Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1857-12-10

for some precautions, for some earnest de-
fense.
But there is and there has been no cause
for the excessive reaction from hope which
has taken place. The roots OF business
are sonnd. There never was upon the
whole more health with so much life
And hundreds of men will be upset by
nothing, but because they are run against
by affrighted men. Hundreds of men will
60 down, and lose years of toll, and the
fruits of honorable industry, for no ade-
quate reason except that men are scared,
and in their unreasonable alright, like
persons in crowd, they tread each othe
down. 1t is shame!
am not in business | have not one
penny invested in stocks or goods, and
never had. If the market touches the sun,
goes to the bottom of the slough of Des-
pondency, it carries nothing Of mine with
it either way, and am, therefore, not bias
ed by my interests. And look upon this
convulsion and trouble with unfeigned
amazement, as reckless, needless, wanton
cowardice. The business men of this
country are suffering at this moment from
a contagious cowardice! The whole con-
tinent is unstrung by fear. Nothing. l
say; for that of which l speak by-and-by,
and which is the ultimate cause of this in
iquitous evil, was not of any such proper
tions of power as to justify any such
breadth of effect; and fear has been added
to real trouble in such unwarrantable pro-
portions that it is scarcely immoderate to
say that we are all lightning struck with
fear.
And the cure, if it could but be taken,
might be effectual in one day, as much as
in month or year. Hope and trust to-
morrow would set the blood going again,
and bring color to white faces, For the
mischiefls not in the business, but in the
business men--itis not in your alfrirs but
in you.
The country is like ship under stiff
gale in rolling sea; in the watch of night
the man at the wheel and the watch think
they see ghost; and abandon their post,
they run gibbering and tumbling hcadlong
down the hatchway. The ship falls off
and rolls in the trough of the sea, until if
some one does not help her she will roll
her masts out, or come upon her beam
ends. But if there be a heart of oak
among them that can cure these frightened
sailors with the thunder Of imperious scorn
and indignalion-ifthey will go again up
on duty, seize the wheel, set the sail, and
bring the ship out of her wallowing course
again, all will be WE'LL And | speak my
honest conviction when say, that all
which the country wants just now is man.
illness.
Your banks can't cure you. The Gov
erp ment can't cure you. l come to your
bedside and feel the pulse, and pronounce
the patient to be in prostrated condition,
from causeless excitement of Fear: and my
prescription is-Let there be MEN for nurs-
ss, and give them large doses of courage,
to take every hour until the blood comes
to the skin. and the patient can use his
feet. Then turn him out. and say, rise
up aud walk and work.
IL. But there was beginning to this
fright. There was cause enough for fear
but not enough to fright. What was that
cause that destroyed confidence and para
lyzed hope?
A relaxation of moral integrity, and a
special development of it in connection
with the management of stocks and the vast
interests which they represent, have intro
duced an element ofprofligacy and untrust-
worthiness, which threatens to move the
foundations of trust in man. And unless
there can be the infusion of moral integrity
in the transactions of business men in the
immense interests represented in markets
by stocks, unless these swamps can be
drained, and highway Of moral integrity
be cast up for men to walk on through tire
poisonous growths of this forest. the land
will suffer season by season with malaria
and commerce will never be free fl ON chills
and fever, until moral tonics are used.--
The conscience of stock dealers needs "aui.
niner'
The board OF Directors, in our greatest
enterprises Of this kind. railroads, have per-
mitted themselves TO employ their power
"for selfish ends. by INSCRIPTIONS meth
ods."
l believe myself to be strictly justified
when l say that the revelations of the las,
ten years snow that, IN the management O
these great and useful corporations, our
most eminent business men have not scru.
pied to do or to wink and connive at cour.
ses of conduct which involve, directly OIL
indirectly, almost every crime against pro.
perty known to our laws. / aver my sol
emn belief that most eminent business mer
banded together, and acting as boards O.
Direction. have pursued methods which, i
a single man in his private capacity should
pursue, would convict him irredeemably O
crime. and crush him with ignominious
punishment.
The consequence has been, that one O
the most important, yea indispensable, ell
ements of property in this land is SO associ
ated with deceit and fraud that 1t is likely
to become by-word and Kissing!
j Now when, one by one, eminent fnan
ciers, who manage tcese interests, all a
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