Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-02-26
Moral Conn,e,ic.


ily in neighborhoods, and in general good so
ciety, there are hundreds ofirets and troubles
that are soothed and healed by patience and
torbearance. 1t would be absurd to treat the
| petty whims Ct vanity, or the moods of indig-
esIion, with solemn parade of principles, or
with formal exhortation. We must go
1 through society as we do through weedy
| pastures, not stopping at every burr and prick
! ty seed; but walking straight along, and
1 picking off the 5urrs and torked, prickly
seeds, once for all, at the end.
Great is the virtue of ginger bread when
children are peevish and cross With great
difference to the scruples of neighboring edi-
tors, we presume TO say that bread and butter
will soolhe hungry children much sooner than
Caechism or Bible.
In this articular sphere, how venerable
are those great, good old peacemakers, that
wear face ike the full moon, and pocket
fuller yet of al those little notions which are
medicinal TO so many petty uoubles-cookies,
sugar plums, tan Whistles and picture books
Schools rise up and bless the good grand
fathers. Every neighborhood honors the in
nocent and dear old creatures, who carry
stream of kindness with them, wherever they
go.
But suppose movement were made to
fradulently vitiate all the titles Of real estate
rights should take place; or the most serious
and dangerous errors should poison the moral
Atmospheric peacemaker, viii his pocket
tull of pea nuts and ginger bread, would
hardly have force enough to reach and remedy
snch deep and central evils.
We have multtudes of public men who
make no distinction between the practice re-
Quilted for the mere infelicites and infrmites
of men in society and the strong and positive
evils which assault life at its center. They
are gentlemen Of mild and benevolent turn,
who love peace, and who appear to think that
the way to obtain it, is simply to go about
crying DO be peacea5le Ohsweet sinners,
pray be quietF'
When commercial avarice would devastate
continent, they treat it with the same com.
prchensive wisdom with which they would
quarrel where Miss Mary has declared that
Miss Julie is not pretty. Naughty Mary.
Julia is pretty. You ale too pretty yourself
TO make such mistake; you did not mean
it, did your No! l thought so kiss and
make up!"
All the truths of mans nature are violated,
and all the doctrins Of the civil government
under which we live are trampled furiously
under foot. The matter grows year by year
worse. 1t threatens to subyert the govern
ment, and corrupt national morals. In fifty
years people slide back in ideas two hun
bred Kind juvenile grandfathprs, with
| editorial pockets stuffed with remedial cakes
or sweet cosmetics, walk forth with benev.
olent smile, and propose to cure despotism
with sugar pluins, and to destroy pride and
the ianaticsm of lust and sefshness by per-
TUNED soap and shaving cream. Good min.
listers there are. who hope better things Of
men than that they will be so wick cd A
simple hearted old gentleman in Boston,
standing in his door when the British soldiers
were firing upon the citizens in State street,
received shot in his arm. Clapping his
hand upon the wound, he looked rather
fercely at fhe red coats, and courageously
said, ''Look here, if they don't be still, they
ought to be talked to - We have lust such
men. with ideas SO pertinent to the exigency
Of our times.
No man that knows DR.. Orvlle Dewey but
knows him to be thoughtful, honest hearted,
and good man. No one, we presume, doubts
his sincerity, his candor, or his Christian pat
riotism. In all matters whose remedy was
graceful patience and gentle goodness, none
could better prescribe than he We think of
him as we do Of Dr.. Adams Of Boston, and of
sundry other Doctors in New York; not that
they are not good men, but that they have
gone beyond their depth in venturing upon
public questions in our day. They are not
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