The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. II., No. 4, March, 1836Various
History
The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. II., No. 4, March, 1836
Various
American literature -- 19th century -- Periodicals
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productions of the earth will be increased. Crowded cities and
smiling villages will spring up. The halls of legislation will be
occupied by the hardy and virtuous cultivators of the soil, the men
of all others the most safe to be entrusted with the enactment and
administration of laws. Colleges, academies, and schools, will prove
the nurseries of enlightened, healthful, industrious, and happy
freemen; and Christianity, untrammelled by the obstacles that now so
powerfully impede its progress, with a field wide and waving with a
luxuriant harvest open and inviting before her, will send abroad her
genial and regenerating influences, and render this the Paradise of
lands.
We will conclude this, perhaps too protracted performance, in the
language of an Indian Cazique.
"Would you know," he asked, "how I would have my children instructed
in the ways of men? Look at this handful of dust gathered from the
golden bed of the silver-flowing Aracara. What an infinite number of
particles--yet how few the grains of ore which we prize; how great
the toil which is necessary to sift out and separate them from the
worthless heap in which they are concealed; even so it is with the
history of the generations of men, from the creation downwards.
Events have passed which no tongue can number; but the events which
mark the character of human nature, and which are worthy of being
treasured up in our memories, are but few, and only by the eye of
wisdom to be distinguished.
"Let my children then be taught what these few events are; let them
be spared the life's labor of turning over the mountain of dross
which time has heaped up, in search of the scattered gems which are
to lighten their path through the world; conduct them at once into
the only treasury of true knowledge--that treasury which Philosophy
has gleaned from the experience of thousands of generations."
SONG OF LEE'S LEGION.
Our chargers are plunging and pawing the ground,
And champing and tossing the white foam around--
So fleet to pursue, and so mighty to crush,
No foe will remain in the path where they rush.
Away, then, my heroes--away, then, away!
Let "Freedom or Death!" be the watchword to-day.
Remember the burnings we witnessed last night;
The fair and the feeble we passed in their flight;
The wail of the wounded, the red blood that flowed,
Still warm in the path, where by moonlight we rode.
Away, then, &c.
The marauder is nigh--he is hurrying back;
The sand, as we gallop, still falls in his track.
On! on! then, our swords for the battle are rife,
And soon they shall drink at the fountain of life.
Away, then, &c.
_Prince Edward_.
NATURAL BRIDGE OF PANDI, IN COLOMBIA, SOUTH AMERICA.
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