Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-01-14
NEIGHBOR NAZARETH.
THE UNBIOGRAPHED MARTYR
OF CIRCUMSTANCES.
A Life Resume of the Victim of the
Modern SneerOcratic and Shamo-
cratic InQuisition.
BY EDWARD PAYSON FALL.
For The Sentinel.
A5botfs Creek, ". c..

For The Sentinel.
To say that there is any palpable,
acknowledged aristocracy in America
is evidently absurd. To assert that
one has seen men racked, tortured,
confined in dungeons, burned at the
stake for their opinions, in this boosted
age of modern liberation, would be to
contradict every dictate of our senses.
Yet to state that piritual intolerance
still goes sneaking through society,
and domineers and murders as far as
it dares, is ut repeating "a familiar
axiom, according with the constitu-
ton of man and the story of his deeds.
The covert rule of the sneerocracy
and shamocracy prevalent always
and everywhere, and it permeateth
bounds And it zealously and indus
triously seeks to extort the same species
of opinion manacled homage now from
the man Of independent convictions
at the shrine of village nabobs and
country squires that the Pope required
of the Spanish Inquisition.
GA country magistrate" says DIR.
Zimmerman, 'who has certainly great
opportunities of forming the manners
and morals of the district over which
he presides, is in general puffed up
with high and extravaganza conception
of the superiority of his wisdom and
the extent of his power; and raising
his idea of the greatness of his charac-
ter in an inverse proportion to his no
lions of the insignifcance and little
ness of those around him, he sits en-
throned with fancied pre-eminence,
the disdainful tyrant, rather than the
kind protector of his neighbors." And
while it is manifestly unjust 10 attri-
butte this character to the majority of
country magistrates in our own land,
it is most shockingly and literally true
in many instances; and, we can fairly
and deliberately add, that there are
plenty of country parsons, country
editors, country pettifoggers and coun-
try pedagogues in the same pig-headed
predicament.
Neighbor Nazareth, in the present
writing, is intended to present the
crystallized embodiment of the object
of all their jealousy, hated, prejudice;
the target upon which to pour the
arrows of their pufed-up-spleen; in a
word, the man who knows more than
they do and will not bow to them, and
in whose shadow they have constant
dread that their fancied greatness will
be covered up and lost.
He is no creature of my fancy. Real
as the light of day and the stars Of
heaven, can draw an outline of his
life with the same ease that / could
sketch the landscape at my window
To them it is naked stroke Of policy
to produce popular impression that
ne is esno good, a heather, an infdel
savage or an idiot That he is 8
fool, however, or ought to be, as theil
principal reliance. Slander-slandel
-slander-slander; that's the kind O
wind which blows towards him from
their mouths continually, night ane
day, summer and winter, forty years
being no uncommon length for ths
gust, should he live so long.
Born to degree of talent that look:
higher than the heads of his compeers
to advantages of education that excite
unlimited envy, to a certain courage
of conviction which speaks frankly
and truthfully on all occasion his hon
est sentiments yet to that bare compe
lance in dollars and cents which is ex
pected to kneel to pampered wealth
popular pets and sham-oficial dignity
he is under perpetual rossfre, from