Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1838-07-14

ayen nothing, compared WIN many OF
' g'en hraye heroes of the Revolutionary
InoIT Trdian wars, yet it was in the dispen-
an ~ ,n ncproyidence, that he should be cut
I Ian,n IN the ygor ofyouth, and the morn
I ;ng Of his valor, and | trust, he be for
ins ~ on earth he will be remembered in
Soayen. My1 father had but one bro
her that lived TO manhood, and he was
,narner; he followed the seas many years
nSa common sailor, at length, he was en-
lived. 10 sail a merchant vessel, from
A yew York to Liverpool: on his second
rovage, as he was, returning from Eng
and he met with one of those storms,
wbich so commonly infest the seas, to the
terror OF the wandering mariner, especial
~ on the Atlantic, and in which the ship,
and the whole crew, with the exception Of
one passenger, were engulfed forever, in
the mjchty and terrible Ocean. My moth
ar Ind two sisters and one brother. Her
brother died in childhood, and her young
est sister was disappointed in marriage,
and fell an early victim to mental derange-
ment, which soon put an end to hcr de-
plorable existence. Her other sister mar
reda merchant, and moved to ST Domin-
90, where she soon fell prey TO the in
Clement atmosphere, and prostrating sun
of the Torrid zone. So when my mother
died the scene was closed, for that genera
ton on both sides ofou family, and am
the only regeneration. And now, that |
am alone in the world, without a single
person, whom | can as much as call a
relation, (though in the common accept
ance ofthe term, friendship, | have friends
as numerous as the stars in the sky is it
strange, that should venerate the sleep
ing ashes ofmy mother? nay, even dwell
around her lonely Sepulchre, with the most
conflicting emotion of pleasure and pain.
Yes there is my home; the only spot on the
habitable Globe, that have any more re-
gard for than another. Though | have
been where the Sun stood in the zenith at
noon-day-with the antipodes when it was
night here, but the sun of earthly consola-
ton was yet set, and the gloomy darkness
Of a dreamless ight was spread far upon
The earth. | have heard, with awful awe,
the lone and distant murmur from sleep
ing waters.-I have been borne away up
on the face of the mighty deep-l have
seen the Ocean gather in mountains, to war
with his sister element-and have re-
turned again, in an opposite direction, to
the same post from whence sailed but
never for an hour, while awake, have |
forgotten the last council of my dear moth
er. As she lay pale, and emaciated, upon
the bed of expiring mortality, she called
me TO her bedside, and said "my dear
child, come to me, that dying mother may
give her only son, and only child of two
generations, few words Of advice before
she leaves you. Since the death of your
father, you have been all for which | had
any desire to remain in this world |
looked upon you as the only heritage Of
your father, and the reward of Heaven;
and while | was rocking for you, the era
die of morning life, looked forward with
the proudest anticipations,. that we might
both be spared till when you arrived to the
years of discretion, that you might, in re-
turn smooth for me the bed of declining
age. But you are deprived of that privi-
lege you are not old enough to be SEN
sible Of the loss you are about to sustain,
a mother. Yes my son, the wise dispenser
of all events has ordered, that in few
hours, shall be with you no more in
time; but my dearest child, (taking me by
the hand) | am going to dwell in that bet
ter world, with your father, and our God.
twill be but short time, at the longest,
until you will have passed the time
ofhuman discretion, and follow on in the
road which am about to take. Though
our separation will not be long, it is the
last prayer of your dying mother that
your conduct in life may be such, as will
honor the names of your departed parents,
and that you may gain from virtue and
religion, those principles of benefcence
and Justice, which will secure to yourself
an unblemished reputation, and an imper-
ishable inheritance in Heaven. Here she
paused, as ifto repose for moment, and
gradually sunk away, apparently, falling
into calm, deep, sleep. But 10! it was
the sleep of death! she spoke no more
Never, never, shall forget the benignity
Of that look, which she shed upon the by
ISLANDERS, or that calm but languid smile,
which played upon her fading counten-
ance, even to the end Of life, no, no, never.
Then followed the burial: it was sad
and awful scene TO me, but forbear a
description Of the better anguish Of my
grief, at that sad hour Of my life: We
we're bound together, by more than the
common ties, which united the parent and
child; nor was then entirely insensibe
of my forlorn condition. Yes, then the
siiken cords of affection were unstrung,
and the golden bowl of life was broken.
Voc ninntnnn unn re since [ snW the tomb