Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-05-08
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r, "a hard to understand what is the
temperament which finds pleasure IN
covertly malicious mischief. The
and undisguised ebullition OF
Is not unintelligible, whether IL
Is expressed by word or by act. There
is nothing unmanly about open enmity.
But hidden malice has no redeeming
In 1t, and often entails upon
those who are guilty the additional
meanness Of absolute falsehood. Among
the efforts Of petty malice which some
times fall under the potice of news
paper publishers, is the handing In for
publication of false marriage notices.
They are usually so contrived as to be.
of a nature most annoying to all the
parties interested. Great precautions
are taken by publishers to guard
against such impositions, but In spite
of all care and watchfulness, the news
paper is occasionally made the limo
cent agent Of annoyance. Other de-
scriptions of false reports are also
imposed upon the publishers aud for
geries, under the senseless name OF
hoaxes, are contrived to cause unhappi-
ness or create unfoundsd expectations.
Another description Of hidden malice
Is In the writing Of anonymous letters.
BY the sensible part Of the community
such missives are not accepted as the
basis Of any action, and yet nobody
can be quite Indifferent to them. They
may prepare the way for distrust or
suspicion among friends. Diabolical
ingenuity may so express them' and so
time their transmission, that the most
innocent trities may be made to appear
to give confirmation to %unfounded
charges and malicious insinuations. it
Is painful to know That there are In the
world people who can descend to arts
so base and the only object in tracing
and detecting the authors ofsuch frauds
Is that, once having discovered, you
NAV mark and avoid them. For to
such people morally belongs the destg-
nation anclently applied to outlaws
..enemies to the human race" The
assassin of character is quite as bad as
the mai or woman who destroys physi'
cal life. Any charge which needs to
be brought, which will bear Its own
weight, and which is prompted by q
good motive, should be acknowledged
by him who brings 1t. Cowardice en-
e~ryates a good motive, and gives addl'
tional turpitude to an evil me-. Under
whatever specious pretense a man per-
suades himself into a clandestine act,
his better Judgment will convince him,
before he is done with 1t, that he has
lost claim to his own respect ever
though he should remain undetected
by others. But detection il almost
certain to befall the anonymous letter
writer. If not absolute detection, sus,
picion points to him; aad he has his
choice of confirming the suspicion by
silence, or of adding to his uncomfort'
able reputation the character Of al
absolute falsiler. A golden rule o.
conduct is, never to say ordo anything
which requires concealment, or which
one may be tempted afterward to deny
Besides the Inconvenience which at
tach to the slanderer or concealed
assailant himself. he exposes others
and 1t may be his best friends, to sus
piclon. Somebody must endure thu
inconvenience Of suspicion, at least
and the man or woman who Is success
ful in hiding their misdeeds is so by
leaving the innocent to be blamed, |
not Intentionally and willfully causing
that injustice to be done. A sure way
to obtain the Ill opinion Of all frank
and fair-dcaling persons is to resort to
secresy and other dark ways, even
though the end intended be compare
lively innocent. As to purely mali
cious deeds done under n mask, there
Il no expression Of condemnation toe
strong for them.