Delaware gazette and American watchman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1837, 1833-01-11
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iye might talk learnedly, and quote host :
qfauthois, from Aristotle down to tho last
Review, all proyig that a discontinued
man isnot SO happy IS he might be. We
haze not the least doubt that Senecs. or
some Of equal authority, has somewhere
said. thst contenied mind is a continual
FEAST. Toumuai consider your own country
ss the hsppiest nstioh on earth, your own
wife as Nle abandonment woman in the
lfogidi yotf home as sort q paradise,
and youy children as prodigies. You
inuay learn The happy aftcf turning your
ussrp an ilia aNgns. Ne. baFn ALWAYS
considered Deacon CULVER dssoRo OF the
hspPicst men we ever knew. He conf.
IDENTIFY pronouncesitHe Inst sermon be has
heard, as the best he ever did hear.
Have care, however, if you wish 10
preserve your mental tranquility, how YOU
meddlo with politics. Our public affairs
are in rather turbulent state; and if they
are not absolutely suffering for your coun-
sells, you had better leave them to men
who, with the sirictest prop:iety, we hope,
may be said to be men fit for business. If
you are fill for business, we shall not think
wishing you happy new year.
Nv. Lastly, VIC advise oil our friends 10
secure, as soon as possible, and by the
most ehectual means in their nower, that
rarcst Of all jewels, clear conscience.
We are aware that it las been long out Of
market, and almost cut of date. But we
can assure our readers, il is one Of the
elements of human happiness. We have
looked on the world more than four times
Serer gears, and seen mankind in various
conditions; in youth and age, in honour
and in meRnness, in wealth and in poverty;
and We can hardly affirm, with the author
of Junius, that we never knew scoun-
diel that was happy. In word, for man
to enjoy himself, he must have no con-
science, or good one. Nuw, the first
part Of this alternative costs man so
much shutting, and higgling; he must
twist and turn, and cark and prog so much,
that the cheapest way is, even on the prin-
Piles of DR.. Caldwell's True Epicurism,
to Keep pure conscience, rather than to
struggle 10 have none.
We are brought 10 period, when we
arc iIresstably reminded to look forward,
and ask what Joys and sorrows, what strug.
giles and conflicts are necessary for us, in
that future ocean which we are destined
10 cross. There is much, in the eircum-
stances of our country to make Thought
iiui lDan scflulsssrs1. tAIq clouds gather on
the mountains, and how soon they are to
burst into whiIlwinds and thunders and
deluge US in iempests and rain, no human
sagacity can foretel. Were we prone to
brood over the dark pictures of the worlds
fate; were we fond Of that querulous eio-
quence which sometimes comes las We
have already remarked, } from too full a ta-
Bile; wo might launch into strains which
might drive some sensitive readers to the
opiate or the halter.
What is TO become of our country? What
will Congress 90 at the present session.
What will he the result of the troubles al
the Southl Will that FESTIVE hussey-one
of the most indomitablc of the twenty. -four
daughters Of republican liberty, elope
from the family, because her great father
would marry her TO Count Tariff and will
she run away with those foolish seducers
who have filled her head with vain notions
of her beauty and impoltancel What are
the events, and what are the secrets, ia
J vourable or unfayourable to the happiness
of man, which this coming year is TO dc.
velopel Truly, We do not know; nor arc
; we very anxious 10 inquire. Old time tells
his secrets full fast enough for our tran
guilty. But there is one doctrine SC
beautiful and so tianquillizing, that We
; wish all our readers TO believe it, if they
possibly can. 1t is, that after all the
checks of human felicity, there is a pro
, gress in human affairs towards social anC
civil happiness. The progress of man
towards the great ultimate point of his cl
) ovation, is like the way of a ship, annie
the headlands of the Cape, when she il
!, bearing over her fore. quarter. She il
, AhliGad ALTERNATELY TO make long tack il
The ofiing; but nevertheless, she regain
I her ground on the other course; and he
: advancement is, on the whole, 10 the har
bour of repose. This is certainly a YER,
: comfortable creed. If you cannot recon
y Gle the belief in the existing state O
! things and the perfeciability of man will
: present appearances; if you see vice ant
! dissipation breaking in, anarchy and radi
calism raping; knaves seeking Office, ant
, fools supporting them; you must suppose
that the ship is on the long tack; if she
should not miss.stay, she will recover her
self when she takes the next turn. What
ever way she points her bcwsprit, she i,
aiming for the harbour, and will finally
gain it.
But ufteI all, let every man seek his bes
: happiness by his own Preside. In thai
: peaceful abode the goddess erects her al
tar, and is always at command. Perhaps
during the last year you have had your sor
rows; perhaps, like many other mortals
you have been called, in the sadness o
!. your soul, TO eat the bitter bread of dis
Il appointment. Perhaps one man would no