Washington Bee (Newspaper) - December 11, 1857, Washington, Indiana 1j1 BE RIGHT THAN BC DAVIESS DECEMBER 11, 1857. 19; WASHINGTON EVERY EDITOR AND P R 0,P T O R OP copy one in copies one in 1 50 20 silver mine has been discovered in ill which sixty hands arc United war debt amounts to about whole bonded debt of Missouri is Iron ore in abundance and of excellent quality is found in There is many a good wife who cannot sing and The mechanics employed at the National Capitol devote one wages every mouth to the relief of the suffering Sugar is selling in the New Origans market at four and a half cents per and at from eighteen to twenty cents a People frequently reject great not so much for want of as for want to search for The best way to silence a talkative person is to interrupt not snuff the and it will go out of named committed suicide in Friday because he could not find The report two in gold being on the way from California has had a favorable effect upon the stock It is said that Honorable J. Glancy of will succeed Mr. Dallas as Minister to from Carroll county last his pocket containing seven thousand in a few The Barnstable as an evidence of the great financial pressure of the mentions that riot less than worth of acd are now stored in awaiting entrance of six full-dressed ladies into a large and taking exclusive possession while eighteen spare gentlemen are forcibly is what we call squatter A left his wife in a great telling her that he would never come till he was rich enough to come home ia a For once he kept his being trundled home iu a Indianapolis Sentinel sayf the owners of the sound Stock Banks of this think of holding a convention for the purpose of considering the propriety of calling in all their notes of less denomination than and issuing no smaller notes A young man by the name of George Arlington threw a ten pin ball at another young nmn while at a game of ten pins in Thursday week and killed Arlington immediately but was lodged in Tlie factions are engaged representing and misrepresenting the of the administration on the Kansas about which they When it comes out that the entertains no such nor never did entertain will inform the public that Buchanan got and backed It is currently reported that Governor intends calling an extra session of Legislature within the next ten have done it months But late than and the sooner the better for the State and the democratic think and wish that every editor who holds tlie same opinion liad the courage to express These expressions meet our hearty approbation and have the of the entire party of the An extra session is needed but demanded by interests of the democracy and the of the expressions meet our and are no doubt the sentiment of most democrats and all the * What is tlie reason a session is not It ought to be right The Boston Journal tells of a gentleman who was badly sold a few days He was sitting in the parlor with his when the bell called liim to the He there found a child in a basket with a note charging him with being its and imploring him to take care of A scene ensued between the injured wife and indignant the litter denying all knowledge of the little one and asserting his The friends and at last the wife was induced to for give although he stood to it like a Trojan he had always been a faithful the lady very roguishly told her that it as strange that he should not know his own for it was their mutual which had been from its cradle up stairs by for die purpose of playing tlie Weekly contains a and yet it must be admitted a. seasonable satire on our fashionable church our too it is. to be who so an aspect but in agreement with what vhey are professing to as the of The caricature in question gives as much as the eje can conveniently take in at a of a congregation supposed to be in the of that of all Church Its mercy upon miserable explains case very they in the worldliness of the in all the profaneness of all the indifference of iu all the irreverence of those it has been so forcibly and so by God people draw near tome with their and with lips do honor but have removed their heart far from and their fear towards me is taught by the precept of AS H. BENTOM ON Nov. 15. the Editors of the National desirous of the establishment of a National are quoting what General Jackson said in of such an institution at the beginning of his I have to remind all such papers that what vras so said was said before General Jackson saw a prospect of restoring the currency of the and that after he saw that prospect he said nothing more in favor of National or but the and labored during the public life to restore and preserve the hard money currency which the founders of our Government had secured they for The plan of that restoration and preservation consisted of five revive the gold currency by correcting the erroneous standard of 1791. create a demand for hard money bv making it the exclusive currency of the Federal 3. To make sure of this hard money by keeping it in its own 4. To suppress all paper currency under by a stamp To wind up all defaulting banks by a bankrupt law against first three of these five parts were and to these indebted for twenty from 1837 to 1857from bank suspensions and depreciated also for carrying the country through a foreign Mexican paper and with the public securities above also for having in. the country at this time full fifteen times as much hard money as we had in the time of the late Bank of the United and we are indebted to the wants of the two latter parts of the plan for what we now Nearly two banks in the a great part of them frauds from the and the bad governing the a general in a season of peace and people forced to use depreciated paper when there is more hard money in the country than its business could men and for work and unable to when the country needs all the work they can do and has tie means to pay for families crying for bread when a bountiful Providence has given the exuberant crops that ever were the business of twenty-five millions of people disordered and thrown out of And all this the work of the base part of the falling down of themselves for want of and dragging the solid ones after For it in this case of bank as it is with a ship sinking at those who cannot swim drag down those who can. A stamp duty on their and a bankrupt process against would have saved the country from the calamities it now for many of the base order of banks would have been unable to for want of money to pay for stamps on their and others would have been proper subjects for the bankrupt process in the first few days of their restoration of the gold currency was effected under General the establishment of the hard money currency for the Federal Government and the keeping of its own money in its own treasuries were accomplished under Mr. Van both of which Presidents took the full responsibility of recommending these three measures and also the two the two for the imposition of a stamp duty on all paper money under twenty and for a bankrupt act against defaulting Bills were repeatedly brought into for both but were always defeated by the defection of the paper money wing of the Democratic most plausible of the open objections made against the stamp duty was in the expense and the extensive machinery for its That was answered by providing a cheap and simple process for both clerk in the Treasury Department for a superintendent of the and the clerks of the Federal Courts to deliver out the stamps which they received from the The amount of and whether it should apply to all notes or only to those to be were questions on which there was room for some diversity of The predominant opinion that there should be duty upon all notes issued as a what more fit to be than the moneyed the being the same on all and such as the large ones could easily carry and the small ones The amount of the duty was held necessary to be greater than in Great for there no note is no one goes out of the bank a second so that the duty in England is paid every time the bank puts out a Not so in the United Here a note is reissued until it is worn it has become too ragged to hold or too filthy to be or too defaced to be A small duty sufficient in Great it would require a very heavy one to be its equivalent in the United Among the penalties for violating the either by receiving or passing the should be a disqualification to retain or receive a Federal for the pursuit of office is so general at this time in our and so in a class so so influential and active against the unstamped their circulation would be effectually paper money wing of the democracy was still more against bankrupt acts against bankrupt than against the stamp tax on acting with the habitual opponents of the party to which to all the The open objection came from the with their professional drawn chiefly from British that merchants and traders were the proper subject of the bankrupt although every late British statute on the subjects includes Bank of England and in a single season of of 1813-1-1-15) ninety-two of these banks had been subjected to commissions of But this remedy was not of but of as its name would and and bankers were the original objects of the as the same name also is the English of the Latin was so called because the bankers of that as now in the had their benches in public on which they sat and did and when any one became delinquent or he was driven away and his bench was And in its bankruptcy was a process against banks and and still is in Great and hence retains its original name of broken bench so broken being the sign and warning to the public that the banker himself was and deprived of his place of doing do not expatiate upon the evils of small paper they are palpable to every and only require 1. It drives away all hard money of equal in a competition between two the meanest is always the and and chases the other out of the It is the great source of the crime of for the mass of the counterfeits consist of small 3. It demoralizes the for not being willing to lose a note for which have given instead of burning it when rejected by a knowing one as put it back in the pocket and offer it again to an ignorant who receives and who goes through the same process when rejected in his 4. Small notes make the panics and bring on the runs which break down good for these small notes b ing in the hands of the when they get alarmed they assemble by thousands at the doors of the institution which issued the demand the break the and propagate the alarm which themselves feel until it becomes for nothing is more contagious than a nor anything more 5. It pillages the poor and the for every one that is or on a broken or on a bank that never it will run for awhile and when it is sure to stop in of the poor and upon that class least able to bear the who have no advantage from banks which are in and who bear the loss when they G. It excites to for with nothing but brass for their and that in their faces instead of their are induced to set up manufactories of small to be sent and sunk upon thousands of those among whom it is all that is so sunk being clear gains to the 7. It induces and even compels people to be wasteful of their for such is the and just contempt and distrust of small that he or she that receives one hurries off to lay it but for something not while a piece of the same amount would be valued and and laid by and kept and added until enough accumulated to make a purchase of something needed and 8. It subjects the payer to be cheated or worsted in giving paper in he must receive the change in other and for that purpose the most and worthless will always be picked out and shoved upon In such are the the the demoralization and cheating of small paper that all except the United place it in the category of a criminal agent and suppress it odd years when we were laboring to restore the constitutional currency to the government of the the ready objection repeated by all the friends of the paper that there was not gold and silver in the world to carry on the business of the United and the ready answer to that objection was that there was precisely and that exactly enough would only create a demand for it by correcting the gold make it the Government and suppressing small Only a part of these have been and there have flowed into the United or been obtained from our own about four or five times as much gold as the business of the United States could The supply has been nearly a thousand millions of and the business of the United States would only about two hundred This is not guess but bottomed upon authentic data; for the statistics of political economy show that nations can only use certain amounts of some some according to their highly manufacturing where the employer needs money incessantly to carry on his business in the purchase of raw and the of and in the construction or repair of buildings and and where the operatives themselves need money daily for the support of their the quantity of money required is far greater than in an agricultural or planting where the farmer raises his own and has his crops and produce to pay large And therefore the foremost manufacturing requires the greatest amount and has it a and so largely requires the least amount of money and can employ but about a So the United in small parts manufacturing and largely agricultural and would find her maximum demand for money anywhere half way between the eight dollars which at the present amount of white twenty-five would give two hundred millions as the national always remembering that the great payments are made with crops and bills of exchange founded on the proceeds of And thus it becomes a proposition that the United since the correction of the gold standard twenty-three years have received a supply of gold to four five times the amount which the business operations of the people could Of that amount the leading banks estimated two hundred and ninety millions to be in the country at the commencement of the present and since that time more than twelve millions have and very little gone so that three would be the present estimate of the amount of gold and silver in the one hundred millions more than the business of the country would Three hundred millions is exactly fifteen times as much as the United States possessed in the time of the late Bank of the United Twenty millions was the whole amount at the and that all in a particle of gold being then in And it is exactly thirty times as much as the whole Union possessed at the time of the termination of the first National whole supply being then only ten and these of gold in the peace and prosperity throughout Europe and great crops and good there was nothing in the state of the country to the nor anything to justify its The only solution of such a catastrophe is the obvious the failure of bad and the consequent run which their failure upon the good The insolvent pulled down their and the Legislature of several States have put all on an but the solvent should repulse the The living body should not be tied to a dead The solvent should recommence their and make visible the broad line between the sound and the which the Legislature has covered and public sentiment would then soon dispose of the in spite of legislative solvent banks can and will and that will satisfy those who do not look beyond the evil of the but those who look ahead and see new evils in the and to the legislative power duty it is to provide against evils before they something more will be seen to be A recurrence of such in the view of all should be guarded and that can be by two acts of Federal stamp duty on paper and a bankrupt law against bankrupt is not a monarch in Europe who would treat his subjects or suffer them to be as the people of the United States are treated by the base part of their own and the indulgent which legalize their violations of promises and The issue of currency and its is an attribute of and every where is exercised by the sovereign except in the United it was intended to be an attribute of and was placed in of and limited to the issue of gold and silver and the regulation of its our present government was formed by hard money who had seen and felt the disastrous and demoralizing effects of paper and were anxious to save their posterity from such calamities as they had They did their part to save Shall we be false to ourselves and to them THOMAS Scenes progression of life is so and in the greatest of persons so quiet that men only at that they are but seldom perceive the process of We know that we are no longer but cannot tell when we crossed the are conscious that we have reached and that youth has But so gently did it that we are as those who listen to a bird singing in a After it has they listen and only know its flight because it no longer now and then we are turned and brought face to face with the in such a way that two lives gaze at each and we walk as if one identity had two recollections of the past beat upon the and we stood in its as a parent to whom comes back the child not seen for scores of uncertain whether to doubt or to accept the familiar After long let any one revisit the scenes of his and see whether these things be not so. There will be a soft and a sad joy of one may not be able to but which in the flowing together of the two great streams of the past and the Ward the Washington AGAINST is to be feared that some of our democratic cotemporaries are in danger of occupying a false position in hastily assuming an attitude of hostility to the late action of the Kansas The Tribune and its followers could scarcely have approved any result at which the convention might have arrived and for the obvious reason that openly scouts the authority of the convention to have formed any sort of constitution for the people of The Topeka in the estimation of the is the only true constitution for and hence when any other is presented it as a matter of repudiated and denounced by But it is by no means so obvious how democratic editors who have indignantly rejected the Topeka constitution as a fraud and a and who have earnestly advocated the rightful authority of the late convention to make a are now found warmly with the abolition organs in not only the action of that but the convention We must conclude that such apparent inconsistency is the result of hasty and that when the sober second thought shall prevail they will renounce the present odious association into which they have been inconsiderately very little we will satisfy any sincere democrat that the real issue now presented is whether is to be admitted as a State with a constitution formed by a body of men chosen and empowered according to all the forms of law to make a or with one formed by a body of usurpers having no pretence of legal and in all respects no better than a The idea as to the failure of the convention to submit the entire constitution to the people for ratification or on which some of our democratic cotemporaries have will be on not to present the true issue now Under ordinary we should most heartily have approved the submission of the whole constitution to the The principle on which such submission is properly made is ought not to be disregarded except for sufficient We think the reasons in this case fully justified the convention in a partial but unimportant departure from the in all its the public which rested on the Kansas to adhere faithfully to the of popular sovereignty in the Kansas act. If we were not satisfied that the true spirit of that was carried out by the action we should oppose it at all What is the spirit of that great doctrine on which the democratic party fought its triumphant battle in 1856, and which has been emphatically endorsed by President Buchanan It is that the people of Kansas should have the right to regulate their domestic institutions in their own Will any one deny that this principle was engrafted upon the Kansas with exclusive reference to the slavery The true intent and spirit of the Kansas was that the people of when they came to form a should either adopt or reject the institution of as they No candid man will dispute the The which solves the whole matter is simply this Has the Kansas convention secured to the people of the Territory the right to make Kansas a free or slave State If this right is secured to them true spirit of the Kansas law has been carried On this point the language of the convention as contained in the schedule to the constitution furnishes a conclusive It is as follows this constitution is sent to the president of this or in his by reason of his or the president pro shall by proclamation declare that on the 21st day of 1857, at the different election now established by in the Territory of an election shall be over which shall preside three to be appointed by the president of this or in his by reason of or the president pro at which election the constitution framed by this convention shall bo submitted to all the male citizens of the Territory of Kansas over the age of twenty-one for ratification or in the following manner and form The voting shall be by The judges of said election shall cause to be kept two poll hooks by by them appointed the ballots cast at said election shall be endorsed with or without of said shall be deposited with the president of this or in his by reason of his or the president and the other to be retained by the judges of the and kept open for The president of the or in his by reason of his or the president pro with two or more members of this shall examine said and if it shall appear upon said examination that a majority of the votes cast at said election be in favor of constitution with he shall immediately have transmitted the constitution so ratified to the Congress of the United states for admission into the Union as a sovereign State under said But be in favor of the without then the article providing for slavery shall bp from this constitution by the president of this or in his by reason of or by the president pro and slavery shall no longer exist in the State of that the right of property in slaves now in the Territory shall in no manner be interfered and shall immediately have the constitution so the Congress of the United States for into the Union as a sovereign State under the said fair minded rban can read the foregoing and then deny that the has secured to the people of Kansas the right to have a free or a slave It is a contemptible quibble to say that if a majority vote for the without it will still be a slave because right of property in slaves now in the Territory shall in no manner be interfered The convention could not have interfered with the right of property in the slaves now in That right is fixed and declared to be valid by the highest judicial power existed in the convention to dp than respect it. To all intents and Kansas will be a free State if a majority vote for without arid the true and spirit of the Kansas act will have been those of our democratic cotemporaries who object to the action of the convention insist that the whole constitution should have been submitted to a popular and because that was not done they denounce the convention as violators of the principle of the Kansas Will any one of our objecting pretend that when the Kansas was pending it ever was by anybody that the clause had reference to any other subject than that of slavery Surely Then it is a mere in the to say that the convention has failed to carry out the great object and the true spirit of. the Kansas why did the convention determine to submit only the slavery clause to the popular Was it because the people ought not to have the privilege of passing judgment on their This could not be the because the only question about which the popular mind was known to be agitated and divided was There had 10 agitation or division oh any other than in submitting the convention showed that it was not designed to impose a constitution on the people containing any provision on which they had indicated a desire to express their Still the interrogatory may be convention were willing to submit the slavery clause to the why not submit the residue of the We answer what we to be true The convention wished Kansas to be admitted as a They wished it to be admitted either as a free or slave as the people might and they wished it to be admitted that there might be an end of the agita tation and trouble which had so. long disturbed the peace of the The only way to attain this important object was to submit for popular judgment the only subject which had caused the agitation and the disturbance national It was well known that those who would vote against the slavery clause would also against every other clause in the because they objected to any other than the slavery but because they denied the legal authority of the convention to sit and make a legal constitution and because they were all the time insisting that they had already made a legal constitution at To mit the whole was to endanger the fate of the whole and to prolong the agitation of the slavery It was known that the advocates of the Topeka constitution would vote against any constitution made by the It was not simply that they were opposed to but they were bent on having no constitution that was made by a body organized in pursuance of the laws of and none but that illegally made at Under such the convention determined to tender a compromise that would show to the country that they were anxious to restore peace and to the They determined to carry out the spirit of the Kansas law by securing to the people the right to have a free or a slave We think the deliberate judgment of the country will sustain the action the whilst the opposition to its so fiercely manifested by the conclusively shows that continued agitation is the real object they have in We repeat our deep regret that any of our democratic cotemporaries should be found with them in a course calculated to prolong Wo repeat our earnest hope that when they see that the true issue is between the Topeka and the Lecompton organizations they will no longer be found with the ' the There are twp classes of committed by individuals at of their own and another the actors are stimulated to wrongful apts cby designing men to accomplish purposes of their Men and to gratify their desire for gain or for When caught lover of right and justice assents to the of punishment without reluctance or But there is another class where this is often accompanied with feelings of a different in several cities in the country other controlled by reckless men who and use to accomplish their own 9ften into aggravated violations of they are and no one can justly ' But we frequently feel that justice would be better served if the leaders were punished of those whom they have excited and urged into The wary managers keep behind the curtain and escape They contrive and instigate acts resulting in but manage to keep of with cool leave a thousand times less guilty to all the direful all the tho scenes which have Baltimore in and rendered her a fearful and a of has been brought to suffer the penalties the The same is true in this which have disgraced our and ended in blood and death have been contrived in the know-nothing by those claiming high The leaders have marshaled and directed those looking up to and them on to act where they ribt show and when the of fell the it only had been duped their while the latter have kept themselves out of are thousands ia this city who do know which led to the tragedy here of last were made by those who action and advice in those whom they had duped to shoulder all the they having to avow and abide by the consequences of what they had It is the leaders who were authors of alU the and They occasioned the to be brought into the courts to be and they are the real guilty authors of that have been are being of cautioning those who fooked to them for they spurred on excesses thai occasioned tions and heartily wish these leaders were in the places which they led others as they far more guilty of We think that those who are now suffering for acting on their advice ing them feel how little to be confided in. FOB you lie down at compose your spirits as if you were not to tiH the heavens be no And when you wake in the consider the new day as your and act night which you shall never see the or that you shall never see the but which of our mornings and nights you know mantio of worldly enjoyment hang loose ' about that it may be safely dropped when death comes to carry you When the fruit is ripe it off the tree So when a ' heart is truly from the he is prepared for It is not the profession of the but the inward power of that is useful unto the or to the souls of a majority of the votes east at wife should be like roasted and nicely Somebody else without is the difference between Henry and a man in deep One was a fat king and the other is a the boasts that he has had about fifty and that he is the works of Isaac and long frequently hide something wrong about the Wee young lady who caught a eye has returned it because it had a wee in has a man a to scold his wife about his When he has plenty of is the difference between a and dog One wears hoops and the other animal has the quantity of The hog of for he has a are not pur best but they cannot do us injury without being to that a lightning asked a short-sighted siaid the a with a lighted a term formerly used in the case of a man who for hia newspaper and the coat on his Future have chickens no future they have their necks twirled in
