The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-07-13
Appearances.

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bear. It is hard for a man who was born
poor, raised poor, lived poor and clothed
Door, but who has, by some freak of for.
tune, become suddenly rich, to bear, with
moderation, his riches. He is apt to
grow detestably proud and naughty. He
Is liable to become of great Importance
in his own eyes, and look down with con-
tempt upon every one else. Such a one
is apt to conclude that when he dies, all
the machinery of the universe will be
thrown out of gear. The fact is, there
are few men who can bear, with becom-
ing modesty, sudden elevation from the
cellar to the garret. They grow giddy,
and render themselves ridiculous and
hateful in the eyes of all sober-mlnded
men.
1t is also hard for one who has been
accustomed, for a long time, to the ease
and comforts which riches bring, to adapt
himself to the hardships and inconven-
fences which attend poverty. Poverty is
bearable, provided we have been poor all
our lives, and have never known any
thing else; but it requires something more
than philosophy, to enable US 70 endure
poverty after having enjoyed the comforts
of wealth.. All sorts of means will be
employed to prevent facts from taking
their legitimate course. It is useless to
try to conceal the fact that the late war
and the series of events which followed
in its train, reduced multitudes of our
Southern people to well nigh abject
poverty. For more than ten years the
majority of this class of people have
been struggling to keep up appearances.
They have dressed as they did when
times were better; their table has been
furnished as when they were rich; their
furniture and everything of this sort, has
been of the most fashionable style. ALL
this has been done with the vain hope
that something favorable might turn up
which would restore them to their former
afluent circumstances. 1t would have
been far better for all parties, had such
persons at the close of the war, at once
given their property for their debts, and
met the actual condition of things man
fully. Had this class of our people done
this, and heroically gone to hard work,
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past. They would have caught the flood
tide of high prices of cotton; but this
time, in all probability, is gone.
Many are still struggling to appear
what every one who knows anything
about them knows they are not. Such a
course may have much of pleasure which
we experience in dreaming; but, Like a
dream, it is base fabric woven on the
loom of distracted thoughts. 1t would
be far better for every one who is in
yolyed, to meet the crisis at once. Let
the creditor and debtor deal fairly and
honestly with each other, and let the
man who is pressed down with debts
take ground start. Let him start in
the world without anything, if it be
necessary. Let him acknowledge that
he is poor, and honestly live so as to ap-
pear what he really is.
Such a course would not make the
country any poorer. The same amount
of property would still be IN the country
that is now, and it would be in better
shape. Such course may be humiiia-
ting, but there is not necessarily any
thing dishonest in it. On the contrary,
it can scarcely be said to be strictly hon
est for an individual to attempt to appear
to be what he really is not: It is spe-
cies of deception.-Nrkvik Enquirer.