Chapter VIII: Part 8

Now it will not do, my dear parson, to attempt to carry off this departure from Christian practice, with an affectation of great equity, in the performance of duty. “Give the devil his due” may be a very orthodox maxim, but you seem, in adopting it, to have started with the hypothesis that you had a devil to deal with; yet in the exercise of justice thus liberally, it would seem but fair to meet even this Personage face to face, that he might dispute the account if he felt aggrieved at your estimate. This last point, I think, you have a fair chance of attaining. Nor will it do to affect courage and great devotion to truth. It is very well to say, that vice should be held up that its deformity may be seen, so as to startle and deter others. You should be sure that the vice of your brother is not his misfortune, and that the sin which taints your own fingers, may not turn crimson in contrast before the eyes of the gazers. Courage, my dear parson, is a relative term. You may think it great courage, and a duty you owe to truth, to assail your friend for wishing to evade a matrimonial engagement, yet it would be the veriest weakness and wickedness—if you had set the worse example of evading your marital duties after the solemnization. He who sacrifices at the altar should have clean hands.

The jewels which sometimes ornament the remains of beauty or worth have tempted, before now, gentlemen of hardy nerve, but I do not remember that these have ever taken rank in the annals of knight-errantry. And, my dear parson—I am talking somewhat freely with you, but you must pardon me—the feat that you have performed with so much unction, the despoiling of the fame of a man who intrusted it to you as a jewel of inestimable value to him, has not received the applause of a single man of honor. Your _claqueurs_ themselves, feel that your performance is damned. I have no doubt that some faint glimpses of the truth have reached even your mind. I would have you pray over this subject, my dear sir, for your feet stand upon slippery places. In all sincerity, I would have you revise your creed and reform your practice; for you do not seem to get even the poor applause of the world, for wrong-doing.

GEO. R. GRAHAM.
_Philadelphia, Sept. 20, 1850._

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ERRATA.—Our first form having been worked off previous to the reception of the final proof of the leading article, the following errors will be found:— On page 266, 1st column, 17th line from bottom, for “_with_” read _wrote_. Page 266, 2d col., 2d line from bottom, for “_region_” read _reign_. Page 267, 2d col., 30th line from top, for “_physical_” read _psychical_. Page 269, 1st col., 9th line from bottom for “_profession_” read _possession_.

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Transcriber’s Notes:

Archaic spellings and hyphenation have been retained as well as some spellings peculiar to Graham’s. Punctuation has been corrected without note. Other errors have been corrected as noted below. For illustrations, some caption text may be missing or incomplete due to condition of the originals used for preparation of the ebook. Errata have also been incorporated into the below noted corrections.

page 266, with his Fairy Queen ==> wrote his Fairy Queen page 266, to the opening region ==> to the opening reign page 267, the debateable ground ==> the debatable ground page 267, the pirotal points of ==> the pivotal points of page 267, a complete physical age ==> a complete psychical age page 269, antiquity of profession ==> antiquity of possession page 269, to elude the clumsey ==> to elude the clumsy page 270, the apocalytic vision ==> the apocalyptic vision page 272, once again their came ==> once again there came page 274, blasphemy of the this fiendish ==> blasphemy of this fiendish page 275, could the the child get away ==> could the child get away page 278, zealous and and apparently ==> zealous and apparently page 281, listening, however inadvertant ==> listening, however inadvertent page 287, buffetted against the ==> buffeted against the page 293, the bark’s bright goal ==> the barque’s bright goal page 297, _tu aimes_, _nous aimous_ ==> _tu aimes_, _nous aimons_ page 300, flight was a long, ==> flight was long, page 304, beneath the waters’s flow ==> beneath the waters’ flow page 305, just now, wan’t I ==> just now, wasn’t I page 306, and at night’s he ==> and at nights he page 311, They pause, when ==> They paused, when page 313, take the hinmost ==> take the hindmost page 314, arched eye-brow, that ==> arched eye-brows, that page 316, Napolean! he hath come ==> Napoleon! he hath come page 318, envious snow flury ==> envious snow flurry page 321, in thy mandhood pure ==> in thy manhood pure page 324, Melt’s round the corn-fields ==> Melts round the corn-fields