Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1839-03-28


e,a 6teelv ssnj not cramp trade ~ Biddles
Bank did~-~snd when money got ss plenty
a. backterries, and folks got to making new
Banks sBd>all Datur went 10 work importing
goods. and 5ying Land from. Uaels Sam and
paying hiu'i6 bran now Bank paper money,
and then wa considerable Of a sqdshble |;
and then, as every body from. the Ginerai
down;to the Land Receivers and Custom
House lsfIicers and III began to talk about
the evils Of a full Treasury, the Rats got to
work 10 lessen that evil-and when Uncle
Sam made stir about II, it was found that
he had 60, rid ofa considerable slice of his
Land-and pretty much allStbe good roney
that had been collected the rats gotEand
that brings the matter down to the present
day.
Now let US suppose that Mr.. Clay's Land
Bill had become Law at the Time the Cine
raj pocketed II on account Of its not suifing
his veto, how would that matter stand now
About sirfy millions Of dollars has been col.
iected since that time for sales OF public land
fbsting the amount the rats goi)-accordlng
to Mr.. Clay's bill, oil this money would have
gone to the States. Each State would have
Gct its fair share on't as fast as collected
Does any one suppose with all the States
looking on and watching how the cat Jumpd
that there would have been such fine time
for the. rats p Would the deposite Banks
have such gay time in dlscounting on pub
tic monsys3 Would the Treasury Secretary
been compeld 10 write so many doleful let.
ters 10 Defauiisrs, telin on EN- If they did
not pay up arter SO long neglect the Gineral
would sartinly remove some on EN- next
year? My notion is he would have been
spared oil this trouble, for the States who
owned the money would have had their eyes
on those receipes and coltectors-1he Banks
would have had less to do with public de-
posits-s and dcfaulters would have stood no
more chance than stump tail'd bulls IN ny
time.
Howsever-,bough my dander is consders
hly lifted when ] think OF these matters
there is no use to cry over split milk, and the
main use in talking about 1t is TO see that the
Dish aint turn'd bottom up another time, aud
that brings the matter rs aforesaid to the
present time-for pretty much the same
dance to another tune is now started. The
same set OF folks have now set up another
skeme--aud to keep Mr.. Clay from taking
anothor tussle with em, "the land ought all
to be given the New States" where all
the lands be, thinking if Mr.. Clay opposed
this plan, il would rub off considerable Of his
popularity in the New States-but here they
nre mistaken agin. Dir. Clay didn't seem to
stop TO calculate this matter after that rule,
but clapt OIL the string from the first jump
and Kept EN- under the Wings ever since,
and il he don't head EN- of afore they git
round the ring, Tm mistaken. "Why," says
be, "you etarnal raccoons and woodchucks,
what kind of justice do you call that to the
nero States? You want to gull them into a
Idip that gives them mess of poffdge at the
expense Of all the other States, anc then
under The same lao take from the neW and the
old States all The laio that amt yet embraced
in any State, and which now belongs equally
TO eli the States. "Well, WELL" says he,
'you deserve credit for your ingenuity this
time, but not quite so much land. Looking
over the list Of office holders, such as Land
Receivers, Post Masters aud other Sub
Treasurers,' there arc Jest about enut on ye
who arttr nert election will be ready Tor neW
State. IL only requires about forty thousand,
and Pos, Ofice. and the Land Office, and
the Treasury Department can spare that
nambcr tcithort INJURY; and snch law
suppose would Jest suit you. Now says
Mr. Clay, II am willing to sell you ut low
fate al much land as you can cultivate hon.
esily and industrIously but not whole Ter.
gltogies at one grab. We want some land
for our honest settlers and their children, and
for our future soldiers and their Children
There are some things that folks are pretty
considerably sure on in Mr.. Clay. and since
he has come across my track in talking abont
this Land matter, may as well finish this
letter in talking little more about him. lie
is pretty much "all sorts Of n man," and
have come TO the notion that il we look all
over creation, il would be hard 10 find man
who has got in him so much of what the peo-
pie want to depend on when things get
equally, to carry 'em through the storm, and
when matters are calm TO keep 'em So
There is one class Of folks that require sharp
looking to in a country like this, where every
mao has right to talk and blustcr, and that
class is the buliys, folks who hant got in
dustry aud character enuf Of their own to
keep their own matters prosperous-and who
set 10 work and try to take short cuts across
lots, without regarding the fences and pas
ters and corn lots of his neighbours-and If
any man is bold enuf 10 head 'em off and tell
'em what the law is, they buster and bully
and depend on frightening him and make him
mock under, rather than have a tusste with
'em. Now it is a very important matter for
oil honest FOLKS that they have man who not
only kno,cs what the law is, but amt afraid of
srecuti,g on't in the face of a hull brigade of
baiys and biusierers-and then agin in q
country like ours, we want a man who knows
and understands the difference atwixt real
difficulty aud one that is only icind-folks
will talk and complain, and they have right
10 do so pretty much about all matters till
they git 'em strait, and if they are stopt afore
they are done talking, just as like as moi
they'd blow up. MIR. Clay has seen so much
Of public matters and men of all sorts at
home aud abroad he knows all about 'em,
and knows as quick as flash when he hears
o noise, whether j, is the healthy whizzin Of
the safety valves, or the bursting Of the bier
and that is a very important matter for if
captain should get frightened at what is only
letting off steam and think it is Jtoio mp, he
might in his alarm make some folks jump
overheard Tor safety, and perhaps jump over
himself
II 10 not every mans luck to be look'd upon
by uuruly folks aud bullys as an ugly Gus
timer, and no man is so likely to be let alone
iw such matters, by the blus,erers and bullys
ss one who they know don't care q snuff for
'cm. The Ginerai used to say, "there was
no man on air,h had more pluck in him than
Henry CIay--that he was a real man for a
daring fight, but he didn't think he was calm
enuf for statesman" and the Gineral was a
pritty good Judge in some matters, if he warnt
in all. Now, as to the Gineral, we oil know
that the bullying aud clustering part Of crea-
tion never thought Of troubling him, and as