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

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mpan, wringug his hands and beating
Itbsm-ag gainst his breast.
| Thistsaa strange sght-an old man
| plainly dressed, his face wrinklea, his
solitary eye glaring CLASSY light. as he
walks in this. Mammoth Sepulchre, wiring
ing his hapds, beating his Breast, utter
ing that low, deep moan. that makes four
blood run cold.
We approach the old man. While his
anguish Chills us, and his solitary eye
| CLEANS its 6re--so gIassy-into our hearts
we ~es courage and speak TO him.
/ 'Q'd mau, tell us. why do you wander
here, so lonely at dead of night, wruging
yaar hands and beating your breast--"
He il silent. The moonlight through
ths cfsvice plays over his features, wri,
thing 10 silent anguish. Again he gides
on his solitary watch, and suddenly turns
ing, Whispers with his white lips:
i toiled--I toiled for long life, to
gather gold--my name was known, wher
. CNOf NHCi q W 40 tHG iuSc VI SItIllLch "oH
-my ships whiteded every sea. Through
the long years of half century, toi!ed,
aud toiled to gather gold, Did ] gather
the wealth for myself? or for those re!a
tious who had seen me, in hunger, dark
ness, cold when but an Orphan Boy
and seen without one drop OF pit}l Or,
was il to swell a guilty wealth into a
proud eminence of Power and Wrong?-
No! No! But Cor those children ef Toll
cold merces Of beartless world! felt
the wrongs of the Poor--l felt that the
Declaration Of Independence had only
begun lis work--l felt that that work
would not even be commenced until
Il New Generation should arise, who thor
oug bly, educated in their great destiny,
should 60 forth the Apostles of the Re-
public. had been an Otphan--I knew
the Lorrid injuries, the accumulated
wrong, the hard crust and the merciless
blows which form the Orphans heritage
Therefore | gathered gold. to build a
Plain Structure, where--aot the purse
proud darllDgs OF wealth; nor The pamper-
ed children OF Aristoeratic Prtde--bnl
the 0lphans, these Wsrds of Almighty
God d--sn4,nd be rtsrsd Ga uanhuas a.d
virtue, 10 that solemn Cathedral Of the
Paor; tile Commmon schooI-honse!
"Wlh this WISH, this resolve on my
ps, died, for You see, | am this night
come from my graye--the grave dust Is
on my brow; these threads futtering from
my liulbs, are but the fragments of my
shrond; am come from IN, grave TO look
upon the Orphans school house. Here
Fam in search Of my orphans; beTe, oh my
God pity me! here where ! expected to
ind that new Gsnora,ion, find only this
Mammoth Tomb! My orphsns! my ors
phans!O God! Where are hey?"
And as We look in mite wonder, the
old man beats his breast sgain, again
wrings his hands: again that low, deep,
| freezing moan.
TIE moonlight falls in dismal radiance
through the crevlces of yonder window;
the silence, the gloom of this marble
vault, strikes you with chilling ave.
You essay to comfort the miserable ghost
with words like these:
| "But, old man, is moi this pretty cols
leee, an ornament to the city: leok!-
What splendid chambers are these! look!
Through that crevice in the boards which
! lose thai window, look and behold lie
| towering lines Of piIlars 1t is altogeth-
| er GrsciaB, | assure you, old man, tins
| Temple: some thing between Temple
eredted to Jupiter, and a Maasaleum
| omit ever tie carcass of Persian sstrap.'
"1Iy ospbans! my orphans! Whefe are
taey?
"But CID man, let us reason this mats
ter taeetheh You remember bJ your
VIII you forbid The entrance OF Prlesis
and Preachers into your college walls:
yau eves forbid he bible entering here.
Now yuu know Our City Councils are pi-
Gus men; YOU shocked their deep rellg-
tons seDsibility; they were afraid the
Morals Of the poor orphans might be cor
rupted. So you see, they resolved TO baik
your unhol, purpose, they determined
that not one beggarly Orphan should even
have chance OF being corrupted here;
they built a Tomb instead of a School
House."
.Did forbid the entrance of Priest,
Preacher, and the Bible! Ii was not be-
cause did not believe the Ministry of
the Gospel is the boliest office on earth,
not because / did not believe the Bible |
ia the best of all Books! But because /
knew there are bad men; legends of at
trocious h,pocrites; who ouiy assume the
name of Preacher, who only profess to
leve tbe Bible, in order TO creep into fat |
stations ia pulpits and in Colleges, sRd
,ur. those holy words, :Jesus and the