Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1824-05-11

and why have you aScenoed 10 tnlS ioity
height, gained only by those who arc
willing to spend their lives in my SER
vice I"
Although impressed with real reve-
renee, and dazzled with the indiscribable
beauty of my fair demandant, and espe-
cially with the radiance of her counte-
nance, felt that no abject homage--Do
slavish adulation was expected, or would
be acceptable. bowed therefore with
out cringing, and having resumed an
erect posture, replied: 4" Fair object OF
my youthful hopes ard my mature soil
citude, need not apologize for an am
bition that seeks not self-agg randizemeDt,
but the perpetuation of thy blessings to
my fellow men. Urged by this desire,
| have climbed to this lofty observatory
in order that might learn how best the
continuance of thy tavors may be Sc
cured. Look on the wide landscape
spread beneath our feet, where thou hast
scattered thy favors with so liberal a
hand, and where thy lovely attendants,
Peace and Plenty, have diffused comfort
and prosperity Even the chilly North,
SHOWS and storms and perpetual labor'
and surely yon lovely plains, where &C.
NAL suns quicken and cherish the rich
! and luscious fruits in such abundant va
riety-whcre the current of lille flows
/ more ardenty--and the generous fires
| glow more warmly III the human heart
surely there, all must be ease and gay
delight. For the perpetuaton of these
blessings my heart earnestly longs, and
oh ! most lovely spirit, it is only in thy
presence, and in the enjoyment and pre-
servation of thy precepts, that they can
be perpetuated. How then may cratic
Inortais hope to secure thy favor?
"Full often are the children of the
earth deceived by false appearances"
said she with sigh. "Those barren
mountains and rugged rocks yield TO the
hardy and industrious inhabitants, q II that
they desire. Nay, the steady though
| moderate labor oil those enterprising peo-
pie enables them 10 live in active, pro-
gressiye prosperity. The plough, the
| plane, the loom and the wheel, with all
the various implements of industry, sup
| ply them with wealth, and commerce
aids them in procuring the Injuries Of
| foreign Chimes, while equal, universal
liberty gives zesl 10 every enjoyment.
But see over half the inhsbi,aols ri ne
South the CALLING chains OF bondage are
threwn, embitering lie, and marring
even the common boon oil nature. Even
| those who are exempt from these evils,
find their luXaries often gurned Ia s,atl,
and their INDECENT ease disturbed by The
most dis ressing apprehension. Wtile
The master exacts with the lacera'irg
scourge the unwilling and unrecon.-
pensed loil OF the slave, the latter watches
for the moment when revenge and iiber-
" may be al o"ce within his grasp -
Deadly anlmosiiies are thus kept alive
even in the very household OF the
wealthy plaofer-and he looks in vain
Tor relief. Already has the evil become
such as almost to be without remedy,
aud happy will the inhabitants of that
portion Of my beloved Union be, if the
stain of unjust oppression be washed
away, except by the blood of the OPP
pressors
The angelic countenance of my in
structress seemed shaded in sorrow at
The prospect Of calami,ies so great, fall
ing on the land she loved. AT length
she broke the painful silence. " Small
indeed were my approximations, and great
MY hopes OF speedy relief 10 the inbsbi-
lants of this goodly land, if my protested
admirers were sincere. But see--in
another portion of il, where nature has
spread her iairest charms, and where
+" this bane of man" is scarcely known;
where Peace has reigned and Plenty
strown her favors with liberal hand
while Liberty has made each blessing
lswee,er, even they wish to become par
tlcipaters 10 the crime of oppression and
fasten the plague on their children and
their chldren's Children
"Lovely being" exclaimed " I am
an nhabilant of Illinois. PERM, me
Iper;rit thy ardent votary to inquire
| (if thy prescience may be communicated
to an earthly beine) what dread event is
reserved in the womb of Time for my
beloved state %
The ETHEREAL figure meckly raised her
eyes---and then bowed in reverence 10
the Majesty of Heaven" To Him
alone she said "whose eye at one glance
lcomprehends the past--ihe present
and the fu,ure--and whose minister
am, is known the destiny Of nations and
of men. Seek not to unfold the book of
futuriiy, nor to pry into the secrets Of
: J,n ~ &c A.