Litchfield enquirer., 1857-10-15
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Liteh: cid, cenf1s, Thursday, Get l5, 1887
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 Two weeks ago. Iio could say there was panic hereabouts, and tLat it local affair." confined ts the larger cities, wicE would not cxsepd itself into the country seemed the general impress ion To be sure, most of frners had investments iIr Ion'ls and stocks but these had been su!icct t fits If depression, and generally recoveret they gave themselves but little trouble and went on dirgin. potatoes, and hoens in full assurance of chance nsad, to sell again far ill sd vance of what trey had originally paid
 Sso weeks has wrought change The panic has entered villages, and ftrni houses, and few are the $ we'll to do men about us whose corntenances d'nt speak the contents of their pocket -boks and an unusual interest in the money articles of tLc newspaper.
 There 1s panic to-day, and it is net conEreJ to Wall, or State street. It has entered back kitchens and dark closets, and family bedrooms and cl, l women, whc scarcely could tell one bill from apL er are now examining the contents of every stock ing. and wth trembling hands, ringing upon the h"tl-stonc; every piece of silver in teir possession That banks have broken to-day aEt what are the prospects for tomorrow ?' is now the question Of every one, ai tie su ct of every l:,;t t,rver sttion For part would wish to aIlas the excitement instca! of ftnning the fame strive to uncnch it, for the farther it eStc tends the more is Jury Will com'nuhity suffer. A certain portion of si press, howeser. s"eined dete,nilz to keep tie txctcncnt in tuil blast, and either from ignorance CT lnaiicr, ashamed to ay. we fear it is the former, publish statements: for which they have n, ffnnd;:'ion and ridiculous ste1ics whose history l"'de up the gossip of newspaper columns ycars ago 1i''s "" observe of inc papers speak of the
 Heiby Bank as inSosve!.t. iLey have made a Mistake Of only twenty years It died out with ship navigation on the Housltonic; how long aro that wis, We are not fully posted upon but it was long before our majority, ana We have been voters Pr twelve years. There is also q great cry a!,ort the Eastern Bank at West kliu"lv We think it 'H at least t:va years since this bank wounl uI and Stf'';e as It may seem, we heard man the othr" "ay' stating that the Eagle Bank of New Haven had broke. Now is it natural for men to talk upon these matters, ard to catch at every r,,,o,r that floats by But it is ever the case. the men that h.'i the loHdest have the least at stake, and who cry "ut the most ychcmently against b;n;s, have the least capit.i m tllc,n.
 The panic makers comprehend several different ''SstS Some "rc politicians, who wish to excite 'c lS'ofa't For their own private purposes, anI ill p HhtlL5 to lch men and corporations that are nuw embarrassed, tini fuel whcrcwith to feed taes, nat nral!y eNctab|e imag; nations. Ot.cls are men, heavily Tn debt, who are glad of an opportunity to fail in good company and talk of tre losses they have met by suspension of this house and that hut if the truth was known the boot is on the other leg, and they, hy their own reclllcssness, helping to tiiiS on the crash. Others arc men of no mcals Slatcvcr, who seek this opportunity to gt into good company, considering themselves most happy, if they succeed in getting th,r miserable names in the pendent men, dcsirous of notcricty. uf be- l' talked about of being lions every one of whou, t in the county Work house, would have an apropri- atc home. Tine best way to allay the panic is to h'.d your tongue, ana mind your own particular hu"lieSs; all your gosslping and whining and talk aoout banks and corporations is not going to mend matters time and dclihcraion e.,d coucrneratiuu "t action, will aluhe accomplish this. See t,s it, therefore that you yield your share, ho ding your tongue on the street corners an yonr stocks and bank bills in your desk and p,'kyts Put oa a cheerful face, too, when you come in town nor talk of starvation or retrencbmant There is vet straw, ant provendcr in the land, yet country capable of feeding untold thousands, a sun that shines and il sky that gathers showers, a republican form of gov rrnrlent, strong ann, and strong heart, whose Ntor should shame any man from such talk as poy- erty and rrpudiatiol.