The Arkansas banner., 1843-10-28
LITTLE ROCK, (ARk SATURDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 2s rs4s
THE HISTORY OF UNCLE sAM,s pATRI. = ARCHAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT,

HE HISTORY OF UNCLE GAMS PATRI
 AReHAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT.
 Once upon a time there lived in the orea
 Republic of Elsewhere, an old man. who
 for some whimsical reason or other. general
 ly went by the name of UNCLE SAM. ant
 who, having his brain somewhat added b,
 reading certain mischievous books on tht
 theory of government, took il into his heat
 to revive the old Patriarchal System in hi. family, which was very large, and consisted
 of several generations spread over an exten.
 slVe district of country. Every body tha
 reads the Scriptures, knows this system was
 one of absolute authority in the person ol
 the head of the tribe, being founded on the
 assumption that men always remained chil-
 dren-incapable of judging what was best
 tor themselves, and never arrived at the years
 oia discretion. Accordingly, though large
 portion of his sons, grandsons, and nephews
 had grown up to manhood, and were many
 of them gray headed, besides being a shrewd
 set of fellows, he began by degrees 10 inter- fere with, and finally direct, all their actions, as well as to prescribe their pursuits and oe- equations.
 Most of them had been brought up on the land, and understood farmine pretty well. The men were generally employed in the field, and the mothers and daughters at home taking care of the house, and spinning and weaving garments for the family. These were their natural and accustomed occupa- tions, with which they were best acquainted, and which they preferred above all others. Every body that visited them, said they were the happiest, most independent, and intelli- gent family in the world; the neighbors around all enyied their prosperity, and were anxious to come and settle among them, sec ing how comfortable they were, and what freedom they enjoyed. To be sure, like all other families, there were occasionally little disputes and bickerings among them; but for all this, they felt and acknowledged the ties of kindred affection, were always ready to do good offices to each other, and never failed to rally round UNCLE SAM, when any of the neighbors injured or insulted him.
 But UNCLE SAM was not satisfied with seeing them thus united, independent and hap py. He had taken up notion that people did not know what was good for them, and that none but very wise men like himself, were qualified to direct them i'll the pursuit ofhappiness. .tThe blockheads, ) he would say to himself-s the blockheads think themselves happy. because they don't know any thing about Political Economy and such like glorious mystifcations. l am de- they shall be happy ill my own way, for l have learned, from reading the works of divers wise men, that ninety-nine in hundred of the people of this world don't know what IS good for them. Fll teach these short sighted children of mine, that in the eye of reason and philosophy they ought to be miserable, and make them happy in my own way, or they shall smart for their ob- stinacy."
 UNCLE SAM's family raised a great deal more grain, cotton and other products of the and, than their necessities required, which they exchanged with those of their neighbors who were in want of them, for other com nodities which they themselves wanted, and thus all parties were accommodated to their But UNCLE SAM swore they did not know what was good for them, and that his system of exchange, by making one party dependent on the other, was destruc- i've to all independence. The wise old gen. leman forgot that mutual dependence is the great law of nature, and that where 1t is re- ciprocal, 1t infers no inferlorlty or degrada- tion. Neither did his system of Political Economy teach him that those who only consume the necessaries of life, must be al ways dependent on those who produce them.
 Be this as it may, he straightway went about among his children, persuading them that because they did not make their own but got them of their neighbor, John Bull, in exchange for the products of their land. they were little better than slaves to the old Squire as but for him their coats would fly open with every wind, and their brooches hang down about their heels. Then he went on to show the men how they were depend ent on others of the neighbors for the wine hey drank, the watches they wore, the pipes hey smoked, and thousand other articles, which, if the truth were told, they were just IS well, if not better, without. After this he piled the women with his arguments, and frightened them half out of their wits, by asking if their neighbors were to take 1t into their heads to go without eating, what they would do for pins, ribands, bobbin, and oth- er indispensable articles, not one of which they could make for themselves. By aiming these notions m their ears from day to day, UNCLE SAM at length succeeded in convinc- ing considerable portion of his family that they were the most miserable mortals in the world, because they could not make every thing they wanted, not even buttons, pins, and bobbin. An opinion began to prevail among the less rational and reflecting, that Tn order to be thoroughly independent and com fortable, it was absolutely necessary to be- stir themselves in learning how to do these things for themselves, as nothing was more probable than that some of the nelghbors, out of pure spite, should resolve on either not eating, or at least putting themselves on short allowance The idea of being depriv- cd of pins, ribands, and bobbin, electrified his daughters; and even the discreet old wo- man, his wife, often walked him up of night, to ask him if he really thought there was any danger of Squire Bull some day or other re- fusing to supply them with buttons. She was continually thinking how her boys would I. hos ha,