The Ohio Democrat and Dover advertiser. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1839-1840, 1840-03-13
OUR PECUNlARY DIFFICULTIES AND
THEIR NEMEDY.

Complain. Of the hard times is loud aad uni
|versal, and we admit there have been few peri
DDS in our history to which this siereotyped
phrase could be sojustly applied as the present.
Blu, when, as occasionally happens, some sapi-
ent ncwsmonger. who goes about gathering up
the lag enes of facts upon which 10 hang his
own preposterous inferences, catches us by the
HhuttoR and with achuckle al his own sagacity,
assures urtiat the country is posting exprsss to
perdton, we turn from him with quiet smile
of contempt. We detest the whole fraternity
ofcroakers. What would bo though, oftte man
who, finding his neighbor on sck bed, instead
of cheering him with the prospect of recovery,
should labo, to prove to him that his disease was
moHal Equally reprehensbe is the conduct
of that pestileHt class Of politicians who in sea.
sons Of public calamity exaggerate The existing
distress and sententiousy prophecy that il is
the beginning of the end Away with such
prophets ofdisaster to whatever party they may
belong. The elements of prosperity which the
hand Of GOD has bestowed upon our country,
are inalienable, indestructible. These and the
houyancy of spirit and irrepressible energy of
character which belong to us as nation, and
are the natural offspring of our free institutions,
will always enable us eventual'yto triumph o.
yer our pecuniary difficulties.
lie, the panic makers talk as they will, we
are no danger of starving. The barns and gram
aries Of the West choket withlhe abundant
narvests of lasl year, and when The navigation
opens and grain can by brought to the sea board,
brisk expert trade in those articles may he an
ticpated. England must bread; her own har-
vest has failed, and we had far better send her
the breadstuffs which we cannot consume, even
al triiing profit, to balance our imports, than
10 pay for them in gold which we so much need
She may refuse or be unable to purchase our
cotton, bu her laboring millions must be fed,
however srantly they be clothed. If we can
supply her with wheat cheaper than she can
purchase it in the European market, and this
we can do, she will assuredlY buy oius. '-Syl-
vesler 8 Detector.
The foregoing coming as it does, from pa
per depending on the commercial woLrd for It's
support, and neutral IN politics, deserves some
attention from the opposition. (Mr. Olds will
state 10 his 'acquaintances whether il is true or
false.) The times are tight, all admit; but that
insa has III; little segacity who could not fore
see that our stimulated paper bubbles and im'
menSa foreign debt of State and Bank loans,
which filled our country with merchandise
must sooner or later bring about this state Of
things in money matters. ofths necsssaries o
life the country abounds - the God of harves'l
has been propitious; and instead of Starving,Ihe
complaint is, that we havstOo muchl Our barnI
and granores groan with their loads ofricheS-
and we never saw so many fathorses and sesl
cattle as may now be seen, and though prices
may not be high, yet on the opening Of naviga
uoII millions of the products Of the soil viii
find ready market. The miserable croaker
and federal demagogues, who rise as the cOun
try sinks, and sink as the country rises, deserv
, the sovereign contempt of all men who Ehav
sense enough to appreciate facts and figures a
they really'exist. Ohio Statesman.