agent at Standing Rock, Dakota, writes, September 28, 1886: Rain-in-the-Face is very anxious to go to Hampton.
I fear he is too old, but he desires very much to go.
The Southern Workman, the organ of General Armstrong's Industrial School at Hampton, Va., says in a late number:—
Rain-in-the-Face has applied before to come to Hampton, but his age would exclude him from the school as an ordinary student.
He has shown himself very much in earnest about it, and is anxious, all say, to learn thHampton, but his age would exclude him from the school as an ordinary student.
He has shown himself very much in earnest about it, and is anxious, all say, to learn the better ways of life.
It is as unusual as it is striking to see a man of his age, and one who has had such an experience, willing to give up the old way, and put himself in the position of a boy and a student. the years are but half a score, And the war-whoop sounds no more With the blast of bugles, where Straight into a slaughter pen, With his doomed three hundred men, Rode the chief with the yellow hair. O Hampton, down by the sea! What voice is beseeching thee For the scholar's lowliest
age of his generous youth.
Election Day, 1841.
The gallows.
Written on reading pamphlets published by clergymen against the abolition of the gallows.
I. the suns of eighteen centuries have shone Since the Redeemer walked with man, and made The fisher's boat, the cavern's floor of stone, And mountain moss, a pillow for His head; And He, who wandered with the peasant Jew, And broke with publicans the bread of shame, And drank with blessings, in His Father's name, The water which Samaria's outcast drew, Hath now His temples upon every shore, Altar and shrine and priest; and incense dim Evermore rising, with low prayer and hymn, From lips which press the temple's marble floor, Or kiss the gilded sign of the dread cross He bore,
Ii. Yet as of old, when, meekly ‘doing good,’ He fed a blind and selfish multitude, And even the poor companions of His lot With their dim earthly vision knew Him not, How ill are His high teachings understood! Where He hath spoken Liberty, the p
