Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1844-08-06
NEW sERIEs.-VOL. v. No. 2.
ing Of toe Bank IN hmCOngrsss Of which

Wllhouta particle Of security, to James
Watson Webb, of the New York Courier
apd Enquirer. gave the Bank the supDosl
Of thai paper, which up 10 that time, had
been constant and jealous in opposing
it,
Similar iaVors were extended with
like effect, TO other leading papers.
During the Eve years il was contend
ing for I charter. the Bank made loans
to no less than two hundred and fifty FIVE
members Of Congress, amounting in all
10 s ,6O7 ,7Ol or on an average of more
Than SIX thousand two hundred dollars
each! Not ore in three Of the members
who received these lOans, were business
men. MOI one in three possessed the
means OF using the money TO advantage.
Il was offered 10 Ibem-in sCms instaI =
ces actually crowded upon them-So that
having once used it, or put il out Of their
hSnds, thsy might be the mere depend
ants Of the Bank. Who does not see
the dangerof an institution using such
vast means Of corrupIionf Who would
feel safe, with an establishment like this,
leagued with the enemies Of his princi,
pies, ready, when il has any favor 10 ask
Of Congress, TO advance six thousand
dollars per head TO majority OF its mem
beTsf Just such an institution, Henry
Clay threatens 10 fasteh upon the coun
Try ifhe Is elected President. Shall be
have chance TO do III Is there any true
friend Of the people, who will cOMeDd
zealOusly and uniiringlv against erecting
this great mOReyed machine, which, aid
ed by the allied corporations Of The coun
try, and managed by such dGmagogue
as Henry Clay, may hereafter govern The
cOuntryf We trust not. We hope and
believe that the same people who have
so often resolved never, from any cousid.
GRAFTON OfdOllars a6d cents, 10 permit an
other Giant BAnkiDg Monopoly 10 be es-
tablished in this country, will adhere TO
that patriotic resolution 10 The last.
Under the arbitrary sway Of national
Bank, it is almost mockery 70 talk a.
oIut the peOPlS governing. themselves.
heir presses are hired 10 deceive them.
Their most eloquent champions in Con.
yress are retained as Bank attorneys al
rom FIVE 10 ten thousand dollars year.
Their representatives are piled with 'ac-
commOdaIions. until ceusing to be rep
'esentaives Of the people, they are ready
% legislate in accordance with the man
lates Oflhe Bank. Every man they send
10 Washington TO attend 10 their interests,
must have nerve enough 10 resist all the
and honesty enough to spurn
III the bribss such an institution can em
1lOy, or he will become false 10 his trust.
Under such circumstances, there is but
small chance indeed for the people TO
possess any efficient influence in their
DwR government.
Who denies that the ole Baak was rot
len to the core, eleven years ago? No
one. And yet Theodore Frelinghuysen,
could then make fine speeches TO cover
up his sins, and join in the hackneyed
cry against the Patriot, who in spite of
The recresncy,'of Congress, dared stem
lhe current Of its cOrruptions. These
same speeches, it will be seen, were paid
FOR and hawked about by The Bank, which,
thus endorsed and bepraised by Theo.
doIs Erelinghuysen, has since sunk
down in hopeless bankruptcy, Who can
be safe, when the eyes and ears Of such
men are stopped by the gold Of a na'
tonal corpoiation-when the very saint
Of the whg psrty--the man whose virtues
are supposed TO be boundless enaugh 10
Offset the vices of Henry Clay, misled by
IFS influence, becomes its pander, and
making large professions Of Piety, mp
holds il as an emblem Of purity, until it
drops 10 pieces Of its own rOttenness, in
sight Of all The pesplsi The only safe>
guard from the corruptiOns of such an in
slit tu,iOn, is ils destruction. Andrew
Jackson judged rightly when he came to
that conclusion, and the people who
have 50 sustained it, will again thunder
iD the ears of their enemies, that motto SO
hate fully TO their eurs-'No National
Bank 10 corrupt the Government and oP-
press the people,