American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-05-31

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Wild words seemed these to that high souled wo-
man. who for years had borne, with undlmlnished,
nay augmented affection, the heaviest of all aflc.
tons, that of a husbands aenaed heart; and had
taught her children the precepts and doctrines Of
that religion which he in his delusion had abandon
ed A sense Of the fearful danger he had now es--
capped and of the wickedness, brought up from the
bottom of her heart, all the unextnguishabe love
that had lain there through years OF sorrow; and
she went up to him and wept upon his bosom so,
say 1t not that kind thou could ever believe
that and my little would never see their
ker; they who were baptized in thine own arms
William, by that pious man, in the name of the
Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost Y Eyes, my
Alice I feared so once but the dismal dream is
gone. felt as if the ground on which this our own
sweet cottage stands had been undermined by some
hend of darkness and as if it were to sink 5own
out Of sight, with all its thached roof so beautiful
| its cooling pigeons, its marmurng beehives and its
blooming garden. thought Of the generations Of
my forelathers that had died in the Hazel Glen -
and they seemed to me like so many shadows vain-
lily following each other along the hills My heart
was disquieted within me, Tor ne faith of my child
hood was intertuned with all my affections with
all my love for the dead and the living. for thee AL
lice and our little children, who do all resemble
thee both in beauty and in innocence, whether at
THY bosom or lettering along the green sward and
lplaying with the daisies in the Such thoughts
we're indeed thro' my heart K they could NOT
Ibe torn thence but by a heavy hand Alice the
slsight OF thee and them drove me mad; fer what
tlslght SO insupportable to who has no hope in
uurlty, the smiles and tears OF them he loves III
his distraction"
II He who spake was no common man-no common
i man had been his father. And he gave vent TO his
4 Thoughts and feelings in strain OF imprisoned
eoquence, which though above the level OF ordinary
s. speech may not unfrequenty be heard in the cot
tage OF the Scottish peasant. when the discourse is
IoF IS s,,1, tut That h.
{ was speaking. the wife kept her streaming eyes
close his face; the gray haired pastor behed him
oil with solemn ooks the mortal remains OF his father
e lay before him; he paused, there ross the sound
IS of the snow swollen flood.
eel i call the Almighty to witness, said the agitaed
= man, rising from his seat and pacing along the
d floor, shat these hands yet unstaned by crime.
e But oh how much longer might they have con-
S, tnued Why need the un6eever care tor human
i'll life? What signifies the spilling of few drops of
worthless blood Be tie grave once thought to be
IS the final doom Of alland what then is the meaning
A. of the word crime Desperate and murderous
v thoughts assaulted me by myself in solitude. had
l. reasoned myself, thought, out of my belief in
a. revelations and all those feelings, by which alone
faith is possible, at the same time died away in my
= hearts leaving it prey to the wretchedness and
e. cruelty Of infidelity, Shapes and tempted me
&c in the moors with eyes and voices like, but unlike
I'd the eyes and voices OF men. One had dagger in
IltS nanQs ana though IL saiu It's uISaulua
W face melted me to do some murder saw 1t in the
he sunlight-or the very middle of the day &
III was sitting by myself on the wall OF the old sheep
eel fold. looking down in agony, on the hazel glen
id where was born, and where | had once been so
re happy 1t gave me the dagger and laughed as it
esI disappeared. saw-and felt the dagger distinctly
" for some minutes in my hand but it seemed to fall
10 down among the heather and large bos of blood
ke were on my fingers An icy shivering came over
an me, though it was sunny day and without cloud
lyl and strove to think that brain fever had been
ee upon me- lay for two days and nights the hill
J. land more than once saw my children playing
We on the green beside the water fall and to so
he down to put them TO death but figure in whites
onI may be thou, Alice, or angel seemed TO rise
M out OF the stream, and quietly drive the children
towards the cottages as thou woudst few tottering
d lambs
orl During all this terrible confessions the speaker
'lmoved up and down the room; told Of the
of footsteps of men in the condemned cell, heard pa
he cling to and fro during the night preceding the
utI ecution. clay not such dreadful thoughts 10 the
ndI charge Of thy soul, said his wife, now greatly
re alarmed Hunger and thirst, and the rays of the
he sum- and the dews of the night, had indeed driven
;thee into rueful fever; and God knows, the best
Cpl of men are often like demons in disease? The
re pastor, who had not dared to interrupt him during
1.-THE height of his passion, now besough him to dis
D. miss from his mind all such gIievous recoections
ID and Just about TO address himself TO prayer, When
b. an interruption took place most pable and aiec-
sitting.
n: The door, at which no footsteps had been heard
p slowly and softly opened, and in glided little ghost
with ashy face and open eyes, folded in Sheet &
z sobbing it along. 1t was no other than that
loving child walking in its sleep, and dreaming OF
Its grandfather. Not one of US had power to move
at On feet that seemed, in the cautiousnesS OF ahec"
ion scarcely to touch the floor, he went up to the
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