Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1840-09-22
8V1NINa NOTICES.
{ FAfrH OF uuR GoVERNMENr

In fulfilling its contracts. We copy the
greater portion Of the structures.
Butt will take you on your own ground,
your assumption OF the purity and honor
of the American government, in fulfilling
its contracts, and performing its promises
to the letter. You say thar il has maid
off its national debt in full, and even its
three per cents at par. lf this were true,
(Which II is not,) | could, Notwithstanding.
refer you 10 many still unsettled debts,
which your government has for years,
with an overlooking treasury, refused to
liquida,e. | might mention the ''Massa-
chuset.s claim," so called, which, after
more than twenty years passed in oppli.
cations tor payment, yet remains unset
tied. could name others, much more un-
unsuitable and oppressivc--individua
claims, which are passed over by your
Congress, from year 10 year, without set
element, while the claimants are not only
suffering for want OF money, but. what Is
more outrageous ond in~delcnsible, have
expended, IN attendance ut Wash.
iug,oa moro than the whole e
mount OF their claims; 50 that, If these.
claims should ever be allowed and paid,
there will be M surplus for the claimant.
All will have been sunk, lost, swallowed
up, by the fault, the ineXcusable neglect
of your government alone.
But have something more in point
than this. You sad, that the British gov
crnment. in the time of Charles II, Dor
rowed, at eight per cent. interest, a Ger.
tain sum; and afterwards, under William
|, funded it, with the interest, and thence
forward allowed, on the gross sum, inter
es.., nj the rate Of only three per cent.
making the principal extinguishable by
paying half TIC sum. Well, this, il done
at all, was done centuries ago, under a
different 90 yerument, different ideas of
right, different customs and different men.
But lock at youi own goyernment-not
half n century a2C-a government, oil
Wi. ich your boasicd Washington was the
head--St a time too. wh,n you had Just
gained your independence. and Mould
have felt grateful and liberal ~ those who
had expended their blood and tre.fsure In
acquiring tat u time, too, when the pub
lie creditors, the soldier sho had foueh'
and bled for you were alive and before
your eyes-l say, under circumstances
like these, look at your own government
I did, indeed, fund these claims At last;
the original principal at siN per cent. in
~terest: but the interest which had then
accrued. (probab.y nearly equal TO the
principal itself, and rs justly due) was fun
ded at only three per cent. interest,"
Here is a case, similar, in this respect, 10
that Of which you accuse the English but
at a period, and under circumstances,
which render it more inexcusable, audi
much more liable TO ccnsure.
But | have something more in point
than even this, bad us il is; and | nave re-
served il TO the last, in order ia strike
you dumb, and ovcrwhelm you with con-
fusion. Among the claims so founded by
your American government, in 1890, was
a very large sum-, in 'bills Of credit, is.
sued by authority of the United States in
Congress assembled But none Of these,
for which the faith OF The United States
was pledged, were funded nj par. But at
whar rate were they funded? Not less.
yv,. VIII snv. than fifteen per cent, the
rate YOU have ceRsuTed IN the British
government. Even this would ue worse
than we were; for we allowed interest on
the whole, while it remained unpaid; but
you did not allow interest on the whole,
nor even half, But what did you dot
ear IL, and shut you mouth forever.
our government funded, and finally
PAID, all this immense amount of ''BILLs
OF CREDIT" for which the faith Of the Uni
ted States was solem1ly pledged by Con-
gress, cat the rate of one hundred dollars
in said bills, for one dollar in specie"i!
That Is, al ninety nine per cent, d.ScouIt
only one cent on the dolla Say no
more, ] pray you, Nicholas Biddlc, abou'
the honesty, and the honor, and the purity
of the United States and its government,
and the want ofthese virtues in the govern
ment and people OF Great Britain. You
should have kept quiet, for you live in n
house oc glass. The less you say in dis
paragernent of.'our good friends the Eng
lish,' the better; and The less you awaken
attention 10 your own history will also b.
the better. Your old friend, JoHy Bull
THE ESeLIsH SEws-BaEAD STUrrs.-The Now
York Express of Tuesday afternoon says tina: the
news by the Quebec. Of the continuance OF fine
W. ather in England, has checked purchases o.
Flour for that market. The demand. however. for
the West ind &C, Nova Scotia, and for home con
sumption, was equal to the present supply, add pr
ces in the New FORK market were without chan,
The London G ohe of the lOta Of Ang. thus sum.
up the intellig cree rom various parts Of England
IN reference 10 the harvest
We are glad % be able 10 relieve ouT reader.
rom the duty Of rcadlnE the statement of ire cha.-
acter ana aspect, AZ well a. the result m many IN
stances, OF the present harvest, rs the pleasant
mOnciUny which runs through them, without ex-
cepuLn, enables Us so Tar % dispense with reprint
luE ihcini d - only necessar y for US 10 mention that
the accounts received within the lagt few days.
aud the prospect es Tar as Appearances can enable
rs 10 isdge Of a continuance OF the present 'glou-
Gus warm we1thcr, ITbtnise 10 cOnEne Us TO q
mere aud grateful record OF a fOuntful, an early
and exec lent crop Of all things wanted for mans
SUI port.
1he London Corn Reporter Of the 10th Of Au-
gust says;-.
The weather during the pact week has continued
% be very favorable Tor the harvest operations W
The south, aLd forwarding the npCning Of the Cror-
~ tie more h%orthcrly paris ~ the kingdom. A
greater or less dt greco ianguOr hasfd Consequence
manifested iseli ~ TIE trade at most Of the conn