The Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1850-1852, 1851-08-14
from the Cincinnati, Columbian,
rus DEVIL OF HASTE.

THE DEVIL OF HASTE.
or all the devils and dcviikins, who.
whether black or blue, torment poor
mortals We know none worse IN many
respects than the devil Of llAsrE. And
among Us westerners he has u great
swing and sway. lie has entered in
and possessed us, and we arc but bond
slaves to do the bidding of our master.
As the Methodist minister expressed it,
"we are born in hurry, live in hur-
ry, and expect to die in n hurry" To
cap the climax, Nat Willis has go. up
as the latest title, book called hrRRY-
GRAPHS. That is too bad. DO let us
have one quiet nook in Literature where
all is cool and calm and comfortable
where there is no clink Of the dollar, no
scream Of the engine, no hurrah If pol
i,ics, no din and smoke Of the battle.
The devil Of Haste drives men too
fast, and drives them too far. lie rides
them in a s,ccple chase. like Mr. Briggs
in Punch. He has exploded the idea
that Lille is a journey, voyage, pilgri-
mage, as used to be thought in the good
old days Of johnson and Addison
What men ask for now when they ride
is not bit, and bride. and saddle, but
spurs. That is the most important Of
the cquestrian's dress. Our Gospel is
one word, "What thou docst do quick
w." SEQ ahead" is the watchword,
without always taking The other half of
the maxim, and first being "surc," MS Da-
vi6 said. "of being right" We are ur.
ged too far as well as too fast. We
overdo our good things. If we are
righteous, we are as the wise man said,
"rightous overmuch." If We are con.
serva'ives, we sickle for our grand
fathers buckles and breechea, and our
grandmother's high-hccled shoes and
pillions. And If We are refor,ners, we
want to make the man in the moon shave
that shaggy beard Of his, and put on a
clean dicky, like other Christian people.
Men have sharp faces, as if the end and
aim of that member were TO cut the air.
They have an eager look, as if they
were after somebody. They step quick,
as if they were going to take the cars
or boat, and thought they were too late.
A great deal is said about annil,ila.
ting time and space. But those two re-
spectacle individuals cannot so very ca
silly be made way with, and il they
could it would not be desirable TO do it.
The fact is, We should be very misera-
Lle if we had our own way, and could
clap on Fortunalus wishing cap, and
whisk ourselves across the Atlantic in
jfy. Our old bones were not made for
such tan.rums. 1t will do for elves and
fairies, and such like, but never for poor
US, flesh and blood. "Slow and sure I"
is our better way yet. Many of these
people who are SO anxious TO annihiate
time and space, end with annihila'ing
themselves. They get dragged Off in a
balloon, blown up in a steamer, or crush
cd in a ditch between two cars, that
attempt the awkward and ridiculous feat
Of going in opposite directions on the
same track at the same moment. Be
sides, when you get yonr space annihila-
ted, you don't sc, infiniiy, and when you
get your time anuihilated. you don I
get eternity. Yon get more time to
loie and smoke and drink in. You get
more room TO play the fool in, and that
is the upshot Of the whole matter. Noah
had no ambition to destroy lime-be
took the fool coolly. and was no. impa.
licnt when j, rained steadily for forty
days and Moses had no such lieadlons
haste in crossing the wilderness, as our
modern pilgrims, for he Was forty years
about il
| We call this HASTE a devil. and dew
! il with capital he is 4: no good angel
he. See what he does. and how wick
edly and miscbievously lie plays praihs
Our be,lers and elders used TO say
Haste makes waste" So it does
Devil Haste is, under another disguise
Devil Waste. lie hurries us in oui
! business so fast we have no time to say
our prayers, or read our Bibles. lie
! makes Us eat too fast, and eat too much
| and drink too muck. and not halt eli ew
nor halt taste our food and drink. lie
briggs ou, young !a,lie. very young. and
they iiu,ter through few seasons Of ad
inirstion and fashion, and die Of con.
sumption before their grandmothcrs be
gin TO to live. lie beguiies young men
10 buy their time before they nre twen
| ,y.ones and 60 10 California, or som'
other graveyard to lay their young bone
before they have half lived ont thei,
days. When has'e Turns architect, h,
builds houses tina, tumble down on IN,
heads Of the joiners when they are fin
ishing them. When lie acts the shi,
esrpea,es, he launches fine vessels ,ha
20 swift-to the Loiio,n. Haste, ii,
engineer, is terrible. lie bursts boil
ers, sms.hcs cars, and o1i Herod. Her
al in KILN: innocen,s, and out Burke
Burke in cboppins them up. and man
glips them 10 r'sic.s- We oo2h, log;
s-e 70 have been indiA.d. tried. an'
convicted a, holt sale murderer, Az.