Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-08-17
CONCLUSION OF A FOX CHASE

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CONCLUSION OF A FOX CHASE.
Aiier the FIRST ta'ly.ho, Reynard is rarely sson.
TIL he IS run IN upon-once perhaps, in the whole
/ run, skirtng wood or crossing common. IL is
an idei that he Is pursued on whslw ind OF horses
I 10 storm VI canine musIc-worthy both OF the
largest lion that ever lenped among band Of Aoors
Sleeping at midnight by en- ex,ingushed fire on the
African sands. There is, we verify believe nothing
ioxy n The fancy OF one man in all that glorious
hetd OF three hundred. Once of and away-yg.ie
wood and wekn rings-ard nothing is felt; no,hins
IS lmased IN that hurricane hsht, but scorn Of ali
Distinctions, dlkes, bitches, drains, brooks panss
canals rivers, and oil the impediments reared in he
way OF so many rejoicing madmen, by nature AIT
and science, in an enclosed, cultivated civilized md
Christian country. There they go: prince aEd peer
/ baronei ard Squire the nobility and gentry Of
Eng land, the flower Of the men OF tire earth, each
on such siced as P0lluV never reined nor Phliu',
| watlke son-lor could we imagine Bucephalus here
ridden by his own tanner, Alexander would be
thrown ont during the first burst, and glad 10 find
his way dismounled 10 q village alehouse for nail
OF meal aGd water. Hedges, trees groves, gardens
orchards, woods, farm houses huls, halls mansions
palaces, spree, s;eepes, towers add lemnes all 90
waverins by, each demisod seeing or seeing them
not, rs his winged sieed skins or aboms along TO
| the swelling or sinking music, now loud as 4 near
resimeniai band, now faint an echo. Far and
VIDE over the country dispersed the scarlet rur-
ners-and hundred villages pour forth their ad-
mirIng swaTms as the main current of the chase
T
astTay, lost at last in the perplcNlng wooi- Crash
goes Tie top>timoer Of the FIVE barred gaie-away
over TIE eats es the eX rouehrder in n surprising
someIset-aiIer succession OF stumblos down is
tue gallant Grey on knees and nose, making sad work
upon the ia!low. Friendship is O fine thing and
the story oil Daman and Pythias most affecting in
desd-but Pylades eyes Orestes on his back sorelv
drowned IN sludge, and tendeEly lcaping over hin,
a. ne mes, eiaps his hands to hIs ear, and with a
lame and At leisure; and, ere the fallen has risen
and shaken himself, IS round the of the white
village church, down the dell, the brook a nd
close on the heels the straining pack ala.yell up
the hlll crowned by the squire's folly. every man
Tor himself, and God for H." is the deyout md
ruling apo1hegm Of the day. Ii death beia, what
wonderi since man and horse mortal; but death
loves better wide soft bed, with quiet curtains and
darkened windows in q still room, the clergyman in
one corner win his prayers, ana the physician IN
another with his pills, making assurance doubly
sure, aud preventing all possibility OF the dyin,
Christians escape. Let oak branch smi,e the toe
slowly STOPPING scul' or riders back not timely lie
yelled with his stecns; let fsi,hless bank give way
and bury IN tue brook; let hidden drain yield TO fore
feet, and work sudden wreck; let oil eoal- Dit
with 6roTy mouth, beirny; and roaring river bear
down man and horse, TO cliffs unscalable by the
very Welch goat; let dukes or eaT's son 60 sheer
over quarry 20 feet Deep and as many high, vel
"~ithout stop or stay, down the rocky way" The
hunter train flows on; for tho music grows icfcti
| and more saVnge-loi ell that remains together n
phobia, loapng out Of their skins, under insanity
t'om tho scent, for WIPES can hardly now make q
crawl Of u; and ere he, they, whippsr or any on
Of The other three domonacs, have time TO look in
one anOihers splashed faces, he is INTO ihous
and pieces, gobbled up IN the general growl; snd
SNUG, and smooth, and dry, and warm and cozey,
as he was m hour and p minutes ago exactly, IN
his luiz bush in the coVer-he is now piecemeal in
in about 30 distinct s,omachs; and is he not pray
well oil for sepulturel
decorations Of Chrisioph,r Norh.
WoMAN --'Thtrs is another glory belonging Il
this age, and almost to this age alone Of our poetry
the glory OF Female Genus. We have heard
and seen II seriously argued whether or not woms
. are equal TO men; as If there could DC moment
doubt TO any mind unbesotted by sex, that they
are infinitely superior; not in understanding, thank
Heaven, nor in intellect, but in all other "impuso
Of soul and sense" tia, dignity ami adorn human
beings, and make them worthy OF living on this de-
lightful Garth. Men, for the most part, arc such
worthless wretchcs, that we wonder how womsl
condesccnd 20 allow the world 10 be carried on
ard VIC attribute that phenomenon solely on IN,
hlllowed warnings OF maternal affection, which
bTcathes rs s;orrg.y in maid as in matron and ma,
bc beautifully seen IN the child ioudng It's doll II
its b.issiul bosom. PnHloprOgcnitiyeness But no
TO pursue that Interesting speculation, alice it 70
the present to say, that lar from having no SOU
"A whim OF Mahomers, who thought but Of thci
bodiCS-wcmen arc the sole spiritual beings tina
walk the earth not unseen; they asnc, withou
= pursuing q c0mp.iciie aud scientific system Of Dc
81 ccpion anj hypoctIcy, arc privileged rom on hisl
10 wiite poetry. Wo-mon We mcan-may aztec
, virtue, though We have j, no., ond appear 4
be inspired 10y the divine ell ltus Nay. VI
. sometimes -oi,cn-arc truly 90 inspired an,
! write like Geds. a few ofus ore subject 10 90.
and in them utter oracles. But the tu'h is TO.
g.lring 10 be denied, that all male rational etea
lures arc IN the long vile, corrupt. and polluted
and that the best man that ever died IN his be,
within the arms Of his distracted wife, Is wickede
far than the worst woman that was ever IN quiousI,
hanged for numbering what was called her poo
husband, who IT, all cases righicously deserved hi
fate. Purity Of mini is Incompatible with man
hood; aud q monk is monster-so is every Fellow
OF College, and every Roman Calholic Prizes,
from Father O'Lolry TO Do Doyle. Confession in
deed! Why, had Joseph himself confessed 90 h
ever felt and thought 10 rouphsr's WIFE, she woul.
have ftovncd him from her presence in oil IN,
| chasto dignity n virtuous indignation, and 90 ht
from tearing OF bis garment, would not have touch
cd u for the whole world. But III women--tlll men
10y marriage, or by something, it that be possible
worse even Than marriage, try IN vain 10 reduce
them nearly TO their own levcl-aro pure as dew
dfops or mooubcams and know not the meaning oi
evil. Their genius conjecture D.; and in that there
is no sin, But their genius loves best 20 image forth
good, for us the blessing Of their he, rs power
and ts glcry; and hence, when they write poetry
u is religious, sweet, son, solemn, and dyino.'-
RCerlatoHs II Chusiogir NsrN.