The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1839-08-21
From he BaItimore American.

There Is, perhaps, no subject, whatever, upon
which the public mind Is susceptible Of being led
asray as the specie question II Is the very subject
for demagogue. To cite the fact that there is
larger amount OF specie in the country than there
was few years ago is to advance to the ignorant
and supersttious an incontestible proof
| try Is now more prosperous than it was then. We
speak Of the ignorant and snperstitious upon this
subject, In connection. because their ignorance is
species OF superstition with which reason and
mon sense maintain a most unequal contest. II is
The business Of the artfu demagogue 10 inaame this
feeling and 10 turn 1t to his own purposes He re-
counts In glowing terms The virtues Of gold and sill
yer, points out the manner in which IL may be in
creased and spread over the land like fructifying
alkaii, and predicts, to day. the time when II viii
flow like stream up the rivers of the country and
be seen glittering between The sken intersiices OF
| every poor mans purse. The greedy crowd gapes
and swallows the monstrous invention. No prophe-
cys too gross or improbable. All-all lis credited,
and although the day of the fullment of the predic-
ton is passed, the creduity of the crowd grows
stronger, and they look forward, STILL in the vain
pectation that they are not TO be duped. II pure
| and virtuous man. removed beyond the influence Of
partizan passion, could survey the gross imposition
which, in this way, is praciised upon the community,
1t is impossible TO imagine any thing better calcti-
lated 10 cause his indignation 10 blaze up beyond the
power OF suppression The systematic deception Of
the ignorant is Of the highest Of civil offences,
and SUCH precisely is the crime of the class Of i'm
posters who have made gold and silver their hobby.
II is vain to deny that the administration of Gen.
| in part of their scheme against the currency of
the country. They have succeeded in propagating
amongst the community deep, settled and perina-
nent distrust Of Bank paper. Heretofore, when
panic was created, the timid and ignorant would
draw specie from,the Banks hoard II for a while,
until their apprehensions were over and then per-
NIT tito find its way, through the ordinary channels,
into the vaults of the Bank-there to be considered
| guarantee for the redemption OF the paper issued
as circulating medium. Now, however, the case
is different. The boarding specie is regular, sys
tematic and habitual. II grows out Of rooted and
permanent dislrus occasioned by the denunciation
of Bank notes, which those high in authority have
INDUCED in for twelve years past The consequence
Inevitably is that, although the aggregate of specie
in the country is greater than ever, il answers no
useful purpose basis for the issue Of paper. 1t
lies hid away in the Golfers OF those who, taking the
declaration OF their rulers text of truth have
learned TO place confidence in Banks, and only
receive their notes for the purpose Of converting
them, at their first convenience, into coin. That
this is Of the chief of the disproporion
between the amount Of specie in the vaults Of the
Banks and in the country at large, one at all ac
quainted with the subject will deny. The admins
tration have the power all times to verify their
own prediction as 10 Banks. Ii they denounce them
as unworthy Of confidence, that very denunciaion
goes far 10 render them so; and thus they who pro-
phecy evil and croak ruin and disaster unlike most
soohsaycrs, live TO see their own predictions veri-
fed. How lue of true second sight, however, is
there in the prophecies Of those whose hearts have
preordaned and whose hands control the issues
which their tongues have proclaimed as unaVoid-
able!
Last Saturday night, a Frenchman named Cadet
Robie who had been employed for time past in
selling milk came to his death under the following
circumstances About 8 o'clock, he appeared mount
ed on horse in the vicinity of the Old Basin, In
state approaching TO ntoxicalion and In very quar-
relsoue humor. His outrageous conduct attracted
the attention OF patrol OF The city guard who tried
10 seize on him. He fled, and was pursued along
the banks OF the Canal and was finally seen to fall
into the water. We do not know that any attempts
were made to. rescue him from his waery bed but
II so, they we're Intellectual; as his body was no, Ia
ken out until the next day, when the marks of
we're blow were to be ON one side of his head,
caused, as some think, by his striking the banks Of
the Canal as he fe-N o. Courier
Robbery and attempted Murdcr--The Huntington
Journal says:
On Tuesday night of last week the tailor shop
of Clark and Foust, Of Shereyburg was broken into
and robbed, by couple OF Williams known by the
name OF Stephen Nelson and Edward Clark. Mel
son was taken, but effected his escape. On Satnr-
day night, they both came TO the residence Of Capt
Jamison, the person who had been instrumental in
the arrest of Nelson and tie exposure OF both. BY
the most earnest entreaes they persuaded Jamison
TO admit them, declaring they were nearly starved
Immediately upon his opening the door, one Of them
| fired pistol al him, the ball of which passed be-
tween his shirt bosom and his breast thus proyiden-
| TALLY escaping the hands Of the assassin.