The Arkansas advocate., 1834-06-20

merely m momentary jest, and some, in cold and deliberate malice. st uniyer- sal mania. Old, toothless women, totfer- ing oa the brink of the grave, must have them dish of slander with their tea-and humble many before sp6tless character, into disgrace and shame. A!ayi.iel women. too, will gather together, and oseriheir hy- son, enjoy the same delicious feast. Oh.
 t IS so delightful to tear the character of a
 lady into taiters, and strew it about on the teuF winds of heayen--it is 90 delicious, when your own beauty is f;ldiag, when grey hairs are coming aad teeth are loosening, to seek for and show to the worla, the flaws in tie character and tie faults in the behavior CT your young female frieajs--to miSrep- resent he lovity and bnayailcy Of their uil- corrupted hearts-to ra!l against taeir flee dom end their innocent theaehiiessness, as Willnlahd corrupt vice. itis so pleasant to sow dissension, and unkind feeing. and sus- picion between two beings, and then to smile like EIoloch at your work. 1t is 50 pleas aft, 5,te, to the id # lie ffi tt the tlowers--to cast poison and caustic ep- en the heart ot the young maa--to thrust him back when he would rise-to sheer at his talents-te smile when his virtues are spo- ken ot. Nor do NC exonerate the young 10 them, too, slander and scandal are no unpleasant task-but they have not tue cool deliberate, eopper-head mali9niiy of the old-there is more Of the excasing ef- teryescenee of youth, about even their slan- dar-theY do not % abaet t sameihodieal- l}}, l}, So cal.ia!!yy, 7, SC !siti.!ess!aeainssly.
 Had seandal, and sial4aer, and gossip, remained in tic bottom If FaHdcra's box, when 1t was opened, what hecatombs of broken hearts, and lusirelaSs eyes-What barren hope, and fear, and grief would there not have been spared 10 tie world. De- snaif and misery would almost haye been
 like taue dragons-aysd sorrow and pain would not so ellen have built up tfeir cells among tie ruins of the heart. l1e speak strongly, perhaps exirayagantiys but were t given to IS 10 point out the vice or the crime which should he annihiltt1 rom earth for- ere. .He would even pass by drunkenness, that hydra-headed destroyer of lie and hap piness, and point to s!ahdes.
 lis indeed singular, lhat needing, as NC slo, the extension of charity aud charitable allowance toward ourselves, We should have SO lttie of 1t toward each othef. Every thing around us teaches Us ohl,f;;ss ohl,f;ss y--;in Hii- ostentatious and kind regard t'1f Inc feelings of oiefs estltn and i lie z o seldom seen and too little salfcd. Yhe unseen Eoyef i.4sst fsiie@sta!sss4 Universe, 4o .,.. tentatioes and pfaise-seekihg Spirit. He gentle rain comes quietly from the skies and no voice calls on Us to praise the oiv- CT. Ihe dew cones at night, the sunlight, the moonlight, and the beneiiaeat glitter of inc stars, in their several tfns--aii our
 lessings come quietly and without parade as though some kind tliend--some beau- tiful and gentle child had come 10 our door ia the darkness of the night lime, and there depositing its rich ei!ls, lad goue silently and anobserved away. There are no an- gels placed upon the 3a..eh-towers of cfea- ton, calling, like the Maezzins on the na- aTeis of the mosques, "Io prayeri To pr:iyerln het every tiling isredolent ol cha rity and love. tie only, m our intercourse with each other, are found wanting. Un- moved by the speaking beauty ol tie har- monious universe, with is tlioasand voices of melody and love, we mix and afnalEanl- ato ia the recesse5 Of our minds, lie hot passions and the foal feelings which poison the springs of our existence, aud go out like the ss5iGieoal and the Sapiei over society, to blast and to burn. Bigetry. not only in religion, but in our every belief and our ey- cry opinion, is that which eorrodes and cor rup.s us. Let the spirit Of charity and tol eroace go more freely abroad-let the slan- derer, whether open of secret, be stamped with seal of disgrace that shall forbid hin ever 10 rise from the dust ia which he ero- vcls--that shall leave hin a living stain stain and reproaeh to earth and te manhood, and then life might be more iolcrahlc, and society more happy, and friednship more agreeable.
 The Portland Advocate gives an account