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I LOVE THE GIRLS.
BY MAURICE l> R'ILL.
I love the girls—l love them all :
The gay, the f.iir, the sad and meek ;
Their eyes of blue, that skies recall,
Or those so dark that love bespeak.
1 love them all in silks arrayed,
Or neatly decked in homely trim ;
For every one hath charms displayed,
Silks ne'er enhance, or shreds bedim.
I love them all—for all can smile,
And speed the gloom from brows that tire ;
And all have hands for tender toil,
To pet the babe, or ease the sire.
Each hath a heart to feel and throb,
To share our woes, or pleasant hours;
To laugh our glee, or with us sob,
And call its own our lights and showers.
I love them all—l love their joy,
Their romping bouts, and careless song;
And could not look with frowning eye
Upon their freaks in gleesome throng.
I love their laugh, its silvery peel,
For it proclaims life can be bright;
That sunny gleams can sweetly steal
Amid the gloom of this world's night.
I love them all—and who docs not?
For all “creation’s Lords” have known,
In sutfering whiles, or dismal lot,
Tlic soothing cares which are their own.
Then, love them all witli all your might,
And evil thoughts which souls degrade,
Or sorrows's pang with venomed bite,
Your hallowed hearts will ne’er invade!
EASY JDK BRUCE.
BY J. HASTINGS WELD.
“ Wliew ew-ew !” whistled Mr. Joseph
Bruce, or pet haps we should rather say Joe
Bruce, for, as he was a noble, easy fellow,
nobody thought of allowing him that half
his name, or of anything else which belong
ed to him, — !! I sen by the paper that
Hawk Harpy have assigned. I meant
to have secured my debt yesterday!” He
left his coffee half drank, stumbled over
the threshold, and went almost at a run to
the counting-room of Hawk & Harpy.
One half that speed on the day before
would have saved his debt, —as it was, he
was just in season to put on bis name at the
bottom of a dozen and a half preferred
ones, to recieve ten per cent. He went
back to bis unfinished breakfast with what
appetite he might.
“ Why did you neglect this so long, Mr.
Bruce ?” said his helpmate and comforter.
“ I meant to have amended to it yester
day, my dear.”
“ You meant ! That is always your
way, Mr. Bruce. You carelessly neglect
your business to the last moment, and then
put yourself in a haste and a heat for no
thing, my dear.”
“ Really, Mrs. Bruce, —”
But Mrs. Bruce did nit allow him a
chance to defend himself. On she went,
in the most approved conjugal manner,
to berate him for his carelessness and inat
tention.
“ Really, Mrs. Bruce, —”
And it was really Mrs. Bruce, for few
of the feminine, and none of the masculine
gender, could have kept pace with her.
Certainly Easy Joe could not. The clat
ter of a cotton-mill would not have been a
circumstance to the din she raised—nay.
we doubt whether a philippic against one
of those said mills, from the lungs of Hen
ton Tonans, could have been heard above
her voice. Easy Joe pulled a cigar-case
out of his pocket—clapped his feet on the
fender —and it almost seemed that the
smoke rendered his ears impervious to the
bleatings of that gentle lamb, his spouse,
so placid was his countenance, as the va
por escaped in graceful volumes from his
mouth. People overshoot the mark some
times—Mrs. Bruce did. Had she spared
her oration, the morning’s loss would have
induced her husband to have been punc
tual to bis business, for one day at least.
As it was, he took a sort of pride in neg
lecting it under her lecture.
“ Breeze away, Mrs. Bruce.”
“ Breeze away, sir ! Breech away ! 1
wish 1 could impart one tittle of my ener
gy to you, Mr. Bruce—l l—”
Bruce sprang to his feet, and crash !
came an elegant mantle clock down upon
the hearth.
“ There, Mr. Bruce ! That clock has
stood there three months without fasten
ing—a single screw would have saved it—
but—”
“Well. I meant to—”
“You meant! Mr. Bruce, you meant
wont pay the damage,nor Hawk tc Harpy’s
note ! You meant, indeed !”
Bruce seized his hat and cloak. Ia few
minutes he was on ’Change. Nobody
could read in his face any traces of the late
matrimonial breeze, and nobody would
have suspected from his countenance that
Hawk &; Harpy failed in his debt. Easy
Joe Bruce.
“ Well, Mr. Bruce, they’ve routed him.”
“ Who ?”
“ Our friend Check Pingree was chosen
president of the Bank, this morn
ing. One vote would have stopped him.”
“ How very unlucky. I meant to have
been present to vote for Beck myself.”
“ Never mind, Bruce,” said another.
“You are a lucky man. The news of the
great fire at Speedville has just reached
town by express, and I congratulate you
that you were fully insured.”
“ Not a penny !” said Bruce, “My
policy expired last week, and I meant to
have got it renewed this morning.”
Joe posted home in no very happy hum
our.—When an easy man is lastly up, he
is the most uueasy and unreasonable man
in creation.
“ Mrs. Bruce, by staying at home to
hear you scold, I have lost thousands. I
meant to have got insured this morning
1 did not—Speedville is burned down,ahd
I am a beggar.”
“ Why did you not do it yesterday, Mr.
Bruce 1”
“ I was thinking of Hawk & Harpy.”
“ Thinking! Why did you not secure
yourself?”
“ I meant to, but—”
“ But—use no huts—”
“ You are in excellent spirits, Mrs.
Bruce.”
“ Never in better.”
“ Vastly fine, madam. We are beg
gars.”
Mrs. Bruce sat down, clapped her feet
on the fender, after her husband’s manner
in the morning.
“ We are beggars, madam,” Bruce re
peated.
“Very good—l will take my guitar,
and you shall shoulder the three children.
We ll play under Mr. Hawk’s window
first, then under Mr. Harpy’s, and then
we will beg our way to Speedville, to play
to the ashes of what was once your factory,
—which you meant lo have insured. 1
should like begging above all things.”
“ You abominable woman, I shall go
mad ”
“ Don’t, I beseech you, Mr. Bruce.
They put mad beggars in Bedlam.”
Bruce sprang for the door. His wife
intercepted him. “ Here, Joseph, is a
paper 1 meant to have shown you this mor
ning.”
“ A policy ! And dated yesterday !”
“ Yes. You meant to get it renewed to
day—l meant it should be done yesterday
—so I told your clerk, from you, to do it.
Am I not an abominable woman 1”
“ When 1 said so, I was in a pet. I
meant—”
“No more of that, Joseph. Now tell
me who is first on Hawk & Harpy’s as
signment.”
“ Your brother.”
“ His claim covers you both.”
” \ ou are an angel!”
Easy Joe became an altered man, and
his wife was released from her watch over
his out-door business. She died some
years before him—but we are half inclined
to suspect, that aftei her death Joe parti
ally relapsed into his old habits—so true it
is, that habit is a second nature. Both
were buried in the grave-yard at Speed
ville, and our suspicions are founded on
something like the following conversation
—between the grave-digger and his assis
tant :
“ Where are we to dig Mr. Bruce’s
grave ?”
“ I don’t know exactly. His will says,
next his wife.”
“ Where was she laid ?”
“ That l don’t know. Easy Joe always
said he meant to place an obelisk over her,
but it was never done.”
From the Model American Courier.
A Short Storv for Little Readers.
—A long time’ago there was a wise King
on the throne of En gland. His name was
Alfred the Great. His father’s name was
Ethelwolf. He was twenty two years
old, when he began to reign. England
was then at war with the Danes. Alfred
was a very brave man. He fought many
battles with the Danes. At last he was
beaten. The people became discouraged
They would not light any more—Alfred
had to flee. ’He took off his kingly dress.
He put on the dress of a peasant. He
was servant to a gtazier for some time
At length he retired to a swamp with a
few friends. He built a castle in the mid
dle of the swamp. His enemies could
not find him. He lived at the castle for a
year. He often came out of the castle
and fought the Davies. But they did not
know where he came from. At length
he disguised himself as a harper. He vis
ited the Danish camp. —The Danes did
not suspect him. '1 hey let him go through
the camp. He saw that they were off
their guard. He returned to his friends,
and led an army against the Danes.—He
routed them totally.
There were many robbers and bad per
sons in England at that time. Alfred
wished to make them good citizens. He
made many wise laws. Every man had
to watch over his own family, ls any
member of the family did wrong, the fath
er was punished.
All ihe people were divided into com
panies. There were ten families in each
company. Each family had to watch over
their neighbor, and an officer was set over
every company to keep them in order.
Thus the people improved rapidly. They
became very honest. Alfred hung up gol
den bracelets near the road to try the peo
ple, and nobody would steal them. They
were afraid of the laws.
'1 his great King reigned twenty-nine
years. He fought fifty-six battles. He
was fond of learning. He wrote many
books, and set up many schools. He died
in the year 900.
Earth and Heaven.— -Hillet wander
ed on a moon and starlight night, with his
disciple Sadi, among the gardens of the
Mount of Olives. Then spake Sadi : “ See
yonder a man in the moonlight: what
does he ?” Hillet said : “ It is Tadok ; he
sits by tho grave of his son and weeps.”
“ Cannot Tadok,” spake tho youth, “mod
erate his mourning ? People name him
the just and wise.” Hillet replied;
“ Shall he not, therefore, experience
pain ?” “ But,” replied Sadi, “ what ad
vantage, then, hath the wise man over the
fool ?” The teacher answered : “ See,
his bitter tears sink to the earth, but his
face is turned up to heaven."
POETRY OK SCIENCE.
BY ROBERT HUNT.
The Electricity of a Tear.— We
tremble when the thunder cloud bursts in
fury above our heads: the poet seizes on the
terrors of the storm to add to the interest
of his verse. Fancy paints a storm-king,
and the genius of romance clothes his de
mons in. lightnings and they are heralded
by thunders, 'i hese wild imaginings
have been the delight of mankind :— there
is subject for wonder in them :—but is
there anything less wonderful in the well
authenticated fact, that the dewdrop which
glistens on the flower, that the tear which
trembles on the eyelid, holds locked in its
transparent cells an amount of electric fire
equal to that which is discharged during a
storm from a thunder-cloud ?
Faraday has shown,by the most conclu
sive experiments, “ that the electrici'y
which decomposes, and that which is evol
ved by the decomposition of, a certain
quantity of matter are alike. What an
enormous quantity of electrcity, therefore,
is required for the decomposition of a sin
gle grain of water! We have already seen
that it must be in quantity sufficient to sus
tain a platinum wire 1-104 of an inch in
thickness, red hot in contact with the air,
for three minutes and three quarters. It
would appear that 800,000 charges of a
Leyden battery, charged by thirty turns of
a very large and powerful plate machine, in
full action—a quantity sufficient, if passed
at once through the head of a rat or cat to
have killed it, as by a flash of lightning—
are necessary to supply electricity suffi
cient to decompose a single grain of water;
or, if 1 am right to equal the quantity of
electricity which is naturally associated
with the elements of that grain of water
endowing them with their mutual chemical
affinity.”
Gravitation. —Science has developed
the grand truth, that it is by the exercise
ofthis all-pervading influence that the earth
is retained in its orbit—that the crystal
globe of dew which glistens on the leaf is
bound together—that the debris which
floats upon the lake accumulates into one
mass—that the sea exhibits the pheno
mena of tides—and the aerial ocean its
barometric changes. In all things this
force is active, and throughout nature it is
ever present. Our knowledge of the laws
which it obeys, enables us to conclude that
the sun and distant planets are consoli
dated masses like this earth. We find
that they have gravitating power, and by
comparing this influence with that exerted
by the eaith, we are enabled to weigh the
mass of one planet against another. In
the balance of the astronomer it is as easy
to poise the remote star, as it is for the
engineer to calculate the weight of the
iron tunnel of the Conway, or any other
mechanical structure. Thus throughout
the universe the balance of gravitating
force is unerringly sustained. If one of
the most remote of those gems of light,
which flicker at midnight in the dark dis
tance of the starry vault was, by any pow
er, removed from its place, the disturbance
of these delicately balanced mysteries
would be felt through all the created sys
tems of worlds.
Light. — Light is necessary to life ; the
world was a dead chaos before its creation
and mute disorder would again be the con
sequence of its annihilation. Every charm
which spreads itself over this rolling globe
is directly dependent upon luminous pow
er. Colors, and often probably, forms,
are die result of light, certainly the con
sequence of solar radiations. We know
much of the mysterious influences of this
great agent, but we know nothing of the
principal itself. The solar beam lias been
tortured through prismatic glasses and na
tural crystals. Every chemical agent has
been tried upon it, every electrical force
in the most excited state brought to bear
upon its operations,with a view to the dis
covery of the most refined of earthly agen
cies ; but it lias passed through every trial
without revealing its secrets, and even the
effects which it produces in its path are
unexplained problems still to tax the in
tellect of man.
First Knowledge of Electricity.—
If a piece of amber, electrum, is briskly
rubbed, it acquires the property of attrac
ting to it light bodies. This curious pow
er excited the attention of Thales, of
Miletus ; and from the investigations of
this Grecian philosopher we must date our
knowledge of one of the most important of
the natural forces—Electricity.
lfan inquiring mind had not been led to
ask why does this curious vegetable pro
duct attract a feather, the present age, in
all probability, would not have been in
possession of the means by which it is ena
bled to transmit intelligence with a rapi
dity which is only excelled hy that of the
“ swift winged messengers of thought.”
To this age of application a striking lesson
does this amber teach. Modern untility
would regard Thales as a madman. Hold
ing a peice of yellow resin in his hand,
rubbing it. and then picking up bits of
down, or catching floating feathers, the
Greek would have appeared a very im
becile, and the cut bono generation would
have laughed at his silly labors. But
when he announced to his school that this
amber held a soul or essence which was
awakened by friction, and went forth from
the body in which it previously lay dormant,
and brought hack the small particles float
ing around it, he gave to the world the
first hint of a great truth which has ad
vanced our knowledge of a physical phe
nomena in a marvellous manner, and
ministered to the refinements and to the
necessities of civilization.
From the .Vatchrz Courier.
Railroad to the Pacific Ocean.
Mr. Editor : —Sometime ago I sent you
a communication on this subject, and as it
lias since engaged many abler pens, I
should not have written more, but for the
call that has been made for a Convention
at Memphis, on the 4th of July next. • In
this convention Natches and New Orleans
ought certainly to be represented. The
object is to make Memphis, or rather a
point opposite Memphis, a terminus of the
road ; but it should be, to obtain a survey
by government, with a view to ascertain
the shortest and most practicable route.
Many reasons might be given for the belief
that the result of such survey would be,
the selection of a terminus much lower
down.
Col. Benton has made a bold move in
the Senate on this subject, which will be
followed by another, and another,with his
accustomed perseverance and energy : but
he will all the while fix his eyes upon St.
Louis as the eastern terminus ; and this he
will persist in doing, in spite cf all that
can be said about the 40 feet of snow which
has overwhelmed his son in-law, Col. Fre
mont, upon the very route he recommends.
Who would ever have the courage to
plunge into that 40 feet of snow, or even
four feet of snow, in a gorge of the Rocky
Mountains, hundreds of miles from any
habitation, and with the thermometer
standing at 20 degrees below zero !
If a proper survey can be obtained, all
these northern routes will be abandoned,
and one will be selected having San Diego
for its western, and some point below the
latitude of 32 for its eastern terminus.
This will be found the shortest, over the
best soil, in the best climate, and by far
the least mountainous. Snow and ice will
never interrupt or impede the travel, and
ships of the largest class can approach
both its termini, at all seasons of the
year.
From the Charleston Courier..
Artesian Sulphur Water in Charles
ton. —Having casually had my attention
directed to the Well on Mrs. Horry’s es
tate, at the corner of Meeting and Tradd
streets, I was led to visit it, and make a
few experiments upon the character of the
water it affords. Much to my surprise, 1
found it to be a mild, but decided sulphur
water, strongly analagous to the sulphur
springs connected with the coal formation
in Ohio and Illinois. It is limpid, and light
to the taste, (enabling a person to drink
several tumblers without a feeling of sa
tiety or oppression.)
Its temperature is 69°. The sulphurited
hydrogen, beside being very obvious to
the taste, is indicated by the brown color
ed precipitates it occasions when treated
with the usual metallic tests, (nitrate of
silver and acetate of lead.) It seems to be
entirely deficient in the sulphate of lime,
so abundant in the common well waters of
the city. Indeed, it gives no indication
(in the unevaporated state) of the presence
of any sulphate whatever. The propor
tion of chloride of calcium is also below
that of the common well water ; while it
possesses traces of carbonate of soda,an in
gredient very common to sulphur waters.
When a thorough analysis is made of
this water, I predict, that traces of chol
ride of sodium and magnesium will be
found in it; also, bi-carbonate of magnesia
and lime.
The promising nature and abundant
quantity of this water are such as to merit
the establishment of a house somewhere
in its vicinity, for the accommodation of
the public. Its value fully equals, in mv
opinion, the entire cost of all that lias thus
far been expended in Charleston in search
of pure water. C. U. SHEPARD.
Charleston, May 5, 1849.
Self-Affection.— An Irish laborer
plunged into the river and hauled out a
gentleman who was accidentally drown
ing; the gentleman rewarded Pat with a
six pence.
“ Well,”said the dripping miser, seeing
Pat’s doubtful pause, “ ain’t you satisfied?
Do you think you ought to have more?”
—“ Och ! ’ answered the poor fellow,
looking hard at the one he had rescued,
“ I think I’m overpaid !”
The State Road —Tlie Ringgold Republi
can, says: We had occasion a few days since to
visit several places on the unfinished part of this
work, and were please I to find it progressing as
rapidly as what it is. It is nothing but due the
contractors to say, that they are using every ex
ertion, within their power, to have the road
completed hy the first of October next, which we
are almost confident will be done at that time,
or a short time thereafter, should nothing im
pede their progress. The finishing of the tun
nel and raising some dozen or more bridges,
which we understand are all framed and ready
for putting up, is very nearly all that is to do,
the other work, that of laying down the timber
on the track having been completed—save a few
miles.
Gold in Clark County,Ga —The Southern
Recorder of the 18th says We learn from an
authentic source, that Mr. E. Summers and two
other gentlemen of this county, have discovered
a gold mine ofconsiderable extent. They have
procured several specimens for the purpose of
having its quality tested, which has been pro
nounced equal to the North Carolina gold. It
is said to be on the public lands, hence the ne
cessity of keeping the location a secret until the
lands are entered by the discoverers- Should
this mine prove to bo gold, as asserted, it will
surely add much to the wealth of Clarke county
as Mr. Summers states that the ground is cov
ered with oar similar to that furnished by him
for inspection-”
Elections. —During the present year elec
tions will be held in the following Stales for
Members to Congress, viz : New Hampshire,
June 6; North Carolina, August 2; Tennessee,
August 2; Alabama, August (i; Indiana, August
6 ; lowa, August 6; Kentucky, August 6; Mary
land, October 3; Louisiana, Novembers; Mis
sissippi, November 5.
M A_C O N , GA.
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 12, 1849.
Postscript. —The steamship Hibernia lias
arrived bringing Liverpool dates to the 28lh ult.
The market was without change, and sales small
—Fair Uplands and Mobile, 4fd.; Fair Orleans,
4|d. ; Middling Uplands and Mobiles, 4d. ; Mid
dling Orleans 4Jd.; Ordinary 34 a 33d. Politi
cal affairs on the Continent were still unsettled.
Mechanics’ Society We regret that other
engagements prevented us from hearing only a
part of the able and eloquent address delivered
before this Society on Thursday evening last, by
S. T. Chapman, Esq. We have not time at
present to give an outline of the address, as we
took no notes at the time, therefore can only
say that we were highly gratified, in common
with the large audience present, with the truly
eloquent effort of the speaker ; who, instead of
endeavoring to tickle the fancy of his hearers,
labored by producing statistical data and well
established truths, to convince their judgments,
of the propriety of encouraging to a greater ex
tent at home and at the South, the various
Mechanic arts. We hope that the Society will
have the excellent address published, as its pa
triotic and manly sentiments, whilst they reflect
merited honor upon its author, cannot fail to ad
vance the interests of the association and commu
nity at large.
Thf. Weather. — We have had se\ eral heavy
rains during the past week, which have revived
the crops in this section very much. On Thurs
day afternoon we had some hail in the city as
large as rifle bullets, which came from a heavy
cloud in the South-west, and from the sudden
change in the atmosphere, which rendered fires
quite comfortable to a late hour yesterday, must
have been very extensive in the up-country.
Sabbath School Celebration.— The Union
celebration of the various Sabbath Schools in
this city and vicinity, came off on Saturday last.
The number of scholars, their ge.neral good or
der, and the universal interest manifested in be
half of the interesting scene, all conspired to
render the day one long to be remembered, not
only by those participating in the festivities of
the occasion, but by all who feel concerned in
the moral welfare of the community. After
the Schools, with their Superintendents and
Teachers, had formed in procession at tlic Acad
emy square, they proceeded through Walnut,
Third and Mulberry Streets, to the Methodist
Church, where the representatives of the differ
ent Schools entertained the audience with ad.
dresses, and the children joined in singing sev
eral very delightful hymns. Being there dis.
missed, the several companies repaired to their
places of refreshment, and partook of the ample
collations provided for the purpose. Nothing
occurred during the day to occasion regret, and
we presume the hearts of the parents and teach
ers of the pupils were lastingly encouraged in
their praiseworthy enterprise.
Foreign News.— We give the following ad
ditional it°ms by the steamship America :
The Dri ish Government takes no part or re
sponsibility in the expedition of the French
troops for the restoration of the Pope to temporal
power
On the day of the sailing of the America, from
Liverpool, Cotton was steady, but no change in
prices. There was but a moderate business do
ing.
In Ireland, the utmost misery prevails. The
jury in the case of Duffy have again disagreed,
and he has been set at liberiy on bail.
Lord Gough has defeated and overwhelmned
the Sikhs, and the war in the Punjaub is consid
ered at an end.
Brown, Shipley & Co’s. Circular of the 20th of
April states that Cotton is dull and declining.—
The imports for the week amounted to 23,500
bales, and the stock on hand amounted to 457,000
bales, of which 309’000 are American.
tUpThe following gentlemen were elected on
Monday last, Directors for the Bank of the State
of Georgia, at Savannah, viz : Messrs. A. Porter,
R. Hutchison, N. A. Hardee, 11. D. Weed, C.P.
Richardsone, W. T. Williams, B. Snider, and
Joseph Washburn. The latter elected to fill the
place of W. B. Hodgson, Esq., resigned.
At a meeting of the board on Tuesday, Mr. A.
Porter was unanimously re-elected President.
Cotton. —The Receipts of Cotton at all the
ports to Ist inst. were 2,447,689 bales—agains l
1,991,386, same lime last year. Stock on hand
same date 414,981 bales—against 428,892 same
time date last season.
The receipts since Ist September exceed those
of last year 163,573 bales, and the exports 458,-
171 bales. The receipts at Savannah up to
the Bth inst. are 68,847 bales greater than in any
previous year.
O’The New England Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church has been in session
at Springfield, Mass., for a week, and lias just
closed. It refused to consent to the Arbitration
question of difference with the Southern Church,
by a vote of yeas 30 to nays 63.
Baptist Triennial Convention. —We learn
from the Southern Baptist that the Southern
Baptist Convention, which was to have met at
Nashville,Tennessee, on the 2d instant, has been
changed, in consequence of the reported preva
lence of Cholera there. The meeting will be
held in Charleston, S, C. on the 23d instant.
A young man by the name of Richard
Turner, who formerly resided in Augusta, Ga.,
a saddler, committed suicide, by eating opium,
at Staunton, Va., on the 25th ult. Cause: dis
appointment in a love affair.
(O’ Elias 11. Beall, of Talbot county, has
been duly elected Major General of the Tenth
Division, Georgia Militia, in place of Gen. Mc-
Dougald, resigned.
O’The latest accounts from Montreal repre
sent the city comparatively quiet, there has been
no new outbreak. There is nothing doing in
Parliament. The excitement still continues in
Upper Canada, but there has been as yet no at
tack
PARTY SPIRIT.
There is nothing which deserves from thet
patriofmore stern reprehension, than an e ,/
of ardor in political partisanship, as an evil and.
gerous firjiii its inception and destructive to
country’s welfare. There can be no doubt a.
constituted as the human understanding 0
is, wherever it shall be freed from the fetter,
ignorance or the yoke of tyranny, there will, j
ist a diversity of opinions, upon the various Sli
jects presented to it. Hence it is, that j n
popular governments, the citizens have (u r „
different opinions upon national topics— and
those who thought alike would naturally act
concert, and by a disciplined organization co
best succeed in accomplishing their desis.
parties were established.
This there can be no doubt, will proveaust
institution, as long as the partisan adheres tot
cause which he has espoused, because of his ct
viction of its propriety, and his love of counti,
is not merged in that of mere party. The c,
diet of mind caused by the agitation of van
political topics, elicits naturally, new ideasur,
those discussed. Every error in the nation
policy is brought to light, and the State enj: ,
the blessing of a wise and enlightened leg,. -
tion. But as soon the object of the partisan i*
comes tho success of his party, and not the go.,
of his county—as soon as lie is prepared to ~
port the basest and most unprincipled demagog
in opposition to the gentleman of integrity—,
soon as he views those who disagree with hit
as enemies, for exercising their undoubted r i e k
to think and act for themselves, the way j* p!,
ed for future discord and intestine war, to i,
concluded by a violent disposscssal of the rig;
of both, by a foreign enemy or domestic usurper
The people of the United States ought nneij
to encourage this uncharitable excess of part, I
spirit, as our whole political system is base
upon the supposition of the capability of ma|
for self-government—and the whole power tl
the State is not merely theoretically, but praci
cally vested in the people. It would, therefor!:
seem to be the height of absurdity, that whilj
we concede to our neighbor the right of s;'.
government, we should be displeased with hit|
for exercising it. When we examine the strut.|
ture of our government, we must become sals
fied, that an excess of party zeal would brin» J
its train evils of a more serious nature, than if
like amount of it has ever caused to
lar governments.
Our national structure is peculiar—it is coi
stituted now by thirty sovereign States, eachislj
dependent of the other in all its domestic afiain
The powers delegated to the general govei:
ment being precisely marked and defined, wen
only sucliaswere necessary to its cxistence
whilst ability to enforce its commands, was#
strictly limited, as to make obedience to its k
bests become rather voluntary than compulson
The States which constitute this confedeisr
have a variety of conflicting interests, caused!
a diversity of soil, climate, productions and evu
of domestic institutions. It has therefore a,
ways been necessary, in order that all the parti
should work harmoniously together, to adopt tin
policy of mutual concession of conflicting int
restsfor the general welfare. But there is on
subject, viz. that of allowing Congress the rig!
to legislate upon the slavery question, whirl
tlie people of the slavehohling States can neve
submit to compromise without surrendering the:
rights in the same ratio. Unfortunately lb
question has been drawm by designing dean
gogues into the party issues of the country—par
ticularly in tlie noii-slaveholding States—at:
we know of no more effectual way for theSoui!
to arrest this aggression upon tier reserved righa
than by uniting to protect her interests in ihd
property, and requiring from her Senators antM
equivocal rejection for any office, ofany Wilnmi
provisuist, that may be presented for their sat-i
tion at any time. We think this would be ail
effectual remedy, as it would check the zeal cl
many aspiring men in the iion-s!aveho!d;%
States, who are seeking to aggrandize lliemseivu
by agitating the slavery question and identifyii{|
it with party issues in that section of the UnioL
Tlie instant therefore that political partizanship
reaches the point described, the parties are al
most certain to become sectional in their opt
ions—the citizens of each member of the cod- .
federaey will seek to promote the interest
their individual State—the less populous w
necessarily become dissatisfied with their coni
tion—consequently the bonds of union be weal
ened,and the bark of State forced into the Scylla
of dissolution on the one band, or the Charybdii
of consolidation on the other.
God forbid that the people of these Lnitd
States should add another to the melancholy l' sl
of examples, of the instability of popular govern’
ments—but if the troubled waters of section*
prejudice and intense political feeling which U 1!
now developing themselves, be not allayed' ,
the Abolitionists should go on increasing in it 1
same ratio that they have for the last five years
our noble ship of State may find herselt incapi
bio of weathering the storm which threatens li"
and will either be submerged beneath the warn
—or our internal government be radical!;
changed. These are not visionary fears, forth
most casual observer of passing events of the la*
few years, cannot have failed to have notice*
the rapid increase of the Abolition party in ISI
non-slaveholding States.
The natural inquiry now arises, how shall' 1 ' 1
quiet the angry feelings which have arisen ' C’ l '
or will we ever return to our former state 11
peace and domestic tranquility ? We think t lf
course suggested above, may accomplish this l !'
sirable end. Let ug unite in defence of our rig" l
and emulate the noble example of our ance»
who framed the gloriousconstitution under w" 1 ’
vve have lived and prospered. Let our North 1 *
brethren remember that the institution of sla' tr
is entwined with our very existence —that" 1
tempting to interfere with this institution:
even agitating the question of its justice,
are violating tlie solemn compact of our unl °
and doing us great injustice—and that we "
resist unto death, any attempt by Congress,
abolish slavery among us. Lot but the l°' e
our common country be paramount in us to
devotion to party, then shall be •*
“ All the clouds which lower’d upon otirli° u!
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried-