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' HEALING : AT SUNSET.
UV MRS. L. ,11. SIGOUnXEY."
"At even, when ihe sun did set, they brought
unto Him all thai were diseased." St, Mark,
1st and 32d.
Judea's summer day went down,
When lo ! from vale and plain,
Around the Heaven Healer throng' d
A sick and sorrowing trainl
The pallid brow -the hectic cheek
The cripple bent with care :
And he whose eoul dark demons lash'd
To foaming rage, was there.
lie raised his Land the lame man leap'd
. The blijd forgot his woe.J
And with a startling rapture, gaz'd
On Nature's glorious show.
lip from his bed of misery rose
The paralytic pale.
And thc-loataM leper dared once more,
. His fellow-man to hail.
Mart on the arm of pitying love
The lunatic reclin'd,
While unaccustom'd words of praise
' Relieved his struggling mind.
The mother to her idiot boy
. The name of Jesus taught,
.Who thus, with sudden touch, had fired
The chao3 of his though
For all that sad, imploring train,
He hcai'd ere evening tell,
And speechless joy that night was born
In many a lowly cell.
Ere evening fell ! Oh ! ye who find
r The chills of age descend,
And with the lustre of your locks.
The almond blossoms blend.
Yet have not o'er an erring life ' j
.With deep repentance griev'd
'But left the safety of the soul
Unstudied unachiev'd.
- Before the hopeless shades of night " j
Distil their baleful dew, j
Haste ! heed the Heavenly Healer's call, j
Whose mercy waits for you. j
BIOGRAPHY.
.Zachary Taylor.
BY ERASTES BROOKS.
Old Virginia has been called "the Mo
ther of Statesmen," and in the better days
of the Republic she was deserving of the
mlogium. In later times under the mis
government of a body of abstract politi
cians men who measure the capacity of
Governments by their limited statures as
men, the sceptre has departed from the
Old Dominion, and Virginia, as was said
jot Scotland by Dr. Johnson, upon the oc
casion of his visit to the Hebrides, has
Jbecome .a new State to go from.
With vast and magnificent resources,
washed by the Ocean and the Ohio, divi
ded by noble rivers, with mountain trea
sures with a productive clime, a rich soil
and wide spread boundaries, she is, what
she is, one of the oldest and largest
ctate3 in the Union, and yet behind some
cf the youngest and smallest in wealth,
in enterprise, and in public prosperly.
Nevertheless Virginia has a history of
which we feel proud, a history identi
fied with many of the best, and we are
sorry to add, the worst Administrations,
from George Washington to John Tyler,
' "Hypeion to a Satyr," the extreme
of human greatness and the smallest of
bigmy politicians. Virginia indeed as
tve read her, like some of the Republics
cf the old world, lives more in the past
thjn the present. Still we remember the
names of Washington and Marshall, the
great Statesman and the profound Jurist,
jo Jefferson and Madison, the author of
the declaration of Independence, and the
great man in the Convention which fra
med the Constitution, of Monroe, the
pood President, of Benjamin Harrison, of!
Richard Henry Lee, foremost in the
cause of Liberty, of Henry Clay, of Wil
liam H. Harrison, western men, though
Virginia born, and can never be indiffer
ent to a soil where so many distinguished
.Patriots were born, and where the obse- j
quics of so many have been performed.
The present war with Mexico recalls
the name of another Virginia born, though
rarly transplanted to the west and south.
We spenk of course of Zachary Tay
Xor, a man who at an early age develo
ped rare qualities of character, but who
only recently has presented his name con
'spiculonsly and admiringly before the
'whole country. As occasions are made
to bring forth extraordinary qualities of
character, so the war with Mexico has
tliown Gen. Taylor to be a man equal to
the greatest emergency. Poorly suppor
ted at home, upon a distant scene of ser
vice, and with, a host of enemies all a
round him, he has shown both a courage
ay tkill quite unsurpas?ed in the milita
tv hiftory of the country, and may we
iiot adJ, without boasting for our people,
not excelled in the military history of the
world. .
Zachary Taylor was born in Orange
county, Virginia, in the year 1790. His
father was a man for the time in which
t. ! 1 r.
ne uvea, a uoionei witn a rank won in
the State service, a man of great natural
courage sn great good sense, like the
son "rough" in his exterior, but withal
"ready" for every office of service and of
kindness. Col. Richard Taylor was one
of the Pioneers to "the dark and bloody
ground," and resided near Lexington un
til the vear of his death in 1826. The
old man had participated in many ren -
contres with the Savages of the West,
and it was in the rude school of almost
Aboriginal life that Taylor received his
early education. -
Our present hero, with his brothers, re-
' 1.1 . X-
ceiveu ineir eariy training irom a private wrrsjjuuycuce, uave ever biiuue cunspi
tutor, a New England man, still living, 1 cuously together, and we can say of him
and who bears cheerful testimony both to : heartily and truly, though he is not our
the aptitude and integrity of his pupil.'- J best and favorite man for the first civil of
Patient to study, quick to learn, slowly Ace in the gift of the People, that no
but surely, the youth pushed his way to ' man ever performed his official duties with
manhood. , Boldness, fortitude and perse- j more promptness,, with more grace and
vereuce were early shown and were j brilliancy, or with more success, than Za
doubtless the ground work of that mark- chary Taylor. As a soldier, he whom
ed eminence of character since reached by
the soldier and the General. -
; The army was his chosen profession,
for in imagination "he had been a soldier
in his youth," and longed
"To follow to the field some warlike Lord."
In 1808, incited partly by the war spirit
prevailing in consequence of the audaci
ous attack of the Leopard upon the Che
sapeake, he sought a connexion with that
army, in which he has now seen nearly
forty years of service. The stars and
stripes were lowered to the cross of St.
George, in consequence of a cowardly at
tack of a well armed force in time of
peace, upon a vessel wholly unprepared
for an engagement. The people were in
dignant and mortified, and Taylor, then
capable of self-judgment, participated
largely in the prevailing spirit to redress
outrage received. Entering the Army as
a Lieutenant of the 7th Regiment of In
fantry, Taylor grew rapidly in public fa
vor and in a knowledge of the profession
of arms. The wide and wild West be-
came the scene I nis exploits, and m
1812, his correct deportment and cipabil
ity for service brought him orders to com
mand fort Harrison, in Indiana. He was
breveted here as Maior for his success in
a fierce battle with the Indians, and it
was one of the most brilliant defences of
the Indian war. It was Madison who
conferred this brevet, and General Hop
kins, who wrote to Governor Shelby that
"Captain Zachary Taylor had raised for
himself a character not be affected by his
eulogy." In 1832 our hero was raised
to the rank of Colonel and his next scene
of public labor after the war of 1812, was
in Florida, where several battles were to
be fought, great privations endured, and
withal, few laurels to be won. But
though, like all high honors, they were
few, Taylor did win them, and from the
swamps of Florida, where the very air
was a pestilence, and from the midst of
armed men, who, like the followers of
Rhoderic Dhu, sprung forth from every
copse and glen around him. For the
fame and health of the soldier, Florida
was worse than Mexico; but Taylor mo
ved among the hammocks and everglades
of the peninsula with unconcern, save for
the mission upon which he was engaged.
Incredible hardship was the necessary
consequence of every forward movement,
and fighting "All'gator" and "Sam Jones,"
was . but fighting "Tecumseh" and "Olli
wachica" over again. , The battle of Lake
Okee Chohe was one of the most fierce
and bloody our troops have ever encoun
tered. Twenty-six were killed and 112
wounded. , For six weeks a small body
of troops had penetrated through an un
known land, and in pursuit of an enemy
more terrible in their modes of battle than
even the most refined cruellies of civiliz
ed or Chrisiian warfare.: v
Colonel Taylor was complemented
here with the rank of Brigadier General
by Brevet, and after securing peace, and
serving in Florida until 1840, he was
transferred to the command of the South
West. ' -
His exploits for two years past, have
been made familiar by recent events. . He
was at Corpus Christi from August 1845,
to March 1846, whence under orders
from General Government, he commen
ced the lead of the Army, designed by
the Administration for the invasion of
Mexican territory. Leaving the borders
of the Nueces on the 11th, he reached
the Colorado on the 2 1st, where he re
ceived notification that his- march would
be resisted. Nothing daunted, the Rubi
con was passed on the 22d, and war be
came inevitable. General Taylor was at
Point Isabel on the 24th, on the Eastern
bank of the Rio Grande, and from the
margin of this memorable barrier he look
ed with the flashing of his own dark eyes,
and the lightning of his frowning batte
ries, into the enemys country. .For 27
days, front to front, upon opposite, sides
of the river, with shotted batteries; and i
matcnes ready to De lighted, the Mexican
and Americans frowned upon each other. I
As well could a thousand lions and ti?er 5
1 havi safely faced each other, as so many
men armed to the teeth from the two
shores of the river. :
- The battles of the 8th and 9th of May,
Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, the seige
and capitulation of Monterey, Buena Vis
ta, the great triumph of the war, are oc
currences that bring with the naming of
them, the remembrance ol the exploits
performed, and their own proper reflec
tions. General Taylor was the master
mind which directed all this, and whe
ther in the midst of his columns upon the
plains of battle, or in the tented field in
the repose of peace, or quietly recording
. the victory of his army, or remembering
' the dead who have fallen around him, in
joy for success, in s)mpathy for affliction,
, in the endurance of hardships, he has
J been a true man, and a true soldier. Mo-
desty and bravery in all his conduct and
I . I ' l - '
te poet pronounced
"The foremost man of all this world,
was not above him, as" a prompt, ready,
skilful, honorable Chieftain. He is not
as Caesar was, proud, ambitious, and
what the Roman excelled him in genius,
Taylor makes up in the mild behavior
and humility of his character.
A Russian Imperial Review,
We have received a letter from a friend
in Europe, from which (though not iu
tended for publication) we cannot forbear
making an extract. The writer had the
good fortune to be present at the late an
nual review of the Russian Imperial
Guard by the Emperor at St. Petersburg!!
which is composed of 60,000 men, and
as such descriptions arese'dom afforded
the American reader, it will be read with
interest. -New Haven Register.
St. Petersburg, June 1817.
Every year . this review takes
place at the imperial city preparatory to
the departure of the' troops for their sum
mer quarters. For about four hours I
had a good view of the magnificent sight,
and my hurried pen will fail me to give
you an adequate description of its exceed
ing splendor. When I arrived upon the
ground the troops had already begun to
march. The balconies and windows of
the public . buildings and elegant private
residences surrounding the field were filled
with ladies and gentlemen, and the sides
of the field itself covered with a dense
mass of men, women and children. On
one side of the field a gorgeous tent was
pitched upon a raised platform for the
Empress, and before her Majesty and the
Emperor the troops had to pass in re
view. The panoramic view of the whole
field, you can readily imagine, was beau
tiful. But to the view itself of this great
body of 60,000 troops, who in part only
compose the garde imperial of the Em
peror Nicholas, and who are distinct from
the main army of Russia, which I believe
numbers near one million rank and file.
The foot soldiers, infantry principally,
first passed in review, marching by pla
toons of companies containing perhaps
one hundred and fifty men each, and in
double order. As the several platoons
arrived opposite the Emperor the pecu
liar Russian .hurrah went up the whole
length of the line, making the welkin
ring. The soldiers were all picked men,
tall, athletic, and every, "one of them with j
a heavy black moustache. . They moved i
with mathematical precision, and wiietncr
on a slow or quick march, seemed like
pieces of mechanism, and the muskets
not varying it seemed an inch either in the
lieigtn or inclination given - to mem. .ui
all the marching 1 have seen and I have
seen the American, French, Dutch and
Prussian soldiers none will at-all coin
pate with the Russian. Uniform of the
infantry was blue and red, not unlike our
militia uniform in Connecticut. It was
about two hours before the . infantry had
passed in review, and then came the cav
alry, advancing in double order by pla
toons of sixty horses abreast; and here
was a sight that beggars descriptieu, and
which when I recall it, seems like a mag
nificent vision.
First came a company of Caucasian
princes, mounted upon black, coal-black,
fiery Steeds, with long manes aud tails
almost sweeping the ground. The, Cau
casians "were dressed in a red garment,
fitting closely to the skin, and over this a
finely wrought steel chain armor, covering
the en tire, body fell from the head loose
ly over the neck and shoulders; upon
their feet they wore a kind of sandal, and
upon their legs leather leggins, similar to
those of our Indian warriors; across their
backs they carried a bow, with well-filled
quivers; in their hands a carbine, and in
their girdles the savage looking yaghli
gahn. They are a fierce, though hand
some looking set of fellows. Next came
the Tartars, upon their wild-looking, fleet
horses tne norses. airoi mem carrying
their necks forward and - their heads high
un in the air. as if snuffing the breeze,
and so uniform was the line of heads as
if they were all drawn up by pulleys.
The costume of the Tartar soldier is a
' blue frock, trimmed with silver, and a
kind of scull cap, bound with fur; in his
I hands he carries a spear, the end of which
i he rests upon the head, between the ears
of his horse. Then came the chevalier
lancers, splendid looking men, dressed in
white cassimere; with heavy, and highly
! polished brass breast plates and brass hel
mets, surmounted by the imperial eagles,
all mounted upon most elegant horses.
Regiment after regiment passed by,
each regiment with different colored horses
and the horses in each regiment so wrll
matched in siz e, form, color, and indeed
every respect, that to distinguish thera
each had braided in his mane his number
upon a small plate. The lancers are all
picked men, and are the flower of the
Russian army, the officers being of noble
birth; and were it not for the different col
ored pennants they carried upon their
lances and the color of their horses, no
one regiment could be distinguished from
another, so nearly alike are they After
the lancers came the Imperial Hussars,
in their costume of red, with high fur
caps, and mounted every one upon white
steeds. This regiment, it is said, is the
favorite regiment of ihe Empress. Then
came the Imperial Carbineers mounted
on black horses, and dressed like the lan
cers, except that their helmets and breast
plates wcre of. steel, highly polished.
Following these came the Cossacks their
black steeds carrying their head high in
the air. The dress of the Cossacks is
similar to that of the Tartars, which I
have above described, except in iheir caps
which are high and of fur; their weapon
is a steel sharp pointed lance. .
The rear of this immense body of cav
alry, amounting to over 30,000, was
brought up by regiments of mounted ar
tillery, six horses (three abreast) to each
gun, and of sappers and miners; and then
came the biiggage wagons and the ponton
tram. L$ut the greatest . sight was the
marchinr of the horses attached to the
different regiments. They seemed like
machines. You think it "strange" no
doubt, and yei 'tis no less "strange than
true," that every horse in marching kept
perfect time with his feet with the music.
I never saw soldiers on foot do it better-
indeed not so well for when a quirk
lively tune was played by the music, every
horse commenced a trot and kept up the
same uniformity of step as before when
1 All
on a walk. And then to see those horses
wheel by companies and in-double order
ning round with the precision of a
compass describing a circle, it exceeded
anv thing I ever imagined.
After the whole army (for the Imperial
Guard is organized as an entire and dis
tinct army) had passed in review before
the emperor, the infantry left the field, and
the cavalry remained in full possession
of it, and went through with some evo
lutions. First the Caucasians came at a
full run down the field, and then the other
regiments in succession. After this, the
whole body stationed themselves at some
distance opposite the Emperor, in close
order, and at a given signal half of this
body, over 15,000 horsemen, started on a
run, and suddenly halted a few feet in
advance of the Emperor, preserving as
they halted, the same compactness and
the same perfect front which they had
before starting. A few more evolutions,
which I have not . time to write about
now, finisheJ the review of the day a
day which has done much to impress on
me the remark of Napoleon, that with an
army of Russian soldiers, he would con
quer the whole world. He spoke of the
soldiers, not of the officers, of whom he
had not a high opinion. The Russian
soldier is a mere machine, and not a
thought bevond his church and the Em
peror and for both he believes it his du
ty to live aud die. Most of the army is
composed of serfs or slaves; and the pay j
of the soldier is only about three dollars
per annum. He is fed upon a coarse
bread and a kind of soup, and upon some
great fete day he is "given meat as a luxu
ry. The pay of the Russian officers is
also very small. A lieutenant gets but
500 rubles per annum, which is a little
more than 100; a captain 700 rubles,
and a Colonel only 2000 rubles. You
ask how they live? The officers gener
ally have a competency beyond their pay;
some few there are who have not, and
their condition is worse than the soldier's
for the latter is provided with a uniform
and is fed at the expense of the Emperor.
I finish this letter by daylight, and yet
it is after 10 o'clock, p. m. The sun
does not set here, at present, until 9jr m.
Yours, &c.
THE NEWSPAPERS.
It was a saying of the renowned Dr.
Franklin, that he never took up a news
paper, but that he discovered something
in it that he did not know before, and
which it was profitable .and interesting to
him to learn; so we can say there is no
paper published, which does not contain,
either in its editorial or select department,
matters or sentiments which h3ve a living
interest, and which plead with mute but
touching , eloquence for an unmarrcd re
cord and an enduring existence. -
A LITTLE WORD.
A little word in kindness spoken,
A motion or a tear,
Has often healed a heart that's broken,
And made a friend sincere.
A word, a look, has crusncd to earth,
Full many a budding flower,
Which, had a smile but owned its birth,
Would bless life's darkest hour.
Then deem it not an idle thing,
A pleasant word to speak ;
The face you wear, the thoughts you bring,
A heart may heal or break.
The War with Mexico. ,
In "Brownson's Quarterly Review" for
the last month, (July, 1847,) the editor
argues that the War with Mexico is "un
called for, impolitic, and unjust." Mr.
Brownson is known to wield a powerful
pen; he has been for many years consid
ered as no mean champion of democracy,
in support of which he obtained consider
able celebrity while editor of the "Demo
cratic Review." lie is still the political
friend of the President, and an adherent
1 of the party by whom he was elected.
It was therefore certainly not to be ex
pected that such a man, in such a posi
tion, would undertake to demolish every
argument advanced by Mr. Polk and his
friends in support of the present war, as
Mr. Brownson has done. He has thus
voluntarily rendered a service to truth,
for which the "Democrats" will never
forgive him. But we will allow him to
speak for himself:
"For ourselves, we have regarded the
Mexican war from the first as uncalled
for, impolitic, and unjust. We have ex
amined the documents published by order
of the Government; we have read the of
ficial defence of the war in the last annual
message of the President to Congress,
and with every disposition to find our
own Government in the rirrht; but we are
bound to say that our original impressions
have been strengthened rather than weak
ened. The President undoubtedly makes
it clear that we had many just causes of
complaint against Mexico, which, at the
time of their occurrence, might have justi
fied reprisals, perhaps even war, but he
cannot plead these in justification of the
present war; for they were not the ground
on which we professed to engage in it.
The official announcement of the Presi
dent to Congress was that war already ex
isted between the two Republics by the
act of Mexico herself; and, whatever use
wc may make of old grievances in adjust
ing the terms of peace, we can make no
use of them in defending the war. We
can plead in its defence only the fact on
which we grounded it namely, war ex
ists by the act of Mexico herself. But
unhappily, at the time of the official an
nouncement, war did not exist between
the two Republics at all, for neither Re
public had declared war against the other;
there had been a collision of their forces,
but this was not war, as the President
would probably have conceded had he
known or recollected the distinction be
tween war and hostilities. By placing
the war on the ground that it existed by
the act of Mexico, and that ground being
false, he has left it wholly indefensible,
whatever old grievances we may have to
allege against Mex'c.i.
"The act of Mexico
in crossing the
Rio Grande, and engaging our troops on
territory which she had possessed and
still claimed as hers, but which we as
serted had, by a recent act, against which
she had protested, become ours the act
which the President chose to inform Con
gress and the world was war-may or may
not have leeri a just cause for declaring
war against her, but it assuredly was not
war itself. Wc have no intention to jus
tify Mexico. She may have been deci
dedly in the wrong, she may have had
no valid title to the territory of which the
President had just taken military occupa
tion; that territory may have been right
fully ours, and it may even have been ihe
duty of the President to occupy and de
fend it; but it cannot be denied that she
had once possessed it; that it was still a
part of one of her States or Provinces;
that she still claimed it, and had contin
ued to exercise jurisdiction over it till
driven from it by our army of occupation;
that she invaded it with an armed force, if
invasion it can be called, not as territory
belonging. lo us, but as territory belonging
to her; and that she attacked our troops,
not for the .reason that they were ours,
but for the reason, as she held, (and she
had as good a right to be judge in her own
case as we had in ours.) that they were
intruders, trespassers on her soil. The
motive of the act was not war against the
United States, but the expulsion of intru
ders from her own territory.
. "No sophistry can make her act war;
certainly not without conceding that our
act in taking military possession of that
territory was also war, and if that was
war, then tho war, if it existed at all, ex
isted by our act and not by. hers, for her
act was consequent upon our?. The most
that the President was at liberty to say,
without condemning his own Government
was, that there had been a collision of the
forces of the two Republics on a territory
' .1 .1 V1 fa t I - . an.ltl Kill mTIi.Iam I. V. I
LlUiilllV! l) Clt'.ll) UHt LUIS tUilUiUU 11C U3U
no right to term war, for every body
knows that it takes something more than
a collision of their respective forces on a
disputed territory to constitute a war be
tween two civilized nations. In no pos
sible point of view was the announcement
of the President that war existed between
the two Republics, and existed by the act
of Mexico, correct. It did not exist at
all; or, if it did, it existed not by ct of
Mexico, but by our act. In either case,
the official announcement was false, and
cannot be defended.
The President may have been govern
ed by patriotic motives; he may have felt
that prompt and energetic action was re
quired; he may have believed that, in
great emergencies, the chief magistrate of
a powerful Republic, having to deal with
a weak and disgraceful State, should rise?
superior to mere technical forms, and ther
niceties of truth and honor; but it strikes?
us that he would have done better, proved
himself even more patriotic, and sufficient
ly prompt and energetic, if he had con
fined himself to the ordinary rules of mo
rality, and the well defined principles of
international law. By aspiring to rise a
hove these, and to appear original, he haj
placed his country in a false position,
and debarred himself, whatever the just
causes of war Mexico may have given us
from pleading one of them in justification
of the actual war. We must be permit
ted to regret that he did not reflect before
hand that, if he placed the defence of tho
war on the ground that it already existed,
and existed by the act of Mexico herself,
and on that ground demanded of Congress?
the means of prosecuting it, (as he must
have known it would,) have nothing what
ever to allege in its or his own justifica
tion. He should have been lawyer e
nough to have known that he could not
plead anew, after having failed on his first
issue. It is often hazardous in our plead
ings to plead what is not true; and in do
ing so in the present case, the President
has not only offended morality, which ha
may regard as a small matter, but has e
ven committed a blunder
"The course the President should hav
pursued is plain and obvious. On learn
ing he state of things on the frontier, the?
critical condition of our army of occupa
tion, he should have demanded of Con
gress the reinforcements and supplies ne
cessary to relieve it, and secure the pur
pose for which it was avowedly sent tc
the Rio Grande: and, if he believed it
proper or necessary, to have, in addition,
laid before Congress a full and truthful
statement of our relations with Mexico,
including all the unadjusted compla'sts-'
past and present, we had against her, ac
companied by the recommendation 'of a
declaration of war. He would then havo
kept within the limits of his duty, proved
himself a plain constitutional President,
and left the responsibility of war or nr
war to Congress, the only war-making;
power known to our laws. Congress,
after mature deliberation, might or might
not have declared war most likely would
not; the responsibility would have rested
with it, and no blame would have attach
ed to the President.
"Unhappily this course did not occur
to the President, or was too plain and
simple to meet his approbation. As if
fearful, if Congress deliberated, it might
refuse to declare war, and as if determin
ed to have war at any rate; he presented
to Congress, not the true issue, whether
war should or should not be declared, but
the false issue whether Congress would
grant him the means of irosecnting a war
waged against us by a foreign power.-
In the true issue, Congress might hava
hesitated; in the one actually presented
there was no room to hesitate, if the offi
cial announcement of the President wa3
to be credited, and hesitation would have
been criminal. By declaring that the war
already existed, and by the act of Mexico
herself, the President relieved Congress
of the responsibility of the war by throw
ing it all on Mexico. But since he can
not fasten it on Mexico for war did not
already exist, or if so by our act, and not
hers it necessarily recoils upon himself,
and he must bear the responsibility of do
ing what the constitution forbids him to
do, of making war without the interven
tions of Congress. In effect, therefotc,
he has trampled the constitution under his
feet, set a dangerous precedent, and.by
the official publication of a palpable false
hood, sullied the national honor. It is
with no pleasure that we speak thus of
the Chief Magistrate of the Union, for
whose elevation to his high end responsi
ble office we ourselves voted. But what
ever may be our attachment to party, or
the respect we hold to be due from all
good citizens to tho civil magistrate, wc;
cannot see t':c constitution violated and
the national honor srrrifircd, whether by
friend or foe, froia god motives or bad,
without entering, feeble though it be, our
stern and indignant protest."
Poetry. It is the gift of poetry tor
hallow every place in which it moves, to
breathe round nature an oder more exqui
site than the perftimof the rosc.stiri to,
thed oter it a tint rr.erc m. cics.1 tlvjathfc
f blush of rnorprj.
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