New-York daily tribune., 1857-09-25

be ouidoDe BY the meersble gsnester, Sso asgns
vles bis hesp s swept Into The poakst Of bis snsao
BSt. But the loss of sovacy 10 . nifortuDe Oh tne
fnt clSsi Il lesves man's cheek pale and hn near
faint. The dyke is brvken down. and the greedy "'
juous, iD'ulii.g woiN may rush in, and sweep away
the sacr things Of home, curing and nocAing u 'ne
ruin it makes. For these creditors are men vIhooI
fearts- without bowsa For the u oment Gil human
tiet-sll merciu considerations made sososcsoo
Of are gr ortd and overlooked; the utternoss fai'
tbr q" is their one dea
Mary Of you who are 70 suffer now have been hHa,
oh, how hard upon other men in like copnuon. IL
ou have not eIscted the utmost restitution you nave
inflicted the utmost reprosch. You nave ~tnnefa
the mfoit Of your counteDances from him that "ae
in trouble. When you met him, an undertone o. con-
tempt made the couresies Of life bitter 70 nim
How glib were ycu too with hard names. You calied
him scamp, rascal ard ether good, Injurious business
eIi,hets. Tie miIdest of you .sid poor devil ana
threw slur upon his humanity, common vl,h your
To all Of you the Bankrupt became Pafish-nis re-
Ggion was not as yours-his family affections were
lightly htl6-eyen his wife and children we're only per
miittd, lot encouraged, to exist and appear Aho
you, too, the hard people, the great people, Ioe
'rexpugpable fprtresses of accountability, you are
dow. And, it seems 20 me, the AvenSiog Angei
could lib 20 pause and preach you sermon from the
text of your former ur.charity. He might Ike TO
wave Bis rod and bring to our level Of humility the
heads Of your naughty wives, your mncng dangeters
your dileiaLti But would arrest his haad ana
put n y own before bis ps, and would pray In the
Isu of our common weakpess: "No bitter word, no
ur Kind reproach; we al proud and foolish In the
time Of our wealth; Only bid these when they shall
urosucr sgain, 10 remember this time OF their
t,ja,, ard to be teLder Of the wounded
hearts Of those who fall, never to rise again :!
Forit is rot necessary, world that you should be
20 hard No condition Of birth or nature compes it.
You we're all little children once, moss OF you loving
and lovely You ran 10 help each other IN misfortune
YOU were grieyed at each others di-graces-you
shared your danties and your pence with those worse
endowed than yourselves. This is the normal condl'
ton Of The child; the true fall Of man comes when this
fresh and geperons rature is put aside for the acquisi
on Of hea,tless and selfish msxims when the truth.
full mird is astonshed by alse standard Of wants,
and Of merits. The clear eyed youth is made to un'
derstand sometimes with difficulty that IL is fine
II ing to have money and the little lady is taught to be
choice al exclusive in her sympatlies, and is taught
too that it s fine to and possess things that every
be dy cannot have. Her best gifts, health and good
cobscierce, are to play a very vulgar part in her
with the chambermad. Thu. the bright image of
Youth is soed al defaced in the grmy of society,
and s genial promise is not redeemed by the sad ana
sordid reality.
know this is very like preaching, but those who
deliver stony sermons in stone chapels do not go
preach they attack the love of money and other sins,
in their abstract form They keep to the vagueness
of the old Oriental phrase, and the expressions which
covered the necessties Of times widely distant aud
different from our And so the puny modern man
reeIs from the gigantic sins Of his ancestors, and
COL graduates himself that the huge helmet does not fit
Ttis false standard of merit and of bappness is
fatal circumstance in this country. 1t makes the
vulgaIty of our wealth the poverty of our life.
Against it Poet roll thy golden numbers-against it,
direct true Pre- acher the artillery of Heaven which
thou servest. But most of all, o spirit of Friendli
pess and Socially, break up this stony selfhood of
American character; teach these women something
better than gossip, these men something beyont tae
noble science Of Computation; make all TO understand
Ii at it is even more sweet and decOrous to live for
ones friends (havng many than to die for ones
country.
There-I have brought The TRIBUNE fairly to its
hnees-a thin G. you will acknowledge, not easily done
Say Amen, tnen my venerable friend, and so leave
time for little cheerful converse before We part.
Inc year Dds ei1 hiS ""ySt UNIV "S'
sobered town to most Puritanical cour.e Of conduct
Like all Lew converts he goes it too strong on the
new tack, aad we could wish his present rigor mod
fed by little of bis former geniality See, be is
stripping down all his Summer trappings and hang
ipgs "Eo more rows" ssys he; "no more pansies
AID lad's-love the bard time is coming-we must
rerertb" Presently, in q rougher tone, TO Mr.. Fros
who is lust coming into office: " Mp those dshlss-
sh,ive those asters-aboish the Jolly green Of those
corr field have dore with such tes-iet only
what is strictly necessary remain"
What, you old hypocrite, win you actually ignore
the work of your own hands Will you, in business
phia fslsify your own tgr sture! For whom were
thete rosesl Did you not plant them when you built
YOUR Summer pa' ace For whom were all these de-
pgbtsome odors gathered For you, Sir, when you
were gracel. ss yourg scamp, abroad in the moon.
lisht asride of the lightning. drunk with the wine of
youth and the beauty Of its promise. We, your min.
i-ters followed you like Bacchautes, dancing singing
Growing with vines Fie, Whist look was tha. with
which YOU ordered US all back told us to leave our
oisoioerly ways and 60 to work. On our remon-
strapte. you mufed out that Brother Frost would see
to the settling of all accounts and then turning your
back, YOU set the strocious psam-tune Of Boston
twind
But the Poets account, Sir, is not settled-his en-
gseemelt is OF out, and his bills not paid You
promised him much, Sir, and you have given him lit
tle You have even borrowed of him what you have
no. paid back. You will turn him out, and leave him
10 the mercy of the world.
"See to it, Frost" says the Year and resumes his
psalm-sir giDg.
So, Frost ard are left TO balance accounts, and
VIVID up the books.
hat ,iy nv far aof