Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1844-10-30

National Bank-a Fifty Million Monster
for which, it is agreed on all hands, we
have no more use, as far as our currency
is concerned, than for the Inquisition OF
Spain, but for which the Federal party,
who desire to see the monied interests. the
wealthy, the capitalists, made still more
powerful at the expense of the 1NTE-
RESTS and the RIGHTS of the great
masses of the people, are struggling with
desperation which clearly demonstrates
that it is their last-their dying effort. De-
mocrats Of North Carolina! we say to you.
COME TO THE RESCUE
and assist your brethren throughout the
Union, in afixlng the seal Of condemno-
ton upon this attempt of the Federal
party to betray your liberties into the
hands of the money broker and the
money changer. Democrats of North Ca
rolina, who sustained Gen. Jackson in his
contests with the late Bank of the United
States, rise up in your majesty, on the 4th
of November next, and shew the world by
your votes, that now, as then, you repu-
diate alike National Bank, alias, a Ma
tional incubus on your liberty, and its hired
subsidized minions.
But again: You will be called upon to
say, whether you desire to see the General
Government, which was instituted for the
common welfare and the common protec-
ton of all sections of the Union, and all
classes of its citizens, without any regard
to birth or occupation, turned permanently
into party engine, the machinery of which
will be constantly employed in abstracting
from the pockets ofthe great working mas
ses of the people their hard earnings, for
the purpose of enabling a few thousands
of wealthy capitalists to rival, in the splen-
dour Of their princely mansions and their
costly equipages, the lordly aristocrats of
Great Britain. You will be called upon
TO say, whether you want to see fixed on
this country plundering, protective Ia
riff system, which compels the farmers and
mechanics of our country to pay exorbi-
tant prices for every thing they want to
buy, and which depreciates the price of
every thing they have to sell.
Still again; you must now, at the ballot
box, say to the world, whether or not our
glorious Constitution, the sacred charter of
our liberties, is to be robbed and despoiled
of one of its most salutary clauses-whe-
Their or not that feature in it which can a.
lone protect the South from the insane and
fanatical attacks ofthe Giddings, the SHADES,
and the Adams's of the North, is to be
swept from its pages, at the bidding of an
ambitious Dictator, merely because it hap
pened to cross the path of his unholy am
bition. In word, you are now called
on to say, whether you wish that your
general government shall be turned into
strong and splendid but unequal and OPP
pressiye onein its Operations; or, whether
you desire TO see it administered in ac-
cordance with the spirit and the letter of
a written Constitution. Freemen of North
Carolina! can there be doubt about the
course you will pursue
HENRY CLAY,
the leader of the Federal party, goes for
each and every one of those measures
whose. destructive tendency to your best
interests we have been describing. Can
you vote for him? NO! Patriotism,
self-interest, conscience-all-all. COM
bine to make you answer NO! On the
other hand, the Democratic candidate
JAMES X. POLK.
has ever been, whether in the private walks
oflife, in the Executive Chair, or IN the
Council Chambers Of the Nation, the firm,
consistent and sympathising friend of the
rpn1 neOnle His faolinrs his wishes ond