Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-16
THE DEAD.

How few there are las has been remarked by
forcible and impressive Wrlter) who read the
ordinary list of deaths who know any thing of
the depth of human feeling, or the intensity of
human suffering, which is recorded in the sim
pie and brief notices which we read with 80
much carelessness and so coldly in the news
papers. Finding no familiar name to arrest
attention, or awaken sympathy, we think no
more of the matter, for what care we for the
long midnight vigils of watchful, affectionate
friendship-the weary, aching head-the at
ficted, desponding heart We do not feel the
pain the languishing sufferer has experienced
and we know nothing of the agony which ex-
hausted his frame and wore out his weary ma
ture nor care we for the spirit which has fled
it's frail tenement, and uttered its last, final,
gasping farewell. We know nothing Of the
heartbreaking anguish which is felt, or the hot
burning tears which gush out, in the agony OF
severed friendship, from bosoms swollen and
bursting with an excess of passionate grief.
We know nothing of the bitterness of parting,
of the strength Of affections which have been
torn asunder, Of the hopelessness Of the first
flood Of tears, Of the depth OF protracted suffer-
ing, CT of the intensity Of the Affections which
real friends have been called upon to suffer
and endure. 'l...
1t is a melancholy though instructive con-
sideration, that the tendency of every thing is
to decay that the happiest prospects and
brightest visions Of future bliss are but delu-
sive fancies, which become extinguished when
they shine out most vNidly, and give the
strongest evidence of permanent duration.
iHopes which were angels in their birth, be-
come, from their : timacy and close connec-
tion with human frailty and decay, but things
Of earth and thus it is, that those dear OBJ
jects upon which we have lavished most fiat
tering hopes Of future happiness and bliss are
conscious of the palsying illness which quench-
ed the spirit and laid them low. We grieve
that they are taken from us so suddenly-that
they could not have been spared little lon
ger then we could have appreciated their
worth, returned their manifold kindnesses,
and gradually prepared ourselves for that
event which, from it's sudden occurrence, UNI
mans our resolutions and pr0Strates us in the
dust by the sternness and severity of the blow.
There is another sad thought, but, neverthe-
less, a true One-that the more friendships we
form, the more attachments we make, the
more tender and endearing connections we
weave around us and invest ourselves with, IN
this world, the more Of grief and suffering we
shall be called to endure. A time Will come
when all earthly attachments must be severed,
and the more fond we have been Of friends and
the more devoted to connections, the more ag-
onizing and severe will be the struggle which
separate us and tears us away from them. 1t
may I've that the stoic's life is productive,
eventually, Of less pain and suffering than that
Individual endures who possesses more delicate
sensibility, and is alive to the generous i'm
pulses of nature and the finest feelings OF the
human heart it may be SO, but yet his cold
enjoyments and benumbing sympathies afford
him but poor comfort, when most he needs
the sympathy, the sustaining hand, and up
holding arm of ardent and enduring friend
ship. Life would not be worth possessing if
this polar star did not illuminate it's dark
paths, and throw around us dreariness some
evidence of sympathetic love for each other;
and though separation, when it comes, crush
theheart and tear asunder it's very fibres, yet
how eagerly we taste of it's delicious sweets
and exult in the participation of its delirious
enjOyments.