Columbus Democrat., 1841-01-30

s WG-J ur tUQ upon me tiht-' ll' "7-9
5n winch have .11saaj deeply reelected !" ''N.
.nr over society 10 tle most sUi gI5ned countries '
tie Wo-d, the attentive observer cannot ial Id per
ceire sn14 total contrast 10 ts d.iiefeh'e ee-
meo,,. We have On the ou- hand small, g''-
enei. .oresering, and hlbc hearted band, Whaa'au
ing ih-mselves ofal the Improvements 20 m n'a'
moral, and physical science are using ihef hi most
enIrayo-s, 10 renlyale the mora, AMI intel eeiHa'
condition of man. and thu, pace society on per-
nanent basis Of prosperity aud happiness. This IS
The only portion of society, that are prepared to
meet and properly understand the present con juno
iure ofhmnan aIfiis
On the other hand we have lh; great mass,who
have ayaiIed themselves but slightly Of modern I'M
Dravemens in science, aud who cannot therefore,
meet The exgeneies Of the present times without
more or less moral contamination. mean by the
" circumstances Of the tunes" the extraordinary
ftaltIes enjoyed at present for producing wealth.
These facilities have arisen mostly, from the exlen-
siye application OF science 10 ari-as the invention
Of the steam engine. and It's various applications, as
steam boal ran road Sc the ihyr nton OF the cotton
gin, and a thousand other machines, all intended 10
facilitate labour, aud increase the production Of
wealth. Be.idrs the increased facilities of commerce
The possession and opening vi new countries the m
prosements in agriculture, all tend greatly to en-
hanre The present facilities Tor making weath-
Probably the world is now in possession of means
If rightly applied, that would enable it TO produce
at least ily times the wealth, that could be produ-
ced fifty years back Besides all this, these facilities
for making wealth, have So st muated the avariclous
desires OF men that they begin to think it possible
to make wealth without Iabour al all. That is only
80 much as is necessary TO keep up the operations
of an extended system Of credit and banking Some
even begin to think that the story Of Aladn's Lamp,
is strictly and literally true, and that the seach al-
ter the philosophers stone, by some of the phiioso-
pliers Of past ages, SO VAIN jas we had al first
imagined
do not wish it understood that | am opposed 10
useful Improvements and inventions all that
mean to say, lsthat they have com, upon US 50 ra-
p,dy ollate, that the great mass Of mankind have
been injured thus larralher than benefited. They are
just in the situation that a boy would be, if placed
at fifteen unexpectedly and suddenly, in possession
Of large GItune which no previous education had
qualified him to manage. Every body knows that
such sudden accession of wealth. would complete
| y destroy the just balance ofhis faculties and lead
TO a wild reckIesness that would lead to bankruptcy
| or the mad house.
Such is the effect of the present times, upon the
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lory Of the present generation. Not content with
| their natural advantages, they are attempting by
every imaginable scheme TO increase still farther then
| facilities Tor money making Hence The greatest G.
wills ofthe tmesthe credit and banking system.
Now as the! laws Of nature are invarable, every
scheme not founded on solid intelligence, solid NOR.
allty, auI solid wealth must fail aud in its failure
| produce wide spread ruin and distress
| What then is to be done5 The present system
OF education has totally filled; it IS entirely made.
qnaie to that extensive preparation which is neces-
sary to meet The eSigeaeieS Of the present times
| We must either substitute better, or one on a wi
der and much more liberal scale, knowledge
that Romulus and Remus were sucked by she
| the goddess of love that IN Tartarus were three
ernces,c called Alecto, Tlsiphone, and Megare, who
| sent wars and peSuIence through the earth, and
punished the wicked after death with whips Of scor
pIons; that Jupiter was the son of Jartakes, and
chlei among the Gods, that he lived On mount Own
pus and employed one-cyed giants called the Cy-
clos,i whose workshop is in the heart OF Mount
Etna, to forge thunderbots, which he threw down
upon the world when he was angry, SC. Sc
say that a knowledge Of these lances, is not the
k'hj OF education to meet the present times. We
must have something more sold-a knowledge o.
nature, and her mighty operations. This too mus,
DC learned, not merely by memorizing books but by
reading the volume OF nature itself; unfolding page
by page, until the mind can grasp the whole as il
were, in single glance.
lh'S would elevate and purify the intellectual and
moral faculties, draw the mind from vice and pre-.
pare us well 10 act a dgn6ed prudent, and honora.
bic part IN life. But it is nearly midnight and
must close raay at my leisure pursue the subject
oui N some OF It's ramlicao ons-l wish particularly
IN some future number TO direct attention 10 the inn
poriance of abolishog all laws enforcing the pay
ment OF debl. A.
lhe New York Sun, neutral paper, n review
ing the Presidents message, has the following re-
marks:
In our financial affairs we have had to encounter
extraordinary difficulties, which have been aegraya.
ted by combination OF causes, hut which would
nave been entirely avoided but for one great and
latal mistake. We aIude 10 the throwing away Of
the surplus revenue Some called it the distribution
Iaw, and others the deposIte law twas neither
itwaS throwing away nearly thirty millions ordo-
iafs' II lhe Government had kept this amount. or
invested u IN proper manner, it would have carried
Us safely through all those embanassments whicba
every man IN his senses ought to have known were
sure TO follow that season OF mad speculation. But
there was general impatence to finger the money
ana dFde u among the States. Nobody had the
orazen laced assurance TO speak out openly and saw
give 1t TO the States. No; far from il; such mea
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