Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-04-03
From Dlackwood's Masazine.
PEOPLE / HAVE NEVER MET.

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I have knocked about the world, and allowed
observation, with considerable extent of view. 4,
survey mankind. IL not from China 10 Peru. "A,
least from the court to the Kitchen, from the uni.
yersi,y tU the sctilling ordinary and. in the course
Of these wauderings and iratefnizings, | have nat.
uraily met with leUlile enough, visa and
otherwise some lovely, and SOME pas 81 L'en :
some eccentric, aud mIiiiuIs iin plhcably common.
place. But there ae various y pes al human
character which. though frequently hearing of
them, IN conversation aud books, have never been
able to get II glimpse Of. AUD this all the nure
Noticeable. because the types IRE said to be album.
dant. 10 call these mythical people would he
rash no cautious niud will huit nature to the
boundaries oi our inuIyiduul eSlerience, nor pro.
nUuuce thar nm animal rHnnOt verbally EXIT be.
cause The seeker has not yet discUyertd it; and ~
my mind piques Itself On being intensely phil t.
%sUphical, It refuses tn pronuunce The uhmet people
to be nyths. j am ready To give the most geuer
Gus credepce to the repur,s ui others. IT they say
they have met such, my researches have not been
So Fortunate. The world is vide, nature is various /;
let US rather seek than .eny. Meanwhile, let us
be rigorous in the truth, no man curelessly saying
he has seen the animal which IN truth he has not
seen, and all Of us cUntessing our ignorance with
great freedum. Among the people | have never
met" u few may be registered here as specimens,
THE AUTHOR OF A REALLY BAD BOOK.
A very Interesting type, unfortunately to me
quite unknown. | have seen and lived with nu-
thUrs of all classes, and OF various degrees OF mcIi il;
profound thinkers, and thinkers Dot so profound A.;
brilliant wits, and wits Of paste learned pundits,
and scholars OF imperfect accuracy Luxurious
cOmpilers. and men with able scissors met wits
great creative powers, and men with a facility in
installing old characters !OI new creations but
The author Ct u really bad book | never did meet.
Books are written which publishers enter into n
conspiracy not to publish and plays are presented
at the stage dOUr OF every theatre, to be always,
and III almost similar terms, declined but this il
never because the work is bad. Not in the least.
the question OF merit ie never raised. II raised
both publisher and manager are profuse in ack.
nowlcdgements Ut the talent, hut-
There Is much virtue in n 'but". Here the
but" implies, or perhaps introduces the state
ment, that public taste es not lie in the direction
taken by this clever performance the market is
~overcrowded, the publisher is not just now ex-
tending his engagements the book trade is in n
peculiar condition., and tins excellent work must
therefore lie declined. The manager grieves that
a comedy so brilliant a ~tradgedy 80 poetical, should
not adorn his stage, but uihappily just now the
resources of his theatre do not admit OF hs aecert.
ing the work.
1t is clear, therefor, that the mere fac. OF a work
remaining unpublished is no evidence against it's
quality, and the writer of n bad book is not ind
Gated by such a fact. Besides, you have only t.
ask the author, and he will supply you with r
hundred reasons why he is still in manuscript.
not one of which has the least reference to any
BADNESS. And If you, dear reader. should over
alight on that geological rarity. the author ola book
avowedly bad, who tells you that Paternostcr Row
declines transactions with him because his work is
not good, catch him, hurry him to the Regents
Park, cage him and advertise the novelty in the
Times.
Az UGLY, DIsAGREEABLE BABY.
have had many babies thrust under my nose to
kiss and admire, some Ofthem which; to my inexpe-
rienced eyes, seemed like mere lumps of mortality,
with the complexion Of a Cambridge sausage, and
features of a general squashipass. fat babies,
bloated babies, brick.dust coloreQ% -eliow
babies, and skinny babies-but am ~ |
have never en-. Moreover. | have ha, mi
able temper slightly rufied by the how ID.
iretting of those nteres,ing embryos. [ NJ '
my whiskers mercilessly tugged by their fat fingers
and my shirt-front dabbled ty the same. holding a
well.sucked crust of bread but a disagreeaMc
baby has not yet made its appearance.
Tue MAN VINO WISHES TO HEAR THE TRUTH.
Wandering about the world. | have eagerly
sought, but sought in vain for the being who does
Wish to hear tho truth. ] have not found him
among philosophers, not even among cab men,
No poet, no politician. no critic, no divine. has been
able TO stand the simple test. If | tell Weissnirht
that his theory cannot be true. because il il in fla
grant contradiction with notorious facts. he gets
angry, denies the facts, or tries to evade Their M
PhcauDn. shutfies, snphIslrates, and, it bard press
I'd rerurts upon ,ue some Insinuatirn disrps:ecttuI
To my moral character. If | point OUT to the Rev.
MIR. birthstone thathis doctrines are unscrprural,he
grieves over my decIensiun from 'he SIMPLICITY If
VITAL truth. or perhaps InsInuates that ! AN nn iuh.
del. II Per'cles Brown asks Tor my candid
opinion on his verses, aud hear bat think them
med,ucre he hecunrs NY Toe forever
Ia TACT, ms cad al finding men desiruus of hpar-
ing the tiuIh for truths sake, uniforn ly find hem
deslr"us al hearing il only when i, is agreeable.
when 1t tiairers their pride, their prejudi,es, or
their interest.
THE MAN VINO KNOWS Ms PLACE,
A rare, II mythical character 1t il nf,en ad-
vertlsed. oiren believed in. hut never Vet crossed
my path. "B'ggnm is and excellent mnr-b be
thoroughly knows his place. stralehtwa, teek
Bigsam's acquaintance tor n man VIII, knows
his place must be one OF eagle eye, rapid iutuiiirn
and rare mudes,y. lie cannot know hs own ulnre
without knowing that Of every one else. and ns
this is the m"st difficult If all social ;rnblems. |
am naturally eager 10 see the man who can solve it.
On in,estlgn,l"n, Biggam IuIhs out ly no means
an e'.Rle. l mud him II man Of servile, timid, crinp.
ing uisposlti"h, acSnow led slng, with great alacrity
the superiority of those who are n.urp .ealthy. or
OF more consequence Than himself. lie il either
u ta1terer, or a 'nnsh Of concession. lie does
not know his place he only knows that il is aliens.
3 ant Tor others To have their assumption Lf superl.
orlry recognized, their opinions uucuntradirted.
their eftnrts unupposed. One Of the most copceit.
: ed men l ever knew-that is to say, the man hay.
ing the most exorbiIant and UNIV arraured estimate
OF bis own caIaGlty-was une Of those concsdiny
unoppoeing gentlemen eaid to know their place1.
i, lie knew his place SO little. tina he was ALWAYS
attempting To do that for which he was u,,erl Y
" " unfit, and always falling, but verbally acauicscing
. in his failure, saying, II have not your talents, ,r
success would have followed.
THE MAN WHO HAS NO NONSENSE ABOUT HIM.
"Wardle Is a capital fellow. / assure you-no
nonsense ahoGi him" Who has not heard Of
Wardle? Who can honestly say he has the Meas.
Q ure OF Wardles acq uaiutance | got introduced
0 10 one or the ""rd'eS' i"ndly hoping that at Inst
: | had found the man with NO nonsense aim, III,
# But the iIlusion quickly vanished. | found him a
,. large man, bald and vrntripotent. loud IT, ,rice
a cUarse IN manner. aud narrow in ihtellect lie
n wore nIutton-chop Nliskers, and bad strong orin.
= IONS about Foreigners, who, he thought, were all
n dirty and exiles. lie had strong views on noli.