Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-04-19
MISCELLANY.


sAhh eiAo ufh as the metal the meu
Truth, modrsty, aud shame the world forso,k,
f'aes' "'a',ec' and force, their places took.
Thus cursed steel. and more aeeursel robI
] haNe mischief birth and made that mischief hold.
And double death did wrtehed man invade,
Z W steel assaulted and by gold BETRAYED
| Now lbiendtsh weapons glitterng IN their han,lsl
Mankind is broken leose from moral bands
! ~ rights o. hospitality Iemaiui
The guest, by him who harbour'd him Is slain
The son-in law pursucs his fathers lifs;
! Ihe Wiic her husband murders he the wife
The stepdanc poison for the son prepares
| Inc son iusures into his fathers ears
faiih flies and pety in exile mourns
ANA justice, here oppress'd to heaven rcturnsr
The above vivid delineaiion of the " Tron
Age" by Homer, may with some degree Of
appropriateness, be quoted, as an illustra-
ton of the present age. The reader of the
journals of the day, and the obseryant trav.
elier in our cities, and large towns, and even
the rural districts, and especially on the
ocean steamers fer the Pacific's slope, and
among the gold hills, and mining camps,
cannot fail to conclude, "that the wicked.
ness of man is great in the earth, and that
every imagination of the Thoughts of his
heart, is only evil continually" Profanity.
lire water, RIGHTEOUSNESS, and murder, are
filling the land with desolation.
"sian
creature Of a more exalted kind
CONSCIOUS OF thought,-
For empire formed, aud ct to rule the rest:r
Is often transformed to an impious AFRO
giant, and cruel being" Though all are in
cluded In the " fall" none living, and sin
ming not, yet, all are not guilty of crime.
especially the crime of profanity, to which
we will briefly allude,which is prominent in
the black catalogue, but many are, not of
one class, but of various, from those who
occupy positions of trust, and honor, to the
felon at Blackwell. The rich and poor, the
educated and the uneducaled, the fashion
able and uniashionable, are alike guilty of
horrid proclamation.
" oh that such baseness should disgrace the ightn
Why is it so? especially in this land of
churches and schools; the most favored
land on earth, teeming with countless gifts
from the hand of the Creator, as Johnson
has SO beautifully written
The rolling year
is full Of Thee. Forth in the pleasing spring
Thy beauty walks, Thy tenderness and love
v ide flush the fields the sofcning air is balm
Echo the mountains round the forest smiles
Aud every sense and every heart is Joy.
Then comes Thy glory in the summer months
W IN light and heat reiuigent Then Thy sun
Shoots tull perfection through the swelling YEAR
And oft Thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks
ana OFT at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve,
BY brooks and groves, in hollow-whispering gales
Thy bounty shines in Autumn upconfned
Ana zeads coasz7en feast for all that lives y
Yet His name, and the name of the Son
of God, is used with defiant insolence, and
associated with the lowest blackguardism,
and the Vilest language of the putrid pros
titute, and the madman's tongue.
Rather should every living soul,
Beneath the spacious temple OF the sky.
In IN alteration oasa Join and, ardent, raise
Well may fears be excited for the future
Of our country, when the God in whom
Washington and his compatriots trusted.
when battling for the right, and on whom
all must rely for ultimate success, is insult
ed by the impioas use Of His Name all
over this fair land: oh base ingralitude.
Let the pulpit and the press speak out
fearless upon this suhject,the mSgaitude and
disgracefulness of the sin of profanity; an
interest far greater than Fort Sumter or
Fort Pickens is involved, an interest, upon
which all political greatness is based, and
if we would have the stars and stripes float
triumphant from mast and fortress that in
terest must be sustained, national morality.
S. b. w.