Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-07

dissolve the Union without a Just cause, and
| binding him with a ton Of rcd-hot chains, bar
and bolt him down within the darkest dee pest,
hottest dungeon of Pandemonium, and hurl
the key into Oblivion. That man, wheiber
he be of the North or the South, who. to
crafty an unholy ambition-to achieve his
own sinful and selfish purposcs-to secure the
triumph Of party. and win his way to power
and place-would apply the brand that is to
sever the tie which binds the States in com
mon union, should be seized by some aveng-
ing spirit. and
As far beneath fi,e Internal centre hurled
A. fr,in the centre "a the ethereal world
and made TO howl in an unfathomable sea of
fire for millions of years after the human
form shall have been llctted from the list of
created things, and the sun and moon and
stars shall one by one have crumhled into
nothingness, and naught but the imperisI;l-
HE splendor of Heaven and the horrld glare
of Hadcs is left to break the unehding sol-
tude Of Eternity. Lives there man to-day
who would sacrifice his country thus? If so.
the miidest malediction the true patriot can
breathe for him must be
Let him he cursed while living, and when dead.
let him be buried with his face downward,
Looking 10 belIr
and let his name continue 10 tester in the in
fanny of years until the name of WAsHINToN
shall have faded from the page of history,
and the world has forgotten that the coun-
try for whose liberty he fought and bled ever
held place among the nations OF the earth.
The time may come when there shall be
forced upon us all desire for the dissolution
of the Union; but it has not yet come. and we
would fain hope that in the attitude of GER
tain political factions Of the day, we do not
behold the harbinger of its coming.
The Gdzete.-0ur contemporary of the Ga
sette writes an article on the proposition,
" Prosperity not always Blessing" This
article was written for Sunday reading, and
is eminently pious in its tone and tendency
Zone of the sad features in human nature"
says our neighbour is the fact that mankind
generally are more capable of bearing adyer
sity than prosperity" To prove this he tells
Us of the fellow who suddenly becomes rich
and gets too proud TO speak to you when he
happens TO meet you in the road, though
when poor % none could surpass him in COM
plaisanee and afability.'' Also of lady.
" once an humble dress-maker," who has
come into a property" and now " arrayed
in splendid attire of silk and jewelry," she
declines to recognize g those who, in her
days of poverty gave her work and ell
enlargement" These cases show a great
Of Int
that they prove that mankind generally
are more capable of bearing adversely than
prosperity" 1t Is not always safe to general
IL from particular instances. The man who
goes by express from poverty to wealth may |
find that the change in his worldly affairs |
has made a fool of him, but he almost al |
ways bears" it like hero. It is the same |
case with the % humble dress-maker." But |
let them begin with pocket full of rocks |
and then wake up sumo ine morning to find |
themselves without red-do they bear their |
reverses as calmly as they would sudden |
feel too sadly knocked up to cry :" don't |
shoot " if you were to point gun at them.
aud they too frequently borrow shilling o.
the first person they meet and invest it in
strychnine. No; our neighbours theory
won't do. We never hear of anybody per-
forating his skull with a pistol-ball because
somebody has left him fortune, but we
hear of good many people WHO resort to
that sort of pitsol practice when their for
tunes are suddenly lost. We don't know
what sort of sermon our neighbor will give
US next Sunday morning but we trust he
will take a little more pains to get on the
right side of his text.