Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-06-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE ANONYMOUS LETTER

10 write an anonymous letter is ungentemany
ofthis there can be no doubt-nay more, it is mean,
dastardly skulkng, depraved! But what could /
do! Colonel Pllnth was about to marry his cook
TO write an anonymous letter is degrading, TO
say the least it would require the skill of soph-
list to render it justfable-perhaps and yet when
Colonel Pllnth was going to marry his cook -
A vixen-a perfect Sarocen of a woman behind
his back; aud he man of nice honor; who had
gained golden laurels at Serngapatam-an aid de-
camp to David Baird-my friend The intelligence
had come like thunder-bot.
10 write an anonymous letter, except under the
most imperative circumstances, is unquestionab v
ntroclous. felt that even posted as was-wth
the most benevolent Observation-Disclosures
conscience, as gentlemen and an officer. would
hesitate to approve of it. | passed. determined
to weigh the matter well but the conviction fell
upon me like an avalanche that not moment was
to be lost !-Colonel Plinth was on the eve of mar
rying his cook -.
Rebecca Moggs And he nv brother-u-law.
the widowed husband of my sainted sister-a X
&. B.-a wearer of four medals, two crosses. and
the order OF the golden fleece-a man who ha6 re-
ceived the thanks of Parliament-the written an.
probation of my Lord Clive-two freedoms in gold
boxes; man who, had he nobly fell on the ram.
parts of Tippoos capital, would have been taken
home in rum, and buried in St Pauls.
His fragment-hls living remains-(for he DOS
\ sessed only one organ Of a sort-having lost leg,
an arm, an eye, and nostril had resolved on
what considered sort of demi-post mortem
match, wth-what?
A blowsy, UNDERLYING mental, whose only merit
consisted IN cooking mulligatawny, and rubbing
with soft, fat palm the wounded ankle of his mar
tally efficient leg; the Legitimate offspring of a
Sepoy pioneers trull; creature whom my lovely
and accomplished sister had taken from the breast
of her dead mother, 1.-THE woman-a camp-follower
n N irnn hal in barh g.,
Tjppoos guerilla troops in the jungle) one whom
Evadne had brought up with maternal care, in her
kitchen "a scullion And such one to be Col
onel Plinth's wife-to take the place of Eyadne
Good God
TO write an anonymous letter Is rather revolving
much may be said against it it is ones dernier re-
sort still it has its advantages WHY neglect
them? Had Colonel Plinth not been what he was
were he but casual acquaintance or a mere
friend-then indeed
But he my brother-in-law-my brother in
arms-in word, Colonel Plinth.
Had he been a man who would listen to reason
who was open to conviction-to whom one mich,
venture to speak-why really
But he was hot as curry yet not deficient in
sense but dreadiully opnonated-techy-ea
susceptible Of feeling himself insuted-careful as
TO keeping his pstol-case in such state as TO be
ready at a moments notce-a being infamed il
body, soul, and complexion, by the specs and SUI
of the burning East.
To demonstrate with him would have been alb
surd; he would have cut me down with his crutch
he had amassed three thousand year.
To write an anonymous letter was not exactly
the sort Of thing but why see him rush into
match which would dishonor himself, and shed Z
sort of retrospective shame on my sainted sister?
The cook was far from immaculate. A native
servant, whom discharged at Calcutta for repea-
teddy staying out all night-but expose the weak
side of humanity?
p And another young fellow of her acquaintance
whom ! pardoned for having robbed me, on condi
ton of his frankly confessing all his misdemean
ors-