Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-14
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Inc autnor main OBJECT IN THIS Volume 10 10 truce INC
history Of the Federal Judiciary from its
consider the facts and results connected with the adop
ton Of the Federal Constitution and to review most Of
the important constitutional questions which have been
decided in the Supreme Court the foundation Of the
Government to the present time
We have therefore the biography and professional ca
Of those eminent ursts who have adorned the Su
preme Bench, together with history Of that Court in
GLIDING succnct view Of the constitutional jurispru
dence Of the United States.
Well may America cherish her Supreme Bench, the
revered palladium of her Constitution Not the Areo
pagus Of Athens not the Curia Of Rome the ermned
Chancery iof England may outvie the simple majesty,
the dignity, the unsued integrity Of the Amer
Judiciary. England indeed may justly boast of her
Sir Matthew Hale and her Sir Thomas More; but Ame-
RIGA with equal confidence point to her Jays her
Marshas, and her Taneys-
"-Anime quales non candidiores
Terra tut'
The book closes with tribute to the virtues,
public and domestic, Of ROGER B. TANEY the venerable
Chief Justice Of the United States.
CuMMIsa's MINOR woRKs vols Philadelphia: LIND
SAY & BLAKIsToN.
One foggy morning, thirty years Caedonian
pund deep in prophesy, mounted the rostrum Of con-
vence in London and asonshed the natives by the bold
of his rhetoric and the novelty Of his defamation
The form of the orator spare and gaun his eyes
gowed with intense fire. and his glossy locks unkempt
unshorn," flowed loosely In natural ringcts adown his
shoulders The cockneys who are the most sensitive Of
animals in marking the discrepancies ofanguage andman
which egregate provincial from urban proprie
ty astonished by the strange enthusiasm of the
man. and awed by the denuncations and meteoric
flashes of his fervid elocution.
The fame of the preacher quickly spread through the
great metropolis and the pews and galleries of the chapel
longer suced to receive the eager auditory Of the
rich the titled and the noble who hocked to hear from
vid lips the themes of inspiration and the doom Of the
backslider Even the Premier of England graced the
brilliant assembage with his presence, not indeed from
any twinges of conscience but to snatch parliamentary
grace from the mpassioned flights of the dauntess
tor. From the sacred dome all retired impressed with
awe the terrific Nominations of the inspired apostle
without however having acquired any very just notions
of the scope Of the discourse The fame of the holy
increased daily and the tame compositions Of his
dissenting brethren paled gradually before the bright
rays Of the northern star, until one clear morning. so
rare in London-one fine morning. big with the fate Of
FIRING and of Rome, simple secret quietly escaped
that the Rev. Edward Irving the rreragabe DOCTOR the
peerless eIpounder, had gone clean daft"
To this rapt seer succeeds the Rev. John Cumming,
DID,, the lion of Exeter Hall and the champion Of Pro-
testantism in its purest FORM who has already immortal
lied himself by lucid applications of dark prophecy,
bearing aoft the bright torch of Hermeneutics and ex
poring the deep Of the Of Patmos Very
different that of his errac predecessor has been the
career of Dr. Cumming Endowed with moderate talent
and much industry he has compiled from the abors Of
cedng commentators volumes of prophecy, which,
by their popular style and subject have for their
thor golden opinions From computation Of the sales,
assuming that sensible he has retained the copy
right not less than fifty thousand dollars have already
accrued to the doctor these papers, while the long
forgotten whence the CLOSES were derived have
hitherto lain neglected gained from their tolls but
little Of fruit in any form save rdicue- Grateful stu
dents will indeed continue to honor in the binomal for
mula the memory of Sir Isaac Newton, without ever
wasting thought on his Rhapsodies and Of sage old
Winston and other commentators much the may be
said.
The ruling passion pervading the prophetic volumes
shines also in these minor works 1t is rule in mathe
NAUTICAL reasoning that theorem once demonstrated be-
an eternal truth and needs further proof Hav
ing therefore, shown in the Apocayptc Sketches the
downfall Of Anti Christ it would appear superfuous to
obrude additional arguments into the pages of these mi
nor volumes of hortatory homiletc discourses. We
have no quarrel with the Pope On the contrary oft
recall the once cherished msries fading in the
distance of him who planted his foot the neck Of barba
ran chefans and raised the PROSTATE serf to the dignity
of man. of him whose voice alone heard mid the din
of discordant hordes mid the clash Of and the
stride havoc when Scandinavia poured forth her shiver
ing swarms avenge pagan Italy the outraged laws
of nature, of humanity, and Of religion. We have no
quarrel with the whose fostering care is due what
ever Of classic lore scaling science hath reached
day. During the untold horrors of that darksome tran
sition when Imperial Rome crumbed into DUST became
the prey Of contending barbarans when savage clans
careered fair Europe enacting unreoorded atroc
ties did pale Meditation trim her lamp in retreats in
violate under the sgis Of him whose mild sway had tanned
lawless sodiery and moulded the fierce passions of
age chefains into external respect for christian ordi
nances Here in the asyums of piey, the retreats Of
the wo-worn and the down stricken in the secusons Of
SEX OF age and of orphanhood-here did the glorious
monuments of ancient genius did the Homers, the Eu
clids, and the Platos find safety and repose.
But we have done. His Holiness is doomed; and in no
buoyant mood do indulge an epitaph to "aud lang
syne" and the memory of departed greatness:
Anstes facet hic, qui secula multa per orbem
Flectebat populos mitibus imperiis:
QUEEN neque tempus edax nee Numinis obruit ira,
Cumn;ngi jaculis occidit lille ferris
There we have embamed the last of the Romans
and embazoned in immortal eegac the patronymic of
the Rev. John Cumming, DID.
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