East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1862-11-11

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ing every impulse of humanity, in fol-
lowing blind passion for our guide and
imparing our circumstances by present
benefactions, as to render us incapable
of future ones.
Misers are generally characterized as
men without honor, or without human
ity, who live only 10 accumulate, and tU
this passion sacrifice evory othor happl-
ness. They have been described as
madmen, who, in the midst of abund.
ance, Danish every pleasure, and make,
from imaginary waits, real necessities.
But few, very few correspond to this
exaggerated picture; and, perhaps, there
is not one in whom all these circum.
stances are found united. Instead of
this, we find the sober and the indus
trous branded by the vain and the idle
with this odious appellation; men who
by frugality and labor, raise themselves
above their equals, and contribute their
share of industry to the commcn stock.
Whatever the vain or the ignorant
may say, well were it for society, had
We more of these characters amongst
us. In general these close men are
found at last the true benefactors of so.
ciety. With an avaricious man we sell
dom lose in our dealings, but too fire.
quently III our commerce with prodig
ality.
A French priest, whose name was
Godinot, went for long time 10y the
name of the Griper. He refused to re-
IiaU hn A hn1
and, by skilful management of his
vineyard, had tho good fortune to ac-
quire immense sums of money. The
inhabitants of Rheims, who were his
fcllow.ctizens, detested him; and the
populacc, who seldom love miser,
wherever he went, followed him with
shouts of contempt. He still, however,
continued his former simplicity of life,
his amazing and unremtted frugality.
He had long perceived the wants of the
poor in the city, particularly in having
no water but what they were obliged
to buy at an advanced price; wherefore
that whole fortune which he had been
amassng, he laid out in an aqueduct, by
which he did the poor more useful and
lasting service, than it ne had distribu.
ted his whole income in charity every
day at his door.
Among men long conversant with
books, we too frequently find those mis-.
placed virtues, of which I have been
now complaining. We find the studious
animated with strong passion for the
great virtues, as they are mistakingly
called, and utterly forgetful Of the or.
dinary ones. The declamatons of phil.
osophy are generally rather exhausted
on those supererogatory duties, than on
such as are in1ispensably necessary
A man, therefore, who has taken his
ideas of mankind from study alone, gen.
orally comes into The world with heart
melting at every fictitious distress
Thus he is induced, by misplaced liber.
ality, to put himself into the indigent
circumstances of the person he relieves.
shall conclude this paper with the
advice of one of the ancients, to "a young
man whom he saw giving away all his
substance to pretended distress. alt is
possible, that the person you who re.
lieve may be an honest man, and
know that you, who relieve him, are
such. You see then, by your gene.
rosity, that you rob a man who is Ger
tainly deserving, to bestow it on one
who may possibly be a rogue; and,
while you are unjust in rewarding un.
certain merit, you are doubly guilty by
stripping YOURSELF GolaSmith's ESSays.
SUNDAY A DAY OF REST.
The fifty two Sabbaths of rest with
which the year is interspered are like
patches Of verdure, watered by ever
sprinkling fountains that dot the inhos.
pitabe wilderness, and invite its faint.
ing travellers to exhllaration and repose.
They are the ports that fringe the sea
Of human Industry, in which the dis
tressed bark may find a sure anchorage,
and where it may renew its outfit for
eternity.
Oh, precious day! the workmans ju.
bilcc-the slaves release-the shield of
servitude-the antidote of weariness-
the suspension of course! How it sooths
the brow of Carel How it brightens the
countenance of Gloom How it braces
the enervated limbs of Labor, How it
revlves the dropping spirit of Despa;rl
How 1t gives wings to the clogged af
fections and aspirations of the soull-
How 1t pours some drops OF sweetness
on the bitterest lot, and sheds some
CLEANS of sunshine across the saddest
hearti How it lifts the groveler from
his low pursuits, and fills him with a
noble selfrespectl How it extinguishes
the jealousies and rivaries of week day
occupations, and links mems hearts in
the bonds of brotherhood 1t does
homage to the glorious attributes of the
man, even when it finds him in tho con.
dition of the scrf. In most cases it pro.
claims to the SCI want equal liberty with
the master. 1t is perpetual rebuke to
the reigning rapacity of the world. 1t
deals out, with even handed justice, the
essential rights Of manhood to all class.
ses alike; aud is designed to protect the
poor from the bribes of wealth, and the
weak from the encroachments of power.
Companions in laborl think how the
abstraction of Sunday would hopelessly
enslave the working classes, with whom
we are identified. Think of labor thus
going on in one mo notonous and eternal
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