Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1843-11-11

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lnf bo,h par,toa concerned, Tow weeks
intercourse had been tho only tune ~
which she PROPOSED TO hasS learned lha'
Mr., Cameron was "goocrousi KIND frank
wnrm.honrted, intellectual and refined, |
land This she had gathered from converse.
lion upon tho passionate, ogousueel anu
hnns, sontiment of Byron, aud tho morol
sensnnl, ma woll as moro musical NUMBERS
lof Moore. Tho siokly sontlmcutallsm
land tho laxity OF principle imbbed from
such beautiful yet pornelous page, nal
long been engraIted upon Sophla's nina
land Lewis Cameron skilled IN all tho ar
Ito win the female heart, found It but an
easy to reign the hgh-wrough' feelings
land make use of that extravaganza oil
Language which served 10 awaken every
dormant passion in the breast OF such
child in years. An orphan from the age
of five years and an heiress, SOPHIA had
grown up without proper moral framing
and accomplished and welleducated as
she was in all things pertaining 10 the
understanding, her heart had been lett an
Iuncultiyated waste, where the noNious
plants of passion and ill-regulated senS1-
bihty had sprung up rank and poisonous
With excellent capacities, an open anu
uususpicious temper and warm heart +,
! Sophia Lee was a weak, ill-JudSlng, ro-
mantle GIRL and careless Of consequences
she rave her hand to Mr.. Cameron. Be
come her husband, his carelessneSs and
Indifference made his true motives mani
= l.. laaafuaI 10 rnp1
agony Of spirit that she had placed her
> affections upon being SO heartless'
Gle loves me not, base and unworthy
: as he is; he sought me for the few Paltr y
, dollars that were mine, that he nigh
stake them at the gaming-table, the rac'
j. course, and find fellowship with the biact
. leo and the bIoated victim oil late mper
. ance! Fool that was to rush SO blind y
on my fate, and yet went not untor~ar
ned. Julia!-but she shall never know
, how soon | have fulfilled her warning
and Lewis shall see his wife so gay tina
: ha nav, oven Iearn she Is as heartless IA
!, he could ever be. Pride, thou shalt b,
= my companion, and the world shall nevei
\ smile and say, behold the silly woma
;, who bartered lies happiness for tn
= qualification OF girlish fancy"
Such were The words, and such the res
= olution of Sophia Cameron, in pursuanc'
=. of which the misguided wife aud mo'he
70 plunged into all the designations OF iasf
- iona6le lie. Day after day found bot
" husband and wife languid, irritable, an
~ worse than all, Indifferent to each othe
N Late hours and weary heart had a
20 ready dimmed the brightness oil SOPHIA
- LONELINESS, and the wine-cup and mldnlgl
o. haunt of The gambler converted the one
N, refined and gentIemanly Lewis into II
coarse and bloa;ed inebrlate.-And whe
was the love which the Byronlc your
. gentleman had protlered in the words
i, him whose ringing numbers have SO oltt
nd been married to immortal strains; the lo'
:, which had been received and cherished
,re a Young. artless and imprudent gu
40 Like the snow-wreath in the summer
mo- sun mad it melted away before the kno"
nee edge OF life as it is in sober prose, not c.
quo on red with the hues OF romance and la
cy.-How great Dissertation oil tn
inc principle which pervades all nature, II
~ link which binds our destiny with ina!
er. the angels in heaven, nay, more uni'l
ess us with God himself! =.
the |, was the evening Of the 22d OF f.
lost ruary 1882, an evening as clear, cold
one bright as a northern winter ever usht
ELF; lin. The merry sleigh-bells were rlngl
red out upon the frosty air, and many w
the the gay equpages gathered round "
as cert Hall" in the city OF -. WI
the were warm and brillian! rooms, brig
EN-. Young and laughing faces, the gush oil
Ugly sic and the fall Of feet tripping lightly
off ;ts gladstone strains. Amid that NOV
hich scene was one to whom it might HI
IS a been said in the words of the poetess:
IKE .Thou hast loved, fair one! thou hast
,ho ed too we'll!
p ~" Thou art mourning now Ger ofo
aron spell; ., :.
Won sures forth
yIoJ And art unrepaid for their priceless wo %
no Mourn on! yet come not here inc WINK
# is but pain TO see thee smile! !,
There is not tone in our hearts LOT u
Dung Home with thy sorrows lee!
Lille ia rome =
from smiles on her lip and the vuiture oil 9
who 1t her heart. Her husband had re'ur
i'm ofIthat evening in an intoxicated state
olno with loathinG LOT inc once 49, Il
the arrayed herseu ior tne Centcu nas 90 :
! left pre(erring 10 seek oblivion OF her sor
voted and mortlneo prlue III us sa,'.o ,sos
q one main in home where her heart was
hand Hers had been the love of fancy, aI,l
snted the departure of fancy had it ceased Z
! Te-list. Yet the mother still struggled OF