However seemingly unjust may be the barden of the old song—
"Dimes and dollars, dollars and. dimes, "The want of money is the worst of crimes," the common sense of humanity is ale ways disposed to accept the general principle. It is not necessary to believe that this acceptance is based on any abstract worship of riches, on the one hand; or, on the other, that a man'a worth is to be valued by the amount of coin he can produce at any moment.
contrary, the adage may ruther be interpreted as meaning that, to all, there lies open a path to n rexpec-{able livelihood, and that the want of the means of living in a respectable erally an evidence of the ential to success If, however, practically this be the judgment of mankind, there are not duals us ready to come ith the unenceesafal, and to endeavour to press on and out of Ko: li his present inferior station all agitators made; and most entity fall before their arts. evident. and thriftless who
But while the' common sense of inanity thos affixes a certain stigma to the anenecessfal man, it la no lex the to governments, If we find the govern. ar rate may be applied
ing body of a State in difficulties, may text. assured that it hay been weal and thriftlers, that its officers have been corrupt, and ite as in the individual the offence of have ing we money may be fairly looked aPnation the fact of having a weak upon as a crime, against society, in government may be, without inj ed a un outrage against may fairly predicate, can possibly itself. No governm
so bad for " country, a8 a work one, may be oppremive; it moy be ex nat yet iF it be raully atrong, in the pjects wil na rod. reno of being able to enforce its own decrees, and consixten exalting abe:
the part of its officials, we may, ut fear of disappointevonty find individanl comfort get the people, In Kurope, the weak -tgovermment seen ly to have affected ite south rece, Spain, Turk erly, Naples are glori justly add the weakness and misgovern ign a matter of the Any movement which, ed upon asa tuted people who dex cubied waters, be look. ivf.
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