Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1837-07-20
WAsnISGT0N, July !, 1897.


y WAsniNGToN, July ], 1897.
Gentlemen: have received your hattering
Invitation 10 dinner on the 9TH inst. with the
democracy Of the First and Second Congress
sonal Districts Of Pennsylvania.
! Public and private duties unite in forbid
ding an acceptance of your invitation.
II is II glorious day. but the joys of its ad-
vent are dashed little by the relation in
which we ARE now placed by the acts Of our
t"wO citizens, 10 the kingdom from which
we were then severed. A paliry tax on tea
broke the political bond; but now, every man,
woman and child in tins vast Republic is
taxed in his lands, his bread and his labor, to
pay of the debts Of banks, brokers and mer-
chants to that proud isle. Our money is re-
duced to rags, every day becoming more
worthless, that n few may maintain their
credit abroad by shipping our silver and gold,
having forced IT out of its legitimate use as n
currency, by depreciating its paper associate
from ten to forty per cent. almost at a blow.
Who shall calculate the vast tax thus exact
ed from our own people, and where shall they
look for dcliverance from this degrading
thraldom? II irecmcn do not think of Il rem.
edy on the 4ih OF July, It will never be devils
ed ] shall look with intense interest ut the
proceedings on that day in Philadelphia and
else where, for those bursts OF patriotism, those
suggestions Of wisdom, and those evidences
of firm resolve, which will conduct us to a.
mother ra of Independence, not of u foreign
Kingdom only, but of those principallties and
powers at home, which looking with contempt
upon the mass Of the people, are ever ready
to degrade and opprcss their own country. to
preserve their faith in foreign alliances with
similar powers.
ln haste,your friend and fellow citizen,
AMOS KENDALL.
To john THOMPSON, Esq. and others, Com
mittee.
What hgh-minded American (says
the Boston AlIas) does not blush for his
country when he sees such sentinIe nts
as are contained in this Infamous letter,
avowed by the Postmaster General Of
the United States? The morality is that
of "A swindlsr, and the statements are
those Of branded ialsifier. Now that
the general bankruptcy predicted by the
Wing Senators as the necessary consc-
qucnce of the pernic iOus me assures Of the
administration, has come upon us, Ken.
dali aud his fellow scullions are laboring
to shit the responsibility irOm themselves
un"n The merchants. We cannot be-
I'rve that the people are so besotted as
to be deceived to any extent by this
wrctchcd chicancry, this audacious re-
elimination. The suspension OF specie
payments can be Ms logically deduced
from the wanton assaults OF The Govern,
ment upon our currency, as any problem
in Euclid from foregoing axiom.
Kendall speaks rs If he would have
our MERCHANTS swnndle England out of
her just dues, because she is "proud
isle" Were she an abject, quack-rid-
den country like our own, groaning be-
meath the united dcspotisn, of fools and
knavcs, charlatmrs and imbeciIns, our
modern Jack Cadc nigh. find It in his
heart To be more mercitul.
"Our money Is reduced TO rags" BY
whose agency reduced? Whose action
was the cause Of the sudden and inordi-
nate expansion Of our paper currency
and Of the withdrawal Of specie by an
arbitrary ipse dirit from the Atlantic
States to the land agencies Of the West
ern wiIderness' by whom have the
people been crushed, insulted, misrepre.
sentsd and plundered, under the dclu-
sve experiment. OF better currency 81
Let Kendall and his subsidized myrmi.
dons escape if they can, from the rctri-
baiioh which these acts must inevitably
bring down upon their insiigators.
We cannot find adequate terms to cx-
press our unqualified contempt for the
man, who, in his capacity of high pub
lie officer, in utter violation Of all the
conventional decencies, which the agents
of one government should maintain to-
wards the people Of another, would give
utterance to the recorded sentiments
avowed by our Postmaster General -
The plain English of his miserable slang,
IS complaint against our merchants for
wishing to sustain their foreign credit,
md pay off their debts to tho "proud
sle." He would disgrace them entire
y abroad, as well as hamper and pros
rate them at home; and he is actuated
by the Inalevolence Of a disappointed
iend, when he finds himself thwarted in
MS amiablc design. With what respect
for our government must this letter from
Amos Kendall, INSPIRE the intelligent and
honorable merchants Of the "proud isle!"
Proud it may well be, SO long as il does
not hold within the whole of its sea. girt
borders, such a spotted miscrcnnt as is
permitted to insult the intelligence aud
virtue Of our own country, from one of
its lofiiest Official stations. /
Speaking Of Amos's letter the N. Y.
Advertiser says.
"We perceive that the whig press has be-