Democratic banner., 1846-04-18
SHORT PATENT SERMONS.

WIFI vontICul bride can equal her array?
Wiz can With her for easy pleasure vie?
rram meaJ 70 ,,ead with gentle wing to stray,
Trorn Hn,vCr to flower OF balmy gales TO fly,
! Ill <hc has I, 10 beneath the radiant SKY.
NJ hcarcrs-Man, in his life time, cxpc-'
,;.rcc. more exatic Joy, more exquisite
pleasure, and by far more real misery, than
Iany other living object, but that calm and
careless content enjoyed BY Tie brute crea-
tion, hc knows 10 more about than Satan
docs of psaIm-singimg. lie cant be easy
Ioycr an horr at 4 stretch TO save his soul;
hut mas, keep hitching and wriggiing a
!bout. like 4 monkey in m~enagcrlc. 1t is
morally impossible for him to sit still and
Isuck tie sweets of peace ard contcntmcnt
through \ straw, as | uscdto suck new CT
der in nv boyhood; but lie must dive over
head and ears into a half-hogshead of pleas
ure, and come out Keeling as satisfied, sick,
sleek and slippery as thongh& he had been
taking aship-bath in a tub OF s~oap-grease.
He must 80 to cxtremes-5c either dancing
with delight in the highest heaven of happi-
mess. or crunting and groaning in the low
est hell Of misery He enjoys no medium,
but goes it with a rush from extreme to ex-
trcme, and paltry are thc'pleasures snatch
ed up in his everlasting oscillations. lie
wants but five minutes to consume halt an
Ihour-a week to demolish a month-a month
to destroy thc hopes Of a year-and a year
Ito snoil the prospcc S Of I lifetime. lie.
learns his pleasures and he ~!cvours them;
he entails trouble upon himself, and thcn
curses lis stars, OF kicks The FIRST dog that
has TIE misfortune to fall IN lis way; hcac-
cummlatcS muuntainS Of riches, hut not a
Single gem OF happiness can he 1"d III The.
whole head: the riches rcrcia'cc take
wings. and property is LIS companion to
tie crave. Here he sits himself down. and
ovcriauls ticpack Of trumpcry picked up.
during the ]iourni:s through lie. On ono
side lie puts whatever ;pyS, pleasures an
blis<cs are contained in tie bundle, and Oh
the other. all the cares pains, pcrpicNitIrS,
"rirfs, sorrows and woes that existence has
gathcrcd. Heavens. how &c rol!; lis eyes
in establishment, wien Ec c,mi arc>tkc IL
tx. giit;cring pared upon tie on" har'l,.
with the vast, melancholy pii" that :'owiS
upon the other. Talk ah""t lie joys cf
He tic cxc,a;m<; IL is trEc Tie few 'hat
morta!< GAIN, have anominal value, as pre-
cious metals, obtained nj = v~">tamoHut e
tell and tr.aIi,; hut sci tie lis of czi<-
fence for p,udrri;.. It arcnn. q CARLOAD
i've me The r, ceirt<-:,ni ii tic whole
.kin9ndom Of Heaven were put ~ at auction.
i ttiuL dat I should D., able t. rurrhusn.
ii.
Ny dear iricn:s-and %,.ilsIiu oil the
earth in general. behold. low III creatures.
cxrrrt rs humans. are yav vi,h uara:nrd.
plcaSr,rr. look It the H. ,c Is lis
pleasures without toll CT ere: Ia ,?hrs i,
easy. and IIon'tLnow but ,.r c...Yx lin
sell as nationally rs am D.!y. Il, s~!7.;crs
no one. and cares NOTHING for Wat is said
about him: neither onvv "a Jealous, c,.rdis-
TURKS his dlycStion-lr cats lis >will III
peace. and Sleeps s~o,::!,ly with tr.i stom-
ach and IN easy con g.cncc; an sometimes
toe, he irisks ai.out as though hr hal 4 joy
i: +rIsrectiyc a"vond TIE rriv;lcs, ii root
Ing in a potato patch. The toad { nj care
vii, tI,crhe is admired fer lis p%g'irre< CT.
traduccd !or his pali~n"c; = sits and wiiks
in a'amnlcr-storm& - ~composcdly as | smoke
nav pipe ani! the Gin and battle Of T. litics.
lie Jumps for Joy as we'll as for flies; and
though he GOES through the world with a