Litchfield enquirer., 1845-06-19
THE RECoNCILIATIoN.--A PROPHECY

only another name for wickedness. 1t is NOT true
tnat virtue must inevitably be found with raps-
money may be the root of evil, and vet he who
culsivates Tie said root may be clean husband.
man as any digger on this side of Eden Human
brutlshness may be hung about with tatters-as
human human ruin and sweetness may be found under
rlchest purple and inest linen Want and hunger
do more Gely me sta ing. than do three courses
t,,os ~ az are well-e All the household vir-
tues do not, Of necessity hover abouf Al emntv
cupboard, any more than d. tba ;mns ~ Satpn
nestle in the buffers pantry. =
There are faults ON both sides. othors;se ,,h.+
a lop-sided world this would be $50 S N "Aas
wealth ana Poverty call one anotlsr hard names !.
and then reward themselves with an shhnaarceos
self-complacency. The rich man is al ogre i;s.
ing upon the hearts of the poor grindlsg them
under his golden heel like worms pennins then,
up like unthoughtul cattle in unions for game
and poor law offences, locking them In jals hsr.
rying them here and there; in any and every man.
ner grinding their bones to make his fine wheat
bread. And Wealth, with this report Of wicked
ness upon it, is a monster new Dragon of Want
| tey-a hydra with hundred heads, some bare
some coronetted And so is Wealth abused, and
pelted with hard names To be sure, the missiles
break like bubbles against its golden Plates
Words are but air,-and Wealth rattng its ingots,
may laugh at the vocabulary Of Want, Be it ever so
| uncleanly.
And then Wealth has its say, too. Poverty is
an ungrateful dog mere animal--an engine
made for the express use of him who can purchase
It. An ungracious, foul-tongued, coarse, disorde.
| iy wretch; creature in no way tuned Wi,at6nnl
same moral harmony, ennobled bgJt pocket. Down
ses, that animate the man imprison i. brand +,
it The and the nuisance zee Of fa ths rich
hiSnA alter this fashion do Wealth and Pow erty
rraduce one another After this fashion do they
in the very hastiness Of ignorance-commit a
mutual wrong After this fashion, set up false
standard of mutual excellence.
90 What % saws Wealth, &C do NOT fiftEl INV mr..
dained purpose? Do not profess myself Chris.
tan : Do not go TO church, and enact all the
inevitable decencies' Of life j! Do not pay the
poor rates--Easter dues-and all that I envy no
man his worldly goods. l am content with my
own. ! fairly, nay honorably fulfil the station
awarded me, and what care I--what should care
for the rest know my duties, and do them"
And Poverty. in its sense Of suffering, hugs it
sells that in the next world, it will 60 hard with
DIVES and lays up for itself, in its own cotnpla.
cency, the reward of LAZARUS confoundng in
its wretchedness, its wants for excellencies.
Surely there will come time when the Rich
and the Poor will fairly meet, and have great hu-
man talk upon the matter will hold parla-
ment Of the heart and pass acts that after sci.
fishness and wrong-on either side-shall repeal
The Rich will cofne--not with cricket-balls or
quoits in their hands-to make brotherhood with
the Poor but touched with the deep conviction
that in this world the lowest created man has q
solemn part to play, directed to solemn ends; that
he is to be considered and cared for in his condi-
ton with tenderness with satssn tern SsnSEesRs S
the high to the low; that human sympathy can
speak otherwise than by the voice of money and
that, too. In at once, otter and sweeter tone Of
hope and comforting.
The time will come when Poverty will be re.
lieved from its serfdom. We have ernancipated
the slave to the confidence of his skim We have
next to emancipate the slave to Poverty: to take
from him the stain and blot. the blight and dis
grace of paupersm; to cure HIM Of the leprosy,
he takes from want alone to divest HIM Of the
collar and the chain, which human pride and pre-
judice have, for centuries past, beheld about the
neck of the Poor. When Poverty shall be decsr-
ed no longer nfamous-no, not declared that, .
with pharisee-lip, we declare now-but thought.
| believed, made creed of, then may Poverty ex-
pect its higher rights. At present Poverty has an
| ignominious, felonous character and honest,
yet withal worldly men, give good steerage-room
to the foul disgrace.
Then will it be pleasant to see-whoever shall
see 1.-THE reconciliation of the Rich and the
Poor. When all old selfshness, old prejudces,
old feuds-on both sides-shall be buried and for
gotten when the Rich shall have cast away the
arrogance of wealth, their pride, their wicked and
| irreligious sense of exclusiveness-and the Poor
shall have quenched all heart burnings, all thoughts
of revengeful wrong,-thsn will it be glorious
sight, (no bravery like it to see man reconciled to
man and knowing that, whilst human life ell
dures, there must still be human inequalites-st !
to know there shall be wise, sympathzing, and
an enduring RECONCILIATION.
Buried .fiive.-On the 1St ult., the whole pop.
ulation of the little town Augoisse, France,
were placed in the utmost alarm and conster-
nation by a report that mysterious sounds
had been heard to issue from the cemetery
of that place. At last it was suggested that it
might be Pierre Nlalet, who had been buried the
preceding evening, and whO twice previously had
been thought dead but had returned to life. Act
ing this idea his friends repaired the church
yard, when dull but continuous noise was heard
proceeding from Pierre's grave. Spades were
speedily obtained, and the coffin dug up and OPEN
ed when the unhappy Pierre was found still living,
although in a deplorabe state, his hands and feet
bleeding from the violent effortrs he had made to
call the attention of the passers by. The poor
youth was not restored to life for long, as he scarce
/ ly breathed fifteen minutes when he rendered up
his last sigh, and this time in reality.-Pais Con-
stitutiOnnei
Early Rising.-There is freshness and pu.
rity in the morning air, which, to the physical and
moral state of man, is vgor and delight 1t is sell
dom that the sensualist, the idier, the van taste
its ethereal joys. A mystical spirit turks in the
perfumed breath of awakened creation. which is
undoubtedly gifted with supernatural power
Those who would live long and see good days, must
J habitually become early risers. The loss OF the
morning hour is never retrieved.
The Duke de Netnours, and H. r. H., the Prince
l de Jonville, hunted on Thursday in the forest of
| Compiegue with Prince Augustus Of Sake Co
bourp In the course Of few hours, they bagged
, twenty seven hares.
D On the same day, one Of the people of Paris ha-
I wing discharged his gun at a swallow, was con.
D demned to ride the wooden horse! VINO shall say
now. that Justice is not equally distributed among
In. Ia PHOef.l