The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1849-06-22
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JESUS AND THE POOR.
BY GEORGE LIPPARD.

"l"sieu iu oue a"tui Ciouu. WhlCh ~
pierced by separate pyramids of fame
the cross Of Jesus gllttering high over
| all, ere il sinks in darkness!
! The sad words OF that Ghost are in our
ears, when the College the Orphans, the
City, wrapt in cloud and fame, melts
from our view.
Ca whom does he FACE beam with its
mont divine smile!
On that one-dysd old man, who deyo,
ted the immense hoard of his wealth to
the education and nourishment Of the
OutCast Orphan Poor; that large class Of
wrelches, who are flung upon the horrh
BILE merces of the Great City, with no
eye to watch over them but God.
Or, upon that Corporation which de-
layed the buiaiug Of the college for six
teen years after his death, thus leaving
one generation OF outcasus to ripen as
they might into virtue il ii SO CHANGED ,
but more certaiuly into robbers and mur-
terers, candidates for the jail aud the
Glbbeta That Corporations, which ek
pended neatly Two millions Of dollars in
bulldog marble tomb, whtcb never eau
be applied to The purposes of SCHOOL,
house: Two millien dollars for carved pill
lara and grave vaults, all finished ia pure
! Grecian sty Ie, while GsnaTatiou we're
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left TO starve aud steal aud die, fAgt
| Corporation, which haslSg grown old in
0uiages upon the will ofths dead man
-squandered his immense wealthlu mis-
erabls investments aRd direct fraud is
uow hesitating ere ii takes the las plunge
oflufamy and introduces sec ariau priests
aud sectarian Cresds into lhe " alts Of the
Gfphaa's toisge!
Just look st tie case, nay friends, and
ask with me, ~hatl4r this City has not
been terribly paid for ats outrages upon
Tie desd--its cowardly fraud upon The
Orphan poor-by some dozsn bloody iots
were laid ia ashes, and the cutters flood
ed wild human bloedl
You must take care Of the Outcasts of
the Great City, or they will take care OF
yNu. You must do something for them, or
they wll do something for your clty,
your homes, your-Ihroats. You must Ell
ther bu,ld school houses declare the rights
of the laborer sacred from the lash If the
monopolist, or you will have to swell
your Jals, and cover your streets with
rich harvest OF black gibbets.
Here we have tins Stephen Girarj-a
plain man, with a brown wriukled face
lighted by one eye, an unpret ending man-
ner, French accent-going along the
streets of tue Great City, looking upon
its luxury and its starvation, its fine ap
Parei and its rags, its horrible contrasts
OF enormous wealth an starving wretch
ednesS.
The Face shines into that unpublished
Frencbman's heart. He is not learned
in creeds--does not care much about &c.
neva OF Rome or Westninister;but cares
for something higher--Msn. This rude
man lighted by the Face, which mur-
murs forever "Good tidiDgs to the Poor"
resolves 20 devote his enormous wealth,
acquired by the toll of half a century, to
those Children of Jesus, the outcast or. |
phan poor, who, in the Large city, have
but one path before them, dreary blasts
ed way way of Bakedness, starva lion hun,
ger and cold and crime, with black fus
ture in the distance - Gibbet looming |
over Felop's grave.
This resolve is not made matter of oss
by Stephen Girard. 1t j, in
his heart. 1t is the soul of his life. 1t
brings tears to his eyes, when, secluded
W ith some chosen friend--like the virtu.
ods William j. Dusne = he speaks of the
Orphans. Of his plans for their redemp-
lion. He dies, leaving his will, in which
lis plans are SO plainly marked cut, that
no one but Scoundrel or Fool could
mistake them; those plans ending 10 one
,reat idea-=A School,house, large and
comfortable, for the orphan poor; aud
We million dollars. and more TO build the
,chool.house, and feed aud clothe and
duca,e the Orphans Of all time.:
Would it be believed, that in a Christ.
an City, where Churches and Preachers
ire as plentiful as Creeds in Theologi-
:al convention, this mans will was tram.
He'd upoo, its plainest provisions violated
early Two millions .quandered in build
pg Sepulchrs, which bids fair to stand
or a Thousand years, at once Monumen nj
yer the Orphans whe have died in the
ireet and rotted in The jail. and an eter.
al Marble Imsgs Of the Large Ciiy's ,
hame. III