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THE NOR\VA LK GAZETTE. "E
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eral world was the last thing remeiiibered, and its annoying
prejudices, gall him as they might in the exercise of his social
duties, never followed over the lirey limit of his fancy. Nev-
or have we seen such pure abstraction from earthliness as in
the temper of his poetry. It is the clear. intellectual lymph»-
unalloyed antl unpolluted.
STANZAS.
BY WILLIAM c. BRYANT.
MA'i'r.oN ! the children of whose love,
Each to his grave, in youth have past.
And now the mould is heaped above
The dearest and the last!
Bride ! who dost wear the widows veil,
Before the wedding flowers are pale !
"Ye deem the human heart endures
No deeper, bitterer grief than yours.
Yet there are pangs of keener wo.
Of which the sufi'erei's never speak,
Nor to the world’s cold pity show
The tearstliat scald the cheek,
Wriing from their eyelids by the shame
And guilt of those they shrink to name,
\Vhom once they loved, with cheerful will,
And love, though fallen, and bi‘-arided, still.
\Veep, ye who sorrow for the dead,
Thus breaking hearts their pain relieve ;
And graceful are the tears ye shed,
And honored ye who grieve.
The praise of those who sleep in earth.
The pleasant memory of their worth,
The hope to meet when life is past,
Shall heal the tortured mind at last.
But ye, who for the living lost
That agony in secret bear, _
\Vho shall with soothing words accost
The strength of your despair ?
Grief for your sake is scorn for them
\Vhen ye lament and all condemn ;
And o’er the world of spirits lies
A gloom from which ye turn your eyes.
WASH [NGTON CORRESPONDENCE“ I
Mr. Clay/‘s Affliction in the death of his daughter, ll‘-.~=
Erwin, is likely to become a\ public loss ofserious inagnitxs-.f=:
from the influence it may have in withdrawing him from pt l;‘i' .
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of the statesman and pol
He has before evinced a disposition to put olfthe t).'1I'.
ilician, and retire. 7.2‘ -‘fr.-'~ r<l‘=.'i-:3 :.: ii!"
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"U:-’ : are i;".J't{‘_',‘ 21;: it~~~a .,;' .lie cause ofit,
\Ve find the following feeling. eloquent and excellent letter,
in the Boston Atlas ofa late date, written by a gentleman at
Washington :-
1 “Mr. Clay has just received the news of the death of his last
‘iaughter, the last of six—a most fair and tender flower, unfold-
"S W78 beauty. Never did I see a mati so utterly prostrate atid
unmanned b ‘ ' - - -
him to me is)? afgictitin. He says that the last tie which binds
5"“ “ed! She was his last—his last!
‘£109 by that little word, ‘
0\\' man {I} ' . 0 tn
Preston sat up with Clay allllsiiiigi-“S are 3”” d’
I - _ . s night. Clay has not made
its appearance in the Senate chambe ' - -
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dflllly. ri the extremity ol his distress. vhere t 1 t f
consolation? Let the scnfler laugh and the can 18 om or
curl his lip—tliere is one only hope, one only ,i::§e'i{,l“f Yorld
peace,~_which'passeth understanding! Alas, it'I liuvelit tnlgwil
can estimate its value! And sooner than shake one titil '
good m.:in's faith in the religion, which assures hiiii lll8.el.o‘:vzc)
shall not all sleep,’—I would dig my own grave, and leap into
it-—ifI know my heart.--I would! These are grave and irre-
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‘ ,. ~:;;..‘ile as I admit it to be, should not overweigli 5.3;-
’ ,¢>.'~gi.‘.t)S against him-—ob_jections art
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levant thoughts, to ;bllow the wild ramblings of faicy so cllse,
But is it not so soiietimes in your own minds!‘ In_the se na
gaiety of your soul,inay not a single thought rising like a s%cl»r
above its horizon, dilate itself, and multiply, anl spread, no
trail its evolving vapors over the goodly sunshineiantl wrar.{al~
beneath it in gloomuntil you find yourself desertd like Tiiiotv
in his adversity, by all the cheerful concerts, the parkling gn-
cies, the convivial, holiday sentinients, which giddened ya.-
spirit in its festive noment, and left to the sober talities oflife
and reason, with the stern, naked truths which yii may live
garnered up in some hour of serious reflection, lone to n.
sole you !"
(Jo-rresporidencc of the New York Amermi. _
C W.-isiiiNe'roN, Wednesda evenin
Tlieiiitiniation given by Mr. Clay. in the Same: tllahrf
meant shortly to retire from public life, has beerthe them (.2
conversation since. I need not say that it was recived Wli 4 ~
gret, by all who heard him ; and never, within my recollect .
did he exhibit more genuine oratory. than when tie allude
that intention, and to his own career in public i_fe. It W f
home to the hearts oftlie auditors, and when th event sl
take place, he will leave a void in the Assembly ttliicli he »
dressed. that will not easily be filled up. _His rm£l1‘k5:°'1 ‘V _'
Land bill, will speak for themselves. His mesui'e,y0up"-
with those of Mr. Calhoun, to divide the surplti revtfllle
hand, as well as by his resolution with the obtet Of 1_f.'P°a,l' v‘
alldiities on articles not necessary to be protcqed, B6r‘|J§
strike at the very root oftlie present debasing a[Il C0 P‘.8j*--
tem ofGovernment. The greatest stand will betak 10 '8! ‘
these bills, one atidall, for to use the homely laagu _0f1l
Isaac M’Kim, ofBaltiinore, ‘tit will never (10, I0 l]3Ve e”'§r' '
means of operation takenwfrom them.” The bills tmfvt" i
by Mr. Calhoun are postponed until the second and tird T116‘ g
days in January, and then will come the tug of war‘;
is already in the ranks at the bare prospect. N0lIlffl1l0l3".'.
coming in plenty as blackberries. In addition to‘tl§e Oi‘:-=‘
Tanev and Mr. Barbour, as already annonncii 5”’ "" “
Kendall, as Postmaster General, and Mr. Pie:-.~= 9’:
."‘- to Columbia, who has been acting Audi ' “- ‘
.* . Much speculation is afloat. as to the act=-.
upon that of Mr. Taney and Mr. Kendall.
My opinion, that Taney will be ~ ‘
ii, to be, is somewhat shaken., for it is bruitedfl W-‘
ral opposition Ct =1 W‘
T willrnot. not"I ‘T’ ":‘:'-.
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A . 1'31 what authority, that seve
a.i>:.;7':-ly disposed towards him.
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£“"4r that station Mr. 'l‘aney’s private cliaracti_-.- - ,-.-M0,.‘
_ :-eriod
sing from {in -'.:-:‘-.'.:ie_t3n¢;
!” so ca ea fur rem} _
='ledged by all,'in “his reasons ’ _
':eposits. Not one member of the House: rqse in his
.-tify that farrago of inconsistency. Th!’ lino who cl ,;.~
l_|t,'h an argument, and gravely suppose t.,.e world at ;
uc one satisfactory of his conduct, is sflfconvicter . ='
'.i. -. : ’1~"'.’1|_ an a bench, that reqiii s ft)’ the dlSC‘l]8i:‘-'‘‘
: :--: '.l3t'i-..l 1‘-:‘.'!ii.‘=.".'V research and astuteness T
. . -atria, .lt:.».t '.5~..«.x:C;:2ll':. -... .“ina'l0n I be confirm.
nC;l'\-'I"\ : 4' ti-"§‘.(<‘7:LL i" W. C . Upon _
confirmation, the it-~: of" the TI€=-' lijish éltztlnst Senate, u _;
be appeased so far, that, it is eaiii, no will lien minate at M2,-
ister to Erigland—Cass is promised 2-2, an at \ dbury’s ins,
gation. It is now aspecies of honorabl xile. _ ‘
The House were occupied all day wit a resolion set on ft i. ‘ 1
for the purpose of gratifying the underll S l_1er_ 'iz., to havt .;=.
second investigation into the banks of t§.Distn The obji . 4.
object of this is well understood here. it 18 :1 st '-jobbing ope.
ration ! The charters ofall the Distri Janks e ire in Marci‘.
A clamour is to be got up against such them a ave not fouir-E g
favor—and there is but one that has. n_1ely, Bank of ti
Metropolis. The natural conseque Wlll be. e rejection 2 _‘ _
the application for renewal of all ot a and th to grant ne-' _
ones! All this to be done. too. unt__ the mas of a patriotf:
zeal to preserve a constitutional CLlI‘I£y~ E f
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l“ the Ship Albany, which a ved at iv-York on Wedn
day 135“ Upon the occurren of llllS I, We preeeive S0
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