Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1840-02-13
For the Herald of tho Tlmss.
Facts for the Lab0ring Man :
BY LABoRING MAN.

! "Ncber be good time in dis country Mas.
-, I'LL corn be pssareen bushel, and pork
pissarcen a pound"-.as Cudgo said who
bought his corn and sold his pig"
Extract from dialogue betpeen Sambo
and his Muster.
"Nigger don, build chmbly in Guinea,
Massa. az white man do"
"Iiow do they build there. Ssmbo ?"
"Gn him mt top, Massa, and make him
straight down to de grounds
Extract from The same.
"Wish Massa every body dead cep Mas
sa and Sambo."
"Wby so, Sambo ?"
"Cos, den Massa and set up shop, and
sell goods like de berry debil."t
Extract from .ur. Pan Buren's Message,
1899.
"Our people will not long be inssn.ible
to the extent Of the burdens entaiod upon
them by the false system that has been opc-
rating on their sanguine, energetic, and indus.
trious character; nor 10 The means necessary
to er!ricnie Themselves from these embarrnss-
ments. The weight which presses upon o
large portion of The people aud the States, Is
an enormous debt, foreign and domestic
The foreign debt Of our States, corporations,
and men Of business. can scarcely be less
than two hundred millions Of dollars requiring
more than ten millions of dollars year to
pay the interest. This sum has to be paid
ont of the exports of tho coupiry, and must
OF necessity cut eff imports to that extent or
plunge the country more deeply IN debt from
year 10 year. IL is easy to see that the IN
crease of ths foreign debt must augment the
annual demand on the exports to pay the in
tcrest, and TO the same extent diminish the
imports; and IN proportion To the enlarge
neut Of the foreign debt, and The consequent
increase Of interest, must be the decrease Of
the import trudo. ln llou II the comforts
which 1t now brings rs, We might have orr
gigantic banking institutions, and spienaid,
but, IN many instances, pr0ftiess, railroads and
cdnris, absorbing 10 great extent, IN inter
est upon the capital borrowed TO construct
them, the surplus traits Of national industry
for years to come, aud securing TO posferlty
no adequate return for the comforts which he
lsbors Of their hands. might Otherwise have
secured"
One half the above sum will probably be
nearer the truth, but adult the whole to be
true, and it appears the people Of the United
States owe 10 foreign countries, the sum Of
Two Hundred Millions of Dollars, and that
they are, "a stated, thereby debarred from
foreign "conforts' to the amount of Ten
Millions of Dollars annually, to meet the in.
terest. This sum. dividing it equally among
the whole population, is about sixty cents
yearly to each individual, which they have
been in the habit Of receiving in silks, rib
bons, toys, and other foreign comforts"
will now solicit attention 10 the sn!j'ct
of Domestic " comforts" in furnishing which
this debt has greatly contributed, nnd nsk
whether they will form an adequate counter
balance to the "burdens cntaiIed upon the
people by n false system" which seems now
about 10 expire, and entail debt Of sixty
cents on each person yearly. We'll indeed
may Mr. Van Buren, call them an "encr-
ge,ic" people, who, under oil the evils OF this
"false system" (which although in It's infancy
only twenty years snce) havo accomplished
more in that time, than has been done by any
other people on earth in centuries. They
have reclaimed from the wilderness, eight
or ten States and Territories, each Of which
would constitute an empire in the old world,
and peopl.d them wi,h a hardy, intelligent
race Of men, the surplus products OF whose
industry and skill To the pUount Of millions,
arc already crowdIng every canal, river or
railroad, that conducts to a market. They
have built cities, towns, and villages, without
number,-in ,iNt short time have built more
steamboats,, made more railroads, moro ca
pal,. than all the varld bcsidc-have became
the second maritime pcople--ihe third manu-
facturing-and export far more agricultural
products than any other nation. In that time
their exports have increased some Fifty Mil
lions ot Dollars, and more than doublcd--her
manufactures, from trlhng amount, have
swellcd TO nearly Three Hundred Millions oi
lDUIinTS-cU tUls ulu l"I Hl'''' '"' "'e' w
compllshcd Ivy this "eaerge,c" people.
while laboring under burdens imposed by
falsc sys,em"-from which, until now, they
wero too busy to think about, or to "c&;rIcale
themselves from" although their best
friends, Martin Van Rurcn and Thomas II.
Benton, have for years been calling on thcm
to rise in ,helr strength aud annlhlls,e II,
together with its eigh, hundred RAG banks.
thu, have been prcying on their slia's tho
whole time
II - much has brcn done by tbs energetic
peopo under The "burdcns imposed by this
false system" what will they not accomplish
when they find The means necessary to sx.
trieste themselves from it's cmbarrassmcn,s,
when oil the evils shall BE- done away aud
nothing left TO press upon them. We shall
then onluy all the good without the alloy Of
bad, aud our prosperity must 60 cn lncrcns-
INF" not ~ tho arIlhmeiical ratIo-bnt ~
yeometrical progression and increase almost
bcyond tho power of the mind 10 calculate o.
comprchcnd." The neM twenty y'srs wlll
probably perl,c, every thing ~ North An'cr
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