Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1825-05-19

and will never quarrel with n who
happens to thinA otherwise than ne
does: and you know bow desirable
such a quality is.
Inregard to external circumStGn
ces, d prudent foresight is necessary
in every rank of life:-tbough riches
are not happiness, poverty is distress,
especially to those who have been u
sed to it. Here look out for frugallty,
industry, application and activity
Whatever station a mar is born in,
on h;msif in a great measure depends
his future fortune; and though IL may
not be practicable for a man to raise
himself from indulgence to atfiuence,
yet it is hardly ever out OF a mans
power, who possesses the qualities
have mentioned, to advance himself
TO a comfortable independe nee: while,
on the other hand, no advantages OF
fortune, secure the i%mprudent prodigal
from sinking into poverty and distress.
SO you see, upon the whole, / pre-
fer sobriety to every thing; virtue to
the gifts of nature: that man whom
others think beneath notice, to him
| whom each female views and admifes;
an innate benevolence 10 an outside
complaisance: q small share OF useful
well applied good sense, TO the largest
fund oflearningand knowledge, when
| productive of self suificiency; modes
ty, even in a man, to the most agree
able assurance, and lastly ,frugality and
! prudencet to riches and worldly advan-
tages; and from altogether you may
infer that it is the mar himself, not bis
external, nor yet his calling, that l
Judge by. You had best know how
many Of those qualities the person in
question possesses, and in which he is
deficient; bat as you must expect de
6ciencies in every one, let it rather be
in any thing than that | first mention
ed: and next avoid the perempiory
sensible man.
"In America" (says am English
man in "a letter to his friend in Liver.
pool "tyranny is moi possible; nei'
Their can government tyrannize over
an individual; nor ran one individual
tyrannize over another. No man here
need submit to any thing but lalo.'
and that he must submit to. To be
sure. a mistake may be made in legis
I%ation, or a wrong decision given in a
court of Justice, because neither iegls-
lators nor jurymen are perfect beings;
but nothing knoWn 10 be lcrong will
be persevered in. An elec,or may be
! codred to give a foolish vote, but no
man can command the vote ofanother.
I have had the republican satisfaction
of seeing a tenant refuse to vote for bis
own landlord, and the refusal perfect
ly ciuil too, both in words and in man
ner, 81 really cannot do it, Mr.. F."
"WeII, but l hope you are not going
to exert yourselfagaInst mep' "Why,
Mr.. i. you know / have my
own party to support, and must do
my dutyt'-"Wby! you id here
tic" said /, "what, refuse to vote for
your W landlord! 1t is enough to
make an Englishman stand on has
head, only to think of such a thing!"
| Well, sir, l don't calculate that he has
any claim on me but for his remit"
Dress is much more essentially con
nected with character than is generally
supposed. Putting dandyism entirely
out of the question, there is scarcely
any individual who does not exhibit
some peculiarly in dress, more or
less striking; and l venture to assert,
that there is not one man in FIVE hun
dred wholly inattentive to the subject.
However remote a man may be from
a coxcomb, or however neal he may
be TO a s%loven, he will have some
choice in the cut, colour, or quality of
his habiliments. A perfect indIffer-
ence in these particulars is not always
a proof of a mind superior TO %tritles; it
as often argues a deficiency OF taste,
and a neutraIized inspidity Of charac.
ter.
Old DR.. Hunter used TO say, when
he could not discover the cause of a
mans sickness, "We'll try this, and
we'll try that. Well shoot into the
tree, and if any thing falls, well and
good" cay" replied a wag, Il
fear this is tho commonlv the case and