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Library of the University of Pennsylvania
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Diary of [[Matthew Carey]]
Verified by [[Hampton L. Carson]]
10/20/1900
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Decr [December] 15, 1822
Why should I waste my time, my money, debar myself of my enjoy- ments, and even my rest at night, as well as make myself parts of deadly enemies, laboring to serve a commu- nity, in which there is not the shadow of humble spirit -- in which prevail the most smuggish apathy, and the most sordid meanness! Fareturn, or re- ward, or gratitude, I care not, & have never cared. But I could not have expected to be wholly desert- ed -- to have none to aid, or there, or support me. Could I have looked for a [?brutal] destitution of public spi- rit, such as I have experienced, I would at least have calculated that personal interest, that