The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-11-26
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great, moraliss says: tiWhat cannot be,
repaired is not" to. be deplored," VIC
pause, asking whether any important
moral lesson does not need enforcement.
Repentance stamps in mans mind
memory of evil or imprudence already =
committed. From just sequence good "
is derived. This more especially hap
pens when, owing to his own ouIpabls
negligence or wayward folly, trouble !
overtakes him. l1tialf'!.
Deploring wrong course OF action, in Z
this case. is unavoidable-nay, salutary. !.
| or what use, otherwise, were experience, i,
| and how should age surpass youth in )
knowledge and wisdom? II recklessness
prevents US, as we pass through life,
from laying any lesson to heart, we shall
be children always, needing not only cor
same events, which. unable to improve,
leave us still open to like error and its
consequences.
Remorse is most deeply felt by honest
and reflective minds. True, the indul.
genoe of self-reproaoh produces amend
mcnt only, when, stopping short OF
despair, it induces resolve. ''The evil
done will abandon at whatever cost"
Hnys brave spirit; but the feeble, over
borne by the consciousness of undeserv-
ing, sink into inaction, or persist,
through force of habit, in wrong doing,
because they are not intrepid enough to
combat both habit and inclination.
It would be we'll, we say, despite the
dictum quoted from q high source, did
these last named bitterly oeplore any
misfortune brought about by their own
fault. When accidentally Chat is to say
reaches us, then, indeed, unreasonable
distress is not only foolish but wrong.
Something must be granted, however, to
the weakness of human nature, aud it is
we'll known that conscientious people
suffer ofton from self.reproaoh; because.
sitting in judgment on their own acts,
they decide more severely against them
selves than they would against others
under like circumstances. A mind Of
great integrity is apt to err thus, aud to
such we would say: "What is not to be
repaired should not be deploredp' The
application, in 40 fur rs they are con-
cerned, being perfectly legitimate. Re-
signation under misfortune is one thing.
callous indifference another. Hardened
vice never repents. No surer token of q
darkened mind and scared conscience
can be seen than this same obduracy.
which, refusing to acknowledge error,
casts scorn at those who reprove, and is
sternly resistant of amendment.
Another class of people, who, to use
their own words, enever take anything
to rt"-though not culpable to the
same extent as outlaws-yet stand anne
nable to the sin of levity, when, by their
own neglect Of duty, or Indifference to
results, they suffer reverses. It may be
very amiable in such to close their eyes
against trouble-but is it wise or sensi-
BILE? Every day experience should teach
more loudly than all the homilies ever
Illuminated, as respects the guiding our
conduct in life, and those 1.-Two to little
purpose who arc not taught even by the
bitter feeling of regret things which we
had better avoid in our transitory pas
sage through sublunary existence. Let
Us not only regret wrong. but repair it,
by every possible means in our power.
An cnterprising settler in Nebraska,
who has an eye to the future, gives the
following account of his doings in that
region: II am planting 100 acres with
walnuts; what will they be worth in
twenty years? Each acre will have at
least $50 trees, making $1,000 in all. For
lumber, ties, fence-posts or fuel, So per
tree may certainly be called very small
figure, which will give nearly 5000, 900.
Can anything be planted on that same
land which will pay us large return?
And all the labor required is breaking up
the land and planting. What is said Of
the walnut is equally true of the pine.
which in twenty years will be 100 feet
high and three feet in diameter"
HOTEL ARRIVALS, November 25.--
Columbia Hotel-J. A. Moroso. Fl. II.
Williams, W. Gurney, w. H. Evans,
Col. freeman, q. p. Butts, Charleston;
l.. Fl. Sondheim, Alabama; 8. s. Ritter,
Philadeiphia; H. T. Farmer, N. c.; j..
H. Ham, A. Il. Carpenter, Baltimore;
r. r. Bridgers. N. c.; J. N. DuBarry.
Pennsylvania; G. n. Stone. N. Y; b: S.
johnson, San Francisco; R. W. Mckee,
n. Y; J. G.. Burroughs and wife, Con-
wayboro. Prof. G. D. Sie0fried, Angus