The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, October 25, 1860, Image 5
Vm, Lowndes Yancey.
BIOGRAPHY.
"Win. DoVndes Yancey was born in the
State of Georgia?Shoals of Ogeechee?
on tho 10th clay of August, 1814, and is
consequently now in' his 45th year. He
was bora at tho home of Coll Bird, his
grand-father. - His parents resided at the
time in Abbeville, S. C. His father, Be nj.
C. Yancey, was a lawyer of tho first order
of talents and the highest integrity, rank?
ing justly as a compeer of the late John
C. Calhoun, whose friend and supporter
he was in the memorable and decisive
conflicts which linked his name honorable
with the war of 1812. Tho elder Mr.
Yancey died in the year 1817, leaving but
two children, the subject of this sketch
a?d B. C. Yancey, United States Minister
to the Argentine Confederation, South
America.
TTm. L. Yancey received his earlier ed?
ucation while between eight and nineteen
years of age, in "Now York and New Eng?
land?which, perhaps, imparted to his
manners.an apparent reserve, and stamp?
ed him a puritan in his morals, without a
taint of superstition or phariseeism. He
is an earnest Christitin, aspiring after un?
ostentatious spiritual graces, and so walk?
ing with Jittlo of profession as an exem?
plary and devout member of the Presby?
terian Church.
"While yet a child, Iiis mother-, a woman
of exalted sensibilities, uncommon talents,
tireless energy, and indomitable will?
would assign him a particular position on
tho floor, and while she employed hcrqplf
with!her knitting, require him to^dcclaim
?tlm grand old hymn of Stennett. beginh
.. ? -?"?/*.
in?: ? *
''Oil Jordan's stormy banks I stand."
Whether the world is-moro greatly in?
debted to the maternal jpride and jirophet
lo pains-taking which prompted and gave
color and informing pofcver to these early
exercises, than to the more elaborate train?
ing of Dr. Griffin, the President of "Wil?
liams College, a finished rhetorician, to
whose care he was subsequently commit?
ted, for the graco, strength, and splendor
of Mr. Yancey's mighty appeals to his
countrymen of the South, which for search?
ing pow^r, senatorial. dignity, and impe?
rial grandeur of genius are not surpassed
.in tho annals of eloquence, ancient or
modorn, neither he nor the world will
ever know.
He read lavf in tho office of Nathan
Sayre, Esq., in Sparta, Ga., and?completed
his studies in Greonvillo, S. C, under the
direction of B. R. Peny, Esq.
Having attained his majority, Tie mar?
ried Sarah Caroline Earle, an estimable
j^and accomplished lady, who is -?he third^
iter of Gco?.y_;l,r.QHh)t Esq., of Green?
ville, S.
In 1837, he Removed to Cababa, Ahl.,
and until 1840, divided his time between
~the cares of a small planting interest and
the editorial conduct of tho Cahaba Demo?
crat: ? ?
In 1840* he removed to "Wetumpka, and
in conjunction with his brother, the-Hon.
B. C. Yancey, he purchased and odited
? the Argus:
Jn that year he took an active part in
tho great Presidential campaign; and it
is doubtful whether, he has ever, since sur?
passed the powerful popular speeches he
then made in debate with some* of tho
ablest .men who ever graced tho platform j
in the State. $ During the late Southern
"Commercial Convention, one of its mem?
bers expressed to Johnson J. Hooper,
'Esj]., well known as a brilliant author,
.and,who was neither a.political or person?
al friend''bf Mii.. Yaticey, his surprise at
. tho reach, depth, and power of one of Mr.
Yancey's rejoinders in that body?saying
.that " he had como to the convention to
hear him; but that the half had not been
told him." Mr..Hooper's reply wtis that
u tho effort bad never been equalled, un?
less, indeed, by Mr. "Yancey himself, in
? 1840." In 1841, Mr. Yancey was elected
to represent tho county of Coosa in the
Legislature Ho declined a re-election,
and in 1843, ho was olected to the Senate
of the State.
In"1844, the Hon. Dixon H. Lewis was
transferred from tho House of Represen?
tatives in Congress to a 6cat in the Senate;
and MivvpTanccy was unanimously nomin?
ated by tkc Democratic Distinct Conven?
tion to fill his scat, and was re-elected
without opposition in 1845.
In Congress he made his delnit on the
question of the annexation of Toacas. Tho
speech made* a marked impression upon
all who heard it. The voncrable editor of
the Eichmond Enquirer said of it?" "We
are not at alTsurprised by the impression
he produced, and the reputation he has
acquired It is one of the ablest and
most eloquent speeches we have seen,
upon this or upon any other subject. His
introductory strictures upon "Whig repre?
sentatives from l{orth Carolina are very
dignified in manner, but tremendous in
their effect. It strikes like the li^Ktning
from ^heaven, and withers the sapling
upon which it falls. Mr. Yancey is a new
member, and a young man, and if ho be
not'paralyzcd by tho admiration he has
already excited, nor his head become
turned by the incense of praise, he is des?
tined to- attain a very high distinction in
tho public councils."
Judge "Bagby, who followed Mr. Yancey
in that debate, in his opening remarks
pronounced it "J:hc ablest effort ho had
ever heard.on the floor, of Congress.."
A difficulty grew out of this speech,
between Mr. Clingman" and Mr. Yancey,
which resulted in a duel. There Wad one
j fire, and then an honorable adjustment.
It was known to the late Judge Huger,
then ,a senator from South Carolina,
whom Mr. Yancey consulted as a friend,
that he did not attaint the lifo of Mr.
Clingman?ho threw away his fire. He
was Dot at that time a member of the
Christian Church.
During his brief Congressi?naf career
he also made able ar.d elaborate speeches
on the Oregon notice question, and upon
the internal improvement issue.
His speech upon* the Oregon question
was listoned to with profound attention
by the members?a large majority of
whom differed with the speaker. Mr.
Y?ncey opposed the notice to Great Britain
as a war measure. The press everywhere
received it with delight, it being delivered
some time before Mr. Calhoun took
ground in tho Senate upon the same
side.
One of. tho Baltimore correspondents
thus described the scene: " "When it was
announced that ho had the floor, crowds
of fashionable men and women flocked to
hear him! During the time he was speak?
ing" there was a breathless silence. The
enthusiastic admiration of all who heard
him amounts almost to adoration."
' The correspondent of the "New York
'Herald commented thus upon the position
of the speaker and of the power of Mr.
Y.'s effort:
" It is gratifying to see a fearless spirit
of patriotism in a single man, in the midst
of a strong and almost universal opposing
current, tending, like the-stream of Ni?
agara, to the abyss of war. It is particu?
larly gratifying when such an .individual,
assuming such a stand in such a crisis, is
a young man, 'ardent as a southern sun
can make him,' full of patriotism, jealous
of Ins personal and his country's honor?
jealous to the 'caviling upon of the ninth
part of a hair,' upon, that honor's inva?
sion, or encroachment?coming out, bold
as a mountain stream, in contest with the
clamor of war.
"Such was the man?such was his posi?
tion, aud such the current against which
he put forth his strong arm to-day."
Tho Gazette (AIa.r) in reviewing the
speech, declared that Mi*. Yancey "oc?
cupied at this time, a higher stand in pub?
lic estimation, than any man of his age;
and is destined to wield an influence com?
mensurate with that of tho mightiest
spirits of tho age."
In?August, 1S56, Mr. Yancey resigned
his seat in Congress?too poor to keep it
or continue in politics. The claims of an
increasing family wero heavy upon-him,
and ho retired from a position' of power
and public admiration such as no man in
sition won by his eourago?^liiT'sterling
virtues?his reliability?his de^tipn to
principle?his laborious and self-sacrificing
zeal for the truth, and his matchless elo?
quence.
He removed to the city of Montgome?
ry, where he now resides, and formed a
law partnership with Col. John A. Bl
moro, and has, since that'time, laborious?
ly prosecuted his profession. ?
As a lawyer he takes j^unk among the
first in that State.
Mr. Yaneey's party awarded to him the
nj-st^placo in their mules. Twice nomin?
ated for Congress, twice ho felt it to be
his duty to decline?though once ho was
nominated unanimously in convention, af?
ter his letter was read absolutely declining
the proffered position. His duty to his
family, in the opinion, required the devo?
tion of his time* to his profession.
In 1848, Mr. Yaneey was a member of
tbo National Democratic Convention
which. nominated .General Case for the
Presidency, though be opposed his nom?
ination, and afterward refused to support
him. ,
He ucvei'at any timo unitod with the
opposition to the Democracy, though
sometimes compelled by his sense of duty
.and consistency as a Southern Rights man
to withhold his active support of tho men
and measures of the Democratic party.
Indeed, Mr. Yancey is, in no sense, a mere
party man. He soars into a higher atmos?
phere of patriotism and personal inde?
pendence, and henco has been the mark
for much unjust and illiberal critic-ism by
men whose statesmanship and patriotism
know no expansion beyond the " pent-up
Utica " of party.
In 1856, the National Democratic
Convention at Cincinnati i/eely adopted
the great principle of non-intervention by
Congress, and popular sovereignty, which
the'National democratic Convention at
Baltimore rejected, when proposed "by Mr.
Yancey in 18481
The Democracy of Alabama having long
previously felt that injustice had been
done by them to Mr. Yancey, in 1848, en?
tertained for him the highest admiration.
They,,had foumt tjtat he was1 a jnan of
principle, and had the sagacity to see it,
far in advance of the masses, and the
firmness to bear injustice and persecution
with dignity and moderation. The State
Convention, without his seeking, "made*
him an elector for the State at large.
A distinguished Alabaraann, who ha?
filled a high judicial station, has remarked
that he-did more for Buchanan in Ala?
bama, than any other hundred men in it.
Mr. Yancey took a leading part in the
late Southern Convention?was, indeed,
tho most prominent and imj?sing figure
in it. "We have no space to introduce his
views, even, much less to vindicate them.
If they are somewhat in advance of the
public opinion, it is none the less probable
that they will ultimately triumph. Hia
speeches were full of zeal, argument, and
eloquence, and not surpassed on the floor
of that Assembly.
At this moment TTm. L. Yancey stands
up before tho people of the United States
a great tribune of 'the people?an unsur?
passed orator?a far-seeing statesman, and
a true-hearted Southern Eights leader.
He has no aspiration for federal honors,
and the newspapers in the South which
have run up his name for.tH Presidency
in 1860, have done so simply in compli?
ment to his ability, independence and
patriotism. His friends are not pressing
his. claims for that distinction. TV. F. S.
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Effects of Prosperity.?How unavail?
ing worldly prosperity is, since in tho
midst of it, a single disappointment is
sufficient to embitter all its pleasures.
"We might at first imagine, that the natu?
ral effect of prosperity would be, to diffuse
ovor the mind a prevailing satisfaction,
which the lesser'evils of life could not
ruffle or disturb. "We might oxpect, that
as one in the full glow of health, despises
the inclemency of weather; so one in pos?
session of all the advantages of high pow?
er and stafion, should disregard slight in?
juries; andj at perfect ease with himself,
should view, in the most favorable light,
tho behavior of others around. Such
effects would indeed follow, if worldly
prosperity contained in itself tho true
principles of human felicity. But as it
posscses them not, the very reverse of
those consequences generally obtains.
Prosperity debilitates* instead of strength?
ening the mind. Its most common effect
is, to create an extreme sensibility to the
I slightest wound. It foments impatient
desires; and raises expectations which no
succsss can satisfy. It fosters a false, del?
icacy, which sickens in the midst of indul?
gence. By repeated gratification, it
blunts the feelings of men to what is pleas?
ing; and leaves them unhappily acute to
whatever is uneasy. Hence, the gale
which another would scarcely feel, is, to
the prosperous, a rude tempest. Hence,
the rose leaf doubled below, them on tho
couch, as it is told of the effeminate Sy?
barite, breaks their rest. Hence, tho dis?
respect shown by Mordeeai, praj-od with
sjich violence on the heart of Haman.
Upon no priciplo of reason can we assign:
a sufficient cause for all the distress which
this incident occasioned him. The* cause
lay not in tho external incident. It lay
within himself; it arose from a mind dis?
tempered by prosperity.
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How to Go it.?Go it strong in your
praise of the absent. Some of it will be
SiircJto get around. *
Go it strung when you make love to a
pretty widow. More people hav* erred
by too little than too much in this partic?
ular.
Go it strong when taking up contribu?
tions for a charitable purpose. It will
pay
Go it strong when you make a public
speech. Nine people put of ten neve^
take any allusion unless it cuts like a
short-handled whip or a rhinoceros*' cow?
hide. " . >
Go it strong when you advertise. Bus.
iness is like architecture?its best suport
ers are full columns.
Go it strong and pay the printer. Nev?
er grudge him his price. Eecollect it is he
who brings customers to your very door,
who otherwise would never discover your
whereabouts. %
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One Friend.?IIow*pleasant a thing it
is to have one friend to whom wo can go
and unbosom our feelings, when the world
is harsh with us. and darkness has settled
on the fair face of nature. At such a time,
a friendly heart to counsel and advise with
us?that will manifest feeling and sympa?
thy?is above all price. The outgushings
of love and tenderness revive arid cheer
us?drive away tho sadness from the bo?
som, and brighten tho heavens again.
He who has one to whom he can go in the
hour of adversity, can never be wholly cast
down, can never be driven to despair.
The world, dark as it ma}* sometimes be,
will always contain one bright spot?
beautiful spot?it will grow brighter and
brighter, till the stricken heart partakes
of the fulness of joy, and is cast down no
more for ever.
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'-Now, dearest Fred," she softly said,
'?you must abandon smoking; it spoils
your looks?it spoils your breath?indeed,
it's most provoking. Did God decree that
man should be a chimney flue regarded ?
Then, darling Fred, let it be said, tobacco"
youv'e discarded." "How well, my dear,"
said Fred, "I fear that will no/ be so easy;
but, liko a man, I'll try a plan, and do the
best to please ye. Did God intend that
woman's mind such wondrous things
should brew, love, as* Bustles, Bloomers,
Crinolines, or Hoops de-dooden-do, love,
?"and mind you, I'm not joking, if you'll
abandon Crinoline, by Jove!?I'll give up
smoking." . "
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. Do not always refuse to weep with
-those who weep, because their cause for
tears does not appear to you. to be pre
! cisely adequate to the effect.
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No doubt it'is a great deal pleasanter
to die for some bea?tiful women, than to
live with them*
Culture of Flowers.
Tho nature of a\plant, generally, must
bo the guide by which we act. "No one
would think of flooding a cactus with
moisture, nor of planting a lily in. a bed
of dry sand j yet it is well to make nu?
merous experiments, for by this means
alone can any fact be clearly ascertained.
All know that vines need trailing; aqua?
tic plants, moisture; and bulbous roots,
rich earth; follow these first truths of
nature, and the minor points will gradu?
ally be discovered.
In a flower garden the earth should be
mellow and rich ; and its chief beauty
consists in its arrangement. A well de?
signed garden should consist of oval, cir?
cular, square, triangular, and other shaped
beds, handsomely arranged,' bordered
with box or privet, and intersected with
gravel walks, and walking grass ^paths.
Great .skill is required also in planting tho
beds. Many varieties of early and late
blooming flowers should be planted in
each bed, in order that they may bo a
continual succession of bloom.
In the transplantation of plants, ^grcat
care should be taken not to place a plant
in a soil different from that which it is
removed. Many are very negligent con?
cerning this. They remove a plant from
a loose soil and sunny spot, to a place
where tho ground is hard and damp, and
then wonder why the plant droops and
dies. Plants possess* a wonderful power
of accommodation, and by proceeding
gradually ,\lmost their very nature may
be changed; but one should no more ex?
pect that a plant transferred from a shel?
tered nook to an exposed situation should
flourish, than that the animals of Africa
should dwell in fiaplaud.
Plants should seldom be showered by
the^ratcring pot, but their supply should
be afforded them by flats and under soil.
Drenching is decidedly hurtful,for though
if may cool the earth, and apparently re?
vive the plant, yet, the rapid evaporation
that takes place from the leaves, will,
generali}', cause tho plant to languish.
Plants, moreover ^.should be watered very
regularly, for nothing will sooner destroy
them than to soak them one day, and
then neglect them for a week.
The general oversight of the garden re?
quires as much care as skill. Sowing the
seeds, transplanting, watering, manuring,
training, pruning, und cherishing the
plants are pleasant duties; but the toil of
the cultivator will be poorly paid, if he
have not a strict care tor the appearance
of his parterre. All gravel walks should
be frequently cleaned and rolled. The
borders should be kept free of weeds, and
neatly trimmed. Every lawn and grass
walk should be often" mowed and rolled,
so as to gjvo them a smooth and .carpet
like appearance. Decayed plants, stalks,
and dead leaves should be frequently and
carefully rerifoved. In fine, tho cultiva?
tor himscSf, will daily see small matters to
which he should attend?vines to be
trained; plants to be propped np, and
others to be cut down j seeds to be gath?
ered, and a hundred things which pru?
dence, experience, and good sense will
prompt him to perform.
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. Case of Conscience.
Dr. B-. of Franklin count}*. Ver?
mont, tells a good story of a case of con?
science that occurred in the course of* his
practice, several years ago. The wife of
[ a Baptist deacon, (whom, tor the pur
| pose of the anecdote,* we shall call Mr.
I Cushman.) dislocated her arm by a fall,
and the doctor was sent for, and came,
with all convenient despatch, and put the
matter "to rights." Presently, after the
I operation was over, the lady, was seized
with a faint turn, and beckoned to her
husband for assistance. Tho deacon was
a man slow of motion, slow of speech,'
and rather slow in point of intellect. He
was a strict "temperance man," and con?
scientious in this and everything else to
the hist degree. Being never quite sure
that he was ''right," he naturally feared
to "go?ahead." In the present omcrgen
| cy he went into the room where the doc?
tor was sitting, and addressed him in a
slow and measured tone, as follows :
"Dr. B.j you are doubtless aware of the
principles which Mrs. Cushman and my?
self proftss in regard to the use of intox?
icating drinks in any form whatever.
Now. doctor, I wish to put it to your con?
science as a Christian physician, whether
Lit would be in any manner culpable, in
case Mrs. Cushman were afflicted with
faintness, if I should so far deviate from
our habitual rule as to hold a bottle o f cam?
phor to Mrs. Cushinan's nose?" .
The doctor rushed into tho lady's
apartmeut, and found his patient had not
waited the issue of the deacon's casuistry,
but had fairly "gone off" in a fainting
fit.
"The devil take your conscience !" said
the doctor, half inclined to "go off" him?
self into a fit of laughter. " The devil
take your doubts, sir?in a case like this,
one scruple of camphor is worth twenty
scruples of conscience.?Boston Post."
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Persian poetry is luxurious, dreamy,
fragant; sometimes flashing like a scime
tar with passion, and sometimes meek
eyed as a fawn when it lies down in its
lovelineas on a bed of white roses.
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The conductor of a country paper say?
*he hope3 to continue with hispatrbns and
friends "a prosperous and uninterrupted
.friendly intercourse?till time?and space
. shall be no more I"
Beautiful Extract.
Statld, O man! upon the hill-top?in
tho Bti?nossl of the evening hour?and
gaze, not with joyous, but with contented
eyes, upon the beautiful world around
thee! See where the miBts, soft and dim,
rise over the green meadows, through
which the rivulet steals its way! See
where, broadest and stillest, the wave ex?
pands to tho full smile of the setting sun,
and the willow that trembles on the
breeze, and the oak that stands firm in
tho nt'jrm, are reflected back, peaceful
both, from the clean, glass of the tides.
See, where begirt by the gold of the har?
vest, and backed by the pomp of a thous?
and groves?the roofs of the town, bask,
noiseless, in the calm glow of the sky.
Not a sound from those abodes float in the
discord to thine oar?only from the
church tower, soaring high above the
rest, perhaps faintly heard through the
stillness, swells the note of the holy bell.
Along the mead, low skims the swallow?
on the wave, the silver circlet, breaking
into spray, [shows the sport of the fish.
See the earth, how serene, tliough all elo?
quent of activity and life! See the heav?
ens, how benign, though dark clouds, by
yon mountain, blend thc^purple with tho
gold! Gaze contented,forgood is around
thee?not joyous, for evil is the shadow
of good! Let thy soul pierce through
the veil of the senses, and thy sighl?
plunge deeper than the light which gives
delight to thine eye. Below the glass of
that river, the pike darts on his prey - the
circfe in the wave, the soft place among
tho reeds, are but signs of destroyer and
victim. In the ivy round the oak by the
margin, the owl hungers for the night,
which shall give its beak and its talons
food for its young; and the spray of tho
willow trembles with the wing of the
red breast, whose bright eye sees the
worm on tho sod. Canst thou count, too,
Oman! all the cares?rail the sins?that
those noiseless roof-tops conceal? "With
every curl of that smoke to the sky a
human thought foirs as dark, a hiimm
hope melts as briefly. And the bell from
the church tower, that to thy car gives
'but music, perhaps knells for .the dead.
The swallow but chases the moth, and
the cloud that deopens the glory of the
heavens, and-the sweet shadows on earth;':
nurse but tho thunder that shall repd the;
grove, and the ?tonn that shall devastate
the harvests. Not with fear, not with,
doubtj^reeognize, Omortal, the prescnce
of evil in the world. Hush thy heart in
the humbleness of awe, that its mirror
may reflect as serenely the shadows'as the
light;. Vainly, for its moral, dosUthou
gazo on the landscape, if thy soul put no
check on the dull delight of the senses.
[ Two wings only raise thee to the summit
of the truth?where the cherub shall com
I fort tho Borrow, where tho seraph shall
enlighten the jo}\ Bark as ebon, spreads
the one wing, white as snow gleams the
other?mournful as thy reason when it
descends into the deep?exulting as thy
faith when it springs to the day-star.?
Buhner.
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Miserable People.?Young ladies with
new bonnets on rainy Sundays, and dress?
es playing dip, dip, dip at every step.
A'witnoss in a bribery case.
A city sportsman at tho finish of one
day 's shooting.
A printer who publishes a paper for
nothing and finds himself.
A smoking nephew on a visit to an an?
ti-smoking aunt.
A young doctor who has just cured his
first patient, and has no prospect of anoth?
er.
A star actress with her name in, small
letters on the bills.
An editor with nothing but cold pota?
toes for his Christmas dinner.
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How to CuiiE 'em.?The habit of drink
to
ing can fee cured, by giving the drinker
all the liquors he wants to drink, all the
time. . ?
We know of two, in our own experience
who were cured in three weeks'; pnejump
cd out of a four-story window, and ran a
curbstone into his head ; the other didn'.t
get up one morning, and has a universal
curbstone growing out of his head in the
graveyard.
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Bad Examples.?Bad examples cannot
hurt one that makes ever so little use of
his rcason-j-neithcr the quantity or num?
ber of these that gave them, are authen?
tic enough to reeommend*them. Grand?
eur of place does not take away the infa?
my of them, and custom cannot permit
what is contrary to reason and justice; so
ths.t regularities we ought" to avoid and
not laws we ougfit to follow. .
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"Well, you've been out to America j did
you see anything of our old friend Jones,
there ?"
"Yes?gone deranged." ?
'Gone deranged! Eeally crazy? What
does he do ?"
"Yes, indeed, lie don't know his neigh
bo;-'s hogs from his own."
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Faults in ConvERSATiON.?It is very
hard not to speak at all, but much more
so to make a long discourse without abun?
dance of faults-iu it. We often say that
to others without- ifecessity, which it
would be very important A>r us to say to
ourselves.
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Demosthenes, the greatest master of el?
oquence, never ventured to address an au
dionce without.laborious preparation..
Female Education.?Female education
is highly important, as connected vrifti
domestic life. Ii is at home where man
passes the largest portion of his life time'
?where he seeks refuge from the vexa
tions and embarrassments of Business,
and enchanting repose from his exertions,
a relaxation from care by the interch; ago
of affections?where some of the .finest
sympathies, tastes', moral and disinteres?
ted love, such as is seldom found in tlfo
walks of a selfish a?4 calculating world.
Nothing can be more desirable than to
make the domestic abode %e highest ob?
ject of his attachment and satisfaction.
Neither rank, nor splendid mansions,
nor expensively furnished apartments, nor
luxurious repasts can accomplish these -
actions. They are to be obtained from
the riches of elevated principles; from tb?
nobility of virtue, from the splendor of a
religions and moral beauty, from the ban?
quet of refined taste, affectionate deport-'
ment and intellectual pleasures. Intelli?
gence and piety throw the brightest sun?
shine over private life, and these are the
result of female education.
Joyano Content.?There arcftwo kind-'
ly flowers in the garden of human* Ijfir)
germinated upon the sweet roscbitslf, fep^'
piness, and watered by the near running
brook of infinit?? love. Happy he who
shall be able to dull them without being
wounded by the thorns!
These leave their sting behind, ami the
beautiful flowers become metamorphosed"
in the hand of the gatherer to sorrow and
discontent. The thorns differ, and those
keenest are jealousy and doubt. These,
produce a lurking pang in the breast of
the wounded, and change the fresli hue of
the flowers of joy and content in the warm
color of sorrow and discontent; yes, the
wound is most often incurable. Consola?
tion, hope and confidence, are the excel?
lent herbs from which is prepared Ahe buk
sam, that alone is capable of extracting
the spreading poison from the serpent
sting of the thorns, and give the flowers
their former lives.
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Hospitality.?The newer the country
the more hospitable the people. "Where
houses are as far a part as countries; a
stranger is as welcome as a newspaper;
and is commonly used as one. The mo?
ment he -arrives he is "put to press," and
wKtit is more, kept there till the news
that has happened for the six months, is
thoroughly squeezed out of him and bot?
tled up for future use. A man that tells
a good murder, storj* could travel from
one end of some some States to the other,
without it costing him the first cent
One truth is the* seed of other truths.
It is sown in us to bear fhiit, not to lie
torpid. The power of mind by which
truth becomes prolific, is freedom. Our
groat duty is to encourage vigorous ac?
tion of mind. The greater number of
free and vigorous minds brought to bear
upon a subject, the more truth is promo?
ted.
"The ugliest of trades," said Jerrold,"
have their moments of pleasure. Now,
if I were a grave digger, or even a hang?
man, there are some people I could work
for with a groat deal of enjoyment."
-?,
A Hint.?A widower who wishes to
many again must buy-his departed wife
a.'beautifhl monument. This succeeds iu
varibly, an exchange say*?."
Difference between a Persian and
a Turk.?One worships the sum and tho
other the daughter.
PROSPECTUS OP
Tue CHARLESTON^ MERCURY,
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