The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-12-02

G&~ Nothing but CASH will buy good
at the above prices. j. H. BAUGll.
RI" a very worthy gentleman came
TO US the other day and said: Il want
to take the Home Journal again.
didn't like an article | saw in it moi
long since, and paid up and quit. But,
upon consideration, | believe | was too
hasty."
Now, here was nobleness in this
man-he was brave enough to confess
himself in the wrong. And so he was.
and we said to him: Dear sir, you
ought to take a newspaper as you do
the world. There are good and bad
men therein, and Il Tremendous dlvcrsi-
ty Of opinions upon a diversity of sub
jects. Nevertheless, you do not be-
come a recluse--you still mix and min
Gle with mankind, content to take life
as it is, for better or for worse. And
he was satisfied, and %straightway left,
But. We put on our studying cap and
determined to say something in this
connection through the columns of the
Home journal. Perhaps there is no
school better than the editing Of n
newspaper, where man may learn hu.
man nature, and we feel that the TWEEN
ty-odd years Of our life spent in this
school have not been wasted entirely.
We have known men to be pleased for
years with a paper, and then, because
1t happened to publish an article that
was opposed to some pet fancy or
theory Of theirs, forthwith get mad and
step the paper. We would most TEN
perately admonish such that they act
very tooIishly. Such is not the treat
ment, proper, t. show to those who
differ from us. a newspaper is. or
should be, like q mirror-to reflect
passing cvents-aad if that mirror re-
fleets other o~piuions than our own, are
we to be SO silly as to break the mirror
in pieces? Are we to demand that it
should reflect only Il own features
and lancies? If 50, how dare we set
ourselves up as judges. 70 illustrate
still further: Suppose you go to a no
tel for q meal Of %victuals. Before you
arc spread many delicious dishes. Bat,
there are some you do not relish. DO
you get up without satisfying your ap.
petite? Do you not partake OF that
which you like, taste what you have a
fancy for, and discard all that is unpal
atable? Most assurcdly. And do you
expect, in the cultivation Of your farm,
to find no uneven places. no bald spots,
no briaIs numbering the ground, no
Instructions, &C.? Can it be then
that you expect an editor to please
you or your peculiar fancies and wish
es in every particular? We are all
ial!ible, and ought to exercise far more
charity than we do. There is a natu-
raj tendency of most men to get angry
With those who differ from them in
opinion. In fact, the history of man
kind shows that difference in opinion,
as to most matters, is one Of the bitter
est of all offences, and is visited with
punishments of diverse degrees, vary.
ing from ccasing to ask Il human be
ing to dinner. to the cutting of OF his
head, or the burning him at The stake.
Now, everybody knows the story OF
Charles V. and his clocks how that
great emperor, who had ruled Il large
part of Europe during a very stirring
and critical part Of its religious and in
t%ellectual history, and tried to get m.en
to think alike on matters religious and
ecclesiastical, began to see that he had
been trying to do a VAN thing and an
impossible one, when he found he could
not get q few time pieces to agree in
what they said as IN the hour of the
day.
Now, the Home Journal, we claim,
is an Independent paper. We are
pledged to no sect or party. We choose
to act with the Democratic party be-
cause we believe it to be the best Tor
the welfare Of our country, but even in
this respect we Llalm to be independent.
We have learned that it is foolish and
unchrlstian like to get angry at a mar
for holding q different opinion iron
ourself on any subject, and we think
no one a fool for not thinking as we
do. He has as good q right to his
opinion rs we have to ours, aud, posi-
bly,, his opinion may be as near to
truth as ours.
Now, we shall ever try to express
our views in a way that will not be OF
f%ensive. Some men do not know how
to do this, but we have tried to learn
| the art. And, if we traverse any cher
ished views, religious or political, 1t
shall be done in a kind and temperate
manner. Nor do we wish to he held
responsible for what our correspond,
ents write. We have often published
articles we did not endorse. Never
theless, we want all sides to be heard,
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