Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-07
Weekly Family News paper.
SPIRIT OF THE AGE -

Gentle Nina Rivers. to the chagrin of her
1oud. ambitious parents, simply because OF
his moderate means. Fortune had smiled
upon the mar of perseverance and integrity,
and the monied aristocracy, who once passed
him haughtily by, without deigning even a
nod of recognition, now courted his society,
and esteemed it a privilege and honor to enter
his stately home upon terms of friendship and
| equality. Rrajnless and s~oulless, they ran,
at the ring of his silver bell, and fattered and
fawned. little-souled sycophants, at the shrine
of dollars and cents-and tagged behind him
everlastingly, like lean dogs seeming a coatr1
tail pletharic with some odorous SUBSTANCE
calculated to appease Unsuitable greed.
Henry RAYMOND well knF they worship
ped his golden calf, and focEed around him
from the seven principles that actuate the
meanest of Gods creatures, viz: five loaves
and two fshes-yet met their cringing ciyili-
ties with eentlemanly returs1, when he would
not have trusted them With a halfdime to
drop into contributions box. He looked up
on them with supreme contempt, knowing
them to be human flies, who swarmed around
him merely to suck the sweets of prosperity
from his golden cup, and would leave him to
famish witkhunger, should a shock of ADVERSE
ty deyaseate bis immense possessions.
5 Ninss parents now regarded their opulent
son-in-law with proud affection, and submit
ted to his judgment and suggestions with all
the Difference that sordid minds ever pay to
themselves upon having yielded their will to
her desire, and commended her choice as
haartilurMas they had once opposed it and
simply because Henry Raymond, though the
same being, morally and Intellectually, ha6
priced open the oaken heart of the world,
with a wedge of perishing gold!
Surely, if there is one niche in the torric
zone of Eternity, that admits of the ~superla
tive degree of the adjective hot, it j sreserved
by a Just and sin-avenging God, for the NEAR
and contemplate worsbippers Of Mammon
A human being, who regards the intellec
and moral character of a fellow-creature, a
only secondary to the weight of his Golfers
has q spiritual part so insignificant and DIES
picable that without the microscope of ON
n~icience, he'd 60 scot free,' in tie day Q
Judgement
Mr.. Raymond was now called by the brs
zen lungs of the fortune hunting community
from the quiet and obscurity Of his forme
years, to the conscience hardening, dissip;
tion-tending arena of political life, and ROD
t~riumphantly into the State Legislature upo
the high back of popular favor, that the a
CSolhNAl va ilEO Cdi anu pOISOtol CIV
enabled him to mount. Though a publ
speaker, on patriotic and benevolent occ
sions, from his youth to the period of h
nomination, yet his oratorical powers we,
never discovered to be of a superior orde
until a golden halo, reflected from his acc
mulated thousands of double eagles, encircl'
his brow, upon which the groveling proger
of Demas had written s'THE PEOPLES CAM
DATE!"
He had been taught Temperance in
things" from early childhood, by a pio
mother, and in humble life, had faithful
!, practiced her precepts; but during his eli
r tioneering campaign, he had conformed to t
, custom of the times, and thrown off the
). ~straints. imposed through long and peacei
: years, by principle and early instruction. ]
/, had even committed some petty absurditi
during partial intoxication, which were
f ceived with uproarious applause, by the me
ey honoring crowd, and 'capital fellow
perfect brick !! three cheers for Raymond
'hurrah r-burst simultaneously from the
miring audience-while put him out = It
rascal! down with the bruter greeted
other inebriate, from all quarters, on the sar
: occasion, whose seedy coat, and caved in h
a evidenced a restitution of the means that j
tilted the rich man in any excess and abs
8 dity! And the poor drunkard was must
n off, between two rough officers, to maint
$ order, while the wealthy wine.bibber rec
r out of the crowded Hall, leaning familia
a on the arm of a purse proud citizen, to OF
n ate the probability Of gravitating to the f
# floor, down the long staircase, in a horiz
tai position, to the peril of his opuient pers
and was conducted safely to his a~ristocrs
v residence by the ~obsequious friend Ito
possessions y whose thin nose would h
3 done more than his sordid heart ever di
viz: looked h~earenward-as he strided SUI
~ciliously by, had he met his precious cha
r in his present condition sixteen years q
Henry Raymond babe adieu to his ha1
3, little home circle, for his first term at R
ii mond, and the peace, prosperity and cont
1t ment that had characterized the past y,
of his welded life, never again brighte
j. and blessed his domestic hearth.
v 80 Ito be %eomtimued.)