Delaware gazette and peninsula advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1820, 1817-06-04

deeply in debt-and tributary to|
usurious capitalists, as greedy as theI
Jcws.s*
Persons in thu intermidate gradesI
between the: 0ery top and the very
bottom of 1he scale Of life, have pre-
cious advantages over those whe are
placed in either extreme. That they
have advantages over the lowest, al
will readily admit: and that they have
some important advantages over the
highest. is a position equally true. Iu
peint Of real solid comfort and happi-
ness, the condition of the fan mer or
mechanic who supplies his daily wants
by the labor of his own hands is in
linltely preferable to that of the no
blest above described who, for want
Of regular occupation, are under IT,.
hard necessity Of taking deal ofpains
land of resorting to numberIess exprili
tents and devices, to wear out the te-
ldious moments of their earthly exis-
'Itence. Even whilst, with utmost
'leagerness, they are seemingly pursu-
ling pleasure, their chief efforts are to
escape from misery, by killing the
time which hangs so heavily upon
their minds and their hearts. For
: as to pleasure, they are so surfeited OF
liz that they seek il onlv . .. aug
20 the distressing tediousness Of total
: inacti0n.
/ Although, fortunately, in thest
r United States, there are no heredltsr,
a ranks, that fix as il were by never-eh
ding .,tailment. the baneful disease
d ofsloth upon particular families "
n excess 20 wealth operates, not unfre
9 quently, the like effects. "After +;
e gatherer comes a scattcrer"--is ;
i, lproverbial saying, which. in whatevei
f country it originated. is no where
il perhaps, more strikingly matter .
o fact than in our own. Indeed not!in;
Y can be more natural than the process
,fl The g galherer," if he have gather
% ed a very large heap, is Of course
= man Of great worldly prudence : b,'
so far from being able to hequeat
N that quality to his children. the SIT
le ele circumstance Of their being 81
IN up in the world with fortunes has a
Ic most an irresistible tendency TO reE
j. der them imprudent. You cannot pl
ID the old head upon the young shou
ID ders. You can hardly convince II
Is rich born youth that considerable cal
Of and attention will be necessary on b
Or part, merely to keep the fortune Oh;
" falls to him. There is more than a
IA even chance chat he will be eth,
s carelessly iudolent or prodigally di
10 sipated that he will either waste b
d. time in idIeness, or spend it in vain
no not vicious pursuits.
The vanity OF wealth will alike a
ed feet his children and his children
al children. They will doat much upc
Ii the circumstance Of springing fro
h en- opoulent stock, and, by natur
all consequence, will feel themselves qui
,ly| above the ordinary occupations Of lii
Meanwhile the family estate will ha
re been divided and subdivided, till Il
RI |share of each comes to be very sma
,al A sort of statcliness is however, Ike
IN up in their narrow circumstances al
- even in their poverty. They presers
De, with a sort Of religious reyerenc
he some relics of former splendor 0
"a pictures, little fragments Of plate,
nat (some precious memorial or other,
IN. what once, zoas. For the pride
an family founded altogether upon veal
mi seldom suffers much abatement by t
re ruin Of that foundation. Thus it
ity that the needy descendants of a We
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