The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1846-04-01
SELECT TALE,
From, the Saturday Courier
THE BIBLE LEGEND OF THE
WESSAHAE6ON.
FROM 4 LECTURE BY GEO. LIrrAnD,

II was here in these wilds of the Wssahikon,* X
,on the day of the battle, as the MONDAY sun
came shining through the thickIy clustered
leaves, that two men met in deadly combat.--
They grappIed in deadly conflict near rock,
that rose--Iikc the huge wreck Of some prmeval
world--at least one hundred lee above the dark
waters of the WisSahkon.
That man with the dark brow, and the darker
grey eye, flashing with deadly light, with the
muscular form, clad in the blue hunting frock of
The Revolution, is Continental named Warner.
His brother was murdered the other night at the
Massacre Of Paoli. That other man, with long
black hiir, dropping along his cadaverous face,
is clad in the halfmilitary costume OF d Foty re,
fugee. That is the Murderer of Paoli, named
Dahney.
They had met in the woods there by accident,
and now they fought, not with swords or rifles,
but with long ana deadly hunting knives, that
fish in the light, as the} 60 tnanlng and twinIng
sanl twisting over the groenswlrd.
AT last the Tory WIS down! Down on The
green sward with the knee Of the Continental up
on his breasl--that uprased knife quiverng in
the light, that dark grey eye flushing death into
his face!
'Qnarter--I yieId!' gasped the Tory, as the
knee was pressed upon his breast-'Spare me-
yiedr
My brother' sld the patriot soldier, in that
low deep tone of deadly hate--'My brother cried
for quarter on the night Of Paoli, and, even as
he chung to your knee, you struck that knife into
his heart! Oh! will give you, The quarter of
Paoli!'
And his hand was raised for the blow, aud his
teeth were cIenched in deadly hate. He paused
for a moment, and then pinioned the Tory's
arms, and with one rapid stride dragged him to
the verge of the rock, aud held him quivering
over the abyss. o
'Mefcy!' gasped The Tory, Ititnng black and
ashy by turns as that awful gulf yawned below.
4Mercy!I / have wife--a child--spare mel
Then the Continental, with his muscular
strength gathered for the effort, shook the mur-
derer once more over the abyss, and thea Kissed
this bitter sneer between his teeth:
6tMy brother had wife and two children -
The morning after the night of Pao, that wife
was widow, those children we're orphans!
Wouldn't you like TO 60 and beg your life Of that
widow and her children.
This proposal, made by the Continental in the
mere mockery Of hate, was taken in serious ear
nest by the hororslricken Tory. He begged
10 be taken TO the widow and her children, 70
have the pihlul privilege of begging bis life.--
After moments serious thought, the patriot
soldier consented; he bound the Torg's arms
yettighters placed him on the rock again--led
him up the woods. A quiet cottage, embosom-
ed among treesrbroke on their eyes.
They catered that cottage. There, beside
\ the desolate hearthrsione, sat the widow and her
Children She sat there a matronIy woman oI
4 thirty years, with a face faded by care deep
dark ege, and long black hair hnngipg in dishe
yelled fakes about her shoulders!
On one side was dnrk.haircd boy Of some
six Years--on The other,a little girl, one year
younger, with light hair and blue eyes. The
Bible%-an. old and venerable yolume--lay open
on that mothers knee.
And then that pale-faced Tory flung himself
upon his knees, confessed that he had butcher
ed her husband on the night Of Paoli, but begged
his life at her hands!
Spare me, for the sake ofmy wife, my childn
The Wiasabikon ID situated about Eve miles out Of
Philadelphia II is yet, (on It's banks, wooded With
delightful growth of treesand perhaps there is not
little river 70 % any large city 10 the world, 80 po-
elicnly romantic as hisever winding and eyervayng