National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-06-29
: WHAT WAS ITs 0R1GINs
A WORD ABOUT THE CREATION AND
PROGRESS OF wRANGLING.

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A WORD ABOUT THE CREATION AT ID
PROGRESS OF WRANGLING.
Since the ''Lotus,o aPholuphloisboio, ""B.c-
chashutest," and several other literary clubs
and monumental societies have assumed the
responsibility of yentilating their manifold
grievances and of soothing their troubled
waters through the public press many inquirits
have been made respecting the origin of wral-
Cling and the benefit, if amy, that it has pro
duced for human society. 1t lisa difficult sub,
ject to treat, because of the meagre reference
to it both in profane and sacred history, and at
Ebest it is an uninviNng theme, for the reason
that II has become diverted from the old chan
mel and at present branches of into thousand
tortuous tributaries, which are constantly dash
ing their destructive forces against society, the
church, and politics.
The rebellion which took place when the
world was a void, without shape or form, ere
ated and melted By an ambitious spirit who.
for his treason, was hurled down nine times
the space between day and. nighty is the first
exhibition of this bliehting disease which has
bred contentious, and babblipgs and petty
ijealousies, until tollAs macy OF our best soci-
eties and clubs have been dissrganized and
completely DESTROYED BY its contaminating in
fuence.
The next prominent instance m history found
vent in the conduct Of Mr.. Adams eldest son
CSsa. Adam had for<eited The Old homestead
through the eonducspf his wife, and had set
tied down In region we'll adapted to grazing,
but not, very good for agricultural purposes.
Cain hved with the old folks, and from time to
time he gave them great deal Of trouble. He
was an smbitions,y youth, easily fred with jeal-
ousy, and possessed an hereditary inclination
to domineer over Abel his young and
beautiful brother. Abel was nice boy. He
was one Of the stamp you read sbout-the
very kind Of boy that - sure TO succeed if he
lives long enough. He unfortunately died
young, however, which was all towing to the
way Cain was given to wraugling and raising q
breeze in the family. Abel wore golden ring
let's, and lived q pure, conscientious, indus
trious life while-he did live, during which time
he beat Cain all to pieces In his agricultural
pursuits and herding operations. Abel may
not have been any more talented than Cain,
neither did he understand his business any bet
ter, but the whole secret of his success may be
traced to the even tenor Of his ways, to his
willingness to do right and please the old folks,
to his untiring application to work, and pre-
eminently to the fact that he attended strictly
to bis own sfAifs.S Cain, on the other hand,
was lazy. 81
When any of The family did q worthy or
comnsndable sct, he,would seoff at it and run
it down, and tell them that If he had seen fit
he could have performed twice as much in half
the time, and done It better. While his young
brother Abel was toiling in the field, or watch
ing the focks with the old gentleman, he would
steal off to the Euphrates and go In swimming
and fish until dark, and then be would retura
after supper-time and get mad because the
yictuals were cold. His gentle mother (who
lifted the apple) would often adinonishr him,
and, in her quiet way, tell him that il would
please her heart greatly If he were only such o
boy as Abel. Some brothers don't fancy that
kind of conversation, and Cain was one of
them. He couldn't bear tolhaye his virtuous
young brother pulled MP as model example.
Not he. In this respect be was very similar to
many shiftless big boys in our literary socie-
ties, who dislike to have any one join who can
excel them in the smallest matter even, and
who wont give those any rest who can't excel
them at all. So he kept wrangling With Abel,
and at times, with the rest of the family, tell
ing stories about him, and trying In many re-
spects to injure his reputation. But he didn't
have any newspaper through which to adver-
tise how little he was sctually worth IN gen
eral, nor how contemptibly mean he thought
him 10 particular, and SO he concluded to do
him grieyous bodily harm. Abel was In the
field when 1t happened.
He was In the bloom Of health, and his life
RAOhAtoOA " W = 4Ohts soAl0 aoOAul JUG, bue
would undoubtedly have been such If Cain
hadn't have cut 1t off short with. fence stake
or some other handy weapon. Thus this
w-angling disposition ended in murder, after
whi.h Cain fed from there to the land of Nod,
which was on the eastern side of Eden, near
his old swimming hole in the Euphrates, and
there died an old man, disgraced, unhonored,
and unsung.
Thus, in these examples of antiquity, it can
MAINLY he seen that wranplfn0 under the nost
favorable circumstances Is to be deprecated.
No good is ever derived from It. Asst was in
the case OF Cain, SO it will ever be with soei-
cites where this spirit prevails. ills gradual
but certain suicide, based upon the principle
that the more wrangling there is the sooner
death viii ensue. Therefore let the Lotus and
the Pholuphloisboi and the Bacchashutists
and the Monumental societies take warning
lest they stumble and fall on the same obstruc-
ton that hurled the ambitious spirit from his
eternal throne, and branded Adams eldest son
with the odious mark Of amurderer.