Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1845-02-21
BLOOMINGTON, IOWA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1916 s
From the United Statee Gazette.
Oh, L yJsOssllls,,e Be Hers

Oh, JEsoslldn,s Be Her.
| Coming down Chestnut street few NOR.
/ nings since, our attention was drawn TO an IN.
| slightly carriage, the Black Maria,s Of the
police Office, which was standing in Fifth
street.. below Chestnut near the entrance to the
| lookup rooms. just then one of the police Of
hcers galIanted op The steps, from the Aver
nus below, girl, apparently no. more than
fifteen years. old, good Hooking and exceeding
~ well dressed little twardy perhaps, but
still snowy, and rather geenteel. She was
placed in the carriage, while the little crowd
that had gathered together appeared struck
| with admiration on the scene. where usually
| only squalid misery is exhibited. drunkenness
in its worst habilments or the cufprits IN a
garb that seemed to give notice OF his charac-
ter. Captain Bennett was there, TO see that
every thing was done that should be done, and
nothing done contrary TO the prophecies Of the
place; while on the other side Of the ascend
| ing procession, peered up the open coun.e-
nance Of officer Levin Smith, who was doing
his par, TO sustain the majesty Of the law.
| The young woman al length took her seat
| in the van, gathered her satin peliisse about
her, and nodded her grateful recognition to the
wa,chman, who had so CALAMITY helped her
| into the carriage, and who subsequently, lock-
| ed the door upon his passenger, and took his
seat IN the little closet on the other side.-
There was a knowing wink or two cast,
signal of something telegraphed from one by
| s,ander TO The other; and turned to pursue our
way to our mornings labor, have no DISPOSE
ton to interfere in the course Of justice, or to
| trouble ourself about the immediate Object
| We found, however, that the appearance OF
the young woman had caused great many
passers to stop at the corner, and among them
weretwo little Quaker girls, quite small, but
sufficiently large 10 comprehend something OF
the improperly Of the young womaus POSI-
ton. When, indeed, do females not compre-
bend! Quick to approve what IS r'gh'' 'hey'
seem ins,inc,ively 10 comprehend the least In.
appropriateness Of any posl'lon' especially OF
their own Sex.
/ .Ob! does thee see tina, 2 said the smallest
|~of the two.
The oldest, about ten years Of age, was with
open black eyes, the very picture OF aston'sh-
ment. At length she exclaimed, not only In
reply to her companion. but as If responding
to her own feelings Oh, wouldn't be her,
The vehicle started for Moyamensing pIls-
on, the crowd passed on, and the little girls
proceeded to their school, where. we suppose
they will learn hereafter, that wouldn't be
SHE is more grammatical, though not so col
louuial, as wouldn't be her,
r The look, and especially the exclamation of
the swee, little Quaker girl, still dwell, upon
our mind. There was in il a sense OF childish
innocence, of female purity, that started at
crime which had exposed the young woman 10
the dealiag of penal law, and shrunk away
from the unseeuliness Of her present cond.-
ton. With the remembrance OF her parent
morning blessing, and her own pure resolves,
yet unbroken, she felt that she would not, anu
even could not, be like the one before hef.-
She had no, heard of the thousan avenues 70
sin aud shame that opened out OF iise's PAIN
way. She thought that soma.eitort must nave
been necessary to have attained the pad emil.
hence of the girl in the cart. The sense Of
delicacv. the lender breathing of mother
solitude vet fresh upon her mind, made hel
feel that for words she wouldntbe like HER.
And she will not be, we suppose. The
j straightforward instruction of her sect, that
. seemed TO forbid the thought Of vice, almos'
Of error in female, viii save her. And here
, after should new associations, and contamina'
TING influences, expose her 10 the temptations
of life, perhaps the sight which she then So"
: will be beacon lgh. on the dangerous shoal
to warn her against the shlpwrecK OF virtue
Perhaps, in other years, the iempter VIII trJ
her /; will appeal through her heart to her SEN
SEES :: and shutting out the distant view OF Ger
tain consequences, will lure her onward (
, misdoipg; then, amidst the confusion OF dis
, turbed principles, and the fading ligWot earl,
Instructions, and the waning influence oil molly
t nnre resolves, Just when the accusing spin
> BEGINS 10 blush for the .frailty OF one deemed
; so pure her guardian angel viii set before ne
thoughts the fallen inmate OF the police car
riaoe, and in her new comprehension 0! INT
a disgrace and its cause, she Will spring PACK u
tf M 1
] her,
II ia dine sometimes to virtue, that we Sc
before The vounn the certain end Of vice and
] indeed this is often done. The deformity o
] consumma,e degradation is SO helnous, tina
the Young and the pure, with holy adherence
and unmixed sincerity, when they are told tha
1 thew NAV commi, the crime that Will debas
!. Them so. will exclam, with the Syrian, l
: inv servant a dog, that he should % thl
,hino ?, Yet the Syrian did commit the Grim
E and The >young and pure may, III age, becom
o loa,beome vicious. Wilnot the awful end O
or-o, ard vice. thus exhibited, warn them a
yarq No: the lesson childhood needs,
i ia, which concerns the connection betwee
:. vr,ne and vice, and its consequences, disgrac
!. and ;nfamy-how one leads On TO auoihe
r uha, links unite. 1t 10 long road from chile
Z. like Innocence TO ripened vice, but it may b
! travelled rapidly. None see from the fir:
stage. the loa.hsome goal. without as muc
horror and disgust as an angel would ieei.-
y These diminish at every stage, and the mise
S rable creature in the criminal cart, Prooaol
: had in her eve some advanced object, Of WHOM
# she exclaimed, Il wouldn't be her.
Q %" Ietus + ope that our little Quaker girl, and
+ indeed. all, will retain, fresh and operative
q that purity of mind which, when they Sc
i vice ia any form, the slanderer, the detracto'
g the envious. the mean shall teach them VII
r holy adherence to exclaim, OH wouldn
u be her,