The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-04-27

Pstdls were now ptn0ey utstsu3uss0ooso -
the buzz Of the crowd-and even Herbert
began to be sensible Of the need Of his re-
treat. Horatio called 4 coach, and the two
friend stepped into it.
Herbert Ingalls, was green in the city
Educating fora professional life in country
town, he had been in0c1lated for universal
by atravslling agent Of one Of
the societies with which the present ago OF
good abounds. This communica-
ton Of the Philanshropic mania predisposed
him for the reception of all sorts Of inf1uen-
ces, and the publication of every new socie-
~ which he joined, to all which he was a
liberal subscriber, induced him in his quiet
retreat to imagine that the millennium had
already commenced in Boston. He actu-
ally regretted sometimes that there was so
little misery in the country-so little field
for the exercise Of his exhuberant benevo-
lence. To be sure, he met poverty-sick-
ness-but thoy were cases with which he
had been familiar, and he could not think Of
delaying his march in the amel,oration of
all the world, to attend to single isolated ca
ses. On the fallow ground of heart SO we'll
disposed as his for its reception, new seed
had lately been sown. He had skinned
radical writers upon political economy, read
visionary schemes for Eutopia-izing crea-
tion-had imbibed grand ideas Of Forwarding
intimacies and mutual confidence of trust g.
affectionate reciprocation Of secrets between
m;llionares and the solutions in their kitch-
ens,-and, in short, came to the city thor
oughly persuaded that this world is upside
down, and that it was his duty to set an ex-
ample, not only Of benevolence, charity, and
every other clever topic Of discussion in
moral essays, but Of contempt for the SAC
cursed conventional forms of society'-the
anti-republican, monarchial habits which
people in this world have strangely got into.
Of preferring the society of those of their
own standing, pursuits, and views, to that Of
others entirely dissimilar. His first essay
beyond mere talk was the attempt to cher
ish negro fer driving him out ofthe street.
an act of friendship for which the man
would have conceived himself we'll reward
ed by the donation of sixpence; but In
gals could think of no such inadequate
compensation He wished to make the ne
gro his particular friend, but deferred, as
the reader has seen, he sat about scheme,
which, if perfected, would have starved the
black angel. This was no less than the abo-
lition of chimney sweeping, which he re-
| commended in an essay published in twenty
FIVE numbers, in the Advocate of Hams
chatkan Reform and Ameliorator of the
Climate of Greenland He went on the
modern, approved, ruat celun principle, and
maintained that if chimnies would not keep
themselves clean, they should not be built;
If fires could not I've had without chimnies
i we must dispense with fires; and that if food
could not be prepared without the agency Of
lcaloric, it must be taken crude. 'All this,
he eloquently concluded, swould but be I
lconsummation devoutly to be wished. How
naturally does one step toward right for
ward the whole grand plan Of reforming al
lcreation! The simple course of justice to
ward the sweep, who is Of equal actual i'm
portance in the world with kings and prin
lces, presidents and governors, and mayor
land aldermen, and common-council men
would thus bring us back to the primitive
purity and simplicity of Eden. The en-
liightened philanthropist who has followe,
me through the brief notice Of a momentum
lsubiect, will join with me in the encoura
cling belief, that the ball thus set in motion
will bring about the realization Of the hope
, Of all good men,
Now the rest Of the deeds of Herbert In
gals, are they not recorded in the annals
the societies to whose publications he con
I tributes? And the rest of his mishaps, ar
they not recorded in the following letters
Il M dear Uncle-It is an unpleasant d.
Ity. but l am compelled to write you, re
ouesting you would send for my cousi
home. AS to his attendance at the medics
lectures, that ceased after the second, as
protested he would no longer make merchar
! ldise of the sills that flesh is heir to- b,
: Ishould Immediately enter upon the gran
work of compelling man to renounce the il
Iheritance Of ills, and go back to the veget'
Ible food, His best coat Is entirely spoiled
J, as he one evening took it into his head TO {
: on mission to the sailors ia their boardiu
lhouses; and some Of them raced it foe hin
, His hat IS likewise entirely red, for viii
The was preaching political economy At U
foot Of q ladder to an Irish hod-carrier,
lwar Of q mason who was waiting for q
bricks, let fall trowel load Of mortar up
/. his castor. His pockets were last mig
picked by loafAr to whom he was demo
!. strating that the canopy Of Heaven, und
: which he nightly sleeps, Is a defence as 60
as 4 slate roof. To be brief, my dear y
lcle, YOU must recall your son, or worse y
= happen than have yet recounted, IS /
70 Ebas 1t last, in the simplicity Of his hea
=, undertaken the reformation Of descripti
. of outcasts Who are much moro Ike to le
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