her heroism impresses us, or her tenderness the drawn dagger and defy its point, then it melts us. Suppose a painter should take the vindicates its divine essence. scene for the subject of a picture, (and a no- What does Pliny mean by the expression ble one it would be,) what would he makesed tamen ista facienti, dicentique, gloria the characteristic expression of her counte- et æternitas ante oculos erant. Do those nance? Sublime exaltation, or death-sur- words, gloria et æternitas imply nothing more viving love? The deed and the expression than fame? As when Horace says, non are bold enough for the brain of Lady Mac- omnis moriar—or, as Virgil desires, tollere hubeth, while Hector's Andromache never loved mo, victorque virum volitare per ora? We her lord with a more womanly affection, than think they mean more. The immortality of the Arria did her Pætus just then. soul, and a state of future blessedness were And how well the simple Latin phrase ex- distinctly announced by the Creator to man, presses all, and leaves you at liberty to give in the world's primæval time, and though the as you please greater significance to the one voice had been so far unheeded and forgotor to the other branch of the idea-Pate non ten as to be no longer understood, still its dolet. The Latin is not a tender language. mighty echo was reverberating through the It is strong and stately. It suits very well world, and was ever and anon sounding in the rough camp-notes that Cæsar made of his the hearts of the worthiest. It excites in campaigns, and it is just the proper vehicle our breasts a painful sympathy to read the for the sententious philosophy of Tacitus, and passages scattered through the writings of above all, it was glorified in the oratory of the ancients, which reveal to us those whom Cicero. It seemed made for him: how he we are proud to call brethren, groping in loved its swell, and caressed and adorned it, darkness, and feeling for God, if haply they as a knight might do his battle-horse that he might find him. How would a word which trusted in, and was proud of. But the lan- the humblest of us could speak, have renderguage never was tender, even in the hands ed luminous their darkened speculations, and of Virgil. But Pate non dolet, is like the have given rest to their laboring minds! note of a wounded dove, so mournful, with How meagre at best, must have been the its liquid tone, and yet so uncomplaining. Try to translate it-cela ne fait point mal, is the received French rendering, but how circumlocutory it is, and therefore how dilute! The Roman ladies must have been (in Besides, it is not true. If in our language their way) most worthy of man's love. we say, It grieves not, we have a brief and Strength is man's prerogative, and beauty literal translation; but, unfortunately, it is woman's; but both qualities, in different deneither good English nor good sense. It grees, belong to the most highly gifted in gives no pain, has just the same faults noticed each sex. Give a strong man beauty, and in the French-want of strength and want of you make him the Apollo Belvidere; and let truth. My Patus it is nothing--the imitation a beautiful woman have just strength enough that we have given of it, though not exact, to make her beauty compact and her characand perhaps, for the occasion, too familiar in ter resolute, and you make her, not Juno, its tone, seems to us to approach somewhat Minerva, nor Diana, but simply perfect. to the happy ambiguousness of the original. There is no evidence in the Latin classics, Martial has made it the subject of an epi- that the Roman men duly appreciated female gram; but the whole scene is itself so epi- excellence. They insisted much on the obgrammatic, so compressed and so completely servance of female virtues, and the diligent ended by the immortal words, that any writ- cultivation of housewifely accomplishments, ten epigram must suffer in comparison. and they were not slow to applaud the woman How noble a thing is true fortitude! Put who exhibited a masculine share of virtusit into the heart of a Mutius Scævola or a bravery-that great word in the Latin vocabRegulus, a Lucretia or an Arria, a Martyr or ulary. But of woman as the artificer of doa North American Indian; and it attracts all mestic happiness, the cherished companion admiring eyes. When the soul can smile at of man, and a member of society equally im

spectacle of glory and eternity that played before the mind of the heroic Arria; and yet, how her quick spirit caught at it!

portant as himself, though in a different way, they had but little idea. Otherwise, how could their great Epic have been composed without exhibiting a single female character, except a guilty one, worth a second thought? And although we would not expect the Lydias, and Lydes, and Chloes and Galateas of Horace to be models of domestic virtue; yet, he could not have written, as he has done, so much about woman, and so little that is appreciative of her noble qualities, had not the general sentiment about females been rather contemptuous. If, however, the influence of woman was undervalued in the better days of the Empire, its power for evil was fully recognised in the times of treachery, licentious

Editor's Cable.

"As WE WILL AND NOT AS THE WINDS WILL"-Au gré de nos desirs bien plus qu'au French dramatist, which was prefixed to the gré des vents-was the motto, taken from a first volume of the Southern Literary Messenger, and eighteen years of magazine existence have demonstrated the propriety of the selection. Since that time, similar literary ventures have put to sea, bravely enough, rode the waves for a day gracefully, and then follows the subsidence of the popular breeze, either rotted away in that dead calm which or run upon the breakers of bankruptcy. Meanwhile the course of our barque has been This Cæcina Pætus was a man of note in steadily onward, and though frequently the the days of Claudius, and if ever he compared winds have been adverse, and disaster seemhimself with his wife, doubtless he thought ed to impend over cargo and crew, we still himself vastly her superior, and Arria was of the same mind; and yet, see how things change! If you now take up a classical dictionary and turn to his name, the only thing about him that is deemed worthy of record, is, that he was the husband of Arria.

ness and blood.

float, and hang out yet, in a spirit rather of motto which implies the supremacy of force hopelessness than of defiance, that ancient of will over all dangers and difficulties.

But to drop the figure, (which, truth to say, was beginning to give us some trouble, like a rapier forever getting between the legs So she gave him her love and service, of a clown,) the Messenger enters, with the present number, its Nineteenth year, and as while she could live for him and with him, some important changes have been made in then gave him her life to encourage and so- its business affairs, since we have had an oplace him in the hour of death, and finally, portunity of addressing our readers, we take has bestowed immortality upon his name. occasion, in wishing each and all of them a Could a wife do more? And all that she did " Happy New Year," to say a few words of and suffered, all her enduring love and un- at our Prospectus will show that the price its future prospects. Firstly, then, a glance flinching heroism, her scorn of life, and pre-of subscription to the Messenger has been recaption of eternity, seem to us to be symbol- duced to Three Dollars per annum. This ised in those words which Pliny calls immor-step was resolved upon, not because we ever tal, and almost divine, and which the oftener entertained a doubt that the literary pabulum we repeat them, acquire more and more a we gave the public annually was worth Five mystic significancy in our ears-MI PETE Dollars, but from a desire on our part to place the magazine within the reach of the largest possible number, and to address the widest possible circle of readers. That in thus diminishing our receipts, the expenses of publication remaining the same, we must, to save LORD BACON'S acceptance of presents- ourselves against loss, very greatly increase bribes, as his enemies called them,-has been the subscription list-is a sum so plain that defended on the ground of custom and pre- it will not require the aid of algebraic quancedent. It appears, however, from his own tities to work out its solution. But we have showing, that he could appreciate in another the largest confidence that the Southern peothe dignity of refusing themple will sustain us in what we have done, and that before the year 1853 closes, the Messen"Sir Thomas More had sent him by a suitor in chance-ger will visit portions of the country where it ry, two silver 'flagons. When they were presented by has rarely been before, and be regarded as a the gentleman's servant, he said to one of his men, Have fireside companion by many persons who have hitherto known it only by reputation.

NON DOLET!

S. L. C.

him to the cellar, and let him have of my best wine;' and turning to the servant, said, 'Tell thy master, friend

if he like it, let him not spare it.'"-Apothegms: 23.

VOL. XIX-8

If ever there was a time, when the South

ern people needed literary organs, through occupied by the slaveholding States of Amerwhich to address the educated classes of ica, single against the world, it becomes them Christendom, it seems to us that time is the to sustain their literary journals as the best present. Never before have the forces of means of self-defence. That the Messenger fanaticism been so banded together to com- has always come up to the contest between pass the destruction of Southern interests. Southern institutions and fanatical zealWe have seen, in the past twelve months, a otry with a willing heart, and often with no furor excited on both sides of the Atlantic by feeble arm, its pages, ever since the first an abolition novel from the pen of a New number saw the light, will abundantly prove. England woman, such as nothing else has But there are other reasons why the Southheretofore been able to create-a furor which ern people should generously support their has turned upon the people of the Southern literary journals, of great moral significance. States, the indignation of all mankind, and The periodical supplies, in every society, left the Yankee authoress, like the fisherman what is of no small value, a depository for in the Arabian tale, in stupified astonishment the chance ideas of thinking men, which, for at the genius she had conjured up. In al- want of such keeping, would be altogether most every foreign publication of note-in lost to the world. In this way, it acts most England and on the continent-this misera- beneficially in eliminating the literary talent ble tissue of falsehoods and abominations has of the community, and garnering up every been highly commended and American fragment of intellect. It is astonishing how slaveholders have been denounced as mon- much of the genius and wisdom of a people sters of oppression. From the Revue des is thus made available, which otherwise Deux Mondes and the Allgemein Zeitung would have passed away as unprofitably as down to the most insignificant journal that the unuttered minstrelsy of those "ingloridribbles out its daily nonsense to the citizens ous Miltons" of whom Gray has informed us. of a provincial town, the press of Europe In the pages of the Messenger for past years, (with rare exceptions) have selected the may be found many valuable thoughts which Southern States of America for their most would never have been committed to paper withering denunciation and noble rage. In but for its existence, and much poetic sentiEngland, the assaults upon us have been pe- ment, that would have "blushed unseen," culiarly malignant. All classes and condi- had it not found an appropriate parterre in a tions of the English people-every shade of home publication. We hope to be useful, in political sentiment and every tinge of reli- this manner, hereafter. Recognizing talent gious faith-are found to agree at least in wherever we shall find it, we hope to furnish one thing-abhorrence, real or assumed, of a magazine which shall faithfully reflect the negro slavery. The North British Review Southern intellect, and, working together for once sings the same tune with Black- with the several literary papers and rewood, and the Duchess of Sutherland sits views in other parts of our section of the down in Stafford House in the most sisterly Union, shall represent worthily the Southern manner, with Mary Howitt and other strong- people in the world of letters. minded women' of the school of reform, who In submitting these remarks, it is proper could no more get into the circle of St. for us to acknowledge our appreciation of the James's, than they could get into heaven. kindness of those old friends who have so Even the Times, which dared to hint that long lent us their assistance as subscribers Uncle Tom's Cabin' was not altogether with- and contributors, and of those gentlemen of out faults, has sung its palinodia in a review the press who have endeavored to place the of "Uncle Tom's Cabin as It is." Of course claims of the Messenger properly before the everybody understands that it is the policy public. Our new friends and subscribers we of Britain to break up, at any hazard, the greet with 'the compliments of the season,' Union of these States-hence her industrious and the hope that when we become better efforts to widen the breach which already ex- acquainted, we shall only like each other the ists between the Northern and Southern peo- more. ple. Perhaps if we should retaliate, by suggesting to the Irish nation, that the oppression under which they live, might be readily enough relieved through one means alone- We were not aware, previous to the resevering the Act of Union-the rose-water ceipt of the following letter, that so distinphilanthropy of Stafford House and the sham guished a gentleman as Mr. Yellowplushsympathy of the reviewers, would alike re- or YELLOWSPLUSH, as we perceive he signs lapse into silence. But, enough of this Eng- himself-was anywhere in our vicinity. We lish hypocrisy. Our object in referring to it, understand he precedes his more distinis to show that in view of the position now guished master, who will, before many weeks,

pay a visit to the South.

print but a portion of it will speak for itself: like all Mr. Yellowplush's writings, it is replete with grace and spirit.

CHAWLS

The letter-we ritink is puspickuwus, and greasefully hat rack-tive. I am afraid the wandering and krewd remarx I have here sit down, will skessly be konsidered worthy of a riter ofI say it umbly-the pozishun I injoy. I must also beg you to parding the length of my parrygraf. I have rit more than I igspected. My igskuse, my only igskuse is that the

YELLOWSPLUSH ESQUIRE TO THE subjic incensebly dru me fourth.

MESSENGER.

"Parding my 'astily written sellables and believe me with distinguisht considderashun, your frend and servant. CHAWLS YELLOWSPLUSH.

-"Inead not say that the grate pleasure mentioned was igsperienced in the puffawmence of the Bateman “Children." I find in them my deer sir that knovilty, that newness I may say, so delightful to the blazzy man, which om

Chancellor Oxensteirn said, that few peo

blazzay I am sorry to say I am. I beg to call your at- ple knew how little wisdom it required to tenshun to the 'ighly hartistic character of these tru pro-govern a nation. We understand that this digees, as all have very properly dezignated them, and question came up directly in a recent debate am sure the cussory manor in which I shall be kompelled in our Legislature; in the course of which, it to do so, will not be found wholly unegsepshunable to was asserted that insanity does not disqualify

your newmerous reders.

"Praps I shall be able more prespicuouslee to igspress a man to make laws, because no such disain the Constitution! my feelinx if I throw my hobservations in a dram-atic bility is mentioned fawm. In order to do this with that himaginative grace Something like this has been familiar enough for which my brother vally-de lettr(Bulwig and other sel- to us in practice, however novel in theory: ebrated riters) say I am remawkable, permit me to trans and we suppose the force of the precedents Port you to the Theatre and relate a little inside-ent kar- is now to be consolidated into a principle of akteristik of the subjic in 'and. I was sitting lisning with law. (Were the scene of this debate in any other legislature than our own, we might suspect that some members would consider it a question of self-defence, and cry out with Burns

much pathus to the puffawmince of the piece known as "Gran'mas Pet"-which is inigspressibly affecktink to the feelinx;-and when the eldest of the "Children" ar. rived at the passage where-with many tiers-the "pet" halludes to the amuseminse of the rich, and the shame and sufferink they caste upon the pour :- when the young lady finisht the parrygraf in question I was overkun I must hallow, and hinstantaneously dizzolv'd into a flud of teres. So remarkible was my hagitation, that it was the means of kalling hattention to myself from the whole hawdience. But I am not so inigsperienced and grene-if I may use that slightly inhelligant word-as I was once, when, as my honored friend Bulwig igspresses it, I was "drening

in the veil where the rathe vilets dwell!"-the time has

past when I was a shamed of my emoshuns. Therefore when I was addressed in the following inhelligant words; "If he aint cryin!'

"I instantanyously turned-and feelink confidence from being costoomed as my honored Master Mr. Titmarsh disscribes himself in the "Book of Snobs"-hobserved to the gent. who last spoke:

"My friend, it greaves me to see you thus turnink into reticule the most hellevated, and hennobling hinstincts of the 'uman 'art. I wepe sir because I am haffected sir!— I am charmed sir! I am delited, sir'-I hope sir after this hegsplanation I shall be permitted to applaud the puffawmunce in the fashun most hagreeable to myself!' "These dignified hexpressions 'ad their haffect. I was hallowed to dissolve in tiers in piece.

"There's a heretic blast
Has been blawn in the West,

That what is no sense must be nonsense."

But of course we can entertain no thought so tive and individual, of the General Assembly injurious to the learning and sagacity, collecof Virginia.)

Every body has heard of the sailor's answer to the footpad—

"Give me your money, or I'll blow your brains out!

"Blow away then, and be d-d to you! A man can get along well enough without brains, but not without money!"

"This little inside-ent goes only to sho the egstreme cember 18th, we observe the valedictory adIn the Southern Literary Gazette for Depathus of the hacting. I could hexaust my time and your pashence, in relatink the many hanecdotes of these dress of W. C. Richards, Esq., who retires charming little puffawmers which my memory effords me : from all connexion with the work of which --such as the tremblink and shudderink of the whole hau- he was the founder, and, up to that time, dience at the deth of little Richard 3-the inigspressible had been the editor in chief. Mr. Richards hemoshin of delight egsperienced from the komedy kalled will hereafter reside in New York, to which the "Young Kupple;" which is suttuly hadmirable; het city he transfers the publication of the School"In conklewsion, sir, hallow me to hoffer my egscuses fellow, a juvenile periodical that has risen to for the hurrid, unlitrary, and disconnected karakter of this great favor under his auspices. hepistle. I think I may add without being amenible to rial mantle of the Gazette has fallen upon the charge of consete or wanity, that my usuul manor of Paul H. Hayne, Esq., long known to the

cetera; hetcetera.

The edito