Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1827-06-09


unsanctioned marriage. Suffice il
they were married, and without the
knowledge of her father. Then fol-
lowed that reflection, which, while alb
sorbed by the oil engrossing influence
of the god of love and agitated by the
fear Of separation, they could not en-
tertain. They now realized that they
had performed rash aet-one that
would turn the affections Of the father
to resentment, when the truth became
known to him. II was too late how
ever, to retract. Seeing no other
course but TO avow their marriage, be-
seecb an offended parents pardon, and
submit to destiny, they resolved upon
so doing.
On several occasions when conven-
lent opportunity offered for making a
disclosure of their marriage, did their
resolution fail them. But at last they
were admonished that delay would
avail them nothing, while a prema-
ture discovery Of the truth by the faith
er would but increase his anger
They therefore fixed upon the time
when the disclosure should be made
and when the time arrived, threw
themselves OH their knees before him
and told the fearful tale. Though
prepared TO meet the indignation of
an offended parent, yet neither Henry
nor Fillmore had anticipated so severe
a decree as issued against them. The
calculating father, who loved his
daughter much, and true TO the spirit
Of trade, had regarded her as the
means by which he was to crafty a
darling passion in seeing her united
to a husband, whose wealth should
correspond to tile marriage portion he
meant to bestow with her, could not
see his fond expectations blasted, with
out something more than kindling
Of wrath. He was enraged to the
greatest degree. Added to diappoint-
ment, was the heinous light in which
he viewed his daughters alteration
from her duty as child, in not con-
sulting him in SO important an affair
as marriage. On her suffering hus-
band lie charged the sin of ingrati-
tude, in stealing from his bosom the
daughter on whom it might be said he
had doated. In the excess of passion
he disowned his daughter, denounced
her Henry for his poverty, drove them
both from his presence, forbid them
his house, and even withheld that Pc
,cuniary aid which but few parents, to
the credit OF humanity be it spoken,
would have denied.
Poverty, says an eminent writer, is
an evil always in our view, an evil
complicated with SO many cireumstan-
ces of uneasiness and vexatioD, that
every man should be studious to avoid
il. This evil with all its accumulatiyes,
fell suddenly upon Henry and Eli
more. Reduced from aflluence to
poverty, by being banished from her
fathers house, with no hope Of allay-
ing his resentment, and possessed of
too much spirit to remain where her
altered situation might subject her to
the taunts of the ill-natured and un-
feeling, Fillmore gave willing con-
sent to accompany her husband, her
love, for whom she had forfeited all
else held dear, to the hospitable shores
of America-to the land which had
been sought as an asylum from op-
preston by many Of their country
men-
"To rough land Of earth, and stone, and tree,
Where breathcs no castled lord, nor cabin d
| slave,
Where thoughts and tongues, and hands are
| bold and free,
And friends will find a welcome, foes grave"
A resolution like this was not drawn
up without conflict in her gentle bo-
som, the pain of which those happy
daughters, whose true love never was
crossed, can but family imagine. FL
linore was about to leave her father,
with every thing but his curse resting
upon her-to leave her relatives and
friends, the scenes of youthful gaiety
and happiness, her native country
forever! Appalling was the thought
but powerful the motive that prompt.
ed her to forsake all that she had helt
desirable in life, for his sake for whom
it might be said she now alone lived
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