State rights and democratic union. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1839-18??, 1839-10-02
For the Democratic Union.
,AMDoA THoUoHrs AND QuorArroNs.


For the Democratic Union.
RANDOM THOUGHTS AND Quotations.
Mr.. Editor:-Aware as am Of the gen
eral cultivation Of your mind, and of youl
literary attainments, it is with hesitation tha
submit to you, for insertion in your CO
lumns, the following attempt to 'swhile away
the tedium" Of some Of my own idle mo-
ments. As you will perceive, from the nu.
merOus quotations with which it is intersper
sed, can obviously lay claim to little or nc
originality Of thought or dictlol.. The cele
brated ANATOMY of Melancholy" by DR.
Burton, is one example, and book which
have seen, entitled the Dictionary of Quo.
tatioRs," is another, Of mental production
studded with the sentiments and language
of others. Although can, necessarily, en-.
terrain not the least idea, that my present
collection of quotations, (for the precise cor.
rectness, by The bye, of all which will not
vouch,) is to be compared, in respect either
of profit OF pleasure, with the former work
yet am vain enough TO believe it will be
found more agreeable than the latter of the
two books above named. Indeed the "Dic.
tionary Of Quotations" and "1Fhe Letter VII
ter" anda third book entitled ss'Fhe Laws OF
Etiquette" are, all three of them, Justly a.
mong the vely small nnmbel of publications
which ought, without hesitation or mercy,
to be utterly destroyed.
If Mr.. Editor, you should think st to pub
lish the following mental effnsion, shall be
satisfied that by gaining place in your CO.
lumHs. it will receive even more considera-
ton than it merits.
Respectfully yours.
B. p. r.
What thing of strength and beauty is
love! and although il may be true that
"The course of true love, never did Iun
49, m
still me sentiment d poor eats,
"a thing of beautyNs joy forever"
it must be acknowledging is as properly ap.
plicabIe and true in rygaiel to lOue $ 10 aught
else. All things have alike sunshine and
shate=ralm and btightness, storm and
darkness. Memory, We are told, pleasure
BILE as ills, throws its
"Bleak shade alike Ger our joys and our
woes"
Ionce knew a young man of high and
naughty birth and breeding. whom an actress
inspired with the divine passlOn--the sole
remnant sof our heavenly heritage" Filled
with romance and all the enthusiastic sensi.
bilty of genius, he looked upon bis far lady
love, as the fairest impersonatlon OF all thai
Is perfection in purity, beauty and intellect
As his physical eye detected nought of blem
ish in the exquisite symmetrv OF her graceful
form and angelic face; SO, to his mental Wis
ion, did the vulgar opinion and prejudice Of
the world against Actresses, and IN favour o.
sustaining the pride of birth and gentststS
reveal no darkeLing spot on the calm, clear
unbroken moonlight of her purity, True
nv heroine will not, though can, give
4local hahitation and name" to either my
| hero or heroine; for, as a woman OF some WI
and known galiantry, justly observes, "date'
| and names make ladies nervous and stories
my heroine had not been pre-
ldestined, like Grey's Rose,
ssTo blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert ar.
On the contrary, her name had long beer
lconspicuous, asa s'bright particular star. OF
1.-THE players hllls-the voice OF theatr'ca
fame had waited her lovely name far ant
wide and often, had her person and intel
llect. lending a heavenly adoTnment TO I'M
magnificent, gorgeous ''pomp and Pageantrl
Of show" which decorate the IhesplaI
hoard. met unshrinking, the heart,beamlnt
oaze. and heart.welIing applause Of an ad
hiring public. But, alasl however mucl
the public NAV admire an actress-nay loy'
and esteem her,
aFor virtue and mind
az this world not corrupted, but pure an'
re6ned;''
all. there are ever too many, either nypO
critical pretenders TO philosophy, Or sWolle'
With false. contemplate pride, Or invested
With miserable misogyny, who take pieasul'
| II slanderously whisp .ring--"I'he acs1es
i cerfa;nIy. unsezed." Let men say W y.
they pleass about the Volne Of proper prsas
: inst philosophical investigation VIII sO s.
vince is that pride. Or the esteem Ct ones ss.l
: 4 i usually defined, i wholly rsJecs y
), .,,,e philosophy. Il has been sad, w !
ss,fs .sed truth, that, TO beasss g g g.
s I...'l,le.r Yes indeed, wisdom and hunil'
re re eve. inseparable. He who na.n g I;
..;.aorr i most ant to be presumptuous