The Arkansas advocate., 1834-03-07

terest 10 loreigncrs--that when we git nlo- nev from foreigners. they keep drasnen us of interest. We'll. that's all chalk and Wa fer. Now know NC have got an eyerlas- fin new oeantry te elear up yet; and If an honest industrious man can git few hum dred dollars lentto him, he can go. and buy a good many acres, and clear 1t tip, and sell 1t to these very foreigners, who arc all the while comin out here to settle among us, and they pay fifty times more for 1t than the land first cost, and so our folks go on bor- rowin, and can well afford to pay interest, and find themselves sa 3 few few years with nc ney to lend too. And us long as this busi- ness goes on. | for one am willn to say to foreigners, as the Cape Cod fisherman says io fho fish. when lie gts on the hook, and iiezs is'illiifiaisa iii-=-1 So long as you hold on one eend, I&win rotherv But folks abroad who have money 10 lend, don't know our folks who go on new lands and a good many on old land mother. Hui they know our Bank, and our Canals, and Rail Roads, and we sell lem the stock, and make 'em pay good premiums too: and our folks can lend their money to our farmers.
 But if We go on, and nock down this Bank when its charter Is out, and bring trouble on the country. foreigners say, Anal taere's trouble thefel''---back they come with their stock, aud git their mony, and keep fl; and all our prosperity is nock'd in the head We charter'd this bunk for 20 years; and so we do Canal Companies, aud Rail Read Companies; but did we mean when tic time was up, to nook 'etn ali up too, and say we don't want no Bank, nor . I honesty to say so; and won't shuiiie and cut with you after that fashion; for make what might by a new shufile, would be ashamed to look one of these innocent tor- l eigners Ill the taee--to say nothin of this long list of Nidows,and 0fians, and Trus- l tees of Estates and old folks many on enl, when they bought the Stock at high pre- miunl, suppose never tho't about the char ter, or how long if had to run, but trustedto the Government. And now if you can chizzle them out of their property, as you will by putin down this Bank, jest to git q new shufiie and cut at q new one=-without turnin as red as a beet whefi you meet lem, fer one say l caD't and ] won't
 Anu now Pm most done--if 1 have trod on any one's toes, t aint so much my iault as hisen; for tread the strait line, and tread ony on toes that stick out beyond the [ line, and that's too often the case with folks , nowadays in office.
  tionr, and tell you for tbe last tilale you've | made mistake, and that's no disgrace fo f any man unless he tries to stick 10 it arteI he knows ho has made if. If you don'l know how to git the country ont of this scrape you've got it in, tie people will tell you pretty quick, or aint no hand at gues- sin. l have now done my duty--If the people don't do theirn it aint my fault. If they say my notions are right they'll act on 'en; if they say they are wrong, then things will go on as they now go, and hope they won't git no worse--.but that l won't prom .ise. If things come 10 flle worst, | shall suffer as little as any on lem, for I haint got no wife and children to support (and am sorry for those who have, if things are 10 % as they now go,) can cut my fodder pretty much any where.
 But love mJ country, every acre ont, and it goes agin my grain to. see any part l ont suffer. And l know all this suffering l comes from party politics--this same party politics thatlias driv all our wisest and best men out Of office; and now to keep togetll- CT wants to get hold of the big wagon and all the money in #.
 My dander is up, and best stop now for the moro l think ont, and the more I write about it, the more wrathy git. So no moro at present,
 From your fellow citizen,
 1 J. DOWNING, Major,
 Downingville Militia, 2d Brigade