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THE AMERICAS PATRIOT. easnm. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1854. iyff e h* Te taken the liberty of sending this our tint number rf the Patriot to a few friends. It will be umrr—T with those who do not wish to become tubseriben to return the copy. Those at a distance waiting to become patrons, can accordingly inform us by mail, or otherwise. \gr We regret to state that a young gentleman of our parish, Hr. Jasper H. Furs, met wfth a serious accident on Thursday last by the untimely discharge of a gun, the contents of which entered his abdomen, and be died on the following day., jy We refer our readers to interesting political an,! miscellaneous matter on the first and fourth pages. ymr By reference to the advertisement of Mrs. H. J. Clifford, which will be found in another column, it will be seen that this lady is about to take charge of the female institution in our town so long and popu larly known under the guidance of that inestimable lady, Hiss Eliza J. Hills. i Ward sr Twe te the PabUe. It shall be our constant endeavor to make the Patriot a vehicle to the dissemmination of the news of the day, and all kinds of useful knowl edge. Our reading matter, original and extracted, will, we hope, be so varied, with politics, miscel laneous sketches, poetry, and agricultural infor mation, that every reader will find something in each number suited to his taste. All events trans piring in our own and surrounding parishes will And a place in our columns ; with such intelli gence from abroad as will be acceptable to our readers. Whatever is calculated to advance the interests of our fellow-citizens in this vicinity will receive our most cordial support, And our columns will be ever open for the publication of such views as any one may entertain upon any subject touch ing the welfare of our country and parish. In short, no puns win be spared to render our paper an acceptable visitor wherever it may folds its way, and we feel confident that a generous com munity wiU not allow our efforts to be passed un rewarded. The Patriot, from its geographical position, must be provincial in its labors, and must be con tent to follow, since circumstances will not per mit it to lead. But while it borrows light from more commanding journals, it wiU aspire to re flect some little of its own to the guiding and giving expression to public opinion in this part of the country, and to defending those interests be neath its protection. The American Patriot is devoted to the interests of Native Americanism, from a sincere conviction, on the .part of its foun ders, of the truth of the doctrines, and their pe culiar efficacy in healing those evils under which our country is now laboring ; but our prime ob ject being to find out what is, and what is not for the good of our country; and believing that the truth in every matter can best be gotten at by looking at both sides of it, and our columns will never be closed against the publication of any views, although antagonistic to our own ; pro vided that such views be couched in terms respect ful, and personalities arc not indulged in. The Patriot will be issued regularly every Wednesday, and rare will be had that no sub scriber is neglected. The terms of subscription three dollars per annum in advance, or five when not paid at the 'time of subscribing—are estab lished with a view to induce our patrons to com ply with our advance rates—which will save mo ney to them, and will rid the publisher the time and trouble of collecting. The Chareh. We arc glad to inform our readers generally, that our Methodist brethren have had quite a re vival in this place during the last two weeks. The excitement was warm and quite general. Many j were brought to see the error of their ways, and ; many 41 stray sheep" have been gathered into the fold. We confess that wo feel a deep interest in \ any movement that is calculated to make men bet-, ter and to moralize the community in which wc live. God knows, a reformation in Clinton is de sirable. Our brethren of the chu*eh have our best wishes for their success, and wc bid them God speed in their holy work. East Baton Beige Bight Side Cp! Dr: Jehu Peritins was elected Representative to the Legislature from this Parish by a majority of! only Two Hundred votes, over Mr. Knox, the j UM logy candidate.___ _ j The Laugh of"Woman!—-A woman has no na- ! tnral grace more bewitching than a sweet laugh. It is like tho sound of flutes on the water. It 1 leaps from her heart iihA clear, sparkling rill; and ! tho heart that hears it fuels as if bathed in the cool, exhitorating spring. Have you ever pur- ! sued an unseen fugitive through trees, led on by nor fairy laugh, nowhere, now there, now lost, I now found? Wo have. And we are pursuing that wandering voice to thia day. Sometimes it 1 comes to us in the midst of core, or sorrow, or j irksome business; and then wc turn away and listen, and hear it ringing through the room like i a silver bell, with power to s.-are away the ill spirits of the inind. How much wc owe to that sweet laugh! It turns the prose of our life into poetry; it fliugs showers of sunshiuc over the dark- ! some wood m which we are traveling; it touches with light even our sleep, which is no more the image of death, but is consumed with dreams that a«*u the shadows immortality. j Another WiLn'^TCMB-Intiie United States District Court at Philadelphia, on the 13th, John W. Boileau was convicted on eleven bills of in dietment with fraudulently obtaining land war rant* from the Government. On thc event of the verdict the prisoner foil in a lit and raved like a h î, id man. When restored to consciousness flic sentence was deferred aud a motion was made for' a new trial. OUR CREED. At a time when the elements political are dis turbed to their depths—when the oldcriteriaof or thodoxy are no longer recognized—when new tests have riven in twain the heart of the great parties, which " fought their last fight" on the memorable political battle-field of 1852—when one of the old political organizations stands before the country, confessedly annihilated, and the other, prostrated as it has recently been in every political contest, continues to furnish flickering and uncertain signs of its Vitality, by virtue only of the unanimous adhesion of the naturalized vote which has rallied around its drooping banners with a devotion wor thy of a better cause—at such a time it has fallen to our lot to figure as a raw recruit in the ranks of the editorial corps. Without flourish of trumpets from those customary heralds of a forthcoming newspaper enterprise, a flatulent prospectus and the preliminary puffs of the press, it has been our desire to assume the duties and responsibilities of our new avocation quietly, yet earnestly, pre ferring rather to be judged by our deeds than by prefatory pledges, neatly phrased and lightly given, to bespeak a fleeting and fictitious popu larity. The events of the last year stand without par alel or precedent in the annals of the Republic. A political movement has insinuated its socretond mysterious influences over the land, overthrowing in its noiseless course, seemingly without an effort, the serried hosts of Democracy and Whiggery. True, the hour of its nativity was not, like Glen dower's, marked by " strange eruptions," yet has its miraculous march from the cradle to vigorous maturity placed it beyond the roll of common inci dents. In the ranks of this new political move ment, in the unpretending uniform of an American Patriot, we intend to render such service as we may in upholdiug the Constitution, the laws and the institutions of this Republic. We avow with a glow of honest pride our sympathy with a party which, though oft' times stigmatised as a "com mon enemy" and a " moral leprosy," in its brief career has pnt the seal of condemnation upon the iniquities and corruptions, the trickery and tyran ny of the old parties, and which has everywhere manifested a spirit of rationality and a sentiment of American loyalty to the Constitution. That it is no idle caprice or momentary ebullition which moves us to declare our fidelity to the principles ol' the American party, but rather a deep rooted con viction that evils have fastened upon the body po litic which require pruning, we shall now endeavor to show. Instances are neither few nor insignificant in the political struggles of the last ten years, tend ing to disclose the startling fact that the ballot boxes are no longer exempt from influences not only degrading to our national diameter, but im minently perilous to the integrity of the Union. Large masses of foreigners, fresh from the despo tisms of the Old World, with no training in the schools of rational liberty, but obstinately adher ing to all the prejudices of their nationality, have been made the tools of native knaves and dema gogues, in the perpetration of these dastardly blows upon those fortresses of our liberties. That deeds of violence, peijury and fraud, endorsed and countenanced by native traitors, and a foreign mob stalk in the open light of day unchallenged and unchecked by the outraged laws, is a truth too well attested by the election scenes in our large cities to be denied. How is all this to eml V Shall we remedy it by throwing wide the portals of the Republic, and extending additional incentives to an emigration to our shores which lias no simili tude" in history, save the march of the barbarian tribes upon civilizod Rome ? Shall we remove the feeble barriers of the present inoperative natural ization laws, and in the fervour of our propagan dism cloth some four or five hundred thousand ignorant peasants, unused to the management of their own affairs, with the attributes of citizenship upon their first landing on our shores, and thus subject the principles of rational liberty to a con Diet which they could not possibly survive ? Or shall wc assert the prerogatives of our nation ality, and by wholesome and timely preventive legislation, wrest our sorely tired institutions from the suffocating pressure of this inexhausti ble stream of foreign prejudice aud superstition? Who is wronged, if Americans, tardily aroused to a sense of danger, resolve at last to govern their Is it the naturnlzed citizen ? Al a own country ? ready invested by the magical power of the na turalization oaths, with the inestimable boon of American citizenship, for himself he should ask no more ; and if he possesses that true hearted sympathy with the land of his adoption which he has solemnly declared under the sanctity of an oath, her institutions assert their claim to his so licitude above tho abjured Fattier land. Is it the immigrant already landed, whose term of proba tion is not yet expired? Secured by that Consti tution which he has not yet sworn to support, ngainst the ex poet facto operation of law, bo will bc permittod to perfect the inchoate right, unmo lested by lcgis i a tion, and he too will soon bo placed in the full fruition of the rights and privi ,C S CS ' vhich nre ' l,e guaranties of tho law as it Nantis. Is it the millions of the Old World, sick, sad antl destitute, who are looking accross the water t0 great Republic as a haven of rest from des potisin, famine and unreinuncrative toil ? What right have they to cavil at American legislation ? Thc mome „t the immigrant arrives at the wharves »ai a- -a* aT a , „ . of our Atlantic cities, tho agents of the emigration commissioners provide for him. If sick, ho is transported to the hospital and carefully nursed— if hungry, lie is fed—if ragged, he is clothed—if , ... . . ... . . , ... de8t,tute ' hc ,s furm8hed w,th « temporary sup Pty °f money—if hc brings a family, schools maintained at the public expense arc open to his children, and thc intelligence offices will soon , „• „ „ . ,, ,. " "'8 thom a " t0 t,lc mca,,s °' honest hvoli Hood. Thus cared for, with equal protection to life, Ubcrty anJ •"°P ert - v from thc la ' vs - with rcmun - crative labor and cheap homes within the reach of all, it is no hardship that he should bc cominand c d for a term of years to stand back from the ga ... * e » • Î • » . , , crcd founta,ns »»•«* "» ter k <'<T' S re ™ th " * ,cc °* k ' s ncw found liberty, The characters of races are not unchangeable, but when the mind of the Fiuropcun adult lias I , , „ .... . ,1 u?™"presented once been------ r - . , ... a defective education, it is not conceivable that change of climate and scenery, and foe genial in fluences of this lioopitable land, can revolutionize in a moment his habits of thought A new na ture, more consonant with the responsibilities of - a republican citixen, more congenial to'the novel duties he has assumed, must be the work of time. For an adult immigrant tho task is never a-light one to forget the lessons of his youth—to weed out the prejudices of nativity and education ; change of soil and a transfer of allegiance arc the least onerous half of lus self imposod duties. IV ith his children, it is different. Sitting in our shool houses, side by side with children of American parents, acquiring knowledge from the same class books, playing the same games ; they learn to speak the same language and think the same thoughts ; and the second generation, cast from the cradle in the Republican mould, arrive at man hood thoroughly imbued with love, devotion, and a shrewd appreciation of the institutions of the land of their adoption. As an inseparable ally, and by far the most dangerous clement of foreign influences, we re gard the Roman Church. We are well aware that the American party has been charged with interference with religious opinions and the rights of conscience, because of its hostile attitude to that Cfiurch. But this is a slander manufactured out of whole cloth. The one Holy, Catholio and Apostolic Church, as it claims to be, which.sits clothed in historic grandeur upon the Seven Hills, —which reaches back to the time when Paul stood before Agrippa, and ti\o primitive Chris tians found shelter and concealment in the cata combs—which supplies the chasm between ancient and modern times—which has swayed the minds of men for eighteen hundred years, and given them a more comprehensive guidance than any other institution—this pritca fide» with its long line of two hundred and sixty Popes, stands in no peril from the movement of the American party. Its peculiarities of faith, its salient points of doctrine, it is-not intended to question. In the conscientious exercise of his private thoughts the Roman Catholic will be left flree as air—his graven images, his marvels and miracles, his Ma donnas and Virgin Marys, his idols all jeweled and bespangled, and all the symbols and solemn mummeries of his faith, which are so offensive to the Protestant taste, need fear no heretical profa nation at the hands of the new Political Power. They are all his especial property ; his in public, and in private, in the chapel and the closet ; his under tho ample guaranty of the Constitution and Laws; and while many may question the funda mentals of his creed, there are none of American birth who would so far violate the spirit of free dom as to question his right to its undisputed worship. No I It is not the Roman Catholic Religion , but the Roman Catholic Polity at which the hos tility of the new party is leveled. It is not the claim to spiritual, but to temporal infallibility— in the Head of that Church which is regarded by that party as dangerous to American liberties. The belief of the Romanist that the word of in spiration, the deed of miracle, tho authority to by Christ to tho College of Apostles, and by Peter bequeathed in perpetual stewardship to his suc cessors, the Popes, is an incident of his faith of no répugnante whatever to the American party, or any other party of this Republic. Neither is it of the slightest political moment that Holy Mother Church should lead captive the fancy of her devotees, by volunteering to the beleaguered sinner all thc delusive but facile machinery of her theory of salvation, such os the mass, holy water, cofession, absolution, and that pleasant figment of Purgatory, which holds out to the bankrupts who have staked their souls in thc game of life, a snug half-wny house on their journey to the lower regions, where they may sojourn awhile, and "play an after game of salvation." But when His llolin ess, thc Pope, " that fat old gentleman in scarlet hailing from the Vatican," is invested by the Catholic Priesthood, and the Catholic body of this Republican land, with all that hc claims of supremacy, not alone spiritual, but temporal as well, a point of subserviency is reached which brings his disciples in direct conflict with the spirit of our institutions and tho letter of the Constitution. At this anti-national spirit, this anti-republican cringing to a foreign potentate, whoso banner is borne aloft in every land by a priesthood that never dies, and whose most zealous missionaries are a host of Jesuits, active, sleep less, intriguing and unprincipled, whose character for slipporncss and subtlety we would not so needlessly asperse as to suppose any one of them hampered with a conscience, the American mind is justly iucensed. It has been remarked that "it is not on the chair and tomb of Poter, but on thc scat of Con stantine, on the ruins of the Empire, that the genius of the Papacy was enthroned," and there seems to bo no reason to doubt that thc ecclesias tic strength was first asserted in temporal mat ters when Alaric sacked Rome, and thc timid Em peror hid himself in Ravenna, leaving the Bishop of Rome to gather together the scattered frag ments of the Empire, and to concentrate them, if not in name, in substance, around the Pontifical throne. From that distant day to the present time, thc grandeur of thc Papacy, and the sway of each successive Pope, has been sustained more by political power than ecclesiastical strength and Christian associations. Recognizing no dividing line between temporal and political, and ecclesias tical and spiritual rule, the policy of the " Vicars of Christ " has been to include what they may, and stop where they must. Arrogant and .ambitious, pledged to universal empire, mighty in her imposing array of anti juity and monastic ascerticism, and in thc glo rions traditions sweeping over eighteen centuries, absorbing every glory and omitting every shame, forgetting no victory and remembering no defeat, thc Church of Rome, acting out the cunning instincts of her system, asserts her domination in tho New World. She has her politico-religious r __________ a ____ emissaries busily at work all over this, Union, and the Catholic body is everywhere disciplined through the ballot-box ami the public schools, to promote -her politico-religious schemfe It is of the political influence of offleiou» and med dling priests, acting upon an ignoratt foreign Catholic body, that the American- patty is te. solved to assert its national abhorrence In the language of King John to the C»rdiikl of fair Milan— * " 't " No Italian priest " Shall tithe or toll in our dominions. ^ " So tell the Pope* ail revereneeeat^part "To him and his usurped authority. Against this grasping spirit of tic Romish scheme the Anglo-Saxon race have waged unceas ing war since those turbulent times whe» bold John do Wycliffe'raised the standard of revolt against the "jus divinum," and bravely asserted (foe doctrine that " all mankind since Christ's coming have not power, simply or absolutely; to ordain that Peter and all hifesudeessors should rule over the wotH politically forever." The claim of exclusiveness which so roused the ire of the old Reformer, generating *s it does opinions at variance with the Republican stand ard of civil and religious liWrtj^ is of the essence of the Romish system. Can such a exist, in harmony with freedom ? A hr ad un qualified negative is the response of the Ameri can party ! All the religious freedom granted to, the Protestant sects should be secured to foe Ro man Catholic, but nothing more. This, we think, is the American sentiment ; and when the priest forgets his mission and deserts the breviaty, the crucifix, and the cure of souls,' for the political arena, and thereby brings the mitre in collision with the civil authorities of this land, he pro vokes a conflict with a power which, though seemingly sluggish, once arroused will not be easily appeased. Entertaining these views, we shall advocate either a total repeal of the naturalization laws, or a material extension of residence before natural izatiofç Our efforts shall also be zealously di rected, jn our humble sphere, to exclude foreign in fluences from place or power in evety depart ment of the Government Ehonkl it be our fortune to contribute v in restoring foe good — r of State to the guidance of honest and capable American pilots, the consciouness of having " ren dered the State some service" will be our ample reward. CONGRESSIONAL MEWS. By Telegraph. Washington, Dee. 20. — In the Senate to-day the bill introduced at the last session of Congress relative to the naturalization of the children of American citizens born abroad, was passed. The Pension bill was then taken up, when Mr. Fessen den, of Maine, moved an amendment, placing the widows of officers and sailors in the navy on the same footing os those of officers and soldiers in the army. The amendment was rejected and tho bill passed. In the House, Mr. Whitfield, the newly-elected Delegate from Kansas, appeared, was qualified, and took his seat. The bill for the suppression Of small notes in the District of Columbia was passed. Dee. 21.—In the Senate, to-day, Mr. Slidell, of a petition in » favor of tho privilege, to Americans, in foreign (countries, to worship God and bury their dead according to the dictates of their own consciences. Mr. Sumner, of Massachusetts, offered a resolu tion instructing the Committee on Foreign Affairs to inquire into the expediency of offering thc mediation of tho United States in thc war now existing between the Allies and Russia. Mr. Dawson, of Georgia presented a petition from the Georgia Legislature for tho eBtublish ment of a Navy Yard at Brunswick, in that State. Each of the above subjects was appropriately referred. Iu the House, a message was received from the President enclosing a copy of the correspondence between the State Department and the Govern ment of the Netherlands, in relation to thc case of Capt. Gibson. Mr. Orr, of South Carolina, hoped the Commit tee on Foreign Affairs would give prompt atten tion to thc subject, and thc message was so re ferred. Dee. 22.—In the Senate, to-day, Mr. Jones, of Tennessee, offered a resolution, which wag adopt ed, making inquiry of the Postmaster General if any contract has been made for the carrying of the mail between New Orleans and Cairo, and, if not, why such a contract had not been effected. The News from Europe. —The battle of Ink erman, of the bloody issue of which tho tele graph, says the Bee, has only furnished a faint idea, now stands before us in ail its horrors, and must forever remain inscribed on the page of his tory as one of the most terrible dramas either of ancient or modern warfare. All the conflicts of modern times, going back as for as the fatal day on which Napoleon's star wnned, pale into insig nificance when compared with the engagement of thc 3th- November, in which for dearly ten hous fifteen thousand of the Allies stood the on slaught of forty thousand Russians, commanded by able generals, and animated moreover, by the presence of two of the sons of the great Empe ror. The accounts of this terrible affair wifi bc read with intense interest, though not without a thrill of horror at the fearful sacrifice of life which accompanied this so called victory. On the side of the Allies no less than one-third of the entire force engaged was actually put Kor» de combat, while the losses of the Russians, even by their own accounts, more than doubled those of ther opponents. In some respects the battle of Inkorman was nobly contested. The positions taken by the Russians at the commencement of this murderous conflict were skilfully chosen, and the courage displayed by them in stubbornly resisting thc fierce charges of the British bayonets, and the awful carnage of the Minie rifles, was singularly cool and resolute. But all accounts agree in sta ting that thc tactical management of the battle by the Muscovite troops was blundering and bad —that they unnecessarily marched huge masses of men into thc midst of a fire which mowed them down by platoons, suffering immense loss | an( j ultimate repulse from a far inferior force, which covered by thc crest of thc hills that dot ted the field, tore the advancing columns to pieces by a steady and unremitting fire. Thc English ought to have been annihilated, had thc Russians maneuvered hulf as well as they fought. This ing gpd of is and tice. the the by anj of as Ir an l great battle is another striking evidence of the superiority of military scienco and complete . discipline over brute force and unyielding bravery. But wc have no space to pursue the subject— ! tempting as it i?. of to I the! •adj»; of if of if of of bc a of de by of __ ... » journal ha*, ing the «horn title to (ho public, ami in the number to add » word, w in usuti tht n«fer ( dication cf the political character the 'The politic! of the P+raioT, inferrable Hinge It bear*! Bill hé native Amerii which we' behave to be good and " upon the eventual' auocate of which the gpd welfare of our dzznoaTatic ineti tu lions depend. •* The bent feature in our Government t* sovreign power of th» State il lodged in of the mass e » -of the mallei «hoi» is to look well to theitate of their politicit and as the sovereign physician to heal breaches and imperfections which may themselves in the administration of law tice. The cloak of secrecy which the founders the Native American party have seen fit to Bn around all its movements, has prevented the pria- ■ ciples and purposes of our action from btiag generally understood. The bjects and viewisf the organization have been misrepresented—pertly by those who dtf not properly understand tins, anj especially by those who, actuated by —kla. consideration«, conceive they have taUwB fe breaking down the Order; while the MSS character of our fttth organisation kae heretofore denied To the individual mendwi of the order the priviledge to correct the mMntt ments, and to refute the sophistical absardhtn deduced from them. The secret movements and deliberations of the American party has bsea strongly urged as an objection to it ; discovwtng, as its opponents say, a distrust of the capadty and intelligence of the people. But such objec tors should bear in mind that the members effet organisation are units of the masses and have as much interest in the welfare of the country m those who so hotly oppose their secret movement» Ir tin»» w "saytiiing rotten in Denmark," the members themselves, wb* know most of their principles and designs, should be thOfent to pul an end to their political iniquity and (fro tb • alarm. The secrecy of the organisation has been the life of it, and had the doctrine of Native Ameri canism been promulgated in any other rnanssr than it was, it would have been crushed in its lint budbingby those who had not thc honor of lint starting it, and whom it was destined to jostle in their fat places. But the doctrine now lias taken such a strong hold on the popular mind, and so many, from » conviction ot its truth, have united with the Or der, that to be called a "Know Nothing" is na longer a badge of reproach, and to keep secret our views and political aims is no longer neces sary. The doctrine is so acceptable to thc masses, and meets their views so well that it has spread like wild-fire from one extreme of the Union to the other, leavening every city town and neigh borhood with its patriotism. Now thc Order is fully able to stand erect, to walk abroad in open day, in all the vigor and pride of its manly strength, and the members are willing to rest Its perpetuity on the soundness and good faith of its doctrines. To refute thc false charges which have been made against Native Americanism, to show the futile character of the objections which have been urged against it, and to expound thc whole doctrine fully and fairly to the people, leaving them to judge of for themselves, is the design which led to the establishment of the Patsiot. When once properly understood, the political views of the American party wifi be appreciated, and many who have been misled by demagog w partisan» will find that thc reforms sought for in some departments of Government are not such raic-head* and bloody-bone» as they imagined, and that the Know Nothings are not such cut-throats and eomtnon enemie» as they have been represented. Next to self-preservation, the love of one s countiy in the bosom of every good citizen is the second law of nature. A judicious system of legislation well carried out, and a pure adminis tration of justice is fee dearest idol to every noble American's ambition, becayne'on those depend his own wetfare, the welfare of his offspring and friends. When thc legislative enactments which have been thrown around our political institutions to protect them from outrage and corruption are openly disregarded and trampled under foot, what surety have we for the future ? To guard with jealous vigilance against every infraction of his own rights and the laws of his country, is characteristic of the freeman, since upon these too hang all the law and the prophets. The doctrine of Native Americanism is, we be lieve, instinctive in the bosom of every native born son of our landj ~ând uu one ««■» look upon tho corruption of the foreign vote, thc barter and sale to which it is subject, without feeling indig nant at the outrage which the objects of benevo lence would perpetuate upon us. Thc signs of the times show that there lus sprung up in our country in the last few years some evils which require at the hands of thc sovreign power a ready and efficient remedy. The causes, fruithful of evil will, if not stayed, in the course of time, eat through thc entrails of our peace and corrupt the very fountain head which sustains our political institutions. We must y either wholly turn away that flood-tide of i" ,nu " gration which is pouring into our counter every sea-port, or wo raust so remoddle th« process of thc naturalization that this foreign vote may bc tho roughly Americanized, before its influence shall be allowed to touch our laws and politics. We do not wish to infringe too long on the tunc and patience of the reader. This theme and many other interesting topics will bc discussed more fully at a future time. jsgr* Let us covet nothing out of our reach, but content ourselves with tilings attainable and a t hand, and without envying the advantages of . 0 f bcrs . f or greatness stands upon a craggy pre . . , - , . . .__ ! c, l ,,cc > and *" muc l* s**® 1- " n4 * quieter living upon a level.—[Seneca.