St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1861-07-25


ner. These papers bear the name Of Isaac: T..
loulton. A suitable reward will b siyen to
any ono leaving it ct this Office. '.
''Three Cents for Gingerbread"
In tho Land Of Penn, whore W were
*bozn in, early on frosty mornin'" folks
used to illustrate = certain kind Of gener-
osity BY citing the case Of Sammy S.mp.
sons purchase Of Gingerbread. Sammy
had his majority just before putting the
last half inch on the six feet five of his up
ward tendency, and attended his first mus.
ter. In all the glory Of copperas colored
tow pants, and madden dyed linsey war
nurs, Sammy stalked around with his corn.
stalk musket, chin dropped and mouth
open, making and taking in large amount
Of sensation. One hand in his trowser's
pocket carefully fingered his spending
money, three good, full sized coppes, with
which treasure Sammy was 10th to part
Coming suddenly in front Of huckster
stall and seeing the huge sections of brown
gingerbread, the water began to accumu-
late around Sammy's teeth, but he held
fast to his coppers until seeing one after
another possessing themselves of squares
Of the coveted luxury; sammy's prudence
gave way, and drawing out his precious
coppers he planked them on the stand ex-
claiming "Who keers? Come, easy, go
easy. Daddy Armed it thrashin'. Let's
have the worth of that Mister.'
The fate Of the gingerbread can be bet-
ter imagined than described, save that it
doubtless aided Sammy to top out his lack
ing half inch within the next six months
as he did.
The principle on which Sammy found
ed his generosity is the point in the story.
"Come, easy, go easy. Daddy Armed it
thrashing." This. principle has been very
extensive and very potent in our National
affairs. It is the foundation of the munif.
icent lberality Of "the princely Southern
er." What to him is money? Darkey
Arms it hoeing, and come easy, go easy,
their creditors, foot the bills. Men who
refuse to pay their workmen and repudiate
their debts, State and individual, may af.
ford to be generous on the "come easy,
60 easy" principle, and so Southern gen.
tlemen are famous for gingerbread gener-
osity.
They having for SO long been the ru-
ling power in the land, our body polite
has been deeply inculcated with Sammy
Sampson generosity; and nothing can be
more muni6cent than the manner in which
their natural allies, the Northern Democ-
racy, have spent the money which their
constituents have earned by thrashing and
other similar means of filing Golfers.
Here, in Minnesota, nothing but Sam
my Sampson himself could equal the
promptitude with which they have plank
ed their coppers.
They carried us out of our territorial
organization when the general govern
ment bore the expenses, long before We
had adequate population or means to sus-
tain q State organization without serious
burdens imposed on thousands of emf
grants struggling to make homes in the
wilderness. They generously relieved
Uncle Samuel from many Of the expenses
he had incurred for other new States, and
assumed for the people, burdens which
the General Government would not have
felt, and was in the usual order of events
bound to meet. They set up State or
ganization, voting themselves muui6cent
salaries and carried their "princely liber-
atty" to such pitch that our young
State in the second year of her life was
accredited as bankrupt by the capital
lists of the country. Her lands were val
ueless, her credit gone, her people stepped
in debt aud flying by thousands from her
soil, and the tide Of emigration to her bor-
ders effectu&lly stopped, Is those who
sought homes in the West avoided our
debt-oursed and bankrupt shores.