Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-06-15
/ transactions; be firm, honorable, and

use your best eXertlon5 to please and
render them happy. You ought to an
ticipatc their wishes, and crafty them.
Bear with any little manifestations of
fretfulness which you may discover in
their conduct, and view them rather as
the concomitants Of old age, than the
result ola mind prone to murmur. Re-
member too what anxiety, what watch
fulness, what care and labor they endu-
red for our sake, during the period Of
infancy, childhood, and youth. BE du-
tiful, affec.ionatc and kind. Remove,
as far asyou can, every obstacle to their
happiness, and quietly smooth the way
that conducts them to their tomb"
THE SUPREMACY OF THE LAWS.
The following extract from a sermon recently
preached in Boston, by the Rev. N. l.. FRoTH-
lNcHAM, contains sound doctrine; and at this
time, when the disorganizing elements are SO
fearfully at work in society, we commend its
emphatic language to the sober consideration
of all:
"Take the laws as they arc-they
are the only barrier between you and
the ROBBERS violence and the assnssin's
knife; and would say revere them.
Thwart them not. Stand by their de-
4cision. Come to their help. all good
men and true. Let them not be made
Intellectual by your weak reIuctances.
Let them not be brought into mistr1lst
by your objections and combinations
and outcries, till they have no majesty
Left. Let them not be undermined by
the wasteful and washv tide Of n1ista-
ken philanthropy. In the name of the
divine equity. for the sake Of the com
mon protection, STAY not their righteous
though terrible doings Every attempt
to invalidate their spoken decree, is
public wrong. Every voice that has
sworn to judge only according to the
law and the evidence, and then refuses
to speak but according to private pity,
is false to its oaths."
"REMINISCENCES la the memorable
attack made bv the British snlatlron
upon the almost tlcfsnceless village Of
Stonington, in the month of Septe,n-
Der, 1914. number Of their bargcs,
in attempting to effect landing on the
east side Of the peninsula, were prompts
ly repulscd by the militia. a few Of
them were sunk, and one drifted on
shore full of wounded and dying. A
mong the persons severely wounded,
was young midshipman, Of prepos-
sessing appearance, and though mcdi-
cal aid and kind attentions were imne-
diately afforded, it was found impossi-
bic to preserve his life. He died, and
was inferred with the fonors of war in
the village graveyard. In the latter
part OF the summer subsequent to the
termination of hostilitics, an elderly
gentleman, evidently foreigner, drove
up to the public house in the village,
and after few illusions to the attack
and defence, inquired of the landlord
II any British officer who was killed at
the time. was buried in the neighbour
hood. The landlord answered in the
affirmative, and related the particulars
OF the capture, death, and burial, Of the
young nidstipman.
ne was asked by the stranger If he
would accompany him and point out
the spot where the remains Law; which
was Immediately complied with. The
gentleman then desired to be left alone,
and did not return to his lodgings until
late at night. In the morning he rose
early, and again repaired to the crave
yard, where he remained four or five
hours. After his return, he took break
last, settled his bill, and was about de-
parting, when the landlord, whose feel
ngs as well as curiosity we've greatly
excited, vcnturcd to intrudc upon his
'escrvc, by asking II the deceased mid
'ilipman were relative. He replied
n faltering accent that he was:-tfat
was his only son; and that as soon as
'e could conveniently leave England,
fter the renewal of intercourse between
he two countries, he had engaged pas
age, for the sole purpose Of viewing
he spot where the relics Of all that
ound him to earth lay entombed. That
e had now poured out his grief over
rs grave, and putan end to the agoni-
ms uncertainty which haunted his
1ind respecting his death and burial. J
ie should goback comparatively sooth- !
q, with the entire satisfaction that his
On had not fallen into the hands Of bar
arlans, but had died surrounded By !