The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-18 00:00:00

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with unmanly cowardice, the misguided victim of
cruelty to rush to her destruction.
The proposed marriage between a handsome
English lady and a Chippewa chief became the
subject of conversation for some days, if not
weeks, in London, and did not fail to bring grist
to the mill of Mr. Catlin, as numbers crowded to
the exhibition to see the distinguished and happy
bridegroom elect. Some few, with a slight sen-
sation of pity, regretted that a Christian girl
was about to marry a heathen.; but that he
was one Cadotte indignantly denied, affirming
that not only was he a Christian, but a true son
of holy mother Church, a pious subject of the
Pope. The poor girl's unhappy father, partly,
like others deceived, having exhausted all his
influence to prevent the inauspicious union, gave
his reluctant consent, and promised to make some
allowance for her support.
At length the term for which the Indian troop
had been engaged having expired, Cadotte and
his bride sailed for the land where his sup-
posed government existed. She took with her
her piano and books, and several articles of
elegant furniture, an abundant supply of fashion-
able dresses, and many luxuries for the toilette.
Arriving in the St. Lawrence, they proceeded at
first to a backwood village on the shores of one of
the great lakes. Here the now doubting bride
began to inquire when they were to reach the
chieftain's country, of which her lord had so
eloquently spoken. A shout of brutal laughter
was his first reply ; the next, the fire-water
mounting to his brain, a blow, not once, but
often repeated. Then the eyes of the loving,
devoted, and infatuated woman began to open,
and soon she felt convinced how grossly she had
been deceived. For two long years she endured,
uncomplainingly, this existence, supporting her
husband with the remittances she received from
home ; but at length he grew tired of the place,
and resolved to return to his native village at the
Sault St. Marie. Any change to her was welcome.
Perhaps even then she expected to find that he
was really the chief she had supposed. Still
carrying her piano and furniture she reached the
village of the " Sault." Here she was taken, in
the first instance, to a miserable log but ; but it
appears, either from his finding occupation at his
former trade to employ his time, or from the
heart softening towards his unhappy wife, that
Cadotte no longer treated her with his former
brutality. Her friends had in the meantime
heard of ber miserable condition, and frequently
offered to receive her back should she desire

to return to her home, but she positively
refused to quit her husband on any terms.
With a noble and virtuous spirit, she replied
that she had become his wife for better or for
worse ; that if he was bad, the more was
it her duty to remain and endeavour to reform
him ; and that if he had deceived her, it was his
love for her had persuaded him to the act, while
she confessed that she had deceived herself. She
now sought for comfort at the only source where,
either in prosperity or affliction, true comfort can
be found ; but, alas ! no minister of her own
faith was there to give counsel to her distressed
heart. But there were priests of Rome, and they
soon obtained that mastery over her mind they
ever seek to possess. She became a Roman
Catholic : through their aid her husband built a
better house, and by their admonitions ceased to
ill-treat her. They also enabled her to open a
school for the children of their faith, which con-
tributed to her support. Her great hope, it was
said, in thus assimilating her faith to that of her
husband was to reform him. She believed that
she perceived the germ of better things within his
dark soul, and she trusted to draw them forth
and see them fructify. Was it possible, after the