Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1837-11-16

mad dog ;" and the FOLKS scampered, aud
The old women slam'd the doors shut
and It was nigh upon all over with poor
Towser.-yit l'adn't been for his gi,ten
to the river, and as soon as he took to
the water ami swan ike duck every
body stop'd and said "weil, that dog
haint got the hidraioby Aud jist so It
will be with our Banks, they will git
afloat to rights, and then a good many
folks will say it was great mistake to
abuse 'em so. | don, think if "Uncle
Sam" cuts sich shines as he has Of late,
that he will find bank or ga natural
person." as Mr.. Wright says, ready to-
take him in as a partner agin on any
day-especially if he goes on the prin-
ciples of "seperIiin" himself jist when
it suits him, without regardin his "agree-
ment of coparinership," as he did spell
ago, with the United States Bank.
The greatest mistake Uncle Sam"
ever made is when he talks of separaiin
himself from any class or portion Of the
people for if ii warn't for "the people,"
of all classes-on whose earnins he lives
he would not have shoe to his foot
or shirt to his back who on airth is
"Uncle SAM" on his own hook unless
he means to put on 'ock'd hat, like
Bonapari, or some sich kind Of folks, ,and
say he is "Ihe Gorernmeni," and his
word is Law, and so forth, and that he
will keep his olcn money, and wont trust
the people with it, or loan it to 'em, as
other folks do, for general prosperity.-I
| guess if the WlHSs or The old FEDERAL
lists put ,Uncie Sam in Office" and said
he was one Of their party, and he talk'd
so-tbc Gemcerats would soon grease his
fiddle-sirings,so so he couldn't play a varse
of Yaahce Doodie, or "G0d sape The
King" mother The fact is, "Unclc
SAM is considerable Of man, so long
rs he remembers that he is one Of the
hHH people, and not of party only, and
tho he may cut shine for spell with
what he calls his par;y-:he natur Of
the "great family Of he people" is such,
that as soon as they feel he treads on any
Of their toes they will grumble, and cs-
pecially them folks that pay the taxes
they don't see why they who are call'd on
because they have earn'd property, to
pay the taxes should also be held us
enemies Of them folks as haint got any
property yet---ff this is the doctrine, then
the best way is for no man to work. A
rich man nova days is talk'd on by some
pretty mach as the Quaker did of his dog
now what on airth can rich man do
with his mogey in this country? Does
he pile it up in gold and silver in his Gel
lar? Not he, if he has got any mother
wit in h'n-he knows, he didn't make
his money that way-no, no, he keeps il
movin, he loans it out to them that have
good characters and are industrious, he
builds houses, takes a share in rail roads
and banks, and canals, aud you wont
catch him doing any thing that will check
prosperity, if he can help 1t, for he pros
pers by general prosperity; be don't very
often want Office, and if he did he
couldn't buy one nor tile mother.
The Message is partly full of the cau-
ses, that brought us into our present trou-
bles, and is only true on that point as far
as it goes but it don't tell the hull sto-
ry. If had telPd that story Of Eekel
Biglow's watch, ",rhi:.ing" so--and
beginning jest arter it begun to '~is,
folks would not know to this day what
made it wis so-but begun at the be-
ginin ont and tell'd ho,o Zekel tciich'd
out The balance wheel or 'klicher,' and
then the old watch that had been goin
as true as the tides for twenty years
went ',ohiz' sure enuf, and soon went to
smash, and Jest so it was in Eng land,
they twich'd out their 'klicker,' jest about
the same time, and 'lciz'd' Jest about the
same time, and ',ri='d' away jest as we
did
I'lltell you more about this hereafter
and in my next too l'll try and explain
what consider another mistake and a
pretty important one too, and that is
about "private bankin" being consider
ed better than corporate banks-and it is
long story to show that bank bills is a
small part of Banking business, and that
the most dangerous part is Of very df-
fereDt natur-and that all our banks
could git along easy enuf--if it was ony
their own bank bills they had to pay in
specic-and all this will try to show,
and then see how it comes about that
banks suspend paying specie and yet
may be as sound a. ever, and we shall
then see, that is opy one Thing more than
any other thing-brought about this state
Of things, il was 'over action of p,irdie
bankers-corporate bank bills, now in the
worst Of times may not be worth as much
as gold and sIver-but the hardest cur
rency guess that folks hold now-a-days,
Is The cwrenry of prirate bankers at home