HARD TIMES.
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Such is, and such always has been, the
cry OF our farmers; and the present times,
as must be confessed, are hard, if we COM
pare them exclusively with much better
times, so far as relates to the prices of ag
ricultural produce. But before we feel JUS
titled in complaining of hard times and gen
eral distress, ought we not to look to worse
times as we'll as better? and to other coun-
tiles as well as our own? 1t is true that
wheat will not fetch 81 per bushel, neither
will tobacco bring 500 per hogshead. But
does the happiness and comfort OF life de
pend, indispensably on those prices' Has
not the farmer an abundance, and more than
he can dcvour of meat and breade Does he
not manage scandalously whose garden docs
not furnish him with plenty of good ycget-
ables' and whose dairy does not yield milk
and butter to consume and to spare! Can
not every farmer raise wool and cotton and
flax to cothe his family and his people?


He who has not enough of all these, owes
the deficiency to his own want OF industry
and plain obvious management; and with all
abundance of meat, bread vegetables milk,
1 and clothing, beer, and cider, is he not under
Providence, ungrateful to be forever repin-
| ing aud mopng, and complaining about hard
times hard tmesl Where is the nation,
we speak Of the mass OF the people, on the


habtable globe, that would not, if they
could, change "times" and conditions with
us, and felicItate themselves and sing halle
luahs to that kind Providence which had
supplied the means of gratifying every want
that is essential to wholesome and comfort


able living? The bane of our happiness con-


sists in confounding Injuries with necessa-


ries; and in keeping our imaginations for ev-


err fixed on those who have, fer faa auth he,


nefas. accumulated the means of pampering


their morbid and vicious appetites with ev.


cry dainty. and their vanity with all kind


of empty shows, rather than on the millions


in other countries who are literally naked


and perishing FOR want of bread


If we would look oftener at these, we A
-mericans would cease to outrage Providenc


with the false cry of-hard times! To


!beneyolsnt mind it must be painful to tlray