The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1848-11-17
From the Weekly Fountain
The COntrast---COIeridge and
SOuthey.

They were contemporaries, and both men
OF great intellect. There is one sad contrast
in their characters and their fate, which has
fearful lesson on one side, and on the 9TH
er presents everything that is WORTHY Of i'm.
itatlon:
"Coleridge,'says the Observation-Disclosures,
"was now the slave ofopum lin lSl4) what
ever money he made, went at once in the
purchase of that destructive poison, to the
ruin of his health, his principles, and char.
acter. Domestic disagreement is weak
word for the inevitable consequences Of such
habits; he became, in poetic language, a
voluntary exile from his family,a wanderer
on the face Of the earth" The following
letter was written by him in that year, to
one Of his Oldest and most attached friends,
Mr.. Wade. Of Bristol:
"Dear Sir,-for am unworthy to call
any good man my friend-much less you,
whose hospitality / have abused; accept
howtver,my entreates for your forgiveness,
and for your prayers. Conceive poor, mis-
cradle wretch, who for many years has been
attempting TO beat off pain by constant re-
currence TO the vice that reproduces it,
Conceive spirit in hell, employed in trac-
ING for others the road to that heaven from
which his crimes exclude him! In short
conceive whatever is most wretched, hope
less, and you will form, as tolerahle notion
of my state, as it is possible for a good man
to have.
81 used TO think the text in st. James
, that she who offended in one point ofIendS in
all very harsh, bu, now feel the woful.
the tremendous truth oft. Fvr the one of
opium, what crimes have not made nv
self guilty Of? Ingratiude to my Maker
and to my benefactors! injustice and I'M
natural cruelty 10 my pour .i.iid....i .-n
contempt for my repeated promise breach.
nay, too often actual falsehood.
"After my death earnestly cntreat that
full and unqualified narration of my
wre:chedness, and its guilty cause, may be
made public, that at least some little good
may be effected by the direful example.
"May God Almighty bless you, and have
mercy Oh your still aiIeotiona,e, and in hi,
heart grateful, ). i. CoLERIBGE."
In vain did Sonthey urge him back TO hi,
family, through friend. "lle knows il
what manner ne would be received, by
his children with joy; by his wife, not with
tears if she can control them, certainly not
with reproaches; by myself only with en-.
couragementw lie did not 60, and linger.
ed, in the hopeless attempt at cure, untilthe
18th of July, 1894. What different picture
does Coleridgc himself draw Of Southey.
! luz VEGrranLE PIly EIrcruanr, inven.
Up ted 10y Dt. tpham, a distinguished phy.i.
OF New ork City. is the only really suc.
piul remedy for that dangerous and distress.
r.,omplant, the PILES, ever offered to the
,erican public.
fark this; 1t is an INTERNAL. REMEDY
vt an external application, and will cure v
+ OF Files, either bleeding or Blind, Internal
External; anu probably the only thing that
{. There Is M mistake about II. II is a pos.
cure-and speedy and permanent. II Is al.
Convenient medicne TO take and improve,
general health IN a remarkable manner.
,,ach Fov contains twelve doses, at y I-3 cts
lose. 1t is very mild in its operation, and
be taken in cases of the mos, acute in.
lmn,ion wl,hou, danger. All inlcrnul arrl.
lns are in the highest degree iisagrceable,
'n'enicn' aud offensive; aud from the very
are OF he disease, temporary in their effects. ,
medicine attacks the disease at its source !.
REMOVING THE CAUSE renders tho
Is CERrAIN and PERMANENT. y
NFL.4li1L7 TORY Diseases
r Though the Elecluary was originally p,e.
Tor the cure OF Piles, ye, it has proved it.