The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1839-11-09

| II WAS ShOugH, tnS oHhhppy mClChah'
was Immediately consigned over to the sec
ular.
Oh sad were those prison hours the girl
told her beads--the father prayed to all the
saints-and then came the vain consolation
by which each ondeavorod to cnes: the 9th
er. They though of their own sunny land,
its balmy air, its living beauty, and that
thought was horne.
November came with all its bloor7--the
month that should have been the grave OF
the yeai, coming as it does with shroud and
cereoloth, foggy, dark and dreary; ike faith
er's brow numbered more wrinkles, the once
black hair was more nearly bleached, the
features more auenuated.
And the dsughter-ah youth is the trans
parent lamp Of hope---but in her the light
e was dim.
In Geas and trembling the unhappy for
+ eigners waited the day OF doom. The msr-
chants offence was one littls likely to meet
e with no mercy. Henry vas jealous of his
IT title and head Of the church. He had drawn
is up code of articles of belief, which his
IS subjects were desired to subscribe 10, 81 he
had Instituted court Of which he had made
J. Lord Cromwell vicar-general, for the ex-
lg press trial Of those whose orthodoxy in the
s. kings creed was called into question:
TO Neither could the unhappy merchant hope
s. 10 find favor with his Judge, for it was known
lie that Cromwell was stOrongy attached tc
st the growing reformation, and from the act:
IN Of severity with which he had lately visi
ted some Of the adherents of the Romisf
O. creed, in his new character of vicar-general
Al it was scarcely probable that he would show
w mercy to one attached, by lineage, and love
{" to papal Rome. Strangers as they were
Gu unkncwing and unknown, what had the,
''' ne: to fear, anchvhat was left 10 hope
7r- The mornias of trial came. The fog
oil that dismal mouth spread like veil O
'''' YER earth. There was no beauty in tn
'"' landscape no light in the heavens, and n
" hope in the heart.
e' ~ The judges took their places: crowd G
>" wretched delinquents came to receive thei
'F doom. We suppose it to be rofnemer
'"' of modern days, that men are not punishe
'e' Tor their crimes, but only to deter other
e! from committing them. The court of Her
'"o ry's seemed to think otherwise, there wa
'"u all the array Of human passions in the Judge
'"o as well as in the judged. On one hand rt
III" creant fear abjured his creed; on anothe
'ne heroism braved all contingencies courtin
:. the pile ard stake, with even passionate d.
III sire; and the pile ard stake were given wit
30 stern and unremitling cruelty.
At length there stood at the bar an age
i" man and beautiful girl, the long white he
'"e Of the one fell loosely over the shoulder
yS' and left unshaded faced wrinkled as muC
'e' by care as by age; the dark locks of the otl
'o- were braided over countenance clouced b
eS' sorrow, and wet with tears.
The mockery of trial went on. 1t vi
and easy TO prove what even the criminal d
pl- not attempt to gainsay. The aged merclia
the avowed his fidelity to the Pope as a trl
as son Of the church, denied the supremacy
the Henry over any part Of the fold, and thl
o sealed his own doom.
ere There was an awful stiffness througho
:. the court-stilness the precursor of DOOM
mic broken only by the sobs of the weepir
ish girl, as she clung to hel fathers arm. How
10 belt the expected sentence was interrupte
J in there came sudden rush, fresh attendan
mad thrOnged the court. Room for Lord Cron
OF we'll Room for Lord Cromwell ?
ere And the vicar-general came in his pom
uts and his state, with all the insignia Of ofic,
,ge TO assume his place of prominence at thi
Ii tribunal. Notes Of the proceedings wei
I'M, laid before Lord Cromwell. He was tol
ain of the intended sentence add he made ge
his turs Of appreciation. A CLEAN of hope ha
of dawned upon the mind cf the Italian gi
vas as Lord Cromwell entered. She watche