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mammon, compelled to look anxiously at prices current of 

 cotton and railroad stocks, in order to learn each morning 

 whether you are bankrupt or not, and in the end to fail, 

 and compromise with your creditors and your conscience, 

 and sigh for your native hills. 



Or, perhaps, your party being in power, you would ob 

 tain a clerkship at Washington, and remove your little 

 family from the North, to a more genial climate, to live at 

 your ease, and grow rich on twelve hundred dollars a year ! 

 You give up your little farm, your New England privileges 

 of schools and churches, your independent and influential 

 membership of parish, and district, and town, and church, 

 the woods and playgrounds for your children, your friends, 

 and kindred, and home. Twelve hundred dollars is a large 

 sum to you, half the price of your farm, perhaps, twice the 

 amount of the minister s salary. With your habits of 

 economy and thrift, you can live on half the amount. Your 

 arrangements are to be made the homestead is sold, and 

 you are landless. After all, it is not so easy parting with 

 our household gods. The trees our hands have planted 

 take root in our hearts, the vines and roses, twined by our 

 own fingers, and those of our loved ones, over rustic arbors, 

 cling round us more closely than we thought. Your labor 

 has been mingled with the soil of every field. Tears are in 

 the eyes of your wife at every thought of departing, but 

 she trusts in your superior judgment, and no murmur 

 escapes her lips at your decision. 



&quot; You have left your home. At the end of a single year, 

 in the city of magnificent distances, you have bitter realiza 

 tions of the meaning of that phrase. It has proved, indeed, 

 to be full of magnificent distances for you, from happiness, 

 from independence, from advantages of every kind. For 

 the first time, you have felt how sore a thing it is for a 

 Northern freeman to be dependent, to labor at stated hours, 



