True American. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1835-18??, 1837-04-21
CHAPTER II.
] gu VOUS, IOOk down,
And from your sacred walls, pour your graccs
Upon my daughter's head.

-, : ------------- You Gods, look down,
An, ana from your sacred walls, pour your graccs
upon my danghter's head.
FOR some time Mr.. Bradford's hopes were con
u,meu; put after few months had elapsed, n nd
Charte had become confident in his strength 70
resist temptation, (too fatal dcluson) certain auc
tuauons IN the business in which he was enpaocd.
4. Obliged him to visit New Orleans, whittier his wife
was TO accompany him. Mr. Bradford had assisted
sChories with his property and advice ever since
toeir marriage, and on their departure he supplied
Anne with every comfort and even luxury which
sne might require during her sojourn in the city
waiher she was going. He had been, upon the
whole, well pleased with Chares,s condpct In,
certain relaxations in the strict forbeara he
marked out for himself, having lately appeared.
INT. Bradford was not without some anxious fears
my child ;" said he to Anne as he babe her adieu.
when first denied your hand TO Charles Morton
was from conscientious feeling that | was
DONG my duty. When afterwards re,racted nv
refusal, and yielded to his solicitations and vonr
gree, hnped that was acting rightly, for could
NOT endure 70 see you Pnng daily away, and for
was the cause, though an unwilling one, of ysur
euHerings. hoped, that by complying with your
Wisnes, v as administering to your happiness I
may nave teen wrong; if go, heaven pardon me!
wy chiio, until now have found no reason to re-
pent. Charles has been all tina, can wish. and
yet, now thatl am about to part from You, can.
MOI avoid feeling anxious and fearful Nv dearest,
Anne, It IN the path of duty now mark ed OUT for
yous ohouiu Please Providence to throw preyous
oostncies and misforlunes in your way, do NOT des
par; endeavor by every gentle means to win your
husband back from his destructive pa ssion. Place
your tuii trust in heavens mercy and above ali
let the recollection of your beloved mother he vomr
example and your guide. Initiate her and nros.
per: And remember, too, my dearest Anne. Ina,
although that blest mother is now no more vo,
nave stsH parent TO whom in your af1icfion yo,,
can apply for aid and consolation. Nav Tho Al
mighty bless and preserve you, my darling child.
-farewelli 'u'
Thus sadly and propheticalIy did the fond "a.
we. .ake leave OF her, whom, perhaps, he might
never see again; and as he slowly reiraced his
steps to his now childless home, lie PRAYED that
the misteftunes he dreaded might be ony visions
OF his own mind, destined never to be acted in
10 .lity. " '' a''eu IN
ana SAD too, were Anne's THOUGHTS as tho ves.
gel receded from the shore, and she felt. while her
Parent's form disappeared from her view ,bn, sh.
ead now but one being to whom she was to look
Tor protection and happiness. 1t is NOT often ,ha,
tnose who love devotedly, can believe in The nos.
ohty OF change or error in the object of their nt
!schment Surely, then, Anne NAV be forpivsn
~, when her husbands gentle voice broke soo,h.
s"E'y upon her ear, reminding her that though she
naa Tor the first time parted from her fnther sha
nad now friend who would be to her NIL ali ,ha,
sne could wish,-surely she NAV be forpyen' nan
symPa'hi1ed with, if at that moment she smiled in
S..aalousy at her faher's car., and thought them
OUT the iorebodings of mind rendered distrus, lm
~ 'o"S intercourse with the world.
(Io be continucd.)