. Deck and port : or, Incidents of a cruise in the United States frigate Congress to California ; with sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco . a copyof the Presidents message, which was brought in theEnglish mail, and which was considered quite bel-ligerent in its tone. The news of the resignation ofthe Peel ministry greatly surprises us, and has in it,as we fancy, quite a little war-cloud. A nationalship abroad catches every premonition of hostilitiesas quickly as a barometer the approach of a storm. So, here we are at last in front of Valparaiso, witha contin
. Deck and port : or, Incidents of a cruise in the United States frigate Congress to California ; with sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco . a copyof the Presidents message, which was brought in theEnglish mail, and which was considered quite bel-ligerent in its tone. The news of the resignation ofthe Peel ministry greatly surprises us, and has in it,as we fancy, quite a little war-cloud. A nationalship abroad catches every premonition of hostilitiesas quickly as a barometer the approach of a storm. So, here we are at last in front of Valparaiso, witha continent and an ocean between us and our homes ; 190 DECK AND PORT. another ocean still to be traversed, and to roll us yetwider asunder; and then this war-cloud on the hori-zon ! But there is one separation, one which awaitsus all, still wider than this—the chasm of the that no signals extend, and no messenger-birdhath winged its way. I have walked in its pale lightfor years, hovering between the sun and a totaleclipse. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave,Still, like muffled drums, are beatingFuneral marches to the
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