Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-12-03

with tuXcs but which shall, effect. forbid them to
think Of ever again marching TO the Rhine.
Is. The evils of u national debt are without end in
number and are boundiess in extent: England now
exhibits them all to the world: swarms of iders, y-
ing on the iabour Of tue ndus rions; two thousand
towns, villages and hamets dr1ined TO swell the cap
ital To siz enormous luxury and splendour aud all
their odious waste and insolence; working people,
once the best fed and clad most moral in the whole
world, now half starved, covered with rags, and COM
uniting crimes numerous, shat the jas have been
within forty years. augmented four fold size and
number, and too small; the Fl nit the peo-
pies labour carried away by millions, be spent in
foreign lands standing army during peace to make
people pay the taxes which again thus angtnen-
ted the taste for making fortunes by trick, and gaub
hing funds to the destruction OF all the ha bits of
Der and patient industry; disregard ufscence, talent
and even of valour, the of acquiring fame,
money beng the only standard of excellence, and the
only title To respect; and mention hundreds of
other evils, national eebleness, which is shown in the
countrys lncapacity to no to war and which, in the
end, sinks it down in the scale of nations As the
individual debtor s, according to the of Ans
rorLE, the slave Of his creditor. so debtor nation
must III the end, be the slave of other nations. Ma
tonal debts can never exist to any extent without
paper money of aud wi;hou. anticipate IONS
o. endless variety, descending down the conf
mon concerns of life a shock of any sort unset, les
all the arrangements connected with these anticipa-
TONS hundreds OF thousands ruined they know not
now; society Is convusc without any apparent: cuuse;
the government becomes, in time identified with The
dost and the paper money; and at last all three fall
together
16. France has not yet arrived at this identified
state; but In time she wouid arrive il; and in the
Inenn"he, she must, if she adhere to this benunb
ing course, remain inactive the best Ii this debt
and all It's deadening lga:ures, tha, withhold
her from that RHINE which is her natural boundary
whence the people street ching their arms to her
! for help and protection, and 10 aid whom, and again
to plant her standard on its banks she is called by
the voice of honour of humanity, and Just resent
ment combined. Opposed to this voice is tie united
voice OF the Jews the loan .ongers the stock Job
bers' the discauners and all the tribe Of dealers in
Paner money men who from the very nature Of their
calling tatten on the toll of others; men who with
national faith" on their lips, roll in wealth by the
means OF usury, monopoly, fraud and eltorlon; men
OF every Country and Of no country; men t, whom
love OF country words without nearing To
winch OF these voices she is listening just bis lime
know not; but this know well, that, before long,
she VIII listen to The former; hat in spite of Debt d
paper money to The RHINE she will 60; and in my
next letter, vii rndeavour to show, that to the
RHINE she ought To go, only for her own honour
bu, for the good of all Europs England not excep-
.teu. VIM. COBBETT.