American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-01-24
LONG FACEDrPEOPLE.

Mirror If they serve to shorten the length o
some lugubrious Vsage, or impart bright anc
cheerful air to some SAD and sallow face, they
will we'll fill the space they occupy:
! "Why are we Americans (as Il natiOn) 81
grave a people? Walk the streets and large
majority OF the persons you meet are alike So
Tenn and salow. They look as if they had
Just risen from the perusal of "Blair's Grave
or the "ElegYn In vain nature smiles upon
them. They return it nOt-their eyes court
the ground-their faces are filed with untimey
wTinkles-ther gait is rapid and awkward
their features gaunt and spectral; their voices
husky and uncomfortable, and their CONVERSE
ton quite unembroidered with wit or humor
Follow these people to their homes-still all is
murky-they bend frowningly over the news
papers--they neither dance nor sing, nor Grolic
( they drive all gaiety from their wives and
children, and make their domestic life as dull
and senseless as one of Lillo's tragedies. Why
is this? Is life heavier burden, a more des-
peIate struggle here than elsewhere! Are we
cursed with a dismal climate or sterile soil?-
Have we 10 business TO do, or is our labor with
out reward Gratitude iOrbids that we should
say 50. Nature has been most bounteous to US;
she has given US Il land as foil of beauty and
grandeur, as it is Of all the elements of wealth.
taircr skies never canOpied mortas. Our lakes
are seas; our rivers run their thousand leagues
unweared our waterfalls sing their ceaseess
song in the forest; our mountains are worthy OF
the vallies they protect; the rainbow hues OF
autumn are our peculiar boon; the earth yields
rs hundred fold; we blush when we gather IN
returns so dsproportienate to our labors. Our
ancestors, too, have been most liberal TO U.s.
They have given us good government and a
good name. We are also blessed with mnds
naturally active and inventive, and kept in per-
petual play by the freedom Of our institutions.
No other nation has such mass of intellect in
constant employment.
Why, then, ale we so unhappy, thus sur
rounded by all the materials Of happiness? Is
not the simple truth thus: we pervert our pow
ers and abuse our privileges; we place our at-
lections upon the wrong objective utterly
mistake the true prizes of life-we pass by ma
ture, art, love, friendship, faith, and bow the
knee to mammon; we idolize it; we erect cost
| ly temples TO its homer, and on its altars we
sacrifice health, character, our wives, our chill
dren. To be rich, or TO be thought rich, is,
with too many of US, the sole, exclusive, all
expressing object Of our lives. Thus the heart
contracts, the affections droOp and withel; no
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Home becomes dreary place; it loses its Sab
baths and its holidays. The muses. and the
graces abandonIt 1t. Its songs and its festivities,
its hymns and its prayers depart from it Love
and faith flee atfrghed from its Threshold
Sullenness, frowns, tauats, reproaches, these
are its inmates. Its firesde becomes one con-
slant scene of jealousy, conspiracy, and strife,
till at last we almost long for death, to break
up and destroy place so depraved and per-
yerted.
We will not dwell upon so gloomy picture,
but simply ask is wealth worth such fearful sa-
crifce} What honest heart can hesitate in its
reply?
OREGON IN TIE New YORK LEGISLATURE.
On Monday last the Wing members Of the
New York Legislature introduced a series of
resolutions upon the Oregon subject, which
concluded as follows
! Resolved, Gf the Senate concur) That our
Senators and Representatives in Congress be
requested to vote for a resolution, advising the
| President of the United States to glAe to Her
Britannia Majesty's Government at as carly a
day as in his judgment the rights, the interests
/ and the honor of the American people demand,
! the notice required by the convention of 1927
for the termination of the Joint occupancy by
England and the United States of the Oregon
Territory.
Resolved, (if the Senate concur That our
relations with Eng land impose high and re-
sponsbe duties upon Congress, and that as
| the most efficient preparations for war furnish
at all times the strongest guarantee for peace,
the naval and military force of the country
should be augmented, while its defences should
be promptly strengthened upon our seaboard
and along the line Of our Northern and North
western frontier"
The ma iority refused to make these resou-
tons the special order for Friday, by a vote Of
SO to "a,
The DESERT OF woMAN's HEART
The following illustrative idea of "what is a
desert in female mind?" is extracted from a
novel entitled "Marriage"
douglas saw the storm gathering on the
| brow Of his capricous wife, and clasping her in
his arms.
care you indeed so changed my Julia, that
you have forgot the time when you used to
declare you would prefer desert with your
Henry to throne with another %
ono, certainly, not changed: butt did
not then know what desert was; or at least,
| had formed rather a different idea Of it."
''What was your idea of desert ?'' said her
husband laughing; ''do tell me, love"
ooh, | had fancied it beautiful place, full
of roses and myrtles, and smooth green turf, and
murmuring rivulets, and though very retired,
not absolutely out Of the world, where one
could occasionally see ones friends, and give
dgeunes and fetes champetres.
DISCRIMINATING DUTIES. "Joe," said gen.
tleman, yesterday, to his mulatto servant, who,
by the way, is free gem'en OBJ color, Joe, as
soon as you havethat hall cleaned out, (hc was
sweeping the hall clearthe street here opposite
the house,.
"Massa, said Joe, putting on a consequential