The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-06-27
Life in tho South and Southwest,
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THr SUDDEN DUEL.

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My pen has described so many scenes Oh
savage strife enacted on the stage oil ,na'
unknown and isolated world, the Rio
Grande, that, weary Of blOodshed and BUTCH
ery. will now seek relief in gentle
picture Of true tenderness and faithful alec
,ion-ior such sacred emotions exist even
there. Indeed the best gifts OF TIT univer-
sal ialher are distributed over all the earth
with an impartial hand among his children.
Every region, the most dark and dessolate,
is famed by the wings Of the wind, warmed
BY the sunbcams, watiered by the rains and
dsws Of heaven. periumed with the incense
OF flowers in their season, and is bless ell
with the eternal beauty Of, the starry irma-
men,, that highway OF everlasting fame 10
the realms Of poetry, thought. and imasina-
tim, which leads US back to the paradise
we have lost. So there never will be found
wilderness OF humanity 50 barren, 50 cursed
by sin aud its inevitable sorrow, as no, to
present, here and there, al however distant
intervals, some swee, streams in It's moral
deseri-litte fountains Of holy feeling unex-
pectedly breaking on, in The sand-sOeial
hearths,ones. vi ere the fires OF love never
die out, and hearts burning with suthcien,
ardOr to yield the genial temperature oil
summertime in the coolest depths Of the
dying year, and 10 illume, with the lusire OF
happy faces, the s,aIless night OF storms.
At the close Of the Mexican war, the city
Of Brownsville, on the Texan bank OF the
river before mentioned, and Immediately
opposite to Ma,smoras, sprung M, sudden
Is, as II by magic, developing The full growth
of an urbaue community within the course
of few months. This singular flow OF en-
isration and rapid advancement otbusiness,
were no, the results Of any ioT,uilous COM
binaiion Of circumstances, or Of the spas
mOdic force applied by great capital or
greedy speculation. The true enchanter's
wand, which had waved over the iOres, OF
evergrcens, and planted tall houses in the
place Of humble trees, was bu, the living
spirit Of American enterprise, the CONNER
cial passion Of restless people, ca
ger alike for glory and for gain. And let
the imaginative poe, aud the ethical or po-
ltical philosopher preach what they will,
after all, the appetite for property is the gen.
uine, one mig t almost say the sole, civil
iycr Of the species
Among the many adventures VINO
swarmed The Rio Grande in the frs; prime
orits golden promise, was young lawyer,
one Elan Parks, recently from South Car
DINA. Although descended from an an
Glen. and honorable line Of ancestors, AMI
bearin. in his veins the best blood OF the
revolution, and having received a classic
education, yet his fathers vices having
sausndercd an immense fortune, the son
was lelt poor, 10 fight the fierce battle OF lie
relying altogether on his own resources,
without the hopc OF aid or comfort from
kindred or friends. Nature however, had
en- owed him with handsome person, ex-
cellen, judgement, AMI tina, highes, order
Of courage. which, while !, refuses to scorn
involuntary indulgence as q disgrace, or TO
trea, the loves, toll "a isnominous, never
,helcss will daie all dangers, and endure
every labor 10 attain a better condition. Ii
il such lofty powers as This, and not the her.
Dim that Yields the sword on the enSan-
guiacd field, or thunders with its cannon
Def TO the marble-walled fortress, which
has covered the plain with cities, and
s,rcwed over the mountains a world OF
snowy cottages which has made the mus
ic OF bells ring in the most savage OF forests
and awakened the sleeping echoes OF all
the hoary woods with the shrill cries Of the
steam whistle.
On arriving a, his rew sphere OF action,
the youthful attorney encountered an un-
expected and seemingly insuperable difficult
g' lie discovered 'n"' mere va, very -"
Tie lucrative business "ahSae'e' ." '"'
courts, aud lh's had a''ea'y 'anen 'n'o tue
hands OF a lew advocates VINO "'"',u
adroiily to monorolize every case OF the
sm"'lrs' importance ""a' 'Yu,S0 eOOU
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