Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1842-01-15

Dade my spirit mount, and mount,
All Of earth but Thee above
Con1a, and hapry moments count.
As our fancies rove.
A sopL,E nEBtKE.-We find room this week
for the following beautiful re sporse Of the
Bee to the disgraceful remarks Of the Morn
Ing Advertiser on our venerable representa-
tive in the legislature, Gen. Thomas. The
reader will r~ecollect the ~allusion made to the
article in our number Of tho lst inst. We
lack words to express our admiration Of the
sentiments so beautifully enoanced by the
Bee all we can say is, that the spirit Of that
glorious generation Of which Gen. Thomas is
a most iluble remnant, appears to have caught
new life In the authors heart, and new yer.
dure and vigor in bis language.
"That good old man, Gen. Thomas. from
Baton Rouge, voted against the bill. Why1
He rose and sald--"Mr. Speaker, | shall vote
against the bill, because it 10 unconstitutiou-
al" Thank God, that the councils of-such
antiqaated Legislators are passing away, az
the dew from the grass Of a summer morn.
The young men Of the present day want free-
DOM want liberty, want justice and democrat
lc truth TO prevail, and it is to them that tho
cause Of the universal suffrage IL committed.
1t Is TO them to teach their prejudiced fathers,
that he who fights the battles oil his country
should have a voice in the choice of the pub
lid servants. Morning Advertiser.
And does the Morning Advertiser really
rejoice that s'the councils Of such antigua.
ted legislators are passing uwavj as the
dew from the grass1" or Is its jnbllation af.
| fected 10 defra,id the heart of Il sorrow
which the contemplation Of so sad a truth
must naturally awaken1 "Ihe young
men Of the presen! day who want freedom,
want liberty" or who appreciate these
great blessings, should seek the %antiquatet
legislators of the revolution to learn the
precepts Of wisdom and pay the homage
Of their gratitude for the rich inheritance
that has been prepared for them. II is moi
for them to teach but TO be taught by tleir
''preiudiced fathers" prejddiced" only
against the tyranny that their carly youth
encountered and overthrow.
We speak ofG"neral T'roMAs as we do
Of no other Legislator. He is one Of tht
few relics of the revelation that time hat
spared, to gladden. the spirit o.; our genera
ton. He is Of those in whose presence wa
have been taught from infancy to take of
our hats and be silent. He belongs to 9th.
er and better days-days of peril, Of pri.
vation Il ID glory, when every heart was n
temple of liberty and every bosom a bull.
wark to defend it. He is sin the midi Of
postcrity," and although the grave has
not consecrated his gray hairs to imfnor.
tally, we feel as proud of him as we do OF
his compeers who have gone home to God.
We know that in these days, men, wise
in their own c%onceit, have sprung up, who
hold as little worth the counseIs of the
founders of American liberty.-Eyen the
sanctuary of Mount Vernon has been de.
secrated by the disciples Of a Utopian de.
mocracy, who hawk at and would destroy
the Political fabric erected by WASHING.
TON, with as little ruth as the followers &
founders Of Mormonism assail the symtne.
try Of our holy religion as preached by the
primitive futhers Of the church. The lib
erty of mankind has been as little benefit.
ted by the former as the religion Of the
gospel has been by the latter. The "pas
sing away of the %"antiquated legislators
of Seventy six promotes the cause of ma
tional freedom no more than the death Of
ST. Paul FASTENED the regeneration Of the
world; and we regard the sneers of the po.
l~iticians Of our day at the wisdom of the
trainers of the constitution, with the emo,
tons akin to those that are excited by the
earnings Of a latter day saint at the Apostle
of the Gentiles.
Let the eager hand of innovation pause
yet awhile. lest the eyes of those whose
b'oodcemented TIE edifice, close i'll dcalf
amid the ruins of Constitution. Let nj
giant lay hold of the pillars before tht
workmen have escaped from beneath it
roof: and ye who would rejoice at the "pas
sing away" Of the councils Of these "anti
quated legislators" be comforted-in
little while there will not be one on tn,
face of the earth to offend your n~os,rils.
We would tain believe that the extrac
at the head of this article was writer
thoughliessly; but for our own part We cal
never contemplate without emotion thu
period when of that devoted band that lef
an empire rejoicing in freedom as a lega
cy to mankind, there shall not be M lief
from the rising to the setting SUM-. The,
are indeed the "dew upon the grass" bu
for which there had been no nourishmen
in it. The earth had else been scorchet
to ashes under the raging fire Of ~despotism
A great man. perhaps the greatest man il
England, has said that the progress of man
kind in the science of free government
will be tested by the homage paid by pos
terity to the memory of WASHINGTON
and, we might added, that when the eoun
ellis of the revolutionary fathers shall hav
. passed away there will be little left I
the American people over which they ma.
rejoice.
@ Judge Kent says-"There are yer,
few evils to which a man is subjected tina
be might not avoid if be would convers