New-York daily tribune., 1854-07-08
NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, JULY o. io0-

inr The trus'ee of "a association or commnnii!'
hytrsre hunsn virtue is too frsil TO be exposed 10
the widest tenn tatons in the absence or dsuse o
al sPproIriste safeguards.
-Prosser;., IA q great protector Of honor. While
We soil vhtb.oeyer we viii, on IN ample ami iHFof-
IL fe, loy, brsvely VIC float and how punctiliou'y
ue hIelI every requirement Of our position No
.loror,il, prosperous has any tolerable excuse
r,, ,L.,sne himself scoundrel few are stupid IS
todo;t Had Monroe Edwards inherited the fortune
oC o., Astor or GirArd, he never would have looked
- l,or,h tbe crate of prison On the contrary. he
,so,,ld have been q great fnancier-built Railroads
md ruled the Stock Market, established line Of
Ocean Steamers Not till his money had tax en- wings
,.opld The world have suspected him Of yainy II
h the ebb Of the tide that disclcses wrecks and dan
,.rous rocks in the cbanbels that are all brimmed
and smoothed aud safe at the food. A fnsncia
crisis pressure crash, unyails abysses OF rascslty
which prosperity would have kept forever concealed
and unsuspected.
Asuccessul merchant asserts that msu failed
without doing some dishonest or at least some IN
worthy act-wthout involving a friend by misreprc
septstion. diehonoraby lurching an accommodating
indorser, cutting up some dirty caper or other.
We think this assertion much too sweeping. We
have known men to fail without losing particle Of
their neghbors respect or confdence-without alien
ating friend creating Gil enemy. Yet it is none
the lees true that adversely is fearful trial of in
tegrity. No man knows bis own weakness or wicked
ness till be finds himself owing money that he cannot
pay What trial for pride to be accosed with in
soleut demands for money by workmen whom it or
dered and scorned yesteri iay-to be blown upon by
those who but yesterday were glad to bask in its
sbsdow--to be compelled to shun or walk skukingly
the streets which il trod as an autocrat so lately.
Death may be terrible to a mere money getting world
ling but bankruptcy must be still more appalling
As to the essential moral character Of such acts
ss this community deplores who shall estimate
it Dishonesty is always revolving; breach Of trust
especially So because of the confidence reposed and
violated The uttcrer Of spurious stocks or bonds
must know that he is robbing the widow Of bread and
tie orphan OF educaton shaking the whole fabric of
Public Credit and ipjuring others to ten times the
amount Of his perfOna gain. Yet Emerson somewhere
ssys in substance that murder seems revolving
TO the perpetrater while he s meditating or commit
ting it: it lie ouly when the deed is done,
and he finds himself with body on his
hands to dispose Of, and other incidents Of
Lis act rise up before his startled vision, that
he realizes Inc Janse ana cohiusioh Ill WHICH ne mas
involved Lmself. So the utterer of spurious certii-
Gates of stcck or bonds doubtless consoles himself
with the refecton-'It 1t is only for a week. shall
redeem all these within few days, and nobody will
be the loser by their issue"-and so he goes and
o. hoping that the next turn Of the dice will bring him
out whole and make him honest man again; but the
ftes are cruel-tbe dice ,cH no come up rieh-and at
length the horrible reality no longer be concealed
even from his pery yerted yision-he is bankrupt,
traitor, I'm exposed, detected villain. Did any one
ever enter this labarynth and find his way safely out
of il?