THE SOLD ELECTOR. " Come to the heetinge. Hal !

we can At least make tare of you ; Yon ever gave the People's man Your heart and suffrage too.

" But wherefore turn aside your head? Why ie your manly cheek

With guilt-like bushes overspread ? What ails ye, Harry ? speak !"

— cs A plimue upon my tell-tale brow The penalty of ill

'Tis mine to ply. I have not now A vote for whom I will."

- No vote?"—" E'en so. In evil hour, I speak it to my slimy,

I sold myself into the power Of one I must tot name.

" Ile found me in my utmost need,

Ut1ielped by friend or kin;

And lent me gold—the bitter seed

Of servitude and sin.

" For when the debt I could not pay,

He made his purpose known :

I fell! and hardly since that day My soul bath seemed toy own.

" Thenceforth my liberty of choice To him I must resign ; An] where he gave his venal voice,

There, too, must I give mine.

" You understaud—but hide your scorn: Nor secrecy, nor time, Have warp'd my conscience yet, nor drawn A curtain o'cr my crime.

" At home, abroad, in every place, 31y !mem bath rebelled

Against the bitter bondage base In which it bath been held.

" Long, long the Furies have pursued My spirit with their whips; But still I feared to take the food

From out my children's lips.

" And when I've looked upon my wife All guiltless of my sin,

I've hushed, as best I could, the strife That tare my heart within."

—" Sad is your tale. I little thought

That one whom till this hour I deemed so upright, had been bought, And feared a villain's power.

" But he, the wretch, whose heart is set To tempt and to betray The wretched into wrong, is yet

A viler slave than they.

" But, Hartle! we must have you break The soubcorreling chain.

I'll flail the wherewithal to make A man of you again."

—" Heaven bless thee ! 0 the happy day!

No longer o'er toy grave

I'll fear to have the scorner say,

Or write, there lies a knave !'

" And, 0 my wife and cbildreu dear! Henceforward I shall meet

Your honest faces without fear,

And feel your ]misses sweet !

T. N.•

V' Author of "Tar Pern'orm's Soso," pn1,1:,`,e0. in the gremfnt,)r 3,1 Iannary 1836, and afterwards eirculat..,1 1.y hop rds of thousands iu different parts of the country, during the General Election.]