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past to make eOem thlS source OF profit, by pur-
chasing up at discount their own notes, and then
loaning them cut, at their nominal value, thus in
a two-fod sense pro6tiDg by setting the laws of
the country at defancel They first violate the
law by refusing to pay specie; this causes de-
probation of their notes; they then can purchase
up the notes at discount, and turn round and
loan the notes thus purchased, and receive for
them the notes of good men drawing interest If
this is not violation of the law, and then "tak-
ing advantage of their own wrong" by profting
upon the distress which they have mainly produc-
ed we know not the meaning of that term.


And because the Democratic party have pro-
claimed such abuses from the "house top" and
have been in favor of cOercing them into specie
payments, under the heaviest penalty, they have
been slandered and abused by their opponents and
declared 10 be in favor of "nothing but hard mo-
ney."


We are not are arguing /" from the abuse a.
gainst the use" Of the institution and this would
be unfair. Neither are we charging the Whig
party with iustifying some of the abuses of which
we havezcomplained this, also, would be impro-
per. We are only trying to show that when a
party not only tolerate but openly justify the sus-
pension of Banks, they become, to certain ex-
tent, an accessory before the fact" to the very
abuses of which we speak. For it is evident that
notes cannot be purchased at discount, until they
have deprecated; and equally evident, that de-
probation is produced by suspension Their guilt,
therefore, consists in ustying that state of things
which produces the act; and this, too, is aggrava
ted by the fact that former experience has taught
them, in common with others, that Banks are ac-
tuated from the same sordid passions men, and
that no way is so effectual in preserving them
from malpractices, as to keep them from tempta
tion A WESTERN FARMER.