Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-03-05
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warn you ag11pst drinking that riches neccs-
smjly confer hatpness; ahdSpo?qrty, unhappi-
ness.-Do not begin life surprising that you shall
be hcart-rich, wlal. yQq are putsc-rich. A mans
happiness depends primarily upon hts disposition ;
IL That be good, Echcs will bring pleasure; but
6hy 5eXotion, if that be evil TO lavish money
upon shining trilQh K make an idol of ones self
for fools to g14e at, to rear mansions beyond our
wants, to gatnish them for display, and not for
q83, TT gin and chatter through the 'hearless
rc4lG5iot pleasure f.. lounge, to cape, to shipper
such folly? II wealth des6aiis UPON AyARlcE,
docs it Golfer happiness! 1t flights the heart,
as autumnal fires ravage The prairies The eye
CLOVIS wipA greedy cunning, conscience shiyels,
the light pl love goes out, and lbe wretch moves
amidst hts coin no better, no happier than
.loathsodig toad hopping in mine Of gold. A
dreary fife Of scIi-Ioye burns in the bosom ofthe
ayarciols rich, as a hermit's flame in Il ruined
temple ~ the desert The fire is kialIcd for 20
deity, and is odorous with no incense, but only
warns the shiyering anchored.
Wealth will do little for LUST, but to hasten
its corrupton There is 10 more happiness in a
foul heart than there is health in pcstent mo-
rass. Satisfaction is not made out Of such stuff
as fighting carousals, obscene reyelry, and mid
night beastIincss. An alligator, gorging or swon
with surlcit anRasking in the sun, has the same
happiness whc%iches brings to the huuan brute,
who eats to gIuttony drinks to drunkenness, add
sleeps to stupidity. But riches indeed bless that
heart whose almoher is BENEyoLGNcE, II the
taste s'fefned if the affections are pure, if con-
science iS honest, if charity listens to thcApeedy,
and generosity relieves them; if the public spy
tied hand fosters al that onbeAishes and all that
ennobcs society hen is the rich man haplf.
On the other hand, do not suppose that FOYER
ty is waste and bowling Wilderness There is
poverty Of vice-mean, Ioathsome, covered,
with all the sores Of deprayity. There is pGT-
erty OF ndolcnce--wherc virtues sleep, and pas
sons fret and bicker There is poverty which
dependency makes-a deep dungeon, in which
the victim wears hopeless chains. May God
save you from that There is a spitefuI and ven
omous poverty, in which mean and cankered
hearts, repairing none of their own losses, spit
at others prosperity, and curse the rich,-them-
selves doubly cursed by their own hearts,
But there is a contented poverty iii which in
dustry and peace rule and joyful hope, which
looks out INTO another world where riches shall
neither fly nor fade This poverty may possess
an Independent mind, heart ambitious of use
fulness a hand quick to SOW the seed of other
mems happiness and find its own joy in their
enjoyment. If serene age finds you in such
poverty, it is such wilderness, if it be wilder
ness, as that in which God led his chosen people,
and OH which he rained every day heavenly
mama,
If God open to your feet the way to wealth, en-
territ cheerluIly; but remember that riches will
bless or curse you, as your own heart deter
mines. But if circqmscribed by necessity, You
are still INDECENT after all your industry, do not
st6rn poverty. There is often in the hutemore
dignity than in the palace; more satisfaction in
1.-THE poor mans scanty fare than in the rich mans
Isatiely.