Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-10-04
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MAKE HOME ATTRACTIVE.

ut dulces Iaoricns reainisciur Argos. i '"t'''
No sentiment, no feeling or affection OF the
human mind, exercises so salutary an ini!u'
ence on individual aud national happiness,
wealth, wsll.being, enlightenment and morality
As love of home 1t is bcneticent provision oil
duty that an affection So universal and so pro-
motive of human good, should be so easily
gratifed..yet the intensity of the sentiment
and its consequent utility are in proportion to
the attractions natural and artificial that bind
us to home It is painful TO sever The many
ties and associations that connect Us with Our
native land even when We remove from en-
hausted fields, diapidated mansions, and from
ndoent and ignorant society, TO fertile, im-
proving, energetic and intelligent region; Du!
this pain is much aggravated when poverty OF
misfortune cxpel us from land that nature
and art have combined to embel!ish and enrich,
10 wend our way to some distant uncuitivated
and bouudless wilderness Virgil, in his lSt
Eclogue, beautifully and fcelingly depicts u
scene of this kind. Augustus had deprived
the Peasantry about Crcnona and Mantua of
their lands and bestowed them on his veteran
soldiers. Virgil's land alone was spared. The
Eclogue Processes 10 give the conversation be-
tween him and one Of his prescribed and re-
moving neighbors. How soft, how beautiful,
yet how. melancholy. the exclamation Of Nell
mos pa;r;e dnes, ct ducis l!ngumu' arva
Nos patrau iugi;ao,.'
II would be pro!anc to attempt TO translate this
passage into our vulgar vcrnacular. Again, he
says 1--WE now adopt Dryden's translation
I'VE meanwhile To Africa's thirsty sands
Usxes' stream and Scythia waste OF lands,
Or Britain, suuiered from the world, must 60
And shall |, after many year OF woe.
Ecr my loved country tread; et han AGAIN
My tGrf.roofd cot, the palace OF my reign:
These welLwroggM falows must the soldier own
These crops be for u ru.han master sown:
Virgil, to express adequately his gratitude to
Augustus, exclainS:
30, Melboe, Deus nobs hoe ota feel; W
IndiGerently translated by Dryden
20, Msliheas, to god owe
TAis b!est rcspose."
Christianity permits us not to defy departed
heroes, much less living ones, but surely 10
the legislators and statesmen, who e;nbcllsh,
enlighten and enrich country, and render its
people secure, happy and contented in their
possessions the loltest inches in the Temple
Of Fame should be awarded
While the mere victors may appGl or stun
The servi!s and valn such names sh.! be
Awacaword til the future shall be free Byron
The scenery of Switzerland is the most beau
,iful in the world, aud her people the bravest
and most patriotic. DR.. Rush says, in his Trea-
tise on the Diseases Of the mind:
the Swiss soldiers sometimes languiSh and
die from that form of madness which is brought
on by absence from their native country.
An ingenious modern poet mentions this dis
ease, as well as its existing cause with peculiar
elegance
The intrepid Swiss that guards foreign shore,
Condemned 10 CLINT his mountain cliss no more,
II chance he hear the song, sweetly wild,
Which, on those ellis, his infant hours bcetild.
Mets AZ the long Lost scenes that round him rise,
Aud s.aks martyr 20 repeniant signs
The motto which we have adopted for this
essay speaks volumes in halfa line 1t describes
dying warrior whose last thought is of his
native land. Dryden has pretty well ex-
pressed the thought yet has not retained all
Of Virgirs conciSencSS force and beauty c: en-
preston:
He cas-, to heaven; on Arsos Aiass, and dies"
Byron, in his description Of the Dying Gla-
diator, has created work Of art, surprising in
excellence and beauty that which he portrayS
In it he thus conveys the same thought;
-"He Is gone.
Ere ceased the nhunan shout which hailed reich Who
He heard H. bu, he needed no;--hi, cyes
Were with his heart, and that was FAR away
He reck'd not Of the life he lost, nor prise,
But where his rude hut by the Danube Ia
Ttsrs were his yopng baroarians all at PLY;
7hers was their pacian mother-he their u
lin'chered to make a Roman holiday
AL THIS rlsh'd with his blood"
The feelings Of respect and affection for an
ceStry, parents and kindred are intimately con-
nectcd and blended with love and generation
for Deity; and hence Religion in every age and
CLINE has Stunned the public martS and crowd
ed walks Of man. and lowered around the
homestead. At home, the Christian law of
love prevails and each member of the family
naturally endeavors within its sacred and peace
full precincts ''to do as he would be done by"
Man inducs the armor of SelfshaesS as he ush
ers from home, and lays aside the law OF love
and affection, to engage in that war OF the wits
and Of free competition which seif-deience
makes incumbent on him. The farther nc
proceeds from home, the more intense and fierce
he finds this social internecine war, until in
some new frontier settlement all men seem to
Re very Gains and lshmaels, who acknowledge
no moral code, no law, except that might
makes right Man, cut loose from home, from
country and from public opinion, lives and
wanders without guide government or protec-
tion-exposed to temptation, and often driven,
by necessity, to crime.
The ancient Romans entertained justcr and
more lively sense Of the religious sacredness of
home, than any other people. The Lares,