, 1864-03-26


A MISTAKEN NORTON NTSome persons
seem to think they must hoard up every
cent they can get hold of, in order to pro
vide against hard times, and we hear lessons
on all sides about uteconomy, This is most
mistaken policy, In fact it is the most GER
tain way to bring about the very evils they
fear. The suspension Of all enterprises
leaves the laboring people without the means
Of support, and the result is the prostration
of every branch Of business, Every man
who has the means should perseyere. in his
projects Of improvement, which promises to
be productive Men will still want houses
to live in, bread to cat and clothes to wear.
The farmer need not therefore hesitate to
purchase fertilizers, to raise stock, and to
put up such buildings as are necessarily
There is such thing as being "penny wise
and pound foolish" If the people cannot
get work they cannot purchase food, and if
they cannot purchase it they must have it
given to them. Those having means Should
furnish their houses, improve their farms,
buy good, substantial clothing, without in
volving themselves unnecessarily or impru-
IDENTIFY, and thus keep the tailor, the store
Keeper, the butcher and baker, as well as
the mechanic aud working men employed.
If every man should shut himself up
in his shell like tortoise, we should soon
have want and suffering in earnest. Earnest,
active men Will be the more earnest and ac-
tive, and while they advance the fortunes of
those around them, they will advance their
own There is a prudent foresight that
gathereth while it scattereth-a foresight
which converts the five talents into ten, and
ten into twenty, while there is blind econ
omy that places the talent in the vault, al
lows it to lay there and rust, doing its pos
SCISSOR nor any one else no good. Every
man should be a good steward aud not a
miserable miser.- Delaware Republican.
THE HIGHER LAW. Where is nothing of
a republic, but its laws; strip it Of these,
and you take from it its only civilized ele-
ment. There is no government without re-
straint; take away this principle, and you
dissolve society. But true government is in
no way opposed to true progress in point of
fact it is the only Legitimate means of at
tanning it. Higher law strikes at the root
of these truths; it Would anuul constitu-
tions to give place to distractions; it would
SOW contempt, but it would make harvest
of outrage, Experience has shown in our
government, that if a law was opposed to
the welfare of society, it was because its the
ory in practice was wrong. The moment
this fact is established, mind combats the
evil aud speaks with million tongues, and
arouses a power which no government can
subdue. This power may be named public
opinion, public intelligence, or political pro
gress it matters not what it be called, you
can neither doubt Its existence nor resist its
force. In a constitutional democracy like
ours, the strength Of a principle is meas
ured in the public mind by its force at the
ballot box, If it gains ascendency there,it
is because a majority proclaim its omnipo-
tence. If, on the other hand, it fails in
support there, it is because the public mind
believes it opposed to the public good. We
hold to the right of the majority to decide
That is the principle Of our government.
Higher law denies this, and sets up the in
diyidual will as superior to the eonstitu-
tional 1t was the fanaticism Of this dogma
which flooded France with the best blood Of
her patriots. Human will sweled into pas
sion, and society lost its balance.-N r.
Gazette