Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1844-07-13
MIR. JACKSON AND HIS CURRENCY


There has been great deal said about the cur,
rency 'bills" and the currency claw" as passed
at the last session of the legislature, and the
people generally, do not properly understand the
between the "bil" and the claw" and
it was for the purpose OF letting them see the
"bll" that we published il entire in our last. The
"bill' and the claw are as different as pig is
from puppy.
Below will be found the three first sections OF
the bill published in our last which Mr.. Jackson
says "most certainly met his concurrence"
The first section prohibits any person from
receiving or passing FIVE or ten dollar bill, after
specified time; the second section goes it lit
tie stronger and prohibits the receiving or passing
bank bill Of nonspecie paying bank Of any
kind or denomination whatever; and the third
section makes null and void any trade or contract
in which nonspecie paying bank paper is con-
cerned!
Now Jackson says these sections contain nei-
Their pain nor penalty' Does the man know
what he says, or does he suppose the people are
fools? The people will take different view of
the SuUJeCt' Lei US loOh dl IL d HLtlo' IL tH0
farmer has surplus Of produce TO sell-and
most all Of them have every year-he wishes to
be at perfect liberty to sell or barter it for what
he peases, be it gold, silver, bank paper, rags,
chips or whetstones no does not wish G. F.
Jackson to say for him what he shall or shall
not receive in payment for his produce--but he
desires, and Of right ought to be, free to take
whatever he may deem proper. So does the
merchant, grocer, tailor, shoemaker, hatter-and
in short every person who trades or rafhcs in any
manner whatever. Suppose we can furnish our
paper las we have done) to one or more Of our
Subscribers year for a five dollar Illinois bank
BILL which will sufficiently remunerate US for our
trouble ought we not to have perfect right so
to do? Certainly. But had C. F. Jackson's
bill become law, il would have been an offence
against the law OF the land, and we would have
been liable to suffer the pains and penalties pre-
scribed by the statutes for violating those laws.
And although G. F. Jackson may think it neither
d pain nor penalty to pay fine or be imprison-
ed in Jail, we imagine his constituents will diff
fer with him on this subject; he must either have
been ignorant Of the principles Of law,
or desired TO impose these pains and penalties on
his fellow citizens for exercising their own judg.
ment on matters with which he nor any body else
had any right to interfere. Had Jackson's "bll"
become law, and been engrafted on our statute
book, in what light, in the eye Of the law, would
an offence against that law have been regarded,
lo,o hat bava tha =
Does not every body know that person guilty
of disobedence Of statute prohibiting the doing
Of thing Of public concern, is liable to be in
r dicted and punished for his violation Of the act
at common law; and by our statutes, punishment
by virtue OF the common law, is fine and impriS,
onment or either: the fine not TO exceed 500
and the imprisonment not to exceed two months
Now any person offending against the first OF
second sections OF this bill, were it law, would
be subj ct TO the above fine and imprisonment.
Such is the character of the "bll" introduced
into the last legislature by c. F. Jackson, Esq,
and had it become law, such would have beer
the pains and penalties for violating that law!
And ,chat would have constituted violation Of
that law? The receiving or passing Of a five OF
ten dollar bill, or selling an article and agreeing
to take in payment for that article whatever kline
Of money you pleased! Was there ever more
oppressive and tyrannical bill introduced into the
legislative halls Of free country? We should
: like some one to point us 10 an instance.
And it was for this "bill," and his mer,toriou.
exerons in its behalf, that Senator Benton
. "made his thanks" to C. F. Jackson.
We could dwell longer on this subject, did We
deem it necessary, and had we room. Enough
has been said to show every person what an out
rage the passage Of such law would have been;
and we drop the subject, for the present, by ask
ing every citizen Of the county to read the sec
tons of the bill below, reflect upon the pain.
and penalties that would have been inflicted upor
persons violating their provisions look at Oha
constitutes an offence against the provisions o
this bill--and then decide whether man who
t. would introduce such "bill'' into the legisla
=. ture, is capable OF legslating for free people
We say look at these things fellow. citizens, ant
be careful how and for whom you vote the frs
Monday in August next.
1. From and after the first day OF July ir
the year 1913, no corporation, corporate body
or body polite within the limits Of this State
D (the Bank Of the State of Missouri and it.
branches inclusive) nor any money broker, ex.
change dealer, or any other person shall pass OIL