“RESOLUTIONS
OF
SUNDRY DEMOCRATIC CITIZENS OF GLOUCESTER COUNTY, NEW JERSEY,
Against the Bank of the United Stales.
June 2, 1834.
Referred to tho Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION.
Pursuant to public notice, the democratic republican delegates elected by the several townships of Gloucester county assembled at the Courthouse in Woodbury, on Saturday, the 10th day of May, 1834.
Joseph Rogers, esq. was appointed president; John Clement, of Newton, Samuel B. Lippincott, of Union, John Mulford, of Greenwich, and Capt. Jno. Endicott, of Galloway, vice presidents; Joseph Lodge, jr. and Dr. John Lee secretaries.
The meeting being thus organized, the delegates of the several townships were called, when, it appeared, that seventy three were in attendance, and that eleven of the thirteen townships in the county were represented.
On motion, a committee of one from each township represented, was appointed to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of this meeting, as the declared sentiments of Gloucester county, through her delegates assembled, in relation to the Bank of the United States.
Thereupon, the president announced the following persons as said committee:
Newton, B. W. Mickle; Camden, Samuel Miller, esq.; Waterford, Dr. Thomas Lee; Gloucester, Mark Ware; Union, Samuel B Lippmcottj Deptford, Joseph Sailer; Franklin, Samuel Porch; Greenwich, Samuel Sailer, esq.; Woolwich, William R. Cooper, esq.; Eggharbor, John R. Scull; Galloway, Joseph Indicott
After an absence of a few minutes, the committee presented the following, preamble and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted:
Whereas the assumption of power by the United States’ Bank, in discarding the Government directors from the business of the board; its vast doings in secret, and its refusal to make public the object and operations of those secret meetings; its irregular transactions of business, in granting large loans to some persons on doubtful security, and to others refusing loans of smaller amount on the best of paper; its enormous loans and accommodations to editors of newspapers, and those employed as its advocates; and its extraordinary and unlimited confidence in its president, Nicholas Middle, to whom, without accountability, it has confided the entire control and disbursement of its immense treasure; its interference with the politics of the country, and its base attempts at the late elections to put the will of the people at defiance; and numerous other acts of the gravest character, having been sustained by the most indubitable evidence, and called forth the democracy of the Union in vindication of their dearly bought rights and privileges: Therefore,
Resolved, That we heartily concur with the House of Representatives and the Executive in opposing a recharter of the present Bank of the United States, or any other institution with similar powers.
Resolved, That the act of the Secretary of the Treasury in declining to continue the deposite of the public money in the vaults of the United States’ Bank is not the real, nor is it an adequate cause for the pecuniary embarrassment complained of by the community; but it is mainly attributable to the complaints of pressure and distress sustained, and animated to violence by the whole machinery of money, political power, and intrigue.
Resolved, That the perpetuity of our republican institutions depends mainly upon the free, unbiased suffrage of an intelligent people, and an unshackled press; and we hold that every measure, and every institution, which lends to endanger or corrupt either of these invaluable safeguards, as anti democratic and inimical to civil liberty.
Resolved, That the present situation of the country in regard to its currency and derangement of exchanges, and the distress produced thereby, conclusively proves the immense power of the Bank of the United States— a power now and at all times to be wielded as its pleasure or interest may dictate, ‘for the weal or woe of the people,’ and irresponsible to them— a power to make the rich richer, and the poor poorer—a power to side with and support any political party whose interest it imagines, coincides with its own, or whose power, by bargain, it may couple with its own interest—a power which ought not to be suffered to exist among a people who believe that liberty is worth more than gold, and that liberty, to be preserved, must be guarded by vigilance the most jealous and unremitting.
Resolved, That we highly approve of the course of the Hon. William N. Shinn, our immediate representative in Congress, and his five associates, in so nobly sustaining the democracy of New Jersey arid the best interests of the whole country, in the aid which they have lent the present administration in bringing back the constitution to its native sense and pristine purity.
Resolved, That, in the opinion of this Convention, the majority in the United States’ Senate, in their late proceedings against the President, infringed upon the constitutional right of the House of Representatives, and acted in direct contravention with the expressed wishes of the people
Resolved, That this Convention approve of the proposed National Democratic Convention for the purpose of selecting suitable candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States.
Resolved, That we approve of the Democratic State Convention to be held on the 21st May instant, at Trenton; and that this meeting will appoint delegates to represent the county of Gloucester in said Convention.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this,meeting be signed by its officers, and a copy forwarded to the President, to each of our Representatives in Congress, and members of the Senate from this Slate.
In pursuance of the 8th resolution, the following persons were appointed-
Waterford.—John C. Thackray, Izry Roberts, B. B. Cooper, esq., Benj. Burrough, Jos. Rogers, Dr. Thomas Lee.
Newton.—John Clement, esq., John W. Mickle, Jos. C. Collings, James Stoy,esq., Thomas Githens, Benj. W. Mickle, George Lee.
Camden.—Samuel Lanning, esq., John K. Cowperthwaite, Richard Fetters, John Lawrence, Samuel Miller, Jas. Gahan, Isaac Vansciver, Isaac Wilkins, John Gohen, William Morris, Josiah Shivers, Isaac M. Everly, Joshua Burrough, Josiah Atkinson.
Union.—Thomas Thackray, Samuel B. Lippincott, J. P. Browning, Joel G Clark, Thomas Vigure, Jos. C. Budd.
Gloucester.—James D. Dotterer, Mark Ware, Jesse Price, Josiah Albertson, William Sickler, S. S. Chester, Thomas S. Dixon.
Deptford.—John Dunham, Jesse Smith, Thomas Knight, Joseph Sailer, R. L. Armstrong, Girard Wood, Joseph Nicholson, Simon Sparks, Jacob Wick, Amos Campbell, Samuel Kemble.
Greenwich.—John B. Miller, Benjamin Allen, George M. Coles, Samuel Sailer, Joseph Lodge, jr., Bowman Sailer, Alexander R. Long, William Madara, John Mulford, John Moffett, jr.
Woolwich.—W. R. Cooper, Robert Cooper, J. B. Harker, Benj. Avise, John D. Norton, Daniel C. Cozens, Samuel G. Ogden, William Holdcraft, Christopher Moose.
Franklin.—William Porch, Samuel Porch, John G. Rosenbaum, Johnson Beckett, Charles L. Stanger, Thomas Campbell, Jacob Porch, Felix Fisler.
Hamilton.—Jolin Pennington, William Ackley.
Eggharbor. — Gen. E. Doughty, Mahlon D Canfield, Job Frambes.
Galloway.—Dr. J. Pitney, Parker Cordery, Jos. Garwood.
Weymouth.—Luke Steelman, Daniel McKeage.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the “Village Herald” and ” Trenton Emporium.”
JOSEPH ROGERS, President.
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Reference Data:
Congressional Edition, by US Congress, 1834, pages 129-131
