Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1837-01-10
For the Waterman and State Journal.
TO THE FREE HEARTED.

how some men dote upon being calet
Tree hearted They will force their whsk c,
down your ihroats, then Jamaica is free as wa
ter why call them free hearted They will
invite you 10 make free with all the house af
tords, they will press you TO cat and stuff likt
gormands, only call them the free heartfelt
Free hearted they may have hearts tn,
most stupid brutes have hearts but can men
who, while they press you 10 drink to intox
cation and cat 10 gluttcny, begrudge the small
lest trltlo towards providing mental nouri h.
ment-towurdt charging the capacities Of the
mind, have souls or intellect If 10 save II,
from the charge Of irreligion, souls must be
conceded then, they are souls as diminutive
and contracted MS miset's charity if the,
have lntellccts, they are as shrivclcd as the
SKIN oil an Egyptian mummy Of thirty centu-
res.
For human bcinGs-intelligrnt and r"ason-
ing beings, made in the very image of their
Creator, TO think, that 10 minister witt prolusion
10 the mere animal appeiitcs of themselves
md their friends, is The least evidence of n free
and generous heart What can be stron.
ger proof OF narrow and perverted intellect -?
However nlsgardly m en- may be in providing
Inc means tor improving those faculties which
distinguish them from the brute, and give them
oil the resemblance that can exist between
liberal in providing for those appettes which
they possess in common with brutes. thew
'hnk they are free hearted. Poor empty head
ca, sordid sCncd beings they liberal thcy
Tree hearted they, who from very covetous.
ness, from very lilteness Of heart, are content
with that faint and Slimnering light Of reason.
which has been kndled within them TO the end
that they may by their own exertions, in fur.
nlshing and properly employing liberal sup
ply OF the necessary materials, encourage il
into bright and steady blaze So importu
tunatc are the five senses, more especially that
OF taste, that there is as little danger OF their
being neglected, as there is little merit in an
swering their calls beyond the bounds Of the
greatest moderation. But the mind, in cener-
al, ls Tar from being impoHunGte as it suc-
frrs no acute pah from hamilton, lis cravings
are scarcely noticed. Lii @ a dilIident child
It's wants should therefore be Anticipated. And
though II will lingcr along for an indefinite Pc
rlod, with little or no nourishment, yet it will
make ample returns Tor bountiul feeding. II
should therefore be supplied lrcoIy-profugelv
yet The prevailing practice is precisely the re-
verse of his.
The moderate rum drinkcr, the smoker and
tobacco chewer, or the tea drinker, who is too
nIggardly 10 expcnd for mental nourishment. n
sum equal 10 the cost of these useless and in
deed pernicious articles, which are induced in
wholly 10 crafty the sense Of taste, and not 10
nourish the body, can by no possibility, claim
to be free hearted for he is both heartless and
soullese, saving a suiiiciency Of the latter bare
~ TO Distinguish him from the brute. and con-
stitute HIM an accountable bcpg. But we
nave SAID enough 10 comporl with tie idea
conveyed in the signature Of only
THREE WORDS.