Daily Bulletin. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 24, Ed. 1, Monday, December 27, 1841 Page: 1 of 4
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Daily Bulletin.
Printed and Published every morning at One Dollar and Fifty Cents per mouth.
VOL. I.
AUSTIN CITY MONDAY DECEMBER 27 1841.
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never seen any thing poor from his pen. An Ode to
Henry Clay written by him is the most enthusiasti-
cally beautiful thing of the sort in the language. Sev-
eral occasional poetic effusions of his have appeared at
different times but we have never seen a collection of
them. Whittier is aquaker. and the tone imd enthu
siasms of his writings is the more striking to us trom
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richness of his fancy and the verbiage of his poetry.
NEW ENGLAND.
BY JOHN G. WHITTIER.
Land of the forest and the rock
Of dark blue lake and mighty river.
- Of mountains reared aloft to mock
The storm's career the lightning's shock
My own green land forever !
Land of the" beautiful and brave
The freeman's home the martyr's grave
The nursery of giant men.
Whose deeds have linked with every glen.
And every hill and every stream
The romance of some warrior-dream !
Oh never may a son of thine
Where'er his wandering steps incline
Forget the sky which bent above
His childhood like a dream of love
The stream beneath the green hill flowing
The broad-armed trees above it growing
The clear breeze through the foliage blowing :
Or hear unmoved the taunt of scorn
Breathed o'er the brave New England born
Or mark the stranger's jaguar hiuid
Disturb the ashes of thy dead
The buried glory of a land
Whose soil with noble blood is stained
And sanctified in every part
Nor feel resentment like a brand
Unsheathing from a fiery heart !
Oh greener hills may catch the sun
Beneath the glorious heaven of France ;
And streams rejoicing as they run
Like life beneath the day-beam's glance
May wander where the orange bough
With golden fruit is bending low ;
And there may bend a brighter sky
O'er green and classic Italy
And pillared fane and ancient grave
Bear record of another time
And over shaft and architrave
The green luxuriant ivy climb ;
And far towards the rising sun
The palm may shake its leaves on high
Where flowers are opening one by one
Like stars upon the twilight sky
And breezes soft as sighs of love
. Above the broad banana stray
And though the Bramin's sacred grove
A thousand brighfc-hued pinions play !
Yet unto thee New-England still
Thy wandering sons shall stretch their arms.
And thy rude chart of rock and hill
Seem dearer than the land of palms !
Thy massy oak aud mountain pine
More welcome than the banyan's shade
And every free blue stream of thine
Seem richer than the golden bed
Of Oriental waves which glow
And sparkle with the wealth below !
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday I)ec.'21.
On motion of Mr. Roberts a bill to repeal "An act
prohibiting the forced sale of slaves and regulatino-
the collection of foreign debts" was taken up with a
substitute offered by Mr. Wyims.
The adoption of the substitute was supported by Mr.
Wynns and opposed by Messrs. Parker of Houston
Ilewett and Wood.
Mr. Wvnns said.
He should support the subtitute because in his esti-
mation some piotection from the Government was due
the emigrant. Many persons with the wreck of a
large fortune had left the United States and come to
Texas with a small property to setile themselves in
the hope of spending the remnnnt of their days in
peace and domestic harmony indulging the pleasing
anticipation of raising up their families in a manner
agreeable to their wishes. If foreign debts should be
turned loose upon them the farm family negroes and
little property which they may have gathered around
the spoils of a large fortune would be sold to pay off
the interest leaving the principal unpaid of debts con-
tracted at a time when the spirit of speculation raised
all property to quadruple its real value. He waa
convinced that not only policy but even justice itself
required that some protection should be extended to
such persons. He further regarded it as a matter of
policy that slave labor should receive every encourage-
ment possible ; the resources of the country could not
be developed otherwise than by the labor of slaves.
To allow the merciless foreign creditor to sell the pro-
perty of our citizens would not only discourage emi-
gration to Texas but it would annually carry out of
the country a large amount of the active and available
capital now in it. and thereby diminish the national and
individual resources of the Government. To do this
would be to throw the disheartened emigrant out of a
country which he regarded as an asylum in his old age
upon the public.destituteof the means of livelihoodand
turn him into not only a useless but abandoned and bad
citizen. While he would shield the defendant against
foreign debts he believed it his duty to do'all in his
power to repeal the lawso far as it protected slaves from
sale for domestic debts there was no reason why they
should be protected from sale for all debts contracted
in the country. He would support any measure to
suspend the collection of all foreign debts for a time
until the people should be in a condition to enable-
them to pay. He did not conceive by supporting the
substitute under consideration he was offering any vio-
lation to the Constitution. The law forbidding the
sale of negroes was already in existence he only pro-
posed its repeal in part. The omission to repeal it as
against foreign demands could not be regarded as an
aggression on that instrument ; he believed it Incum-
bent on every one to take some course to ensure self-
protection it was one of the first Ia.ws of nature ; and
although he did not wish to protect any one in a reck-
less disregard of his duty to others yet he did believe
that such as sought this country subjected themselves
to lr laws and but asked protection and we could
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Whiting, S. Daily Bulletin. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 24, Ed. 1, Monday, December 27, 1841, newspaper, December 27, 1841; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth80078/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.