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j POETRY.
[From the National Algis.]
THE MARRIAGE.
How quick ’twas done! how soon ’twas form'd
—the magic little tie!
| And yet they say, ’tis strong enough, to last
’till they shall die.
j ’Tis very strange, so slight a step, tlio’ taken
in a minute,
Should strew its fruits aloug through life, and
color all things in it;
\et few there be, that take the bonds, that give
a sober thought
On what results may issue from this more than
Gordian knot.
The offer’s made—and quick as thought, de
cision’s given on it,
As rapidly as one would choose the ribbon for
her bonnet.
But if from small and trivial things, effects so
mighty rise,
The smallest e'en to reason’s eye swell out to
mountain size,
And bid us, with a prophet's voice, each step
with care to take;
little steps, successive made, life's fleeting
journey make.
The last farewell—the fond farewell—what sa
cred ties were broke!
What sweet and holy bonds were riven when
that farewell was spoke!
Those same bright eyes that beamed on her
with never ceasing care,
Thro' infancy and girlhood’s hours, were beam
ing on her there;
That changeless heart, so close t« hers with
every fibre wove
Was throbbing at her bridal hour, with undi
minished love,
And tho’ affection’s witching charms were
beckoning to another,
How could she leave, without a sigh, the bos
om of a mother?
When friends and kindred circled her, Bhe’d
loved for many a year,
O! could she leave them all behind, nor shed a
single tear?
When inem’ries of departed days were cluster
ing round her heart,
It made the pang a real pang that severed them
apart.
She breaks from all, for lo! she sees the radient
future ope
More lovely scenes, more witching charms—
the pencillings of hope;
And home is left, with all the scenes midst
which she lov’d to rove,
For lo! she sees a fairer home, all burnished
bright with love.
The honor’d one who clung to her, to counsel
and direct her,
Resigns her charge with one fond kiss, to lov
er and protector.
But see them now—they mount the cars, and
gaily on they move,
And speed them towards their fairy home upon
the wings of love,
With beating hearts, lit high with joy, without
a throb of sorrow,
With bliss in store, with hope in view, and a
delightful morrow.
Ah! happy pair, as on ye fly in pleasure’s arms
so sweetly,
Reflect that all your rosy hours will fly along
as fleetly;
And if ye'd have your path bedeck'd with
every charm and beauty,
O! strew at every step ye take, the springing
seeds of duty.
Then, tho' misfortune’s frowns may throng,
and threat each joy to smother,
Ye’ll never fail to find a world of bliss in one
another.
Adieu, adieu, and may the sun, your future
life adorning,
Go down as bright as when it rose upon your
bridal morning;
And when the sweet and rosy bonds that bind
ye here, are riven
O! may ye find them knit again in fairer fields
in Heaven.
HSCfiLLANY.
NAPOLEON AND WASHINGTON.
[From Lord Brougham’s Article in the last
Edinburgh Review.]
Let us now, Before we close the view of
time recently passed, and of the great men
who flourished in them amongst ourselves,
cast out eyes towards the Genius that di
rected the resources of our enemies, unim
pared by our party djvisions, and with all
the unity of despotism besides. During the
most eventful period of the age in which
they flourished, the destinies of France,
and ol the Continent, were wielded by
Napoleon Bonaparte; certainly the most
extraordinary person who has appeared
in modern times, and to whom, in some
respect, no parallel can be found, if we
search th# whole annals of the human
race. For though the conquests of Alex
ander were more extensive, and the match
less character of Caesar was embellished
by more various accomplishments, aud
the invaders of Mexico and Peru worked
their purposes of subjugation with more
scanty means, yet the military genius of
‘ the Great Captain shines with a lustn
peculiar its own; or which he shares witl
! Hannibal alone, when we reflect that hi
j never had to contend, like those conquer
ors, with adversaries inferior to hiinsel
iin civilization or discipline, but won al
! his triumphs over posts as well orderet
j and regularly marshalled and amply pro
j vided as his own.
: This celebrated man was sprung from a
good family in Corsica, and while yet a
| boy, fixed the attention and raised the
hopes of all his connections. In his ear
ly youth his military genius shown forth;
he soon gained the summit of his profes
sion; he commanded at twenty-five a mili
tary operation of a complicated and difficult
nature in-Paris; immediately after he rap
idly led tlie French armies through a series
of victories till then unexampled, and to
which even now his own after achiev
ments can alone afford any parallel for
the suddenness, the vehemence, and the
completeness of the operations. That
much of his success was derived from the
mechanical adherance of his adversaries
to the formal rules of ancient tactics can
not be doubted; and our Wellington cam
paigns would, in the same circumstances,
and had he been opposed to similar antag
onists, in all likelihood have been as
brilliant and decisive.
But be always had to combat the soldiers
| bred in Napoleon’s school, while Napoleon
for the most part, was matched against
(men whose inveterate propensity to foi
[ low the rules of an obsolete science, not
I even the example of Frederic had been
j able to subdue: and who were resolved
j upon being a second time the victims of
i the same obstinate blindness, which had,
| in Frederic’s days made genius triumph
over numbers, by breaking through rules
repugnant to common sense. It must,
however, be confessed, that although this
consideration accounts for the achieve
ments of this great warrior, which else
had been impossible, nothing is thus de
tracted from his praise, excepting that
what lie accomplished ceases to be mir
aculous; for it was his glory never to let an
error pass unprofitably to jiiinself; nor ever
to give his adversary an advantage which
he could not ravish from him, with ample
interest before it was turned to any fatal ac
count. Nor can it be denied that, when
the fortune of war proved adverse, the re
sources of his mind were only drawn forth
in the more ample profusion. After the
battle of Aspern he displayed more skill,
as well as constancy, than in all bis previ
ous campaigns: and the struggle which he
made in France, during the dreadful con
flict that preceded his downfall, is by many
regarded as the master piece of his military
life. Nor let us forget that the grand er
ror of his whole_career, the mighty expedi
tion to Moscow, was a political error only.
The vast preparations tor that campaign—
the combinations by which lie collected
and marshalled and moved this prodigious
and various force like a single corps, or a
domestic animal, or a lifeless instrument
in his hand—displayed in the highest de
gree the great genius for arrangement and
for action with which he was endowed;
and has prodigious efforts to regain the
ground which the disasters of that cam
paign rescued from bis grasp were only
not successful, because no human power
could, in a month, create an army of cav
alry, nor a word of command give recruits
the discipline of veterans. In the history of
war, it is, assuredly, only Hannibal who
can be compared with him; and certainly,
when we reflect upon the yet greater dif
ficulties of the Carthagenian’s position—
the much longer time during which he
maintained the unecpial contest—still more
when we consider that his enemies have
alone recorded his story, while Napoleon
has been his own annalist—justice seems
to require that the modern should yield to
the ancient commander.
But Napoleon’s genius was not confin
ed to war: he possessed a large capacity also
for civil affairs.—lie saw as clearly and as
quickly determined on his course, in gov
ernment as in the field. His public works
! ami his political reformations, especially
Ins Code of Laws, arc monuments of his
wisdom and his vigour, more imperisha-
I ble, as time has already proved, and as
himself proudly foretold, than all his vic
tories. His civil courage was more bril
liant than his own, or most other men’s
valour in tlie field. How ordinary a bra
very it was that blazed forth at Lodi, when
die headed his.wavering columns across
the bridge swept by the field of Austrian
j artillery, compared with the undaunted
and sublime courage that carried him
from Cannes to Paris with a handful of
men, and fired his bosom with the desire,
and sustained it with tile confidence, of
overthrowing a dynasty, and overwhelming
an empire by the terror of his name!
Nor were his endowments thereiy j
those of the statesman and the warrior
If h? was not like Caesar, a consummate
orator, he yet knew men so thoroughly, [
, and especially Frenchmen, whom he had j
i most nearly studied, that he possessed the ;
i faculty of addressing them in strains of!
singular eloquence peculiar to himself, j
! It is not more certain that he is the greal
i est soldier whom France ever produced
i then it is certain that his place is higl
■ amongst her greatest writers, as far as com
F position or diction is concerned. Soon
of bis bulletins are models for the pur
i pose which they were intended to serve
his address to the soldiers of his Olt
Guard at Fontaiiibleau, is a masterpiece
of dignified and pathetic composition; his
speech during the Hundred Days, at the
Champ deMars, beginning, ‘General Con
sul, Empefeur, jetiens tout du peuple,’ is
to be placed amongst the most perfect
pieces of simple and majestic eloquence.—
These things are not the less true for be
ing seldom or never remarked.
But with these great qualities of the
will—the highest courage, the most easy
formation of his resolutions, the most
steadfast adherence to his purpose, the
entire devotion to his object of all bis en
ergies—and with the equally shining fac
ulties of the understanding by which that
firm will worked—the clearest and quick
est apprehension, the power of intense ap
plication, the capacity of complete ab
straction from all interrupting ideas, the
complete and most instantaneous circum
spection of all difficulties, whether on one
side, or even providently seen in prospect
the intuitive knowledge of men, and pow
er of mind and tongue to mould their will
to his purpose—with these qualities, which
form the character held greatest by vulgar
minds,the panegyricof Napoleon was close.
He was a conqueror; iic was a tyrant.
To gratify his ambition—to slake his thirst
of power—to weary a lust of dominion
which no conquests could satiate —he
trampled on Liberty when his hand might
have raised her to a secure place; and lie
wrapt the world in flames, which the blood
of millions alone could quench. By those
passions, a mind not originally unkindly,
was perverted and deformed, till human
misery ceased to move it, and honesty,
and truth and pity, the duties we owe to
God and man, had departed from one thus
given up to a single and a selfish pursuit.
‘Tantas animi virtutes ingentia vitia a:qua
baut; inhumana crudelitas;* perfidia plas
quain Punica; nihil veri, nihil sancti, nul
ins Deum metus, nollum jusjurandum,
nulla religio.’f The death of Enghieu,
the cruel sufferings of Wright, the mys
terious end of Pichegru, the punishment
of Palm, the tortures of Toussaint.i have
all been dwelt upon as the spots on his
fame; because the fortunes of individuals
presenting a more definite object to the
mind, strike our imaginations, and rouse
our feelings more than wretchedness in
larger masses less distinctly perceived.
But to the eye of calm reflection, the de
claration of an unjustifiable war, or the
persisting in it a day longer than is nec
essary, presents a more grievous object of
contemplation, implies a disposition more
pernicious to the will, and calls down a
reprobation far more severe.
How greatful the relief which the friend
of mankind, the lover of virtue, experi
ences, when turning from the contempla
tion of such a character, his eye rests up
on the greatest man of our owiror of any
age; the only one upon whom an epithet
so thoughtlessly lavished by men to foster
the crime of their worst enemies, may be
innocently and justly bestowed! In Wash
ington we truly behold a marvellous con
trast to almost every one of the endow
ments and the vices which we have been
contemplating; and which are so well fit
ted to excite a mingled admiration, and
j sorrow, and abhorrence. With none of
that brilliant genius which dazzles ordinary
minds; w ith not even any remarkable quick
ness of apprehension; with knowledge less
than almost all persons in the middle ranks,
and many well educated of the humbler
classes possess; this eminent person is pre
sented to our observation clothed with at
tributes as modest, as unpretending, as
tittle calculated to strike or to astonish,
as if he had passed unknown through some
secluded region of private life. But he
had a judgement sure and sound; a stead
iness of mind which never suffered any
passion, or even any feeling to ruffle its J
cairn; a strength of understanding work
ed rather than forced its way through all
obstacles, —removing or avoiding rather
than overleaping them. His courage,
whether in battle or in council, w’as as
perfect as might be expected from this
pure and steady temper of soul. A per-1
fcctly just man, with a thoroughly firm
resolution never to be misled by others,
any more than by others overawed: never
to be seduced or betrayed, or hurried
away by his own weakness or self delu
sions, any more than by other men’s arts;
nor even to be disheartened by the most
complicated difficulties, any more than
to be spoilt on the giddy heights of for
tune—such was this great inau, —wheth-
er we regard him sustaining alone the
whole weight of campaigns, all but des
perate, or gloriously terminating a just war
fare by his resources and his courage—
presiding over the jarring elements of his
political council, alike deaf to the storms
of all extremes —or directing the formation ;
of anew government for a great people, the'
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t- first time that so vast an experiment had
I, ever been tried by man—or finally retir
h ing from the supreme power to which bit
-j virtue had raised him over the nation h«
e had created, and whose destinies he had
- guided as long as his aid was required—
; retired with the veneration of all parties
i of all nations, of all mankind, in ordei
: that the rights of men might be conserr
; ed, and that his example never might be
: appealed to by vulgar tyrants. This i.«
the consummate glory of the great Amer
ican; a triumphant warrior where the
most sanguine had a right to despair; a
successful ruler in all the difficulties of a
course wholly untried; but a warrior whose
sword only left its sheath when the first
law of nature commanded it to be drawn;
and a ruler who, having tasted of supreme
power, gently and unostentatiously desir
ed that the cup might pass from him, nor
would suffer more to wet his lips than the
most solemn and sacred duty to his coun
try and his God required !
To his latest breath did this great pat
riot maintain the noble character of a
Captain the patron of Peace, and a States
j mart the friend of Justice. Dying, he
1 bequeathed to his heirs the swbrd which
jhe had worn in the War for Liberty,
charging them * never to take it from the
i scabbard but in self-defence, or in de
i fence of their country and her freedom;
and commanding them, that when it
should thus be drawn, they should never
sheathe it nor ever give it up, but prefer
falling with h in their hands to the relin
quishment thereof—words, the majesty
I and simple eloquence of which are not
j surpassed in the oratory of Athens and
Rome. It will be the duty of the Histo
i rian and the Sage in all ages to omit no
occasion of commemorating this illustri
ous man ; and until time shall be no more
w ill a test of the progress which our race
has made in wisdom and in virtue be de
rived from the veneration paid to the im
mortal name of Washington!
* The kindliness of his nature will be denied
by some; the inhuman cruelty by others', but
both are correctly true. There is extant, a
; letter which we have seen, full of the tender
| est affection towards his favourite brother, to
| whom it was addressed, when about to be sep
arated from him, long after he had entered on
public life. It is in parts blotted with his
tears, evidently shed before the ink was dry.
As for cruelty, they only can deny it who
think it is more cruel for a man to witness
torments which he has ordered, or to commit
butchery with his own hand, than to give the
command which must consign thousands to
agony and death. If Napoleon had been call
ed upon to witness, or with his own hand to
inflict such misery, he would have paused at
first—because physical repugnance would have
prevailed over mental callousness. But how
many minutes' reflection would it have taken
to deaden the pain, and make him execute his
ojvn purpose ?
t Liv. xxi.
I It is a gross error to charge him with the
poisoning of his sick in Egypt; and bis massa
' ere of the prisoners of Jaffa, is a very costrife,
verted matter. But we fear the early anee&Wtft
of his ordering an attack, with no other objset
than to gratify his mistress, when offi
cer of artillery, rests upon undeniable authori
ty; and if so, it is to be placed amonggt his
worst crimes.
Monroe Rah. Road. —On Monday,
the first Passenger Car was placed on the
road, and with the Locomotive “Ocmul
gec” proceeded up a few miles to section
seven, which was then unfinished. Al
though tlie weather was inclement, a large
number of citizens attended to witness
! the departure of the car. This carries
| fifty five passengers: and others will soon
,be added. Every thing worked well, and
| fully answers the expectations of all. On
i Saturday, a train will go to Forsyth, and
l carry a party who are invited to partici
pate in a celebration of the opening of the
road at that place. It is much regretted
by the President,that accotHmoda|tons can
not be prepared in time for a large number,
w ho are anxious to participate in the cele
bration. * .
A splendid Ball is in preparation for
Monday evening, in this city. Another
will be given in Forsyth in a few days,
I and we hope that al! such of our citizens,
who participate in these recreations, s will
favor our liberal and patriotic neighbors
of Monroe, with their presence.
From the openiug of this
anew era in our commercial prospects.—
The JOth OF DECEMBER, should be
remembered as one of the land-murks
for future reference. Although the For
syth Road, is but a link, the dbciu fflf in
ternal communication with which it must
soon connect us, is of vast extent, and of
incalculable consequence. It is r tbe first
portion that has been completed, andjsar
ries with it convincing can
be effected by the application of untiring
energy and enterprize, during the most dis
astrous pecuniary einbaraseioents of the
country. From what we bate witaMged,
we shall never despair of coapitMQ
of this work to the Stfte road,
its destinies are guided hy i yhpj|Bfc3pi.
has prosecuted them thus far—-Whether
those whose duty it is to walclh over and
cherish the interests of the people, act in
accordance with their high prerogative,
or meanly withhold the aid within their
control.—[Macon Messenger.