Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-07-25
Patient and ResOIute Labor.

lyze the energies ana disease poth
mind and body.
Looking abroad over the land,
desolated by civil strife, we discover
many pressing necessities, which are
growing hourly in Importance, and
reminding us of the obligations Of
duty in respect of those necessities.
The stern arbitrament of war has
brought us to the threshold of q quasi
pioneerism, revealing formidable diff
culties in the divergent paths through
| the wilderness, and surnmoning MS to
renewed resolutions, exertions and
sacrifices in clearing and preparing
the way toward a progressive future.
In word we have to begin anew,
not only where we left off when War
first planted his iron heel upon the
soil, but where he has left MS with
| the dial-han of time pushed back
| almost to the primitive days of our
forefathers. Bitterly as all must de-
plore the agency which has produced
this retrogression, the hour is past
for useless repinings, and we are ad-
monisbed to shake off this nightmare
vision Of other days and to cast
hopeful glances upon the silver light
which CLEANS along the lately dark
ened horizon.
Let MS lay to heart the dread ex-
periences Of the past only so far as
they will teach us lessons of wisdom
to profit by in the future. The re-
turn of peace and with it the restora-
ton Of public law and order, affords
of itself powerful incentive to recu-
peration. Next comes the stimulus
of private interests and necessity
which must seek and find the "balm
Of Gilead" in healthful industry, fru-
gality and labor. These will con-
duce to mutual blessings and advan-
tages, until by degrees, overcoming
trials and disappointments, which
"oome like shsdows--so depart"
we shall witness general diffusion
of prosperity once more among the
people of the South.
Stunning alike those extremes in
our natures which lead to a morbid
brooding over the past or over
sanguine expectations as to the future,
we should adopt the steady medium
of philosophic patience as the true
guide to lasting happiness and sue
cess. Nerved by this principle, which
removes mountains" there can be
no good reason to apprehend failure
in the efforts Of the Southern people
to regain their former individual wei.
fare as well as that State prestige in
the Union, which is again made
available to them.
The following beautiful reflections,
which we extract from an editorial
in a late number of the New Orleans
Bee, will be appreciated for the WELL
timed judicious views they embody
on the subject we have been treating
The medicine and the consolation
of labor are the one paramount bless
ing still left to the Southern people.
For losses and for vain regrets that
is for them the Lethean bath. What
ever soil they may till with faithful
hands, and whatever seed they may
have hopefully sown, they will not
fail to taste the solace of the Lotus
flowers blooming amidst the harvest.
Earnest, hopeful exertion of mind
and body in every avenue of human
effort, means for them recuperation
and progress in every department of
human prosperity and greatness
They have lost enormously, but they
are not bankrupt while labor remains |
along with those blessed accessories
which so bountifully offers to it,
while the sunny hills endure, the
pleasant valleys stretch, the broad |
rivers flow, the magnificent deltas
expand, and wealth springs from
earth at the magic touch OF honest
and intelligent industry.
Time writes few wrinkles that last |
on natures brow. She soon heals |
her shallow hurts. When wars
spasms is past it's implements speedi. |