Richmond Daily Times

We are often instructed by the fresh and healthful spirit, as well as amused by the nairete of the editorials of some of our country contemporaries. Take the annexed as an example, from the Wisconsin Mercury:—Nat. Int.

"We have been gardening this week, and having no breath left to blow the bellows of aspiring politicians have substituted the scissors for the pen. If those editors who are hurling their big words of defiance and reproach at each other would just take the "spade and hoe," and go out into the golden sunlight and the pure air of heaven, we think they would forget their angry feelings and possibly acknowledge that their opponents were no greater rogues than themselves. Envy and malice can never exist in the presence of bursting buds and springing grass, and no man can sow his seed in anger, because the implied trust in the bounty and care of Providence of the act itself precludes any such wicked emotions. With the songs of the birds, cheerfulness, and may be the dim-remembered hopes and aspirations of our now distant childhood, come thronging back upon our hackneyed hearts; and, if the freshness and luxury of these new feelings, thus aroused, moistens the eye, we need not be ashamed. Go out, then, ye sweltering denizens of grim and cobwebbed offices into God's glorious sunlight, that your sluggish blood may be quickened in its flow, and your hearts refreshed by a communion with nature; if you blister your hand and get a kink in your back by a few hours of manual labor, so much the better for you. We have set the example and can speak advisedly."