The Beacon: A Journal of Politics and Literature. No. 1-12, Oct. 26, 1853-Jan. 9, 1854J.P. Crantz, 1853 - 172 páginas |
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Página 140 - He comes, — he conies, — the Frost Spirit comes ! from the frozen Labrador, From the icy bridge of the Northern seas, which the white bear wanders o'er, Where the fisherman's sail is stiff with ice, and the luckless forms below In the sunless cold of the lingering night into marble statues grow ! He comes, — he comes, — the Frost Spirit comes ! on the rushing Northern blast, And the dark Norwegian pines have bowed as his fearful breath went past.
Página 139 - Up now for Freedom ! — not in strife Like that your sterner fathers saw, — The awful waste of human life, — The glory and the guilt of war: But break the chain, — the yoke remove, And smite to earth Oppression's rod, With those mild arms of Truth and Love, Made mighty through the living God...
Página 139 - Go back, haughty Southron ! thy treasures of gold Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold Thy home may be lovely, but round it I hear The crack of the whip and the footsteps of fear...
Página 153 - A successful war had just terminated. Peace brought with it a vast augmentation of territory. Disturbing questions arose, bearing upon the domestic institutions of one portion of the confederacy, and involving the constitutional rights of the states. But, notwithstanding differences of opinion and sentiment which then existed in relation to details and specific provisions, the acquiescence of distinguished citizens, whose devotion to the Union can never be doubted, has given renewed vigor to our...
Página 83 - God, the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments have been esteemed useful engines of government.
Página 39 - Property of every kind, and shall dispose of it in all freedom, without let or hindrance from any person whatever ; thus, for example, the innocent Heirs of a • Criminal shall not be deprived of their legal rights, and the Property of the Criminal shall not be confiscated. These Imperial concessions...
Página 140 - HE comes — he comes — the Frost Spirit comes ! You may trace his footsteps now On the naked woods and the blasted fields and the brown hill's withered brow. He has smitten the leaves of the gray old trees where their pleasant green came forth, And the winds, which follow wherever he goes, have shaken them down to earth.
Página 138 - And shall the Russian serf go free By Baikal's lake and Neva's wave ? And shall the wintry-bosomed Dane Relax the iron hand of pride, And bid his bondmen cast the chain From fettered soul and limb, aside ? Shall every flap of England's flag Proclaim that all around are free, From
Página 61 - A certain quantity of wellseasoned oak being required, government issues tenders for the supply of the requisite amount. A number of contractors submit their tenders to a board appointed for the purpose of receiving them, who are regulated in their choice of a contractor, not by the amount of his tender, but of his bribe. The fortunate individual selected immediately sub-contracts upon a somewhat similar principle. Arranging to be supplied with the timber for half the amount of his tender, the sub-contractor...
Página 61 - Arranging to be supplied with the timber for half the amount of his tender, the sub-contractor carries on the game, and perhaps the eighth link in this contracting chain is the man who, for an absurdly low figure, undertakes to produce the seasoned wood. His agents in the central provinces, accordingly, float a quantity of green pines and firs down the Dnieper and...