The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-06-05

uSoiiC, llS OtllGi JlODdDll WOuIu NUE. DuI uOl
terminate, her daily distresses in a hovel desti-
tute of all comfort, where, huddling her shrivel-
led form into blanket, she would attempt to
sleep away the appetite she could not crafty.
On awaking to a new day of triumph and plea
sure, the deliberations of the beauty would be as
to what new or revived splendour she should a.
dorm herself with-what robe of price, what lace,
what trinkct; she would ponder well and choose
late, finding regalement in the very difficulties
and troubles which caprice would connect with
her morning employment. The beggar on re-
vlVing from sleep which she herself wonders
has not proved that of death, and dispelng the
additional feebleness which sleep itself seems at
first to leave, would have to weigh rag against
rag, and debate with herself up with them. But
it IS not alone in general circumstances that
difference would be found. In every particular
OF form, thought, dress, habits, and associations;
in every outgoing and incoming; in every point
OF worldly circumstances and destiny they would
differ Nothing could be pronounced to be com
mon to them but the human type, and the hope
Of an ultimate existence, in which no such diff
ference shall be cognisable.
AT a first view of such contrasts in the condi-
ton of human beings, we are apt to tax nature or
fortune with partiality but, on consideration, the
charge is found to be less just than it at first ap-
peared. No doubt the beggar seems to enjoy
very small portion of that kind of happiness which
the beauty derives from external circumstances
she has body distressed with cold, disease, and
lnhrmity; home Gf she have honey which
yields no personal solacements; and tastes no
share OF that admiration, nor INDUCES in any of
those refined sentiments, which give relish to the
existence other opposite. Her frame, neverhe-
less, is capable of lis own humble enoyments,
which the very rarity of their occurrence rem
ders only more agreeable Her house can in
some measure give shelter, and her clothes
warmth; she obtains the primary benefits of the
chief necessaries. She has also to reflect that,
in the course of nature, she could not, at her
time Of life, except the same enioyments as the
young and gay Those enioyments she in some
measure had when she was herself young, and
now they must be resigned to others. But ma
ture, in putting those enjoyment into the remote
perspective of memory, has also taken away the
desire for them, and the power Of experiencing
them. The old never wish to be again young,
for they do not feel within them that whichmakes
youth happy--keen sensations and active facul-
ties. 10 many, therefore, of her deficiencies,
Indifference kindly reconciles her. Again it
must be remembered that carly habits have at
once Injured her to the want of many comforts,
and rendered her ignorant of their existence.
Were a person who had once known affluence
and comfort reduced to her condition, every new
circumstance would be contrasted with the old
and all its bitterness would be felt. The most
ofthose who speculate upon the state ofthe poor
Judge of it with regard to what they would
themselves feel if it were unexpectedly to be.
come their own lot 1t is no doubt sufficiently
miserable in many instances; but it is neverthe-
less very different thing in the eyes of the poor
from what it is in those of the rich.
And different as the beauty and the begeal
may seem In every external circumstances, in
how much are they similar! Gay and radiant as
4 that youthful figure may ppear-however no
bic that face, however delicate, and refined
what is it but the same frame as that Of the beg
gar, at different stage of existence? Those
eyes that seemed fenced with their own light
nings, could not a moment dim them?-those
cheeks, tinted with the loveliest of the hues Of
earth, could not a moment pale them?-thar
step, proud and gentle as the fawn's, could not a
moment render it lame and halt as that of the
aged cripple, or lay it in everlasting torpor? re
every one of the natural ordinances, which have
inflicted physical misery upon the poor mend
cant, this splendid form is also liable, and of ma
ny oIthem it may ere long be the victim, BY
the same alimont it is supported--by the same
distempers it may be blasted Leave out of view
but that thin exterior membrane in which beauty
resides, and there is ono fell melody which might
eXtingush even this grand point of difference
the one possesses no native quality in which the
other is deficient, or for which she can claim ex.
empton from the slightest visitation ofill to which
the other is exposed And who, under tho stron.
gest impression that beauty and station can make
Fcould take it upon him to predict that those adj
vantages shall long remain with their present pos
SCISSOR? Take the commencement Of the beg.
gar's existence, and the termination of the beau
tys, and perhaps the difference will not be found
very great. Nor can any careiulness, any labour
any eXertion of cultivated intellect ensure to hel
who is, for the. present, the most endowed with
the gifts of nature and fortune, that one of these
shall be hers for one day more, or that she shall
herself continue, for that little space of time, tc
be at all. Touched by tho instability of morta
affairs, seers have thought they saw, beneath the
splendour ofsuch forms, the presage of early mis-
cry and death; but the very mpossibility of thus
anticipating fate, is the true humiliation of hui
man greatness. 1t may be the fortune of this
elegant form to flourish for many years after the
mendcant has closed her earthly woes; but it is
also possible that another week may see her I'll
life be wealthy in condition beyond conception
poorer than any ever experienced by the boggal
|--prostrated in that dust which the beggar is still
allowed to tread--a worm beneath the foot of hei
on whom she will now hardly deign to look.
Such are the communities of destiny which i
may be legitimate to trace on earth. Beyont
this lower sphere do not look, not only because
were presumptuous to doso, but because enrths
accidents must there be nothing. Earth, howev
er, may have It's angels as we'll as heaven; ant
in the language of compliment, such an cpithe
lniUht havn hean haafowod tInon fhiu loyolu ho