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ment of the fact would be sufficient not only to 

 appall the hardest heart, and cover with deep and 

 lasting shame the perpetrators of such a deed, 

 but to place it in the frightful category of those 

 events absolutely beyond both human experience 

 and credulity. 



Revelation informs us that " the sea shall give 

 up its dead;" so will there be a resurrection 

 both of the good and bad in human conduct. 

 A virtuous and benevolent act performed upon 

 the ocean will never be concealed. The winds, 

 as they sweep over its surface, will declare it. 

 And so, on the other hand, an act of inhumanity, 

 capriciousness, cruelty, or turning a deaf ear to 

 the expostulations and entreaties of the depend- 

 ent and suffering, will never slumber. The 

 mighty waves, as they traverse the great deep, 

 will speak in thunder tones that the deed lives. 



The hopes of thirty-three persons in the cold 

 and dreary region of the north, in the province 

 of perpetual ice and snow, were suddenly and 

 unexpectedly revived by the near approach of a 

 ship within trumpet hail; signals of wrecked 

 mariners on shore, the ship remaining more than 

 fifteen minutes with her yards back, and those 

 on board beholding the demonstrations of in- 

 tense anxiety of those on shore that deliverance 

 might be sent to them, and yet not one motion 



