Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1821-10-30

Office at Edwardsyllle, will, IN compI-
ance with the wishes of his friends, be a
candidate for the Office of Governor OF
the state OF Illinois, at the ensuing cleo
ton, to be held on the first Monday in
August next.
In the preceding columns is inserted
the statement of Col Callava, late Co.
vernon Of Florida, on the subject of a
difference between him and Gen. Jack
son, relative to certain testamentary pa
pers having been purloined from the
proper Office, and secreted in the house
of the former. This statement, it will
be seen, differs materially from that
given by the correspondent of the Lou
isiana Advertiser at Pensacola, which
appeared in this paper few weeks since.
Col. c. is now at Washington, and the
affair will probably be investigated by
the government at that place.
At an adjourned meeting Of the citi-
zens of the town of Edwardsville, and its
vicinity, held at the Courthouse, on the
goth Of October, 1921 "a
Mr.. Lippincott from the committee,
appointed at former meeting, to pre-
pare and report resolutions, expressive
of the sense of the meeting, upon the
subject of Domestic Economy, submitted
the following Report -
FELLOW CITIZENS,
To lay before you detail Of the diff
hculties and embarrassments which you
daily feel, would be superfluous. You
are convinced that something mus, be
done. to check the progress Of our COM
munity toward pccuniary ruin.
We trust therefore, that no eloquent
appeal need be made to your feelings or
your understandings, to induce your CO.
operation with u.s.. in measures Of gene
raj and lasting benefit. i
Various experiments have been made
to relieve suffering communities from
the pecuniary embarrassments under
which they have labored; but although
a temporary suspension Of difficulties,
has, in some instances, resulted, still we
End from observation and experience,
that these effects are transitory, and from
their nature, calculated finally to pro-
duce an accumulation of distress.
1t will even be in vain for man to at
tempt a work Of creation. If the mate
rial necessary to the construction ola cir
culating medium Of real worth, do not
exist, it is folly for US to procure an ideal
existence by the substitution of me-
dunn without intrinsic value. The on
ly expcdient to which we can, with con-
fidence, resort, is wellregulated system
of public aud individual economy; that
economy which. limits our wants Cor at
least the qualification Of them,) within
the means actually IN our power.
In order that this may be effected to
advantage, it is highly desirable that there
should be an unanimous, and simulta-
neous determination to do so. For such
is the proneness ofman to imitation, that
however absurd habit Of general preva-
lence may be, it is not easy for a few in
diyiduals to oppose it with success.
For these reasons we think it our duty
to adopt for our own govergment, and
recommend to others, particularly the
wealthy and influential, such measures
as. may be calculated to diminish the
number of our individual wants--to pre-
serve, as far as practicable, the money at
present amongst us-and in due time to
effect its increase. sStl
The use of foreign luxuries is income
patiblc with true neutrality-suspicious.
ly at this time of distress. 1t ought
therefore to be discontinued. Those
goods offoreign manufacture also, which
can be substituted BY American fabrics,
ought to be disuscd. 1t is in fact SO no
torious as to need no proof, tina, goods Of
foreign manufacture, can at present only
be procured by large expenditure Of
specie. The farmer and the merchant
daily experience that the resources Of
the country are Inadequate to to procure
Q continued supply of necessary articles
Of consumption from abroad, without
constant diminution Of our specie funds.
To refrain from them is therefore du-
~ absolutely imperative
AS substitute for foreign fabrics,
home made goods are cheapes, and best.
Next to these, such as are made withinthe
United States. Forby notwithstanding |