Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-02-18

and he commanded his countenance WE'LL
The specks he saw were minute and few !:
but their character was not to be mistaken.
He wished himself hundred miles off. He
would fam have had those little marks on his
own breast rather than 90 through what he
saw must happen that night But he would
not leave the scene He was called away to
q case more advanced than hers: but he has
tened back in time to witness the ceremony.
He saw her married, and his composure no
doubt removed the fears of the mother: for
all was done cheerfulv, merrily; and when
the guests sat down to the evening BANQUET.
no one but himself seemed TO see that Death
was OF the company. As soon as the table
was cleared, however, the ladies withdrew;
for the bride could not conceal that she was
oppressed with the headache After that all
was gloom and terror. When the poor girls
frantic cries We're heard from up stairs, the
one low groan from the bridegroom sent ev-
erybody away. The young husband could
not stay beside his bride; for she did not
know him. While he cooled her head, she
cried out for him, with so agonized cry
that he could not bear it. From the door
he actually heard the palpitations of her heart
BY midnight, modification had set in on
that fair breast where the small purple specks
had caught her mothers eve. The first pas.
sengers in the early morning saw the house
shut up, and the red cross on the door, and
the old woman who made her harvest of
tending the dead. She called from the win
dow, the dead cart came. The old woman
made plentiful morning meal from the re
mains OF the wedding feast; made bundle
Of the rich dress Of the bride, holding that
lace ruff to the light with admration before
she folded it up for her bundle, locked the
door after her as she went out, and left the
abode where there was so much mirth YES
terday, and where nothing was now heard
but the rustic Of mice, as they came forth
boldly to reyel in the fragments of good
cheer
The incidents Of those days are immortal
lied by their being erected into a type of
horrible and inevitable fate; and above all 9TH
er incidents that of the little purple stain on
the breast. We read and talk of the plague
spot so Familiarity that we have almost lost
sight OF what it means. 1t would be we'll to
reconsider and dwell upon it. If there is
such thing, for instance as state with an
established vice in it; if we know such
thing as a Democratic Republic with deep
seated Tyranny i'll the midst of tt, and call
that tyranny plague spot, we had better
ponder what that phrase truly means, and
what it certainly forebodes. 1t is idle to take
our eyes from it because the thoughtless ex-
ult in the vigorous youth Of that State, in
its bloom Of promise, in the opening before
it of anew and blessed career. If the plague
spot is there the bloom and the promise
will vanish like the dew and the delicate
beauty of the desert-ilower when the simeon
is on the way. Decay and putresence are at
hand.
And is there no escape? There have been
instances ofrecovery from the plague; onem
ten thousand. But in that one case, the stain
has at once been recognized, as plague spot
and instant and vigorous treatment had fol
lowed. Wherever the sufferers had conceal
Cd and denied the token, wherever he has
rushed forth into the street declaring himself
we'll, shouting forth his confidence, and mock
ing the pity and horror Of the world that
looked on; in every such case perdition has
overtaken him, and his self will has been his
ironicaI epitaph, engrayen on the memories
of all survivors.