Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1846-02-14
Extract from private letter, from a bro.
Their TO distant sister.


Extract from private letter, from a bro.
Their TO distant sister.
1t is too often the case, when friends
are first separated, their attachments give
activity 10 correspondence and lengthy
declarations OF unceaslng remembrance
and love. But as time speeds along on
iron wings, the intervals between their
letters grow longer and longer, until at
last they terminate. Still their 'nds
turn now and then 10 their once loved cor
respondent, and every time with fresh
determination to renew their intellectual
intercourse. The time comes when, not
wlhstanding the Oft repeated declarations
Of devotion, they scarcely think of their
absent friend a! all, and if they do, it is
not with that sweet thought Of ties that
never break, and attachments that never
end.
Am | a stranger, dear Caroline, that
you remember me no more? or have | still
an abiding place in your affections? A
sisters loye--blessd is he who deserves
it-thrlce blessed is he who enjoys IT,
The thought that have too long sighted
you, makes me tremble and doubt my a
bility 10 re-secure your confidence. A
sister however, who has always excused
my faults and praised my few virtues,
will not now, | am persuaded, dlsciaim a
repentant and returning brother. Yes, |
am sure, you will be, TO me still the con,
iding and (orgivng spirit that minlstered
to me SO charltably in times past. Times,
happy to you and me.
long once more TO embrace you,
Could but again see you and your dear
little children, my heart would leap with
gIadness. But shall ever see you and
them again! Heaveu,appoint it. Should
| not, Providence be with you and them
and bless you. Ii seems that,ll you and
Mr.. d. would move near ire, half Of my
biterest trials would disappear. Your
iprallIing babes, for whom feel deep
interest, would beguile the tedlum Of my
leisure hours and add thousand little
pleasures to life that continues, scarcely
for an object. Truly love little children,
because know their love is spontaneous
and without interest. And if love all,
how much more should love yours, in
whose veins kindred blood gives them life.
and little =, who hear is like me, |
would be delighted, could see him and
teach his little tongue to lisp the name OF
uncle.
The hour is late, yet have not quit my
olfice-thoughts Of you have oppressed
my mind for tho last six hours. Some
F thing whispers me shall never see you
agar, land perhaps this is the last communi-
cation you will ever receive from your bro
Their, who loves you with all ofa brothers.
love. Why this dlstracting thought |
know not My health is much improved
far better than it has been for many
years. Fortune is more kind to me than
usual-although in some things she has
always been kind to me-but her admonl-
tons have been neglected. and have abu-
sed her favors. Foolshly | have spent
her money, and sperned her friendly sal
citations. Like the neglected and abused
wife, whose love is pure as snow, and as
lasting as life, she still turns upon me
with inv ting smiles, and with outsP.ead
arms to reclaim me as her own. Some
persons are too much the slaves OF fortune.
| am her prodigal son-unllke the prodl'
gal Of old have went and come a thou
sand times, and as yet, she has never fal-
ed 10 kill the fatted calf end feast me up
on all the soul desires upon earth,-yet
my hayward spirit finds no rest. There
lis an aching void within my heart that
nothing hat belongs TO ordinary exls-
tence can fill.
1t is upon he shrine of famo
High above all Inscriptions on it,
wish TO carve an honest name,
So dazzled eyes can't gaze upon it;
Lasting as the eternal rays Of light
Ifpoa-ibIe, a thousand times as bright.
Such fame is beyond all mental effort,
hence must live "unhonored and un-
sung"--an humble occupant Of earth, die
without name.