Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1839-06-01

almost as brother and sister. / know M
nut tnere was any natural similarity q
.as'es between those young persons--in
deed from what have heard, | am incline,
20 q contrary pinion;--but affec,on.-
such affection as that to which their con
slant companionship gave rise, -bege,s
similarity Of taste, if it does not imply il
linus II happened, that before, long be
Iore, u may be,-the young people hac
a!'aIncd the respective ages Of sixteen apc
eighteen, their hearts were linked touethe,
by an affection, TO which every wear O
'heir acquaintance had added strength
without diminishing its purity. Tia,
thelr attachment had not escaped the oh.
servation it It had not received The sane.
tion, OF MIR. Benson, was certnin, for be
had more than once been heard TO Joke on
the subject; while his wife regarded the
promised connexion with more than COM
Iplacency.
Three years more elapse, and Edward
iolcrolt attained the age of twebt.one
and with the patrlmonial estatesfwhich
small though it were, gave him vote for
Inc county,--a fatal privilege for him,
poor fellow! as the event proved; for an
election occurred shortly afterwards, and
unfortunately, he and Mr.. Benson took
opposite views of the respective candid
ates. That each voted according 10 his
conscientious conviction believe there
was no doubtin The minds Of any one who
knew them, and Edward, who carried
good hnmor with him to the hustinns.
brought il away with him. Not so, how
ever, Mr.. Benson who plqued at the inef.
ficscy OF his arguments in gaining the
other over to his views, and still farther
exasperated by the deiea, Of the candidate
whose cause he had espoused, proceeded
20 the extremity Of forbidding Edward The
house, and ihterdicting any communica-
ton between his wife and her friend.
II would have been well had the mis-.
Chief stopped here; but Benson, although,
when unopposed, was what is usually
termed good, quiet sor: of man, was
perfect fury when aroused by what he
conceived insult or injury. There was
certain field which had been purchased
BY Mrs. Holcroft, since she became a
widow, and which she cultivated, in add.
ion to her husbands patrlmony and the
and she had rented. Edward, ii shonld
'e mentioned to his honor, had, notwith-
his coming Of age, treated the
widow, in all respects, as he had done be.
ore that event, so that no division of the
arm took place, but he continued to man
!ge the whole, MS the agent of his mother.
Inc held IN question was very valuable
me, and had been purchased ut lower
ate than the average price Of that quality
# land, in consideration of there being, as {
vas supposed, link wanting in the title.
As, howevever, the right of possession {
ould never, even under this supposed
fleet, be challenged, except by Mr. Ben
on, compared with whose estate it was ,
rop of water to the ocean, the risk was ,
onsIdered as next to nothing, and the :
urchse was completed.
i has been well said, that there are few {
ccasions Of quarrel which conduct persons /
such extremes Of temper as political
itferences; and thus it twas, that Benson, /
OF content with the comparatively pass c
e means Of showing his resentment to h
'hich he had, as we have seen, resorted n
etermined on availing himself of the de- '
sctve title, as the engine for consumatng h
is vengeance. Notices Of ejectment were a
accordingly served, and the usual baltalia $
the law arrayed against the widow, h
no was compelled to throw herself into n
re hands Of The attorney. and he--would Il
had been the only disgrace the profess 8
on has known!-was a scoundrel; who. n
aving led her,o the threshold o. courtofl il
w, and drawn every shilling from her Il
Irse, there abandoned her, because she b
'uld no longer salty his rapacity. II is il
necessary to dwell Upon, for the reader Ii
III readily Imagine the grief Of Mrs. Ben a
n at the persecution to which the friend c,
her youth was thus subject from the "
lsband Of her bosom, as we'll as the still ! "
ore bitter anguish which pierced the "
SONS Of Edward and Emma, and rent @
Q heart Of the widow. Fl
Matters we're at this pnss, when the rent 81
Mrs. Holcrofl's farm became due, and o,
money which had been laid by to dis
argc i was in the pocket Of The lawyer: pt
llIe, to add to her calamities, the county dr
sizes yvere n hand whon - 49, ca,,a . /