The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-01-29

The two great ornaments of yir-
tue, which shew her in the most |
views, and make her |
altogether lovely, are cheeIfulness
and good nature. These generally |
60 together, as a man cannot be
agreeable to others who is not
easy within himself. They are
both very requisite in a virtuous
mind, to keep out melancholy from
the many serious thoughts it is
in, and to hinder it's
natural hatred of vice from sour
ing into severity and censoriOus-
ness.
If virtue is of this amiable ma
ture, what can we think of those
who can look upon it with an eye
of hatred and ill-will, or can suffer
their aversion for party to blot
out all the merit of the person
who is engaged in itg A man
must be excessively stupid, as well
as uncharitable, who believes that
there is no virtue but on his own
side, and thai there are not men
as honest as himself who may diff
fer from him in political princi-
pies. Men may oppose one an0th-
er in some particulars, but ought
not 10 carry their hatred to those
qualities which are Of so amiable
a nature ia themselves, and have
nothing to do with the points in
dispute. Men of virtue, though of
different interests, ought to con.
slider themselves as more nearly
united with one another, than with
the vicious part of mankind, who
embark with them in the same
civil concerns. We should bear
the same love towards a man of
honor who is living antagonist,
which Tully tells us in the fore
mentioned passage, every one nat
urally does TO an enemy that is
dead. IN shorG, we should esteem
virtue though in foe, and abhor
vice though in a friend.
| speak with an eye to those
cruel treatments which men Of all
sides are apt to'give the characters
of those who do not agree with
them. How many persons of un-
doubted probity and exemplary
virtue, on either side, are blacken-
ed and DETAINED! How many men
of honor exposed to public oblo
guy and reproach! Those, there
fore, who are either che instru.
ments or abettors in such Internal
dealings, ought to be looked upon
as persons who make use of reIi
9ion to promote their cause, mol
OF their cause to promote religion
Tho Kinds county (Miss.) Ga
zette of the 9Th inst. describes in
) terms of qualified congratulation
the improved pecuniary condition
of the white people in that part o.
Mississippi. 1t says:
Our people, as a body, wert
never before SO nearly out Of debt
and unquestionably never before
was there so large an amount o.
surplus money in the hands Of the
citizens of this country. Beyond
the mere supplies necessary tt
carry on agricultural operations
there has been no opportunity tt
: contract debts during the two OF
three years last past; and the am
pie crops Of 1868 and 1869 have
not only furnished abnndan
: means to pay up all debts con
tracted in making them, but have
left over in the hands of the whites
a sum fully equal to one fourth o
| the aggregate amount. This mon
ey, for the present, for the mos
part, lies idle in our midst. Wnel
: the uncertainties which surrounl
: our political condition shall hav
, passed away-when the war shall
have really ceased-when "peace
shall have been proclaimed-thi
g hidden capital will come forth an,
l. L.. II
: nels of business. With it oil,
farms will be rejuvenated-fertil
q zers will be bought-fences wi
9 be built-new houses will be cree
1 ed factories will be inangurate
; railroads will be constructed.
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