Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1846-08-22
WARREN.
BY JOHN BROUGHAM.

Not vet nature, yet matchless, firm of word
Speaking in deeds, and deedIsss in tongue
Not aoon provoked, nor being provoked sool
Gained,
His heart aud hand both open and both free
One Of the consequences Of the sinpu
larly rapid growth Of America is that life
! remembered things have become alread,
mattersof history. The mighty convul-
sion which shook the strong fabric of Eu-
ropean society TO its very centre, subver.
ted the denomination of centuries, and, rs
it were, with q touch of the e~nchanter'l
wand, changed the destinies of millions o
lives, even within the memory Of some o
the very men through whose agency AL.
mighty wisdom worked its decree.
Inaslnuch as no human prescience could
have pointed out the means to achieve this
wondrous end, so no human sagacity could
have imagined aught to avert its consuma.
ton. 1T was written in the book of desti-
nv The same Holy voice that from con.
hictinr atoms called the universe into ex.
~istence, babe the sun of freedom rise, and
it was obeyed--it was accomplished
AT the close ola raw, comfortless day.
in the early part of the eyentful year ITS,
a group of young men We're collected
together in q small but neat and comforta.
bic house in the little village of Lexington.
They were in a whispered but earnest
Conversation, and from the stern determi-
nation pictured in each countenance it
was evident that no trivial matter had drawn
them together.
More news said one under his CON-
pressed teeth !: 'They have determined
that Boston must suffer. The rebels
must be stoned into subsection, il appears. ,
We'll, they're right said another, qf
they can do it. The only means by which
can get the Yankees to succumb. will
be to kill them outright, if they let them !;
but every life now lost will be a thousand
to us-the crisis has arrived at last,
reused by continued acts of injustice and
oppression. The people, not a few fac
tious individuals, who for personal aggran.
dizement would feignsan order which they
did not feel, but the bone muscle and sin
ew ofthe country-the people begin to
feel, to know and to deliberate. Oh, with
what an inward thrill ofjoy | gaze upon
determined faces as / pass along: look in.
eyes whose purpose shows itself, though
yet ullspoken meet the stern grasp in
of the easy, careless salutation-
proofs that one secret but Overwhelming
pervades all hearts,
True, Russell ? replied the other, the
people are prepared; but TO act in gener.
al concert it will be necessary to discover
0ne man whose evident and unquestiona.
Die fitness would declare him ated to di.
rect the whole
'And SO we shall: that Providence
which has so surely decreed the evil will
not deny us means. | myself know one
who, ifhis present promise be but an
earnest ofhis future greatness, will a.
;hieve a name whose glories will DER
cen the brightest: modest in de-
,oTtment, uniting ina curious degree the
apostles of caution and energy. Prudent
n deciding but firm and prompt in action
/ am much mistaken or his deed will keep
lis memory fresh in the hearts of his u
rymen from age to age, till time beholds
he wreck ofall.'
His name 2
tGEoReR WASHINGTON =
And that undying name, which uttered
has made the hearts of millions
well with rupturous thrill wa listened to
n quickened pulse.
Hut what Of Warren = resumed Russell,
Has he been sounded p
No need Of sounding, when every feel
ng ofhis honest, manly heart is indexed
his face.
How is it that we never see him 2
His home is now his sole consideration.