Charter Oak, 1848-04-13

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AN ANTI-SLAVERY FAMILY NEWSPAPER,
rtOBMIAL.
P K ! i r c i P i . E 8 — P U R P o i i i i t
The CHAETBS OAK, wauld torve BBB by aiMiif-ing
the CaAam ov n a R i a n s ih>a tha gMsp
of Tyranny, b ia a Fraa Papar,—not dieiMoM- a
ekannel <iir aH bahUe-bat what it wdoU s ^ , it
wUl ssy freal^. It will stand in defense of ill right,
bowatfr lowly and downtrodden, and throw raimka
into the face of all wrong, waethsr in parpia aufi
DniadRlolh, or in rags and squalor. Yet, though >t
toites the sin, it will not hats the sinner. It wiJ
ha chiefly devoted to the e»iue of LIBBBTT, al
vnrating indcfondent political action against Slara
ly, but it wn< wear the collar of no Party. It will
aim to make whole, not demolish Goramment,—la
wrest its seeptia fitom the hands of opprasaan, not
to break it. It would not put a fire-oiand to Chursk
ami State, to purily them,—but spare tiie tempi*
while it route the renain that are thronging them.
l.lTnATtTBS, of a hearty, manly sort, will ha*a its
place here, with all that tends toward human elara
tiun. MTe shall seek not to divorca the spirit of Pro-gress
from the sense of Beauty—but rather aim la
we<l Refinement to Reform—not forgetting, howevai^
tu use the acuurge when high-handed wiekadnaaa
ahall demand il: Passing ETents and fixed Priaai
pica, the transient News, and the eternal Lawa, shal
fiml a record in our Paper; and eTerything whick
Imnest endearor, good will and aoeaa eipeiiea—
ean do, will be attempted, to maka h welcoma to im
ffienda, a blessing to HumaaitT. and to ouisal»ea k
neaaa of an honaaCliralihood.
NEW SERIES. HARTFORD, CONN., THURSBiY, APRIL 13, 1848. VOL. III. NO. 15.
rn)« followiDg excelleot aiticle is from tbc i
rfev^Md (OhioJ True DeoMrnt—an inde- ;
pendent Whig paper, edited by E. S. Ham- |
li a, fortnerl V a member of Congren, fiom Ohio. '
• > £ D . CH. OAK.]
UNITY OF THE PARTY.
We often bear it remarked, and see it
put forth in rweoluUons, that there is no
hope for the country, but in the united ef-forts
of the whole Whig party. Those
believing this to be the case, are continu-ally
putting forth their efforts to find a
candidate on whom the whole party can
unite. They will avow good principl^
but you cannot get them to say they will
not support men for oflSce unless they are
in favor of those principles. The fact is,
for the sake of the party, they are willing
to support men who are diametrically op-posed
to the prindples they advocate, that
is, providing they are nominated.
This feeling is confined to Notthem
Whigs. You cannot find any such ditugh-
/ace«/n«M at the South. There they do
not hesitate to pledge themselves, that
they will support no man unless true to
Southern interests. The Tennessee Whigs
have even gone so far as to declare that
they will not go into a Nationd Whig
Convention to nomniate a candidate for
Prendent — that G«n. Taylor shall be
their candidate at all events, but they have
appointed delegates to help the North se-lect
a doughface for Vice President!—
Southern men can do this—they can vote
against the tariff—they can declare that
they will not support any man who is not
true to the 'Peculiar Institution:' they
^an fix upon their candidate, and declare
they will support no other—^they can even
refuse to go into a National Convention to
select a candidate for President—and yet
they are caUed good Whigs—'Our South-em
brethren.' But if we declare that we
will not support a mas unless he is true
to the intereste of freedom—to Northern
interests, we are denounced as tnutors, as
not being Whig, and must be 'read out of
the party.'
Uidty of the party! The Southern
Whigs are bent on building up and ex-tending
slavery, and there can be no un-ion
on any terms other than the Northern
Whigs support such candidates as will aid
in this work. Will they do it ? We shall
was a time when we had confi-dence
in Southern Whigs, and believed
that they look-d upon slavery as an evil,
and did not desire to perpetluate or ex-tend
it. But when we heard their repre-sentatives
in Congress defend the in>titu-tion
of slavery, and when we saw Texw
annexed by the aid of Southern Whig
votes, and found that as fast as a vote was
needed it was obtained among Southern
Whigs, we made up our mind that where
slavery was concerned, there was no diff-erence
between Southern Whigs and
So, Democrats—that neither the Constitu-tion,
nor the obligations of party, would
restrain either from advandn^he interests
of that institution. We do not mean to
V say that all Southern Whigs are of this
class, but we do say, that those who are
as few and far between as 'angel's visits.'
At that time we made up our mind,and
60 expressed it, there could be no more
political union between the Southern
Whigs and tmt Northern Whigs, and that
for our part we would identify our inter-ests
exclusively with the intereste of free-dom,
and would not waver a h^r-breadth
for the sate of union. The Northern
Whigs cannot vote with the Southern
Whigs at the next Presidential election,
unless they first abandon all principle.
One thing is certain. The Southern
Whigs have taken their stand. They will
vote for no man who is opposed to the ex-tension
of slavery; nor will they vote for
any Northern man for President. There
is not a Whig paper at the South that
mentions the name of any man for Pres-ident
except Taylor, and Clay. If the
^Tiigs of the North vote with those of the
South, they will have to vote for both a
Southern man, and one not in favor of
making new Territory free- Will the
Whigs of the North do it ? Some dough-faces
will, but the great body of them will
not
We know that there are many good
Whigs who think that we can succeed in
nominating Corwin or McLean, or some
other good Northern Whig opposed to the
exlmsion of slaveiy, and that the Southern
Whigs will supjiort the nomination. It is
undoubtedly the duty of Northern Whigs
to unite and make a powerful efforts to se-cure
the nomination of a Northern man,
true to the interestsf o freedom. Perhaps
they may succeed; but should they, we
tell our friends that if they expect South-em
Whig votes to elect such a Udw't,they
will find tliemselves mistaken. If the
Northern Whigs nominate such a ticket,
the Southern Whigs will go off in a body
•nd vote for Gen. Taylor as an indepen-dent
candidate. But we should stand
firm, united, and demand onr rights. WUl
we ? We few not. The whole united
Whig vote of the Sooth will be given in
CionventioD for Gen. Taykv. Twenty-six
votes from the free States will nomin-ate
him. Can thej be <4itained ? We
believe they wiU be. Iowa has already
•ent foor Taykw delegates. lUinois wiU
Mndfiveorsix. Indiana two or three,and
Hit baluice will be foaiid,we fear, in Penn-sylvania,
New Jersey, New Ytjrk, Con-necticut,
Massachusetts and Maine.
We have already siud, that if a true
Northern man shall be nominated, the
Southern Whigs will go off and support
an independent candidate, trae to their in-terests.
Should the Southern Whigs suc-ceed
and nominate a Southem man with
Southern principles, will the Northern
Whigs show the same spirit ? Or will
they bow down to slaveiy ? As sure as
they yield, their days are numbered in the
free States. They ought to ponder well
on the crisis before them, and prepare for
independent action. To this they must
come at last. Is it wisdom to be closing
our eyes to what is coming ? Let not the
7th day of June find Northern Whigs
sleeping 'without any oil in their lamps.'
Where shall we find a leader, should
we act independent* Let not the friends
of freedom be alarmed. The God of Lib-erty
will provide a sacrifice to be offered
up upon the altar of Freedom. And per-adventure,
the knife will be stayed, and
he that we think to sacrifice will be made
the instrament of building up a nation of
freemen, who shall ever worship at the al-tar
of Liberty.
From the Ladies' Wreath.
THE STUDENT OF TARSUS.
BT CLEMENT E. BABB.
Along the banks of the Cydnus a boy
was wandering alone. There was no lec-ture
that day in the school of Crysippus
the philosopher. It was a high festival
in honor of Jupiter Capitolinus—^and wo
to the provincial <aty which worshipped
not the gods of the world's mistress! The
trumpets were sounding loud and triumph-antly
from the marble portico of the tem-ple.
The priests were preparing the gar-landed
victims for the sacrifice. The
crowd were throning every approach to
the sacred enclosure, and shouting th«
praises of the *Sire of (Sods.* In those
rolls which had been heirlooms for centn-ries
in his father's house, the boy had
read about the living and trae God, and
he could not bear to see men offer sacrifice
to a monster of their own imaginations—
a deified compound of their vices and their
passions. His taste, which had been cul-tivated
by the study of the purest Gredan
models, and his faith, which he had learn-ed
from his mother in infancy, and which
had been nourished by the wonderful his-toiy
of hb nation, both hurried him away
from that gorgeous but unmeaning spec-tacle.
In^gnation was flashing from his
eyes as he climbed along the ravine,
through which the stream came down the
mountun; but, the murmur of the water,
and the music of the wind as it swept
through the cedar groves, calmed his spir-it
; and when he stood on the brow of the
ascent, and looked eastward upon Mount
Taurus as it stretched away in the dis-tance,
with many of its proud heads crown-ed
by the goi^eous clouds of an Oriental
morning; then turned westward, to gaze
upon the Mediterranean, whose waves
dashed as restlessly as those of the ocean,
while the hills and plains of Cypras slept
in calm beauty on ite troubled breast, he
forgot aH about the city, and thought only
of God. The granite peak of Horeb
seemed to rise before him. Jehovah had
come down upon it; the clouds which are
his pavilion, were hung thick about it,and
thunderings, and lightnings, and the sound
of a mysterious trumpet in the fur, and
the wreathing of smoke up from the dark
summit, attested the presence of the in-visible
Deity. Beneath his tread the
whole mountain quaked; and, while the
people trembled and adored, forth from
the earthquake, the darkness, and the tem-pest,
came two tables of stone, on which
God's finger had engraved the law. That
law so pure, so far ahove the utmost effort
of human reason—sublime as the charac-ter
of its Author, and eternal as the mind
from which it came—was given to his na-tion.
It was their peculiar treasure, their,
guide, and their glory.
With what gratitude, pride, and awe
did the young Jew muse that moming,
afar on that lonely hill top, upon the Je-hovah
of his fathers! He was weary of
the vague conjectures and the fanciful
theories of the Greek philosophers. He
wanted to rest on firmer ground, and to
study in the light of a clearer revelation.
The Attic and Ionian epics, lyrics, and
tragedies, though full of melody, were al-so
full of folly; they could not satisfy the
trathful longings of his spirit. He want-ed
to drink in the heaven-inspired num-bers
of David and Isaiah. He wanted to
be not among die many gods of a dreamy
Olympus, but with the One ever-living
and trae, who had stood upon Sinai, and
whose throne was the drcuit of the heav-ens.
The student's home was one of
luxury and honor, yet he felt that he was
a stranger in that heathen dty. His heart
burned within him as he saw it wholly
given up to idolatry. He thought of Mt.
Moriah, with its glorious temple, its sol-emn
and God-appointed sacrifices—of the
schools of Jero^em, in which *the Law,
the Prophets, and the Psalms,' were stud-ied,
whose professors were GU>d's inter-preters—
of that holy city, eveiy thing
about which was vocal with the name and
the praise of the Lord of Hosts. He
tamed his eager and passionate gaze
wnthward, and breathed out in a sigh of
intense desire—
All day, that Jewish boy wandered
among the hills of Cilicia, in meditation^:
as solemn and sublime as those which
thrilled the hearts of the prophets of old;
and not until the sun sank in the sea, did
he turn into a path which led back to
1'arsus.
The Jewish merehant passed slowly
through the crowd, which yet thronged
the streets: and though way was made
for him with ceremonious respect, and ma-ny
greetings fell on his ear, he scarcely
noticed them, for he was in deep thought.
The merchant and the student met at
the door.
'Where hast thou been to-day, my son ?
I have not seen thee since eariy dawn.
Wast thou not present at the sacrifice ?'
•No, father: I have spent the day
among the hills, gazing on 'Tarsus and the
sea—thinking about Horeb and the law,
Jerasalem and God.'
'Didst thou not wish to see the flamens'
grand procession, and hear the poet He-mocles'
new hymn to Jove ?'
'Nay, father, I am a Jewish boy, and
cannot bear to look upon this senseless
homage to a marble g ^ ! Oh, I have
heard from thee so much about the holy
city of thy birth—of its solemn festivals—
of its hi^h priests, who stand before the
ark of God—that I think by day, and
dream by night, of that dwelling-place of
Jehovah, and long, oh, how I long, to gaze
upon its walls, to tread its streets, and to
worship in its sanctuary I'
'Saulus, I had thought to make thee,like
myself, a prosperous merchant. I have
dwelt among the Gent les many years,and
the God of Abraham has given me favor
in their sight. I have grown rich by
traffic with them, as King Solomon did.
But I have long noticed, that thy soul ab-hors
them: thou canst not live and trade
with them. I have thought much upon
this, and have resolved to send thee to
study the law of our fathers in Jerusalem.
Wilt thou go, my son V
•Mostgladly, father; for as the Cyd-nus
runs to the sea, BO flows my heart to-wards
Jerasalem. Has not he, who chose
our nation and has kept us so long a pe-culiar
people, made it the dwelling-place
of his glory ? And then too the time of
Messiah's coming draweth nigh. The
weeks of the prophets are fulfilled, and
even the philosophers in Atliens and in
Rome expect the advent of a Messenger
from Heaven. How glorious to be in the
holy city when the Holy One descends to
avenge his elect, to destroy his enemies,
and he rule over the kingdoms of the
earth!' .
'Well, my vessel sails for Alexandria
after the second Sabbath. Thou wilt em-bark
in her. She will land thee at the
pier of Joppa; there thou wilt join the
companies which go up to keep ^ e pHss-over.
Thou wilt not find in the holy city
all that splendor of which thou hast read
in the rolls of the Kings and in the Chron-icles
; for, alas! there is dimness now up-on
Moriah, and the Roman legions are in
the castie of David. But thou art a Ro-man
citizen; thy father years ago obtain-ed
that freedom by good service to the
proconsul Cicero. Hfemember it; it may
avail thee much in times of peril—^for
wide through the world is the terror of
the Roman name. My friend Gamaliel is
one of the Great Council: he will instract
thee in the law and the traditions of the
elders.'
We will not follow the student in his
voyage along the western coast of Syria.
He l^ded at Joppa, and joined a caravan
of those who were going up from thence
to the feast. From every village that they
passed, and from every road and path,
new tributaries flowed in to swell the
stream. When on the second day they
reached the gate of the city, the whole
multitude burst forth at once into that
magnificent choras:
'How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord or Uostsj
My soollongeth, yea, even fainteih, for the courts
of the Lord!
My heart and my flesh crieth oat for the living
God!'
As thousands joined in the song until
it was echoed from the walls and rever-berated
far among the hills; and as Jeru-salem
(thronged on Morialt and Zion, and
hallcwed by the most sublime associations)
burst on the sight, the student was affect-ed
even to tears. The following paschal
week was full of interest, and his heart
beat high and proudly as he saw the wor-shippers
of Jehovah coming up from all
lands with precious gifts and shoute of
joy-
When Ae feast was over, he commenc-
.ed his stupes in the school of G^aliel.
He was soon distinguished above all the
pupib of that famous master, by his ar-dent
love for trath, the vigor and grasp of
his mind, and the energy of his character.
One evening, as he was passing through
the temple, he saw an unusual crowd in
one of the porches. He drew near: in
the midst of the crowd stood a man in the
dress of a Gralilean peasant; his arm was
extended, as he cried simply, but most
impressively:
'Lift up yonr heads, 0 ye gates I
And be ye lift np, ye everlasUng doors!
And the King of Gkiiy shaU come in!
'Who is tha King of dory 7
The Lord, strong aud luightyt
The Lord, mighty in batde!'
'Lift np your heads, O ye gates!
Even lift them up, ye everlasting doors !
And tbe King of Glory shall come in!'
'Now is the judgment of this world;
now shall the prince of this world be cast
out; and /, if I be lifted up from the
earth, will draw all men unto me.'
'Ah !' thought the student, 'this then is
Jesus, tbe false prophet from Nazareth.
This is he who tries to excite the people
against our sect, and to subvert the tradi-tions
which so many wise men have be-lieved
in and taught:' and he passed on,
with a sneer upon his lip.
Next day the Jewish teacher met his
pupil with a pale face and clouded brow.
'My son,' he said, 'we live in fearful times.
Our city has become so used to violence
and tumult, that a breath can agitate it;
and the ralers, who should calm the pub-lic
mind, are ever first and fiercest in ex-citement;
their pulse is more feverish
than that of the crowd. Here comes np
from Galilee, one giving out that he is a
prophet from €U)d. He ridicules our tra-ditions,
he utters bitter things against the
scribes and pharisees, and they, stung to
madness by an enthusiast's pratings, and
by the rabble shouts of admiration, must
summon the Grand Council, and decree to
seek his death. As if our learning and
our laws could be affected by his denun-ciation,
or the Jewish Sanhedrim endan-gered
by a Galilean peasant! Besides,
he acts not like a wicked or ambitious
man; he discourages strife and bloodshed;
his morality is for the most part pure and
true: he exposes some abuses which de-serve
to be held up to public scorn; and,
barring his high pretensions, which seem
more like the dreams of a disordered brain
than either treason or impiety, he is a use-ful
man, and, like him who baptized in the
Jordan three or fimr years ago, he does
much for the reformation of the populace.
To seek his death, is cowardly apd atuel.'
'But, Rabba, he calls himself Messias;
he claims to be the Shiloh who is to come
—nay, even the Son of the living Grod!
This is a fearful blasphemy! and for this
he should die!'
'Nay, my son—Jehovah can avenge
himsefr! He has always done so when
false prophets have arisen, and deceived
the people in his name. Remember how
Matthias and Judas of Galilee perished.
We should not judge rashly, or condemn
with excited minds, lest when ve seem
jealous for God's honor, we be fighting
against him. But, the deed is done. The
soldiers have already gone to seize him.
The rabble are stirred up to relentless fu-ry.
They will extort his condemnation
from the timid governor, and he will be
put to death!'
'Let him die, as the prophets of Baal
died!' shouted the student, while his dark
eye flashed and his whole frame trembled
with indignation; and forth he rashed to
mingle in the crowd, and swell the fierce
cry, 'Crucify him!' which rang through
that dreadful night. He was full of zeal
for God, and verily thought that he ought
to do many things contrary to that meek
man, whom the mocking soldiery had
dressed in a faded purple robe, and crown-ed
with thorns.
« * * * *
The student, who left Tarsus an enthu-siastic
boy, returns there when forty win-ters
have cooled his blood. Much in that
time has he seen and suffered. He has
sacrificed to Jehovah on Mount Moriah.
He has mocked Christ upon the cross.—
He has met the same Jesus whom he per-secuted,
on the brow of the hill which
overlooks Damascus. He has received a
revelation from him in the winds of Ara-bia.
He has preached him as the promis-ed
Messiah—the Son of God—both in
Damascus and in Jerusalem. He has
mingled, when last in the holy city, not as
before with the pharisees and the rulers,
but with the fishermen of Gtalilee, and
been enrolled among the apostles of Je-sus
of Nazareth. He has endured re-proach
and persecution. He has escaped
death only by flight. And now he comes
in the meridian of manhood to re-visit the
scenes of his youth, to tell there of the
treasure of grace which he has found—of
the Savior who indeed has come—whom
he himself has seen. With wonder the
gray-haired Jewish merchant listens to his
son, as he proves from the prophets that
it was necessary Christ should suffer.—
With new and transporting emotions does
the aposUe climb the Cilician hills, and
gaze upon the mountains, the river, and
the sea—^for his Savior is the world's
Creator. His spirit still burnt within him,
as he beholds the idolatry of his native
city; but it is now not more with indigna-tion,
but with sorrow. Those doubtless
were happy years which the converted
pharisee spent amid scenes which were
hallowed by the memories of his child-hood
; and there, perhaps, he hoped to
live, until he should depart to be with
Christ. But, God was preparag a great
work for him, and was preparing hint, by
that seclusion and that grand scenery, for
the work.
One evening, a venerable stranger en-ters
Tarsu^i by the southern gate, inquires
for th» house of the Jewish merchant,and
is soon clasped in the arms of the mer-chant's
son.
'Welcome to Tarsus, my brother^ I
'thank Grod that my eyes see thee once
more. I oflen think of thy love to me in
the gospel, and how, when all were afraid
of the converted persecutor, thou didst
take him by the hand and lead him to
the apostles.'
'I have come a weary way to seek thee
brother SauL Tbe Lord, who met thee
in tbe wi^, has sent me. Thy work at
length is ready. The Gentiles receive the
word, and thou art their apostle.'
'How! what sayst thou, Baraabas?
The Gentiles believe ? Where ?—when ?'
'In Antioch. Some of the brethren
fleeing thither from the persecution, spake
to the Grecians of the name of Christ;
and lo! these careless sparks kindled a
flame. The Holy Ghost fell on them as
on us at the feast. The apostles hearing
it, sent me to them, and I have come for
thee: for traly thb is the work to which
the Lord has called thee.'
'1 have often mused upon those words
of the Lord to the prophet Ananias, 'to
bear my name before the Gentiles.' I
knew not what they meant, but now I see
it clearly. We have then a salvation not
for Jews only, but for all mankind. We
may fling abroad our banner on every
shore—^may call on every human spirit to
believe and live. It is a glorious thought!
—^a duty arduous, but sublime! I will
go with you, not doubting that God has
summoned me to preach the gospel to the
Gentiles.'
While the sun next morning wns rising
over Mt. Taurus, Saul went forth from his
native city — from the home of his child-hood—
to be a messenger of glad tidings
over contintints and unto millions—to en-*
dure for Christimprisonments, scourgings,
slonings, shipwreck, and martyrdom at
las(—to present the first and the noblest
example of a Christian missionary—and,
by his labors and his writings, to bless the
world as no other ip*" tiju ever blessed
• ^
GREAT MEN.
God has made some great and others
little. The use of the great men is to
serve the little men, to take care of you
and me. This is tbe christian rule. It is
not the Hebrew rule, nor the heathen rule,
but only tbe christian rule. Perhaps
greatnp.s8 is always the same thing in kind,
only diflering in mode and form as well as
degree. A great man has more of human
nature organized in him than we have.—
So far as that goes, therefore, he is more
perfectly me than I am myself, and I feel
that superiority in all my intercourse with ,
him. In kind, we are the sai|ie ; in de- •
gree diflerent. We find in society, as in
nature, individuals for convenience sake
are put in classes, accordingly we find sev-eral
classes of great men corresponding to
the several modes and forms of greatness, i
It is well lo look at these before we ex-amine
a special man, for this will make it
easier to judge him and see what he is
worth. Only let me say that service is
the practical test of practical greatness.
He who does the greatest service to man,
is the greatest man. That, also, is not the
Hebrew, nor the heathen, nor the com-mon,
but only the christian rule.
The first class of great men is of the
great discoverers ; men that discover orig-iaal
principles, great ideas,univer8al laws,
correct methods of thought and action.—
Here, it seems to me.are the greatest of all
men, and tha vastness of their genius
must be measured by the trancendancy
of their truth, by the newness of the
idea, by its practical value, and by the dif.
ficulty of grasping it at the time when they
discovered it.
In literature, these are the men that orig.
ioate thoughts, and embody them in orig-inal
foims. In philosophy you meet with
men of this stamp and they are the great
men of philosophy. Thus Socrates dis-covered
the philosophical method which
distinguished his school. Thus Newton
discovered the great law of gravitation,
the universal law of nature. We find
such men among the politicians also, who
discovered the laws of God which bear
the same relation to Society, which the
law of gravitation bears to the orbs of
heaven, and to the dust of the earth, men
who discover the just rales in politics.—
You find such men in religion, men who
discover traths so central, that sectarian-ism
shrinks before their light; who have
discovered the true method of religion ;—
who have discovered the law which binds
man to man, and man to his God. To
my mind this is the highest form of Great-ness.
Here is a class of discovering men,
who give truths at first hand—traths of
literature, philosophy, politics and reli-gion
; and these are the greatest of all
God's children.
The next class consists of such as or-ganize
these traths,' methods, ideas and
laws. They apply philosophy to practi-cal
purposes. Thqr concretize the ab>
street. They particularise the universal.
They organise these laws into the shape
of a railroad, so that trath becomes &et.
They organise love into families, justice
into a sUte, piety into its suitable forms.
They take the power uf love, of wisdom,
of religion, and organise them into com-mon
life, making humanity, society. This
organizing genius is a very great one. It
is a great thing for a man to spread his
thought upon the soil, and make that soil •
whiten with bread-corn for man. It is a
great thing for a man to spread his tho't
out upon the rivers of New England,mak-ing
them spin and weave for the human
race. It is a great thing to organize fire
and water into a new instrument to do
man's bidding, to organize the very light-nings
of heaven, so that they may run
man's errands from town to town.
But a higher degree of this mode of
greatness is shown in organizing men.—
It is a higher degree uf greatness &r a man
to spread out his thought en mankind, and
put men into true relations with one an-other
and with Gud, to organize truth, jus-tice,
wisdom, love and purity, and balance
the conflicting forces of a nation, so ttiat
each man has his natural ability, justly to
exercise his natural rights,as if he were the
only man, and yet lives in society, and re-ceives
pleasure and advantage as if all
converged towards that one point. It is
great genius which can balance the cen-tripetal
power of the Stale with the cen-trifugal
power of you and me, and com-bine
them into the same r}thmical harmo-ny,
as God balances the orbs of heaven in
those grand eclipses traceable through the
skies. The greatest genius, the greatest
organizing power, is therefore the genius
for legislation, which can make justice
law, and organize religion into common
custom. It need not be disguised any
where that politics are the highest busi-ness,
that a great statesman is the very
brightest example of organic skill. It re-quires
some head to organise nme and thir-ty
clerks in a shop;—how much more to
organize twenty millions of men and wo-men,
not for a special purpose, but for all
tbe ends of human life. "This second class
of men consists of organizers who found
the institutions of the world, little and
great.
There is a third class of men, capable
only of administering and managing these
institutions after they are founded."^ M^ho
do this efiectually, even eminently, v re-quires
no genius for original organiz^ton,
and still leas an original genius for diabov-ering
traths outright. It requires only a
knowledge of details, a familiarity with
methods, a knowledge of routine, an ac-quaintance
with the past, and with present
times, a knowledge of men. These men
are not discoverers,they are not organizers;
they are administrators and managers, and
the difference between these two I will not
now stop to point out. The ability of
these men will consist in their knowledge
of details, routine, methods and men.—
They know the ropes and the soundings.
They know how to take advantage of the
wind and the tide. In the factory, in the
shop or in the army, m church or in state,
any where such men are valuable. You
cannot do without them. They are the
wheels of the carriage. They are always
more numerous than any other class.—
More are wanted and therefore bora.—
The American mind rans constantly in
this direction, producing great quantities
of administrative men. These are not
men of theories, of new thoughts, they
are practical men, of facts and figures,
not full of ideas, hut ranning over with
precedents—common sense men—com-mon
sense men too, who have not too
much common sense to he understood
now, and to be useful. Such men are ex-cellent
statesmen, but only in ordinary
times. In troublous times they get brush-led
off by the organizers or discoverers.—
Theodore Parktr.
around the globe, throwing its billows on
all shores, from the frozen north to the
fair islands of the south, all is full of poe-try.
The.mountain top and all its eternal
snows are steeped in i t ; the deep valley
is hushed in its enchantment. The great
river rushes along in the might of poetry ;
the little lowland brook, with the flowers
dipping into it, hears its still small voice.
The forest has it in its murmuring boughs,
and its silent, shadowy heart. Where
the clear blue air sweeps over mountain
and moor, and brings to your gladdened
heart the sounds of solitary life, there is
poetry. Where ^mmer luxuriates with
all her deep grass, her birds, and flowers,
and humming bees, there broods the spirit
of poetry. And where man dwells, poetrv
dwells. It dwells with poverty, and ca-lamity,
and ruin ; these are the materials
of great souls for great themes. Where
armies strive, and men drop weltering in
agonies and death, there is poetry, because
man dares destraction, and is sublime even
in his sins. Where men strive in solitary
places, or in the desperate contests of civ-ilized
life, for power, for wealth, for the
very lust of conquest, and in the violence
of deadly hatred, there is poetry'; for pas-sions
and power in their greatness have a
grandeur, however perverted ; and out of
these elements tragedies are created.—
Love, jealousy, revenge, cannot be divest-ed
of their atmosphere of poetry. Where
the widow weeps, and the orphans droop
in neglect, poetry wee|)s with them.' It
becomes divine often in sorrow—and gen-erous
sympathies have a poetry of tears.
The past has its poetry of consecrated
deeds and names—the future of magnifi-cent
hopes. Religion is poetry, and poe-try
religion. In our veneration, in our
wonder over God's works ; in our grati-tude
for his goodness, poetry is upon us,
and about us—bears us up into the infin-ite
; gives emotions and words. It is that
higher tone of the mind which brings it
into sympathy with the best and most beau-tjful
of everything in the universe. Fofe
pervading all things. It is at once in ns
around us, atiT'Snd^ alike in the interior "
and exterior nature, food inexhaustible.
THE POETRY OF LIFE.
Poetry is that part of our nature, which
diffused through every other part of it, de-lights
in whatever is great, beautiful, and
generous. It was well termed by the an-cients,
the mm* £vimor—the diviner
mind. That perhaps remains to be, afier
all, its best and only definition. It min-gles
itself with all our feelings and emo-tions
; it quickens our passions ; elevates
our sentiments, and becomes 9I all these
not only the life but the language. There
is nothing in our life, or in any of its move-ments,
that has not its electric fire ranning
through it. Our rejoicings, our adorations,
our woes, our loves, our very crimes and
tyrannies, all have their poetry, which re-taining
its own unchangeable properties,
clothes them with their specific characters,
giving beauty to the gentle, grandeur to
the terrible. It is that which, though so
intimately mingled with ourselves, is con-tinually
lifting us out of ourselves, and
giving us feelings and views as of a heav-en
from whence it came ; revealing its
origin by its tendency. Qidinary natures
we term prosw, yet the very commonest
and flattest mind at limes betrays its pres-ence—
ceases to be prosaic, under some
peculiar excitement, and we exclaim—
"Why, you are quite poetical!''
Poetry is every where. It is the finer
spirit which God has breathed over all hit
creation. Wherever he is, there it is.—
Tbe angels feel it, and worship. The
world rolls on through space with all ite
lands, its seas, its forests and mounuins,
iu cities and innumerable people, one
great mass of poetry before God. The
stars have been beautifully termed tbe po-etry
of heaven ; the flowers the poetry of
earth. Where tbe ocean swells and gleams
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE
NORTH AND THE SOUTH.
The business of the North is to get em-pire
oyer nature, to obtain power over the
material world; and so every thing tends
to that. Young men of talents become
merehants. They aim to make a fortune.
They care nothing about political power,
but that of pocket. To get empire over na-ture,
we must have education;—not in -a
few hands, but in all hands. Otherwise
there is no intelligent hibor; and it is in-telligent
and not brate labor, which gives
power over nature. Men must be relig-ious.
And so to secure intelligent labor,
education must be universal, cufir^ un-iversal,
property widely distributed.
In the north see what examples of that
see what increase of wealth and skill, sig-nificant
of power. See our colleges, our
factories, our schools, and our churches ;
see the movements of conunerce, of maim-factures,
of education. See t^e move-ments
for the promotion of religion. All
is democratic and is becoming more so.
In the south they seek empire not over na-ture
but over man. Talent tends not to
trade but to politics. Young men of abil-ity
go into the army, to the navy, to the
public offices, or give themselves to poli-tics.
They leara to manage men. A
young man of the north acquires a fortune.
A young man of the south, political influ-ence
and favor. See the result of that.
The north manages the trade, the com-meree,
the manufactures of the landT It
manages also its spiritual affairs, its mor-als,
its education, its literature and science.
The south manages its political affairs.—
So all the Presidents but three have been
southem men, and most of the public offi-cers.
Each of the three Northern Pres-idents
has failed to be re-elected, but has
retired from public life with a large for-tune.
The l^uth has had seven Presi-dents
and four of them left office poormen.
There is no accident in this, none at alL
You behold in it tbe working of a law
which is as universal as the law o£ gravi-tation.
The little State of Rhode Island could
produce organizing mind enough tooiyn*-
ize the Potomac or the Missisdppi-^es,
even the cataract of Niagara into s cotton
mill, but the State of South Carolina can
manage both the N(«th and the Soath,aiid
make the whole nation turn its wheel*.
So tbe South gives laws, because her chief
men tum their hands to politics. It is so
in peace, but in time of trouUe, convid-sion,
revolution, like the old one, then joa
see men of tall heads come up firooi the
shops and farms of the N<»th, from ths
offi^ the bank and the shoemaker's Aap.
They are bom discoverers and (ngaoizers,
the aristocraqr of God. They eome ap
from every where and sit ia ^ oooneils
of the nation, and contnd the state. Th«
North made tbe Revolution. The Soatk
maiie the ConstitntioD, and the Sootk
breaks it just when it pleases. No Nwtk-era
poUtidan ever bad moch iuflneoee
the Soath. None has ever beea twiet
elected fiv President. We think it a. graft
thing QTen to get a N<»theni ibaas far