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For the Crusader.
Nameless Rhyme.
When “Jenny” strikes her heaven-given lyre,
Drawing from passion’s clouds electric fire,
Which glances, sparkling o'er each silver string,
“Leon” awakes and “Florio” strives to sing.
Each stretches forth his hand to grasp the prize;
Each dreams his rising fame shall reach the skies.
A dreamer, too, I join the motley throng,
(Borne onward by the swelling tide of song,
Whose turbid waves, fast rising on the shore,
Threaten Parnassus with thiir sullen war.)
How unliedgcd bards, who scarce their pens control,
Wax warm with curses on the ruddy bowl,
All speak of ttine, quite negligent of gin,
And juleps, smashes, agents all of sin,
Direct their darts against the weakest foe,
And at the strongest aim no deadly blow.
Port and Madeira wake poetic rage ;
Nectar and Peach arc reverenced for their age.
Shall Whisky kill its victims every day,
And still, unchallenged, hold its sovereign sway ?
Come, now, ye youthful aspirants for fame,
Upon his flag, see your opponent’s name;
Sharpen your p n=, and arming for the fight,
Put your ignoble enemy to flight.
Intemperance in a thousand forms appears;
Then let us smite it in each garb it wears;
And having cut its crimson doublet through,
Attack its garment of a paler hue.
Mark how it steals the strength of youth away,
Dooms manhood to a premature decay,
Drags age with tottering footsteps to the tomb
And quenches genius in uneading gloom.
Yet party leaders must invoke its aid,
When votes are sold, a price is to be paid;
Well aimed with jugs, upon the field they come,
And buy success with copious draughts of rum.
Speakers may rant, and candidates may boast;
lie wins the race who “treats” his friends the most
Alas! my country, ’twas an evil hour, *
When casks were made the stepping-stones to power.
Oh 1 dark and sad indeed must be our fate,
When brandy-bottles prop the chain of state.
.Shades of dead heroes from your tombs arise,
Revive your nation’s virtue ere she dies;
Visit again the scenes ye once held dear.
Thunder your warnings in each freeman’s ear;
Arrest corruption ere it farther spreads,
Avert the storm that lowers o’er our heads.
But not around the ballot-box alone,
The demon, drunkenness, its spell has thrown ;
’Tis found ’mid all the varied scenes of life,
Goading the passions, urging on tostrife-.-’
See the wild light it kindles in the eyes—-
So glares the sinner, ere he, shrieking dies,
As does the drunkard, when With boisterous shout,
From midnight haunts of sin he staggers out.
Follow the monster homeward to his door,
Then pause, the sickened heart can bear no more;
Look not within, upon his weeping wife,
And infant child, just ushered into life;
Their grief is sacred; their imploring cry,
‘Unheard on earth,-shall reach the throne on high.
Women of Georgia! this may be your fate;
The teuderest love may change to fieroMoi*te.
Yes! he who cannot love you now too well,
May turn your future home into a hell;
Care o’er your brightest hopes may cast a shade,
And sorrow’s touch cause all your charms to fade.
Lest this dread doom upon your heads should fall,
To sayc yourselves* upon you now we call.
Haste to the rescue, rush upon the field, ,
Grasp the blights-pear, and shake the glittering shield;
Full on the squadrons of the foe advance,
And to their hearts direct the shining lance.
The unequal contest none will dare to try,
The host of crime will from your presence fly.
Then shall the thauks of thousands greet your ears,
Mothers shall bless you in their evening prayers ;
Poets emba'm your names in sweetest lays,
And future ages echo with your praise.
MERLIN.
Athens, Ga.
Politics, Parties, and So Forth.
It may not be necessary to define our position
in reference to political parties —we hardly think
it is ; but as we wish to say some things in con
nection wi h this matter, we will do so, even at
>he iisle of repeating what our loulers already
distinctly understand. *
The temperance sentiment of"the state is diffus
ed among all classes, conditions, denominations
and parties of men ; and our mission as conduct
ors of the Prohibitionist, is to find it wherever we
can, and embody it in right action—to make it,
not the basis of anew church or party, but a pow
er and a-life in all organizations, political and ec
clesiastical, bring ng them up to the requisitions of
a law that demands pure appetites as the pre-re
qu’site of pure lives, and while.it says, “Love God
and man,” with equal emphasis enjoins, “ Do thy
self no harm ” It is our business to recognize
this sentiment wherever it exists; if dormant, to
quicken it into new life; if active, to co operate
with, ami-wnduct it to Where we
fait to find if, our mission is to create it;'m-t by
showing that or.e political party is right and an
other wrong ; one re!ipons denomination ortho
dox, and another heretical; but that inn iterance
is suited to all men : that it is a need of man, in
every department of his complex nature, and in
harmony with the law of l.is physical and his mo
ral being. Os course, we have no controversy
with ecclesiastics, except to far as they ignore, or
neglect, the claims of the temperance movement:
none with politic! ms, beyond what grows out of
their indiffeignee, or hostility, to the great Interest
which we advocate.
As with individuals, so with parties —all will be
bet'er for a practica l recognition of the claims of
temperance upon them, both as a personal duty
and a beneficent Enterprise. No t: ue political
interest can be put in jeopardy by its triumph. It
is not opposed to democracy —if democracy m >ans
“the largest l.beriy of the individual, compatible
with the security of society,” or “the greatest good
of the greatest number.” It is not antagonistic to
wh ; ggery, if wbiggeiy implies, “Industrial Devel
opment, as the corner stone of a true and benig
nant National Policy.” In fact, it would be diffi
cult to find a politician of any name, who would
confess to any principle or purpose entertained by
his parly, opposed to the reform which we would
render universal, or obstruetng. even indirectly,
i’s onward progress and final tiiumph. Vet not
withstanding tt:is general recognition of temper
ance as an abs*ract good, many politicians man
age to justify their opposition to every practical
movein nt for its promotion, and will sometime?
inveigle whole platoons of their partizans into a
f&Ue position in regard to it, thus rendering them,
for the time being, the opposers of a cause, in
whose consummation their own highest interests
are involved.
We ask—not that this party should be repudi
ated, and that sustained, but that the good men
of all parties should see that their several organi
zations respect the temperance principle; and that
themselves should never sacrifice it for the sake of
obtaining a partizan success. Civil government is
of God : are none but tipplers, rowdies,.and black
legs, or men who will throw the protection of law
over the gambling hell and the liquor saloon,
qmlifted for its administration ? If the parties
put such men in nomination Lr office, as they
sometimes do, what is the inference to be drawn
from their conduct? Either that they have no
go3(1, upright, moral men in their ranks, or that
the party is so generally and hopelessly corrupt,
that such men have rTo In iness there; or that
the honest porti* n tacitly consent that the rogues
of ihe party shail monopolize all the offices, under
the sanction of “regular nominations,” and in obe
dience to “ party usage.” This is all wrong.—
The friends of virtue, in every party, owe it to
themselves, ar.d to the organizations with which
they are affi iated, that temperance and morality
shall not be ignored in their c ucus nomina'ions.
They should insist upon this. Would they em
ploy a drunken preacher to expound to them the
scriptures, Sabbath after Sabbath ? Or a drunken
schoolmaster to instruct tin ir children in the nidi
ments of knowledge? No. In the one instance
ihey would fed that God was insulted—in the
other, that the best interests of their children were
impeliled. Both of these evils meet, in the e!ec
tion of drunken rulers; for if civil government is
God’s institution, then is lie insulted when “the
wi ked bear rule;” and if the character of the
law-maker natura ly impresses itself upon his laws,
then may we expect that,they will partake.of the
defective morality of their authors, and transmit
it to society, and, if unrepealed, to generations yet
unborn. Nations have been corrupted and de
stroyed in precisely this way; and none is so ex
a'ted and prosperous, that it can chetisli the cause
of rttirt, and yet claim exemption from its legiti
mate effect. „
Jhe drunkard has neither moral nor mental fit
ness for the office ofUaw maker; and it is wise,
when we are abowjftto select candidates for high
official stations, not the confirmed sot only, but
also the man who is evidently on the highway to
drunkenness; the habitual tippler, fashionable or
un p a-hicn tble. Just to the decree that men are,
under the influence of intoxicating liquor, they are
unfitted for the grave duties of legislator) or of
PENFIELD, GA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3,185 ft
magistrate, or, in short, of anySPufficjal trust what
ever! Does not that fact co&cern the good men
of all parties ?
We have a question to ask, which may as Well
l>a asked now as a year hence: Ilaw can teftifter
an -e u.en, having a due regard for their solemn
p'edge and Covenant, to do all jn their power to
advance the interests of th’s reform, and feeling
also their responsibility’to society, and to ‘theft own
children, to promote the cause of sound ntorafity
—how can such men give their suffrage s to any
one seeking political preferment, whether it be the
■office of constable or that of pr esident, who either
drinks or sells iuthxTeating poisons ? We are not
alone in asking the question, Thousands have
done so already, and answered it. Tens of thou
sands wi l do so before the days of the year mow
begun are numbered, and the ballot boxes will
give emphasis .to tlreir answer. We do not wish
to obtrude our advice, unasked, upon politicians;
but we have a pret’y decided conviction that the
day has gone by when men can clamber into office
on a ladder of wlrskey barrels.
Politicians sometimes complain that temperance
is a “disturbing element” in their party, arrange
ments. We are sorry that it is so—or rather, we
are sorry that they should have any arrangements
that can be “disturbed” by temperance. Put the
difficulty can be easily obviated.’ Let the several
parties agre§ in this t that howewr widely they
differ in ordinary po'rieal issues, they will unite
their efforts in behalf of this reform, and so secure
its early consummation. If #ur advice is reject
ed, it may cost temperance men some trouble, but
it wi 1 cost politicians more. If they are wise,
they will receive ard act upon it. There will be
no regurgitation to the tide now setting in against
the liquor traffic, sufficient to save that traffic from
ultimate destruction. Prohibition may have its
transient ebbs; but there is an ocean of public
sentiment behind it, whose strong propulsion shall
send it onward, and still onward, till it rolls with
its healing waters, over wine vat and grog shop,
and distillery, engulphing the one, and quenching
the fires of the other, and purifying the lahd_from
the stains and the curse of a'!.— Prohibitionist.
Keep Your Temper.
“I never can keep an} thing,” cried Emma, al
most crying out with vexation. “Somebody al
ways takes my things and loses them.” She had
mhLid some of her sewing implements.
“There is one thi-g,” remarked mamma, ‘‘that I
should think you might keep up; if you try.”
“I should like-to keep even ore thing,”
Emma.
“Well, then, my dear,” resumed mamma, ?‘keep
your temper ; if you will do that, perhaps you
will find it easy to keep otlier thingß. I dare say
now, if you had employed your time in searchig
for the missing articles, you might have found
them before this time; but you have not even
looked for them. You have only got int > a pas
sion—a b.id way of spending tithe, and you have
accused somebody, and very unjustly, too, of tak
ing away your things and losing them. Keep
your temper, my dear; when you have mislaid
any article, keep your temper and look for it.—
You had better keep your temper, if you lose all
the little property you possess ; getting into a pas
sion never btings anything to light, except a dis
torted face; and by losing your temper, you be
come guilty cf two sins—you get into a passion
and accuse somebody of bang the cutse. So, my
de;r, I repeat, keep your temper.”
Emma subdued her ill humor, searched for the
articles she had lost, and found them in lur work
bag.
“Why, mamma, here they are ; I might have
been sewing all this time, if I had kept my tern
per.”
- <■■
Bombast in the Pulpit. —ln a few anniversary
meetings which we attended, we siw some tokens
of an ex ggerated convulsive, bombastic style of
speaking, which many clergymen think is eloquent.
Our platform declaimed are pecufiary prone to
sio in this manner. One orator having occasion
to sny that in a few years an eniire genera’ion’
would be gone, poured out such words as these—
-4 the waves of time will soon dash them all away
by its irresistible spray”—accompanied by a vio
lent swing of both arms; while by others very
common and simple thoughts wi re illustrated by
fiery comets, mighty earthquakes, and roaring
cataracts. One preacher treated us to a figure of a
mighty railroad to Heaven, the cars of which were
run off the track, and men and women were mak
ing ihe awful plunge —-.duly illustrated by the a r m
thrust down pelow the pulpit. We hope we shall
sometime leirn to utter simple thoughts in simple
words. An idea is not magnified by the great
swehmg terms in which it is set forth. Some of
our fashionable ihetors liave much to answer for
in corrupting the public taste. When a love for
this tinsel and theatrical machinery gets into the
pulpit on the platforms of religious anniversaries,
truth and sincerity are not the things sought for ;
and most solemri things of life become ashes.
ggjT JtJtwri/where —East, west, north and south
—the footstep? of Rum are marked with blood
;uid hope? in wreck. The dtbrvt ot a mind and
shattered humanity rot on every shore where the
monster has lingered, fn spite ot the tffortsof
the ‘ moral suasionists,’ recently so eloquently ad
vocated by the demon’s ‘alliedpowers’ in the Le
gislature, dealers .continue to ply their licensed
engines and people continue to die in the mania
ol tlierr cups. Thousands, in every land, fall be
fore the bold invader, and the slaughter goes on
bravely at our own doors until the world is made
a, wi<je spread Crimea of* carnage. Human life is
weighed in the balances with the rumseller’s till,
and immortality goes down like the bubbles on
the strata, yet, when an ‘effort is made to arrest
the maddened sweep of this damning tide, the
filth of the slaughter pens boil ovey with threats
and denujieiatfous. Men, claiming respectability,
stiike hands with rum and swear that the right to
beggar tire helpless and finally damn jtheir fellow
men, not be ‘ relinquished’ without a ‘strug
gle?
’ We would rejoice to face Rnnfa allies with a
From the Spirit of the Age.
Home.
“The spot ©f earth supremely blest,
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.”
Is there another word in our language which
sends such a thrill of bliss through the human
••heart! At the mention of this little word what
joy, what pleasures, what dear associations flit
q’er the memory—all that is sacred and dear in
life is known and felt in that word, home ! How
the absent one pines for the best, congenial atmos
phere of the dear, sacred spot; how tbe parted
bride clings to her wonted home—and with what
melancholy pleasure the sa lor boy thinks of his
loved and rative home when ‘o’er the glad waters
of the dark blue sea,’ rocked by every passing bil
low, and lulled by 7 the enchanted music of the sea
irerze he sleeps to dream of country and friends,
and slumbering murmurs of ‘home,sw r eet, home.’
Moore has sung, 1 there’s nothing half so sweet in
life as love’s young dream,’ truly there’s nothing
ha'f so sweet in life as one’s own home. When
careworn and vexed with life’s toils, where doe3
the stiong man seek for rppose and happiness?
And, where, after all else has ceased to interest or
amuse, and our hopes and affections are thrown
►back upon themselves, and where do we look-for
an object on which to lavish our heart’s tribute of
affection, where, but to the sacred altar of home ?
Degenerate and unnatural, indeed, must that heart
be, whose memory does not thrill with joy and
b.issful asiocia ions at the reoollections of their
sacred homes. The outcast and wanderer of earth
has yet enough of human feeling to shed a tear of
sorrow and regret at the mention of his child
hood's home, and letter days. Oar home! ’tis
the sacred spot where all our hopes and fears, our
joys and sorrows alike are centered: the world has
no pleasures to compare with, fame, renown and
glory no boon to bestow, half so sweet, as the joys
of home. VIOLA.
Aethelingay, Va.
A Plain Letter from Georgia.
Southwestern Geo., July, 1857.
Editor of the Day Book:
I am a subscriber to your paper through a club
located at Fort Gaines, Clay Co.j Georgia, and am
pleased with it. You seem in some particulars to
misunderstand our oj.iniobs upon the slavery ques
tion. We do not advocate it as a necessity, nei
ther do we uphold the system because of our cli
mate not permit 1 ing other laborers, but as a moral
and political blessing. Here, and only in the
slavebolding States, of ail the world, is the line
bttwe n the freeman and the slave, the master
and the servant, drawn by God—the white are
flee, the black are slaves. This is our doctrine—
we hold no other—we tolerate no other. ’Tis
net ask all northern men who dwell
among us if they agree with us, because we are
or rather were, careless of their opinions and only
desired them to wait and see for themselves.—
Now, the term “Yankee” is fast becoming synon
ymous with poltroon; they are speedily being
driven from ail offices of honor and profiq and it
is a term of reproach and disgrace.
You cannot object, for ’twas all their own do
ings; the day of their power is fast departing.
Your ow n ifforts may delay the hour, but what is
one paper to thousands ? Northern teachers,
northern mechanics, northern merchants, lawyers,
and doctors, are not patronized. The recommen
dation to a college or school is, No northern teach
eis or professors. But go on; your people are
“ hopelessly blind.” I send you the letter of ac
ceptance from Mr. J. Crawford, our present repre
sentative; publish it if you please; it is the best
written statement of our feelings and opinions I
have seen. Me is the only Crawford politically
alive, in this State, and will be elected by the
largest majority ever cast in this district. We
have thousands, aye, hundreds of thousands of
acres of fine land, with not a tree or shrub cut on
them. These lands are as healthy as any portion
of Georgia, and are level and fertile; they will
average ten bushels of corn without manure, and
other crops in proportion. Game of all kinds is
abundant. Np consumptive person has ever died
of that disease who came before his lungs were
gone; I can give you the names of fifty who were
not expected to live six months, but who have re
covered and are entirely well, with no pulmonary
symptoms.
We live in log houses, mostly, poor and rich.
The viilag.-s are built with brick and frame houses,
but log houses are universally conceded to toe the
most heaitby. To this climate many of your peo
ple c.uld come and regain their health, but not if
they meddle with our institutions; but let good,
true men or women come, purchase a p’ace and
build a cabin and b?come one among us, and a
more generous, benevolent, kind-hearted people
can be found no where. We do not care one cent
about tite Union except f r its Revolutionary asso
ciations, because we feel the burdens of the gov
ernment—general government —fall upon us, and
that our worst enemies are the people of the north
ern States. Yes, those who strive to iujure us
rao-t are those whom we formerly styled northern
brethren. They are the last to whom we look for
justice. We look to the people of England,
France, Germany, Rus-ia, Spain, &c., of all or any
other nauon for friends, before the “Yankee na
tion.” This spirit of fanaticism is increasing ; the
generation coming on are much more prejudiced
than the present, and it is a noticeable fact that in
the contest of 1849 and ’SO, the disunion party
were the young men. Where Bre they now? In
Congress, in the- Legislatures, governors, judges,
cleiks, <ke. The hand-writing is on the wall
read it;.and without the South, where will the
North be ? Can you answer that question ? If
you can, do it, frankly and independently; come
out and let your deluded people see the abyss
into which they are so thoughtlessly rushing;
turn them, if you can. I doubt if every public
man were to recant his doctrines and begin to
retrace his steps, if the whirlwind they have raised
would roof toss them aside and seek more conge
nial leaders. .God speed you, Mr. Editor, in your
task. Your reward should be a rich one, both in
this and the world to come, to equal your deserts.
riir*y Wai&s.
Opinions of Eminent Jurists.
That the sale of intoxicating liqttors, as well as
all other practices, the tendency of which is to enr
danger the happiness, seemity, health, and morals
of the citizen, may, and ought to be legislated
against and prohibited, to the extent that human
government can consistently prohibit vice, hardly
admits of intelligent doubt. Such has been the
united testimony es many of the most eminent ju
rists.
Said Justice Grier, on an occasion after quoting
the familiar maxim, “ Salas, populi suprema lex:”
“All laws for the restraint or punishment of crime,
for the preservation of the public peace, health, and
morals, are, from their very nature, of primary im
portance, and lie at the foundation of social exist
ence. They are for the preservation of life and
liberty, and necessarily compell all laws on subjects
of secondary importance, which relate only to pro
perty, convenience, or luxury, to recede when they
come in contact or collision.”
Said the Hon. George Sullivan, of New Hamp
shire, on one occasion : “The right of the Legisla
ture of any State to allow its citizens to trade in
ardent spirits, may well be questioned. To do so
is, in my view, morally wrong. If the Legislature
of a State permits by law a traffic which produces
poverty, with all its sufferings, which corrupts and
destrojs the health and lives of thousands in the
community, they defeat the great and important
end for which government was established.”
Said the Hon. Mark Doolittle, of Massachusetts:
“ The seal of everlasting reprobation and abhor
rence upon this traffic is, that it has no redeeming
qualification. It never has done man any good,
and, from the nature of the case, it never can.”
Said the Hon. Mr. Davis, of the same State, in
the celebrated cases of Massachusetts, New Hamp
shire, and Rhode Island, in the United States Su
preme Court: “The world has raised its voice
against the indiscriminate traffic in wines and spir
its, and it seems to me that if health, morals, use
fulness, and re-pectability are worthy of public
consideration, and merit protection from an insidi
ous foe, the Legislature would be criminally guilty
in wholly disregarding a matter of such obvious
importance.”
Hon. Mr. Burke, c-f New Hampshire, on the
same occasion, said : “Nearly the whole civilized
world now concedes that the traffic in intoxicating
liquors is a crime against society. It is disproved
of by man, and stands condemned by the great
moral Judge of the universe, whose purity cannot
such manifest and admitted wrong.
It is an inhuman traffic, a moral crime that grows
blacker and more hideous the more it is contem
plated, and the more its horrid effects become
visible.”
Said Chief Justice Dagget: “It being admitted
that the use of this article is destructive to health ,
reputation and ‘property , it follows conclusively that
they vi\\o make nnd. sell it, sin with a high hand
against God and the highest interests of their fel
low-men.”
Said tbe 1100. Mr. Frelinghuysen : “Weowe it
to oar history, to our free institution*, and, above
all, to Him whose benignant providence has so
richly blessed us, that toe purify our laws. If
men will engage in this destructive traffic, if they
will stoop to degrade their reason, and reap the
wages of iniquity, let them no longer have the
law-book for a pillow, nor quiet their consciences
by the opiate of a court-license,”
Lord Chesterfield, in the British Parliament,
over one hundred years ago, uttered upon this sub
ject that ever memorable sentiment —memorable
from the time, the place, and the person by whom
it was uttered: “The number of distillers,” said
he, “should be no argument in their favor. I
never heard that a law against theft was repealed
or delayed, because thieves were numerous. If
these liquors are so delicious that people are tempt
ed to their own ruin, let us secure them from the
fatal draught by bursting the vials that contain
them. Let us crush at once these artists in hu
man slaughter, who have reconciled their coun
trymen to sickness,and crime, and have spread
over the pitfalls of debauchery such baits as can
not be resisted.”
Said our distinguished Chancellor Walworth,
many years since, when reviewing this subject in
the light oF his clear intellect and moral vision :
“The time will come, when reflecting men -will as
soon be caught poisosuug their neighbors’ wells, as
dealing out to theru intoxicating liquors us a bev
erage.”
Rum Among the Indians.— We do not claim
any original discovery when we assert that alcohol
is the stimulating and‘direct cause of four-fifths of
our troubles with tfire Indians, as it is of four-fifths
of the crimes among white men. If the Govern
ment would inflict a heavy penalty on anyone
who sells the fire-water to the red men, and then
deputize a vigilant .force to carry that Jaw into
execution and. enforce that penalty, there might
be a hope of something like perpetual peace.. In
dians may smoke their kintdkinik in a calumet,
but a diink of whisky is an emblem of contention
and crazy wrangling. There is four times the
need to-day for tbe Government to station troops
along the frontiers to prevent a set of vagabonds
from pursuing this everywhere nefarious traffic,
and putting to the red lips of the poor Indian the
cup that shall make him toad,'than, for the sup
pression ot actual hostilities. This is tire key to
all our frontier difficulties. . We sell to the wild
and benighted savage something that makes him
drunk, then we send Government troops to bayo
net him because he don’t keqpeober.
The Chippewas have been>fup*ishetl with liquor
on the Upper Mississippi, and have cot frequently
become unmanageable ami wailiike. They have
threatened tjie >vliitc settler*;, and have driven the
Rev. Mr. Breck from hi* mission at Le ch Lake.
This infamous traffic not Only sets frilx s against
each other and lights feudal sparks of discord into
a blaze, but it puts in jjeejpardy the lives of our
settlers and our settlers.’ w ives and children, and
margins our territory wiihbilood. — St.Paul Times.
J3T“Paddy,” “why don’t you get
your ears cropped ? they twye too king for a man.
“And yours,” replied Pat, “ ought to he length
enedwrthey are ehoijfc so? an j^as!” N
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V. PROPRIETOR.
YOL. XXIII.-NUMBER 35.
“One and Twenty.”
With youth, no period Ts looked forward to with
so raudh impatience, as the hour which shall end
our minority—with manhood none is looked back
to with so much regret.. Freedom appears to a
young man as the brightest star in the firmament
of his existence, and is netver lost sight of until the
gaol, for which he has been so long travelling, is
readied. When the mind and spirit are young,
the season of manhood is reflected with a bright
ness from the future, which nothing can dim but
its own cold reality. The busy world is stretched
out before our boyhood like the exhibition of me
chanical automata —we behold the merchant accu
mulating wealth, the scholar planting his foot on
the summit of the temple of fame, the warrior
twining his brow with the laurel leaf, and we
yearn to struggle with them for supremacy. In
the distance we see nothing but the raosyiromi
nent part of the picture, which is
guish of disappointment and defeat is hidcKf&i^v,
our view; we see not the pale cheek of
merit., or the broken spirit of unfortunate
or the sufferings of worth. But we gaze not long,
for the season of youth passes away like a moon’s
beam from the still water, or like a dew drop from
the rose in June, or an hour in the circle of friend
ship. Youth passes away, and we find ourselves
in the midst of that great theatre, upon which we
have so long gazed with interest—the paternal
bonds which in binding have upheld us, are brok
en, and we step into the crowd with no guide but
our conscience to carry us through the intricate
windings of the path of human life. The beauties
of tbs perspective have vanished—the
wealth has furrowed his cheek, the acquirements
of the scholar were purchased at the price of bis
health; and the garland of the conqueror is fast
ened upon Ills brow with a thorn, the rankling of
which will give him no rest on this side of the
grave. Disappointment.changes the ardor of our
first setting out, and misfortune follow closely in
our path to finish the work and close our career.
Mow often amid the cares and troubles cfjnattMi
hood do we look back to the sunny
memory, the season of our youtb ; and
does a wish recall its escape from the bosom of
those who once prayed it away. From this feel
ing I do not believe that living man was ever ex
empt. It is twined around the living soul; it is
incorporated into our very nature, and will cling
to m, even when reason itself has passed away.
And although the period when parental enthral
ment is broken, and when the law acknowledges
the intellect to be full grown, may at the time be
considered one of rejoicing, yet after life will bang
around it the emblems of sorrow, while it is hal
lowed as the bright hour of youth.
Drinking Among Young Men.
Tim Philadelphia Sun says truly, that indis
criminate drinking among our young men must
eventually make its mark upon the population of
our cities. We can see it already betraying itself
in the rising generation. It is impossible for any
man to drink even pure liquors six or seven times
a day without suffering severely in constitution,
Aod when be transmits this impaired constitution
to his son, who in turn impairs it st’ll further by ‘
the same course, It requires little foresight to see *
that we are preparing a population for our cities
that will not in physical frame be much better
than the wretched Aztecs. This love of drink and
bar rooms is every day increasing. Every day
sees fresh saloons starting up in our midst. Every
day sees our youth becoming more the
victims of this habit, for really we think it more a
habit, than a provision. It is no love for joviality
that tempts them, except in a few cases. It is not
the hot exuberance of youth. It is not the evan
escent impulse of the gay young fellow who is
sowing his wild oats. It is, as has been said, a
cold, deliberate, confirmed habit. “No atmosphere
of recklessness or jollity surrounds the drinking
groupes, except on occasions, and no peals of mer
riment atone for the act, by proving that it is at
least unusual. A grim and melancholy air per
vades each- countenance. Tire drinks are poured
out, the gla3 c es raised and touched with a loath
some air of custom, and each man swallows his
portion with the same impassive countenance he
would wear if lie were drinking a glass of plain
water. All the concomitants that partially re
deemed or excused, are want : ng in this sad and
formal ceremony, Th® actors drink, not because
they love it, and wapt to be merry, but because
they have boeji accpstpmed iio it ever since they
were boys, and that has now become a habit which
is more Imperious than if it were passion.
Women of the Empire State. —You are or
should be the governing spirit of every well regu
lated household. With you, in a great measure,
rests the settlement of this great question. ,It is
for you to say “ chain that ox,” and the fetters will
be made strong around him. Let a convention ‘
be called in each family in the State by the female
head of it, and let this question be fully debated.
Let mothers, sisters, wives, there around the fami
ly hearth , debate this question with their hus
bands, sons and brothers; let them not relax their
efforts till each man within the circle of the fami
ly, gives his pledge to vote for those and those
only who are in favor of confining this murderous
Ox. So that future generations may not suffer
from his horns, as the past have.
Let the women of this State now take this great
question in hand, use their power in the right di
rection, and untold blessings will follow on the
heads of their children, and childrens children, as
well as upon the State and the world &t large.
Hanging by the Dozen.— The Texas Indianolian
of the 11th imt., says rumors have reached that
place from the upper country, that the Vigilance
Committee are raking the country fore and aft,
and swinging every horse thief and murderer they
can find. A gentleman, says that paper, who
came down the road afew days since, says that he
saw a dozen bodies suspended to one tree, and on
another, five. A great many desperadoes have
passed through ludianola, on their way to New
Orleans —not considering it healthy for them tq
remain guy longer.