Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1841-03-24

pay that? for some States have no bonds n,,
the answer is, the States paw it whose B,n;.
are exchanged for these United States RonJ.
For example, suppose Illinois Bonds to The
amount of three millions of Indiana Bonds 49,
OF any other Bonds are thus cancel'd for United
States Bonds---the interest paid for their ar
count by the United States is debt ausinx,
said States, and can be deducted out of their
proportion of the distribution of Land sales if
Leeds be-so that no state, unless It's Bonds
are cancell'd by this exchange system, pays for
account of any other state---the account is As
simple as shelling corn, there is no mystery
ABOUT it---if twenty or even forty millions of
olate Bonds were thus cancelfd, 1t would be
no Killing matter to Uncle Sam---three per cent
year on twenty millions is six hundred thous
ana ooliars---and the credit Of the states sound
ana put mgh-he has paid more than in chas-
ing ana catching six Inins in Florida and con-
sldered cheap work too, for one campaign
Now, the next question is. how will this
operate? Well, I'll tell you By the time ten
millions of dollars of State Bonds are brouob,
in for Exchange, folks who hold the balance
will begin to think it is quite well to hold on
and they will feel confdenee-and well they
may--for by the time they see the country on
its legs again and all interests working ahead,
as they will under the measures proposed, thev
will be very glad to get State Bonds and hold
them tOo---lor it will be strange matter indeed
if the securities of this country aint as good as
the best in Europe when things are put strait
here, and they will be put strait if the people
will only agree to what the present folks at the
helm advise, there is no two ways about it,
But if one set of folks talk one way, and one
another, and another little of both, and another
contrary to all, there is no getting on. E
PluribuS UHum," is the latin of bundle Of
sticks strait and crooked, all tied up snugly to-
gether, and all creation can't break them whilst
thus bound together, but take 'em sngly and
you can snap em like pipe stems.
The time has come now for every honest
man to look to this, and to see that his Repre-
sentative in Congress does his duty, and makes
no long speeches about it, Three hundred
folks, all talking month after month, at dol
lars day (and Congress dav only three or
four hours) is little too tuff for these hard
times, the expense comes right out of
honest labor. The people must therefore look
to it; and see that their Representatives look to
it too and do their work properly.
1t is dead low water now all over the coun-
try---the hammer---the wheel---the axe and
plough are all ready for action. We have
good and honest and truly patriotic folks at heal
quarters, and all they want now is chance 10
do good for alland for one say, give em a
fair chance and if they don't succeed or show
they don't know how, then turn 'em out and
try again. Some roots of the old weeds are
still in the ground and will try to sproui up
they must be watched and hoed under if we
want good cropsit makes no odds what name
these weeds take, or how they may shof' and
try to gull folks-but ''red dock"---''bIue mul-
len,' and "Skunk cabbage" we all know, and
have seen and suffered by, and the less we
have Of them the better
Your Fellow Citizen,
]. DOWNING.
Major, &C., &c, &c.