Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1832-08-16
THEOEAD.

by a forcibe and I'M pressiye writer, who
read the ordinay list Of deaths, who know any
thing of the depth Of human feeling or the
intensity Of human suffering, which is re-
corded in the s'nIle ana brief notices
which we read with so much carelessness,
and so coldly IN the ewspapeFs.--EI hiding
no familiar name TO arrest attention, or a
waken sympathy, we think no more of the
matter, for what care we for the long mid
night yigils of watchful, aficctonatc friend
ship-the weary aching head--tbe afflicted,
depending heart--we do not feel the pain
the languishing sufferer has experienced. aud
we know nothing OF the agony which ex-
hausted his frame and wore out bis weary ma
ture; nor care we for the spirit which has
fed its frail tenement, and uttered its last,
f nal. grasplng farewell We know nothing
Of the neart breaking anguish which is lelt,
or the bot burning tears which gush out in
the agony of severed friendship, from DO
SONS swollen aud bursting with an excess OF
passionate grief We know nothing of the
bitterness Of parting. of the strength of al
| fections which have been toi@ asunder,-of
the hopeessness of the first food Of tears
Of the depth of pro.racted suflering-or of
the intensity Of the Affections which real
! friends have been called upon to suffer and
! endure.
! II is melancholy, though instructive con.
| sldeFation, that the tendency of every thing
70 TO decay, that the happiesl prospects and
! brightest visions oil future bliss, are but de-
| lusIge fancies, which become extinguished
when they shine out most wildly, and give
( the strongest evidence Of permanent dura.
! ton "ltopes which were angels in their
birth" becomes, from their intimacy and
close come xion with human irdily and de
| cay, but things Of earth, and thus it is, that
! those dear objects upon which have lavisbed
| the most flattering hopes Of future happiness
and bliss are removed from US before we arc
conscious of the palsying illness which
quenched the spirit and laid them low. We
! gfleve that they are taken from us so sud
! denly, that they could not have been spar
ed little longer, that we could not have APP
preciated their worth, returned their mani
fold kndnesses, and gradually prepared our
selves for that event which from its sudden
occurrence nnmsDs. oar resolutions and pros
trates us in the dust by the sternness and Sc
verify of the blow. There is another sad
thought, but nevertheless a true one-that
The more friendships we form, the more at
| tachments we make, the more tender and
endearing connexions He weave around us
and invest ourselves with, in this world the
more OF gFlei and suffering we shall be call
ed to endure. a time Will come when all
earthly attachments must be severed, and
! the more fond we have been of friends ard
| the more devoted TO connexions. the more
! a gopzng and severe will be the struggle
which separates rs and tears US away from
among them. II may he that the Stoic's life
| is productive, eventually, of less pain and
suffering than that individual endures, who
possesses more delicate sepsibty, and is a
live TO The generous impulses Of nature and
the finest feelings Of the human heart; il may
be so, bot yet his cold enjoynents. and be
numbing sympathies afford htin but poor
comfort. when most he aeods the sympathy,
the sustaining haBd and upholding arm of
ardent, and enduring friendship. Lie would
not be worth possessing, If this polar star
did not illuminate ia dark paths and throw
around It's dreaIiness, some evidence Of sym
tpathetic love for each other; and though Sc
paraion, when il comes, brushes the heart
and tears asHHder its very iibres, vet bow
eagerly we taste of its delicious sweets and :
exut IN the participation Of It's delirIous en-
joyme6tsi -
GeRIus - Talent -. CtcdUerneSs - Genius
rushes like Northumberland marches
like cavalcade heavy men and heavy horses
-Cleaverness SKINS like swallow in sum
mer evening, with q sharpe. shrili note, and
2 sudden turning. The man Of Genius
dweIi's with men and with nature; the man
OF talent in his study; bat the clever man
tdances here and there and every where, like
! a butterfly in hurricane, striking every
thing aud enjoying nothing. but TO light To
4 be dashed to pieces. The man of talent will
attack theores--the clever man assails the
Individual, and SANDER private character
But the man of genius despiseth b 9th, he
i heeds none, he fears none, he lives IN him
sell, shrouded IN the consciousness of his
own strength-he interiears with none aud
walks forth an example, that, "eagles fly a
lone they are but sheep that herd together
IL is true, that should a poisonous worm cross
his path he may tread il under his foot; should
q cur snari at hun lie may chastlse it, but he
twill not, cannot, attack the privacy of ano-
Their Clever men write verses, men of ia
lent write prose, but the man Of Genius
wnte poetry.
=; Cross EVAMINATIoN.--A quarrelsome French
officer, lately travelling one ofthe hoelcvards
at Pans, observed person turn towards HIM
aud laugh; upon which he haughtily asked
i'Nhy 90 you laugh, sir, when pass9' To
which the other quickly rcjoined -sWhy do
you pass sir, WHEN laugh?'