he courage to get
The directest way out of the irons of debt.
Cut 'em through--that's the plan--as you'd sever a stick--
It don't take but one stroke, and 'tis done smooth and slick;
Hurl the bits off to fly on the wild winds afar!
Unless you keep one just to light a cigar.
For they are but paper--is paper to bind
The young Eagle to Earth, when to soar he's a mind?
He will snap the weak chain the first instant he springs
With the sun in his eye and the steam in his wings.
Loss of credit! what's that to the souls who rely
On themselves, and the hiss of the world can defy?
What is debt? Don't the talented EMERSON say
We have got other debts, besides money, to pay?
We reckon those other debts due first to fall,
The cash debt's the one which we'll pay last of all;
That's the genuine rule by which true Genius goes
In settling the endless account which it owes.
From the glorious fact, that our bonds we have bust,
Let mankind learn the lesson of thorough self-trust,
Though our sister States credit may cease to obtain,
And no mortal will trust Mississippi again!
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A THOUGHT PICKED OUT OF THE COAL-SCUTTLE.--Vices are like coals--the
more they are screened, the more the larger ones show.
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[Illustration: THE MINISTERIAL SPLIT.
_Palmerston._ "I'LL JUST FRIGHTEN THEM A LITTLE."]
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[Illustration: Index]
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Abode of Bliss (An), 113
Affair with the (Knightsbridge) Caffres (An), 154
Age of Compliments (The), 138
Agricultural Bruisers, 245
Agricultural Inquisition, 207
Alarming Accident, 137
Alarming Discovery (An), 218
Alarming Railway Accident, 95
Albert Statue Movement (The), 212
Alderman's Hope (The), 263
All my Eye and Beate Martin, 131
American Joke Explained (An), 262
Another and Another Still Succeeds, 148
Another Ghost, 145
Another Insult to Ireland, 37, 152
Another Insult from the Saxon, 124
Another Irish Grievance, 12
Another Money Question, 153
Another Rupture with France, 12
Albany for the Million (An), 223
Aristocracy and its Antipodes, 198
Arms of England (The), 178
Australian Clipper (An), 113
Autocrat's Anthem (An), 233
Bad Beer with a Good Name, 54
Bar and the Liberty of Conscience (The), 224
Barristers of England (The), 215
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