Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-10-29
WHOLE NO. 1,04s'
CONFIDE IN Con.


years of age, tended her little garden, sni
and spun for living. She was known every
| where, from village to village, by the cogn o
men OF sc Happy Nancy" She had no nj o
ney, no family, no relatives; she was hal
blind, ha If lame, and very crooked. There
was no CO rneliness in her, and yet there, in
that h omel y, deformed body, the great Goo
who loves TO bring strength out of weakness
had set his royal seal.
| "Well, Nancy, singing again." would the
chance visitor say, as he lounged about heI
door.
"La! yes, 'm forever at ii. don't know
what people will think !" she would say will
her sunny smile.
"Why, they'll think as they always do, that
you arc very happy
"La! well, that's fact, FIN just as happ!
as the day is long"
!" L wish you'd tell me your secret, Name,
you are all alone, you work hari, you hav'
nothing very pleasant surrounding you wha
is the reason you're 50 happy ?''
"ferhaps it's because / haven't got an
ioSftns a 9f oG Gfeplsd sd drf th tSs s SSS
depend upon their families and their houses
they've got to keep thinking of their business
Of their wives aud children; and then they'r.
always mighty afraid of trouble ahead. amt
got anything to trouble myself about, you see
Cause / leave it all 10 tho Lord. | think
well, il 1Io can keep this great world in such
]
| the stars shining night after night, make my
| garden things come up just the same, season
| after season, he can sartinly take care of such
! apoor, simple thing US am; and SO, you sec,
leaYe 1t ell to the Lord, and the Lord takes
care Of me-"
"Well, but Nancy, suppose a frost shoald
come after your fruit trees are all in blossom,
and your little plants out, suppose
"But don't susposei can never suppose;
don'twant to suppose, except that the Lord
will do everything right. That's what makes
you people unhappy; you're all the time sup.
posing. Now, why can't you wait till the sup
poso come, as do, and then make the best OF
it7"
''Ahl Nancy, it's pretty certain you'll get
to heaven, while many Of us with ali our world
| " wisdom will have to stay Out.''
"There, you're at again. said Nancy,
shaking her head, 3" always looking out for
some black cloud. Why, if was you, I'D
keep the devil at arms length, instead of ta-
king him right into my heart--he'll do you Il
| despirit sight OF mischief"
She was right; we do take the demon Of
care, OF distrust, of melancholy foreboding,
OF ingratitudc, right Into our hearts, and pct
and cherish the ugly monster till we assimi-
| late TO their likeness. We canker every plea
sure with this gloomy fear of coming i'll !;
| VIC seldom trust that blessings will enter, or
hail them when they come. Instead of that,
preuension, and choke them with our mis-
| anthropy.
1T would be we'll for us to initiate Happy
Nancy, and sc never suppose" If yon see a
cloud, don't suppose it's going to rain; If you
sec frown, don't suppose scolding will fol
low; do whatever your hands hands find to
do, and there leave IT, Be moro chidlike to-
wards the great Father who created us learn
to confde in his wisdom, and not in your own;
and above ali, Z" wait till the suppose comes,
and then make the best of it.'' Depend upon
II, Garth would seem an Eden if you would fol-
low Happy Nancy's rule, and never give place
your bosom to imaginary evil.
] New IssUEs.-The North American, in
\ lengthy article on the foregoing topic uses the
! 1nsis''-s-.t.@aH0- guaRe.
icy naturally evolved from fnfa-i,7.,...;, nj
| IL concerns all of us, IN every ptrsufs = which
sition, to investigate carefully, and TO study
| with reference to our future actions and opin-
ions, And this is the first of these is that
| which concerns the industry of the country,
| upon which more than any other its advance
ment among civilized nations depends. The
highest condition of prosperity is incident ~
the highest development of labor, and there
fore that of all other subjects shouh most en-
gross the thoughts OF a people among whom
labor is honorable. The policy of projecting,
elevating and reWarding domestic industry,
may be denounced as an exploded theory by
those who, while protesting sympathy with the
welfare of the toiling masses, are striving, and
have striven, to grind them down to the de-
based condition OF the paupcr systems of Eu-
rope, by encouraging ruinOus competition at
their expense, and throwing open the doors to
fabrics which deprive them of wages and EN-.
ployment. Other wise and beneficial measures
have been assailed in the same loose and ig-
norant spirit; but when tens of thousands OF
sturdy men, with willing hands and sad hearts,
are walking the streets wanting work, with
wives and children wanting bread, they will
be apt to inquire for themselves what cause
has produced this distress, and why 1t is the
factories, and mines, and mills and workshops,
which not long ago resounded with the hum
Of happy industry, arc now closed and silent.
And they will discover that the Fundamental
cause lies in false policy engraited upon our
laws, adverse to their interests, and seemingly
devised to benefit other interests, remote from
all sympathy or identity with those they should
cherish.