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■ _ :V - . v — • *.\*v - ; s . ; • ; da THE COUNTRYMAN. _ - . ' ;• .. ■. ~ ■ • ■• . , . * - - ~ * ~ 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 I 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.