Phenix Gazette

DR. COOPER ON THE U. S. BANK.—The celebrated Dr. Thomas Cooper, of Columbia, S. C., has just published a series of essays in favor of the Bank of the United States. They are written with the usual ability which the author is capable of bringing to almost any labor he undertakes. But his is an aid which we would not covet; nor do we think that the Bank will be benefited by the exertions of such a man, even though he be a volunteer in its cause. Non tali auxilio, &c.

But we must not conclude this notice of Dr. Cooper's pamphlet, without marking with our decided reprobation some passages which we see quoted from it, and which we here subjoin—

"Robbers and plunderers by profession, whether by force or by fraud, as all governments and their component officers always have been and now are, and this of ours more than any other now existing."

As to forms of government, indeed the public begin to doubt about their efficacy: here in the United States we have done much to bring them into discredit. We began with a democratic republic, and we have improved it gradually (retaining the name) into a most unqualified despotism.

"Our present government, which idiots call a Republic, has gradually become an open, avowed, a most insolent and unprincipled despotism."
We agree with the Richmond Compiler, that such language is neither argument nor invective, but gross falsehood and abuse; it is what no man believes, and but few, even of those who pretend to respectability, will assert. Such statements require but to be exhibited, to be sufficiently exposed; they are disgraceful, but not dangerous.