Whig Republican., 1840-12-10
For The Whig Repubhcan.


the General Government"
Fo,. the Whig Republican.
Mr.. EDIroR, Frequently in my solitary
musings, fain would preserve some OF the
bright visions that go dancing through the
vale of thought. For this purpose have Sc
lected your valuable little paper as the place
in which can best transplant them. Favor
me with small corner in your columns and
oblige, l..
Early Days.
Tie Past has ever been theme upon which
my mind loved to dwell, and my thoughts to
linger. Looking back upon the dim vista of
by-gone years, a thousand pleasing recollec-
tions come trooping up before me, until the
present is forgotten in the loved scenes of sun
ny days ere the young heart had lost it's prim-
tive simplicity, or been clouded by the cold
formalities of the world. Halcyon days of
childhood ye are the vernal season of Life
the spring time of Joy and gladness. Happy
hours of innocence and mirth! ye are as the
shadow of dream that feeth away ana is
more. Linked to life as the s.Rose-bud is
linked to its stem youth soon passes away.
few ieeting days and months and years, and
the footsteps of Time is impressed upon all
that was bright and beautiful and gay. De-
cay is implanted in the bud, and the flower
soon puts on the habIlments Of the grave.
Strange and beautiful thoughts of childhood
and home arc around me and imagination IS
revelling among the old hills of my native land,
where free as the winds that brush her ma
iestic woodlands, was wont, with dear re-
membered friends, to while away the happy
hours of early years. Where with Youth,
Beauty, Hope, Friendship and Love, we min
glcd in the roundelay unchafed by the CALLING
restraints of Society's custom-where no cloud
dimmed the horizon of Hope, no tear the tri-
rmph of joy.
'.IIome of our childhood, how affection clings
Bearer thy hills, though clad in autumn brown
Than fairer SUBMITS which the cedars crown;
Sweeter the fragrance of thy summers breeze,
Than all Arabia breathes along the seas.
The stranger gale watts home the exil's sigh,
Fer the hearts temple is It's own blue sky
But as Memory unfolds the Tablet of Time
to nv view, / mark change in the spirit of
+ those gay hrief days. Death has passed over
that fair land, and some have gone in their
.sopening bloom gone to the Spirits home,
.swhere the wicked cease from troubling and
the weary are at rest" Though they ''sleep
the sleep that knows no waking." their msm-
cries. enshrned in the hearts of the truly good,
live to remind them that they too must die.
Some have wandered far from their homes and
abide in other lands. Others, and would it
were not so, are fast hurrying over the sands
of life. regardless of the ceaseless sweep Of
Time and Mortality going down to the grave
with wild and delirious impetuosity, uucon-
Iscious that every breeze that fits by them is
Isinring their funeral dirge. And thus
------ssve sigh; and while
i we sigh we sink !. and are what we deplor'd;
! Lamenting, or lamented, al our lots''
Lucille.
Lexington, Dec. 9, 1910.
JOIfNC. CALHOUN,
whom Mr.. Legare thus beautifully de-
/ Inmates, with a pencil which always bor-
rows its colors from the rainbow:
..'Fhis Senator is a subtle disputant,
lnliek of conception ready in reply, bold
ii paradox speciotas in apology, intrepid
Ito affirm, and skilled in all the late artifl-
lces ofverl5al distinction. But he wants
Isome Of the most essential attributes Ola
deep and philosophical thinker His head
ais F'rencEl, for its love of preconeerted sys-
fem. and the German for its tendency to
| 1franseade dental metaph phys les; but heilas llel-
lfl1er the practical sense of the former, nor
1.-The large round about catholic and COM
EpreIensive views, and especially tElesvas
aud diversified knowledge Of the latter,
I His is very limited. lie would have been
8 most formidable cham nploll OF sholas-
tic thesis, in the days Of the slrfefraglble'
doctors, and might have figured with SEQ,
/ FMS and sAaaiinas, or with Rossell llentas and
ombar(s. But he lives @ an ;ages Too
late BV some five or six hiliidr red yea ars.
,rhs PLAIN rule ol islducliye logic llae DIS