Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1842-03-08


the capitalist. Let not the capitalist
know that his money is TO lie lent over
again; he shall lend only TO those who
deserve credit, they shall lend again
to one in whom they have conf
dence. When a man becomes fully
responsible TO the amount for which he
endorses he will be as careful when his
name is lent as when his money il.
And he who is not as careful OF his
name when another's money is at stake
upon it, as he would of his own mon
ey If il were, is not himself deserving
of that credit byiwhich alone he could
engage in business.
1t will be said, that by such a sys-
TEN, the business of the community
would be much diminished, less wealth
would be accumulated fewer fortunes
made. All of which the writer &C
knowledges TO be true. Less wealth
would not be made, but wealth would
be more equally distributed. Less
work would not be done, only less
buying and selling. The business OF
buying has increased out of all pro-
portion beyond that of creating proper
ty out Of the soil, or adding TO IL by
handiwork. We want more prOdu-
GERS; we need not have so many TO
step in between the customer and The
producer.
Less business would indeed be done
in the community, and we should all
be the happier. Fewer failures would
take place. There would be fewer
sleepIess nights, and dinners without
appetites. The anxieties of life, those
hurried distractions, which make a
man a stranger in his own house, cold
TO the wife Of his bosom and neglectiul
to caress his children, would be dimin-
ished.-The poor would be fewer IN
number, for a thousand poor suffer
where one rich man fails; and the
, |schange in the currency, which COM
pels the rich man to retrench IN the
!, sickening Injuries which crowd bis ta-
) BILE, diminishes also the little store oil
bread, by which the children of the
poor are kept from furnishing. The
morals of the community would be I'M
{ proved. For who, that reads the dali
i ly record, of crime, does not see that
f the business principles Of the commu-
5 nifty, by creating fortunes with little
Y work, rapidly from small beginnings,
IS natures as rapidly those evil passions,
: which in the minds Of the envious and
e avaricious are likely to impel to crime
,r Let no man have credit who does not
K deserve it, not though a thousand
ar stand sponsors and the evils In the
re currency prevented from deteriorating,
IN wealth viii be more equally distributed
of and all will be happier.
may hare been too long already:
RI the unwilling need not follow while L
"; attempt TO unfold second cause OF the
ds arrangements Of the currency;- that
he is, the principle that the end OF life, OF
ev the purpose Of business is, TO make
on money. Little do those understand
IS of their own hearts, little do they un-
sss derstand Of human life, experlence anc
il happiness, who know no other end II
~ business, no other serious purpose II
he life, than to make money. Common
rem as this principle is, it is wrong IN lisell
wn and as deceptive as it is wrong. la
the Christian merchant no other OBJ
ak iect in life? We viii acknowledge
he linen, freely, that the truths of Chtis
nm. tianity have given him little satIsiac
are tion: that it has been a hard thing
bile struggle agains neutrality-suspicious. to who
by "the love Of money" has exposed bin
and and that he Las felt heart divided b'
ore tween the service Of mammon and b
Of a maker. The purity, humility, fail
fulness and satisfaction Of the Chr
.tem tan life ARE not found among those wi
,del. believe that TO make money Is the re
de. son why men are made TO live. i
But Christian cannot believe, hold to So
nee, principle.
,roes But the principle is delasive as well
- wrong. For of those who aim at foitu
how MANY succeed Here, before
gree window while write, is the house Of
FUR Young man, husband and father, Wit
} this wear since, assured me of his bright pr
loom meets, and declared that his only happir
pera- ip life depended upon his first securin
n Cai- fortune. Six weeks since he failed; i
before that he endured the agony of
H. pectation; and within that time. W.
given oann ,,heh he has felt in the persecu
what of creditors, the threats, the writs, the
Is! L GERS of the law, and the modification
mmu- having LOST his game, while the next-'
unit Of neigh6ors were winning, and IN the
,rsers. scienciousness of poverty and debt, '
: h. he expected the comforts and the prit
-, . wealth. Such is the pride Of thousa
l'i'"n One may die at eighty. with forum
hmahu half a millions; and its worth cannot
not TO pensate for the agonies of failure at
10 evil The principle is delusive. LIE
of en- have safe things on which to rest my h
careful. | cannot suffer the deep feelings o
They heart to be narrowed up Tor mat ~ y
ergies of my mind are two valuable
- n' exhausted in chase, in which may
10 Oh loser after all. Poor is the lot of life
IS busl- man must have his mind distracted f
mar, tn eL;ocr For cure thinos tpne MIGHT w