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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
SATURDAY KVKMNti, JUNE 4, 1853.
Amazonia—The Memphis Convention.
A letter of Lieut. Maury to the committee of the ‘
convention about assembling in Memphis, upon the sub- i
jeet of our future relation with the South American Re- j
publics has excited very general comment throughout
the country. The object of the convention is pretty ,
generally known and very naturally arouses jealousy in
those sections whose interests will probably be effected
if its object be attained.
The communication breathes throughout a spirit of
patriotic fire. There are no “ifs” and ‘‘anon” and
•‘provideds,” but a straight forward enthusiastic detail
of results that can he realized by opening a trade with
the Amazon country. He tells the convention plainly
what enterprise has don** and ought still to do. and which
if not exercised in one direction most certainly will be in
another. lie shows how the enterprise of the North has
almost turned the Mississippi river up side down—and
how by the multiplication of railroads and canals,
northern capitalists have emptied the resources of al
most the whole northwestern country, and of the Up
per Mississippi into the lap of New York city—and
urges upon the convention the project of a trade with
the South American States which he deinonstatcs, may
be made to prove as lucrative to us as the East Indies
have to Great Britain.
The countries which the Amazon waters yield in tiie
richest luxuriance all the products of tropical climes
The governments of these countries are most friends
towards us, and nothing impedes the immediate and
direct communication with them, but that Brazil claims
the exclusive control over the mouth of the river. Our
government is urged to enter into negotiation with
Brazil for the free navigation of this river towards the
country which it drains. This free navigation for these
States should be granted even by natural right, and
when once secured we have but to gather the fruit
which is ready to fall into our hands. Lieut. Maury
draws the following picture of the results of this reci
procal communication, a picture gorgeous in the ex
treme, but not fanciful, for its truthfulness i.s as demon
strative as the laws of meum and tuurn.
“VVe may imagine one of our children standing ,a the
last of the Chickasaw Bluffs, counting the Amazonian
boats as they pass and repass, and telling their cargoes.
“There goes one,” we may suppose him to say, “deeply
laden, from the Rocky Mountains. She is to discharge
her cargo at the foot of the great falls, where the
Amazon take its last leap from the Andes. She ex
changes salutation with one just coming up the riyer
from Eastern Peru. Her cargo is an assorted one of
great value ; flue wool, precious metals, spices, cocoa.
Peruvian bark, and a great variety of tropical fruits*
both rich and rare, m ike up the assortment.
“There is one from Bolivia ; she has a cargo of to
bacco and coffee as superior to that of Mocha and Ha
vana as the coffee of Brazil is to Jack Tar’s best ‘Scotch.’ ”
“That one coming down the river there is from Pitts
burg, with a shipment ol glass, hardware and fancy arti
cles. She is bound for the markets of Quito, and is go
ing on <i tiading voyage with the eastern orovinces of
Ecuador, 1> goid dust, cochineal, indigo, and other dyes
more brilliant by tar even than the Syrian.
“That oi.e that i.s now passing her is from the diamond
region of Brazil, where the rivers aiso roll down their
jewelled sanos, bright with gold and precious stones.
“There is one just turning into the landing at Mem
phis. She is in tiie drag and dye-stuff trade. She has
tne most brilliant of crimsons, scarlet and purple, with
the richest assortment of spices and gums that ever cross
ed the seas.”
New Orleans, and Para, Tabinga and Wheeling, St.
Louis and Nauta, would each and all be in connection
oy reguair lines ot steamboats. Tiie upper countries of
Jie Amazon, and the people of the head waters of the
Mississippi, the Missouri, and their tributaries, would be
in closer and mole easy communication than the people
the Tennessee and the Ohio were with New Orleans
when we were bov-.
* ** * * * * *
When that day conies, the mouths of the Mississippi
and the Amazon, New Orleans and Para, without tiie
aid of the lamp or t he* wand of any sorcerer, will be with
in two weeks of each other.
Amazonia will supply this country with all the inter
tropical productions of the world—for it is a country
whether we consider the wealth of its mineral or vegeta
ble kingdom, ot unsurpassed riches and resources.
W hile we are receiving these things from this mao-ic
“India.” the United States would support the workshops
and afibrd the granary for that country.
ihe boat yards of the Amazon would be of the Ohio
and Upper Mississippi ; the flouring mills if the Amazon !
would be on the James river ; her packing houses in our
grazing States ; and her looms among our manufacturing I
people. = j
Such results are enough 10 startle one even in this
progressive age, but they are a fact which can be realized
and mill be. This in conjunction with the Pacific
! ailroad——the building of which ere long by some route
or other, may now be considered a fixed fact—opens to
us a future so magnificent and resplendant that one can
hardly allow himself to contemplate it. St. Louis or
some place in about the same longitude, will become
the terminus ot the Pacific road, thus becoming an en
trepot for our whole China and Asiatic trade, and New
Orleans the mart for our South American. We need
not tether uraw conclusions. The results suggest
themselves, which are of such a character as to call for
the earn* st and energetic action of the whole Southern
and W estern people, and indeed of tne whole country.
We observe that ridicule has been attempted to be
cast upon such supposed possibilities, and Lieut. Maury
represented as a visionary enthusiast. This has of course
come from the Northern press in which the New York
Tribune leads oft’. The country and its resources are
contemptuously alluded to as producing nothing but
iever, malaria and reptiles. Suehfalsehoods iu the face
oi tacts could only have been uttered by this hot house
ot isms and rottenness. Any opposition to a project,
liouevei, that bias ta;r to benefit the South, even though
it benefit the whole country at the sametime will be re
sorted to. Admit, however, such to be the state of
the country, what then ? No one can doubt its fertility
*nd the nature ot ns productions. Did the climate of
the East Indies have to be metamorphosed before the
rich fabnes and species, and gems could enrich England?
e have not space at present for farther comment
upon this subject, but earnestly hope that tiie members
es the convention for whose consideration the letter was
more especially pound, will take up the subject with
azral commensurate with its importance. Ia ISI9 the
leading subject of discussion in a convention held iu the
same city was the Pacific Railroad, and a resolution I
as passed endorsing a certain route. We hope no I
sectional views will influence the members in the
choice of a route so greatly as to retard the project,
Z v ew ß of CR mauifeßted by Lieut. Maury in
“and hem p, °* PeC,iVe S. America will
r , ‘* ‘ fe^b %- The convention
-for 2 ? y “ r feSUhed in bu * !M good
mre.bor. C U „, P * **“ -**, P~XI. that i.s
partv hack* .. u * 11 great extent, politicians and
oy of generous wu., , nJ MuJcr BaW .
more hospitalities,and flatter Baltimore women—with a
promise to return whenever like inducements should be
offered. We want in such a convention business m< n
—men of capital and enterprise, who have something
at slake besides a re-election to Congress and the re
plenishing of a hungry carcass. Our capitalists and
established merchants must take hold of these matters,
if ever they are to succ- ed. We hope the members
of the Memphis convention are composed principally of
such men. Wo shall watch their proceedings with
great interest.
A Nuisance.
The numbers of dogs that range our city in troops
are an insufferable nuisance. The Lord knows we have
enough to annoy us between suns in the way of musqui
toes, dust and heat without being aroused every hour
by the yelpings and hovvlings of packs of curs which are
allowed to range the streets ad libitum.
An ordinance was passed by our Council making it
the Marshal’s duty to kill all dogs that should be found
in the streets, minus a collar, but like almost ail such
provisions, it is a dead letter. What is the use of offi
cers if the duties assigned them be not performed ?
What is the use of laws if they are not enforced ? What
is the use of u Mayor and board of Aldermen if they
are to meet but to enact laws and go to sieep over the
fact whether they are executed or not? Shooting may
be a questionable mode of exterminating the brutes—
but as the city fathers have determined upon this plan
it ought to be carried out, let the consequences be what
they may.
Besides the annoyance to which those are subject
who would enjoy quiet, it is absolutely dangerous at
times to walk the streets at night. The hungry, prowl
ing canines after sleeping and lounging about in alleys
and bye-ways during the day, sally out at night to
gratify their appetite, and propensity for mischief. Not
unfrequently we have been forced to cross the street
to avoid an encounter, and have known more than one
instance where it was dangerous for a man to enter his
own yard—some stray dog having taken possession for
the time being to gather what he could in the way of
food.
If owners will not keep their dogs at home and en
closed they should suffer tho penalty of having them
shot or poisoned. But four fifths of these prowling,
snapping brutes have no owners—unless the common
Council have adopted them—and should be exterminat
ed instanter. We hope dog killing wiil become the or
der of the day—let the black flag bo unfurled by the
execution ex-officio, and try if he can not raise a heca
tomb to the principle of law and duty and quiet repose.
I What will the Whig Party do for a Living!
; We were not a little amused at the call for a meeting
to be held next sherifl”s sale day, by our neighbor of
J the Enquirer “inviting and expect ng Union Demo
i crats as-iyell as Whigs to join in the deliberations.”
You're hard yp, neighbor. The Democrats are united
too strongly already fur your good. That “Union Dem
ocrat” what got up tho hand-bill some days since will
doubtless do your biddiiig and splutter extensively.
But as our neighbor seems to £e smelling around for a
scent to some trail, we commend to'%' m tho following
advice by Greelet, which is thus pithily j?tl? by that
pungent patriotic Democratic journal, the New Haven
Register.
I <(
‘tiie use of a whig party.”
vVe took up the New York Tribune a day or two
since, as a sort ot recreation, for there is nothing more
amusing than its philosophical and labored disquisitions
on “the Democracy”—and its bitterness is 30 ridiculous
that we read them with the same relish that we do
the effusions oi the renowned Mrs. Partington. They
are the most harmless ot philipics, the most ludicrous of
denunciations. On this occasion, we were hugely de
lighted with an essay, a column in length, as to what
was “the use oi a whig party?” and as every one knows
that it is ot no use at all, that it lias been but of “a
few days and full of trouble”—we were curious enough
to see what were Mr. Greeley’s conclusion on the sub.*
jeet. Well—he goes on to admit that “there will al- j
ways be a great party” assuming to be the Democratic j
party, which will generally be in the ascendant ; that
the too commonly received impression, however, that it
is “too radical,” and that the whig party is simply a
“brake,” to keep it3 wheels from going too fast, is a
great m’stake and that if the whig party can find no
better business than “trying to rein the Democracy, it
had better adjourn without delay. We were surprised
to fin ! Greeley admitting these self-evident propositions
—and came at once to the conclusion that he was about
to submit some“indus rial” theory which would indicate
a more practical line of usefulness for “a whig party ,”
than in trying to throw the Democratic Engine off’ the
track. We read on eagerly and soon found ourselves
in possession of “tne great idea”—and we are free to
confess that it is the best advice we have ever known j
the T. ibune to give the whig party. It is not to quar- j
re! with the administration of M.i. Pierce—to abuse his |
C ibinet, or to misrepresent its measures—not to knock |
its bra 1 ns out asrainst the sub-treasury, or to £jet up a j
panic on the tariff—but to go to work and build “the
Pacific Railroad /” Eureka I This, says Greeley, is ;
the legitimate “use of a whig party.”
Wastward ho ! We see, in our mind’s eve, the for- 1
lm-n hope of wh'ggery, casting away the choice and cx~ j
pressive banners with which it marched to the last Pres
identia! battle, and “taking up the shovel and the hoe,” :
start for the fulfilment of its legitimate destiny, with high !
hopes, and a calling which promises sooner to realize!
their old anticipations of “two dollars a day and roast ;
beef,” than any other scheme which has ever before agi- j
tated their councils.
There neighbor, is a chance for you. Take your ‘‘Uni
on Democrat” along with you—he’ll do to tote the The
odolite.
Railroad from Eufaula.
The people of Eufaula and o Barbour county, are
arousing from their lethargy. We give to-day an arti
cle from the Spirit of the South , setting forth conclu
sively to us the necessity and practicability of building
a Railroad from Eufaula to intersect the Girard and
Mobile road. Our neighbois may lest assured of the
hearty sympathy of the people of Columbus, and it will
be manifested in a substantial way if they will outgo to
work resolved to accomplish the enterprise. Progress
is becoming the ruling spirit of tho South. Let the
good work go on.
Santa Anna in Trouble,
. seems that the new Protector of Mexico is
in trouble already. The latest advices state :
‘'ln consequence of an order of the Supreme
Government to incorporate the National Guards
ot ine State ot Vera Cruz into the regular army
the National Guards attempted to drive the 7th
regiment of the line out of Vera Cruz.
“Alter fighting for the space of three days
without making any impression upon the troops,
who had received a reinforcement from Jalapa,
the Government,assisted bv the leading mer
chants and inhabitants, prevailed, and tranquility j
was restored.
“About fifty of tho National Guards are re
ported to have been killed and fifty to have been
taken prisoners.
“On the receipt of the news of the disturb
ances at Vera Cruz, the government immediate
ly ordered the march of 2,000 veterans, with 14
A,
pieces of artillery, who had arrived at Puebla at ,
the last dates, hut it is to be hoped tnat they
would counter march as soon as it was ascer- ;
tained that their services were no longer need- j
ed.
[From the Spirit of the South.]
The Eufaula Railroad.
Messrs. Editors We have all read the pro- j
ceedings of the late Railroad festival atColum* ;
bus, and what citizen of our county did not heart- j
ily wish that he miglffwitness such a celebration j
here ? There is not a man in the county who
would not rejoice at such an event. Much has :
already been said a ndprinted m iavor ot build- ;
mg a Railroad from Eufaula to intersect the ;
Girard road. Our people, we are tally persua
ded, understand the advantages of such a work,
1 and properly appreciate them. I hen why is
not something done—some plan ot operation
adopted to insure the success of the scheme ?
One thing is certain, the railroad carnot build
itself. If we get it, we shall be compelled to
pay for it and that liberally too, in money or la
bor. One man cannot build l t; a dozen cannot
do it—the work requires the united efforts of all.
In consideration of the great benefit to be con
ferred upon the county by such a road, it has
been proposed that the county should subscribe
for SIOO,OOO of the stock. Tins she can easily
do, and so manage the payment of her Bonds
as not to embarrass her Treasury or impose a
burden upon us. lam a warm friend to that
measure, and was the first to propose it. The
State tax in our county for last year was $27,-
000. Suppose we take SIOO,OOO in the Rail
road stock : that it should require three years to
complete the road; thatthe investment paid only
\Q per cent. —even then a special tax of 50 per
| cent, on the State tax would redeem the Bonds in
| seven years t as the interest on the stock would
j pay off the balance due at the end of that year !
1 The tax could be reduced to a lower figure if de
sired, and let the Bonds have a longer time to
matute. After the s f ock is paid for, the income
from it will be sufficient to defray the county
expenses, and our people would ever afterwards
he free from all taxes for county purposes. But
the county cannot subscribe without a vote of
her citizens, anci that cannot be had until the
next Legislature authorizes the election. But
why should we wait until then ? The SIOO,OOO
from, the county vnll not build the road. How
jis tho balance to be raised ? By individual
subscriptions. The business season is now over,
and it is a favorable time to commence the good
work. Let arrangements be made at once to
open Books for subscription. I think it would
behest to have the notes fall due in one. two and
three years from first J anuary next. The sub
scriptions might aiso be on condition that a
specified amount be raised. I have strong hopes
ofassistance from Columbus, as she is deeply
interested in the completion of our road. She
could very easily subscribe $50,000 in the stock
|of the Muscogee Road. If Glennville will do
jaftEJ3Urt f I prefer to have the Road pass through
j or near that village. Htiff citizens are intelligent,
wealthy and liberal, will_^7ve*al?
| the material aid in their pevver. The Mobile
i and Girard road will certainly be built. A great
1 prize is within our reach. By a Railroad of 011-
i ly thirty miles , we can bring to our doors Mo
i bile, Columbus, Montgomery, Savannah, Char
! lesion, and all the Northern cities. Our peo
ple have slumbered long enough. The time for
action has arrived. If we ever intend to do
j anything but talk, now is tho time to begin.—
The time is corning when it will be too late to
i act. We have held meetings and massed reso
iutions until we have made ourselves ridiculous
at homo and abroad. I propose that the Town
Council meet privately and appoint a committee
to open books for subscription. T hat com
mittee should be composed of men residing in
different parts of the county. They should be
urged to go to work at once—there i3 danger in
delay; but prompt and efficient action will crown
our efforts with success.
E. S. S.
Eufaula, May 30, 1853.
Tiie Koockogky Pitchers.— We bad a view
yesterday, at Mr. S. Wiilmot’s jewelry store, of
the t~ro beautiful silver pitchers which are to be
presented to Mr, Koockogey by the Savannah
delegation to the recent railroad festival at Co
lumbus. T'iie p tchers, which were manufac
tured by Mr. Wilmot, are elaborately and taste- i
fully ornamented, and bear the following in-!
scription,engraved by Mr. R. H. Howell
PRESENTED TO
-SAMUEL KOOCKOGEY,
By the Savannah Delegation ,
In token of their appreciation of hia hospitalities
on their trip to Columbus.
May 19th, 1853.
„ We m ay remark that the compliment to Mr.
Koockogey was prompted by a spontaneous !
impulse oi grateful acknowledgment of the very
agreeable suprise given to the Savannah dele
tion by his impromptu treat, at a time when the
fatigue of a long journey conspired to make
it au the more acceptable. The entire transac- j
lion rests on its own merits. Mr. Koockogey !
is not indebted to the enthusiasm excited by the i
Columbus reception and entertainment—which j
on the return of the delegation would have i
prompted a subscription to build a Town Hall
for the Chattahoochee City—but to his own in
dividual generous and well-timed hospitality, j
for the gratitude and esteem of his Savannah j
friends.— Sac. Rep.
A list of some ol the rascals.
Hickumstick, before his departure for the
Penitentiary, gave a prisoner in Jail, a iist of
names, their places of residence and description
of those he said composed his gang. He said
he would have turned State’s evidence against
them, were it not for the belief that they would
have broke him out of Jail. During Court one
or two of his reported gang were seen here ; if
their object was that of rescuing him from pri
son, they u'ere, for once, disappointed. ,
The following are the places of residence of
those suspicious characters: Two reside in]
Tallapoosa co., Ala., one in Montgomery, Ala., j
one in Columbus, Ga., and one in West” Point, j
Ga. The one that lived in West Point, we un- ;
derstand, has gone to other parts. Several of
our citizens Know 6ome of the mjh named, and
say they have never known any good of them.
The list is now in the possession of the Sheriff
of this county. The officers or some good citi
zen of the places mentioned, might do the com
munity at large some benefit by getting the
names of these gents and keep a vigilant eye
upon them.— Lagrange Reporter.
[From the New York Herald.]
Southern Commercial Convention.
On the 18th of December, 185*2, a Southern
Trade Convention assembled at Baltimore, >
which was very slimly attended. Wm. C. Daw
son, who represents in part the State ot Geor
gia in the United States Senate, was chosen ;
president, and a number of vice presidents were
also appointed. After a session oi one day, j
during which no particular business was trans
acted, the convention adjourned to meet at
Memphis, in the State of Tennessee, on the first
Monday in June. After the adjournment, the
delegates, who were mostly members of Con
gress, participated in the festivities and enjoy
ments of a grand banquet given by the citizens
and Board of Trade of Baltimore in honor of
the occasion, and at which was a congregation
of some five hundred persons. The banquet
gave eclat to the whole affair, and directed the
attention of the supporters of Southern interests
to the body which wiil assemble at Memphis on
the 6th proximo. Avery large number of dele
gates have been appointed by the respective ,
Governors of the slaveholding States, and if but
one half of the members deputed shall attend, it
will yet be the largest convention ever assembled
in this country. If we take the aggregate nurn
ber appointed by the Governor of Maryland,
which is two hundred and seventy-one, as the
proportion from each State, it will make four
thousand and sixty-five delegates on the part of
the States ; and to insure a full attendance,
each one is empowered, in case of inability to
attend, to appoint a substitute. In addition to
these, the piincipal Southern cities and villages,
and in some localities, even counties and towns,
have appointed additional delegates for in
stance, the city of Richmond will send one
hundred ; Charleston, S. C., fifty; Anne
Arundel county, Md., six; dec. Previous to the
meeting of the convention, it will be impossible
to arrive at the exact number, but we think we
can safely put down the aggregate number ap
i pointed at eight thousand—five thousand of
whom will no doubt appear, and take part in
; the proceedings. Among the objects contem
i plated by the convention, and which wiil be
■ called up for action during its sitting, are the fol*
j lowing :
The establishment of a continental depot of
| cotton, in opposition to Liverpool.
The direct exportation of cotton by the plan
: ter, thus doing away with middle men, middle
! warehouses, middle commissions, middle insu
; ranees, and all that interminable medium which
i eats up our substance and concentrates ourex
| ports at Liverpool.
; To build up a Southern importing market,
• in opposition to New York.
) To establish, through railroad alliance, more
Wmipathy with the great .West and .Northwest,
socm'iVy, ‘cbmm'cVCYaiVy, and nationally. ‘ \
To have one or more lines of steamers to Eu- .
rope.
To induce emigration through Southern ports,
to pass to the West by a communication al
ways open, expeditious, and cheap, or to settle
on our fertile lands.
To stimulate manufactures and general indus*
try.
To educate our children at home—io spend
our wealth at home.
To aim at commercial and industrial inde
pendence.
By the above it will bo seen that the move
ment is an important one, and the practical wis
dom of all the Southern States will be brought
in requisition to further the objects and estab
lish the principles thus set forth. The proceed
ings of the convention will be watched with
eagerness bv the North and East, as on its de
cision may rest a continuance of the rapid growth
and prosperity of those States whose interests
are at stake.
Escape of Another of the Irish Patriots.—
The Catholic Mirror has received information
that “ -hitrick O Donohue, another of the Irish
exiles, has escaped from Van Diemian’s Land,
and lro:.i the clutches of Governor Denison and
the English Government. It is thought he left in
one of the American ships trading to Australia,
and will arrive at ono of the American ports on
the Atlantic side in the course of a short time.”
The Mirror, which says the news is from a
good source, adds that it is in possession of
very important information on this subject, but
refrains from publishing it at present, or giving
the name of the place from whence it derived
the news.
One Happy Heart. —Have you made one hap
py heart to-day ? Envied privilege. How
calmly you can seek your pillow : how sweetlj’
sleep! in all this world there is nothing so sweet
as giving comfort to the distressed, as getting
a sun ray into a gloomy heart. Children of
to-morrow meet us wherever we turn; there is
no moment that tears are not shed, and sighs
uttered. Yet how many of those tears, those
sighs, are caused by our own thoughtlessness
How many a daughter wrings the very soul of
a fond mother by acts of unkindness and ingra- ;
titude ! How many husbands, by one little
word, make a whole day of sad hours and un
kind thoughts ! How many wives, by angry
recriminations, estrange and embitter loving j
hearts ? How many brothers and sisters meet ;
but to vex and injure each other, making
j v ounds that no art can heal ? Ah iif each one
worked upon this maxim day by day—“strive
to make some heart happy’ s —jealousv,revenue,
madness, hate, with their kindred evil associates’
would forever leave the earth. Our minds I
| would be so occupied in the contemplation of
adding to the pleasure of others, that there would
.be no room for the ugly fiends of discord. Try
it, ye discontented, forever grumbling devotee's
of sorrow, self-caused ; it will make that little
part of the world in which you move fair a
Eden.
1
“What is that dog barking at?” asked a fop i
whose boots were more polished than his ideas.
“Why,” replied a bystander, “because he sees I
another puppy in your boots'’*
HEAVEN.
Oh ? Heaven is nearer than mortals think,
VVhen thev look with a trembling dread
At the mUty future that stretches on
From the silent homo oi the dead.
*Tis no lone isle in a boundless main,
No brilliant, but distant shore,
Where the lovely ones who are called away
Must go to return no more.
No—Heaven is near us: the mighty veil
Os mortality blinds the eye,
That we see ru t the angel bands
On the shores of eternity.
Yet oft in the hours of 1 oly thought,
To the thirsting soul is given
That power to pie ce through the midst of sense.
To the beauteous scenes of Heaven.
Then very near seems its pearly gates.
And sweetly its harptugs fall ;
Till the soul is re-'tless to soar away,
And longs lor the angel call. I
I know, when the sih'er cord is loosed,
When the veil is tent away,
Not long and dark shall the passage be
To the realms of endless day.
The eye that shut- in a dying hour,
Will open the next in bliss,
The welcome will sound in a heavenly world.
Ere the farewell is hushed in this.
We pass Irom the claSj of mourning friends,
To the arms of the loved and lost ;
And those smiling faces will greet us then,
Which on eaith we have valued most.
Sketches of Character.
No. XL.
THE VERY MORAL MAN.
A black suit of clothes, a white cravat, and a
pair of highly-polished creaking shoes, are the ex
ternal symbols of vour “o’er gude man.” He
looks upon the world as a large undertaker’s
shop, to which people should he continually
rushing to be measured for a coffin. ’The heav
ens he would have hung in black, if he coulJF
The gay singing of the birds he would have
changed to psalmody—the green sward, which
invites to gamboling and frolic, he would con
vert into a pall—and the flowers, with ther
variegated colors and delicious odors, he would
have nipped in the bud, lest they incite to vani
ty. Little does he seem to think that his atra
bilious and sombre thoughts are continually at
war with the Beneficence of the Creator, who
arrayed the flowers in rich garments, carpeted
the meadows with green, and made the air vo
cal with feathered songsters, for the delight and
pleasure of us all; and that we right,
in gratitude or reason, to.#ppear or to feel, in
different to the bounties and beauties thus lavish
ly spread before us. We have no right to go
> sneaking and whining through the world as
l though we had no business with it. It was
| made for us, and despite the lachrymose nonsense
| of fanatical canters, it was made for us to en
| joy. We always feel disposed to doubt the
j genuineness of that man’s morals, who insis^
| severely on the strict observance of mere c on-
I volitional forms. That man’s morality is pu
rest, best, and most Christian, which is ac
companied grateful’ appreciation and
Warm hearted acknowledgment of the rational
enjoyments of life. He who shuts himself out
from society, to avoid temptation, proclaims
his own weakness. We have no objection, if
he feel his own inability to keep straight,
that he should not attempt to walk, but we do
most positively deny, because he is weak in
the foot and morally dyspeptic, that he has a
right to say to us, “Walk not, lest ye stumble
—partake not of social enjoyment, for fear of
disordering thy morai stomach.” The morality
of such men, in great part, consists in the fact
of not being discovered in tricks of roguery and
deceit. In thus teaching and preaching, they
always overstep the mark. ‘They do not con
tent themselves with warring against the abuse
of the good things of life, but go dead against
their use. This makes their pupils antagonis
tical at once, because they know there is no
sin in their proper use, and shocked, at the un
just demand made upon their forbearance, they
are often impelled to taste the flavor ot
abuse.
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