Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-06-20
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
Cash rs. CREDIT.
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will consign them TO the flames
That The existing distress is, in violence, almost IN
precedened IN the history OF country, chequefed
as that history is with such foul occurrences, Will
hardly be denied. The cause of it is botch upon
the body polite uncean that which infected the
Jewish leper of DID, and tending iearfully to the
dsparagement and deterioration OF free ins,,tu
tons, did that loathsome disease the corruption
OF the persons OF MS unhappy victims And IS there
remedy, but TO show ourselves 10 the Priests, with
the price IN our hands, Must we resort TO the mys
terry of Bank, to the high priests of Federalism, for
relief? No. never. This would, indeed, be carrying
out the absurd dea that the hair of the dog will
the bite.
Ia the midst of profound peace we subjected to
lie horrors OF state of warfare, with the exception
OF the murder OF our citizens aud the sack OF our
cites-ln the midst Of profusion, which bountilui
providence has showered upon u.s. we experience Inc
pressure OF absolute scarcity Gaant debt hungry as
death, and insaale the grave stalks over The land,
whitening the energies Of the husbandman, and IN
terrupting the labors Of the mechanic. Now, rank
adultery, IN monetary affairs, mounts the couch OF It's
best frend-the shaving-sho yomit forth their
wreched clients, stripped of one-thrd of their hard
earnings Mammon rests upon the necessities OF the
straened and the INDECENT Attornies, clerks, and
sherfs, are pulled out TO an unseemly rotundy, and
pregnant with business, as the ieech when God
sends scourge the and-whie the property of the
industrious laborer knocked OFT under the hammer OF
the hang man at third OF IT'S value, with us little
remorse as The head Of turkey cock for Alder
man 5 dinner.
These OWLS are fairly chargeabe TO our Infamous and
dsorganzing credit system-a system, which unhinges
society-pauperizes whole families the worst
passions of the human heart-engenders bros, teuds,
and tumuts-beges controversies, quarres, and stripes
produces conventions, blood shed, and death. 1t
strips The people of large amounts to be expended IN
and unjust legislation and, through ,ha,
legislation invades their dearest interests, prosperity
and happiness. 1t iattens the cormorans OF The law
upon the rich blood OF the community and fosters ex.
travagance, dissipation and crime 1T 10 the basis OF
our corrupt and vicious Banking systematic soul oil
| Heaven-rebuked and Heaven daring Whiggery-an
enemy 10 Republican principles, and the bahe oil Re
publican freedom Begotten in the ncestuous bed OF
| European a.stocracy-in regard 10 its existence IN
our America born Of British paren!age-if unchecked
IN lis fearful strides our State and Confederatcd Co.
yernmens as we'll in the relations of domestic life,
It's green will faint the pure juices of the body
and convert into oathsome mass of puridy and rot
tenness that which otherwise Angels might admire
and Heaven bless. Clogged as our infant Confederacy
has been by this poisonous vlne shooting its tendrls
through all Institutions, and twin,ng around all
our powers and energies, We have, Notwithstanding
attained eminence unparalleled IN the annals oil ma
tons Oh who tell the high destines OF u youth
full and gallant people, freed from domestic as well
as from foreign shackles; Like young giant, fresh
from the arms Of sleep, with limb ungaed, and heart
unscuihed buoyant aud elastic as his native atmos.
phee, he brushes away the mpedlmenls 10 his great
ness with as much as the lion shakes the dew
and serve tools of d,ssoluie and gangrened
Government, stay your bloody hands, and stop your
black desgns-here is field in which your exubefant,
manacal fondness for human freedom may have Tree
scope, and regain safe and wholesome sanity, calm
and sweet composure-go proclaim from the house Tops
i that The man in debt slave than the careless
and contented that drives his masters team or
tls his masters soil. Come hither, ye advocates OF
temperance and Of total abstinence, array your puts
SAINT phrod,ical forces against King Credit the
twin brother Of King Alcohol; Danish them alike from
our goodIy heritage and thus confer solid and per-
manent benefit on generous and high'mndeo people
Arouse you, We sticklers for transnarine oeneVo-
lence We devolees of human omnpotence, IN soft and
nersuasve accents instll into the minds of suffering
community, that to o,ce aught but tooe, is a
divine inlnction and not the least OF Christian duties
Awake We sapent legislators, We grave and reverend
Seignors, who have the destines of mighty people
for season your hands, shake OIL the sleep OF cen
turies the dreams Of mythic PERIOD the saws OF q
musy age, the turgescence and RUBBISH OF barbarous
times, unworthy of the year of our Lord 1913,
and OF the country IN which we live; expunge from
your Courts the slippery and tortuous common law,
the debtors apartment the common jail, the bounds,
the insoyent oath, the special pleading the the
f. "a, and the thousand and enigmatical con-
,vances to fitch the pockets of the people, and TO
burden the labor of the country. On that the funda
mental Democratic principle, the greaest good for the
creates, number, could guide your deliberations,
would the demon of Indebtedness, with his train oil
disgusting, squirting mps, flee from our happy land,
We giants of the type and of the press -,he machine
nv which, like the lever of Archimedes shake this
ball of earth, thrones to totter, and monarcbs 10
toppe from their elevaiionHow is it, that this legal
ICED marauder has intruded into our cities and our
hamels into our palaces and our cottages, unnoliced
by your keen perception How is it, that while lesser
evils have felt the force of your cenched hands, this
felon has escaped your righteous Indignation Why
have We not, with upliit arm and scorpion knot,
avenged the nations curse, and "lashed the rascal
III nh no hy have nj trum
,oneued proclaimed the enormous guilt until the val
eys should be filled with the clangor and the hills
vertebrate the noise Blu, who We all Alas ! il is
TO be feared that moety of you are neservng pc.
cians who love fat places and lusty Offices more
than your country, and gold than your God =
Else, why this lukewarmness-lukewa may,
utter avoidance Of subject more noble in It's nature
than any which has swayed The mind Of ,he phllan-
thropst frenzied The brain of the poet We would
cherish in heart of hearts-we would welcome 10
our choicest afectons-we would hail as one Of Ma
lures genuine -7rsto the man, who, under adverse
circumstances, would strike for his countys good,
who would peril his all for his countrys benefit, who
would encounter the hostility Of scrub nobility of
peurogging arisocracy, for his countrys honor and
who, with iron and firm resolve, would crack the
pendulous crust Of corruption, that overshadows the
nations greatness, and let in the light of untarnshed
free dom for his countrys glory. Such spirits will
srise-the time and the occasion will produce them
the science Of Government will keep pace with the i'm
provements of the age, until the cumbrous and polluted
structure of our civil jurisprudence shall fall before
public intelligence and public Indignation, like Da
gon before the Ark of the Lord Already the peo-
ple the fountain of all power, and the of all
authority, awaking to the true cause of the evil
which afilicts Them and still, small voice abroad in
the land stronger than the earthquake and the tempest
gradual, but sure the wasting of time, will this
great moral reform be effected and America stand out
among the nations of the EARTH much superior 10
them in the WISDOM strength, and beauty of her do
mestc police, she now is in her free Institutions
which are the wonder and admiration of the world,
change in the domestic habits of citizens
alone produ This great result II is blu. for the people
10 will it, and it is done-and it is but for them to turn
their attention the high Importance of the subject,
TO will it-a deep and settled determination TO avoid
debt, as blight, will effect 1.-THE temples of justice
would then become vacant and ,enantless us the
temples of 'dol4,ry, when Christianity erst shed its
mild and mellow light upon the be nghted nations of
the earth-ihen would our feemen be free the air
they breathe, and society be relieved from the incubus
which has pressed il down for ages Who will join
hands with bis neigbbor in this great and glorious
wnr ho be he side OF truth and ustire