The herald., 1837-05-03

palled upon the appetite was broken a. easily and
unconcernedfy as you would break . pipe stem;
and clergymen and moraists were found to pahlate
and excuse the disruption of those sacred principles
of religion and virtue under the regime Of the new
philosophy.
Such is only feeble picture of the terrible disss-
ueness of manners-the subversion Of moral princi-
ple-the destruction Of truth-and the general cor
rupton Of the mind and heart, which have followed
the fearful augmena ion of speculation and overtra-
ding stimulated by overbankng, and sci in motion by
the overaclion Of both political parties. The great
source of the evils we new feel, is what we have
stated, underploughing g-nothing but underplsugh-
ing-aitogether underpioughing. We have aban-
doned the green felds-the soft river banks-the
farm yards-he healthy plough, for speculation,
banking, buying, selling talking psltics, flrting and
making money. The whole public mind has been
diseased and Martin Van Buren, and his atrscozs as
soclates form of the original causes OF the terrl-
BILE moral, political, and commercial desolaon which
spreads over the country Martin Van Buren and his
associates first introduced the union of politics and
bankng-politics and speculation in this state. He
was the first spectator in town lots at Oswege, and
he the author ofthe safety fund systera, which first
agated the whole elements of banking throughout
the country, and divided it into hostile powers
seeking for the supremacy. Nicholas Bi2de was a
BANKRUPT he was, and is, man of science. He is
an arlstocrat but he is moral ene-an intelligent
one-a philosophical one. He is such an aristocrat
you will fad in heaven-Martin Van Buren such a
democrat as you will scover coed up in any burning
corner in the other place
High on a Il rome Of royal state, wh ch far
he sits like his archetype and teacher in suphnr be-
low. We speak in good old English, and no min
cling words. We must go back /, the nnocence-to
the simplcity-to the frugaty-to the purity Of an
cent times. We must quit the devil, and bid good
by TO hell. We must study the morals Of our pill
grim fathers We must throw Satan and speculation
overheard The present revulson is just and merited
dispensation of Divine Providence upon or general
wickedness and folly We deserve all We get, and
ten times more. 4 he Almighty with finger of fire
has written doom in the Arrera Borealis, across
the broad heavens. We have been waxing fat and
kicking" We have neglected smiling fields,
our everlasting woods, eternal prares-our fer
tile vales-our luxuriant and sunny hill sides-fer
vanity, folly, leentiousness, gambling vice, and i'm
morality. We must go into the country-cast ofour
garments Of wckcdness-put sn the linsey- -woolseys
again-till the soil, and with the sweat Of our brow
earn our daily bread. Riot revolution, instruction,
ter age that yet remains to u.s.
The great m crchants and fashionable spe?ula; RS
met at the Masonic Hall, and because the bubbles
had burst by their own weight, they seemed ready to
break in Thousand pieces the social compact. They
hurled their menaces at Van Buren-at Van Buren,
guilty we adm-but not more guilty-not
more deserving Of execra,en than they themselves
Let the mechanics and laborers who meet this dav in
he Dali 49,,
above them, an. pray for strength Of mind to take
the Christening which they richly deserve for their fol-
lies, their madness, and extravaganza during the last
few years. If burning thunderbolt ON that sky
were to strike in the midst of us ALL it would be no.
thing more than what we deserve for our folly and
wickedness-for our crimes and our extravagance.
We are all in fault-there is no one innocent amsng
us-no not one except it be the little innocent girl
of six years old that has never been a fashionable
Boarding school. We deserve the bitter cup we are
quaffng and we trust il may not be taken from our
lips till agan rcturn-such as ought-to ling the
earth instead Of selling ito ploughng the soil in.
stead of lithographng ito dwelling in the country
instead Of starving and agtating in the large cities
to living moial poas, and quiet life instead of in
dugng in all sorts of RIGHTEOUSNESS and immortality.
WAX IN VI sOiIfc uue past the w
street prints have been extremely annoyed the cir
culaion and influence of the Herald in its commerce.
al matters all over the country but particularly in ths
south Net daring to meet in open controversy on
mercantile science before an enlightened public, the,
to secret SANDER private efforts and every near
way fcurtang the rising supremacy of this journal
by means of personal solicitation Webb Hale, ane
the rest Of the Wall street sixpcany gang operate il
Philadelphia, Boston, and Albany. Not paper in
those cities recognizes the existence Of the Herald
but in default, and growing out of that very fact
subscription list is increasing and is at this momen
grester than all the Wall street prints pu! togeiher
Against the influence of the Herald in the south
dierent acts resorted 10. The Courier rocest )
attempted indirectly to throw discred over the com
mcrcia statements of the Herald, and yesterday the
Journal of Commerce has the following article on the
subject:
From the Jaurnai Of Commerce.
The following hodge podge came back to as on Q
New Orleans slip last evening. Purports to be com
posed of the essential parts of slips sent from this
city, on the 18th inst. There is hardly single state
mcnt in il which is accurate. II any Of our neghbors
employed from day 10 day in sending OF such col
lections, they must be very mischevously employed
Ii their readers had any stock Of knowledge 10 begin
with, il must be entirely exhausted The de-
posiies in banks at the time specified amounted
TO about 50 900 600 not very far from the ordinary