The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-12-07
ABOUT ADAM.
q Mother Marriage,
Apple Trees. Election Bets. Etc.

From the Louiscils Oburier-Jomral.l
We have always believed in Adam. We
have looked upon him as enc to whom man.
kind has been under peculiar obligations.
Standing by the side Of Eve as TIE first mar
| ried man, dressed in sumptuous bear-skin.
he appears to as as we look backward through
the dim vista Of the centuries upon him, as
person indispensable to the future of his race.
Certain philosophers would try to make US
believe that that majestic figure is monkey,
and sometimes the result Of human events,
elections, for instance, seems unaccountable,
except on the Darwinian hypothesis. But We
hold that the man who would reflect upon the
dear departed in such an uagrateful way does
not deserve the sympathies of his kind, as
for ourselves, We intend to nail our fg-leaf to
the mast and cling to the old Adam. What
he know about farming served him in good
stead in the hour of his disappointment, and
though overmuch given to lying in the shade
and munching apples, we know that when he
found himself one morning on the wrong
side Of q certain garden gate, he INDUCED in
no unmanly repining-he neither whimpered
over his fate nor made face, and shook his
fist at the guardian of the forfeited premises
but diligently set him to work to develop
the ordinary crab into the New York pippiu.
There are certain times when we like to
withdraw our minds from the turmoil of the
present age and dwell upon the character of
this grand old patriarch. Sometimes, even
when our desk may be crowded with hat &C.
counts lost on the election we get to thinking
on Adam, and don't care how big the liberal
majority is in New YORK. Adam was never
troubled aoout election bets, or nothing else,
except the gratis in his orchard. He has no
mother-in.law, and his wife never bothered
him with her milliner's bill. He had 4 natn-
raj antipathy to snakes, bu: he was never wor-
ried over missing shirt-buttons.
He never supported an Unsuccessful candi-
date for President, and saw his hopes of .
seat in the cabinet grow DINNER and DINNER
IS the reports came. Nor were his ears deafen.
ed and his feelings hurt BY the booming of the
cannon of the Radical party. over at New Al
bany. Neither did he receive the ironical and
malicious congratulations of his neighbors,
the morning after the election on the forti.
tude with which he bore up under adverse
news. His eyes were never offended by the
Growing roosters and the Haunting banners of
his opponents, for barring his one unfortu-
mats speculation in fruit-undertaken at the
instance of his sleeping partner-when the
devil made corner in apples, his life was
eminently . success.
To be sure, he b I'd never the proud con-
seriousness of having established principles
that he knew would ultimately win in spite Of
the influence of hostile Administration that
for awhile brought inevitable defeat upon
him, nor did he have the pleasure of seeing
the old party lines Of ignorance and preju-
dice broken into fragments and disappearing
before his vigorous ASA ults: but he set upon
the hills facing the sunset, in the happy time
before his eldest boy began to be fast, and to
run around with strange women from the
land of Nod, he could watch his shooting
scions without q care. nor trouble himself
with the future of his offspring.
he stands for us - the grand exemrlar of
success, as we hear the noise of unsympa.
thetic thousands shouting over empty vic
tories, and smell the fumes of powder burnt
in honor of fitful and ephemeral triumph,
our thoughts 60 back six thousand years or
more to grand old Adam, and then
"Not wave of trouble rolls across the peace.
full breast"