Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-08-26
TTUMBER "A.

""s' Pareut, fortune, prospects, happiness, all
gone at once, and gone forever For INV part
when contemplate this, 10 not wonder at the
iinPresslonithas produced on him; lido not wonder
at the faded form, the detected air, the emaciaed
co'intenance, and all the ruinous and Wondering
trophies by which misery marked its triumph
over youth, and health and happiness I know
.iiat IN the hordes of what is called fashionable
ite, there IS sect Of philosophers wonderfully
patient of their fellow creatures suiferngs. mel,
too inscnsible TO feel for any one or too selfish to
'eei Tor others-l trust there is not one amongst
you professor OF those principles j trust there
Is not one amongst you who can ever hear of such
caiamitles without affection or, if there be,
pray mat 'hey may never know theiE import by
| experience; that having, in the wilderness Of
,his world, but one dear and darling object with.
out whose participation bliss would be ioyless.
ana, III whose sympathies, sorrow has found a
charm-whose smile has cheeredihis tol--who,e
ioye mas piliowed his misfortunes4wliose angel
spirit guided him through danger, and dark
| ness, and despair, amid the worlds frowns. and
the trends perfdy, was more thsn friend, and
world ana all To HIM J! God forbid, lat by a VII
rams vile or Villains wicketness, the soiaceof
that artery torn from his heart strings, he should
De taught Row to appreciate the woe of Others
| IN ths dismal solitude of his own. Oh no feel
that address myself to human beings who
knowing the value of what the world is worth,
| to us
Observe, however, lest this crime should want
any aggraraton--obserye,I beseech you the pc.
riod OF It's accomplishment. NV client was not
30 young as that the elasticity ofhls spirit could
rebound and bear him above the pressure of his
misfortune nor was he withered by age into a
comparative insensibility, but just at that tempe
rate interval OF manhood, when passion has ceas.
ed to play and reason begins to operate-wbcn
love, gratihed, left him nothing TO desire and
iideiity long tried left him nothing to apprehend
IlSf too ftn&.. =
career when his patient industry, having coni
quered the ascenthe was able to look round him
iromsthe height on which he rested For this wei.
come had been the day of tumnlt, and the pale
midnight lamp neutrality-suspicious. had been
the drudGery of form-welcome the analysis OF
crme---weicome the sneer of envy and the scorn
OF duliness, and all the spurns which "patient
merit ofthe unhappy takes" For this he had
encountered, perhaps the generous rivalry of
genius, perhaps. the biting blasts of poverty.
perhaps the efforts ofthat deadly Islander, which.
coillng round the cradle of his young ambition.
might have sought to crush him in its envenom.
ed foldings;
III, zeho can tell hoTv hard is 10 climb
The steps Tphere Fanle's proud temple shines
atar
HI IptO can teRhosD lany sohA sublime
Hah fet me influence eCnpdIpna,t star.
.1Ia Jagged zpith fortune an eternal rvar
Can such an injury as this admit of justifca.
ton think the learned counsel will concede
II cannot. But it may be palf.ated-let us sea
now. Perhaps the defendant was Young and
neutrality-suspicious. unmerited prosperity rails.
Gu nm above the pressure of misfortune and the
Wild pulse OF lmpetuoas passion impellcd HIM &c,
q purpose At which his experience would lave
shuddered. Quite the cont ary.--the noon Of
MANHOOD has almost passed over him, and a youth
spent IN the recesses OF debtors prison, made
hifn familiar with every form of human misery;
ne saw what misfortune was it did not teach
| nm pity he the effects of guilt he snurn.
ed the admonition Perhaps in the solitude Of a
single LIE he had never known the social bless
edness OF marriage, he has a wife and children
or it she be not his wife, she is the victim of his
CRIME, and adds another to the calendar of his Sc
ductlon Certain it is he has little children who
think themselves legitimate VIII his adyo.
Gates defend him by proclaiming their bastardy;
certain 1t IS there is wretched female his own
cousin too, who thinks herself his wife VIII thew
project INN by procIai ming he has only deceived
her into his prostitute
Perhaps his crime, rs in the celebrated case Of
Howard, immortalscd by lord Ersk me may bay.
found ITS origin IN parental crueity-it MIGHT.
perhaps, have been that III their early wears this
guilty pair had cherished an innocent attach.
ment--lt might have been that in Their sprii,g OF
lite, when fancy waved her fairy wand around
them, till all above was sunshine, and al beneath
was fowers--when 10 their clear and charmed
vision this ample world was but q wecdlsss Gar
den, where every tint spoke natures ioye!ircss.
and every sound brcathed Heavens melody. and
every breeze was but embodied fragrance Ifm,r-hr
have been that IN this cloudless holiday love
wove his roseate bondage round them, till their
young hearts so grew icgether, that seperate ex-
lstence ceased, and life itself became q sweet
identity it might have been that onvious OF ,hix
paradise, some worse than damon tore them from,
each other, to pine for years m careless absence
and at length to perish in = paliiated impiety-
On! gentlemen, in such q case, justice herself.
with her uplifted sword, would call on mercy ia,
preserve tie victim. There was no such yallia
tion-the period OF their acquaintance wcs little
more than sufficient for the maturity OF tier
crime, and they due not libel love by si citlinp.
under its soft and sacred name the to- thsome
revels OF AN adulteruus dcPrayity. VI might haze
been the husbands cruelty left a too easy nrosd
TOR seduction. VIII they dare assert it ! All, too
well they know he would not let " tie wind. Of
Heaven visit her face TOO roughly" Afonsirous
as tbs, have heard indeed that they mean TO
rest upon AN opposite pailia,ion-i have heard IL
rumoured that they mean to rest the wifys .p6
deity upon the husbands fondncss know thtg
guilt, in its conception mean, and in It's commits.
sion hemulous, IS Its exposure desperate AID
audacous l know that IN The fugitive
panic Of its retreat it VIII stop 10 fiin- r.
parthIan poison upon the justice that pursue.
1t. But 1 do hope, bad and abandoned aud
hopeless astheir cause isl do hope for the namc
OF human nature, that have been deceived NJ
the rtiUOurg of this unnatural defiance No..