The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1864-03-03
.c,Tbe world owes Me a Living"

THaPs false SIR! 1t doesn't owe you a
lfaftbiug. You owe the world for the light
| Of its DAYS. the warmth of its sunshine the
beauty of it's earth and sky. and for its love-
affections, and friendships, which have from
your child hood, young IAN, clustered around
and chung to your worthless trunk. For all
these, ami other blessings OF countless num-
bers, you are a debtor. You have never
even thanked God for health and life. You
never made the world better for your living
You owe for the breath you breathe and Tor
the sire ngth you enjoy. You haven't any
thing to your credit on the day book or led
ger Of life-uot q cent. You have rever
taken a dollars stock in Heaven. You sre
a miserable, aimless, indolent bankrupt
You float down the stream of your lazy ex-
istence like Lockwood on water. Were
you to sink to-day to oblivion, you would
not leave bubble. fts.s,..E
The world owes you living! Where is
there q manly thought uttered, or a noble
deed performed! Where are there eviden-
ces Of your labor? Nowhere. You are
loungiDg through life with your hands 10
your pockets, aD indolent loafer. swearing
aud slsveriug nonsense. You drink, gam
bic, and chew tobacco, but never earned
your board. A pile Of lumber would be oil
more account, for that could be worked in :
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will not make anything of you rself, or al
low society 10 do il. A world of such as
you would be tho place to live in, indeed!
You have degraded our common manhood.
instead of ennoblng and elevating it, and
lin nothing but the form and vulga: speech,
are you above the brutes tina. perish. And
because you are ;oo lazy to work. you claim
that the world owes you living!
Don't tell that lie again. you slnggard!-
The world or society wonld not suffer los;
were lightning to strike you or the cholera
to take you of. There are too many o.
such Were you treated as drones are treat
ed in the hives you would have been kick
ed out of creation, years ago. You are {
sponge, swollen with what you have alb
sorbed from society. You dwarfed the in
ltellect given you, and neglected the endow
ments II would have brought you. So eff
fectually have you wasted the boon OF life
that unless your bones shall go to the dis
seeing room, aud yonr picked carcass as 1
| fertalizsr upon some God forsaken spot. you
will have passed through life to no purpose
The tobacco YOU have chewed. has only
defiIed everything around you, and the H.
ouor you have drank has only been adulte-
rated by your miserable nature, and bser
turned into rowdyism and profanity. Yo'
contaminate everything you touch, ait
even those like you. will keep their chill
dren from the leprosy Of your teaching an'
example.
NO, sir, you owe the world better life
You never can pay ali the debt, but you ca
do no better and commute for twenty fv
cents on the dollar. Do and say omethin
noble and manly; labor for some hoDorabl
purpose, and not innate Gods pure air 20
nothbg, apd grunt through existence lik
hog, having only two aims in LIFT
reach the bar and the dinner-table; and on
. ly two attributes-to eat to glu'tony, AL
drink to draukness.
The world owes no such man a living