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Vol. 5, No. 44. Beaufort, S. C., Saturday, Sept. 1,1866. Whole No. 173,
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1>? we Tell ilie Truth?
The Nutnm gives ?m interesting and
mtggesiive article ou the above subjec t.
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11 it were snorter, we wuuiu w v"
iusevt it iti full. We purpose to give partly
the gist of the ;irticle, with a thought
or two of our own.
It is a remark ible fact that Moses, iu
his great moral code?never ma?le any
prohibition of lying; nor did be of slavery
aud polygamy. He whs too wise to
attempt any impossibilities A sweeping
denunciation of these would have beeu
simply useless. It would have been too
lar in advance of the moral sentiment of
J the people to be obeyed, and wonld not
h ive been looked upon in the light of a
posi ive obligation.
There are ruany forms of cheating toleumoajr
n* nnnrohibited l?v tatute.
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simply beraose the moral sentiuaeut of
mail is not yet highly cnifcivated enough
to treat that a* illegal which i* generally
toga: tied as dishonorable. Y< t the latter
feeling is a proof of th it steady growth
of the moral sentiment of mankind which
has been going on since the creation. It
is difficult to 8 ty how ninch our view of i
the morality or immorality of actions is i
due to education or nature. It is known J
that in the North some ra n regarded j
fcixvi'i v as the sum of a'l villauica, while in i
th i South it was regarded as >i Bible in-!
8 itutiou. So with polygamy. Abraham
was a polygamist. and so was Jacob, the
father of the twelve trills. Cirenmstani
ces alter cases, and our better education
and advancing civilization changes many
things. Risrlit and wrong way be always
the sauie, but our ideas in regard to them
change constantly.
Four thousand yea-s have passed since
the time of Moses. He made no prohibition
against lying* Is the world yet piepared
for such prohibition ? We doubt
it If a mau, or woman either, was absolutely
truthful, each would be considered
a moral moan'rosity, a nuisai ce to be
u...?
ai>rtteu swimy. rt-w ujijurunreu'.., u>.IVu
we owe to falsehood. Wit :oot the Inbricrating
nil deception, the social wheel
would cud in conflagration.
Is tins true? Wintis the idea of a
falsehood ? It is the effort to prod nee n j
false impression on the mind of another I
This impression rusy be made by an uu- j
true statement. by equivocation, by eva-:
sion, by ambiguous words. And this is j
false:-o<id. Will morality accept any I
)o vpr standard ? If not, then who at e j
guiltless of f.ds hood? j
The ordinary rnlesofpolitcnrf. require
us not only to hide our sentiments from j
those aronnd ns, but to convey to others,
in many instances, an intirely false imf>ressi?n
of our sentiments. We often
ire in an atmosphere of deception so
thick that we are not only hid from onr
neighbors bat bid from ourselves, also:
so that, from constantly striving to per
snade others that we-timik and feel differently
from what we do think and feel,
we sometimes succeed in convincing ourselves
that we are what we endeavor to
seem to be. We constantly receive with
courtesy those we dislike, and ntter
w-.rds of cordial greetiug which do not
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spring from a true respect. xr??ssioiy ii
limy be right to do so; but so tar as our
words and acts are intended to give our
neighbors ou entirely wrong impression
of our feelings towurds tbein, so fir those
words and acts cannot be brought into
accord with the rale of absolute truthfulness.
We sometimes meet with people who
pride thcmse.ves on being frauk and
s|M-aking the tiuth, but these forget that
generally they succeed in being offensive
also. Society generally ostracises this
class of persons. Some of our philosophers,
with these facts before them, hold
out to us a standard of truthfulness to be
aimed a\, though incapable of realisation,
yet as a duty possible in attainment and
obligatory in practice. When they come
o test their proposition, they betray tbe
weakness 01 uieir posiuuu.
1 here seems to l>e no escape from ti c
conclusion that in the present moral condition
of onr race, perfect trathlnlnuss
is scarcely at tain., bio.
Work.
If the majority of the late slave owners
iu Virginia would forget their former
habits of idleness, eschew tournaments
and follow the example of the two young
farmers referred to iu the following extract
from the Richmond Diywtch, there
would be some probability f that State
becoming au agricultural com moo wealth:
"T.vo young farmers in Albemarle have
accomplished, on a farm of three hundred
and thirty-three acres, the following
results: The boys rise by early dawn;
one milks the cows, the other feeds aud
curries the horses, attends to the hogs
and cattle, and after early breakfast perform
earnestly and industriously what
ever work is necessary to be done. Their j
fields have been well taked and ploughed '
and the result is good crops realized and j
prospective. The boasc-wo.k is clone j
by a negro woman uad o le girl, while the I
ajsLers of the young farmers keep the
house in order, and pur for .11 many things
heretofore leit to biaVes."? Lynchburg
Virginian.
The Thames embankment is the grandest
improvement ever undertaken in
Lou:li?n. Tiie redeemed land will more
than pay the cost of the work, whiye the
new boulevard along the l-ank will immensely
relieve the present overcrowded j
through lores.
Thk Secretary of the Intefior has re- j
eeived a sample of p.ipjr, male of sedge1
grass, an artiele that grows on saltw.itei j
flats, it has taken out u patent.
Leprosy is again spreading ovr the j
world. There hare been quit? a nmubei j
of eases in the West Indie* within tin ;
j last few years, j
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