The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1857-11-18
OHIO BANKS GU ARDED BY
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The Banks of, this State are now play.
ing big game in resisting specie pay
ment by the interpositions of hired mobs.
Within the last month, citizens have been
driven from the Banks and threatened with
personal violence in Mansfield, Springfield,
Marietta, Nenia and Piqua, for daring to
ask specie for notes ON these banks.
Notes which they were pledged to redeem,
whichever, and by whoever presented. 1t
is set up in Justification of these infamous
outrages, that the persons on whom they
were committed were brokers. Admit
ting this to be the case, we are still una
BILE to see why it should shield bankers
from the fulilment of their promises.
We have no special love for brokers, but
believe in the main they are just as honest
as chartered banks Aside from this
what business is it to bank or its ruff
anly bullies, whether the people themselves
demand specie for its notes, or employ a
broker to act in their behalf? If the citi-
zens of this place should send Mr. Quinby
with batch of notes on the rotten bank
at Mansfield for redemption, is the fact of
his being broker any reason why he
should be set upon by pack of hired
bullies led on by the Republican Lieu
tenant Governor of the State, and forci-
| bly, driven from the counter of that swind-
ling shop? Is every farmer. mechanic or
day laborer bound to go in person with a
single note he may have on that concern
to procure its redemption? Certainly no
honest man will maintain so absurd a
proposition. 1t would be supremely ridic-
ulous to say, that every man was bound to
present bank notes in person before he
could secure the specie for them, and he
too be man who had meyer loaned ordis-
counted paper, else the hireliugs of char
tered swindling shops would raise the mad
dog cry of broker and drive him away
We want no bankers who enjoy special
and exclusive privileges by virtue of. law
to save themselves from paying their debts
by skulking behind their, hired bulies
We hope that our next Legislature will
make severe penalties for the iawless out
RACES of bank hirelings, and punish al
who aid and abet them, and make the ae
of receiving back the specie Gas. was tht
case at Mansfield, Piqua, &C., a confes
sion Of insolvency to be followed by /
forfeiture of character, sthessame as if j
had absolutely refused payment on it
!. notes and they been put to protest.
Crawford County Forrtn'. ialgaqG lle
Il The FREsHET IN New York. Dis
2 patches dated yesterday give further de
tails Of the progress Of the freshet III north
2 erna New York. AT H. mptonsport, q
the head Of the Crooked Lake Cenal, til
streets OF the village were washed away
aud the water in them stood six or seve
feet deep. Many buildings had been ur
J dermined. AN the villages on the line
1.-THE Crooked Lake Canal were badly dan
y aged iand the Canal SO broked as to rer
T der it's repair this season Impossible.
ty5The Georgia Legislature has
'e lected Hon, Robert Toombs to the Sena
p of the United States for the term of 81
al years from the Sd of March, $50, his pre-
4 ent term of Office expiring on thatiday.
In the Cincinnati general markets '
n. notice a continued active movement
he four and dwheat, and prices tend strong
y. UPWARDS. bThe sales of -four yesterd,