Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-10-29
THE INTEL IGENCF,R.

THE THEN INEE. /. { IGENCER.
BREcnpRs lecture at the Cooper Tns,itnto
New York, on "CoNNrRcr, is as good thing
as we have read for long time. There Is.
nothing novel or yet striking about it, but it is
all plain and practical good sense. Concernine
the charge Of seltishness against business men
here is=what he says:
1t has been the habit of men to stirmatiso
bargain makers as selfish. dare saw t6cv .ro.
hut ln3w1at respect does that make them differ
from anyb1dy else. They are charged with
Misrepresentation; withhaYing an easy tongue
as III that made their tongues differ fromSauV
others; as II there were medical lies no no.
litical tergiycrsatons, no social insinccrities-
only in the c!turch lies are never told The
numbero OF faults Which belong 10 any calling
wilt depend upon the amount of life which that
calling exhibits, and the bargain maker is living
more lille IN the same time than almost any other
industrial man. In the nature of things. hon.
esty must be the law, and craft the exception;
tor.itis simply impossible that an interest oi
this kind could maintain its hold on society If
essentially deccitt9l There are million Of
truths in7this world where there one is. lie:
there are million of honestiess in business for
every fraud, and a million Of benefits for every
evil. Business is compacted of equity and
truthi otherwise it would never have tho
strength to carry so. many lies as it has to- One
wounded " soldier may limp along and keep in
line II his follows support him; but il all are
wounded together, thetnarch must end
whatever may be the vices attendant on the
conduct of business, it cannot be denied that
public spirited and entcrprising charities Zusu.
ally begin with, and mainly depend upon, tho
aeti.e business men of the community.
EULoqY ON coxNsRcs
1t is commerce which has unpack ed the globe,
which before was q. .sealed.up trunk. She need
cd no geography, and men have runzthe sur.
yeyor's llnes over the continent. It5waS com
nerce that bid the North come up aud the
South keep not back. She sent exploring
lleets 10 PolaI=seas, and taught men 10 be hero:
lc under every extreme OF temperature she
taught men to devc in mines, to search the
bottomoi streams, and study the grim uplifted
laces OF broken stra ta.=sC Commerce sits in mod
ern times as Adam satin Eden, gathering round
about her. every material thing God has made
on eartt,5and Civ Gg names and value to them
all She needed the winds, and man took them
tcapGyc; size needed Somcthing#bcttcr =tllaus
winds, aud ziiro brought forth steam, she needs
ed mighty cnginery, and Vulcan built shops
throughout the world. Herschel himself is the
child of Mercury, for il was commerce that de-
mandeu 0t tue astronomer that he should Gnd
out the ways of heaven, in order that men
might tind their way better on earth; Science
was the crying baby hid among the bulrushcS,
Commerce was the Pharoah's daughter that
0"nd II and taught itin all the ways Of the
Egyptinns' ~ The iron man. machinery is the
ordsemancipator; this IS the coming man Of
Vhom we hear so much. Commerce, too, has
made the world n whispering gallery, so that
the Atlantic and tile Pacific may speak to each
other; and men dwelling in opposite hemis.
Dhercs may commune almost as if they dwelt
IN tic same rooms. III the physical globe it is
e eli
heat, bears all things and gives them life; CONS
merce is the electricity of universal human
society; ships arc so many hands reaching out
and gathering the harycStS of the world
=zln# the great realm of bargain bakng, all is z
not external achievements. There are achieve.
menls which call for intellectual power that may
well tax the noblest mind; achievements which
Gall=tol powers as eminent as any demanded by
craftsmanship or philosophy. Finance is no
mean SCIENCE, and he who is master f=that
department, as branch Of political economy,
taxes ranE with the profoundcst thinkers of the
day One cannot contemplate The ramitica.z
ions OF zcrcdit=nerves= over the world without
admiration. A word spoken in New York un-s
locks the bank.of India; the key ten thousand
mllesztong; the signature of the RotElSrtildS
controls the Golfers Of the globe. Towns aud
cities are more the bankers than those who
dwell therein; the sen and the Ships which it
cradles az his, for the golden wires ofzcommercU
toril the latitudes a.d longit0des ol tho globe,
andscomnerco is the battery. While scholars
are seeking To find universal language, behold
universal language has long sipcehc spoken;
there IS not tribe on#the Slobczth that=does not
understand the language Of The dollar; bills Of
credit aud exchange never need interpretation;
the symbols of commerce, mctal aud its repre-.
scntatlyGs, give. to the globe a common Languages;
and as when Peter spoke on Pcntccost, linen
interpreted his words into their own language,
so Whenthe bank speaks, every man hears it in
the tongue in which he was horn, and banks
are the golden tongued Poygotts Of the world.
TIE TEMPTATIONS OF COMMERCE..
Mr.. Bcecher then alluded to the peculiar temp
ations Of commerce. and remark that it vas not
merely what we did, but what we were tempted s
to do and yet rc(rainiag from doing, that waste
he considered in the estimate Of chnracter.-@
The man whose word was truthful aud whose
conduct was honorable, because lie 1welt IN
luxury and had no indnccment TO violate his
word, might be a less honestman than=he whose
path was constantly heSet with temptation, but
~ lln halIlcd ZcalnnslY ll.:,inSt ityct ramn nEr