The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-03-24
A MOT iER'S Low
AN INCIDENT OF THE ILL FArED LExrN,

AN INCIDENT OF THE ILL FATED LEXINGTON.
In the report Of the coroners inquest upon
the bodies brought 10 this city from the Sound ;,
where the life that Inhabited them ouce persisted,
we read that round the upper part of the body
OF child was found green veil partly burnt
In this touching circumstance ind the last
act OF that passion which ceases only with life
mothers love. Cease, did we say Never!
1t is of heaven, heavenly. In the mothers love-
to the last moment that the trembling spirit lin
gers in its earthly tenement-in its increasing
strength as life wanes, strongest as The soul is
tiulterng TO depart, read the hest natural evil
t aene ss ct IbS II 81 feyfq66 gsq Ih
low: but more titan all, in the mothers convul'
sive embrace of her child, in the season Of peril
where there are none to help-ln the frantic
clasp Which death makes only more rigld--nre
affecting testimonials, better than all the Others
to The immortality of the soul. A mothers soul
is in her love of the children she has borne
aud when should that soul he more free, more
like its source, and less selfish than at the mo.
ment its shack!es OF clay are loose? Forgive us
II the sentiment he sacrleg ous-but to- his it
seems nn,edate of HEAvEN-a manifestation OF
the DEITY.
The ages of terror that passed in the few hours
antecedent to the death of the sufferers, are more
painfully described in this little evidence OF
mothers care for her child thar volumes Of
description. We can read in il her retreat 20
the last corner of plank upon the wreck which
passenger, at the greatest distance from the tie.
youring Gre; we can see the child's face buried
II moment in the bosom VIII lch bad yielded II
sufficient shelter against all its ifprehrn<ions of
danger previous to that awful night. The terri
fic screams of the weak, and the more violent
despair of those who were east down from tan'
cie,i strength to conscious i,npoten ce-the con-
fusion of the appalling scene, and the certainty
| of unesca ,able danger, apparent even to an III
FAINT, would force its face, in wild alright from
| its temporary asylum. 1t WIS then, rs she bound
her terrf ed child to her breast: amid the horrors
and dStracting circumstances OF that moment,
that despite of every thing which draw it away,
her heart was centeied upon her child. 1t was
then that she interposed the feeble barrier ut a
cause veil between its face and the flames. Had
feather. in air passed her, II would not have es-
capped her attention and she would have cutched
it III the fulness of mothers hope, TO have
placed between death and her infant. For her.
self she had not a thought; and could the atti-
tude in which she last stood alive he painted I'VE
would stake our life that her body shielded the
infants from the fire. 81 that the veil was drawn
over its head to protect the features which child
> ish waywai dress, terror and curiosity would not
permit the mother to fold in her arms. But both
are gone now--and he who saw their last mo
ments and their temporary separation IN death
sees them again unite. While God lives theil
friends mourn not those Without hope.
Did the world need tits lesson TO teach lis oul
obligations to our mothcrs--the unrequitcd deb
of love, due from the hour of travail! which gave
us birth, through the years OF mental pain iol
our prosperity-griei for our adversely? Child
impatient of thy molher-be thy years inIantile
or mature remember that to her thou art StM
child; and when the pride Of fanc,ed superior
ity would make thee impatient OF her womanly
and it may seem TO thee, childish Suggestions
think OF the burned threads of the green VEIL
W. Y. Paper.
WHEN WE SEE GIRL STANDING ONE FOURTH
OF HER TIME AT THE GLASS TWISTING HER HAIR
INTO RINGLETs, WHICH THEY TERM BEAU