Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1838-07-24

/ Old preiudices are not to be combated,
however, By defamation; let as on to COM
mon sense. What is money! Not n
thing to be eaten or drunk, or capable Of
satisfying a single bodily appetite. Placed
lin u desert, or even amongst a people who
do not value money, you could not buy a
loafof bread. In itself It is valueless, and
e only available where It is the recognized
representative of so much property or la.
Dor. You may take whatever you please
for this representative; so that il is recog.
nized BY your fellow men. The old world
took gold and silver. But suppose ma
ton, rich in all the necessaries OF life, but
not having any gold or silver, would 1t
not be madness in them to give more than
half their possessions in order 10 get this
as a representative, when they could get
a cheaper representative or type, for the
medium Of exchanging labor.one with ano-
Their! Does Il argus that they cannot ex-
change their various commodities and Ia
Dor, because they have no gold or silver.
"Forbid it common sense.
Our ancestors came from Europe,
where il is the custom 10 have specie as
the representative for la Dor; they brought
this custom with them; It was before en-
CRAVING had arrived az the perfection It
now has done-and this custom has
been the means of retarding our wealth
and prosperity, because we had 10 barter
an immense deal of labor, n order to get
Isnecje. to serve here as a medium of eX-
changing with each other.
We have given them, of the sweat Of
our brow. to get what Why parcel Of
white and yellow metal, not to eat or
drink, or to wear, but to pass from hand
to hand. We found, however, that we
could not earn these metals fast enough
from Europe, or elsewhere, to answer our
demands for a circulating medium; for
we grew fast. What did We do? Attend
to this! We llowed a parcel of English
and European cunning money dealers, TO
place boxes Of specie in a pau !, and upon
The strength of such a 1eposlte, to issue,
through their abettor5 here, an immense
quantity of notes, representing our proper
ty; and for this favor, agreed to pay them
at least 6 per cent per annum. Suppose
now there arc two hundred millions Of dol
lars in such notes in circulation, and you
Will be absolutely paying twelve million of
dollars yearly, as tax, to whom tlo you
suppose? To your government! for
benefit of the country-no, my friends!
to the owners Of the specie, whoever they
are. Thus your labors are taxed 6 per
cent per annum. Now you know why
Banks are willing to pay such large sums
for a charter; t is to become your legal
lied plunderers.
Age for shame! Americans blush at
thus being defrauded out of those resour-
ces which Providence has given you, to be-
come the mirror at which young Liberty
may dress herself in whatever quarter OF
the globe she may be born. What! TO
get a fe W peices Of gold and silver, to serve
you as a medium for exchanging your
different products; are you willing to I'LL
your country with stock jobbers and gam
bling politicians, whose morals become
corrupted by the system Of plunderlng,
and living on the industry of others; men
whose smiles are turned from their native
country and her free principles, ana are
only anxious to proPitiate the RothchIlds
and-otAor bloated money dealersl This
old system Of legalised plumber must be
done away with! Reason demands it!
Its doom is fxed-as soon as men will
think, and they have commenced 10 do
so.
| have shown that money, (whatever
that money is) is only valuable as the re-
preventative OF property, not upon gold,
which is itself only a representative OF the
property of Europe. This is a wheel with
in wheel, and unfit for our plain Ameri-
can common sense. 1t is ike admitting
Europe our master, and only calling that
valuable which she has pleased to make
SO.
In Europe they have sbecie for their
representative of labor, here we have paper,
whilst we were England's colonies, we
were obliged to base our representative
paper on their representative gold: But
now, we are free, lei our paper money be
on our valuable property Itself.
Americans! productive citizens! aw axe!
Save your country from paying a ruin Gus
tax 10 Europe, for the use Of a little gold.
we need not pay a cent Of interest for mo-
neg, If zoe make our paper the representa-
tiee Of our properlyH
REPUBLICAN,,