Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-01-11


prides himself upon his large es-
lates. He values nothing except
as it goes TO increase his moneyed
interests He bustlss briskly about
town and does not see The laboriue
man, unless in want of his services
or his vote. His golden rule,
" Render unto Cesar the things
which be Cesar's," is made only
for those dependent upon him,-he
never thinks to apply the rule to
himself. Squalid poverty crouches
shiveriug at his door, but never
gains relief or cheering sight of
the comfort and luxury within. He
measures your worth by the stand
ard of his own wealth and influence,
lreadiug your moral worth aud up
rightness under foot with scorn.
Does not his every action tell very
loudly how thankful he is that he is
not as other men are ? "
And the gay pleasure seeking
dandy, with a great profusion Of
watch seals and a greater deficiency
Of brains, in his anxiety to emulate
the little feet of Chinese women,
and to initiate the silly afectations
Of boarding school girls; exerting
himself to klll time" in the en-
. joyment Of ms moustaches, Hava-
mas, whist, aud other accomplish
ents to which such young men are
ad licted ,-disdainlug all honest en-
ployment while he revels in his IA
ther's purse,-herolcally offering
himself as a pioneer in every latest
Paris fashlon,-he, too, says with
his most elegant oath, ~ thank
I thee that / am not as other men
are"
The young colIegian, fresh from
h his Alma Mdter, having long age
forgotten the old simple Rule ot
Three retaining only vague in.
definite remembrance Of the terrible
pages of Euclid, and with few ia
vorite passages of his last Gfeel
H. author not yet forgotten, as h'
comes forth into the real world il
which he has not lived during hi
student life, and which he has fash
iuned after the manner of romances
T. will find this reality dreadiull
chaotic stale of being While h
H. interlardS his sentences with Latin
Greek aud Hebrew quotations, hi
e' sensitive nerves will be great
y" shocked at the plain, vulgar, and
perhaps, ungrammatical Saxon hi
father and mother use and in III
full realization of the unaccounta
bic ignorance of mankind in gener
=. al, and in the high appreciation {
his own talents and requirement;
will pronounce it III as good Lati
r as he can manage, " God, / than
thee that am not as other me
" are"
And the plain honest country far
mer-the pride of the land and tn
" real dependence Of all classes, whe
business or necessity calls him t
" the large town, finds himself .paSse
> unrecognized by the hypocrltica
> religious merchant; he lodges thi
- way aud that to avoid being trodde
;, upon by the purse-proud aristocrat
laughs at the ridiculous swell of tn
young top with the Chinese VIC
- mans feet, and his mothers old gra
- shawl about his shoulders; pitie
" the consumptive looking student
and wonders why he receives n
kindly grasp from the hands c
~ those SO much interested in his wei
10 fare and so happy to partake of hi
bounty in the time of ripe straw
- berries and the fruit-gathering :
;" and as he goes homeward half be
= widered by the gay sights of tn
:, great town, the poor unsUphis,ie~t-
" = man, in the honest integrity of hi
upright and uncorrupted hear
~ earnestly exclaims, a." God, I than
= thee that / am not as other me
OF are D."
3 Aud ioe, too, reader, you aud
" as we tell over aud enlarge upo
some particular failngs Of OF
~ neighbors, virtually confess on
~ selves among them but not of then
= and noe, too, hfl our hands aud say
ie 4" God, / thank thee that / am n,
ie as other men are"
KATE CAMERON.