The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1837-06-30

CREDIT. the mighty lever by which
this country has been lifted up 10 the
elevation il now has among the nations
Of the world. is also another object Of the
Globes especial attack. The men who
ado business on borrowed capital" is
now said, ought 10 6reIk-fnr this il a
lIIile too unpopular no~-buI " million
aires" mammoth merchant" is the
new term intended TO signify like idea.
Again. this Utopian chlmers OF a specie
currency rs but another term for hostility
10 credit; for specie can be the currency
only where credit cannot exist--not in a
new and free country. never--but 10 an
old one, such as Turkey, Italy, or Spain.
Is il not a curiosity IN this enlightened
age of the world 1887. that that new aud
powerful agent of civllIzstinn, credit,
must IN the United States of Amsnra be
made the especial object Of defence! II
any thing was necessary ID prove that
our rulers were behind the age in which
they lived, and weTe fast reiapsing INTO
barbarlsm. we should want no fuller proof
than their hOsuhry 10 credit, and their
specie currency humbug.
! Credit is not only The mighty lever
tha, has lifted our country up. and the
new and powerful agent of civilization,
but il is the poor mans lever 200, by
! which he lifts himself up and makes him
selfrich. Credit is the poor mans cap.
! ital and his whole stock in trade. The
poor man thus, who has character, can
be made as rich, the interest nf the money
excepted, as the capitalIsl who may sit
upon his bags Of gold, and be the money
king OF the day. Credit is the republican
and legalzed agent of levelllng the pro-
pertv of society. Credit gathers together
the materials for the best structure winch
industry, enterprise, and skill NAV raise.
Credit is the iulcrum on which the poor
man rears his structure up. Credit is The
republican name tor dollars and rents.
Credit is a new mechanical power wh'rh
Great Britain devised in part. which The
United States was perfecling. but which
the rough fingers of rude experiments
have destroyed for The present. Credit
is life, is To-day, the very air in which
a republic breathes. Credit it is which
takes the gnarled oak from the woods of
Maine, and fashions into the keel. Gre
dit creates out Of the materials Of the
wildes, forest the majesty and msgniti-
cence of that proudest Of mans achieve.
ment--the beautiful ship. Credit de-
spatches il over the sea, and brings il
home laden with the richest freight.
Credit takes the clay out of the earth,
and forms aud fashiGas il into the gram
deur Of architectural proportion. Cred.
It tits that clears off the wilderness, where
the savage. hunted, and rears up there
the village and the church to resuund
with the praises of the living God. Gre
dit sends the locomotive Kissing over the
railway tack; and credit it is which stems
The Mississippi Tor hundreds aud hun
dreds of miles. Credit onltes the city,
: the county. aud iowa. Credit. in short
D is libertv's great handmade. aud they arr
D sisters in everv free land. The free
+. the land, the greater the prosperity, AM
5 the greater the credit too. Credit sen
II the salleys of Venice all over the Med
Q ,erranean sea; bat when despotism az
n preached. credit fell. and scarcely w
v netian galley is upon the deep. Cred
u has carried the fi,g of old England frol
o the little island Of It's home over the Fou