Madison Whig advocate. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1839-1841, 1839-11-09
A short and true story.

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A short and true story.
!. Dedicated (,cithout permission) to the er
!, clusire g hard currency" folks, By on
rho tells II as he Sdwi IL.
SAM STANTON was true-blue Loco
loco of the $ hard currency" school
catch him taking any other money bu
hard money. Nothing would he handle
but what would, as he said, ssJingle on 8
tombstone. Sam had been pretty for
tunate in business ; and when the period
arrived TO leave the Southern country,
and return North for the summer, he
sold out and turned all his remaining
stock in trade into hard dollars, and took
/ his passage. The first few days out
from Mobile our voyage was proper
GUS and many long argument wore
AWAY the time, on the relative security
of g hard money" and paper money"
Ezra Topper, one of our passengers on
board the Susan and Eliza,n was Sam
Stanton's main competitor. Ezra had
invested his money in good Bank drafts
on the North, and Sam would jeer Ezra
pretty often about his "paper promises. !"
This is the stuff says Sam, "that will
/ iEQCCul It's OWL biOiliioCo Gil iCi g
No protests for non-payment here" says
Sam, holding up one of the bags of dol
lars, weighing Sc pounds at least and
tumbing it. over the floor; g that's the
music-huzza fer Tom Bentyn and the
Sub-Treasury, and down with the Bank"
Well, on we went, and few days bro't
us round the point of the Floridas, aad
by latitude and longitude We found our
heading northward and homeward. The
weather up to this time had been mild
and amiable, and now it began look sour
and squally and Captain Crowell look
ed anxious, and some of the $ old salts"
on board began strapping ropeyarns
down over their hats and around their
pea jackets, and things assured g coming
trouble" All that night the wind in
creased, and the Susan and Eliza rolled
about like little boy with the stomach
ache in geen apple time The next
morning she had not canvass enough on
her to cover a tent pole, and the wind
whistled through the rigging, and the
salt water splashed over US as if they
didn't care a fig for Sam Stanton, Ezra
Upper, the Susan and Eliza, not any
thing else, not even the bags of dollars,
or the bank drafts.
Presently there came a real smashing
sea tumbling along, and by the time |
Captain Crowei called out g hold on
smash ii came on board of us, and swept |
off the cook house, and the poor cook in /
it, and the hen coops and all the chickens |
in them, and set the pigs adrift, split and
broke the rudder from its hangings, and /
left US in rather a pickle, flor all Of us
were soaked with salt water) A mo-
ment after and we were told sad leak
had occurred and the cry was to clear
away the g long boat" and then came a
scramble.-Eyery body who had any
thing TO save, hurried with it on deck,
and up Sam Stanton with his bags of
dollars, and up came Ezra Upper, stick
ing small q Wallet in his breeches
pocket. The boat was by this time along
side and the Captain got compass
from the pinnacle, and big bag of bread
from the store-room, and the mate rolled
a cask of water, and others brought
chunks of pork and beef, and others
blankets and pea jackets and the boat
was soon pretty we'll loaded. ss Now
Jump in my boys" says the captain, sand ;
rusting to Providence, let Us hope for a
,afe doliverance." But when we all got
n, 1t was found that the boat was over {
oadad, and the next thing was to light {
IN her; aud now came the rub. Sam I
Stanton, was sitting on three considera- {
lie sided bags in the bottom of the boa y
md the Captain thought they contained /
,read, or beef, or some other necessary a
f life but on discovering that they I
ontained hearier ballast, he decided at c
nee to tighten ship by throwing them
verboard- The parting scene was d
Iruggle for Sam Stanton but orcr they
rent. and dozen they went. Sam looked
Ezra Topper, and Ezra Upper r
bit sorry for Sam and, by way of f
hsering him, said to the captain, sNow, o
aptain,' says he, since my friend is
am has made sacrifice for the public IL
ood- TlI do us much and il you say the Ct
ord, I'll throw this wallet overheard cl
Oft contains just as largezan amount, vi
bank DRIFTS, as SANS bags of dollars p,
Mount to and III just q leave do il a. id
II, for sent Duplicates on by mail be- Ii
r. LEFT, and ordered the friplicatcs toll C.
How by the mail after, TO guard against 10,
q such q sderifc as tliis-' ba
Il was no tlmo for joke but remem-i so
ring the spirited arguments we had m