Democratic banner., 1849-04-02
THE RULING PASSION OF MAN.

111A AUAkkSo A<1SoANAN SE U1<4&ss
The question is an adjourned one by common
-cousene, de grave decisions Of Juvenile debating
clubs .tpIhs contrary, as to mans predominant
|ps.sioes The love Of friends and Of lsere are
Be the most weighty and antagonists;
the one appealing to the sympathetic ties Of 30
|cial relationship, and springs from the nOblest
Of the heart; the other appeals to those
|coarseT trzib, ~avarics and ambition, so strongly
through all the political and commercial
transactions Of the world, and springs from those
dark and mysterious recesses Of the heart where
selfish ingratitude dwells.
These features Of human nature are frequent
ly viewed with heated imaginations from wrong
positions, which serve as glasses to magnify the
objects viewed. Que is cut aloof from early as
Isociations and kind friends, who once basked in
the genial beams OF the sun OF his prosperity, and
left 10 buffet the cold world in adversely with in
,hospitable strangers; which but grows the cold
Ter upotrhis returning 10 those friends WHO find
no p~leaaqfe In the shades Of his aaversityy II
men were less prone to dwell in their imagina-
tions upon the errors Of humanity, there would
be less unhapplness in the world. The world
is kind if we do not deceive the world. Man
would be happy fhe would not poison his peace
with the reflections Of wrongs done 10 him.
Men love money il is true, but is there no no
bier impulses to action to gain It than mere love
Iof Euere1 The idea is . SANDER upon the true
Of the heart. I speak of men pos
'sessed Of human hearts, not miser's gizzards!-
Men traverse the earth from zone to zone, ard
IpiOw the seas from poll 10 poll, in search of
wealth, and shall we insult his love for those for
whom he tolls, BY a~ttributing to him nc nobler
Impulses than syaIice?
The present time is prolific Of incidents illus.
trative Of The ruling passions Of man. We see
daily scores Of men actusted. certainly. by strong
motives foregoing the pleasures of home and
kiadred friends, for the hope of building or re-
building their fortunes; but how illiberal would
IL be to judge those fathers and husbands love
of money, to absorb all ether feelings Of the
|heart.-An incident that occurred at our wharf
4 few days ego, brought this subject forcibly 70
our mind. There, Missed and pulled the
restless boat, while the busy throng jammed|
their thOugliless course along, thinking lii.
tie Of the cares Of those around them.-I
a small groupe, consisting Of mother, daughter
and son, might have been seen lingering to the
last moment around the father and hu.band-who
starts h Z fsw days for the FL Dorado in theI
West-tM the last tap Of the bell summoned them
to depart for their friends in distant State
Then came the hurried but expressive FAREWELL
lhe warn and couvulsive grasp Of the hand-the
quivering Ii and silent tear, and the little groupe
separated, perhaps ~foreveri Yes, the 81.
lent tear coursed the manly cheek Of that faith.
er, whose head is now silvered DER with age, as
turned from the boat that bore upon the waves
he partner Of his bosom and the comfort of his
lge. q,
TIE WILMor PRovlso.-The Louisiansl.
Pike co. Banner contains q cell for q mass
meeting, to be held at Bowling Green onll
Sd Of April, to "resPond to the a%ction
the Legislature upon the subject of the
WInotProviso." The call is said 10 bel
Of party" and made to Mis-
'ourians, who believe in the doctrine of the
of the States and territories
10 govern their own domestic institutions
and municipal laws, untrammelled by Fed.
'ral legislation" If this doctrine is main.
BY the people Of Pike county, andIs
suppose it will be, it will come in directlt
conflict with the position assumed BY the
great Democratic meeting at our CourtIf
House, on the 18th, snG in which both e
Hards and Sgfts united. The St. Louis
resolutions, %emanating, ss they svowedly
10, from the Democratic party, and receiv-I(
ng the endorsement of both factions of :heIf
will unquestionsbiy receive the at. 9
ention Ct the proposed meeting in Pike.-lf
.hepastSe0n. i
And they will unquestionably receive the
unqualified disaPprobation of the proposed
etiDg'in Pike. The people of Pike look1tt
'ot to the resolutions Of the B~arnburner.|i
# st. Louis as the textbook of their %politi.
'aI faith. Though further removed from
he Metropolis Of the nation, they read the (
m Constitution and iudoe FIR themsslv..