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Ancient Thieves & Modern Finaneiers

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Nor vulgar thieves. who only steal to eat,
Whose stomachs urge them from the need O
meat,
Whom vanity slow degrees hath downward lie,
To rob little, to provide their bread,
Whom dire necessity, or evil teaching,
Has pu; beyond the aid Of church or preaching
For these the law and courts will e'er provide
No gold have they to set their rules aside:
Iheir empty forms and pOnderous DEGREES
Most often fall on only such as these:
The net of law small rogues can mostly take.
winch larger ones can easy twist or break
Alas for by-gone times, more ancient days.
When braver knaves had other modes and wa VS.
Would risk their necks, with hardihood wonld
seek
To rob the rich, aud not the poor and weak:
Who on the highway and the public street
collected tares, as they chanced to meet
The favored few, whose boarded gold and wealth
They boldly seized, but not by law or stealth.
Neae such can now excite our trembling fears
IheIr trade is gone-they' Ue turned to fnan.
ciers,
who rob by millions, drain the public purse
10 beggar thousands, which is deed the worse
Than that of those who, hedng force was right,
Toek but purse, and not the widows mite;
who sought no confidence by cunning wiles,
eor sought deposits by their cunning smiles;
whose deeds, though evil, not unknown to fame,
whose crimes, discovered, were confessed with
shame;
Whose fitful race, when quickly spent and run,
Beneath the gallows tree was justly done.
Not thus the 6nanciers, we all may know,
Who from degenerate times have sprung and
grow,
Who seize our wealth, eyade the thing called
law,
To till up Golfers with insatiate nav,
And shameless, 10 our midst still find their places
To mock our scorn with bold, unblushng faces
And this they sing, the burden of their song:
" Than thousand others,we have done no wrong, |
And till the evidence is all found out,
Well freely walk and ride your streets about; |
And If BY chance, some sad, unlucky day,
The truth is known,we'll pack and run away"
Thus from our people are thsir dollars wrung,
BY reckless, swindIing rogues-the great an.
hung;
And should some one more honest dare expose
Thosa glaring truths which any wise man
knows,
They cry, We're persecuted-give redress
Our peculation's priVate-crush the press
The times are bad-we dare not shoot the wri. r
ters
Wen make law to break the bold inditsr.''
And thus they howl, like wolves that scent their
prey, r
BY watch-dog's ban are sneeking sent away. e
No honest man need fear that mighty power n
Whose, printed sheets fall swift each passing !,
hour, p
Whose sentinels Of truth that daily stand, d.
Send forth their watchwords Ger our wide. SC
spread land; hi
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Who wrongs the public, tits public right th
10 show that wrong or set that wrong Alright. pa
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'ry out aloud, " My brother throw the stone" IS
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hey fret and furn, with many harmless kick tei
{ truths which cut them to the very quick.
or men so bad, but stil! within the heart ha
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something good, by weight of vice concealed, u. na
hat still, perchance, in time may be revealed 80
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trough passing ages Iivelh on abarmed, du
= earth's great changes brought again TO sight, aE
hall grow and blossom in the healthful light -.
with some moral germs, and such their fate, tha
D spring to life within future state: cur
hen let us pray for them a quick remove; plu
hey'll flourish only in the world above; seq seq
1t here concealed, to us is only shown en-,
heir deeds all evil, and the good unknown. for
1t still shall they, thus every rogue and knaVe exc
ON outraged justice full exemption crave! nee
DO, if they rob at large, or peculate brs
'on our honor, to disgrace the State,
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u peoples strength lies in the bailot-box; chill
cir last resort. to force of blows or knocks; sne
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q cunning knaves, wh0se frauds were done girl,
BY fools, horr
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hile Justice, wronged, 10 silence fed away,
ayes hating mercy to usurp her sway. c.
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