Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-01-09
For the Kenosha Telegraph.
The Strange Creature.
AN ALLEGORY

While wandering in solitary retreat DER path
way diversified with rugged declivities steep as
cents. deep ravincs and plains that extended far
Their than the eye could reach, strange creature
Intercepted. lis appearance presented beauty
of form, graceful movements, lovIiness in the
expression of the countenance, and perfect sym
ctry in the structure of all it, parts. 1t was pos
sessed Of Examination too, which added to its attract
yencss. In word, of It's make, too much of
praise cannot be said. But of its habits, man
ners and understanding nothing is definite, for
sure stranger creature never lived. Now it is
Mahomodan, and now Christian and anon q
Mormon. Ii is omnivorous, and hence has no
fixed habitat. To-day it basks under Austral's
tropical sum- luxuranting exclusively on veget-
abios, fruits and the richest viands, tomorrow it
ranges the snow-clud hills, and bound seas of
Borca' dreary, Sunless cheerless, lands, subsist
ing on the ,tinted berry and the flesh of its own
associate, the reindeer its best friend
This creature is possessed Of reason too, and
the power of refec!ing, and yet is it most wretch
edly unreasJtnblo 1t brides itself of lis exem
plar, and ever and anon INDUCES in the most eX-
treme extremes. 1t dotes on the deep tone of its
fratcrnality and love, but as a traitor, and in
treachery it is withouta riavl. Notwithstanding |
its necessities are fow and The very emblem Of
simplicity its whole existence is made up of bor-
rowcd cares, fears, anXietics and nerveess ennu
aboutits progress and tomorrow. In short. its
maginatiun broods in gloomy anticipation over
uucmbodied fantasies more numerous than the
sands Of Aries vast descr. twice told. 1t came |
from its Maker, an emblem of His very self but
no sooner, finding itself an unrestr~ined self
acting agent than it sets Oft at fall speed, losing
sight OF all rcspono!bty-on chase after the po-
cts oft-told Joys that ncer have boon realized.-
Ard though in lis first aucmptit well nigh de-
molish its own superb structure, resolving It's body
back into It's original clements, tits nothing daunt-
ed, but like The tempe5t-beaton oak that rivets /
It's roots the more deeply into their grasp with !
every repeated gale, too the stern gnlc Of OPP
position riyets its courage with trmer hold, as
if determined in full to comprehend the whole
circle of the sports of genius.
1t eagerly ;, ICES with iron grasp the pen of
speculation. 1t vaniy boasts of It's imperial at
iluence and its landed possessions from which
the sun never takes It's leave.
Ii marks with pleasure the -ecede Of the beasts
of terror at its approach. 1t turns reluctantly
from, and is indeed ncv r wholly unmlndtul OF
the quail Of the very elements as they yield SUB
missivclv to is mandates. 1t is truly the Won
derful wonder! But with all It's llerculeanlsm
it is itself the model deficit.
or its own SELF its own component parts, IT
knows scarcely more than the ottoman on winch
i, rests. Its vacant gaze betrays vacant with
in More foolish than the eagle that its flight,
scars not but 10 be, it makes its higher nature
subacrvient to the gt5sser passions whose asso-
ciatcs are degradation, perjury and woe, then
charges back the folly on Him from whom 1t de-
rived SO foarlully wonderful make, and of
thereby defeats, it is to be presumed, the glories
of its own immortality. The very dust on which
threads cries aloud in condemnation Of better
iudretncnt turned to so Go i-iorsaken an end, the
stigma II must wear, and to apPrze it of lis final
Obvious doom. l; IS most perfect specimen
Of times venerable domestics
Now this creature, SO siranga, is not alone, but
for the better acGuiIal Of lis sublime missions
aim, 70 il a hclp-mate has been given. But
stranger still than all else strange, and the Sc
cret Of the strange is that in lis wise concet, its
hepmatc, not unlike unto itself, is to itself infe-
nor
The poets pen must o0entimes have INDUCED
in no small exaEgerauons or else we see not
what we seem to see. For while wandering in
contcmplaIion's lonely meditation TO while away
the tedlum Of the hour, we seem TO see pigmy
object, an exac, fac-simile of the pathway d.
versiied with decliyities, asccnts, ravines and
plains con;euding against giant Nature for self
ish mastery, thus disseminating itseiftromiis own
original to an unhappy doom. The dwarf, SO
ciant-hke, and 50 ike al else but wha, it should
be, is but MAN.
WIN. S. COON.
Milan, Duchess County, ~ y, Dec. 24ih 1851.
Within twenty miles OF Albany there IS vast
nv rhp