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THE DAWSON JOURNAL
Yol. 11.
poirniv.
tun MM I) K.X 7 0 TilS M(/ oIV.
Oh Moon ! did yon see,
My lover and mo
In the valley beneath the sycamore tree?
Whatever befell,
0 Moon—don’t tell—
Twas nothing amiss, you know very well.
0 Moon 1 yon know,
A lting time ago,
You left the sky and descended below
Os a summer’s night,
By your own sweet light,
To meet your Endymion on Lutmas height.
And theTe, 0 Moon!
You gave him a boon,
You wouldn’t I’tn sure, have granted at noon,
’Twas nothing amiss,
Being only the bliss,
Os giving—and takiDg an innocent kiss.
Some churlish elf
Who wns spying about,
Went off and babbled—and so it got out:
But for all the gold
The sea could hold,
0 J/bon—l wouldn’t havo gone and told.
So Mood —don’t toll
Os what befell
My lover and me io the leafy dellt
lie is honest and true,
And, remember, too.
We only behaved like your lover and you.
POLITICAL.
I.filer from lion. 11. I’. Perry.
To the Editor * of the Columbia Phoenix:
The acrion of the rump Congress, the
other day, id extra session, ought to con
vince every one that the Radical party
have no intention of restoring the Union
uutil the Southern States are thoroughly
Radicalised, and will elect Senators and
members of the House of that party.—
Kentucky representatives—nine in num
ber, and all Democrats—have been de
nied their seats in Congress? simply be
cause they were not Black Republicans.
If the Southern States, under the re
construction policy of President John
son, had elected Radicals, and given
any asntrance of their adhesion to that
farty, uo one can suppose their represen
t itives would Lave been excluded from
Congress In the fall of 1867, one of
the lirst things done by Oongress was to
purge the Senate, end exclude Demo
crats en • ugh from that body to give them
a two thirds majority.
The question will be for the people of
tbe'Southern States to decide, in the
coming elections, whether they prefer
to remain as they are, or by calling con
ventions, adopting negro suffrage and
electing Radicals, go back in:o tha
Union \Vhat advantage to the South
will it bo to increase the Black Republi
can majority iu Congress? 11 w can
we be benehtted by ptrengtbing the
hands cf our oppressors? What inter
est cau we possibly have in beiug repre
sented in 'Congress by trai ors to the
South—men whom we must seem and
despise as Judas Iscariots in politics?
It is a sad aud melancholy reflection on
human nature, to sec men w ho inaugura
ted the war, and Were going 4) die in the
last ditch, now set king to back iuto the
Union, stripped of every principle and
right which they vowed to doleud, "with
Black Republican collars around their
necks. llow disgusting to see base, un
principled white men seeking office and
posit on by hypocritically pandering to
the ignorant, criminal and ruinous pre
jud.c.’S aDd aspirations of the negro! I
would great’y prefer seeing every office
in the State, filled by the honest, intel
ligent negroe«, tean by such uupiiuci
pled and shameless men.
I once said to Bred lent Johnson, in
reply to a dispatch-sent me, about Union
men being excluded from office under
the Provisional Government, that I Lad
: made it a rule through life to confide in
the poli ic3 of no one who was not mor
all} honest and trustworthy iu private
life, and that my experience had taught
me the fact that a man who had no mor
al principle could have no political prin
ciple. Hence it is that we sco these
who were foremost in secession, whilst
secession was in the ascendant and the
road of honor and distinction, power and
position was open, now fawning at the
feet of the oppressor, whilst ty tanny and
oppression are all powerful. They care
not whom they serve, or what principles
they advocate, provided they can prd'-
mote their own selfish views. But they
would even lave us believe that the
groat interests of the country were fore
mist in their thoughts.
Immediately after it was known that
slavery would have to be abolished, I
expressed the opinion that it would be
wise and prudent to permit negroes, who
had acquired a property aud educational
qualification, to vote iu all the Southern
States. [ thought tnis would be a safe
ty-valve for political society. It would
gratify and appease the intelligent and
most influential of that class, and make
them good citizens, instead of being
(JiV'prbers of the peace. It would bold
* an inducement to all who had any
9u> - ’- or wij?’ to rS C above the
disposition \ ni j C yil could rc
eommon herd ! - se( j -.. r y f e , r
salt from it, as 1 supp- « V to
comparatively, would ever in.
attain the privilege, and when they u.._'
they would always vote with the higher
and better educated elans of whites. 1
expressed a similar opinion many years
ago, in regard to recapturing fugitive
slaves. I thought ii Well for society
that when a slave had acquired such a
love for freedom as to prompt him to
flee to the Northern States, and possess
ed intelligence sufficient to make LU
escape, he ought not to be brought bark.
In this way the bold, daring and reek*
less—they who wero most likely to dis
turb the publio peat" —would be out
of the countrv, and there would bo
greater safety for thbjjC 101 l behind.
But my opinion thus expressed was
denounced by those who are now urg-
DAWSON, CiA., FRIDAY, AIHiITST IU, 18(17.
ing universal seffrage for the negro, or
at least advocating the call of a conven
tion, by which universal negro snffrage
if to bo established. 1 likewise advoca"
ted, at the same time, the piopriety of
permitting uegroes to give testimony in
all cases in our courts of j istico. This
too, was sternly resisted by those who
are how willing to confer on (he negro
the right of holdingr office, to get back
into the “glorious Union, ’* which they
once hated and de-pised so cordially.
In one of my previous communica
tions, I stated that Professor Agassiz
has proten conclusively th; t the negro
was of an inferior race to that, of the
white umn, and had a different origin,
in saying this, 1 did not intend to in
sinuate, as Borne of the negroes seemed
to think 1 did, that God was not their
“father,” as well as the white man’s
father. They are certainly both crea
tures of the same Almighty baud. They
are doubtlce, too, equally under the pro
tection rs the almighty, and equally
dear to Ilim in their respective spheres
—spheres in which lie placed them
and to which he mado them. The horse
and the jackass are bath alike the crea
tures of God lie did not create them
of the same type, or make them ouo and
the tame animal. He gave to one beau
ty of form aud symmetry, spirit and
flectness; and to the other strength, en
durance and other valuable qualities.
So he distinguished between the ne
gro and white man. To the former he
has given a black skin and a wooly head,
greater strength and less brain. He has
adapted him to labor—given him pores
which defy malarias aud f vers. To the
other 11a has given a white skin, and a
head of hair—less strength and larger
brain, adapted to higher thoughts and
greater intellectual improvements.
But God loves his whole creation
equally, and it is to be presumed that he
has the same regard f>r the owl that ho
has for the eagle, and so with the j ick
ass, the white man aud the negro, pro
vided, always, that the one is as faithful
in the discharge of his mission on earlh
as the other. It is by no means a crime
or a fault on the part of tbc jackass, that
he could Dot rnn as swiftly as the horse.
He was not created fir such fieetoess j
and so with the negro: ho has not been
endowed by God with the same veliimo
of brain that the white man has, and he
is not to Llame for being unable tro can
pete with him in science and knowledge
lie is an inferior animal to the white
man. God made him such as he is, f r
wise purposes, as he mado tbc a~s ir.fi
rior to the bone. It is as foolish to
think of making poet-q artists, and
statesmen out of negroes as it would be
to make a race horse or a spirited charg
er in battle out of a j tekass. You may
give the negro thoright of suffrage and
the right to bold office, and make him •;
legislator ; and so you may enter the ass
for a four mile heat wit the blooded
horse, or you may mount him in battle
for a charge on the enemy, but bo»b
would be equally unwise aud disastrous,
for you are attempting to pervert nature
and the laws of God.
Profeator Agassiz, of Harvard Col
lege, Mas-:., the most learned and sci
entific nuluraii-t trie world has ever
•produced, declares most confidently,
after a lile-time of thought and obser
vation on the subject, “That the ne
gro and the white man were created
as specifically cfrff'ere'nt as the owl and
ihe eagle. They were designed to fill
different places in the system of na
ture. Th'tf negro is no more a negro
by accident or misfortune than the
owl is the kind of bird -he is by acci
dent or misfortune. The negro is no
more the white man’s brother than
the owl is the sister of the eagle, or
than the ass is the brother cf -the
horse.”. “There are,” says the same
great authority, “over vne hundred
specific differences between the bona!
and nervous system of the white man
and the negio. Indeed, their forms
are a'ike in no particular. There is
not a bone in the negio’s body rela
tively of the same shape, size, articu
lation, or chemically of the same com
position, as that of the white man.—
The negroe’s bor es contain a far great
er par cent age of calcareous salts than
those of the white man. Even the ne
gro’s blood is chemically a very differ
ent fluid from that which comßes in
the veins of the white man. The whole
physical organization of the negro dif
fers-quite as much from tho while
man us it docs from that of the chim
panzee—that is, in hi* bones, muscles,
nerves and fibres. The chimpanzee
has not much further to progress to
become a negro than the negro has to
become a white man. This fact sci
ence inexorably demonstrates.”
It is agreed by all scientific men who
have turned their attention to this sub
ject, that tho capacity, by measure
ment, of the skull of the white man is
ninety-seven cubic inches, that is, tho
average of one thousand or any great
ct number of skulls. The negro has
sixty six cubic inches; the North Amer
ican Indian has six'y-thico cubic
inches; tho native Au traliun has fifty
six cubic inches. Sir Charles Lyall,
than whom there ran bo no higher au
thority, says the feet and bands, the
arms and legs of tho white man and
ittsrro are unlike in measurement.—
r, 'he hal'd of tho negro is one-twelfth
ad ont'-tsnlh broader than ‘.lie
larger an,f C man; his foot is one
band of the w,. „„ j th bn>oder
eighth longer aud o- . •
than the white man’s; his io. • ™
one-tenth shorter, and the sime is i.
of the boMkfrom the knoe to the an
kle TheWeleton is unlike in the
whole in weight and measurement,
and unlike in every bone of if.
In the most admirable speech of the
lion. \V. Mungen, of Ohio, lately de
livered in Congress (and to which I
uni greatly indebted lor X
have said,) it is boldly asserted, on the
authority ol scientific men, that the
world docs not aflord an instance of a
mulatto in tho firth generation. The
hybrid race beeoin '8 extinct after tho
fourth genera ion, unless they have in
termixed with one or tho other of tho
original races. .So it is with nil ani
mals. Tho mule does not breed at nil.
The woif and jackal, tho dog and fox,
have produced hybrids, which always
become extinct In tho third genera
tion. These animals, like tho negro
and white man, were regarded, at tho
time, as only different varieties of the
same species. But experiment shows
them to have been a different creation
as it does tho orgro mid the white
man.
I repeat what I have said in a for
mer article, that I havo over been tho
friend and protector of tho negro
through life. This my former slaves
will vouch for me. My house servants,
eight or ten have never loft me, and
are still jiving with mo on the same
terms they did whilst slaves. It is be
cause I w ish well to tho negro that I
am unwilling to see him placed in a
false position. Ho is unfit to exercise
tho right of suffrage, and will become
the dupe and to 1 of base apd design
ing men. A war of Tact's w ill" onsite,
and the negro, being the w< aker and
less intelligent, will be exterminated
in such a war. Extinction will be the
result of this great boon, bestowed on
them fur the sole purpose of strength
ening the Radical parly. General
Benjamin F. Butler said to me, eight
een months ago, that all-the Radical
party wished was, to have ‘"impartial
suffrage."
He said that we might decla r c that
no one should vote, unless he was a
graduate of the South Carolina College.
All that the Radicals then thought of
was equality between tho races. But
now, they are determined to have the
negro vote, in order to raciealize the
South.
In the negro convention which sat
the other day, in Columbia, it was
claimed that, in ihe next presidential
election, there should be placed on
tho Radical ticket, a negro, candidate
for President or Vice President. It
was contended, too, that the lands
should 1 e divided into small farms, so
that each head of a family might get
a homestead. If the laud owners re
fuse this division, then the’r lands
should be taxed so heavi y as to force
them to part with them
There is considerable ingenuity in
(his scheme of confiscation. The whites
who vote for a conven'ion to avoid con
fiscation on iho part of Congress, will
find themselves nicely caught by the
negroes in convention. As 1 Lave al
ready said, they will find that, after
sacrificing their honor, the rights of the
State and the principles of self-goyern
men and constitutional liberty, they
have lost their lands into the bargain.
Another scheme of the negroes, promul
gated in their recent convention, is to
have nothing taxed but pr perty. This
will release the negroes from all taxes,
»s they do not own property. Thhen,
tbc property of tho Stato is to be tax and,
to establish free schools and colleges
all over the State, for the education of
their children, without expense to the
negroos 1 Again, they declare in con
vention, and have made it a part < f
their platform, that the old negroes and
infirm negroes and paupers, are to be
supported by the property of the white
men, instead of takiDg care of their
own aged parents and pauper kindred.
In the twelfth article adopted by
this Radical negro convention, they
avow openly their putpose of disfranchis
ing all who havo served in the Confed
erate aaroy, or aided and abetted the
war. They arG disposed to take a step,
aud a wide one, beyond the Radicals iu
Congress. The white Radicals have
disfranchised only those who have fill
ed public offices ; but the black Radi
cals are determined to extend it to all
who were in the army, which includes
almost the entire population. This
will be accomplished in that convention
which the white pcope are going to vote
for—a convention to disfranebise thc-m
--eelves, confiscate their property, and
place the State absolutely under the
control of the negroes. Was there ev
er such folly and madness heard of be
foro in-the civilized world ? In sack
sloth and ashes they will hav-e to rc--
pent of their stupidity and dishonor.
This negro Radical convention fur
ther demands a rev si on of our laws and
the reorganization of our courts. They,
a set of paupers, ignorant and debased,
are to govern the S'ate, aud tho white
men, who own all the property, are to
pay the expenses of the State. They
speak of building railroads! Mo doubt
a thousand schemes will be concocted
for spreading the wbi*e man’s money,
sor the benefit ojj the negro, before they
proceed to take it from him by force or
fraudulent legislation. Horrible,
horrible, most horrible, is tho future of
our poor Stato and degraded pcoplo.
No one soetns to realizo our true situa
tion. It is now as it was in tho days
of secession. We arc standing like idi
iots, on a magazine ol' powder, flouri-h
--ing in our hand a fire brand, and laugh
ing at the beautiful iiog af libbmit
makes in the dark. The explosion
will come, must come, sooner or later,
and bring with it universal death and
destruotion to the people and property
of tho State.
In Libel is, where there is a nation of
negroes, sent from the United States,
and where th y havo formed a Govern
ment, no white man is'allowed to hold
atn-'e, or vo(0 Bt an ? £seSl ‘' ;n for an y
sue TuL is wise and proper 9™
they have thought it necessary to make
this exclusion for shoir own peaco and
prosperity. Have not the wite man the
same right to exclude the negro from
the right of suffrage, when they know
the negroes have a majority in the State,
aud will scizo tho government of the
State if permitted to vote ?
It is idle folly to tell tho people of
South Carolina that capital and immi
grants will (1 iw into the Stato when
reconstructed on the Black Republican
platform On tho eon’rarv, ns swn as
this negro government is organised, ev
ery dollar in foreign capi’al in South
Cirulina will be withdrawn, aud not
one cent will come here seeking invest
ment. Not will any foreigner move
here to settle under neg'O rule, and iho
confusion and disturbance, which it.
will give rise to in the State. Mr. Cal
houn predicted, years ago, that if the
negro w»s set free, tho Northern peo
ple would insist on his right of suf
frage, an'l if allowed, the negroes would
seize the government, and the white
people would havo to leave tho State,
lie further said, that the firmer owners
would lose all influence over their freed
men, whose sympathies and partialities
would be for Northern men and vile
emmissaries sent here to control them.
I think it is pretty generally acknowl
edged, oven now, that all control of the
negro in the eomiug election, is al
ready gone from their former masters.
Gen. Hampton and his friends had
just as well try to control a heard of
wild bufftloerlu the vast prairies of
the west as tho negro vote of Colum
bia.
B F Pkrry,
Greknvitt.f, F. C., July 27, 1867
MISCELLANEOUS,
lIAfiRIIAG A CONVICT.
I had served twenty-five years on
-board an East Indiatnan, and for the
last ten years hud commanded the
Belle, one of the finest crafts tha'
ever floated I was an old nt>a dog,
and had dwelt so long on salt water
that I felt almost a hatred for the
land.
On the 20th of October, 1821, I re
ceived orders to put myself in readi
ness to sail for Cayenne. I was to
transport seventy five soldiers and a
convict 1 had orders to treat Ibis
individual well, and the letter I had
receive 1 from the Directory enclosed
another, with a huge red seal, which 1
was not to open until between 27 and
28° west longitude; that is pist be
fore we were üb< ut to truss the
line.
The letter was a long packet, so
v e'l c'osed on every site that it was
impossible to catch tho slightest
glimpse of Its contents I am not
naturally superstitious, but there was
something in the look of the letter
that I did not altogether like, though
I coo'd give r.o reason why.
However, I carried it into the cabin,
and stuck it under the glass ol a litt’e
old shabby English clock which was
fastened above my bead. 1 was busy
fixin i the letter under the clock, when
who should come into rny cabin but
the convict and his wife ! This was
the first time I had sen either of
them, and 1 may say that a more pre
possessing couple 1 never m**t. The
woman was scarcely more than fifteen
and ns handsome as a picture; while
the husband was an intelligent, mag
nificently formed man, on who e fea
tures nature had never written ‘vil -
lain.’
llis crime to be plain, was the mis
fortune of being a hundred years
ahead of bis age. Ho and others had
attempted something w hich our gov
ernment calltd treason, and which it
punished with death. It, therefore
occasioned me considerable wonder
that he should ho placed under my
charge—but more of this afterwards.
He had, as I said, his wifo hanging
on his arm. Bhe wan'as merry as a
bird ; she looked like a turtle dove
cooing and nestling beneath his great
wing.
Before a month had passed over
our heads I looked upon them as my
own children. Every morning I used
to call th tn into my cabin. The
young fellow would sit, waiting at my
table, that is to say, my chest, which
was my bed. He would often help
me at my reckocrqg, aud soon learned
to do bo'tor than T could. I was
amazed at his ability His young
wile wouldupon one ol the round
stools in my cabin work ng at her nee
die.
One day we were n;l three sitting in
this way when I said :
‘Do you know, my yourg ohes, as
it seems ,o me, we make a very pret
ty family picture! Mind I don't mean
to ask question*, but may be you have
not much money to spare, and you
are, both of you, as 1 think, too hand
some to dig in the burning sun ol
Cayenne, like many a poor wretch be
fore you. It's a bad inuntry —n bad
country, take my word for it. I, who
have roughed it through tempos*, wind
and sunshine, till I've got the skin of
a rhinoceros, might get along there;
but you, lam afraid for you r>o il
you should chance to have a bit of
foolish friendship for your poor o’d
captain, I’ll Uli you what I’ll do. I’d
get rid of this old brig; she’s not
much better than an old tub, after uli;
so I’ll settle myself down there with
you, if you like. Aon see I have not
a living soul in the world to care fur,
or that cares for mo. I want relations,
I want a home, I want a family. J
should like to make my home witn you
my pretty'young ones 1 YVLat say
yeU
They Said nothing at all, but sat
looking first at each other, and then -it
me, as if they doubted whether they
understood what 1 said.
At last the little bird threw her
at ins around mj’ neck and cried like a
baby.
“Hut,” said she, sudden’y pausing,
you haven’t looked at the letter with
tho big reel seal.
‘•Hung it!” I exclaimed, “il had
slip |'ed my memory entirely.'*
With a cold, dreadful sensation, I
IVo- £JS>.
went to my chest to see where we
were. _I found that we had several
days remaining before wo should reach
the proper long'tude for opening the
letter.
Well, thero re stood, all three cf
it?, looking up at tho lo'ter as if it
could have spoken to us. As it hap
pened the snn wag sniffing full upon
Iho face of the clock case, and fell up
on the great staring red seal of the let
ter. I could not help fancying it look
ed something liko a Lig monster, tin
ogre’s face, grinning from tho middle
(>1 tho fire; it looked horrid.
“Could not one fancy said I, to
make them Hugh, “It’s great big eves
were starting out of its head.”
“All. my love,” said the wife, “it
looks like blood.”
“Booh ! Booh !’’ said her husband,
taking bar arm under his, “it looks
like a lett r ot invitation to a w edding
Couie, come, leave the letter alone il
it troubles you so. Let's go to our
room nnil prepare for bed.
Aral off they went They wont upon
deck and left tne with that beast of u
letter. I remember that I kept looking
at if as I smoked my pipe; it seerne,
to fi* its great red eye upon mine
fascinating like the eye ot a serpen.—
It was red, wide, raw staring like the
maw of a fierce wolf.
I took my great coat and hung it
over the clock and letter and went up
ou deck to finish my pipe.
We were now in the vicinity of
Cape do V erde Islands; the Belle was
running before a fair wind at the rates
of ten in.les an hour. It was a splen
did tropical night—the stars largo and
shining, tne moon rising above tho hor
izon, as large as a sun of silver, the
line of ocean parting it and long
streams of bare, shimmering fight fall
ing waves, which as they broke spar
kled like jewels. I sat upon the deck,
smoking my pipe, an 1 looking at
them.
All was still except the footfall ofj
tho officer of tne watch, ns ho paced •
the deck, gazing as I did, upt n the
shadow of the vessel, stealing over the
silent wat r.
I I vo silence and order—l hate
noise and confusion. Tho lights should
all have been extinguished before
this time, but when 1 looked upon the
deck I th light 1 saw a little red line
of light beneath my feet At another
time 'his would have made me angry,
but knowing tt at the ligl't came from
the oubiu of my little deports, I deter
mined to see what they were nbout.
I ha j only to look dow n—l could
see into tho cabin from the sky
light.
T he young girl was upon her knees
and was saying her prayers. A lamp
swinging from the coiling lighted her
room. She bad on a long, white night
dress, nnd ler fair, golden hair floated
over her shoulders, and almost touch
ed two little hare feet which were peep
ing from under her white dress, so
pr. tty. 1 turned away, but pshaw,
said I, lam an old sailor! What,
matters it. So 1 stayed.
The husband was sitting upon a
little trunk, his head resting upon his
hands, looking at her as she prayed.
She raised her face to heaven, and
then 1 saw that her eyes were filled
with tears. Hhe looked like a Magda
lene. As she rose, he said :
“Ah, my sweet Laurctte, as we ap
proach America I cannot help being
anxious—l do not know why—but 1
to. i that this voyage has beeu the hap
piest part of our lives.”
“So it seems to me,’ she observed.
“I only wish it might last forever.’
Suddenly clasping his l ands in a
transport us love and affection, he
said:
And ye‘, my little angel, I see you
cry in your prayers, and then- I cannot
stand, for I know what causes it, and
then I fear you must repent what you
have done.’
‘Repent, T she said, in a sad, rebuking
tone. ‘Repent of having come with
you? Do you think because I Lave
been yours ouly such a vory rhort’titnc,
that I should not love jou? Was I
not your wife! How can you be sorry
that I should bo with you, to live with
you if you live, and to die with you if
you aro to die.’
The young man began to sigh, strik
ing tic 11 .or imp ientlv with his feet,
while be kissed repeatedly the little Land
and arm which she was holding out.
‘Ah, Lunette, Lavrotte ! I think if
our marriage had only been delavcd
five dayp, only five days, tLat then I
should have bcon arnsted and transport
alone, I cannot lorgivc myself. 1
At this the little one stretched out
her round white arms, clasped his head,
prcf-ed his forehead, his hair, his eyes,
smiling like a sweet cherub, and mur
muring all sorts of woman’s fond thiugs.
1 was quite affected, and considered it
one of tho prettiest scenes I Lad ever
witnessed.
‘And besides, we arc so very rich,
too !’ said she bursting rut laughing.
‘Look at rny purse, one g ild louis d’or
—all my worldly wealth.’
II" begm to laugh too.
‘A es, my dear, 1 have spent my hist
half crown. I givo it to the fellow who
carried our trunks on board.’
‘Ah. poor ! ciied she, ‘what matters
it? Nobody so merry as those who
have nothing at all; hi r ides, I have
two diamond rings that my mother gave
me : they are good for something all the
world over ; we cau sell them when vou
like, and besides, I am sure that the
captain meant kindly by us, and I sus
pect he knows very well what is in the
letter.*
'lt’s a recomendation to the Gover
nor of Caycnue.V
‘Perhaps so; who knows?’
‘lo be sure it is,’ continued the
charming little wife. ‘Vou arc so good,
I urn sure that ihe Goveramuitbas ban
ished you only for a short time—--J
kniw they will have no feeling against
you.’
It was high time that tho light
should bo strickeu out, and now I rap
ped on the deck and called to them to
do so.
They instantly obeyed, and I heard
them loughing and chattering like two
innocent school fellow*.
One 'morniog when I awoke, I was
surprised not to feel the slightest mo
tion of tho vessel. Hurrying on deck
I found that we were becalmed. Lat
itude 1° north longitude, between 27
and 28. west.
I waited until night, when I descend
ed to my cabin and opened the letter,
with a dull awful feeling. I held my
breath while I broke tho big red seal
and rea‘d :
'Uantain Fontainbleua: The con
vict Antoine Hiudsclear, stands con
victed of high treason against the lie—
publio Thy Directory order that he
be shot in mtd-oocan, and you are here
by instructed to see that these orders
aro carried into effect ’
I rend the letter backwards and for
wards. I went on deck. They were
there, she looked upon the ocean, and
be gazed upon her with an expression of
unutterable fondness. Catching his eye,
1 signed for him to come into tbo cab
in, and bidding her good bye, he came
down, bis face all smiles.
1 was bathed in cold sweat; I felt
as if deadly sick. I handed him the
letter, and be road it, together with the
death warrant which was drawn Up in
due form, and attached. I gathered
voice as he finished.
He colored slightly, and bowed.
‘I ask nothing, oaptain,’ he said in
the same gentle voioc that always char
acterized bis speech ; ‘no man can be ex
pcoted to swerve from his duty. I only
wish to speak a few words to Laurette,
and entreat you take care of her, if she
should survive, t hardly think she
will.’
‘All that is fair, my good fellow,*
I said. ‘lf you request it, I will carry
her back to France, to her family. I will
never leave her until she wishes to be
rid of mo. But Ido Dot think she will
survive it.’
He took my hand and pressed it.
‘Most kind captain, I see you suffer
more in this business than f do—but
there is no help for it. I trust you will
preserve what little property of mioo hi
left for her sake, and that you will take
caro she gets what her poor old mother
may leave her. I put her life—ber
honor in your bands. She is’ (and
how f ndly low his voice become)‘a del
icate little creature, her chest is often
< ffoeted. She must be kept warm ; and
if she could keep tiietwo diamond rings
her mother gave her, I should be glad ;
but, of course, if money is Deeded they
must go. My poor Laurctt", how pretty
she looks.*
It was getting too much for me, anl I
began to knit my brows.
‘One word is *8 good as a thousand,
I said. We understand each other. Go
to her.’
I squeezed Lis band ; he looked wist
fully at me, and I added : ‘Htay a mo
ment, let uic give you a word of advice.
‘Don’t say a word to her; be oasy, that
is my business. It shall bo managed
in the best manner *
‘Ah !’ said he, ‘I did not understand;
much better. Beside, this leave tak
ing !’
‘Yes,’ said I, ‘don’t behave like a
child—much better. No leave taking
if you can help if, or you arc lost.
‘1 kept my seas. I saw them walk
ing arm in-nrm upon the deck, for about
half and hour.’
‘I called the mate to me, and when
he had read the letter, I said :
‘Garley, this is bad business—bad
business. I put it in your hands. I
obey the orderp, but remain in the cab
in until i is over.’
‘How do you wish this thing done 7’
ho asked iu a nonchalent manner.
‘Take him out in a boat—out of sight
do it as quickly as possible; don’t say
auytbitig of this till the time oorors.’
Garley sat fivo miuutos looking at
me without, saying a word. lie was a
strange follow. I didn’t know what to
make cf him. lie then went out of tho
cabin without saying a word.
Night came at last. ‘Man a beat j
go a quarter of a mile; be quick.
To obey a slip of paper !f. r it was
bat a slip of paper after all. Something
in the very air must have urged me cn»
I saw the young man kneel d°wn be
fore bis Laurcttc ; kiss her knees ! her
f et! her gown 1 I cried out like a
madman :
‘Part thorn 1 part them this instant !
part them—curse she Republic—curso
the Directory —curse tho Directors I I
quit the service! curso the lawyers! you
may tell them if you will !’
She was dragged into her berth end
the boat moved away in tho darknossi
S mo time after, a dull volley came
over tho sea U the sLip. It was all
over.
Fool madman ; how I paced the deck
and etirecd myself All Dight long I
paced bask and forth; all night long I
heard the moaning of the poor stricken
bird.
Often I halted, and was tempted to
throw myself into the tea, and so end
this horrid torture of brain ana heart.
Days passed ; I aaw nothing of Lau
rette. 1 would sot see her She avoid
ed moj and I was glad c f it. 1 coul l
not Lear the sight of that woe, stricken
face.'
The mate, Gar’ey, how I hated him \
He was as cool and unconcerned as
though Le had no remembrance of shoot
ing the poor vrrc-tch.
At Cayenne I resigned my ship Go
ing to the ci'y, I made oil my arrange
ments, aud took the steamer for New
A’oik. I placed ample fund in the
Lauds of a trusty friend, and stold him
to send Laurotte to me at the end of
six mouth*. I could not see her until
her grief had lost its edge.
Weary, si k and careless of my lift
I wand. red i ff :n New A’ork gate. and*
finally bought a little place wheter 1 hop-*
ed 1 should lay dowu aud die.
1 sent for Laurctte. Poor bird, I
must sec her. I could wait no lo«g
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