Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1841-06-10
AN ELOQUENT EXTRACT.

delivered belorcthc citizens of Burlington
I'm. at the request Of the Common
Council, on the 18th ullimo, BY the RICH
Rev. George w. Doane, on the occasion
of the deatA Of the late Presidentof tn,
United Slates, we make The following OK
trac', constituting the opening of the ad
dress, for which we feel sure our readers
will thank us.-NM. MtclIgencer.
"Itis dark December day. A deg
snow clothes The ground. sharp and
cutting sleet drives with the wind. Agains
the blindlng storm and through the deep
enng drifts youthful soldier, with his
back, pursues his steadast way A strip.
ping Of nineteen, of slender frame anc
feeble health, he is an ensign in the ar,
my Of America, with Washington's com.
mission, and he marches, with his small
detachment, on his first service. 1t was
a patriot and christian duty. There are
those before me who remember well what,
in my young days, was yet nursery
word, at which The mother pressed her
infant 10 her bosom and children gather
ed closer TO the fre-St. Cldre'S defeat
1t wa, TO that battle field to inter the
bones of its six hundred slain, that your
young ensign FASTENED with his troops. =
And though ii wasa patriot and christi
an duty, how much more stcrnly than The
fercest onset of the heady fight must that
still forest field, lowering sky. the bowling
wind, those gallant men butchered by saw.
age hands, and all the recolections and
forebodings OF that most disastrous day
have tried the spirit of a youthful soldier
on his first campaign.
:" 1t was chill November night, when
small army of Americans encamped
themselves upon point Of land between
The Wabash and a tributary stream They
were the gentlemen and yeoman Of the
country, who had enrolled themselves un.
der the territorial Governor, to defend
their homes against the inroads of the
hostile Indian tribes, aud to chastise their
insoencc. A long and tedious march.
through the almost dreary wilderness
brings them at last TO where their willy
foes wait them and on their propos ition
for conference and treaty, hostiltics are
interim, ted for day. Slowly and cheer.
Iessy the night wears OF, within that
guarded camp, with clouds and rain. -
Bat weary men will Sleep, whatever may
betids the m aud now for hours, no sound
has stirred the stiffness Of the scene, save
the lone sentry guarded step. But what
is that through the misty moonbeam's
struggling light, is seen, not heard, as ii
glides through the prairie grass Is it a
snake that winds his stealthy way ? No
but subller Indian and in one instant
he is dead Another, AID the savage veil
starts every sleeper from his cold, damp
couch, and death begins his work. And
was this sleeping camp deceived, surpris.
cd, betrayed Was her commander faith
fuI 10 his trust f? NJ; every man had
SLEPT where he must fight, his clothes on,
aai his glnloalel. And he, while vet
the night was young, sat by MS tent fire,
until the hour should come to rouse his
weary comrades. Ia moment he was
mounted Where the fight was hottest
there was he. A ball vita no commits
mission Tor his life, flies through his hair.
In YAM his officers remonstrate with him
for his fearless hazard oil himself He
thinks OF brave ST. Clair, and Of the GAL
liant victims OF that fatal field. He thinks
OF wasted towns and blazing hopes, anl
mothers slaughtered with their infants. ~
And the morning dawns not until the VIC
tory is won
I" Along the banks Of the Ohio spreads
a smiling farm. A plain and modest man
sion rises from a sloping lawn. lis own
or, having filled with credit 10 himself and
honor to his country, almost every station
but the irst--iought its battles, governed
rs territories, servei ia both houses oil
Congress, anl represented it abroad
wears out in frugal industry his green old
age, plain Ohio farmer: his nams the
refuge and solace of the poor, the stran>
ger, aad the orphan his style the noblest
that is known 10 natures herallry, pa
lrlot and patriarch.
~ Is SaSiv day IN March. B1lof3
the morning. dawns the Federal city is
alive with mon. It seems now full to
Overlooking yet every hoIr brings hun
dreds and thousands more. A cavaIcaIe
IS lorinel. Bells ring AMI cannons roar.
Far women and brave men throng every
window oil that noble Avenue. Not
State Of the whole twenty-slx that is not
repre- scented in that long drawn line. Ii
Istfe nations jubilee. All classes, all con.
dlllons, both sexes, every age, partake
me general joy. A grave plan man ar
rayeJ IN modest black, thai rides uucov-
'r1d, on the steed more conscious than
himself OF the occasion Is the magnet that
attracts all eyes aud touches every heart.
Iie reaches the Capitol. lie asconds The
steps, lle stands majestic in his meek.
less and simplicity, before the imm5aslr-
lbIe multlIude who have brought I'D with /
hem the homage OF the nation. The high
lSt Ollinpf nj Insftna N,