American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-12-14

We have always believed in Adam. We
have looked upon him as one to whom
mankind has been under peculiar Obliga-
tons. Standing by the side of Eve as the
first married man, dressed in sumptuous
pe9r-SkIn. he appears to us as we look
! backward through the dim vista of the
centuries upon him. as person indispen-
sable to the future of his race. Certain
philosophers would try to make us believe
that that majestic figure is monkey :;
and sometimes the results of human
events. elections for instance, seem unac-
countable, except on the Darwinian n.y.
. pofhesis. But We hold that the man who
would reflect upon the dear departed III
such an ungrateful way does not deserve
tie sympathies of his kind as for our
selves, we intend to nail our fig-leat to the
mast and cling to the old Adam. What
he knew about farming served him in good
stead in the hour of his disappointment,
and, though overmuch given to living in
the shade and munching apples, we know
that when he found himself one morning
on the wrong side of a certain garden gate
he INDUCED in no unmanly repinings-he
neither whimpered over his fate, nor made
faces and shook his fist at the guardian of
the forfeited promises. but diligently set
himself to work to develop the ordinary
crab into the New York pippin.
There are certain times when we like to
Withdraw our minds from the turmoil of
the present age and dwell upon the char
acter Of this grand old patriarch. Some
times. even when our desk NAV be cover
ed with hat accounts lost on the election.
we got to thinking on Adam and don t
care how big the liberal majority is in
New York. Adam was never troubled
about election bets, or anything else, ex-
cert the gratis in his orchard. He had no
mOther-in-law, and his wife never bothered
him with her milliner's bills. He had a
natural antipafhy to snakes, but he was
never worried over missing shirt-buttons.
He never supported an unsuccessful can
didate for president and saw his hopes OF
seat in the cabinet grow DINNER and
DINNER as the reports came in. Nor were
his ears deafened and his feelings hurt by
the booming of the cannon of the radical
party over at New Albany. Neither did
he receive the ironical and malicious con-
&ratulafions of ..is neighbors the morning
aifer the election on the fOrtitude with
which he bore up under adverse news.
His eyes were never offended by the crow
ing ROSTERS and Haunting banners of his
opponents tor. barring his one unfortu-
nate speculation in fruit-undertaken at
the Instance of his sleeping partner-when
the devil made corner in apples, his life
was eminently O success.
To be sure he had never the proud con-
seriousness of having established princi-
pies that he knew would ultimately win
in spite of the influence of. a hostile adj
ministratiOn that for while brought III
evitablc defeat upon him nor did he have
the pleasure of seeing the old party lines
OF Ignorance and prejudice broken into
fragments and disappearing before his Wig
orous assaults; but as he sat upon The
hills facing the sunset, i'm TIE happy time
before his eldest boy began to be fast and
to run around with strange wor en- from
the land of Nod. he could watch his shoot
ing sciops without care. nor trouble
himself with the future of his offspring.
He stands for us as the grand exemplar
OF success, as we hear the noise of unsy M
pathetic thousands shouting over empty
victories. and smell the fumes of powder
burnt in honor of fftful and ephemeral
triumph, our thoughts go back six thous-
and years or more TO grand old Adam, and
then
NOT wave of trouble rolls across the peaceful
breast
-Couricr Journal