, 1842-07-02

following language with regard to TIT
present hard tines:
Away with the wailings of care
Away with the lamentations of discon'
tent. "Panic and pressure" have hat
their day. Pordigality has run its race
Let us return to confidence and content.
ment, under a system of honest pay
ments, and slow but sure prosperity.
Wholesome trade requires not the stimu-
lus of steam.
True, we have not as much bank mo-
ney, (paper,) as some people want; but
we have as much as u previous abuse
oft allows. 1t is true we have suffered
a revulsion of business. We have over
traded, and now called to settle our ac-
counts, we find that nature, who never
deals in ,%fcfions, has vindicated her vio-
lated principles, and TO- exacts ralue
for ralue, because promise for value has
been carried too far. But nature is su-
preme. 1t is The law of God, and must
be obeyed.
No country can be ruined that boasts
an increasing population. POPULATION
itself is WEALTH. We have an indus
trious people, and these are BANKS that
never fail. NATURE is the stakeholder.
God grants the charter, and labor makes
the dividend. The treasure swells to
millions, in the bosom of our mother
earth. The harvest is to him who sows,
not to the sluggard who signs and cries
| out "ruin! ruin! ruin"
We have heard enough of'hard fimes!'
The words mean only the comparative
facility of obtaining money, and the CON-
p~oratire diminution of quantity. Grant
ed, that, thus under stood, the times are
hard. Well! it is only the consequence
ofa transition from high to low prices;
and the natural reluctance ofmen to mea-
sure the same quantity of goods by a less
quantity of money. Come down to the
smaller measure, graduated by the less
quantity of money, and the times will not
be so hard. A barrel of flour and an
acre of land are still the m Nothing
can d~estaoy the comforts and necessaries
of life but the elements. We have all
that can render a people happy, ifthey
will betake themselves to the soil, and
cease to grasp at sudden greatness by an
natural means. Initiate nature, respect
her laws, and be happy!
"Speed the PLOUGH" is the motto of
republican virtue. After that comes
COMMERCE, spreading her white sails on
the broad ocean, and scattering to distant
lands u surplus treasures. Then fol-
lows MANUFACTURES, unlocking the iron
jaws of our MOUNTAIN MINERALS, and
the hocks of the valleys and the NOUN
tains yielding their fleece to the devour-
ing loom. When our mountains break,
it is to enrich the worldr Those are the
banks for a colossal people who claim a
boundless region, where OF
MILLIONS will one day toll and THINK,
LABOR and WRITE, to astonish the world!
Talk of ruin to a people, who in a few
years will advance and flourish in glori-
Gus victory over the empire that CESAR
won, and ALFRED civilized! Talk of
ruin to such a people, because a house or
an acre Of land are measured in value by
some few hundreds less than formerly !
How preposterous! how absurd! how
cruel!
We have wealth still lef-we have
enterprise, we have industry, and a glo-
rious population that will overcome all
the impediments of revulsion, temporary
discredit, frauds, plumbers, and eve
swindling by wholesale. Suffer we may;
but WE MUST"