American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1861-07-13
CANTON, MISS, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 13 1861.
In Debt and out Of Debt.

OF what bideous progeny OF i'll, is debt
the father What lies, what meanness,
what invasion of selfrespect, what cares,
what double-dealing How, in due season,
it will carve the frank, open face into wrin-
kles; how, like knife, it viii stab the hon
est heart. And then the transformation
How it has been known to change goody
face into a mask of brass; how, with the
"customn of debt, has the true man become
callous tricksteri 4 freedom from debt,
and what nourishing sweetness may be found
in cold water; what relish in dry crust;
what ambrosial rourishment is hard egg
BE sure OF it, he who dimes out of debt,
though his meal be biscuit and an onion,
dimes in ssThe Apollo And then for the
raiment what warmth is a thread-b bare coat
Tyrian purple in the faded waist-ceat, the
vest not owed for; how glossy the worn hat
if it cover not the aching head of debtor !!
Next the home-sweet, the outdoor reerea-
tion of the free man. The street door
knocker falls not as a kneli on his heart; the
foot on the staircase, though he live on the
third pair, sends no spasm through his anat
omy; at rap at the door he can go forth
sscome in,n and his pulse still beat health
fully, his heart sink not in his bowels. See
him abroad. How confidently, yet how
pleasantly, he walks the street how he
returns look for look with any passenger !!
how he saunters! how, meeting an aequain-
lance, he stands and gossips!
But then, this man knows not debt that
casts drug into the richest wine; that makes
the food of the good unwholesome indigest-
able; that sprinkles the banquet of Luculius
with ashes, and droop SCOT in the soup of
an emperor; debt, that like the moth, makes
valueless furs and velvets, inclosing wearer
IN a fostering prison, 1.-THE shirt of Nessus
was not paid for;) debt that writes upon
frescoed walls the handwriting of the attor-
new: that put as voice of terror on the knock
er; that makes the heart quake at the haunt
ed fireside; debt the invisible demon that
walks abroad with man; now quickening
his steps, now making him look on all sides
like haunted beast, and now bringing to
his face the ashy hue of death, as the uncon-
scious passenger looks glancsngly upon him
Poverty is a draught, yet may, sometimes
with advantage be gulphed down. Though
the drinkes make wry faces, there may af-
ter all, be a wholesome goodness in the cup
But debt, however courteously it may be of
iered, is the cup of a siren, and the wine'
sweet and delicious though it be, an eating
poison. The man out of debt, though with
a fury in his jorkeu, crack in his shoe lea
ther, a hole in his hat, is stin the son OF lib
erty, free as the sinking lark above him; but
the debtor. though clothed in the utmost
bravery, what is he but a serf on Holiday
a slave to be claimed at any instant by his
owner or creditors Son, If poor, see wine
in the running spring, let thy mouth water
at last weeks roll; and think a thread-ba
coat the "only year, and acknowledged
V hitewaslied garnet the fttest housing place
for gentleman; do this, and flee debt.-So
shall the heart be at peace and the sheriff
be confounded II Rural Amefican.