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By J. A. TURNER. •—-“independent in everything—neutral in '‘Thing'”—- * $5 lor Three Mouths.
VOL. XIX. TURNWOLD (NEAR EATONTON) GA.,• TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,1864. NO. 37.
Envy.
One of the meanest passions of the hu-
man heart, is envy—that .element in
man’s nature which makes him unhappy,
because his neighbor actually is, or he
thinks him,'more prosperous than him
self. This war, has developed many of
the worst passions, of the human heart.
No one of them has grown oat into rank
er luxuriance than envy.
We frequently Hear of men’s complain
ing that this neighbor is fortunate, and
the other one prosperous, while they have,
suffered every king from the war. In
nine cases out of ten, the greatest grum
blers are those who never have contribu
ted anything to the success ot our arms,
except what the law actually forced out
of them, and they never will. They are
men who have never given anything
voluntarily to the war, nor to any
other public cause, or object. They are
too mean to be happy themselves, and
they don’t want anyone else to he, be
cause they are not so. With their souls
less than the size of a confederate dollar,
their own degraded natures, eaten up by
envy, are incapable of anything but the
lowest, basest passions, and it renders
them still more miserable because they
can’t drag true-hearted gentlemen down
to the same sink of degradation in which
fifty, like a parcel of dirty swine, dabble
from day to day.
As mean as this world always was, and
particularly as *t has lately got to be,
these men are too mean to live in it: and
we doubt whether even Satan would have
them in his kingdom, if he could help
liitnself^ for Satan is sometimes rep
resented to have some gentlemanly qual
ities i while the men, of whom we write,
never had aqy, never could have any, and
if they had them, would sell them fora
treasury five, and then shave their dad
dies at 20 per cent., with that.
Wgbave no use for an envious mam
and never did’. We envy no man his
money, nor his happiness, and the envi-
euS man Is, in our eye, the smallest of all
contemptible human 'beings- We have’
known mere worth, their thousands upon
thousands,so infinitely small, that it made
them miserable-’ because- their neigh or
happened to Have ones dollar that they
couldn't get.
We have seen some mean men claim a ■
great deal to themselves,, because they I
have sons in the army. No thanks, to them
that their boys are soldiers. 1 hey never
would have been so, if their fathers could
have prevented it. Their sons either volun
teered-, in the beginning of the war, through
patriotic motives, or have been since put in
the army by conscription. These boys, too,
are not encrusted with the cake of mean
ness that surrounds their fathers. Their
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young, impulsive, generous natures have
not been rusted, dbrr'oded, eaten up by
envy, malice, and all uncleanness, as
their parents’ natures have -been. And
yet the miserable old Wretches, whom to
have for daddies is a disgrace to the more
respectable hoys, boast that they hove
done a great deal for the country, because
their boys volunteered, or were conserib-
ed into £hat country’s service.
And do you know why these outrageous
skunks, wearing the human form, boast
that their sons are in the army ? It is
because these old outlaws upon all decen
cy, know that they are looked upon with
a jealous and suspicious eye, in the corn*,
munities where they live. They are well
aware that they have never given a dol
lar to the cause—that they have clothed,
and fed no soldiers—that they have given
no one employment, and taken care of no
women and children—-that they have
failed, in every respect, of acting as a
white man ought to act : and in order to
divert attention from their miserable,
festering carcasses, they boast of their
boys, and decry their neighbors—just as
the rogue cries stop thief, in order to save
his stolen goods.
You slanders upon man—you’libels up
on humanity—you miserable, degraded
wretches—ye who occupy a lower scale
in animated existence than the hog that
wallows ha the. mud—your trick shall fail
you. Yyu shall have the mask of lying
hypocricy torn from your deformed fea
tures, worSe-looking than those of tho.
ape, whom it disgraces, to be compared
with you, and it shall be known what
niggards you are, with your property,
and what traitors you are. to your coun
try. There is not a man, woman, nor
child who does not believe you would
gladly strike hands with the yankbee, if
you'cou.d Save your property Ly doing
so. , ..
Aid yet yon are the slanderers and
calumniators of honest men, and gentle
men, whose very shoes, you are unworthy
to stoop down, and unloose—men who
never harm you, and never interfere with
you one way, or another. You have nev
er done anything for your country, and
never will: and you deserve no redit
that your boys are in the army honor to
them, and not to you.
No, your mean hearts are full of anvy,
jealousy, and all corruption. It makes
you miserable because vou can’t attain to
the decency of respectable men. Stop
grumbling, you miserable pack of curs.
Cease backbiting and slandering your
’ neighbors. Stop telling your lies, and
you jhat stole, steal no more. An envious
man wants what he has not worked for.
And he who wants what does not belong
to him is a thief.
The Peace Flag on J’ast Day.—On
thursday last, August 4, Mr. Lincoln’s day
of fasting and prayer, a Hag, whose fac
simile had not, up to that time, greeted the
vision of New Yorkeis, floated proudly
from the Cooper Institute building, and
its appearance was greeted with evident
signs of satisfaction by* all who saw it.
During the entire day, its ampl^folds kiss
ed the breeze, and many eyes were direct
ed towards-it, as it waved amid the surn-
mer air. It was a Peace flag. Its ground
was' white, and its centre was a dove,
bearing in its mouth an olive branch.
This was the inscription that was upon it:
Tcsce on Earth, Good Will towards men.’
A prominent advocate of peace, raised it
on fast day. When doing so, he was told
that a mob would tear it down within
half an hour, lie knew the people bet
ter. No mob molested it: but ovident
tokens of gratification were given at ita,
appearance, and’ it floated proudly all
day. It was the first peacd flag that had
been publicly raised in New York, since
this fratricidal strife commenced, and
graced the stage of the Institute at night,
when Lindley Spring, Esq.*delivered his
peace lecture. It was the gift of the la-*-
dies of New York, to the blessed cause,
and carried a Jilesring with it ( -ntrast
this incident with the vind-otiVepess.dis-s
played by the peoplo in April, ISOl. VV'Ka
could then safely advise jyu- Huts
thank God, a change—a very perceptible
change—has come over the people. The
nation is sick—sick unto death—of war
and its attendant horrors. Peace finds
earnest, eloquent advocates, and its ban
ner flaunts the breeze unmolested. ‘Straws
show which way the wind blows.’—N&ws
York J$cwa.- }
Negko Sales.—“‘At a late auction sale
in Columbus, a negro than twenty-one
years old, sold for. $3,700 ; a negro boy
eighteen years old, sold for $3,525.”
Be just—he gemrous.—be honorable.