Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-04-16
For the Nashville Patriot.
The Robertson Association.


The Robertson Association.
Not being in the habit OF writing any thing for
publication, feel somewhat at loss, but believing
that every citizen should do what he can TO pro-
mote the interest of the city, call the attention Of
citizens to the Lecture for the Robertson Assocs-
ton this "wednesday evening at the Christian
(Ferguson's) Church. The objects Of the Associa-
ton will also be explained.
This Association, as | understand, is upon the
principle of the Howard Association Of New Orr
leans, and it is named for the late DUNCAN Rob-
ERTsoS, of this city-the Howard Of Nashville.
It is noble enterprise, well worthy Of our grow
ing city. We truly need some institution of this
kind. The suffering brought TO light by the severe
winter that we have just passed through, has
awakened our citizens to a just sense of that moral
obligation owe to our fellow creatures in adver
sity. Our citizens are not ignorant Of the good
the Howard Association has done, not only in New
Orleans, but at other places. Their Labor of love
has caused thousands to bless them all over the
country. At Norfolk and Portsmouth, the members
Of that Association stepped 10 when those who could
leave were flying in every direction, and leaving
the sick uncared for; they Iabored with the sick
and dying; they smoothed the passage of the
mother TO the grave by assuring her that her help
less babes would be cared for and nobly have they
redeemed their pledge. We love to honor the
brave who risk their lives on the battle field in
just cause but the bravest OF the brave and those
who deserve the most honor and praise, those
who deliberately go into peslilence when it is
almost certain death, and administer to the wants
OF the suffering, and point the poor death stricken
souls to Him who alone can give them eternal life
This is what she Robertson Association proposes
10 DO and for this they ask the citizens aid them
that they may establish the Association upon
firm foundation-that it may be an honor to the
city, and that every citizen may be proud of it,
Then, come out to the Lecture and hear the OBJ
jects explained. The appeal is made to ALL
A CITIZEN.
Gov. Wise-The whole thing Explained.
The idiosyncracies and eccentricities Of our gig
Zard-OOt Governor have puzzled the science OF our
most expert PSYCHOLOGISTS. Natural history, meta
physics and psychology have exhausted their re-
sources in the vain attempt 10 deveope the source
and explanation ofsO many mental aud moral pecu.
larites Nothing could be discovered IN his edu-
cation associations, or ways OF life that accounted
for his unique and ungovernable propensity to
make himself miracle Of compexity-a tissue of
absurd autitheses and ridiculous incousisteucies-a
cOngomeratiOn Of contradictions and contrsrieties
AN sutomatOn filed with all sorts Of back-acting
and counter revolving machinery-a human con-
cIete Of Barnum's happy family in which found
animals OF the most antagonistic and hostile in
stincts! Nothing, we say, in all that appcrtained
TO, or surrounded him, furnished a cew to the my.
site ard lsUary recesses OF that inner being
which gives law tOthe outer From the fundum OF
his gzzard foot, up his ebo shins, through his
scOurged bowels aud lacerated lungs TO ais expand
ed chest and diatiDg nOstr, he was an enigma that
no man could interpret, phenomenon that no man
could explain. But 1t is law Of nature that moth
ing 10 without a cause, and though it may long
eiude detection 1t is a comfort to the philosopher to
know that progressive science will yet lay open all
the arcana OF the universe. Fortunately for US it
has been permitted to the age in which he and we
live TO find solution Of what was so Incompetent
sl0le and unathOmable in the nature Of our guberS
material prodigy Newton bethought him once to
walk in his garden and there apple falling his
head struck out fro n his brain the sudden idea of
avitatiOn.-lHnumerable great results have
sprung from causes slight and seemingly acCidea-
tai. James Pinkney Hambleton NJ. D, OF Pttsyl
Eania G. H., desiring, perChance, only to f up the
isuTe hours OF professional life conceived the for
.unate scheme OF writing book. We have no
reason to believe that he iOresaw to what grand re-
suits this would lead. He did not know that half
dozen lines in that book would give key to un.
Ock the sibyl-cIve Of character iuscrctuble and
hitherto, to human ken. he did not
know that he was uncovering the hidden fountain
rom which flows the mixed aud muddled stream of
Governor Wises life But so il was, and the world
stands debtor therefor to james Pinkney Hambe-
on, N. D. Of Pittsylyania c. Ii. Here is the open
csanse. Listen, o. Earth
''The mother of Cove nor Wise was Sarah Corbin
roper, the daughter of Gen. John Chopper of
3Owman's Folly in the country Ct Accomack on the
ea side. Her mother was Margaret, called Peggy,
'ettitt. The Choppers were English, the Pettitts
scotch. This cross is called by some genealogists
he ''Bulldog nth the mdnge," meaning the English
or the Bull, aud the mango for a certain cutaneOus
Eruption that was at one time common with the
scotch, called the Scotch fiddle"
There it Isl The whole thing il now AS plain as
he road TO mill. His marvellous E1cellency is
bulldog Nth the mango" If he has exhibited at
my time "doggiA ways, Low could he help III Is
lenoi by historic proof dog? If he has been ILL
empered, headstroug or ierocious- what else
'ould be expected! Is he not, in the language Of
lis biographer, a Bulldog II he has been restless,
tchng for Ollcr,) always rubbing against some
'cdy or sCmethiug-isi il to be wondered att Docs
Tot his eulogst tell us that he the mango? What
,ther strange prOpensi;es or instinct has his way
ward lite betrayed that may not be accounted for
N tn theory that he is a 'Bnlidog Nth the dnQr."
- Eureka! Emtkdl Let creation give thanks TO
lanes Pinkney Hamberon, H. D. Of Pittsylyauia
H.-LyReAJTg HHgtniGn.