The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-10-23

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to admire the vigor, quicllness and ca
pacity of youth and manhood. We
lose sight of tho wisdom which age
brings even to the most foolish. We
think that a circumscribed sphere must
necessarily be an unhappy one. 1t is
not always so. What one abandons in
growing old Is after all perhaps not
worth having. The chief part of youth
I is hut excitement; often both nnHise
and unhealthy. The same pen which
has written, with n morbid feeling, TINT
there is a Glass Of beings who do grow
old in their youth and die ere middle
age tells us also that ttlle best of life is
but intoxication.h That passes away.
The man who has grown old does not
care aboutit. heHuthorat that period
has no feverish excitement about seeing
himself in print; he does not hunt
newspapers for reviews and notices. He
Is content to wait; he knows what fame
is worth. The obscure man of science
who hns been wishing to make the
world better and wiser: the struggling
l'curate, the poor md hard tried man o1
God; the enthusiastic reformer, who
has watched the sadly slow dawning of
progress and liberty; the artist, whose
dream of beauty slowly fades before
his dim eyes-an lay down their fever
ish wishes us they advance in life, for
get the bright ideal which they cannot
reach, and embrace the more perfect
real. We speak not here of the assured
Christian. He, from the nobleSt pinna-
Gle of faith ,beholds a promised land, and
Is eager to reach it; he prays ito be de-
hvered from the body of this death;' but
we write of those humber, perhaps
more human souls, with whom increas-
ing age each day treads down with ilIu-
sion. All fevetish wishes, raw and in
rNn IA
n calm beauty and peace survive; pass
sions are dead, temptations weakened
or conquered; experience has been won:
selfish interests are widened into uni
versn ones;s vain, idle hopes have
merged into n tirmer faith or COM
Plete knowledge; and more Light hRs
broken in upon the souls dark cottage,
battered and decayed, Through chinks
which Time has made
Again, old men are valuable, not on
lY as relics of tho past, but as guides
and prophets for the future. They
know the pattern of every turn of life's
Kaleidoscope. The colors merely fall
into now shapes; the groundwork is
just the same. The good which n calm,
kind, cheerful old man can do is incal-
!culable. And whilst he does good to
Others, he enjoys himself. He looks not
unnaturnlly to <that which should nc-
company old ngcs-honor, love, obedi-
ence, troops of friends; and he playshis
part In tho comedy or tragedy Of life
with as much gusto AS any one else.-
Old Montague or Capulet, and old Po-
lOnious, that wise mhNim- man, enjoy
themselves quite as we'll ms the moody
Hamlet, the peturbed sLaertes or even
gallant Mercutie or loYe-Sick Romeo
Frinr Lawrence, who is Il good old man,
is perhaps tho happiest Of all the dra-
mutic persona, unless we tnke the
EOI1
her suniiy recollections ofmaturity and
youth. The great thing is to have the
mind we'll employed, to work whilst it
is yet day. The precise Duke oftWcl-
Hngton, answering every letter with IL.
81. presents his compliments'; the Won
drous worker Humboldt, with his or
ders of knighthoOd, sturs and ribbons,
lying dusty in his drawer, still con-
templnting Cosmos, and answering his
thirty letters a day,-were both men in
exceedingly enyinble, happy positions;
they lad renched the top of the hill,
over the rough road which they
had travelled We are not NIL Hum
boldts nor Wellingtons but we cnn
all be busy and good. IGxperience
must teach us all great deal; and If it
only teaches MS not to fear the future,
not to cast n maundering regret over
the past, weican be as hapDy,in old
in youth. We are no longer tile fools
of time and error. We nre leaving by
slow degrees the old world we stand
upon the threshold of the new; not
without hope, but without fear, in an
exceedingly natural position, with noth-
ing strange or dreadful about it with,
our domain drawn within u narrow
circle, but equal to our power. Muscu-
lar strength, organic instincts are nlI
gone; but whn6 thenI Wedo not want
them we are getting ready for the great
change, one which is as necessary as it
wns 10 be born; and to n little child
perhaps one is not u Whit more pain
ful-perhaps not SO painful as the 9th
er, The wheels of Time have brought
US to the goal; we are about to rest
while others labor, to stay at home
while others wander. We touch at the
mysterious door-nre we to be pitied or
to be enyted 2-ETOm tGO0d C0mpany,'
i't Press By IfeknOT ce Fields. -
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An Extract from the Record that
the People Will Never Forget nor
Forgive. ta,tH f.il
The New York Void informs the
American people that tho Democratic
party carried on the war and saved the
Union. The Democrats of America" !"
says this pleasing journal, fresh from
describing President johnson as u boor,
an illiterate tailor, and drunkard,
"persistently, patiently, and ut last,
through the mercy of Heaven victori-
ously persevered in their one clear, mar
row path of loyalty to the Union.n
TRUTHS always simple. On the 17Gh
of December, 1853, the Hon. Green Clay
Smith, of kentucky, introduced the fol-
mfr AfNF,IH
Representatives: '"Fhat we hold it to be
the duty of Congress to pass all neces-
Snry bills to supply men and money,
and tho duty ofithe people to render
every aid in their power to the constitu-
ted authorities of the Government in
crushing out of the rebellion and in
bringing the leaders thereof to condign
punishment" On this plain test ques-
ton in full house the vote on the
Democratic side was three yeas to siEtu-
tVe nays. In the next August the
National Convention of the same party
called the war failure, and demanded
an ntimmedlinte cessation OF hostilfties.
Such was the way in which the Dem
oerattc party sPersistentIy nnd patient
lY and .victoriOusly persevered in the
war.-HdTPer's Weekly.
TheSPirit of rCopperheadism.
The Springfield Ill.) Journal of the
18th inst, says:
While Copperhead editors and leaders
have been weeping crocodile tears over
the grave of Abraham Lincoln, whose
as3assinat alton they Justified and melted
before the act their followers evidently
are disposed to be more consistent, Us
the following infamous lines, which
may be seen scr1w1ed, by.sOme ndmirer
of the foul and traitorous assassin, MP
ON wall in n certain locality in this