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et worse. Ii he has no money, he has b
20 care, and though he may have no shirt S
ret il is no matter, for then he don't want y
me. In gutter or garrett he - as rich
Is in a palace, and the sun shine end tile
light make him as content as Dlogenes IN
MS tub.
Bat it has always seemed 10 me, my
hearers, that even Dlogenes must have
considered some other liule indispensable
thrown 10 or his tub would hardly have
conteuted hm, The tongue will burn
with thirst, and the bowels yearn Tor food.
The stomach is eantahkerous beggar ~
will not long brook denial. The sun will
still yield you light and the earNh offers
rest upon It's boson, but unfortunately for
700 that is moi enough. a most uniortu-
nste, improvIdent and injudlclous law OF
nature renders eating Indispensable. 1t
was a wonderful oversight IN the economy
oI nature, but the fact is so and 1t Is USE
less to replne. grieve from the bottom
Of my soul that food is necessary, but the
fact is so and the question is, how are you
TO get 1t? 1t does not grow cooked upon
the bushes, and the nigga'd earth will not
Weld even her fruits without labor. You
cannot like NebucadeueZZa eat grass like
a beast, and as for the charity OF your
fellow men, that horse has already been
ridden too hard; the spur stroke cannot
row rouse him. 1t is clear that you must
do something for yourselves, and with
deep and thoughtful anxiety have pom
dered painfully what it should be.
Robbery would offer ready resource;
hut most men look upon it with aversion,
and in truth The profession has not been
keId honorable for several centuries. The
rievers and liners OF the Scottish border,
the stark moss troopers of The bogs aud the
gallant archer Robin Hood with his mer-
ry men of The green wood, cast halo OF
glory around 1t which even now will daz-
zle and charm the fancy; bat 1t IS the
general opinion oil ludlcious men that This
uslre IS meitrleIous aud will not bear the
test Of moral analysis. Ia later day the
profession boosted one shining lIghr, one
brilliant GEN, in the person Of the renown-
ed and chiyalous Charles de Moor, WIN
cut throals with the delicate grdce OF a
courier an! rled o purse with an ele~
gance hIch made il luxury TO DC robbed
The Ile,o OF The Black forest, lie dark
dells sill rng WIN MS TeaIs. 't'hs- Oak:
ole OF cnllhroals, the Baydrd oil Bngaads,
tne Cosair Of the shore, the love OF ladies
and the theme Of song, his name embalm-
ed ia Tradition, aud his glorIes bymned III
the gorgeous numbers OF Intoxicating
verse. BJ hts exploits alone have not
won hrn b., tame, and he Iiugetlng lus.
true when subj plays over his memory Is
tribute as much 10 his bicgrap,er as To
him. His jeals are emblazoned o. The
pictured page of the iIuslrious ) b,iIer Il
I it is The ,tVlog light which gta,ns through
the Por,'> ve,se, which is bat reflected
upon The Brlgands deeds. The snrands
which sui grow fresh and greea over The
/ robbers grave are not clustering around
1 him, but we're woven as chapiC0 Tor he
child OF soUg. Slnce The DAYS d this ro-
mantle udveuIOrer, the profession has been
much degraded by The vulgaruy OF It's lol.
lowers; aud after the career OF the great
ITurpln hld closed, bat few gentlemen
have adopted II rs regular calling 10
our own Stale, TOO, there is a very general
prejudice asnmst 1t, 10 consequence oi The
ilnludlcIo"s severity which was manifested
five or siN 81 ears ago by AlouZo Phelps;
who was certainly IN some respects a We
ny rigorous practitioner. Ii cannot be
denied that on both SIDES Of The Atlantic
The general voice Of society through lis
accredited agent Of Parliament or Lee
gislature has been decidedly against II,
and has formally expressed lis dlsapproval
OF the custom, 10 the shape OF various en-
Iactments with penalties thfeln mentioned.
A parliament or Legislature must be es-
;eemed to torn their decisions on wise
ard deliberate reflection, aud us opinlnn
is therefore Justly entitled logreat weight
will not combat it, and IN preference to
an argument on the su3Jecl against such
authority, will at once admit frankly aud
without qualification, that robbery is a We
ry repreheusible profession which an en-
ighened policy required should be dis
couraged.
Selllng am not prepared 10 vindicaIe
it is generally considered, as most law
writer's maintain that the rights proper
ty are absolute. As a matter Of policy,
at any rate, most governments have re-
cognised, by legal enactment the dlstinc-
ton between meum and tuum and have
declared that a disregard of that dlsliuc-
ton should be iscountenanced, This
opinion has been general among civilized
nations with, think, but one exception.
The ancient Spartaus inculcated theft as
a virtue; but doubt whether il would be-