The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1825-10-27

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The brothers had been brought up to the
occupation of cultivators OF the soil, and they
were well verscd for any other; they there
fore set about preparing to make their en-
trance in the world as agriculturalists.
Their plan was soon laid. To procure CON-
Portable farms in that country, for it was
not far from Philadelphia, was impossible
without involving themselves in debt-they |
resolved to emigrate to the Susquehanna,
choose situation where their industry |
might avail them more, and where their |
means would be sufficient to enable them to
make a beginning with perfect safety
They chose spot of ground, after consid- |
cradle research, and settled down i'll the bo-
som Of the vast and untrodden forest.
They left the ancient home of their faith
cr, now the rich possession of their elder
brother with cheerfulness They knew that
all depended upon their individual exertions.
and strong in the consciousness Of their own
powers they went.
The spot they chose was one OF peculiar
beauty. 1t was heightened valley declin-
ing to the river. Around it, on every side,
nature had piled her mountain barriers, as
if to protect the natural foliage of its ycr-
dant soil, and add grandeur to the beauty
of the scene. There now, to the peal OF the
already located hunter, answered the axe OF
the wooIsmen and the song OF the plough
boy? The forest bent beneath their efforts,
and the green fields of waving grain in a
year after, greeted the vision of the travel
Ter, and added new delight to the rural
spleniours of the quiet vale.
There in the bosom of the wide and un
cultivated wilderness, with their own per-
sonal exeltions alone to depend on, they pur-
sued on this even tenor of their way. 1t led
to independence. Year after year passed
on, and each returning spring, saw vegeta-
tion springing from newly cultivated fields.
! The scene, indeed, was tar removed from
/ the influence Of fashion, and the haunts of
! pride, but the earth Welded her luxurious
treasures il as rich abundance as it did be-
meath the sunshine of wealth's proud splen-
tlour; it was as ready to make rich its vigi-
liant husbandmen there, as it was within the
orbit Of tho sum Of civilization.
The bold and enterprsing brothers laid
here the foundation Of a rich and extensive
settlement, and peopled it in process of time
with a virtuous and an industrious progeny.
Their children, brought up to labor, and
Injured to fatigue, and taught to be economi-
cal and careful, followed closely in the path
to riches beaten by their parents. The eid-
est of the brothers died at last; his survivor
lived to move venerable age. And it was
! Wnen the SHOWS VI tilOTC tildu ulICtf WiHtei .
passed upon his head, that he sat one even
ing. in the door of his neat cottage, looking
at a little company of his great grand chill
dren sporting OH the green before his shaded
door. The sun was retiring behind the wes-
tern mountains, and family threw his last
beans upon the blue waters of the silent
river. The blcating of numerous Hooks OF
sheep and the lowing of the numerous herds
fell like the music of autumn on his ear. His
thoughts wandered back to those early days,
when in confidence of youthful vigor, and
the blessing of providence he first struck an
axe into the ancient oak of the thick forest.
1t was on that very spot
He recalled to memory, the house OF his
father, which he had not now seen for sew
cnty years; the recollection of an elder and
a beloved brother who had once inhabited
it. That goolly heritage had long since
passed to the hands of strangers. His bro
ther was in the rest. appointed for all the liv-
ing, AMI his family scattered to the Your
winds OF heaven.
II AS he gave way to those tender and sad
associations, his brothers. original crcum-
stances and subsequent life, ranged them
selves in view with his own-and he called
his little family around him, and thus ad-
dressed them
Listen my children to the voice of age, for
age gives experience and experience maketh
wise. You are most of you the sons Of com
paratively wealthy parents, so was L. But
fortune fr0wned on me almost as soon as
had become familiar with her name; she
may frown on you. 1t is beneath the dgni-
ty of man to bend under disappointments;
heaven has made ample provision tor all
The world is wide, and furnishes to each
who seek it, congenial spot. | bent not
YOU must not bend. Go and bear with the
, remembrance that you must all either buile
or support the foundation of your happiness
: and pectabilty--depend not on others
He only is wise who applies himself to gain
ing an independent livelihood. Go, and III
; your young days provide for old age. Your
: time Of labor is come--mine is past have
!; found in my life the truth of three maxims
Industry and Perseverance is the road te
wealth. Dependence on the estates of 9th
ers isdangerous, and virtue is the only Sc
curt, for happiness. Go, and remember
, YOU had an uncle who began the world rich
and ended it poor, and grandsire who be-
, gan poor and ended rich; because the former
5 depended ON an inheritance without care OF
prudence, the latter pressed all the advan'
taces of human. economy into his service, ant
, depended wholly on himself. And he, who
in temporal matters leans on another per-
son. leans OH a broken reed.