The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-07-08

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1 w, granS {, more magnificent self; and tn
iAntstot temable, won At lest, would exul. il
70 ssissf onds and golden chains With whicl
S< lore ,uld fondly deck her and bind be
Il : his sid<e .n ,.si.-,L. -.sf.-.r
i All, 90 ANGEL Our wishes often come With;
| Arrescb this dim life, hut oftsnest, perhaps
| ga MAJ ,rsdine drsss and 20 We turn ava
fom ire snd are wiser and ssdder when it i
| % 'Ae. ta strike them down, it may be, Wit
Z pr owa hds, and then the mask drops of
T "a We hN'w them lying in thsd before MS
7 ut, ht Va 1--WE weep and wiring onr hands owe
| ! sem, tw sze DECD, and cannot rise again, an,
I IN ret v 30 more, OF oaly q pale memories
p aichis he ghosts of hopes 10 haunt MS, il
ar'ionsl Sonra, With those "saddest of words
IT. Nigh ave beenll'" How should the apos
ats crs,s-s ~ ksoS hat the helmeted psge ii
Ross 4 Why should he not elench hi
tssuntlsts and sgainst him 2 How can Pencil
Sstelft sAa wandering supplicant on hel
earth u sJr own longed-for and prayed-fo,
slysses . lby may she not Get the dogs upon
I'm, or ,e other suitors STAY Aimf How Car
fe see W Ter We are spurning our happiness
h claspiI ar woei How, indeed, if We are
wing like { ,ostates or pagans? Bnt there is q
srtainv old.fashioned, not to say obsolete
\ sook, NJ says, 6 II any man lack wisdom,
Vt him a>ssf God, who giveth to all ibsrally
I'D uphr idt,th not; and it shall be given him. y
tnd tboee this promise probably refers more
irectly Il wisdom in the management of one'a
eavenly kssn ones earthly affairs, Jet the two
re clos, i Ss,onnected; and heavenly wisdom
'ould &c I daly save Us from the mos. lament.
BILE Of ca arthly errors, end from those bit.
crest Of r. Aets which come, when we discover
aat we ha' suffered ourselves to be cheated
Alto sacrit- Epg some bliss, offered us by the
Z tod Who i yes us, to some demos whom we
the tim sere serving. te
ConAtan however, was not aware that she
'as - an ~ant of wisdom, nor yet did she
onsicer 1 self to be living in the least like
a apostle nor pagan for she went to
,burca at last once every Sunday, when the
'eatber y fine, and scolded herself very
ard, not soy very justly, out of prayer.
ook. Oa: 9f church, to be sure, abe thought
umi'ity ,irtue ft only for servants, email
tadess, 'ar clergymen. He'll, in her creed,
'as a vel suitable place for dirty, ignorant,
nd wickeS people, who used bad language,
obbed, ane murdered. 1t was very suitable
nd right tsat they should be kept somewhere
ut Of the way of their betters, or else be burnt
p ct once. Now and then, too, there might
1e IN exceptional condemnation to it, in the
ase of scne unusually ill-behaved lady or
sentlemap, who died suddenly, or perversely
md unaceountably refused on his death.bed 10
ay be yss~orry, repeat his prayers, and send
or clerg, aaan. AZ for the possibility of any.
hing like panishment for anything she did, ever
coming nes., her, in this world or the next, she
lever imagpe it. Her religion was negative,
aot positive. 1t forbade her to commit any
StAte'aPt q offences and, if she refrained
mortal If shich she anticipated little difhcui.
~ in dol it promised to confer upon her
heaven death, not at all as favor, but
As her du nd we'll earned wages. The doc
.rine of aan neighborhood and Christian
brotherh' she ignored altogether; and, in
short, she. 8 Just as much of Christian as she
might hst4s.aeen if she had been respectable
Pnarisee'I .ell.reputed daughter, nineteen hun.
dred year .,go. Her God was the god of bat
ties i; and ne thought the most victorious of
warriors, ,rquering for his country in any
cause, rig or wrong, the greatest of heroes.
I do wrop5 however, to say that she thought i;
for, like ost women, land men, too,)* she
" had yet learn to think. She took for her
opinion frat ideas that came in her way,
! and for J. worship the first idols, provided
{. only that ey had pretty names engraven on
their ped fals.
i, Copsts Q, in due time, quite grew up, Ito
f. the heigl # Eve feet eight inches and came
out; but 30 found the world without the walls
| of her b sding-school almost as dull and. I'M
J responsi as that portion of the world which
she had eft behind, within them, after the
4 first exc 'nent of the really unusual sensation
| she MAJ by her beauty, grace, and reputec
/ wealth, limited number of drawing-rooms
! in linn . number of cities, was over. At first
indeed, snng men we're presented to her b.
half doz Z o, wherever she went. But of these
the hig srm, as she was pleased, for want of I
better J, after the fashion of romantic younl
ladies 49, certain school Of writer's of in
structiv Sopular tales, to denominats the son
of succ,, fal merchants and professional poli'
ical me : and grandsons of farmers and me
chanics> proved too often to be Of the cali6r
of Mess Z. Bob Jones and Jack Robinson, care
more TO-. dancing than talking in general, an
talking !, her favorite topics in particular, an
stigmst4 ed her as slow" bsae, and stron.
minded While the lo,c born-namely, the sor
of far,e,s and mechanics, (nsud stills, in th
CLASH, irolinian tongue)-who, having com
up fro he plough and workbench 10 the Un
versit, .yvere slowly and surely working the
, way NJ > be themselves successful profession
. al and iitical men-youths whose minds he
been IL, much more thoroughly trained tbs
hers, e. aer manners had been than theirs
r who CO.: A, some of them at least, have full
appre e ed her wit and fancy, and amply +
, paid r. With their cwn humor and sagacit
i after s, Z first shyness had been charmed aw,
BY y feminine tact and kindness on
; part these low-born youths were set dov
!, by hes once, for mere want of the habit
] socief' y Doors utterly unworthy of her soc
1 ty, a,a~s epelled and frozen with icy looks al
e mone- Isbles. Having no near relations livil
4 at tt !. ,uth, except an aunt whose home "
in f. more, but whose husbands busine
CARR Jim frequently to Paris, she had new
|, rsturl 70 her native Stste since she left
. and "a sin with few young planters. Of the'
!. feee D appeared TO her to be very liberal
edae- q and some were even addicted