A Short Sketch of Startling Truths.
By Editor
FROM an article written by G. W. Bungay, Esq., to the Detroit Tribune, March 31, 1865, we extract the following paragraph which we head as above. It is as vivid a description of some of the moral features of our times as could well be given in so few words. We commend it to the careful consideration of those who think the world is growing better. “More than two hundred years ago, an old divine said ‘there are more good men among bad men, and more bad men among good men than the world ever dreamed of.’ We have not State Prisons enough to hold all the rascals who deserve to go there. Conspirators against humanity stalk through the streets unabashed in broad day light; scoundrels who deserve to swing as tassels at the rope’s end, are found everywhere endeavoring to defraud the soldier or his family of the bounty to which he is entitled. Smooth faced and oily villians, who would rattle dice over the remains of their mothers, or play cards at the communion table, make it their main business to cheat all they come in contact with. Villians of a deeper dye, will strike down whatever stands between them and the gratification of their passions, making their hands red with murder.”