Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1873-02-22
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About Adam

We have always believed in Adam. We
have | oked upon as one to whom man-
kind has been under peculiar obligations.
| Standing by the side of Eve as The FIRST mar
ried man, dressed in sumptucus bear
skin, he appears to US we look backward
through the dim vista of the centuries W.
! on him as q person Indispensable To the fu-
| ture of his race. Certain philosophers
would try 10 make US believe that that
majestic figure is q monkey; ana eame-
times the results of human events, elec.
tions for instance, seen uuarcountable,
except on tue Darwinian hypothesis. But
we hold that the man who would reflect
upon the dear departed in such an ungrate-
! full way does not deserve the sympathes
of his kind ; as for ourselves, We intend to
nail our hg leaf to the mast and cling TO the
old Adam. What nc knew about farming
served him In good stead in the hour OF
disappointment, and, though overmuch
given to lying in the shade and munchng
apples, we know that when he found him
self one morning on the wrong side of
certain garden gate he INDUCED in no uu-
manly rrpinings-he neither Hhmpered
over his fate nor made faces and shook hia
tist at the guardian orthe forfeited premises,
but diligently set himself to work to develop
the ordinary crab into the New York pip.
pin.
There are certain times &hsn we like IS
withdraw our minds from the turmoil OF
the present aye and dwell upon the charac-
ter Of this grand old patriarch. Sonc-
times, even when our desk may ho covered
with hat accounts 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 about
election bets, or anything else. except the
gratis in the orchard. lie had no mother
in-law, and his wife never bothered him
with her milliner's bill. lie had Il natural
antipathy to snakes, but he was never wor-
ried over missing shirt buttons.
He never supported an unsuccessful can.
didate for President aud saw his hopes for
a seat in the cabinet grow DINNER and
dimn CIR rs the reports came in. Nor were
his ears dcatened and his feelings burt by
the booming of the cannon Of the radical
PARTY over ut New Albany. Neither did
he receive the irouical and malicious con-
gratulatiops Of his neichbors the morning
after the election on tho fortitude with
which he bore up under adverse news.-
His eyes were never offended by the crow
ing rOosters and Haunting banners Of his
opponents for barring his one untortu-
nate speculation in fruit--undertake at
the instance of his sleeping partner-wheu
the devil made corner in apples, his iiio
was emincntly success.
To lie sure, he had never had the proud
consciousness Of having established prin.
sples that he knew would ultimately win
in spite of the influence of hostile ad-
ministratiou that for while brought iue-
vitable 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
vigorous assaults /; but AS he sat upon the
hills facing the sunset, in the happy time
before his eldest boy began to BE- fast and
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 the grand eXemplar Of
success, as we hear the noise Of unsym-
pathetic thousands shouting over emrty
victories, and smell the fumes of powder
burnt in honor of litful and ephemeral
triumph, our thoughts go back six, thou
sand years or more 10 grand old Adam,
and then
Not wave of trouble toils across the
peaceful breast