Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-07-09
UNITED STATES BANK.


UNITED STATES BANK.
The wings ofthe Union appearto be afraid
10 bring the issue of Bank OF DO Bank dis
tinc,ly before the people. We find among
the proceedings Of their nominating conven-
ton at Baltimore, something said about a
'ssound ntionai currency, which shall be II
par value all over the union,n but whether il
means currency of bank paper, or gold and
silver, docs not distinctly appear. 1t comes
however, as near a declaration of principles
as could be expected from tho official mouth
piece of the universal wing party, and is be-
ing used as no doubt it was intended, to
mean any thing and every thing, according
as circumstances dictate. But although the
party, at their late convention, chose 10 in
volve this question in the same obscurity that
they have always couried with regard to il,
since its manifest unpopularty with the pco-
pie, Fortunately for the democracy, the views
OF the wlrig leader arc SD well known Oh ibis
point, that to evade or dodge the question,
is impossible. Since Mr.. Clay received a
heavy fec as attorney for the Bunk, which
was not long subsequent TO his famous anti
bank speech of 1911, Inc has been tho stead
fast and upvarying friend Of the and an Uni
ted States Bank. In the famous war of
Jackson agsinst tho Bank, Clay stood fore
most among the Bank lcgions; shoulder to
shoulder he stood with Nicholas Bddle, and
whilst Biddlc was wasting the substance of
the stockhodcrs-of widows and orphans, in
attempts to create panic and rush which
should ovcrwhclm the democracy and drive
them from tho assault, Clay, like the fallen
arch-angcl, stood in the Senate, the leader
Of all the hosts, urging them by all his pow
ers 20 determined battle in the unholy cause
Such was his course then. In Is 20, on this
point, the wing declaration of princi pie was
about as clear as it is now, but they then
possessed the great advantage of having a
candidate whose views on the subject were
equally obscure. The consequence was,
(by what means we need not refer TOY they
succeeded in electing their man, and there
by gave Mr.. Clay a fresh opportunity to ma
nifest his continued adherence to all United
States Bank, and his determination TO fastcn
such an institution on the people. AS is
we'll known he was the father of the Bank
bills passed by the late wing Congress, VIII ca
were vetoed by John Tyler; and so strenu-
Gus was he on the point, that he proposed
that his views might be accomplished, that
the constitutional veto Of the President be
taken from him. Such was he in 1871, and
between that time and the present his views
have undergone no mod ication, for in an
elcc.ioneering speech made not long since,
at Macon, Georg,, ho said /" he was i n favor
ola Bank of the United States. All nations
give us the example," SO stands MIR. CLAY
on this point; and we have sought to show,
that however the ,.hig party may seek to be-
fog and mystify the issue, yet the first resul,
which would follow Mr.. Clsy's success would
be the establishment ola Bank. We believe
the people see tho issue clearly. and that
they do see it, is to US, one of the surest in
dlcations that the wing party are destined to
be badly beaten in the coming contest.
Whilst such is the character of the con-
test throughout the union, in view of our pro-
bly shortly assuming state sovereignty, the
fact should not be lost TO us; and to strength
en- the position we have taken on the matter
and 10 show, beyond caviI, the views of the
wing party in the ,erritory,we copy from their
organ at the seat Of government, (the Madi-
son Exprcss) as follows:
Keep it before the people; proclaim i,
through your presses; le, it be sounded from
the stand OF your orators; ring it IN the ears
of every farmer. mechanic, and laborer,
throughout the length and breadth Of the
land, let oil hear it-'HENRY CLAY Is IN
FAVOR OF A NATIONAL BANK" Keep back
your question OF Free Trade, and the foul
scheme Of annexing Texas 10 The Union;
but fail no, TO keep it before the people, that
the WING PARTY are in favor Of n National
Bank. Let This be tho only issue, and The
curse Of locofocoism would be driven from
the land. The people decided in favor OF
it in 1910. and they will surely do so again.
Never lei ii be forgotten, that the whg par
~. with Henry Clay as their great leader.
is in favor Of National INSTITUTE n, that
VIII prevent the public from being fched
by those petty State Banks, which owe tlleiI
existence to the reign Of locofocoism.
WISCONSIN PHALANX Late information
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