Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1874-02-10
lFor t:te SPIRIT OF Jeftersou.l
SIGNS OF THE TIMES!

Editor Of The Spirit Il send you couple
of extracts which, think viii be interesting
to many persons aud most certainly TO bond
holders and land>holders. The Beechers are
great on revolutions. and as their sympsthies
are taking a turn in favor of their tohite
brethren, in the end, bonds for the irar debt
may not he safer than tho chattel interest in
the soDs of Ham. As it will require no great
amount of logic to prove that property may
as justly be seized and conscripted 10 save the
nations life as men may be, the bond holders
OF the war debt may be called on, in turn. TO
give practical evidence Of their patriotism
and magnauimity This is certainly Mr.
Beecher's doctrine, and not at all unlikely
that 1t may be reduced TO practice and if so,
think lands may look up as rather a Safcr in>
vestmeut. In the other extract too, headed
1.-The usury question" think you will see the
people are investigating the proper and Ir,o.
fut uses of money. aud that it would be better
Tor uswrerS, to buy land and go TO work with
good grace, or to build factories, or go 10 mer
chsndisine, and not lag behind and be forced
to turn Uoipmteer If they do this in time,
perhaps "hye cones may be bye-cones; :" but
if they do not, it might turn out that they
may be called on to 'J0rk orer :"
OBSERVER
Summit Point. Ian. 29th, 1874.
Henry Ward Bcccter on National Dc6t-
Ia a recent lecture at Jersey City, Henry
Ward Beecher spoke follows. We copy
frotD the Jersey City Eocning Journals:
''The extent of the waste and burden of
war can be estimated when it is noted that
the war debts of the world amount to over
twenty-One thousand millions of doIlsrs.-
Money absolutely squandered and wasted
money, the most Of which was spent in retnin-
ing the power over; money spent in grinding
the masses into the dust; money, the expeu>
diture of which did more to iniure the pros
perity OF the race than car be repaid in Sges.
When religion and power colleague together to
tvranize over the people, w q wonder, then,
there is communeismY The day will come
when the people will arise and say, We will
not pay this debt. by the reputation of the
debt the nation will be bankrupted, say you :;
then bankrupt be the nstion, say We But
let this unholy debt, this price of the blood
and liberty of the people, be swept out of ex>
istence, for we will not pay it. Mr. Beecher
closed with an appeal TO his hearers to des>
troy, as nearly as possible, the wastes and
burdens of society. y."-ia6"strjnl Age.
The JSury Question The Senate Of North
Carolina was occupied Saturday in tho con-
sderation of the u.ury hill which passed,
making the penalty of rogieiture Of claim for
exceeding eight per cent. Senator Waring,
from Mecklenburc, introduced the following.
which, it is stated, will doubtless pass. with>
out opposition: "That our Congressman bo
requested and instructed to use their best ct
forts 10 procure the passage by law Of Com
gress fixing a uniform rats of interest for loan
or forhearance of usury in every State and
Territory in this country. with such penalty
as will insure observance cftbc law