Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1842-09-23
From the Philadelphia Evening Journal.
Tiuaea. 0ur Country and its Resources

From the Philadelphia Evening Journal.
The Times, our Country and its Resources.
When thus creations chains around combine,
Amidst the store should thankiess pride repine!
Say, should the philosophic mind iisdain
That Coon which makes each humber bosom
vain ?-DEsRRTED VILLAGE.
Away with waIing Of care! Away will,
the lamentations of discomfort. -s'PaHic aud
pressure have had their day. Pfodigai,y has
run its race. Let US retura to confidence and
conteutmen', under a system OF honest pay
ments. aud slew but sure prosperity! Whole
some trade requires moi the stimulus OF steam
Let apply The rules Of temperance 10 BUSH
ness. aud 60 along soherly, quietly aad happl-
ly. We have been drunk on paper excliemeuts
long enough. Cali in the colo water sysem
in our monetary and business transactions, aud
all will 20 on well enough. A few spasms
aud convnsions remain; but abstinence aud
cooling regimen will soon bring all to rights
again. Have palence-perseverance and the
temperance principle will soon cure this deir-
Jun treinens Of trade. Away with carplng
care! Let us roll up our sleeves and to work!
"Ho, there - we have a wide field ard fertile
land Behold our blooming valleys how they
smile in the beams of the summer sun, Loaf
ed with golden harvests See our hardy and
heallhful hos. Of farmers! What population!
Look at the glowing cheeks OF their wives and
daughters, aud the fry chances that shot
from .be dark eyes of their brawny sons!
Who says we are ruined7 Who dares to com
plain when heaven showers sncii bounteous
blessings upon our happy land ! Who can or
will say, tina, country is ruined. when ahnn-
dance smiles upon all. When nature lavish
every good upon our disconnected and IN.
grateful hearts /! When every field is teeming
with fat!
"This wealth is but a name
That leaves our useful products still the same"
True we have not as mach bank money (pa-
per- as some people want; but we hive as
much as our previous abuse of it allows.
1t is true we have suffered revusbn Of BIZ
siness. We have overlraded, and now called
to settle accounts, we fad that nature. who
never deals in fclons, has vindica,ed her vio-
lated principles, aud now exacss valne for VAL
ne, because promise for value has been carried
too far. But. ature is supreme. ii is the law
Of God, and must be obeyed.
No country can be ruined that boasts Of an
increasing population. We have an indus,ri-
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
owes, not to the sluggard who signs on, ruin!
ruin ruin -
We have heard enough Of "hard times"
The words mean only The comparative facility
Of obtaining money, and the comparative dim
mutton of quantity. Granted that thus under.
stood, the times are hard. Well it is only the
consequence of a transition from high to low
prices; and the natural reluctance of men 10
measure the same quantity of goods for less
quantity Of money. Come down to the small
er measure, graduated by the less quantity of
money, and the times will not be so hard
A barrel Of -four and an acre CT land are still
the same. Nothing can destroy The comforts
and necessaries Of life but the elements. We
have all that can render people happy, if they
viii betake themselves to the soil, and cease
to grasp at sudden greatness by unnatural
means.-limitate nature respect her laws, and
be happy!
'Speed the PLOUGH - is the motto of repub-
lican virtue. After that comes COMMERCE,
spreading her white sails on the broad ocean,
aud scattering TO distant lands cur surplus
treasures. Then follows manufactures, un-
locking the iron jaws of our mountain minerals,
and the focks of the valleys and the mountains
yielding their fleece to the devouring loom.
When our mountains break it is TO enrich the
world. Those are the banks for a colossal
people who claim boundless region. where
hundreds OF millions will one day think labor
and write and astonish the world Talk of
ruin tc people, who in a few years will adj
vance and flourish in glorious victory over the
empire that Caesar won, and Alfred civilized
Talk Of ruin to such people, because house
or an acre of land are measured in value by
some few hundreds less than formerly; How
prepos'erous! how absurd how cruel!
We have wealth still left, we have enter
prise we have Industry, and a gloriou, popna-
ton that will overcome all the ilnpediments of
Revision temporary dscredit, frauds, plumbers
and even swinding by Wholesale Suffer we
may: but triumph We must.
Tue SLAVE TRaDs.-Caplain Borden, of
the whale ship Sally Ann. from ST. Helena,
mas furnished us with list, carefully compil-
ed oy friend at that place, Of the slave yes
seis ana number OF slaves captured by II. B.
NJ. vessels OF war on the west coast of Africa,
anu taken to the island Of ST. Helena for adj
lndication, and condemned at tha, place dn-
mug the period from July 3, 1910, 10 Nav 6.
io42. IL cannot but excite surprise and in
olSnasion among our readers to learn the great
extent 10 which this nefarous practice is still
carried on