The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1846-10-02
From the New York Observer.
Mount Tabor.
BY REV. } r. HEARDLEY.

BY REV. +. HEARDLEY.
What strange contrasts this earth Of ours
presents. Il seems TO be the middle spot
between heaven and hell, and TO partake Of
the character Of both. Beings from both are
found mqving over It's surface, and scenes
from both are constantly Occurring upon il. |
Che gIory from one and The midnight shades
from The other meet along it's botem. and
the song II angels and the shrieks oil
icnds go up from The same spot. No nday
and midnight are not more opposite than the
scenes that are antly passing before
our eyes. The temple If God sands beside
brOlhel and the place Of prayer is sepe RAJ
led only by one dwelling from the "beIl' Of
the gambler. Truth and falsehOod walk side
by side through our streets. vice and virtue
meet and pass every hour Of the ay. The
hut of the starving stands in the shadow Of
The palace of the wealthy, and the carriage
OF Dives .eVerv day throws the dust Of its
| gliliering wheels ovet The tatered gar
men's Of Lazarus. Health snd sickness
lie down in The same apartment Joy and ag>
Ony look out o. the same window; and hope
and despair dwell nuder The same roof. The
icry Of the new>born inian, and the groan Of
the dying rise together from he same dwell
ing; the funeral procession Ieads close to
the heels Of the bridal party; and the tones
Of the lute aOd-ViOE have scarcely died away
before the requiem for the dead comes swell.
ing after. Obi The beautiful and deformed,
The poor and corrupt, JOY aud sorrow estal
cies and agoniea, life and death, are strang-
y bleni on this restless planet Of ours.
But The past md future presents as strange
contrasts as the present. What different
, events have transpired on the same spot.
Where the smoke OF the Indians wigwam a.
r rose and the slealrhy tread Of the wolf and
panther was heard over the autumn leaves al
twilight, the population Of New York now
: surges along. Where once Tyre, the queen
|, oftbe sea stood, the fishermen are spreading
!, their nets on the desolate rocks, and the
r bright waves are rolling over its marble col
: umns In the empty apartment Of EdOm, the
!, the fox makes his den, and the dus,s Of the
desert is sitting over the forsaken ruins o.
r PALMYRA The owl boots in the ancient halls
Is Of kings and the wind OF the summer even
r. ing makes sad music through the rents o
Is once ROrgeos palaces. The Arab spurs hi
steed along the streets oil ancient Jerusalem
y or scornfully stands on Mount Zion and curl
r his lip at the pilgrim pressing YEARLY to lh'
4. scpulchre Of the Savior. The Muezzn'
/, voice rings over the prophets, and the deseT
= winds heap the dust above the foundation
= Of the Reven churches Of Asia. Oh! ho'
r good aud evil, light and darkness chas
sP each other over the world
IS But il may be asked what this & of mus
= ing has to do with Mount Tabor. Ii cam
81 upon me unawares, and was suggested b
=, 7. two different scenes my imagination DIRE
- upon that mountain.
pr FOrly-seven years ago this month, for
q, was seen standing upon Mount Tabor vii
b'r which the world has since become familia
isI It was bright spring morning, and as
;eP sat OH his sliced in the clear sunlight, b
eyes rested on scene in the vale beIo'
which was sublime aud appalling enough
quicken the pulsations Of the calmest heal
Thai form was Napoleon BOnapart, end d
'ar Gcene before him the fierce and teErib
oar. .BATLE OF MOUNT TABOR" From NazaTe
par where The Savior once trod. KIeber b
BAR marc ed with three thousand French sOIdi,
" :. forth into the plain, when 10, a. the foot
Mount Tabor be saw lhe.whole Turkish
dol my drawn upin order Of taitle. rife
= thousand infantry and twelve thousand spls
Q. did cavalry moved down in maiestic atFenl
= on this band Of three thousand Fren,
7.sO Kleber had scarcely time 10 throw lhis ban
500 5 ful Of men into squares, with the cannon
"a "a tue angles, before those twelve thousa
5.oo horse, making the earth smoke and Ihun
10 a. they came, buEStin headlOng eallop u
100 Them. But round those squares role
$50 fierce dsvOuring Gre, smPiying the ssdd