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He will see the sallow old men drinking juleps, grave and bleared But no more their household servants at the court-house auctioneered; And the county clerk will prove it by the records on his shelves, That the fathers of the province were no better than ourselves. When I admit that these reminiscences are real, it will at once be inferred that I am a preacher's son.
Men were weighed by their dollars, measures gauged by their dollars; life was auctioneered, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end.
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