The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1833-05-08
The following 10 extracted from the
correspondent Of the New York Stand


The following 10 extracted from the
correspondent Of the New York Stand
ard.
Washisgion March %. 1893.
Dear Sir-Nature with us is putting
on her vcstments Of green. Early spring
flowers appear in our ladies windows.
and the young leafis struggling 20 break
from lie wintry confinement. The carol
of the birds again cheers us hy day, and
nightly serenades arise from our low
grounds. The butterflies do not yet fi.
through our atmosphere. and settle in
our streets, but we have all their colors
, and mo,isns in the lady-bugs who sally
forth from their. retreats TO enjoy the
breeze and the sunshine. Love and
pleasure are advancing upon the clouds.
along the earth, over the sea, and we
can be happy e we will
Memory--ihls day experience checks
me. There arc those who cannot be
+ happy. Want. affection, mental agony,
hopes blasted, joys forever past, dark
and gloomy future: when all these weigh
upon poor frail lsnature, how cnn it be
happy, There is in this city, widow,
the widow of one of our gallant naval
oficers--an intelligent, accomplished
and Interesting woman, with young
daughter Just in the bloom of woman
hood--beautiful and innocent. The
lady is a foreigner, by birth an English
woman, who married our eountryman
from admiration Of the chiyalry Of our
naval heroes, and left beyond the wide
ocean all Of her blood. Her only rela-
live in America is heschild. The cpn-
nexions of her husband scarcely know
her.--They do not know the purity of
her character and the elevation Of her
mind, fov slandcr has been busy.-Sbe
and her daughter are without the means
Of subsistence. A few charitable gen
tlemen gave her money to aid in furnish
ing boarding house.--bpt the means
are inadequate; and some Of those who
professed to befriend her, proved them
selves worse than savages--not in the
mischief done, ,.but in the ruin intended.
What has she left 10 cast melancholy
glsam of almost miserable Joy into her
lonely heart, hut this.rosebud Of child
Who could deprive her Of this Z Who
could be so cruel as 10 kill-kill by a
long living death. more cruel than star.
vatIon, both mother end child l-Whnl
being 10 there Ia the universe who could
do more than this And is the worst of
all beings in the shape of A NAN?
This lady | have seen to-day; she
so'd me the story Of her wants and her
woes--unisery was upon her face, and
tears in hes> eyes; yet had she spirit e.
nergh left Sometimes to smile. She and
her daughter subsist upon the secret
charities of one or two individuals, and
the gay world moves around her, and its
waves roll over her, unconscious of her
wretchedness.
This lady applied to the last Congress
for pension. - They gave thousands 10
wretches in the shape Of men, upon the
prctence Of claims which could COM
mand neither justice nor charity. They
gave hundreds of thousands to pave our
streets and make US bridge for misery
TO walk over, toll free; but they left the
widowed stranger and her child, to weep
and starve.--God send her friend, for
shs honor Of our coun,ry-n friend who
- able and willing, to wipe away her
. tears and shed nj least the sunshine of
hope upon her path. Let her at least
hope, that hor child will live honored
and die respected.
Ny Thoughts have not wandered---alI
this end werso is true. Howeyer just
may be the dispensatiens Of Providence,
he does not often make our Congress an
instrument to do good.