Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1827-04-14


her dropping spirits, whilst she watched over her
with maternal soicitudc ,and stroye to restore her
TO the paths of duty and of virtue.
But the tale can be quickly told, % and il were
wcll' If truth and sense of justice did not re-
qure 10 tell it-it the situation OF the untortu
nate victim did not require, that her hapless lot be
known. Denied the protecting care of father,
thrown upon the world without the means of pro-
curing subsistence for herself and helpless Off
spring; those, who g for PHYS sweet sake pro-
tected her during tho interesting period of doules-
tic solicitude, at last, from necessity, not being
enabled TO support themselves by their labor,
turned her upon the world again, TO contend with
its rebuis, and war with her enem;es.--And now
she wandcrs, she knows not WHITTIER and though
the bleak north winds, assa her with their chll-
ling blasts, and the SCOTS of the world cast
upon her, she feels nothing poignant the in
humanity and severity OF an unnatural father,
His home is not her home, his friends not
her friends and though pitied, she receives not,
the aid Of those who should protect her /; and up
to whom she has a right to look for comfort and
support.-In vain does she implore the aid Of her
unfeeling parent;-to her ntreatios he turns a
deaf elr,-or if he hears her supplications, tells
her TO :" CO. like the midnight wolf howl to the
moon, and curse thy life in bitterness of misery"
II is not sid that the hapless gml, has yet re-
sorted to those abodes where mfamy and guilt
hold their midnight revels-- her father has
taken those steps, which will lead her,-unless
she possess sufficient virtue, to Withstand the at
tacks of misery, and die, rather than revel with
the abandoned--to seek an asylum in those mta-
nous brothols, where virtue never enters.
If, driven by despair, to course of licontious-
ness and crime, when by the intervening hand of
a parent, she can be saved, what curses, ought
there not fall upon his head-what evils ought not
to assal him. and " is there not some chosen curse
some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red
with uncommon wrath, - to blast the man, so dead
to all tho calls OF nature and humanity!
We may look with adherence on the abbera-
tions of those we loyed--we may contemn their
departures from innocence and ruth-and though
may not forgive them, is il Just is it right,
that we should abandon them in the hour of per-
iii If they are not lost for ever, it becomes us to
make u vigorous effort to reclaim thom, and to
restore them TO the paths of virtue and duty; for
if we abandon them to their fate, we drive them
TO despair and lead them to participate in all the
extravagancies of infamy and crime.
If this simple and unvarnished tale should ev-
eli reach the eye Of the father Of Adelaide let him
hasten to the abiding place of his wrctched off
spring, clasp her 10 his BOSOM restore her to his
family, nourish and protect her, till her faults
shall have been forgotten, and like him of old,
say to her, daughter, thy transgressons are for
given thee; live, be happy, and sin more.
And should the destroyer of her happiness, the
seducer of her innocence, chanoe to hear of the
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hgtory of her hardships and waytarngs, let him
too repent, and redeem the forfeited reputation of
her he loved, and on whom he has hurled load
of msupportable calamity But should he, like
her unnatural parent turn a deaf ear to her sup
plications, and despise her sorrows, she may be
consoled with the assurance, that there is plst
and merciful God, who will abundantly pardon and
who will forgive all VINO aim AItn uontro
hearts, and impore forgivness at the fountain of
his mercies. Though desolate and ablect, IL is
hoped that all will not (orsake her, and that she
will yet live to be blessed and happy; that her cup
of bitterness il already filled; and, that he who
for the moment, blasted her prospects, will return,
and enable her to disproye the declarations of
Goldsmith, who has said
When lovely woman stoops TO folly,
And finds too late that men betray:
What charm soOthe her melancholy?
What art can wash her guilt away?
The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eve,
To give repentance to her lover,
And wiring his bosom is-to die.
CS--we deem it necessary to remark, that
the tale Of the &c Unnatural Father is tale of
truth, and that in telling it, have not given it
any false shades, tints, colorings The par
ties concerned, probably the only ones by
whom it will be recognized as true, and as we
| not disposed to give up names, or TO make
Dau matter worse, we snail decline answering any
interrogatores that may be put to the sub
ject For the qualification of all, viii add,
that the parties do not reside in our immediate
vicinity. Our object, in writing the tale,
is to awaken an Unnatural Father 10 sense Of
duty, and to induce him to follow the dictates of
humanity, justice and religion If in this we shall
succeed, we shall be rejoiccd and shall be graf
flied with the reflection, that have done
deed which will ever be applaudcd by the good
and the generous.
We have not sought to harrow up, unne cessari-
ly the feelings of any one; our first object has
been to do the injured some service The subject
matter of the tale, comes within the immediate
province of the press, and should we hear of
another of similar nature, shall unhesita
tngly lay il before the public. The father of the
hapless victim of the scducer, has by his treat
ment towards his daughter adopted measures
well calculated TO PROSTATE her with the aban-
doned and if he does not relent, ana preserve her
from run when il is in his power TO do so, he will
deserves the united condemnation and execration of
the world. We shall neither finch from the per-
formance of our duty, shrink at the frowns of
the unnatural destroyer, of the reputation of his
own offspring.
Our IRIsH PoPULATIoN.-Withn a few
years, and since the spirit of improvement has
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