A truck cart loaded with merchandise is now a rare object.

A bale of goods can not be sold at any price.

The countenances of all our best business men are stretched out in a perpendicular direction and when the times will let them come back into human shape not even the wisest pretend to guess.

Those that are out of all speculative and ever-changing business may consider themselves in a Paradismal state.
In the spring of 1838 he writes to Guelma and Susan, at that time twenty and eighteen years of age, to know if they feel that they possibly can go alone from Philadelphia to New York, where he will join them and bring them home; but evidently they decide they can not, for Susan's journal speaks of "the happy moment when they run to the gate to meet him." On the journey he tells them that his business is ruined, they can not return to school and will have to give up their beautiful and beloved new home.

In recalling those times Miss Anthony says that never in all her long life did she see such agony as her father passed through during the dreadful days which followed.