Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1837-11-25


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THE WEALTH or THE CoUNTRY.-The wealth of
any country, universally admitted, does consist
of the hard specie that may be in it, The who has
barrel of flour worth dollars is rich the
who has dollars in his pocket. Produce is wealth
the OF country its wealth. The idea Of
this country sustaining any permanent injury from such
revuson as has of late affected it. is therefore lud-
crous. But while We feel that this is the case is as
well to examine little into what
do possess and what capabilities, and how
these capabilities ay be turned to account
There is not country upon the whole face Of the
earth that gives such glorious promise Of wealth and
greatness ours-for the double reason of the
of land possess and the untiring the ndefa
gable spirit which is the great characteristic of our
1t is wealth which will grow and increase year by
year. and which be lost being the wealth arising
from produce-as other wealth however seemingly
bounded may be. Look SPAIN only short time
since when the gold mines Of this newly discovered
world poured it's into her lap and her princes
mobiles and grandees-how great, how glorious ow
vain glorious was She She imagined that her riches
inexhaustible. She remembered not that riches
make to themselves wings to fly away. Look at her
Look that smiling, that glorious land
What is III II is becoming almost barren. 1t is i'm
psvershed and wretched-and the gold the lords Of
gold that filed its Golfers II has flown into other chan
Sels, it has enriched other people.
How different is our wealth. The fortunes that are
amassed ron this fertile soil in a few years, by the
spirit Of enterprise, which carries like whirl
wind bearing Down all opposition and impeachment, may
be squandered away speculated away, given away
We have still left u.s. the producing soil THE golden
egg laying hen, whose head rulers
off, and have still left the energy that has achieved
and that will achieve again
The fact, however, is plain that such rcvulsions
have affected us evils which require utmost vi
GLANCE guard against inasmuch as they nullify our
natural advan,agcs-rctard Onward course and for
the time that their magn influence is exercised over u.s.
weigh us down with sorrow, deprivation and suffer.
ing.
Our country. depending upon is resources fer i,s
wealth, il naturally follows, that to become wealthy
those resources be unshackled-ns free as pos
sibe. The moment restrictions placed upon our
produce its natural effects perverted-lurned aside
or poisoned
This course opess the door to more evils than were
contained in Pandoras box. The chief of these are
mad Specsla,on-which is gambling Of the worst de.
scrption-and Monopoly, which in its effects so in
furious the community at large that law prevent
such dreadful ssourge, wouli be hailed as o public
blessing
Let us then, look tie wealth Of our country, and
guard agains, the few who would fsttcn upon any
cost and protect for the many whose IL s by right
AMERICAS ArrIeuIrrEs.-on high bluff near the
river des Peres, Missouri, a number Of graves,
which appear have been existing for centuries and
made for who far superior in sze to those Of
the present day
On the shore of the Maramee river, the Of
Fenton, there is immense cemetery containing
eral thousand graves all &C them remarkably small the
large" not exceeding four feet in length.
II has been supposed by some distinguished ra,wais
that the small graves contained the progeny Of Jack the
Giant Killer, and the large ones the family Of the
giants.