THE BANK POWER
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We hope our readers will bear IN mind that the
contest Is now between the Bank Power and the
People. The Banks demand unlimited control over
And for whose beneft2 For the benefit of the
stockholders. The washington Chronicle says
truly, "that the Bank Power has prevailed over the
Constitution and the Rights of the People, and if
its malignant influence be not arrested, the morals
of the community-the integrity of Congress
rights of the people-and the liberties of the coun-
try, are mere words-more worthless than the
sounds of hollow brass, or tinkling cymbals."


The bank power assumes that the people cannot
administer the Government, through their own a.
gents, constiutonally elected, and responsible to
the laws; but that irresponsible corporations must
have charge of the finances, for banking purposes,
who will hold themselves accountable neither to
the laws, the Constitution, nor public opinion
That the banks do not regard this accountability,
every man in the Union 'aosO kn1oaos to be fact
What then must be the fate of this Republic if the
people yield their destinies into the hands of sordid
avarice and selfish ambItion2


Mr.. DromgooIe, of Virginia, says the scheme of
selecting in the first instance, and then EMPLOYING
by contract, State Banks to perform the fiscal ope
rations of Government, is "commendine to our lips
arank and poisonous Federalism worthy of the time
and the school of Alexander Hamiton.o And it
might be added, that the establishment of Fifty
Million National Bank, for the same purpose, is
worthy of the second era of Federal usurpaton and
lnsolence, as promulgated in the school of Henry
Clay and Nicholas Biddle