Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-04-13
THE BRIGHTER SIDE.

falls 40 completely undot the control
Of gloomy impressions that their mon'
tal gnzc can no longer sec glcam Of
| light In the clouds that environ them.
With bodies Of men, this l. usually the
result Of those crises In their organi-
zation and progress. from which moth
ing human is exempt Asour nature
is a strange compound of weakness
and Of strength, so must our destiny
on Earth be varied succession OF
trumphs and of failures. History is
but the narrative of national strug-
glcs for existence and supromacy--a
huctuating record Of glory aud OF
gloom, marked by the painful progress
upward, the temporary triumph, and,
then, tho dccadcnco, either swift or
gradual, of nation after nation, which
each, IN turn. dazzled and overawed
the world. The Israeltcs the Baby
lonians the Mcdes and Pcrsians; the
Egyptians; the Greeks aud, then, the
Romans, race after race, and state at
torstatc, controlled mankind, and then
sank from the pinnacle of their great
ness to give place TO new develop
mcnts of social and political orgaDiza-
tion. But, during the period of their
progress, the most difficult and per
picked passages Of their career, until
the last, were but the fororunners OF
their grandcst triumphs. The very
errors they had committed became
the sources of better selfexamina.
.iV'',ioi0s0' aisciPiinS3 ~i.a, ,''s.''eA'i
ly, wiser effort.
When we apply tho same philosophy
to the career of individuals, the lesson
impaired to US there, Is still palmer
and more instructive The greatest
and the best OF men, in the higher
Christian point of view, and in a prae.
tical light, as well, is not he who has
never fallen, but be who has raised
himself and girding his loins, again,
with manly courage for the batllc of
life, has gone forth with hope and faith
in his heart, and God above him, 10
rise and conquer at last.
We are led to these reflections by
the gloomy and desIondent tone that
we too often hear among onr business
classes, and from the editorial DESK
Vexed by the many trials to which
peculiar management has subjected
the prosperity of our country, We, too,
have been, mure than once, tempted
to repine anu earnestly complain.
But, when, shaking or the mo-
mentary influence of some mistake
that we observe in legislation; some
deficiency in the guiding hands that
control this or that branch OF public
development, we take in, at one broad
view, the vast extent Of our positive
progress; the grandeur of our nation
al domain; the magniicence Of the
conquests already achieved over the
wilderness aud over barbarism of past
ages, and survey the limitless variety
and opulence ofoar natural resources,
the summer sun is not brighter, at his
rising, than the future that dawns be-
fore our mental vision. The more,
too, that we look and ponder the
promises that Providence has appar-
entity strewn broadcast in the path Of
this nation, the more sustained we feel
in believing that we shall quickly
emerge from all the difficulties that
have recently surrounded US, and as
cend by swift gradnations to the most
commanding position ever yet held by
any people, not even excepting those
colossal states of the ancient world,
which once grasped at universal om-
The public mind is ripcning upon
all great questions Of national policy,
and is settling TO sound views of fl
nance, revenue, taxation, public works,
international law, and home control,
in accordance with the spirit OF this
peculiar people, and the demands Of
our situation, and of the age in which
we live. The mistakes of The past
have been an admirable schooling, and
the future, we belive, will be the safer
and the brighter for them. A very
few years ago, we were seriously ex-
posed TO a sudden overthrow OF our
system, through the heedlessness and
indifference of our business classes TO
what was going on in legislative and
political circles. All that self satisfied
dreaming has been broken up by the
hard pinching of the past twelvo
month, and the two preceding seasons.
The mind OF trade has been thorough
" aroused and stirred to nervous vigi-
lance, and we, now, observe symptoms
all around us, that the voice OF com
merce, backed by the requirements Of
labor, is going 10 be most potential in
the great governing centres Of the ma
ton, hereafter. Than that there could
not be a healthier sign of coming good.
At the same time, the outward Gle.
ments Of material strength and opn-
lonce grow with accelerated speed
Our area of agriculture broadcns by
hundreds of miles from year TO year;
steam navigation and railroad transit
strike out new filaments Of life while
we gaze; the steam and telegraph
map of 1869 is already growing anti
quated in the first quarter of le1Oi
our immigration increasing by from
| % TO 80 per cent, Indifferent nation
alitics, no longer comes to US siclSly
and pennilcss, but hearty, intelligent,
and with something to spend those
sections OF the country that contain
our richest staples, the cotton-bearing
South and the grain growing West,
never had received such an upward
impulse as 1870 is bringing % them,
and the voice Of fanlt-finding and evil
predictions is smothered amid heaped
up granarios and well crammed ssore-
houses
We cannot help thinking, then, as
we get farther on in the year, afer
all the rough work Of the last three
or four seasons, the bright side Of the
picture is beginning to turn toward us
aud we have only to look closely in
order TO see the light breaking through
to us. on al sides.-Ne,g York Meredn.
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