New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-01

sobs looking on, who saw these things too. Thew
were we'll clothed, aud had purses Ia their pocE.
cts; they were educated. iull Of Kindness and
loved mercy. They sao d one another "Thisk
horrible, and shall NOT be- r. aud there was a suF
among them - set IL night. But opposed 10 these,
came small multitude o. noisy Eools and greedy
knaves whose harvest was in such horrors; and
they, with impudence and turmoil. and with sour
IlOus tests az misery sud d sgh. repealed the bet
ter lockers Oh, who soon isl back AID stood alOof
Then, the Shispcr vent among those betters
boxers on, SAYING "Oger the bodies Of those Eel.
lows, 70 the remedy
But, each OF them modify shrugged his shoul.
deTs and replied, s. II u a great wrOng--sUr 1T
Will LAST ,iY TIME " Aud 50 they pat i from
them
Isaw great library Of laws and law.prooeed.
ings, so complicated. costly, and unnteAigibe.
that, although numbers 81 lawyers united 10 q
public fiction that these wee wonderfully lust
and eQusl, there as scarcely an honest man
among them, but who seid 20 his friend, privately
consulting him. Better put up with fraud OF
other injury than gropc Tor redress through the
manifold blind turninss sud strange chances Of
this system
saw a portion Of the system, called (of all
things EQUITY. which was ram D sailors, rain
10 property shield Tor Wrong-doers having mo-
new a rack for right doors having none; a by.
word for delay, slow agony OF mind, despair, ia
poverishment, trlCkery, confusion, insupportable
injustice a main part OF IT, | saw prisoners
wasting il Jail mad people Ia hospitals suicides
chronicled in the yearly reco DIS; orphans robbed
of their Inheritance in ants righted lperhapsl
when they were grey.
Certain LAWYERS and laymen came together.
and said 10 one another. In only one Of these
our Courts Of guilty, there are years OF this dark
perspective before US at the present moment-
We must change this.
Uorose. Immediately throng of Others Secre-
tares, Petty Bags, HanaPers Chat wakes, and
what not singing lin aus NerJ ." Rule Britannia
and God save the Queen" making flourlshing
speeches, pronounced hard names, demanding
committees, comDiss ions, commissioners and
other scarecrows, and terrifying the little band oil
innovatOrs out Of their tive wits
Then, the whisper went among the latter, as
thew shrunk back. say ing. "lf there is any wrong
within the universsi knowledge, this wrong IS.
Go on Set it right!
Wbereon. each of them sorrowfully thrus. his
hands in his pockets, snd replied, ut IS lnteed
great wrong;-BUr IT WILL LAST Ny TiNEW-
and so they put IL from them.
The Spirit, with It's face concealed, summoned
all the people who had used this phrase about
their Time into its presence Then, it said, be.
ginning with the Minister of State;
"Of what duration Is y0Hr Timer
The Minister Of State replied, my ancient
family has always been loos lived My father
died at eighty four my grandfather, at ninety
two We have the govt, but bear 1t like oor
hoBorS) many years"
"And you" said the Spirit to the Priests and
Teachers, what may y0gr time be J"
Some believed they were so strong, as that
they should number many more years than three
score and ten; others, were the sons OF old IN.
oumbents who had long oudived youthful expec-
tants. Others, for any means they had OF calcu-
lating, might be longlived or short hyed-gener-
ally they had q strong persuason) long. 3d.
among the lawyers and lsymen.
But every man. as understand you, one and
all, said the Spirit has his time"
"Yes!" they exclaimed together.
"Yes,' said the Spirit; and ltis-ErERNiEf!
whatsoever is a consentug party t. wrong, COM
forting himself with the base reflection that It
will last his time shsll bear bis portion of that
wrong throughout ALL TIME. And, in the hour
when he aud stand face 10 face, he shall surely
know it, rs my name is DEATH
1t departed, turning its' shaded face hither and
tbither il passed along upon its ceaseless work,
and blightiDg ali on whom II looked.
Then went among many troubling hearers tue
whisper, saying "See, each Of you, before you
take your ease wicked selfish, men, that what
will last your time be just enough to last for
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