Georgetown weekly news., 1854-10-19

ordinary course of life we behold not only
the sacrifices, fearful and painful, made for
its attainment-bu the court paid, the
homage rendered to its possessors by those
who have no hope of gaining anything by
their reverence for the mere name of wealth.
AS soon as man is born into the world,
he begins to feel the Importance of wealth;
and the future looms up before him, impo-
sing and commanding, or unimportant and
valueless, as in his vision, wealth takes part
in it. There's nothing to which man holds
with as much tenacity as wealth; there is
nothing for which he will endure so great
physical and mental hardship. From north
to south, from east to west, he ranges,
searching for its Ignus Fatuus light; and
when he sees it, he is blind to aught else.
Wealth is power! 1t governs public and
private interests, and enters largely into ev-
cry scheme Of man. The rich man holds
himself aloof from the poor one, and says
"away! | am little better than thou!'-
And the poor man, with the instructive rev.
erence for gold, is often forced by circum-
stances to admit it, while his manhood rises
and surges within him, telling the phantom
Of wealth it lies.
The love of gold is such a base passion,
that not man but will deny its presence
within himself, while he bushes to know
that what he says is false, while, perhaps,
he is gloating silently over its qualification.
Men prate dramatically Of their indifFer-
ence to money-of genius and high gifts in
stead of it-and every heart-throb tells that
their Indifference is assumed; and let genius
fail to meet its payments, and have its notes
protested, and yon will soon see how highly
they value it beside gold.
The pastor lectures his flock upon the
worthlessness and baseness of the love of
gold, saying it is the 'root of all evil" and
straightway leaves his pulpit to associate
with the wealthiest of his brethren, and
sinks his voice in servile Difference to the
money-kngS among them; while the poor
brother may stand aside in the highway,
too happy if he gets only passing, coldly
studied nod, or an imperiOus gesture. Merit
and genius are thinking brass and sounding
cymbals," in the world at this day, com
pared with yellow dust!
Alas! that it should be so that greatness
of soul, goodness of heart, and high imagin-
ings, should be held at so cheap a rate
Alas! that the love of money should eat it
up, and destroy every lovely thing, and sap
away all the foundations of all that is glori-
Gus and god-like. Yet so it is
The root Of all the evil in the possession
of money lies in the fact, that it is loved for
itself, and the importance it brings, not for
the good it does, or the tastes and aims it
ministers to. This it is that makes the pas
sion for it the most gr6YeAing in existence
Were money valued as M adjunct to ma
lures gifts and blessRa anly, and made the
assistant of, and e,ef perater with their
prOmptings and requirements, it would then
fill its appropriate sphere, and perform the
part Of a benefactor to mankind. But no!
they must be warped and misused that 1T
may be supreme and paramount. The world
sings one song ever-"Get money by fair
means or foul, honest or dishonest, only
get df'
Thank God. there are some things that
wealth with all its omnipotence cannot buy
There are possessions which cannot be put
ION change" OR bid off, cent per cent
Honor genius, goodness of heart, and be-
nevolence. The feC, noble, and lion-hearts
of the world reverence these, and fight man
fully against the mountains of prejudice,
raised by the god ALammon. Humanity be-
slows her sweetest smiles upon their man
hood, and angels will gladly own compan-
ionship with them.
True bravery and courage are not found
at the cannOn's fire-belching mOutE-but
among other places in combating and expo
sing those errors of society which retard our
republicanism, and which the divinity of
man can find no sympathy with. Mans
inner sense knows nothing in common with
gold, abstractly considered but his physical
being is bound by the shackles of society,
so strongly, and surely, that it takes an al
most superhuman effort to burst the bonds,
and become free. All honor, then, to those
heroes of humanity, who, knowing and APP
preciating the right and the true, fearlessly
do it homage, and cast from them the false
and the untrue!
Mans godliness refuses anything below
the highest, and nature
'Quickly falls into rerolt,
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