The Charlotte Journal

The attentive reader will see, in casting his eye over our "Synopsis of Congressional Proceedings," this week, a good deal of important and interesting information. He cannot fail to be struck with the extraordinary and alarming disclosures made in the Senate on the 19th of April, by Mr. Ewing, of Ohio, in relation to certain movements on the part of the Deposit Banks of Ohio, (apparently by order of the Secretary of the Treasury.) And in the proceedings had in the Senate, on that most interesting subject, the Distribution of the Proceeds of the Sales of the Public Lands among the States, he will be equally certain to observe who are the friends of the People, and who the advocates of refusing them what is their just due, and retaining it in the hands of a Government or a Party already filled to repletion with surplus means, or vesting it (actually throwing it away) upon the most useless objects.

How long will the people suffer themselves to be hoodwinked and defrauded out of their just rights and most vital interests? If Mr. Van Buren and his party are the People's friends, why do they not do the People justice?—if they are not the People's friends, (and this is proven in the plainest manner by their course in relation to the Public Lands and the revenue already on hand from their sale,) we ask again, how long will they suffer their rights to be withheld from them, and their interests to be violated and sacrificed? If they are supine much longer, it will be too late for successful exertion!