The Western Literary Messenger Volume 13, No. 1 - V. 14, No. 5 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ...a sounding fotge, And pall of furnace-smoke Where whirls the stone its dizzy rounds. And axe and sledge are swung. And, timing to their stormy sounds, His stormy lays are sung. There let the peasant's step be heard, The gardener chnnl his rhyme; Nor patron's praise nor dainty word Befit the man or time. No soft lament nor dreamrr's sigh For him whose words were bread--The Uunic rhyme and spell whereby The footiless poor were fed Pile up thy tombs of rank and pride. Oh, England as thou wilt With pomp to nameless worth denied, Emblazon titled guilt No part cr lot in these we claim, But, o'er the sounding wave, A common right to Elliott's name, A freehold in his grave. national Era. Ebenezer Elliott, the intelligence of whose death reached us by the last steamer, was to the arlisnns of England what Burns was to the peasantry of Scotland. His "Corn Law Rhymes" contributed not a little to that overwhelming tide of popular opinion and feeling which has resulted in the repeal of the lax on Bread. Ladies and Gentlemen: When a lad, I used to listen, with eager curiosity, to the stories of adventure, among the RockyMountains, and heard allusions to a region further south, where the hardiest hunter seldom ventured: and still more seldom returned: and was told, lhatfar off, within this unknown region, was an iuUnd sea, whose briny waters found no outlet to the Ocean. I well recollect the intense desire I fe ll.to explore those unknown regions; and to go where the foot of man had seldom trod. These were boyish fancies, it is true, but an interest was thus excited, in all that related to that part of the continent, and when the Oregon question came up for adjustment, I almost felt that a persona ri;ht was involved. Then came the Mexican wtr, the acquisitio...