The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-03-31

We earl y embraced the doctrine of
State Rights-the IN st valued Of these, is
the right Of feeling ourself IN some degree
elevated and h ,nprsd,
Whenever noble deed is wrought,
When er IS spoken noble thought"
by one VIII, halls from nur native State.-
W, love to dwell on that fan rus battle in
the r 'voluti mary Wr, where at bong
Island, n W Y 'rk, few VI .rylani troops
slvol the A nsric4n Army. W. enjoy
the renemor.nce that q neral W4Shiu :.
tn chose Maryland tro'ps to lead the
vlo. Al in retrelt tD form the rear guard
y n d. we forget that it was NJ rylanA
h';r, the grsnl1on IF distinguish ID
RWpIu'iontry I,Ilisr VIII, first mo lnlsd
t'a stlls IF VI nterty. The names OF
NwyI,nl authors are also revered by u, !;
AMI h l. gar Pc is in our estimation tn
m ~ priy nal Of American pets 1t was
therefore, with Mingled nsations Of pridu
AMI pleasure that We real E nily Chester
he author Mlryhnder, the heroine
If the story Btltim ,reau the Oh lracters
are all said to be pr rats of Blltinoreans.
Thus. the story has Il tw, foil interest, as
We seek to discover the real facs I'm Ter the
III t>k it wears. Tie book has been sub
j3ctel to two classes Of critic it has
been over-rated by its admirers, aud has
been most ungenerously dealt with by its
enemies. Ii is, however, generally read,
which proves conclusivey that it has some
attraction for We do not seek to read
what is uninstructive and unentertaniug.
We thiGk it we'll written, its characters
interesting, aud think it deserves an hon
orcd place among that class of sensational
novels which live their little day of popu.
larity-nake their never fading imprint
on the minds of the shifting crowd and
then are pushed out of sight, by nsw stars
in the literary world, destined like it to
shoot before our startled gaze, and Danish
away.
The story is founded on the supposition
that there is law of gravity implanted by
nature in man, aud that it attracts him
to some of his own species, and draws him
away from others-by an attraction and
repulson over which he has 10 control. -
Thus Emily Chester admires Max Cramp-
tons intellect her intellect gravtates 10
his intellect-ou5 she is drawn by stron-
ger gravitaton from him, by an instructive
repulsion of her whole nature, if Max but
touches her hand 10 saying gpol-bye.-
BY misfortune, she is left homeless aud an
orphan. She marries Max, and is an uu-
happy woman. She has erred against the
law of her nature
M'ny argue that this theory is "wiok.
ed, "unnatural;" we are not Of this class,
but are persuaded by our own instructive
likings an dislikings, that philosophy
might be written Gf maa could be found
wise enough which would prove the law
Of CAVITY applied to the immateria as
well AS to matter-to the spirit as well as
the body. We DO not see why it should
be- thought 50 strange theory, that the
Creator who has, by the mutual attraction
of the sun, m ION and stars aud the earth,
caused all the grand operations We read of
in a,tronomy-we do not see why He
may not have impresse upon the spirit
of man law of attraction and repnlsion
to his leIIow-men which, if obeyed (for he
has left the will free), would lead to hap
pineSs in friendship, content in marriage.
And what if He has ordained Hmse If
the Centre of Gravity, towards which
our spirits tend when they were launched
into his world, which has so many at
fractions and repuisions, and tn It leaving
free the human will, He rewards aud pun.
isnes Ms, with less ground of excuse, mas
much as we were free to obep the law
which impels US to do right. If it we're
not violation of our nature to devate
from the "straight way" it seems to us it
would not be so heinous.
Nj.