The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-06-10

| GENTLEMEN:--l took an opportunity, which hap.
pened upon the eve OF your adjournment, TO call
your attention 10 the injury that this community
receives, arising from the established practice by
men of no moral character and with little pecunary
responsibility In issuing paper, partially OF worth
less sort, purporting 10 be bills OF banking insttu-
| tons IN adjacent States. would again call upon
your honorable BODY TO take in consideration this
injurious system. You are, most undoubtedly, as.
sembled to indct all offences against the people OF
this county; and most certainly this ls when justly
considered, OF no small magnitude. 1t extends 10
all lew are exempted from its mischevous effects ;
but 1t does tall with undue severity upon the labor
ing portion. II can admit but of little doubt that
your honorable body Is capable to act upon this
important subject. You are placed in responsible
station, clothed with power of that peculiar nature
which either constitutes that Of judcature or CEN
sorship. You meet for the unquestionable fact of
taking cognzance of all misdemeanors, or offences
whatever may be detrimental, injurious or having
IA tendency TO disturb the peace, and even the
morals Of the good citizens OF the county. Reflect,
therefore, gentlemen, upon the importance of your
duties, as well as the solemnity Of the oath that
you have taken and act in accordance
The pernicious systems which have been kept
in operation by unprincpled individuals, flooding
the city at divers times, previous TO the explosion
of the institutions that the bills are drawn from,
| must receive a check sufficient to cause the
people to remain satisfied that JUSTICE is not
Iame as well as, blind in our city. The, weight
has become, at length, indispensable; all feel II
all do not see the hand that oppreses them. To
keep tine citizens, especially those whose crcum-
stances fit them as easy objects Of those repeated
mpOstlOns, In proper order, Is by vgilantly guard
ing them from those unprlnclped men, whose
restless avarice blind them to others rights 1t is
IN fact your duty "tO see the public should receive
no detriment." Perhaps there is nothing which
can so arouse that diretu passion, revenge, sooner
than sense OF injustice done, and conceving there
is no remedy in the law, or that it is not purely
dealt IL all. Ii was IN consequence OF the accumu-
atiOn OF grievances by The COIN being aduterated
by the connivance OF the authorities that the
Roman people rose, and which cost the Emperor
Aurelian seven thousand of his choicest veterans
to subdue: The same innate principle possess
men at this age that 1t did at that, and the
same resistance to vile, gross, niggardly imposl-
ton may be found at this period, when it re-
celves judicial cOnnlvance, and no reliet is offered.
invoke your honorable body, # in no other light
than public inspectors of public abuses, to take this
up ioI action. Let not, gentlemen, honest labor
by the means OF low cunning, 1--we in all large
munlues You cannot be unacquainted of the
tact, that the city currency consists mostly OF de-
preciated paper OF banks whose location is situated
in remote villages, in our boundary States;
quenty, our citizens can possess little or no knOwi-
edge OF their solvency. The losses sustained by
the failing OF banking operations together with the
tantamount to one third paid upon personal taxes J;
It you slHuld feel inclined to doubt this assertion,
It needs bat lew figures to prove the fact, when
the amount of deprecated paper is taken into con.
slderatlon. No community can feel secure from
the effects of riots or blood shed, while injustice is
iacitly sanctioned by the eye of the law There is
unquestiOnably. point where forbearance ceases
knavery, without the interference OF the law to
protect them, we must expect an inevitable re-
salt, violent means resOrted to.
ONE OF THE PEOPLE.