The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1863-05-06

Win noiy norfOf, such securities them,
selves, will be the clamorers, the leading
clamorers, against the necessary taxation
which must be instituted, and kept up too,
to redeem the government securities.
Government reputation and bad faith, is
but the reflex OF individual reputation and
bad faith. whore individuals being mnjor.
ity, make the government speak their sen.
timsnts and lmmitate their conduct. And
al sure as you have selfish, dsfaulting, rs.
Pndiating, failhless, swindling constituency,
SO sure will you have government that
will exactly represent them.
"If We are not satisfied to receive Con.
fsderate money 10 payment Of debt, it 10
equally worthless to pay us for our corn
and Our bacon" So say you. sir, in
your preface to the article from the Edge.
field Adpertiser. How SO? IL the seller of
corn and bacon be debtor (nnd that he
may or may not be) and his creditor does
not demand payment, does no. want il, NV.
all know he cant enforce it) 10 such sell.
or Of corn and bacon. who is also debtor,
a worthy Object of tender commsse ration
A. n.ipconsolable suffersr--alike Patience on
. monument smiling At grief! lie is 10
tears. let Us suppose, because his pockets
are about to burst with Confederate notes,
having recently sold his products at the
ruinous prices Of the day. You offer him
symPatby-ask the cause of his distress
he blubbers out. II am nearly suffocated
by Treasury Notes. owe debt. and have
owed it these ten years. II is true, rs YOU
suggest, my friend, could have paid Il by
selling my struck last year, and for cur.
rency, too. that my creditor would have
been glad to take to pay his taxes and pro.
cure his supplies Al specie prices; but
would have received SO little Of It that
hated 10 aacrifce poor cuffsy's hard labor,
and my creditor did not press mo- In fact,
] forgot it till sold my corn, bacon and
cotton last wsek-and now my conscience
pricks me, and am vshemently anxious to
pay my patient creditor-but alas! alas!
he turn'd traitor, ! fsar--hs declines to take
my MoREY-and thus Il speak it with sor
row. hs 10 discrediting the Treasury Notes
Of our common and dear country Ah!ny
friend, he 10 fly blowing the credit OF tn.
governmsDt--and he ought to have the bas.
,inado, applied either by government ana,h.
ema, and the hot poker Of taxation. or else
10 the shape Of general persecution, until
he shall relieve my pocket and my con-
science, and thus prove himself q patriot"
"fou reply, "your case 10 = very preva
lent one just now; sometimes called the
squint eyed disease, which makes nan Gee
. mote in his brothers eye, and overlook
the beam in bis own-sOmstimes called opti
cal illusion, which 10 shown by mistakinp "a
hawke for hand nd.saw"-sometimes the
,c0llet disease which exists when one alma
. wallet across his shoulder, and puts his
neighbOr's faults In the pocket before, and
bis own 10 that behind, always, therefore.
inspecting aud msgnifying his neighbors,
and never seeing his own. II il sometimes
classed. generally, as the dieease Of seif,e.
ga'ding Hnonomasia. have, happily, q
complete easy, convenient and speedy
remedy"
"Speak it." says the lacrymose penitspt.
You answer deliberately, Take he Confed
crate Bonds toiih your money! Your credi.
tor does not interfere with you. The Leg.
islature, God rest its humane soul has n.
ken care TO string halt your creditor for
your ease and comfort. Don't discrsdit the
government securities yourself by hesita
ting-cheer up my unhappy friend, and re-.
member "sauce for the goose is scause for
the gander." Suddenly you hear from the
corn, bacon and cotton seller. whose crsdi.
tor fees from him rather than TO him, .Oh
Lord and he vanishes, muttering, "Con.
fsdcrate Bonds don't want them" This
Il not the picture of every debtor; he whom
II may chance to represent will think be
sat for it-and 90 he did.
Why should not . debtor (often richer
than his creditor) take his due proportion
Of the Confederate securities! ! If he sells
his produce for say four times its specie
value, Bond would cost him only 925 10
the hundred. Il costs the creditor full par,
II he mus. take, or does take the Treasury
notes ut par What but false cia,nor can
the debtor raise IL he shall be- driven. as a
paid creditor is, TO vest his surplus notes in
Bonds or Stock OF the Treasury ! His cred
itor cant disturb him-he is stayed, para
lyssd by law. II the securities Of the gov.
ernment be sound for one man are they
not 90 for another How can . creditor
hurt his debtor BY letting him alone p