Colby College Digital Commons @ Colby The Eastern Mail (Waterville, Maine) Waterville Materials 9-18-1856 The Eastern Mail (Vol. 10, No. 10): September 18, 1856 Ephraim Maxham Daniel Ripley Wing Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/eastern_mail Part of the Agriculture Commons, American Popular Culture Commons, Journalism Studies Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Maxham, Ephraim and Wing, Daniel Ripley, "The Eastern Mail (Vol. 10, No. 10): September 18, 1856" (1856). The Eastern Mail (Waterville, Maine). 477. https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/eastern_mail/477 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Waterville Materials at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Eastern Mail (Waterville, Maine) by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Colby. T itttgcdlattL). peaceable Insirttmenlalilics gudrflntied by tha Const lution nnd tho laws of the land. In onf judgment, therefore, this, afld Ihi* almost ex. THE MY-STIO BELL. cldsively, Is the question which the hundreds 61 thousands of honest voters shotlld, in (he TBK OP AKDBESIW. present crisis, answer by their ballots, viz Toward err.ning, in the narrow streets of a How can the free principles and the fm msti* iargtt town, just as the sun was sinking, and the iiiiions—the true IJeraocrncy of the Nbrtli— elouds used to glitter Uke gold between the nut the geugrnpliicnl, sectional Nol'lh, btll the cbimflieti, a singular sound, like that of a church North iliflt t-cpt-csents the national AiM^oan bell, was often heard—sometimes by one, ilome- iih-a—be best sustained and extended t Clear­ times by another; but it only lasted a minute, ly that idea is in perj], Thcreis ho danger of for there was such a rumbling of carts, and’ a dissolution of the Union, biit there is dawger such a din of voicdKt thht slighter noises were I l.at liberty—without which the form hf • fft- drowned. “ The evening bell is ringing,” peo­ public is but a whited sepitlch't'h, and the cry of ple used to say, ‘‘ and now the sun is about to democracy but a lying voice—may b'e so fetlst'- sidi.” cd (hat (lie grand experiment, thus farsitchesa- ful, of a family of free governments hn tbit Those who rambled beyond the town, where I From .the Springfinlil Kepublicao. the bouses were more thinly scattered,, and had silent could be, when he sank on his knees, and LET NOT THE HEART OROtir OLD. a pretext as that of the Boston Post. The continent shall end in a dark falltfre; ,Td ayaft’ sang an evening-hymn, and ihen said, bogus Democracy has sown to the windrand ^ R A IL R O AvP 8 O N a tills, he who loves his country—Ins w/io/e coah- garden* and little Helds between them, saw the BT nosK bochkstXU. evening sky in fuller beauty, and beard the X Never shall I find whatl seek I The sun there is nq help for them—they must reap the •T THE **PIAIAftT BAED.'* try — shiinid meet the rosponsihility of the crit­ sound of the bell much more distinctly. It is now sinking, and night, dark niglit Js coming Childhood, with the elainless brow, wliiilwind. They have linked themselves body Thuro^ tho boll! listen well I ical hour with a caltii, inttnly, helievihg fcoltrage,' on. Yet I may perhaps see the round, red Dark, eoP eyee and' voice of gleo, nnd soul to false gods of slavery which our V All Eljoftrd 1 is Iho cry ♦ and vote lor freedom.—[Boston 'travelled. seemed to proceed from a church lying in the Fold thy thoughts within thy soul— ' Wo lire gHiiifi*, Roing—i^ono,— (depths of the fragrant forest; and people look­ sun once more before it disappears from the 'Ailiat IiaPi earth to do wilb thee ? , fathers knew nut of, and they must periah in WoM bo bHck by-rtml-by. ' ti . .. ___ _ It will still thy splHt'a life, the day of (rial when these are impotent to ed in that directioo, and (heir devotional feel­ horizon ; I will climb to the summit of yonder It will make thee Stem and cold i Now wo*ro jumimig with a lliumpiug nnd a butnpini* Kanaaa AttdfM. rocks, for their height is equal to that of the save. It was madness tn imagine (hat tliis 0‘er tlio rails, ings were awakened. Keep thee from its chilling strife ; Hut UQr linrso bus ** taken something *' iitid his strength Wo have,obtained (says the Boston Daily After some time bad passed by, one would tallest tree.” Never let thy heart grow old. great republic, framed by our fathers for such never fuils* purpo.iics ns are set forth in the preamble of Advertiser) permission to print tbe sobjqincd ssy (oaaothdr, “ I wonder whether there is a And by the .help of roots and creepers ho Maiden by the hearth of home, Hear the bell; listen well ; letter, with the names of the Writer and thw managed to scale the wet rocks, where water- Ctillcd the blossom of the heart, the Constitution, could be converted into an in- chaech eut there in the woods? The.bell has Keep afTeclidn’e fire nndimmed, Clear the track Is tlio cry { genlleinan to whom it is addressed, wilb the de­ such a peculiarly line tone. Shall we not go snakes were wriggling about, and toads seemed Never let its light depart. struini-utality for the propagation and extension Wo are Hying, Hying,—down, ' ■’ of human bondage. It was infatuatibn to sup­ Like u '• Hti’ciik o' lightning” by. sign ol showing by uiiimpenehable (estiraofiy the and listen to it a little nearer ? ” And the ricli to be baying at him; yet he reached tbe sum­ Throw it all around the loved, What n racket! how wo clack it as we track it iinlh of llie present state of nfliiirs in KansM. mit before tlieiatinfltad quite sunk to rest. best they barter truth for gold i pose that (lie freemen of the North wlio recog­ drove, thilbee, and the poor went on foot, but Lest temptation strongest prove,— O’tir tho mils! Mr. Lawrenee tells us that liis correspoodetlt Oh, how grand a sight was there ! The sea, nize tlio dignity of free labor, and make it a Hut our pony needn't sluck it, for bis strength never tbSiWay seemed endlessly long. ■ Never let the heart grow old. fiiiU' is “ as reliable a man aSever lived,''—6h6tWfltt Three persons declared that they had pene­ the boundless, magnificent sen,rolling its broad Wile, with youth upon thy brow— religious duly to teach (heir cliildren to reong- nizo and revere it, would quietly see it made Hlow it loud to the crowd a »diom lie has liad business transactions for seT- trated id the end of the forest, and that they waves to the sliore, lay spread out before him. Life’s sweet lovelight in thine eye; Who oiir coming wait to spy, while the sun stood like a fiery altar just at ilie He hath olaims upon tliee now; an outcast from its broadest, and lairesi, and eral yearS. had. always: beard the same pec.uliar sound of a Dare for him to live nr die. We are coininp« oumiitg,—come,— This letter nnd many others of a slmtikr bell, only it' seemed there as if it proceeded point where (be sea and sky met, and all Lest the trensuro thou liasl won most solomnly assured ilutnain, and wretclied, Hub the cinders from your eye, As wc^ro sliding, nnd nre gliding, and nro riding tenor, show what is the present disposiiion of from the towo. One wrote a song on the sub­ around had melted into one glorious lint. The Stern should grow and harsli ninl cold. stolid, degraded black servitude pushed into its into town^ forest was singing, and tlie sea was singing, Keep thy wai^m affections young— place. A people who tiavo once realized iho the federal government in ordering fresh troops ject, and said that the bell sounded like the Never let thy lieait grow old. llor^e i.s up to ” time nnd tiding,” but wo noodn't rub voice of a. mother speaking to a good and be­ and his heart joined (heir hymns of praise. ends, and tasted tlie blessings of free govern­ him down. to Kansas to put down ‘ inRurreclion ’ and (6 Husband, in thy round of care, save the capital uf the Slate, (Lec''mp(on) from loved child, and that no melody was superior All nature was one vast, holy church, whose Full of projects, scliemes, and gains, ment, do not so quickly change. Party load­ to the sodnd of that bell. pillars were formed by trees and floating clouds, Wearing sucli a sober air— ers may, for purposes of llieir own, give them­ Isn't there a Noith, Also? ' dosiruclion.’ As to ilie latter, it could bate The ceremony of ronflrmalion now took whose velvet coverings were represented by Hacked witli business, riches, am! pains,— selves up to such obliquity, and the natural Behind the politicians, in and out of office, been taken and burnt by (he Free Stale meh Lest the hopes that tlion shonirist cherish behind parly lenders and partisans, there are | at any time during the past month. If they place. The preacher had held forth with grass and flowers, ami whose dome was imag­ Fade away so still and cold. tendencies of the mass of any party to follow heartfelt eloquence, and those who had been ed forth by the sky itself; but the glowing Let not pledged alfection perish,— its leaders may do much toward* pervertii.g a hundreds of ibousaiids uf voters who are soon, were really desirous of’ destroying ’ it; Ettd 6f confirmed were deeply impressed, for it was a lints now faded away, and millions of stars, Never let tiie heart grow old.