Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1837-05-23


blessed by kind Heaven and your warmest prayers
with pTodigious run~sn my newspaper establish
ment, during the whole If last week, have now col
sced together pretty tolerable considerable sum in
specie, sufficient 10 enable me TO resume specie pay
ments this day after 10 o'clock and shall continue,
hour after hour and day after day. pay out the real
stuff in exchange for MANHATTAN BANK NOTES mot
Chemical as heretefore) until my bank shall be drain
ed to the bottom, and too becompoed to throw my
self again on your warm and indulgent hearts.
Since my suspension of specie payments last week,
the general calamity has taught me grea. deal of
true reason and prudence, mach more than the like
msiortunes have implanted into the hard heads and
harder hearts of the Wall street bankers have pro-
fitted thereby, and shall now proceed to state the new
programme have adopted, andthe causes thereof
The crowd of rogues, vagaboRds, barbarians, and
whiskered loafers which the paper money ascas sent
oimpede your gentle entrance into my office last
week will have no opportunity ander The present ar
engagements TO disturb your presence or cause you,
from your native delcacy, to shrink out of the way of
benevoence and truth. Instead Of redeeming the
Manhattan bills five dollars each, at the counter of
my counting room as heretofore shall receive youin
person in my own Editorial and Intellectual Rooms up
short stair way, to the left from the door ofihecoun
ing room below. For your comfort and convenience
have had these rooms covered very neatly with oil
CLOTH chairs placed around, and a mahogany table,
covered with green cloth, which to hand the
silver in exchange for your notes. Receiving you at
all hours of the day, after 10 o'clock in the morning,
up to o'clock in the evening, shall therefore ac-
commodate you all, according to your own conve-
nience and discretion.
Another pont-you will recellec that on this inter-
estlng occasionI redeem Manhattan Company bank
bills ofwhich Mr.. Robt. White, warm hearted native
of the Emerald isle is cashier and principal manager.
MIR. White is bachelor-a gallant one-aged
fartty t1ro, or Whereabouts, and devoted admirer
of the fair ladies' During the recent general con-
vulsion, the Manhattan Company, Mr.. White and all,
suspended specie payments, but understand that the
intends TO become the "rallyng point" for re-
sumption Of specie payments at an early day, and
that the Irish blood in his veins gaops on hard trot
at the idea that any should precede him in that
great movement of honor and honesty. Mr. White also
refuses to come under the recent Suspension Law-so
do ], and will back Mr.. White far my cash
and resources go-neck and neck-head and head
hip and thigh The SPECTATORS and stock jobbers in
Wall street want to issue upon the world fresh floods
of paper currency The whole scheme of suspension
great fraud, and appeal to you, dearest ladies,
and ALL whether it s honest to cheat you and your
families out of your property for one year, in order TO
pay the extravagant debts due to rich bankers in Lon
don? Is fright that you, dear souls, who are our
comfort, delight happiness, oar all, should
suffer for the want Of small change when yeu go to
Market in order 10 fill the Golfers Of the Bank Of Eng
land support the schemes Of fraud and specula-
ton concoced by the cheats in Wall street, AT the
very in,imaon Of such thing, am your rosy,
rich, ripe lips will turn up and curl beautifully with
detestation at such ides-and they ought to do
and you look the prettier for it.
For taking this general course in favor of the hard
money system, and against any project that would
encourage dishonesty or extravaganza, have myself
been indicted by grand jury, technically for publish
| ing wrong name-but encouraged and supported by
the smiles of woman, and led onward BY the light Of
humanity, disregard the indictments of any set of
grand men in christendonn, the vengeance Of all
the Haggeriies that left ebogs of Ireland with
Just enough rags to cover their nakedness.
Ii will be perceived that have dropped the Chem-
cal for the present. have done this because be-
lieve the Chemical no longer wants my aid. II is a
healthy little monster, though like the other banks, it
must take the "beneft Of the act be in fashion
so let il do So But the Manhattan in consequence OF
the resolution of Mr.. White to stand against the
suspension law, deserves think, every encourage
/ ment ana patronage VIII, ueIeIOIc, reueen Hpe
dollar notes Of that bank, and advise every lady TO
make like application in person to MI. White at his
bank in Wall street. do not believe that Mr. White
will permit me to outstrp him in kindness, love and
alteration towards your sweet selves. want, how
ever to try his mstal-and ! shall put him 10 his
trumps, he may rely upon It. The Manhattan Bank
has capital of two millions Of dollars have CAPT
tai 100000 in paper, types presses, engines and
systems, but adding TO it the value of my head and
my heart-a couple Of items which no bank ever YET
possessed or could make a rcsrn of-I consider mine
nearly equal to the capital of the Manhattan Bank
In such the present. will Mr.. Robert White
a warm-hearted Irishman permit Mr.. James Gordon
Renaet cool-headed Seotchman, TO surpass him
Forbid il gallantry! II will, however, be curious
tral-lreland persus Scotland. Who be,s7
Let every lady go to the Manhattan Bank-try
Mr. White, as shall give him the first cat OFT of re.
spect to his years and hsrmlessness then come and
try me at FL Ann street. II Nr. White surpasses me
in gaantry, attention, suavity and sweetness of man.
n,r, then will be content hereafter TO be put dowr
"a No. q" Mr.. White being "A No. l."
Thss much on these important matters The res
tora,on of specie payments must never be lost sigh
Of by man or woman, male or female. There is a
this moment set Of spectators and cheats Just rca