Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-11-24
PAY THE NATIONAL DEBT.


PAY THENATIONAL DEBT.
A statement we published day or
two since showed that ihe amount now on
deposite and subject to draft in the vai-
GUS repositories Of the government was
$7.577,962. This state Of things is indi
cativc of national prosperity; but the
question arises what application shall be
made of this accumdlating surplus. The
Warrington Union urges with great pro-
priety that it be applied to the payment
of the National Debt. This is Of course
the legitimate use Of the national funds.
Few reflect upon the consequences that
would result TO us, not only as prosper
GUS people, but rs free people, were we
to allow the energies Of our government
to be crushed by a monster in the shape
Of q national debt. Speaking of this evil,
the sage Of the Union writes as follows
Cdrolinian
"Better had a nation be encircled in the
folds of huge anaconda, Gift were pos
sible for one to be huge enough for such
apurpose, than to be groaning forever
under an immense national debt which it
cannot pay. National Indebtedness is the
great instrument by which the people are
crushed. 1t enlists all who own dollar
of its stocks in the support of the govern
ment, however despotic and sanguinary it
may be. Ii impoverishes the people by
the taxes which it imposes, and efectual-
ly bribes every government agent, civil or
military, who depends upon the public
areasury for support. National debts
ere, therefore, the worst scourges that
aan afilict mankind. They are worse than
rmies equipped and armed for slaughter,
for the latter are composed of men who
may possess sympathies for their kind,
and who have some ties which unite them
to the people. Debt has no sympathy
nor mercy. 1t Is inexo able. Like Shy
lock, it will have it's pound of flesh; and if
1T cannot get it without, it will employ the
mercenary sword of the tyrant to hack,
hew, and mangle the people, until they
comply with its cold bloodcd demands.
Therefore, we urge the people of Ameri-
ca to get rid of their debt before it be-
comes sufficiently large and powerful to
master them. Let us gyt rid Oft by hon
orable payment, and not let it grow in
size until payment becomes impossible,
and reputation, at the expense of untold
suffering and bloedshed, become the only
remedy. Let the example of the nations
of Europe warn us. They have found
their worst enemies in public creditors
and the nabobs of the stock exchange.
The Rothschilds, the Barings, the Hopes
ettd omne genus, WELD more potent scep-
tres than kings and princes in these mod
ern times. The latter bow at their feet
as borrowers, if not beggars, giving their
subjects as endorsers, who have to pay
both interest and debt in the end. The
princely stock jobber enlists the army of
public creditors who rally around the
thrones of despotism; and the sovereigns,
welding the sword, and TINS fraudulcntly
securing the purse, extract from the sweat
and blood of the people not only the means
of their own support and indulgence, but
the royal revenues which flow into the
Golfers of these bankers. Let us avoid
this pestilential brood of kings, princes,
stock jobbers. and public creditors, thus
leagued and banded together against the
people and their liberties, by paying our
national debt as speedily as possible. Let
us pay these people what we owe them,
in hard dollars, and get rid Of them before
they become sufficiently numerous to
overcome u.s."