PITY AND CHARITY INCULCATED.
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The very pirate, that dyes the ocean
wave with the blood of his fellow beings:
that meets with his defenceess victim in
some lonely sea where no cry for help can
be heard, and plunges his dagger to the
heart that is pleading for life, (which is call
ing upon him by all the names ofkindred. of
children, and home, to spare--yes, the very
pirate Is such man, as you or might have
been. Orphanagc in childhood an nnfriend-
ed youth; an evil companion; a resort to
sinful pleasure; familiarity with vice; scorn-
ed and blighted name; scared and crushed
affections; desperate fortunes these are
steps which might have led any one among
us, to untur upon the high seas the bloody
flag of universal defiance; to have wagcd
war with our kind to have put on the terrific
attributes, to have done the dreadful deeds.
and to have died the awful death of the
ocean robber. How many affecting rca-
tionships of humanity plead with us to pity
him? That head that is doomed to pay the
price of blood, once rested upon a mothers
bosom. The hand that did that accursed
work, and shall soon be stretched, cold and
nervelcss, in the telon's grave, was once
taken and cherished by fathers hand, and
led in the ways of sportve childhood and in
nocent pleasure. The dreaded monster of
crime, has once been the object of sistcrly
love, and all domestic endearment. PITY
him, then. Pity his blighted hope and his
crushed heart 1t is wholesome sensibili-
ty. 1t is reasonable; it is meet for frail and
SHINING creatures like us to cherish. 1t fore
goes no moral discrimination 1t feels no
crime; but feels it as a weak, tempted and
rescued creature shOuld II i,n;totes tho
great Master; and looks with indignation
upon the offender, and yet is grieved for him.


DIR. Johnson, at a late period of his life,
observed to Sir Joshua Reynolds-"I
man do not make new acquaintances as he
passes through life, he will soon find himself
alone. A man, sir, should keep his friend
ship in constant repair. "