The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1847-09-14

the IlgnlS o. properly, auu then ny leB'siatVcE
|auhority create asystem oflegal swindlinggH
The following from the Sandusky Mirror
land the same statement reaches us from otll- Z
Ter quarters--assers the existence in our
State Of practice Of bank deception and
fraud analogous 10 the system formerly ipE
Michigan, when the same specie was carted
from bank to bank, and the bank commisl
sioners deceived until the cheat was discovi
'ered and the rotten system exploded--not,
however, ill the people had been largely rob
'bed; llty H6
"The corruption and underban Jed man
IaRement of the Board of Control and some
leading bankers Of Ohio, from all we can
learn from what leaks out, were never beforeH
equaled, not even IN the palmest days Of
Wild Cal banking. We predict magnif-|
cent explosion one Of these days when ,heI
people will be swindled TO the tune Of mil
lions. AS specimen Of the real capital
cmployed in creating new banks we learnI
/ that the same specie was used for The organ
ization ofthree different banks in as many
different places within the pas. two weeks.'I
In addition TO this statement of the Mir-|
ror several banks have been started, the to-|
tai Of whose stockholders sworn property
on the Assessment List ,ismot one fourth cfMcI
amount oftheir Bank stock; showing beyond
doubt that The bank foundation is rotten !
OF this description is The Ripley Bank, and
such would have been the Findlay Bank,
had the shavers of Toledo not anticipated
projectors; and such beyond question are
very many oflhe Ohio Banks.
Ii has been well said that bank corpora
ton has not soul, conscience, or moral res
ponsibility, and its agents in pandering 10
its one sordid passion, avaticc, act as ifihey
had lost these attributes ofhumanity in its
service. The bandit perils his life in his
game Of robbery, but the banker, no more
scrupulous, swindles, cheats and lies TO ac-
complish the same design, and by u fiction OF
law robs with safety and impunity. This invet-
crate corruption, banking, dangerous as it is
from the pecuniary losses il occasions, would
be comparatively harmless, il inequality.
excessive luxury, and litigation, were its
worst evils; but its greatest curse s that il
poisons the fountains of public thought, and
demoralizes society, by giving continual
example Of successful swindling by men of
q education and intellect, who use their knowl
edge and faculties 10 place the principles Of
morality and justice at defiance in the pur
suit Of wealth, and leave only petty rogues tc
suffer punishment for petty crimes, while
monstrous villainy goes "unwhipt ofjustice.
AMENDMENT OF THE CoNsTITUTIoN.--The
Il following resolutions we're passed at the
HDemocratic convention in Seneca county:
Resolped, That reform in the fundamen
S tai law Of the State is required.
That the Constitution should be so amen
Hded as to lessen the evils Of partial and cr
= lcessire legislation; TO this end, there
(, should be only biennial sessions of the Leg
islatnre. a.,i.s ,aa .l
The Constitution should be so amended
that all State, county and township officers
be elected by the people; that there be ne
increase of the State debt and consequent
!, taxation, unless the question be frs; submit
ed 10 the people and approved by them; tha
!, there be no act Of incorporation whateve
without clause ofmaking tie stockholders
individually liable for all the debts OF th'
corporation; that courts Of law and chancery
Sbe separated, and the Clerks and Judge
elected be the people; and that mere mora
Questions should never be make the subjec
ofa criminal code-only such as are wronl
in themselves, and committed without til,
!, consent of these on whom they are inflicted.
Resolped, That we are in favor Of the is
sues made at the 9Th. of January convention
in lS46.
DEATH OF Gov. DoRR.- This peisecutet
\ patriot has at length sunk under the suffer
ings inflicted by his enemies. He expired
! at Providence, R. !. on Thursday, the 26l
uit. 5,19Ha hU
A correspondent Of The New York Even
ing Post, who visited Gov. Dorr during his
illness, thus speaks of him: "Passing
through Providence tie other day, took all
yHopportunty TO call on Governor Dorr, who
am sorry 10 say, is lying very low. His
u disease has become confirmed ja,,ndice.-
He has been great sufferer, except at shorl
Hinteryals. dnring and since the time of his