Holly Springs gazette., 1844-11-22
VOLUME Iv--NUMBER II,

back on my past life. and but for some me
MORALS of infamy and guilt it is all blank -
perfect vacancy | might have gazed
with the beasts of the field, or sung with
the winged inha bitants oflhe woods to much
better purpose than any for which | have
| lived. And, oh but .or sonae faint hope
thousand times more blessed had been
to have slept with the clouds of the valley.
and never heard the Almig hty's 6atnor wa
ked into life at his command.
l never had Just apprehension of the
| solemnity of the part | am TO act till now.
have often met death insutingly on the
! hostile plain, and with stupid boast. dehed
| his terrors with a courage, as brutal as that
OF the warlike horse. have rushed into the
battle, laughed at the glittering spear, and
rclolced al the sound of the trumpet, nor had
thought of aEy state beyond the grave,nor
the great tribunal to which | must have
b been summoned
Where all my secret guilt had been revealed,
Not the minutest circumstances concealed.
1t is this which arms death with all its
terrors; else could still mock at fear. and
smile in the face of the gl oomy monarch =
1t is not giving up my breath it is not be-
ing forever insensibe, Is the thou ght at
which | shrink; it is the terrible hereafter,
the something beyounl the grave, at W hich
[ recoil. The great realities, which in the
hour of mirth and vanity have treated as
phantoms. as the idle dreams of superst
tious beings these start forth, and dare me
now in their most terrible demonstration -
My awakened conscience feels some thing
of that eternal vengeance | have often deh-
ed.
To what heighths of madness is it posi-,
BILE for human nature reach What extrav-
agance is it, to jest with death to laugh at
damna.ion to sport with eternal chains,
and recrete joyful fancy with the scenes
Of eternal misery
Were there no impiety in this kind of
ninth, it would be as ill.bred as to entertain
a dying friend with the sight ola harlequin,
or the rehearsal ola free. Every thing In
nature seems to reproach this levity in hu
man creatures The whole creation, man
excepted, is serious; man, who has the high
est reason to be So while he has affairs OF
infinite consequence depending on this short
and uncertain duration. A condemned
wretch may with as good grace go dan.
cling to his execution, as the greatest part
of mankind go on with such thoughsless
gayety totheir graves.
oh my friend, with what horror do re.
callthose hours of vanity we have wasted
together Return, ye lost, neglected mo.
ments How should prize youabove the
eastern treasures Let me dwell with her
mits let me rest on the cold earth, let me
converse IN cottages may | once more
stand candidate for an immortal crown,
and have my probation for celestial happi-
ness
Ye vain grandeurs OF courtl Ye sound
ing tides and perishing riches what do ye
now signify what consolation, what relief
can We givee | have a splendid passage
TO the grave; die in state, and anguish un-
der gilded canopy; am expiring on solt
and downy pillows. and am respectfully at.
tended by my servants and physician my
dependents sigh, my sisters weep; my faith
er bends beneath a load of years and grief;
my lovely wife, pale and silent, conceals |
her inward anguish; my friend, who was as |
my own soul. suppresses sigh, and leaves |
me, to hide his secret grief But oh which I
of these will answer my summons TO the |
high Tribunal which of them will hail |
me from the arrest of death who will des- |
cend into the dark prison of the grave for
me2
Here :hey all leave me, after having paid /
Il
which perhaps may be reposed in state.
while my soul. my only conscious partmay
stand trembling before my Judge.
My afflicted friends it is very probable. |
with great solemnity will lay the senseless
corpse in a stately monument, inscribed with |
"Here lies the great-."
But coull the pale carcase speak, t would |
soon reply:
False marble, where
Nothing but poor and sordid dust lies here"
While some fittering panegvric is pronoun |
ced at my interment. | may perhaps be |
hearing may just condemnation at a superior /
tribunal, where an unerring verdict may
sentence me to everlasting infamy. But /
cast myself on God sabsoIute mercy, though /
the infinite merits of the Redeemer of lost |
mankind Adieu. my dear friend, till we
meet in the world of spirits 2''
~ E. Puritan
EMIGRATION TO TExAs.-It appears that
the visit of the Prince de Solmes to Texas,
as agent of German emigrating associations, |
has been attended with the very best results
in giving a very hardy ard respectable DO.
dv of men To that country We learn that