The Western Register and Terre-Haute advertiser, Volume 3, Number 47, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 January 1827 — Page 4

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S SELECTED.

JFromthe Umled Staiet Review Sf Lilcrcf ry Gazette.

TJIE AFRICAN CHIEF.

WAR

AINED

BRYANT.

in the market-place he stood,

A man of giant frame, Amid the gathering multitude That shrunk to hear his name,— All stern of look and strong of limb,

His dark eye on the ground And silently they gaze^ ea him, As-on a-Lion bound.

"^T*tnlybut well 4h*t chief had fougiit, He way a captive now, •Yet pride, that fortune humbles uct,

Has written on his brow. The sears his dark broad bosom wore Showed warrior true and brave A prince am'»ug his tribe before,

He could- not be a slave.

Then to his- conqueror he spake— My brother is a king Undo this necklace from my neck,

And take this bracelet ring. And send me where my brother reigns, And I wilt fill thy hands iVitb store of Ivory from the plains,

And gold dust from the sands."

Not fortby Ivory nor Uiy gold Will I unbind thy chain JThat Woody hand shall never hold

The battle spear again. A price thy nation never gave Shall yet be paid for tbe^.^. for thou ahalt be the Christian's tlase,

In land* beyond tie sea

jThen wept the warrior chief,-and bade To shred his locks away .And, one by =one, each heavy braid

Before the victor lay.. Thick were the platted locks, and long, hidden there Bhone wany a wedge of gold among

The dark and crisped hair.

feast thy greedy eye^ with gold Long kept for sorest need :5T keit--~thou askest sums untold—

And say that I am freed. "Take it—my wife, the long, loss dav Weeps by t^e cocoa tree, And my young children leave tlieir plav,

And aik in vain for me." ir.-

I teke hy gold—but I have made Thy fetters fast and strong, i^nd ween that by tbe cocoa shade wife Kilt waiHhee long S*i ong waf l&e agtxoy that shook

Tbe captive'* frame to hear, .A*tl th# proudrmwming of fcfe look 8 v* Was ehangui to mortal fear.

fi is heart wa»broken—crazed hir btaia At once hiseye grew wild^ M^t*igglai fiercely with his chain,

IMuvpei ed,ai*i **»pt, atid smlfed let a ore not long those fatal ijantis. Andoace, atshnt of day, nl

fo,rtb uP°asands,

'4h«foul'hj)||na,« prey.

the

if*

Mirrcr.

THE TQJCIv OF FAME.

S ywihM «ar mwac'a soft enrapturinestr&m. Aad JoOBg «*».«« h«r *M, hi»pei s, o'*r aaWer again

bigb,

4 h. »«rM KtKi tmt, friwtt sin4

r^^seDiu^®f

Bvrti^ththe^tU^^and chi'l'd

fe «^v.

Th» voice ef fatne can never yiiHkf sfrmrnt to fill thai cheerless void.

At*! to llw Skb, fw4 r-.linjfVw.t-

*.« jvme ts JU4«, P,lV»*fendly beat To Fm^y,

pvut an

strain

IUrjuet.

PLtP/T ELOQUENCE.

"Obey the scriptures or you perish. Ton may despise the honor done you by the Majesty ahore, you may spurn the sovereignty of Almighty Cod, you

rule to bow before its creator, and stand in momentary rebellion against bis ordinances his overtures of inercy you may cast contempt on, and crucify afresh the royal personage who bears them and you may^riot in your licentious liberty for a while, and make game of his indulgence and 4ong suffering. But come at length it will, trhen ie veuge sUall array herself to go forth, and Anguish shall attend her, and from the wheels of their chariot ruin and dismay shall shoot far and wide among the enemies of the king, whose desolation shall not tarry, and whose destruction, as the wing of the whirlwind, shall be swift—hopeless as the conclusion of eternity and the reversion of doom Then around the fiery concare of the wasteful pit the clang of grief shall rii:g, and tbe fiinty heart which repelled tend*? mercy shall strike its fangs into its proper bo*©cn and the soft and gen--tlcspiiit which dissolved in voluptuous pleasures, shall dissolve in weeping sor rows and outbursting lamentations and ths gay gtory vf time shall depart and spoitful liberty shall be b&und for ever in the chain of obdurate necessity. The green earth with all blooming beau Ur and bowers of peace shall depart 1 he morning and evening salutations of kinsmen shall depart, and the everwelcome voice of friendship, and the ten-* der whispering off ull hearted affection, shall depart, for the sad discord of weeping, and waihrjg, and gnashing of "teeth. And the tesder names of chiK j1' father and- mother, and wife and huslond, with the communion of domestic love and mutual aifcetion, and •the inward touches of natural instinct,. which family compact, when uninvaded by discord, wraps the livelong day into one swell of tender emotion, -making earths lowly scenes worthy of Heaven itself---All. all shall pass away and instead shall come the level lake that burnetii, and the solitary dungeon, and the desolate ^osom, and the throes and tossing# of horror and hopelessness, and the -worm that dieth -not, and the fiue that is not quenched.

Hs written, 'tis written, 'tis sealed of Heaven, and a few years shall ^reveal it all. Be assured it is even ss to happen to the dtspisers of holy writ With this in arrear, what boots liberty, .pleasure, ^yoywent—all within tbe hour-glass of f»or round of earth's continent, all the sensibilities of life, all the powew of man, ail the attractions of wo ®en —Reo\ JEd. Irving,*

Fragment —Could we draw back the covering of the tomb -could

""i

are

the'flow

see

n»w,

who were once

mortal—Oh how would it surprise and gmv* us to- behold the prodigious transformation that has taken pla?e oh every individual—griCV€ uato see tiie dishonw done t^ our nature in general, within these subterraneous lodgments—

SW?l.fnd winBin6

^pect, that

we perpefiyaHy an attracting smile, grrns homhly—a naked ghastly grin imlSf

otitshone

the

diamond's

n,:€d it8

]oVe]y

Kghtning

.^guarded bearWalasI

where hit How are all those radient glories, totally eclipsed lhat tongue that once commanded all the charms of •harmonyj and all the powers of eloquence, this strange land hath foreot mpWi,mmf TWhere

To the Public. Lewis Young.

V^-^u7

informs the

STco^

genuine

citizen, ef

Black Smith,

His terms art

ceed°Illbs. ^Xe#

not

r°'«"

Fo^JumpIng oU Ax« „ith

k'm

Ixom creation's universe

THE

a» FIOWBRS OF L1TISEATUB, WIT and SENTIMENT.

FOR 1827.

Office of the Saturday Evening Post, I'kMadelphia December

the

st™'ns

tavkhfd

our

ea*1 Where

the flow of persuasion which carried I?**'!6 JQdSment« *he great masUr of language and of song is become silent as the night .which surrounds

wiU be furnished for 2 00

to ex-

weighing

0»er

vjtbs and not over

ForBri»dAT„, 5^ Toob-warranted for

arJ

b\' t!r

tofcam l^o work Jh","!n"Wed sible maimer. ^est posJanuar7 15,

I827#

2, 18'26.

"fTHE CASKET, or Flowers of Literature, Wil and Sentiment, which has had au unprecedented increase of patrons during the last six months, will after the present volume is finished contain, each number, 40 .octavo pages printed well, on smaH handsome type, upon the finest paper, stitched and covered, and furnished at the low price of Two dollars and fifty cents .«per annuw The Casket is a collection from thechoi cest pieces of the Saturday Evening Post, made with a reference to the difference which should exist in the ma. teri:*ls of a weekly ^paper, and those of a monthly publication, the former- of course enriched with essays, poetry, an ecdotes, and these set off. by .a. recital of the occurrences of the week. The latter ean .receive little value fro.ni a mere detaiUI events, many of which would cease to be interesting before they were .recorded. yr^-'-n,

^.ndw)me e®gravmgs from the

iands of some of the most distingiiished artists ofthe country.

the

vaucet will* as has been Dreviru.«l« ^mentioned, be-afforded t° those who subscribe for thai paper exclusively, at the low price-of $'2,60 per ^ar -a scnption which it Confide^l beli«cd

venerable JOHN ADAMS !e -President of the United State's Longacre's best engraving- Xn °f «ct beautiful view of FAIRi •wATER WORKS in Mi ^°UNT Philadelphia bes^ Lfi® Tn,tr of

SCHOOL OF FLORA

commencement of a refful«r

ev«7^,hT^H'^f«Uedto Atkinson

fit

8 7S

mani1

-^dress

Persons wishing to

(oMhe

B^ubsc^,phia

please to send in their ?nb«» will of the year, as there is ,}'the

Botk

^^douhtthed.-

^es, s°hall^eceiyf 1^°^

JdHN EWIMQ, ((as KDIToa,)

Begs have 6 prtsent himself to his felm Jow~citi7ckn with proposals for putdisking in Ptncennes, Jndianat weekly newspaper to be-called

TILE WABASH TELEGRAPH. Devoted to Agriculture, Commerce/ ^.Manufactures, Politics, Litfrature and Morals.

THE growing population of the western ^ectiou of ludi&na, will readily furni: sh adequate reasons for belief, tlj at another

Vincenno Aouid

ftf

,New8p^fler

me«

JkaBii ^lt°r u",

J.\*\

The vast quantity of matter crowded by-small-type, and careful arrrangement into the colums of every number of the Saturday Evening Post, will in the course of a month, furnish the ir»ost ample materials from which to form an interesting periodical work such as the. Casket has beencousidered by its partial* friends, and such as we intendit shall be: Notwithstanding the fact, that the asket is but a colllection freHi the columns of the Saturday Evening, Post we confidentlj predict, rii} indeed we are sanctioned in the experience we already, have, that its most numerous patrons will be found among the jsubsci ibers to our weekly pap r—A large number of those who take the Post depend upon that paper for the news of the week—it is therefore read with avidity by almost every member of the family where it is received, and this geueral use frequently injures its appearance so much' as almost to render it unfit for the fil*, and for binding. The numbers tfo, by this general use, are not unfreauently lost, mutilated or entirely destroyed and the file thus broken.—The Casket is calculated to prevent this inconvenience, and to furnish, at a very [cheap price, all the usefuLmatter for which the weekly paper -wosld be desirable when bound —In thus giving a pernfanent term ana select association to tbe choice pieces of our weekly -contributerl it is -confidently anticipated :that new and successful inducements will be helfl out forthe exesciseof superior, talent, and unusual care an «ur Hterary: department* —in addition to the recommendation of newness in thegeneral appearance—and particular attention to the typoertpbi, cal execution, it is our intention to embellish each number of tbe Casket, with

1 pe8 t0

c®f[ect

a^ket

Th.

ofthe

tbe

r^.Cr^-

recko^ii.i

are

firat

°r

with ,mi5

support ».na cncoursgemcot. Under this impjeesion,the Arc,,,

M„

",5

..•cent ,, that hisderig, i, notCe[y to l«rsue a profitable buainf«sa but to bo the means of inning, from' "Id .B«ropo i»

om territory,

a weoklj-eheet, devoted to the belt IBtrests jt the people^ and worthy of* well adequate retnoneraUoa is will afford 1 icouagement.

#(|0Pted

the hUrne

ofthe lUver which blends with tie great central water coune. of

UQit®

state pride

with tbl patronage .of talent—to give a forceJtolMs stricture corresponding with thii physical force of that ^,agn£ vieot stream. He professes to be a republican, ntrt «n!y in PKiNerp.p

a»d advocate the rigUts.of the citi^nesttfblkh medium through

hich

to piomulgate correct

intelligence of matters interesting to «H$ he ivishe« to pointt to an adequate louts to the industry tn'd eater. fnse ofour population^-aud he wishes to vjplaoe the, means Of hretruction "tit* c? reach of

«ver?

inhabitant

ei tne otate In propogatioe these wishes, the editor will never encroach upon the|rights, or feelingr of -such as may please to differ with him, and solely rely -fcefore an intelligent people. upon the intrinsic strengh of his cause, supported by the immutaWe nature truth ^nd reason^ In pursuing this course hOwever, a decisive character shall mark the editoriul department of .the "JMligraph. Uoth principles and ^measures will occasionally be discussed with a hecouung frankness and freedom, from «vhich nothing shall entire the editor to swerve.

c. tho"ghltheconcerns of-xUr 0wn

State mll iDore im«ediately engross the columns of this papf r, tSose of the •Union shalj flot be overlooked The prowedi«g« «four State Legislature of congress and the acts of Ae exec^«ye of th«,State and of the Union, m\i be duely noticed, together with, All such measures of .the different States, as may be deem«id ,»-«f general interest. Foreign News, Literary and

Miscellaneous articles, Pietrvi' Moral Kssays—in fine, every kind of intelligence which is genera Hy found in a newspaper will find place, but the paper will be conducted- with a particular view to the important interests mentioned under its title, and the promulgation of facts, and the supportof mea* sures tending to promote theiradvancement*

The sentiments of patriotism aisA ^jrto^wh'ch have for years pftstj deadw. ened the rancour of part? soirit throMjhimt the States, and led to '""",ia11

and liberal thiokera,

shall nwcrbe dntorbed nor shall tto 1 klkghapk be open to scurrilous attack* upon private deputation or domestic repose, under any pi ete*t. Yet. pft1m!l8UC-latia3Ka

when

defeL^rt

ther

dition to this, the thoucht# fn'i nications aF*U

b^madc

al'™*»

of hu T,"

™«ert the

leceii* laoguaee.

aware lll

UMtion

um»1 «X'nlr depend ipnf4.ll

rr ana ,nat

pro-

the eT„ii®Tt:,-Ki,'41,'' w»l which

00^'

however^

oA.rtr'f i,u

(,ho8tb«»s

8 and

oiu.e should never foernJ°

three

WiVea

oPy

ofthe work.

pear as •oool'a8°the,surh1'e

commu-

if|»cseDt,S if.c®^t?»dent. shall,

the puilio ej,® throu-TI: *^'mef' and however inil*S chaanel cations may be to t£ communiiwents of the editor hi?a-M,Cater

8enti"

when necessary i'i'Sf.t ,n?lce

reation which J?!

them»

eral

mod*

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|ap8r

justify its °c° ramtu'ccraent',''011

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