Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1829-10-22
hARrINsBURe, VA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 90, 1929

NOT good, nor i'll, save as their teachers show
VINO make despotism OF heaven to prove
"s' Vfaa's are sort of earthly love;
nhu place demon on tn eternal throne.
10 JUSTIFY, oy his detects, their own.
But beg the readers pardon. am grow
ing grave, and touch upon the criminal when
| meant merely to confne myself to the ridi.
culoas
:, Nearly related to the religious and pglitical
ifoefality, and directed generally to the same
enns' IS that active. meddhng fussy much ado
soou'-nothing- hess. which displays itself IN
the superabGndance OF bazaars, the manulac.
lure oil pasteboard and paper ornaments. the
Emitting OF purses, and the fabric of hahv
iinen-to be sold for the benefit of some e..
Vorte school house, or some fashionable va
gary. There is the same massacre of time
tile same conceit of importance, the same
coming into evidence in an interesting anil
becoming attitude. and the same interference
with matters beyond the sphere and aboye
tiie comprehension of the actors. There i
moreover very pretty commodity OF coouet
ry and Irritation, that TO ladies who have PASS
ed Lord Byrons ''certain time OF life. p IS NOT
without its interest III pity he akin To lave
charity cannot be very remotely related to il:
ana wright or wrong. a woman is never sd
winning, as when her sympathies are warmly
engaged, no matter for what Even to those
WIN whom cloves dream is o'er,n there is mo
small triumph IN successful effort 10 whee.
de large sums from the customers: and IN
making, by force Of smiles and insinua.ion. a
simpleton pay guinea for gewgaw no,
worm shilling. The bazaar ladies' in gene
raj however high their birth and station) un-
dersiand the tricks of trade as well as the
merest hig5ier God help the poor man or
woman whose evil destiny leads him on a visit
to any OF these rich inutlity brokers' itwere
cheaper TO dine at Longs, or to sup at Crock
lords. For rich people have no notions Of the
value OF money. especially ladies' nor can
they possibly enter into the wants OF Others
IN which they do not themselves share. To
sag nothing Of the bore of being hurried from
the g1sls school to the spinnars and knitters.
and from these to the lace-m makers, and from
the lace-makers, to the basket weayers, YOU
ere compelled, in common decency, to buy
stockings you viii never wear, to purchase
baskets which YOU win aever fill, and to give
more lJr your lace than i. would cost at How
ell and James. The wells to servants are
hard enough, i'll all conscience, upon the hum
BILE friends of great families; but when the
mistress has her Prerequisites also, no moderate
purse can stand it. | bate mean, dirty suspi-
cions with all my heart. aad always think the
worse OF myself when they cross my ina ina-
ton, but, If were to die for il, Icannot help
fsneyiag that some Of these iady-deaiers In
charity sometimes count like the hackney
coacnman, zone shilling for master and two
fer myseii.R This is all very ridiculous; but
the matter becomes far worse when 1T is view
ed in its direct Influence on the poor, for
whose supposed benefit these speculations are
tindert ken. low many helpless girls, whose
industry is their own recourse, aot only
against want, but against lhiaIny, are thrown
out Of employment by bazaars, cheap rcpo-
sitories, working asylams, and the more dam
gerous rivalry of charitable sempslesscs and
embroilerers for the love of God How ma
ny poor tradesmen who pay taxes and rent on
the faith OF public encouragement, find their
counters deserted BIZ the lovers Of pisty aud
good barg inns, who flock in crowds To for /
ward the conversions Of Jews and HIndoos, 10
speed shc missionary Nlrom Indus to the
Pole" and to buy bonnet or a chemise al
s.haf the price of the shops This reflection
may he below the consideration OF those good
people, who view the poor less as objects OF
sympathy than as the Instruments for working
out their own proper salvation: but TO such as
can feel for others, and who would scarcely
purchase Heaven itself at the price OF human
suffering, the consequence is important
That there is much genuine charity in Eng
land it would be madness TO decay A popa
lation so Astounding in wealth must be more
Indifferent to small sums than communities
which are less at their ease, and free people
must be led into larger sympatlles, by the
conviction Of political interest common to
all ranks, from the hi CHEST to the lowest The
katss
charity, must tend to produce, in some IN
creased degree, the virtue it claims With
what proiuse largess do our great ner
chants, our nobility and landholders, rival
each otherin forwarding every public spirited
and every compassionate object; and when
the most ample deduction is made for paltry
and selfish motives, enough remains, If not
for redemption, at least for approval. Yet, for
even this pure and unmarked gold, the nation
is not entitled TO take credit, so long as IT IS
not accompanied by corresponding hberality
in opinion. As long as there IS little that y
generous and enlarged in the mind itself, pc
cuniary generosity can be justly regarded but
AS n monkish virtue Thus, when we lind the
same people, who rushed forward TO subscribe
three hundred thousand pounds Tor the rehei
OF the starving Irish, coming forward with
equal eagemess to petition against irish
rights, and to perpetuate the causes OF that
distress which their charity had previously
relieved, the admiration excited IN the iirst m
stance changes almost into disgust at such
capricious inconsistency; and the most that
can be conceded to the parties Is a mere am
nal instinct of compassion, which, however
convenient, has nothing in it either Noble or
exalted One knows not whether to smile or
to weep over that bastard hberaIty, which re-