Southern telegraph., 1838-10-10

uiat Hp oNhiSCiJ iiOiO a|huo"iCdEOu tiO w
1ofa common nature, than with the actual in
lerior being of the animal creation.
"This feeling of selfish and proud exclu-
sion is confined to one class. Iwish we
could say, that il is limited to any one grade
of character wish we could say that il
did not infect the minds of many persons,
otherwise Of great merit and worth. | wish
we could say that any one is exempt from
it. Living, growing up, as we all have beeni
in a selfish world, educated, more or less, by
worldly maXims, we have none of us, per-
haps, felt as we ought, the sacred claim OF
human nature-let our minds thrill to its
touch, as to an electric chain-felt ourselves
bound with the bonds of holy human sym
pathy-felt that all hurian sympathy-fel'
that ak human thought, desire, want, weak
ness, hope, joy and grief, were our own
ours to commune with and partake Of Few
have felt this, for it is always the attribute
Of the hottest philanthropy, or of the loftes
genius. Of the lofliest genius, repeat, fol
venture TO say, that allsuch genius has ey.
er been distinguished for its earnest sympa-
thy and sacred interest in all human feel
ing. And why should we feel it? The
very dog, that goes and lies down and dies
upon the grave of his master, will almost
draw tear from us, so near does he ap-
proach to human affection. And when the
war horse that has carried his rider through
many battles, bows his neck, and thrills
through his whole frame, at the approach
and touch of that masters hand, we feel
something more than respect towards the
noble animal. OhLsacred humanity how
art thou dishonored By thy children, when
the merest appendage If thy condition, the
mere brute companion of thy fortunes, is
mole regarded than thou!
| "What picture does human society pre-
sent to US! III were to reprcsentthe world
in vision, should say that see it, not as
that interchange of hill and dale which nov
spreads around me, but as one vast noun
tain; and all the multitude that cover it, are
struggling 10 rise; and those who, in my vi
sion, seem to be above, instead Of holding
| friendly intercourse with those who are be-
low, are endeavoring, all the while, TO look
over them, or building barriers and fences
to keep them down; and every lower grade
is using the same treatment towards those
who are beneath them, that they bitterly
and scornfulIy complain of, in those who are
above; all but the topmost circle, imitators
as well as competitors, injuring as well as
injured; and the topmost circle-with no
more to gain, revealing or sleeping upon its
perilous heights, or dizzy with its elevation,
soon falls from its pinnacle of pride, giving
place to others, who share in constant sue
cession the same fate. Such is the misera-
BILE struggle of social ambition the world
over"
DIGNITY OF HUMAN NATURE.
"Your neighbor is above you
in the worlds esteem, perhaps-above you,
it may be in fact; but what are goa? You
are a man, you are rational and religious
being; you are an immortal creature. Yes
glad and glorious existence is yours; your
eye 3 open to the lovely and majestic vision
of nature; the paths acknowledge are around
you, and they stretch onward to eternity; and
most of all, the glory of the infinite God, the
all perfect, all wise, all beautiful, is unfold.
ed to you. What now, compared with this
is little worldly eclat2 The treasures oil
infnity and of eternity are heaped upon thy
laboring thought; can thought be deeply oc-
cupied with questions ofmortal prudence. 1t
is as If a man were enriched by some gen
erous benefactor, almost beyond measure,
and should find nothing else to do but to veX
himself and complain, because another man
was made few thousand richer.
"Where, unreasonable complainer! dost
thou stand, and what is around thee? The
world spreads before thee IFS sublime mys-
teries, where the thoughts Of sages lose
themselves, in wonder; the ocean lifts up
its eternal anthema TO thine ear, the golden
sun lights thy path the wide heavens stretch
themselves above thee, and worlds rise up
on worlds, and systems beyond systems, to
infnity: and dost thou stand in the centre o.
all this, and complain of thy lot and place?
Pupil of that infinite teaching! minister al
Natures great altar! child Of heavens favor
must thou pine in sulen and enyious melan-
choly, amongst the plenitude of the whole
creation!
"1But thy neighbours above thee," thou
| say Gsls w nat lilCul w lidl 10 tbat w tliCS
What, though the shout of millions rose a
round hun? What is that to the million
voiced nature that God has given Thee? Thai
shout dies away in the vacant air; it is moi
his; but thy nGtUre--thy favored, sacred ant
glorious nature-is thine. 1t is the reality
to which praise is but fleeing breath. Thou
canst mediate the things which applause
but celebrates. In that thou art man
thou art infinitely exalted above what
any man can be, in that he is praised
| had rather be the humblest man in the
world, than barely be thought greater thar
the greatest. The beggar is greater as a
map, than is the man merely as king. No
one of the crowds that listened to the elo
quence of Demosthenes and Cicero-no
one who has bent with admiration over tb'