The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-11-22

FoGGY FANFARoNADE.-Edwin II. league ESQ.
Attorney at Law, of Nashville, has an extraordina
ry gift of utterance, and has in an Grafton delivered
by him at Rome, Tennessee, upon the eighty-thirt
anniversary OF American Independence enriched
our poor language with many choice additions
lie opens with the following remarkable exordium
which must have amazed his auditors:
Venerable, my Fellow Citizens, on the brilliant
calendar OF American Independence is the dav we
celebrate Venerable as the revolving epoch in
our anniversaries of freedom is this avalanche OF
time. Monument of immortality, we adorafe thy
worth. Pharos of ages, we hail thy glimmerings
MID the cataracts of life. Almanac of our country
we would utter thy welcome with reverent awe
The clap OF thy welcome bOoms along tesselatpd
lawns, irescoed arbors, and Tipping rivuets, while
the suiges OF eloquence join the music of freedom
Further on, warming with his subject he thus
gives vent to his pent-up feeling:
Were intellect volcano. we would reddap
It's lava and widen its mouth, as we contemplate the
rather OF our Country leaping from his grave. and
naming the resurrection of his departed comrades
as we see the snowy forms, the lurid glare the
frantic YELL drifting towards the shades of Mount
vernon; as we watch the pensive heart the telIipr
look, the seraphic smile, crowding socitude with
tears, to pay in the embrace of Washington-as
we picture the once noble forms and shiny eauipa-
ges OF those now rued heroes, gnawed with rust and
dIgested by insects-all polished for immortaIity
as we view the martial step and PROMPT array of
Dattallons and cavaliers martialled by the drum
sticks OF another world all eager for his Ipauoural
AS we think of them headed with the feathered
ensign of Americas pride streaming through Milky
avs and rainbow domes for Jordan's banks fas
tive with cherubic songs, and crowded with the
boats OF paradise, we would fancy parades and SER
enades mid its rural gales lepid gleDs and trutta
ceous charms, and all ticketed for glory and char
tering immortality's feetest steamer they muster
the army, they unloOsen the mornings, and pealing
their last farewell from that hurricane-deck they
start for Satans landing, and hearing from YOUR
dismal cell Arnold and his tratorous gang sqnirm-
ing mid the Uists Of retribuion, they foil he's bat
terles and scale its parapets and doxologizing
along the suburbs of that aristocratic city, they
loln the deputaton from Heavens artillery, to be
nailed by the mayor in the citadel
He discourseth of danger with great ucidity, as
follows:
Too much danger drives reason from its 1noorinps
and consistency to pitfal too little throws cir
cumspection and policy off their guard A suGfci
ency reeies excuses, brushes our morals and prog
nosticates our DOOM deficiency smokes our IA =
culties, torpifes enthusiasm and lullabies our
fears Its presence is essential and indispensa
bic to nations happiness as its absence would be
to its ruin. Omnivagant as air, without one single
Leakage in humanity but DEATH tied to its identity
WIN Cyclopean knot, sirenizing its perceptions
WIN happy touch, and weaving nests for politi-
clans simply to burrow and hatch, that preachers
may cackie disunion and woe, it now broods q er
America. =
We think these extracts will suffice for one day.