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Newspaper
American Union
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1838
Page
2
The notice outlines publication terms and rates, stating monthly pricing, half-year advance, and arrears handling. It specifies that payments are due at the end of each period and that notices and letters to the masters must be posted to ensure attention. delinquency affects future rates.
A notice announces the immediate printing of government and money cards at the union office on the shortest possible notice. The message mentions urgent action by authorities and references a person named Lerma in terse terms.
The Vermont Patriot outlines a Democratic program opposing a National Bank and broad government control of currency. It favors bank reform, suppression of federal banking power, and state guaranteed specie redemption with strict legislative oversight of bank charters.
The article questions whether government should serve banks or the people, asking if a constitutional treasury and gold and silver currency should prevail or if irredeemable paper money will dominate. It contrasts moneyed aristocracy with safeguards of a free constitution.
A letter to editors condemns modern Whigs for misrepresenting Jeffersonian and Harrison era reforms. It accuses a Whig leader of hypocrisy and treachery, urges youths to study Jeffersonian principles, and claims a July confrontation exposed political betrayal and Gulf-like zeal among young supporters.
The Elyria Republican reports the Medina Shinplaster Bank or Ohio Land Company exploded in circulation. Farmers of Medina County sold stock, butter, and cheese for credit while merchants in Elyria were urged to accept it. The loss to Medina farmers is described as great, with ties to a Whig faction led by Timothy Hudson & Co. and Hartford Convention stock, opposing adent treasury and favoring a regulated credit system.
A letter from Rev. Mr. Lutase of Cheshire is quoted praising J for four score years of upright conduct as a teacher of divine truth. It recalls Jefferson's supporters and the Cheshire Cheese tribute to Madison’s era, framing New England yeomanry as the Democratic backbone and guardians of the republic.
A broad critique portrays nine hundred banks and vast bank influence as a looming threat to democracy. It contrasts bankers with laborers, publishers, and legislators, arguing money corrupts politics and presses a need for money while warning of a corrupt union between banks and government.
John Leland rails against aristocratic dominance and bank power from the era of North to Jackson. He warns that speculation and a central bank threaten liberty and morality, urging states to resist legislative overreach while defending defined powers and honest money in a turbulent political landscape. Ky. & O. Jour.
A historical critique denounces the Sub-Treasury bill defeat and warns that 900 banks unite for political power. The piece argues banks drive wealth and corruption, threaten free government, and could monopolize wealth unless checked. It calls for redeemable bank notes and legal action if banks refuse specie conversion.
A sharp critique notes the last Senate's act to expel Curtis Bates, arguing he remained only to appease party rivals. The piece accuses Whig leaders and the Register of weak liberal rhetoric, calls the Canal Board fight a tool to regain power, and warns of looming trouble for Bank Whiggery amid partisan acts. It asserts constituents had no charge against Bates and denounces the process as perfidious politics.
The Louisiana governor race yields a 700 to 1,000 vote lead for Roman, despite the New Orleans Bee backing the Democrat Dawson and the current Whig governor defeating Dawson by 1,617. Federalists cheer only the halved Federal majority and question White and Slidell district results from 1834 to the present.
Albany Journal reports a passenger account of the Pulaski disaster. Cooper’s boat landed inverted near shore after hours afloat. Mrs Fraser and Mrs Nightingale were rescued with infant secured to her shawl. The infant’s smile confirmed its mother’s safety as she reached land amid praise for the ladies’ calmness and resolve.
The Philadelphia Gazette argues government bonds from the Bank of the United States are risky to buy citing short maturity six percent interest and foreign market overstock. It accuses Mr. Biddle’s press of impudence and questions solvency if bonds are offset by government claims.
The Baltimore Sun reports a duel at Bladensburg on the 4th between two St. John's College students from Annapolis. Charles N. McKubbin, son of Maryland’s treasurer, and Williams of Somerset County, fought with small swords and were injured, one seriously. Seconds were M. D.'s Lovely and Claude, both Annapolis. The youths are reportedly under twenty.
The New York Gazette argues against Mr Biddle's plan to open a banking house in New York, urging a return to specie payments on demand for all promises, and asserting the city and country would be better served by such a pledge rather than a new bank. The piece calls the proposal imprudent given current times and likens it to failing to resume legitimate banking practices.
From the Louisville Advertiser, the piece denounces Mr. Bond for misrepresenting post office printing patronage and asserts the Bank's sway over politics. It argues Bond is a tool of Treasury regimen, cites figures on payments to editors, and compares Bank versus Treasury influence, urging readers to heed the warning about banking power in Congress and state legislatures.
The Ohio Statesman reprints a Whig remark disparaging Van Burenism and subversion schemes. James P. Williamson defends the Whig cause urging reform momentum toward emancipation from caliginous policies. The piece mocks Machiavellian tactics and calls for a redeemed, regenerated country.
A Cincinnati Express report recounts a colored fireman on a boat between Cincinnati and New Orleans who gambled away his clothing then his freedom papers in a poker session with fellow sailors. After losing, he was sold by the winner to a slave dealer, still paying the debt of his folly.
The New Era reports renewed Whig triumphal dismay as the House defeats Mr Curtis’s plan to restore public money to the banks, while the Senate had passed Wright’s bill but the House rejects all but a baiting first section. The piece mocks bankers and faintly praises Whig streetwise victory.
The article critiques Mr Wright’s bill allowing twenty dollar notes from small-note banks for government dues while banning any bank notes under five dollars after October. It labels the measure a constitutional treasury defeat, arguing it strengthens banks and provokes Whig derision as the subtreasury plan falters.
The piece notes rising bank absconders amid Whig rhetoric, citing the Apalachicola Commercial Bank with recoverable assets near ten cents per hundred and a $400,000 liability. It recounts Hugh Stephenson’s scheme to move bank assets to Texas and his arrest with $125,690 in West Florida Bank notes, tied to the old Magnolia Bank.
The Boston Advocate questions Daniel Webster’s differing 1832 and 1838 views on paper money. It argues the same statesman could condemn currency manipulation while later urging a universal paper currency, suggesting a change of view or a plan to benefit the rich at the laboring classes’ expense.
The United States Bank began paying its own notes yesterday morning replacing the late Bank notes called resurrection notes. Mr. Biddle faced penalties for issuing old notes, with a ten thousand dollar penalty and twelve months imprisonment for issuing the old notes. Senatorial oversight seeks to ensure faithful execution of the law.
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