The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1837-06-23

also another object Of the Globes especial
attack. The men who do business on
borrowed capital" is now said, ought TO
break-ior this saying is little too unpop.
uur now-but " mitlionaireS," I" mammoth
merchant" is the new term intended TO
signify like idea. Again, this utopian
chime IRA of specie currency is but another
term for hostility TO credit, for specie can
be the currency only where credit cannot
exist--no, in a new and free country, never
but in an old one, such as Turkey, Italy,
or Spain. Is il not curiosity IN this en-
lightened age of the world, 1887, that that
new and powerful agent oil civilization, CRED.
IT, must in the United States Of America
be made the especial object Of defence If
any thing was necessary 10 prove that our
rulers were behind the age IN which they
lived, and were fast relapsIng into barba-
rsm, we should want no fuller proof than
their hostility 10 credit, and their specie
currency humbug.
Credit is not only the mighty lever that
has lifted our country up, aud the new and
powerful agent OF civilization, but il is the
poor mans lever too, by which he hits
himself up and makes himself rich. Credit
is the poor mans capital and his whole
stock IN trade. The poor man thus, who
I has character, can be made as rich, the
( interest Of the money excepted, as the capl.
talIst who may SIT upon his bags oil gold,
and be the money.klng Of the day. Credit
is the republican and legallzed agent Of lie.
yelling the property OF society. Credit
gathers together the materials for the best
structure which industry, enterprise, and
skill may raise. Credit is the iulcrum on
which the poor mao Iears bis structure up.
Credit is the republican name for dollars
and cents. Credit IS a new mechanical
power which Great Britain devised IN part,
which the United States was pcrtectng,
but which the rough fingers OF rude expert
men,s have destroyed for the present. Cred.
IL is life, is To-day, the very air IN which
republic 5reathes. Credit II is which
takes the gnared oak from tie woods OF
Name, and fashions INTO the keel. Credit
creates ou, Ut the materials oil the ~lldes,
forest tie majesty and magnihcence OF that
ptoudcsi OF man achleVement-ihe beau.
illul ship. Credit dispatches II over the
sea, and brings II home laden with the rich.
est freight. Credit takes the clay out o.
the earth, and iorms and fashions II into the
grandeur ol architectural proportion. Cred.
7 al. -. III ha do har
tie savage hunted, aud rears up there the
yllger aud the church to resound with the
praises oi the living God. Credit sends the
locomotive Kissing over the railway track
and credit It is which stems the Mississippi
Tor hundreds ard hundreds OF miles. Cred.
Il unltes the city, the county, and town.
Credit, in short, is lIberty's great hand
maid, and they are sisters 10 every free
land. The ireer the land, the greater the
prosperity, and the greater the credit too
Credit sent the saleys Of Venice all over
the Mediterranean sea but when despotlsu
approached, credit fell, and scarcely a Ven
etian galley is upon the deep. Credit ha:
carried the flag Of old England from the
little island Of lis home over tie four quar-
tiers Of the globe, and domclllated our Ian
+ cuage and laws IN hundred Of colonies from
|, lindostan 10 the Canadas. Credit ira
, making the United States the Commercial
as well as the political wonder OF the world
but despotiSm touched it, and credit ant
prosperity hed,-Nao York Express.
Horrible Accidtnt,-We are intorme,
that last week, as Mrs. Parsley, formerly G
thl. CITY, and her mother, Mrs. Lancaster
were riding In Gig, IN the vicinity O
Louisburg, the Horse took fright and star
Ted 10 run, upsettIng the vehicle, by which
they were violently thrown out. Horrlbl,
! to relate, Mrs. Lancaster was Instant,
killed, and Mrs. Parsley was SO badly in
lurcd, that her life is despaIred Or. Reg
, Fre-Heary LosS.-About . o'clock OIL
the morning OF the Sd lnst fire broke GU
in the lower part of the large five.sor,
brick building, No. 8, Washington street
I Nep York, occupied as public store
] which with It's contents, was entirely de
=. stroyed. Loss estimated at half a milo
2 Of dollars, on which there was an .nsuranc
7 of Sl32, 900. We regret to add that tw
3 men were killed, and another SO severel
4 wounded that there is little hope of his re
9 covery, by the falling in OF a wall.
Ho,o to keep from dropning Tie you
hat up in your handkerchief, with the kno
A below the brim, and by holding on irml
l with that part downwards, the air 0snrane
!. IN the hat, will be sufiicien, TO buoy ma