The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1853-10-26
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE SIGHTED ONE.
"Man was made to Mourn"

The sentiment at the head of this
sketch appears to meet the approba-
tiun Of many persons. Indeed, some
authors take pleasure in repeating the
very words. Why this should be
the case is the question. Do not such
persn,s know that they assert palpa-
bic filsehood! 1t is true that some
persons du mourn, and that some have
"a great share Of suffering in this
sufficient, indeed, to afford
them an excuse for mourning. 1}u, to
assert roundly that ''man was made
to mumrn," is t., assume a position
that c;In;iot DC sustained by i course
of sound reasoning. When you look
upon II chair, You at once conclude hat
it was made to Sit sIpnn- When YOU
see coach, yea know it was made
to ride IN; and when YOU see Il watch,
you aFy certain that it was made to
keep ';H.c. The FAC. is p2!,abIc upon
the face OF it. But suppose YOU
see somebody break up chair AMI
use it for iircwood, would you then
be justiliabIe i'll saying. ,har chairs
were made to boil the tea kettle with!
So if you saw tin kettle tied to
q deg tail, would you say that dogs
tails were made IN purpose TO sup
port tin kettles, and the latter articles
were intended as ornaments to be
suspended f. m the tail ut Il dog!
Again. if you saw a man on a scat
fold with a rope about his peek, would
you declare that such was the end Of
mans creation! On the contrary.
we can produce good authority to
show, that the very worst use which
YOU can make Of IL man issto nang him.
Let us then examine the creature
man and see it we can discover those
ialibIe marks Of design that would
warrant us in proclaiming that he was
made to mourn. Firstly, man is said
to be the only laughing animal in cx-
istence, for we cannot call the noise of
a hyena laugh. w tn much more
propricty could we say that man was
made to laugh. Other animals can
mourn. The cow uttcrs loud com
plants at the loss Of her calf, the dog
whincs and howls, and the crocodile
wceps. But man only can laugh. There
are many things which he can do, and
he possesses also the organs for ac-
plishing them. He can do many things
much better than he can mourn. II
man was made to mourn. all creation
would be hung in black. 1t is a
fact almost sell evident that man was
not made to mourn.
Those, therefore, who give them
selves up wholly to grict, act an
mnnatural part. They do not sub
@ serve the purposes Of creation-thcy
" deny themselves the only consolation
apart from the brutes, which belongs
to their physical nature. But such
an individual will plead in cxtcnuation
Ofhis monstruus and continued sur-
row, that he has been visited by some
"pecul ar misfortune" That is no
valid excuse. They cut OIL head. in
France, and where is there n more
merry and careless people? n French.
man invited to a bali, though be-
headed iii the afternoon, would take
his head under his arm and go to
the ball in the evening. Every mis-
fortune is peculiar. Every source
of unhappiness sends us bitter wa.
tcrs: otherwise it would not be unhap-
piness: But why permit grief to
overcome you? You thus chase from
you those resources which are calcula.
ted to alleviate your grief for it re.
mains to he as true now rs in the
days of Collins, that '.pale melan.
,choly" sits retired. Nobody cares to
meddle with her. The eye aches when
it is fixed on an impenetrable black.
ness, and tnrns for relief to the soft
green of the soul-to those cheerful
hllocks on which the sun. beams rest AS
they glancs through the foliage OF
leaves and blossoms. The world shrinks
from those who can impart no pleas.
ure. Ss
Many a fair one has given herself
up to all.devouring griefon the sac
count of Disappointment inlove. aShe
has been disappointed" is supposed tc
be'a sufficient reply. when the sad
1nuf1nnvt avh.' thc f,o,~ 1.