Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-01-17
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lOI 1JeCeWOGTs
awe trust that we violate no confidence
in giving place to the following noble sen.
timents, contained in letter just received
from correspondent in South Carolina
He has been speaking of IA neig ighbor who
stubbornly maintains that every thing rem
dered to the North, is so much in preju-
dice Of the South creed which is Justly
termed 'pitiiul.' 'If there " ere among us
less of this sectional feeling adds our
correspondent, I'VE should be far greater
people, and longerived than we are like
ly to be. How much more noble is it to
be recknoned citizen of the Great Re-
public at large, than Of any section what
ever! And yet have as good cause as
any to entertain local attachments, since
our family for two hundred years or so has
resided at the South, and indeed now here
else in America. don't prefer the North,
SO called to the South;' bu, do love the
Union better than either, than all!' II
this patriotic and catholic spirit could gem
orally prevail in this republic, we should
seldom hear whisper breathed of such a
proposition as the dissolution ofthe Union.
a dissolution of the Union!' exclaims
an eloquent writer in the last .Ntew En-
glander, why, the thing is impossible, in
the very nature of the case. For what is
it that must be dissolved? Shall we abro-
gate the Federal Constitution? the Arti-
cles of Confederation? the Declaration of
independence? the doings of the Conii-
mental Congress? The Union in its es-
sence lies back of all these, its successive
modes of expression. We must dissolve
or annihilate a people whom God, in his
sovereign purpose, hath ordained to be
one in origin. in language. in spirit, in
principle, in institutions, in historic a>so-
Citations, in literature, in religion and in
destiny. We must cut in sunder the riv-
ers and turn their channels; we must d.
vide the everlasting hills and range them
In opposing barriers; we must build out
dykes and breast-works into mid-ocean;
We must tear up the iron track and sever
the magic wire. Nor then can we dis
solve the Union ill we can stop the cease
less flow OF lakes and rivers and CULTS and
oceans that surround us with their liquid
bands and blend is into one! Not more
surely is the state ordained of God, than
the people of these United States are or
dained to be ons people, one body polite,
5y Him who hath made Of one blood all
nations of men to dwell on all the face of
the earth, and hath determined the times
before appointed, and the bounds Of their
habitation."
What Scottish divine asks a CORES
pondent, was he who 50 nicely analy zed
the Great Uncannie'> name Thus: Take
away d, and il is evil take away E, and
1t Is 'vile;' v, and it is 'ill;' and the two
last consonants asprated make 'hell!''
There never wa. a monsyllable so utterly
without speck of good in it,
Professor $, OF B, Universe
ty, far away down east, is a man untirng
IN his efforts to eluciiate and explain every
particular relating to the branches of sci
ence in which he instructs, and never suf-
iers pupil TO leave the recitation-room
without perfect understanding of every
fact adduced, in order that the venerable
institution may not be scandalized by the
ignorance OF any of its graduates. "A, an
exercise devoted to the veins and arteries
OF the human corpus, after explaining that
me reason why so many attempts at sui
eide by cntting the throat failed was from
an ignorance of The distinction between the
wlnd-pipe and carotid artery, he remark
ed: From my explanations this morning,
gentlemen, trust that by you at least this
distinction is clearly UNDERSTOOD; but if
any one of those present should ever fail
in committing telo de Sc by SO simple and
objectionable an error, beg of him, for
the honor Of the university, not to mention
where he studied anatomyn
In a certain Connecticut scho6l-dis-
trict,' writes a clever inhabitant of that
same, resides man Of substance, whom
his friends and acquaintances playfully
call Uncle Nat, an endearing and aiiec
tionate abbreviaticn of his more euphoni-
Gus sponsorial title, Nathaniel. Uncle
Nat,' is an old bachelor, methodical in his
habits, punc'ilious and precise in speech,
somewhat prlm and starched, wears an
extensive cravat ,and eke broad brimmed
hat, and treals in shoes with leather
strings. He has a fund of humor, but SO
seldom does it leak ouf, that its very rar-
ty makes it more telling At recent
meeting of the voters TO consider ways
and means to provide for the intellectual
wants Of the rising generation, il was re-
marked by one Of the committee that they
were about to employ q music teacher,
whereby TO adorn and emhelli.h the minds
of the scholars. Not Uncle Nat goes
for light faxes, and his colleagues were
taken somewhat by surprise at his advo
cacy Of the proposed measure. ] omitted
to say, in the proper place, that his speech
is tinged with a slight lisp, which lends
an additional 'glossiness' 10 his always
smooth and soft-spoken words. Rising,
he said: 'Thentleman, am pleathed to
learn that you contemplate Introducing
the thence oil muthic into the th'cool. Now
Ithupport little boy who attends tn cool,
and | MOULD be glad to have him learn
muthic; but we all have orr peculiar no
thions, and |, for one, thould like to have a
word 10 thay as to the particular branch in
which lie thould be taught. ltake good
deal OF interest in the little boy, and tloud
like to know whether the propothed teach
er has the requisite qualifications to learn
this little boy to play upon my fNvorite IL