Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-05-23
gelecteh MisrellanY.
NO RIGHT TO BE UGLY.

Wen or women, whatever their physical
determines may be, cannot be utterly ugly,
except from moral and intellectual causes,
and neither man nor woman has any right
to be ugly, and that if either be so, it is his
or Fer fault, misdemeanor, or crime and
thai being ugly, they cannot expect the love
of t1eir fellow-creatures. No man can love
an ugly woman no woman can love an ugly
MAJ; and if fathers and mothers can love
an agly child, it is very sore struggle, and
mas; be duty after all. and not love-
20 have lost ones nose or eye, to squint
or % have hunch- back, are certainly mis-
fortunes, deteriorations of the beauty of the
hunan form and impairments of its high
idesl; but if all these calamities were cen
tered in one unhappy person, they would
notmake him positively ugly, if he were
wise. witty, amiable, benevolent, just and
generous, and passed his life in deeds of
kiil aess and charity.
with the horns, dragons tail, and other vul-
gar uglinesses of popular superstition. He
was too great poet and philosopher to fall
into such an error The physical beauty of
his Satan was originally as great as that of
the Angels who had not fallen, in all out
ward attributes but the hideousness was in
the mind, and the mind moulded the body
to its own character and Satan. though he
was, as Sydney Smith said. "a fine fellow"
in one sense. was terribly ugly in another
sublimely horrible, and infinitely more fear
full to think of than the grotesque compound
of Satyr and Dragon whom we owe to the
exuberant fancy and bad taste of the monks
of the middle ages.
A truly ugly person may have had we'll
developed nose and regular features; he may
be six feet high, and shapely as the Apollo
Belvidere, but the evil spirit that is in him
has set the indescribable but palpable seal
of bad mind upon all his lineaments. He
bears the brand of criminality upon his fore
head as Cain did, and carries mark of Dr.
vine displeasure stamped upon his face,
shaded in his aspect, toned in his voice,
telegraphed into his looks and gestures. By
these means he is pointed out to his fellow
creatures as one who has sinned against the
moral government of the universe, so that
all who see him may know him and take
warning by his punishment. All that is
morally good is physically beautiful. All
that is morally bad is physically ugly; ergo,
every man and woman may be beautiful il
they like, and no man or woman has right
to be ugly.-Q. E. D.
Take the case of my excellent friend Mr.
Towers. Look at his nose, and his nose
only-at that nose, rubicund and Bardol-
phian, out of all proportion with any ordi.
nary face; nose pimpled and freckled
bearing blossoms like tree, and of the color
of the peony, and judge him by that only
and you shall. at a casual glance, pronounce
him ugly. But Mr. Towers is not ugly
The physical deformity is, no doubt, obvi.
Gus enough, and suggests ugliness to the
passer-by. But hear him talk. Listen te
his wit. Let him unlock in your presence
the abundant stores of his learning. See
him take brick of wisdom here and anothe,
there. See him ransack all the brick -kilns
of the anci ents and the moderns, and watch
the house Of Fancy or of Learning that he
will build with them. Go with him into
private life and see what joyous compan.
ion he is, what good friend he is, what a
good husband he is, what kind father be
is, what pure minded citizen he is, and in
the light of his moral and intellectual ex-
cellence, you will look at his ugly nose and
admit that the face is beautiful. aye, that
the nose itself is more beautiful than many
a nose that Phidias and Praxiteles delighted
to model, but which belonged to counter
ance which was not impermeated with and
moulded by these noble qualities.
Take Trimmles, another man I know,
and look at him as he walks along the street
small, spare and with bunch back and
at the first glance you shall call him ugly.
But you will be in error if you do. Physi-
cally he may seem to be ugly, but his mind
is melody and harmony. He is logi-
clan who could argue with Euclid. He sees
daylight in the darkest corners of disruta,