Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-03-19

Tic wished himself n hundred miles off
lie would lain have had those little marks
on his own breast rather than go through
what he saw must happen that niglh. But
he would not leave the scene. lie was cal
led away to u case more advanced than
hers; but lie fastened back in time to wit
ness the ceremony. lie saw her married;
aud his compuslire no doubt removed the
ienr of the mother, for all was done cheer
fully aud merrily; aud when the guests sat
down to the evening banquet, no one but
himself seemed to see that Death was of tho
company. As soon MS the table wns cleared,
however, the ladies' withdrew; for the bride
could not conceal that she wns oppressed
with the headache. Altcr that, all was gloom
aud terror. When the poor girls frantic
cries were heard from up stairs, the one low
gronn from the bridegroom sent everybody
away. The young husband could not stay
beside his bride; Tor she did. not know him.
Willie he cooled her head. she cried odt for
him, with so agonized cry ;hat he could
not hear IL. From the door he actually
brnrd tie pnpitnlun of her heart. by mid.
night, modification had set IN on that fair
breast where the small specks had caught
her moihcI's eye. The first passengers IN
the early morning saw tie house shut up,
aud the red cross on the door, aud no one
was within hut the old woman who made
her harvest of tending the dead. She called
from the window, and the dead cart came.
Tho old woman nn,le n plentiful morning
meal of llie remains of tie wedding feast
mnde n bundle OF the rich dress of the
bride, holding that lace ruff TO the light,
with admiration, before she folded il up for
her bundle locked the door after her MS
she went out, and left the nlndc where there
had been so much mirih yesterday, and
where nothing was now heard hut the rustic
of the mice, which came boldly forth to
revel III the fragments of the good cheer.
The incidents OF those days are immortal
izcd by their being erected into type of
horrible aud inevitable fate; aud above all
other incidents, that OF the little purple stain
on the breast. We read and talk of the
plague spot so familiarity tlut we have al
most lost sight of what it means. II would
he well To reconsider il, and dwell upon il.
II there Is such thing, for instance, us n
State with an established vice in il, if we
know such thing us n democratic republic
with deep seated tyranny in the midst of
It, and call that tyranny a plague spot, we
had better ponder what that phrase truly
means, nnd what il certainly forbodes. II is |
'uIe Io lnKe our eyes from ~, because the
lhouglnless cxult in the vigorous youth of
that State, in lis bloom of promise, in the |
opening before il of new aud blessed ca.
reer. If the plague spot is there, lhe bloom |
aud the promise will vanish like the dew |
aud the delicate beauty of the desert flower |
when ilie simeon is on the way. Death aud |
pulrescnce is at hand
Aud is there 40 escape? There have
been instances of recovery from the plague
one case among ten thousand. But in that |
one case, the stain has been at once rccog. |
nzed as II plnguc spot, aud insinut aud wig |
Orous treatment, has followed. Wherever
the sufferer has concealed and denied, whcr- |
ever lac has rushed forth into the street, de- |
clarlng himself well, shouting forth his
confidence, aud mocking the pity aud horror
OF The world that looked on; in every such |
case, perdilion has ovcr,alSen him, aud his |
self-wlIl has been his ironical elithpli, en.
grnvcd OH the memories of all survivors.