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


The most important facts of her life
we're her devotion to friends, her entire
benevolonce, her rigid truthfalness, and
her deep and profoahd sense Of the NOR
al responsibilities of human being. T
The great leading idea Of her life was
"SeJf Culturs' She says: Ivory early
/ knew that the only object i'll life was 70
crow In all her after days she remain
ed true to her original standard. She
SAYS: 81 MAS sometimes false to this
knowledge, in idolatries Of particular OBJ
iects, or impatient longings for happiness,
but / never lost sight of it, have always
been controlled by it, and this first gift Of
thought has never been superseded by Ii
later love-" 4 .f,, t....f ..st aft
Most perple are content with turningsa
a very few leaves-of human experience;
she wished to read the whole volume. 1t
was not only to strengthen the mind that
she labored, but more especially TO give
harmonious development to heart and
life. She comprehended the great truth
that character is higher than intellect, and
she passonately cxclaims: with the in
telect always have, always shall OYER
come; but that is not half the work. Tho
life! 0, my God shall the life never be
sweet?" Wig ''' .'''
In her friendships she was in earnest;
she sought to give and receive good. She
i knew who belonged to her, and fastened
them to her by links of sympathetic affec-
ton, and into all these alliances she
breathed an intellectual aim and activity
that dignifed and ennobled them Her
language to every one was,
If 'sBe to the best thou knowest ever true
Even the impassive Emerson warns into
enthusiasm when describing her friend
ships. He says: ~ s4@ 1@.ia.sna1'a.3*
i can the girls ravcd about Margaret
+ Fuller; the loveliest and highest endowed
G women were eager to lay their beauty,
f their grace, the hospitalities of their sump
tuous homes, and their costly gifts at her
feet" =. l.. soss.:.s.....ss 5.5.-.,.s
:. The effect of her presence was such
: that whoever conversod with her, felt
:. challenged by the strongest personal IN
'" fluence to a bold and generous life.
:. Boneyolence. was the law of her lifo
, Every one knows that Horace Greeley is
a man not accustomed to burn incense on
= any human shrine, and when she came to
!, live with him, he says he resolved to keep
- his "eye-beam clear, and escape The tas-
s. 4cination which she exerted over others.
!; Yethe says of her: ~ learned to know
&c her as fearless and most unselfish cham
], pion Of Truth and Human Good, ready to
= be their standard bearer through danger
. and obloquy, and if need be their martyr.
4, With a limited income and liberal wants
/, she was generous beyond the bounds OF
SO reason ..a.., sf. sf.*... E.4.ss
~ Most especially did her beneVolence
TX and moral courage show itself IN the
IS, frank compassion with which she spoke OF
be the dc graded and unfortunate of her own
Id SEX. Instead of hurting them to deeper
- ruin, (as so many, of their sex will dog
sc by a snecr, she was ready to rindl-
cate and redeem, following the example
- of Him who once said to the errlng one,
=. "Neither do condemn thee, go and sr
- no more" ri 7a@ .3aia 4t3 5@E
IS | will here relate d little anecdotc, illus
ay tratina both her beneyolencc and her IN
on auence over those with whom she came il
nc contact. Directly across the bay from Mr.
g Greeleys house was. the prison on Black
ey well Island. where about four hundred o
* the most abandoned females Of the city
I'D were confined. Among them was one no
re tor;ous tor wiekedness, and one day Mar
~ ~ earet went over to see her. She founC
orc her unweil, but obdurate and insolent.-
CHI Margaret conyersed with her for SOM
- bil1t, aIlu WHICH sli1 looo W i~Ae'N3 oiS " y
ice man burst into tears and requested her t
~ stay. Margaret asked if she could do any
- thing for her, when with sobbing voice sh
his said, sWiIl you pray with me"
he The following stanza, which closes on
of her poems is expressive of her sent
er- ments towards others. xf
he Happy are all who reach the crystal shore
-. a. Aid bathe in heavenly day ;ssagae
p"oii s Happicst are they who high the banner Dor
she TO marshal others on the way
Or waited for them, fainting and way
~ With burthens oyerborhe. asak
lost asHH saH saH .gIatI q a.. ,aaT :,
a. l. We come now to speak OF her trutl
g. fitness. This, with her, was aseardin'
:, virtue. 1t was one of the foundation stone
-, -, on which the fair superstructnre OF he
~ Nv character was built. Truth, entire and at
i''' solute. shone through all her actions, an
8 cleaned in every glance of her eye.
o''' was this that made her society SO yaldabl
wen # was this that made her criticisms
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