Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1840-06-09

interested in public affairs in different
why's. The currency of the whole
coniry is in excessive disorder by the
admission even of this address ofthc
office holders.
10 Mississippi. the people arc almost
in state of despair; and # we rise fInm
this as the lowest point otdcprcssi"n,
we shall find that in each State there
is different standard Of depreciation,
until we come to New England. where
the currency is still sound. Yet no
people in the country feel more Of pos
tive inconvenience from this state of
things, than the Ncw-England men, be-
lssssscAsasey cannm cSsry UTyfen VISUAL
trades and occupations by which they
furnish goods to other places in the
United States, without a perpetual risk
of losing something by the fluctuations
in the bad currency of their neighbors,
which make il difficult for them to get
back their pay for what they sell
Where there is no uniform standard Of
value, there is no security for fair re-
ward for labor. This is serious evil
among industrious men, and ought to
be remedied by some means or other.
One would think it should be the first
duty of those citizens entrusted with
power for the common benefit, to see
hatsomething was done to get rid of il.
But the office holders do not see it
in that light at all They are so en-
barrasscd by the doctrines they have
heretofore advanced about the curren-
cy, as to be unable to propose anything
that will answer as cure FOR the evil
complained of, and hence are content
to let II take its own course. In the
mean time, however, they are very glad
to adopt such a measure as the sub
Treasury, which will make Office hold
ers independent of all hazard from
those losses every body else must be
liable to; because fit benefits no other
persons, they will, ut least, be the ones
to gain by il. They have double
motive to recommend it TO the people.
First, it may possibly do some good to
the currency, although it is not very
clear to them how much, nor in what
way. but if it should not, at any rate,
it will secure themselves. The expert
ment is, therefore, worth trying. they
think. And if. after all, it should fail
Of giving reliefto honest and industrI-
Gus citizens, the office holders Wbnld
find consolation in the reflection That
: they had been saved, by it, from ex-
periencing any ofthose Inconvenience
endured by every body but themselves.
When, therefore, the office holders
come forward as body of mon, or
when each one appeais before the pub
lie singly, and they argue in favor OF
the party to which they bolong-it
they propose nothing that will help the
people, but advocate only what will
help themselves, they, in point of fact,
assume the position of unworthy OBJ
jects of charity, who fatter while they
beg. Thus, when custom-honse Off
!. Ger, with four or five thousand dollars
n year. goes round and lectures about
the beauty of democracy, he is, in sub
stance, asking of the people the con-
FINANCE of his four or five thousand
dollars year. And so il is down TO
the Lowest de-waiter, who earns his
salary by his services! They are all
frierds to the administration, because
the administration gives them their
bread, not because its measures benefit
the country. What, then, is their
opinion worth? What juryman is there
in case i'm court. who uould place
much reliance upon the testimony oil
nm individual known TO be stron 'ly IN
; terested in the event of the suit! who
would agree with IL lawyer in praise
. of contention and strife, when know
ing that he makes his living by 1t!
( Who would join in commencing
sickness and broken bones with physl-
clans aud surgeons, although it is very
certain that it constitutes his trade, and
if there were no such evils, there would
he no such professions? Hence il
would be as serious loss to those
large classes of persons, who have
made themselves, by long training, fl
f to pursue these callings, TO have the
cruises of them removed, however evil
they may be, as IT would be for any
!, government officer 10 have the admin
r tration, upon whose continuance his
'ilpace depends, changed. Yet no i'm,
, partial and unbiased persons would
any more for these reasons, hesitate
: in contributing his efforts 10 remove oil
destroy all those causes, if he could
: bnra k,t that means IN attain SO UFpul