The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-07-04


charge with:
'sYom fortune is gone,' said l.
8" Who it wasted it for me p
" Your beauty turned to defomity you have grown
ugly as the -
"'whO spoiled by rObbng of rest by night of hap
pness by day
you longer the gay, sprghtly, animatedi witty
thing that won my heart
80 Your hear! replied she, scornfully who it
that robbed of my gaey; that wrecked my heart, and
turned BRAN Do know the man, the monsteI would
say Her eyes flashed ire she continued Do you
know the monster, say he who deceived my youb
ed my ior,une destroyed my happiness degraded the modes
ty of my and staou poured liquid FIRE down throat
and heaped Goals OF FIRE the heads of my children VINO
rendered the past recollection of horrors the present yet
worse the future-0 my Cod
"'I whom you promised love and obey all your life.
Come give example Obedience cried l. pouring out
glass of filthy liquors come, bumper IsNear
you shall drink bumper to this happy day-comen
81 will not; am already more than halt beast"
-" And half fool mueIed |, RISING and staggering to
the other side of the table, where she stunsi swear
BY he'll you shall drink 1T
g l swear BY Heaven 1 will notr
" Who shall answer fo the of mad with
dnnk Not himself for he beast without soul; bis
Maker, for he has abandoned hun struggle ensued
during which gradually became irritaed fury The
children chung srghed US kicked them az
Ny poor Amelia length struck the glass of my hand
became furious demon. and threw her from with
dshoeal torce against the corner OF the tire place She
fell raised herself half up, children look, and
sank down again. She dead.
- am the sober tenant Of mad house. The jury
that tried would believe who acted such
as we're proved upon could be bis They ac-
quilted the OF insanity My relatives placed
here TO the rest OF my days. and my
san Blu not mad; the justice Of heaven has ordained
thar shall i've while hive, The full perception Of my
past wiekedness know what 5 hscoue OF ms children
for no viii my nquir,es-no vii tell me
where they whether they dead alive Ali can
understand IS. that shall them Nv
slant companion day and night, waking and dreaming NV
murdered wife. Every of life spent recall
Ing my mind the history of that III zul, the
of what have her. friends and
Der offspring Denied the indulgence of ~ OF
lants, my Strength gone boGy shrunk sryelsd al
most TO skeleton. and mbs quake With the least
ten Guilt gns me the face lnfamy barks my heels
points her finger me; disease gnaWBg my
death already touches with his fingers and
waits to swallow me up am going TO meet Amelia.
The TO whose charge am committed, has furnish
ed with the of fulfilling this last task, and
king the only atonefent power for what have done
II there be any who shall read this, whom
may beckon aar off, distance which DISCUSSES its deform-
ash pursued my forward; closed about
close forever Let him cheat his SOUL let him
moment believe that impossible Tor him to become
bad than have been. Ii look ony 81 the
beginning and the end of Of namy and wckedness
the space appears guilt which the delinquent oEerleapt
single bound But II examine the particulars Of
his life and progress, shall seldom fail ind that the
teva has been passed. and the goal attained step BY step
little and little; from good bad from bad Tie
PRIDE OF human may whisper that
never become ke the wretch whose have Just
tracing But poor ophea We know what ale.
but know what may be- 1t only begin as
began the seeds, and be that good time YOU
Will reap the fruits; drink the gail and bitterness
here, the same iery draught hereafter. PIP. 1855
-SSs-
PETER THE GREAT.