Piney Woods planter and Amite union literary reflector. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1838-1838, 1838-07-14

him were blended, by the most harmonious
and beautiful association, all the attrl
butcs Of greatness that gilded the char
acters of the most renowned heroes and
statesmen of antiquity-the courage ano
patience of Hannibal, and the generosity
and mercy of Cesar, without the revenge
Of the one and the vaulting and unholy
ambition of the other. If he was ambitious
il was that his country might be great
glorious and free, and himself good. Lib.
erty--the cries of bleeding and oppressed
country, not conquest unsheathed his
sword, self-defence, not the love of glory
stained it. He struck for the liberty Of
man. And when victory had crowned his
efforts and he beheld his country free, like
Cncinnatus, he declined the glittering
dadem and the gaudy insignia of royalty
for the habilaments of the cottage-the
sword for the plough shear and pruning
hook. Immortal Washington, father Of
thy country, benefactor of the human race,
thy virtues and glories will lose nothing
by comparison with those Of the greatest
philosophers and heroes of antiquity. Ne
world the equal of our revered our below
ed Washington. While Bonaparte, the
assassin of his country's liberties, is seen
like blazing comet, spreading in his
fell course ruin and observation-disclosures
and dismay--he rolls smoothly and regu-
larly on in his bright and glorious career,
like yon eflulgent orb that dispenses light
and life and heat to all, and peacefully
sinks beneath the horizons verge, leaving
behind bright and glowing track that
will long continue to erradiate and cheer
the night. Time would not allow us here
TO commemorate the virtues and deeds off
daring and renown of all those who figured
in the redemption of our countrywide
were the chief builders in laying the cor
ner stone of that temple whose pillars are
destined to be placed on the shores of the
Pacific, yea, "whoso pillars will be the
four corners of the globe, and whose arch
the vault of Heaven" Their memory is
fresh in the hearts Of their countrymen,
"their home is still there" BY the bright
ness and glory oftheir achievements they
have erected for themselves monuments
more durable than brass, that will remain
by the lapse of time, when
the superb mausolums of the East g. lofty |
pyramids of Egypt shall have crumbled
into dust. Imagination delights to linger
around the scenes of their toilings, their 6
and their sufferings in which {
the finger of Omnipotence was ever seen t
to strengthen and direct them while the v
winds and the rains of Heaven seemed I
combined against their cruel oppressors. t
Firm in the consciousness of the business O
d their cause, and armed with the "dread t
name of God" they went forth and rested n
lot from their labors until the proud foe b
we're driven from their shores and Ameri- v
"a, insulted, injured America, was eman- n
Ipated from the thraldnr,a of british w. r
amy. The liberty we enjoy was wrought n
ut amid the din and lurid smoke of ma r
" hard fought battle, where martyred D
eroes in the agony and the struggle, h
ursted asunder the chains that bound Il
hem. We know its price, it was purchas- il
d with the last blood as it flowed from u
lany heart that had broken and bled in k
IS cause. He that does not, let him fol- 81
Nv in imagination, that band of patriots CT
their hard and perilous march through o.
ne Jersies, when their course was marked t.
y the crimson gore that trickled from g
heir unshod feet, and but too plainly told Il
o their blood-thrsty and cruel pursuers a
whittier they had gone--let him visit them b
n their privations and sufferings at Valley c
'orge--let him hear their groans $
md their agonies at Brandywine d
nd Germantown, yea, let him invoke the v
Plrlt of Montgomery and Washington r
nd inquire what it cost, And shall we t
lot, on this day, sacred to American liber- b
y, with unanimity of feeling and hearts of O
,ratltude, lmplore the divine aid of Heaven t
nat we moy never turn recreants to the r
rusts committed to us, that we may pre- I
serve them from the unhallowed touch of ,
yrants, and transmit them to posterity in {
he tullness of that perfection in which we ,
lave received them9 Assuredly we shall
Let us then emulate the noble example
If those who have gone before us. And
While. with admiration and delight, we
their virtues and their patri
'tism, let us learn a useful and salutaryl
essen from that spirit of unanimity and
love that characterizes the
whole course of their eventful lives We
honld ever remember that "eternal vigil
ence is the price of liberty" We should
watch, and when we behold the Constitu-
ion, the ark of our safety, threatened
With innovation; let us be firm and unit
ID, and cry aloud,
Course on the innovating hand attempts it.
Remember him, the villain, righteous Heaven ;
In thy great day of vengeance? Blast the
traitor
And his pcrncous counsols, who for wealth,
For power, the pride of greatness or revenge,
Would plunge his native land in civil wars''
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