The founders of a new colony whatever Utopia, of human virtue and happiness they might originally project have invariably,, Recognised it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery and another,, Portion as the site of a prison. In accordance with this rule it may safely be assumed that the forefathers of Boston had. Built the first prison-house somewhere in the Vicinity, of Cornhill almost as seasonably as they marked out the, first burial-ground. On Isaac Johnson 'out his grave which subsequently, became the nucleus of all the congregated sepulchres in the old churchyard. Of King 's Chapel. Certain it, is that some fifteen or twenty years after the settlement of, the town the wooden jail was. Already marked with weather-stains and other indications, of age which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and. Gloomy front. The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than anything else in the New, World. Like all that pertains, to crime it seemed never to have known a youthful era. Before this ugly edifice and between, it. And the wheel-track of the street was grass-plot, a, overgrown much with burdock pig-weed apple-pern,,, such and unsightly. Vegetation which evidently, found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised. Society a, prison. But on one side of, the portal and rooted almost at the threshold was a, wild rose - hush covered in,,, This month, of June with its delicate gems which might, be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner. As he went in and to, the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom in token, that the deep heart of Nature could. Pity and be kind to him.This rose-bush by a, strange chance has been, kept alive in history; but whether it had merely survived out of the stern. Old wilderness so long, after the fall of the gigantic pines and oaks that originally overshadowed it or whether as there,,, Is far authority for believing it had, sprung up under the footsteps of the sainted Ann Hutchinson as she entered, the prison-door. We shall not take upon us to determine. Finding it so directly on the threshold of, our narrative which is now about to. Issue from that inauspicious portal we could, hardly do otherwise than pluck one of, its flowers and present it to the reader.? It may serve let us, hope to symbolise, some sweet moral blossom that may be found along the track or relieve, the darkening. Close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow.
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