The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1850-02-22
A Great Observation-Disclosures.


From q neighboring County IN the HooSier
.Stttte, on Senate bill for the diUOrce Of
Mrs. Martin delivered ON the 18th inst,
an the House Of Representatives, Of Indiana
Mr.. SPEAKER Pm opposed to the bill
most religiously opposed to it. Marriage isl
a contract honored by tmc and sanctioned by
the wise and learned of all ages, fiom Confu-
cius and Zoroaster. down to Mr. Bulwer and
Pierce Butler. Its effects have not been
more blessedly general than generally bles-
sed. Hear! hear We ourselves are liv-
ing monuments, perpetuating and establish
/ ing the fact. Some of the members consId
erab'y excited, particularly Mr.. Vanderburg.
! 1t has poured deluge of inexhaustible sun
| light over the heaving waters of superlative
| ly civilized society 1t has been the only sol
itary star. shedding and emitting It's glorious
etfulgehce, and unrivalled splender, cloudless-
| ly over the opaque conglomeration of shad
ows which have enveloped the heather and
savage since the "time whereof the memory
of man runneth not TO the contrary" All
nations, all classes, ell ages have slipped gifts
cup of bliss, inlaid with flowers ofgold, sweet
er than brandy toddy, and not half so scarce
us bee honey from Mt. Hymettus. Mr. Vigo
tainted. After the doorkeeper had success
fully performed the operation of carrying
him out, Mr.. Buncumbe continued This
mighty globuar sphere, upon whichwe stand
and have our being, had basked. like an ch-
neumun, beneath the shadows of its ever.
green palmetto
"Recubant sub tegmine"
1t has blessed the darkly discolored abnrg
linal upon his return from the delectable war
; path shri, ing his Internal how !, and waving
, his incarnated scalps in the horror-strcken
: air like "star-spangled banners"
t oh, long may they wave,
Ger the land OF the free and the home fthe brave
Tremendous cheering from the whole
House. 1t has blessed the whlte-locked
, tall-formed, hazlenut-eyed Hoosier, trotting
, home from his maize field, where the her
blerous stalks reached to a no more particular
altitude than the knee OF his last parental
l '.ttle one 1t has rewarded the poem Of
D Mexico, the serf of Russia, the canaille Of
France, the bourgeose of Germany, the dark
haired Italian; the mandarin of China, The
third-caste Brahmin, and the wake-drunkard;
0 of "Erin-go- bragh." Its ceremonies have
$ been soIemnlzed in the Sanhedrim of the Jew
+ beneath the obelisks OF the Egyptian. in the
e hundred piIlared temple oil the Assyrian magI
: the floating gardens of the AZtes the marble
: palace of Nero, the Rome burner. and the
q pictured walls of the Louvre of Louis'S. The
: fiend plowman. Desolation. drove his one-eyeC
l ''selt-sharpener' over the walls of Pram, the
Trojan, because his heir-presumptive dared
q desecrate it; Heroes and demi-gods have tilt
ed and persisted in its maintenance. His
Il torans have gilded the pages of their death
Il less chronicles with its bonfires and lumina-
: tons. Druids have awakened their wild
: cythesas, and poets s'zung their horse-hail
harps in its glory, and to sing its consumma-
tons. All! who will forget, While his heart il
: yet suspectabIe ofan emotion, the sufferings o.
!, the vrtuous People, as sung by the blind
Gracian, whose name Crabbe should have
t used as the synonyme for immortality? who
2 can forget the wild-harped hymns of Ossian-
the sweet fances OF Spencer-or the sublime
a illusions of Milton? Where lives the mar
:, whose soul has not chuckeled over the stan
! zas Of Tom Moore, and danced in pride" Oh
/ the cantos of Byron? These, Mr.. Speaker
E deem unanswerable, indefeasible considera-
: tons antagonistical to this internal bill.
E conclude, sir, in the parthetic language Of Mr.
Webster, orator for all times and all sub
K iects-:Let it rise till it meet the sun in its
d coming, that the first rays of the morning
r may gid it, and parting day linger and play
c round its summit" Mr. Speaker, let's net!
e THE Speaker fainted.l