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Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself. Vol. 2 (of 2)

Chapter 7 THE SORROWS OF A PHILANTHROPIST.

Word Count: 1845    |    Released on: 01/12/2017

munities, and so relieve the afflicted in a mass; besides a thousand others which were designed to bestow upon the poor and vicious that virtuous knowledge and those virtuous principles, which are better than alms of gold and silver. I instituted some half a dozen charitable societies, to supply fuel, clothing, food, and employment to the suffering poor; as well as others to exhort them to economy, ind

ion in their habits and feelings; and I took uncommon pains to scatter light and sentiments of a civilized characte

y. For myself, verily, if they were not comely in my sight, nor agreeable to my nostrils, I said, "Heaven hath made them so;" and although my nephew Jonathan insisted that Heaven had done the same thing with other animals, and that, upon my principles, men should be as affectionate with pigs and

one his dinner, snaps, for his dessert, at the feeder's heel. It is as the tender flowers, which, in the winter-time, a man taketh from the cold, to warm, by night, in his chamber, and which smother him with foul air before morning. Verily, it was my lot to find, even as my nephew Jonathan had once foolishly contended, that even philanthropy is not secure from the sting of unthankfulness-that benevolence is, in one sense, the great parent of ingratitude-since it b

aunt with me, seeing that misery doth there greatly abound, I fell upon a man whom the magistrate was about to commit to jail, for being d

him back to his rejoicing family. I said to myself-"This very night will I witness the happiness I have created." I went accordingly to the man's house, where I found the wicked fellow raving with drink, and beating his wife as before, his children screaming with terror, and the neighbours crying out for a constable. I did but say a word of reprehension to him, when the brutish ingrate, leavi

made the poor man mad. Therefore lock him u

s to pay over to the clerk the hundred dollars in which t

t I should pay the money; for th

e should have to pay it. But pay it thee must, the man having broken the peace a

good even to the man's poor family, since it exposed them a second time to his fury, costing

nfortunate accident. For, having prospered in his business, and I requiring that he should now repay the money, that I might devote it to the service of others, he very impudently averred that he had never had any thing of me, except advic

by others of a still deeper die, and so num

d bespatter me with mud-balls from head to foot, they fell upon me, and, being very numerous, did actually roll me about in a gutter, where was a deep slough, so that I had nearly perished with suffocation, being sorely bruised into the bargain. To crown all, having expelled from my school the ringleaders in this marvellous outbreaking of precocious ingratitude, I was v

, they would greatly benefit themselves, and the community too, by going, two thirds of them at least, into service, there being ever a great want of domestics in our respectable families. I say, I did but hint this reasonable and undeniable truth, together with a friendly remark upon the exposed state of their morals, when there arose such a storm among them as was never perhaps witnessed by any other human being. "Hear the old hunks!" said one: "he wants to make niggur servants of us! us, that is freeborn American girls!"-"Yes, ladies!" said another, "and he is insinivating we are no better nor we should be!"-"Turn the old ri

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1 Chapter 1 THE PHILANTHROPIST'S FAMILY.2 Chapter 2 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE WORTHY ABEL SNIPE.3 Chapter 3 IN WHICH THE YOUNG MAN JONATHAN ARGUES SEVERAL CASES OF CONSCIENCE, WHICH ARE RECOMMENDED TO BE BROUGHT BEFORE YEARLY MEETING.4 Chapter 4 CONTAINING LITTLE OR NOTHING SAVE APOSTROPHES, EXHORTATIONS, AND QUARRELS.5 Chapter 5 WHICH IS SHORT AND MORAL, AND CAN THEREFORE BE SKIPPED.6 Chapter 6 AN INCONVENIENCE OF BEING IN ANOTHER MAN'S BODY, WHEN CALLED UPON TO GIVE EVIDENCE AS TO ONE'S OWN EXIT.7 Chapter 7 THE SORROWS OF A PHILANTHROPIST.8 Chapter 8 THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.9 Chapter 9 CONTAINING A DIFFICULTY.10 Chapter 10 IN WHAT MANNER MR. ZACHARIAH LONGSTRAW DETERMINED TO IMPROVE HIS FORTUNE.11 Chapter 11 IN WHICH A CATASTROPHE BEGINS.12 Chapter 12 IN WHICH THE CATASTROPHE IS CONTINUED.13 Chapter 13 THE DéNOUEMENT OF THE DRAMA.14 Chapter 14 A REMARK, IN WHICH THE AUTHOR APPEARS AS A POLITICIAN, AND ABUSES BOTH PARTIES.15 Chapter 15 AN UNCOMMON ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL THE AUTHOR.16 Chapter 16 IN WHICH SHEPPARD LEE TAKES A JOURNEY, AND DISCOVERS THE SECRET OBJECT OF HIS CAPTORS.17 Chapter 17 CONTAINING OTHER SECRETS, BUT NOT SO IMPORTANT.18 Chapter 18 IN WHICH THE AUTHOR APPROACHES A CLIMAX IN HIS ADVENTURES.19 Chapter 19 CONTAINING A SPECIMEN OF ELOQUENCE, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE DANGERS OF LYNCHDOM.20 Chapter 20 IN WHICH SHEPPARD LEE FINDS EVERY THING BLACK ABOUT HIM.21 Chapter 21 IN WHICH SHEPPARD LEE IS INTRODUCED TO HIS MASTER.22 Chapter 22 AN OLD WOMAN'S CURE FOR A DISEASE EXTREMELY PREVALENT BOTH IN THE COLOURED AND UNCOLOURED CREATION.23 Chapter 23 SOME ACCOUNT OF RIDGEWOOD HILL, AND THE AUTHOR'S OCCUPATIONS.24 Chapter 24 IN WHICH THE AUTHOR FURTHER DESCRIBES HIS SITUATION, AND PHILOSOPHIZES ON THE STATE OF SLAVERY.25 Chapter 25 RECOLLECTIONS OF SLAVERY.26 Chapter 26 A SCENE ON THE BANKS OF THE POTOMAC, WITH THE HUMOURS OF AN AFRICAN IMPROVISATORE.27 Chapter 27 THE AUTHOR DESCENDS AMONG THE SLAVES, AND SUDDENLY BECOMES A MAN OF FIGURE, AND AN INTERPRETER OF NEW DOCTRINES.28 Chapter 28 WHAT IT WAS THE NEGROES HAD DISCOVERED AMONG THE SCANTLING.29 Chapter 29 THE EFFECT OF THE PAMPHLET ON ITS READER AND HEARERS.30 Chapter 30 THE HATCHING OF A CONSPIRACY.31 Chapter 31 HOW THE SPOILS OF VICTORY WERE INTENDED TO BE DIVIDED.32 Chapter 32 THE ATTACK OF THE INSURGENTS UPON THE MANSION AT RIDGEWOOD HILL.33 Chapter 33 THE TRAGICAL OCCURRENCES THAT FOLLOWED.34 Chapter 34 THE RESULTS OF THE INSURRECTION, WITH A TRULY STRANGE AND FATAL CATASTROPHE THAT BEFELL THE AUTHOR.35 Chapter 35 CONTAINING AN INKLING OF THE LIFE AND HABITS OF MR. ARTHUR MEGRIM.36 Chapter 36 THE HAPPY CONDITION IN WHICH SHEPPARD LEE IS AT LAST PLACED.37 Chapter 37 THE EMPLOYMENTS OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN OF FORTUNE.38 Chapter 38 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE INCONVENIENCES OF HAVING A DIGESTIVE APPARATUS.39 Chapter 39 THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF SEVERAL SURPRISING TRANSFORMATIONS.40 Chapter 40 AN ACCOUNT OF THE WOES OF AN EMPEROR OF FRANCE, WHICH HAVE NEVER BEFORE APPEARED IN HISTORY.41 Chapter 41 IN WHICH SHEPPARD LEE IS CONVINCED THAT ALL IS NOT GOLD WHICH GLISTENS.42 Chapter 42 IN WHICH THE AUTHOR STUMBLES UPON AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE.43 Chapter 43 CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE WONDERFUL DISCOVERIES OF THE GERMAN DOCTOR.44 Chapter 44 SHEPPARD LEE FLIES FROM THE GERMAN DOCTOR, AND FINDS HIMSELF AGAIN IN NEW-JERSEY.45 Chapter 45 WHAT HAD HAPPENED AT WATERMELON HILL DURING THE AUTHOR'S ABSENCE.46 Chapter 46 CONTAINING THE SUBSTANCE OF A SINGULAR DEBATE BETWIXT THE AUTHOR AND HIS BROTHER, WITH A PHILOSOPHIC DEFENCE OF THE AUTHOR'S CREDIBILITY.47 Chapter 47 BEING THE LAST CHAPTER OF ALL.