Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-05-08
From the Orleans Gazette.

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Et genus ct yirtus nisi cum tP, yilinr alga
eft. Horace.
Money is the principal thing, therefore
get money. Solomon.
There is nothing in this world which
gives man so much importauce--n0.
thing which hides so many faults and
,nany virtues as MONEY. Without mo-
ney an honest man is despised, and with
it the greatest rascal or the meanest
scoundrel is respected. You she'll see a
being, without single pretensien to hu'
manity-a mere waking lump Of gross.
ness and depra,i,y-one of the viest oil
the vile, provided it possesses the one
thing needfuI--accompauied and almost
wcrshipped by half a score OF lickspittles
and sycophants. bowing ard g'inning ap-
plause at every thing It alters; while a
poor man Of talents, Of feeling ,ensibility.
and an independent soul, shall wander
alone aud unfrienjed throul h world
which cares not for his sorrows.
TO be poor is the lot OF many, from the
commencement Of their existence; but
misfortune is apparently considered as q
crime. and there IS nnthing more calling
to poor man of LIBERAL m,nd. tan that
kind OF hutrur and arrogance which the
5ich and am zen, assume toward him -
more especially. if he has once been in
better circumstances ) he feels it keenlY
1t sinks deep.
Bnt to be reduced from afflneRce to
misery aud want not b. any iaults Of
our own. bu by concurrence of unfor-
tunate events, not IN the power of man to
foresee or prevent, and in consequence
Of being poor to be treated with croness
and contempt, BY those with whom, in
DAYS Of prosperity we have been intimate
aud called friends embters a mans
feelings, makes him miserable and mis-
Il n ropic, and cause; him TO despise
human nature.
There IS nothing which produces 50
mach hatred to a former friend, as the BE-
'iet that he avoids you, because you have
been unfortunate in business, and yet if
a man has failed, no matter what may
hare been the cause, friendship soon
changes into pity, and sorrow for mis'nr-
tunes quickly desenerates into contsmp;
and the poor bankrupt generally, not
only Loses his friends and credit but al
80 becomes, al least for a time, can OBJ
Jet for scorn to point his slow unmoving
ilnser at"
There are il is true certain class in
society. whose opinions, whose good or
i'll will, has no more effect on az honest
man, than the idle wind--l mean those
fla, lazy and stupid beings whom you
fad IN all places, and meet at every Ger
ner OF the street, whose money is res
pected, bot who have no personal charac-
ter. Yet this class OF things these
purse-proud puppies-these substitutes
Tor men, who have neither capacity TO
conceive. ambition to attempt. nor abili-
ty 10 execute, any thing either good or
bad-tens of thousand whose little souls
might inhar' the she'll OF tobacco
seed, and @ We rooms to let--are suf.
fered by common consent of society N
a manner 10 look down upon, and tyran-
niZe over honest industrious men, whose
talents ought to entitle them to the first
rank.
Itthsre(ore becomes necessary for eve
ry man, whether kuavish or honest-whe-
Their stupid or eminent, to get money-to
get it horestly if he can, but BY all means
to get it. For is he is as wise as Solomon.
as ,tropg az Sampson and as brave and
elrqlen, as Cesar, unless lie possess The
wealth Of CrGsus, he will be disregarded
End despised.