Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-01-31
The Art of Peace.
Fom the Richmond Enquirer.

IN one OF the counties OF flrSlnlai was
once called on by an unhappy female,
who requested Of him potion thatshoud
make her husband love her. He had
once been kind, but was latterly quarrel
some and abusive beyond endurance.
The doctor gave her a mixture, with in
structions to fill her mouth with it, and
retain it there whenever her i'll tempered
spouse should repeat his assaults. After
some weeks she returned for fresh sup
ply of the medicine, of whose effect she
spoke with rapture. When she applied
subsequently for the third bottle, she
pronounced the cure nearly complete.
Her husband had become civilly spoken,
and was once more pleasant companion.
The doctor now told her she might OBJ
tain her future supply from the pump,
and explained that all that was needed,
when her husband was taken with fit
of raving, was to hold her own tongue
The South may apply this lesson to ad-
vantage, in its present relations with the
North. Indeed, our people are already
doing so to remarkable extent. The
daily diatribes and denunciaticns direct
ed against US, fall in great degree on
def ears, and are answered by fresh at
tacks on the briers and thistles of our
fields, and fresh efforts to restore our
wasted heritage. The Indifference to
Federal politics, and insensiblity to the
viliffcatious which have grown almost
into total uuconcern. 1t is indeed very
hard, sometimes to endure in silence, the
silly, inconsistent, and malignant attacks
upon US without exposing their folly and
mendacity. Yet, as rule, we suppose
it would be best for us to fill both our
mouths aud our inkstands with water, and
let our traducers have the quarreiling
all to themselves. Perhaps this will be
the speediest and most certain way of
curing the North Of that dreadful habit
of foul speech which makes it scandal
to the family, and destroyer of the do
nestle peace.
We whose bushes it is to do the list
nening for the whole South-who have
to read the daily papers, and endure, as
proxy, the daily abuse showered upon our
countrymen-must, however, be allowed
some little liberty of retort. 1t is a re-
lief to the nervours system-something
like that which makes surgeons eucour-
age their patients to cry out-under the
knife 1t does good in both cases. Be-
sides it is not always expedient to allow a
man to have the whole field to himself
simply because he is a slanderer or a
mailman The wise man tells us, indeed,
'answer a fool according to his folly,
lest thou be like him." but he also says,
"Answer fool according to his folly,
lest he be wise in his owr conceit." The
discord of these seeming contradictions is
simply "harmony not understood" The
meaning is, that whereas it is ordin-
arily best to fill the mouth with water
when scold attacks you, especially if
one Of the family-it is nevertheless
sometimes necessary to take him in hand
and expose his outrageous follies aud falls
hoods, in order to SINCE the wings of his
self-conceit, and constrain him to low
er flights.
We have our mouth filled with the 81
lencing potion to-day. We have read
many aggravating gibes and many villain
Gus ISLANDERS in our Northern exchanges,
but we are nevertheless demeaning our
selves as weaned child. Ifany word a
little stronger than milk, has CHANGED, or
may hereafter chance to escape us, we
hope for the favor for which the deacon
plead, when, after cursing the COW he
sought to drive, he asked to be "indulged |
in the remark, seeing that.she had caused
him to race the field until he was nearly
dead with heat and fatigue. But let us
all keep good supply whenever we are
abused, and we will find it an excellent
medicine, seeing that it takes two to keep
up quarrel. And if at any time this
paper shall depart from this silent
role, and "indulge" little by Eek
pressing the sentiment" of itself and its
readers in English that shall seem a lit
tie pointed, let it be set down to the ne