Snapshot 1820 – Considering a Cure for Hard Times…

September 6, 2024 by  
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One would need to search far and wide to find someone who doesn’t acknowledge that we’re living in hard times. Harder than those who lived through any major war… any great famine… any weather-born catastrophe… any form of slavery (or similar form of oppression)… any horrific accident… any economic depression… any…??? Most would say no, but “felt” hard times are often relative, and “counting our blessings and naming them one by one” – a practice well-known to be an effective pain-soothing salve for “felt needs” and more, is not often our default response to hardship. To be honest, I’m not among the few who often get this right. Perhaps this is why an article (not a key report by any means) in a Niles’ Register for July 1, 1820 caught my attention. It features a portion of a judge’s rather unusual admonition to the members of the grand jury set before him. If you decide to take a gander at the article (which is posted below), while contemplating his advice, please try to read it through the contextual eyes of the era in which he gave it. Whether you agree with his counsel or not, it would be hard to argue that the setting seems quite familiar. I’d love to hear what others think. 

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6 Responses to “Snapshot 1820 – Considering a Cure for Hard Times…”

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    I always find it interesting when I learn from a very old newspaper that certain patterns of human behavior seem never to change. Common sense and wisdom, as expressed by Judge Ross in this 1820 Niles Register, are timeless–his words are as true today as they were two hundred years ago.

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