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A. J. GERRITSON, Proprie!tott
ltinsilnoaz zsatocztAT.
xac x es ex. ca wt. Nir
Of the-'Great Struggle between. Liberty
and Despetlem-for the lust,
Hundred Years.
BY MRS. L. C. SEARLE.
The patriots of the Revolution 0f t 1770
said :
"When any people are ruled by laws,
in framing which they have no part, that,
is to bind them to all intents and purpos
es they are in the strictest sense slaves,
and ate government,. with respect to them
is destiotia."'
The Republican party, therefore, hold
ten millions of free-born Americans' in
slavery.
In 1774 the people of Pennsylvania, as
sembled in Convention from every coun
ty in the Province, declared that
. _
"The power claimed by alb Parliament
of Great Britain wears a• most dreadful
aspect with regard to 'America, a power
which, as we are not represented there,
is utterly subversive of our natural and
civil liberties. The import Of the words,
'Parliament has power to bind thclColon
ies bystatutes in all cases whatsaet,'needs
no descant ; for the wit o
,gb cannot
possibly form a more clear, concise, and
comprehensive definition-and sentence of
slavery than these expressions contain."
The power claimed by 'the Congress of
the United States wears the slim dread
ful aspect with regard to-America to-day
as did that of the Parliament of 1774; a
power that has already subverted the nat
ural and civil liberties of the people of
ten States of the
,IJuion;' and will in the
end sentence the people 'of the whole na
tion to a state of slavery.
James Otis, of Massachusetts, declared
that
"By the laws of nature and of nations,
the voice of universal reason and the
voice of God ; by statute law and by
common 'law, the Colonists have the pow
er of local legislation, and the power of
taxing themselves.. The authority of the.
Parliament of Great Britain is circum
scribed bounds, which, if exceeded, their
acts become mere power, without right,
and consequently null."
Says Fox, " As, early as the middle of
the 17th century the Americans claimed
that the authority of Parliament did not
extend to taxation, or 'internal legisla
tion."
"The Colonies are already hardened in
to Republics," said Lord Clarendon at a
very early period. State Rights were the
bulwarks of their liberties. The very first
American Congress declared :
"That the foundation of 'English liber
ty and of all free government, is a right
In the people to participate in their legis
lative council, and the.. people of these
Colonies are entitled to a free and exclu
sive power of legislation in their several
provincial legislaturesin all cases of taxa
tion and internal polity." --
Congress is now assembled to over
throw the very "foundation of English
liberty and of all free govetnment,"
to deprive ten millions of American peo
ple of the very liberties and rights which
the fathers of, the American Republic, in
,Congress assembled, leclared to be theirs,
and fought to maintain them. The Re
publican party, therefore, have wiped out
with the liked ors million of American
people; the victories of the Revolution of
1776, and congress stands to-day in the
same attitude of hostility to the Ameri
can people that Parliament did in the
Revolution. Washington Wrote to Fair
fax in 1773 : . •
" I think the British government have
uo .nore right to put their hands in my
pocket, without myconsent,.than I have
to put my hand ill yours.",
Jefferson' wrote from '3lontieellci the
same year:
" Rather than submit to.the right m
araud by the. British Parliament of leg
islating for as, 1, would 'lend my_ Naiad to
sink the whole 'island in the ocean." "
Patrick Henry.exclaimed in .a speech of
great eloquence ,
"Ourtbains are forged Their clank
"l an be beard . on thn 'plains of Boston
how not what, citmrse others may take,
but as for me, Givz ritzLizzzrr, 011 GIVE
XE DEATH 1" . •
Gll . Gaga tvaa'aliliadY in Aaatqa c9m
pelling the people to obey laws "in (raw.
jug which they had tiojiart.." Saye - Bao
croft
"gut aplinst, Tthewhose
madness wa tholight iciexceeltell bdtindS,
theie were` sent Zunell"-;thra- thau.
l and stand:of arms, two hundred
rounds of Oewder 414,.%11 Son each mu'
het, together ! Arith - four, pieces of artillery
for the use of". Lord Duunforts s.ne wb ite
!Iles could not be found in , sufficient Dum
pers tO use them, the King rested Wagon
~. ,;~_,
fldence of success in checking .the rebell
ion on the , ability of governor to arm In
dians and negroes enough,to make up the
deficiency. -,This plan of operations bears
the special impress of George III." •
There can be then no longer any mis
take. The flag of George lIL was raised
when the Republican party decided to
set, free and then to arm the negro
slaves of the South. Tho impress of Geo.
111. was stamped from that day upon all
their measures, and upon all their legisla
tive acts. Is it any wonder that there
were a great many peqple in the North
affrighted to see that tyrant back
again in America. These were the peo
ple that loved Washington, whose fath
ers or grandfathers had fought under his
banner in the Revolution of 1770, and
know that they owed, all the blessings of
civil liberty to the overthrow of the pow
er of this fyraiit by the sword of Wash
ington and his brave armies, while there
were always in the Northern States thou
sands who loved the King better than
the Father of our country. These were
the people'who persuaded President Lin
coln to adopt the plan of operations which
" bore the , special impress of George III."
Mr. Grinnell, a member of Congress, raid
that President Lincoln said to him, "that
the Indians and the Negroes both fight
the rebels:;" following the exact plan of
operations stamped with the impress of
GeOrge 111. Lest some may believe the
assertion of Forney's Press that " Repub
licans have not invoked the aid of In
dians, those hideous auxilliaries of savage
warfare, es have the secessionists," we
quote from an article in the Atlantic
• Monthly entitled " Fremont's Hun :
red. Days in Missouri," the following
proof that Indians were received into the
army ,by the Republicans:
"yesterday fifty-three Delaware In
dians came from Kansas to serve under
General Fremont. Years ago lie made
friends.of the Delawares while travelling
through their country. They are feared
all .over the plains and carry terror thro'
all the Indian tribes. They are armed
with the American rifle, the traditionary
weapon which Cooper places in the hands
of his red heroes. Their Chief *is Fall
Leaf: In the evening they performed a
'war dance: The whole was intended to
express the passions which war excites in*
the Indian nature,
their frenzy at the
sight of a toe, and the operations of tome
hawking and scalping their, opponents"—
Operations which they are now perform
ing on a large scale in the west upon the
white people. Many other proofs might
be given if space would permit. -
Lord. - Dunmore raised eeveral regi
ments of Indians among the savages of
Ohio, and in.backwoods of Virginia. On
the rill' of November, 1775 he raised the
king's flag, and published a proclamation
establishing martial law, and requiring
every person capable of bearing arms to
resort to his standard, under penalty of
forfeiture of life and property; and he de
clared freedom to all indentured servants,
negroes, or others appertaining to rebels,
if they would jowl for the reducing of the
Colony to a proper sense of its duty.
" This invitation to convicts and slaves
to rise against their masters," says Ban
croft, '" was not limited to their
ability to serve in the army.
hope,' said Dunmire, 'it will oblige the
rebels to• disperse to take care of their
families and , property. The measure was
a very deliberate act, which had been re
ported in' advance to the ministry, and
had app . eared an encouraging one to the
Xing; it formed part of -a system which
Dunmore had concerted with Gen. Gage
and Gen. Howe.
"He himself was to raise two regi
ments ; one of white people tune called
the Queen's Own, Loyal Virginia. regi
meat ; the other of negpes to be called
Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian regiment."
The Negro regiinents of Loll Dunmore
'wore an inscription on their breast ".Lib
erty. .
to slaves. — History says :
'° Several hundred negroes and loyalists
obeyed the. call of the Governor when
leaving his ships ho occupied a . strong po
liiion near Norfolk. Virginia sent 800
- militia to oppose his movements. , They
were attacked by the royalists and ne•
"groes, but repelled thew.
_Lord DanibOre
set, fire to' the city, soon afterward, and
.
burnt to ashes." ' 1 / 4
Her; e are the solemn facts of .history,
tbet.iiie'very measures which` the RepUb
licans- adopted to conquer the 'South;
-" fi clam
wicch tey boldly e were coceman
-40, !.*ril_l 6 Atulthti, an4ivon favor
over In their, iiidewere _ bute's repstition
of the measures wilch-,erreit - Pritain, the
great enemy of- Amerieau , freedons,'_tried
before ihein ia tie War.l7itC There was
an emancipation. proclamation-; army of
MO,NTROSE, PA., TUESDAY, JULY. 16, 1867.
slaves; negro regiments; invitations to
the'slaVes to cut their masters' throats,
and join the standard of, freedom; in
ducements held out to the slaves all over
the South to come under the British flag
for protection ; thousands availing them
selves of the offer; and if the Brit
ish lion had overcome the Americans, ev
ery slave would have been free, if Eng
land had so decreed, and the Americans
would have been saved the trouble of
slaughtering a million of human beings
to accomplish the abolition of slavery.
Yet the Lord permitted the Americans
to become independent of Great Britain ;
to gain their own liberties for which they
were fighting; to demand and obtain re
muneration for the slaves which the Brit
ish army • enticed away ; to found " the
best government that ever existed upon
the earth," and to hold their few hundred
thousand negroes in bondage until they
had increased to 4,000,000, or more. The
abolitionists themselves admit that the
patriots of the Revolution founded a slave
holding government. At the time of its
formation the negroes had already been
in bondage it} the whole of the thirteen
colonies for more than a hundred and fif
ty years, having been brought from Afri
ca to Virginia in 1620, and to the Aither
States about 1637. If slavery was a sin
in the sight of God, and this war was a
punishment. upon the nation for that sin,
why did he not compel the Americans to
free their slaves before be gave them the
victory over their crrernica, and not per
mit them to remain in bondage almost a
century longer ? The Republicans affirm
that God compelled them to proclaim
freedom to these same slaves before he
awarded the victory to the North, and
that victory came over the dead bodiei of
a million of the white race. Does God so
delight in blood and carnage, that he left
the negroes in slavery on purpose for the
Northern Abolitionists to kill off their
masters to set them free?
If the Abolitionists tell the truth, Lord
Dunmore, in arming tbe slaves against
their masters, was doing right in the sight
of God, while the Patriots of the Revolu
tion were acting wickedly in trying to
keep there from joining the standard of
freedom. But if Lord Dunmore was do
ing wickedly in the sight of God, as all
historians and all Christians have assert
ed, then the Republicans, in following his
example, are not innocent in his sight. In
addition to arming the slaves:against their
masters, which they say was pleasing to
God, they now assert that they are do
ing His Will in forcing'negro equality up
on the white race. Their measures and
plan of operations " bear the impress of
George III." The latter, as will be prov
en in due time, bear the exact impress' of
Maximilian Robespierre. ,
The effect of Dunmore's proclamation
-of freedom on the white race, as well as
on the black, will be found in the next
number.
VULGAR LANGUAGE.--Thera is as much
connection between the words and the
thoughts as there is between the thoughts
and tbe actions. The latter are not only
the expressions of the former, but they
have the' power to react upon the soul and
leave the stain of their corruption there.
A young man who allows himself to make
use of one vulgar or prOfane word bas not
ly shown that there is a foul spot upon
his mind, but 'by the utterance bf that
word he extends the spot and inflames it
till, by indulgence, it will pollute the
whole soul. Be careful of your words as
they show your thoughts. If you can con
trol the tongue so that no improper words
are pronounced by it, you will 'soon be
able to control the, mind, and save that
from corruption. You will extinguish the
fire by , smothering it, Or by preventing
bad thoughts from bursting out in lanhon
age. Never utter a word anywhere which
you would be ashamed to speak in the
:presence of the most refined female or the ,
most religious man: Try this 'practice , a
little while and you will soon have com
mand of yourself.
1 1 —Hatch ab Nagar being asked Iwhat
was Abe most excellent thing , in man, re
pied, "sense." But if he have nonekvbat
is tbe - best . then "Honesty." If iie
not that.? "The counsel .of his friend,"
replied the doctor.,. And in want of that.
"Taciturnit,y." Sed if tic!: cannot have
any,of those "A sudden , death
':aeso - Onas pOastbler"
, —lftiirne out •tttat the Tycoon ofla,
pan hawbeen victimized by tertain parties, i
who were to fun* him with gun•boate
and Hwrimeived: one worthless
ship; and a faw pieces -of ordnanee;- the
latter - lariat whet they were fired.-
MODE AND TENSE.
Father Was goutyond often detained
from the office for weeks , together.—
Sometimes he was bin very plTtsant and
genial humor; and sometimesextremely
touchy; sometimesin mode to pore over
his old musty.law books, sometimes en.
gaged with his pen and ocoasionally,not
very o ft en, indeed, disposed for a little con
versation with "ns three„' as we prepar
ed our school tasks around the table.—
Now and then he would lend us a helping
suggestion in, regard to some puzzling ex
ample in arithmetic, or an explanatory re
mark in Latin construction orFrenchidiom;
but he did not •hold, he said, to getting
lessons for scholars, nor to the modern
custom of having everything so simplified
for them that no mental effort was neces
sary ; so we generally had to solve our dif
ficulties as best we could by continuous
and patient application.
One morning the poor man was more
restless and fretful than usual. He bad
bad a bad night and kept mother awake
much that she had gone tnher room to
ket an hour's nap while we studied our
lessons and waited upon father. But be
could hardly be patient with ns while we
did it, least c our skirts should swing
against his muffled feet.
" Be careful, girls be careful," he cried
deprecatingly, and flourishing his hands
all about him; "It's sore all around here."
We laughed at the idea, but understood
his precautionary device, and tucked our
drapery into the very smallest possible
compass whenever we went near to hand
him anything.
- "Poor papa," said, Rebecca, as she slip
ped behind his easy chair where there was
no danger of hurting . him, and tried to
Booth him by stroking his hair, and stelth
ny pressing her rich red lips to the shiny
spot on the top of his bead.
This medicine seldom failed of a happy
effect.
" Thank you, dear; thank you„" he said
tenderly. " Now get your comb, and
comb me to sleep for a few minutes, if
you'r not too busy with your books.. The
comb has a Magic effect upon me, you
know."
Rebecca was never to busy to do his
bidding and a few passes of her soft fin
gers and the favorite comb through his
thin locks, now changed to an iron gray,
she soon had him, if not asleep, yet comb
ed into a quiet humor.
By this time Maria Jane and I were
yawning.
"How stupid this :grammar is," said
Maria Jane. " Nothing but mode and
tense, for twenty pages here. I don't see
much use in mode and tense ; I wish there
wasn't any."
" Mode and tense !" spoke up my father
suddenly. "Don't see anything in mode
and tense? I alb afraid you are a very
dull girl. Modeand' tense ? Why, there
is everything in mode and tense !"
Maria Jane blushed like a peony, not
having tho least idea that he noticed what
she said; and when he broke out so ab
ruptly, amigo earnestly, she was all ready
to recant
,everything, and assent to any
proposition he might make; especially
that she was a Very dull - girl, and that.
grammar was an immeasurably interest
ing and enlivening etudy, particularly its
mode and tense ; and she was preparing
to submit to a critical catechising on
verbs in general,with hll their belongings;
while the apprehension of divers blunders
flashed out trem hdr black eyes, when fa
ther began again.
" Yes, girls, ho said, addressing us col
lectively, to the great - relief of poor Ma
ria Jane, " there's a great deal in mode
and tense; much deep philosophy, many
profitable and practical suggestions. Do
you see how that can be?"
We were obliged to say we did not un
dertand.
" Well, I suppose not," said father. "But
what is meant by, mode and tense ?"
Al( of us began at once :
"Mode is the particular form of the verb
in which
" Pshaw 1" interrupted lie, " I don't
- want any of your grammar-book defini
tions. It's the general idea lam after."
t We were posed and silenced; for -if
there were any other idea, particular or
general, than the grammar-book sets forth,
then we were '' omiltleia of its acquisition.
" Manner and time, manner and time,
girls," cried he, impatiently; " that's the
meaning of mode and tense, in plain Eng
lish. Why, what in the world is all your
schooling good for if you can't tell that
yet ? Don't you see now that mode and
tense need not belong exclusively to verbs
or ni
even gramaritself? That it may be
long just as properly to circumstances,
events, actions, men and things toi.langu
'age ? Do-you not see this ? I are afraid
not."
That we looked blank enough tcf eon
fltm such afear there is ,no. doubt; but we
had no answer to give, for we had never
dreamed of each a free translation of those
blind words "mode and tenee.7,
" Well, well," father went on," perhaps
I ought not to expect at your age but I
truss the time will come mY gut:, 'When,
you -*ill be able -to ipereeive and:Apply
principles whether ifoutid , iit beoksghr any
1-4vhere else;
in ,sherti<to :generalize, and
not to foreveraiturim*Mg your heads
with , partioulars : Mid details ! But nowias'
I have sadly perplexed you all,imast tell
you a story to make up for it. Ma? that
brightens yon np at once, I see. Well,
shut up your grammars, and • you, Re
becca, just move my footstep a little,
(mind you don't touch my toes) Mercy!
Oh
Well, I suppose you couldn't help it.—
!"
"Did I hurt you,'4ear papa?" said Re
becca,'pitifally ; ;tied 'not3o 'indeed." -
" I know it,' said father; kindly ; "and
now pay attention and I'll tell you my
story of mode and tense - ; it's a short one,
and perhaps youll think it .Iv-dull one, but'
it is all true, and affords a very interesting
reminiscence to your father."
" Is it about yourself, papa ?" asked Ma
ria Jane. " Please to tell us that y at the
outset."
"Yon musn't be too inquisitive,': said fa
ther, evasively. "It's enough to know
that it's true, and that I know personally
the characters in it; and now don't inter
rupt me , any more."
"No, no, papa," said we all, gathering
a little closer to his chair; a movement
which he regarded with a deprecating ex
presssion until be was satisfied that his
toes were in no'danger.
"My friend Manning, you know," com
menced father, (ive, knew nothing about
hitn, by the way,) was an obscure bat am
bitious boy ;.and having abilities not of au
every day , order, be early resolved upon
turning himself to some account in the
world.• But he was spoor man's son, and
one of a large family, and the question
was how to bring it about under the cir
cumstances as unfavorable. as could well
be imagined.. His parents were plain
hard working honest church going people,
having little to do with the refinements of
life, bat possessing plenty of strong good
sense and innate perceptions of social in
tercourse. And, they had 'carefully and
perseveringly inculctated the notions which
this good sense suggested. One rule
they really insisted on—one, we' regret to
say, which is too often disregarded by peo
ple in their station. They scrupulously
enjoined and enforced if necessary,, a re
spect and defereneerfor superiors either in
age, condition or character; never allow
ing an infraction to pass without suitable
rebuke or punishment ; praCtice which
all parents and educators of youth would
do well to imitate; for, depend upon it,
girls, there is nothing in the world which
so prepossesses one.in favor of another as
civil and respectful behavior or 'address.
I care not whether old or young, rich or
poor, wise or ignorant, it is the passport
to good will, infa - bas, in many instances,
been the stepping-stone to fortune.•
Well, my friend Manning 'at this period
of his history was as green and Untutored
a little chap as need be; bashful and
awkward beyond all description; bat be
had got his lesiion by heart, though be sel
dom had a call to put it into practice.
One .bright, autumn Sunday, young
Manning and one or two othis brothers
were standing on the terrace of the village
meeting-house; for though they lived at
a distance they were required to be punct
ually at church as often , as Sunday came ;
for the parents though not professedly re
ligions; held very correct notions about
church-wing.
"It's respectable," said' they, " and we
wish 'you to 'be respected. We cannot
leave you money, but we will see, to it
that you acquire right habits."
" They stood on the terrace; I said,
making their boyish observations on the
various equipages Male town people as
they'cranked up 'their steady . nags in or
der to flourish nro to the churctr - door,
there 'to deposit their load of women' and
children. Among the last arrivals they
noticed a chaise which contained only' a
lady and a little girl' both 'dressed in deep
mourning. The. lady 'stopped her horse
and looked around in some perplexity as
to what she should do . with. it. Young
Manning instantly comprehended the mat
ter and springing to her assistance, his
face hot with bindles he took the reins
from her • hands while; she alighted .and
helped out thelittle girl; and though sbe
expressed warmly her pleasure at his un
solicited politeness and attention, his dif
fidence was such that he could nottitter'a
single word in reply; for he had recog
nized in 'her- a tvidoirlady who had very
recently taken up jher; residence at a fine
old mansion not far from the village, of
whose wealth and grandeur he had heard
fabulous rumors. So he only stood by the
horse, blushing and smiling till: he occa
pints of the - carriage were safely on the
ground, then' 'carefully secured the horse
in a neighboring shed; whilethe, lady and
her daughter went into the church. ,
New, girls,, trivet and unimportant as.
this occurrence may 'seem, it - essentially
modified the whohN'after-life of that' lad.
It wasn't 'simply the apt itSelcbtit the
mode - and tense of it, which - had such a
power to effect his. destiny.' Do you un
derstand ?' The manner and 'time of do
ing a thing, quite indifferent in itself, May
and often does, .make an ineffaceable
!" '• , -
- Father stopped' short anditiciked earn
estly, but very pleasant. ,
' 'i4Yea; sir,"-answered Rebecca, thinking
`itwaited' sotno , roP oo6 ° - (16r part;;
"yes sir, but thatOini t all, *4 it ?"
,ftNot qaite,!,-replied h,acwith a :4reer
Mee, you are tired
of listening.na
a, _ I •
7 1 ilig ideed • Pa on," urged We alt
in the same breath.
}VOLUME XXIV, Nl7.3lijER
- "Well, then," pioceeded father; "alter
service, the widow; Mrs. tE.; and her little
girl, found the chaise at'the door, asinine
boy in attendane.a with the same"
friendly
smile, and • the same unsiirldountable di& .
deuce holding bbn tongae-tied. _ - *
"Mrs. I). tooka illyqtlarter troth her
pocket, and was, going Blip it' into thei
etl o
boy'S baud &fan ice°
Of
'to her
thanks, but he was out Of sight the 'me
'mat they . were seated in the chaise. '
'" Who is that boy, Elizabeth r enguir=
ed the widow as' they , droave - homeward.
I don't know, matnnia, btitgisaise hint
in Sunday school ; his Class is very near
mine," replied Elizabeth'. • • -
"Indeed 1 1 " said Mrs. b., "but 'I might
have known that 'he belonged to Sim;
day school; and that he had been 'trained
carefully at home, too, by his civil and ob
liging behavior. Quite :extraordinary in
a raw country lad. I shall keep my , eye
on that boy, Elizabeth, for. you' may 'rely
upon it he will yet be heard of in!'the
world, whatever his situation - andpros
pects may now be." - - '
Elizabeth was pleatied =to hear him
commended, and added her in remark
to the same purport. Co-
Through the succeeding week the lad
was often mentioned; and by taking some
trouble, the name and address were aseer ,,
tained, together with certain particulars
respectinghis , ambitious' purpose for the
future; all of which information only serv
ed to convince the widow D. that-she had
not been mistaken in her drat estimate of
the youngster.
We now pass over an interval of ten
years, which to my friend Manninwwere
years of stern but resolute struggle and
toil., But on the course which had. been
the theme of his childish prattle,: he
bad undertaken, single-handed, to gray•
pie with the thousand obsticles which rose
mountain-high between his poverty and
a liberaleducation and professional - career.
But he had never faltered nor wavered
in his determination, .thougit sometimes
ready to sinkin the unequal contest with
untoward circurnitances. Ile - fought his
Way through a preparator y process,enter
edeollege in advancenud graduated with
the highest honor of his close. '
"But results , like these (at; least, he
thought 804
could never have,
.been
achieved, had _ not , hitt courage , energy
and regolution been sastained hy some nu.
known. and mysterious source:: He felt a
conviction that-there were somewhere
those who: watched his conflict with deep
and earnest interest and though be
could not. conjepture where they , were;
nor who, be determined' that those flivisi
ble eyes should not witness's defeat.-
Now and then in •his greatest emergen
cies, (for these seemed, to'be, understood
by others beside himself,)' he. would find
some solid testimonial Of..interest appear
ing just at the moment of need; and in a
manner too so considerate and delicate,
as to awaken no other feeling than the
liveliest,gratitude. More than once,when
he went with a rueful face.to makeknown
the impossibility of discharging certain pe
cuniary obligations at•theappointed'time l
he found them always -paneelea; and
when he entered on the study of thetter,
'he was, not unfreyiently astonished.•by
the arrival at his quarters of packages of
, books, just the ones he needed-16 aid his
progress." •
Here father looted complacently tit his
own capacious and well-flhed shelres,with
deep and earnest interest. - • 1•_,„-
"When he was adinittod. to * bir,
and was dubiously casting abOut for some
htitehle place where he might ()pee air of
flee and commence the firactice'ofhis pro;
fession,-, he found;. friends, hitherto .mu.
known to him, ready to render . him as
sistance and counsel, saying they had for
years been acquainted 'with• his stout
hearted endeavors. How it could be he
was unable to divine,bnt be thanked Hes
ven•snd them; and ma.de good .use oftheir
kindly ,syggestions.
"Soon 'an advantageous partnership
was offered by an elderly - gentlenian in a
large 'and flourisking andirtim
this forth he was a , man I -
"During all these years our' poor stu
dent had;' enjoyed • only a _speaking an
quair.tance with the.
,wid9w D. and - her
pretty.daughter Elizabeth ;'but lie Tectott
discovered - that :his" newly-fortned basin
esirrelation hring him ofitin
into the society athatirimipeated
inasmuch as :his partner, primed se near
and valued relative. Of ,
.course ,Manning
was enchanted, for' now, his
,bubfnliess
waS somewhat worn off; and--4ell te be
brief, things took their - own course, at
which none who over :knew -Elizabeth D.
would at all wonder, and---ouryoung.at
torney began to' be baunted,wtth as
of a nature different. ;from
those which had:. stimulated. his, literary
career. And still mgt.! singular to *AA
the improvident :puppy, the full
knowledge and consent of the good wid
ow end ; her , charming daughter, did :aottk ,
etnumme and squander, the first htmd
red dollars his 'profession . Oyer , yielded
hitn in doing the honors -ofas naptial.oo
- with . that sweet yoxing 1444,, A
gens,OMlnsticl , r ef :bliss : Widahl ha Amid
scarcely believe awaited. 44: may
everomd he,oalled hfir ,bte..l4.lqgtl , wedded
wife ;) , •
, : ._Esther eti*Ped - 4 knoOPt.:4o4
Ps 4s-we. liOaried Itithikleatidellejuti*
eat td his stogy 0 1 4 scmid , Pf; iteftesuin•
lIMELE
NEIL