The southern press., 1851-03-28

would call down mercy 70 melt or lightning to
scaths ths heart that should mediate the destruc-
ton Of Fresdom's best gin to man, tho American
Republic. Loud applause. The nations look
to our example for encouragement in their
struggles to throw away their chains. Not for
our own sakes only, but for the cause of human
liberty throughout the world, this model gov
ernment must endure. Ii it existed merely in
compacts written on parchment, it might perish
But it is engraven on the tablature Of every true
American heart. Once, when had been travel
ling for many weeks in foreign land, stranger
among strange people, hardly recognizing a
single word thst sounded in my cars, approach
cd the sea coast of France, and amid cloud of
shipping hovering in distant harbor, saw
floating from the mast head of vessel the ia
miliar stars and stripes Of my native country
Stretching my hand toward the setting sun, in
voluntarily exclaimed,
"Where' ere roam, what other lands see,
My heart, untrnveld, fondy turn too thee
Sir, that is the sentiment which gushes up
from the deep fountains Of every American bo-
som, and that sentiment insures the perpetuity
of the Union. Loud cheers. Dissolve this
Union! There is too much of human progress,
human hope, and human well being, involved in
its existence, to allow it to be dissolved! will
tell you, sir, what will make our institutions as
enduring as time. 1t is because, that while the
people will religously observe and perform, in
their letter and spirit, all constitutional obliga-
tons, and will maintain the absolute supremacy
of the laws, they will also exercise the freedom
Of speech and the press the right of assembling
and petiioning, and will resist every encroach-
ment upon the inviolability of the writ of habeas
corpus and the privileges of the trial by jury.
bbua applause. Dissolve this Union Why,
sir, the men yet live among US, who have seer4
few feeble colonies, scattered along the Atlantic
coast inhabited by less than three millions of
people, expand into confederacy of thirty-one
independent States, stretching its territory from
the granite shoresof New England to the golden
strand of California, and from the pine forests of
the lakes to the orange groves of the Rio
Grande, teeming with twenty-four millions Of
intelligent and prosperous freemen, and becom-
ing richer in all the elements of true greatness
than any nation under heaven. And, sir, the
grand-sons of these aged men will live to see
this confederacy grow under our glorious Con-
stitution till its population outruns the march Of
enumeration, till its territory, washed by two
oceans, reaches from the artic SHOWS of Labrador
to the trOpic heats of Panama, and till the sun,
as he traverses this wide domain, neither rises
upon master nor sets upon a slave Long
continued applause.] conclude by proposing
to you the immortal sentiment of Daniel Web
ster:
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and
inseparabe."
Addresses followed by Hon. Christopher
Morgan, secretary of State, Hon. Caleb Lyon,
Of the assembly, Col. Webb, Mr.. Tomlinson, and
Mr.. Robinson, going over some of the already
discussed topics Of the evening, and then, at ex-
actly IL o'clock, the company separated.
WAsHISGr TON LIFE.--A remark in the preced-
ing article might lead to the inference that we
think Washington city eminently corrupt and
corrupting This would be great mistake.
Our resident population is as intelligent moral,
and religious, as that Of any large city in the
Union. But, there are evil influences always
concentrating about seat Of government, and
these are multiplied and aggravated in this me-
tropos. Members of Congress do not always
or even generally represent the highest morality
Of their constituents This is specially true of
Southern members of whom are what are called
'hgh-bloods." They love cards. wine, and wo-
men, and, being of soci Il turn, they contrvc
to associate rs many of their fellow.members
as they can, in their pleasures. They find en-
| ough willing to be enticed.
Single men, separated from their friends anti
constituents, and married men, having left their
wives at home, are released from many whole
some restraints. Away from their employments,
without home responsibilities or home enjoy
ments among strangers, amidst the excitements
of politics too well calculated to blunt the moral
sense, exhausted at times by laborious parlia-
mentary struggles and late sit'ings, living at
hotels on luxurious fare, and eating at irregular
hours, invited night after night to parties, some
times two or three OF an evening, some of them
dissipating away the whole night, how few can
resist the deterorating effects ofa life so intense,
60 unnatural, so well calculated to develop the
animal and social natures, at the expense Of the
intellectual and moral
Again: the city is crowded during the ses-
sons of Congress with plotting politicians, with
claimants and claim-agents, with contractors and
contractsolicitors, with office. seekers and their
friends. Members are besieged by them. Their
pecularities, their weaknesses, their accessible
points, are closely studied. They are mpor-
tuned, coaxed, lattered, feasted, according to
their temperament. What is dozen of the Sc
lectest wine to vote that may be needed on a
hundred thousand dollars contractl
As a general rule, married women should In
sst upon coming to Washington with their hus-
bands. Were this the common usage, there
would be less debauchery and proHigacy. New
er mind the convenience--come, and make n
home for your companions. Apractical divorce
for nine or ten months every two years. is
enough to ruin the best Of husbands Let ev-
cry member VINO can possibly do it, bring his
household gods with him, set up his family in
stitutions in the capital, and while he is taking
care of the affairs of the nation, provide for the
comfort and happiness of his own house. In
the endearmenis of the domestic circle he will
find the surest protection against the temptations
that besct his position. Every well ordered
home is heaven, where the angels of peace and
purity are ever watching over the welfare of its
inmates. National Era.
We have had some opportunities of observa-
ton, and we have perhaps as much information
about Washington life, as the editor Of the M
tionol Era, and we regard it as duty to state
that, so far as we have observed, and are in
formed, the Southern members of Congress are
not only more exemp. generally, than the North
ern, from the vices connected with swine, wo.