New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1841-11-23
- Am to live or die Do YOU repent, =

Am to hive or die Do you repent "
Oh do ye,t :" she answered. = VIII you.
while time remains Do not believe that l could
save you, il dared.
SAY if you would he answered with oath,
as he tried to disengage himself and pass OBJ
" Say II you would.
Listen to me for one moment, she returned;
for but moment. am but newly risen from
sick-bed. from which never hoped - rise again.
The best among Us think at such time OF good
intentions helf-per:orned and duties left undone.
If have ever, since that fatal night, omitted 10
pray for your repentance before death-if | omit
led. even then, any thing which might tend 10 urse
il on YOU when the horror OF vour crime was
iresh-if. in our later meeting. | yielded TO the
dread tina, was upon ne and forgot TO fall upon
nv knees and selerniy adjure you in the name of
hin vou sent to MS account with Heaven. to pre-
pare for the retributOn which must come. and
which is stealing on you now huuby before
yo1 and in the agony OF supplication IN which
YOU see me, teseech that yeu will let me make
atonement.
What !. the meaning OF your canting word. ''
hs answered roughly. Speak 50 that | may
ders;and you.
u viii" she answered, =" l desire to. Dear
with me Tor moment more. The hand of Him
who set His curse murder, is heavy u now.
You cannot doubt it. Our son, our innocent boy,
IN whsm His anger iel before his birth, Is IL ihi.
place in peril of his Iife-brought here by your
guilt; yea, by that alone, as Heaven sees and
knows. for he has been led astray in the darkness
Of his intellect. and that the terrible consequence
Of your crime.
If you C me, woman-like, 10 load NE with
proaches-'' ne muttered, again esdeavoring 10
break away.
q do not. have different purpose. You
must hear it. If not tonight, to-nouow; ii not
tomorrow, at another time. You must near It.
Husband, escape is hoPeess-mpossible
- GU tell me So do you - he said, raising his
manacled hand and shaking it. you!
"Ycs she said, with Understandable earnestness.
" But why
To make me easy in this Jail. To make the
time 'twixt this AID death pass pleasantly. Ia
ma For my good-ye,, for NY good, Of COURSE,
he said grinding his teeth, and smiling at her with
a yid face
No, to load you with rcproaehes," she re-
piled not 10 aggrayate the and miSeries
Of your condition; not to give YOU one hard word A;
but to restore you to peace and hope. Husband,
dear husband, if Won Will but confess this dreadful
crime; if YOU will but implore forgiveness OF
Heaven and OF those whom you have wr7nged on
earth; if YOU will dismiss these vain uneasy
thoughts, which never can bs reaii.od, and will
RELY on Penitence and on the Truth promise you,
in the great name OF the Creator, whose image you
have deiaced, that He will comfort and console
YOU. And for myself" she cried, clasping her
hands. and looking upward, - swear before
Him. a, He knows my heart and reads 1t now,
that from that hour will love ard cherish you
| did of old, and watch you night and DAY IN the
short interval that will remain to Us, and Soothe
you with my truest love and duty, and pray, WITH
you, that one threatening judgement may be az
rested, and that boy may be- spared to bless
God, in his poor way, in the free air and sunlight =
He fell back and gazed at her while she poured
OUT these words, as though he were for a moment
awed ~ her hummer, and knew not what TO do
But rage and fear soon got the mastery of him.
ard he spurned her from him.
E.gone he cried '' Leave ME You plot
do YOU, You plot 70 get speech with me, and let
,herl 6nsw | am the man they say am. curse
on YOU and Oh your boy
= Ca him The curse has already fallen, she re-
piled. wringing her hands.
e Let it tall heavier Let it fall on one and all
hate We both. The worst has come to me. Inc
only comfor, that seek or | can have will be the
knowledge that it comes 10 you. Begone
She would have urged him gently even then, but
he menaccd her with his chain.
say begone--I say it for the last time, and
do not tempt me. The gallows has in lis
grasp, and it is black phantom that may urge me
ON TO something more, before IT coils its :arm a-out
NV throat Begone | curse the hour that was
born. the man | slew, and all the living world
In Il paroxysm Of wrath and terror, and the fear
of DEATH he broke from her and rushed into the
,larknes. OF his cell, where he cast himself jang-
ling down upon tho stone floor and Smote 1t with
his roned hauds. The man returned to lock the
dungeon door, and having done so, carried her
away.
On that warm, balmy night in June, there
Glad faces and light hearts in all quarters of the
and Sleep banished by the late horrors was doubiy
welcomed. On that night families made merry III
their houses. and greeted each other on the com
mon danger they had escaped; and those who had
been denounced ventured into the streets and they
who had been purdered got good shelter. Even
the timorous Lord Mayor, who was summoned
ihai night before the frivy Council TO answer for
ms conduct, came back contented, observing To all
his friends that he had got off very well with re-
prnand. and repeating with huge Satisfaction his
memorable defence before the Coxncil, that such
was his teulerity, he thought death would have
been his portion.
On that night, too, more o. the scattered rem
nant- of the mob were traced TO their lurking
places and taken and in the hospitals, and deep
among the ruins they had made. and in the di'che'
and the fields, many un,hrouded wrcches lay dead
-enyied by those who had been active in the dis
turbances, and pilowed their doomed heads in the
temporary jails
And in the Tower, in dreary room, whose
thick stone walls shut out the hum of life, and
made stiffness which the records left by former
prisoners with those silent witnesses seemed TO
deepen and intensity remorseful for every act that
kad been done by every man among the cruel
crowd feeling for the time their guilt MS own ana
their lives put in peril by himse: and finding
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