The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1841-10-30


jeslic woods, whose green and dewy leaves
sparkled like emer Ids, in the glad ligh
OF the sun, to tie streams clear and pure
enough TO mirror the face of angels; from
the dark mountains to the vertlan, glades
where flowers goried in their rainbow he
ing. turned from this srene of enchant.
ment to look once more on the lonely
watcher of The deep, but he was no Ion
ger alone, many were around him, aud he
stood among them as stands the lordly
oak amid lowlieSt shrubs. The night OF
doubt had passed from his soul, and the
bright day spring of certainty had burst
upon him. lis right arm OF triumph was
extended towards that rev world, and
the lofty exullation of the flashing eye
which drank in its fair beauty, spoke a
language, which my heart found it not diff
| fcult to read.
My hand has added a virgin page to the
history of world, and displayed a new
and priceless gem in the coronal of Ma
ture-and the echo Of its name will only
cease when the last wave of the stream of
time mingles with the boundless waters
of eternity. Contemplating the radiant
joy of this noble son of mortality, the
spell of my beautiful 'ompanion caused
another scene to appear.
THIS snnny land was before me, but oh!
how changed. The woods had bowed
to The power of the glillering a,e, and the
sun now looked W tn unchecked eye on
the howery earth, which for ages had been
Swallowed. .Naure had fed with an.rv
brow from many spot, where .ar had
reared the polished structures ofarchitec-
ture,-The vast lakes whose waters had
been ruflled only by the wing thu hur-
ricane, or The stroke of the light paddle,
now foamed and boiled in the wake OF
many proud ship.
The tameless children Of the forest, they
on whose naughty brow the sun looks
with redder and u hotter gaze Than on
ours, where ar k,ry-the scattered REM
nanls of their tribes which the white man
had failed TO mingle with tht dnst, had
He'd covered with vengeance as with a
mantle, to deeper wiIds, where their in
iruder's voice had never echoed. The de-
mon of war was passing from the land.
but his dark shadow Of dtsolalion still
hovered over it. The sons of this infan
world as il catching The inspiration of the
free air which they brealhed, had jusi
thrown from their souls the golden iet-
tiers of king ly sway-long had been the
struggle, for those letters were fastened bN
the ron rivets Of superior power, but the
bold spirit of freedom in their breasts, haG
with the overwhelming force of Il noun
tain cataract, lcaped over every barrier
and now they stood Il free and in4epcn-
dent people.
Once more the scene changed, and the
pure starlight disclosed in this beautcous
land crowded dwelling place of men.
The bright clusters of mighty worlIs.
which form the magnificent dals of night
were waning in the west, as the hoarse
thunder of cannon fell upon my car.
Long and loud it swelled, until morning.
as il al lis call drawing aside with res
plendent hand the curtain of her eastern
bed, looked forth with glad and sunny
eye. ltseemed as if Nature and Art,
those rival sovereigns for the dominion OF
mind, had extended the hand OF fellow
ship to enchance the beauty of the scene;
but neither had now the power to attract
my attenlion-it was fixed with eager
wonder on multitude as unquiet and al
most as countless as the leaves of the for
est, which filled the wide street of that
CAPITAL. The cole. North had unchain-
ed her gates of ice, and sent forth her har-
dy sons; the sunny South had opened
passage through budding leaves and
springing flowers for her favored children
the bright East, the gand gale Y Of
arts ofthis new world, gave her intellec-
tual offspring, AID the vigorous jewellers
of the fertile West strobe across the giant
trunks of the mona:chs of the forest.
which their strength had laid PROSTATE
with the dust-,o swell the mighty num-
her And there, also, were gathered ma
ny from the Eastern IIemlspherc-the lof-
~ ones of the lar-lamed kingdom Of the
green and sister islcs--,he fur-clad noble
of that vas' Empire stretching across two
quarters Of the earth. and the gay child of
The land where the lily blooms in emhroi
dered beauty on lis waving flag. These
were arrayed in princely and ermined
robes, while the sunbeams flashed back
from the dazzling rays Of the jewels which
adorned them, but they who worshipped
II the srhine Of liberty had no ornament
save her princeless mantle. and the nnfad-
ing gems of the mind on. on, swept
the vast throng-trumphant and warlike
music measured its stately march. and
snowy plumes and coun less banners
tossed and waved in the clear air. And
now lofty AMI marble structure rises
before me, and at the base Of its broad
steps the unquiet sea Of human beings is
st He'd. Its waves are suddenly parted,
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