Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-03-29
SMALL NorE Lawful our People submit to

SHALL NOTE Law VIII our People submit to
itP-The time is now at hand when the follow
ing proviso of an act, entitled, "an act to pre-
vent the circulation of small notes." will be at
tcmptea to be put in force in this and other com
mnnities throughout this State: viz:
BE it enacted by the General Assembly, that
it shall be the duty of Commissioners of the
Revenue and courts to whom applications shall
be made for license, to require, from each and
every person who shall apply for license, on
OATH that he will not pay out, within the limits
of the Commonwealth, notes of a less dcnomin-
alton than five dollars. issued by banks, carpor-
atoms or individuals"
This law it is further provided,
Shall be in force from and after the first day
of June, 1858.
Mr.. Commissioner Day, informs us that he is
now waiting for the documents from headquar
ters relative to this and any other acts affecting
the assessment of license, so that we may now
look forward to the result ola practical attempt
under the iron law, as it may very properly be
called.
The question very naturally comes mp, in
view of the enforcement of any such law, as to
whether it can be and ought to be complied
with. In other words, will our merchants, our
mechanics, and our manufacturers and farmers
submit to such grinding provisions We do
not believe they will We say this in no spirit
of Observation-Disclosures we simply write prac-
tically about practical and probable event
There are certain acts and laws enacted from
time to time, which so clearly and indiSputably
contravcne the rights and best interests of the
people. that they become at once, and by gencr-
al consent, dead, very dead letters. We believe
that this silly, impracticabe piece of legislation,
got up aud passed by the abstractiomized agri-
cultural, or plantingintercsts ofthe State, will be
ovcrruled and made of none effect by the peo-
pie whom it was intended especially to effect
While such law is injurious to every city
or town, or community in this State, that makes
my pretensions to commerce, tits doubly, yes,
thrice as injurious to the interests of this city
1t calls upon us, in effect, to ignore our sources
of trade to reject the patronage ofthose sections
which we have been accustomed to look up
on as our natural markets and feeders. 1t calls
upon us to say to the people of the border, and
many of the interior counties of Ohio and Penn
sylvania that, without you can bring us the mo-
ney which our dainty Legislature has prescrib-
ed, you cannot get goods, and We will not
take your produce.
The good people of these sections will be We
ry apt to laugh in their sleeves, and well they
may, at any such law, for it is so ridiculously
obvious what the effect would be upon the en-
tire retail business of this city. IL would be the
next thing TO u decree of humiliation. They
know, as all men who deal with men even to the
smallest degree know, that the tradesmen and
dealers of this city are not so purblind-nOt such
suicides, as to think of bringing their patronage
into such an issue.
The only thing, we regret, is that the imbe-
cilc thcorits, who rule and curse our State, have
had an opportunity to bring the law making
power, which should be always enshrined in the
high respect of the people, into such contempt.
Every law of the kind sackens and abates that
moral influence, without which legislation is
mere nulhty. We hope to live TO see the day
when the spreading intelligence of the people
will shut out from our halls of legislation such
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