The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1863-03-19

mp all the leather that could be produced,
pay down the money in ways that would
give less trouble than any way of usual
cash trsfic nov, and with the most thorough
going vigilance follow the goods until they
reached the doors of the very poorest of the
people.
Have the manufacturers ever tried this
plan? If their present course is all that is
left them of the most mortified attempts to
get their wares before the country on q
more reasonable footing, we have not a
word TO say. Ooly we know that some of
Christ's simple folk, with far inferior sense,
have succeeded in emptying their yards to
soldiers and TO their neighbors in distress
Still il the plan hes been vigorously tried,
and incontestbly gone to nothing we are
sorry. Ooly we are of the number of those
who would like to try for the manufacturer
vI.ssa,, syssS every taiug IN cash, aud
seeing whether by little organized assist.
ance the quiDine, or the clctb, or the cot
tons, or the shoes, cannot be gotten into
the hands Of the destitute somewhat st their
honest rate.
s. But it may be said, thirdly, We sell
10 The Goufrnmeqt'
And it is amusing to see how graDdly the
manufacturer rubs his hands, as though he
had completely turned our flank, By that
simple intimation. Sir. we are m bonds to
government, and they hurry us in the pro-
duction Of our wares. Chey speak of US as
a great relief, and they are eager to have
al we make. We have no dealing with the
common trade, and, as to the rate, the gov
eminent fixes IL Alas then all sorts of
men can grow rich,
The unscrupulous have nothing to do bat
to open their shops and sell to all alike
And when these bulls" Of the common
market have fiji ,iently tossed up the price,
then the scrupuiOns can come In, aud by
doing that part that belongs to government,
get all the success without any of the IN
pleasant connection of the sufsriugs Of the
people.
Bat who, let US ask, is this customer they
call the government The poor soldier on
the battl field. The very leather that they
send at high rates to the East, is the very
thing that comes QUITO the Camp, and makes
the husband and the son weep with vexaton
at the large fraction Of their pay THAI they
have to keep back from their families at
home. The government, of oil parties to
the traffic is the one most sensitive to exor-
bitant rates. Aud he must be low down in
patriotism, or else high up in some inteUgi-
!, Ia n 6
can suppose that by high terms with gov
eminent ne can escape entirely all commerce
with this evil.
4. There ale. il is known, some people
who make the losses they are likely 10 Sustain
an eqqipoise in this traffic With the Coz fed
crate States. The French.S collation. Bulls,
they are ready 20 profess. show how tardy
public men are to allow ssos loss. And if
thew can Elake AlE- tsiar --le--eA---r-y.
ss.o... av Slscss. It 5 something in hand TO
reimburse thsIn for what they may have
suffered. Corporations have no soul, and
it is better plan to get oar rights in
quiet way by some Legitimate form of bust
uess, than to grow old aFterward at the
Capitol, lobbying in all sorts Of methods to
get back seqaes,ered estates, or burnt cot
ton, or lost servants &om the REPRESENTA-
tiyes of the people,
Now this would answer al very we'll, if
it we're right Indeed it would answer bet
ter if it esul be generally known. Bat
the mNEg III Pesss.sso' does not realize the
who aae eyesafrs are not usually Chris
tians. Tbsfes but fes, there fe' of
gendihs' ;hs engaged in the
crime, Nd F9ersfires g act is truly ap-
palHng ia iea:s.sa't ~ isIsyes5ssthe great
hght-ships to aaEhdsre seafcl bn the same
o'ean. And ~5ere&ga05 cae Of them, if
man of standing in s6elEbbothood, could
have moulded the busjnessthere, and made it
like Greenbrier, asd Craig, means of
protecting the people, being what he
is, ne is the grea, quoted "Shylock of
the place. Men leave the less conspicuous
extortiOners, and fasten upon him; and all
through his di.trict, aud all over the wider
circle of his Acquaintance, or his State, he
is altering the conduct Of men, and actual
ly efeeting a consequences which is apPre-
ciable in the extent Of she transgressigh.
Now, how will he balance his losses against
any result like this
Beside, the whole transaction will not
stand muster. 1t would bescouted by men
Injured to business. Every measure must
stand upon It's own bottom If man ever
so mesnly owes me an estate, am TO get
it out Of him only in the ordinary ways. If
| have sold him goods, am not to take
them back again, even if the dray -driyer
has hardly set them at his door. | am to
share, and share alike. That is the law Of
creditors. So that the Gully conclusion is
thai the question Just stands as at the be-
ginning. And the practice must be Yight to
make any such use of it whatever
But the dealer will say, I shall PrOba.
big Lose ~ this re1y business
But stay Lose III this business,-how
Tie idea is, that this is a flush time in the
growth Of his estate, hut that there will
come.an ebb ;--that the hides he ia now
putting in his watts at 80 cents pound may
come out in year at no better rate for the
leather:-that the wool he Is weaving at two
dollars a pound, may some day come upon
the market at al actual loss God grant
that it may be so But what does he i'm
aginel Does he imagine that his whole
serried gains will be balanced, and in the
end come to nothing, or only that the last
few months will be sacrificed, or the last
Al