. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . Indiana, in 1823. He elected to the legislature in 1827, andreturned to either the House or the Senate for years afterwards, makinga total legislative service of 15 years, and a record that any legislatormight be proud of, for he stood for the abolition of imprisonment fordebt, liberal exemption for debtors, abolition of capital punishment,internal improvements, and free education. He was the Receiver of theLand Office at Crawfordsville from 1841 to 1843, and was universallyrespected a
. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . Indiana, in 1823. He elected to the legislature in 1827, andreturned to either the House or the Senate for years afterwards, makinga total legislative service of 15 years, and a record that any legislatormight be proud of, for he stood for the abolition of imprisonment fordebt, liberal exemption for debtors, abolition of capital punishment,internal improvements, and free education. He was the Receiver of theLand Office at Crawfordsville from 1841 to 1843, and was universallyrespected as a level-headed, public-spirited man, and a walking history INDIANA AND INDIANANS 479 of Indiana, until his death, ou September 29, 1874. Gen. John Coburnstated that when he proposed the reservation in the Bank charter, itwas hardly treated seriously. Nobody thought anything would be leftas a surplus; he himself doubtless did not realize its importance. But soit was, he put the net where it caught the golden fish, and we thank himfor it ten thousand times; and we thank those steady, straightforward. John Beard financiers who husbanded these funds for us.* It might be said withequal force that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention did notrealize what they were doing. Certainly the opponents of the StateBank did not, if we may believe they were sincere in what they Pettit, in the course of one of his wild attacks on the State Bank,said: You tell me that the bank has made a large profit; that it hasaccumulated an immense sinking fund, but I ask gentlemen to point out 40 Goodrich & Tuttles Indiana, p. 394. 480 INDIANA AND INDIANANS to me the number of banks, or shaving shops, or paper machines, orwhatever else you may choose to call them, that have been establishedin this Union, that have ever wound up and paid out of their stock allof their liabilities. How many of your million of banks, that ever didrun out, and divide out their stocks as it was put in and red
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