The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1842-05-05

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Pat. But suppose ! don't do these
things that you require, how shall | figure
then
/ BlHy. Not a single letter shall stain
one of those pages, but the way You will
figure on the per contra side, will be dis.
tressing.
Pat. Ii you amt the veriest Swiss
that ever blrgained yalour for coin. But
about these charges, the Wings will bring
against me tell me how am TO dodge
I them-that is what want to talk about
I this morning.
! Billy. II will be pretty hard to dodge
all of them, and il will take US both TO do
it; but with you in the field, and |, IN the
Cabinet, think we can go it. Intend
to keep up such a perpetual fire on the
Wing leaders, that ii will keep them so
busy in defending themselves, that they
will have no time 10 attack US.
Pat. But suppose they should disre.
gard your fire and charge upon US II
What thenl
Billy. All sure enough, what then !
shall think, as Paddy thought when falling
dawn the we'll" Here we 90 to the d.
Fat. Do you really think 50 :
Billy. To be sure | do. What else
can We expect, il the people have their
eyes opened. Gull, gull, gull, is all the
chance we have, cousin Pat; ard it used
to be mighty easy thing to do, but times
have sadly changed since this Wing Gov
eruor took the pains TO travel over the
State, and see the People and talk TO them,
aud set them to thinking. He has got
them, or most of them, right, and if VIC
cant get them wrong again, there is no
chance for US.
PAT. Bless me-what shall We come
TO J l. il possible, we shall have TO 90 TO
work again, making our living by forty.
shilling bills, instead o. filing fat offices.
Billy. Come, cousin Pat, no despond.
ing. Cheer up, cheer up. Let our mot.
TO be" Rude or Run If We cant rule
the country, let US ruin it, and iaiten on
the fragments. Men Of our sense, in the
general wreck, con certainly reap a better
harvest than fools. You see, we are not
fixed to the soil like Morehead is. He
can't carry away his Cotton Factory and
Gold Mines, like we can, our Bank Stock
and Rail Road Bonds. He's obliged to
stay here, and that is the reason he sticks
so closely to the interests Of the people
Ii he was situated, as We are, be would
care no more for the people than We do.
But we must get into power, by hook or
by crook, and break down the Credit sys-
ten. If we don't, the people will stand up
in spite Of US aud if they do, We had bet.
ter get away from here.
Pat. Buchanan was right, when he
wanted TO reduce labor and every thing
else to the hard money price. How Il
would swell the value Of our estates You
may depend upon ii, that old Prophet, An
drew Jackson, was right too, when he de.
clared that those who trade on borrowed
capital, ought to break"
Billy. All YOU are right, you are
right, Pat, If the hard money standard
is only once established, then gentleman
could get along. Now, if YOU charge
Mechanic a So fee, he will work ii out 10
hve days at 81 per day; but bring him
down to the price Of labor, under the hard
money system, that IS about ten cents
day, aud we should get fifty DAYS work
for the 50 fec. That was a great seni.
ment uttered by Jackson, but there was
another, uttered by New York member
Of Congress, that never passed for half
what il was worth. IL deserves to make
the author Prime Minister, so YOU and I
are the Rulers. ] mean that sentiment
uttered BY Beardscy--" Perish Credit
perish Commerce" |, deserves to he re.
corded in letters of gold. II IL the only
principle upon which We can ever expect
a return of the Golden Age" II was
only by the Introduction Of Credit and
Commerce into the world, that enterprise
was awakened, industry rewarded, Itch,
dIiinsed among the people, aud the vile
neresy established that some men had not
The dtrins righfm goUern others. DESTROY
Credit and Commerce, and the glorious
Sa'urninn reign Of Ignorance and Poverty
will return.
Pal. Yes, and then We should not have
such bard scrambling to get into Office.
Billy Scrambllng indeed; why we
should have no trouble at all, but be born
% offices. But look at il now. Some lit.
!c dirty ragamutiin urchin, who happens
Q have fine face, an honest countenance. .
beamlng eye, spirit as buoyau, and !
'ure as the morning air, strikes the atten.
ion Of somebody, who takes him up and
'as him into Store, where he soon learns ,
9 be a smart Merchant, makes fortune.
md looks down upon our Bank raised,
3ank-ied Nobility with a sort Of coade. {
ccnslon and We and our children have
o come down 20 level with him and his 4
. # our family consequence was Of no use. I
But look little further. Just as like as {
'ot, the little whelp is put to school aud
elore any body knows what's gone with c
I'm, he has graduated at tho University c
ihile the children Of our Nobility are IN Ii
''ri Rome perhaps, and the next thing /,
gu hear OF the rustic scamp, he is a great |
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