Litchfield enquirer., 1843-09-28
UT Is /, BE NOT AFRAID"

ing to the afflicted soul than this. In the
hour of trial, when the clouds of adversely
= darHen our path, and there appears not one
ray of light to guide our steps when the
tempest roars, and death, that grim giant,
stares US in the face, then it is that this SUI b.
lime and soothing passage comes with all its
force, and Gains the troubled soul of man.
What blessing these words of comfort
have been to mankind ever since they were
uttered by our Savior! The child. wher in
the dark, hears q footstep approach, its lit
tie heart beats faster, but the mothcr', voice
falls upon the ear, L is !, love- be not afcad,''
and all is peace in the infants bosom. Oh {!
is 1t not beautiful to contemplate the child's
reliance on its mother, but infinitely MOI e
to see the young leaning with the same re-
lance, on the bosom of the Savior! And
when sickness comes with its whitening
blight, and the mother sits beside the cradle
of her idolized child, watching for the last
breath, yet hoping, praying-(Oh. such
prayers as that agonized mother pours FORTH
none but those who have suffered can
know y that God will hear and spare her
child, suddenly it gasps, it breattfes once
more, and all is overland that wretched
mother Is almost distracted. In her despair
she cries, "My child my child who has
taken 1t from me-was it not my own? But
a light breaks in upon her, and a voice
whispers. 4" the child is not dead but sleep.
eth :" 81! is |, be not afraid"
Again, we kneel beside the death bed of
the loved one, and ever and anon, shade
| OF doubt and anxiety passes over the pale
face. as the shadow of death falls upon it,
and like the mariner tossed upon the ocean
wave. without compass Dr. guiding star, so in
the loved one, until we rouse the scattered
senses by whispering the blessed assurance
of our Savior, " Though you pass through
the valley and the shadow of death, yet will
not leave thee" "It is I, be not afraid"
And we have the satisfaction Of knowing
it is all sufficient. The immortal part has
winged its way TO the spirit land. o! may
l ever call to mind these words of our bless
ed Savior. "lt is |, be not afraid" and think
| may bear the ills of life, and the approach
of.death, without murmur.
PATRIOTIC SA1LoR.-During the blockade
! OF New London, in the last war, the celebra-
ted DIR. F-------, of Hartford, Conn,
made visit to the former place, with
view of examining the state of the fortfica-
tons, &c. While there he concluded to de-
live: discourse. crowded audience at
tended, principally composed of sailors and
soldiers on duty there. The Doctor took
for his text" Fear God. and honor the
king" In the course of his sermon he had
frequent occasion to repeat his text. One
OF the sailors belonging to the Macedonia
vas observed to be very restless, at length,
on the Doctors once more repeating the
words, honor the king" the tar could no
longer restrain his Indignation he rose up
and candidly exclaimed, Fear God and
honor the President, but let the king alone !"
! at the same time looking very angrily at
the prauchnr The nudianoa Wara nnch
agitated, and warrant officer stepping up
to the sailor, ordered him to be quiet or he
would turn him out of the church. The
sailor siearnly replied, "If The tubber says so
again, PU pull him out Of his bunk !"
The following will do very well, but the
Northern PicayUne must not claim il as orr |
ginal. The editor has merely vamped up n
passage from Pauiding's very good hit at
English tourists in our country, entitled
John Bull in America" published some
twelve or fourteen years ago.
Extracts from the unpublished aoorks on
AMERICAN MANNERS.
BY "BoZ,"
Or any other Munchausen you please.
CHAPTER
The first thing that struck me, was the
vast disproportion Of negroes, in the streets
and every where else. 1 may affirm with
perfect veracity that nearly one half of the
inha bitants of Boston are black. Each of
these poor creatures has a white man al
| ways standing over him, with large club
about the thickness of a mans arm, with
which be beats the poor slaves for amuse.
ment. assure you have seen, may say,
thousand instances of this kind in morn.
ing There is hardly slave here that has
not his head covered with scars, and bound
up with handkerchief; and almost every
step you take, you perceive the stains of
blood upon the pavement, which am assur-
ed by Gov. Hancock himself, is that of the
negroes. have seen lady of the first dis.
tinction here, walking the Mall, as il is call
ed, with stout black fellow behind her, and
occasionally amusing herself with turning
round and scratching his face It'll it was co.
| vered with blood. The Mall is a place Of
about half an acre, covered with dust, with
few rotten elms, and puddle in the CEN
tire. Even the little children here are inItia-
ted into human blood almost as soon as they
can walk: and the common amusement Of
young persons is to stick pins in their black
attendants, while every body has little
| negro, of about his own age,to torture for his
pastimo.
The blacks here, as was assured by his
excellency the Governor, whose name is
| Hancock, have but one meal day, which
| is principally potatoes, and fare little better
than the miserable Irish orEnglish peasant.
nv at home. The Governor told me a story
Of man. who tied his black servant naked
to stake, in one Of the neighboring cane
brakes, near the city, which abound with u
| race Of moschetoes which bite through a