The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-08-25
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houiAoH1 presume, put In Ior Lle oCcdsloH5 "
give yourself little Importance"
You never was more out in your life, friend
reader, do know Mr.. Crayon. l have had a
correspondence with him."
F'About whatr'
81 wrote to him to know whether he thought
Flaccus or Sir William Marsh, the greatest
poet of the present age"
E'And what did he reply~
Reader, it's very impertinent to ask so many
the goodness to imagine any thing you please
for Mr.. C's answer, and let me go on with my
subject:~
Yon will ask, perhaps, why should men go on
tick Do you want to argue the point? Ii you
do, sit yourself down patiently and listen, for
have convincing reason at the end of each of
my ten fingers just ready to be put forth. In
the first place be assured, most sagacious reader,
that men ought to 60 on tick because-they can't
help it. TO reverse the reasoning process Of
distinguished college professor-"It must be so,
and therefore it ought to be So" And this rea-
son look upon as SO absolutely conclusive, that
l should be justified in regarding the question
as settled, and emitting tho other nine reasons,
as the French king did similar bunch or why
and-wherefores Have you ever heard the story9
If you have, 1T will bear hearing again.
Louis, (some lumber or other, | forget which)
was graciously pleased to make the tour of his
diminions. In the course of his Journey, he ar
rived ata certain small town, the mayor of which
turned out according to rule, to make a speech
beftting the occasion. His Grafton commenced
thus:
sMost high and mighty sire! we are aware
that it has been customary for those cities and
towns which your illustrIous majesty has hon
ored and refreshed with your suspicious presence,
to testify their sense OF your majesty's goodness,
and their JOY at this glorious event, by dis
charge of artillery. With custom so lauda-
BILE, we should have been most happy to comply,
but were unable TO do so for seventeen reasons,
which shall take the liberty of stating to your
majesty. In the first place, we have never had
a cannon In this town, or within twenty miles of
it. The second --n
"That will do man, that will do, interrupted
the monarch, FG am perfectly satisfied with your
first reason, and can dispense with the other six
teen"
And even so, reader, nigh dispense with my
other nine; for when the proof of any thing is
one complete, it cannot be more So But that
you may be satisfied, even to repletion of salts
faction, will give you one more of the ten
The ready money system Is founded on prin-
ciple of distrust and suspicion. 1t is as If the
vender feared that the vendee meant to take the
tour of Mississippi and Texas, or in some other
way defraud him of his dues, and the vendee
that the vender would make some false addition
to the account, if it were left standing All their
intercourse is of a cold and formal nature, as
between buyer and seller. How different the
case where the tick principle is adopted The
parties are obliged to be civil and friendly to
each other-er 7leceSSitdte Tei-the ticker to
secure the payment of his money in good time,
the tickee to avoid the annoyance of being dun
ned Thus mutual dependence is formed which
secures the friendship of each to the other.
But | am tired IF argument. If iS foo ha rd
work for this hot weather. Let me observe,
then, in conclusion, that the credit or tick sys-
tenn may, like all good things, be carried to eX-
cess. There are, as we all know, ultraists in
this, well as other systems. Some, for in
stance, never remember the exceptions to the
general principle, as ones editor, SC; others
forget to support their credit by an occasional
payment. Such was the case with an individual
whose ticking propensities had once excel
lent opportunity for observing. He graduated
with me in the class of IS3-Ghe best, of course,
that ever left the walls of - college.) His
name was Obadiah Eliphaz Smith-his princi-
plies pure radicalism, community of property,
&c; which views he carried out practically as
TAR in him lay, his invariable rule being to get
trusted for every thing and pay for nothing
The chief end Of man, according to his cate
chism, was to go on tick. As he became better
known, and the tradesmen grew less DESTROYS of
his custom, he bctool1 himself to the most inge-
NOUS expedients. He had several fancy names, |
which he was in the habit of giving to the pro-
prietors Of livery stables and eating houses, who
often lost much time in making frutless inquiries
after Mr.. Barlow, or Mr.. Phillips. After his
credit with all the confectioners was gone, he |
the grocery stores, from which he OBJ
aimed hams, smoked beef, Sc, or, as my friend
Arem wittiiy observed, he had recourse to grosser
articles. Rare Obadiah! it would take a small |
volume to recount all thy devices. The last
line heard of my tick-loving classmate, he had |
acted as door-keeper at an Anti-Slavery fair
Not long after, that worthy body, the Abolition
Society, suddenly became bankrupt. Eliphaz
was always strenuous advocate of the Sub
Treasury scheme, and had doubtless taken the
opportunity to put his views in practice, as was |
'his custom always" not merely Sin the after
loon," but any time of day when he could get
.hance. CEBE.
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