The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-04-22
For THE MADIsoNIAN.
THE OLD DOMINION.

The power of the Most High certainly stand. in
need of the feeble eIertions of hasten the
accomplishment of any of his purposes We set down
quietly in the attitude of spectators watch with in
tense interest the progress of history which we
have control, and the march of his wise, benef
and wonderful administration, is subject which
has absorbed the attention of the human mind from
the days of Peter and Cyrus down to the present pc
Rod But with the affairs of this life are deeply
concerned, though relations in it various and
diversified. shoutdbe so because are the high
est intsigeneiss of nature and by the complicated
machinery Of the world olives and moves" The or.
der ofthings is most happily and myserously ar
ranged. There is tribunal watchful, which
sets in judgment, governing human affairs, and Civ
ing moral tone and direction to our thoughts and
deeds there sometimes, however, but little things
which decide our fate. Causes always have their eff
fects-curses mixed up with blessings--joys with
sorrows-sunshine nth storm, until we lose
reckoning, like the pilot troubled sea- and become
bewildered in labyrinth Of creeds and "Man
is the creature Of circumstances" He may be pros
porous at the of his career but at last
the standard Of public opinion recedes from his eye
At first the world may have loved him, as a mother
loves an only babe, but in the Course of time he be-
comes spoileI-the spoiled /child Of nature--the
spoiled child of fortune-the spoiled child of fame
the spoiled child of society. He is dazzled with the
glitter ofthe orum-the gaze OF an hundred drawing
rooms rests upon hm-the reclamation of the whole
nation salutes his ear-the applause of appauded
men tell him of his mightness-all the world and the
glory Of it, he claims his own until in the whirl of
conflicting circumstances, he takes some step which
all condemn and none approve. This very well APP
plies to ono or two distinguished of the Old Do.
minion." He might have attained the ultima thule Of
wards of profound and highly -gftcd intellect Blu,
how many noble sons Of This tme-honored and re-
spec,ed caste by their inconsderate
folles In the language Of the scripture, they think
highly of themselves than they ought to think
become closely identified with unpopular schemes
forsakc their old ways, without assigning any plsu.i
bic reason, and become attached to men and princi.
Piles which in direct opposition TO those which be-
fore had been the rule of their political action The
public mind becomes at last freted with such unlock ed
for and unjust6abIe tergiversations, ii admires the
golden rule of consistency and where it is wantonly
violated, reproaches reputation and abuse inevitably
follow, and the accomplishments and requirements Of
probably halfa century, polished BY the r,fnen,ns of
E~opsan court together with the strongest powers Of
reasoning and Judgment lose their sway and the pos
sinks into common level with the thi,d-ra,e
politicians Of the day Their seats in the legislative
halls ofthe country, where the asshings Of their ge
Mus had caught the sdmiring gaze of whole nation.
and bad thrown new light upon the logic Of politics.
science become vacant, and they retire ehasrieed
and mortified the "cool and .hsds' of the country
content, though fallen, to represent small county In
the lsss'.tor. Of III. State, ,housh sh~y ~ sAe~>