Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-02-18
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THE TRIUMPH OF PRINCIPLE; or


THE TRIUMPH OF PRINCIPLE; or,
i the twin Sisters. '. q.
;, FANNY.-My sister, we have finished
our course of study. This day our con.
Inection with this school terminates. The
seats we have occupied viii lhenceforth be
occupied by others. What course do you
intend to pursue with reference to the
future?
SARAH.-I intend to travel. You
know my accomplishments are sufficient
to attract attention wherever I may
chance to go. 1 am an accomplished
dancer and play the Piano and Guitar,
and Mr.. p, my music teacher, says !
sing like nightingale, am going to
visit all the principle cities in America,
where no doubt shall be admired by all
the fashionable; and then I purpose vis-
ting Europe. London shall be the first
to greet me. From thence 1 am going
to Paris to visit the scenes of Napoleon
for you know / have ever been an ad-
mirer of his greatness and his ambition.
FAN.-Much more do I admire the
gentle quiet spirit of Josephine. Though
the wife of one of the greatest generals
the world can boast. yet she possessed a
spirit of love and benevolence, sufficient
to soften the most obdurate heart. Much
more do admire the character of Wash
ington. True, they were both distin-
guished generals-in this respect they
resembled. And yet what contrast in
their lives. and still greater in their
deaths. Washington labored for the
good of his country. And after obtain
ing the highest honor in the gift of the
people. died in the land of his birth, sur
rounded by his friends, and not only his
family. but nation, mourned his loss.
Whilst Napoleon. driven from his country
and home far from the scenes of his
childhood and his victories, attended by
a few soldiers, spent his few remaining
years on solitary and barren island in
the Atlantic, without even family to
mourn his misfortunes.
SARAH.-But. sister, why is it you al
ways contemplate the dark side of every
thing? Why don't you aspire to some
thing that is elevating, instead of brood
ing over the misfortunes of others !
aspire to the name of a princess, and if
misfortune should chance to befall me l
shall bear it as did Timoxena, with a
spirit of resignation, worthy of phi
losopher. But let me hear what your
plans are. Where do you intend to go ?
FAM desire not the society of the
rich, or the fashionable, the name of a
princess. or the wife of philosopher l
too hope to travel. But, for far differ
ent object than that which you purpose
to accomplish. l hope to visit Asia, and
behold the birth place of my Saviour, the
land of the prophets and apostles.
hope to stand on Mount Moriah, visit
Babylon, Nineveh. and all those places
held sacred in the history Of the world.
I hope to bear the glad tidings of the
long expected Messiah, to that once high
ly favored but now degraded nation. 1
would be actuated by principle of love
to the perishing, and not to crafty my
own selfish passions.
A few years have rolled by and we be-
hold Fanny. accompanied by her hus-
band, the Rev. Mr.. G., labOring in
that land she had so long wished to see.
She was permitted to stand where proph-
cts and apostles had Preached-where
sages sung, and Martyrs bled. But
where do we find Sarah? She, too, was
permitted to visit the places she hoped
to, when the above conversation took
place. But returned not the wealthy
princess she expected to be, but the
annotated victim of disease death had
marked her for his victim. She pined for
that contentment which her sister enjoy
ed, but could never obtain it. Truly she
exclaimed upon her dying bed, princi-
pie has triumphed over ambition l
possess no principle but that of selfish
ness, whilst my sister who ever labOred
for the good of others, has triumPhed.
FANNY.
Fir FOR A LAwYER.-An old lady walk :
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