The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-12-30
Grumblcr and Compapv.

~ 10 enC iot VI every utinDcr OI Tue human
family. The wisest and best men of the race
have been more or less connected with the
house. Empcrors, Kings, Princes, mobiles,
bishops priests, peasants, are all engaged in
this enterprising and never failing firm.
Grumbler and company have their uses in
this world, and there is warm place for
them in the next, and the sooner they pass
to their own place the better it will be for
the world that has been filled and dcsolated
with the dreary echoes Of their own morbid
selfshness and curses.
The firm is extensive Go into any COM
munity from Raleigh to Hindoostan and you
will see some well known employee of this
famous house. In all of our chief cities, in
the desert waste, on the oceans bosom. in
the vast iungles Of India, everywhere and at
all times, this noted firm has its representa-
tives. AS soon as the senior partners disap-
pear, their places are Immediately supplied
with host of enthusiastic recruits This
house never becomes bankrupt, the capital
is unlimited, supplied from bank that was
suddenly established after Satan was driven
from the palace of the Great King into the
vaults of the bastile of creation.
Grumblers see shadow on every object
in creation. The very things which might
have yielded the sweetest pleasure, becomes
sources of the bittcrest pain. All things
fair and bright are seen through distorted
medium. They are lonely to others, but not
to them. The genuine grumblers wish the
sun was not so bright, the sky SO serene, the
fields SO beautiful, the flowers SO brilliant.
Their possessions can no longer be enjoyed,
and their prospects are all yelled in gloom.
Such grumbling units its victims for the or
binary duties of life, provokes Impotence.
and often excites anger. 1t has often been
followed by the moodiness of melancholy,
the wildness of insanity, the desperation of
suicide. We find this disposition of grum-
bling every where and at all times.
Grumblcrs are always devoured by sor-
did seltishness They find crook in every
field. a bitter in every sweet. DR.. Hamilton
tell us, that the Caspian Sea has some I'M
seen way of disposing of its waters, so that
whatever rains come down, and whatever
rivers flow in, its great gulf never fills So
there is in the hearts of grumblers an all
consuming selfshness which, notwithstand-
ing Heavens mighty gifts, always contrives
to dispose of the whole in the cavefns-the
vast mare eternum OF SELF
There are household grumblers. A mere
mistep on the part of q child, shuts out all
divine beauty from their diseased eyes. These
are the meanest and most detested tyrants
in the world, compelling all the enjoyments
and pleasures of the domestic hearth to do
obeisance to their wrctched and contemp-
tible sclfshncss Homes, those little social
enclosures, where Preside pleasures meet,
designed by God to be Edens, are
through the peevishness of despotic grum-
blers, turned into hells.
There are business grumblers selfish NOR
tails, who are always predicting financial
crisis. general stagnation of commerce, a
coming famine, when the necessaries of life
are to be gorged with famine prices. To
their jaundiced vision, the building of a
Railroad or any kind of internal improve
ment, is calamity which is sure to ruin and
overthrow the government. They never see
bright light in the clouds. The lucubra-
lions of this disgusting and pestiferous race,
!, consists of doleful and cherries dissertations
on the next plague.
There are unmistakable political grum-
blers, defeated office seekers, who can see
(. nothing but disaster and ruin in the sue
cess of their opponents. Their everlasting
demand is "gire me Office, else I die" They
would rather rule in hell than serve in
heaven. The greatest number of this class
existed in our own South at the time of Mr.
Lincoln's election. In the decision of the
Northern people, the slave lords saw that
their midsummer delights had come to an
end. The nation had written fms to slave
holding mastership in all the emoluments of
the country. The Inauguration of a Repub
lican President was tue signal for universal
grumbling in the ranks of the Democracy
The Pulpit grumbled-t Bench grumbled
1.-The politicians grumbled- everything that
had life, grumbled-untll this Wholesale
grumbIing eliminated in terrible war. This
race has not yet died out. Before Grants
+. election, the very air was filed with sounds
of copperhead grumblng; Blair and sey
mour, journeyed from the West to the East
and from the East to the West, grumbling
in every city and in every town. In their
opinion the nation was on the verge of de-
struction; liberty was breathing her last
gasp, and the only hope for mankind was
in their election! There are grumblers
among the scholars and Swans who imagine
that the world is lapsing into barbarism
Scientific grumblers who, because they can
not discover how the works of creation was
completed in six days, jump to the conclu-
sion that there never was Creator Meli-
cal grumblcrs, who at everynew discovery in
the art get into furious passion, denoun-
cling everlasting wrath ON every brother
member who may have invented some useful
method of preserving life. Then there are
religious grumblers who represent the great
Father as a naughty Gar, presiding over
the destinies of the Universe These 0rum-