Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-09-22
For the Yorkville Enquirer.
DON'T MIND 1T.
BY WILLIE LIGHTHEART.

Reader if you have q soul of your own within
your bosom if your heart is at all human if you
have marked out for your feet pathway to glory,
honor and distinction; if in short, the immortal
spirit within you feels the narroTness OF lt6
prison-house and yearns for more light, more life,
more untrammeled liberty, and higher flights,
don't mind what the world has to say.
Take position; plant your feet firmly, and
with emphasis, upon the rock Of Right; then,
with uplifted head, and unfaltering heart, look
bravely around you, and snap your fingers in the
face of slander, Detraction, Obloquy, Scandal,
Calumny, and Sarcasm. These you will meet
everywhere these will stand like stagnant pools,
forever in your path obstructing the passage
and poisoning the air with its foul and intolera:
BILE breath These will go before you through
the great life-path will whisper their tales O.
mong your friends; will thrust themselves be.
tween you and the dearest object in life; will fol-
low you to old age; stand beside your sick bed
gather about your cofined body, and sit even up
on your graves.
Don't mind it! If you wish to act the part oi
gentleman, to be select in the choice Of your
acquaintances; to mingle with that class Of socie-
ty which is best calculated to refine, dignity and
elevate Just as certain as you are living man,
there will be those around you who will SANDER
you, those who will watch for the least opportu-
nifty of finding out flaw in your department, an
impropriety in your conduct. That great distur'
ber of human life and happiness-"They say'-
will be busy with your name, and energetic in its
efforts to iniure you. But never mind 1t lit
only proves that you are fast coming into notice
that the world does you homage; and those who
thus speak of you know that they are far, very fai
beneath you and are moved to envy by the e1al'
tation of your position when compared to the low
sink of degradation in which they find themselves
If you are determined to live life becoming
the dignity of human nature-if you mean to
wear the laurel; to win the goal; to chant the
great chorus of triumph with the great end good
of earth, be assured that the great body of man
kind will not understand you; will misconstrue
your motives will judge and speak harshly, even
cruelty of you.
Never mind it!-remember that it is the differ
ence existing between yourself and those who
wish to drag you down to the same level. with
themselves, that gives rise to SANDER.
Don't mind it!--these things are all calculated
to make you more watchful, more cautious, more
dilgent to look well before you; and, if your
friends, and those whom you love, listen to and
believe "THEY SAY" or II HEARD" and press
you out of their circle upon the mere asser-
ton of known slanderer, don't mind it; don't
sink down or give up quite yet; but quietly take
up your staff, and resume your life. journey with
q cheerful song.
Be independent; go through life with smile
ever upon your countenance a calm, uncompro-
missing dignity; with kind word for the weary
hearted in the way; with forgiveness for those
who would harm you. Love your friends very
dearly; pity those who crawl at your feet to sting
you; and, in short, try to "make the most of both
worlds"