Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-06-04


Crsmer " and set 10 appropriate music by the vocal
list Dempsssr. by whom il has been sung at almost
every one of his concerts for many years IL is now
republished in order TO give full force TO the supple
ment below, written expressly for this paper by It's
fair authoress and which il founded on an inc'och'
that occurred in her own family:
Beside the auld hearth she hath cherished TOR lie,
Silent and sad sits the lonely auld wifs; 49,
Time hath left many trace on her brow,
But orief hath not troubled her spirit till now
There are tears In her eyes that arc aim with age,
And abe looketh in vain on the holy page
For she cannot soc anght bat an old oak chair"
That vacant and lonely is standing there.
Long ago, when her bosom was swelling with pride,
The Lonely Auld Wife was gay young BRIDE
And the rose ON her cheek wore its richest bloom,
When she gave her hand to the joyous groom.
Faded and worn is her beauty now.
Gray are the hairs on her wrinkled brow
Silent she sits by the old hearth-stone--
Sad are her thoughts--she is there alonel
Her gudeman has gone TO his dreamiess rest,
And the Lonely Aud Wife hath troubled breast
Yet not for the world would she Danish away
The CHAIR he hath sat in for many day.
She speaketh not, save with trembling BREATH
But hopeth, and wateth, and prayeth for death
For joyless and dark are the days Of her life
When the gudeman is gone from the Lonely Aud
Wife,
st is customary among the natives of Scotland
when Of aged couple dies, to leave the chair
which the deceased usually occupied, standing in its
accustomed corner until the survivor is also called
to join its former occupant in the world of spirits.
Supplement to the Lonely Aud Wife.
But that cherished old chair is fading from sight
And that hearth erst so dear becomes glowingly
bright
On morns balmy breath floats the incense of roses,
And smiling in distance the landscape reposes;
The sweet birds Of spring their gay mathis sing
ing.
And childhoods loved voices are joyously ringing;
While again at her side as in days long departed,
Sits the husband the father the friend, the true
hearted.
With that same manly look-the mute pledge of pro-
And those same gentle tones of confdng affection,
She basks in that smile which, like sunshine in May,
Had illumed all the hours Of her LIES happy day;
She leans on that bosomshe feels its soft heavng-
While fancy with retrospect proudly is weaving
OF past and Of future a tissue Of joys
Sweet home-happy husband dear girls--noble
boys.
The cock crows! The Aud Wife, alas lone is sit
ting,
But fondly she clngs to the sweet vision fitting;
"Oh leave me not, Edwardl my own one, my dearc
For colds the world love- without thee, and dreary
The loved form points upward, now melting in air,
But the voice. scraph s,-yet thrills on her ear;
Dear Mary! my guide wife through life kind and
true,
The angels now call me-they'll come love, for you
ANNIE,
Of Spring Hill, Miss. of Louisa, Virginia.
WAsHIxaroS CITY, May 20, 1856
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Upon what Principles Mr.. Fillmore is ia
be supported.
Some of the enemies Of Americanism seem tc
have inferred from the tone of portion OF It's
press that the policy of that party is to be ignored
and Mr.. Fillmore run regardless Of his views upon
subjects which lay at the foundation of the political
organization putting him in nomination. We think
this is q mistake. We apprehend that Mr.. Fill.
more will be supported upon principle, and that
those who favor his election will require assur-
that he win if successful resist the encroach-
Rents Of foreign influence in American Govern
ment affairs. That he will oppose the continued
agitation Of the slavery question as a means of per-
sonal and psity aggrAndizement by refusal to
recognise Ne tAims Of all such agitation to polit
cal pfoferment SlSder his Administration.
That he will daeoAn&snance the corrupt bar
gainings with unial foreigners and a venal
priesthood, for the 49, their votes and influence,
to be applied to the s66version of true American
Republication and the defeat Of Native American
preferences. That he will, in his administrative
policy, make distinction between American and
foreign political influence in this country, giving
to the former its native and legitimate predomi-
nance, and restricting the latter to thos, rights
and privileges guaranteed by the Constitution.
That he viii manifest that preference for the peo-
pie and insttutions Of his own native land which
must constitute the chief characteristic of genuine
devoted patriotism, everywhere, and that he will
In everything, strive to be just to Americans be-
fore he Ii generous TO foreigners; true to Church
and 6tste guarding with jealous care the interests
OF both, but permitting no unconstitutional anti
Republican admixture of those two distinct ele-
ments into one.
We expect to support Mr. Fillmore as an Amer
ican, pledged to carry out the American policy
by which we mean tho true republican policy Of
the earlier and purer days of our government
not bigoted opposition to Roman Catholicism az
such nor hostility to foreigners because they arc
foreigners; bat opposition and hostility to the civil
encroachments Of the one and the uneradcated
political antecedents and prejudiccs of the other.
Our fires affections ID for America, her people, and
institutions; these provided for, we welcome the
foreigner to . participation in every blessing
which those institutions afford, and ask from hin,
nothing but concession of the perfect business oil
our claim TO selfgovernment.
We expect to enter the canvass with our ene-
mics upon the issues Of Americanism and For
e'gnisn, and - we sha prove their partially for
foreign over native influences, we reasonably ex.
pece 70 enlist In our cause the aid and sympathy
Of tie trps-heartsd Americans, North, South.
East. and West Mr.. Fillmore will be the Amer.
lean candidate Griffin Union.
Hoosisrdom Il great country, and no mistake
but We must say that the following story of ts fer