Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1837-08-04
VOL. X-H--No. 52S

about what your plan, If you have any, Is
going to lead TO. II seems 10 me to be
like beating the air. You ray find it u
very convenient way Of raising political
steam and amusing folks with lectures on
equal rights and Barber may call us all
who don't agree with his new light notions,
blank barons and whig lordIings we
want something more substantial and
practical than all this. You may give my
plan as many long hard names as You
pIease--that won't alter my opinion about
1t. If you will undertake to tell me how
your plan of destroying oil banks is going
TO ,corh, and ,chat end It is going to bring
MS to, Tint will be TO the purpose. and [
would gladly hear YOU My plan in which
you can see nothing but monsters, has been
tested by crperience-the best test in the
world, on know we farmers understand
this way Of coming at things. have
tried my farm here good many years;
and having found by experience that such
and such methods OF cultivation aud suc-
Cesson of crops are best, take that guide
and 90 on. say to myself, that is safe.
And when bold cyperlmentcr comes
along, and advises me to overturn my
whole system. by which have raised good
crops, and kept my land in good condition,
tell him to keep his experiments to him
self and leave me to my old guide. Not
but that endeavor to make improvements
gradually, as find defects in my system
for nothing is perlect-but your bold and
radica experiments reject. SO in regard
10 the question of a currency. Until Gen.
Jackson undertook ,hs experiment of put
ing down the Bank of the United States.
and relying entirely on the State Banks to
do all the business of the government, and
TO give the country uniform and sound
currency, we had the best currency in the
world havc been told. and believe it
| Is true, that the bills of the United States
Bank were good clear round on tother side
of the world, in China, and Just az good
IN every part of the United States as gold
and silver, so that if man here owed
| hundred dollars in N. Orleans, he could
! &c; couple Of $50 u. :. Bank bills and
pu them into letter and send them there,
aud they would pay his hundred dollars.
! I wish, by the by. You would just tell me,
| General. how he could 90 to work to pay
that debt If we bad nothing but hard
moneY currency. But, as | was going to
say the u. 5. Bank somehow con'riveC to
keep the state banks in order, and made
| them careful about putting out too many
bills 50 that they went on safely, and we
! had a good sound state bank currency
| There was no complaint that thel banks
over issued, and there was little or no
extravagart speculation or over trading;
and the country seemed 10 20 ahead just
about fas, enough--for you know there is
such thing re- going zoo fast. Plnguc on
| Gen. Jackson, that he broke ~ this good
system, and sci the country afloat on the
ses oF experiment. Experiment and erpe-
7icnce !--what mighty difference there is
between them, General. And we have
| found u so to our sorrow; for you see, as
( soon a u. :. Bank was pat down, they
went to chartering new state banks like all
possess 'd--and they went to lend NC mo,
rov. and men wen, TO Specializing. And
| General Jackson's pet banks took the lead
N his. In tact he told them to 90 to ma.
king bills and putting them out on the
strength of the public money that he had
! given them i beats every thing how the
experiment has work'd--iust exactly con-
rrarY to what Gen. jackson and Mr.. Van
Buren, and their friends said, and Just eX-
nelly o. Mr.. Adams and others predicted;
for he sad you know. that the experiment
would land the nation in bankruptcy; and
sure enough It has. Now would 90 right
back 10 where we were when Gen. Jack.
son begun the raScallv experiment which
has made Us 50 much trouble. That's my
plan. General.
Gen. F. All, 500 you are getting your
head flied with Wing notions. | guess
You have been reading hat address OF the
Wing nmagamaton monopoly Convention
OF bank harous and Wing ordllng, that
met al Montpelier last week.
II d. Why yes, have read it, and l
wish every body else would read it. It.
deals good deal in matters Of fact and
tells good many facts that see Barber's
paper and he other Van Buren, papsrs
keep out of sight, about the causes OF the
present distress and embarrassment. |
wish, General. as you are gong over to see
Barber, that you would tel INN to put
theri facts INTO his paper; and then | wish
you and he would put your heads together
and answer them. VIVA, signifies to keep
things out Of sight. and keep trying to,
throw dust in the eyes Of the people by an
everlasting cIamor about monOpoies. -
THIS isn't antmasonc, General. When
you was upon antimasOnry You used to
come on, far and square and toe the mark,
and knew where to find you, Bu, now |
don't know don't know about it. There
seems to be too much looking one way and
rowing Iolhnr.
Gen. +, Looking ct the SUM- In fact, it
is growing late, and must pull on. or |
shall not be- at MIddIebury in season. -
Good morning, Cracking his whip.)
II. ID. Good movnng-but say, Gen.
craI don't forget to tell Barber to answer
that address that we've been talking about
and To tell Us what he thinks about Mr.
Adams prophecy three wears ago of "unl-