Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1841-10-07

There is glorious meridian to which
sic shall as surely come as tomorrow
5lpgsSRn shall reach his own in our nat
heavens. What man will be, wher
Rap shine upon him then and thence
nall unable to divine but we car
IN anticipation from the influence,
rGawning rays. Her morning lights
S.ded the visions Of human hope
xkEed over the night shadows o.
ID Sorrow. There has been no depth
ilan misery beyond the reach of her
anelfora'lng influence, nor any height
of human happiness which she has not
raised still higher. Whoever has touched
al either OF these extremities, or at any
OF their intervening points could attest
that "neither height nor depth, nor prin.
clpaIlIles nor powers, nor things present
or 10 come" could divert or vitiate the
accents and anodyness of her love- Whe.
Their we trace the lneaments of her
character in the mild twilight of her NOR,
ming sun, or in the living beams of her
rising day, we find that she has touched
human society like an angel. 1t would
be lrrevoenl to her worth TO say, in
what walks Of life she has walked like
an angel of light and love in what vi
clsltudes, in what oy or sorrows, in what
situations OF circumstances she has most
slgnal!y discharged the heavenly minis.
tratlons OF her mission j.; what ordeals
have best brought Out the radiance OF
her hidden jewels what frutions of
earthly bliss, or furnaces Of affection,
have best declared the fneness OF her
gold. Sill there is scene which has
escaped the vulture's eye" and almost
every other, where she has cast forth her
costlest pearls, and shown such qualities
OF her native character as almost merit
our alteration, This scene has been al
lotted to the drunkard'S Wfs. How she
has filled this most desperate outpost OF
humanity, will be revealed when the Sc.
cret of human life shall be disclosed, " to
more worlds than this" When the his
tory of novels, and Of murky garrets shall
be given in when the career Of the en-
shaved inebriate shall be told, from the
first to the lowest degree Of his degreda
tion-lhtre will be memorial made o
woman, worthy Of being told and heard
in heaven. From the first moment she
gave up her young and hoping heart and
all its treasures into the hands of him she
loved, to the Iuckless hour when the
charmer, wine, fastened around the low
ed one, all the serpent spells of It's sorcery
down through all the crushing OF hei
young born hopes-through years of es
arrangement and strange insanily-when
harsh unkindness bit al her heart strings
with an adder's tooth--then down thro
each successive depth Of disgrace and
misery, until she bent over the druukard'S
grave; through all these scenes, a halo OF
divinity has gathered around her, and
stirred her to angel deeds of love. When
the maddened victim tried to cut himself
a DRIFT from the sympathy and society of
God and man, she chung to him and held
him TO her heart with hooks of Steel"
And when he was cast out, all detiled
with his leprous poIlutlon-when he was
reduced to such thing as the beast of
the field would below at-there was one
who still KEEP him throned in her heart Of
hearts could say over the fallen drivel-
ling creature although you are no.
thing to the world you are the world, to
me-" When that awful insanity Of the
drunkard sci in upon him with all its
fiendish shapes Of tortuc; while he lay
wIiherng beneath the scorpion stings Of
the fiery phanlasie and (uries Of delirum
tremens-lhere was woman by his side,
ensaved with all the attributes OF her
loneliness. There was her tear love beam
ing eye, that never dImmed but with
tears when the back spirits were at him.
There she stood alone, and in lone
hours Of night to watch his breathings
with her heart braced up with omnipo-
tence oil her love. No brute as he was,
not tie which her young heart had
thrown around hun ia his bright days,
had ever given way, but had grown stron-
ger as he approached the nadr oil his de-
graduation. Aud it he sank into that dark,
hopeless grave she ens~athed him in her
broken heart and LAID it in his coffin or
ii some mighty angels arm or voice bro't
him up from the grave OF drunkenness,
the deepest ever dug for man. he came
forth Lazarus>like, bound fast and fore
yer within the ceremens Of her dealhless
affection.
Such is her sceptre such are the cords
which she throws around the hayward
and wandering, and leads him back to
virtue aud to heaven, saying as she gives
GIN ia +" Here am and he whom thou
havest given me-"
CELE BRATEp. YET UNKNowN.-A letter