The Yazoo City Whig and political register., 1839-08-02

&c permanency and maturity Of political
plan. Let us beware of universal suffrage,
as the most powerful enemy 81 the Institu-
ton Of property; universal suffrage is the
true parent Of aerarianism; and the rich
know II is TO their interest to legislate in a
manner equally beneficial to the poor and
to themselves Lastly, let US eschew the
principles Of such as Fanny Wright, and
other Utopians of her school, as we would
avoid the loathed libertine; such principles
are directly and powerfully inimical to the
institution of marriage, and pollute and inn
pair al! social and political happiness.
The Inhabitants of the States exist eli.
ther within or withouta political atmosphere !:
within Demagoguism PREVAILS. without,
avarice predominates. Is there for this no
remedyg
Transcendentalism may be defined the
most rari6ed ethereality Of moral abstrac-
tor which definition exposes, in, perhaps,
the most proper colouring, the vague, doubt
| ful, exquisiteness and practical inutility of
this Distinguishing feature Of those despe-
rate attempts to achieve the beautiful and
sublime, made by the literati of the present
day. They overeach themselves shoot
over their mark-soar but to fall, and that,
alas! not
Gas the emountain-cataract,
Which having Ieapt from its more dazzling height
Even in the foaming strength of its abyss,
(Which casts up misty columns that become
Clouds raining from the re-ascended skies)
Lies low but mighty still.n
Indeed, to continue from Manfred, with
acraving of pardon for alteration of the text
Their thoughts mistake themselves.''
They should remember that knowledge
is neither SO pleasurable nor profitable, when
it isas Shakespeare describes Glory,
ssI.ikea circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth TO enlarge itself,
Tills by broad spreading it disperse to naught.a
King Henry 6h-Rart lst.
BY the bye, althoug gh we do not intend in
this instance to charge so great man with
any thing like plagiarism-such charges a.
gainst one ofhis extraordinary genius being
generally contemplate we must observe, in
passing that Mr.. Bulwer in his Falkland has
applied without giving Shakespeare due
credit, this simile of Glory to knowledge, in
prose-way and Mr.. Bulwer's application
thus we have but adopted.
cops TS ysTSd IS HSea as s P aIRStaGRp Is @ 81 aWEn Be
like the rain ofheaven "EalIing on the just
and UNJUST" falls equally on the learned
and the unlearned. None can discover the
truth or the star to perfection. To all minds
the Truth and the star are alike clothed
with impenetrable mystery. But the learn
ned possess view of both far more pro-
found, searching and comprehensive, than
do the unlearned. And the differences of
aspect, apparently incident to the star or the
truth, are attributable to the differences
really existing in the seeing power-not in
the object seen. Truth is universally the
same.
The sarcasm of woman directed against
one of the sterner sex, can be retorted by
him, with due regard TO the complete safety
and thorough preservation of his gallantry,
only by means of bow and smile-a COM
the most per-
feet insensibility. The circumstances of
the case will invariably dictate one or the
other of these modes to the "loFd of crea-
ton, y who has sense enough to know that
if he compromises his gallantry, and there
fore, mGnIiness, he thereby diminishes the
strength Of that peculiar tie of dependency
which nature has created, and in consequence
of which, it is that woman leans upon and
looks upto man; and we may add, that ma
ture in this design has given us, perhaps,
the highest and most exquisite specimen Of
the morally beautiful.
In accordance with this relation of depen-
dence, we find, from observation and expe-
rience, that UGnsty or a desire for the es-
TEEN of others, distinguishes woman, and
pride, or an esteem Of self characterizes
man.
"Chevely, or the Man of Honor by Lady
Bolivar, seems to be striking and highly |
Intellectual proof the truth Of Lord Byron's |
assertion, that
) Revenge is sweet, especially to woman.'
The novel also illustrates the predomi- |
lance of feeling over reason in woman
ruth originally inferred from natural constl-
ution, women being superior in what may
De termed the p0ssiUe, and men, in what
nay called the 0ctiUe The lady often de-
cends Tan error, no doubt, Of feeling1 in
u objectionable manner; and her preface
0 ssChevelyn every reader feels to be fiat,
nd perceiyes at once, as the reason Of II,
nd from the preface itself, that excess Of
Ienom and revenge annihilates intellect,
nd almost stiles utterance. Upon the
Whole, when the high degree Of intellectl
which 6 Chevely eyinces, IS viewed ID con
lexion with the exceedingly harsh and un-
feeling ofWhich itcontains somuch,
We may, perhaps, ia the mere language Of q
,ritic, belonging to Paul Clifford &, tickling
department. Of criticisms art, say with truth,
hat Lady Bulwer's book tswould Be very
sood, If 4 we're not so very bad By the
We The la.rnn g llL..e s. s.. L.Lll..o cA.Is-,. ).