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the last session. Procure it! It is needless to go further than the Real Estate Bank itself. The idea that a Bank record is sacred while in the hands of an enemy, is preposterous. I never doubted it. The idea that you would publish all of any thing, not in your own favor, and yet in your own control, is equally absurd. A few more remarks and I will shake hands, and part company with Messrs. Newton and Pike, to meet no more, unless further cause shall arise. These words I address to is a to the candidate citizens for of this the State county. Senate, Mr. Newton represent Pulaski county. It is usual for candidates to lay down their offices when they take the field. It should be done in this case. The Bank is a heavy load to carry. But perhaps the gentle persuasions and mystic influences of the Real Estate Bank can draw more votes than its odium will drive away. But still, to elect the Secretary of the Bank, its salaried one upon to the of this the when officer, rich county, and it, who legislate represent has grown for prosperous people State, and the Bank must be a matter of some have the servant tion in shape,-to subject legisla- of the Bank participating, and debuting, and weilding his Bank influence in the Senate, and at the same time receiving pay from the Will the Newton Bank Bank, is lay wrong-utterly down his Seceetaryship wrong. of Mr. when he takes the field? No. Will he do so when the election is if elected? it when he his No. Will he resign over, takes seat in the Senate of this State? No, he never will do it, unless it be after a promise on the part of the assignees to replace him, at the adjournment of the If an as this shall he avail will his understanding may resign, and such of what legislature. exist, resignation be where the people are concerned, since his Bank interest will not only be the same, but even greater than before? These things time will solve, and we shall see. 1 now seriously ask of the people of this county if it be their intention to elect to the State Senate the Secretary of the Real Estate Bank In conclusion, if all this be true, or any part of it, (and it has come to me as true and can be corrected, if untrue, by those interested) ought not Mr. Pike to be removed Will the assignees and stockholders all sav not? And will Mr. Newton, who in time, must necessarily become deeply interested and be to atand in canvassing afterwards, this if county elected, required electioneering, tend to important public duties, be considered, by the assignees, a suitable and proper officer of the assignment? Or if he will run, does he not owe it to the assignees, involved as deepley as they are to close the assignment successfully, that he should resign, and not subject them to loss, their business to neglect, and their reputations to unjust and torturing suspicions ? PULASKI.
