E.
".
u
A of Oswcgo, llleiiseltlctliclit of \Vyoiiiing.
— tilous and li'ourish'ing, its prosperity} was the sub-
. ject of admiration. V It consisted of eiglit town-
'~ -5hlP5s each containing a square 0ffiV(:l1]ll:‘$, b'-:au-
....tifully.sit'uated on‘ both sides of::,,tlie' river. The
. V ' _ -~>-.1: 5-.‘
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v . 3-Rom -rim‘ coi.;in.ti-:1tc1.iLi:jA‘iI:ir.i}.it'ri‘s‘i_=;i,t. ‘
"Life hathits isllflsllllle-—l)_U‘t the ray
“Which ‘flashes on its SIOYITW ‘WaV°i-
Is but the bcacoit of decay----' ‘ g
A meteor gleaniing o'er the gita-ve _, A.
.=}‘q“,d",h5ngti its datvning hour -15 bright
— '_W'ith fanc'y’,s gayest'cOl0!{i"flg'g _
. Yetbler its clotid euct'ii'nbered night "
."jD”;',i-lg‘ ruin flaps his-raven wing.
jL-ifc hath its flowers-—-and what are they ?
The budsof early love an_rl.tl‘U_lh: . ‘
f '\~Vliich"spring and wither in a Cl’-IY» _
The gents of warm, confiding youth g:-...
Alas those buds decay and die
Ere ripened and maturedin bloom-- A
Even in anhour beholdthcm lie
Upon tli: still and lontzly tomb.
Life hath its pang-—’_of deepeSt_tht‘1ll—-
Thy sting, relentless memory ! .
SVhicti tvakcsnot, pierces -1101, Until
The hour ofjoy hath,ceased to be.
i~Then, when the heart is in its pull,
it And cold afllictions gather‘ o’cr,
"Thy mournful anthem doth recall. , _
‘.Bliss which hath died to bloom no more. ‘
"Lire hath its blessitigs—--lml the st9i‘ih
Sweeps like the descrt.- wind in Wfallla
To sear and blight theglovellcst form _
\Vhicli sports on earth s deceitful path.
Oh ! soon the wild heart broken wail
so changed from yontli’s delightful tone‘,
Floats mournfully upon the gale
When all is desolate and lone.‘
Life hath its hope-—'a rnal’lfl-(ll'€8lTl--
A. cankered flower-.-a setting S-‘Uni
_ Whicli casts a transitory gleam
Upon the even’s cloud of dun. ,_ D ,
il’ass btit an hour, the dream hath lied;
The fioivers on earth forsaken he-—--
.'The sun hath set, whose l_tistre shed. . _ _
T . Alight upon the shaded skY- . , .. N-031.0? _
,_ , j .. .\v¥o.\=tiN('; MA5SACl\'E. I
Efrrdcifroin z/ié sccoml vo,/znne oars transla-
. lrion Q/'Bot:a’.9 I1i.vt0)‘_!/ o/'.'/ze l’Var of ./liner-zcan
"Ind:/mzdence. . . _ ' _
_V c T'he»sav:iges took a more active part than ever
l,u,tlie campaign of this. year, (l7_.'-_S.)- though
they had been iutimidatccl by the success _of gen-
eral Gates, and had sent him congrati-alattous tor
liimselfanrl the United States, the intr'1g.U05 '-1“_d
pt‘esetits of the Bri'.i.'~.h agents had not lost tl‘t61l‘
power over them. , Moreover, the €llllg|‘ilnl'CUl'.
01,151,, wlio had retired amongst these barbarians,
excited them continuallyby i'nstigations,wh1cli,
together With: lltclt‘ natural l.liit':t for blood and
pillage, dcte_rniim.d,t_li_cm without scruple to make
incursions upon the northrsrn frontiers, where
they spt'ezid“5tei-i-oi- hand desolation. The most
ruthless cliiefs, that guided them in tliese.sanguin-
sgry exp §;lltl'bhS, were colonel Butler, who had
alread‘y§,, 'guali'zed himself in this war, and a cer-
tain ;Brandtv,' born of mixed blood. the most fero-
,"cious being ever produced by human nature, of-
ten too ‘prodigal ofsimilar monsters. They spar-
cdneitlier age nor sex, nor condition. nor even
their own kiu_dred : everywhere indiscriminately
they carried devastation and death. -The knowl-
edge wliiclitlie refugees had of the country, the
insulated position of the inhabitants, scottercd
éhere and there in the wilderness, the distance
-from the seat of government, and the necessity of
employing the national force in other remote
'ipa'ii_ts, offered the Indians cvcry facility for exc-
rcutlng their cn'tcrpt'ises, and retiring with impu-_
‘nity. No meaiis had hitherto been found of re-
~~pi'ess'tn'g the inroads of so cruel an enemy.
In"-the m”idst.of' this general clcvastatinti there
- happened an event wliicli, pr:t‘liaps, wnttltl be found
‘-wi‘tli'ou_t example in the history ofliumaii life.
Inhahitants of Connecticut had planted on the
easterrl branch, of tire Strsqueliannah, towiirds
the-.cxtrcniity of Pen'tisylva'ni;i, and uponthe l'r‘:'¢l(l
1 Pup-
mildticss"of the cliiriatc ‘answered to the fertility‘
of the s_01l.-—,-The lllllill)llanl5,\'r‘Cl‘t: strangers alike
-"fa excessive wealth,.which clates and i-lépravfes,
and'.to*-'p"overty,-» which dlscotlragcs and (_legI'a(Ics.
--Iricessantly occupied in rural toils, they avoid-
c_(_“l.,flidle_ness, and all the vices of which it is the
- In a ivord, this little country pi'est-utéd-
in’ reality the image of those fabulous times wliich
the poets have described under the name ofthe
Golden .dg:e. But their-domestic felicity was no
.COUlllel'[)Ol.Se to the zeal with which they wcre'an-
.ituate_d_,lbr'tlie coinmon cause ; they took up arms
, to suctfor their country.
‘ lfittt-neither so many advantages nor even‘ the
zsittiation of these ' unfortunate colonists,
mp: them fromthe baneful influence of
' 2 , ‘
, “S. ‘ ‘t._-' Although the torics, as they called
« l-fl-lI‘..9..‘."1 ~iv;ei>e not so r'i‘umicrous as the partisans of
Vliliittt:/-,Ii",,t_-Jr. tl1e_v-challenged attc-Untion by the ar-
" i".’8'3..3l'.‘~‘?<=,'-1’r;_0"l'.tlleii' character and the extent of their
pretensichs. Hence, not only f'._it1_'ii,i1',_A¢,-,s_.\'vii'e|"e seen
armed against fainilics, but eveii’s‘i$ii’s sitled a-
gainst.-.t,lie_ir~fath_ers, brothers against brothers,
and,:at last, w‘i'ves.agai‘nst. husbands. —So true it
' 53. that 110 Virtue is pi‘c-‘of against the fanaticism’
'0!’ ppiniqnirarid no iiapplnttss against political di-
visions. The tones, were, besides, exaspei-ated
A at their losses in the inct’i"rsio’ns they had‘ made in
éompatiy with the savages in the preceeding
.canipatgri;'v' but that wliich envenomed them the
m°5t_‘Va5,i that S6\'6I'=1_l in’divldti'als of the saute
Pfirlfi who ha‘vi_ng- quitted their habitations,‘ were
come to claim hos‘p'italit’y, then so much in hon-
our among the Americans,‘ and partict'il.arly at
VVY°m1Dg. “had been arrested as suspected per-
:‘)’l‘:2 and sent to take their trial in Connecticut.
‘h t crs_ had been expelled fromtlie colony. Thus’
al"‘"<.‘l bflfflfile contintially more and m,ore..ran-
corous. I be tories swore revenge; they éoales-
‘Jed W"-h Tl‘°*lfl<llfl1lS- . The time was favourable,
.55 “*5 YOW1 Of VVyoming were at the am,,-.; In
order the bf."ltf;t‘ to secure su_cccss,- and to g.,i'ii'pi‘i§(;
' tlieiiv etiein"i_es.;jbeforethey"should.think of-stand.
mg "W" .“.3"1i".d°f°“Ce: ll.l€}."rcsorted to artifice.
._T1t_ey,’prct"endcd _the most ' ' T I '
..b'liile ll]C_l’Y‘I‘I't:s(llI2il€(l only warand Véngcaucei '. A
:.h‘_4‘.3- ‘f8wf_.Wegks before they purposed toexociite
~ “F -°1"“bl° ‘lmltirprtse, they sent several mes-
friendly. dispositions,
r .-
« -..sengcrs, charged witlnprotcstations of their car-
,ii'i_‘:.st desire to, cultivate -peace. These perfidies
ililllt‘-fl the inliabitanfifiof Wyoming into a deceit-
fol $$9'urity,,,wliile._they procured the tories and
savages the means of concerting with their par-
. ._tisans,- and of observing-vtlie immediate’. state of
the colony. Notwithstanding the solemn assur-
ances of the Indians, the colonists, as it often hap-
pens when great calamities are about to fall on it
their approaching fate. They wrote to.V.Vas'l,‘
ington, praying him to ‘send them immediate as-’
sistance. Their rlispatches did not reach him:
they were intercepted by the VPen'nsylvania.loyal-
ists; and they would, besides, have arrived too
late. The savages’ had already made their ap-
pearance upon the frontiers ofitlic colony : the’
plunder they had made there was of little impor-
tance, but the croelties they had perpetrated were.
afi'rii,-htful; the mournful prelude to those more
terrible scenes which were shortly to follow !
‘ About , the commencement of the month of
July, the Indians suddcnlyappcarcd in force up-
on the banks of the Susqtiehanah. -'-fhcy "were
headed by the Jolin.Butler and Brandt, already
named, with other chiefs of their nation, distin-
guished by their extreme‘ ferocity in preceding
expeditions. This troop amounted in all to 1600
men, of whom less than a fourth were Indians.
and the rest tories. disguised and painted to re-
resemble them ; the officers, however, wore the
uniform oftneir rankyand had the appearance of
reg'ulaI's. 'l‘h_e,colni'itsts of W'yon=._ing, finding
their friends‘ so remote, and their enemies so near,
had constructed for tllrtll‘ security four forts, in
which andupon different points of the frontier,
they had distributed about 500 men.
‘ '1 be whole colony was placed under the com-
mand of Zebulon Butler, cousin of John, a man
who with some courage, was totally devoid of ca-
pacity. He was even accused oftreachery ; but
« this iiiiptitation is not- proved. It is at least cer-'
tain that one ofthe forts which stood nearest to
the frontiers, was entrusted to soldiers infected
‘Willi the opinions of the torics, and who gave
it up, without resistance, at the first approach of
the enemy. The second, on being vigorously
assault:-.d, surrendered at tliscrction. Tlie_sava-
ges “spared, it is true, the women and children,
but butchered all the rest without exception.-
Zebulon then withdrew with all his people, into
the principal foi't, called Kingston. The old
men. the women, the children, the sick, in it word
all that were unable to bear arms, repaired thith-
CV10 ll_”'0,DgS, and uttering lametitable crics, as
to the last refuge where any hope of safety re-
mained. The position was susceptible of defence,
and it Zebulon had held firm he might have lio-
ped to withstand the encniyiuntil the arrival of
succors. But John Butler was lavish of promi-
ses murder to draw him out,in which lee succeed-
éfli by persuading him that if he would consent to
a parlcy in the open field, the seigc would soon
be raised, and every thing accominodated. John
retired, in fact. with all his corps; Zebulon after-
wards inarclicd out to the place appointed for the
confct'ciice,at a considerabledistance from thefort:
from motives of cautionhe tookvitli him 400
men of his garrison. Ifthis step was not dittatetl
bs'treaclit'-ry, it must, at least, be attributed to ‘a
Very Strange simplicity. Having come to the
spot agreed on, Zebulon found no living being
:hr.-re. Reluctant to return without an interview
be advanced towards the foot of a mountain, ho-
ping he might there find some person to confer
with. The further he proceeded in this dismal
solitude, the more he had occasion to remark that
no token appeared of the presence or vicinity of
human creatures. But far from halting, as if
impelled by an irresistible destiny, he continued
lns march. The country, mciinwliile, began to
be oversliadou’cd by thick forests : at length, in a
winding path, be perceived a flag which seemed
ln wave him on. The individual who hurt: it, as
if afraid of treachery from his side, retired as be
advanced, stillinaking the same signals. But al-
ready tlicltidiatis, \V ho klicw thecountry, profit-
ing by the obscurity oftlie woods, had completely '
surrounded liitn. The unfortunate victim, with-
out suspicion of the peril he was in, continued to
press forward, in order to assure the ti‘-alters that
he would not betray ,them. He was awakened
but too soon from this dream of security; in an
instant the savages sprung from their ambush,
and fell upon him with hideous yells.
He formed his little troop into a compact col-
umn: and Showed more presence of niind in dan-
ger, than he had manifested inttlie ncgociations.
Thongli (surpi‘is'_ed. the Americans exhibited such
‘vigor and resolu‘tion that the advantage was rath-
er on their side, when a‘ soldier,’ettherihrough
treachery or cowardice, cried out aloud, ‘the
.Coloue_l has ordered a’ retreat.’ _ The Ameri-
cans immediately break,‘ the savages leap in a-
mongtlie ranks‘, and a-horrible carnage ensues.
The fugitives fall by mgsiles, the resisting by
clubs and‘ tomahawks. The woundcd_overtui'n
those that are not, the’ ‘dead’ and the dying are
heaped p'romiscu'ousl y togétlier. Happy ' those
who expirethe soonest ! The savages reserve the
living for tortures! and the in'fui'iatc tories, if
other arms fail them, mangle the prisoners with
their nails! Never was rout.s ,deplorable; new.
er was massacreaccotnpatiied&‘it‘h so many hor-
rors. Nearly all the A'mericans perished ;7 about
‘sixty escaprd from the butcher-y, and with Zeb-
_otlier bank of the Susquehannah'.
'.l:be.co_nq«uerors invested Hingstofr anew, and"
to dismay the relics of the gart‘isori by the most
Cxscifable Spectacle, they hurled into the place a-
bove 200 scalps, still reeking witli ‘the blood of
their slaughtered brethren.’ Col. Dennison, who.
-C()fllI‘1l"a'll(‘lC(l the fort, seeing the im'possibi’lity of
defence,»-sent a flag to iiiquire of Butler what
‘terms would be allowed the garrison, : on s't"i’rren-
deri't'ig the fort? He answered, with allttfe fell-
ness of his inliuman character, and in‘ ‘a single
wot'd.--the hatchet. Reduced to t_his dreadl'ulex-
1I't:|Tll.'ly', the colonel still made whai resistance,
é<'>uld- At length having lost aim-osi all his sol‘-
diers, he sut'rcndei'ed at discretion.’ The savages
entered the fort" and began to drag out the van-
quished, who know.i_tig the handstliey wen: in
expected no mercy. Bgut iympaticnf oftlteitiedious
process of murder in ‘detail, the b’arbarians- after-
wards bethouglit themselves of enclosing the men;
women and children promis'cuo'usly in-;ihe house's-
3"Cl,.lJ.M_‘.1‘3’Ck$s , to-which they set fire and consume.
ed all vgithtn,,'.listening, delighted, to tlte'moan_s
and shrieks of the expiring! multitude; ' _
people, seemed to have a sort. of presen_timeut_t:%
ulon, made their way to a good t'é'dofubt upon’ the ‘
The ifoit-it ‘iiVi:ll<esbarre' still.,i-_ie‘i.§i"iNf.i_ined in
power of the colonists of‘ VVyomri_ifg;' The vii‘-.-I
hoping ~t‘9‘ find. .!I'|.§‘£<._=)!§ '81! !‘V¢‘lde"_¢Fl F‘! "!.5°’."-‘l"3‘.‘i
and without resistance. But if opposition exas-
gers, insatiable of human blood, submission did
not soften,them.r _Their rage was principally ex-
ercised uponthe soldiersof the garrison’; all of
whom theyjput to death, with ab-arbartty ingenu-
_ous in tor-tures. As for the rest, men, wonien,
and children, who appeared to them not to merit
any peculiar attention, they burned them as be-
fore, in the houses and barracks. Thc forts be-'
ing fallen into their hands, the barbariangs pro-
ceeded without obstacle, to the devastation of the
‘country. They employed at once fire, sword, and
. all'ins‘ti"u'metits ofdestruction. The crops of ev-
cry desclriptiou were consigned to the flames.
The habitations, granaiies, and ollter construc-
tions, the fruit of years of human industry, sunk
in ruins under the destructive strokes of these
canibals.’ . ‘ A . -
rnozt THE NATIONAL itnvocivris.
The follo‘wing’sliort narrative is an actual adven-
ture tltajt occurred in the last century.__
Late in thduutuinti of l7-—'-, some gentlemen
were pot-forming atouy in the western part of the
state 1 N,;w.Yo,-}.;, a Journey, at that time, exc-
cutc irh (zifiiculty and scarcely practicable.-
The 'llCS ofthose beautiful towns and villages
that now line the road through which the travel-
ler passes, were then but the dark,‘ impenetrable
forest, which few men had seen. and fewer Y?‘
had thought of fixing their habitations and their
homes. Towards the close of —a fine autumnal
day, as they were'geutly- entering their batteaus
in the beautiful Oneida, they were forcibly struck
with the islands that opened to their View after
leaving VVood Ct-cek,through Wlllclt they had bccn
passing, which appeared like emerald spots set in
the silvery expanse. The setting sun reflected
on the variegated foliage the richest tint. Our
travellers were lillcd with pleasing emotions at the
charming spectacle and the roniaritic scenery na-
ture presented.
and _tranqnil water alone-disturbed the sublime
harmony ; and, from the stillness of all around,
seemed the onlyiioise this secluded spot had ever
heard from the r.~mbt.ttcher of the Creek, and en-
tered on the lake, before the languid sttokcs of a
distant oar caught the ear ofnur travellers ; it
soutided iicarcr,and they soon‘ found it proceeded
from a small canoe, having in it one solitary be-
ing, and as it approached along side the battctiux
they asked him wcitlter he was destined; in sul-
len indifi‘crcnct: and inattcntion he informed them
he was bound to Oneida Castle. His looks excit-
ed the attention of the party, and appeared those
of a melancholy young man ; his g'.lI'I'flClllS were
faded, though not in tattcrs, and bad evidently
belonged to one in a higher situation in life than
what he seemed engaged in; _liis outward resem-
blancc was the very Cordenia of Cervantes, and
he possessed a face and an expression that a Sal-
vator Rosa would have loved to pourtray, and ac-
cent bespoke him of French descent. He passed
on as if wishing to hold no further converse-—:ind
our travellers had scarce ceased to wonder at the
incident, before his canoe was far behind them.
The batteaux slowly proceeded on. The sun
had sunk below the horizon, and the twilight had
added new tranquil landscape ; when another is-
land of larger extent than that they had zslready‘
seen appeared before thein—-it had somewhat of
an acclivity, and though the party had heard of
its existence and the name bywlricli it was known
by the batteaux men of the lake, yet none had e-
ver before visited it, or landed on its shores.‘ 'l-‘lie
batteatix men called it ‘ Hoger Bust,’ in English
‘ High Breest,’ an appellation, which its appear-
ance and situation rendered apt and appropriate.
The nearer" they approached they were surpris-
ed at seeing marks of cultivation, ‘and as it was
.no_w dark thcy looked round for a landing place,
.liaviii'i; first made a C0l]Sl_(lct‘al)le noise to rouse
the inhabitants of the island, t\’l1l.‘)eV'Ct‘_n)lg'l1l. re-
side there. The patty, landed, and not\vithstand-
ing the night had set in,’ they made an excursion
to the interior, in? order to discover the people
whom, from the cultivation they liat_l obscI'vcd,
tliey/-felt convinced occupied. the soil. \Vith
lights which they had s-t_t‘uck‘ in the boat, they
traced their way through a short wood, and sud-
denly eiitercd at the end of it upon an avenue of
-slirubbery_and twigs of trees interwoven in the.
form of lattice work, lining each side of the ivallt;
‘at tlietcrmination of this a rude but was visible-—
t'ltey knocked at the door and it was opened" by a
female,.who accosted them in 1*‘renr;1i ; they in-
formed her of- the cauu: of their visit, and then
asked her if she was disturbed by the noise and
cry they had made: she told them no, for she
thought it occasioned by the Indians, who were
her friends. .Our"trave1l'ers beheld her with sur-
prize ; she was cloatlied in course and uncouth
.attire, having no slices on her feet, and her hair
_h'_ati_giiig iiil'tix7ui'iaiicc,‘ no sixiall length on lier
back ; l'i:;i-' looks and rnanners bespoke the air and
mein of gentility. She seeniétl scarce twciity;
3 her size was small and her interestingappearatice
__was_ heiglitened by a piercing eye, and the mark
'of intelligence and expression'i’s indicated. ’_l‘hey
told her their_i‘ntcnt to" remaitf on the island dur-
ing the night, and she politely r'cquest'ed' them to
make use of her lfotise, which‘ they, with many
_thatiks',_ refused, but pitched their tents near it,
whilst the bargenfeii slept at the shore near the
batteaux‘. The n'ext morning they made prepar-
atiions f_or‘d‘cparture : they discovered also in the
interior of the but, a choice collection of books
had left this -abode of apparent happiness and
sweet rctire‘r‘neiit, she gave tliem a briéf history of
herself, whicli was simply this :‘ She had been
i soinetirnc in‘ that country, though not always“ on
the‘ island she occupied -; she had‘ resided for
months in the castle of Oneida’, ’among the ln_-'
'rlians.;‘ she described them as mild and unofi'én'il-
ping ; that she bad formed lt'ien‘d‘sli,i'ps the_re,which
li"ad to’. that day" been of service to l’ie1's‘elf and bus-'
..b-and‘; and'as’th_c In_‘dia"ns had’.n’ot forgotten them
they occasionally left at tlieit',s'ecludedt settlenieiit,‘
o’n- a't‘etui'n from their h’unting'exc'ursion, a’ por-
’tion of thei‘r_‘gam'e. She told th‘en1’»with much
.sprigli’tliness‘ and navictte, that she had become a
to another‘, and shewed them a small gun Ashe u.
scd with great success in-the destruction of wild
berated tlir':se.fe'rocious men, or iather -theselii-4
The dash of the oar in the calm ,
scattered about, among which they observed a _
volume of B'ufi'on’s natural history. Before they i
lteroine; for she ha'd'o_ft_er'i swam‘ from’ on‘e’i‘sl'an‘d‘ ~
.j_'o_wl. i he innocence and arilessuess of the we,-'
._fn§n,; togethe'i;_]‘vvithTt'hose marks of superior ac-
tors"présjeritdrlatliemselvés before-'itfj_;f..thoeewitlifif qgiireineiit, cofitrasted with the solitude that sur-
rounded’ her,'dre'w the particular attention of our
travellers. In the course of conversation, they
-relate.-rl tlicir-meeting with the man ofgthe lake 3 '
she answered it was her. husband, who had -.gm~,¢»,-
cause “of their. seclusion; and informing her of
their in,tv.—ntion to leave the ‘island immediately,
she flew in a moment, with an eager avidity to o-
blige, to the garden‘, and with her own hands,dug
up the vegetables from the ground.’ Before they
departcd, they-selected somewines .out ol-their’
stores, and other articles which would be luxuri-
ous to her in this comparative iiilderness, and
they consideredit an indclicacy directly to offer
she had seen better days. and had. been the orna-
ment of some society, the loss of‘ which mi ht
not perhaps have been easily supplied. ' Thcy
jumped into the batteaux and proceeded onwards
and made a stop at asettlement some miles down
the lake, and having related their adventure to
some of the settlers, and inquiring conce,rnini;"
them, they received the following‘information ;
that the lady had been once a nun in France , that.
she had been taken from a Convent in Lisle, by
ihc person they saw and carried to America‘; that
the cause of his occupying the Island was his ex.
1 . ’ . ' _. ,
trcmc Jcitlollsy---lhiit be rigorously restrained her
let her visitii wife of one of the settlers, who had‘
requested him for that purpose, and!‘ they also
mentioned his name. How strange -that -sum,
feelings can influence a man among the wilds cf
the forest ; that he should not think the being on.
whom he has placed his earthly affection, secure
in a solitary isle, which bold but her and himsel
for its inhabitants. . .
.....-—.-[T-IZs'*j""--'-
VANITY.
The Morning Chronicle in noticing the death
of llonap-at te, makes the following serious reflec.
tions on the vanity of human greatness.
‘Produce: the urn I/zczt Hannibal contains,
.-‘Incl vueigli 1/zc mfg/My dust that ye! rcnzaim,-...
./Ina,’ is this alt!’
Wliat an awful satire is this on human ambi‘
lion 1 Look at this lump of earth! this mouldcr’
ing corpse, offensive both to the sight, the smell:
andtlic touch! ‘ AndisthisallofBonapa'rte? Is
this the blow, this cold, clieeiless and unbending
semi-circle,tha_t once appalled the whole continent
of Europe by its frowns 3 Is this heavy mouldeiiing
hand the same that once distributed crowns and
sceptics? Is this dull, motionless eye, the same
that fired al'I'IlleS")Vllll enthusiasm, and belong
which even iictory herself seemed to kneel ill.
hiiniage? Is this the lorm, now dragged -pong,
cold and inscnsible, exposed to vulgar gaze, thin;
once scented almost a being ofanotliei-wo,-1d,wh,,
dwelt for a season among us to x-L-can-c 11,6 W0,--
ship of men ?' How trifling is human grandeur,
hmv fugitive how _grc.'.itnr.-ss! Yet those locks on_.
the common privilege of dust {they will be made
into rings and necklaces, and breastpins, and 5,'_,’.,~..
rounded with diainoiids, to adorn the fiugei's!,oi.'
bosoms of surviving idolatry. How little will be
known oftlit: last moments of the ex-emperor of,
France ! VVlH.ile\iEt‘ accounts are published in
linglatiil will be rliscrrdited in France ; and what.
ever are published in Francewill receive the same
discredit in England. '
‘and COt1nlt‘t'-s,tal€n‘H*:nt, crimination and re-crim.
ination witliout end. \Vc shall despair toisec a
fair and impartial biography of Bonaparte.’ An-
other generation will know more about the man
than ourselves. Perhaps the dead body of this
beta may be deposited next to that of Admiral
Nelson. Look at these little hillocks, six feet in
length, and then tell us w_li”at is human glory E
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W"/Ii!/ZclrI.——I_ happened, says Dr. Franklin,-to
attend one of his seinions, in the course of which
I pet-ctzived he ll'll(:l‘l(l£i'Cl to finish with a collection,
and I silently resolved he should get notliiiig from
me. . I had in my pocket a banclfulofcoppcr,3 0,-
4 silver dollars, and 5 pistoles in gold: a7s=lie.pru.
ceeded I began to softcn,and concluded to giveiho
copper. Another stroke of his oratory ‘made m};
dcterm inc to give the silver ; and he finished so
admirably, that I e'i'ti‘ptied my pocket wholly into
the c'ollector’s dish, gold and all. '
f'We may die,’ says the celebrated’ went,-,
‘ without the knowledge of many truths, and yet
be carried into .Abt'ah'am’s bosom; but if we die.
without love, what will knowledge avail? Just as
much as it avails the devil and liislangels ! lwill
not quarrel with youabout. 2‘ny‘opinio,', 37 o,,1,:—_’ see
that your heart be’ right towards God,'that'you
know and love the ‘Lord Jesus Christ, that ypu
love your neighbor,and u alk as yo't'n51\’1’agge,-tyatk.
'cd,‘and I desire no more. ' I am sick of opinions:
' I am weary to beat-then) : my soul loathcs this
frothy food. Give r'n"e solid and tfubstantial ii-éli.
gibn: give me an humble’ gentle lover ofcod
and man : a man full of mercy and good fruits,
without partiality and without hypocrisy 5‘ a man
laying himself out in the work of faith, the pa.
times of hope, the labor of Iové. Let my soul be
with these Christians‘, wliet-esocvérthéy are, and’
whatsoever‘ opinion‘ they are of. VVhosever thus'*
" doeth tliewill of my Father which is in‘ Heaven,
the same is my brotlicr, and sister, and m‘o1hgr_' ‘
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not wish‘-_:to ask any further qlteStlOl’lS'~‘aS/ to the '
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them to her, for thcydid not hesitate in believing '.
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