The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1845-05-12


And when Pm gone, we shall see how your second
wife will look amer your buttons. You'll find out
the difference, then. YesCaudle, yon'll think oil me,
them for then hope, you'll never have plesseu
button TO your back.
No I'm not vindctive woman, Mr. Chudlej no
body called me that but you. What do you say
Nobody never knew 80 much Of mel That's nothing
at all TO do with H. lila, wouldn't have your hg-
grnvating temper, Caudle, for mines Of gold us
good thing I'm not so worrying as you are-ora nice
house ihere'd be between us. ] only wish you'd
had wife that ,Uouid have talked 10 you' then you'd
have known the ditIa ence. But you impose upon
me- because, like poor fool, say nothing should
be ashamed OF myself, Cuudle.
And pretty example you set as Il father! HouW
make your boys as bad as yourself Talking as you
did ali breakfast time about your buttons! And of
Sunday morning, tool And you call yourself a chris
tain | should like TO know what your boys will
say of YOU when they grow uPl And all about pal
try button of one Of your wristbands: decent man
wouldn't have mentioned it, Why won't hold my
tonguG' Because | iVonI hold my tongue. I'm to
have my pence Of mind destroyod-'lm to be wor-
red into my grave for miserable shirt button, and
Pm to hold my tongue! Oh! but that's just like you
men,
But know what I'll do for the future Every
button You have may drop off, and won't so much
rs to put thread to'em. And should like to know
what you'll do then? oh, you must get somebody
else TO sew em, must your That's n pretty threat
for n husband to hold out to a wife, And to such
wife as hive been, too such negro slave TO your
buttons, as may say! Somebody else to 'om,
eh? No Caude, no; not while I'm alive? When
Pm dead with what have TO bear there's no
knowing how soon that may be-when Pm Dead
say-oh! what brute you must be TO snore so
You're not snoring? lln, that's what you always
say; but that's nothing to do with it. You must get
somebody else TO sew 'em, must you! lla, should
nj wonder. Oh no shouldn't be surprised at moth
ing now! Nothing at all! It's whnt people have
always told me it would come to,-and now, the but
tons hayo opened my eyes But tho whole world
shall know of your cruelty, Mr. Caudle After the
wife I've been TO you. Somebody else, indeed, 10
sew your buttons! I'm no longer TO be mistress in
my own house! lla, Candle! wouldn't have upon
| my conscience what you have, for the world'
| wouldn't treat any body as you treut-no, I'm not
| mad, It's you, Mr. Caudle who mad, bad
and that's worse! can't even much as speak OF
shirt button, but that I'm threatened to be made
| body Of in my own house Caude ,youVea heart
| heurth-ston0, You havGi To threaten me-, and only
| because a bution-a button"
81 was conscious Of no than this" says Cau-
die, in his Ms "foT here nature relieved me with
sweet, deep Sleep
HANDSOMELY DONE. letter from Lexington
Ky, to gentleman in this place. speaking of Mr.
Clay, says;
ale (AIr Clay has been largely in debt but, with
in the last week. his entire Indebtedness (amounting
to $50, 000) cancelled and his notes dely-
cred to him from Bank! The great man was deeply
affected, and asked who had done this thing I'VE
know not was the reply; 'ihe money was deposited
to your credit, and your notes cancelled. 1t need
not concern you who did tit not your enc
mics - Somerrille Reporter.
AS this matter has been made the inject Of nvid-
ous comment in Journals hostile TO Mr. Clay, we
shall not now violate any confidence, by stating the
| facts more clearly. Tho truth is ths,-Mr Clay,
who has not. for many years, incurred or owed a
! debt, on his own account, had involved himself in
endorsing for relative, who Became deeply embar-
raised, ard Jailed The debts came upon Mr. Clay,
to such extent, that his property must have been
swep, away to pay them. The circumstance came
to the knowledge Of some ofAlr Cay's political friends
and admirers, (rew of whom knew him personally, }
and they quietly subscribed the sum necessary to re-
evc him from enibarrassments. The first n,imaton
he had Of it, by tho return of his cancelled notes.
-.heW York Tribune,
| TIE GROUNDS TAKEN INFAvoR OF THE AN
NExArIoN OF TEXAS. The reason given for An
nexation, in address signed by Memucant Hunt,
| and Committee Of the citizens Of Galveston, Texas,
be very interesting TO the Anti Slavery party in
this State, whose votes in November last practically
contaminated this great object. In this address tho
reasons given for annexation plainly said TO be
the perpeuation of the institution Of Slavery 1t is
argued first. that Cotton, Tobacco, and Suga, cannot
be cultivated by free labor,-thnt whenever an at
tempt has been made TO do this, has been attended
with the disastrous consequences; that the ex-
pertinent has the British Government nearly two
hundred millions of dollars and il is said to have cost
eight or ten millions annually, and the result is, a,
this time, that hor West India Planters have been
nearly ruined, and the exports almost destroyed.
But the following must be particularly palatabo to
| the New York Abotionsts.
at is then ofthe utmos; imporntace to future
prosperity, that should offer every possible secu-
| rity 10 that species Of property, without which our
most productive lands never be cultivated Do
the planters Of The Southern States feel any conf
dence in the guarantees which present Govern
offers for the protection of Slave labor md the
perpetuity of its institutions"
The address then goes to give the why
emigration to Texas has ceased, and Slavery and An
ti-slavory discussions pu. down the principal
| causes.