The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . WHICH SPRUNG A-LEAK OFF CAPE HATTERAS With a melancholy Account of her s^ibsequent Losson Ocracoke Island, off the Coast of North Caro-lina, Octoher, 1837. E introduce this narrative with the follow-ing eloquent extract from the funeraldiscourse of the Rev. Mr. Smyth, ad-dressed to the inhabitants of Charleston,S. C. ^ We have been called upon, mybrethren, to hear, during the past week,a tale of no ordinary sadness, and to witness calamity of nocommon or usual endurance. No enemy has
The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . WHICH SPRUNG A-LEAK OFF CAPE HATTERAS With a melancholy Account of her s^ibsequent Losson Ocracoke Island, off the Coast of North Caro-lina, Octoher, 1837. E introduce this narrative with the follow-ing eloquent extract from the funeraldiscourse of the Rev. Mr. Smyth, ad-dressed to the inhabitants of Charleston,S. C. ^ We have been called upon, mybrethren, to hear, during the past week,a tale of no ordinary sadness, and to witness calamity of nocommon or usual endurance. No enemy has been amongus, to lay waste and destroy. No plague or pestilence havestalked through our city, brandishing around them the swordof death. Famine has not opened her wide and hungryjaws wdth earthquake rapacity. No hurricane has burst. PRELIMINARY REMARKS. 59 upon US with the fury of a midnight assassin, nor has thethunders bolt riven our peaceful habitations. None ofthese things have happened. There has been among usneither open enemy, nor plague, pestilence, or famine, noryet the fury of the whirlwind and the thunder. Whence, then, that pall of sadness which has coveredthis entire community ? Whence that deep and universal ^sympathy which has taken possession of every heart?Whence that eager, anxious solicitude to hear fresh tidingsof alarm? Whence those sounds of lamentation, andweeping, and great mourning — parents weeping for theirchildren, and wives for their husbands, and friends for theirrelatives, and all refusing to be comforted because they arenot.* One subject has entered into every conversation,and suggested the inquiry to every meeting friend. Whatnews of the boat ? sounded from every parlor. What newsof the boat? was heard in every dwelling, and at the cornerof every street. And now we have subsided
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