The Ohio Democrat and Dover advertiser. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1839-1840, 1839-11-29
OPINIONS ABOUT BA NKs.

NhO. VAchtNoIoN' In a. tCtOt "
Thomas Jefferson, 4 Washington call
] the paper money sysiem "fOolish ant
wicked" Ia another lrttel he says
I''I have never h.ar and / hope ueve
shall hear, any serious IneDlion of {
S paper currency III the State. lido We
jttiy believe that the greatest foes We
jhave in the world could not devise Q
: more efeclual plan for running VirgIn-
| a.'
| Mn JEFrsRsoN was, il possible, still
more hostile to;psper money than Gen.
! WashingioH and he asoWs in his wri-
rings. ."Ihat this hostility way sireug,h-
ensd by>every year'sreflsctiOn and ex-
perience."
Ma. MADISON, IN the 44th number
Of the FedsralIst, one Of hts acknowls
edged productions, in long article on
The subject Of the currency, 'has this
passage:
AIN addition to these persuasive con-
sideraiions, il may be observed. that
the same reasons which show the ne
+cessary OF denying 10 the States }
power Of regulating coin, prove with
equal force, that they ought net to be
a! liberty TO substitute pepper Insdium
in the place Of CON-"
! .PATRreK flENRY represented paper
money as a nsfariousplau Of speculation.
! '-----
The lib girl and her Christmas pres
sm.-A Ii tie girl once got, among her
Other CL fstmas presents, ,a'whipi BUTT
Ewas beautiful one. all worked with
gold and Il ID silk. The poor little thing
who alwaye used 10 cry as soon as she
saw such an instrument, was much
pleased with this DUBIOUS kind Of pres-
ent, for shethought, "Sursiy, go pretty
a rod caDnd, hurt so much as others do.
So she mad playthiug Of it and car
ried It about with her wherever she
went. UaIurk,'y the very next NOR
ming, she DID something TO deplease her
mother whd at once la,d the young lady
acroes her knee, when she found to
her sorrow, that the embroidered rod
produced exactly the same effect that
plain one used to.
The subjects Of mauya monarch
make tho aaine discovery as this little
girl.
The ho'bw nm. thismy rewardP
cried MI .Iready half followed out,
10 the Win ba, was feeding on il. u
gave thee bi tn, and thou destfoyest me-
"fyou onlyrbrought me into The
! world, to>lst ME die Of hunger, I DO not
see tn at my life was a very valuable
present, or deserves any peculiar graf.
ilde," was The answer,
MANKIND. Or The Beginning of
the Fifteenth Csatmy. They had Meth
er looked inlo heaven nor'earth, neither
into the sea nor land. as has been done
since; they had philosophy without ex
pertinent, mathematics without instru-
ments, seomatry wirhou, scales, astron>
omy wi,hou; demonstration; they made
war without po wdtr, eho, cannon, NOR
tars--nay, the mob made their bonfres'
without sqpibs or crackers; they went
to sea without compass, and called
without the needle; they viewed the
stars without telescopes, and measured
attitudes without batometers; learning
had no printing presses, writing no pa
per, no lnk; the lover was forced TO
send hIs mistress a deal board for a
letter: and bllledoux might be the eize
of an ordinary trencher;they were cloth
ed without manufacturers land their robes
were the skins Of the most formidable
monsters; Thy carried on their trade
without DO ks,and their co respnn,fence
without posts; their merchants kept no
accounts, Il cir shopkeepers no cash
books; they had surgery without anat-
Omy, and physicians wI,hOu materia
medIes; they gave emetcs without ip- 4
ecacuanha, and cured agues without
bark.
PosrAas IN RnUssrA.-Thr king of
Prussia h given orders that oil period
icals on the subject Of Evangelical mis-
sions among The hsathens shall, for the
future, be exempted from postage all
over the kingdom. In 1888, tblsmon-
arch did the same for a book of hy mns.
A distinguished Pas.orI.~ho published
in 1887, Remarkably vaIuabls work
on the SancI,fca,i of,he Ssbbath, has
jus. received the kings invitation to
publish ttu thousand copies Of pop
ular work on spfriuous liquors. to be
distributed gratis throughout The Plus-
sian Monarchy.