The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-08-09

of an homo principle. acluate1 only By
iha most 81 81 ions and pos
se q 40 spas Of The eneEo na love
81 ~. s. comm men
81 nations The libelleIs did not stop.
here. When tie great Fevulslon came on
accelerated Il not caused BIZ the mad nea-0
sure ot he DEMONSTRATION, and lhonsands
sc fsnecl SIC slchants Mers sInitten 70.
the ground under the fury Of the blast, the
Globe reioiced, that the Administration.
rubbed Its bands ith gIee. ltere sgas.
no presssre that any bOness nan isOslld ~
eres,n said the Government, "0sd euefsl.
nan bh0 trades ap0n borrowed capital
oaeht 70 here was q general iubis
Zee 81 ne levellel The little Neros Of the
RepubliC wero ddling and dancing, insthes
exuberance Of their JOY.
Bnt the scene changed. The conaagIa-
ton whichthe incendiaries would have cons
fned to the dwellings 81 warehouses Of the
rich, spread far and wide The hungry.
flames swept1o over their prescribed bounda-.
ries, and the poor as well as the rich fell be-
fore the blast The very moi who explted.
in the ruin of the merchants, soon found.
their own prospects blighted land too late
for repentance, began 90 pause before the
ruin that was staring Them IS The face. Like
the merchants Who burst open The -four
stores, they forget that their every actof
violence was plecipitating The evil they
would avoid.
AT length the government itself reeled
like drunken mar before that Blast. Its
thirty millions surples, with which il hoped
to perpetuate the powerof The Office Hol-
ders, melted away ike ice before the blaze
ola summers sun. The merchants, il Isl
true, they had for the moment conquered.
They had paralized the Industry Of the Peo-
| pie BY shutting up its very fountains; for
without Commerce, there could be no living
industry, and we should speedily relapse in.
to Barbarism. Tho Government had ac-
complished one great purpose, for whichthe
Globe and ita satellites had been conten-
ding, that fprostrating the Merchants. But
IN effecting this, the Government itself fell
PROSTATE! Never in our history was therea
more humiliating spectacle. Beardsley s
malediction Of ssPefisk COmmerce!'' had
indeed fallen like mildew upon the Cities,
and :. Perish Credit - like boar frost, upon
the government. The Cities which their
indomitable perseverance could soon reco-
yeF-the Merchants, however oppressed,
could right themselves. Industry, though
feeble and suffering from the blow, could get
upon its legs. But the Government could not.
There it lay. kicking and houndering, like a
proud steed in tolls, by every plunge more
deeply enhancing ITSELF and there Il would
have remained helpless to this day, had not
THE MERCHANTS come up to its relief! Tell
it not in Gath!
The Merchants of this country, though
still suffering from the effects ola disordered
currency, are fast recovering that sormer
tone. Business, confined and checked in
one channel, seeks another, and none are
more shFewd than the mercantile classes 20
see, and to improve, all the advantages
which times and seasons spread before them .
On the other hand, the Government is
bankrupt And to its shame be 81 spoken,
it issues its t'rags" to pay Off its army and
navy, its pensioners and ofaee-holders! It's
.prOmises to payn are sold at 4 discount in
the markets!! It's loan officers and survey
ors are obliged to go to the much abused
and illuminated merchants for money, to
carry on the government! J! Was there
ever deeper humiliation9
The tone is at last changed. Instead Of
abuse and vituperation, we have coaxing
and compliments. Instead Of the gall Of
bitterness, we are offered honey and sweat
meants, and the merchants, it would seem,
are now regarded by the Globe and the Gov
eminent as class highly respectable, meri-
torious and worthy! The Globe affects to
be surprised that the Merchants should be
hostile to the Administration! Was there
ever such impudence on The face of the
eartha