Arkansas intelligencer., 1844-12-14

| 'o'' VI 'nIh'uS INTEREST,"; exhorters or J" per.
suasive powers,' and commanding pathos -
reasoners of irresistible logic" and most . con.
vncIngly conclusive - and writers of sbting sar-
casm, humorous wit" ''innumerable we'll a r.
rayed facts" beautiful SMILES ;" "choice figures
Of rhetorc," graceful style,'' and classical
taste, are exceedingly plenty while artists of
pictorial 'nventlon' with their never-ending bad.
ges' devices, carIcatures, and imagery, throw the
genluses OF ancient and modern scuiptorship and
classical paintings entirely into tho shade. The
ch'sel and the easel of such genuses as Canova,
Chantry, Greenough, Raphael, Michael Angelo,
ana Titan, can no more compare with our mod.
ern intators OF cider barrels, coons, ROSTERS nd
foxes, than could the poetry of Virgil, Homer,
Milton, Shakespeare, or Pope rivet attention, while
PractIsed ballad-singer was spelling fine pair
OF lungs with the doggerel of a modern political
rhymester.
And so great had the mania become, that we
md men of real mont and real genius laying aside
the calsngs which give Immortality to the nge, fol.
lowing the usilitaran principle, prosttuting their
pens and their pencils to the unworthy purposes of
'ndtIng State political paragraphs or painting false
caricatures Of the opposilion.''
Again he treats upon the true principle of tenn.
perance eXertion:-
''Ihe true principle, therefore, for the chief ex.
erlions Of the temperance reformers is, my opin-
ion, principally to expend their powers ofporsua.
sion on the young and rising generatio n and on
the moderate drinker in whom the fearful habit is
not yet formed. Let such be pointed to the many
melancholy examples, who in early life drink
moderately-believed they had moral frmness:
yet when the ills Of life, and the hour of advers
ty have overtaken them, flew to the bowl to drown
thei- sorrows, until the maddening chaIice has
caused them to sink beyond all hope of reforma.
ton. LIE. none indulge the syren hope that they
can escape whenever the danger threatens.
Who has rot seen living examples of the greatest
mental power-the brightest intellects--and men
bound by tho strongest earthly ties, split upon the
rock which the moderate drnker approaches with
out fear.''
Again upon the riches of Cold Water he SAYS
finely:
'lhe temperance rcrormcrs have little to offer
that is inviting Their only beverage is cold wa
ter; their only theme total abstinence; their ony
excitement the presiding over company of sober
men, or of addressing popular meeting with less
prospect of applause than of derision. But then
they can promise that their beverage is not slow
and certain poison-that its use will not entail up-
on US long list Of loalhsome diseases that
1t is neither expensive nor hard to obtain 1t is
indeed the free gift of Him, who allows no proper.
ty in the elements. 1t is the pure stream flowing
from the fountain. 1t is natures beverage drift
ed from the driven SHOWS, and tho transparent
glazer, and brewcd away down in the mellow
earth. 1t bursts forth from the bubbIing spring
runs down the little riIl--rushes over mighty
cataract--swes the ma jeslic river which boa RS
on Its bosom the commerce of Millions and with its
pure stream sweetens the briny Its use
beggnrs no family-breaks the heart of no tender
doatlng wife, who centres the strongest and most
holy affections, in wayward husband-sendsI |
upon cold and Pitess world no help pIess orphans
destroys no igantic intellect no brilliant MIND
lncarcerates no maniac in Iunalic asylum. nor
consgns him 10 mad mans cell; nor sinks any
immortal souls to endless PERDlTIoN.""
Next the Judge gives US beautiful sme:--
alt is a cause in which all may exert due share
of influence. Numbers act like the little rill
which started Off from the lofty peaks of the ALE.
ghanies. 1t shouted 10 the bubbng spring, away
upon the summit of the Rocky Mountains. Il am
going down to the rich valleys upon the Balize
where they want canal to carry off the iron and
the flour from Pennsylvania and Ohio.'' 81 will
60 too," exclaimed the bubbIing spring, and
straight way little rill tracked through the melt
ing snow, and swept down the sides Of the Rocky
Mountains. 81 go that the trappers may bear
away their furs and their petries.'' 81 will meet
you there,' echoed back the little meandering
creeks and branches, upon the highes. SUBMITS of
the blue-capt chains, stretching through Virginia,
the Carolina's, and Georgia, and still doubling
whether they should help to swell the Gulf of
Mexico, or 10 sweeten the briny Atlantic. 81 will
meet you there, that tho cotton and the grain may
have road" And so they went-gatherng ten
thousand little streamlets in their tran--and 90
they met. The mighty canal was formed! 1t is
the father of waters! On its bosom groans
thousand floating places, carrying millions of tons