Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-04-12

present a fair afao solvent appearance upon
paper, 70 exhibit weIl.balanced account.
whether before or after their suspension,
and their reeking corruption was not fully
made manifest until the .bilLholders found
that, instead Of ihe assets discharging the
liabilities offthe bank, nearly the whole cir.
culation has proved dead loss to the hold.
ers =. $40. s.., ..s.,.-,- ~
4 man living east Of Canton sold
his farm few days before the explosion
nlent Of 81 900 or $1,000, all in Wooster
paper. & !
| 4 widow lady north Of Canton, received
about $500 in the same trash, about the
same time, for her dover. We nigh. nu:-
tipIy instances il necessary Stark Coun-
ty Democrat. x
@ Hundreds upon hundreds of similar
instances might be enumerated. The little
all Of many was of,his same trash. Scarce
ly an individual in tho community but had
few dollars of the worthless stuff, which
was the reward for hours and days OF hard
I toll. md which that rotten and corrup'
| legalized plunoer.shop has delrauded them
of. Had a midnight pilferer committed
hut half the wrongs against TIE community,
no, q man even Of those who sustain, up
hold and advocate these thieving concerns,
and who have denounced the democracy
and its presses for forewarning the people
of the failure ot'this bank, and Of the con-
sequen. plumber of the community ,bu, would
have been eager for vengeance. Ye',
what is the difference between being rob-
bed at midnight, by common plunderer,
and being stripped in a moment, of your
earnings by these licensed robbers? Let
those whose pockets were lined with the
pictured rags Of tho Wooster and other
banks which have lately faiied, answer.
We can see no difference except that the
man who plumbers without law is liable TO
be arrested and incarcernted in the peni-
tentiary and kept at hard labor for term
of yenrs, while bank officers, who plunder
the people 10 much grenter amount, are
regardeded as honorable men! These
things cannot always be:
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The Star says, that Mr. Lake, Mr.. Wei
house and the other pr:n :ipal stockholders
of the late w ooster bank are Locofocos,
and although they have been very heartily
execrated by the hards, they stuck by their
party in every hour OF need"
I hese attempts of the federal press to
fasten this corrupt concern upon the demo
cratic party, nfier the deEunciatior which
they had henped upon oil those who had
iearlessly spokan their sentiments in refer
ence to that bank come with an ill grace
he Star editor knows full we'll, that the
oenlocratc pfess throughout the State
warned the people against rspo.ing the
,enst confidence in that worthless con-
Germ But the the Star says that .Lake,
Aellhouse ard the other principal stock.
holders are Locofacos, and that they stuck
10 their party in every hour Of Reed. -
{. may be sha, Lake, Wellhouse and the
n,her principal stockholders stuck to their
party, bu, hot 10 The party which on the
9Th OF january, 1916, declared their 'oppo.
si,ion to all paper currency, and that they
we're resolved to return to the Constitn-
tional currency Of gold and silrsr; and
Tint The Democracy of Ohio are opposed
10 all chartered ahd special privileges, as
destructive to equality and hostile TO free
Eiasttn:ions, and from henceforth and for
ever declare against them uncomprornising
hostility ~ Will the Star assert that Lake,
Wellhouse and tho other principal stock
| holders af the defunct bank, stuck by the
party which had nniled these principles to
their mnst hend, and ,nnnfully and fearless
| bntlled fer their Triumph Oh, no. In
,ha, contest, the entire influence of that
b,nk was employed against the democratic
| party and in aid of the wings; and it was
| chiefly, if no, entirely through the infu
hence of that corrupt and corrupting concern
lint Tod was defeated and Bebb elected.
| Il WIS the influence OF th:t bank which
81 much reduced the democ ratio vote as to
cnuse a contest for tho seat in the senate
.ut two winters since, from Wayne county.
md set the Star. now that the bank has
fulfilled it's destiny, attempts to induce the
ss;ief that tho v cos.er bank Tas not 9 pet
u rtissery.