Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-12-04

'tAh 'uCiH botS nol i've euch UtA1. As
20 mammal labor schools, they are certain
II as yet an experiment. can say, with
DIR Franklin, delight 10 sec good work
nan handing bis tools, and ! believe. if
every mau, whatever his business IN life.
would learn TO handle the tools of q me
chanics pursuit. lie would lie better. 10
4 health aud usefulness. But cannot saw.
10 candor, that have made up my mind,
that il would DO, at present, 10 La state
fdr, 10 support this new description Of
schools, throughout The COMMUNICABLE: IL
this s.wllAI Is meant by ga general system
OF such schools. Supported at he pabIicer
| pence" But am ready 10 Try The expe
riment Of such school. fully and faifly.
and 10 do IL, either at the expense Of the
state or town Of Cbailcstown You know
my friends, that il is now hard anon Two
hnndred Yeas, thatslbe people OF Massa.
ehpsettssys under certain Limitations pre-
sscfibeu by law, allow towns 10 provide
their own Schooling. ] cannot say that I
quite prepared 10 give this up. though /
am strongly inclined 10 the opinion that
the plan they pursue In New York where
The state gives TO each district, out OF the
School Fund, as much as the district il
sell val raise by taxation, Is the best plan.
Bhl at all events, IL our brethren OF ike
workingmen's party. wish to try the expe.
iiment OF manual labor schools we need
not wait TO put out Governor Davis & put
10 Mr. Allen, but Lett go light TO work.
Bring lorwaFdathe Tian Of spclia school as
yoa IssIre ia Chsrlssiown, TO serve as
mods !. y you please, for others. 4 for one
WI suppoH Il cordially and zealouss..
Let any ,map, who knows The guage Of my
hu4LE cempalence, say how much oues,f
t2dtsJ as my slfre of the. expense. and +
win Jay down three tines She amount 10
morf9v. So VIII you hIr, Moderator so
! WI MAJOR Walker, who sits neaEfi,fes: SO
iRlsdse myself shall every Gifid, MI,
whom haye'she slightest iaauskce. Bd,
DO nor, IN the name Of IIeaven/ Fake % Z,
very unfounded and unjust azheases tiat
we are opposed 10 any ratiy al ameasure:y
t cs,i oai4'''S the blessings 3p'pdlar e'ii
= The second measure IL the abolition.
OF All chartered nionogaIies.n This re-
qqires explanation. We must M 4 re- "a
work 50 rasbly, as orda against itfsI,,crav
bic obstacles. SoIhc charters are al. lie
nature oIcontracts. which cannot be abol 4
ished, under the Constitution Of the Uni.
led States. Such charters will be protect
ed by the SGpreme Court, in Ike manner
as the attempt OF the state government OH
NeW YORK 10 make chartered inonopoly
oil The steamboat navigation of her waters
was, by that same Court. resisted and o., |
down. - u charters, which are in the puf.sA
view OF the tenth section oithe first article
OF Tie Constitution, must stand .bui az ~
iu'ufe grants, so With The worbingmcn,
70 unpklns, the legislature of the State |
shouid DC more sParipg, and that none
Shonid be made, not pr5nlotive OF the
pubic good. bat understand that II il
Saiast lhe banks, that this principle is
chisly aimed, aud That our working brcih
efen are against them il t0io. Ii is possi.
bic we may all come TO ibis conclusion
ana free 10 say, that | think We have q
great many more than we ought to have. |
and that ibe soundness Of the currency re /
qalres the suppression of all bills unler
I'VE Collars and the consequent increase of |
Tie specie bass. One objection in nv
mind, to The Course OF policy pursued by |
me administration toward the Bank ofthe |
United States, was, that the breaking
down that bank would tend TO increase the
number oil state banks, and the amount Of
state bank paper; and did think the bills
OF The Bank of the United States a little
better than Farmers Erchange. or the
twelve hundred thousand dollars of bro.
ken bank paper. which have been lying
fifteen OF twenty years in the treasury.
When the removal of the deposites from
the hank of the United States was first
proposed by the Administration. as a mea
sure connected with the extinction Of the
bank, the only substitute for its paper sug
gested was that Of the state banks. Not
a word was said of gold and silver. To
! every thing tending 10 an increase of the
metallic currency, we are as favorable as
The workingmen. 1t was recommended
! by Gov Davis before it was hy President
Jackson. The gold bill, in Congress. was
supported by Mir. Webster and MIR. AID.
ANS, and with some change in The ratio of
The Two metals, it would have passed
unanimously. A portion of the Wing
momoers voted against it, thinking. fwbat
Inc event has prorcd) that as gold was
uhderValdec IN the old coinage, silver was
uhueVfalaed IN this, and would be ant 10
ieaVe NE country. But TO the general 30
ncy oil increasing the quantity of circua
lihS CON, the opponents Of the admins
tfaiion were as friendly as its supporters,
Notwithstanding tie efforts made, by The
jackson presses. 10 give the question a
party aspect One OF the foreign coin bills
passed IN an amended form, drafted by
my colleague MIR Gohiam and myself
III our 5rethsren- (sa,d Mr.. Ereretf)--
are against banks and bank paper. thew
must begin by repeating the bank tax
which, paradoxieal as il sounds, is the
lrst canse OF their inordinate mul.iplica
hon. II temPts the legislature TO be pro
diSal oI charters, by the facility with which
revenue IS obtained by this tax. When
tins IS done, let The small bills be sup
pressed, aud you will cease 10 be over
loaded with banks or bank paper But so
long as you have small bills, il is not pos
slble TO prevent their driving out the coin.
The law oil currency. which causes this is
as unerrtng as that. which hcaves the tides
IRON the depths Of the ocean.
D. a third measure. which our working.
breiheren claim, ! believe, as their own, i.