Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1837-09-27
AN EXTRACT.

following truly graphic sketch, from the N.
Y. Kickerbocker, of the American House
of Representatives, and not feel a glow of
patriotic pride; and at the same time, sen.
sation of melancholy regret, that some of
his countrymen speak lightly of a separa.
ton of the Union, and of sevcring the Ma
tional flag with its glorious stars and stripes,
he must possess a singular apathy of soul,
and want that ardent and enthusiastic love
ofcountry characteristic. offreemen.--Pon-
tiac Courier.
"What mass of representatives there
are here! What singular samples Of our
vast country! Here sits Tennesseean,
and there Missourian, educated among
buflaloes, and nurtured in the forest-as in.
innate with the passes of the Rocky Noun.
tains as the cts with Broadway-who cares
no more fora Pawnee than protested beau
for bright plumed belle. Here is man
from the Prairies-and there another from
the swamps and morasses, whose blood the
musketoes have utterly stolen away
There is sallow face from the rice grounds,
and here the flushed cheek from the noun.
tains, and by his side man from the pine
grounds--land oftar and turpentine. What
a people we are! What country this of
ours How wide in extent; how rich in
production how various in beauty; Ihavc
asked in my travels for the west, in the
streets Of the Queen Of the West--a fairy
city, which but yesterday was a wilderness.
They smiled at my inquiry and said it was
among the "hoosiers" of Indiana or the
suckers" of Illinois. Then | iourneyed
along. / crossed great rivers and broad
prairies, and again / asked for the West
They said it was in Missouri. arrived al
the capital. They complained that they
we're ''too far down east" "But CO." they
said, if you would see the West, days and
days, and hundreds and hundreds of miles
up the Missouri, farther than from us tc
New. England, and beyond the Rocky
Mountains, and among the Snake Indian.
of the Oregon, and you may find it."
was the work of a dozen years to find the
West, and | turned about in despair.
have been in almost every clime--undel
the torrid sun Of Louisiana, the land of the
orange and the olive, and beneath the colo
| sky of Maine. / have seen the rice plan
ter gathering rich treasures from bounti
ful soil, and the fisherman anchoring hi
little bark on the rocky island, dropping hi
hook as carefully as if the ocean were full
of pearls, and not of-mackerel. hav,
seen the mill man saving wood in all vari
ETY. of forms, on the farthest soil of New
England and L have beheld the same Woo
float down the Savannah, or the beautiful
Alabama, in the strangest metamorphoses
it may be, in clock regularly ticking OF
the time, or in a pail--perchance, in a but
ton; and for aught / know in tasteles
ham, or an unfragrant nutmeg! | hav
never been off the soil Of my own country
and yet have seen the sun 60 down, ba
of fire, without moments notice, twilight
flinging over rich, alluvial lands, bloomin
with Magnolias and orange trees, robe G
gold; and again have stood upon the bar
rocks of colder climates, and when the tree
were pinched by the early frost, hav
marked the same vanishing rays redecte
from the leaves, as if thousand birds {
paradise were resting in the branches an
when the clouds, streamed with red an
purple, and blue, tinged and tipped by ii
pencil of beauty--were floating afar, lilS
rainbows in motion, as if broken from the
confinement-now mingng and interlacin
their dyes, and glittering arches, and ano
sprinkled over, and melowing the who
heaven--then have fancied that was il
deed in fairy land, where the very fores
danced in golden robes, responding to Il
setting sun, as the statue of tabled Mammc
gave forth its welcoming notes as the ra,
ofmorning played upon its summit. l ha,
been where the dog star RACES, scatterir
pestilence in its train; where the pale fac,
! and sad countenances give admonition tn
7 this is a region Of death. have stood
the wide prairie, and bcheld the green
|. lows rise and fall, and the undulatior
chequered with sunlight and shadow, cha
!; ing one after the other, afar over the vii
expanse. And have gone amid the storr
}. Of winter, over the high bill, upon the 10,
cracking crust, and the music Of the mer
sleigh bells. And here are the Represe
: tatives Of all these regions-here in o.
y grand council--all speaking one langua,
J. all impellcd by one law! Oh, my Cou
try, my Country! If your destiny be
ways linked as one--if the same flag W