Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-08-05
From the New Yorker. e
PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF TIMOTHY
JENKINS ESQ.
A Tale of the Shin Plaster Currency.
BY OUR BACHELOR ASSOC IATE.
PART THIRD-CHAPTER i.
BY OUR BACHELOR ASSOC TATE.

in the watch-house which he afterwards
turned to much account. hs
The lane must be long one that has
no end," soiioquized our hero, as he left
the lock-up-house on the morning after
his frustrated attempt at suicide. 81
have played my game with honesty fol
the trump, and what have gained
The contempt of my political associates
the anger of the lovely Angelina, the ri
dicule of Bank clerks, loafers, and Char
Ieys in addition to all which | have
been robbed of my money, my word
doubted by my friend, and passed night
in the watch-house. So much for hon
esty and now" He left the sentence
unfinished, for he had reached his dwell
ling, and the strange events Of the night
had sharpened his appetite and some
what confused his ideas.
Timothy Jenkins felt that he was a
prosecuted man. With every intention
to act well his part, he had encountered
difficulties insurmountable; and like ma
ny wiser men, he resolved to alter his
position--modify Loco Focosm, and see
whether some pccuniary benefit could
not be CLEANED from the disarranged
state of the currency.
Great men, like the blossoms of the
aloe, are scarce-very scarce but there
are times when, from the womb of rev.
olution, anarchy, or politics, minds of
distinguished calibre will assert their SUI
premacy over the common herd, and
ride upon the tempestuous pillows of
popular tumult to wealth and honor.
Our national struggle caused the devel-
opement of those high powers which the
whole world confesses to have been CEN
tered in George Washington. Anarchy
made Cromwell Protector of nation,
which, grown and strengthened in the
aristocracy of dozen centuries, never
theless swallowed the semi-republcan
pill he offered it, with tolerable grace !;
and politics, or what is the same thing,
humbug, gave an opportunity to limo
thy jenkins Of building new currency
upon the ruins OF the old, and snIsst;iit,u-
ting in lieu of specie medium most
convenient and valuable shin plaster
currency! s..tly
1t was even so, and 10th as we are to
record such heinous dereliction from
principle on the part Of our hero, yet,
truth constrained, we announce the fact,
that Timothy jenkins, who the day be-
fore was the warm advocate Of specie
currency, came from confinement deter
mined to make a rag medium. in the
government of which he was to be Pre-
sident and Cashier. |
al am in debt" cogitated he, when he
had again entered his chamber; "this
money must be paid and can never
raise it by ordinary means. These are
shin-plaster times, and | will profit by
them. l must select new cue. Ha !!
| have It'll the democracy never was
in favor of an exclusive metallic curren-
cyp No: down with the monopoly
Banks, and give us free banking "a 'ju-
dicious' admixture Of coin and paper,
capital and credit, mint drops and shin
plasters, will furnish the true golden
mean-the most desirable circulating
medium"
He had pondered over his wretched
situation while confined the night previ-
Gus, and resolved to commence business
in a small way, issue his own notes, and,
upon the lately created principles Of free
banking, engraft paper issue, which,
although seemingly irresponsible, he was
satisfied would be liquidated so soon as
he received the proceeds of his poem.
Behold, then, Timothy jenkins, no
longer a specie advocate, but warm
friend of Scotch banking and a shin-plas-
ter currency. as AZ
CHAPTER II.
Timothy commences business-His early sue
cess-He e pays up John Jones.
To resolve, with Timothy jenkins,
was to do; and in an hour after break
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