The Arkansas advocate., 1830-06-02
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 judges, as the one entitled to the premi-
 un of Twenty Dollars, offered some time
 since, by the Publisher of the New York
 Amulet. 1t cannot fail of being read with an all absorbing interest.
 EYERARD GRAHAM.
 Written for the New Fork Amulet.---By
 WILLIS G. CLARKE, OF PHILADELPHIA. ss ake back the hewt-taAe haek4he bowl,
 Reserve 1t for polluted Iips:-
 D would not bow stainless soul,
 Beneath it's dark and foul eclipse.
 JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.
 THERE are evils in the earth, upon which the eloquence of the Orator, the Eyre of the Poet, and the deep and the Hsiover-Wrought touches of the pencil and pen, have dwelt almost in vain. In Fheir description, wealthof language 6s turned into penury the darkest dream pfanguish and distress, but EaintIy shad- pws forth the stern and moving. reality. sfii'lle strong and emphatic language of Holy Writ; the burning words of Da- Fid and Solomon, are almost impuissant Rifea they afe employed ia painting the awful horrors of inddel unbelief, and fhat destruction of the body and soul (which follows in the train of protean Drunkenness. They are more dire than the fabled Furies; the abysses they open, are 6ereer than Cocyfus or Pleg- ethon;-their grasp is more powerful than the serpents of Laocoon:-T'he burthens which they impart are more Wearisome than the stone of Sysiphus or the wheel of Exion; and their ascendeh- cy Is unbrokeR, until the understanding Is bewildered, and the clouded eye be- eom $ fearless; until the heart becomes as adamant, and the spirit is goaded and festless beneath the dominion of Re zEnorse; till the ear tingles with the adder aslisses of coward Conscience, and the unnerYed bosom writhes in the emo lions of regret which pierce like a SCOT pion's sting.
 Infdelity and Intemperanee go hand lnhand. They bid spIritof youth bow down at an unholy shrine ;ahdthe sweet lest affections, the dearest hopes and iond- lest vissions of earth are offered up as in- sscense to the mysterious divinity Unbe- 2 ief-This isnoideal picture; the wide world is full of the altlictioAs that are summoned up like the clouds around the devious pathway of the Blasphener and the Drunkard.-The red wiae Sbrightens alluringly in the goblet; the sshadowy illusions of theseeptiee come but flor a little season with a soothing unc- stion to the mind but anon there steals ito the one, the wormwood dregs of bit #ter regret; to the other, the clouds (which obscure the sunshine of hope; .@ which spread a mouriiful curtain over 8the beautiful scenes of human existence. land create unutterable forebodings oi that undiscovered country beyond the land of Death.
 l have littlehope that the Tale which I am about to relate, will cause any to $ release the deluslons which they have grasped; but am never without nope. would that my pen were dipped in the $ empyreal fire of heaven, that mlght show the light which they reject whe turn from the word of inspiration- would might gather upon the canvass q the darkness of the midnight cloud, aaa ' the fierce lightning of the tempest; & would forma panorama ofterrors, which X should shadow forth to the mad votary Z of Bacchus, and the victim of Unbelief 2 the abyss of destructionupon which they are rushing; which should say to them sTurn ye at my reproof, and heed noi s the song of the charmer, charm he nev CT so wisely"
 # It was stormy evening in January # l8-,when my friend EvEaARD GaA $ HAM and myself, were seated by oa comfortable grate, in the seminary o Hz G.. The coal was reddenihg be s hind the bars of its prison; and the cheer N fitness of our little room was enhanced R@ by the storm without. We had ba z lately come up from reeitations ant & prayers in the chapel; and had for som' M time been seated lnsiience, ,eachindulg inginour respective thoughts. Thesnov came pattering gently against the win dows; and by way of ofbeguiling the time arose and breathed upon q pane, ant wrote thereon my humble initials M Without, the scene was tronblesom
 and uninviting. The vide strctchlnl