Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1837-01-06


on the very paper that they refuse TO discount
at their desks The Globe says the Distri-
button law is the cause We show the enor.
nous charges of the pet banks to carry on
the Domestic Exchanges. The Globe again
lays all the misch ief at the door Of the distri-
button law.
The unwelcome truth, is this, and the
sooner we face it the better-our country is
growing old and strong, and in its age and
strength, like all Others i, is growing cor
rupt The Surplus Revenue, unless Judi
ciously managed and justly distributed, will
be but an enormous Nuisance, worse than
the National Debt of England even though
it saddles every thing with tax If it be
united with the Banking system as it now is,
corruption will fasten itself upon the very vi
tails ofour form Of government, for the Bank
ing system, now unreguated and above con-
troll is used (not in all cases, but alas too
ofen,) .frstto corrupt the Politicians of the
country and the monied men, and then to ROB
from the industrious merchant, or mechanic
his hard earned gains, and next to AWE him
by its mighty power, if he DARE speak
Hundreds of wealthy men this very day
have risen from troubled sleep, and have
paraded the streets, with all the representa-
lives of wealth in their hands, contriving and
scheming how to get money to pay their hon
est debts. The Banks send them to the Bro
kers, and the Brokers las they have right
for it is their trade) wrench from them what
they can get The merchant and the me-
c hanic, even see the very paper refused them,
discounted upon when presented in another
way And yet the merchants and the me-
chanics are so situated, that if they speak,
they might be made beggars Of in a single |
month Anew power has sprung up among
u.s. which we cannot see, either in the spen-
dor of its palaces, or in the magnfcence of
equipage-which appears not at the polls,
and leads not an army; but which, when
it lays its iron hand upon man, brushes him |
10 atoms-which holds in it Golfers our prop
pry and our bread-about which we hang
with fear and trembling, as beggars even be-
ore the doors of the Turkish Sultan; and
which, when it speaks, makes The body trem-
Die and the heart quake. Once every Amer
can. as he surveyed the Freedom and
Equality of his own happy land, could ex-
lain with exultation,
who with heart and eyes
Could walk where Liberty had been, nor see
The shining Joot-Prirts Of her Deity"
,ut if the many now lie dormant and permit
rnI FEW TO engross all their earning in
enormous rates of interest, the day will rap
dly come when the few will ride rough shod
'ver the many and when an Arstocracy,
3rokerbegotten- mushroom-whosep patent
If nobility is Bank rags, whose coat OF arms
S 45 per cent. acknowledgement, legal
rod mill III lolls II \
md then our Republic will go the way of all
be earth-with Genoa The superb, Florence
he beautiful, and Rome the proud. frs, into
he arms Of selEbegot,en aristocracy; and
hen into the chilling sepulchre OF despotism
Two extremes OF society in this our country
must be keenly watched-we fear them both,
the demagogue in rags, with words in his
mouth TO tickle the ears Of fools, and the cap
Ialist on his money bags, with gold to buy,
With RAGS TO promise, and with POWER TO
we. The causeof free government depends
pom the middle class, the active merchant,
whose enterprise stretches all over the globe
he sturdy mechanic, who builds up our cit
rs and towns as if by magic,-and the far.
ner who makes the wilderness blossom like
he rose Upon their broad shoulders stands
he fabric of Liberty. Equality and Law
hey must defend, il they wish to preserve
lem.
Thetimorous.-th abject,-lhe men link.
in the golden chain, cry Hush" Hush"
Ais we'll" AUS aoeA! Ais wELLll
NJ ,oas ,ceH upon the night of the dreadful :
re when the Park Bell was tolling, and the
ty was a cloud of fame We speak not .
} create, but to allay excitement, for the on G
, safety when the lncendiary laws his train.
nd blows his torch, is to raise the shout of e
Firel" and to sound the wa,chman's rattle. e
'esuvius is safe enough, the crater open for !
lie smoke and flame, but wo TO the traveller L
no hazards footstep on its sides, when the ?
ent is closed, and the rumble shakes the la. .
a under him. The way to allay excitement
10 attack the wrong, to uphold the right,
nd to give justice where wrong has been o
one. If there be excitement ten men in D
lis city can allay it in single hour. If v
icy do not choose to speak, this excitement u
DIV is but the little whirlwind of the Hurri.
Inc that is TO come. N