The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-05-27

~ ariety IS the spice OF HE, We are ihioi ~
ed by an old and popular writer. We will not
/ gainsay the assertion; but variety is only law
| of nature, because it is an exception to more
primordial and necessary one-sameness; Tor
| this latter is the foundation on which rests the
| s.upendous fabric of the universe. Nay, more,
all its mighty laws which make every particle
fulfil its purpose, plod on, like the moving OF a
great steam engine, to the tread ofeternal same
ness. Yet so fond of diversity not diversion
is Nature, that, as a gay maiden, her rosy fin
gers are ever busy in twining beautiful varieties
about her monotsnous works. Whenever it is
possible, she dashes on pleasing diversity and
does not pass over the slightest object without
touch of her omnifc pencil. She winds it
loosely around her colossal pillars; she paints
it on the dark wing Of night; she breathes 1t on
the morning clouds; she wears it on the white
breast of the snow storm; catches the lightning
in its fight, and bends it into fantastic crooks;
and constructs canopy Of spray and ranooWs
over the dull thunder of the cataract. Nature
loves variety. She sits in the serene heavens,
and whilst directing the flight OF countless
worlds along ETHEREAL mazes, allows even them
to oscillate in their giddy orbits, and ply trem-
bling on the very brink Of chaos. She even
descends into the deep ocean, where no human
eve penetrates, and stamps the most exquisite
varieties on the groves of coral there, to serve
as a contrast to the mud sand and unsightly
stumps and logs, which form the bed of Red
River and lake Caddo Though order and
samcness are SO requisite to the well-belng OF
everything, what surprising latitude is given to
diversity True, all men must have heads and
should have noses; but if all had block heads
and Roman noses, we would complain that our
lot had fallen on an unpoetic age. We cannot
help being astonished at the liberty which Ma
ture takes with her own great principles. She
DEGREES that thing shall be SO, and never de-
yiates from that decree; then yariegates 1t with
the most exquisite niceness. She makes eve
~ human face, with all the appendages great
and small necessary to it; but no two faces
were ever precisely alike. Though there are
thousand millions of faces on the earth, and II
to these the myriads that have mouldered away
were added, still no two precisely alike could
be found The entire identity of two objects in
their outward appearance, is clearly no where
to be found No two stars look wholly alike;
the songs of no two birds are the same; no two
flowers the same No minds are identical, or
have exactly Identical apprehensions, The di-
versitv in theAuniverse is beyond all mortal
COMPREHENSION The intention of language is
to give names to the various objects in nature,
and point out their difference; yet these differ
ences tower so far above the grasp of the bold
est language, as the eagle in its flight is above
the worm that reaches towards him from the
ground. We have three words in our copious
language to express difference Of taste, viz
sweet, bitter sour; but the varieties of taste
that an ordinary tongue could discern over the
earth, might perhaps require as many words
to express them as we have in all our language;
and how much greater is the diversity discern
ed by the other senses. The vast majority of
THESE, one nina can never ck4AlDnuulcdLc W
another. By comparisons, paraphrases, ex-
pressions of countenance, and intonations of
voice, we can do much; but it only goes SO far
to tell our friend that what we wish to say, is
different from great many things, and leaves
him to feel it out among great many more
Still vs. get along, and perhaps better than if
language were more perfect, for as it is, the
fancy-a pleasing, airy faculty-is called into
play, and it often makes the picture more pleas
ant than the original would be. Yes! Variety
is law ofnature, and thereby we were induced
to abandon politics for the nonce, and inhict
upon our good natured readers the foregoing
prosy article.
AMERICAN PARTY IN PENNSYLVANIA Many
democratic organs have been trying to make
it appear that the American party in Pennsyl-