The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-06-02
WHOLE NO.. 1858.

AFFECTING SCENE. The Bowehee people
VINO, male anc female, go quite naked, appear
TO have no affection for their offsprinO the
gentle appeals of nature are unknown TO them
parental tenderness dwells not in their bosoms
I and they sell their children as slaves. to the
greatest strangers in the world, with no greater
lsmorse OF conscience than if they were articles
OF common merchandise. AS proof of this
strange and unnatural apathy on the mart IF :
mother towards her child, the following to,1cb.
ing scene took place at Fullindushis whilst
was In the town "A travelling slave-dealer.
passing through the place, had purchased sew
eral OF their children, of both sexes from the
inhabitants; and amongst others, a middle aged
woman had an only daughter, whom she parted
with for necklace of beads. The unhapnv
glrl, who might have been about 10 or ID wears
Q, age on being dragged away from the ttresh-
oio OF ner parents hut, chung distractedlv. like
a shlpwrecked mariner to fioaking mast round
the knees OF her unfeeling mother, and, looking
up wislinily IN her countenance, burst into a
Hood OF tears, exclaiming with vehemence and
passion, o mother do not sell me /; what
VIII become of me ? what will become of vour.
sell IN old age, if you suffer me to desert YOU,
VINO VIII fetch you corn and milk? Who will
pity you when you die? Have [ been unkind
to you? o mother! do not sell your only
daughter. | will take you in my arms when
you are feeble, and carry you under the shade
Vi trees. AS hen watches her chicken. so
VIII watch over you, my dear mother. will
repay the Kindness you showed me in nv Infant
years. when you are weary will fan you to sleep;
ana whilst you are sleeping, will drive away
mes rom you. will attend on you when you
are in,paln; and when you die I will shed riv-
ers Oh sorrow over your grave. D mother! nv
Gear mother: do not push me away from ven:
DO not sell your only daughter to be the slave
ei Stranger" Useless tears vain remon-
STRANGE The unnatural, relentless parent.
shaking the beads In the face of her only child.
thrnst Ger from her embraces; and the slave.
dealer drove the agonized girl from the place
OF her nativity, which she was to behold no
more-Landsr's Records of Cant. ClaDnerto,,,s
Second Expedition to africa.
PARENTS! exhort you to love your children.
Make them as happy as is consistent with inno.
cence. Remember that the periods of child.
mood and youth soon pass away, and they eught
not 10 be deprived of any satisfaction which of
i,lght belongs to them. Let your government
be mild and equitable. Provoke not your chill.
dren to anger, lest they be discouraged.
irrtate not their tempers with severity, tor
ture, nor their hearts with cruelty The love
are in danger of displaying too much in the
management of their children, and of exactinO
OF them too selfish submission. The wills Of
children should be regulated, not broken. Ra
careful, therefore, while you aim to make them
honest and obedient, that you do not render
them dlthdent and serve But in avoiding
TINS extreme, guard at the same time against
an excessive indulgence, an error which is equal
y peTncions. DO not, for the sake of crafty
ing them in the present moment. Law mn 81
them many future years of bitter repentance.
1nough the minds of children NAV be inno-
cent, yet they are not, previous to instruction..
positively virtuous. They are a soil, where
every klEd OF seed will vegetate. Now the air
IS hlled with the seeds of vice; pluck up there.
fore the weeds of evil as soon as they appear
oe constantly employed in cultivating the man
ners, the understandings, and the hearts of volsr
offspring Let the hours which are not snent
IN the school of judicious and enlightened pre-.
ceptors, be passed under your own ewes.
Let not your children be educated in the
street, where they will be in constant danger of
learning impure and profane language, and of
oeing rude, mlschieVous, and quarrelsome."
BEAUTY OF THE HUMAN CoUNTEKANcE. There
Is one part of the character of human beauty of
which 1t is not out of place here to take notice.
namely, that which is founded in the capacity
for expression.
This capacity of expression, this indication
of mind, susceptible of great or of lender emo
tons, has great share in human beauty. How
different the tame regularity of merely placid
countenance. from what strikes the SPECTATOR
when he beholds the indications of a great mind
In that susceptibility of emotion and energy
which marks tho brow, and animates the eve Of
the hero, even in the calmest scenes of life.
now fascinating, compared with the insipid
prethness and regular features of an inanimate
beauty, is that susceptibility which lightens up
the countenance and plays upon the features Of
woman of sensibility, even while she is un-
moved by any particular affection.
The full, clear eye; the arched and movca.
ole eyebrow; the smooth and polished fore
head, as indicating the susceptibility of emo
ton and power OF expression, are grand fea-
lures of human character and beauty. And the
perfection of this beauty is found. wherever the
spectator is made sensible of this inherent this
latent power of expression, while no prevailing
passion gives cast to the features
Belts anatomy Of Expression.
IEJuRED AFRICA. The following striking
paragraph occurred in an Address, delivered at
Lexington, (Ky) by the Rev. Mr. Bascom, an
Agent OF the American Colonization Society.
"Onee Africa stood proud in learning, arts,
and arms Her pyramids, obelisks, and the
granite pillars of her ruined cities, stand in
gloomy magnIhcence, monuments of her archi-
tectural skill She furnished her heroes for the
field of battle, and her bishops for the church
OF God To learning and religion she had ably
contributed, But what wonder at her present
depression, riAed as she has been Of her blood
aud treasure, by every Christian nation. To
the shrine of European cupidity, it is computed
that one hundred and ninety millions Of her
inhabitants have been sacrificed To every ma
tion, Christian and nidel, she has in vain raised
her cry Of supplication. In reply, she receives
only additional weight Of chains. Every gale
that blows over. catches the aoVud IS H..
groans, and almost every foot Of her soil is
stained and wet with her blood, shed by Chris
tian STEEL"
AMERICAN MouNrAIEs. II annear. thar
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