The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1857-12-24

1t, but assure you it is only few evenings
ago that heard him, before a large COM
pany, speak in the most disrespec.ful terms
OF the equaior!"
HoN. j. w. B. UNpERwooD.-This gem
tleman was recently elected Speaker of the
House OF Representatives Of Georgia some
OF our exchanges are telling the following
tale on him, which, if not true, is too good
to be lost:
The Judge was staunch Clay Wing,
but his son, J. w. b. Underwood. was con.
tinually changing his politics. A friend
asked, "What are Johns politics r,
Really" said the Judge, "I can't tell
you haven't seen the boy since breakfast. "
John applied to the old gentleman for
letter of recommendation to his friend, then
Governor Crawford, of Georgia. twas inn
mediately given; and, sure Of his game,
john put off to Milledgevile; but knowing
his fathers eccentricities, he thought it pru.
dent to open his credentials before present
ing them, and, TO his astonishment, he read
the following: rs@s 20
My DEAR FRIEND--This will be hand
ed to you by my son John. He has the
greatest thirst for an Office, with the least
capacity to gil one Of any boy you ever saw.
Yours truly,
WILLIAM II. UNDERWooDn
But John has since falsifed the old gen.
tiemans opinion by proving himself
shrewd politician and first rate lawyer.
BEAUTIFUL ALLUsIoN.-What quality of
human nature is more ennobling, more soul
eievating, more benevolent, than the pure
love OF the parent for its child? And could
this love be more charmingly illustrated
than in the beautiful allusion Of Lamartine,
the great French writer, to his parents
remember" says he. "to have seen
the branch of a willow which had been torn
by the tempests hand from the parent
trunk, floating in the morning light upon
the angry surges of The over flowing Saone,
On 1t a female nightingale still covered her
nest. as 1t drifted down the foaming stream;
and the male on the wing followed the
wreck, which was bearing away the objects
Of his love y
What words could express the attachments
OF the loving parent for its offspring more
eloquent than the foregoing? =
And how could parent express love for
the child with more true and beautiful sim
phcity than did the plain, unschooled man,
who had received his education principally
beneath the open sky in the field and for
est, and who had welded an axe more than
a pen, when he remarked, speaking to his
children, The little chips are nearest the
heart "-Spirit Of The Ige.
A FAIR OFFER EEfusED.-A gentleman:
who had son addicted TO drinking, took
| occasion to demonstrate with the neiohbor-
hood liquor seller against selling any more
liquor to his child He proposed to the
| seller to keep strict account of all that was
called for by his son without letting him
have any, and he would pay him the full
amount il would have been, had the liauor
actually been sold. This was refused by'the
Sender. who said he should let him have
whatever he called for while he had the
money to pay for it. Thus it will be seen
that the cal!oushearted vender has no dis
position to aid in keeping any one sober
Ii Is 20 their interest to keep men bound in
The fHanac!as Of stro..s drink. though family
ties AID social affection be burst asnnder,
demolished and destroyed forever No 9th
er vocation would so harden the heart of
man as that Of selling liquor it destroys the
finer feelings Of his nature, and bruialzes
him to the lowedt depths. -
Spirit of the Ags.
ONE Of the men who was discharged from