The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-11-24

ness men Of the United States, and particr
larly to those Of the interior. Gold goe
abroad, and we have TO content ourselves will
n paper currency such as we have.
The National Government and the fcrcigr
merchants now monopolize the gold and sill
yer Of the country; and while our steamers
are car ying 1t out Of the country, rs fast
nearly as it comes in the little that remains
is locked up in the Government Sub-Treasury
and is drawn out only when Government deb.
tors and officials are TO be paid, or ten
millions Of it transported to Santa Anna for
a strip Of worthless territory in Mexico
while the Government possesses the best cur.
rency in the world, the people possess the
very worst. The Government has one cur.
rency and the people another.
Free Trade with Foreign Governments and
the Sub-Treasury system at home, have in.
ju-ed our manufactures and ruined our cur
rency. We have no rational currei cv, ex.
cept in fancy. We might have a good cur.
rency if would encourage home manufactures
Save the millions which we are weekly
sending abroad to enrich the merchants and
manufacturers o. Manchester, Liverpool. Paris
and Lyons, to develope our own resources.
While we are paying millions every year TO
the iron-mongers in Wales, for railroad iron
we have beds Of coal and iron within our own
soil which might be brought into use by en-
couragement from the National Government.
But we prefer to pay tribute to the foreigner,
and keep ourselves Impoverished. The plat
forms of the dominant party in Congress
have decided against protc cction Of American
industry, and cutawed national currency
except for the officeho ders.
Is this state Of things TO continue forever!
Is the:e TO be no change! A new party has
sprung up within the past year, whose pecu-
liar distinction is opposition to foreign infu-
ence. We know of mo foreign influence
more perncious to the welfare OF this greu:
land than that which makes us tributary to
foreign merchants and manufacturers for the
almost necessaries of life, and which is max
ing a constant drain upon US Of the precious
metals, which gives to them gold and leaves
us paper.
We may be cosiGered by the progressive
Democrats as behind the age. when we as
sert that the greatest blessing which could
good protective taiiff and national bahk
Twenty years of experimental economy upon
currency and trade, have left us with an in
Vulnerable spawn Of local banks, whose notes
will not pass current hundred miles from
where they ire issued, and which arc recev:
ed by the communi.y.as husbands do .hei,
wiyes,"(or better for worse" Twenty years
of experimenting upon the currency has
given gold to the government, and stock
bank uoles TO the people, OF which they are
daily informed by notices in the shop win.
dows OF brokers' that they are bought inside
at from ten to twenty per cent discount
Such is the peoples currency, while the
ollice-holders have gold. We have heard in
Years gone by o! the "monster" which Gen
oral Jackson killed; we never were impress
ed with the glory OF the deed. If the Uni.
ted States Bank was monster, it was an
angel OF light in comparison to the numer-
Gus brood OF smaller monsters which have
lived and died since the great dccease.
Gin. Guze,te.