The Columbian fountain., 1845-11-20
Cumberland, Md.
For the Columbian Fountain.


was fortunate enough the other day to
fall in company with some numbers of
the "Columbian Fountain To me, it
was new thing, and ! was disposed to
taste Of its waters. After had tried it and
made out its analysis, and had experienced
some Of its incipient advantages, thought
it good.
If you will allow me the privilege and
honor Of doing any thing for you by way
Of leading a little tributary to the |" "Foun-
tain;' or, by diffusing lis healing virtues in
to the social atmosphere Of our commu-
nifty, you can intimate it at your leisure.
The "Coumbian Fountain will, think,
meet precisely the exigencies of our case in
this section. All the world ought to know
lland rejoice to know that there is ssFoun-
'ain'' opened up quite under the eve of the
Sanctuary of Liberty, close by the heart Of
a nations bosom; and so near the centre
and concentrc Of the peoples interest, that
the great Federal pulsation may be happily
affected by its overfowing those portions of
country that have been burnt and burnt over
again by destroying element; and, by ex
tinguishing that flame that seeks parallel
with eternity, and which is contriving con-
spiracy with hell, to ply their energies to
the running of the soul.
A fountain, though small, with rigid
constancy, and an engine moved by the po-
tent arm of nation, with skilful manage
ment,) must be efiectual in humbling the in
sidious enemy of human happiness.
The rock was smitten in good time, and
i'll good cause, and by good Moses.
Now, lei the thousands of Columbia take
the benefits of :. Fountain" that is in no
slight degree allied to the stream Of Life.
We have not the pithiness of Apollo, or
we might discourse of the future. But we
are the door-keepers of the past, and are
permitted to open and enter its silent cham
Der, and examine the Chronicles of other
days witness by the light of our own liv-
ing genius, the dead and dying thoughts of
those men who have registered their names
on memory's page They contemplated
bright reversion of things for the future.
We, arguing from the past, look forward
with expectation to a halcyon period The
Temperance host has formed galaxy
across the sky of the moral universe; and
we discover cheering omens in the cloud
less picture Of future hope, with as much
precision as the eye of faith surveys heaven,
when Jesus turns away the last lingering
shades Of Natures night. But let us return
to the Fountain-swect Fountain
A certain great man once said, S'There
is nothing sweeter than pious woman's
heart" Gen. Scott, weary by travel, took
his stand hard by clear mountain spring,
to which he had been conducted from the
main road, by narrow path that had not
been frequented (from the appearance of iD
for years. With his left hand OH the hilt of
his sword, with his right hand he grace
fully received from lis aid-de-camp cup Of
the sparkling and bright,"-drank and re-
turned tho cup with the following lam
guage: "There is nothing sweeter to the
taste Of weary soldier than the freshly
wept tears from a weeping mountain" A
Outstanding soldier, who was anxious for
the passover Of ceremonies that lie himself
might do justice TO the plentiful flow, en-
tered this rejoinder: 90, that every noun
tain were a fountain Of water, that they