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Coale sing that good old Sonvtgain."
Democratic Thunder.
NVlts up boyi while we are singing,
Don't you hear the Banjo ringing,
relate to you a story
Full o f DeClOCratiC glory! -
o poor Whigs why do you feel so badly,
o poor Whigs why do you feel co badly,
o poor Coons what snakes you wonder,
This is Democratic Thunder: • •
Now for Pmuct put on your armor, -
The friend of Laboring 3fan and Farmer,
and tell the Whigs a tale of wonder,
With good old Democratic Thunder!
c.) poor Whigs, &e.
Who is Pierce! and who was Polk, Sirs?
Mind you, Miga, it is no joke, Sirs,
Pierce and Dig, they stand before you
fall of Democratic Glory.
0 poor Whigs, &c.
liirongh from Maine way down to Texas,
Will the Coons try bard to vex us,
Yet where they have on the trees sot,
We'll nothing leave but a dirty greese spot.
0 poor whigs, &e.
We are going with a shout sirs,
Coons from oar land to drive out., sirs,
Caleb and skin 'em too remember,
Fora feast next November.
0 poor Whigs, &e.
We rill make the whole land ring, airs,
With oat song for Pierce and King; sirs,
And well woricand clear our nation,
From every Whig abomination.
G r oor Whigs, &c.. ,
8:e the Coons try hard to dissemble,
All the tars with which they tremble,
For they know our nomination.
Csn whip all Federalist creation.
0 poor Whig,i, &e.
Shout ye Democrats like thunder,
Telt that ammo old tale of wonder;
Come relate that same old story,
Tull of Democratic glory.
6 poor tnles,
Demonits then all remember,
The mat day or-next November,
Oar thunder rolls our lightning's flashing,
And the Coons are ripe for thrashing !
0 poor whigs, &c.
Thus let ns raise n great commotion,
19M!MEI
Like
urge our soil from Whig corruption
0 poor %digs, ite.
,Xra:TEmnina.
Progress of Railway Spied.
When George Stephenson constructed the
twit hvolnotive eng,ine, men-who called them.
selves-"practical," contended that the smooth
w*ls would run round, or slip, on the equal
ly smooth iron rails, without moving the ear
riat,e.\ But the wheels actually did Lite, And
Stlphenson then said to his friends thrit
there was no limit to the speed of such an en.
provided the work could be made to
mod. 'Dub was in 1811 .
A few yelrs later, a Writer who declared
himself friendly to the use of locomotive en
tines,strongly protested against'extrarimant
expectations. of the enthusiastic spectdatist,"
that' engines would be seen travelling'at the
ate of if:, 16, 18, 30 miles an hour," and add
ed that 'nothing could do more harm towards
their general adoption and improvement than
the promulgation of such nonsense." This was
in 1125.
When the Liverpool and Manchester rail.
way hill was introduced, Mr.'-Stephenson was
ermined en its merits before a Committee of
Commons, and the promoters of that project
gravely warned him that if he talked of a. loeo
motive going at a greater rate. than 10 miles
in hour, he would spat a cross on the concern.'
Even that rate of speed was considered so out
of the way, that one person asked if 3lr. Ste.'
phenson was a foreigner, and another hinted
doubts of his sanity. This was io 1828.
The Liverpool and 31am:heater railway was
opened, and a speed of thirty miles an hour
rra obtained, which rather settled the gees.
tine of Mr. Stephenson's sanity. This wasin
1830.
The other day on the London and Birmirg
hun. es well as the Great Western railway, a
rate of travelling at the speed of 65 miles au
hosr was accomplished. The express traindi,
on these lines run at the rate of newly 50 miles
m hour, stoppage included. r. Bruno ell es- .
Itts that, , without any risk, the progress of
travelling on-the Great Western line will sr-
dre at a speed of a mile a minute. We Say
r , feinr , b
of the yet greater speed which is prom!
by the atmospheric mode of locomotion.
Tons, than, about thirty years 'ago, it was
doobted whether locomotives could run at all
Open iron railways; twenty-years ago, the idea i
Oftheir canning at a greater speed than ten
lan hour was scoffed at as chimerical : fif
est years ago, the unexpected rate of thirty
Vies au hour was considered a wonder,which
§sa . effort of practical science could surpass ;
.^. now a speed of nearly fifty miles au hour
h daily tole, while the rate of a mile Llama
u.s it promised, and in some special instances
ioidanity been exceeded.
his - singular that the three -great feats se
tomplished by practical - science in our time
I hr — lightning by gas, crossing the Atlantic
by steam in ten days, and rapid travelling by
tie.satne motive power on railways, have, one
144 nil, been denounced as utterly impractica.
h 1 "philosophers," who actually knew
ktilio: of the subjects upon which they Wee.
agids a comment on this article, 1-notieed
ent in the periodical press, that a few
rone a train of cans, without passengers,
: 'le run from Poughkeepsie to.Peekski 11,
L, distance thirty.two miles, in thirty min
a...:Lais is the greatest - speed for -thafin !, ,
,temee,ever reached in the United Statea„l
Achertiser.
IQ .l?t oodhsct, the great French Socialist, it
has been set at liberty, on the condition'
tk,e'' !tore for the United States.
Prue the Warerir stairseins. ; 1 One year had dragged its slow length away .
THE i ' since , "%coder° a departure for the • land o
SACRIFICED • TILEAS gold, and strange as it may seem, Louisa hoc
I no word of him since ho left Neve York. Wiif
• on • -,,' • • what anxiety she watched for every arrive
True Wealth• Gartered for Gold. - "From California," and bent het eager steps
.
I to tho post eillee,in hopes of a letter from hina
nr t. al. siowras s 1 • and with what disappointment she returnee
,
•
Imagine yourself; dear reader, gazi from her beefless errands, wowill leave to the
one of the loveliest valleys that can be foung uponnd fruitful imagination of the reader. Suffice it
in this or any other State. Through its to any, that' in this to her, long interval, in ;
een- which she had not heard from him, she had of.l
tre a beautiful, deer; river majestically winds)
way, its bread bosom'sparkling in the_rays f ten doubted that ho had reached his destinal
tion, but that he had perished ini the way, and
the morning sun like a vast river of molten siti th'eb again hope would predominate, and when
ver. Beautiful farms of gentle rolling lands, she looked forward to the two long years that
dotted by neat, tidy farm houses,. and numer.
ens herds, beautiful groves majestic forests, were vet to elapse ere ho had promised to re
turn, tvith what heart-felt anxiety would she
and the ragged hill are seen as •far as tho eye svish to have 1
en reach; in short, all that tend to multiply i, Flit swifter round tholwheels of Time,
the 'beautiful, portray the romantic; or excite
And bring the welcome day"-
tho poetic, are beast° the open glade, the dense - . , ' -: id t
thicket, the smooth :rolling brooklet, the ma- But won all nevaxiety,old Time cou o
t Da n, befol
jestie river, and the pearly cascades; the smooth i f% edl.l from
`week followed week , and monthi
meadow,. and the zig tag, almost towering followed = 0 : 1 : 7, e ...1
mountain. 1 i month, and still she had not heard
In this lovely valley, in the neat white cot- word from him- .
tags upon the immediate bank of the river, to About this tim little. Willie was
eid talt i e h n e a n itt
theyight, whose spacious lawns in front, its with amtd malignant fever , which toun
b eaut if u l s h a d e trees, and ample grohnds et . most skill or . _tn physicians , and I o had been
tending back, betokened the eonmetenee and given up to di e Ohiht hart it Was for that
die. Oh!
th* * lc e o w l
independence of its owner, was Louisa 31— young
mother
°'
think
t partingd 'all day l
born, reared and, odudated, gentle as the falling dear boy, whose tiny feet keptmelee
dews, and kind as the wooing dove. At the sr° und
flowers;th° sot carpeted . room, like a butterfly p,.
ago of eighteen she, was married to a yoen,g amonghersad h - 1
making music for eart,
neighboring farmer, whose father had departed On
g 6, d c
w e e ntnog
the r
h ' he lonely hours. That he should
this life about two years previous, leaving him"valley of death" so early,
with e hi: sweet face and rosy smiles, and all
a handsome property, with bright prospects and ~, „sections
that had
made him
so
the hope of happiness in the companionship the gentle an
of her whom he had Chosen to accompany him dearfond . mother ' sheart , wasa thought
to afon d
in .the 't journey of life.'. Upon Louisa our more than sh e
_could.
that
And then, too,
friend had centered his, affections and hopes,must this
when she remembered that she bear .
' and he loved her with an ardor and devoted- great s° alone,
sorrow and that Theodore was tg
that was blind to her faults,
ness
his fi t b
and hi s mr ee j riorant in that far off 'land, that . ra ern
hand of disease and
tions were returned with that fervor for which) was perishing 4 the slow .
d ,
thanmiable Louisa was so well qualified. must soon be laid in the cold, coldgroun ,er
, Surrounded by all the comforts of competence heart would almost break, and she could find
the first two years of their
-waded lives passed consolation only ith thought hat:theLord
I happily away, during which time Louisa had I te rs the wind to the shorn iamb,' and that
given birth to a bright, curley-headed cherub Hei m ' `gathers the lambs in hip arms and carries
,
hem'n his bosom ' • -
of a boy, adding strength to the l . chord thatt ho u r ls
bound them to love. • Upon this link of true Thelastwhenshemust take
came at
teal affection Louisa ideated with herwhole a farewell look into those little .
blue eyes, that
mu ' • I had so often flashed with joy in the light of
soul, and in its happiness she lived, moved, and
had her beim,approvingsmile.ltmidnightwhen
1 her
d'
Time passed on, and each sriceee mg day he died. As the low tolling bell in the dome
hat brought with it increased happiness in the ofthevillagechurch, glittering in the beams.
. . .
I A of the pale moon, sounded the midnight hour,
'household circle of the amiable and good u-
..
isa. But alas! a chan,ge came over the happi- his accompaniedtitlsspint o th passing sound
God.Day:Mo e n& and week
ness of her dream. The cry of Gold! Gold!! to rho throne/
she
watched him Ji th
the , sad
Gold!!! was reverberated fropi old Yuba 's hills an S t
ervek '
B th e t he was fading away. Daily
in Upper California, and the. Multitude fromknowledge
hisch lc h. d 3 paler, his eye brighter,
Maine's far-off hills to the savannahs of.ribri- ee s g r ownd
till
the-gentle
da, from the Atianties studded ebast, to the . .
and that lovely form waste , 11
Pacific's northern shore, catching up the shout 'Pint burst its frail risen house and soared to
Lono P lon she wept over the
heard it re-echoed from the old worlds bound. immortality.. s' g.. . . . .
less realms! The old man who had toiled at little _
cold lifeless body, while her sae tnongnts
y to.the land where her Theodore
the forge
_until the frosts of ago bad settled
,s wi l a t
" w a anderer, while no consolation came
upon his brow dropped the sledge beside the
fromthe fond vision save the remembrance of
rinaires anvil, and bidding adieu to all the fond his 1"e. ''
' -'
- -'-'
'dreaded
or the chance for gold. • 7 - no - weaver at his - rne inueral came—thevisite
to the
loom, the mechanist at his lathe, the miller at re sting Piece of the desd—und the fond meth
his hopper, the carpenterat his bench, the print er saw the little boy conveyed to its cold rest.
ter at his' stand, and the farmer at his plough lug place. They buried him where--I caught the passing sound, and the shuttle '
!ceased its busy clatter,• the lathe its hum, the A brooklet ran with lucid swell,
millstone its liasy round, the plane its toil, And wakened on the eveningair and 'The shady grove almig,
the type its elicit, and all bent their course to _
fled or liquid song;
the new El Dorado. The young husband of 9.
Where moonbeams lay in silvery sheen •
Louisa was one amongthe number who were
Upon its
in
wave,
seized - with a burning desire to visit the gold
Or quivered in the diamond drips--
region. The ample property he possessed
Th.
looked meagre and unimportant in comparison e wreath of gems it gave
with the of told tales of imMense wealth to be tiponWhose banks of verdant hue,
accumulated, in that land of Wealth, and he re- In floral beauty bright,
solved to arrange his affairs and start for the They strangely thought no step but hers
golden shore. tVith all his wealth and core- Would tempt - the bully night.
.
potence, he longed for mores and the wild dream. Wh ere , like som e ascetic, throned
of boundless wealth urged him on. -He made Upon a moss-grown teat,
his arrangements, severed the ties of love that Sho sat in the sluulows of the wood,
bound the soul of Louisa to his OM; and de- Its little =form to greet.
parted from the house of his l youth to sojourn * * *• * * * *
in a strange land; promising, at as the only bairn
to the wounded heart, that in three years.
It was in the spring of the year. The sweet
Ile - Were were fast bursting the buds, filling the
least he would return and lay the trophies : of a'perfume;;The bright' sunshine had.]
his toils at her feet. • ! • - lair: with , Is .. .
loosed the rills, and musically they wounotbeir
How many thousands, thus possessing ran- wa y through the radient. meadows - and green
Mice, idols of food . an d s, mothers, have become groves, and warblers of variegated plumage 1
and devoted sisters, _ dissatisfied made vocal the forest shade 3. It was th chisel
when they thenght of the rapidity with which
Aof a beautiful day; the glorious-sun was sink.]
frtnnee were made in; the bnd of gold, 1113 " ing beneath the horizon in a halo of golden
forsaken them all. regaidless of the eers to 1
'light, and the warm breath, of spring filmic lo
bo risked, the sufferings: tope endured, and the 1
iden with the aroma or many flowers, 1 " - .e
hardships and privationa attendant upon the' wafted to the senses with ravishing delight.-- ,
voyage. Alas !how did the fond,l Yin Lou--° - g --ti. lln a neatly furnished roOm, in the neat white l
isa plead with her husband not to kayo his / cottage von the bank cif the riier, on a bed.of
home and besought him by their mutual sic - knees and suffering . , 14y- the wasted form of i
plighled Yews, and the love he bore his.first la handsome young girl. : Sparc° twenty sum.
born, not to tear himself away (rem them, nnd mots had left their. . impress" upon her brow,
wander amid the peril of suchl a
an u n d ertaking. vet there were tracts of Buffering and care leg-'
She urged epee him the possibility that their :
. "
,1 e
murmured to. the ,
'parting might'be final; and though she might _
ibly Written there
"
hope and cherish thefend expectatkin of " Alai .dear sister, sh watcher by her bedside, it is three years ago
return, and dwell with inte.nse anxiety uP• 614 morning since Theodore left us; and the'
on their happy resunion, yet perhapa, she might
he 'promised to write to me often,' yet I never
never see him more. ; '' ' have heard from him; and did he not promise
," HOW many ionely'grares," said she may
!that if alive, he should meet me again just 3
be seen along the whole route to, the golden 1
'years from the morning ho started! Alas Ifear,
land; hew many l sleep among.the coral groves lam shall newer see hi m mere on emt h , s . ,_,,
of the sleep ocean, whodelast , moments were " Don't give•up in despair," rejoined the ma
uncheered by the loving nalnistry of wife or
ter; "the bun IS bat sinking to rest, and ere
relative, and but the fond remembrance of fa- 1,,,e day
closes perhap,s he .will. be with us."
miller faces at home cheered on their pathway 1 `ll
"Ali; no! it is one week agd yesterday since
to the tomb.
But he was deaf to all her fond entreaties.
the last steamer arrived, Which would give him in
The phantom"of wealth and luxury which had
more th
raised-at his bidding, overshadowed all those home, and 3 - et he has not come." time enough to have reached his
Hardly- had the echo of the last repeated
tears, and bidding her adieu, he swift lbcomo
words of the sufferer died away, ere the distant
live and the noble stormier conveyed him far fumbling of acarriage attractisi the attention
from friends and home towards the iiesiredint.
of rho ,occepants of the cottage. Nearer and
ren- .'' ' 1 - nearer it came, till it reached the gate in front
Shall we picture to the minal of the reader
of the lawn, where it stopped, and a man bear.
the anguish of that fend *lie 9 nd.tnether when of
a large portmanteau, wound up the gravel.
she found herself alone ? Oar pen is inatle
t,,,A ly walk, toward the cottage door. That man
quote to the task. Often when the sen ""'` was Te. Hi entered the house, and
palmed to'other lands, leMring he starry train
was
to " rule the - night," and' the , pie moon was -met by the father of Louisa, who infermed
him of the dangerous state in which she lay.
shedding her soft brilliaoev , over the valley,hill , i
1 Rushins past the old man, he entered the room
and mountain, and the flowerLs l wore breathing: ,
whom
is
was
confined, and the words" Lints,
forth their.frugranee to the night, which canto 1, 3 ,11 an d .4 Theodore," accompanied by sobs,
wafted to the sense upon toe. gentle breath
ef I alone broke the stillness of the Beene. '
evening, and rho,music ofithelailvery gushil i.s With thatlast word, the spirit of the gentle
fountain's murmur bleadid and ii° ' 4l°li t wi th ! Louisa-passed into another world, and only the
the sours end thoughte, would' she sit v the
- • s . I cold lifeless form of herhe had loved. open casenteid, with her ,carly'headol boy ""'„...lness,—whom.lie lad, cruetly left alonefor m the
sleep in' her lap; and, ker. , thoughti w _ in l A ' ee n r, [sake or gathering dross, remained r t e the al
way to the'car, As westinidie ip her bou—w-- 'most-ravin g -Theodore. He had deserd them,
the image of her Theodore, end the thought i
i and. his loved boy, with.early, waving locks,
that he too might be gafing jupon that star, , dimpled cheek, and fond playfulnes, ;no t gone
twinkling in, its pristine loveliness, away OP in down to the cold tomb, and he had not been
the blue _arch of iliiaven;L-thci same atar, 'that by/ to close his eyes in death. - Her Whom he
in days gone, hallowed ty the:memory ot his bad sworn to cheriSh, he had left alone to
love,they had watched together---sent a thrill I struggle with thssorrows, cares and troubles
of joy to her aching heart.' ;And: then. again, i „ rig .. .
re,. to gather chaff. "G old!. geld! ! what
the thought would intrude that he perhaps, like i
hest tholt doner be.would exclaim,in the ago
many others, bad died, and gone to his last i
I ay of his spirit.. - "Thou bast severed the fond'
resting place 'without a kihdly hand to smooth
s ;,,,,,_ 'ties thaehound Me to life; and now mock me,
hiii dying pillow, and wenrYl with. "these con- -" 1 with th_y glittering, 'being laugh! ' Tryst,
lieting emotions, she would seek vellefiutll thou ; for ir I hadat been•bere they would not
ter. - 1
IgittaatirV tl6 _VIDIfg#A. iltto
Mitztvithairc, X.gsFlTtattore, ZdaTam XV3
, •
have died+-iny darling Willie, and my anal
Louisa, M I
She wasmy own, my -idol one,. -
I loved her as an angel might ;
, AO when she died my day my kn,.
Was robed with the shadeh of night;
Like to the star, the evoningistar,
That breaks in beauty o'er the glade,
She.shed an influence afar, '
T u Lll death madeadoall her bcatity,fado. "
Lo
awarding to lierrequest
beside little Willie, upon the banks ,ol - the
murmuring stream, and all daylong, and ibros
the silent night; when the star's' and pile
thou's' translucent rays light uP to surround
ing landscape, munnurs a requiem by their last
resting . place, while a beat white - fence enejeses
the spot whero repose the Sacrificed Treas.
ures,'S or the True Wealth that was bartered
for dross—Gold!
..,1
Pecan 'Mo N. Y. Itecomer,.
t-' . , ,
The little Boy Who ilidiil say
,". Thank- You'!"
"-What sorkof boys could_ : itey have been
sisterr said Frank. "Rude and Ignorant and
thoughtless, II suppose," continued the little
fellow, in a highly condemnatorY tone.- .
"Nbtao fast, 'rank; lion not sure that they
were any of these, except, indeed, thoughtless,
no very utiponimon fault in little boys," said
Julia, smiling significantly. : 1 .
~.
" Well, please tell um about them sister."
" Yes; so'llvill; and you may hold this skein
l of silk for me to wind, while i talk, • You re
member what a grand 'sleigh .rule papa,and I
had a short time ago, returning from L.-.:—..
Quite soon alter we started, as w a varo as
cendin,g some long hills,where ourgood Light
foot was obliged to slaeltim his', pace a little,
we 'saw-befOre - us a boy -some" ten . or twelve.
years old perhaps, toiling Slowly through the
snow, with a heavy basket on his arm, ..Ptipa
stopped, when ha camel up With him, and said,
pleasantly, 4 Where are* you oding: this cold morning, my little lad?" . "To b ld.-----; two or
three miles further," was the'rePiy: , . •
"Wouldn't yeti like to -ridor asked papa,
1" I am.going near the village and will take you
1 willingly; Jump in my boy, under this warm
Ibuffalo, where Jack Frost can't find you; why,
Ihe's - been pinching your ears already." .' ..
I So we,mado room-for the boy, . eind-put his.,
basket away securely, and drove on pg,ein.- _ln . '
a little while we came to the villaw ; and'pa,:
pa said to the, boy, "Tell 'tne,where you - live
Johnny, and I'll mite you home. l l .",In the red
house nest to the - blacksmith's,' la* Johnny.
So we drove up to the red house; • (whichlt
was somewhat out of our, sours-to do,) and -
Johnny sprang out., while :papa
basket an his arm. The boy buried forward
a Ii ad the heavy
t l
to gate, toying, "I gnats fat eel!. %Yonder
how I came so quick; but not - lona word - of
thanks for the favor of the 'ride - nor oven a
'Good morning' .to us." - j - :- .: .".. • .
"Why, sister," said Frank, f what.axery-rude .
boy!" • _- ' --: '•
- "I felt sorryr. replied Julia, quietly,
,"thatl
e should be ao negligent df a very.simple.du
'v. Ido not think his -ignorance nor forget
"ulne.ss any excuse." .i ,
_1 - • -' '
"Nor I either," returned!Frank„ with spirit;
ho doesn't deserve ever to rido!again."
After a few minutes, Franks indignation had
rite spentitselt; and he exclaimed;
"Now, some more, sister ; yeti havn't told I
pie all, have you ;" • I
"Only one more now, Frank. !Them was a
little boy workinm. very busily in the :play
oem, upon a kite. When the frame was ready
be found that he had no paper; sb he. went to
i .
lie library to ask his mother for some.' All
paper was in the 'writing desk,' and this lit
e boy's sister was very busy indeed, writing
letters. - Her brother lingered.atliter side un
villing to disturb, her, yet wishing very much
t Indlylt him, e,
what
as
h 9
a u t t ro ' h u h a e g . h t : v s a h t paper.h n e t e eL ta d just An d n B o s h t
l e i
ode- ;looked
:h t k o d 7 l o w ls u a lt s p
here; and when he expected she would' say;
Run away now, I can't ho hinder a moment,'
ho smiled pleasantly, instead, d asked ; him
I ler,pen
piles
opened the desk, searChed through I
a id
I Several piles of paper for the particular kind,
Ifind gave her little brother a generous suPply.
Then she took her, own .knife, knife, arid somothed i
pie frame fOr him, and
,helped pat it together
A
1 in a - neater end -stronger manner. The boy i
Was delighted,,and said his sister could make;
better.kites than any , body else he was sure i
et, after all,lie ran hack to the' ,play. robin, I.
ithont saying.!thank you.";
~
- Frank bad dropped his head; his face leaked
unusually flushbdoltere came a bad knot in ',
ilie silk Just then, on which his 'eyes, were fist-1
ned.so earnestly, one would havtisupposed he I,
sputed to disintangle the threadlby the mere)
Power of his gaze. When, at length, it was 1
quite straightened, and all nicely wound; Itilia 1 ,
kissed hint, and said in her own loving voice, I
dh- I.thank youony little brother for holding the '
silk forme." ,_ . :„,- •.- , . j
_i
mThere was something at Frank's heart that
ade the brighteoloron his cheekburn bright
er and " deeper still; bat as ho caught Julia's
easant smite, he said, +know wt
o yen Mean;
Sister. Try me,' now, and, see after this,' if II
do not always remember to say 'ithank-. you;
Whenever I ouglikter, ', I
tr The Sam' referred to in the following
ilenip (from the Knickerbocker Ter May) was
viciforously . piotis black coachman in the sei
1.
, vice .of a placid member of the Society of
Friends : . - I
Sam' said the old
. gentleman; why doee ,
Thee make an much noise iu praydr? Doesn't,
thee know that the Almighty is not far off, •
but nigh onto thee ;_ neither is he 'deaf, that he
:tn'tiot hear? lie.can hear thee tis well when
thee whispers its when thee roar 4 -
' Massa Doctor," replied Sam full of cenfid
denee in his' superior theological lore, You
read de Scriptera with no kind ob
Lion' ' • •
. .
How So Sam V
Why, yew don't forget, 'pears!tO me - how
Asap; der,: plain es kin be, Hollered be. dy
Mune V _ ' I • - • -
-The DoetOr gave up St u n in great despair,
for there was no answeringthat argument.? ,
IlarrisEss.—A crust of bread, pitcher of
Water and Jove, 'there' is:happiness for you,
whether the day be rainy, or sunny s : js the
haart,that undies the ole,wfic t her r thieye.resis
upon 4 Potato pateli or a trower r
oirden. Heart '
makes bomb precious , ; and it'is the only thing'
that can: , ." • ' -, ' .
,
• A l uz - Itzwr,-,-A'inan turned his ,
doOrClately; Inxtluso would;
hOuse rent.
~A strikiug Proof of
feegon.
•
. .
(so in proportion:ais man Was kept inignorance Tient ie:Mita.' 'An infant _at war with igiast
1 !was he farther. removed front a correct under- parent! how could . licipa even find d plaee
standing of the nature of his Creator, and, the heart? Withal l.that reekte.ss intrepidity'
"looking through a 1 glinis darkly," saw seated elturiniteriAtic of It holtnen .'and. the times, the':
. 1 on the throne of Heaven-a monster, in - all the entered - .the. - unequal, contest for Bight, •atii
attribute's: of Vengeance and terror. Ills feeble that Gad who will st juSticti.Vindicated; !bless
1 mind mink' .not comprehend the :doctrines posed His omnipotent p:aver and
taught him by his, ministers and rulers. Mid in to those. who stregglekrelyin on. Him f.,t
-' proportion aatheywere incomprehensible they *W., : - ' . ' - g
, - -
.. , • '
rrth
tilled iris'iris'mind with gloomy inid'fettiftil appre- The fointh day of Yuri, , gave 'birth .6;
•hensioni. -In his view, the thrones land pow. the Declaration of Amerimin Independerce,
era of earth were nearly allied to - those of Om- and 'as we ihall presently see, ought - tubers;
nipotenee,*and to resist the one w'as to ':en- guided as mai of the most important epeeist.
counter all the vindictive judgments Of both: iii the history of thOWOrld...l :Welutotu of bit'.
Man then was not What Man now la. - :_lie waS one other.. birthday :of 'equal imporhincii - -tit
possessed, 'tot tfue,lof 'all then - 01nel Pervert!, Man :end his deathly, and, if, indeed there Lo
of mindandreasort that God ever gave, but one, itl Wait 'that: . whieltdinted on thebirtl,
those poWers were . distempered and - deStreyed of: the Saleprlof mankind. .. His was isacrifi-,
Iby •King.eraft; till: he was bound a slave in cial*mission. Air the' good . of the race,l6.ullevi
-1 hateful and corroding chains.' TIM. - light of ate his : Week and. Misty liini from a fallen state.,,
i star-eyed &deuce never illumined - hisjerver. The day you pow-Celebrate Saw the. 'amities
tednmul,l - to invigorate hie intelleet,., expand of fendalisiejtripped free t off She mind-sut
his.GOd-like peweri, -Mid perfectLhisheing.— incubus that had preyed upon his nature tillit
Pure Religion, founded - on just and, reasona- had robbed hitt of . everything-assimilating to
blo conceptions of Nature, •never threw the imago : after Which
,ho was created: On
amend him its; light of sustaining faith; but, in that . dar, trntlia'and, great Principles' were pre.
place of: *that, ,welt horrible , superstitions, Claimed; whicii,When uttered, shook, the World
vague r and undefined conceptions of.. Nature's and stintledthe 'nations of the earth as with,
truths, and Man's natural and unlimited rights. an eartlimmice'sl . fliree. 1 . I -
Thousands : of years had
.rolled away since ' . • "With all the sirength tbsi atadnesi--- ; •
Sian' had asked of God a King—a reqbeat that -. • Leeds the weak." ' ..
.
Wad granted out of Punishment for the idn'ef up rose those giant minds; with one.desperato .
asking if, ~ The primeval freedom of the race struggle, rent the chain that had bolted the
was, at that time, thrown away, and that, too, world fast to the• thrones of Vyrants,:and `in
for the 'purpose of gratifying that spirit of all the glorY,greathess, power and majesty of
Hero-worship so natural to the untutored un- God-like man, they rose triumphant over MI
derstandiiig. A King was given him;and the oppOshi,g barriers: - '. ,:, .• -
superstitious spirit of the ago clothed him sit would be impessible, my.friends r .to esti
with immortality, Arid with Diiee Right.--i Mato. the immeasurable .importance that at
,POinf ftuit period all the.pernicious doctrines taches to that event, and the beneficent conass
of kingly sovereignty .had been everywhere . quences that form its legitimate results.- Its
taright and carefully studied. What : wonder, bearing upon the destiny of_ thistiatior,Msl
then, that after such education had been im- the.. influences that have sprung from it, ins's.
pressed for centuries--after it had been" the: be familiar "-is, you as the hietory of your Minn
reughly. clothed. upon with -the sanctity of try:, -The worldhas never setti such another .
time and:custoiii•—• after it had become censer spectacle aa. the past sevenif-six. years have
crated by all the reverence men - hold' forthe presented in this nation.' Anierien in its growth
I j past,-and hint shaped itself into . every, depart- and.greatness, seem more a fable than truth.
meat of civil polity—l say what wonder that Its magic progress.seems rather the work or
after all this, it- should have enslaved the world superhuman agency, and God:only, knowe,-M.
and held, man bound to the altar of its power, what . point that ' progress s will , culminate.
submissive in aft his nature? Thus yeas man Americans live *century-sin a day,'zied having
; situated previous to - our Revolution. He solved the. peat -problem :of Governuient--
; understood nothing. of his own inherent pow.' having demonstrated the. power and great'ne.4s
ers--tho great idea of the equality of the race of Man, they have elucidated thonature and
riever diveltin the speculations oven of visionary substance of his rights, and established them
1 theorists. 1. AS he was taught by his religion. all on a basis that can never tumble. ,
to worship an unseen God, so was lie. aught . Let - us here inquire what has been the effect
Ito reverence 3foriareliS-as . comnaissioned of of- -Our Revolution.on-the-world: No -sooner
.
God, and Menarchy as the legitimate govern;; had England acknowledged onr independence,
meet, ordained by God; to be everyWheret re- than the noble-hearted Frenchmen, mho had
cognized en earth. "•.. • ' .• : left their ,homes to fight our battles, returned
o -- .
titer circarnstanees aided powerfully to to their sine-clad
.hilts,'panting- , to partake, in
keep him in-submniasion; blurope was, the pa-their own country, of the'emol drau,ght . front
rent country of „chilization; For centuries-the, fouetains of :Liberty. . Their generous
Feud:disci had influenced all her polity—had hefirtaswelled with enthusiastic emotion, and
been the controlling power' in' her
her - ,legiala- they rushed, ..headlong to the bloody encothi.:
lion, in all, her theory of 'rights, audit) all her !ter. Public opinion, which should be - pure
1
science of : government: .Her states were all ! and kealthy Alt_spcla a time, ran• wild ;• the na-.
parcelled originally,**nridlield. by this slavish tion was tuflifuated,,and -all eStablished order
tenure., That- doctrine, vested in the head of .was IMMO ellen the surflitio of the bloody cur
the nation the 'exclusive 'dcianinion and owner. refit thit flowed through • thestreets'of.:,hur
ship of the whole soil; and even ea the Al- :capital. - The impassioned eloquence of Yet
mighty is sovereign of the 11 11i 1 1Clit0;althj allows mand ,- Loilvet,ond!Mirubeau, thundered front
his subjeets,.Men,, to live thereon, so was the the Tribune, roused the nation to blood.aed -
King, or lord, sovereign of all his dominions, massacre in pursuit of Liberty - and Indephd
and granted them out to his subjects as re- Mice:. SO great and.suTepieg was the effor
wards for fidelity to his person and interests, that when the kingdom.shook teits centre and
.
and fur :great achievements in his service.— l the Throne was tumbled.. from the _windows
Such principles thoroughly indoctrinated, tend-1 of the Palace RoYal, the same elocpuMee that
ed strongly to lower Man in his own estima- 1 , moved the resistless tidocoubl not stay it in
. tion, and cause him to yield up all his rights.—' time to save the head of a throneless lEing.::-.
• or' rather,. to regard hinutelf. as - having - no I The histerEof that period in Eurcipe is a MS-.
"On tbo hod of the free . - rights further than the will of the sovereign"torywrittedi in blood, and siglis s and tears.—:
.
Ant tbo home of tb '9 imare,"- might dispense them. to hiM.- And-suchievon, The people of
.Franee were illy prepared-for
and that 'shen it sinks down behind our west- 1
he, dared not- regard es rigida, but as. privi, so sudden ri,transition; and when Europabans
;
ern hills, and, goes to light up other climes,' a 1 klies '4 41 1114n by the great power, for which died in arms a,guinst the. great Napoleon, and,
pall
of
sadness . veils. its blazing face. .1 he must pour out his eau! in thankfulness and to reStore'MOnerchV to Fratice, he seated hints
adoration: j-- -- - .
- Seventy-six years ago; andltbhis nation, now
Such was the condition of man's estate sev.- I for hislcMintr •• and - his Crown.. The, world. ga s
the most pciwerful on earth, was comparative
now
stretch-, er,t 2 ,, , ...ii_ s years eget •bnit, previous to that time ' zed with die and apprehension . .. The fires
ly an: infant. Her settlements,
ing away from ocean ;to ocean . and froth the la way had been preparing for the ',civet events - of Liberty were. stnothered; but not - qUenehed.
that. followed.
•Religious: discus- They burned ;still • the gilded surf.aco
neases of perpetual frosts, to Zhu .".land of the I
high regions of Abe- Nardi ; tiering in - the fast- 1
sion had 'weakened the . hold of- the Throne of of - Royalty, working - a way, even -under the
orange and the : vine,7 wherej , flowers forever
I England upon the affectiona of her pooplmond throf es of _distant 3 1onfiretis..'NThe mine was --
bloom and the rosy .air of .spring forever fens 1 the inhuman intolerance that existed between -laid, end_fouryeari ago it exploded at the foot
the earth, Were hut feW, feeble and sickly cot-! diTerent.seets hastened a revolution of public of the throne of Lome`Phillippe; carrying . ter::
1 onies, dependent as a child upon its parent, sentiment. in
that country,, by inclining men to ror to the heart of emery Europeantiower. -
and like a ehittl,howed• down in spirit and in
'strength:, Those lofty and unconqueratile en. 1
inquire Why- they had . not ;a - right 'co enjoenjoy, France, bmve,generotis,mercurial France,Wait
,1
), whatever. opinion they pleased •to hold: -in !again free. - .But misfortunes sometimes btide
be': previous times Cromwell'had.seized the reins 1 the breve—Liberty was trampled under feet
er,gies, which, when loosed, 1 could, ne'ee.
of government in the name of Religion—'i Re- Iby the daring usurpations of Louis Napoleon ..
I tamed, - were unknoWn te exist, for, like dia.. 1
I ful children, we had never lived:Or movedsaVe 1 9..g . i'"/ ", was the hstfie - e. 1 4 72. 0f his invincible 1 but se true.. as justice lives in' the attributeirof
in the the fostering, , palo of -Mother England. ; area - siaes.Wheu therrusited "o'er the field of I . God so trues will *Unit : wearied •.nation ;rise
t slaughter,: Carrying. victory* . on "the mints :noain: . - -..,-..p.,
~ ,s, ~ .:• .
IThe-Dhine. of the _King,and his sinless nature,
!their sabres. : The .inciiseretions of Charles, I•• -Poland, bravo end. patrietie•Poland,ded. on •
I had never been inestiened, and our duty. as
1 folle%yed by-the des - ions, deeepth•e, and disas- j_by-her Rescinsco; whose - sonfwas fired 'by a
gond ribbjects, to yield 'a passhe obedience to
of lames; disquieted the Whole 1 spark of: ourßevolution, waS l donme4 foitee ".
his* will and Comma.nas, was • everywhere *re. i tr°ds Pelle)"
I people, and;prepared the Wayrevelution.-- s S I her flag of Hope tumble front lb e blazilig fem..
eeived and: acknouledged. - At . that time the
3 Religimiscouvulsieris, in . which. the state , lie. I parts of Warsaw; ..dperstlyed in the- pumet.
whole world was sleeping that fatal sleep into
came invelved,..drove....to : the sheres,.of ...the 1 blood of the nation. , - Butthouglilllation- •
which king craft throivs . .thir .subjects of its
American continent men who Chose exile only j linty of Poland was lest • iri:the contest her .
tihWer. .So fatal is it in its Consequences so
thit their rigli ta• of conscience.;could he seen -1 governmentoverthrowm the 'heart oe ler pee.
stupefying 'Rion the nature Oftnan, that when
bi t e •-ef 'all'!red. They , brok . e away from - all the 'fond r l6. l.ploswas•-..krt, and:Will. Jiro; to Vindiente .its
Orme the spell* is on him, it robs
1 latiena Of theirfather-Innd--incMi all those as-; wrongs, and heap woes onthe. hand that Emote
poWer.- to reasen—like a Sampson ..in the - lap
. us ,p awor , as: an 1 seeiritions around.whickthe heart tilin,,,.ost—lett . .
.- -, •-.., • r ',.. •., .-,- ~
~, 7 . , '-• '
of Delilah, he. sinks, away
liehied,swith usint mid ; danger in ‘. ad. 1-: Andilintgair)r, ter°, bravo- as the desert-Il
i infant, and falls an easy re,.y to whateverpow- 1 Plent.Y.
t i pa n nu . • I j a n h a d. t h e n . ne i.ei. 1 refine, !ind . plaiite . din this wilderness world ti-, On, rose instrength: and.demanded her *free.
ler moves
. d
. 1 las!atationlOr-theiriiosterity. Ali, those were Idoni ss Sho fought till . her star of- Hapt.•went .
leninedliiSstrenglkinit *as led 'about like
4 smiled lion, passive becausii his .nature 'was
linen of noble mould ! Those were hearts thatl down in blood. She was crush ed bat not con- -
.
broken, subdued—in 'fact, destroyed,
No-, feared only the . wrath of. God; for to - oppease 1 quered.,l. Her eldets arein exile,.her.fields aro
where in tub world could there be found an I t,
.
which they ,saw descending supon, the I desolate,-aed.-her • villageouninhabited . . ;Her .
tha
illustration cif.their lather,land, they offere d even 'reserreetion morn will come .when the trine
" nit Man clothed ;head, of
wiiiimi
. tho:oonsoioosaoss
of his
own dignity .1 their fives n sacrifice u pon the' altar, of their ptit...of I freedom • shall sound' throughout ' En-. -
and
groatnessnan foe in spirit,- untamed' i n I. Wilt.- -MM . can cimtemplate their diameter,
,ropo--wh en kings shall be. -powerless.' Wert
bew, Land In.ot feel , the deepest 'admiration. - starred 1 force their.: bloody mandates, and "when*Free-
nature, and standing forth great mid free,
Iwithin him? ,_ IVere they boldl .Theybowed ,doni's God : shall rear . -his•empire on the ruins
I ins. to no MOnarch but Iris - God, and aeknowl,
inoro terrors than , a theitand battle• fleids.l of European despotism.. •': , . - '. 1. ..- •.. - 4.
edging nu Sovereign bbt his Creator. Everyi
i The ivildernesS, the sae,,, / ,: ea and wild:beast-a; ...,.•,In Ireland the 'great struggle of thopeoplo •
!'resortedart that'eurining ingenuity cindd "invent, Was
,f ett ,,;,. (disease; deatk.Starvatien, ► all, -. all could riet'an :, roused the sternest sympathies of every Amer.,
to 'V kings . iiticaurtiere;ll-o .
pal themi. hut, cutting asunder those .ties that f ican heart, No•reuntry*cin. the fact, [W.:the
the spirit of inquiry and to load upon the mind
!Mk the affections ofe i nr nature together, they globe hai suffered-more ivrongonore injustiee i.
this incubus Of obedience to " the powers that;
- s i n -. launched on the rolling wave—,- ...
~, , ~, •• i nadmore Misery than 'unfortunate Ireland.— -
ofl be." And well had they succeeded.
_The
: "iviii, botirio snibiu, a nd sou oorbe24,t! . I Sootirged . ;by the mereiless hand of. EngliA •
disobedience, in consequences and idpriner- 1 f
1 plOvas.ranked above till other - sins that Could IWO tici ::(rd
- More, thee, have ruling l
araCteria-iliings t her..sons htive,heen earried.;into exile,
j be, eominitted, and its-fearful judgments, reek- licS of the men from'whoni tliefetlieri of our 1 her lands irapaverished, and her.,:peoplo,dis
t oned - without measure,ss sure to fall e. on th
• • I
Itevolution.deseended.. -They were medwlioniitresSed.' , Faminerpestiletice and plamun%have
. Fiee . -
i aunty head.. Ignorance, as . prolbund as nod- persecution ! had driven 110 exile—men school-'swept over her-. tily,her fields have ome a
Ii nightlinrkneSi.seitkidOver mind everywhe re , led hi all they icisBitudes nc life,.mee accustom- !Fhernal -house... Ftve.years sinee,lookingbiek
and loaded it' doWn with 'the 'dads Supersti- !I'd tO greet sacriffees , and Ithe indat liaznrciouS , ltipen her king.lost. "netionalitV, she • resolved *- :.
tions . Which benighted Ideas ;•beget; sMan ., •is
1 naturally a-devotionals lunderta.kino.- 1 _ Persecution retitle thernbigati; j.that i t iabealdberecovereit,:-,..14 the hand of •
being,,espeetaity,..in his ~exile...- Misfortunes:. and 1 gleonty . , solitudes I,England:Wila it takertatvity,andlong,anddark,
1 uncultivated and rude estate, and this attribute ' made them
,supe r atiti o n s amt,rolialit on super. 'And drear had been her night of mpuming. -'. .. •
of his nature Was seized Upon and tortured to ; ' , Mau agency; consta9t !danger: Made. UMW - 21ITCItELL 'AV4 O- te,.,iiiii, - vai - tiaperic of ini
deformity.;_- Mi . ' the . li - wpiciittered by the 1 bold, adventurous; and reckless;_ but atioViiand. 'mortoity, isi•Brite,,,,,4,-,-314.ielimit and others, •
mouthsof - those lie regarded inferior only to! beyond 'al - Vtlie . Perfeet equality of their eendi - ', l namesthat,Will enriekthe!S e roll o f fame, with . .
theangels—as.ministera direct fromtbe.court . l-trion, with its community opt' sympathy and in-. the Peeltirittion'Of 'AtueriCrin Rigida as their •
of. ~Heavenhe heard thunde re d , th e anathe.:!terest,.gaVelolool correct nations of tnq equal-* polar-stare lied on 3 the* generous-hearted
the :on mettS ' ' of .Ged'asiraili. o f its of the meek arid the natural rights of man, 'eotintrytnentostrike fer.lteland,their. eciuntry
[ - . guilty heads,
i those whoshinild" dire , ici rebel =against thelThey mere. ready for any eacrifice - in defense and their,rights:' BruVely they .fought, in the
rpoviers of earth, Which were said to be indairi- I of' their opinions; - their! litieqf.
or ' e Prlgktexice, .faiii Of : iitioni,. and nobly theY illustrated
i ed of I' •
kavem . - The Kinl l Could- d o n o wren ,,, Land their rights , f o r, , th f reg ar d6d - ,theio as, theiiilevetiOn to Libeily;lly sitfferiig.,battiali-
Was- a'maxim . taught- 1 him from's: bis - mother 7 s 1111 worth living for, and iflost, they . - would not Mont fret - till eine; and kindiptkruilfnatisavend •
li ~ " it wasinfusedinto hiSnatitta end under'.l..§orYive A•heir!iran. ~, Wie-110,a•A 'Often, Wtt
heon-: th
, all; OhaaochitiOns 140.. t, eluSter.itiound and '
standingthrongltevery 'avenue of edneational , temp tang the 4evelittiOn t - heett. led aerionilir , { elieei th4ntliwriV. - cr . - .21ife,,i.. Noble",inibt !: the
Prejudiees-.he up
full :bent tO. l belieyelito regard it lis a reeklesSedventure cifreekleisa frenienthiancoif „their deeds .. sind..ilooni . ! .Will
suckpernieioue ilectrinesdoetrines',.that m.: :thenovho were • driVen. to a point WheretheylliVe: MAO heerts - .Of their.eenntrynien; lithe
tared and deatioied the ..t ai n d; an 4 t,,nildv e d ; resolved.tosidt.theieliyes dearly, as , possible, 1 SyrnehultieS of patriettialreyer the Wold r . andi
,the person. , , , '
_, _ .
~ : ..„ ~,,
~ [rather than the doliberate e eenvietion entertain-1W the:Suturei tnent . :feerfulle - will it' avenge
A' s 'isdi s h l i co 161 3 euchiiiihneoitethe Viete; led of EMI" triutivh itudits ultimate and cone : n. 1 their - wtongi. - : Creelted..nt.ltome, harpeOple,
~:.
. ~ ...
. . .
NEw 3111.1 - ono, July 5, 1852
Bot--In accordance with the expressed Avish
of a large portion of our citizens, we respect
fully solicit the publicatin of the Oration'ile
livered by you, in this plate; en the "3dof July.
• Youth
, Q.-PRATT, „ •1, P. F.-DADGER,
31.-nuanrri, i S. LITTLE, .
b. B. LITTLE,. t.:'II:ARDLNG, if.,
•-• RILAS ALDRICiIi
To E B.'ctt,tsl4 Esq. 1
• _ MoviaosE,4uiy,lo,' 1852.
GaNi•timEN=-Your . note of ;the sth' instant
Was received. '
The ()ration which yen request for-publica.
thin, was prepared,"as you are aware, on, .but
two or 1 throodaya . notice, and, in the midst'ef
buainesS cares. , "Under - suchi circumstances, I
should 'feel - ullyat liberty to decline your r•
.questydid I not recognize it as coming : from
those whom 1 cannot suspecCof insincerity, or
as . wiShing,te tender me a, mere.formality." I
have no time' to revise it. for the public, eye,
and you '-must . therefore take it with its load
of im_perfectious & - -
Ilueakin,g you,gentlemen, - fOr your kind at.
JentionS, -
I atu truly your friend,
•
l'E. B. Crust.
Messrs. Plum Bunartv, and others.
M FRlMins-=Responsive to your invitation,
I meet you hero to-day. I look around .and,
behold en every, side those, smile-lit faces that,
speaking, the unmistakable language of the
soul, tell me of free, full, and 'beundinghoPes,
of happy and perelMnce iixiiectaint-licarts. • I
. can but see that, for the time at least; you have
banished each corroding care, each-thought
'that might tear the clustering joys of a day
asunder, audience a licerated..tyound to fret
land- bleed,'_ and, roil the puret current of the
. present hour. 'Tis well; my friends, that you.
are thus happy.; It beconses.the day, the occa
sion, the event you Are hero to commemorate,
that gladness--the Starlight of our existence,
the oasis in tho!world-Wdd - desert of life-;-the
sun that, shining but a feeble hour; lights- up
the pathway. of long years; and scatters all the
glories that - deck lifc's journey, around-the al
tarof.the Soul-4 say ills fitting the occasion - 1
flint Stich a star, that such a Sun, should _now
lieam awhihi ort-you. I joy irb . your gladness,
,I,hopo- with- your hopes--thci - Ortson that goes
Swelling - upwards .from your; iheartrof hearts,
tn ecti - respondik.a . cadences from mind._
Shall I ask whit cause ha,4 - tnoved you to
asSemble , here to-day? and Why I see these 1
unmistakable endemics - of happiness around
I me? Shall Igo further, and .risk what pur
,
pose von have - -in view, What object to
serve, by laying aside, as-of :limaller necouritd
all the business of 'life, and meeting here to-
.gother ? - Tell IN.-what - impulse-- has. -thus.l
moved you ;Ali, I need not ask. Time in
its gliding course, has Again .brought round
the great Sabbath of Atnericandfidependeneo:
tho morning sun, that gilded year eastern hills,
ushered in the natal day 'of American nation
ality ; it looked down and smiled all. over this
land of bravo and , tree heart', and. waked to
life again the active, remembrahco of a nation's
God-blessed 'struggle. That, sun, in, all its
course, as it goes eirelin,g round the world,
lights. none other such land as this. It
shines on all below, but methinks it brighter
gluws
sob out of
hien
,apr9_ntid
~~~ia~~z~e_
CDTEetlan.