The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1868-09-30
Skulls.

and miserable for long years to come.
Skulls.
There are some men whose skulls are so
thick, whose mental perceptions are so OBJ
tuse who are so thoroughly matter of fact,
who have so little fancy or imagination, who
are by nature so stupid, that a little badi-
mage, pleasantly or the most innocent joke
in the world, cannot be shot into their heads
with three hundred FOUNDER Columbiad.
The Sentinel seems to have one of these skulls
at the head of it. 1t is evidently iron-plated,
and it is astonishing to us that jeff Davis
didn't, during the war, make figure head
of it for one of his steam Rams. The Yam
kee Iron-Sides and the whole fleet of moni-
tors would have been sunk in day if this
skull of the Sentinel had been fastened to
huge beam and rammed against their sides,
and the only theory upon which We can ac-
count for Bro. Pell's having so terribly sore
head yesterday morning. is that he has
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great experiments by accomplished engi-
neers, and found the obstacle against which
he butted his thick skull altogether too
strong for him.
Now, Bro. Pell, when God created man he
gave him instinct, understanding, reason, and
through healthful and cheerful play of
those faculties, and for the best of purposes,
imagination, fancy, wit, humor, and all the
lighter social gifts that enable men to live
together in world where there is so much
real sorrow and distress One-half the human
race would be raving lunatics if they could
not laugh-and some philosophers make the
difference between men and animals to con-
sist in the fact that men laugh and animals
do not 1t is true, that we do sometimes
hear of horse laugh" and the laugh of
Bro. Pell on hearing the result of the Maine
election, and on witnessing that seven mile
procession" as it wound its way through
the streets of our beautiful city, and like
eternity seemed to have no end, must have
borne some resem blance to it.
According to the skull of the Sentinel
Paradise LOST was a lie and Milton ought
to have been indicted by the English peo-
Pile; Pope's "Rape of the Lock" was lie
and ought to have been burned in public !;
the author of the Book of Revelations in
our Holy Bible, who calls the Church of
Rome or some other church the Great Har-
lot" ought to be branded as an infdel and
as an unbeliever; the gentle Addison, whose
satires in the Spectator, reformed social life
in London, ought to be kept out of every
family circle; Scott's novels, based upon the
facts of English history, no school girl should
be allowed to read, and to come home, and
to get a great ways down, Pollard's "Lost
Cause" and the feeble limitations of Charlotte
Bronte by Miss Evans, ought to be in no
Southern family; in fact, the only publica-
tion We know of that ought to be supported
by a virtuous and God-fearing people, that
is always truthful, always reliable, that is
orthodox to the core, that never writes
word on which the imagination can dwell
with pure or impure emotions, is the Raleigh
Sentinel, under the editorial management of
Brother Pell.
To the pure all things are pure and that
this beautiful city of Raleigh, with so many
churches and so many christian people
who attend them, should have all that is
impure in their natures brought to the
surface by Ais astonishing to us.
Whether the name of the author of that
wicked article "Work" will go down
to lasting infamy or not is matter with
himself alone, but of this we are assured that
when he drew out that wicked--upon
which the impure imagination of this city
has been playing for three days, he had no
more thought of questioning the virtue of
Southern women as class than he had of
questioning the virtue of his OWN mother
No man living regards the sex with higher
esteem, and no man living will defend it
from unjust aspersions with more sincerity
than he. Words and signs of thought are
imperfect, and it will be a long while before
the science oflanguage will reach to that de-
gree ofpelfection that che exact meaning can
be learned by ordinary, conventional terms
The latter part Of the article "Work" was
badinage and nothing else, and that it was
taken SO seriously bya people who are so self
conscious of Purity and who are known the
world over as having attained to the highest
degree of domestic fidelity, astounded us.
And then too, the same impure reflections
were cast upon the daughters of New En-
gland, as any fair man can discern who reads
the article, and how worse than wicked it
was for the Yankee firm, as it is called, Of N
Paige q Co. to doubt the fidelity Of their
own mothers. But enough of this. South
ern women aoe,e the real leaders of the re-