The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1847-03-19

| Uolapie SonIusioD, Det therefore hope more
irresis,ibly, attempt to prove that in addition
to the letter Of the Constitution violated its
immortol spirit has departed. No govern
ment can give part Of the people priv-
ege, unless that privilege be taken from tho
rest, for privilege 10 one Individual is a pro-
portioned diminution Of the aggregate Of
rights. lfmer were equal after tho special
grant was made, as they we're equal before,
then the legislature granting the bank charter
would have attempted the impossible non
sense of elevating man who still adhered to
tho level Of the community.
But this is palpably and cruelty not the
case. The banker 10 endowed with an arti-
fetal superiority over other men. He takes
from the common stock by law a fifth limb,
and strides the world like the elephant,
which boasts not ordinary legs and arms
alone, but also that wonderful apparatus, the
trunk, by means of which he is not only re-
markable among beasts, but exhibits The d.
i vine mechanism Of the human arm and the
human hand; with his trunk the elephant
can with equal ease handle the heaviest
weight and the smallest coin, the anchor or
the sixpence.
One other observation and leave this
part Of the subject. Money alone of all the
elements Of enterprise and improvement, can
profit by the special privileges granted to
banks. So that but small, indeed actually
only an Insignificant portion of the wealth of
the country can enjoy the immunties, re-
wards and favors Of charter. The over
whelmiug element Of agriculture, the busi.
ness Of merchandise, and all The mechanic
arts from their very nature cannot thrive by
incorporation. But there is higher and
nobler interest than these, which not only
cannot prosper, but is Paralyzed by the as.
tendency Of chartered privilege with its con-
centration of capital, its immunity for losses,
and its longevity or perpetuity. refer, Mr..
Speaker, 10 the immortal faculties of man.
moral and lntolectual--upon the exercise of
these depends alike the utility and glory Of
existence. Yet from these artificial aids
neither genius nor virtue can derive any
strength nor Danish any weakness. They
have their superior patent from God himself
10 which no invention of any Legislature, res
trcted or paramount, can add word But
their relative superiority is destroyed, and
another gross and sensual standard is estab-
lishsd ia its place. Aad these favorites of
nature are themselves to blame for the
supremacy Of incorporated wealth. If any
thing can add to tho bitterness of their pres.
ent prostralion, it must be the consciousness
of the dying eagle, that the fatal shaft was
featherod from their own wings. But in
their names, the men of intellectual and
moral power in Ohio, not less than in the
WORTHY and substantial names Of the pro-
duciDg classes themselves, likewise distin-
guished for reason and merit, protest
agains. the special privileges of banks as an
infractien Of the letter. and violation nf tho
spirit OF the Constitution Of the State of
Ohio.
cannot, Mr. Speaker, leave the discus.
sion of this first care of State without gi,ing
very briefly the ground occupied by dem.
ecraey of Ohio, on this vexed question of the
currency. 1t is high time that there shsuld
be Union Of the party upon the true basis
ofwisdom and principle in this greatest issue
of the day.
WE ARE HARD MONEY MEN. These
are the five very descriptive words which
will be borne on all our banners to battle in
the coming contests with the privileged
orders, whero wealth, splendor, arrogance
and frauds, attract the virtuous Indignation
Of an insuled nation of freemen. Two
millions of men, women, and children, four
hundred thousand fighting men are dail ly ad-
vanciag that standard. The rising genera,
tion clutches eagerly the honor of struggling
with the adverse array of error, interest, and
despotism. And the aged will think not alto
gcther Of another aRd better world, if this
one can by gallant conduct, and firm rssolu-
ton, be made a habitation fit for men.
As hard money men, Mr.. Speaker, the
democracy Of Ohio believe that there is no
other Constitutional currency but gold and
silver They are not the foes of credit in
any shape consistent with the voluntary use
of that delicate instrument. They do fully
believe that credit is property--,hat it has
intrinsic value; and that it is the legitimate
incident to wealth, punctualty and probity.
They make therefore no war upon any form
Of credit, which does in actual good faith,
Iasd by individual or common consent pass
from hand TO hand Hence to The ordinary
promissory noe; the ordinary bill of ex-
change, they make no objection. 1t is an
engine Of opposite character; an engine of
continual and undated evil--t is to PAPER
MONEY that we swear perpetual hostility.
Paper money-that contradiction Of terms
that miSoinder of paradox, is Tie object of
our helpless and direst vengeance.
Paper money, Mr.. Speaker, is alike op-
posed TO justice, and opposed to the Federal
Constitution. A short examination will
verify both positions. 1t is not obvious to
every one l admit, why, charters Out of the
way, tho law Of free trade should not place