The native American., 1837-12-09

yon silver orb, to become part of the unfettered
lelement on whose wings the DEITY himself doth
ride!
All nature is exulting in combination against
thee, poor man! | seem to see the joyous eager
ness with which he winds rush in from the four
corners OF the earth TO despoil thee. Each after
another snatches to its embrace portion of thy
spirtualized wealth, las it appeared but now, and
darts far up into the blue ether, where the eagles
pinion hath never swept!
Even Neptune himself hath turned traitor to
thine interests. The sparkling diamonds fall
thick and heavily. Mans ingenuity can turn the
river from its course, and rain it upon thy burning
i walls. But see! no sooner do the brilliant glo-
bules feel the influence Of the fire, than they, too,
catch the spirit of freedom, and bursting into
Dor, Join the merry flight of earth and air, shoot
/ ing upward, and upward Pour on the flood!-
4 but it aids thee not Mark those blue flames dane
ing upon the kissing stones it is the water itself
which burns! Fire and water have forgotten
their ancient enmity, and are united to destroy
thee! st. George and st. Dennis have struck
hands for thy undoing. The hon and the orl-
|lamme In mockery of thy misery, together flaunt
their heavy folds over thy funeral pyre.
! Canst thou not learn wisdom from that glorious
| sight! An hour ago those crumbling walls con-
tanned heap of wealth which thou calledst thine.
Thou couldst see it, feel it, do with it according
| to thine own pleasure. Where is it now? 1t has
thrown off the perishable medium which made it
evident to thy earthborn Senses and is lying IN
visible to thee, in the eternal expanse. An hour
ago, few feet Of earth contained it all. Now,
one wing floats murkily over the forests OF the red
man, waiting to Heaven the prayer acceptable to
the Great Spirit, who watches over all his crea-
lures alike; and in whose sight crowns and dia-
dems are as tipsel and dross. The other fans the
tho nj
dark blue ocean,
| And is man of meaner nature than his mer-
lchandize? One short hour ago, who could have
told that those iner; bales and boxes contained ar
immortal principle, that would soon burst from its
confinement, and expand itself throughout these
lboundless regions? It was invisible, intangible,
too subtle in it's essence to be detected by mortal
senses; yet was it there, confined in those narrow
limits, waiting the destruction OF It's beautuf
prison, that it might be free.
And is it not so with me? Have | not also am
Immortal essence, capable Of endless expansion!
-I-capable of enioyments, of existences, OF which
: III now know nothing? Is this the whole of my
! being? Do not feel the soul within me strug-
Cling in its vain efforts to grasp what is beyond
: it's reach? Do | not see universe around me OF
5 which am conscious can now know as it were
nothing! And is this wonderful display of secret
agencies intended only to tantaize my ettered in
4 tellect? Have | not powers capable OF knowing
! all things?-and these powers never to be
> permitted to develope themselyes! OH for know
I ledge! acouM see the handspring which causes
the revolution Of that bright orb. and those glitter
II ing gems! / would see whence the kmg OF Day
= derives his heat and his light! | would see what
makes the grass grow the tree put forth its leaves,
p and the blossoms its fruit. / would see hoaU this
9 poor feeble body confines and cramps the swell
ING spirit within it; and hoW that spirit impars OF
: it's own life to the clay.
= But let me wait in patience. The time will
= COME knoU it-when | too shall burst this
: thraldom; when shall throw off this living mass
of death, and then-thcn | will visit the stars;
will explore the universe; will know-not every
thing, COP pardon me- but shall be continually
, learning; for ever going onward, and onward,
with archange strides toward that refulgent throne
of universal knowledge, on which sits God-the
, Creator-the Omniscient!
; But while | stand here soliloquizing by my
! open window, the cold night air reminds me in
language too forcible to be mistaken, that mind
and matter are so conioined that may not neg
lect the rules of he latter with impunity to it's
nober ally SO will cherish thee, fra, fail
ing, dying body for thou art part of myself;
and some there are, more deeply read than in
: these mysteries, who would have me believe that
thou too art immortal-that thou shalt re-appear
in the great day when the Heavens shall be roll
ed together as a SCROLL and that we-thou and
: shall be united, one and indivisble, through
; eternity. 1t may be so. | know not of what
changes thou art susceptible, and yet remain the
same. The gem that sparkles upon the brow of
beauty and royalty, and the vile refuse of my
HEARTH which the beggar might not touch, are
one. The same.-yet how different! And so it
may be with thee. These are hidden things, in
to which may not penetrate. Mans feeble pow
ers are insufficient to comprehend the miIioRth
part of the wonders which exhibited to his
view; and why should he presumptuously search
after those that have been concealed!
y Let me then rest satisfied in the full conviction,
that as the mysteries of creation are infinite
am possessed of infinite capabilities for under
standing them, and shall have an eternity in which
to study them: that, as some good man has said,
as the embryo in its mothers womb is endowed
7 with organs of sense, which can avail it nothing
till brought into the light and air of the world, so
!, man has powers of intellect, capacities for know
b ledge and love- of whose existence even he is UNI
! conscious, until transplanted to those regions
! which are fitted for their Development
q Philadelphia. I. I.