The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-11-01

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Z. &. McCRuMMEN, Carthage. n. G.
VIC. MooRE. ESQ.,, Camden. s. G..
And PoStma,ters requested to act as our Agents
p HOME.
A BALLAD FOR EVERY BODY.
BY MARTIN F. TUPpER.
forased allover this beautiful earth,
To pick its best nosegay of innocent mirth-.
Tied up with the bands Of its wisdom and worth
And 10! its chief treasure,
Its unernost pleasure
Was always at home.
Iwent to the palace and there my fair Queen
On the arm of her husband did lovingly lean,
Aud all the dear babes in their beauty were seen,
In spite of the spcndor,
So happy and tender,
For they were at Home!
Iturn'd to the cottage, and there my poor hind
Lay sick ola tever-al meekly resig,'d,
For, OH the good wife was SO tender and kind,
In spite of all matters,
An angel III tatters,
And she was at Home!
Iask'd fond mother, just come from the post,
With letter she kissed, from a far away coast
What heart thrilling news had rejoiced her most
And gladness for mourning,
Her boy was returning
To love her-at Home!
Ispoke to the soldiers, and sailors at sea,
Where best in the world would they all OF them be!
And hark! how they earnestly shouted TO me,
With iron hearts ;hrohbing,
And choking aud sob,ng,
o land us at Home!
came TO tlie desk where old Commerce grew gray,
And ask'd HIM what lielp'd him this many day,
In his old smoky room with his ledger to stay!
And il was the beauty,
The comfort and duty,
That cheered him at Home!
calne to the court, where ibe sages OF law
We're wrauglng and janslirg at qubble and flaw,
q wondrous to me was the strife that saw!
But all that fierce riot,
Was Gained by the quiet
That biest them at Home!
called OH the schoolboy, poor love stricken lad,
Who yearned in his loveliness silent and sad,
For the days when again he should laugh and be
glad
With his father and mother,
And sister aud brother,
Aud happy al Home!
tapped at the door OF the year stricken ed,
Where age, as tho't had old memories guelld-
Strange old fashioned stories
OF gladness and giories
That once were at home!
WHISPERED the prodigal: wanton and wild,
How chang'd from the heart that you had when
child,
So teachabe, noble, and modest, and mild!
Though sin had undone him,
Thank God that won him,
By looking at home!
And then when he wept aud vowed better life,
hasten'd to snatch him from peril and strife,
BY finding him wisely tender young wife,
- Whose love would allure him,
And gently secure him
A convert at Home!
So he that had raced after pleasure SO fast,
And still as be ran had it's goal over past,
Found happiness, honor and blessing at last,
In all the kind feelings,
And affections and feelings,
That ripeu at Home.
NoH-iNrERcoURsE.- a meeting in Mo-
bile, held by those opposed to the late settle
ment of the slavery question by Congress, the
following resolution, introduced by J. e. Camp.
bell, esq was adopted:
Resolved, That it is the duty of the Southern
people, in this conjuncture, to give every ell
couragement to the labor and industry of the
people within their limits; by preference and
premiums; to patronise mechanic arts and pur.
suits at home; to provide by subscription for
the erection of manufactures; to maintain their
own teachers, schools, colleges and churches
to discriminate in their commerce, against those
cities and individuals who show hostility to
their il. tntions, or maintain political alliance
with -. il euemes; and thus, by fostering the
interc-. Of domestic industry, education and
intercourse, to lay the foundations OF South
em independence, in the good will and mutua
independence of all classes of their citizens"
On1o.-A respectable Ohio aper states thai
the Democratic members of Congress elected
from that State will probably support the re-
peal of the fugitive slave law