The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-03-17

Such an one was Margaret Fuller
The events of her life were not of that
dramatic nature, which startlo and excite
the common reader, and shall have no
occasion to attempt to excite you to laugh
ter or surprise you into tears. The inter
est of her life is chiefly of an inward,
subjective, and spiritual nature. The fact
is, most of us live two distinct lives
There is careless, outward life which we
show to our fellows. Its language is the
language of our common intercourse, and
the main interest of this life is in the pass
ing ephemera of the day, and its most Sc
rious question is, "What shall we eat, and
what shall we drink, and wherewithal
shall we be clothedw ~ A
There is another life underlying this,
whose language is addressed only to God
and to the friendly few whom we take
into closest communion with ourselves. -
This is the true life. Its brief language
is the expression Of what we really are.
It was to this life that Margaret Full
Ter spoke, she had the rare faculty Of
touching its springs with skillful hand,
and if do not most unworthily represent
her, she will seem to you worthy to be
admitted into your sheart of hearts"
Margaret Fuller was born in Cam
bridgeport, Mass, in 1910. I.s
| Her Father was educated at Harvard,
and was lawyer and politician. She
speaks Of him as largely endowed with
that sagacous energy, which New Eng.
land Society is so well fitted to develop
The great object of his ambition was to
hold an honored place among his fellow
men and provide comfortable and pleas
ant home for his family. "To open tho
4 deeper fountains of the soul, Ito regare
life here as the prophetic entrance to i'm
mortality, to develop his spirit to perfec
tion''-were motives whose force he die
not feel Mare aret says ofhim, ''his low
for my mother was the green spot oil
which he stood apart from the common
places of a nero bread-winning, bread-be
slowing existence" Of her Mother sh
says :"She was one of those fair and flow
or-like natures, which sometimes sprln
up beside the most dusty highways c
ife-a creature not to be shaped into
, merely useful instrument, but bound b
one law to the blue sky, the dew, and til
frolic birds. Ofall persons 1 have eve
known she had in her most of the angel
of that spontaneous love for every I'
t ing thing, for man and beast and tree
} which restores the golden age" aa i
Margaret early gave proof ofthe posse
5 sion of that wonderful intellect which q
forwards placed her in the front rank :
t scholars and writer's. Her father WI
A proud of her, and stimulated her mind
: over work. AT six years OF age she res
/ Latin with ease. Her father was her t
: tor and as she thoroughly understood tt
S mechanism Of the language, he require
: her to give the thought in the brlefe
n and best arranged language posslol
= Thus her mind was early trained to wo
n with clearness and precision, but this fci
o ed growth of intellect told fearfully on h
t bodily health. TIE poetic dreaming
n ement which is strong i'll every child W
4a doublv 50 in her and she became the v
n tim of nervousness, and the whole state
le her being was painfully active and inten'
L. 1t was a wonder to the family that she W
g never willing to go to bed, but (uslns l
: own language,) "They did not know IL
h as soon as the light was taken away $
y seemed to see colossal faces advanci
lie slowly towards her, the eyes ehlatlng, a
f. each feature swelling loathsomely as tn
t. came. till at last when thoy were about
ID close upon her, she started up with
e shrek. which drove them away but OF
I'd to return when she lay down again. LII
$. did not know that hen sue went to sic
hit it was to dream of horses tramping o
IN her. and to wake in fright, or as she
n lust read in her Virgil, of being amo
elf trees that dropped with blood where
re walked and walked and could not get 9
of while the blood became pool and pia
1t cd over her feet, and soon She dreamed
Id would reach her lips. No wonder
nd child arose and walked in her sleep, mo
list mo over the house, till once they ca
,ir- and walked her, and when she told W
Of she had been dreaming OF, her fat
ed. sharply told her to 'leave off thinking
"a such nonsense, or she would be era
rs never dreaming that he was himse'
ose cause Of all these horrors OF the night
avs But these spectral Illusions wore nv