Western Sun, Volume 7, Number 18, Vincennes, Knox County, 6 April 1816 — Page 4

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POETICAL ASYLUM.

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Whet) ' v b -vi t y (lull fade, as 'tic. ccnii it nnii'K An ! the brow now fa fmootli Hull be wrin-Ll-J by prf, "When thf cold hand of death Qvll confign ihf tO dttfl And thy muuiifs i'o p! (i g hall ceiife to If thy hopei hive been piatrJ on thefe pv grc ot truth, And religion with beauty together thoofi blended) If tbou'lt trufted to GOD in the days of thy youth, And th ' 1 1 . t" i 1 u die wretched ext . rti 1, Then t ho Fortune fh Jd frown and flfe frien llhip betray A 1 th h uk brio nit wrrik'J, on mortrdi. v ' '! ,rr. T h k tits truth thou full ever obey Si ii i th e t' region! where cain ii

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John. All cTion is ! iid to defcend 7he love ot childi v n to their parents It is contended bears no proportion to the love of parents to their children. The fm mer it is maintained, is a sentiment ; the Litter a paflion. Children are faid to conform to the will ot their perents from doty while the devotion ! parents to their chtldrt n (pi mgs from love. 1 ! nee in every (late ot fociet v civilised or fa vage , patents p o . 61 in ' cherilh their off lp ing with the tender ell care but th it ten ion of children to their parents is generally pi p tu ned to the degree ot refinement t Kilting in loci tty ftv refinement it (hould not be underdo d that Rate where every man can I peak French play whifl cut a pigeon wincf- wait z kill his

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tribe of Indians when about to ch nige their pi ice i i 1 1 dence bet before their old men provifions for a few ii)s ai d then abandon t'v in to perilb. Lvery refined and generous

bofom is (I ruck with horror at Ijl barbarity Notwithttandinff this fcr, and the general opinion ex preffed to tfie contrary. I think there t? good ground to conclude that a hong natural affe&ion exillsln the heart of children to their parents. I fnot, whence a rifes the hort or Cc dcteHation that fprings in every bofom at tiie recital of the con duel of the daughters o! Lear r A.id wh-nce the unfual delinhi that h telt in coniempl i ting the c ondqd ot" Eneas, in hearing on his fhouiders his father the good Anthifei from the dames of r 1 1 v ? hatever opinions m y ex ill on thl point - one ihmg will be t d to by eve i g ;od ni in that -hie is no dui v moi e if i i e, oi 1 1 it l . I i I - L , ,

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greater cheei hilo light than t h i of the decitninu j s t ms happy, M n icate atteni inns to t

and opinions ire due, a thou land times doe, lor theii care of us in our inf ancy As you hope young man, for the res. pi ci ofyouff children or for the blrilincr ot heaven : i charge von to confult the defires and to promo.e the hap pinefsofyour parents. A!emember that honour thy Father and Mother is among the folemn b !e(is of the decalogue. Disgraceful as is the facl, yet we mull admit that even in this enlightened age and country, indances have occurred of children being disrefp d ul to their parents, fometirnes rude and occafionally cruel. An inflance recently mentioned in the public prints as having lately taken place, in a neighbouring (iaie, confidering the It ate ot fociety ttiore disgraceful and barbaron, than the CO n duel of the Milfouri lavages. Two fons having obtained the estate or their father furfered him to be fued, and aclu.di imp ifoned, tor a fmall bebt, relufn g to relieve him i If i lee a man treat l is fa ther vih disrefped I let him down as lacking underit mding 1 j)e 1S cruel in my memorandum book he is noted as a ravage. Hut a child

who could work on a parent's

eneciions a net cnnhrlrncp to

obtain ins property and the :i abandon him to want mult be a wretch fo vile that no name exp efliveoi ins bafenefs has yet been discovered. Pro de nee is an etlimable virtue. It i m ct ol (operative folly for any man to give all hiN property to his children. k : p enough tor your own in guts aftd t f ufl no man too far. Prudence never injured

any man Cofidencehas ruined thoulands. Liften a moment and 1 will tell you a (lory : An old man had a large estate and at the felicitation of his children upon promifesof the kindefl treatment he made it all over to them. 1 mmediately their conduct tow aids him c h inged. luftead of Honoured father,' it was he old man. ' In the place of ' What will you choofefor your dinner, fir ? i: was there's your porridge.9 Although the old oenileman IijlI iod ins property, he retained his wit and hunger you know is a wonderful fhatpener of the faculties. lie took iiis meafures : and ttv loon a neighbour who a as about to remove, bro't me ;m old irost boutid chefl very he.jv y, obferving 1 1 hat he had long tell uneafy at laing the ptoperty or other people in his tare, and was gl id of an ex ufe to return it into the hands of its owner 9 cry ell, 1 iid the old gen tieman, a few thoufands more ot lefs i. no gteat matttr to one who has enough ; but it may be offer vice to my dear children when 1 am gone.' -I he chefl was placed in his room a lock put on the door and now and then he was o verheard counting & throwing fomething into it that chinked like goi i. No one doubted his wealth and to the enquiries cf bis children, he aniwered that ins will would be found enclofed -1 he icene was inOantly changed again. Nochildren could be more dutiful and attentive. No father w as ferved more to his heart's content. At his death his children watted halt an hour for decency's fake, and then ran to open the chefl w here to the tr gt e at furprife they louild l&une old pieces of iron and a mallet with tins ho ; el) , bm wife diftich I belled on the handle : 11c that gives atoay Lis csi&te beJ oi c jc $s (ic&( luki thn aiii tut nnd knock bim c:i tht bt Liu." On tiie otlier hand befides the cafe ctced of Enea, hiflory turndhes us with nu' merovis mna. ces of filial afIcetion worthy to be recorded. A noble Roman was condemned to be (tat ved to death liis daughter w as admitted to v ilit him but was caret uSJy ex a mined to fee that file took no proviiion to l.ei father. Bui he did not c ie. as was expected and on looking fecrccly into his pi ifon, the father was leen drawing his fufteo. anc e ti om ti)e bi calls ot hii daughter. A fight io lovely melted the heai ot histr. aiHS and he w as pardoaeck

The faft is often alluded to. Bnrke, in one of his fpeech. es fays : 1 he fcarcity which the old world has felt, would have been a dcfol a ting famine if the child of their old age, ( America) with true filial pie. ty with a Roman charity, had not put the full bred ft, with its youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhauded parent.9 With one more beautiful inllance of filial affection I (hall clofe thb paper. W hen Elijali cafl his mantle on E, Iftba, with ihc command to follow him, ami devote him. felt to the mod high, what did Elitha afo I to bury his treafure, or to piaee his gold at ufury I Oh, no ! 1 Let me I pray thee,' laid he, kifs my lather and my mother, and then will follow thee 9 Excellent man ! Thou wen indeed worthy to be a prophet in ! srae! ! Brighton, i ling Nov. r. S : r j a m c s M a cki nt o ? h u hen at Paris paid a vifit to the deaf and dumb Inftitutioii there. he Abbe Sicard in trod need lever al of his pupils to hitn, to one of whom Maf. fien, at bir James's requefl the following quell ion was loom it ted : Doth God realm) h Maflien on feeing the queilion written as firfl ap. peared perplexed but food af. ter returned e he dec dive atid Jooical folutlon 4 God h es every thing ! God forefeet every th:eg ! God knows every thing ! To reafon is to doubt, to hefitate to enquire the highefl attribute of a limi ted intelligence; God there, fore doth not reafon I he Abbe when here a fliort titne (nice with afllen w as met at theCaflom. Houfe by a gen. t)eman acquainted wit the an. ecd.ie above related and w?jo beg ged o i him again : o pr o -pf)imd the fame queftion to his pupil, winch he politely did 3nd the anfvver he return, rd was, 1 Men reafon but to find the truth : God who knows truth i . nor in wain of reafon and does not reafon)1

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Apothecary Business, in coi ...chwn wtlfa tlit pi cl.c of Physic if Surgery They have j. it pened a ! rg a. u gTierl affoi :mrnt oi DRUGGS & MKP-R'IXES, a' 1 1 c i r Apalhectry Gore, vtrr nrtel, an rnr.c. . (in the room Utr l occnv I I y Will ..in Mc.IntolJi, e!t;. a a it. re.) whirb ihcv vv ill icil, win lie t. ir or fetftit. tt rraf r.able t- 'ins s at y in the V 'l r r -u t v . They iMeno to I, -r j futh a fupply viQ meet Ube J-iii.: ('s of th t lace, arn) tn .kc it an ol ject f r V yficiars and ret; if. tra to procur-ilieir iu; ,'l.f s c i tl cn . The pruftiec ot 1 ! )fic i urgrr) in all t!., ir various brai.ci.es. m I . attended by Dorter HALK ; and a!! c lit in either tine of buliiu fs. will br prjtrfu!') r?cr;vcJ dud i ori!j..'.ly t xecu 1 1 d, 1) WW M. H - I K. JEREMIAH WOUa February :9, IS 16. I3tl

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