The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-05-06
For the Republican.
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FRIEND L~EkTEERMAN:
Moralists have repeatedly asserted
that the human rae were creatures
Of habit-of imitation. We are in
formed by high authority that at the
completion of the works of creation
all were pronounced by the great first
cause, to be good, but afterwards they
sought out many inventions, to con
ceal their defects, one Of which inven>
tons was to keep the best side out.
Take a view of the vegetable King
dom from the proud magnolia to the
modest violet and you will see the sue.
cessful efforts to put the best side of
that garb exposed to the public view.
The human race, last and said to be
the noblest work Of creation. seems
studiously, ,ffectualIy and naturally,
to have initiated the policy Of their
earlier vegetable relations. Good and
evil, beauty and deformity being init
mateIy blended, it requires all the con-
~trivance Of art to claim Mss umption of
good and beautiful.
To a veidant observer, who looks
only upon one side of the picture, all
is perfection ; but to the curious and
quisical. who unceremoniously take tt
peep about and examine oil sides,
there seems to be a difference between
outward and inward.
The man Of business is peculiarly
smoothe in all his representations :
honesty and rectitude is his motto. but
put your finger under his ribs and in
pine cases out of ten you will find
roughness and deceit, a disposition to
prcvaricate for his own private inter
est, concealing sub umbra ugIiness by
the polish Of an enticing exterior. Tn
the professional works of life, we find
the real pinks of perfection most sue
cessfully initiated. At one corner O
are mel by the kind.hearted and S M
pathetic physician with an exterior as,
Smoothe and unctious as their anodyne
pIasters, but within, as rough and cor,
rosive IS their most irritating plasters
and nauSeating powders. The first Of
each successive desa, demonstrate s the
spadmodic and ejecting effect Of the
Iatter,ifn not on the stomach, most signal
Is on the purse.
Next comes Our long faced, demure
and plous parson, in IA full suit ofblack.
with not even a DETACHMENT on the
knee-full of protested love to his Ma.
ker, in particular, and his fellow.crea>
lures in general-bowels yearning in
borba rigmal distress, for the worlds
salvation, earnestly pleading the ne
cessity Of the cruciixion Of all the an.
petltes and passions-the Observance
OF humility and penance, when the
records of the church if properly writ,
ten out, would show but little evidence
OF the evangelical spirit concealed an
der his jacket. Here comes a LAWYER
with Blackstone in hand. and a heart
blacker than Erclus and a conscience
scared into cracklins. All graceful
p%oliteness and all honesty, ever ready
to protect the rights of the people and
secure all their just demands-a seen
rlty that too often is so welltaken care
OF that the creditor is compelled to
fall back upon his original COMPLAINT
with a change OF debtors. Still he
keeps the best side out, which is highly
polished brass inlaid with conner hal
IN union with the acerbity OF internal
fermentation. succeeds admirable in
the generation Of a tr~anscendental
verdigris, that casts a reflection Of
greenness over his deluded clients.
Now come a long train Of maids and
malrons of all ages, size and complex.
Ion, subjectsfar surprising all creation
10 their successful imitation of yeoe'
tation. We do not wish to be under.
stood that women are mere vegotables
it only to look at, but that they follow
natures laws with more care and nra
cission than The other sex. We fad
persopiied the rose aud the tbis,le"
the lily and the eabage-the brier and
me to~hchsme-not, all taking root and
iioafsshng IN The, full vigor Of their
natures; The various tastes of the
multitude OF animal boqaet seekers.