The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-02-10

refined ntclliyences! Has reason become
bankrupt in defence Of truth and viriue7
Has ill-,imed mirth efTaceI the impress of
sorrowiu experience! Has pity expended
her last tear, or love scattered her parting
flowers OH the shrine Of suffering humanity!
No, my friends the subject isnot exhausted.
The human heart 10 not barren desert its
streams OF sympathy are not dried up, but
partially overspiead with the falling leaves Of
forgetIuiness. Never at any former time
were we mure susceptible Of deep feeling
never better qualified COR energetic action.
One clear view oe the moral degradation
Consequent upon the inmoderate use Of
ardent spirits, would fully rouse our slumber-
ing energies. One glance at the tot ering
inebriate-whose poisoned breath Burdens the
surrounding atmosphere with moral malaria
would sweep aside the drifting leaves OF in
dffrrunce. One visit to The grief branded
abode--the place where the drunkard stays
and calls il home-where his imprisoned vile
and children drag out an obscure and misera-
BILE existrnce-Oue visit, would swell the r;vu-
lets oI sympathy To the Overlooking Of the
hearts whole continent!
Among the many whu have become tribu-
tarv to B .cchus, there may be those who
have drank themselves british, beyond the
hope Of rcdump:iI n--whhse mental powers
have dwindled into fickerng diocy--whose
moral na:u'e has been ldshed into trcnzied
Jury under III d, basnE tyranny o. an inerdin-
ate appetite for st .Inu ating beveragcs-whose
grooming souls 80 hong the slaves of habit
have no longer Il wish to be tree! Thou
| sands o our fellow beings are in this conii-
ton. even at this good hour fallen, ruined,
! ior.akon. wrctched! Such as these may
curse cur b"uevoleut enler.,riz, aud rnIely
spurn our preferred kindness, tut cannot
elude our pity.
, What is pity! Is it but misplaced iciclt
I IN the sous summer hoIse! | it an alien
To the kindly emo'ions ofour nature whose
character must - rnquircd into vi h closed
doors Does it operate On the human spirit
as Az opate, inducing dreamy melancho,ic
inactivity, No; pits flourishe, unhurt amid
the rudest str'ms ~ life. Ply is famliarI!
intimate with the SOUS best emotions. Pay
is near akin to love aud scldhm weeps for the
mere luxury of weeping, but labours cheer
july to remove the Cause o! her own Cnnscl-
business. Who that pitics, can Withhold
re lei! Go stand on sumo bold, dangerous.
prnmJntery that ov, ripokS the deep blue sea.
Go when the storm kngis abroni IN tn
mai.sty OF his mght--wheu The fierce trnido
| pl ughs deep, d,fk et.Ira, 'arro~s III Ugh the
| liquid field, laying bare the jigged rocks ~
meath and Ii ting the troubled waters, IN i'll
formed Jets, hcaven~ard amid the blazing
! clou !s FIX y,ur'eyr npon gallant vessel
brcastng the fearful strife ut elements and
/ bal,iln. the billows nobiy.in sci de enca-see
| ON her, siillcss, creakinI. mast, the sign Il of
dis,rcss-her decks crow ded with men."om IN
and children, who with bl,uchrd cuunrennnre'
lii up til, r hands imFl 'ringlr. M'rk that
gallant vessel as she ppises 'or a m'm mt
higb ON the io1m-crested wave qIivcring Ger
the desperate plunge down she g,es--d,Hn--
down. duwn-in,o the deep yawnlng chasm
, amidst he'll of waters! see her strike thr
! pointed roaks-careen, parton! what crash,
heavy and heart rcnding see her sink down,
forever out of human sight! Witness the
dread al death struggle oI the poor doomed
ones who crowded the vessels deck-a'mS and
heads, amid the boiling waves, in wild d's"r-
der tossed-deep lined aguay stamped ON every
brow. Let your ear drink in the smothered
wall of dread despair uprising from that
struggling group, cen louder tn h'n'th' 70 r'ne
storm. Ynu see, and hear, ANA deeply feel
and would rush to tn ir rescue, hut. alas! you
cannot save them. The fond NJ Ilhsr, true t.
her IN tern Il feeling even in deaths dark por-
tco, presses her darling child still closer to
I,h, tuy.in E,,ll. in
the Vessels downward wake! The manly
hu ,band casts one lin yerinI farewell loot
toward the loved ONES taraNav, AMI sinks II
t deaths embrace. The orphan youth throw
up one hand as If to greet sa'nttd mother
huvrring DER, aud drops into w.tery grave
, The storm is past the sea grows Calm th'
winds have spent their fury and the blliow'
rock themselves To sleep. Descend iron
your st.tion on the bold prom 'nt"ry an'
irac. the wreck strrwn beach! Gu scar
, h,ir features and number the d'i ting dead
whI, bu, tor that dangerous re', might ye
have iibe4- might have r"rlprnca'ed bliss
lhrouy!, many wears To ron"! lives there I
huuau heinz, within the circling area u
; ciyiIiz .tipn thu, could witness such scene
un,u,rrd.-t'w, uIi ihrll ihc heart / ~ nntu'or
) ris,ya f.. and m,rsliall his instructive pow
: ers To- action! Your heart, 80 good. 80 pure
,uw weIi instructed, that would wre'lhe tn
chaplers of peace nnl happiness "roun'
elrrhs teeming milions AT such II scene
; would well Ugh burst with ply Hat wo"''
pity rest content with n few tributary teur'
dropped Der departed worth! Would hr
mission be completed in numbering :he vie
tim, OF the wreck and wishing death hat
, spared the good, the brave and beautiful! No
, she would eectri y your entire being. Sht
would prompt to immediate acton SIN
r would insp r. the tongue with elo1nrr'ce' The
hands with ingenuity. the feet win activity
d aud the soul with iIberai'y. '"r the erection
I Of ii, ,ht house on tnat dangerous coast. she
r would bury the dead with her lett hand an
: with her right hold up the signal OF uI&nnnl
= ZION to tn. living. kn'w you have nm ic'
pa,ed the application OF the foregoing hsur'
J ana ARE ready tor the question. Are yo'
: winin! TO be regarded AZ indifferent Spec'a
!, tors. amid IN. wreck d victims OF in'emper
a l,,ir ttnn "a