Cherokee Phoenix

WHEN IS MAN RICH ENOUGH

Published July, 21, 1828

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WHEN IS MAN RICH ENOUGH

When a lad an old gentleman took the trouble to teach me some knowledge of the world. With this view, I remember he one day asked me, When is man rich enough? I replied; when he has a thousand pounds. He said, No., Two thousand? No. Ten thousand? No. Twenty thousand? No.- A hundred thousand? which I thought would settle the business; but he still continued to say No. I gave it up and confessed I could not tell, but begged he would inform me. He gravely said, when he has a little more than he has, and that is -never! If he acquires one thousand, he wishes to have two thousand; then five, then ten, then twenty, then fifty; from that his riches would amount to an hundred thousand, and so on, till he had grasped the whole world; after which he would look about him, like Alexander, for other worlds to possess.

Many a proof have I had of the truth of this old gentleman's remarks, since he made them to me, and I am happy to say that I have discovered the reason. Full enjoyment-full satisfaction to the mind of man, can only be found in possessing God, with all his infinite perfections. It is only the Creator, not the creature, that can satisfy.

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A waggoner [sic], who passed through Athens, Geo. sometime since, on being asked, 'where he was from?' gave the following answer:

'I am from Cow-born hill at Ox-feed ford of Yearling branch, which runs through Calf meadow, and empties into Heifer prong of Steer Creek, near Bullsborough in COWETA County, Georgia. My name is Stock-ton- was born on Elk River-brought up in Cattlebury, Kentucky: and I can yoke an ox, break a bull, or chase a buffaloe [sic] equal to a Prairie hunter, and skin any man opposed to Jackson.'

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Reputation- The way, according to Socrates, to obtain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. 'Men' observes Shakespeare also, 'should be what they seem.'

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The Osages who left this country last year, were at Frankfort, on the Main, where the public were admitted to them for a sum equal to about half-a-crown. From Frankfort they were to proceed to Dresden and Berlin.

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