Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-09-15
Two TOmb-StOnes.

lhO 1OulU-b-tOllSS.
As a general rule, human beings liz select.
! ing the rewards of their own labor prefer
cash TO tomb. slones-a TACT which Mr.
Thomas Moore noticed in his monody upon
the death of Sheridan. Ifa mas,er-mechan
ic should assemble his journeymen-carpen-
ters and should say to them: my dear
fellows and devoted friends! | have noticed
the extreme vigor with which you plane and
the splendor of your saving, and how
chsrmingly you hit the nails on their heads.
shall not insult you by offering you money
which you would only foolishly squsnder il
| should give it 10 you; but l have deter
mined, il you will only work for me during
your natural lives, and work well, and not
grumble, to give TO each of you the prettiest
erave-stenes in the world. all ith fattering
Inscriptions setting forth your many virtues,
and particularly how you cheerlully worked
for me without making any charge therefor.
All of which doubt not will. be satisfactory
! to youi ingenious minds" Our own inn
preston is that the famous hammerers and
dexterous sawyers would decline to offer as
one unsuited to their modest tastes. At the
South, however, and under the beautiful in
fuences of the Institutional it seems to be
different grave-stone being the great OBJ
jcct of life with the faithful African. ~
least, tina, appears to be the opinion of The
Fayetteville IN. c. Observer. The editor
of that paper recently had sion to 60
into graveyard, doubtless for purposes OF
moral reflection and philosophic study, and
while there actually discovered in the part
allotted to slaves "two marble tomb stones -
What proportions these "two" monumental
wonders bore to the undistinguished resting
places of less fortunate chattles, we are no:
told; but they SO attracted the attention OF
this able editor that he Immediately went
home and wrote leading article on the
subject, headed "What is African Slavery!''
He seems to have come to the sage conc lu-
sion that whereas the system occasionally
gives grave stone to departed slave, it is
altogether a beautiful one, to be sustained
by the united intellectual, moral, and DO iti-
cal energies of the Republic. He writes,
evidently, upon the presumption that free
negroes never have their mortal lives cheer
ed bv the prospect Of monuments alter
death, and that they must therefore be un-
happv-a grave-s:one being the one thing
worth living for, or rather worth diving for.
His dilations opon these points are char
mingly humane and sympathetic, and, in
fact, the highest water-cart style
Tombstone No, l. was erected "bv the
mistress Of the family over the remains Of u
most valuable servant and friend, and it bore
the ms TiPti0rr- -owx- TisUU TUCT--.'
There is considerat ion-there is loving
requital for you! Twenty. perhaps thirty,
it moy have been forty years Of chamber
work or of kuchen-work, of dress-inaking,
or OF hair-dressiDg. of daily obedience, Of
hourly devotion, and when the weary to il is
over, and the faithful feet can no longer
come at cali and the loyal hands can no
longer minister, all this service is repaid by
place in the black quarler of the cemetery.
by marble slab, and an epitaph of the
Lypia Lauguish description! Ample reward!
who would not have been MY Own Good
Lucy" "mos, valuable" (say $1,000 before
doath, and SO sincerely 1--WE have no doubt)
lamented a.terward' There has been
nothing like it since Byron gave his dog a
monument at Newstead. No wonder the
Fayette man did write his touching article,
to let weeping world know all about MY
Own Gsod Lucy"
Tombstone No. II. was inscribed "UNcLE
HARRY. MARK THE PERFECT MAN'-
Now, we are at loss to decide what this
inscription means. Does it refer 20 "Uncle
Harry" physically! That he was what a
dea Ter would prop ouace "sonnd," and A 1
for the New Orleans markell We suppose
not, for he is spoken of by The Observer as
tan old man." He was a Baptist He
could read his Bible, and he read it. 1t is
also mentioned that his wife was "an ex-
celIent cook"-a remarkable combination
of merits in "one lot" Whether s.the ex-
cellent cook" if dead got grave stone or
has fair prospec. of that ornamental re-
membrancer 10 solace her stewing and
roasting labors, We are not informed.
Such stuff as this Fayetteville IN. c. Oh
seruer perpetrates is always caught up by
the dough press, and especially BY the
dough religious press. and is paraded osten
tatiously, as if it really meant someth ing -
So far as it goes to prove anything touching
the slave system, its good influence upon
the master, its justice to the slave, its anne
liorating character-infurmation of this ma
ture is worse than useless, for it deludes
some honest, well.meaning, and weak
people out of the common sense with which
the system should oe considered. Nobody
says that there are not contented slaves. -
Nobody says that there are not individua
cases in which the relation is not a happy
one. But nobody, upon these isolated
cases. appealing to sensibility rather than
sense, will pretend to judge of grea
system, which must be theoretically bad
anc is known to be bad in practice.-N. Y
Tribune.
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], MTGHT VS.. RIGBr.-When William Penn
went to take leave of the king. he spoke o
buying the lands from the Indians.
"But The lands" said the king in astonish
) ment; "why man, sold them to you"