Daily national Democrat., 1859-11-24
Thanksgiving DayI

who are prepared to enjoy it. All may en-
iov it. who have truly thankful hearts. The
poorest man may enjoy it more than the rich
est for his heart may be right while his rich
neighbor's may be wrong. On the same prin.
cipe the richest man may enjoy it more than
the poorest; not because he is richer but be
cause his heart is in the right place and he
is thankful to the Giver of all good for the
blessings he experiences, while his poorer
neighbor is filled with envy and discomfort
and bitterness-a prey to feelings which poi
son all his joy md make him ungratefnl for
what he possesses, for the reason that it is
not more
In this golden land of California. this Ell
dorado of the Poets dreams, there is no good
reason why all classes Of society should not
be thankful In world teeming with mill
lions upon millions of human beings a man
should be more than satisfied if he can supply
himself with daily bread and provide himself
with shelter for the night He should not
desire more than his due share of food and
raiment and the rest of the ordinary comforts
life The less he has the moro there is for
those who are entitled, by the birthright of
existence, to the like enjoyments with himself
Therefore there is no man, having enough TO
and sheltered, who ought not to be thankful.
In California, there need be no one who has
not at least thus much For those who refuse
to labor or who incapaeitate themselves to
labor, by reason of their follies and excesses
their recklessness of business and their viola
tions of the laws of health, the doom of rags
and poverty. degradation and misery, is their
Just desert. They may thank the mselves for
their condition, God helps those rho help
| themselves. In California, no man who helps
himself, who is honest and Industrious who
is willing to work, who applies himself prop
erly to the business before him, and who en-
joys a reasonable degree of health, need ever
suffer If accident or disease, unforeseen and
unavoidable, overtake him, it is his misfor-
tune, and society, by means of its hospitals
and its charities. is bound, by the sacred OBJ
legations of humanity and of the Christian
Religion, to take care of him.
In the country at large, throughout the
length and breadth Of the Union, there is
great occasion for thankfulness to the Al
mighty Giver of all Good Gifts The Union
itself is blessing, which no language can
measure. No form of Government On earth
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of humanity as ours. In many other coun-
tries, the privileged few alone seem to be re-
garded by the Government. Society is arbi
trarily divided into "the higher" and "the
lower classes The law gives to certain or
ders all the land, and makes the others mere
tenants-at will upon the estates of the rich.
Others again of "the lower classes" are not
provided for at al. Vast tracts of land which
might afford them small farms, the cultivation
of which would support their wives and little |
ones, are devoted to the pasturage of cattle
whose flesh or fleece only adds to the i'm
mense and superAuous wealth of their own
ers. The gold and silver of the country flow
ing into the Golfers of those already rich
the land absorbed in the possession of the
few; the higher classes-made so by the law
having millions more than they want or
have any use for, the masses below, thou
sands upon thousands of human beings, go
hungry and naked, diseased and wretched,
and drag out miserable and unpitied exist
ence. No such state of things exists in our
happy country, and therefore it is peculiarly
becoming that Day of Thanksgiving like
this should be National institution among
us.
Without farther morali1ing, then, let the
sacrifcial altar be prepared. Let the fat
gobbler be offered up. Without ceremony |
and without ostentation, but rather in the
every day simplicity of friendship and good
feeling let the family circle receive its relatives
or its friends, and discuss the good thing pro
vided The absence of those who once occu
pied seats at the festal board may tend TO
sadden the surviving circle. Let it not do
SO, for they are happier than we, in ''the land
o the leal." They look down upon us, too
and share our JOY. Their life is one long
thanksgiving to the bountful Father of All.
| The name of S. G. Howe appears in
Browns correspondence in a rather equivo-
cal connection. The Evening Post sympa.
thetically informs the public that it supposcs
the reference is to DR.. Howe; and that DR..
Howe is well known for his heroic efforts
as volunteer soldier, to liberate Greece
from Ottoman power. as well as for his al
most universal philanthropy, which has
shown itself in his beneticient labors to i'm.
prove the condition of the deaf mutes. the
blind and the idiots His wife, Julia Ward
Howe, is the accomplished author of Pas
sion Flowers. ""The Worlds Own" and the
"Trip to Cuba" which were published serially
in the Atlantic Monthly.
TnE GREAT BALLOON OF Mr.. LowE.-Ac-
cording to the New York Times, Mr.. loves
monster Balloon, which has been for some
time past in course of construction In New
York. is nearly ready for a trial trip. NIL.
intends as soon as possible, to attempt to
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