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Many years ago, on q bright and laugh.
ing morn in April, left my paternal roo
with all the bnoyant feelings Of one JUS
emerging from, childhood, and entering up
on the duties Of more mature age, intending
40 spend . few monthsin Western Virginia
with one whom, in my heart I longed to
see once more; hoping, thlt even that might
tend to alleviate some psng in an afflicted
bosom. To this day, eyely thing Of which
! took any notice, is stoled away and hal
lowed in my recollection ast Ft1


The season ofthe year referred to, is one,
which ID variable, perhals more 50 in Vir-
ginia, than in any other Safe; and yet there
il q pleasing loyeliness eien in the changes
Of the climate. Sudden and unexpected,
they, like the smiles Of one from whom
you expect frown, carry with them all the
excitements Of pleasing variety, and we
forget the disagreeable fpwns Of Winter in
the opening smiles Of 'pring, and in the
glowing brightness Of sumner,


Spring scatters, with pundant profusion,
much Of its freshness among the hills,
dales, and forests Of Virinia. At that sea-
son Of the year, the doubtless sky--the
dark, yet cheerful greenof the woods and
Ineadows--the busy hun Of animated ma
ture--all tend to excite the deepest emo
tions, and to awaken tn most impassioned
feelings Enough, il puld seem, to enli-
ven the bosom lacerateby misfortune, and
to warm the hearts, chi led by indifference,
loneliness, and neglect. .n.aa


Even habit, OLD HAIT, so powerful in
its influence, so hard shake of, and so
subversive Of the best nterests of society,
cannot steal away all { that delight and
admiration with whic we revel in the
soltness and sweetnessI such SEASON.
But, alas How MONETARY the charm to
that individual, the ayeues of whose heart
are closed to every tend emotion; the sem
sibilites Of whose natf are, blended; and
whose conscience, ondtender, has become
obdurate and inhexibld 7H u I 4#.e
| But as when sandis amid the ruins of
some noble edifce, yd may look upon its
tottering walls--its fling columns, and
| imagine what was ore, the beauty and
grandeur Of that buildiI - so may you look
upon that man whose ystem has been pa
ralysed by iinebriatior and, as you look,
imagine what was oe the glory Of his
moral and intellectual Constitution. A lit
tie while ago, the prdise of greatness to
every friend, and of ufulness to society
now blasted suddenly like the unfruitful
6g-tree under the cur OF God, and there
he stands withered-f onward bends TO
his grave, ,"the lioinstepnlchre Of a thou
sand hopes"


] know no place, here the dangerous
effects of custom and habit are so fully.
exhibited, as III my on native state. But,
+. there is. contest mighty struggle be-
tween habit and teth; and am happy