American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-02-23
THE BOA STER PUNl SHED
BY THADDEUs W. MEIGHAN.

The desire to do evil is not so often engen-
dered by want or created by the mad haluc-
nations Of deep affection, as It is made by the
heart, the Black heart, which is its own destroy
or, and which enclosed in a well-clad form or
rendered more apparent to the superficial eye
by an outward show of rags, is all the sane-a
bad monitor, prompting to crime, and sowing
the seeds of Wretchedness wherever the soil of
human weakness or worldly credulidy offers an
unbroken surface to the wicked scotsman
The owner of black heart never escapes the
consequences of his derelictions. SooSer or
later the wrath of offended virtue, or the thun-
derbot of outraged justice, prostrates the un-
fortunate criminal, asd leaves, to those who
have been spared the curse of national depravi-
ty, dreadful monument of warning.
Black is the heart that can frame woman's
ruin; doubly dyed in awful wickednsss is the
mind, which, regardless of the hottest human
obligations, can, falsely and by inuendo and
disingenious insnuation, soil the name OF viz
tuous female. Such hearts and such minds
are legitimate prey-their eradication the need
of duty, an heavenly task!
With swelling veins and quickened pulse we
have often listened to the following tale of re-
trbutive Justice, related by a venerable South
Carolnian.
In small village in the state that Marion
has rendered famous, dwelt young man OF
property and position, named Saunders. With
every blessing that renders life aught but bur
then, Saunders was the most restless, unhappy
and unamiabe person in town. HIS sole study
was decet--his pleasure the gaming table-hs
delight, his life, the pursuit of female loveliness.
No character was pure, so far as tins young de-
bauchee was concerned. BY the force OF his
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ciety, and seemed on terms of the greatest in
tmacy with all the ladies' in the vicinity; and,
as he was prepossessing in personal appearance,
| gifted with All intellect which ranged tal be-
yond the ordinary estimate of talent, his com
pany was sought by many fair demoisele and
dame. More than one promising flower had
been plucked from the parent stem by Sauu-
ders, and wantonly cast away to wither and die
Notorious for his wicked propensities, he ought
to have been Stunned by everything that bore
the imprint of humanity; but there is something
unaccountable in the fobes and whims of poor
human nature; and as the moth flutters about
the fire after its wings are singed IN the fame
so do we rush into glittering pit, or knowing
ly embrace knife concealed in elegant drape
ry. So much for moralizing-now for oul
sketch.
In every village there are always more belle
than one, as well as rival factions in favor o
males who claim the right to lead the fashions
and set the tastes and opinions OF the NINA
ture community of which they form part. b.
the gad-flies and would-be gay and fashionable
people, all that Saunders said and did wa
emuated He drank wine until it got the bet
ter of him-c consequently his companions Offer
became intoxicated. He gained deeply--so drt
his associates. All his vices were copied, Will
his few minor virtues (spears of grass in de
sert of SANDY were suffered TO remain unnotir
ed. The sensible portion of the inhabiant
despsed hin and pointed to poor young law
yer, named Wright, as the model of a mora
honest, industrious and woll-meanlng man