The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-05-04
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The sun has retired, beyond the hill on my
right,
While on my left sleeps that valley, shut out
from the sight. Old Song.
Bulwer has somewhere remarked that
"men and women have died and been buri-
ed, but the list of mortality can show no in
stance of death having its origin in love-"
10 mind like Bulwer's, there is something
exciting in the very notoriety that attaches
itself TO the saying or doing any thing out of
the ordinary routine of marter-of-fact &C.
currence; and he, of all others, has of late
years advanced ideas and doctrines. that at
a glance, are calculated to s,artle the bold
est, and cause the timid to tremble for the
safety Of their old and familiar notions upon
the unalterable laws Of nature, or those
which have their seat firmly established in
popular prejudice. In the declaration quo
ted above, the author may speak the Ian
guage of "truth and soberness." l shall
not attempt to controvert his position, or
point to the instances on record, that every
age has furnished, going towards the es-
Enlistment of CONTRARY opinion. But if l
have not seen death destroying the victim
of love-if the grave never closed over the
broken hearted and lone one, whose early
attachment has experienced the blight Of
dIsappointnient-I haze witnessed, in the
cell of the unfortunate lunaiic, the ravages
OF unrequited love- of hope that has YIELD
ed to despair:-I have seen the suffering
youth, confined in that narrow house, to
drag out wretched existence, cut off from
| the world, and as dead to all its pleasures
and enjoyments as though the tomb were
his inheritance. Such cases have occurred,
and may they not again happen? The heart
should be cherished with the same kind and
gentle attention that the fond mother devotes
to her only child. No blight, or sorrow, OF
disappointment should have place, where
JOY, and pleasure, and gladness alone should
dwell. And to guard agains. those ills to
which humanity is heir, is cardinal duty
for in an hour we know not of, the spoiler
| may come, and the beautiful tabernacle
upon which we have devoted life Of un.
ceasing watchfu:ness and attention, may be
desecrated by his unholy presence.
But enough of this moralizing, which was
induced by reading an article in late
number of the Fayette Advertiser, over the
signature Of "Leila." The writer of the
article alluded to, is evidently moon-struck
and if proper attention be not shown, viii
soon be the tenant Of mad-house. A heart
so susceptible of the tender passions, so del
icately organized, and SO feelingly alive tc
all those emotions that spring from the con
temptation Of youth, beauty, and accomplish
ments, if treasure to the possessor, is ont
/ that should be guarded with more than I
miserss watchfulness over his boards o
gold and silver. Leila is stark mad-fo
who that Is in love, is not partially bereft 0
that "sober second thought. experience,
i by those whom fate or chance has Withheld,
from being precipitated over the brink Q
that yawning precipice into which The in
fatuated lover is irreslstibly plunged, with
out either the hope or the desire Of bein,
extr:cated. Another evidence of the ma
lign influence under which "Leilan labors
is the assumption Of character 20 new
and unbecoming the age and condition Q
the writer. Now, we happen to meet il
this assumed character, an old and highl,