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# Gov. Wright and the Bank of North America. In to-day's paper we publish the report of the select committee of the House, in reference to the late "run" on the Bank of North-America at Newport. Considering this Committee was Democratic, we think its report is a very severe castigation of his Excellency, Gov. Wright. It certainly shows him up in no enviable light. Before this committee the Governor testified he did not know where any of the money came from, which was used to make the run on the bank, yet other persons declared on oath it came from the Governor himself! There is something so exceedingly small in the law manœuvre Gov. Wright adopted to bring discredit upon the system of free banking in the state of Indiana, and something so disreputable in his dodgin and denials before the committee, as must occasion a feeling of indignation and disgust in every breast. It was unworthy of his high position and disgraceful to the man. We ask every one to read this report, and the rebuke at its close to Gov. Wright himself, and to others who acted like him. This banking system is one of the fruits of Democratic legislation, whether it is good or bad. A strongly Democratic Legislature passed the bill creating the system, and Gov. Wright made it a law by his approval. Yet, to cast odium upon this very law, and bring discredit upon a system, which bore the seal of his approval when established, he descends from his position, throws aside the dignity, of unworthy the commonest slop shop broker, be he actuated by the same motives.