American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-12-10
From the Saturday Emporium. ]
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liS pILlul 10 see now Il love OF gam VIII!
cramp the soul, turn true nobleness out Ofdools
set generosity to guard iron safes, and treat W.
neration with absolute insult We have known
some men, miserable gill-mcasIreS Of human.
ty, who wo1ld squeeze a slXpence till it ,qucll,
cd, before they would give it to plant smile
in tho heart Of poverty, or to so0the one sorrow
that was,eating there. Yes, we have known
such; and there are those WHO wouid narrow
the STROUD that wraps the dGad--mourn more
for the expense Of funeral, than for the event
which caused it, and plough up the graves OF
their fathers to find shilling under their cof.
fla. Certain it is there are thosc--wc know,
for we have seen them-Who would turn their
cattle in upon the sacred enclosures of the
dead, to tralnple over the dust of their rover
end fathers, and the green bilEocks of thci,
slumbering children, for the petty gain Of that
very heritage which was nourished by the de-
cay of their kindred Truly, it would seem a.
if the dead could not sleep under such nJign
ty, but would start from their graves, and with
their stony eyes, haunt their sacrlegicus insul
ters till tAey had frightened them into some.
thing like humanity.
This is dollar-and-a-cent aye, and we are
dollar-and-a-cent nation. Fecuniary consid
eratiOns are the first to be attended to, and
have more weight than all others. The sal
mighty dollar" is worsbipped upon every high
place, and under every green tree. Whatever
offers profit is eagerly embraced, and closely
pursued; but whatever Investments we make
at the suggestion Of our generous feelings, are
considered an equal loss. We are SO unitarian
in our principles, that nothing of the present is
regarded which does not turn so much per
cent; and little that hallOws the venerable
past, unless it can in some way be transmit cd
into cash. The pick-axe and spade are ring.
ing on the rocks Of Bunker Hill, converting i,
into a place of traffic. 1t is too great a boon
to be consecrated to liberty and the past. A Ii.
berated country cannot afford to make il holy
ground forever, though 1t has been baptized
with the blood of heroes, in the name of the
Goddess of Liberty! What libel upon the no,
nor and gratitude of America. How reeroant
does it show her to the spirit Gf'76
There is nothing we more thoroughly de-
spise, than pnching, screwing avarce, We
must confess that we had rather SEQ man who
is little speod with yiany, than man who
is honest in everything, and noble in nothing
Fillany may subsist with much that is natural
ly good, like a n0xious weed among valuable
plants; but grpiag avarice turns humanity ou
of the soul and wallows in its own meanness
As if CONSCIOUS Of its own ietormity, it seldom
looks in the gass-appears before the world
in the old cast-otf coat Of honesty, and calls it.
self by the very respectable name of Economy
But in spite of its caution, the tail and cloveu
foot are apparent, and are rendered more dis.
gushing by the attempt at concealment. Go
we poor souls that prefer the money to noble
ness--makc your burrows at least six feet deep
tor the world above ground was made for men