Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-08-19
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young man just liberated from the appren-
ticeship of common clerk, conceiv s the idea
of becoming immensely rich in a few years,
snd resolves to open a wholesale dry good store
OF perhaps a large banking house. From his
late employers he receives ilattering letters of
recommendation, just as quack medicines re-
ceive puffs from newspapers and from his
mercantile acquaintapces he begs testimonials,
just as bad actors beg applause from the gal-
leries Of theatres. Armed thus with both the
sword and shield of the commercial imposter,
he obtains credit; borrows money opens a
splendid establishment employs a dozen dash
ing clerks marries a belle who must be atten-
ded by dozen liveried menia.s; rents first
class house on the most fashionable avenue;
receives on deposit the earnings of laborers
and seamstresses drives a spended span of
blooded horses; gives dinners, evening parties,
and birthday balls buys box tickets at the
theatres heads the list whenever a compli-
mentarv benefit is rendered to q favorite ac-
tress; occupies front seat ut church; never
offers less than a hundred dollars st dOna-
ton party spends the summer at Newportor
Saratoga; announces his intention to visit
rows, and borrows and borrows till he can
borrow no more-and then there is a startling
rumor that a failure has occurred, involving in
ruin many hundreds Of industrious and econ,
omical people. The telegraph sends the as
founding intelligence all over the country, ed
itors consult their dictionaries for words to ex-
press their regret and astonishment, CONNER
cial men tender their sympathy and express
renewed confidence in the integrity of their ur-
fortunate brother, and the cheated poor again
commence their weary journey at the bottom
of their steep and rugged path of life. The
author of all this wasteful extravaganza, and
all this glittering falsehood, and all this POM
pous iberaity, and all this snobbish adulira-
ton, and ali til. 5 undeserved sympathy, and all
this piteouslv abused confidence, absents himself
from public assemblies till the tine days tenn
pest has blown over, and then comes forth to
seek>some new field of operation, and to play
the same game over again.
The shiyering beggar who steals web of
flannel is promptly arrested and punished
No sympathizino crowd follows him to the
grim entrance dr the solitary and dreaded
abode of thieves. counterfeitersi and assassins.
No sorrowful paragraph reltctaiitly tells how,
in an evil hour, he committed the unfortunate
deed. And yet how small does his poor offence
seem alongside of the wicked and reckless tag-
Abond who steals the value of many thousand
webs of flannel who, though he never earned
the daily food of starving dog, squandefel it
a single night of licentious reveIry more than d
whole years wages of an industrious man, who
beggared hundreds of families, whose humble
dwelling he was not worthy to enter and who
"a bankrupt debtor, yet wasting the substance
IF Others with the most shameful extravaganza
and covered all ovez with the recent stains of
reachery. falsehood, fraud, and extortion, goes
olr the stage which he has disgraced, not only
npunished, but with the sympathy of most
If those u-hnrn he did not rnh