Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-01-30

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pity thy DUMP SlmpuClCy1-lIlY easy lOly
Miserable Ounce and willing fool, We despise
thee, and can laugh at thee eating the bitter
fruits of thy slothful ignorance! We're that
voublc river, needless of thee, to rise and catch
thee in itswaves, we would extend hand to
save thee, yet, as surely would we box thy stu
pid ears and out thee, with thy folly, in the face
But our pity and our railery are i-spent up
on the rustic simpleton of Horace. They could
find scope enough without wandering so far
Our pity would, every day, find its object lOll-
ing, in happy listlessness, by our sides; and
our railcry would go no farther than our neigh
boris doors, to find the butt for its clustering
assaults. Yet let us restrain them now, whilst
we think seriously upon the lesson which the
Roman poet teaches.
This mistrust in our own power, and this pu-
ling, childish fear of imaginary difficulties, are
the bane that kills the nOblest faculties of the
soul Palliative and delusive in their character,
they lull the minds great aspirations into pleas
ing inactivity, aud then point out phantom cx-
pectatons- in the future, indeed--coming on
with gIittering crowns in their hands, to place
upon the dreamer's head. They deceive, then
they degrade the mind till awe-stricken with
the magnitude of opposing trides and disre-
spectful of its own superiority, it covers before
what it might command, and bends at the nod
of its inferior
In the sight of Heaven there is no one more
detestable than the tirnid, cowardly distrustful,
selfhumiIiating man, And, on the other hand,
Heaven shows greater favOrs to none than to the
brave, active, confident, daring man, who has
the will to do, and the courage to act 1t is glo-
rious to see such one, graphing difficulties by
the throttle, hurting Instructions from his way,
| trampling upon the heaps of conquered oppo-
serS, and at last gaining the high road which he
so honorabIy walks Such one-speaking
truly-possesses more of divine faculties than
the thousands, whom accident or fortune have
lifted into lofty seats.
Fortune is, sometimes, most inequitable in
her flvors,-she gives to the unworthy, and
takes from him whom merit ought to reward.
She layishss sweet smiles and genial pleasures
upon the scrvile sycophant who knecls at her
feet, whilst she lets loose freezing winds and
adverse floods upon the simpletou who awaits
her grace. When conquered subjects once to
her, she kicks them with tyrant's heel or
caresses them with patrons hand, as it pleaSes
her arbitrary fancy. But the brave, wise man
! is independent of Fortuna. He neither courts
her favors, nor suffers her adversely. lie dares
even her, and he meets her in the contest. lie
looks to no one-he husts to no one, but 1lea.
ven, for help. Unawed by thoughts of danger;
conscious that his contest is honorable, and
knowing no such word as raj, he bares his arm
for the struggle and challenges the result Pa
tient under strokes which he receives, his Wig
orous arm deals manly blows in return. Over
whclmed and borne to the ground under calan-
tiles which thicken around and press upon him,
he still holds his courage and rising to his feet,
renews the battle. Long aud strcnuously, he
| fights, and though his breath may seem to halt
between his tight-clenched teeth, though his
stout limbs may tremblc and his heart beat iu-
rously against his gallant breast, still he strug
giles on, he pcrsereres-and he cOaquors!
Such has been the struggle, and such the sue
cess of many noble fellow, whom F6rtnnc
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the success, when the struggle is such. Let not
this be denied by him that with true desires Of
glory in his breast, is1yet pining unseen, un
piticd, hopeless!" afraid to try, or frightened
into unmnnly inactivity, by first rcpulsc.-
He knows nothing of the great giant which lies
not sleeping nor dead-but crouching, in his
mind, before the menaccs of puny fear. If he
only would learn that this giant erists, and that
it has the po'cer of giant, how soon would he
find the aspirations which now are but vultures
gnawing at his heart, to be the sturdy wings to
lift him up in glorious fight! When he once
has learned this, when honest ambition has been
liberated from the silly fears and expectations of
the Roman rustic, then let him tell the tale of his
life's adventures, and if ii be not tale of sue
cess, Heaven, for the first time, shall be called
prOmise-breaker.
Be brave and persevcrc, for Bravery is the
father of great deeds, and Perseverance, the
mother of great glory. THEMIs.