Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1844-02-06
ADDRESS
T o t h e People of hio.
Continued.

Continued.
THEY LTHH FEDERALIsTs HAD TOLD THl
PHoPLE THAT BANK WAS NOT IN ISSUE
At the first, the extra session yOf thei
Congress assembled in May, lS4l, threC
Bank bills were introduced; one, submit.
ted to them BY their Executive, was re
jscted by the Senatorial Dictator Henry
Clay, although it was, perhaps, the least
ObnOxiORs Of the three, chiefly because
II did amanate from the Executive, and
not from himself. Two other bills for the
charter of a mammoth Bank of the Uni
ted States, ofIhe worst description, we're
successfully, passed by Congress, under
the direction of the same Dictator, and
successiVely failed to become laws, for
the want of appreciation and signature of
the Executive.
The opposers before the election of q
high protective tariff, they afterwards en-
acted a tariff, little, If any, less onerous
than the bill Of abOmnatiOns, the tariff of
1928. The stern asserters OF the inviO-
liability of the Compromise act af 1928.
They violated it in the Distribution act,
and utterly abrogated il by their tariff
law. They we're the advocates Of dis
tribution Of the proceeds of sales of pub
lie lands, only when those proceeds we're
not necessary in the administration Of
the treasury uDder a tariff ccnformed TO
the provisions or the Compromise act.
The national treasury became bankrupt,
under their administration OF it, public
debt was created to supply the daily me-
cessities ofthe treasury, to keep the gov
crnment in operation, the Compromise
act violated and abolished, a high pro-
tective tariff enacted, the same whig par.
ty in Congress passed an unconditional
and absolute distribution bill, alike re-.
eardless ofthe condition Of the treasury,
the fate of the compromise act, of the
tariff, and Of thHir pledges to the people.
They we're opposed TO a national debit
and promised to reduce the debt, which
they falsely charged as having been ere.
tsd,during the preceding administra.
ton. They have increased it, from less
than Eve millions of TRANSIENT debt, in
the form of treasury notes not yet ma tur.
ed or redeemable, to q permanent debt
of thirty millions, exclusive Of treasury
notes.
The high toned and peculiar advocates
and representatives Of morality, honesty
and good faith, they enacted corrupt
and cOrrupting bankrupt law, for the ben
eft Of bankers, bank stock and land specs
uIators, swindling~ bankrupts and bank
ruPts, to the great injury and grievous
wrong of sound merchants and honest
laborers Of every calling, and to the in
calculablc depravily Ofpublic and private
morality and virtue. A law under Which
there has probably been more legal and
moral perjury in QUO year, than there has
been under all the iDsolVent laws of all
the States, since the foundation OF the
governmental law which strikes at the
very root Of society confidence between
man and man.
They made many other promises and
pledges before the election: such as to
.'proscribe proscrlptiOR''-tO diminish
Executive patronage'-to "disconnect
the government from partizan presses"
&c. &c all of which promises they have
redeemed in like manner and spirit as
those already adVerted to. From these
facts, and many others not here referred
to, il is evident that the present whig par
", true to their federal origin and iu-
stincts, are the same now as their pred
cessOrs in the days Of HamiliOn, Adams
and the Alien and SsditiOn laws.
From the conduct Of the wings in the
lasl Congress, and from the course Of
their partizan presses,it cannot be doNbt-
ed the whig party are determined, if pos
sible,to accomplish the assumption of the
debts of the States blythe General Gov.
ernment.
There is, in fact, in their principles and
policy, the same tendency TO the concen
tratiOn Of all power in the General Gov
eminent, and the consolidation Of all
Stale sOvereignties in one grand central
DOwer. the same desire for the exercise
b. the government Of powers not grant
cd in the constitution, the same design
Of rends ring the government indepen.
dent Of the will Of the people, by throw
Jog around it, and concentrating IN it,
the interest and influence Of associated
wealth, through the agency ofa nation
al debt, with its fundbolders preying uP.
on the vitals of the treasury-a National
Bank, with immense capital, and its Brl'
arean arms drawing into IFS power every
commercial. landed and political interest
Of The country. A high protective tariff
creating an aristocracy Of wealthy man.
ufacturers, and the assumption Of 200
millions ofState debts. creating at once
the aPOlogy and necessity of all the
rest.
The accomplishment of these purposes
would fulfil the design of Hamilton
the crsatiOn Of = strong government, sup