The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1860-12-20
THE TRASH OF SOCIETY.

Oocloty ID composed OF all sorCs OF
people, following all sorts of business
for living. And very large portion
ofsociety reminds us of the trash Which
decent people sweep out from their
doors into the street, whore the hogs
may root and scratch in it with impu-
nifty. And of all trash our mind is now
upon, the filthiest is a certain portion
who do the work of the Devil so slyly
that honest mon can't find them out,
and thus sweepthem away into their
congenial element of filth, too sickcn
ing for elevated people to even look
upon without experiencing a sensation
Of deep disgust. Wc might compare
society to mighty pile of apples,
among which are good, defective, and
some perfectly rotten. Some are skin
ned over with rosy rcd, and to the eye
are inviting indeed, but when you taste
them, you find them sour and unpala-
table. Others, less gaudy in looks, we
find to be sweet and wholesome 9th
ers are little defective, but by proper
management the unwelcome spots can
be cut out and cast away, and though
the scar remains, they are far better
than they were, and are acceptable
But there be some so very rotten that
thor presenccis cOntaminating, and we
have only to see them in order to rid
ourselves of their flthness. But the
figure does not end here. We often see
good-looking apples when first put
away, become soon entirely rotten, yet
there they are, hid among tho good
ones, doing damage, and spreading dis.
case, while no one knows it. We
compare these rotten apples concealed
among good ones to base scoundrols in
good society, who covertly do their
rotten acts. They are envious, re-
vengcfdl and malicious. They are COW.
ardly, skulkng in misunderstanding to
face man-ever ready, like the mid
night assassin, to spring from their CO.
vert upon somo unsuspccting, defense
less person. Envy, always promi.
nent characteristic of "small minds"
robs them of I'll honor and docency.-
They are evidently tho bane Of society
in every good community. God must
indeed have been greatly provoked to
anger by sinful world, to curse it
with such trash. They arc ever rea-
dy to do the work of Satan, and are in
fact his aid d'camps in scattering dis
ease and discord wherever thoy GO
Nothing delights them more than to
1.-Two, move and breathe in the midst OF
slander and scandal. Thoy yclp ut the
heels ofan honest, brave, upright man,
like hounds after the hare, aud all for
envy. True, there il not much harm
to bo feared in an open combat with
them, for they are cowardly, and love
darkness rather than light. But it Is
annoying to an honorable man to DO
forced to listen to the barking of the
meagI 0 pack, or to stop to kick them
out of tho way. They would glory in
being able to drag the better portion Of
mankind to O level with themselves
TO tear the laurels Of fame from the
brow of virtue istheir bearts delight
to lie, create dscord, envy, malice, &c,
is their daily labor
They are, in short, tho trash Of soce-
ty, and manifest their nobleness in many
ways. Ono way is in writing anony-
nous letters to an Editor Of a ncwspa-
per. We sometimes get such docu-
ments-have one this week hailing from
Nashville. Another is, to.talk about
lis paper, which they stcal aud real,
(and Franklin county has some such.)
Another is, TO talk about good citizens,
and villify them, and few weeks ago
we saw q notice sticking up on our