Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1841-01-09

complete somerset? The crisis, at least, is past.
the votes are dcposited-politicians have all done
their do; and neither the growing OF the one par
~, nor the betting Of the other, can influence any
more the ultimate result. And whatever that re-
suit may be, | trust, we shall all, like tue sons
Of liberty, acquesce in the decision Of the ma
jority-hush, at least, for four years the strife OF
party politics, and feel, that with all its faults,
we love our government still
AS | said, it is months since we parted; I'VE
have been abroad in The busy world battling
with our destinies. and making and marring the
stubborn iates. We have seen-we have felt
we have done much, and yet the summer has
fled by US, as the shadow OF cloud on the land.
scaPe, and we meet again. But is
Each heart as light--each brow as CAV.
As il we parted yesterday :"
Alas feel that it is not so. Sorrow and
sickness have left many a trace with US. Death
has been unusually busy in our very midst And
though we survive-though no one OF our little
fraternity has been bone to that narrow man.
sion, which tells no tales, yet the heart strings
OF many Of US have felt the unutterable pang, that
none can know, but they who have had the
dearest objects OF their love and idoary borne
away from them forever
But Time is the great consider. The crushed
heart beats again, and the withered affections will
again revive, and centre around the fwer bless
ings that are left us in this world, till we too in
our turn are npped by the Grosts of Death We
grow sadder, as life wanes away, but it may be,
we grow wiser-we ought at any rate, to grow
better; and every tie, that is loosened on earth,
ought TO bind US, one more tie 10 Heaven.
We ale the few that have escaped the devasta.
ton OF disease and death in years past--our
ranks are much thinned-our brows have put on
the shades Of melancholy. But when we meet
here again, as we do tonight, where we have
met in "auld lang syne, in the participation Of
intellectual enjoyment, our hands are as warm,
and our bosoms as glowing in friendship for each
other as ever--perhaps, more So
"And heart embraces heart entire I"
Why is lit that the ideas Of friendship become
more and more sacred to us with years?-"Is it
that we grow more tender as the moment of our
great separation approaches or is it that they who
are to live together in another state, (for friend.
ship exists not but for the good,) begin to feel
more strongly that divine sympathy, which is to
be the great bond Of our future society ?"
But we are met again, and we rejoice to meet
and to welcome some, who have long been ab
sent from US. but who did not forget US in their
absence. O. may we thus all along LIES Jour.
ney fall in again with those who have made our
hearts glad
We are met again, but not in revel and I'm.
meaning merIime nt-not as bacchanalan clubs
meet, nor they who drown sense and selfrespect
in the whrl OF dissipation, but we meet
''To raise the genius and to mend the heart
to lay up fund OF pleasing recollectons for
the iuure-to enlarge the sphere OF our acquire.
ments, and to ennoble 1.-THE Divinity tina, stirs
within US.
We aim to elevate the standard OF public
speaking among US, we admire eloquence, and
we feebly try 10 initiate it. We know that ours
is but farlhing candle to the sun; but we feel
there is no harm in trying. Benjamin franklin,
and Edmund Burke, and Henry Clay, and Lord
Brough,m will not shine the less brilliantly be-
cause We hold up our rush lights to them
Eloquence is power, power mightier than
the force Of arms, or the achievements Of battle
The soulstiring palhos OF the orator for Ions
time sustained the liberties Of Greece, sgains
Philip OF Macedon. The voice Of TuIIy up
held the sinking energies OF the Eternal City,
against he conspiracies Of Cataline. And The
eloquence OF the Adamses, the Hancocks, tn,
Henrys, the Chsses and the JelIersons of III,
Revolution made victorious the sword OF Wash
ington.
There are men whom all "the pomp and cir
cumstance Of war" cannot move; but uh0 i
there that is not moved BY the power OF Flo.
qnence? tcho. that has not felt his nerves Jingle
and his heart beat tremulously. and his eye d.
late, and his breathing become deep and wrapt
and himself becoming the creature OF bette
and brighter order, as the spirit Of eloquence
like the baptism of pure fire. continued 10 lal
upon him, and to overwhelm him?
When Paul stood on Mars.hill, and preached
''to the unknown God" the gravest tribunal il
the world, the judges Of the Areopagus, ard tn
wise men OF Athens sat as children at his fee,
When the monk OF Erlret, Martin Luther, thun
dered forth his denuncialions against the Papa