Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-08-20
THE wRoNGED rNsULTED.

The triumphs of Loco Focoism are morally
certain 10 result in disasters to the People. So
it has been, so it doubtless will be to the end
of time. The ideas entertained by the mass of
the dominant party of a natural antagonlsm
of interests between Wealth and Poverty, Cap
ital and Labor, all tend to this. The meas
ures which that party is constantly urging are
naturally calculated 10 produce disruption and
convulson in Business pursuits and relations.
We are not now asserting that these measures
are inuinsically wrong and pernicious, though
we surely believe them TO be so. Its enough
for our present purpose that they contemplate
radical and violent changes in the wide do
mains OF Industry, Commerce and Currency.
Be their ultimate result what il may, who can
doubt that the immediate effect Of MckAy's
Tariff and the Sub Treasury must bear hardly
on many worthy persons There are thou
sands In this community who regard Paper
Money, for instance, as calculated TO do more
harm than good; but is there one rejecting
man who doubts that the immediate extinction
of all Paper Currency, whether by the Sub
Treasury or otherwise, would involve thou
sands in bankruptcy and throw tens of thou
sands out Unemployment? What right mind
ed, kindly man could fail TO deplore this neces-
sity : Would not such be induced TO say 10
tunes, but the public good must he held para
mount to individual grievances, as the com
mander in battle must often order a charge
which he knows will produce many deaths
and great suffering. Bear your misfortunes
nobly, then, and be assured that, though we
are compelled to take a course which seems
harsh, we really desire your good, so far as IT
is consistent with the highest good of all 2'
Is not this the spirit in which inevitable indy
idual reverses should be contemplated
The Evening Post, however, gloats over
the perplexity and apprehension which the
measures OF its party are producing as if they
were the great ends for which those measures
We're undertaken. II wakes tscetous over the
distresses of thousands Of our coun,rymen,
tsls how often the country has been ruined by
similar policy, and recounts with evident gus
TO the obscene Jest of dead hbertine respect
ing French woman who "liked 10 be ruined"
No amount Of calamity visited upon the man
ufacturing classes ofour counrymen can quite
sa,iate the malignity of the Post and its large
circle of echoes. The People viii remember
these exhibitions.
That the recuperatVe energies Of American
character and industry are invincible, we Joy
fully believe. That no amount or degree Of
misgovernment can utterly destroy or even
permanently PROSTATE those energies, we hold
and proclaim. The tornado may pass over
the land to-day, crushing every thing before it,
but life and verdure will spring up among the
wrecks OF It's progress tomorrow. We shall
most Of us live and some Of us thrive under
the most mistaken and pernicious policy,
though we should generally live better and
thrive faster under bsnignant and wise poll
cy. But is itwofth while TO throw down the
-
iaoric o. our National tIosPerl.y every rev
again? Is ii wise to be continually testing the
capacity Of the Country to bear disaster in the
first place, and ultimately to overcome it,
That is the practical queston.-.N Y. Til
btule