Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-01-20
EVENING STAR.
B z MIN SEEN Es
BY HON. JOHN BARNEY.

Ihe Coolie OF China, content to subsist on
modicum OF rice, whose fat, unintellectua
features attest that not one ideR radiates in
the vacuum where brains ought to circulate
the barbarian Of Africa, closely resembling
the Orang- -Outsng of his native land, difficult
to decide whether he is or is not of the same
genus; the brute of Germany, whose women
harnessed to ropes, drag the plough, requiring
photographer more learned than DR. John
| son to invent word capable of expressing the
depth OF degradation, no known language be-
ing sufficiently copious to give its appropriate
nomenclature the stolid Turk Injured to Ia
Dor without capacity to comprehend its utility,
who stands undismayed surrounded by flames
believing it to be fire lighted by Heavens
mandate the son of Hibernia, like the lazza-
rome of Italy. content to bask in the rays of
the sun In rags, scorning labor, provided he
can get pottage Of potatoes to keep starva-
ton from his door; the untutored son of
Americas wilds, having nothing to demolish
but an lntuitiye sagacity enabling him to
construct wigwam out Of the trees of his na-
| tive forest;-all have instinct just qualifying
them to demelish az edifce which requires the
genius Of an architect to erect.
"Expressive silence muse thy prai.en
1t has required an almost superhuman ef.
fort to indite chapter, dull and uninterestinp o
because of the absence of any aIlusion to the
gentle sex, and not designed for their eve
with this premonition, 1 feel assured th al
| each falr one will drop the paper, or drop her
veil while she reads l am convinced that if
she does even read it through her veil, it will
not be from a motive of curiosity
1t is slander that ladies are Influenced BY
curiosity, It's higher motive, a thirst for
knowledge that causes seeming inquisitiye.
ness 1t were an endless task to study ont
| that enigma, past finding out, far more diff
| cult than the ways Of bird in the air, a SER
pent on rock, or a maiden with the man she
loves.
Man is the first and greatest brute in crc.
| alton; the veiled Prophet of Khorassau. The
erratic lady, Mary Wortley Montague, saws
the only thing that reconciles her TO being a
woman is the exemption from being thGt thing,
a woman's husband
She would have found something more de.
grading in the ybrid John K randolph of Roam
oke, whom the sarcastic Tristan Burgess of
Rhode Island, designated a nondescript, nei.
ther woman nor woman's husband Uni ke
the untutored sons of the varied climes de-
scribed in the first paragraph, he proved on
the trial of tho venerable Judge Chase, that
he did not possess the organ of destructiyepess
And Tristan Burgess proved that he had no
creative powers
lie thanked his God, that By Heavens i'm
mutable decree, monsters could never propa-
gate their species; the Castrato voice and pa-
proclaimed his genius. As chairman of the
committee Of the House of Representatives to
prosecute the venerable Judge Chase for NAL
ieasance during the trial of Callander and
John Fries, under the odious Alien and Sedi-
tion Laws, he signally failed, not so much for
want Of energy or elOquence, but because OF
the pure and elevated party arraigned, to
which he himself bore unwilling testimony
when declaring that mercy like charity covers
multitude of sins, of which the learned Judge
had multifsrious number to atone for
BY natures decree man is born a chartered
libertine.
1t is his privilege to do all that love advises.
Let him but keep his own secrets there can be
no living witness 20 bear testimony against
him
God alone knows of his indiscretions, and
merciful God has never been known to tell
tales on erring man or woman. He has a long
credit until the day Of judgment.
Again, he cannot practice that deep decep-
tiOn which would goad him TO madness, which
would induce him to pull the pillars of heaven
from under its canopy, and crush himself, the
world and oil it contained in one chaotic ruin.
Woman iscreated pure, next unto the angels.
The slightest deviation consigns her to infamy,
the detestation Of her OWE sex, a contempt Of
man.
Heavens choicest gift must assmiIate to
Heavens angels; otherwise man could form
no estimate Of the joys of Paradise.
She is the connecting link between Heaven
and earth-the emblem of eternity.
The Recording Angel with tear blots out
her transgression; her own relentless sex
makes up record never to be expupged on
earth
John Randolph was chairman of the COM
mittee of the House Of Representatives to con.
duct the impeachment Of the venerable Judge
Chase, of Maryland, before the Senate of the
United States
This was the first, last, and only trial under
the odious Alien and Sedition law. 1t origi.
mated in times Of high party excitement, and
was more potential in hurling the elder Adams
from power, than all other causer combined.
On the trials of Calender and John Fries in
Richmond, the pure and upright Judge, con.
fning himself strictly to expound the law as
he found it recorded on the statute book. AS
a man he was affiuent in all the benevolence
which softens the human character.
His heart no Sc fish cares confined,
He felt for all who felt distress;
And sill benevolent and kind,
He blessed them, or he wished to bless.
Even the heartless John Randolph, who
never knew the kind feeling of sympathy
Loves soft sympathy impaIts
That tender transport Of delight
That glows In feeling hearts.
Aud he acknowledged that the pure ermine
Of justice was not suffered to be stained by the
innocent blood of John Fries, because of the
Heayen-born charity which warmed the heart
of bis most estimable judge
AS in picture, II the faults abound,
The artist wells them In a shade profound;
IL In the errors Of our friends we see,
We shroud them In a shade Of charity.
Judge Chase fell victim to this odious law
He was acq Quilted.
But proud and lofty spirit filed the colos.
sal frame which presented him before you, a
giant in stature.
His vast proportions intimately resembled
the colossal figure Of the present Secretary of
the Treasury, himself Western giant. am
told there are still some resembling them in
the Western wilds; 1 have traversed them
from the sources of the Ohio and the Missis-
sippi to their debouches of the Gulf of Mexico,
and never have met two men 70 great.
His proud spirit was crushed. He never
raised his lofty head, but in dependence and
| gloom, faded away, withered, died.
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