A foul appalling prodigy of sin ;
And in Hell's fiercest hottest furnace crammed!
Let him be damned, superlatively damned!
And why not damned, -- for such transcendant crimes
Yea, damned eternally, ten thousand times.
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In 1837, while he was editor of The Mountaineer, his young son died, and his grief, hope and speculation were expressed in a poem of which we give an extract :
Farewell, my son, my hopes for thee were high,
I would that thou hadst lived to bear my name ;
'Twas a bright vision, but flitted by,
and thou art happy : what is earthy fame?
Let those who've heard this noisy trump proclaim,
Those who have loved its intonations best.
If thou hadst lived, would glory or would shame
Have been thy portion? Doubt and Darkness rest
On all our earthly hopes : dignum et justum est.
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'Tis vain to speculate.
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I think I am resigned : But still my heart
Clings fondly clings to thee my son my son.
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On New Year's, 1838, he had printed at Ebensburg, a novel entitled The Cottage on the Cliff, a tale of the Revolutionary war. The scene of the story, which is that of a young Huguenot officer who falls in love with and marries a young Catholic maid, is laid on the Brandywine, the place of Mr. Conway's birth. At the time of his death he left uncompleted a novel whose title was to have been, The Philosophy of Luck.
In his political warfare he attacked his opponents by ridiculous doggerels, such as An Epitaph on a Dead Dog, which runs in this wise :
"Hic jacet canus, now, that is to say,
Here lies a dog a dog that's had his day :
He barked for every Peter, Dick and Tom,
That chose to hiss him on."
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In June, 1838, President Van Buren appointed Mr. Conway, secretary of the territory of Iowa, which position he held at the time of his death, which occurred at Davenport, in December, 1839.
Robert Montgomery Smith Jackson, a physician, was born in Alexandria, Westmoreland county, April 20, 1815, and died at Chattanooga, January 28, 1865, Dr. Jackson came to Cambria county about 1846, locating at the Summit, where and at Cresson he subsequently practiced his profession, and also engaged in the manufacture of fire-brick. He was distinguished for his scientific attainments especially in the field of botany and geology. Having an abiding faith in the medicinal properties of the mountain climate he undertook the management
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