Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1863-03-16

the extremes of hardsiiips, cold and hum
ger, the wealthy Of our own sunny
South, not only withhold their charity, but
SIC actually. buying up at sales produce
offered in small quantities for The accom-
mediation of the poor, and either hold it
rps'r higher prices than 1,cy paid, or
convert it into whiskey! All. whiskey,
Gould 1 but half thy curses tell
The wise would wish thee safe II hell"
had imagined that the highest smbi-
ton of man, was a good 1ane-reputatlon
character but recent Developments
have suffered a change to pass over The
spirit of my dream men now, seem de-
terinincd = get wealth and place by any
means. They may acquire wealth by OPP
pressing the Toor--what honest man
would assign then. by his vote, any place
of honor, trust or emolunent? | have
read, seen and heard much of Yankee
s"indling- selling wooden putmegs, toys
and other trlhes, to extract money from
the pockets of the South-these fiends arg
now engaged in invading our country,mur-
deiing our people, destroying their prop
clty-driving women, children and old
men from their houes-but all this will
not compare in point of a%trocity with the
conduct Of Southern speculators-starving
tie poor.
1t would not lie amiss Eere, to relate,
the parable of the itch man and the beg
5 gar, for the benefit of extortioners,. who
certainly never read the Bible {:
"Thcre was. a certain rich man. which
was clothed in purple and fine linen, and
+ Jared sumptuously every day !: and there
was a certain beggar, named Lazarus,
: which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
and desiring to be fed with the crumbs
which fell from the rich mans table more
over, the dogs came and licked his sores,
And it came to pass, that the beggar died,
and was carried by the angels into Abra-
hams bosom 4: the rich man also died, and
was buried and in hell be lifted up his
eyes, being in torments; and seeth Abra-
ham afar oil, and Lazarus in Abraham's
bosom. And be cried, and said, Father
Abraham, have mercy on ne, and send
Lazarus, that he may dip the tip Ct his
finger in water, and cool my tongue for
:, I am to1mentel in this fame But Abra.
II ham. said, Son, remember that thou il,
! thy lifetime received thy good things, an&
# likewise Lazarus evi! things but now ht
!, Is colnforted, and thou art toTmented -
= And beside all this, between us and the,
20 is a great gnlph fixed SO that they which
n would 60 from hence to you cannot nei-
Their can they pass to US, that would coma
from thence He then said, L pray thee
therefore, father, that thou wosdst seno
him to my fathers bonse:- for l have
Eve brethren, that he may testify unto
a them, lest they also come into thi
place of torment! Abraham said unt(
him, They have Moses, and the prophets
let them hear them And be said unit,
them, Nay, father Abraham but if on
went unto them from the dead, they vii
repent And be said unto him, 6 If the
hear not doses and the prophets, neithe
will they be persuaded, though one res
from the dead
'n So it will be with extortioners-wher
they leave this world, they will 90 to tb
plac of torment, where the rich man wer
h. when he died,for they are expressly exclr
.aes ded from the kingdom of God. (See 1,
Nd Cor. chap. 9th, yers, loth.) they wi
then cry in vain to father Abraham t
~ send the poor in his bosom, whom the
'or oppressed in this world, to dip their fnge!
"a in water, and cool their tongues, Will
tormentedIin the flames. The same gre,
=, gulph that separated the rich man in be
from Lazarus in Abraham's bosom, sti
exists, and will forever separate them fro
at - at or VIII now De gsfts vY itholdet
ths;- 4