The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-11-06
A Dinner story.

The following anecdote from Ncrah's Weekly
Messenger, beautifully illustrates the principle of
charity, and teaches that it is often for our own
interest 10 81 feed the hungry and cothe the
naked -
Z" Sir, bring me good dinner" said a melan-
choly individual to the waiter at OF our princi
pal hotels
" Yes, sir"
The dinner was brought and devoured, and the
eater called the landlord aside, and thus addressed
him.
" :, You are landlord"
" You do good business here ?"
" Yes" In astonishTEeR..
" You make probably ten dollars day clear"
"Yesn
"Then | am safe. [ cannot pay for what
have consumed ! have been out of employment
seven months, but have engaged to go to work to-
morrow l had been out of food four and twenty
hours w4en entered your place will pay you
in we Ak.'
Z" l sirnot pay bills with such promises" blus-
tered the landlord and | do not keep poor
house. You should address the poor authorities.
Leave me some thing for security"
| have nothing"
" | will take your coat"
d" If go into the street without that | will get
my death such weather as it is"
" You should have thought of that before you
came here"
The coat was left and in a week after was re-
deemed.
Seven years after that wealthy man entered
the political arena, and was presented to caucus as
an applicant for Congressional seat The prn-
cipal of the caucus held his pace-he heard the
name and history of the applicant, who a
member of the church, and one OF the most respec-
table citizens. He was Chairman. The vote was
tie, and he cast negative, thereby defeating the
wealthy applicant, whom he met an hour after
wards, and to whom he said
" You don't remember me ?"
"No."
" l once ate dinner at your hotel and although
told you that | was iamishng, and pledged my
word and honor to pay you in week, you took
my coat and let me 90 out into the incement
air, at the risk OF my.lite, without it"
"Well, sir, what then 2"
:" Not much You called yourself Christian.
Tonight you were a candidate for nomination,
and but for you would have been elected to
Congress"
Three years after the Christian hotel-keeper
became bankrupt, and songht home at Belle
vue. The poor dinnerless wretch that was, is now
a high functionary we know him well. The ways
of Providence indeed are wonderful and the world
mutations almost beyond conception or belief.
G. P. R. James, Esq, has addressed letter tc
his friend, M, B, Field, in reference to an article
in the American Review, in which the writer in
on account of one Eor two poetical compositions Of
his, said to contain offensive illusions to the Uni
ted States. The letter is a manly and satisfactory
defence against an ungenerous attempt to excite
public enmty towards a stranger, who visits oul
land after having, for many years, contributed to
delight its people by his literary labors. After
paying handsome compliment to Holmes, as the
author of the well-known poem upon the old fri
gate Constitution, and avowing that he can almost
share the enthusiasm with which he speaks OF tha
| gallant vessel, he adds:
| " Let me, in the name of honesty and truth, be
| dealt with in the same manner. AS to the insnu.
| atOns afterwards conveyed-as to the perversior
| of the language and the sense of what | wrote
repel them as they merit. Every one who know.
| me-every who has read my works, knows
| well that the character of Washington has eve
been in my eyes, perhaps the most perfect in his
tory, and that have ever conented that the hatt,
of the British Constitution was fought by him ant
his, upon this soil, much for the benefit of Eng
| shmen as for their own"
Speaking, in another part of the same letter
with regard to certain expressions of his respecting
slavery here, which are made the subject of part o
the attack upon him in the periodical above reerre,
to, he says:
g shrink not from the responsibility of Englant
in the matter OF slavery in this land. acknow
ledge, and with shame for my country that the sill
of having imposed such burden upon the Southern
States and in such manner that it is hardly pos
sbe for them to free themselves from it with Saet
to themseyys and without danger and damage t
the hole Republ", is mainly and primarily attrib
ulable to England"
Mr. CIay.-We have already published ac
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