American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1844-11-12
[From the Metropolitan. ]


LARA VERNY; OR, THE APoSTATE PRIEST.
TALE.
NV parents, believe inherited nothing but
h honest name, and a pretty little cottage, with
) acre of land IN a small village in the south
. Ireland, where was born The infancy and
lildhood of the poor are, unfortunately, too
UGH alike; cruel oppression and want often
tend their advent to Il life of woe, and cling
rm as the ivy round their path in after years.
| When seven years old | was sent to the vii
ge school, and there first met Morgan O'NeiI,
st eighteen months my elder, and poor
hendless orphan. His mother died in giving
m birth, and father he had none to call him
lid, although the seducer of his mother regu-
yrly paid small pittance to an old woman in
! e parish for his support; and she had placed
m, ill-clad and lifted, at this school, to save
,rself some trouble, and to enable her the bet
pr to make a little profit out Of the allowance
the poor boys parent, who had never seen
is son.
! What melancholy thogghts have since rush
4 through my brain when | have looked on
Bis handsome and noble face. a man without Il
anne; degraded from the moment he breathed
he breath of life; not recognized by the law or
lie worlds law, (Which visits on the helpless
abe and cnsnared but often truly loving and
tithful mother the sins of the base villain who
as been the cause of all their wretchednesS;)
lhereyer he turns, the hand writing on the
Sall proclaims him BASTARD
| From the day we met we became friends
lch friends as children and school mates are:
Pc were companions i'll every sport, and our
,ssons were never so well said as when we
sarnt them side by side, strolling along the vii
Rge walks, or sitting in my fathers arbcr; for
forgan soon became my visitor, and many a
earty meal had the then furnished child recelv-
I'd in our humble cot age.
! Years flew by, and was fast changing from
le playful and romping girl to
A woman newly ripened.
We met less frequently; he became an appren-
ce to a country cobbler, (the meancst occupa-
ION is always chosen for the unfortunate off
bring of the licentious passions Of the rich, J
nd | worked with my mother to exc ont a
:anty subsistence. Still, in the summer even
hgs, from sympathy of tastes or by accident,
s*rhaps, we not uncommonly walked the same
Fad, and together admired the same wild
lttnery. Then we were happy. He had ne
er spoken of love-such love as woman is anx-
rus to recprocate, yet fears to have declared
| ut we each well knew our hearts were united
| " a tie which forms and ceremonies may rem
Her legal, but can never strengthen or make
lore holy. Then when the Sabbath came
Humid, and the weeks toll was over, we met in
tod's own house; and after thanking him for
llr spared lives, and all his heavenly goodness,
Itent forth to admire our Maker in his works,
I'LL pass the day he has set apart for our rest in
he innocent recreation such an appointment
hanfcstly recognizes How looked forward
b Sunday! None but the poor, who earn their
|aily bread by hard work, can tell with what
Delight the Sabbath day is hailed by millions.
i is almost the only mark which divides and
distinguishes us from the brutes which perish;
md yet this last remaining privilege is soug int
p be abridged, if not entirely cut off, by the
Evangelical reformers, who not content with
tstorting their own features, and crushing the
[.tellect Heaven has bestowed upon them, with
{ll indignity will impiously strive to convert
he poor mans day ofrelaxation and enjoyment
'ato time of fasting and restraint. Out up
Nm these sleek hypocrites' May God judge
fhem with more mercy than they now will
yrant their fellow men.
| One night when we met, Morgan's face be-
tayed an anxious care, and deep misery, |
hnddered to look on. He gazed earnestly at
he. but never spoke. Alas! his countenance
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