Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1882 — Parader of Morality. [ARTICLE]

Parader of Morality.

A man has a right to take pride in his moral character. It is the one thing that counts with men in the long run down the ages. Intellect coupled with infamy does not last. Time covers it with neglect. Intellect to live, must be associated with some right principle, and correct conduct. There must be something manly about it. A great many things are pardoned to private conduct when it is known that the man’s public principles are pure and noble. There can be no question but Webster, in private life, had many shortcomings, but where do you look for healthier, or more manly words than you find in his letters and speeches ? There is this, too, to be said of him. He never made any lofty and ostentatious display of his sentiments. He was conscious of his principles, but he never made them offensively prominent. In excusing the faults of Lord Baoon, the Pall Mall Gazette says: “The most offensive part of Maeauley is this assumption of a lofty moral tone when he is libeling a great man. In the case of torture, as in the latter case of corruption, it is clear beyond doubt that Bacon’s error or weakness consisted in this, that he was not so far in advance of contemporary morality as we might have desired. But there is a wide distinction between a man who breaks accepted and recognized rules and one who is only not in advance of them. A compliance with questionable, bnt hardly yet questioned, practices is compatible with lofty and patriotic aims, whereas a man who, judged even by the contemporary standard, is a contemptible sneak can hardly be credited with any kind of virtue. Now, Maeauley gets a cheap credit by refusing to allow this plea of Bacon. To the average common sense of mankind it looks very virtuous to say that cruelty and corruption is corruption all the world over. ” —Jndianapolia Herald.

1h Pompeii, recently a very beautiful fountain was found among the ruins. It is said to surpass in beauty any of the fountains hitherto dug up there. VeDus is represented as rising on a shell, with Cupid in her arms. Othei spirits oi love are seen here and there in the waves, while in the background appears a nereid, or water nymph, neat a dolphin, with her arm thrown around the neck of a Cnpid. In the foreground, on the shore, are two draped women looking at |hs merry group ip the water

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