Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1848-04-15

seizcs the right, und h lis il to the last,
How rare ~
With a little reflection, how many er-
rors would be avoided, how many difficult
ties escaped The rash and hasty ere con-
stantly getting into trouble. They iudg-
harshly and abruptly, they speak thought
lessly and indiscreetly. They form opin-
ions in many cases, without having exami-
ned all the facts; they express these opin-
ions to others, and thus do much harm, and
often unintentionally. Indiscreton is a
sad error. 1t causes mischief, produces un-
kind feeling, sewers many tie of friend
ship, and leads to many a path of ruin
And yet all are more or less indiscreet.-
They are few who think twice before they
speak once, who have constant watch
upon their passions, their preiudices, their
minds, their hearts and their tongues. A
few days since, gentleman visited friend,
and in the course of conversation, seized
the occasion to contrast the dispositions of
large and small persons, physically speak
ing. He was himself of fine proportions,
and while adverting to some individual who
was very diminutive in figure, he proceed
ed to launch forth in TRADE against small
people generally, said they were waspish,
spitcful, proud, mean, conceited, and inca
pa5le of chcrishing generous sentiment or
noble impulse. Nature, he said, had
dwaried them, not only in person, but in
mind and in heart, and he cited several in
stances by way ofillustration. But just at
that moment, he CHANGED to turn in another
direction, and observed the flashing eye and
glowing cheek of a lady of very small sta
ture who happened to be present; and sec
ing his awkward and almost unpardonable
blunder, he attempted to stammer out an
apology, but he was so confused and abash-
ed, that every effort only made the matter
worse.
On another occasion, not long since, an
individual, who, by the way, had anything
but aristocratic blood in his vains-5ut who,
in consequence of the fortunate speculations
of his father, had inherited large estate,
was indulging in a strain of great pomp and
pride, as TO the high character Of his anccs-
try, and sneering at what he called s.the
mere mechanics and storekeepers of the pre-
sent day." His language was addressed to
a beauty and an heiress; but one whose po-
sition and prospects, nevertheless, had not
neutralized her common sense, nor deaden-
ed the innate nobility of her heart. She
listened, but with evident impatience in her
and cody remarked at the close
--''l presume, sir, that you are awars that
my father was mechanic" Had thun-
derbolt fallen at the feet Of the miserable
pretender, he could not have been more
startled.
But indiscrctions of language and remark
occur every day. There are some people
who seldom get story right. They are so
impatient or exciteable, that they do not
listen with sufficient attention to gather all
the facts; their imaginations are so vivid,
or their habit of exaggeraiion SO bad, that
the real truth is lost sight of in a world of
misrepresentation. There are others again,
whose preudices are so strong, that they
color almost every opinion or action of life.
Who has not formed hasty judgment of
some subject or individual, and found in at
ter years, that they had committed fright
full error. Who has not drawn a portrait
Of character upon the mirror of his mind,
added tint upon tint and shade upon shade,
and then discovered, on becoming really
with the original, that the sketch
bod ha! 5ccn made by Prejudice and Passion,
and not by Candor and Truth.-Po. Ing.