Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-07-25

Resoleed, That the people have determined
l. That they will reduce the circulation of
the State to purely Metallic Currency
2. That all the existing banks shall go ont
of existence at the expiration of their chart
ers, and no new banks of issue shall be chart
zed.
3. That all means shall be taken consistent
with the incorporated rights of these insfits-
tons to render the circulation of the banks
more safe aud more convertible into specie.
The Columbia Democratic Htrald in antici-
patton of the State Convention, confidently
said 90
with very few, (and. for the good of the
democratic party, fortunate exceptions) every
one of the bank apologists are Know Moth
ings. Throughout the State it will be found
that ninety-nine out of every hundred bank
men are Know Nothings. We do not assume,
however, nor do we believe that the entire
mass of Nnow Nothings of the State are
bankites. On the contrary, the result Of the
next contest will show that an immense ma
jority of the whOle-composed of ALMOST THE
ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC PARTY and a rery large mass
of the rank and file Of the N,aosc Notliings ARE
DEAD OUT AGAINST BANKS"
Even since the State Convention was held,
and the nondescript resolutions adopted by it
on this question the Memphis Avalanche said {:
1t 1.-THE democratic party1 has resolved to
put an end TO the corrupt, rotten and swind-
ling banking system of Tennessee, and, as
one of the first steps toward the accomplish
ment of its Object the Union and Planters
banks, being among the oldest and worst sim
ners, MUST GO BY THE BOARD. LET
On being asked if the position of Gov.
HARRIS suited that paper, it replied that sit
did, and that it was of the hardest" Even as
late as the goth of the present month, July,
five days ago, the Avalanche says:
The BANKS HAVE BEEN DOOMED. THE
HAND OF FATE Is UPON THEM. A continued sys-
tenn of plumber has incurred the inexpressible
hatred of the people they have feeced and
robbed, and terrible retribution is about to
overtake them. They zee the handwriting up
on the wall in blazing letters OF fire, and the
bank advocates, bank pimps, bank favorites,
and particularly the bank officers, gather in
squads, like affrighted passengers on the bur-
ricane deck of sinking steamer, to consult
how best to save themselves
Gov. HARRIS himself, in the terrible step
into which his hard money creed has driven
him, will not boldly give up the gold and sill
yer theory. With all his art in lodging and
escaping the issue, he has not failed to leave
the impression that he is for wiping out the
banks, and OF greeting "the glorious millen-
ial morning of hard-money." We have the
authority OF the Sparta Tines, for his position
at Sparta in his discussion with Col. Meth
ERLAND., as follows:
"On the currency question he said he was
opposed to re-chartering any Bank in Ten
nessee;-that if we had Banks at ALL he was
in favor of the Legislatures having power to
wind them up at any time, But he would
not say that he was in favor of Banks with
these restrictions, but left the impression that
he was in favor Of an exclusive gold and sill
yer currency"
Fellow-citizens of Tennessee, read and d.
gest the above. Are you prepared to strike
down all banks, and thus reduce the property
values of the State nearly or quite one haiti
If you are vote for Gov. HARRIS. But if you
desire to protect your own interests, and de-
velop the great and almost illimitable resourc-
es of your noble State, vote, for once at least,
with the Opposition, who while they denounce
all rotten and unreliable banks declare:
"THAT WE ARE IN FAVOR OF SOUND AND
wEIL-REGULATED BANKING SYSTEM, THE IS
SUES WHEREOF SHALL, BY BEING PAYABLE ON
THEIR FACE AT THE PLACE WHERE ISSUED BE
CONVERTIBLE AT THE WILL OF THE HOLDER
INTO THE PRECIOUS METALS"