv tn
correction Of error. with which
,e teens; while the most pernicious an
to reprehen<ible of disservice which ca
d be inflicted on a community is tn
Sc propagation Characterization throua
I'd its columns. Hence your reader
will duly appreciate the motive Of I.
farmer" in attempting 10 set them
rights in reference To the subject
Is issue between us; but whether he h;
not committed more blunders than |
sought TO correct, thereby doing mo-
81 10 mislead than to e~nlighien, ! lea,
10 10 an intelligent public 10 decide.
a. "NEUTRArrY."
Ie Bowling Green, Dec. 5 ,'42.