Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-09-03
cred that the Supreme Court in carry.

cred that the Supreme Court, in carry.
ing into execution the constitutional
provision to Regulate trade and COM
MERGE between the States, was but re-
adopting the principle in the case OF
New York and others as to Fulton's
steamboat monopoly. New York pro-
hibited Connecticut from entering her
waters with STEAMBOATS,, and Connectl-
cut New York; New York, New Jersey,
too, and uice uersa, SO that in crossing
the Hudson somewhere near the middle
of the channel, it at last became neces-
sary for the passenger to change boats
The Supreme Court Of the United
States, in exercising the power OF the
Federal Constitution to regulate COM
merce, overruled all these enactments
of rival States, and made tie waters
free. The principle involved in this
case was similar, Mr.. Webster reasoned,
in its results. If Kentucky could not
enforce contracts in Mississippi for
what Mississippi recognized as property,
Kentucky could retaliate. The legis-
lation of the slave-holding States would
conflict and disorganize the Govern
ment, as did the legislation of Con-
necticut, New Jersey, and New York.
The Federal Government contemplated
an equality of rights and action between
similar States.
AS usual, Mr.. Webster wasted not a
word. He spoke about two hours with
a closeness Of logic no other man in this
country could equal. There was not
the least attempt at display, and child
of 10 years of age could have kept the
run of his whole case. Among the
many auditors was John Quincy Adams,
intent throughout, who, for wonder,
deserted the Representative wing of
the Capitol in business hours for once
Character Of Hands.
Our Oriental friends, who are of a
more slow and dignitied character, dis
approve of the Western custom of
taking hold of the precious person of
an acquaintance, and shaking him for
welcome. It may be more dignified to
bow, but if frankness and activity be
our characteristics, we like the truthful
mystery of hand-clasp. It is an in
dex in itself. The formal and cold
character offers straight fingers for an
instant; the dull and apathetic lets us
take hold of hand like dead fish (;
the energetic business man meets an
old friend with grip that brings water
into his eyes; the warm-hearted takes
our hand and holds it. The nervous
hand, with an affectionate swiftness,
comes out most readily and longingly.
And is there anything more natural to
reverent love than the kissing of the
hand that has been bountiful in love to
us. See how far we have gone among
mysteries
Character, habits, and age are the
three things that are told by the hands.
When we draw the character of Heep,
the hypocrite-and, as the school-boys
would say, "the sneak, dickens did
not neglect this tell-tale: ooh! what a
clammy hand his was! as ghostly to
the touch as to the sight; I rubbed
mine afterward to warm it, and to rub his
on. 1t was such an uncomfortable
hand that when I went to my room, it
was still cold and wet upon my mem
ory." Even if it be not that Of Heep,
the hypocritically humble hand is apt
to writhe and squeeze it's bending
fingers together.
The hand that little Jack Horner
made sticky with his own pie in his
own corner, undoubtedly became with
big Jack Horner thick-tingered puffy
index of his partially for pies and
plums.
Little does the swaggerer who chinks
his small change, and cocks his thumbs
out OF his pockets, imagine that his
thumbs and hands are as much his con-
demnation as the Dragging seals and
the chain that would anchor ship.
The stingy man has tight hand
his fingers keep fast hold of sixpence,
and his palm makes a careful hollow
out of which it cannot roll, until he is
quite sure he is obliged to part with it.
The rough and the refined hand are
different with difference like that of
education in the man. The lowest ex-
tremity Of roughness is the hand of
brute Violence colossal paw, of iron
strength, huge with muscle, vein, and
sinew, but lacking all sensitiveness and
fexibility-detiant in it's attitudes--a
human tool that has been turned into
a weapon.
There are refined hands that are
criminal, but their character is the
more hateful because no trace is made
upon outward perfection. and their
beauty is lie. One reads in the we'll
cared-for, OF, as we might say, the edu-
Gated hand. not only its own refine
ment, but that of other generations
the ancestors who lived at leisure from
bodily toll, whose muscles were not
stretched by labor, whose fingers, little
used, went slender to the tips, whose
very finger-nails revealed easy times.
by their oval shape, not pressed and
worn into hard-worked diminutive half.
circles.
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