Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-07-06

gus OF mlnd-a poet Of splendid genius
q titled arstoCrat-a man admired 4 praised
wherever the English language was read
man VINO knew that he held within him.
self the power to make his name immortal
"A man with wealth sufficient for all crate.
fnl luxuries-yet with dubbed feet and
those feet All ! how they imbiitered and
spoiled That man Of magnificent achieve.
ments and sublime possibilities 1t would
appear from the disgusting narrative of Mr..
Irelawny that he wBs 10 reality the only man
OF magnificent achievements and sublime pos
sibiities ! 1t would appear from the dis.
gustlng narrative Of Mr.. Treawny that he
was in reality the only man who had ever
seen BryonsS feet. These feet had been
kept so closely hidden, or so cunningly dis
guised, that nobody had known their real
detormity and the poor lord who had ca
ried them through his thirty-siy years Of life
had done it in constantly tormented and
mortified pride. Those misshapen organs
had an important agency in making him q
mlsanthropic, morbdly sensitive, unhappy,
desperate man. When be sang, he did not
forget them and the poor fools who turned
dow IN their Shirt-collars, and initiated his
songs, aud thought they were inspired by
his winged genius had under them only a
pair of clubbed feet.
There is a class of unfortunate mon aud
women in this world to whom the boy and the
bard have introduced US. They ale not all
lame; but they all think they have cause to
be dissatisfied with the bodies God has given
them Perhaps they are simply ugly, and
are awake that no one can look ut their
faces with other thought than that they
are ugly. Now it is pleasant thing to have
a pleasant face, and all agreeable form. 1t
is pleasant Tor man to be large, well shap
ed and gOod.lOokng, and it is unpleasant for
him TO be small, and to carry an i'll shaped
form and an ugly face 1t is pleasant for a
women 10 feel that size has personal attrac-
tiOns for those around Ter, and it is unpeas.
Cnt for her to feel that no man can ever
turn his eyes admirably upon her. A mis-.
shapen limb, hump in the back, withered
arm, shortened leg, a clubbed foot, a hair
lip, an unwieldly corpulence, hdeouS lean.
ness, bald hcad-aI these are unpleasant
possessions, aud all these, | suppose, give
their posSessorS first and last, great deal
| VI paul. lucu JuGlC Is JuC ldlHJ vi all uD
popular blood, that whole race carry with
them as badge Of humiliation. have
heard of Africans who declared that they
would willingly 60 through the pain of be-
ing skinned alive, if, at the close of the op-
GRAFTON, they could become white men.
There are men of genius, with plenty Of
white blood in their veins-.wilh ouly a trace
of Africa in their faceS-whoSe lives are i'm.
bittcred by that trace /; and who know that
the pure Anglo-Saxon, if he follows his in
stincts, will say to him "thuS far"-
(through limited range of relations) "but
no farther"
From the depth of my soul pity a man
or woman who bears about an irremediable
bodily deformity, or the mark of the blood
of humiated race. | pity any human
being who carries around body that he
feels to be in any sense an unpleasant one
to those whom he meets. | pity the
deformcd man, and the manned man, aud
the terribly ugly man, and the black man,
and the white man with black blood in him.
because he usually feels that these things
bear with them q certain degree Of humilia-
lion. pity the man who is not able to
stand out in the broad sunlight, with other
men, and to feel that he has as goodly a
frame and as fine blood and as pleasant a
presence as the average of those he sees
around him. / do not wonder at all that
many of these persons become SourCd and
imbittered and Jealous A sensitive mind,
dwelling long upon misfortuneS of this pc.
culiar character, will inevitably become
morbid and mutitudeS of humber men
than Lord Byron have cursed their fate as
he and have even lifted their eyes to bias
pheme the Being who made them. The
two instances which have mentioned show
US that there are two ways of taking mis-
fortunes of this character and one of them
seems to be a good deal better than the
other. Between the boy who ignored the
withered leg and the crutch, aud the proud
poet who permitted a slight personal defor
nifty, to darken his whole life, there is q
distance like that between heaven and
earth.
| believe in the law of compensation
Human lot is, on the whole, well averaged
A man does not possess great gifts OF per
son and of mind without drawbacks some
where. Either great duties are imposed
upon him, or great burdens are put upoT
his shoulders, or great temptations assai
and harraSs him. Something in his life, a
sometime in his life, takes it upon himsel
to reduce his advantages to the average
standard. Nature gave Byron clubbeC
feet, but with these feet, she gave him gen
ius, whose sweetly flowing numbers charm
ed the world "a genius which multitude:
of common place or weak men would
have been glad to purchase at the prcr
of almost any humliating eccentricity o
person. But they are obliged to conten
themselves with excellent feet and brain
of the common kind h caliber. Providence
had withered the little boys leg, but tn
Ioudest song have heard from boy in
tweyemonth came from his lips, as he limp
ed along alone in the open street. Tn
cheerful heart in his bosom was grea
compensation for the withered leg; beyon
, this, the boy had reason for singing over To
fact that he was forever released from mill
,ary duty, and freman's duty, and all rae
, ing about in the service of other people
There are individual cases of misfortune i
J which it is hard to detect the compensatn
, good, but these we must call the exception
which prove the rule"
. But the best of all compensation fc