The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-05-18
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q - aoIno syase.
The immortal bard or Avon, whose
God-givipg intelligence looked through
hnmanity st q, glance, : once said; with
that direct naturalness aud power only
bis, 'Fie; on the world; tits an unweeded
garden. Things rank and gross in
nature possess it merely" We under.
ataad this to mean that poisonous and
garish plants, scentless and deleterious,
have overshadowed sweet and healing
Rhrubs-nettles usurp the place of blue
eyed violets--for fragrant pinks up
springs deadly aoonite, and in place of
roses glow verbena and nightshade. All
this is highly categorical and poetic, but
none the less true in Specification, when
we see, in our daily experience. vulgarity
and assumption putting to shame the
wisdom Of years, the virtue which
slapder In vain assails, and the superb
ority, which, in the end, shakes off such
idle, assaults ''like dew drops from the
lions mane." In the garden of hu-
manity, how seldom shall we find men
or riwomen duly estimated? Does not
wrong nomenclature constantly apply to
those around US?
We have seen-what have we not seen?
AA OhA AS10 o JOuAdCy lIuuy ILLUS,
hearts broken by the false Judgment of
man-high hopes disappointed bright
career stranded, wave-submerged, be-
cause the recipient of gratuitous and ge-
nerous kindness was too green and self
sufficient to weigh gold with dross-sub-
stituted diamonds with glass. and proved
his own fallacy by Qnixotic and dar-
ing attempt to subvert Gods immutable
law, severing virtue from virtues sem
blance.
We have been moved to compassion,
almost to tears, while contemplating that
moral insanity which overthrows n man
OF facts before the footsteps of deceipt
An empty brain may be there. The OBJ
ject of his attraction may. in bis absence,
smile more lovingly and brightly on an
other than on him-what of that? even
though in his secret soul he detests the
frivolous thing he sees, yet (for Mokan-
mas veil is not withdrawn) for this spe-
cious deformity he is willing to sacrifice
all, till too lute experience teaches him
to bestow on the will-o'-the wisp its right
nomenclature, which is deception. Some
noble minds Show should they be valued
rise quite above the tainted atmos-
phere of this beguilement. There are
many such-the world is not so bad as it
seems. Let US value these, when dis
covered, more than Golcondas gold or
Potosi's jewels. A power of right judg-
meet comes from God, and happy is the
man on whom He has bestowed strength
and reason to resist the tongue of the
crafty. Fools are ordinarily the victims
OF wrong nomenclature. No man of
honor suffers his friend to be misused,
and no woman or man of delicacy or
principle, strives to separate the bonds
Of friendship. They who SANDER and
must be united by natural resemblance,
illustrating the coarse but significant
adnge, ''birds of feather flock to-
gether." 1t were we'll could those of like
proclivities be associated, but God in
providence having decreed otherwise,
the tares must grow with the wheat. A
final assize awaits humanity, when,
purged from it's taints and translated to
purer realms, the good and noble assem-
bic In His presence, who was and is the
Searcher of hearts. No aorong non,en-
cldture in Heaven! There we shall know
even as we are known. Virtue, robed in
immortal beauty, shall reap its own re-
ward, the wicked shall cease from troub-
ling forever, and those alone, purified
from the dross of earth, find interrupted
happiness. Reality pertains to that great
after existence. No fraud in the courts
of paradise; no deception to darken it's
resplendant halls. No serpent to lure
there-no art to begnile; no wrong no.
menolatnre to defame its glorifed inhabi-
tants.-Ne,o York Times.
One of the most significant minor
events of the day is, that President
Grant bias been dining w. w. Corcornn,
Frank Blair, Sr.. and Thomas Ewing,
Jr.. Mt the White H0nse Tbera'iaLf7