Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1837-06-08

this qusekery IL not confined to medicine
We have more than enough Of political EN-
piricism. For the las. six or eight years, ue
government Of this country has been IN the
hands Of the most graceless set OF charIa'sns
that ever tosed the body politic,' and 'anghea
in their sleeves at the succesSM operation OF
their experimen nj in blood-letting. The peo-
pie have been eSred to death by POLITICAL San
grades and their Associates.
Letthc reader again run over The above
dialogue between Sangrsdo and his pupil,
and suy if those personages are not the exact
prototypes of two well known political char
acters, who have proved M severe scourges
TO this nation, as ever they were to the sick
people OF Vnlladoid. Dr. Jackson began his
sex pertinent" upon the currency FIVE or six
Years ago, attained a wonderful degree OF
popuI4yjiy, and had most extraordinary "ruh
Of practice" although every dose was a stab
at the constitution Of his patient. He soon
took favorite Dutchman into his service,
and they continued their business together,
till finally the old practitioner retired from
the field, and recommending his apt pupil TO
tire good will and patronage of his patients
as regular licentate, fairly installed him in
his professional chair. The only pledge
which the doctor required Of the pupil, was
that he should continue without fail to BLEED
HIS PATIENTS FREELY. "But, doctor" says
the pupil. 1--we are wrong; we are staying
thousands every day. Look at thelruin and
bankruptcy which every where follow our
"experiment." "Trne, my dear Mat. should
think my prescriptions perncjons, " Icere
not snre Of the principles on achich IProc"ed."
i"But, doctor, suppose we change our method
a little. There's that conf,unded specie cir
cunr. which has ss thoroughly Phlebotomized
the treasury as our paticnts-that's one dose
too much" have made many expcrime nts,
and would readily try This, but the fact is, |
have written Il book-hnve published edcts,
messages, prociamations, in which l haze
proclaimed 10 tie porid the meriis Of my great
experiment upon the currency, of which this
circular is the consnmnntion. Now my dear
Mat, would you have me go and decry my
own work? No! no! Never cease to bleed
your patients freely, though during the op
Grafton every mothers son of them gives uf
| the ghost.
"'rruc, true, doctor-just as you sny. We
must not give our enemies such triumph
! over ns as the retracing our steps by the re-
scinsion Of the specie circular would afford
Depend upon it, my dear Sangrado, to whom
alone owe my success. ! will adhere to thy
prescriptions. True, if change in the leas
from the course. Of so celebrated an expert
menter, the people will laugh, and our repu
tntions are ruined PERISH CREDIT-PERIsf
f coMMFRcE--raiher than discontinue our san
culinary operations! 1t will not do! There
fore, good doctor Sangrado, rely upon it,
will dose nv patients with warm water. AM
bleed them freely, even though get into no
4 &c, E,II1, =,
consummated. 1t is glory enough for me Il
have served under sHch doctor"
Thus it is. The great experiment npoI
the currency is persisted in, through th'
, malign influence of the retired old DOCTOR
The people must be made to bleed, becanst
his pride Of opinion must be grntified ant
maintained at every hazard. Mr.. Van Bnrcr
, is no doubt sometimes (heaven knows how
often) disposed to relent little, like Gil Bias
, if not entirely to quit the old system Of bloot
letting. Bnt his pledge stares him in thu
. face. and doctor Jackson has placed abou
his pupil number Of his fellow. quncks an
spies, who have learned the wonderful secrc
of his great "cnrc all and end all here below
the Kendnls, Blairs and Whitneys, mis-
erable vagabonds and treasury vampires
r whose chief du:y it is to advise his Dntc
! pupil occ asionally, and see that his old pre-
, scriptions are carried nut tn the letter.
y awe will continue in the old path" say
: Mr.. Van Buren,, like Gil Blass, although HI
: sees around him ncontestibe evidences q
the ruinovs tendency Of his measures, in th'
} ruin of the merchant. the mechanic, and man
; ufac,urrr-in the fall Of thousands in the cit,
and in the country, who look to the Govern
mcnt for protection instead Of opprnssion-ii
the destruction of national credit abroad, an
the paralysis of industry and enterprise q
) home-in a word, in the insolvency Of tn
! na,mnal treasury, the bankruptcy Of tn
country, and the all but entire prostration q
the energies Of the people. So much for nd
: hcrencp to false theories-political empiricisu
!, and triAing with the dearest interests of ,h
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