State rights and democratic union. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1839-18??, 1839-10-02

, and our Eeilane for its support, on cheerful
| submission to the sducnce " hich true sense
J and WORTH ougl ver 10 exert. In Euro
. pean countries, e. Phespians, Of considera.
bic personal and mental attractions, have a
J much higher rank in society than with US
and very frequentl, intermarry with the he
reditafy arlstocracy Of the land. This is at.
trbulable to extraordinary wealth, leisure
and rank, defined and vested by the law Of
the country. Wealth and leisure proffer
. temptations 10 indulgence in luxury aud all
J the lighter pleasures, which frequently be
, IcCines so excessive as to be transformed IT.
to habilual vice. And let noble be never
SO vicious and degraded an individual, his
legally established rank remains the sumo
and no opinion or prejudice of the inferior
multitude can bring him even to a level
with itself. He then has little or no res
traint to interfere with the qualification of
his wishes, save indeed bis family pride; an d
she whom he marries is instantly raised to
his own rank. Family pride is frequently
omnipoten' with foreign nobility-by the bye
so it is, with US, sovereign, republican cIti
Gems. Consideration of parentage, must
have some influence with all mankind, so
long as that law of nature, whereby certain
natural characteristics of the parent are
transmissible to the offspring, shall endure.
However am opposed to pride in itself, l.
certainly think that tdmily pride, is prefer
able to pride Of purse: For, whatever may
lie its tendency to contract the soul, il Ger.
taIHly never tends TO inspire it's possessor
with disposition, of which he is conscious,
10 obey mean, debasng, motiyes;- whereas,
such are the degrading effects of avarlce,
that the man whose pride is ever in direct
proportion to the weight Of his purse, is Incl.
ted TO do whatever, whether it be right or
wrong, will increase his stock ofmoncy, and,
therefore, his stock of pride. "Put money
III thy purse is his guiding maxum. And
the two passions, purse, pride and avarice
render him also obedient 10 the false maxim,
tina: the end jusilfies the means. The PEG.
pie of the United States, have certain
strange mixture of love and fear, for popular
opinion, which seems to make them forget
that the superior mind, conscious of its supe
riority, does not fear the INJECTING of degra-
datioD. from the touch of inferiority. They
seem 10 possess much Of that sticking and
Iscrupulousness in regard to respect0bility
and stGnding, which distinguishes the mid
die classes of European countries. Hence
it happens, that, at this day the light Of true
merit of genuine wisdom and virtue, are
too frequently dimmed, and to often obscur-
ed; and that oul republican practice differs
so shamefully from our republican theory
so shamefully indeed, do they d lffer, that for
eigners seem already TO perceive tendency
on the part of our very government, to Oligar.
civ 'or Monarchy.
RNto h., IN ha instance It,.
thoroughly lmbued with the genuine spirit OF Republ
canism. He felt that
1Rank is but the guineas amp
The mans the good for a that.''
She lived for him--and hes for her, alone. Each was
"the Ocean to the River OF the others thought The
world beside, was nought to them. A fthcitous dos
inv seemed to have linked their hearts together, LII
The opinions and preiudces of the ord (Which, by
the bye is subject to "nOrGL Gtso exercised any
/ influence on the pail by their wn; they did but
rende. him keenly sensible of the value of that
Shirt of Nominees which Nature has implanted IN
the sternsr sex-and cherish with the greater tender
ness thebeauty of tina nfectionate and devoted de.
peudt1ace on genuine Maniness, which Nature has
aouall, implanted il the hosonof woman, aud which,
ne ps constitutes the fundamental tie and di>tnc-
/ ton between the sexes. How admiralty does Ma
dame De Stae by her Corinne, illustrate the strength
and beauty of the tie and distinction, which have
lust gentured to portray! The hero Of my story felt
That the ec lou of his loved for him was. under
existing circumstance, as tender shrub, S'bea utu
exceedIngly L. ming for shelter and support amidst
the raging of the ptles Storm against the bold stern
trunk and canopied b. the broad spreading brd n
lches of some majestic monarch Of the forest, which,
scarce bending its lofty summit dehed, in all its over
Towering height, the utmost ferceness of the tempest
lis affection for like some beautiful isle that
based on rock ard lifting FROM out the water its YER
iant and Howery bosom TO the heavens stands un-
moved by the deep, strong current of the mighty ver
which boldly r,lshes against it, and-as il stricken
With sudten Consciousness that the desolating and
destroying Spirit OF its tide vainly opposed that which
it should not. and could not. ovscome-sweeps along
on ether side, gracefully away So, did the strong
current of worldly prejudice often too bitter too cold
and nnchariiable in the end pass them BY, not only
vi thout infiictng injury but even lending aIdi-
ltional charm to the whole scene of their lives.
For their nlutuaI affection Love were name too
Itrite too common place, too lnexpressve It was
rather. in The language Of Shelley,
j ssThe worship the heart lifts above
/ And the heavens reject not
The desire Of the Moth for the Star,
OF the night for the morrow.
| The devotion 20 something afar
From the sphere Of our sorrow"
4. II was an unceasing rainbow that impaired beau-
Ity and loveliness 70 the armament Of their exist
lence--however dark. dreary and unsniling, might
otherwise be its face To them Nature. in all her
aspects and changes, seemed ever redolent of that
heavenly bliss, which springs only from the most en-
during and refined s0ul-reeiprocate love- An
emotion like this could not but extract for them all
those flowers, without the thorns, that nre
i cent Ia the moral and intellectual world. In the
language Of Childe Harold the beings 81 the asad net
: lof ciaa but essentially imMs0gsaI and 90 tsuly
i .sWaterine the heart whose early fowere have died.
4 And with ffesher growth Fcplennhing the voidp