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f " T. B. KINOSBURY, Editor. OXFORD, N. C APRIL 15, 1858. P. K. STBOTHEB, Proprietor, VOL. 1JST0. 10, Z7 ' , , . . . - r I : 1 li . ' . ! ; I . - i - '! i. L " From the Dublin UniTcrsItT Mairazinef The Highlanden by the Well at Cawn- pore. Foot sore they wer, and weary, 1 The d.iv'fl orim wnrlr wn Vr And the hot puwuit, and the dying yell, i And the strife, were heard no more. V . When ihey came to their night encampment, Ai the tropic erening fell, ' And staid their steps fur a little sbace y , uj mai inrice accursca wen. ' -. i - . .' .. Theirs were no fresh qaick feelings: Few bat had bravely stood , .On battle-fields where the soil was slaked Till each footprint filled with blood. Well did they know the horrors Of War's unpittying face j Yet they sobbed as with one great anguia As they stood by that fatal place. Still was the eve around them j But thev knew that that miltrv rIp Had th ril ed to the cry of murderous raza ahu mo wnu sririo 01 aeapatr. They suw in the chasm before them The bloody and self-sought grave !' Of many a heart that had cried in vain Un heaven and earth to save. Mother and child were lying Locked in a last embrace," And death had printed the frenzied On the maiden's ghastly face. And one of the slaughtered victims . They raised with a reverent carp. ook And shred from her fair and girlish head , ine tresses ot tangled hair, . They parted the locks between thcra, s And with .low, quick breathing sware, That a life of the cruel toe should fall For every slender hair. ' " Leave to the coward, wailing, Let woman weep woman's late," Our sword shall weep red tears of blood, For the hearts made desolate." They will keep their vow unkroken : Uut oh I for ihe bitter tears, The nights of horror, and days of pain, That must fill our future years. Woe I for the glad homes stricken I On our own green, quiet shore, f Woe 1- for the loving and the loved j. Whom our eyes shall see no more. ; . i - THE SKAPTAR YOKUL. . . A TALE OF ICELAND. BT TXV1. II. HAYNE. 1 passed the winter of 1842 at Naples. Din- ' trigone d.y with the American Consul, I be- came acquainted wiih a'Monsieur De La Roche, a Frenchman of middle ngc, whose precaiou . health oblL'cd him to rexide altogether in Ihe outh of Italy. From the firt we were attracted towards erch other. To what this was ow'jng I could never precisely divine5, for our difference of temperament ws remarkable. . De Li Roche, notwithstanding hU delicate constitution, ras . blessed with a c.ntant flow of animal spirits, ' whih no bodily Infirmity could depress; where as I wss a staid melancholy individual, giten to solitude and philosophy. ' j Nevertheless, our accidental acquaintance ripened into intimacy intimacy into dUin- ieresieu inenusnip. M. Do La Roche had been, during his youth' an etensive traveller. Ind ed, until the failure of his health, nothing could quench his thjjfst for novelty. Having always possessed1 on in dependent fortune, these tastes were readily gratified, and at the age of twenty-six he lad probibly seen as much of the world as Alex- , ander Von Humboldt, or the Wandering jw. Jle was a man too, upon whom travel wrought manifold improve oients. An inquiring mihd, and an address which early knowledge of gclod odety had polished to the extreme of suavity and gTace, were, as regards the first, rendered , more sound and deep, and, in relation to the econd, deprived of that Parisian poliUsse whiich earrUs with it, I know not what of hollowness and insincerity. "My friend owned a villa in the vicinity of Naples, and not being cambered with a f.miily, was generally rery much atjhis ease. Here we pansed many weeks of dcli"ht fut converse together. In the mellow winter evenings of the South we repaired to the well- stocked library, and while ;M. De Li Roche reclined upon a couch befure the fire, I would reatl to him from some favorite book, until hspN)y ide.i, or vivid decriptio.n, caused the face cf t,ie invalid to glow, and his own notions and , experiences were substituted for tho'pe ofjhe autnor. It was at these times that I was favor ed with a number of interesting details, recount ed fn a lively and striking' manner, several j of which I well reniember, and have arranged Jin thorfbltowing narrate. . I ., kf I was in London," said XL Do La Roche, "during th January of 18, where I wns t happy to encounter an old travelling companion, whom I had known in Persia, an eccentric gentleman, by the name of Merton. " We met, unexpectedly, at a soiree, and im- mediately renewed our acquaintance! Merton was an Impulsive, fanciful, extravagant, dashipg fellow, who, like, myself, never tarried long in ..hVSkptnt Tolcal n Icelandic' rolcanic, i oxni is an Icelandic volcanic, boundary of the district called !l, near the sources of several nu-i. near at Skaaafeell .Syme '"11' I:. "UJl8ei bav a subteranedas I canoes, though at a df9Unc7 of uj : K ' U Ici mountain the word "Yoxct " (which ies tnasBes of ice) is applied by the naUvef of frtliDd. Polar Rit. . . , :i :rr. .lw "r.V. S d. 1 . . .. . - , , , , . , 1 1 1 ni - . - 4i ;I . V ' 1 one place, ana lived upon the! excitemen of continual change and moiion.f l We had not been three hours with each other, before plann ing a new expedition, which was sufficiently origiml and romantic. Among; our many peri grinations, we had, hitherto, avoided northern latitude, not even having ventured to St Peters burg ; but now we conceived the idea of visit ing Iceland, and joining (should opportunity offer) in a search for the 5orth;west passage. Accordingly, about a month after, we took berths aboard an American brig, at Yarmouth, bound for the coast of Greenland, but intend ing to touch at Iceland on the way. ; Our voy age was prosperous, and some time in March we landed at Reykiavik, on the Fare Fiord.1 Before leaving England, we had p'rocured.letteis of introduction to the Prefector of the District ... m ' -. in which the capital was situated, who received us with great hospitality, and begged us lo re-' main with him during our pojourn in the coun- try. This inviUtion was accepted, and we soqn became domesticated in the household of our host, who was a character but rarely found ' save in those remote regions, where the rjgors of the climate foster the home bred virtues, and strengthen the ties of association. i . 1 V The Prelector's name was Jorgenson. His family con.si-.ted of a son an uncouth hidarid' a most lovely niece, Christina, j To the latter belonged the fair complexion of the women of the North, but her eyes- were full, dark, and ' lustrous as those which bewilder the stranger on the Murallas of Cadiz or Bn-'elona. As my tale, however, is not one of love,'! would only oberve, incidentally, that to the charms of this beautiful creature my fnend seemed disposed to succumb, so that when, after six weeks' resw dence in Reykiavik, Jorgenson proposed that we should abandon our 'sports of seal-spearing and bear-stalking, for a visit to the interior of the L'and, Merton received the proposition with unyming but iavor. u j Mj ; ; 44 It was not until Christina could be persuad ed to grace the expedition with j her presence, that he displayed the slightest desire to examine the curiosities of the mid-land Provinces. The. incidents of our journey were not remarkable Rocky plains and stunted plants, precipitous hills', and wild, impetuous rivulets, that gushed, from their summits with the velocity of dreams, ' formed thejger.eral characteristics of the'tcoun-' try through which we passed. On the evening of the tenth day after our departure from the sea-board, we spread our tents uon the borders of one of the noblewt streams that fever rolled from the mountains to the ocennl The jnnme of this river was the Skaptar Yckul. It glided through wide meadows,' fringed with a scanty turt Here we established our temporary home. Fishing and hunting consumed our time or rather, I should say. my time,. and that c-f the m..jiiijr ui our comraaes lor Merton never joined us. V J i ! ; ; , ..;'. N . 14 We had now been many days on the banks of the Skaptar Yokul. Our Stewart, the eldest, of the party, 'declared' that he had never known a season in Icelannso advanced and favorable for vegeta tion. The blades of v4me!ur, " or wild oats, were springing rapidly from: the eavth ; the low shrubbery was again budding forth in to greenness; and from quiet nooks, where the snow, like remnants of a tattered, robp, still lingered, berries of red, and blue, and purple, just rounding into ripeness, peered forth in the genial sunshine of spring. ; j; i j i ' 44 The river, freed from its list burden rf ice, , was rolling rapidly and melodiously through1 the fields. The song of." bird' stirred" the air; and far off, over the sloping banks, cropping the herbage, 'and . tossing their I earned front lets to the sky," large herds of reindeer roamed leisurely to and fro, how - pausing at some elevated spot, to contemplate our encampment. ' i - a, 'and now browsing; onward, quietly as before. UccasionaMy, one of these magnificent animals, prompted by special curiosity, left . the! main company, and approaching the river side, re connoitered our position withjmathematicai ac curacy, and then withdrew. It was a pictures que scene, and to me, at least, novel in the 4 extreme. But one dark f,. tlirA Inn m oil un from the landscape, and that impressed me wiih a strange serso of 'dread. There was some tiling of horrible presentiment-c-nnected with this feeling; I could not; expfcijn it, for what human imaginal ion could have conceived the terrors that the elements, even then were labor ing to engender. The object of which I speak was a volcano, called like the river, the Skaptar Yokul. , It consisted of twenty conical peaks; of no great height, red in color,, and forming a circle around a central elevation, 'crowned with" snow. While the atmosphere elsewhere was remarkably lucid and serene, a derise, unnatur al mist wavered oyer the desolationof the mountainj-shifting with the wind, and growing, ns I though; more- gloomy?: a net portentous every hour. I endeavored to' turn my atten- imA. ' , phenomenon; but an anxiety, a boding awe,jimpelled my ' uu iroin wuai ine natives - declared to be a oppressive ?nd again to those awful Deaks. and that Rhad eyes again VfAi Stewart; who "Was riearVtr hkod; 'what means that veil over the.Yokul? I have : " owy, mysterious. thickA uU , ! "itched itetcb diy daring the- week, and each day it has spread and darkened, until now, at evening, when the" sun sets behind it, you can hardly recognize his disk, it appears so lurid and bloody.' .. j "The man langhed aloud. Vhy, you strangers, ' he replied', are timid as chikden; havej been fifty years on this Island, and many and many a time have I seen Our mountains circled with fire and smoke, until the light of day was dim ; and I have known the ground rockj under me like a seaj and the air grow stifling, and the wind pass away, and thunder bellow beneath the earth' louder and wilder than everj boomed frorq the heavens. This was ter- iiu.e out vapor on the top of a mountain ! pshawl It has been ningof the world.' ' a m '' there, sir, from the begin W ithout venturing to offend the speaker's national pride, by the suggestion that his Island was probably created at a much later date than the i est of the globe, I merely demurred to his concl usion concernin S my want ot nerve, and pursued my walk, ah.ng ! the borders of the stream alone. Rambling along, I met Merton and Christina. Never had I beheld, the latter so lovely. The clow of health the soft meaning. in her eye; the disordered loekjj that caught and retained the sunbeams; the elastic step, and the lithe, active, buoyant figure; in a word, ihtoute ensamble ot gracioqv beauty and exulting hope this was an embodi ment of all that is most attractive to youthful sentiment and passion 1 With how unspeak able a fondness my friend regarded herl Trari sitory hope, anld gladness 'of an hour. Pros on the verge of the shades ! How I look back and wonder at the ineffable calm, the unsuspect ing happiness of that deep affection, so soon to become ", ; but I anticipate, though God knows I could willingly spare you the remain der of these details. The pair greeted me gaily and walked on! I felt no disposition to join then; but as - they loitered along the green slope towards our tents, I turned, with unac countable interest, io survey their motions Merton stopped for a moment, and plucking some weed or flower from the path, handed t to his companion. I saw her place it in her DOsom. a"d then the pyersdrew closer togeth er, and their converse seemed "more subdued and absorbiog. I turned from' them, and pro ceeded on my way. Suddenly, and before I was aware of the distance I had traversed, Hi stumbled over some fragments of basaltic for mation, and, looking up, there stood the mountain- that dreadful Skaptar Yokull I abso lutely shuddered with horror.-!-4 What could be the meaning of this? was an inward query thqt in vain demanded a response. The oracles of the judgment were dumb; but ; that strange conviction of impending ill that warning of some faculty beyond .the scrutiny of reason, which has given birth to the doctrine of pre sentiments, almost overpowered me Reason cannot combat such a sentiment, for I believe reason to be j subordinate" to it. Ohl these shadowy, inexplicable promptings, so little re verenced, so fearfully true Disregarding them, men: have burst from the arms: of wife arid children, to ; meet death upon : the highway ; youths have perished on the sea; i women, fair and innocent, have wedded themselves ; in if.; famyand lust ; statesmen have fallen from the cabinet to the scaffold;- priests have been as sassinated at the alter; and - miseries, in fine without number, have followed the neglect of this fearful monitor! Had I thought of these things when I stood at the base of the Icelandic volcano; had some. goo4 angel seconded that warning, Instinct,' which whispers at the thres hofd of our being, a-dark memory, an awful ex perience, would have been shunned. ! I could no more tear myself from the vicinitv of the mountain, than I had been able previous - ij, wneii it lowered at a distance, to turn my eyes upon the more pleasing -characteristics of the scene. The twenty precipitous, rugged hills, and .the snowy cone in the middle, possessed'a basilisk fascination I would have given much to be fd of. At length, a kind of ratiocination I was pleased to term philosophy, came to my aid. j My fears, having ; nothing tangible on which to ground themselves! argued, a priori, that; they must be absurd.: With this convic tion; I stifled the imaginations that troubled me, the judgment regaining its equanimity, as ..each received its: quietus. It was a hollow peace, however, and by ho means triumphant. I returned to the camp, and at the supper table , that night, was desperately. gay. I felt like the member of a forlorn hope, carousing, for the last time, before an encounter, ' in which the chances of destruction averaged about one to fifty. I could not restrain my excitement. Had, I partaken of the punch which our Stewart never failed to! prepare with his own hands, this might have been accounted for, but I re mem her the testy; r Baec hanalia n was mortally offended at my declining to join' him - in hi evening potations.-. .-Mattering something ahout the lamentable condition of morals in -Edrope, where men in respectable society Were so shock-1 ingly temperate as to retire sans a night cap ' the grisly old grumbler seated himself On a bar ret in the corner,' and washed down his wrath with the contents of a bowt that Erie Scambes- ter would nave stared at;-, The seat that he had ehosen, wa v fortunately, ne'ar hit couch, for after two hours j of meditation and1 drinkingjl (which latter operation embraced four-fifths of; the time) he probably thought the night cap'? sufficiently adjusted, and tumbled, precipitately! into bed. Our entire party, except myself, were now sunk in repose. Silence rested on the en campment, .the deep rush of the river alone breaking the stillness. I fancied there was something unusual in the sound. The dull monotony of the waves was unvaried, but if seemed as if their voice was deeper, and their flow more turbid. ' ,-- ; ; ;:,. - ; I.- , 1 f What struckme, too, as stranre, was, that the temperature m the tent, which always grew man7 degrees colder after nightfall, continued as during the day. Soon the heat increased-i .!:.! . ' 1 1 1 rr . Ut became intolerable. ' I "So startling a phenomenon needed confirmai tion. Was it not the feyer in my own blood? A pocket thermometer, belonging to Mertotf' hung near. I examined it by the smouldering embers of t he fire. . It was true ! my sensation! had not deceived me. " The quick-silver trembled 1 at a point denoting an atmospheric condition which belonged id the Tropicsrand to the Tropics only in the meridian of sumpier. t T ' fl felt the blood tingle towards t my heart,' and I grew faint from this indescribable su spense -of agony, I stood' a moment, eaziti vacantly at the instrument, jthe paling fire, and! the dim' nncertam outlines of the coarse canopy' brain wanders it 'Several of our companions had been seized " ;f Jate with fever and delirium.- Exposure le- gmmateiy engendered them. Were that the case, it was bestj I also should sleep, and yet what meant the heated atmosphere! The thermomeJerdid not lie; and surely, surety, this boded mischief. A'storm-perhaps,: impended! I had heard the Islanders say, that at certain seasons storms were common here.h Was- the present the propar period ? I could not : tell At all events,, speculation, was' useless. Why not leave the tent, and at once resolve these doubts? Probably I .should find every things the encampment, the river, the meadows, even the accursed Skaptar Yokul, precisely .as I had leit them. I knew that theyemained unchang ed; only the mojn, as I perceived,- by a slight glimmer tbroughj, the tent, had risen, and was shining without.) I wondered if a j cloud siiu' lingered upon the ' mountain whether' it had increased -what shape it Mhad assumed and how it looked in the moonlight. . With a sudden resolution, I rose, and advajiced a step or "two towards the door. The clcth flapped sullenly across the entrance; Ashamed of my weakness, but impote it as a child in the grasp of a name' less terror; I started back and listened.' It was only the wind. Oh ! note, beyond doubt; I was delirious; I would expose myself to these foolish alarms no more $ so, withoit doffing my gar ments, I lay dovyn to repose. - Singular to say -j notwithstanding the ; extraordinary excitement of the nerves, I did not long continue awakei Sleep, profound and dreamless, locked my Senses hi a ngiuuy oi oonvion, sucn as tollows an over dose of opium. It may have been minutes or hours, I know not, when a stifling sensationj oppressive as a night-mare, jjrecalled me to con sciousness. I rose on ' my pallet, and instantly became aware of a disagreeable odour of sul phur. Smoke, densely packed, as from a can nonade, pervaded the apartment1' From1 its unwholesome inhalation,'my breath ?ame-short and quick; my veins were! swollen puin fully, and a profuse perspirati&n covered i the whole body. Springing up, f askin consulted the thermometer. - Could I trust my eyesight? it had actually risen to one hundred and fjly de grees. : ,' ""At this moment a sound indescribably deepj and sullen, accompanied by; a shudder of the' ground beneath me, rose ominously as if from the very centre of the earth. Then, after an instant's death-like stillness, there burst forth a peal a succession of peals of thunder in w hich the echoes of the world's greatest battle1 wou'd have be$n lost--swallo wed up annihi lated. ; I f With a boiind I dashed aside the dark; covering of theent, and; gazed, out into the night. God of mercy J what a spectacle was therel The fearful solution of , the haunting presentiment the awful dread the inexplicable doubt fkshedPon me like flames from a char net r We were in the midst of an eruption an eruption from the Skaptar, Yokul ! Never to mortal eyes had been revealed before a mightier sublimity of horrors I The loud that at su n set was a mere blot in the distance,' had ' now widened through space,' drifting in eddies along the heavens, and t momently c obscuring the moon, that gleamed dimly beyond the shroud. The ir reeked with an insufferable 'admixture of gases, vapour and; pumice.; and the ashes showered around, fell densely,l and with un paralleled velocity. But the object more awfuT man aught eUe-an ; object of paralyzing grandeur, wasr a volume of liquid : fire thai swept towards the late peaceful channels of the5 river. Gleaming and swelling as it progressed I perceived that the tide already overtopped the hanks, and that soon the level meadow supporti I mg our eacampmerrt, 'would be completely oveW w t ., . i . : . m ' - "To rush hriekingatnon'sr mr comrade- t intimate ! hurriedly , the dinger, 10 unloose. .from the adjoining tenrL (which had served Tor i uvri;S i couid secure; to drag Mertpri and Christina, stupefied by the sud Penness lof. the announcement, to1 a position where we could mount, !and crave tdirPthr th terrors that.beset us; U plunge the spurs madly . V e "anKS 01 m7 S'fcdj Wd lead the way if possible to some point of safety, appeared the work of an age, al though in reality accomplish ed with the miraculous1 celerity of desperation. As we advanced, the imminence of our peril be came more and more apparent. We were tra versing a valley between two extensive ridges, nd it was evident that if hs .waters ! of the river; which, swayed by the IconvnUions of the earthquake, were rising in bailing eddies above the embankments, shohhd reach thej summit we had left, the inter spaces would almost imme diately be devastated! by the flood But there was no time for thought and we bore recklessly ;on. To treble pur difficulties, the moon now withdrew; even the uncertain lhrht !she had t lorded us; and darkness almost tota edoiir path.! Still trusting to the encom pass remarkable instinct Ot our horses, we SDeeded nnwir1 ward-Iike.thewind. calculated lhat we had progressed some mHesj and that the crisis of ou r trial vas over when the broken, flinty ground we were passing curvpd nuddenlv upward into a hilh ; As we reached the top, ,(wht a thrill of despair shot through jus then I) hifsing and sparkling, a sea of molten fire for the union of gases, phosphorus and lava seemed jto have set the tide : ablaze writhed and travailed below, and splitting against every! obstruction in its course, dashed into jets of flame, like a monster serpent, spitting venom and blood. '- I r '9ur true sitna lion jbeeame at once apparent. Trusting to the sagacity of the animals we rode themselves half wild with affright we had made a complete circuit in tho daftness, and were re approaching the very plain' upon which our. encampment had stood, j The ghastly glare from those infernal waves, displayed to us each other's features. Seldom havo such counten ces been j beheld this side 'of the grave! At length, Merton' spoke Hisjmother would not hnve known that voice. It was strained, husky, savage .almost i inhuman in its agony of sup plication.! 'Fly I fly! fr. thji love I of Heaven llyl do you not see that had; she the strength of fifty of her sex, it must fail her soon,' and he pointed to the sinking form 6 f Christina, whom, half dead from exhaustion,! he had Uken'nk the saddle before himj and was endeavoring to support; n her precarious seat. Renlvim? not. but. motioning him again to followv we spedf uown ine descent and made foi the- uoland which I knew lay a mile and a half due North. For several hundred yards we were compelled neep uu a une witn tne river, as affordinsr the only tenable ground in the neighborhood. ; I had observed the day preyious, that a deep morass .bordered our path upon the riht To avoid this, without venturing too near the river was an object I tasked every faculty, nhvaical and mental, to accomplish, We had just cleared the narrow ridge I have describedMerlon and his charge being in the rearwhen a tumultuous crash in the direction of the stream, caused me to took back to ascertain what additiona; dan ger -nreatened us. -h A single' glance infomed me iiat escape was hopeless. The lofty ram part of sand and rock, that hitherto formeda barrier against the element, had completely gaiiing.irom the height a cataract of fire, and bearing- directly on ouri road with a velosi ty doubled 'by th elevation of its 'egress the gleaming waters burst fonvard to engulf us. ' There was a piercing cry, and the fall of a heavy body behind me! The horse that carried-my companions, goaded to phrenzy,- had snapped the rein and hurled his riders to the. earth. He trampled by me like a tempest i snatched at the bridle as he passed, but; might as well have tried to grasp sun beamj At tbis instant a current of wind parted the veil " of smoke and ashea that had obscured the! light, aud the moon shone on - the unimaginable horrors , of the scene. : My own steed nowgrew ungovernable. Alarmed by the otherV flight, he dashed furi ously on his track. My brain spun with, the madness of the motion, and the soil glided be neath us with the rapidity of thought A grey object, towering beyond "me, caught my eye. It was a(wte some forty feet above the level of the field a granite 'mound stre wed with the fragments of a Ruined tempje. I threw myself. ! J ui Bc--iiceuett noi s severe concus si6,l that rewarded the act-clambered half way up the gorge and then j turned to witness the fte of the unfortunate beings from whom I had been: separated. Across the i intervening space a5 double- radiance vas cast radiance from the ileavensand af sickly death-like glare from the onward rushing torrents. ' Mer lon, to all appearance uninjured by his fall, bad' luted Lbnstina ia.his arms; and still hastened deVperatelys forward ;but jthe racing billows were almost upon them, and the hand of the Eternal alone could have rescued the devoted Pa!Tr;As: 1 fazed, Merton" evidently became aware that further efforts w ere Vain; - He pans ed abrubtly, and knelt with his precJons burden ' open the cod.-: f oul4 see :thra s;drioetly - - as. if I; too, had been standing oo the spot: iin nis oacic turned to the destruction at if to hhield its view frota his belotedmy al. lant friend imprinted one last kl nnnn i;M and then drew from his breast k Urge goidea crucifix that he .Iway". bore about hia person. M;u"uw K a dmne glory, aipid tlat un earthly desolation. Pallid as the whiu-at max. bks that ever glinted Ifrona themrulptorsehuel; beintiful, ineffably beautiful Christina opened her eyes upon the. symbol of life in deaVL Tl raTen hair was cast Uclt, the inanimate form revived, and a. trembling hand clasped the cross to her lip The action deranged hpr and from the bddice that girdled that young. in nocent, loving heart, something like a bomiet of flowers. dropped upon the ground; and now the snaoow of the nrarrtie. flnv" ;.t-- - " them. It progressed, deepened, part until uuu,rom .Uud,-thar I should snek it! the consuming torrents whelmed the victims in their mna eaies, and swept two of the fairest, and noblest of our race from the recordj of mankind forever" , ; I Old Sip Vak Winkle," ... w vaiiB DKUVIR1D IX; XTW TOSX. I pray you pardon me. for having so trespassed upon your indulgent patience. I am lecturing out of my proper place in the cours and have not had time to make my lecture short; me nasien to tfte moral pf my .tory. Ye are my countrymen, gathered from all broad land. Probably lie blood of some brave Soldier from each one of the glorious old Thh teen, that, with Washington to lead, went through fire to baptize a nation in their hhwl nd to name it Free, la TrntA night There s circling here through our veins the blood of Xew York, of Jersey and Penn fylyania, brave little Delaware, Maryland, Vir ginia, the Carojinas and Georgia; and the bfcod of men from all these once made a common pool on more than one hard fought field. No sound was. then heard of section 1 feeling, say. in$ I fight for Massachusetts, and I for Virginia. I for Connecticat, and California, I for Jersey, and I for Georgia. No, the cry was. We fight for the freedom , of a we want no freedoui which does not cover aZZ-we will have no free dom but foroZnd have it for all, with God's good help, we will, or leave our bpnes to blearh on tlie fields of our oontry. Ah, it is glori ous to bit down and turn over the pages of those stirring times until the heart throbs and the eye waters, and we rise lo the full appreciation of the dignity, the sublimity ot that purest, "most unselfish re volution, recorded in the world! -history. Ahl that is the process by which to bring out the tfue feeling intensely American. Look back- look back, my countrymen i Oh, how. our brave old fathers clung togetber Boston was in trouble in 1774. North Caro 'ina expressed her sympathy, and at a coat of X800 sterling, sent to her a vessel loaded with provisions. The town from which it went bd ,butix hundred inhabitatitsand the whole col 4oy.bnt .one hundred and fifty thousand. Again, hear them after the acts of Parliament leveled againstBoston,.; T.iey speak in "their Provincial Congress i Resolved, ' That the in habiiants of MassachusetU Province have dU tinguished themselves in a manly Kupport' of the rights of America in general, and that ' the cause. in which they now' suffer! hi the cause of every honest American wno deserves the bless ings wl ich the constitu'u'on hold forth to him That the grievances under which the town of Boston labors' at present are the effect of a re sentment leveled at them, for having stood fore most in an opposition to measures which must eventually have involved all British America in a slate of, abject dependence and servitude." These be toble words. Again, hear these same men of Mecklenburg, (of whom I have said a much,) in one of their meetings of 1773 ; 44The cause of Boston is tne cause of alii ourdesti nies are indissolubly connectedwiih tbose of pur Eastern fellowcitizenSind we must either submit to an theimposi'ipns which an unprinci pled Parliament may impose, or support our brethren who are doomed to sustain the first shock .of that power, which if successful there will: ultimately overwhelm all in the common calamity.w These are., brotherly tones, tod think you the Boston mWof tliat day did not appreciate them t C - Why ' MassachusetU bad her son down in Carolina, and the men under stood and loved each btherl: Let Josiah Quin- cy, the young patriot of Boston, tell the story, for he was the man who could tell it , "He was 5e b?aR? r Cornelius Harnett, the man who drew the resolution in .the Provincial Con gress, calling on the Continential. body for s Declaration of Independence ; the man whom Quincy described to" his 'countrymen a ? the Samuel Adams of North - Carolina.w He sayg, Rob't Uowe, Haniett,ind I, made the social triumvirate of the evening. : They settled then the plan of "continental 'icorrespondence." and Qoincy went home to tell his countrymen that North Carolina; and indeed an the South VnM joinMaachusetU norm and the South then felt as brethren and uow, ye. sons of the Northi-ye men with tl mom . orthe daad eohHers and. heroes of New 1 U I -J 1 J ' i -.1
The Leisure Hour (Oxford, N.C.)
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