The Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.T. [i.e. N.M.]) 1851-1854, 1853-11-26
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HYsey Il hAsr'Nq' WELD.

It is q d5owsr aF,e(noon and the overcast sky
seems 10 lbve, ,fvzkd even the birds into quiet.
1lop havcj ben rfls'ly welcoming spring Ill the
hpninc; fnr n f'lese more temperate lahtudes
eVe 7,4 ready for he prom1e of the year much
asAia ihih m rour hype boroan regions. But,
gne. a $50 swallows do moi make summer,
and lhs aftqueou il seems MS if the birds bad
found leisure forfepenlanee, after becoming ours,
IN haste"
BEFORE us Is pile q recerils received letters.
They have little in common, except the form of
conclusin, and nine in ten Of ti'e writer's seem TO
have adopted the formula, "Yours, in haste .
The old.fashioned subscription, "Very respectfully,
your obcdent seryant,o is entirely superseded.
Even the abbreyiaons "Yoqrs truly" and "YouIs
respectfuly,n have become obsolete -"Yours
&c.nwhcb means anything or nothing, has iisap.
peared also and ''yours, in hasteo is the regular
conclusion and has as much Truth in it as the
others. Why does man subscribe himself
"Yours?p And why the haste? a
Is there haste in all these cases? Is there need
Of i. in any? Thereby hangs tale; and we will
esureIy recount it. One OF these hasty letters is
from an old acquaintance and if there he truth in
his intimaon of hurry we are sure that his haste
has been ncedIcssly brought upon him. Despatch
Of business is what he never was given TO, and
vet he rever did anything with proper, deliberate
and pans.taking care in his life We can figure
In our mind the precise circumstances under which
this hurried and almost unintelligible note--the
mstness Of It being the consequence Of bis greater
haste than speed. For weeks, il not for months,
we know th,t he has had The dnty of writing this
very letter before him. He postponed it from day
10 day, I'LL the day came beyond which, If written
at ali, he could delay It no longer. And he waited
through the last hours Of the last day till "haste''
was the only condition by which he could save
the mail. In the necessary information and en-
lightenment which the letter should convey, il is
entirely deficient; and the prolonged waiting,
which has done the writer no good, requires Of his
correspondent reply impromptu, which intuition
or clairroyancc alone could furnish us with The
means Of writing. Still he Is "ours, in haste,''
and no will be firiqusly angry f our reply do net
follow his epistle as suddenly rs sound follows O
blow. Ours, in haste! That he Is not "ours" at
all is one OF The ingredients in onr cup Of comfort.
We would cs soon boast ownership in bubble, or
an orange on the turn, or a keg Of powder with a
lighted train TO it.
Energy and promptpess TO do what presents IL
self at The right time, and thoroughly, do not enter
into the character of those whose correspondence
is done 'sin hasep Nor do such people come
under the definition Of "hasty men," They arc
usually not passionate, or easily stirred, but pheg-
matte, indolent, procrastinatlng. It is not thai
they accomplish so much, but that they do nothing
four-fflhs Of the time, and in the other fifth hall
do something, which they cannot help, end, oi
course, push of "in hastc.n And the half deed
imposes new necessity upon them to do something
else at disadvantage. They are always asleep
or in terror; doziug, or pulling for dear life tC
get out of the way Of something which threaten;
to extmguish and crush them. Their notes are
never paid ill the last hnf hour Of the last day oi
grace their dues are never applied for by then
till they are over due summer finds spring IN.
finished autumn overtakes their summer fruits
and winter freezes up an for them an indefinite
amount Of unfinished business. -N
".Yours, in hasten entered life under every ad.
vantage. except such disadvantages as mislmprove.
ment Of his opportunities had substituted for The
benefits which those opportunities were expected
to confer, He began business with the guarantee
OF wealthy fathers supposed endorsement, and
rushed into matrimony to secure his intended
whom his neglect and fckleness had more thar
half inclined to discard him He even signed hi;
letters Of proposals "Yours, in haste," and The
| lady took him at his word.
His children never would have been bdptzef
had not each been threatened with death from
disease, or danger from an epidemic. His wifi,
understands bis humor, and never applied to hin
for anything except when he was just starting OF
a Journey, or was otherwise so cornered that i
gave him plausible opportunity for compliance