Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-05-29


night; he can't shake it off, it is a horrible
nightmare. He goes to New York, sir; he
buys fifty thousand dollars worth of goods OH
time and gives notes o.! these bank notes
fearful words to q man who has credit at
stake, and relies upon his customers to pay
their notes by which he may be able to meet
. his own. See HIM sir, fairly embarked like
a ship at sea, and this ship is surrounded on
all sides by huge icebergs, perfect mountains
no chance of escape; bye and bye he sees
they are coming down upon him; he is hem
med in slowly and quietly those huge piles
advance. steadily they come; the ship will
surely be crushed. Aye, not chip left of
her-down they come. Hold little blue
sky is seen, she escapes, she gets into the sea
once more.
The ship is like the merchant the noun
tains of ice, the bank notes, the bills payable;
the blue sky, the bills receivable. But some-
times the bills receivable are not met and the
ship crushed to atoms.
How do you like the picture my friend
SO much for merchants life. We are not
what we seem. Our extensive business is
all on paper-mere trash the great noise We
make is produced from the emptiness Of our
pretensons. Now, sir, will you take your
place at the desk, and let the cash ram down
upon you? Nay, you are too sensible man.
tIck fO
king; independent; owing no man, while
the poor merchant must cringe and fawn up
on banks and money lenders. Yes, sir 90
down on his knees to get money to save his
credit. Sir, producers can say we ask moth
ing of the banks, nothing of the merchants
both ask everything that constitutes the
whole of life's comforts from US Give me
now your property for mine, with my kind
of life with it! Nay, when | tell you that
one disastrous year with the kind of business
| am doing, would sweep away all am
worth-will you exchange situations with
meg
'Friend Yardstick, thank you: but what
Il Al
despise the old farmer again, never Let us
join Mrs Hoehandle in the dining room, and
as we take a quiet lunch, with thankful
heart, We will drink, in glass of domestic
catawba, this toast: The farmer, the luckiest
man on earth
Perhaps the above may be fair specimen
of the groupdlessness of discomfort, and of its
prevalence among all classes,
This false view of others extends through
all classes of society, very often leading the
young, especially, into pursuits for which
they are not, and never can be fitted The
farmers or mechanics son wishes he was
clerk, or student at law, or of medicine
the student and clerk think they are too much
confined, and frequently wish they were in
the place of the farmers son-the LAWYER
thinks the editor is making money and the
editor thinks the lawyer is-the farmers wife
t thinks the wife of the merchant or of the pro-
7 fessional men look upon the farmers wife as
mistress of creation-the girl that works at
hOusework wishes she was milliner, or
tailoress, and the milliner and tailoress wish
] they were school teachers, and the school
teacher thinks she is a perfect slave, and
longs for some other situation. Thus the
world acts as if it was all out of place because
] each person forms false estimate of the
e happiness of others. And as we said in the
start, large share of uneasiness and fault
finding of the world is occasioned by trusting
in appearances.
In the above case the farmer and the mer-
2 chant found fault with their own situations,
because each had been led into error in rela-
= ton to the condition of the other Be con-
tent with your lot, and don't Judge from ap-
pearances.