The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1857-1858, 1857-10-21

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|. - grow eud3only II love with What befoeo had
only plaos n our contempt. One year ago,
| With what eomplncens readincea an a. u vnslld
| have admitted with our hands unorI onr nrck.
81 that dchss take unto themselves viure and
| ~ away, and that thieves have bad habit ii
breaking through with lsrcenous iptentious:
yet that, after I'll, such being the will or Pro.
videnes, We must make the beat 81 il. s
4 But now, that the golden eagles have down
| into some quite inaocessibls empyrean. there 10
| be duly uslted- -now that the thieves hare bro.
ken IN aud heus s4olen-how terrible our dis.
com6turel The Jobs Of Wall street are 10 rare
~ black swanA All d madness, fright dismay i.
| discontinue. Where 10 our philceonhyf Where
10 our religi0ne Where j. our ordinary pres,
| ence Of mind, which most brave men exhibit
even under the suddenost and eaddest rcyerees
/ and exigenciea2 Gons--gone--all gone! We
confess that this i TO ~ one of she most alarm.
1 ing portenss Of the times. One might almost
! think that the high and rare example Of Can't.
Herndon bad been vouchsAfed to a. to make I'd
Drawer, and that the noble Lesson had been
lost. ssts 5 slw
Let ne BE- understood. We have nlready said
that when the ship Is sinking it ID OF small avail
| TO pipe all hands on deck to give three cheers.
But neither would il be the highest salutary
policy to staye open the spirit-room and lapse
into . bAcchanalian dementia Because our
Rome of brown stone houses il burning. We do
not recommend any mistimed violin playing, -
But, il we arc to preserve anything from he
ruins, we must try to be little calm. and not
to throw the pier glasses and articles OF Ii;os-
| terie out of the window to save them.
We know how hard il must now be for many
excellent men TO preserve their eQusnimty. To
their honor be it said, their commercial credit.
maintained for y series of years, through many
sacrifices and in spite of much mishap. has been
dearer to them than all the pomps, shows. lax
uries and indulgencies which wealth could our
chase. The great pain Of the present pressure
has been that it is fallen 80 hardly upon cstab.
lished regulations. In the ruin Of private Gre.
dit, not more than three months ago command
ing the respect Of all, we forget the two-peuny
losses of the Spectator and tho reverses of the
usurcr. A long established house, sustained
for half century without corporate aid, and
solely by the veracity and integrity and skill of
its members, becomes an institution, and 10 SO
regarded from generation to generation. When
such establishments are, though only temporar-
lily, insolyent-when the sad announcement is1
paraded in the newspapers and passed over the
wires to the uttermost corner Of the country
when heads grown gray in honorable toll are
bowed in modification and sorrow-who will
withhold his sympathy? Who will then care to
hout musty Inaxims and to fling stale proverbs
at the unfortunates The lesson of revulsion
like that through which We are now passing IS
alesson for al men in all stations of life, and
alike for the rich and the poor-a lesson Of
kindly ioroearance and Of mutual trust. Il will
be pondercd, let us hope, in these dark days, in
homes the spiendor OF which has been suddenly
ciouded, and in dwellings which, in the best of
times, have hardly dated to boast competence
And yet, hard as must be q bankruptcy fol.
lowing years Of unimpeached credit, we believe
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