Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1805-06-07

me0IS. IN SIlOIN TIC Is awe 10 All Ill 0uIlu
him, and presents to an admiring world
the interesting spectacle Of youth com.
bining the most sublime faculties, the
most vigilant observation, and the warm:
. est virtues.-Mark the youth few
months after his resurrection from the
bed of sin. Gracious heaven! can this
be the same! Where is the Wig orons ges-
ture, and the eye of Gre, the form and
manly voice, and the roseaic bloom of
health-See how feeblv his emaciated
form totters along! Fled are the roses
from his cheek, dim the lustrc of his
eye, fallen his vissage, and ms voice
once all melody, is NOW nothing more
than tremulous discord. Or grant that
his health NAV yet remain, his soul, the
breath Of heaven, is sullied. No more
are We enlightened by the profound re-
mark no more are we astonished at the
brilliant Sht of imagination no more
are we attracted hv the amiAble sentI-
ment of virtue His mind once so &C
tive, so exclusive, so towering, now
grovels and elumbcrs in the dust! All
its gay and rich creation of ideas has va
nshtd like vision ofenchantment, and
all its glory is extinSuished His heart
too that once beat responsive to every
call OF virtue, that melted DER the tale
OF pity, glowed indignant at the picture
OF cruelty, and rose into cxt1cv'at aCti-
ons OF generosity and maGnanimity, viii
Their have all its d-hcatc senslbilitirs
fed ! Scattered and hurled to rum be-
tore the black storm of vice. Melan-
choly reverse! See with what grim dis
content he scowls on that creation, the
view OF which once gave him pleasure ?
The stars that lately beamed delight to
him now become his accusers and pirate
his midnight excuses and what of all
other is the most heart-atfeclng change,
that hand which but few months ago
was stretched forth in friendship and re-
spect to greet him, now points at him
1.-THE slow unmoving finger of scorn :"
Whittier shall he look for happiness -
For happiness, do | say! whittier shall
he a. for refuge. The frightful phantoms
ofhis ruined hopes start in gloomy array
before his Imagination and haunt him to
madness! Despair, distraction in every
feature he is reduced to the bitter al
tentative of bordering in solitude on the
wreck ofhis fame, or of assuag!ng for a
moment the burning stings of conscience
BY r, pe.iuiuu Ofthe crime-NIserahte
remedy as lfeverv new transgtessIon did
not lend an addition .ithong 70 the enve-
nomed scourg= Of reAcction.
Ettit }lnc. or isit f0ct9 Let me APP.
peal to the man who has made Aprogress
in this crime, whether bliss Is MT a.strah-
ger to his breast Nav whether it is
not the principal en- ,pIovment of his life
to av from the tprmcnting alarms of
thought :-Whcther the clouds of ig-
nhniav and cDntcmDt which surround
him, do not assume a darkness infinite
l. more dismal, when herein mbers the
SpscAlOr With whi-h the sun Of his youth
arose :-Nhether he does not Sigh
with regret tor thc thAste society VIII, h
he has forfeited, and whethe in the par
OK sms Of his anguish he does not even
pray for ann,hllAtl0n.
"a may HC 'iaN ROT I|p lOt IL inc OlS.
pleasure OF this world be SO intoler able,
what. wilt the displcasure of heaven be
Wn-n his soul, Invested of its earthly
tenement, AMI with it, of all the arti6
ces with which he was wont to drown the
clamors OF ConacGence, shall have no o.
other employment than to survev its own
contamination to behold at distance
the extatlc world Of saint, and angels,
and to wrIthr under the vengeance of an
of-nded God with what colour of
Plau,lb,Iltv can ;he I,bcrt'nc hope Tor fu-
ture hlpp mss: Ii jr,viccs rrnder him
an unit cpmpAni,n/t.1lhc more respect.
able part Of the hUmAn race, can he be a
1t companion Tor tn: lmrn ,c ulate purity
Of souls emparAdis'd: Or suppose he
were adn,.t-d to tina; bI.ssed society,
what happiness could he taste !? Let
him appeal to his eAp,.i.n on earth.