Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1841-11-24
A Letter from Major Downing.
rom the New York Express.
WAsHINGToN, 18th Nov.


Mr.. EDrroRs;--
leII'd you i'll my last letter that Gaping Tv-
Ter had gone to Virgnny--and that whist Go
was gone, was to put all the Bank plans into,
my tanning mill and blow the chdf off the elem.
corn. Well, this has been no fool Of job can
tell you, for out of more than two bushei
basket 6f plans, there aint more than about
good double handful Of solid clear corn Left .
Captain Tyler has now got back from Viz
ginny, and when showed him my sitiiags-
'.well SAYS he "Major your mill has made 4
small matter ont any how-but there is enurIeft
for seec?"
'fjest exactly" says I, ''and il we cant raise
enuf from This small parcel for all our purposes
then I'm mistaken" Now Major" says Can
ting Tyler, 81 should like 10 know your noilons
about this hiauer, for we have got all o,her
things in good train except this plagy matter
If we can only get that going night then We
can say to ali creatiot-aW the fields are plant
ed and If Providence smiles on us-we shall
have good crops" ''.That is fact" savsI,
'and if you'll listen III tell you a story in as
short order as caH.." The Gaping took his
seat and pinted his nose right al me- and there
is one thing / have particularly noticed in the
Gaping, which is not the case with most folks
--afid that is, whichever way his nose pinls it
is sartn sigrt that he Looks that way, 50 thereA
is no mistake about It.
"Well in the first place, we settled the bu-
sinesS about the origin Of mOney-how and why
il was inveff,ed---first iron money, next brass
and copper money---next silver aud gold money,
aud how in the process of time and digging and
mining, iron money, got out of fashion next,
even silver money, as a 'legaI TENDER" but /
upon the whole as yet that silver and gold are /
at the present day money,-but there is no TEL 1
ling how soony by science and digging that
even one or both these metals may not be found
SO abundant as 10 make them too common for .
Constitutional money, or what folks call msas-
ures of UdIue-just as iron, or brass, or copper
have become. Well, that being settled We
next examined into paper money, how that
was inveHted--being representative Of money
that is, kind of money-that not only rep
resents gold and silver, but houses and farms,
and wheat, and pork, and beef, and ships and
merchandise, and every thing else in creaiiOnY'
called property.
"Now," says /, Gaping Tyler, keeping your
nose 10 this pint Oor as | said afore, the Cap
ting's nose carries both his eyes and ears along
with ii, and the Capling's nose is an almighty /
nose, and the Duke of Wellington's is but pug
10 it, "now," says |, sever since paper money
was invented by the great democratic party Ol
creation who insisted that industry and prop
ery was as good, and should be represented as /
we'll, as mere gold and siyer---ihey begun a
acU war between money on one side, and pro-
perry and industry on the olher-- that is, money
wanted to gel hold of as much properly and
industry as possible, and properly and Industry
wanted to get hold Of as much money as posi-
ble---each of course Iryin 10 depreciate the
other"
"In this state Of ,Aings," says !, "what was
and is the true duty ofGoyernment, whose da-
ly il is TO protect alike the owners of mOnsT
and the owners Of properly and industry tpro'
perry and Industry being one and the sana
thing, for industry creates properly"
Here we broke of, as ii was getting late, and
went to sleep upon il, and | would advise folks
GENERALLY to do The same thing, providing thef
think well over The matter, and understand
well before reading further.
Well the next day we turned to again an
went over the whol6 matter. AS history and
facts tell us how al one time when all was sna:
and all branches of industry was working alon,
smoothly, GoUernment took a notion to let lOa
manage their now paper money, and broke y
the old balance wheel--and then how StGs
| Banks, and States themselves all went to Woi
making an extra batch of Bills and Bonds na
all kinds of promise TO pay---and all considers
as money---and then Of course how high pTqp'f
| ty goi---lor land and wheat and pork and S2 4
ges and all, will and must rise in price just 4"
far as you cheaper money by making II 70,
pleniy---and then how Government got aIaTn'i
and issued Specie Circulars, and wouldn't ID,
any kind Of money but hard money, and smas''a
away against all banks and paper money
. makers, bills, bonds, notes and mortgages ma
brought bushel measure right down 10
quart pot---caling every man a rascally sp'1a
tor who got caught on the wrong side OF "'
fence. So tha, good many folks who dldG'E
keep the run of things were like man Sp
borrowed Ice in January and agreed TO pay
back in August---but government folks VI
held fat Offices didn't feel this as much--lhs
pay was the same in gOld---and Of course
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