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A Monopoly

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
November
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Should an United Bank be chartered with a Capital Stock of thirty seven hundred millions of dollars, suould it be alUnvet! to send twenty-fivc representatives of its copituA to Congress, sliould it be ullowed tu hold one sixth part of the people in a state of absolute chattelship, and to trample on the rest vvith impunilVj interdicting liberty of speech and the press, raising horrid and bloody ris ots, setting at naught the course ofJustice, and threateningevery few days to divide the Union, how long would the people submit to it? Not a day. They tavejust such a m. nopoly 'in the full tide of auccessful experiment.' among ihem. Slavery is all this and more. VVhat will they do ith slavery?- Aye, what will those who cry out for equal rights do with this giant curse, this terrible monopoly? Wc ask them what they will do.