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BENNETT & SMITH, PROPRIETORS.
VOL- “VT!.
‘platform and principles
of TIIE ‘
JdDMUiic Bflti-Kiioto ydliiiig
Party of Georgia:
ADOPTED
i
jt a Mass J leetina, held at the Capitol, on the !
ifk licremher, 1855, at which the lion. Howell j
Cohh, lion. Robert Toombs, Hon. Alfred her - |
tenon and Hon. Alex. 11. Stephen* j, wereprec- j
tut, and made Speeches.
Ist,- Resolved, That as a portion of the *
Democratic and Anti-Know Nothing ['arty
of Georgia, we declare, in the language of
the Georgia Convention of 1850, .. That we
hold the American Union secondary in im
portance only to the rights nnd principles it
nsdesigned to perpetuate;” that past asso
ciations. present fiuitiou, nnd future pros
pects, will bind us to it so long ns it contin
te to be the safeguard of those rights nnd ,
principles.
2d, That we hereby declare our full nnd j
I unqualified adhcs.on to the following Reso- j
! lution of the Georgia Convention of ISSO, i
and our unalterable determination to main j
tain it in its letter nnd spirit, viz:—4th !
Resolution, Georgia Platform : ..That the j
State of Georgia, in the judgment of this :
Convention, will and ought to resist even (as ■
a last resort) to a disruption of every tie j
which binds her to the Union, any action of *
Congress upon the suhject. of Slavery in the \
District of Columbia, or in piaces suhject to J
the jurisdiction of Congress, incompatible i
with the safety, domestic tranquility, the i
rights and honor of the slaveholding States; j
or any act suppressing the slave trade be
tween the slaveholding States; or any refusal
to admit as a State any Territory hereafter
applying, because of the existence of slavery
therein, or any act prohibiting the introduc
tion of slaves into the Territories of Utah)
and New Mexico; or any act repealing or I
materially modifying the laws in force for
the recovery of fugitive slaves.”
3d, That we approve and endorse the ac- ‘
tion of our last Congress in the passage of (
the Nebruska-Kansas act. and the principles
tiierein established, and in conformity with
these principles the people of Kansas, have
the right, when the number of their popula
tion justifies it. to form a Republican State
Constitution, with or without slavery, ns
they may determine, and be admi'tcd into
the Union upon an equal footing with the
other States ; and that her rejection by Con
gress, on account of slavery, would be a just
cause for the disruption ot all the ties that
bind the State of Georgia to the Union
4th, That we adopt and approve the fol
lowing Resolution passed unanimously by
the last Legislature of Georgia : .4 Resolv
ed by the General Assembly of the State of
Georgia, That opposition to the principles of
the Nebraska Bill, in relation to the subject
of slavery, is regarded by the people of
Georgia as hostility to the people of the
Sooth, and that all persons who partake of
such opposition are unfit to be recognized as
component parts of any party or organiza
tion not hostile to the South.”
sth, That in accordance with the above
Resolution, whilst we are willing to act in
party association with all sound and relia
ble men in every section of the Union, we
*rc not willing to affiliate with tiny party
that shall not recognize, approve and carry
out the principles and professions of the Ne
braska Kansas act. and that the Democratic
and Anti-Know Nothing party of Georgia,
ought to cut off all party connection with
every man and party at the North, or else
where, that does not come up fully and fairly
to this line of action.
Gth, That those sound and reliable Demo
crats at the North, who have patriotically
fought for the Nebraska Kansas act, and
the maintaiuance of the Fugitive slave law,
against the combined forces of Know-Noth
iugisui and Abolitionism, (which seek their
repeal,) and who stand pledged to support
the admission of Kausas into the Union as a
slave State, should she ask it, merit the
heartfelt sympathies, thanks and encournge
ruent of all Southern men, in their patriotic
position.
That in the rnnks of the Democratic
party of the North, aluue have been fouud
those patriotic men, who have stood by the
fights ot the South, and, judging the future
h/ the past, that party only coutains the
elements of souudnese upon the slavery
question, upon which a national party can
be constructed with which the South can
consistently co-operate.
Bth, That it i 8 expedient and proper that
the Democratic and Anti-Kuow Nothing
party of Georgia, be represented in the Na
tmnal Convention of the Democratic party,
which is to meet in Cincinnati'! next spring,
for the purpose of nominating candidates for
President and Vice-President ; that the De
mocratic and Anti-Know Nothing members
of the Legislature, together with such other
members of the party as may be chosen to
attend, from their respective counties, be
and they are hereby requested to meet at
some convenient time daring the present ses
sion, and select twenty delegates to said
Convention for this State.
9th, That our delegates to said Conven
tion, ought, in our opinion, to be instructed
by those who shall appoint them, to insist
upon the adoption of a platform of principles ‘
as the basis of a national organization, prior j
to the nomination of candidates, and that
I said platform shall, amongst other things,
include in substance, the following proposi
tions : Ist, The recognition and adoption of
the principles established in the Nebraska
Kansas act: 2d, That neither the Missouri
Compromise, nor any other anti-slavery re
striction, shall hereafter be extended over*
any Territory of the United States: 3d, The
| prompt nnd faithful execution of the Fugi
j tire slave law, and its permanent continuance
■j upon the Statute book.
10th, That no man ought to be held nnd
( considered a member of the national Demo
cratic party, who does not recognize, approve
I and adopt the foregoing propositions, and
i that the Democratic and Anti- Know Nothing
; party of this State, through its sa'd delega
tion, oueht not to affiliate or act in said
I CQnvection with any delegate or delegates,
j who shall disapprove nnd vote against the
same.
11th, That if said propositions shall not
in substance be incorporated in the platform
adopted by said Convention, the delegates
from Georgia ought, in the opinion of this
meeting, to withdraw from the Convention,
and take no farther part in the nominations
or other proceedings of the same; nnd that
our delegates ought to be instructed so to
j act.
j 12th, That the Democratic and Anti-Know
j Nothing party of this State, ought, and will
! support the nominees of said Convention for
j President nnd Vice-President, provided the
j platform adopted by the said Convention be
j in accordance with the spirit nnd intent of
the foregoing propositions, and the nominees
i thereof, be pledged, if elected, to curry out
the same in good faith in the administration
jof the government, and in appointments to
i office under the administration.
13th. That we sympathize with the friends
|of the slavery cause, in Kansas, in their
j manly efforts to maintain their rights and
the rights nnd interests of the Southern peo
ple, and that we rejoice at their recent vie.
tories over the paid adventurers and jesuiti
cal hords of northern abolitionism: that the
deep interest felt and taken by the people of
Missouri in the settlement of Kansas and
the decision of the slavery question in it, is
j both natural aud proper, and that it is their
| right aud duty to extend to their Southern
1 brethren in that Territory every legitimate
j and honorable sympathy and support,
i 14th, That we are uncompromisingly op-
I posed to the political organization commonly
| called the Kuow Nothing order, or American
’ part}’, having no sympathy with their secre
j sy. their oaths, their unconstitutional de
| signs, their religious intolerance and their
• political proscription.
15ih, Thnt we hail with delight the late
slgual triumph in Virginia, Pennsylvania,
Maine and other States including Georgia,
of the Democratic party, and of the patriotic |
: Whigs, who co operated in achieving these
i results over the Know Nothing organization,
jas conclusive evidence, that in the great
practical questions involved in that contest,
Southern men may honorably and success
fully combine, without regaid to pnstpolit-
I ical distinctions, to save the Constitution
from desecration, nnd the South from being
| prostrated before tho power of Northern fn
-1 naticism nnd misrule,
i 16th, That the Democratic and Anti Know
l Nothing party in all our sister States, nnd
especially of the Southern States, are re
i spedfuily and earnestly requested to take
the foregoing Resolutions into their early
consideration, and co operate with us in the
poliey aud objects intended to be thereby
secured
Splendid Premiums for Wheat.
The undersigned will give premiums for
wheat shipped to Etowah mills and weighed
and Judged by his miller at the mills, for
the crop of 1856. as follows, to wit:
Ist. For the best aud largest crop grown
by one farmer, of Cooper Wheat, a Silver j
I Pilcher worth £SO.
i 2d. For the best and largest crop, grown
] by one farmer of Walker Wheat, a silver
’ pitcher worth £SO
3rd. For 500 bushtds of white wheat ether
than Cooper wheat adjudged to be better for
the mill and farmer, in this country than
the Cooper wheat, a silver pitcher worth £SO,
4th, For any variety of Red Wheat, ad- j
judged better than it is for the farmer and )
I mill a silver pitcher worth £SO.
j Gth. For the best 500 bus., Cooper Wheat, |
I by a farmer whose crop does not exceed 600 .
bush., a silver pitcher worth £25.
7th. For the best 200 bus., Cooper Wheat ;
by a farmer whose crop does not exceed 250
bus., a silver goblet worth £ls.
Bth. For the best 200 bus.. Walker Wheat,
by a farmer whose crop does not exceed 250
bus., a silver goblet worth £ls.
9th. For the best 2 bus., Cooper Wheat, a
silver cup worth £lO.
10th. For the best 2 bus., Walker Wheat
a silver cup worth £lO.
The wheat shipped, will be paid for at the
highest price of the market, and shipper
allowed to choose his time of price pnyment
to Ist day of October 1856. A bill and R. R,
receipt must accompany each shipment. The
weight per bushel, good order and purity of
the grain, will be the criterion as well as its
adaptation to milling and farming purposes.
A vtatment of the mode of cultivation and
time of seeding and barresing will accompany
the loss of wheat.
The premiums will be awarded and deliver*
ed at Etowah Geo , on the first Tuesday in
October 1850. M A COOPER,
oetoter; 11, 1855.
UiQOks fol’ $1 §i3odslrd Office,
® -Sebofed to qqO Sfqfe politic?, Jofeigi) qqO &c.
GA., THTJESDAY, IISTOV. 29, 1855.
®l)c tHassmllc Stanbarb.
B. F. BENNETT & S. H. SMITH,
PUBLISHERS.
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OFFICE, — N. E. CORNER PUBLIC SQUARE.
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Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, if payment be
delayed six months; Three Dollars, at the
end of the year.
No paper discontinued until all arreara
ges are paid, except at the option of the
Publishers.
Miscellaneous Advertisements inserted at
One Dollar per square (twelve lines) for the
first insertion, and Fifty Cents for each
weekly continuance.
ftd6etfiteb)eQfe
Notice to Debtors nnd Creditors of an Es
tate, must be published Forty Days.
Notice thnt application will be made to
the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land
or Negroes, must be published weekly for
Two Months.
Sales of Land nnd Negroes, by Adminis
trators, Executors or Guardians, are to be
held on the first Tuesday in the month, be
tween the hours of 10 in the forenoon and 3
in the afternoon, at the Court House of the
County in which the property is situate.—
Notice of these Sales must be given in i\
public gazette Forty Days previous to the
day of sale.
Rules for Foreclosure of Mortgage, must
be published monthly for four months. For
establishing lost, papers, for the full space of
three months For compelling titles from
Executors or Administrators, where a bond
has been given by the deceased, the full
space of three months.
Citations for Letters of Administration,
thirty days For Dismission from Adminis
■ tration, monthly six months. For Dismission
from Guardianship, forty days. For letters
of Guardianship forty days.
Hk of ffetospqpc^.
1. Subscribers who do not give express
notice to the contrary, are considered ns
wishing to continue their subscriptions.
2. If subscribers order the discontinuance
i of their newspapers, the publishers may con
tinue to send them until all arrearages are
paid.
3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take
their newspapers from the offices to which
they are directed, they are held responsible
until they have settled the bills, and order
ed a discontinuance.
4. If subscribers remove to other places
without informing the publishers, and the
newspapers are sent to the former direction,
they are held responsible.
5. It has been decided by the Courts that
subscribers refusing to take their newspapers
from the office, or ren oving and loaving
them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence
) of intentional fraud.
6. The Courts have also decided that a
postmaster who neglects to perform his duty
of giving reasonable notice, ns required by
the Post Office Department, of the neglect of
a person to take from the office newspapers
addressed to him. renders himself liable for
the subscription price.
Democratic Anti-Know Noth
in? Ticket.
For Sheriff,
JOSEPH BOGLE.
For Clerk of Superior Court,
JAMES WOFFORD.
For Clerk of Inferior Court,
JOHN F. MILHOLLEN.
For Ordinary,
J. W. WAITS.
For ‘lax Receiver,
D. H. TEAT.
For Tax Collector,
JOHN C. AYCOUK.
For Coroner,
BICHARD GAINES.
Take Special Notice. —Wc request our
subscribers, living in the vicinity of Cass
ville, and who wish to pay their subscrip
| tion in advance, to bring us bushels of
Corn, for which the market price will be
i paid, and placed to their credit on our
! nooks. We want some 60 or 70 bushels,
and by doing this it will be an accommoda
tion to us, and an easy way for you to pay
your subscriptions. Bring us, say 1 barrel,
each, and we will give as above stated.—
Call at the Standard Office.
“ PRINCIPLES —NOT. MEN.”
Cjjnicr
The Printer's Toil.
Blow, ye stormy winds of winter ;
Drive the chilly, drifting snow,
Closely housed, the busy Printer
Heeds not bow the winds may blow.
Click, click liis type go dropping
Here and there upon his case,
As he slands for hours popping
Every letter in its place.
Heaven send the useful Printer
Every comfort mortals need,
For our nights are dull in winter,
Had we not the news to read.
Sad would be the world's condition
If no Printer boys were found—
Ignorance and superstition,
Sin and suffering, would abound.
Yen, it is the busy Printer
Rolls the car of Knowledge on,
And a gloomy mental winter
Soon would reign if he were gone.
Money's useful; yet the winters
Fill not half so high a place
As the busy, toiling Printers,
Fing'ring type before the case.
Yet while the type they're busy setting,
Oft some thankless popinjay
Leaves the country, kindly letting
Printers whistle for their pay.
Oh! ingratitude! ungracious!
Are there on enlightened soil
Men with minds so incapacious
As to slight the Printer's toil!
See him ! how extremely busy.
Fing’ring type before the case,
To : !ing, till he’s almost dizzy
To exalt the human race.
&C.
The morning was dull, nnd betokened a day
Unsuited to curing nnd carting of hay ;
So Stephen bethought him to take a trip
down,
And bring this thing, aud that nnd the oth
er from town ;
And he harnessed the horse, and proceeded
to go forth
With a pail of pale butter, eggs, berries, &c.
Now it hnppensd that Stephen (&c) came
down
On the day that the show was to enter the
town,
And into the village he chanced to come
forth
As the < caravan” came into town from the
north,
(A wondrous collection they purposo to
show forth,)
E;ks, elephants, monkeys, bears, tigers, &c.
And Stephen arrived opportunely, I ween,
For never had Stephen an elephant seen:
So lie, with Old Sorrel,” fetched up by the
fence,
To sec, without paying the twenty five cents;
And soon came the creature, uncouthly and
slow forth,
With tusks, nnd with trunk, blankets, rib
bons, &c.
But senred at the sight or the scett, or the
souud,
*. Old Sorrel” turned quickly and shortly
around,
Aud in turning so quickly and shortly a
bout
The wagon turned over and Stephen turned
out;
And into the gutter the berries did flow
forth,
Together with Stephen, eggs, butter, &c.
Quoth Stephen aloud as he rose on his pegs,
*. A fig for the berries, &c , and eggs —
But henceforth 1 never can say it, of course,
That I’ve not seen the elephant—nor can the
horse ”
And back to the homestead <> Old Sorrel”
did go on,
Leuving wagon and Stephen, &c., aud so
on.
War and Love.
War and Love are strange compeers—
War sheds blood, and Love sheds tears ;
War has spears, and Love has darts,
War breaks heads, and Love breaks hearts.
The Belle and the Student.
At a certain evening party, a hearty
young beauty turned to a student who stood
near her, and said :
• Cousin John, I understand your eccen
trio friend L—— is here. I have a great
curiosity to see bin Do you bring him
here and introduce him to me.’
The student went in search of his friend,
and at leugtb found him lounging on the
sofa
. Come L ,’ said be, my beautiful
cousin Catharine wishes to be introduced to
you.’
• Well, trot her out, John,’ drawled L
with nn affected yawn.
John returned to bie cousin, and advised
her to defer the introduction till a more fa
vorable time, repeating tho answer he had
received.
The beauty bit her lips, but the next mo
ment she said:
Well, never fear, I shall insist on being
introduced.’
After some delay, L—— was led up and )
the ceremony of introduction performed—j
Agreeably surprised by the beauty and !
commanding appearance of Catharine, L
made a profound low bow; but instead of
returning it, she raised her eyeglass, sur
veyed him from head to foot, and then wav
ing the back of her hand towards him,
drawled out, . trot him off, John! that's en
ough !’
“ More’n You’ll Keep.”
Some years ago nn old sign-painter, who
wns very cross, very gruff, and a little deaf,
was engaged to paint the Ten Command
ments on some tablets in a church not five
miles from Buffalo. He worked two days
at it, and at the close of the second day the
pnstor of the church came in to see how
the work progressed. The old man stood
by, smoking a short pipe, as the reverend
gentleman ran his eyes over the tablets.
• Eh !” said the pastor, as his familiar
detected something wrong in the wording of
the holy precepts ; • Why, you careless old
person, you left a part of one of the com
mandments entirely out; don't you see ?”
<• No ;no such thing said the old man,
putting on his spectacles ; .. no, nothing left
out, where?”
<i Why, there,” persisted the pastor;
* here, look at them in the Bible ; you have j
left some of the commandments out ”
•• Well, what if I have?” said old obsti
nacy, as he ran his eye complacently over
his work ; what if I have ? There's a
blessed sight more there now than you’ll
keep!”
Another and more correct artist was em
ployed next day.
Borrowing Trouble.
The newspaper called the . State of
Maine.” published at Portland, gives the
following illustration of the propensity of
some people to be distressed by imaginary
evils;
Borrowing is a bad thing at best, but
• borrowing trouble’ is perhap the most fool
ish investment of • foreign capital” that a
man or woman can make. An amusing in
stance of this species of 4 operation’ is set
forth in a duwn east newspaper, wherein a
man thus related his experience in a finan
cial way on the the occasion of the failure
of a local Lank :
i iAs soon as I heard of it my heart
jumped right up into my mouth. -Now,
thinks I, 4 sposin’ I got any bills on that
bank! I'm gone if I hev—that’s a fact!’—
So 1 put on my coat nnd 4put’ for home just
ns fast as my legs would carry me ; fact is,
I run all the way, nnd when I got there I
looked keerfully and found that I hadn't
got no bills on that bank—or any other !
Then I felt easier.’
•4 There have been a thousand instances
of 4 borrowing trouble’ when it was not a
whit better .secured’ than in the present ex
ample.”
♦
Hints to Dentists.
The Denti*s who may be in want of a little
practice just 4 to keep their hand in,’ the
following anecdote may nfford a useful hint.
A good cat practice might be worth pick
ing up—it would certainly be a mew sing !
Mr. Tiedetnnnn, the famous Saxon dentist,
hat a valuable tortoise sell cat, that for
days did nothing but moan. Guessing
the cause, he looked into his mouth, and see
ing a decayed tooth, soon relieved it of its
pain. Thu following day there were at least
ten cats at his door—the day after, twenty ;
they went on increasing at such a rate that
he was obliged to keep a bull dog to drive
them away. But nothing would help them.
A cot who had the tooth-ache would come
any number of miles to him. It would come
down the chimney even nnd not leave the
room until he had taken its tooth out. It
grew such a nuisance at last, that he was
never free from one of these feline patients
However, being one morning v ry nervous,
he accidently broke the jaw of an old tab
by. The news of this spread like wildfire.
Not a single cat ever came to him afterwards.
Wife Wanted.
Here's a chance, Gals ! He talks to the
point! Means what.he says! Address him i
at Bntesville. Ark. :
•4 Any gal what’s got a bed, a coffee pot,
and a skillet, knows how to cut out britch
es, can make a bantin’ shirt, nnd knows how
to take care of children, can have my servi
ces until death parts both of us ”
JOHN C. SCHMIDT.
A soldier on sentry duty at an en
campment stabbed a dog with his bayonet,
who was set on him by some boys. The
owner came up and was much vexed to see
his cur lifeless ** Why didn't you strike
him with the butt of your gun ?” said he.
• Because he didn't come at mo ta>l fore
most,” was the answer.
Jss>~The Albany Argus tells us a story
of a man buying oats, a few days sinco, who
gnvc a fifty dollar bill in mistake for a five.
Ou discovering the blunder, and hastening
to have it rectified, he found the recipient of
it deliberately rubbing out the cipher on the
bill, in order to make his cash account
square with his funds.
The story of a man who had a noso
so large that he couldn't blow it without the
use of gunpowder, is said to be a hoax.
pa* The toothache may be cured by hold
ing in the right hand a certain root —the
root of the tooth.
TWO DOLLARS A-YEAR,. IN ADVANCE.
j 51 Cnjrifnl ftonj.
PHILIP WINSLOW.
B iK’qrt iftsfoi’tj.
j CHAPTER I.
“ Age sits with decent grace upon his visage,
And worthily becomes his silver locks:
He wears the marks of many years well spent.,
Os virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience.”
Rowe's Jane Shore.
He was an old man. Avery old man.
Not that he had added up so many years.
Not that so many winters aud summers had
passed over him—not that he had seen so
many changing scenes, and winter constel
latioiiß. For it has been often said, until it
has become a trite saying, that time in the
life of man is not to be measured by the di
al, or by events out of his own immediate
experience. From very childhood he counts
on days as the dates of joys and sorrows,
nnd eagerly hastens forward to or shrinks
back from a coming hour.
Doctor Winslow had been nn old man ever
since I had known him, and that is mon
years than I will acknowledge. Older men
than I have said the same thing ; and I have
sometimes puzzled myself with the effort to
add up the years of his life and give the
’ sum of them. That lie was over eighty then
can be no doubt; and yet his voice was j
clear, his eyes not in any manner dimmed
his whole aspect, except at particular times,
that of a stout, strong man
He was of medium height for a man- not
tall nor yet short, not thin nor yet heavy, j
not quick in his movements nor was he fee
ble or skw. He was very deliberate in all
that he said and did, with one only excep
lion, which was this :
When in the pulpit on Sunday he was n I
different man f:om any other day. Then all
was activity, eloquence, fervor. Ilia whole
soul was in the work of the day, and lie
looked like a different being. He read the
morning chapter with a full, sonorous voice.
He gave out the psalms, and he sang them
too, with fervor. But when he opeued his
Bible, and lifted his eyes for a moment for
help from Heaven, and then proceeded to
expound the passage he had selected, he
warmed up, and Ivs words glowed, and his
hearers were carried away with his simple,
fervid and yet grand utterance.
His parsonage (it was his own ; the church
built one, but he used his own house.) was
the perfection of simple comfort, liis libra
ry it was a luxury to enter. All the fathers
looked out from oak shelves, and nil the
learning of all ages was there with them
Many a rare old volume that it would please
an antiquary or a book collector to pay n
small fortune for, was there, in the quiet
and unpretending collection of the villag
pastor. He had no mania for old books, tint
he loved them, and he loved te take one in
hand that, he never saw before, and sit down
for an hour and talk with the author, long
since dead and forgotten.
But the social qualities of the Doctor were
liis most winning. Where lie received his
doctorate I did not for a long time know, as
there was no manifest inducement to any
college to confer it; for there was no nn tiuy.
and there were no students likely to conic
from our tillage, and we ail know that on>-
or the other of these expectations is ord:iia
ri’y necessary to lead a college board to
confer a degree. But I learned, at length,
that it was one of the oldest institutions in
the country which for once, was led in honor
piety and learning, and had astonished the
pastor in his quiet village home with the of
ficial letter thnt announced to him that they
had seen fit to recommend him to the world
as fitted to teach the mysteries of sacied
theology
But in the library every person in his
congregation loved to pass nn hour with the
clergyman; old and young alike found him
their companion and friend. 1 think lie best
liked the presence of the young; and In
would sit for hours among them, teliiug
quaint old stories, or personal reed loot ions,
or curious things be bad picked up in liis
reading, and they were never tired ol listen
ing to him.
He was a widower, but no one knew hi.-
wife. He had been the pastor of that church
for forty years, but no one had ever heard
him name her. He came there a man ot
middle age. They asked him if he were
married and he replied that lie was a wid
ower. That was the only time it was evei
spoken of. lie had ministered to them a
longtime; he had baptised their children
nnl buried their fathers; be had married
their young maidens, had counselled their
erring sons, had been father, brother, friend,
in joy and sorrow ; had been the constant,
steadfast visitor in days of affliction; had
watched with them many nights of agony .
had pointed them often to the far-off heuveu.
where alone there was rest and peace for
even the dwellers in that peaceful village,
and yet no ono had penetrated the old m iuV
soul, or knew from what fountains in his
own breast he drew those consolations which
experience alone can supply.
CHAPTER 11.
” I cannot love him,
Yet I suppose him virtuous —know him noble,
* * * * * *
A gracious person; but yet I cannot love him.’ j
tihahtytor*'* A lyht.
Mon laugh at love. Men sneer at human I
affection. Well, let them laugh, let them |
sneer. There are hours in the experience of
every man when he longs for tho infolding
of a woman’s arms, for the kisses of a wo
man's lips, for the soothing of a woman's
voice, with unutterable longings. Wait for
that hour. Do sot attempt to arguo with
NO. 4,2-
the poor fool of this world, who, in his igno
rance of bliss, denies its existence.
It is not necessary to relate the manner
in which I became acquainted with the ear
ly history of Philip Winslow. He is an old
man now, and those around him cannot ap
preciate very many quiet things that he
sys, ami many more that he does, because
they do not know him. I can understand
his long evenings iu the still moonlight, bis
lonesome walks along the bank of the river,
liis smile while he sits thinking, his pauses
in prayer when he speaks of the re-uniens of
the other world. Doubtless the star-light
Qf his young love lias been steadfastly shin
ing through all the twilight years of his
later life
The first passage in his early life that I
shall refer to is a letter:
44 Never again, Philip, never again. My
hand does not tremble as I write it, my heart
does not beat one pulsation the faster for
this last letter. Although this is the end of
many pleasant hopes, many brilliant antic
ipations, yet I am very calm in saying that
it must be the end. Ido not love you. This
is all the story. I wiil love you as a sister,
—but nothing more. Do not seek to change
my resolution. You will fail nnd but in
crease the pain of this final separation. So
good bye, now. forever, Philip. Think no
more of Mary Pierson.”
lie read it over a second time, but it was
l , ’
the same cool, deliberate, final answer. He
studied it to extract, if it were possible,
some ot her meaning out of the brief senten
ces. But lie failed iu that. He examined
the writing to sec if there might not be some
hesitation in the penmanship, some indica
tion of vascillating thought, uncertain decis
ion, but lie found nothing of the sort; every
I letter was the familiar, firm hand that he
- knew of old ; every curve was regular, eve
ry dot and cross was in its place.
There was one word on which he paused
long. It was the word 4. pain.” What did
she mean by that? Was it of herself or
him that she spoke? Was it painful for
her thus to d.smiss him, because she thought
lie would suffer, an 1 s.ie did not wish to
give pain, even to a worm ; or was there no
such feeling whatever, but only the convic
tion that he would suffer and no care on her
part whether he did or not?
Whatever it was, it was vain for him to
seek any evidence of a wil ingness on the
part of Mary Pierson to be'sued for a change
of purpose. lie knew her heart—which was
as firm ns a rock in its determinations—and
be yielded, though it was like yielding life
blood to the kuil'e, for she was of noble na
ture, and one from whom it was terrible to
part.
For two years lie bad loved her with
abounding love. They had been much to
gether—his preference for her was so marked
that it soon ceased to be a secret in the lit
tle village where they resided. They had
been much together, in this two years, and
had—he believed it in his heart of hearts—
loved each other all the time. Not all her
asseverations now could convince him that
-lie had not loved him; and on calm reflec
tion he was satisfied, even now. that she did
not know herself and that she loved him still.
He even smiled when lie read her letter a
g ;in. and saw how coolly she said she did
not love him. But his smile became bitter
when he reflected that she was just as deter
mined, aud that eveu a knowledge of her
iwn heart would never serve to effect a
ohnuge of resolution in her. In spite of her
youth and beantv, sho bad all the dignity
ands verity of full grown and experienced
womanhood 1; was the peculiarity of her
nature which distinguished her from all
it hors, nnd none knew it. bettdr than lie.
She was a strange person altogether, and
■ yet very lovely Her soul was full of fresh,
out gushing feelings, which at times she did
not seek to restrain, and yet but few uuder
-tond her. Had you seen her in company,
m her own drawing room, receiving her
many guests, or in the evening among the
gay, most splend.dly atti-el, sweeping
through the crowd with all the majesty of
a queen, you would have sai l she was a cold,
haughty beauty. But had you seen her,
when Philip Winslow sat at her side, and
no one else was near, you would have call
ed her the impersonation of goodness and
eve Ii ness, of ease nnd gentle beauty.
But she dismissed Philip Winslow. Aud
why ?
She said it wns because she did not love
him. He said it was because she did not
know herself. It happened iu this wise:
They were returning from a long moon
light walk.
44 Mary, 1 am going away to-morrow to
be goue a great while. I know not how
long I cannot go without—without —with-
out ‘*
“ Without what, Philip ? ’
• Wo have been friends long, Mary.”
• We hare ”
<• Can we ever be more ? ’
She looked into hie faco. His eyes were
fixed on hers. She was thinking—a flood of
ihough! came pouring into her soul It
might have been one, two, three minutes,or
not so many seconds, before she gave him an
answer. •
j Iu vain did ho argue, beseech and implore,
j Her mind was fixed She did not love him,
| except ns a dear friend. She would be kiud
! to him, would love him just so always, but
| lie must not ask for auything more.
That evening he wrote her a long, mad
’ letter, full of all his heart's passion, and
ended by saying that he should always love
her as he did, but could not think of her as
it friend. Ho must bo bur husband, or tear
himself away, to drag out a miserable exis
tence unknown and unloved. There was no
other futiuc for him, and he left her topre-