South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-07-25

occasion, soever. There is no kind
OF necessity for it, no matter of use in
it, and no species or degree of benefit
to be gained by it. And yet, strange
as the fact may be, tbeologians quarrel,
lawyers, doctors and printers quarrel,
the church quarrels, and the State
quarrels, nations, and tribes, and cor
porations, men, women, and children,
dogs and cats, birds and beasts, quarrel,
about all manner of things and on all
manner of occasions.
Now that great deal of mischief
comes Of this, every body sees and
feels and admits, but what good p
Many things, evil in themselves, have
their redeeming results and produce
at least their kernel of wheat, to the
bushel ofchaff, but if any body ever
discovered a good thing come out of q
quarrel, if he'll give US its length,
breadth, quality, and description, veil
insure him a patent for it, and the
credit to boot, ofhaving seen further in
to milestone, than any chap that ever
looked into daylight east of the Hud-
son. | have never heard of it, nor
heard of the name of him who ever did
hear of it, and confess it to be the most
inconceivable Of all things.
Some things look very well in theory
which do not answer at all in practice;
and it is possible for man to reason
himself into the belief that particular
system is right, which when reduced
to practice, will turn out entirely
wrong. But neither the theory nor
the practice Of quarreling is good.
AS for the theory-molasses catches
dies, they won't come near vinegar:
if people will not listen to reason, they
will very seldom hearken patiently to
abuse: you may lead, but you can't
dive men, either into the right or the
wrong way. II you succeed by an
irresistible argument in convincing
man, and you fad out that
Convinced against his will
"He's of The same opinion STILL"
slsa i R2 gREinGsIpls eyer yet dscoy:
can reach his will VI ct arnsis Men
cannot be made 10 believe upon con-
pulaion. Soyou may just as well let go
both ends and drop him, in a good
humor.
AS 10 the practice-if there is any
thing in the world that will make
man feel bad, except pinching his fin.
gers in the crack of a door, il is un.
questionably a quarrel. No man ever
fails to think less of himself after, than
he did before one--it degrades him in
own eyes and in the eyes of others
and what is worse, blunts his sensibility
to disgrace, on the one hand, and TO-
creases the power of passionate irri-
liability on the other. 10 short, it is
the source of unmixed and perfect
wretchedness.
"The fool who folds viper to his heart
"Acts rot milder or similar part
ethan he who takes the NORWOOD TO
his lips
"Flled with the gall of bitterness-and
Sips"
Wisdom is applied to the affairs of
men in the adaptation of she best means
to secure the best ends. This
business of quarreing just reverses
the proceedings--it is the application
of the worst means to secure the worst
ends. If it is really desirable that
you should make man your enemy,
you might continue much more com.
Portable and honorable mode of max
ing him in the effort. But no man
really arises specifically at one, than
by sacrificing your temper and char
acter, this end. What then !? has a
man wronged you a-if so he has done
himselfa great deal more mischief than
he has done you-but if the offence
requires it, apply peaceably and qui
city, TO your remedy al law-dont
quarrel aoith him. Have you been in.
sulled that only proves your antago-
mist blackguard, it does you no harm
let him alone-don't quarrel aoith him.
Won't your neighbor agree with you
in opinion a-Well, and you are right
and he is wrongful, ifyou quarrel with
him about it you are both wrong, that's
also don't quarrel if you would
keep in the right.
The reason people quarrel about
religion is, because they really have so
little of it, and the harder they quar-.
rel the more abundan,ly do they prove
it. A man has right to stand fast by
his religious faish--a right TO insist
| upon ia right 10 present il resneci-