The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-09-24

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us assurance that while we are meeting
1 in New York in such vast numbers,
other like meetings are holding through-
out all the States? That this cause must
be general as its effect, is certain, for i,
agltates the whole country and not parts
only.
When that fluid in the human system
indispensable to Life, becomes disordered,
corrupted, or DISTRACTED in its circulation,
not the head or the heart alone suffer,
but the whole body. head, heart, and
hand, all the members and all the ex-
tremities, are affected with debility, para
lysis, numbness, and death. The analo-
gy between the human system and the
social and political system, is complete,
and what the life-blood is to the former,
| circulation, money. currency is to the
| latter; and if that be disordered or cor.
rupted, paralysis must fall on the system.
The original, leading, main cause,
then, of all our difficulties and disasters.
is the disordered state of the Treasury.
This is perhaps not a perfectly obvious
truth, and yet one susceptible of easy de-
! monstration. In order to explain this
the more readily, wish to bring your
minds to the consideration OF the condj-
ton and the vast affairs of the United
States. Our country is not a small pro-
vince or canton, but region extending
over large and diversified surface, with
population Of various conditions, pro-
duets, and pursuits. 1t is in this variety
that consists its prosperity, for the differ
ent parts become useful one to the other,
not by identity, but by difference Of pro-
duction, and thus each By interchange
contributes to the interest of the other.
Hence our internal trade-,hat which
carries on this exchange of the products
and industry of the different portions of
the United States-is one of our most
important, / had almost said the most
important interest. Its operations are
easy and silent, not always perceptible,
but diffiusing health and life throughout
the system by the intercourse thus pro-
NOTED from neighborhood to neighbor-
hood, and from State to State.
Let me explain this little in detail.
You are here in grain growing State.
Your interest, then, is to have consumers,
not growers of grain. The hands that
in the belt of earth in which grain best
succeeds, grow wheat, are interested to
find mouths elsewhere to eat what they
raise. The manufacturers of the North
and the East need the grain Of the Mid
die States, and the cotton of the South,
and these in turn buy the manufactures
of the East. Nor is this solely matter
Of interest, but is in some degree brought
about by the regulations of foreign Gov
ernments. Our manufactures find no
sale in Europe, and much of our grain
is under ordinary circumstances excluded
/ from its markets. In France it is never
admitted, and in England contingen,ly
and uncertainty only and in manner to
tan,alize rather than crafty the American
husbandman. SO
This internal trade moreover, moves
! as it were in circle, and not directly !;
the great imports of the country are
made in New York, whence they pass
10 the South and to the West; but our ex.
ports are not mainly from New York but
from the South--the main imports then
are made at one corner of the Union, and
the exports from another. The same
thing is true of other branches of trade.
The produce of Ohio, much Of it de-
scends the river to New Orleans but
Ohio is supplied with foreign commodi-
tics and domestic fabrics mainly through
the New York canals, the Lakes, and
! the Ohio Canal. The live stock Of Ken
lucky goes to the Carolinas but Kentucky
buys nothing there, but transmits the
money to Baltimore or Philadel phia, and
there procures what she wants, to be
sent to her across the Alleghanies. ~
This circuit of trade in country OF
such great extent as ours, demands, more
than in any country under heaven, uni
form currency for the whole people /;
that what is money i'll. Carolina shall be
so elsewhere, that what the kentucky
drover receives, what the planter of Ala
bama sells for, what the laboser in New
/ York gets in pay for his work and car
ries home to support his family, shall be
! of ascertained and uniform value.
/ This is not the time nor the occasion
for an essay or dissertation on money
but mean distinctly to express the OPT
Mon, that until the General Government
shall take in hand the currency of the
country, until that Government shall de-
wise some means say not what, OF rails
ing the whole currency to the level o.
gold and silver, there can be no pros
perity.
How the rich are made richer by bad
Currency.
I There is, too other classes of our fello"
citizens, wealthy men, who have pros
pered during the last year, and they have
Iprospered when nobody else prospers
j i mean the owners of shipping. VIVA
is the reason? Give me reason. Well
/ l will give you one. Fhe shipping 0
the country carries on the foreign ant
domestic trade. Now, why have these
been successful! Twill answer by al
ox.unle T live m the seacoast OF New