The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-01-15


! countrymen, and his own ETHEREAL mould incapa-
BILE OF stain, was to purge oil the baser fire yicto-
| rous." But all this was done he might have been
pardoned, though he had failed amid the enthusiasm
of those around him, and when liberty the deu-
sion but the foundations of tho moral world were
shaken, and not the understanding of Washington.
To those who must necessarily contemplate this
remarkable at distance, there a kind of fixed
calmness in his character that seems not well fitted
TO engage affections Constant superiority we
rather venerate than loye,) but he had those who
loved him (his friends and his family well as the
world and those that admired
| As ruler of mankind, however, he may be pro-
posed as model Deeply impressed with the origi-
nal rights of human nature, he never forgot that
the end and meaning, and aim of all just government
was the happiness of the people, and he never exer
cised authority till he had first taken care to put HIM
self clearly in the right His candor, his patience,
his love of justice were unexampled and this, though
naturally he was not tient-much otherwise, highly
| irritable.
He therefore deliberaed well, and placed his sub
Ject in every point of view before he decided; and
his understanding being correct he thus rendered,
by the means of his faculties, his strength of mind,
and his principles the man of all others to whom the
interests OF his fellow creatures might with most con-
idence be entrIsted that is, he the first of the
rulers of mankind
! The subjoned contains sentiments worthy Of a
great man--at least Americans may be satisfied with
the portion that relates to themselves:
" In the mean time, know not how any friend to
his species much less any Englishman, cease to
wish with the most earnest anxiety for the success
oil The great experiment to which have alluded, for
the success of the constitution of America. see not
IN like manner how any friend to his species, much
less any American, forbear for moment to wish
for continuance of the constitution Of England
that the Revolution of 1853 should forever all
its important purposes for England the Revolution
of l776 has hitherto done for America. What efforts
can be made for the government of mankind rea-
sonable as these,--a limited monarch and limited
AlisS a.,
OF liberty in the two countries cannot but be of the
greatest advantages to each limited monarchy and
limited republic being well fitted by their comparison
and separate happiness, each to correct the peculiar
tendencies to evil which must necessarily be found in
the other,
Successful therefore be both and while the re-
cords of history last, be they both successful that
they may eternally hold up to mankind the lessons
OF practical freedom, and to explain 10 them the only
secret that exists of all national prosperity and happ
ness the sum and substance of which must forever
: consis in mild government and tolerant religion
l. e. (raonay undersood) in civil and religious Ii
berty.
Mark the difference between Europe and ASIA
What is it, what has ever been2 Slavery in the
one and freedom in the other.
Take another view, more modern and more domes-
!. tic. Mist is in the valley, and slerty is the
mountain of the Highlander his land is the land of
tempest and gloom, hut there is intelligence in his
looks and gadness in his song. On the contrary, in
cense is in the gale, and the laughing light of Nature
I" Why do its tdneful echoes angush
Mute but to the voice of anguish ?"
Yet where it that once fourshed the heroes the
sages, and the orators Of antiquity What is there Of
sublimty and beauty in moral feelings in
works of art, that is not stamped with the impression
Of then genius.
Give civil and religious liberty you give every thing
know ledge and science herosm and honor, virtue
and power deny them and you deny every thing in
the gifts Of nature there hafy est in the
fertility of the soil there is no cheerfuness in the
radiance of The sky there is thought in The under
standing Of man and there is in his heart no hope ;
the human animal sinks and wthers; abused, dsin-
heTted stripped of the attributes Of his kind and
longer formed after the image of his God
5 CoNsuMrrlox.-A treatise on the causes and cure
of Pulmonary Consumption, has been recently pub
: lished in Philadelphia, by DR.. SAMUEL SHELDON
e FITCH The work has evidently been prepared with
great care and the suggestions and facts which
tans are well worthy of consideration The follow
ing extract from its pages describes the nature of
cure for consumption, which has been successful in
| many cases:
The cause of pulmonary consumption is ultimately
shrinking of the lungs condensng of their struc-
ture and deposite of cheeselike matter in their sub
stance let this result proceed from whatever it
may. 1t is the state Immediately preceding open
D consumption
Let the chest be measured at this time in its cir
conference, and will be found to have shrunk very
considerably. The position of the coar-bones and
shoulder-bades also show change in the chest
The hattening of the breasbonc, the stoop of the
person. walking sitting together with the slightly
hurried breathing, perhaps slight cough, perhaps
occasional palms. point out to the experienced physi-
clan that his patient is then in the first stage of pull
monary consumption. Could our remedies then be
applied rarely ever would consumption be heard of
as fatal disease In very few weeks the chest
would be restored to its full symmetry, and the lungs
to perfect health.
striking fact to prove that consumption proceeds
go ,aI. thc
that the disease always begins at the top of the lung
below the collar bone, where the lungs have least play
and most likely TO be obstuc ed. As the disease
advances, il progresses do~nwards and invades the
lower obes of the lungs, producing large caverns
cavities in their structure These cavities from the
spongy nature of the lungs, do not heal, but remain
gasping open, frlghtul suppurnting wound AS the
dis draws to its termination dlarrhGa apt to take
place and the bowels become affected, This state Of
things shows that vast ravages have taken place the
lungs, and very little fol remedies TO upon
have known persons in this condition live on from
year to year. Their lives may be prolonged, under
some circumstances, for very considerable period but
permanent cure should not be promised If the bow
els of the patient have not become effected he may al
ways entertain hope Of cure
The way in which the various diseases hereto
fore mentioned cure pulmonary consumption, is by
rendering the lungs vouminous The discovery of
this great fact instuots art TO produce tho
suit the mode of which is by mechanical means to OBJ
struct, for short time each day, the expiration out
ward breathing of the patent The effect of this is to
initiate blow up the healthy part Of the lungs To
such extent this be done, that if onehaf
of each lung diseased the portion of it remaining
healthy may be inflated fill the whole chest In
this way the sides of the diseased cavities will all be
brought in actual contact and be made perfectly to
heal This the in the instance Of the late DR..
Parrish in whose lungs large cicatriccs found,
/ showing that he had been cured Of consumption -
i Thousands of like that of DIR. Parrish be
adduced, but do not deem it necessary. A thou
sand obstacles occasionally found to obstruct the
progress of the patient to perfect cure. One of
these obstacles, and not insignificant one, is the
interference of physicians, who, in vast many in
sfn uiu he Ned hy hene