San Andreas independent., 1857-09-19
Stand Up.

Friend, thou hast learned the first lessons of
ife-the manner of earning a living, and the
art of treating all persons with respect-and
yet there remains to thee one lesson unlearned.
You are too tame in the presence of others, and
allow your preferences to be guided by their
opinions; not because you have fathomed and
found those opinions to be right in themselves,
but because such an one has advanced them
Have you no opinion of your own and it may
chance that those opinions will differ materi-
ally from such as will be advanced by Others
Then stand up and advocate your ideas, fearless
of the chagrin which they may cause your OPP
ponents. Show them that you are man every
whit, as well as they, and cannot be bluffed off
with idle words and large airs.
Does q person pretend to be your superior in
knowledge, and, not understanding the propr-
ETY. of time and place for exercising his stock of
information, let forth an over-abundance of
speech before others in your presence, thereby
showing himself to be no gentleman, TO say the
least; then stand up, and by an off hand argu-
ment or matter-of-fact question, put his super
fetal knowledge to the blush, and he will
trouble you no longer, or, if he does, only to
his own modification before those who hear
him.
Does thy neighbor wear better apparel than
thyself? Envy him not, though the mass of
mankind esteem him better than thou; yet, 'tis
not the dress which makes the man, though
the most may judge so, as they do at this day,
differing far from the good old days of yore,
and we trust, from the days that are to come.
Thou mayst have more money in thy pocket
though thou choosest not, like the fool, to put
it upon thy back then stand ZIP and walk erect
in the sight of God and thy fellow men, losing
none of thy dignity, neither compromising thy
manhood, for thou mayst secure the esteem of
many friends whilst he whom the vain and
weak-minded envy, gains neither praise, honor,
nor respect, but is the butt and laughing stock
of the sensible, and the scorn of the proud and
uplifted.
Does thy rival in business misuse thee, either
in word or deed? Does he injure thy influence
or intrude upon thy mercantile arrangements,
making himself obnoxious and prejudicng your
friends against you, thereby hoping to obtain
profit unto himself?-then stand up and put ON
a bold front, showing thyself his equal and
bringing him to silence and shame. Cope with
him with an undaunted courage, and give him
to understand, by forcible demonstration, that
the triumph is not all his own, that you are
out of his reach and beyond his power to injure.
He will find before long, that in striving to in
jure another he has ruined himself and your
victory will be complete, while his defeat will
be the means of covering him with dishOnor-
in your way, you will live him out.
Fair woman thou who hast given to us thy
many bright wreathes of Sunlit fowe-s-teem-
ing with kind words, and happy, cheerful smiles
Hast man in his unprincipled villainy and bold
faced wickedness of heart. dared to cast o re-
proach upon such fair blossom in the garden
of nature? Has he dared with impious tongue
and foul-mouthed lips, bathed in the flames of
deepest hell, to utter ought against unguarded
innocence?-and has woman so far forgotten
herself and descended so low in the vale of
pollution, as to take up and spread the deep
dyed SANDER against her sister, because she is
more pure than her fallen self? All woman,
lovely woman thy beauty has made for thee
many foes and false rumors, hand-in-hand
with lying suspicion, have been abroad doing
their work. Fear them not, though host of
human ficnds should compass thee,-but stand
up in the dignity of honor and virtue, finging
out to the multitude of base hearts your wand
in utter defiance and good men and noble
women shall adore and love thee for it.