New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-25
1Ir,f1rnrHL OF BEIEFTTs.

UNnBDFUL OF BEHEFITs.
The fool hail, said in his heart. there is no
GOd.-Bible.
The poorlold Bee is in chronic state Of
unhappiness. It's honey has been turned
INTO gall. 1t is highly indignant with
Providence because Infinite Wisdom has
not looked through the wrong end Of the
telescope. We have peace, and the Bee
means over the degenerate spirit OF the
age. We are blessed with bountiful crops,
and it groans aloud with grieved spirit
because the laborers are, to share in the
resultant benefits. Grant is President,
and the Bee mourneth because JEFF. Davis
is not Warmoth is Governor Of Louisiana,
and no more Sheriff. sales are advertised
in French at the rate of one dollar and
half square. The Prussians have trounced
the French in Europe, and Providence
is to blame for the calamity. To cap the
climax of misfortune, Divine Providence
has permitted the Republicans to carry
the State of Louisiana, and given them
the physical strength to capture, imprison
and bring to trial certain political friends
of the Bee who are charged with the crimes
of murder, riot and attempting to destroy
ballot-boxes. All these calamities have
happened to our antiduated downtown
contemporary and its small coterie OF
friends. They could not have occurred
unless Providence had permitted them.
Therefore, no thanks to the overruling
power. No thanksgiving dinner in the
house of our censorious, captious, mar
row. minded contemporary. Hercules has
failed, as usual. to haul the whole load,
and he must be criticized.
In the minds of men truly Christian,
and in the hearts Of people fully civil
lied, we expect to find spirit of graft
tude to God for life, health and strength.
He is blessed by good men for his never
failing fullflment of His promise that
seed time and harvest, summer and
winter, day and night, shall not cease-for
the rain which he sends upon the Just
and on the unjust-for his blessed sun
shine, and the thousands Of other mercies
shown every hour to ungrateful hui
mainly. He who erects an altar to him
self on which he places no sacrifices, but
looks for the qualification Of his own
selfish desires and ambition, hardens his
heart, and soon becomes stubborn and in
subordinate. When he is so thoroughly
lost that his better angel deserts his side.
he falls to reprobation and INDUCES in
blasphemy. Good men and angels grieve
over the fallen-DiyineP Providence suffers
him to live his allotted time as warning
to others. =
IF the Bee, like Mr.. Podsnap, could
only take Providence under its protec-
ton the result would doubtless be different
if not more satisfactory. With such a
power behind the throne We should prob
ably have no President OF the United
States. Slavery would be restored, and
the spirit Of liberty again banished from
the South. A half a crop of cotton would
be raised, and those who had the least to
do in making it would receive the bene-
fits. 4 Chinese wall Of exclusiveness
would be built all around this commu-
nifty" through which no stranger would
be permitted to enter until he had paid
the accustomed toll The Chattanooga
Railroad track would be torn up and
Beauregard and the old set restored to the
fat pieces in the jackson Railroad Offices.
No newspaper with q spirit Of enterprise
or the courage to speak the truth would
be permitted to pass through the mails, or
even sold on the streets. We should sub
side to the respectable stagnstion of the
"good old times" and then the Bee,
proud Of it's work of obstruction, would
rub its hands in glee and thank the Prov
idence it had set up.
But there are, nevertheless, all through
the length and breadth Of the land, mil
lions of grateful, humble hearts, warm
with gratitude to the good God for having
given us the very things against which
the Bee wags its blasphemcus tongue.
The chain Of the tyrant is loosed from
the wrists of the slave. The spirit of in
tolerance has given way to the spirit Of
liberty. The people have willed it, and
the voice of the people is the voice Of
God. We have abundant reason 10 be
thankful.