Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1847-06-11
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highways is laid with the blood of our ueghbors
and worldly friends, and the quiet streams run
crimson with the butchery of the men OF STRIFE.
This war parts father and son, husband and wife,
neither and child"
"Yes," responded Hannah, from the other side
Of the Fireplace. "There is the rich English.
man Tracy, whose mansion is phched on the
rock that looks down into the vale Of the Wis.
sahikon, beyond the bend 'Iother side Of Riuen.
houses mill-did he not cast his son from him
as though he were unworthy of oil iatherIy love
and affection, because he favored the men Of
George Washington Marry, Joab, often won.
der, what has become of the poor youth, who
hath his fathers curse upon hint"
81 learned 'lOther day, from some friends of
Washington, that Herbert Tracy, that delicately
reared youth, Joined the Continentals last winter
with number Of his fathers tenants; and like
wise learned that he endured the biting cold as
bravey and slept on the bare earth as cheerIuly,
as the humbest of Washngton's people, The
son of our neighbor-Henry He'll, commonly
called Harry Het was with the young man Ira.
cy."
The last sentence was uttered by the Quaker,
with a covert glance at the countenance OF ms
dame, as though he expected the name OF the
young farnerto excite some interest in her mlnd'
He was not disappointed, for the Quakeress gave
quick, nervous start, and exclaimed, with the
rapid and hurried manner, peculiar 10 The Keen
est anxiety
"Joab, what didst thee hear Of the young man
Hehl Surely he has not met with harmi lie
was a good youth, albeit somewhat wild. why
did thee not tell me Of this sooneri should bt
sorry, were harm 10 come to MIN, Tor, for
"For he hath made offers Of marriage to ou,
daughter Marjorie, thee would say. Nay, nay
dame. were he alive and WE'LL standing at th
moment before me, he might not unite his 10
with our child. There was a time when | hat
hone Of the boy, when thought he would be ont
of US, and assume the peaceful garb of III,
Friends-but no sooner did young Tracy go Il
the wars, than Harry must be off also, and high
and cut and thurst, warrant thee, with the wors
. Of them. Nay, nay, Hannah
"Well, if it must be so, it must. fear the
, speakest truth. But in verify it is painful I
think, how much trouble and strife among kin
/ dred and friends, this dreadful war hath caused
, There was the daughter of old Wallham, who's
country seat is on the Ridge road near the Fall
of Schuylkl; he is rich, and full of world,
goods, thee knowest Joab; she, the maiden hi
daughter, was to be married to young Tracy
when the quarrel occurred between father an,
son, and the match was broken off. All, me! ii
,roublous time, for the sons of men, Joab."
/ But at this moment, as if some unexpecto
thought had rufled the usual serenity Of his mint
$ the Qnaker rose from his seat, and walked hu
redlv to the deep siled window Of the apartmel
S looking to the west and gazing uponthe landscaF
G of hill, valley and stream, for momenthe seen
a ed lost in thought or wrapt in the mild quietud
y that attend the contemplation Of lovely sunse
TO mind sobcred by age and experience.