The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1841-10-28
WRITINGS OF TIMOTHY FLINT.


We are grained 10 learn tnat poSlnu.
nous volume selected from the writings OF
this ds,ighllal author, VIII be published at
no diSisu; day. Ii edited as we presume It
viii he, by Hundred Gealas and learning, a
highly interesting golaaia nav be expected.
Va have had opportunity 10 pernse some
OF these manuscripts, and select few para
GRAPHS from Z letter on the subject Of Ma.
iional Bank. because Of its bearing on
question which COW agiiates the commu
nifty:
"Credil is the circulating medium Of En-.
gland. and OF all countries which are rich
and transact a grea! and prosperous busI-
ness. Specie is tue circulating medium OF
Spain and Turkey nad all poor and miseFa
be dessotisms Il IS the iery vxpedIeat Of
a despalsn, fit only to be adopted IN one, or
If II commences ~ free state, 10 reduce Il
10 q aespo,ism. 4 wisely regulated credit
is the grand Instrument, which freedom
creates, aud s2siains, and with which II
works. ke,rogrl35 rs 10 q circulation o.
silver ard gold, and tie habits Of the mar
row.minded foreigner, who seals up his dol
lars ia bag, aud you in'erGict his roads,
steamboats,, improvements, cities, villas, and
the painted dwellings, or thriving mechan
les; aud you give US Instead, bride paths,
canoes, wooden windows, or hats tarus!
through the shattered paaes Of glass; aad
here and there a misery Jow with all the
specie in the country tied up in bags
Hard money could lot exist, and be dlsiri
buied to furnish the handred.h part of the
circulation, which The business Of our coun
try recently required. Import
ant, no doubt, to tue souadaess Of the ciTcl.
lalion in The Atlantic cities. from the pecu
liar circumstances OF the Yves, and South
west, to those sections II was Indispensable
and vital. Our circulation must and Wi!
|. DO involved IN iBcx,Ficab,e confusion, until
fsome similar institution bind the interest Of
the Missouri, Ohio, and Mississippi; in
chain which shall be Of the same strength
at each Of these ex.remIties. 10 no other
couniry would 50 gross and palpable false.
hood have been tolerated, much less have
taken PRACTICAL effect. "iuai The United
States Bank had failed TO furaish a uniform
uAEqI4tG LiGHA4h04@s i-tNfJ tlidAs
who had ever had one Of these tils IN his
possession, would have felt shocked TO bear
this falsehood put forth 10 4 public message
by the head Of the nation.
What could be hoped for country which
not only tolerated such declaration, but
continued 10 surround him " no made il with
the acclamaiions of popularity.
On the Sahloe, tho officer or merchant
could make bis remittances at his desk,
which could caocel deb; at Passamaquod
dy and all that creditors the most remote
from each other, required, was send Us Uni
ted States bills no matter of what bra1ch.
We or remote southwest stream, who
travelled annually 10 the north, had only
TO collect quantity of these bills to pass
from New Orleans to the White mountains,
without the delay and humiliation at every
stage Of being dependant upon brokers and
Jess, aud being made practically to feel
from point TO point, that the people Of The
United States were net one people, bur, like
the slaves Of European GesPotsms, were OBJ
liged from state to state TO procure the
mos. important Of all passports, new k.ud
Of money. The money neither steamboat, !
hotel, or Stage questioned, all the way from
the Land Of the sugar planter to that Of tAe
Maine lumberer. 4 FIVE dollar cote handed
from the stage was received unqueslioned,
aud The hard soasy change returned in 81.
lence. These bills sc were told by those
who we're c0mpele1, 10 know, we're good
in London, and through The tour Of the Eu
ropean continent. II IS affirmed by Last
India merchants, That they passed readily
4, Calcutta and Canton at par value. II
was surely evidence Of unbranded populari-
ty and courage for any degree Of respon.
sibility for any one, mCeh more for The chief
magistrate Uf the aa,on 10 aiiirn, that this
money failed 10 supply uniform and suGi.
Gent currency. nIhose days, nay
in all days, money has beeo a thousand
times more important than king or presi
dent, than all the changes Of Office and pow
ef, and al the insignia Of the sSor4 aud the
bench. We have abandoned heaihenism
so far as 10 have delhToned all the members
Of the Pantheon but Putus. He is tue
modern Joye, the lhuaderer, and il is from
his throne, and not that ot Jupiter, that Is
let dosn.
That golden everlasting chain
Whose strong embrace holds heaven ard earth
and maiE'
While TIA. Institution was IN force, il
made US more one people than al the 9th
er constituent parts Of government united.
A man travelled from one extremity Of the
union to the other wi.h an adequate supply
of lis bills, and by the most sensible Of all
demonstrations, recogniz-d the unlty Of Tue
American people Salfm Guz.
From the Bdhtmore American.
CONFLICTING INTERESTS"
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