Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1843-01-07

tn common; and also FOR other people
eyes in general.
I, is admitted by most of the run mad
currency thinkers at the City of Jefferson,
that the interposition of Valuation, Stay
and Repleyin Laws between debtor and
creditor, (for the sole purpose of keeping
the creditor out of his money in order to
allow the debtor to still longer retain the
use of property which he refuses to pay
tor) is at once bad policy and at variance
government, They hold that the right of
man to receive an honest payment for
an honest debt, should not be impaired by
law--so says Maj. Jackson, so says the
Governor, and so says many of the other
currency doctors. Very well: We agree
that the right to acquire, or to recover
property, should be held inviolable; but
wherein doth the consistency consist be-
tween vote to allow to man the legal right
TO reclaim property leaned, and vote to
destroy his liberty TO dispose of that prop
crty, when regained, in such manner as he
sees fiji If the spirit Of our free constitu-
lions and the dogmas Of Justice conspire to
dictate laws to enable poor man to obtain
a solitary dollar wrongfully withheld from
him, is it not the Genius Of Despotism that
prompts legal enactments forbidding his
use of the dollar but in manner to please
a few men at the seat Of government?
The true, genuine principles Of American
Democracy never directs but limits the acts
Of man: Despotism both directs and limits
the acts of citizens: Freedom simply Or
dams liberty of action to every freeman; a
liberty unbounded but by the equal rights
of other freemen: Despoiism may declare
a fair, public, and honest exchange of
property, crime against the sovereign
power, for its very nature is despotic, and
its basis and whims, caprices and vanity:
Democracy teaches that he only shall be
punished who has injured the person or
fraudulently obtained the property of
human being, or conspired against the
country.
viii the great currency doctors assign
reason why they shall not be esteemed rs
real as truly enemies of popular liberty, of
rational freedom, as Alexander Hamilton
or as Sir Rober, Peel! They propose to
fine and imprison every man in the State of
Missouri that shall sell or buy property, for
or with bank notes of larger or smaller
denomination than they shall fix on over a
bottle of whiskey and pack of cards in a
smoky room in the muddiest town in the
commonwealth Yes. these men would
incarcerate in a Jail, the man in the utter.
most part of the State or in St. Louis,
who dares to exchange two or three hogs,
or other property, for a Virginia, or
Kentucky, or Tennessee five dollar bank
note with which to buy sugar, coffee, salt
and other necessaries of life with which
to support his wife and children-and would
commit this outrage upon humanity in the
sacred name of Democracy!-a name
which they blaspheme almost as often as
they take it within their minds for contem-
plation. What act in the whole life of
Hamilton, of Peel, Of Josiah Quincy, can
be pointed to as more materially abridging
the rights of freemen than this measure of
the Fayette Clique and adjuncts! If these
ignorant, tyranncal monarchists can ordain
that farmer shall not receive, but at the
price of his liberty, S. bill, they can
enact that he shall not receive a ten, twenty.
fifty, or hundred dollar bll--or anv bill
at all. Further: if these federalists, who,
with all the hercsies and high ideas of
the blessings Of "strong governments" hang
ing about them, have crept into the Demo
cratic fold and are now attempting to carry
out doctrines which would have been in
stantly rejected if they been started by
Hamilton or Jay or Quincy; if these fed
eraists, we say, who compose the Fayette
Clique, can establish the precedent that a
farmer may be imprisoned if he exchanges
5, 10, 90 or 500 bills, or for any bills at
all, they then may enact that no farmer
shall exchange his property for certain
kinds of goods; for if they can prohibit
an exchange of produce for little piece of
paper with names on it, they can prohibit
an exchange of produce for little piece
of paper Without names on il; or prohibit
an exchange for big piece or for many
pieces, or for sheets, quircs or even reanas
of paper; and if they can prohibit the ex.
change or sale of property for paper. they
can for cloth or for coffee. salt. iron or
anything else. The same despotic princ.
pie induced the Massachusetts Legislature
10 enact, that no man should exchange his
produce, property or money for spirits: and
we would not be at all surprised to hear
that MAJ. Jackson, or some of his federal
clique associates, had introduced bill to
cause every man to be fined and impris.
oned who exchanges his property for a lit.
tie whiskey, or even beer or cider or wine.
And that, too, under the same pretence tina,
r.,