The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1853-04-07
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THE
MERCHANT DAUGHTER
AND JUDGE,

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The two vessels Joined, and the mimic
contest was be gun. OF course, the Eng
lish colors triumphed over the Papal.--
Up to this point, the merchant bore his
pangs in silence. but when the English
galley had Assumed the victory, then
came the ira of patience. Edigies ofthe
cardinals were hurled into the stream
amidst the shouts and derisionS of the
mob. AT each plunge groans issued
from his tortured breast. 1t was in vain
that Emily clung 10 his arm and implored
him, bysevery fear, TO restrain himself
His religious zeal overoame his prudence;
and when at last the figure Of the Pope,
dressed in his pontifcal robes, was
hurled into the tide, the loud exclamation
ofagony and horror burst from his lips /:
''Oh monstrous impiety OF an aceursed
and sacrilegious king!" sounded loudly
above the din ofihe mob.
z il was enough, the unhappy merchant
Vas Immediately consigned over TO the
secular arm.
Oh sad were those prison hours the
girl told her beads--lhe father prayed TO
all the saints, and then came the vain con-
ISOLATION by which one endeavored to
cheat the other. They thought oil their
own sunny land, its balmy air, its living
beauty, and that thought was home.
November came with all its gloom
the month that should have been the grade
of the year, coming as it does with shroud
and cerecloth, foggy, dark, and drearv
the father brow numbered more wrinkles;
the once black hair was more nearly
bleached, the features more attenuated
And the daughter -ah youth is The
transparent lamp OF hope-but in her the
light was dim.
In fear and trembling the unhappy for
eigners waited the day Of doom. The
merchants otlense was one little likely 10
meet with mercy. Henry was ealous Of
his title OF head of the church. He had
drawn up code of articles of belitG
which his subjects we're desired to sub
scribe to; he had instituted court OF
which he had made Lord Cromwell Vi
car.General, for the express train ofhose
whose orthodoxy in the kings creei was
called in question. Neither could ne un.
! happy merchant hope to find favor with
the Judge, for it was known that Crom-
well was strongly attached to the growing
reformation and from the acts Of severity
with which he had lately visited some Of
the adhereEts of the Romish creed in his
new character of Vicar. General, it was
scarcely probable that he would show
mercy to one attached, by lineage and
love, 10 papal Rome. Strangers, as they
were~ poor, unknowing, and unknown,
what had they not to fear, and what was
left for hope
The morning oftrial came. The fogs
oi that dismal month spread like dark
veil over our north. There was no beauty
in the landscape, no light in the Heav-
ems. and no hope in the heart.
The Judges took their places; crowd
of wretched delinquents came TO receive
their doom, We suppose it to be re
fnement of modern days that men are not
punished for their crimes, but only to de-
ter others from committing them. This
court of Henry's seemed to think other
wise there was all The array of human
passions in the Judges, as we'll as in the
ludged. On one hand recreant fear abb
jured his creed on another, heroism
braved all contingencies, courting the
pile and the stake with even passonate
desire, and the pile and tie stake were
4 given with unrelenting cruelty.
2 At length there stood at the bar an
aged man and youthful girl; the long
white hair of the one fell loosely over the
shoulders. and left unshaded face
wrinkled as much by care as by age; the
dark locks of the other we're braided over
a countenance clouded by sorrow and
. wet with tears
The mockery Of trial went on. II was
easy to prove what even the criminal did
not attempt 10 gansay. The aged mer-
chant avowed his fidelity to the Pope as
a true son of the church--denisd the su-
premacy Of Henry over any part of the
fold, and thus sealed his own doom.
There was an awful stiffness through
the court-stillness, the precursor OF DOOM
broken onl by the sobs OF the weeping
airl. as she clung to her fathers arm.--
= zza=sta expected sentence was in.
] came sudan rush (;
q thronged the court
ord Cromwell! room for
|" and the Vicar General
- and his state, with all
office, to assume his place
1t that tribunal. Noles ol
we're laid before Lord
- -s told Of The intended
:. made q gesture Of ap-