The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-12-12
From the LouIsEiile Courier-Journal.l

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q We have always believed in Adam
We have looked upon him "a one &c
whom mankind has been under pecu.
liar obligations. Standing by the side
of Eve as the first married man, dressed
in sumptuous bear-skin, he appears
to us, as we look backward through
the dim vista OF the centuries upon
him, as q person indispensable TO the
future of his race. Certain philoso.
pliers would try to make rs believe
and sometimes the results OF human
events, elections, for instance, seem
unaccountables except on the Darwin.
ian hypothesis. But we hold that the
man who would reflect upon the dear
departed in such an ungrateful way
does not deserve the sympathies-oi
his kind; as for ourselves, we intend
to nail our fig-ieaf to the mast, and
cling to the old Adam. What be
knew about farming served him n
good stead in the hour of his disap-
pointment, and, though overmueh
given to lying in the shade and Enuneh-
ing apples, we. know that, when he
found himself one morning ON the
wrong side Of a certain garden gate,
he indulged in no unmanly repinings
--he neither whimpered oyer his fate
nor made faces and shook his fist a
the guardian OF the forfeited premises
but diligently set himself to work to
develop the ordinary crab into the
New York pippin. s
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 covered with hat &C.
counts lost on election we get to think
ing about Adam, and don't care how
big the Liberal majority Is In New
York. Adam was never troubled
about election bets, or anything else
except the gratis in his orchard. He
had no mother-in-laW, and his wife
never troubled him with her milliner'e
bills. He had a natural antipathy to
snakes, but he never worried over miss
ing shirt buttons.
He never supported an unsuccessful
candidate for President and saw his
hopes of a seat in the Cabinet grow
DINNER and DINNER as the returns
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-
gratulations of his neighbors the
morning after election on the forth
tude with which he bore up under ad-
verse news. His eyes were never of.
Tended by the Growing roosters and
Haunting banners of his opponents
for, barring his one unfortunate spec
Hlation in fruit, it,-undertaken at the
instance of his sleeping partner
when the devil made . Corner In ap-
pies, his life was eminently q success,
To be sure, he had never the proud
consciousness of having established
principles that he knew would ulti-
mately win in spite of the influence
of the hostile administration that for
a while brought Inevitable defeat mp
on him nor did he have the pleasure
of seeing the old party lines of igno-
rance and prejudice hroken into frag-
ments and disappearing before his
vigorous assaults /; but as he sat upon
the hills facing the sunset, In the hap
py time before his eldest boy begun
to be fast and to run around with
strange women from the land of Nod,
he could watch his shooting scions
without care, nor trouble himself
with the future of his offspring.
He stands for us as the grand exam.
plar of success. As we hear the noise
of unsympathetic thousands shouting
over empty victories, and smell the
fumes of powder burnt in honor of q
fitful and ephemeral triumph, our
thoughts go back six thousand years
or more to grand old Adam, and then
Not a wave of trouble rolls across sha peaceful
breast.''