The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-04-14

Ifye are honest, honorable men,
Go ye and Ed1'PAY THE PRINTER
My hearers-There are many seeming
Itrities in this world which you are too apt
to overlook on account oflheir unimpor-
tance, the neglect which has plunged
thousands into the deepest mire of mise
ry, and sunk their characters into mex
tricabe degradation. Among these tri-
hes, that of negleciing to pay ones honest
debts is the most common, and attend
ed with the worst of consequences. 1t
takes off ali the silken furze of the fine
thread offeeling kind of mis-
anthropc GOODNESS about the heart
skins all the cream that may chance to
rise on the milk of generosity, and makes
man look as savagely upon his brother
man as does dog upon one of his own
species while engaged in the gratifying
employment ofeatIng his masters dinner.
One debt begets another. | have always
observed that he who owes a man dol
lar is sure to owe him grudge; and he
is always more ready to pay compound
interest on the latter than on the former.
Oh, my friends, 10 be over head and ears
in love, is as bad 2redicament as per-
son ought everto be in; but to be so deep
y in debt that you cant sleep of nights,
without being haunted by the ghosts of
some impatient creditor, is enough to
give man the hydraphobia-make him
bite wheel-barrow-cauSe il to run mad
and create general CONSERVATION among
the lamp posts.
My dear friends-The debt that sits
heaviest on the conscience of a mortal
provided he has one-is the debt due the
printer. 1t presses upon ones bosom
more than the nighimare--gaIs, soul
frets & chafes every ennobling sentiment,
Squeezes all juice offraternal sympathy
from the heart ,and leaves it drierth han the
surface of roast potatoe. A man who
wrongs the printer can never expect to
enjoy comfort in this world and may well
have doubts of finding happiness in any
other. He will be sure TO go down to
the grave ere Time shall have be.
decked his brow with the sIvery bios
SONS of age, and the green leaves of hope
will fall before the bud of enjoyment has
expanded. 1t is true the mushrooms of
peace may spring up during The short
night of forgetfulness, but they will all
wther beneath the scorching ofremorsc
How can you my friends ever have the
wickedness to cheat the printer when he
Iabors all day in doing good for you'll
He has poured into the treasures of your
minds some of the most valuable gifts
that any thing short ofGod can bestow--
aye riches with which you would not part
for the possession of the whole world,
and mortgage on small corner of heav-
en-. With the keys ofmagic, as it were
he has opened the iron cased doors of
the human ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the
darkness ofignorance and lit up the lamps
of knowle dge and wisdom. The mighty
engine-the press is surrounded by a
halo of glory, and its effulgcnce extends
all over the broad empire Of the mind, H..
Illuminating the darkest avenues of the
heart; and yet THE pRTNTER-the man
who tolls at the lever of this soul enlight-
ening instrument-iso often robbed of his
hard earned bread by those whom he has
delivered from mental bondage. and
placed in paradise. to lay off aud grow
fat upon the fruits ofhis labors!
Oh. you ungraleful sinners! you have
hearts soflened with the dews of mercy,
instead of gizzards filled with gravel,
take heed what | say unto you. lfthere
he one among you in this congregation
printer, go and adjust Immediately, and
be able to hold your head up in society
like the giant: be respected by the wise
and good-free from the tortures of a
guilty consclence-the modification of
repeated duns-and escape from falling
into the clutches ofthose licensed thieves,
the lawyers. If you are honest and hon
orable men, you will go forthwith and pay
the printer. You will not wait for the
morrow, because there is no to- morrow
it is but visionary receptacle for unre-
deemed promises; an added egg in the
great nest ofthe future; the debtors hope
and the creditors curse. Ifyou are dis
honest, low minded sons of satan, don't
suppose you will ever pay the printer as
you have no reputation to lose-no char
acter to sustain-and no morals To cult
vate. But let me tell you my friends,
that ifyou don't do it, your paths to the
tomb will be strewn with thorns. you
will have to gather your daily food from
the brambles-your children will die
with the dySentary, and you yourselves
will never enjoy the blessings of health.
once called on a sick person whom the
doctors had given up as gone case. i
asked him if he had made his peace with
his Makerl He said he thought he had
all squared. Inquired if he had forgiv-
en all his enemies. He replied yes |
then asked him if he had made his peace
with his printer. He hesitated for mo-
ment, and then said he believed he owed
him something like about two dollars and
fifty cents which he desired to have paid
before he bid farewell to the world. His
desire was Immediately gratified and from
that moment he became convalescent.
He is now living in the enjoyment Of
peace with his own conscience, his God,
and the world. Let this be an example
fpr you, my friends. Patronize the prin-
ter; take the papers, pay for them in ad-
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