The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-09-19
J. HOLCOMB, EDITOR PUBLISHER.

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Remembering his mill dam, he constructs
floating dam OF canvass in the air, &c
harness the winds to his ocean wagon.
Thus, with his waler.horse and air horse
harnessed in tandem, he drives across the
wilderness Of waters with team that
would make old Neptune hide his dIm'n-
ished head for envy, and sink his clumsy
chario. beneath the waves.
See now! he wants something else; his
appetite for something better than he has,
grows, upon what he feeds on. The fact
is, he has pIodded about in his one horse
wagon till he is disguised with his poor
capacity of loco.molion. The wings OF
Mercury, modern agles and paper kites,
are all too impraclcabIe for models. He
settles down pom the persuasion that he
Can make great IRON HORSE, with
bones OF steel, and muscles Of brass, that
will run against time with Mercury or
any other winged messenger OF Jove -
the daring man He brings out his huge,
evialhan hexa ped upon the track How
the giant creature struts forth from his
stable. painting to be gone His great heart
is a furnace Of glowing Goals; his iym~
phalic blood is boiling in his VEINS the
strength of thousand horses is nerving
bis iron sinews. But his master reins
him in with one finger, till the whole of
some western village, men, women, child.
rem, and half their horned cattle, sheep,
poultry, wheat, cheese and potatoes, have
been slowed away in that long train of
wagons he has harnessed to his foaming
steam horse. And now he shouts inter-
lrogatively All right? and applying
burning goad 10 the huge creature, away
1t lhunders over The iron road, breathing
forth fire and smoke in It's Indignant haste
o outstrip the wind. More terrible than
the war,horse in scr pure clothed with
louder thunder, and emitting cloud OF
flame and burning coal from his iron nos
rls he dashes on through dsIk noun
tain passes, over juning preciplces and
deep ravines. His tread shakes the ear h
like a travelling Niagara, and the sound OF
his chariot wheels warn the peop e of dis
Iant towns that he is coming comlng
where? TO Boston Of courses
These are few of the faculties which
the human mind has invented to increase
our physical capacity, to improve our
physical condition. And they are the
personal property of every individual, and
ever ready and able to put him into COM
municaion with all the comforts and con
venitnce they can procure. The seam>
engine, the packet-ship are ny own per-
Snpal f,rnltIac p1noh than |
they would be, they were an useparable
part of my being They are far more
avaiab!e to me, than if nv feet were pe(
ded on to each of them. Therefore, all
these artificial faculties; every invention
and implement 10 give new capacity 10
labor; every inch of progress in the arts
and sciences every degree of intellectual
Development that has been made since
the birth of humanity. have all been the
result Of that impulse Of perpetual activity
which the yearning necessities OF mans
physical nature have communicated TO his
MIMI To ameiorate our physical con
dtion, has been the inspiring object OF
every intellectual attainment. 1t has led
to the discovery of every principle of nat
ural ply losophy and science it has IN
spired every conception OF taste, prompted
every act of patriotism and christian phil
anthropy. 1t was not to indulge few
mere Intellectual distractions, that the an
Client sheperds and sailors clambered up
into the blue heavens and consolidated the
stars they wanted them for guide boards.
to guide them by night over the vast plains
of lheEast, and the uncharted waters of
the ocean. If Phldias and Praxeteles
were only bent on a mere diversion of the
ina gination, neither OF them needed to
have touched chiseI. The man who
created the Apollo BeIvidere looked into
the mountain side. and saw the silvery-
bowed deity invested in all his godIike at
tributes in the unquarried marble. But
he could not bear to see him hampered
there in his lapiduous shroud before his
minds eye: he seized his chisel, and with |
indignant strokes, he tore away the cere-
mental marble, and let out the god before
his body's eye, to be worshipped by mil
lions who, if they dared. might even touch
his marble flesh. All the beautiful or
ders OF arc hitecture e. creations The pen
ell all the conceptions of the beautiful in
nature, and art, and humanity, are inven-
tons extorted, as it were, from the mind, |
to extend and increase the pleasures of
sense. All the institutions of human
government, the principles of political e.
economy the aspirations of patriotism and
the efforts of philanthropy, have been
called forth by the necessities of our
ply steal nature, which Divine Wisdom
ordained should never be supplied with
out the busy occupation o.! the mind.
E. B.
BEAUTIFUL ALLEGoRY. A humming
| bird nnca met butterfly and heinn