Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-10-05

the braeing stimulus of the cold was almdsi
as novel as it was refreshing: Presently 1 re
eognized the boundaries of my property-yes
actually possessed a portion of the earthi
surface After all, thought, possession-a
least so far as Nature is coneerBed-mean
protection. This moonlit wilderness is no
more beautiful than it was before TIT hays
the right, secured bJ legal documents, to pre-
serve its beauty. ] need not impiore the
woodman to spare those trees I'll spare them
myself. This is the only difference in my re-
lation to the property. So long as any por
ton of the landscape, which rieases me. is NOT
disturbed. possess it quite as much as this.
UHfilk these reflections, / had reached thu
foot of the ridge. a giart tulip tree, ths
honey of whose blossoms I had many timt
pilfered in boybood. crowned the slope, droop-
ing its long houghs as if weary of stretching
them in welcome. Behind it stood the oaks,
side by side, far alcag the foad. As reach
ed the first tree, the wind, which had fallen,
gradually swelled, humming through the bare
branches until deep organ-bass filed the
wood 1t was hoarse, yet grateful welcome
I-inarticulate, yet ineligible. aWelcome
welcome home p went booming through the
trees, welcome our master and our preserver
See, with all the voice we can catch from the
winds, we utter our joyl For now there is an
end to fear and suspense: be who knows us
and loves us spreads over us the shelter of his
care. Long shall we flourish on the hill !: long
shall our leaves expand in the upper air : long
shall off grateful shadows cover his path
We shall hail his coinitg from af,r: our top
L.,
and whisper it to the fraternal woods. We
are old; we never change; we shall never
cease to remember and to weleore cur fhasterr'
So the trees were first to recognize me-
Listening to their deep, resonant voices (which
would not have exchanged for the dry rattle
of hundred league long forest of tropical
palms. was conscious of new sensation,
which nothing bat the actual sight of my own
property could have suggested I felt like a
tired swimmer when he first touches ground !;
like rudderless ship, drifting at the will of
the storm. when her best Bower takes firm
bold like winged seed, when, after floating
from bush to bush, and from field to field, it
drops at last upon handful Of fselio# soil,
and strikes root. My life had now a point
d;appui, and standing upon these acres of real
estate it seemed an easier thing to move the
world A milliors in bank stock or railroad
bonds could not have g ven me the same
positive, tangible sense of property.
When walked over my fields fyes-actual-
ly ny ficlisD the next day, this seasation
returned in an almost ridiculous excess. "Y GU
will OF course cut down that ugly old tree"
said one. 1t Impressed me very much as if
had been told "That chapter In your book
is inferior to the others--tear it ont p or
"Y our little finger is crooked have it ampu-
tated !" Why, even the sedge grass and su-
macs how beautiful they wereE Ceuld
ever mike mp my mind to destroy them? As
for the eedars, the hawthorn, the priyet the
tsngled masses Of climbing sthilax--no, by the
boafts Of ESelshazzar, they shall stand! "This
field will not be worth much for grain" Well.
what if it isn't? Everything is wild and
ueglected-it wants clearing, sadly" Every
thing is grand. beautiful, charming there is
nothing like il !. So ran the course of remark
and countervtnfark. I did not suffer my
equanimity to be disturbed; was | not sole
owner, appellator and disposer of all?
Nordid the trees appear to be sensible Of
the least fear. They leaned their heads
against one another in a sort of happy com
.pl;acent calm as if Whispering .It's all right:
let Is enjoy the sunshine he'll take care of US =
Yes, one cannot properly be considered as a
member of the Brotherhood of Man. an fflbab-
liant of the earth. until he possesses d portion
of her surface. AS the sailors say, he stays.
but he don't actually itve. The Agrariars.
Communists, Socialistic Jewelers. and Flats
of all kiffls are replenished from the ranks of
the non-owners of real estate. Banks break /;
stocks and scrips of all kinds go mp and down
on the financial see-saw !; but a fee simple of
solid earth is B9 THERE! You see it, you
feel it, you walk overit. 1t is yours. and your
childrens, and their progeny's unless mort
gagged and sold through foreclosure) until Mil
lennium.
And this is how | came to buy Farm.