The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1860-06-02

Of the numbers and appearances 81 fowls
sof the dir that Glanced TO IN over them;
j fowl PRELUDE 70 d foul deed the muir
der Of Renius BY his iinperious brother.
II is probably no less true, that the des7
TIMES Of our Republic may be shaped, or
ut least indicated, By the behavior Of or.
Astrological specimens that daily soar
aloft over our New World and turn to
good account their extended opportunities
4 Of judging Of its present condition and fu-
tire prospects, The numerous fathers
or our country TO which particular one
OF whom its paternity ID properly I'd be
imputed ii and always win he i matter 81
dispute did they not believe in the
watchful guardianship Of birds over the
interests of the various nations, and their
wise preseience Of political happiness and
InisfoftuneY Why was it, else, that, net
ing as tile honored Representatives Of the
Goddess Of Liberty, they chose the eagle
as onr national standard-beaIcr,
And gave into his mighty hand,
The symbol Of Der chosen land, e 2s3 (
the spangicd banner2 However this
may he, many persons not at all Inclined
70 superstition have taken pleasure III
drawing favorable omens from the ap.
pearance 81 this noble bird of the hen.
VEN" ON great occasions in our past pos
Iitical history. For example: Oh tic Ith
sof March, 1922, the day Of the FIRST inau-
gnration of President jackson, at the
very time when, alter d threatening morn
ing, the sun shohe forth brightly at noon
itself an anspicions emblem and token
5of the coming glory of Jaeksoh's admins
tration. tBo engles were distinctly seen
by many thousands, ourselves included,
soaring directly above The gallant chief,
and finally takiug their course westward
following the course Of the star Of en-
;pire, = thar had already she'd It's light or
enduring fame on this greatest Of the
hardy pioneers cf the Mississippi valley. n
Since that day, till yesterday. We have
never seen two eagics together; and We
do not recollect having ever seen two 10.
gether before, though We had seen not Il
few Of the denizcns Of tho wiids, bipca
and qualruped. Yesterday. at about i.
quarter before three o'clock III the after.
noon, ut our residence which stands but:
afew yards on the Maryland side Of the
boundary between that State and the
District Of Columbia ws saw three
eagles, high in the air. They were
screaming loudly. In d little while. one
oftheni suddenly took an upward flight,
soaring, far above the others, and then
flew In q direct line toward tile north:
while his companions started IN i direc-
tionA little south ofwcst towardg Cincinnati.
Here is d subject for the scottish ers.
We do not claim to have enough 81 the
5augulss skill TO bore 10 the tIepthef this
ilbstfnsc matter. ....3 III.
Ga Happening as Il did on the. eve Of the
meeting Of the Charleston convention, did
this most unusual occurrence typify the
possibly noisy debates of that great POI
.litical assembly? Was it reserved for
ms, i middle man, occupying the just me-
Ediuin, both in residence and feeling, be-
tween the extremes of the North and the
South, to present il for the impartial IN
terpretatioii Of wise jutlges2 Parting as
these prophetic birds did Just over us,
did they mean to announce to the Repub-
lic that, however angry politicians might
wrangle and divide, we Mould remain I'M
moved where we are, curing equally for
the North and the South, anxious TO
have Justice done to both alike, and re.
solved not to be swept from our secure
position Of safe iInpartfality by any storm
Of hostile faetionsg BE-. 4. 4. 5 .... (.
Did they intend 10 intimate that, per,
E:haps. in the selection of a candidate by the
convention that meets today, the opera.
tion OF the two-thirtls rule might give the
nomination to some good, safe man, 81
not too high ambition, residing somewhere
lin the direction Of the flight of two OF
them, while third, separating part oil
the political conelaFe, might seek, in a
high, separate fight toward the North, to
raise TO the Presidency some aspirant
from that quarter2 Who can tellg We
me unequal to the task. We must leave
the solution Of the mighty mystery 10
other minds, or, better still, to the ineyi,
table decision of coming events ~ Dali,
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