The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1841-03-04
From The Ne.r York Express.
A CAPITAL DOWNING LETTER.


led me FROM the track to Washington with
the old hero Of the North Bend CABIN, anu
brung the re,-well III tell you.
and the Gineral was a drifting along
down from the west, and bosIng and shak
! ing off the everlasting crowd of folks all The
way from the Ohio, tIll we struck along the
edge of old Ptnasylcdny, when We heard
4 folks beginning TO talk abou, hard money,
aud paper money and resumption, and Shs
pension, and things Of shat natur, when say S
I |, +" Glneral, you may depend there is trou
Bile brewing soinewheTes along here, aud
; Il you say Sc" says | III jlst quit you
for spell and take turn down 10 Phlla
del!y, and look into the matter little, and
E ine YOU at Washington" Well" says
he, MAJOR seeing as how folks begin to
/ thIcken amazingly around Us, my caiklation
is you won't be much mist, but see that you
at 10 Washington as soon as poss bic, aud
10 mean time lei me know all YOU meet With
worth hearing" and SO quit, aud as the
, GIneral never wants to know more than
the people want to know themselves, send
you this letter to print, aud you Will please
send copy on't 10 tho Glneral so that be
will know as much as other folks do about II.
! got here last evening list arter lamp
! lightning, aud took a run round 10 most all
1 he banks 10 see # | could find any on
EN- open, found EN- all locked up aud
bright lamps burning alore the doo;s, and
good strong broad shuudered eaichmeH
stontIng at their posts with clubs AID raj
ties jjsi for all the world as tho the banks
was as foil Of specie payments as ever, aad
not mite of difference
siopi and had eelle talk with one Of
these Waichmen, atd says stranger, IS
there no gluen IN hea 10 see folks 2" " No,
to night" says he, "ail The banks are Shut
up" How you talk, saws |, and so
-,reak'd i, round to Squire BiddIe's preui
ses, FOR had notion It | could only GIT
fair talk With the Squire, would Iafn prt
" much all about the matter.
! found tho Squire 10 hum, aud he was
auszin glad TO see me aud be and | went
usLI up INTO the room alone, where found
i good ,rarm Lehigh coal fire burning, aud
a table kvered with papers aud be took
one char and | another, aud We vent al i,
straight off. $50 SAYS |, Squire, you
are all suspended agn, Iarn." Yes"
SAYS be, Major, be folks Tho wanted hard
money have got oil the banks had to give
ihcm; and az The banks can't con- bard
money, and can ouly gi il from &c folks
who owe them, II turns oui that, as the banks
have DOT got the same power BY the lag %
make folks 70 ' them as iAs, as other folks
SAINT 1t, the pond must run dry Tor srell.
But, = says !, Squire, hoU on alrlh IS
il tina, things work SO that orc set of folks
keep drawing OF, Of the spiggoi faster than
other folks pour INTO the bung hole Things
warni so IN Dir Adams llGsa, says L.
=" Now, how IS II J" THIS set the Squire
scratching bis head aud thinking, aud ID
give him time to answer, ! took The poker
and began PokiHg up his Leb;sh coal fire,
to see II there was any biG.e ~ ~ and TO
rights, says be, Malor, who, are sou pok
ing that ire for Do you expect to make
II born brighter If you sill take ny I'D
wee, says he, you vii Ie, II alone. -
Au, the room warm eu4f}' Yes says
/, iis wsrm emf, bui hulc pck,us wont
DO any harm, VII ~
Well, says he, ''you 20 90 pokigg, and
you will see and sure euuf the more {
pohCd the darker the FIRE and coal got and
b.me by It all went out. = Well saws
Squire, this IS q pa@y Ilad Of tire Of
yonr'n," SAYS |. " les" says he, "lts
PoRGgylr7Hy coal II won't stand poliee.
Major you let clone, 1t vii burn slow
ly and surely, and give oul comfortable
heat; but # folks "a poling al II, II turns
and looks black at them, and gives them
cold SILVER"
Well" says |, Squire, I wan, you to
answer AMI explain 10 me nor about ibis
Bank matter. How is 1t, says /, that
40 your Benks have suspended specie poy
menls-aIl broke-all gone to everlasting
and eternal smash Now, how has all this
come aboull' Gays !.
Well" says be, Major, III tell you.
Ia the first place, WHEN you first entered
this room, didn't you 6nd It warm and com
Iortable and a good fire burning +? Didn't
you iukc up that poker ard begin 10 poke
with ~ Dd'ui give yoa evil hlnl TO
lci 1t alone Didn't YOU continue poklng
and pokiug, liII at las, the fire went on,
And amt this room now cold and dark
TO wha, It wasl Nov, como
here and he took candle aud vent up
20 the Gre place, and saws he" there Is
the coal yeti ami burnt up--the ERE has
only gone ont | can put little klndhug
under il, and clap on the blower, and in n
l!lle while you will see as bright and warm
q IRE Hs before bur where is the use Of
kidding Up again, unless folks viii see the
folly Of PohIng att It's just 50 10 Bank
Jog matters. tried il, for sixteen years
and over, and no people 10 creation ever
saw n warmer aud better fire than kept
10; It warmed all kinds Of folks, TOO; the
circle around Il was WIDE euuf to admit ev
cry h'ing ctIttcr IN tho country, and all
equally fsIt the warmth. But then began
the pohins system | tired every means 10
prevent II, but Il Wag no noe and thpn |