The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-02-14

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LETTERS TO DR. o. A. BRowNSON, ON THE IN
COMING ADMINISTRATION.-No.7 z.
DEAR SIR We all remember the vial of classic wrath
which Horace poured upon the devoted head of the mis-
cradle poet Maeviuss Just the latter the OF
embarkng for Greece 1.-THE vessel loosened from her
noorngs sails forth under evil auspices bearing as she
does the fetid Mvius" The awful sztrst prays for hs
destruction and the accustomed sacrifice (of the
black labl to the storms and tempess If he shall only be
shipwrecked. he calls upon Anstr, Earns, and A9uLlo
to combine their opposing blasts and accomplish his utter
ruin He commends him to Hunpropitous Jove" and de-
sires the onan sea roaring with the blasts OF the rainy
SOUTH to bury him in its waves.
Nala soluta nasss eat alsse,
Fersns olenem haevixm.
Ut harridis utrumqas psrberes aiHs
Auster nenento fsctibns," de-, &c.
These fierce thunderbolts of the ancient writer were
launched against one whose chief misfortune his igno
rance and whose principal crime the scandal and IL
csntousness which continually characterized his pen.
Bot how sadly havs degenerated from the simple hon
esy of the Augnsan erai How true the lines of the
British bard
"a There is q lust in man, charm tame, u.
Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame
Or eagles wings immortal scandals fy,
While virtEors actions nre but born TO de-
Horace it is true magnihed tbs virtues but he could
hardly be charged with apologzing for the crimes Of the
rulers in whose sunshine he lived In one word lie dashed
with nesriless pen, though he eoud not check the
growing follies of deEnward oge and many grovel
ling sycophant many worthless pretenaer to intellectual
and moral eminence and many imbodiment Of political
corruption and knavey under the overwhelming pressure
of his satire
aSunk back to the vile dust from whence be sprung
Unwept, unhonored, and unsung;
or at best secured the subject of his denuncia-
ton, an immortality Of iEsamy.
Who is the Horace Of to-day that aares to challenge the
genius renality into the open field and provoke
test Ehets it is certain victory would confer honor and
defeat would iasure the Fuaerer at least halowed
ory2 We slaves very Slaves and shrink from an
counter which involves depletion of eKchfquers
bow and revsreny worship stocks and bullion, and shape
our paragraphs for the authentic OF the
devil in the earth We address you sir not because these
charges are applicable you but because you
paratively free from the vices of which speak You
have always protested aBd generally manifested profound
detestaton Of the miserable oibes OF ultra and the
contemplate sTes for Office which have long degraded
the sectional politics of this country Why that
der circumstances like these you have become temporarily
at lest the apoogiHt of the party of John Charles Ere
mont AS one of the leaders of the American press you
are under responsibility Of the highest character to stand
By the rovernsn of your choice and denounce the open
assaants Of the constitution Cur ohcc in writing the
ent letter Was fodst to consider the ground which,
in other days you have occupied upon the subject of
the African in his nstiye home We have resolved how
for the present be confined TO the latter clause of
ur original Intention promising general consderR-
tons bearing upon the history and probable destiny Of
the dark and benrhted land which has furnished the bond
men of America
Africa looms upon vision like vast abortion of the
Divinity We hardly persuade ourselves that the laws
of etFna usce have not been reversed in her case and
that she has not been the peculiar sufferer of the earth
We have learned indeed, TO associate human misery with
the color Of the black man and without stopping to in
cure into the operan OF that mysterious Providence
which presided his history we enter upon the la
Dor Of his redemption though be were the only object Of
human compassion and his the only continent that bore
tbs grim visags of universal We forget in mad
enthusiasm that Asia Europe America and all the islands
of the sea have walked in the ox vale Of moral widow
hood and drank to their egs Of the bitter stream Of
post-Edenie sorrow 1t is wholesome for occasionally
20 learn wisdom from the dead body Of who walked
about IN Thebes streets
eThree thousand years ago,
when the Msmnomiam ras In al IL slorE,
And time had not begun 20 overthrow
Tho.e palaces and piles stupendous
or which the very ruins are tremendous"
rrnoouuted centuries ago il would that the grand
s ~ Ham sed from the presence of his offended
tos and laid The foundations of that empire Of dark
ness which has come down to day. His first settle
uents were In Egypt Msaim and the FIRST uiz Of his
adventures were light and knowledge and crime Egypt
grew 10 be the mistress and glory Of the ancient world
Her i,rs went out battle and all the tribes Of earth
.reubled before her conquering egons II wS natural
ira, pesou Of the first emigsnis to the west should
pause upon the rich valley Ct re N and make their final
home where labor unnecessary to GIL tine sqrehouse
y. Raevi~w Posn.