The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1845-03-06
THE WANT OF N


II is hard to be without money-io get on
without il, is like travelling TO the Island of
Cuba without a passport; you are stopped,
and both Inspected and suspected at every.
turn, besides being subjected TO the most Sc
rious inconvenience. The want of money
| here allude to, is not altogether that which
arises from absolute poverty-for where
there is downright absence of the common
necessaries . life, this must be remedied by
incessant bard labor, and the least we can
receive in return is a supply for our daily
wants-but that uncertain, casual precarious
mode of existence, in which the temptation
TO spend remains alter the means are exhaust
ed, the want Of money joined with the hope
and probability Of getting if, the Intermediate
Stale ofsuspence between the last dollar or
dime, and the next we may have the good
luck to encounter.
Ii is justly remarked by the poet, that pov-
erty hasno greater inconvenience attached to
It than that Of making a man appear very III
d~iculous. 1t not only has this disadvantage
with respect TO ourselves, but it often exhib-
its our friends in a very contemplate point
o~fview--people are not soured by misfortune,
but by the reception they meet with nsis-
When We do not want assistance, every one
is ready TO obtrude it on US, as if il were add
vice-if we do need it, they shun us Instant
ly-they anticipate the increased demand
on their sympathy or bounty, and escape
from it as from a falling house. 1t is. a ms
take, however, that we court the society of
the rich and prosperous merely with a view
TO what we can get from ibem-we do SO, be-
cause there is something in external SPLEEN
dour that g~ratifies and imposes on the i'm
agination just as we prefer the company of
those who are in good health and spirits to
that of the sickly and h~ypocondrical, or as we
would rather converse with q beautiful wo-
man than an ugly one.
Literally and truly one cannot get on well
in the world without money-to be in want
of money, is to pass through life with little
credit or pieasure-it is to live out of the
world, or TO be despised ifyou come into it
it is not 10 be asked out to dinner, or to
be noticed in the street-it is not TO have
your opinion consulted or else rejected with
contempt, to have your requirements carped
at and doubted, your good things desparaged,
and at last to lose the wit to say them. 1t
is to be scrutinized by strangers and neglect
ed by .friends-it is to be a creature of cir
cumstances, TO forego leisure, freedom, ease
of body and mind, to be dependant on the
good will or caprice of others, or earn a pre-
c%arious and irksome livelihood by some labor
ions employment-to be full oil enthusiasm
and extravaganza in youth, of chagrin and
disappointment in after life-to be a burden
10 your relations or unable TO do anything
for Tthem-to be ashamed to venture into
crowds-to lose by degrees your confidence
and any talents you might possess-to be
dissatisfied with every one, and most so with
yourself, and plagued out of your life, to
look about for a place TO die in.
Neither the time nor the friends
that have fled can ever be recalled
poverty is the test of sincerity, the
touch stone of %ciVility. and loses us friends
that are moi worth the keeping. Money as
luxury, is valuable only as a passport TO res
pect. 1t is one instrument ofpower-where
there are other admitted and ostensible
claims TO this, il becomes superiuous, and
the neglect of it, is even admired and looked
up TO as a mark of superiorty-Metropoi-
tan Reriep.