The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-05-17
CHOICE SSAG ES.
BY FREDERIKA BREMER.


CoMMERcE.-Long life to commerce! My soul
expands at the sight of it's life What has not
commerce done from the beginning of the world
for the establishment Of life, for promoting the
friendly intercourse of countries and people, for
the refinement of manners! 1t has always given
me the most heartfelt delight that the wisest and
most humane of the lawgivers of antiquity, Scion,
was merchant. "By trade, says one of his
bographers, "by wisdom and music was his soul
fashioned. Long life to commerce! What lives
not through t?'' What is all fresh life, all move
ment, in reality, but trade, exchange gift for gift
In love, in friendship. in the great life of the peo
Pile, in the quiet family circle, everywhere where
see happiness and prosperity, see l also trade
nay, what is the whole earth if not colony from
the mother country of Heaven, and whose we'll
being and happy condition depend upon free ex.
port and import? The smile might be still fur
Their carried out; yet thou good Giver above,
pardon us that we have ventured upon it
Love AND LABoR.-The affectionate will lends
even to dead things soul and life. But heavy to
the mnsterng spirits in this life of labor and
care for others, where no sunbeam of love, no
cordial acknowledgment falls upon their laborious
day.
Our FAULTs.-It is with our faults as with
horseradish-t is terribly difficult to extrpate it
from the earth in which it has once taken root !;
and nothing is more dscouraging to the cultivator
who will annihilate this weed from his ground
than to it, SO lately pucked up, shooting forth
again freshly to the light from roots which re-
NAMED buried in the earth. One can get quite
out of patience with the weedy soil, and one is,
when this soil is ones own dear self possessed
by the most cordial desire to set off far, far from
ones self. But how!
SELF coNDEMNATIoN.-Among many noble
and valuable qualities, man has that of being
able to condemn and sentence himself. Aud if
we are Justly displeased with any one, if we
are wounded and repealed by word or deed, we
should depend upon this quality, and permit it to
operate reconcngy upon our feelIegs For
while we are emblttered by his offence, perhaps
he himself may have Wept in silence over it,
walked in the silent hours of the night unpityingly
to punish himself in the severe sanctuary of his
conscience and the nobler the human being, all
the greater is his pang, even over failings which
before the judgment seat of the world are very
small or no faults at all nay, he will not at all
forgive himself if he cannot make atonement for
his faults, and the hope of so doing is, in such
painful hours, his only comfort
The SILENT COMBAT There is silent COM
bat which goes through the world, which is fought
out ia the reserved human heart, and at times
fearfully! 1t is the combat with evil and bitter
Thoughts. They are such thoughts as sometimes
take expression, expression written in fire and
blood. Then they read before the judgment
seat and condemned. In many human hearts,
however, they rage silently for long years; then
are undermined by degrees, health, temper, love,
faith, faith in life and faith ina good God. With
this sinks every thing
Two PIcTUREs.--Hast thou heard the fall OF
water-drops 10 deep caves, where heavily ana
perpetually, and gnawngly they eat into the