Independent Treasury, The (Newspaper) - September 28, 1842, Elyria, Ohio PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY HORACE A THE ROOM DIRECTLY OVER THE DRUG STORE OF AND GRIS o n ce I EL LOR AIN COUNTY OHIO WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 28 1843 45 SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 24 Awful To are we Is thereto be no end lo federal Must even tha Chrislian Religion be scoffed ridiculed for political It would stem that the the corruptions and debasement of all the principles of social life engendered in the campaign of 1840 are not yet lo end A week or two since we published a of a picture carried in a whig procession a Xenia on which among other things was a caricature of WISE with a on his hat with these TUB WHITE HOUSE TWO ONE We thought was stretching outrage upon Religion to its utmost tension For n moment we could not suppose that the descendants of ihu tian people of the Reserve would tolerate such an outrage as this But in this we mistaken Moral and political de- basement has swept over us with ltd The picture was painted iii and Mr Bliss designed having the people of that ride into this town behind to their praise he it spoken only one team could be found whose load were sufficiently debased lo so An was made to raise some cheers when il first arrived but in vuin The people condemned every one condemns if ances do not belie us ils infamous author will be condemned on the second day of next The Tennessee Cnse Much is daily said and sung by the federalists hereabouts in relation to laic trouble in Tennessee It is used as an argument to justify the late treason in the Ohio claiming that the We understand and if our information be incorrect have it in your power to correct that certain members of your party at Nashville have taken measures to ascertain whether the Whig members of the nrc willing to accept the proposition for a general and that the 1st day of September next has been named as the day previous to answers will be expected That is a later day than we could have desired But if you deem so long a timu necessary to obtain tho mation you seek the Democratic members of the Legislature will not we are sure object to it They will cavil or quibble about a cluy or week of want a week two weeks or a month taku it Cut what we do wunt is that Whig shall in publications over their own signatures declare as the Democratic members have done what they do mean ov intend Tho were parallel Mr Briggs at the lic Cor a general resignation 1 was mado not secretly but publicly over on i v i J We Stoop to Conquer The significant was stamped in large loiters on a flag borne by the whigs a tho bration iu 1840 Never was there auch an insult to the American people as is contained in that mollo The whigs to To whom did they stoop how did they stoop and who did they wish to These questions are easily answered Tho silk slocking gentry the old Boston aristocracy who for a half century had looked with scorn and contempt upon thn laboring class and who never had one fuel in in common O with them condescended in 1840 to enter log cabins shake hands eat and drink with what they call the Mower p rocure votes Having by such stooping false promises and deception persuaded many laboring men lo vote the federal lull it fandango on last j of ticket against their own interest thereby labored and descanted long upon the sub- wan n affirmed that the democrats I Whig Will they give would neither go into an election of U S Senators nor resign their seats and sub- mit die question to people And ho see wi breath contaminating the moral pool of society and spreading around i it was a monstrous blight and mildew upon every thing j tion of power and The bonds of ciety arc shaken and riot and cry have usurped full sway over the of multitudes At tho whig fandango on Wednesday a picture was exhibited which for brutal design rind depraved conception goes far ahead of the Xenia affair The middle represents a largo tin-pan laying ncross tho jaws of hell For ourselves we predict not resign They feel that dare their cause again to a deceived and betrayed Deception riveting the chains of federal ism upon themselves well might federalism exult and call it conquering Well might the old federal Boston aristocracy blazen it upon flag WE STOOP TO CONQUER I Laboring men what think you of the Two years have now passed From the York TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATUS BY THE MERCHANT PRINCES Never within our has nny circumstance created so great a sensation as the outrage committed by tho 310 Princes at the Aslor House on Thursday last at tho given lo Lord in the insulting manner with which they received the in of station of the Chief istrate of this great Republic From one end of the city to the other it has been the universal theme for the A Bird's-eye view of for the last few months Lo anri f Dollar a a Day and Roast f you Villainy and Lying Hypo- crites Bank In one short year wo have hud lo re- cord failure of thc banks CAPITAL r enn do do it stooping and if they get your votes they I call you conquered Over the pan a figure is made designed to represent BYINGTON standing vith his i foe l on either side of il In his right hand j he holds n scroll on which is cular Now mark how plain a tale will brush When any set of men or party obtain way excitement has subsided and you his deceptions First we ascendency by promises which ufon il Whun T i r IP federal notice you they call will show that tho Legislature was not never attempted afterwards to fulfill broken up nnd destroyed by the i may safely bc classed among those who of thc democrats but that it transacted confidence reposed in all its business before its adjournment charged wtih a design to deceive Now Second that thc democrats wero ready to i let us try tins party by this rule and resign and submit the whole to thc see what will bc verdict pie if the whigs would do lho same And j Towanda Bank Berks County Bank i West Branch Bank Commercial Banff N A Trust ing Company Washington Bank Buffalo Bank of Olean Commercial Bunk of do do do do do do do do do do do do do do of For Treasury To thc candid politician There are times when it becomes tho duty of every intelligent freeman to lay do do do his left a dressed to the whigs and published in all Underneath him in the pan isj the democratic papers in the Slate The undersigned have in their In the whigs in this county tne of party and thirdly that the adjournment was orderly lo believe that our county funds investigate with rigid scrutiny und according lo constitutional been misused and squandered and i tion of our country Party feelings have j visions of State j proclaimed to thc people that if so I i i i i i i have lelt so liule in Read tho following extract trom a thuy would only into power 0 that old Ship of State appears fast of the ad- reform those abuses and discharge manuscript similarly and around the edge of it a number of duties with faithfulness and fidelity veering upon the breakers and no man j who loves his country more than the in- to tlic public Now it is a well known fact from the of can but feel the liveliest session the of all the record that the Democratic Treasurer sensibility lor her un ui Jl CA ui r r L i members of both Houses of tho hi wi looking instructions to deliver last Bowie Knives the is to Governor of the Slate j Tho anry flames are curling are Unit the CD HELL in lurid wreaths and emblazoned amid them is a horrid erecting its snaky head and hissing with rts venomous Near him stand of devils dancing in thc ghastly nations of the Whig members of both Houses be delivered al the same time If it is not at this time in your er to enter into ihn un- will be ready tit any ith Jollar us per their re- and that people did not suffer by all of this mismanagement lo the amount of a single cent While The fact need more cure in tho selection of her officers and crew need more men of sound judgment and I reflecting who are willing lo work Tor the safety of the ship and her precious cargo of for thuir glare of thc flames which roll around may name within a reasonable period lo them The is flashing and ihc Jwn in reference of thc funds were applied to suit their own ters to tho people storm how ncr around exhibiting on r r 6 Respectfully your ob t dim outline of HUMAN tl LONG of Bedford on the hand no sooner did these j and ess who want to use her for public reformers get the county funds in- j to their than all their solemn vanish from before their eyes Around Mr B's head wingot out their and curling their barbed of which is thrust into his heart out the blood is his face is in livid hues as in the agonies of W H POLK of It ought further to be stated lhat tho Legislature of Tennessee meets but once i questions have been is he honest is he capable is he a person of sound and matured judgment and of a purposes and their Treasurer written with reflecting mind when her managers were their own hands a defaulter on to be selected but on the is he j capable of making a good display DV long 1 own 10 the amount of thousands of j se is ao in working the I dollars which they account for partly by wires of party is he a going depreciated bank paper which proper at- wool-dyed politician j might have secured and rendered negligence in years and hence iho of thc democrats to and the case to the people They were guilty I r j i over lo thc default of no tct of they did nut become nearly useless and the While such facts are apparent to every one how can we expect that any of their fine spun promises will bc realized the a ance of country at large promoted and that stability given to our institutions C-L i- i i i VT i f 11 i n u i i without his being in any manner able to go ardently desired by alH There must Shocking Mr finally resign until all thc business P n u- -n O I A n I I nf if tr IP n C H n II CTR T P t ft H 1 II WI upon them was transacted Tho following article from the ville Union thc leading democratic in the Slate will set this matter in its er light RESIGNATION OF LATURE account for if you doubt it go to the record and see Ye honest hard working industrious tax what is your verdict guilty or not guilty of this has an aged mother here whose hairs and virtuous life have com- manded some respect His brothers and sisters are also of the most honored and respectable citizens in Yet age nnd gray hairs were no avail They must stand and ness such pictures be- fore their hear thc j whig j in suspending and then shaving their shouts and shocking oaths of bands of ot- all the Democratic own money and exploding and no one charge of deception alleged them be a change or our gallant ship will soon be dashed upon the rocks of unholy and well might we now despair was it not for the fact that men will ways bo found when the emergency calls U S Bunk Pennsylvania Bank days and wo thank God for Mechanics the honor of human nature we have I Penn Township Bank do not one but condemn cd the Man Mcch do ors of it And in to this it was I Bank do universally desired that there should be an early public meeting called of the zens generally without distinction of ly in order lo express their indignation at such and lo show to the world at large a great majority of tho ple of this city and those loo of the most influential and respectable Hank of Buffalo determined lo take the first opportunity Commercial Bank of lo wipe the stigma from the skirls of the mais of people of this city I In order that I In re may be a right un- i on this subject we will make a brief statement of the whole ing the fuels as they occurred in reply leans to the miserable attempts at apology made by some of the Wall street advocates of tho conduct of these self-styled merchant who would not and have not hesitated heretofore to become thc apologists of a foreign royal ment when American who had shed their blood for their country were massacred in cold blood within the walls of a foreign prison The only way in which these persons have to excuse themselves for their conduct on thai casion has been thus They say that thn insult was unpremeditated aild that it was intended by the committee that bolh the two the Queen and the President should bc drank in silence and j Bank of Ohio that the proposal to cheer the Queen wcst Union Bank do ter insulting the President did not ate from any of them This is And we seo in this miserable equivoque thai they are now so ashamed of their own outrageous conduct that seek to shield themselves from the withering of public opinion by a gross The facts are these When the The President of the United was given by Mr Peter A Jay he made no attempt lo arouse the feelings of tha com- pany in favor of it but sal still showing a studied marked contemptuous silence Alexandrian Company do the toast was repeated with a peculiarly insulting emphasis by Mr J Ogden iho first vice president who also refused to call forth any response but showed by his manner that he wished the company not to respond to it The second vice president pronounced the toast in a respectful tone of voice and then sat down without n sign Lord John Hay and the officers of the rose to their feel KO did Mayor Morris and one or two of the guests and it is our impression that Lord rose i Bank of Darien also hut seeing none of the officers of tho j Bank of meeting or the committee rise they ail Central Bank sat down looking very much astonished 000 Lafayette Bank Bank Clinton Co Bank N Y Banking Co Farmers Bank Amsterdam Fanners ics Rochester Bank of Lewis Co St Lawrence Co do New Hope Bridge Co New Jersey R R Conn Bank Muss Bank of Bennington Vermont Agricultural Bank Maine Still Water Bank do Urbana Bank Library German Bank of Hamilton N Lebanon Miami Bank ing Company Farmers Canton Miami Exporting Co Bank of Cincinnati Exchange Bank of Cincinnati Lancaster Bunk Bank of Chillicothe Bank of Cleveland Commercial Bank of Lake Erie Exchange Bank Mineral Point State Bank Illinois Real Estate Bank Union Bank Bank do do do do do do do do do do do do do 108.034 do Indiana Wis Illinois Arkansas Mississippi R R Georgia do Bank of Columbua do do do 100.800 EVERY DEMOCRATIC HEARD We have the pleasure to announce to j lho brgan tb bc without respect to party at thc power cised by irresponsible bank incorporations federalists who reeled through the streets upon that day But what has Mr B done that he be thus abused Is he a thief or a robber Has he wronged his bor Has he wronged society No This will not ha pretended But HE IS A That is enough He is is is talented in the side of For this he is this derided in this most brutal and shocking manner Of thc picture on the opposite side of Mr B with a we shall say is beneath contempt But who sketched this vile caricature 1 Who contrived said he would it paid who now owns it IS Albert A Bliss He is the man we are informed on the best did this and if he dare deny it we can give our informant's name He did it to raise a TO GET THE PEOPLE'S VOTES and to gratify his deep malevolence against Mr B who used him completely up in debate several times last winter and showed the naked of his composition the Whig members do thc same And now what do the whigs of the Legislature sayl We have not yet hoard of them Arc you ready gentlemen to Speak out and let the know There can be no further evasion or equivocation upon this subject The alternation is plainly before you you must either accept the democratic position for a general resignation of all thc members of both parties of both Houses of the Legislature and thus submit thc matters of difference between the parties to thc people or you must refuse to re- sign and thereby confess lhat you fear to do so If refuse to must be regarded as a clear admission on your part that you are now in a minority in your you fear the are unwilling to trust your waining cause to them in another election The time has come when you must decide and we call upon you in the name of the Democratic members of thc lature and we might add of thc people members of both Houses of thc responsible for their actions The turc have been heard that they saicK are ready to resign provided wiu make toc We go for Specie and bills convertible into specie on well the people said tho times arc hard us try a change and they sent of If y u wsh Now how did they carry out their Why no sooner did they get into their scats than they opposed tooth and nail the very first proposition to make the banks pay their honest debts and off the question from time to time and on the final almost every soul of voted against it Neither did they even so much as propose to make tho stockholders dually liable for the redemption of their bills and when a of this kind was introduced wont to a man against it These facts stand in black and white in the journal of the very last session Now what say you ye whose broken against j them that there arc candid re- i fleeting minds sufficient for the present emergency there can be no question The question then arises will they act cording to lho convictions of their sober judgment under thc present Is not our country in clanger when ciples which if carried out would sap the very foundations of our government ara boldly proclaimed and acted upon out the land Is there a friend of his country who docs not deplore thc disorganizing dent exhibited in the of our last legislature The appeals which are made to the passions of men ruther than their reason and the premises which arc daily made before thc people by seeking politicians without any intention of ever fulfilling thorn Those and other evils loudly upon the stable portion of the lo come forward and use their influence to bring back the country to its primitive purity and elect those men to office who will discharge their duty of mere party considerations Mr Martin the well-known importer of j of Hawkinsville do illustrated English works an I Orleans Bank Louisiana Merchants Bank do time lo ascertain the wishes of the Whig I Per broken promises what members or of the Whig party in the you guilty or not State the Democratic members can have no objection thai you shall name any j We'll go for Tyler turo day when your determination shall be made known j Song PRIVATE RESPONSIBILITY Without a whv or Whig REFORM The Eve Journal is lugubrious through half a column at removal of its laying friend Mr Jonathan ns collector of the port of Philadelphia He is canonized as the first of since the and is no doubt ho more feelingly deplored as it is believed or expected to be the signal of and equal desirable reforms The new is Mr THOMAS S SMITH who it is said has pursued the notion of reform among the dependants of the Englishman rose tc his feet at Uie centre of the left wing table and remained ing till thc music struck looking for the as he himself says lo be en by the At last sat down in amazement asking tho person next to him what in the of wonder it all meant Now mark the difference and then say if the insult WHS unintentional or otherwise When thc toast of the Queen of Great Britain was given M Ogden the first vice president and chairman of tfco com- together with eral of that same committee were ry first to spring to feet and give the hip hip and call out for three cheers nnd one member cried out One i Let us hear therefore no more of more of thc The above are the solemn facts of tho case We cnn safely leave them to bo passed upon by the sober second thought 963.762 Improvement Bank do Exchange Bank do Atchafalaya Bank do In all 65 banks or including their branches 87 having capitals of the a- mount of and returns of capital not complete Our Journal the reader will recollect was commenced in July 41 In the Democratic Review for June we find n list different from above and professing to give the names of the Banks that have failed since thc first of January In it we find the names of nine banks in Buffalo and eleven banks in other of New York twenty in all not included in our list having an aggregate of cap- ital of And also the ters Bank of Columbus Georgia cap- ital This will make the total of failures among banks 86 or 108 in- branches having an aggregate capital of If we go back a little beyond the first of the intelligent and patriotic people of of January 1841 we should have to add this great city and country LAW the people fer a little give up the dis- cries the Boston Atlas Let the Union be the country i cries Archer Head him or will march ten thousand nets to Let the see who can stand it longest cries a rag barren who who can live by plundering industry and fatten on miseries of a suffering ple Dissolve the cannot compel the majority to say the whigs of This is the law and order of Y for banks and 40 in Mississippi 7 in Florida And we know not how many in Michigan and thc other states But here we have a total of bank failures ding branches and involving a capital of more than onr hundred million dollars Yet so great is thc solidity part of our population that they still cling lo the paper money system as that alone which can give wealth nnd prosperity to the Journal nf Why is a man ed like one who a young lady he believes
