The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1849-06-15

what they liked. believe what they liked,
sgo to what church they liked; but in my
college. | vowed Solemn oath; should
never dap its wings that Vampire Of the
Heart; religious Disseasion!"
''Oh! old man.Fit is such pity You did
po, explain yourself fully TO our Councils,
for they are pous men. You shocked
their Moral consciousness; their iooe Of or
der; upon my word you did! Theyadid
not want to build school house, where
ragged, beggarly little orphans might be
corrupted iato a Legion of lnfdels, who
| would not believe in wholesale Robbery,
tboughit was dons by chartered Banks;
DOR 10 burning Churches, though il were
accomplished by holy protestant hands.--
/ Ibey did not want to waste your money
-~they had no desire to feed their favor.
ties on yonr boarded wealth, or spend II
in dark cornets, doing deeds that they
wonld be ashamed to look 10 the face in
| broad days oh, no! oh, not They spent
your money in such way that .he whole
W orid might look at il: the y built Tomb
splendid sepulchre full Of chambers and
stairways and pillars within aud pillars
without! For yousee they are consider
ate men; are our Councilsu'
Even while we are speaking to the old
man, his head drops; something like a
tear gliters IN his CLASSY ageball. lie is
count, NC the years that have elapsed since
his death.
"They might have finished my school
house in two years; and now, have been
dead one, two, three; oh, so many years;
so many that cannot count them! and
ny orphans: oh good God, where are
lheyW
Come, old man, come up this dark
stairway; up this frame staircase, hung
on the uorth end of the building: come
out hither on the roof of the college.
Look, what splendid sight!
"PhIladelpnia, the Leviathsn of luxury
and crime, slumbers al your feet. 1t is
| " WY oiu hohb bht hOW y
night, when the stars are shining 10 the
sky, to behold Philadelphia stretching
away at your feet. !. is beautiful by day
| old mani but now, by night, when the
moon is sailing in the sky, to aae phi'
adephis stretching away at your feet
he broad Delaware flowing ,hore, until
his waves miogIe with the Sobuy iknI,yoa
der; TO sea the distant hills far, far. ycn-
der, melting into the blue sky. Oh, ii is
beautiful sight!' 81
}nt not upon the wide waste of roofs,
nor the massive mound OF Farm ouut, the
sheeted Schuy kill, rising abdsg leaning to
the right. But Dot upon the great ierest
of land, with the shot-tower, the State
House steepe, and some dozen Of church.
es, towering over all: ner upon the boz
som Of the glitterihg Delaware, or sven
the far, far.of hills Of Brand dywine, seen
there in the dim, blue a,stahca: not upon
tn ese sights of beauty turns The old man 5
eye! q
No! He stands thare on the roof Of the
college. Oh, that blood freezing moan
sgan!
My orphans! My orphans! Oh. God!
where are they?'
And, as IL in answer to bis call. look
here fearful, CHASTITY band-they come.
ok!-rushibg forward in the moon
light air--they come, in all the terrible e
drapsry Of rags aud crime!
They burst from the walls of the Peni
tenriary yonder; yes, from tbs Almshouse
up the board Delaware, from the isles oi
the sea--they come, oh God! in misery,
And rags, and lameness--in chains the
come.
| And this pale, ghasily band now throng-
ing over the roof Of Girard College
these these are thy Orpans, Stephen Gi,
rard
Look here--this Pirate clutching thy
! feet. old mani this dark brown rufian,
with chains on his wrists: this is an Or
phan Stephen Girardt
sOr, turn your gaze-this murderer,
W tb the gtbbets rope dangling from his
neck-this Murderer. who tonight ha,
come down from that Gibbet TO answer
thy call; this murderer, with the tsint of
death upon him; the ghastly light of death
in his eye; this horrid shape cuiching
thee by the hands; this is thy Orphan,
Stephen Giaard!
Look agaio; to the right! This mass
of rags and disease, and leprosy and STAR
walton, scattered here oser the roof OF
(.irard College; this band of robbers and
pirates. and beggars aud murderers'
pressing around you, locking at you; al
,,o,t old man; with th9ir speechless eyesi
these are thy Orphan. Stephen Girard!
These might have been vlrtnoas, and hon.
orahle and educated men; ornaments to
thier County and the name OF Man; these
we're robbed of that education, scattered