Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-03-26
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..According to the logic of ". A., the extent of
my offence would have been greatly mitigated,
even in making malicious attack on himself,
provided had been bribed to do So Here his
logic and my philosophy arc at variance again.
| should have supposed that it would have con-
stituted two fold sin-both that Of malice and
bribery"
If Justitia' will have the kindness to point
out to me Chapter and verse) the evidence he
has that Judas was actuated by malice when he
betrayed his Master, he will obige me by doing
So 1t will also be, Imagine, equally interesting
TO most cfthe readers Of the Times paper, Our
best Bible commentators are opposed to this
uncharitabe conclusion, and so am !. If Jus
ttia" had read my remarks this subject more
attentively, or if he would acquire habit of
reading his Bible with little more attention,
mis- philosophy and my logic will not be so much
at variance, it is to be hoped, as he at present
thinks it to be. The writer may or may not
believe as he pleases, but |, in passing, will
state that neither of the editors of this paper are
personally known to me. As regards myself.
beg TO assure the gentleman, that in the event of
his conversion, he viii be permitted, without
molestatiOn, to select spiritual guide for HIM
SELF as he appears to think he would need one.
"Justitia" will, however, trust, pardon me
ir | offer HIM little wholesome counsel Guide
yourself "Justtin," and do not in the latter
half Of the nineteenth century, talk of entrust-
ing yourself to the guidance OF another man; and
whist earnestly STRIVING 10 40 so, 1t is cCually
important that you should learn to respect the
opinions of others, even should they be unwil
ling to knccl at the same altar as yourself, or to
trust themselves on the same political platform.
Defend onr respected Congressman as much as
you please, but do not aSsail the character of
any conscientious politician TO whom his politi
cal creed may be distasteful. Assail his poll
tics If you like, but spare his character. Re
member what Shakespeare says, "He that steals
my purse, &c :"
You know, 'Justitia," that it is only the weak
and narrow minded among mankind, who could
take offence at harmless joke, upon the cut or
color ola mans coat. What right have you to
insnuatc that our hardy mountain neighbors
belong to this class? They well afford TO
laugh at such joke, sir, as they unquestiona
bly, will, at the SeTio-comic efforts you have
made to turn that jest into grave offence. Do
you think neighbors such fools that, like
the servants and retaincrs of the two rival
houses of Montague and Capuet, they will
quarrel about tritles?
do you bite your thumb at us, sir?n
IL do bite my thumb, sir"
"Do you bite Your thumb Mt as, sir?"
us the law on our side If Say-ay?"
Your feeble attempt, "Justitia," to injure an
independents paper will not succeed Can you
not turn your talents to some useful and honOra-
BILE calling? \ young man of your mental cal
iber, surely, ought to find some better employ
ment. V. \.
FRONT Doors AND SIDE DooRs TO HUMAN Ma
ruKE.-7He Study of Books and tile Study IF
People C0mpercd.--In "The Autocrat of the
Breakfast-Tablc," in the last Atlantic Monthly
Magazine, we find some interesting table talk on
the above named subjects.
Here are some of them:
Every persons feelings have front door and
a side-door by which they may be entered. The
Gront-door is on the street Some keep ii. al
ways openj some keep it latchcd; some, locked;
some bOltcd, with chain that will let you
peep in but not get in; and some nail it up SO
that nothing can pass its threshold. This front
door leads into q passage which opens into an
antc-room, and this into the interior apartments.
The side door opens ut once into the sacred
chambers.
There is always at least one key TO this side
door. This is carried for years hidden in mo-
TIERS bosom. Fathers, brothers, sisters and
friends, often, but by no means universally,
have duplicates of it. The wedding-rimg con
veys right to one; alas ii none is given with ii!
If nature or accident has put one of these keys
into the hands Of person who las the tOrturing
instinct, l can only soIemnly pronounce the
words that Justice utters over its doomed vic
tim,-IHe Lori hare marcy on yOuT SOUL You
will probably go mad within n reasonable time;
or, if you are man, run off and die with your
head on curb stone, iii Melbourne or San Fran
ClSco,-or, II you are woman, quarrel and
break your heart, turn into n pale, jointed pc
trifaction that moves about as if it were alive,
or play some real life tragedy or other.
BE very careful to whom you trust one of
these keys of the side door. The fact of pos
scssing one renders those even who are dear to
you very terrible at times You can keep the
world out from your front door, or receive visit
Ors only when you are ready for them; but those
of your own flesh and blood, or of certain grades
of intimacy, can come in at tho side door, if
they WILL at any hour and in any mood Some
of them have a scale of your whole nervous sys-
ten, and can play all the gamut of your sensi.
hihtieS in MISUNDERSTANDING tlIe naked nerve
pulps as pianist strikes the keys of his instru-
ment, am satisfied that there are as great
masters of this nerve-playing as Yieuxtemps or
Thalberg in their lines of performance Marri-
ed life is the school in which the most accom-
plished artists in this department are found
a delicate woman is the best instruments; she
has such magnificent compass of sensibilities!
From the deep inward moan which follows pres
sure on the great nerves of right, to the sharp
cry as the fiIaments of taste are struck with a
crashing sweep, is range which no other in-
Strument possesses A few exercises on it daily at
home, fit a man wonderfully for his habituai la
borS, and refresh him immensely as lac returns
from them. No stranger can get n great many
notes of torture out OF human soul; it takes