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Whenever was there State or National Bank ere ated, which did not become the tool of clique r. Whenever dld husiness men who had no influence in

 securing votes enjoy equally with politicians the be nefts of such institutions? Whenever did mechan

 ,c, small trader solvent merchant receive dscouns or assistance from hem if of influence in cleo

 tions was to be accommodated?

 Every body recollects how some few years since a few individuals monopolized the use of nearly the entire capital of of the branches of our State institution-hsw politicians got so far in debt to them that the people he burdened with taxes to make up the capital sunk by this means. It was one of these brapches, presume (which Mr. Clay allu- ded soe other day ia the Senate, when he said that essssohs had appropriated to their own use eight hundred fbousand dollars more than it's whole cap

 But, says the whig reader, these are not National Bank That institution is conducted by of integrityits affairs are subject the inspec- ton and control of Congress. Did not the old Bank although subject to this control, carry on secretly system of irresponsible and operations, which have rendere it and its chief officer the very scorn of honest men, and an unanswerable argument against the union of Bank and Statel

 Prom recent speech of Mir. Benton we learn that in two years lS3l--2) the firm of Riddle & Co. re- ceived from that Bank loans amounting to more than twelve millions dollars, exclusive of discounts of two millions, at interest of from four to six per cent. During this period accommodaljoRs wsrs rs- peaiedly refused to some of the best business men of Philadelphia.

 Thus broker or relation of the President oftbe Bank could get loans to the amount of millions, and for years while. at the dozens and hundreds of citizens, applying for small sums. the aggregate of the whole of which was only fragment of single loan to the comorant, were refused The persons so refused were in all probability driven to borrow what they needed from the same Thomas Riddle & Co. at two or three per cent mouth; and then the public would be entertained with story that the money market Aas "agh.' and that " tightness" would be attributed to some act of the government.