The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1844-08-01

ergeant lor services as auoihesi ou 1" 't"y 20!
hem for advocating the recharerng Of the bunk in that
Congress of which they were members.
Fifty two thousand dollars loaned withou: particle
of fsecuri,y, to James Watson Webb, of the New York
Courier and Enquirer gave the bank the support of that
paper which up to that time, had been constant and
Jealous in opposingi it.
Similar favors were extended with like effect 10 other
leading papers.
During the five years it conending for charter
the bank made loans TO no less than two hundred and
fifty members of Congress, amounting in all to 81 ,605
79l or an average of more than six thousand dollars
each! Not one In three of the members who received
these loans were business men. Not in three pos
sessed the means of using the money TO advantage.
was offered 10 them-in some instances actually crowd
ed upon hemso that having once used it or put out
oftheir hands they might be the mere dependents of
bank Who does not see the danger of an institution
using such vast means Of corruption? Who would feel
safe, with an establishment like this leagued with the
enemies of his principles, ready when it has any favor
to ask of Congress- 10 advance six thousand dollars per
head to majority OF its members? Just such an insti-
uiion Henry Clay threatens 10 fasen upon the country
if he is elected President Shall he have chance TO do
it? Is there any true friend the people, who will not
contend zealousy and unringly agains: erecting this
great monied machine which aided by the allied cor
porations OF the country and managed by such dema-
gogue as Clay, may hereafter govern the country? We
trust not We hope and believe that the same people
who have 50 oeu resolved never, from any considera-
lion of dollars and cents to permit another Giant Bank
ing Monopoly to be established in this country will ad-
here 10 that patriotic resolution to the last.
Under the arbitrary sway of National Bank, it is
almost mockery TO talk about the people governing
themselves Their presses are hired to deceive them-
Their most eloquent champions in Congress are retain
ed as Bank attorneys, at from five 10 ten thousand dol
lars year. Their representatives are supplied will
Accommodations until ceasing 10 be representatives
the people, they are ready to egslae in accordance
4 with the mandates of the bank Every man they senc
to Washington to attend to their interests, must have
nerve enough 10 resist all the seductons, and honesty
enough to spun all the brbcs which such an institution
can employ or he will become false to his trust Unde
IS such circumstances there is but small chance indeed 70
The people 10 possess any efficient influence in their
r. government.
It Who denies that the old bank was rotten 10 the core
At eleven years ago? No one. And yet Theodore Ere
e linghuysen could then make fine speeches 10 cover
its SINS g. join in the hackneyed cry against the Pat:o
is who in spite OF the recreancy Of Congress- dared sel
the current of its corrupons. The same speeches,
will be seen, were paid for and hawked about by tn
bank, which thus endorsed and beprasedby TheodoI
u Frenghuysen has since sunk down in hopeless banl
-, ruptcy Who can be safe, when the eyes and ears
VI such men are stopped up with the gold of national co
poration- the man whose virtues are supposed
be boundless enough to offset the vices of Henry Cla
ID mised by its Influences becomes its pander and W
holds as an emblem of purity until it drops to piec
~ o! its own rotenness in sight of all the people? II
only safeguard from the corrupons Of such an instit
,e ZION, is its destruction.
., Andrew Jackson judged rightly when he came 10 Il
conclusion and the people, who have so often sustain
- it, will again thunder in the hearing of their eremit
that motto so hateful to their ears-No National Bal
~ to corrupt the Government and oppress the people.
~ Coos County, Democrat.