The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-08-02
In Deb. aud on. Of Debt.


OF what hideous progeny Of i'll is debt
the father! What meanness, what inyasions
on self.respect, what cares, what double
dealing! How in due season It will carve
the frank open face into wrinkles how like
knife, twill stab the honest hear, And
then its transformation How il has been
known to change a goody face into mask
of brass /; how, with the damned CUSTOM
of debt, has the true man become Gallons
trickster A freedom of debt, and what
noulishing sweetness may be found ir cold
water; what tooihsomeness in dry crust /;
wha, ambrosial nourishment in hard egg |!
Be sure OF il, he who dimes out of debt tho
his meal be biscuit aud an onion; dimes IN
The Appollo." And then for raiment, what
warmth in ihreadbare coat, if the iailof's
receipt is in yonr pocket, what Tyrian purple
in the faded waistcoat, the vest not owed for,
how glossy the we'll worn hat il il cover not
the aching head OF debtor Next the home
sweets, the outdoor recreation Of the free
man. The street door falls not knell on
his heart the foot on the staircase, though
he lives above the third pair, sends no spasm
through his anatomy at the rap at his door
he crows forth "come in," and his pulse
still beats heal.hfully, his heart sinks not in
his bowels. See him abroad. How conf.
denily, yet how pleasantly he takes the
street, how he returns look Tor look with any
passenger how he saunters how meeting
an acquaintance, he stands and gossips -
But then this man knows not debt debt,
that casts drug into the richest wine That
makes the food Of the gods uuwholesome,
indisestible that spriukles the banqueis of
Luculles with ashes, and drops SCOT in the
soup OF an emperor; debt, that like the moth,
makes valueless furs and velvets, enclosing
the wearer in fostering prison, (the shirt of
Nessus was shirt not paid for j debt that
writes upon frescoed walls lbe hand writing
OF the attorney; that puts voice of terror in
the knocker that makes the heart quake at
the Preside debt, tine invisible demon that
walks abroad with man, now quickening his
steps, now mailing him look on all sides like
a haunted beast, and now bringing 10 his
face the ashy hue Of death, as the unconsci-
Gus passenger looks glanciugly upon him
Poverty Is bitter draught, yet may, and
sometimes with advantage be gulped down.
Though the drinkers make wry faces, there
may after all be wholesome goodness in
the cup. But debt, however covenly !, be
offered, is the cup of a syren, and the wine,
spicy and delicious though itbe, is poison
The man out of debt, though with flaw in
his jerkin, crack in his shoeleaiher, and
hole in his hat, is still the son of liberty,
free as the singing lark above him bu, the
debtor though clothed in the utmost bravery,
what is he but serf on holIday-a slave
TO be reclaimed at any instant by his owner,
the credtori My son, if poor, see wine in
the running spring let thy mouth water at
last weeks roll think a threadbare coat the
'only wear : and acknowledge a white
wasted garet the filtest house place for
gentleman do this, and flee debt. So shall
thy heart be at peace; and the Sheriff be
coniounded- Douglas Jerr,a, in "Hsads Of
the peoplen