Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-11-01
MORE DEMOCRATIC HARMoNIEs.

lance upon what, according 10 Locoloco authority,
turned the late contest in Ohio The following ex-
tract however, from Locofoco paper of that State,
the st. Clairsve Gazette,) may inform our readers
of what must, to many Of them, seem a rather
strange condition Of facts What the Gazette states
as true Of Ohio not only affords copious matter for
reflection but curious commentary in especial up
on one OF the great impending measures to which
the present Administration is pledged-the Sub
treasury, the Specie Circular, and The Hard-money
system generally. II says
"The banking question (worse than Moess rod has swa
lowed up every other and Democrats who before voted
Federal ticket have sustained who under other cir
cumstances, would have received Democratic vote
large number of Democrats, too, determined go
the polls for they have demanded Sound Banking System
and cannot follow the lead of McNULTY BrISGToN &c
those who call Conventions Columbus to preach crusade
against all banking Institutions.
When false issue is made in the name Of the Demo-
cracy Of the whole State single county get rid Of that
by repudaug the impression made upon by old party
hacks young demagogues who have idea the sub
ect, except to subserve the most selfish purposes.
"The des that we must return to exclusive metallic
currency and Danish all banks from the State peposter-
ous The People demanded sound system, to get rid of
the trash of other States which had CONTROL and
such system they will have from one party the other
They do not to continue at the mercy of foreign banks
or speculators This the issue here"
All! The Banking question is Moses's rod
hard-money and the like are the rods of the kings
magicians and that has swallowed up all these
Very good. The Egyptians, it appears, have, a
large part of them, gone against the King abandon
ed their own magicians, and voted with Moses, and
his mistaken followers, the children of Jacob Oh
we Federal Israelites we Bank-bought British De-
mocrats, that voted not with Pharaoh and trusted
not his juggiers, what's this you have done! "Sus-
tanned the Federalists," say you! Why, to " sus-
tain the Federalists" is surely 10 be Federaliss, is
ii not! And how should Democrats do that un-
less because they see that those Federdiisfs are the
true Democrats, and the others cou,lterIeifS and
cheats?
Was ever SO sad Democratic return! Part
were killed at the polls, with those paper bullets"
and shot dead with bank-bought votes aimed al
them by the perfdous Democracy itself; part,
again. stayed away and part worst Of all y would mt
even do that but came with zeal and lent hand to
the rout of those high-principled sons of specie,
!" McNuLTY, BYINeToN & Col"
But the Democracy of Ohio has, it well appears,
got fatigued with holy wars against credit, and
crusades against all banking institutions" What
Peter the Hermit has been preaching them, we learn
not; but certain it is according to history, that one
of the crusades was led by no very crcditabe COM
manders.
The organ that we cite stgmatizes them as either
q old party hacks or young demagogues, who have
no Tidea on the subject, ercept 10 subSerpe the
most selfish purposes" A glorious account, this,
of the motives that have prompted the long and
fierce war upon banking institutions" in Ohio!
But is that all Is il not equally an ayowal that,
wherever that war has been waged, it has been
so waged by "od party hacks and young dema-
gogues," only "to subserye their own selfish pur-
poses ~
The destruction of banks is now ga false u.s.
sue" Perhaps, then, "a specie circulation" is The
true issue? The true issue is, to sustain bank
ing institutions in Ohio and anti-banking insttu-
tons, the Subtreasury and the gold currency, every
where else ! That is the present position Of " De-
mocracy'' in Ohio! After many years of profound
research into facts and causes, the intelligent De
mocracy Of Ohio has spelt out the first page Of is
cal information has discovered that they need and
are resolved to have "a sound banking system"
They do not mean, by having none, to continue
at the mercy of foreign banks or spectators !"
Perhaps they have been reading the democratic
history of the Sandy Hill Bank, and the art Of
maintaining specie basis the broadcast, as taught by
the history Of that institution. Perhaps they have
been perusing the epistolary lucubraons Of anti
bank delegations who proceed to Albany to procure
the abolition Of all bank charters, and who pre-
sently inform their friends in secret that IN Week
by dint Of their extraordinary ZEAL they have got
passed only thirty new bank charters What mar
wells does an earnest democratic faith enable to
perform, even within little week
| Soberly considering such bright examples, how
ever, as have been lately disclosed in New York in
the secret history of the Sons Of Tammany, may
not the Ohio democracy be little hasty Have
not the specie men proved themselves undated
friends of banks ,cheneUer they pere allo,ced 10
manage them !? Did not the Jackson party make
more banks in a year or two, all over the Union,
than have been erected by all other parties and at all
other periods together! And are they not cruelty
hard in their judgment Of Mossrs. McNulty Co.!
What if they did in Legislative speeches applaud the
mobs that were plundering and sacking the Cincin-
natl banks 7! Can they doubt that they would be-
come excellent bank-men if they would only be
liberal and make them Presidents or Cashiers.
Inc leading sentence Of the Gazetfe's last para
graph is delightfully."- democratic certainly. IA me-
lamc eurrencyis perfectly preposferous - Come,
Mr.. Secretary of the Treasury Mr. Editor of the
Organ where's the Subtreasuryl The expecting
Democracy requires it that's the ;.s,o u,