The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-01-30

Hebe was the Goddess of Youth, and
cup bearer to Jupiter.
The drinkof the Gods was called nectar,
and their food ambrosia.
The Distinguished Dead OF 1850.
DY URIAH II. JUDAH
Such is mortaps fleeing breath,
i Suchis life, and such is death.
They have fallen. Nay, not fallen in
the estimation of their coumrymen fortheir
memories will ever flourish in grateful re-
! melnbrance-but their names have been.
stricken from the roll of living greatness,
and the tomb, that allotted tenement of
mortality has claimed its own
Death, clad i'll his gloomy robes, has
! wandered in the midst of eloquence, of val
or, OF erudition, and Of worth, spreading
disnay around Wherever he has roaned
! he has spread havoc. On the brow of tall
ent he has stamped his signet, and power
less became the lips of eloquence; he grasp
ed the hand oftlle warrior, and closed his
i ears to the sound of the drum and the tu-
multi of battle.
His sword was i'll his hand,
! Still with recent fight;
1 Ready that moment at command,
Through rock and steel to smte
| They have fallenL-but not until Fame
: had enrolled their names high, very high
III her Temple, so grand, 50 towerinq--4the
names OF Taylor, Calhoun, Elmore, Prem.
tiss, King, Mason, Osgood, Fuller and
Jones.
Twelve short months ago, and Zachary
Taylor stood before the world as the illus
trious chiefof mighty nation, blessed with
! tie love ard reverence OF millions of free
| men. and III the tranquil enjoyment of every
earthly b'lss,--a lew more weeks q lie a.
way and become lost III the revolution OF
time, and all thai is leftof the President and
Hero, his dust, moves on to the last resting
place OF mortality, III regal MAJ 4iiicence,
ay' III more than ki1gly spieLdor, Tor his
mound Is lIonored by the poor aud the
humble, and moistencd by the tear OF afec-
ton.
o. after all the tolls OF war;
Ho,s bles; the brave man lays him down
His bier is triumphal car
His grave is glory and rcnown!
He has fallen South Carolina weeps
over the tomb of her most able champion,
for the eloquent tongue OF Calhoun will no
longer lisp the accents OF beauty and sub
unity; to-day he reposeth pacid;y amid
the hallowed precincts Of the earth, and no
voice bht that Of God can rouse him.
Death whou lowest a shining mark, - for
Elmore, the talented and distinguished, hath
fallen at thy mandate.
Sergeant S. PrcntisS has flllen, A bril-
liant light Las been quenched, and the
Pleader has carried his cause up to that
Tribunal from which there can be no APP
peal.
And, could'st thou not spare for a little /
longer, one whose age IS rs nothing before |
the great Jehovah Why blunt The point
other eloquent pen, and why hush the kind |
" throhbings OF her noble hear, f.! In thy
Toanlinrs, cou'dSt thou not fil4d Some hum
hler victim of thy wrath, than Margaret
Fuller. All. thou must fulfil thy mission,
by Providence, until the stars shall
grow dim by age, and yon glorious lulni-
nary Of day sells IL eternal darkness
Go tlen and pluck the bloom from the
rose in its sweetness and in its beauty, and
scatter 10 the air lis richest perfumes strike
down manhood as he launches his fral
bark on the eveiltful waters of life; and
WHEN the great warrior returns from the
GROUND of his exploits covered with glory, 4
conquer him, oh spoiler, and hold him thy
prisoner!
~ 49,, JOHCJ
All his cares are now over, his last battle won;
Now sveetly he rests from his sorrows and fears
And leaYesa proud nation in sadness and tears.u
They have fallen. Great intellect or re-
nown or elevated station could not save
them from the worm; for it was written
sdust thou art, and unto dust shaltthou re-
turn. Man, no matter how brilliant his
career, or how dazzlingly splendid his tall ,
ents, must, in process of tirle. be encircled
within the limits of little SPOT of earth
''The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth Ger gave, 4
Await alike the inevitable hour !
The paths of glory lead but 10 the grave I
Sleep on, noble dead of 1850! Sleep on Hb
n your last rest, and mingle your dlls t with IT
he free soil of Columbia, in the hallowed Eb
graves where Americans have laid you.-A Ii:
Sleep on, while in the Utmost recesses of In
,ur hearts, your names are cherished la
The Love Of Home. !,
It is only shallow minded pretenders who La
yer make the humblest origin matter of Il
PERSONAL reproach Taunt aud soothing at II,
he humble condition OF early life affect 3
lobody IN this country but those who are IN
oolish enough toinduIge IN them, and they {,
re equally sufficiently punished by the re- al
luke. A true man is not ashamed Of his iii
arly condition Ifc
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