Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-10-08
MISCELLANEOUS.
From The Union Magazine.
"~C0NQUERlNG A PEACE"
by T. $. ARTHUR.
Gle shall do ifl'

i told him Just what you said, and he re.
piled quite augrily, that he would do no such
thing. That if you expected to get anything
Of him by that kind Of clustering, you were
mistaken
did he say thatp
Yes he did,
Very well! III show him that he's mis-
taken his man. | never did ALLOW any one
to do just as he pleased with ne, and never
VIII. Right is right, and I'll stand up to it
whlie I've breath in my body. III spend
the last dollar Eve got, before I'll suffer a
man like him TO do me ANY injury and then
insult me when | ask for repdration.'
tion.'
'lndeed 50 there are. A right side and
a wrong side. Aud befure he's done with
the matter, he'll find out who stands on the
wrong side; and that to his cost. Talk to
me about bluster-indeed I'll show him
something like bluster before we've DONE
And thus Mr.. Absalom Penderpast funnel
away because a pair of oxen belonging to his
nelghbor, Thos. Peters, had broken into his
corn-held, Just as the green blades were a
loot high, and spent the night there, doing
no small injury 10 the young crop. Mosi
men would say that he had cause for loss of
temper, especially as Peters very cody reCu-
sed to pay the damages as assessed by PEN
dergdst. But let us define clearly the posi-
ton Of the belligerents.
The fence around Mr.. Penderrast's field
was certainly not in the very best condition
in the world and as soon as Peters learned
that his oxen had been making depredations
on his neighbours young corn, he at once as.
sumed that they must have entered THROUGH
some broken p%annel. Still he felt grieved at
what had occurred, and was about starting to
see his nelghbor, when he was surprised bv
the reception OF a bill after this tenor:-Thos.
Peters, to A. Pendergsst, DIR. Fer damage
done by oxen in corn-feld SlO.'
Mr.. Pendergast cannot, certainly, be i'm
earnest in sending me this BILL the surpri-
sed iarner said 10 the messenger who brought
it.
Yes sir he is in earnest
very well DO you tell Mr.. Pcnderrast
for me, that | am very much astonished at
his even dreaming | would pay such a bill.
Tell him, that | say if he wishes to prow
corn he must keep good fences
The messenger departed, and gave the re-
ply Of Peters, in even a warmer and more
offensive manner than it was uttered. OF
course, Pendergast fired up at this insulting
language, and sent back the bill with a threat
OF consequences if the offending neighbor did
not Immediately come to terms. Peters had
grown no cooler by reflection. The more he
thought about the demand that had been
made upon him, the more it frelted him.
When the bill came "a second time, with
some sharp words and threats. that had
grown sharper since they left the lips of Pen
dergast, he was angry and made no effort 10
conceal what he felt.
Before the day had passed, Thomas Peters
had a summons 10 appear before the magis-
trate in a neighboring village, to answer in a
suit for tresspass brought against him by
Pendergast. The trial was fixed for that day
one week.
As soon as the matter became noiscd about,
the friends of the two antagonists were much
surprised, ami there was a good deal of talk.
and no small interest felt on the subject
Those to whom Pendergast talked, SAID he
was right in requiring his neighbor to pay
damages and those with whom Peters talk
ed, said he was right in not paying them
Some who thus took sides were in earnest,
while others, of the ll-things-to-all-men
class, favored the side of one or the other, as
they happened TO be with either the plaintiff
or defendant, and famed with a double breath
the antagonist fires.
But all did not do this; there was one eX-
ceplion in Mr.. Goodyear, a true and faithful
man in every thing that p~eriained to him
AS soon as he heard what had occurred, the
first desire he felt was TO reconcile matters.
lie went 10 MIR. Pendergast ard enquired the
cause of his extreme proceeding against his
neighbor.
1T is a plain case, was the reply. His
oxen broke into my field and destroyed my
corn and he refuses to pay the damage
What am | to do? He has destroyed my
property and will not pay for it. Must |
calmly pocket the loss! No-Absalom PEN
dergast is not so meek a man as that. lie
,auor allnNVS any ppp Ia ride tptEuh shoI pv.r
him in that kind of fashion,
did you represent the matter to him fair
ly, Mr.. Pendergast? | have never found
Peters a very unreasonable man.
Il sent him a bill for the damage DONE
Before seeing hing
Certainly. ! had no wish to see him
about the matter. ] felt too much provoked
at his allowing a pair of unruly oxen 10 To-
rage about at night. lie ought to have
known that they would do damage some
where ".
Perhaps he did not know they were Out
He ought to have known it then. If he
shouldn't, how should lP
j think it would have been much better if
you had seen Peters before you commenced
u suit. ] am certain he would have done
what was right
mot heI'
Hasn't he always borne the character of
an upright man? Such have always found
him.
'You never know a man until you try and
prove him. ! understand Thomas Peters,
now, very well, and he will understand me,
too, 1 am thinking, before we are done with
each other. | shouldn't have called in the
law to aid in settling This matter, if he hadn't
sent me an insulting message, as well as re-
fused to pay the bill
And you are determined to go on with the
matterP
Certainly I; | am not a man to look back
and hesitate after lhave once takenmy course.
His oxen destroyed my corn and he refused
to pay the damage. Isn't that a plain case
| think it is.'