The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-07-30

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died of jealousy, love and despair.
THE CHURCH AND THE TAVERN.
| BY LAURIE TODD.
In the year seventeen hundred and ninety.
three, when Louis the Sixteenth was behead.
ed, and the French revolution in full blast, |
was thorough. going radical. With seven.
teen more Of our club, was marched, under
u guard of The Kings officers, and lodged in
Edinburgh Jail. Alter summary hearing, 1
got liberty to Danish myself and accordingly
took passage in the good ship Providence, and
landed at New York in June, 1874. was
then in my twenty. second year. When the
ship cast off from the wharf, in Scotland, and
swung round with the hreeze my father stood
upon The shore. He waved last adieu, and
exclaimed, Remember the Sabbath day.
arrived at New York on Saturday. and the
next day being the Sabbath, al nine o'clock a. m.
three young men oi our company called at my
lodgings.
Where are you going to-day T they inquired.
TO the church, | replied.
'We have been ten weeks at sea our health
requires exercise. Let US walk out to day and
60 to church next Sabbath they replied.
Said |, you can 60 where you please, but
III 90 to church !; the last words heard from
my father were Remember the Sabbath
day and, had no respect for the Fourth Com.
n,andmen,, | have not ye, forgotten his last ad.
| vice.
They went to the fields; went 10 the church;
they spent Iorty or fifty con,s at the tavern {; |
put one penny bill in The plate, at the morn.
my, afternoon and nigh. service Total, three.
pc"ce. They continued going into the coun.
Try, and in process Of time the landlady's daugh.
Ter, and the landlady's niece, would join their
company. Then each couple hired gig, ut
Two doiars day: wine, cake and ice cream ON
the road, fifty cents each; dine at Jamaica, one
dollar each. They got home at eigh, o'clock,
p. rn, half drunk, and having been caugh, IN u
thunder shower, their coats, hats, n,anles,
were damaged fifty per cent. They rose the
next morning al nine o'clock a. M, with sore
heads, Bore hearts. muddy boois, and an angry
conscience, besides twelve dollars lighter than
when they started. went 10 church, rose at
five o'clock, u. m., head sound, hear, light,
bones refreshed, conscience quiet, aud con-
menced The labors Of the week in peace and
plenty. They were all mechanics; some OF
them could earn twelve dollars week. NY
business, that OF wrought nail.n,aker, poor;
the cut-nai machines had just got into opera.
ton, which cut my wages lo IA shaving. With
close application, c"uld only earn five dollars
aud fuy cents per week. Never mind, at the
end ut tue year my Sabbath riding .ship.males
had fine cUals, fine hats, powdered heads, and
rulfied shirts; but had ons hundred hard dollars
piled in the corner OF my chest. Having lived
last, they, they died early. Nearly forty win.
ters are past, and forty sutnmeB ended, since
the Iasi was lad in the Puilers, or some other
field while |, have received from my maker 4
sood constitution, (and common sense to lake
care i,,) l'm as sound in mind, body and spir.
its, as Was Oh This day hfy.sx years ago,
when first SET my foot on shore at Govsrneur's
wharf, New York. Besides, its fact, (for
which my family can vouch,) have been only
Que day couhned to the house by sickness, du.
ring all that period.
NOW, Mr.. Printer, dare say you think, with
me, that the church OH the Sabbath is better
than the tavern aud fields for The lab0rinp man.
In seventeen hundred and ninety four, we
had no water but from pumps {; no hacks MOI
| hNeIy ebaoioo, oh'y 'uiCc Huti'Veu CdTtIuen; Inc
wheels ot their carts were made of heavy timber.
Iron tires were, by u law Of The Corporation pro.
hlbl,ed, tearing they would injure the pave.
ments, or arouse the sleeping Dutch burgornas.
ters in their Afternoon sissta. The curbslones
were all made Of wood, (as Pat would say. J
The only theutre stood in Jonu.street, where
now stands 'rhurburu's seed.store. In those
days no maj, read an American book. Irving,
PauldIng and Cooper, were not up that morning.
M ,uan looked on an American coin, Spanish
dollars, halves, quarters and eighths, conslu.
ted our circulating medium, with New York
corporation bills, from one penny to TWELVE
Now, our copper, silver. and golden eagles
soar above tho clouds, and We have gold dust
blown in our eyes from every quarter, while
we are smule to the earth by lump Of pure
yellow, ten inches and three querters in circum.
terence, aud American funds are the safest in.
veslment in the world. We have food enough
TO feed the world, and gather up seven baskets
Of fragments that are Taft; and if every man
would mind bis own business, and let his neigh.
boris alone, we might be the happiest people
in The world therefore, Madam Folsom, and
Father Garrison, you may boil your Irish pc.
taloes with your whit. negroes and let the
South boil their sueet Carolinds with their black
uegroes. Then eal, without asking questions,
ruus may hrolherIy love continue, as your par
sun prays,