Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-03-27

says I; are we gointo satisfy this ever
lestin batch. of folks with all their little
children who are notc sgferin all about
the country by this plagy Experiment.
You might as well, says /, try to make
the folks believe it will be all the bet
ter for EN- hereafter, when they git
used to it, to take off their shoes and
stockins and go barefoot now, and tell
EN- that's the ony way, so that in war
time every man will be ready to march,
and not bother the country to provide
shoes and stockins for em.-And its
pritty much so now with this plagy no
Bank Experiment. Folks have got
notion that they can't git on without
banks; and they know too there must
bera good strong one to regulate all
the small ones, jest like the balance
wheel in a watch, for without that,
says |, the little wheels will GO wiz,
and break all to bits, and you'll never
know the time of day no more than
sun.dial will tell in a snow storm. And
then, says /, to talk about hard money,
and that there mustn't be no other kind
Of money. Why, says |, you might
as we'll tell folks to go back to shoe
buckles agin, when a good leather
string is lighter and better. Now sup.
pose, says |, a marchant wants to send
money from here to New Orleans to
buy cotton, or to China to buy tea,
and supposin, says |, an old Revolu-
tionary Soldier, Twin away back in
the country, sent here for his pension,
and he was too old to come for it him.
self, how then, says !, would we man.
age to git this money! in the safest way
possible to New Orleans to buy cotton,
or to China to buy tea, or to the hands
of this Old Soldier. If you send hard
dollars, says |, in ship and she sinks,
its gone to all etarnity, and if the Pi.
rates take her its worse yet. and if you
send it by mail Major Barry would
have to make some worse contracts
than we have already. This stumps
me considerable, and | have been look.
in into it ever since this bank war
begun, and the ony way, says |, is to
have a Bank that every body has got
confidence in, and have it as strong as
all natur and known every where, and
then we can git round all these storms
and pirates, and labor OF. luggin hard
money about. And we don't want no
better Bank than we've got now to do
all this it we ony let it alone. And
the best proof that it is strong enuf is,
that with all our hammerin at it we
haint shook an atom ont, and the
more we fight agin it the worse it is
for the people who want the money
this Bank owns, and the Bank wants
to lend its money, for that is its busi-
ness, and when we tell the people that
Squire Biddle is the cause Of maxim
money scarce, they know that's all
ninkum fiddle.
!, Now, says I, Gineral, suppose you
was appointed to defend the country
agin an enemy, that was comm here
from abroad, and the enemy was say
10000 men, and they wouldn't tell
you where they were goin to land;
but you was obliged every week TO tell
EN- where your men was--why, says
the Gineral, I'd 60 right down TO New
Orleans and whip EN- jest as | did
afore; but suppose says |, they wouldn't
60 there agin, but keep dodgin about
from one eend to tother, how then, says
I-then, says the Gineral, I'd call out
every man in the country, and I'D have
10000 men in every fort from New
Orleans to Downingville-well, says
|, that suppose would be the ony way,
and if it was in harvest time it would
be bad work for the crops-I couldn't
help that, says the Gineral, I'd defend
the country through thick and thin
well, says l, that's pritty much what
Squire Biddle is arter, he don't know
where we intend to attack his Bank,
and we make him tell us every week
jest how the branches stand as to
strength, and we have tell'd him we'd
break him if we can, and as he wouldn't
be doin his duty if he didn't defend his
Bank, he is obliged to keep every point
as strong as he can, and so good
deal of money is idle jest as good
many militia men would be in the war
we've been talkin on--there amt one
grain of difference, says |, and every
attack we make agin the Bank opy
makes things worse: the people all a.
bout the country see this now. and the
whole country is sufferin-now, says
!, Gineral, I'm gittin leetle asham'd
ont myself, we have got into scrape,
i should like to GIT out ont, and git
you out ont too if can; at any rate,
says |, I'll jest pack up my ak and git
my bundle ready, for rs things are