Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1842-11-05
wa are much hurried this morning. o,
we should have been more minute IN DE-.
Scrieing the Bolivar Expedition.

we arc compelled to exclude, for want
OF space, the history of monomanioc
who imagined he was haunted by a spec.
ire. The melancholy subject of the his
tory referred to, was a CITIZEN Of a neigh
boring State. occupying an elevated stand
among his fellow men.
All men, lat this day,) laugh at super.
stI'oI, and manifest general skeplic,sm
as TO all supernatural agencies. Thew
pass these facts as idle, empty and weak
illusions that obtain place only in the
brain OF the ignorant. Yet we ventures. 10
assert that there snot one inthe thousand
1.-The million, who can truly say, he has
never realized mysterious influence
powerfully eKer,ed upon him. We have
no wish TO give This mystery name. LIE,
it be Fate, Destiny, Chance or DeviItry,
we care not. 1t is something. "Man is
the creature Of circumstances, Some
who have faltene1 and rioted through life
upon that wealth, which inheritance. or
some other accident may have thrown in
his way, say that circumstances are or
can be made the creatures of nen, II is
not so. There is certain chance, lot, fate.
providence or circumstance, which SPRINGS
up in the cradle, and follows and bedeyls
lts victim 10 the grave: it is incorporated
with his very existence, and presents lis
dark apd accused form by day and By
night. Luck controls this world. And
let the records Of time. be silted. doubtless
the fact will be dragged out from the dun.
geons, where so many rot and die, that
hundreds have been unfortunate, when one
was guilty. Go, and look into the Hellq
the prolligacy, and the stencil of large cit
les, IA curse upon all countries,) and see
there the thousands o! hapless, naked and
starving children, who have been fupg
into life, from the stews and huckter shops.
whose first scream, after entrance into the
world, was heard from lazar houses. and
sometimes the foul and nauseous atmos.
phere Of Jail, filled with murderers and
thieves, where filth and pestilence prevail
Observe them fiendless-ofiealIme not
knowing the term Of father or mother,
lreadIng along the foul ard dark path
chance has marked out for then i.'.-
manhood; never meeting with ono ginnce
Of sympathy, or tone Of kindness; into
whose minds not one principle of morality,
or ray of learning had found their way. -
We ask k, can such man, be guilty of
crimes He may commit it, true; and
you must hang him, too. Go, see the i'm
mense mass Of the unfortunate. You kick
them like dogs in their infancy; you force
them in their rags, to the bells, and broth.
els and deyiItries of large cities; their
conscience, fiji they have any.l is turned
out on The broad moors OF crime and des.
titu;ion, to canker and tester, and SO soon
as their carcasses, putrid as they will be,
are sufficiently large, you hang them cor
grandeur. Will any contend, such poor
and naked devils, as we have described,
can control circumstances? Must not all
admit, that they are born TO be damned
while here, and to live under reasonable
certainty OF the same fate hereafter.
The rich, fat, lucky man wo will speak
IF anon.
6rDoctor Peters, the Pill and patent