Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1841-05-08
/ WHOLE NUMBER 53S.
SPRING.

turned out of Office and is now sIumberinp in r q
,,tetnent among the iceberges Of the North -
ms measures were altogether 100 destructive 10
the rest of the North and too favorable ,ov,,ds
those OF The South. He took TOO heavy responsi.
o''tes on ms own shoulders, md the refore pros
tra'ed business Halter than hammered sixpence.
ne Put a stop 10 All our INLAND nav igation-evied
Il grinding tax upon tho poor--burIed the pros
pcruy OF The country beneath the SHOWS usur,o
tlon, and created banks after banks 10 block m
Inc honest yeoinan's path TO fortune; but most of
them have been run upon often that they arc
now trodden down, If not wholly anniLilated
forever.
My friends-se,ting aside all politics. whether
seasonable or unreasonable, let us re iocc tina
warmer, mtlder, SUMMER days are beginning TO
peep through the wiRd tattered curta in of March
ana That we shall soon get a smell al such
odours delighted the olfactofies of our first On
rents, as they sat weaving love knots in The, CAV
bowers at Eden, Or picking the violets that sur
rounded the cradle OF newborn Spriar. Nature
though comparatively dormant, is not yet dead
Every Gay EXHIBITS new symptoms of returning
animation; and you will soon her habied in
4 new !fook of green, and with young buds of
promise wroathod in her ringle,s.
The infant blossoms, that lend the floral YEAR
VIII shortly rear their tiny heads upon the veve,
lawns. and laugh for JOY at the glad prospects be-
fore them 'rnc litte birds, too will como g. cheer
US with their eniivenng cnioings; and cverv
CROCHET, quaver, semiquaver,a and demisemiquaver
IN the unwritien music of nature will be run over
by the ieathered choristers from heaven with tho
cXactness OF pocket organ. Soon the earth,
which has lately been sepu!chre Cor the dead,
Will be converted into a garden of life and indus
try. Damash roses shall bloom upon Winters
barren grave. and green garlands hang upon eve
ry ieafess bough
My irends-only mark the difference between
the natural and the animal world! While tho
earth enjoys M annual renovation, aud crowns
herself every Spring with the blooming chapIet
OF youth, man, tral man, IS Fastening 10 decay
no vernal morn sheds its freshness over the au-
tumnai landscape Of life, no balmy breczes can
blow youthful sigor into tho superannuaied sys-
TENS Of age. When the physical tree sheds lis
verdure, and the limbs become sa pess and old IL
inurIshes no more; and when the vegetation Of
the Uranium is dried aud wi,hered in tho Decem-
Der Of time, itcan never sprout again TIL the soil
&c ""@tored ena enriched by the April shower Of
Immortality Yes, my friends, decay is written
upon the forehead OF you all as plainly rs tho
heading TO theatre bIll and YOU should consd-
er yourselves particularly favored by merc.ful
Providence that you permitted to behold tho
opening OF another Spring For my part, l roll
up my wonder, and thus coiloquize truth my own
my serious self: it be possible that l am a.
gain 10 enjoy the May-days of another yearf
hoW many times more will spring spread her man
tie between me and tho grave? how many times
more will yonder sod clo,he itself IN green, before
It shall be uPtorn by the sections spade, and
planted upon my clay cold bosomi Such ques-
tons as these you all ought to ask yourselves as
well as ], and live though it were the last
Spring with which you TO be favored in
this changing sphere. Because every thing a
round you seems lively, cheerful and young, don't
be deceived into the idea that the sands in the
honrglass of time have ceased 10 run; that you
can linger upon life's fowery banks forever; and
hat you are now IS near the dark portal Of the
tomb as you will be when another year rolls
round All! my friends, you all marching,
with dnubie quick step, towards the battlefield of
death; and when you and shall split ourselves
upon the ground, the earth will still be in her
teens. and the sweet 'assie Spring will trip it
over our graves with as ligh,some step when
she first came dancing into the world with gar
ands gathered in the gardens of heaven.