Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-04-26

1t might prove healthy ebuition, but as it mere.
ly excltes the brain, and 70 no good purpose, and
seldom gains the end which reasoning might not
accomplish, it is waste of bitterness and even
time, at the cost oftentimes Of serious personal
disturbance. Women have been thrown into hys-
'ercs that have led to epilepsy and death, by in
auigence IN angry disputations and men have
sacrificed friendships, broken the peace of homes,
and scattered desolation among their dependents
and followers =
For one irrevocabe word,
Perhaps that meant harm, you lose friend
or N the war of words, your hasty hand
Performs 9 deed 10 haunt you to the grave
ANA such is Lille. 1t has been thought next TO
nay. 1t has been believed to bean absolute
impossibity to govern the temper that as every
thing in these days depends upon organization, if
we organized to be murderers, the crime must
follow, and he only is virtuous who is happily
abundantly possessed of the moral faculties The
young LIMB" the scoLD, the TERMAGANT, the
violent and hasty man exclaims, '' can't help it."
and Oh viewing the destruction that may have been
effected, cries out, 81 don't care" This is a
most fallacious notion Phrenologists, at the same
time that they admit that organization influences
IL,
that our conduct, or rather education, influences
our organization, and that organization may be
cultivated that bumps" as they are styled can
be encouraged and depressed, and their contents
called into action or subdue6 and therefore, if
Phrenology mean any thing. it means that vicious
ness and virtue depend entirely upon cultivation,
and that such folly OUGHT to be helped and OUGHT
he cared Rrip ~; fl,o h,
should 60, and when he is old he will not depart
from it." But it is even possible to alter habits
of later growth; and ass in the regulation fhealth,
man must chalk out" his own conduct to secure
it; so in the control of his wayward feelings, he
must bestow little attention in the study how to
do it. SO much for the morbid excitement of pas
sionate phrenzy.
Even in a selfish point of view, irascibility OF
temper ought at all times to be checked. The
flushed forehead, the blanched lips, the swelling
throat, the ferceness of the eye, and the towering
voice displayed in an ordinary fit of anger are
pretty sufficient indications of the tumult within
and the spirit without. There are few of US so
irritable that we cannot repress these ebullitions
of temper IF WE LIKE, at least to very consider
to stay the torrent when in full flow, it bef1ooves
US to determine in those seasons when reason
is sufficiently cool to counsel correctly, 10 place
that salutary restraint upon propensties to
passion and acerbities of temper, WHICH NEVER DO
ANY GOOD TO OTHERS and are sure to prove njuri-
Gus to ourselves.
A calm, serene, and cheerful mind MAY BE Sc
nfo
ally fretfuI, pevish irascible temperament will be
astonished to find how comparatively easy it is to
control and regulate their humors, if they will but
resolutely determine TO bring them under domina-
tion.
II is not my province here to dilate upon, nor to
faihom the operations of the mind upon the body,
arising from
Anxious study, discomfort and care,
Love without hope,
And fear and Jealousy :"
but is is imperative should not pass the antag.
onlst to the one have chiefly considered and that
is DESPAIR Despair is but the nurtured offspring
of gloom and depression it is growing thorn in
the heart of man-it makes him Z" sink IN lethargy
before his time"
Melancholy or mental nervousness as it may
be called, is generally the handmaid to the sick
couch not always so, but more particularly upon
the complaints these pages are consumed In de-
pictng. Here the faint hearted man, unlike his
angry brother, weeps in his regret, rather than
goais in his revenge; neither more nor less does
he demaud our sympathy. The two conditions
are the saddest of suffering humanity. Like an
GER il occasionally atans its climax, and it then
NAV be called - human weakness"-nay folly"
A man may feel his sorroacs like man. but, to
antedate the quotation, he should also bear them
like man In these fits of extremes the senses
may be held 10 be at fault, and mayhap they may
be, but in all errors there must be wrong some
where; the question is, can not the feelings OF
depresslon-,he abandonment to grief-the abso
lutte despair, which often ends in decentralization
be corrected can not it be checked can II
not be removed My belief is, il can. 1t is not
merely to be achieved, / admit, by resoution for
the resolution unsustaned by removal Of the cause
doubles upon itself and becomes as naught; but
where the cause Is known to be irremediable the
next wisest part to play, is to put up with it, tor
despondinq will not remove it. We must remem-
Der the fable Of Hercules and the wagner The