The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1848-06-17
St. JOhnsbury, Vt. Nlne Y, 1913.


him that innocent duughter'had still hold
on him which could not be removed by the
supposed offences of her mother. While
that mother lived, he could never have un-
other lawful wife and TO this little child he
therefore, learned to look as his only hope and
JOY in life, and his only lawful heir. TO
provide Tor her,and to secure to her fortune
that should enable her TO take II station wor-
thy Of him, became great object TO INN,
even when he considered her mother dishon-
ored and this purp ose ne maintained TO
the last hour Of his life, with fidelity well
exhibited IN the evidence now recognized in
the highest coErt in the Union. Sill, while
believing that her mother had betrayed him
he did not regard her with that unmmgled
satisfaction aud pride with which he would
have viewed her us the ornament and hope
of n happy home, in which she might have
grown up honoring, and alike honored, by
both her father and mother She had found a
mother in one who never gave her occasion
10 wish for another. or to feel the want of
one. Mrs. Davis, loving lille Myra us her
own child, seemed almost to forget that she
cherished the offspring Of another aud gave
her place in icr affections secure from
changes or dispute.
While still deceived as to his relations to his
wife, Inc had made will bequCuhiug the bulk
Of his property to his aged mother, then resi-
ding ia PHILADELPHIA under the care of lis
friends, and to other persons, legucies of va
rious amounts. Ofthis will, he named Rich
ard Re!fe and Beverly Che0 the executors aud
coufidng in their dsinterestGd attachment to
him, he left to them the duiy and power Of
eflecling his kind purposes towards his moth
or, his friends, and dependents.
But in process oftime il came TO pass lut
ia FIRST GusnpptpI and tbpp\ InurpII Gonna
ting of the monstrous frauds that had been
practiccd on him by these too-much trusted
ProtegeS, partners, friends, aud their fellow
conspirators. BE satisfied himself that hc
had wOfully wronged his wife. Upon inves-
! legation, he found tha: he had been deceived
! by studied imputations against her-that she
had been honest and pure, when he so rash
! ly discarded her in II paroXysm Of jealousy
! that had been sludiOusly excited by those
"honest Ingos"-that she too. had hecu as
shamelully deceived concerning him, aud
had been the innocent victim Of that decep-
ton in yielding to tho temptations OF n new
matrimonial connection in that dreadful mo
moment of her utter abandonment by him.
Thus enlightened he sought her, and finding
her, learning too late the history of the tic-
tons by which she had been ulenated from
! him as from her. Over the deep sorrows
and unutlcrable horrors oithat sad interview
human sympathy Willingly casts II veil
dreading alike u detail of the wolul truth, and
an attenptto Gil It's place by feeble felton,
Fully knowing the frauds that had separated
them, yet feeling the irrevocable doom which
had been thereby brought upon them, they
parted ofnecessity and forever-she TO hen
strange lot as the innocent and faithful
though unlawful wife of another, auC
he 10 his paths of gain and ambition.
lonely man he felt himself doomed to bt
lIenceiorth. lie could not lawfully marry an
other while she lived and probably lac had
but lille disposition at that time even to de.
sire another wife. Her he could never take
to himself again, guiItless though he now
knew her TO be. Bnt there still rcmuucd tc
him one hope in life, one innocent oliec
which he could still regard rs all his Owl
purely and honorabIy his own; aud that was
lis own daughter the child uf his cruelty in
iurcd and irrctrevaby lost Xuline and
upon her all the energies Of his powerful
mind, and all the unemployed affections Of
his heart seem 10 have been IhcnceiOrtll cou-
cenlraied.
Having ascerlained the villainy or BeT
and Chelc, not only in these but in other trans
actions, he at length. determined TO suuder
all his connection with them MS soon Tvs he
could arrange his extensive and complicated
/ business as 10 dispense with them entirely
Possessed as they were ottle most intimate
knowledge ofali his commercial and conf.
dental transactions, he could not safely GU
off all communication with them ut tho in.
stunt when he satisfied himself Of their un.
worthineSs.
But there was one responsible trust vestct
in them, which he did not long delay in re-
moving from them. Knowing the uncertain,
ty of life, aud anxious TO place the custody
nI ,is mud ri,fItIs IA! hi. Ipnrs.
relatives in more trustworthy hands, IN case
Of his DEATH le made Il new will, writer
throughout 10y his own hand, and of which
he constituted three French gentlemen of
high character, and bound to him by the
most intimate aud friendly relation, the eX
ecutors This will revoked The previous one
and made II totally different disposition ofhi.
properly. To his mother it gave large an
nuity, and 10 Il few other persons compare
lively small legaces but by it Myra ClarE
was formally declared his only Legitimate
child, aad the heir of all the vast remainder
OF his great estate.
After his discovery of the almost incredi
BILE misrepresentation by which his wife hlC
been illuminated and wronged, and he him
self slIameijllly deceived into the jealousy
whose consequences led TO their eternal sep
ara,lou, lac co;ild not hut look on the offspring
of their union with new interest and intense
!, ly heightened affection. He left her still ii
the family of Captain Davis, seeking no better
security for her being cherished and ednca
ted to he all that he could desire than was Il
be found in the truly maternal affection nuC
high qualifications of Mrs. Davis. But he dali
ly visited her, and passed much of his time
APPLYING with her, and lavished upon heI
habitually such fond cnresscs and tokens
of endearment, that though but five years
old when she ceased 10 see him, she never
could forget him, and always remembered