Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1834-01-23


if he hunt any body with his boat he'd
run u chance Of hurin himself too--he
knows too that it is the interest of his
owners not to have any accidents aboard
any boat--for if people git scalded in one
Steamboat, they'll keep clear of all or
'em-- and tho some folks think Banks
aini like Steamboats,, l can tell 'em that
in the main thing they are exactly alike;
for unless folks have got confidence III
'em and feel safe in 'em they aint worth
ownin--but when they all 60 on and meet
no acci'.rnts, they are pretty good pro-
perty--and the largest, and strongest,
and clennest, and quietest, and best
managed git the most business. Now
think that's enuf about dangerous mo-
nopilies for spell.
Let US now see what the Bank is a
bout, and what wee've been about.
i Deacon Goodenou, has been in that
Bank as one Of its directors off and on
ever since it was Bank, aud have
heard him say fifty times. (and he's
man to be depended on\ he never heard
a word about politics in it till about four
| years ago--and it all came from our
sendn every year since that time, some
rale polticia ms to help the other twenty
directors to manage the Bank--the first
60 off, the Deacon says, they thought
best to keep quiet, and make no stir o.
Eout it; for it was pretty much like find
in skunks in the sellar--the best way
was to let 'em alone, ifthey'd keep there
and run the chance Of their goin out
when they found there warnt no eggs to
suck--but when they undertook to cum
up chamber and smell about in all the
cubbords, it was time to snub 'em-and
then came trouble and the Deacon
, says, and he is about right, that polit-
Clans in Bank are jist as bad as sk unks
in the cellar-there amt one grain OF dii.
ference.
5 Some on you say we don't want Bank
!, nOp-well, that may be so-but when |
! got up this mornin it was plagy chilly
till got my coat on-now l am warm
it may be l don't need a coat-but
, think if take my coat of III feel chilly
agin-and ! am so certing ofthis wont
make a trial ont.
Some on you say it amt right to pay
!, interest to Foreigners-that when we
git money from Foreigners, they keep
dlainin US of interest Well, that is all
|. chalk and water. Now l know we've
r got an everlastin new country TO clear
4 up yet; and il an homes industrious man
can git n few hundred dollars lent to him,
d he can 60 and buy good many acres,
and clear it up, and sell it to these very
. Foreigners, who are all the while com
a ing out here to settle among us, and
a they pay fifty times more for it than the
70 land first cost; and SO our folks 60 or
,r bOrrowin, and can well afford to pay in
O. terest, and find themselves in "A few ear
n with money to lend too. And as long a
~ this business goes on, l for one am viii
IN ling to say to Foreigners, as the Cap'
4 Cod Fisherman says to the fish, when h,
% gifts on the hook, and is pullin him in
~ $50 long as you bold on one eend, will
II t'other." But fol.s abroad who hav,
70 70 money to lend, don't know our folks VIII,
70 90 on new land land a good many al
a, old land mother. But they know ou
% Bank, and our Canals, and Railroads
u and we sell 'em the stock, and max
r 'em pay good premiums too; g. our folk
Il can lend their money to our farmers
,e But if we 60 on, and knock down thi
60 Bank when its charter is out, and brin
-, trouble on the country, foreigners say
=, "Aha! there's trouble eren--bac
or they come with their stocks, and git the
he money, and keep it; and all our prosper
no ity is knocked in the head! We char
~ ,er'd this bank for 90 years; and so W
do Canal Companies, and Rail-Roa
Companies; but did we mean when tn
n. time was up, to nock'em all up too, an
,'o say we don't want no Bank, nor Ca
"1 nal, nor a RAILROAD? 1t aint commo
vs. honesty to say so; and won't shuttle al
H. H. cut with you after that fashion; for max
=" what l might by new shuttle, woul
a be asham'd to look one Of these innocer
-, foreigners in the face-to say nothn
'"' 'e this long list of Widows, and Orlans, an
~, Trustees Of Estates, and old folks, man
- on 'em when they bought the Stock at
mo "o high premium, l suppose never thougl
" w. about the charter, or how long it had ,
y, run, but trusted to the Government. =
III III And now il you can chizzle them out
.a. their property, as you will by putt
@ down this Bank, Jest to git new shufl
' and cut at new one--without turnin
80 red as beet when you meet 'em, l q
one say can't, and won't.
pc. And now Pm most done-ir I ha,
his trod on any ones toes, it aint so muc
he my fault as hisen; for l tread the str,
he line, and tread ony on toes that stick o
low beyond the line, and that's too often Il
he case with folks nowadays in Office.
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