The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1842-01-29

Sentally Sangul9ary, nenCt the nursery
ficlions of .sRaw-head and Bloody bones"
and slack the Giant-killer' are listened
to by children,
each trembling heart with grea.ful terror
quelled,"
Just as, at three score and ten, men read
with intense avldity the bloody realities
of the battle field. WHO, by the way, is
not sometimes forced to distrust the firm
ness of his republican creed, when he
confesses how, like the rest of mankind
he is apt to be captivated b. the glare Of
great military achievements Hear the
most celebrated Euglishman of this CEN
fury, even when preparing to flesh his
maiden sword in the cause Of Greece, en-
claiming Of him whose aim was universal
dominion,
ellis prowess shall rank with the first of all
ages,
And monarchs hereafter shall bow to his worth,
The songs Of the poets, the lessons oisages,
Shall hold him the wonder and grace Of the
earth.
The meteors of history before thee shall fall,
Eclipsed by thy splendor, thou meteor OF Gaul !"
The PHYSICIAN, too will tell you that
he sees no end to the road Of inquiry and
observation which lies before him. Boz
tany, chemistry, the natural history of
man and of inferior animals, their physlo-
logy, diseases, and remedies, present to
him so many fields for research, no less
useful than entertaining, while medical
repositories and more elaborate works,
without number, serve at once to illus
trate the never-ending discoveries of the
active practitioner, and to stimulate and
feed the yoracous curiosity Of the ambltl-
Gus student. In numerous colleges, again
Incorporated and literally endowed for
his instruction-he gathers the fruit OF
ages of practical experiment, and scient.
fic deduction. There stands the sklllul
surgeon, with his knife and nerve oil iron
to rip up and lay bare the very fountains
Of life, and of thought; and at his side the
chemist, with his cruclble, to extract
medicine from the rudest mineral, or IN
the simplest plant that grows upon your
way-side to detect 'poison more deadly
than the mad-dog's tooth. Put into his
hands the exqlstely delicate and beau'l-
full poppy, and he will quickly draw from
It's stem a charm that can assuage or put
an end to the bitterest agonies oil the
body or the mind!
The LAWYER, again, after reaping all the
advantages of established and well en-
dowed law schools, is forced to keep
pace, whether he will or not, with the
voluminous decisions of the courts and
the ever-varymg enactments OF the Lcgls-
lature. To these he generally adds some
knowledge of the sciences, and close IA
mlliarily with classical literature and the
lighter contributions Of an evcr-tecmlng
press. From these sources the late Mr..
Pinkney, whose ambition of Intellectual
renown no measure of glory could satl-
ate, was wont to derive his wonderful
powers of illustration as well as the
choicest flowers of his oratory. His
very last moments accelerated by an en-
traordinary eXertion o! tho reasoning Ia
Guilty in a case of great Importance, were
beguiled by new and charming fiction
from the pen of the Great Unknown -
Thus did reason and imagination alter
nately sway and beguile the mind Of that
great advocate, and lend eliulgence to the
last moments of his brilliant career, as
western clouds are gilded by the rays of
the settiEg sun.
The MERCHANT, he whom the farmer
supposes to conine his reading to prices
current and his pen to bookkeeping
even he. too, is seen Of late years forming
"mercanhLe library associations" topro-
vide collection of authors, and sue
cession Of learned lectures on mercantile
law, the currency o. different nations,and
on'all the arts and productions which fur
nish for commerce its materials, its Sc
curity, and its profits. While too many
young agrlculturists are wasting their lei
sure hours in idle amusements, or tozlng
them away in listless vacuity the mer-
chant is studying, among the wants and
the fabrics of foreign countries, where he
can find the best market for all the pro-
ducts of American agriculture, and where
he can buy on the best terms all those ar
ticles which he we'll knows the planter
and farmer must have in exchange for the
fruits of his own labor. Take, for ex-
ample, an article of extensive trade and
consumption:
CoFFEE.-Does the agricultural con-
sumner suppose that the merchant who
supplies him is as ignorant of the history
of this valuable product of tropical eli
mates as he is (alas, too ollen,) of the most
common staples Of his felds2 Far from
it. If the young merchant be man in
whom the intellectual would rise above
The mere money-making animal, the inqui-
ries naturally suggested to every active
mind, cultirating or dealing IN valuable
commodity, will have taught him, in this
case. that coffee is native of Yemen, in
Arabia; and that, on the wings of COM