The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-10-17

From the Louisville journal, ID

From the Louisville journal, I'd.
William CORTLAND Prentice died on
Monday last, at Augusta, Kentucky, of
wounds received at the conflict at that
place on the preceding Saturday. Helper
ished in the cause of the rebellion.
1t is not in the columns of a newspaper,
it is only in the family circle or in the hush
of solitude, that the emotions of parent
over such an event should have utterance.
The tears of weeping eyes and fast trick
ling drops of bleeding hearts are not for
public gaze. The deepest agOnies should
be content to fold their sombre wings in
the soul. Consolation could not come
from the worlds sympathy it can be
looked for only from God and his angel
Time. Nay, there are griefs that time it.
self has no power to allay or soothe, griefs
that like running streams are deepening
their channels forever.
William CORTLAND Prentice was no COM
mon young man. He was remarkable in
his powers and in his temperament. A
model of manly beauty, he had extraordi-
nary intellectual energy, a strong thirst
for strange and curious knowledge, and a
deep passion for all that is sublime and
beautiful in poetry and nature. He was
generous, manly, high-hearted, and of a
courage that no mortal peril, come in
what form it might, could daunt. He ex-
ulted in looking destruction face to face in
all its ways He loved wild and danger
GUS adventures for the very dangers sake.
His eagle spirit lived among the mountain
crags and shouted back to the shouts of
the storm. Although kind, unselfish and
humane, he was impetuOus, passionate,
and Of unconquerable prejudices. He was
not unfrequently unjust in his judgments,
and he permitted nothing to stand between
him and the execution of his purpose.
This young man, if he had always di-
rected his energies judiciously, could have
made himself distinguished ornament in
any profession oflife. He might have been
an able and honored statesman in the SER
vice of the republic But an intense
Southern sympathy, in spite Of the argu-
ments, the remonstrances, and the entreat-
les of those who dearly loved him, made
him an active rebel against his country.
And, after brief five weeks service in the
rebel ranks, he fell, soon to breathe out
his fiery life, receiving, meanwhile, far
away from his family, the kindly ministra-
tons of those against whose cause his
strong right arm had been raised. o, if
he had fallen in his country's service, fall
len with his burning eyes fixed in love and
devotion upon the flag that for more than
three-tourths of century has been star
of worship to his ancestors, his early death,
though still terrible, might have been borne
by fathers heart; but, alas! the refec-
ton that he fell in armed rebellion against
that glorious old banner, now the emblem
of the greatest and hottest cause the world
ever knew, is full of desolation and almost
of despair.
And yet We shall love to think of Court
land Prentice, that brave and noble, though
miguided, youth, during the little remnant
of our lives. Our love for him, undimmed
by tears and grief, is, and will remain, an
amaranthine flower upon the grave Of our
buried years.