The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-24
The Misery of Debt,

1t is painful thing, says the Rsr..
Telescope, to be in debt. : The borrogs' "@
servant to the lender, says Solomon sn "SI Is
debtor is servant to the creditor. lfyop nn as
your storekeeper debt that ought to he n 1--WE
aud you have not the means to paw von pa c.
Inundated whenever you meet him, ~ 1t, lee
be very stupid man, very mean man ~"
very good and wise man; it does not m. :"
he is your master One does not TIs
meet person that he owes and cannot w,
for his eyes seem to glare at you, and , boy
at you a dun which goes through Won iI sV.
ball from gun. We have proiopnd 4 sns
pathy for poor, good-hearted Dick SwivsyI0 m'
who had at one time closed up everv ,tr ,sa'
leading from his residence to the Strand saS,
one, and who expected to be obliged to cIo.. .
that one before he could dine. Dck ma'
good hearted, we said, and so he was bn,
did not know how to make Or save monnD
Hence the disproportion between his incoT,
and his expenditures. But his good.hearted
ness and his liberality availed him notbin,
with creditor.
A distinguished jurist, after paying his J,.,
debt, said, This is the happiest day Of nv lfe
| am free. ] have been laboring with al
my might for twenty years to work mv.sIs
out OF the miserable slavery
DR.. Hail. il his Journal of Hea}tL raI,...
the following cases of death from debt
The first case occurred but few weeks since
On the first day of April, 1862, Mrs =
o. s., was awakened by tap at the door
early in the morning, her husband being in
the army. She spoke word to one of ber
children and was corpse She thought il
was the landlord come for his rent, and know
ing she had not a dollar in the house, expect.
ed to be turned into the street
We can readily believe that a frail woman
might die under such circumstances. The
next case alluded to is that of DR.. Webster
the murderer Of DR.. Parkman.
The spacious halls of that fine mansion
In fashionable street in Boston were lighted
up for gay party. The wife and two
daughters had sent out their cards of invita-
ton, and joyous reunion of friends was au
tlclpated. Already had they begun to assem-.
Bile. At that very moment the husband and
father, having murdered his iuexorablo cred
ltor, was bcrnlng to ashes tie dead body Of
the unfortunate Parkman.'
Commenting on this case. the author Just
quoted, says
Debt blunts and blights the finest sens
bilites of our nature it eats ont the sweet,
est domestic affect ons it blasts the mora
character ; 1t robs US of our maniness and
where there was once all that vas nobo.
truthful, high minded, there is nothing et.
but the charred waste of debased manhood.
OF contemplate prevaricatons, and mean con.
cealmenrs. The Demon of Debt how
withers and willis the beautiful flowers 0;
conJugal love, of parental affection, and Ii:
hoIler emotions that belong to the Infinite
one how 1t posons every gladness, rob,
every smile OF Its beauty, cuts up by the roo;
every glorious quality of our nature, am
masses OF him who might have been a man,
poor, fawnlng, tatering, crDging wretch,
waiting the creditors utterances with the fear,
OF slave, with the trembling Of a cuIpnt
ne hre has no warmth, the food no taste
the Hover no beauty, the air no life, the SIX
no sun the brain perceives nothing, the eye
sees nothing, the heart feels nothing but the
chill damps of the spectre Debt, in the persoa
Of the creditor, that so Icons up in the day
time as to shut out all the blue sky Of life.
ana IN the hours of sleep sits like hOFrIl
nightmare, with the weight of PeIiou III
olympus piled.