Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1850-01-25

wing We extract from the
Editors Table" OF the Knickerbocker
for December:
we trust that we violate no confidence
IN giving place TO the following noble sen !.
tlments, contained in letter lust receiy-
Ell IRON correspondent i'm South Caro-.
ma. lie has been speaking of neigh
Dor VINO siubbornly maintains that eve
rything rendered TO the north, is SO much
IN prejudice of the south,' creed that
sJustly termed spitiful' III there we're
less OF this sectional feeling adds our
correspondent, we should be far great.
err people, and longer-livcd than we are
likely TO be. How much more noble il
II to be reckoned citizen of The great
Republic at large, than 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, no
where else in America. don't prefer
the north, so called, 10 the south; but do
love Inc onion better than either, than
ALL IL this patriotic and catholic spiri,
could generally prevail in this republic we
should seldom hear whisper breathed
OF such proposition as the dissolution
of the Union. = '-'~
"A dissolution Of The Union!' exclaims
an eloquent writer in the last New En-.
gander, why the thing is impossible,
IN The very nature of the case. For
what is il that must be dissolved! Shall
we abrogate the Federal Constitution
the Declaration of independence? The
doings of the Continental Congress-
he Union in its essence lies back of
all these, lis successive modes Of express
SION. We must dissolve or annihiIate
people whom God in his sovereign pur
pose, hath ordained to be one in origin,
IN language. in spirit, in principle, in in
situations, in historic associations, in lite.
nature, III religion and in destiny. We
must cut in sunder the rivers and turn
their channels; we must divide the ever
lasting hills and range them in opposing
barriers; we must build out dykes and
breastworks into midi ocean; we must
tear up the iron track aud sever the map
&c wire. Nor then can we dissolve the
Union till we can stop the ceaseless flow
OF lakes and rivers and gulfs and oceans
that surround US with their liquid bands
and blend us into one! Not more sure
~ is the state ordained of God, than the
people OF these United States are or
dalned TO be onepeople, one body polite,
by Him who hath made of one blood all
nations OF men 10 dwell on all the face
OF the earth, and hath determined the
times before appointed, and the bounds
ct their habitalion. Il
Professor s., of b Uni
yersity, far away down east is a man
untiring in his efforts TO elucidate and ex-
plain every particular relating to the
branches OF science in which he nstructs,
and never suffers pupil TO leave the re.
cltstlon room without a perfect under
standing of every fact adduced, in order
that 'the venerable institution may no,
be scandalized by The ignorance of its
graduates. Al an exercise devoted to
The veins and arteries of the human, cor
pus. after explaining that the reason why
so many attempts at suicide nv cut
ting the throat failed was from an TO-
noiance of the distinction between the
wind-pipe and carotid artery, he remark
ed: From my explanations this morn
ing, gentlemen, trust that by you at
least this distinction is clearly under
stood; but if any one of those present
should ever fail IN committing felo de
Sc by SO simple and objectionable an err
ror, I1beg OF him, for the honor of the
university, not TO mention where he stu
died anatomyp
in certain Connecticut school dis
trict,' writes clever inh;.Lilant of that
same, resides man of substance, whom
his friends and acquaintanccs p!aylullv
call Uncle Nat an endearing and affec.
tionate Authorization of his more eupho-
NOUS sponsorial title, Nathaniel. .Un.
Gle Nat is an old bachelor, melhodical
in his habits, punctilious and precise in
his speech, somewhat prim and starch
ed, wears an extensive cravat, and exc
broad brimmed hat, and treads in shoes
with leather strings. He has fund Of
humOr, but so seldom does ii leak out,
that its very rarity makes il more telling
AT recent meeting of the voters to con-
slider ways ard means to provide for the
intellectual wants Of the rising genera
ton, 1t was remarked by one of the com
mi,tee that they were about TO employ
music teacher, whereby to adorn and
embellish The minds of the scholars
Now uncle Nat goes for light taxes,
aud his colleagues were taken some what
by surprise at his advocacy Of the pro-
posed measure. omitted to say, in the
proper place, that his speech is tinged
with a slight lisp, which lends an addi-
tional sglossiness' to his always smooth
and soft-spoken words. Rising, he said:
"Thcntlemen, am pleathed to learn that
you contemplate introducing the thence
of muthic into the tn cool. Now thnp-
port a little boy who attends th'cool, and
] thould be glad 10 have him learn mu-I
thic; but we all have our peculiar no.
ihions, and ], for one, thould like TO have
n word 10 thay ms To the Dariicular branch