The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-11-15
MISCELLANEOUS.
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A GEORGIA LAWYER.

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IThas always been my fayorite theory, Of
monomania, If the reader will have il SO,
that there are two distinct kinds Of men,
wiz: the animal and the vegetable. By the
FIRST kind. Imean those who have hearts
feelings, impulses, elections; who do moi
only breathe, through life, but who leave
behind them name, either for good or evil,
as the devil OF angel may have prepondera-
ted with them. BY the vegetable species,
I intend to designate that class, which, hav-
ing the visible appearance ofman, yet lack
the inward attributes that belong TO him
who IS made after the likeness Of his creator
that class which pass through life it be,
without having performed one single good
or bad action; which have no more virtue
than a cabbage, nor vice than thistle;
whose epitaph, ifany one would waste time
enough TO write it, could be written in four
words: lie liyed-and died.
This is not the first timeI have advanced
this doctrine, andi shall not be the last.
am not discussing it in religious point of
view. have too much heart feltTeverence
for the principles of my holy faith, to APP
proach with leVity its affairs. am abiding
to it now in physical or lawyer like point
Of view; and-I challenge any one (of the,
animal kindly to deny the truth.of my des..
cription. Why, gentle reader, have you not
in your minds eye, at, this moment, one of
the vegetable species? Tax your memory.
Do MT you know any one of your acquain-
lance whose whole career has been umnark-
ed BY single deed; an energetic action
whose instinct is not half so great as that
which the blind mole possesses, and whose
very walk puts you in mind Of a weed en-
dowod with the powers of locomotion -
Have n'tyous Ifyou hav Mt, have; and 6
will give you, an pessGnt, an example.
Two friends, and brother lawyers of mine
were travelling, some years since, on the
Circuit Their route led them ACROSS the
sandy hills that form the northern boundary
81. the Alatamaha, one Of the noble rivers Of
our beautiful state. These hills, or ridges,
however, are as barren and desolate as Ara
bia Petraa. You might plant a Yankee
there and he would not grow! Perhaps, af-I
ter this assertion, ii would be 'surplusage'
10 say, that no effort Of industry OF ingenui-
y could coax blade Of grass to rear its
lead above the sterile soil. II was Tainy,I
gloomy day, and after travelling for some
ime without eRcountering any signs Of hu-
nan life, their hearts were chered by the
light. Of the smoke that So gracefully |
,urled, and they knew, forthwith, that d
cottage was near. And sure enough there
was. a clumsy, ill-shapen log hut, with
or. to speak more classically, 4;
chinks, vide enough 70 throw sizeable q
ear through.
NV friends dismounted and entered. "A
re Of pine- wood, or slight-Wuod,a as il IS
echnicalIy called, bIazed ia the clay chine /
ey. N one corner Of the ffe-place we're
uddled bakers dozen Of yelloW-comple-
Id brats. A tall, gaunt female, with long, /
ncomed tFesses, Og bunches Of course red
air. was seated upon the floor while III
ont Of the ire, and occup ing the only stool
i the howell. sat the slord Of the s0il,' shig-
ring under The InaIign influence os ter s
an ague. q
Good morning, my friend, said one OIL g
q visitors, who Is celebrated for his polite E
ess and ufbanity. I.
t1ornine was the locanic and eeho-slke 9
.ply. n believe that Is 40 incorrect ex- 8
ession. Echo, like . Womans alRays gives y
& East word
Sine situation you have here, resumed
j brother attorney
SFine lI!'respOnded che host aat z g
fine EoE &
why, should suppose you would have &
ood sport here, il hunting s
Then VI d suppose q - e llss 1ou
nj hunt cepllng gou got something to e
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no: that F6Iy clear case thoughts y
,ueveI, fsl S. near the river, there would g
piensv 81 deer. still. II IS not good 4
ilstin ofound, It S Cue place Tor raising 9
tile
ST ii, isitg s'posin, the cattle gels q 2
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