Western Characters: Or Types of Border Life in the Western States (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Western Characters: Or Types of Border Life in the Western States

Our Mississippi, rolling proudly on, Would sweep them from its path, or swallow up, Like Aaron's rod. Those streams of fame and song.

The valley of a river like the channel of a man's career, does not always hear proportion to the magnitude or volume of the current, which flows through it. Mountains, forests, deserts, physical barriers to the former - and the obstacles of prejudice, and accidents of birth and education, moral barriers to the lat tor - limit, modify, and impair the usefulness of each. A river thus confined, an intellect thus hampered, may be noisy, fretful, turhu lent, but, in the contemplation, there is ever a feeling of the incongruity between the purpose and the power; and it is only when the valley is extended, the field of effort open, that we can avoid the impression of energy wasted, and strength frittered away. The great, intellect.

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