The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-04-11
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"SrUDY TO BE QUIET AND TO No W.,

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"STUDY TO BE QUIET AND TO Do your
OWN BUSINESS lin this rampant and rest.
less age what an excellent text would this he
for a DISCOURSE We recommend it to the
attention of the clerical signers of the Ne
braska bill, and will furnish them gratui-
tously few suggestions which they may
work up into something useful for their re-
spective flocks. We have no doubt that
these expounders of scripture, by coming
down occasionally from generals to particu-
lars, would greatly promote the morality and
happiness OF society. 1t may well be ques-
toned whether many of their hearers are
aware that st. Paul ever gave any such ad-
vice to the Thessalonians as that which is
contained in the above extract.
There are many classes to whom this coun
sci might be addressed. 1t would furnish
good topic for an appeal to the clergy them
selves. You, reverend gentlemen, who for
get that you were sent to preach the Gospel,
who, having put your hands to the clerical
plough, look back longingly to the world
wnicn you have renounced; who hunger for
the hesh-pots of temporal power, and sign
your name to anti-Nebraska protests, threat
enlng the United States Senate with the dis.
pleasure OF Heaven if it does not act ac.
cordlhg to your notions, study to be aa;et.
"hal right have you to speak in the Almigh-
:! name' and, more stupid than Balaam, to
curse whom God has not cursed? Study to
De qniet and attend to your own business.
iour =" business is to feed the sheep and not
devour them to visit the poor the sick and
the afflicted; to preach with your lives as
well as your lips; never to speak "evil of
dignities,' and to set an example to others of
obedience to the powers that be, for the
powers that be are ordained of God"
The abolitionists, who are eternally inter
meddling with the business of others and
bawllng themselves hoarse over the imagined
evils OF slavery, might ponder with sdvan-
tage the injunction of the apostle. Let them
make little more fuss over their own sins
and little less over those Of others: let
them expend few dollars, to keep the free
negroes, whom they have enticed to run
away, from starving and freezing to death
let them occupy their minds with the pursuits
OF honest industry, and it will be all the
better for them in this world and the next
The strong minded women are another
class who need little wholesome counsel.
instead OF gadding about to public meetings,
delivering themselves of speeches which
make them objects of pity to all good natured
people, and strutting through the streets la
Bloomer or a "a Bantam, let them study to be
quiet, stay at home, nurse the children,-in a
word, mand their Own business. What a world
this would be, if every body would follow
that advice!
For at no period of the worlds history
were the human race so unquiet and 50 given
to attending to the business of others. ANY
man exhorted in these times to do his own
business might reply that it was quite unne-
cessary as he had some other man to do it for
him. AS individuals, as states, and as nations
we overlook our own short. comings. and
waste much valuable time and excellent crit.
cism upon the faults of others The man
who studies to be quiet and to mind his own
business is considered an antediluvian, an
old fogy, the mere fossil remains of a man.
What right has he to pursue "the even tenor
of his way" when all the rest of mankind
are in an everlasting state of excitement and
exaltation? How dare he keep cool and
calm and quiet, when the whole world is in q
hurry and furry! And what base ingrati.
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siness when other people cheerfully attend
to his !
In this age of progress, steam, electricity
reform and revolution, man will have to
''study'' very hard to succeed in being "qui-
et." There is but one probable place of re.
pose, the couch upon which he sleeps his
last slumber, and even the quiet of that spot
is not secure from this goahead age, which
in the great marts of trade, makes nothing OF
running street over graveyard, and, shov.
elling out the bones of its ancestors, bids
them, with sneer make room for their bet.
tiers.
The late storm in the Southwest was very de-
structive in the vicinity of Port Hudson, La. The
chimneys of the steamer Nashville were blown
down, her hurricane roof was blown of aud carried
some 10 or so yards striking and injuring several
persons. The large warehouse of Capt. j. Rist was
leveled to the ground. The residence of w. Ra.
MADISON was much injured. All the fences In the
vicinity were blown down. chimneys destroyed and
trees uprooted.
FRoM TExAs-A courier passed through Austin
on the 2lst ult., with dispatches for San Antonio
from Fort Belknap. A gentleman who conversed
with him, reports that he corroborated the account
of the hostility of the Indians, and the surrounding
of Fort Belknap by large body of savages
An EDITOR IN QuANDAnY--The editor of the
Fort Smith (Ark.) Herald is In a sad predicament
He says:
All of the hands In our cfice have knocked of;
and are bound for California Next week we shall
be without any assistance whatever, unless we can
find struggling Jour in this town who may be in
search of novelties In the West