Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1852-08-11
AMERICA FOREVER.
America what charms cluster about that
name-Ameriea exclaims the poet

America what charms cluster about that
name-America exclaims the poet
81 love thy rocks and rills;
Thy woods and tempted hills,
My soul with rapture fills
Let freedom ring.
With the name Of America is associated
all that is pure, inviting, benevolent and ao-
cessible; along her shores of life and COM
mercial activity. a thousand ports extend
their arms of welcome to the homeless stran-
ger, and offer him refuge i'm her extensive
with other nations? IN W. consists En-
glands fancied superiority? Does she prido
her ancient castles, her works of costly gran.
deur, the antiquity of her architectural ruins
America points to her roaring Niagara, her
Natural Bridge, her Mammoth Cave, still
more antiquated, and the work of a Divine
Architect. Does the Eastern world boast
of Magnificent gardens, Swiss scenery, and
Italian sunset? Columbia points to the
matchless beauty of her autumnal forests.
the rich vermilion tinted and elicate white
leaved shrubbery Of the South, the glori-
GUS landscape about the Sierra Madre
nearer home, her extensive western pleasure
grounds the broad prairies, where the stag
and wild horse are free. Our rivers for
size and length, cast the Old World entirely
in the shade-Where are those which can
compare with our great Father of Waters"
the long and rapid Mississippi-our broad
and kingly Amazon, our majestic Hudson.
with its scenery and grandeur--old nib
sweet blue Connecticut, as it n1eanders
i through the variegated meadows, at the foot
f Of rural classic Holyoke. Shall We speak
} of Lakes Lake Superior sways her quoenly
sceptre over the world unrivalled. Our
mountains, if not in height, thousand
times excel them in length. Our rock cliffs,
our long chained Andes. stand out in proud
pre-emineree, and exult at least m strengru
Of union.
4 Would the Old World boast of her " first
E magnitude Of stars" in the literary galaxy I
i We envy not laurels which are fading be.
e fore the wretehed contrast of Ignorance, and
> which wither before the bhghting. sickeu-
!. ing breath ofnoslooted Erin, vicious France,
e and degenerated Austria and Russia.
On the contrary our happy land teens
2 = with the rich harvest of advancing iuteIlact
il kmerica VeIx soil seems to be the b;rtI,
= TFracssof miuS-. ml.s.. as,.As. sus DlEsa
I, y tive Indian 4 "a sis dark fshe FIRE
y y en.nusias% a5 and ON hisBroT ne samP
determineq qRpurposeA SAall Englsna boa
IN, of royal pal aces and Nka.Iy purple W
fit may tell q n,~e eIegalS sim plicity OF Il
ry. " White Iouse, , dranar;.J With the fad
md less fabfret Of. Freedom 'si illuminated wi
rise rise the fas of wit, and adorpod with tho ger
ore of sterling intellect. OD :.
Of God has blessed America. and every p 3
,nly and yaYley resounds rs;tk Ioyful pralse',
th far spr cad echoes with songs of gra.ea~. na. -
ana h5 dom tie waving of her forest I'M,
with wild roar o her mighty waters, e,I es fields
but ing rivulets, traversing pienflui &c rich
golden grain. proclaim, in tones tones
our ,,,s;c-AMERLCA FOREV En-
the iiiO0 ~-
lse of A.,ortfrR DIknfoND-Ihe eoAor
most ctarIotte Whig says he was shown
J, gnin- of other day Diamond Of the hrst wa
,s 9Rihp the O.er ~eiabing four ounces found BY J.
lse Of wood of Mcdowell county. wi
workiug a gold mine, about tve n
t sPlEh pr '.est ~" of Charlotte, on what % called
,e con- Todd Branch.