Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-03-01
GIVE ME BACK my HUSBAND,


BY r. II.
Nor many years since, young married
couple from the Far, 'last-anchored ISLE"
sought our shores with the most sanguine
apticipations Of prosperity and happiness
| They had begun to realize more than they
had seen in the visions Of hope, when, in
an evil hour, the husband was tempted ''to
look upon the wine when it was red, and
TO taste Of it "when il gives its colour in the
cup" The charmer fastened around his
victim all the serpent spells of IFS sorcery,
and he fell, and, at every step Of his rapid
degradation from the man TO the brute, and
downward, hear;-string broke in the DO
som of his companion.
Finally, with the last spark Of hope flick
ering on the altar of her heart, she threaded
her way into one Of those shambles where
man is made such thing as beasts of the
field would below at. She pressed her way
through the bachanalian crowd who were
reveling there in their own ruin. With her
bosom full Of ''that perilous stuff that preys
upon the heart" she stood before-ihe plum
derer Of her husbands destin ~ and ex-
claimed in tones OF startling anguish, "Gice
me back my husband"
"There is your husband" said the man,
as he pointed towards the PROSTATE wretch
"1Hat my husband! What have you
done to that noble form that once, like !
liant oak, held IFS protecting shade over the
fragile vine that chung to it for support ant
shellerl That my husband! With wha
Torpedo chill have you touched the sinew,
Of that manly arml That my husband =
What have you done. to that once noble
brow, which he wore high among his fellows
as lift bore the superscription of the God
head That my husband! What have
you done to that eye, with which he was
wont to 'look erect on heaven" aud see il
his mirror the image of his God VIVA
Egyptian drug have you poured into hi.
veins aud turned the ambling fountains o
the heart into black and burning pitch ?
Give me back my husband Undo you
basiisk spells, aud give me back the MAI
who stood with me by the altar !"
1 The ears Of the rnmseller, ever since III,
first demUohn OF that burning liquid wa
opened upon our shores. have been saluted. a
every stage of the traffic, with jus; such ap
penis as this. Such wives. and such widow
and mothers--such fatherless children a
never mourned in Israel at the massacre 0
Bethlehem, or at the burning of the temple
baymsged in bis s sal J mo.n!ag, night an
I"give me back my boy" 'giue me back M!
brofAer."' ,s,s y. .,,s,. -,-..,,...l
). But has the rumseller been COMPOUNDED o
speechless at these appeals No! not he
+ He could show his credentials at moment
notice, with proud defiance. He Away
carried in his pocket written ,absolutio
for all he had done, and could do, in hi
work Of destruction. He had bought a lei
ter of Indulgence. l mean Lcensel
precious instrument, signed and sealed by a
authority stronger and more respectabl
than the pope's. He COMPOUNDED WHY
the whole artillery ofcivil power was read
to open in his defence and support Thu
shielded by the Egis of the law, he ha
nothing to fear from the enemies Of his ira
: fic. lie had the image and superscriptio
of Cesar on his credentials, and unto Cas'
}. he appealed, and unto Cesar, too, his Viz
tins appealed, in vain.