Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-03-23
Hatred.

When we say that we hate a person or object, to be properly understood- provided thGt,we understand ourselves we should be thought to sock the greatest possible punishment for the person, and anniliilxtion forthe object.
 We should never hate. He who cul- tivates that specimen of human frailty, straightway becomes its slave; for it is an immutable law of nature, that the recipient shall rise above the possessor. Moon-struck school-boys, and crafty politicians,may glowingly descant upon the heroic patriotism cvinced by rest less national hatred, but an enlightened world regards such folly with the pro- .foundest contempt.
 ltis just parallel in the case of in- 'dividuals. Whenever we love blindly, or hate bitterly, our judgment is ob- scured; but if we consider an object or theory, dispassionately, nothing but the limits of our comprehension can clip the wings of thought.
 Such being the fact, one does not 'needtO be told why the most auccess- ful partisans are most suspioisusly watched by their zealous constituents.
 Hatred is old; indeed, it is as ola as the Fall, almost, and it is high lime that Christian people had discarded the barbarous relic.
 "WeAave taught you to hate nothing but sin," exclaims Intolerance. Port your helm, nuisance You arc bearing down upon the most dangerous shoal in the .oha0ael. It is safe rule to hate nothing that is involved in doubt, how ever our sympathies may be directed.
 MT. Orthodox wakes upon tlse re- 'ception of that shaft, and attempts ts Cite authority. Stumbling wretch !! Had you first taught the New Dispcn- sation, saiscarding the worthless and ill-timed Old, the world had been blessed with more and better Christians than are found in it to-day. You may deem 1t paradox, nevertheless hesi- tate not to assert that the wicked alone can hate; and also aver that hatred is the greatest and most Mnconquerable sin.
 Malice is loathsome monster; envy crasvls in the dust; jealousy affrights and avarice pains but hatred has been invested with the deFnsiyc charm of heroism and other exalted attributes :; and, although equally as certain as kin wickedness to recoil upon the heads of it's patrons, is still nourished and even lauded. Set in motion the wheel of reform! It is an age of reform, and our teachers are beginning to realize, ill a manner, that cosmopolitan philan- thropy which embraces in it's good will all that pertains to manhood, regardless of country, cline or color.
 Now is the time; for, although the physique of our people was cast in practical mould, we are most favorable to theory, paradoxical as it may seem.
 No age of materialism seems ap- preaching, and we have reason 10 be- lfieve that we have advanced beyond fthat shoal; and, since those who have most discoursed upon 'man's inhuman- dty to man" are evidently the principal 'nurturers and prime progcnitors of that same 'inhnmanity," it were we'll that we should awake to the great interests mankind: and, one and all. first unite sV sweep from Qtf the face of our beau- aful world, the snis-shapen form of the monster hatred.
 II It Is not done, the time will come \ Fl'on the assel'iaon that "all men arc rothers," will be regarded as a huge ' ,st witticisnl and burlesque and U hen, one religion, one earth and one heaven win not suffice for an unnatu- ra lly diverse e.and restricted mankind.