The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-04-17
THE NATIONAL ERA.
WASHINGTON, APRIL IA, 1851.
For the National Era.
THE NOBLEMAN's CHILDR EN-.

"The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The aans the gotcd for - thst."-BURss
wonder whether every American child who
has road an " Old World story book has not set
his fancy to sketch an earl viscount, or some pat
torn If mobility Thanks to the Puritan Fa-
thsrs there are no noblemen but Natures, west
% the wide Atlantic and she, in her womanly
d;onitv. has shown herself somewhat more fastid-
ions than the knight-dubbing kings and queens
of the days Of chiyalry. So the childs curiosity
% thrown hack on itself for materials and colors
70 fashion his picture; and imagination frames
and gilds it graudly for his mind-gallery. Ii is
the recollection of this childish picture that
makes the grown-up child so eager oftentimes to
toucb the hem of titled foreigners garment and
which has given Europeans sometimes reason to
laugh, out of their sleeves, at our republicanism
run Wx,f =, e. ..-~
But you are waiting for q veritable sketch, to
COMPARE with your various localities, and will
hasten to give it you. If it disappoints you, find
fault with the pencil or the original, just as 1t
may please you.
In the cabin of lonely vessel ploughing the
seagreen waves that wash Long Islands southern
shore, lounged a half sea-sick girl, enveloped in
a tumbled wrapping-gown. She was listlessly
turning the dog-eared pages of ship-worn novel,
leaning launguidly upon one elbow, when the bit
of a door was thrown open, and little damsel, as
rosy as Aurora herself jumped down the steps at
bound.
sob, Sabrap she cried out, in pretty half
Scotch brogue, otis nigh to America we are, and
you biding between decks yet Up VII you, and
SPY at Sandy Hook
"Dinns bother me, Jeanne What's Sandy
Hook to me, or America either, for O. that 2" re-
piled the other, in lapguid petulance.
4" Mac bid me fetch you to the fore deck per-
sisted the rosy little jeanne. "The breeze will
better your head-ail; and he bides waiting.
Dinns tarryp
al care ma one sea-sheii for the New Warld,
nor aught that's in it ~ returned the sister, more
vehemently. any ain bonnie Scotland shall
ne'er step on its heather mair n She turned her
face from the ships side, and hid 1t from her
sister
aye mauna greet, Sabra p ooaxed the other,
putting her arm around her. "Mind ye meier
Of auld Timothy's tales and sayings2 He babe
us be cheered ye ken, for it was happy life we
wad ha room to live on the big prairie ~
"JeanieW called her brothers voice, impa-
tiently from above.
81 maun lave you" said she, starting up. off
you mad but fold you In the plaid, and TAX one
peep at the bonny sunset %
Put Sah~o1o OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ,ras ,,o,noouorokIo
and Jeanne left her to sigh and make moan over
her own miseries, while she few up, light as
roe to toss her arms in the fresh land breeze, and
dance with delight at the thought of treadipg
green grass again, and gathering flowers, though
it were on stranger shore.
Mcdonald, Sabra, and jeanne Spencer were
the children of Scottish laird Of high family,
but decsyed- fortune Orphaned in early life,
they were reared and educated by aristocratc
and wealthy relations, who taught them from
childhood this first great lesson--that the blood
that flowed along their veins had weIled up from
aspiring of pride and honor far back in antiquity.
The two elder were not slow in learning this
lesson, but little jeanne was sadly plagued by
some perversely plebeian tastes She never could
De made to feel that she was born Teddy" and
must sit, walk or ride, in stately Indifference or
more stately condescension, to her interiors. In
deed the child could not he convinced that she
had any interiors among those who spoke kindly
10 her She loved her nurse as we'll as she did
her prim old aunt, and great deal better and
Sne was never backward in showing her way
ward preferences. Many was the lecture on her
station in society, and many the punishment that
the poor child was forced to receive for vilfullv
forgetting It, She loved nothing better than,
when ner aunts or governess's terrible eye was
turned, TO skip down into the kitchen with the
maids, hear their songs and stories eat their buns
and batter-cakes, and, worse than all, actually 70
take lessons in the unlady like arts Of scrubbino
and cooking.
IL slow, measured step was heard approach.
ing Jeanie's sport was at an end. She must
ether run to hide under the great Toured apron
Oi the COOK, or dodge through back doors and by.
ways back into the patrcian halls Of the mansion.
sue 'aiied' she could calculate how many hours
sue should be doomed to sit on high stool. with
u'ngiing feet, embroidering three. footed white
~ the corner Of her sampler, under the des-
P'"' eye OF her aunt. Poor Jeanie used to sit.
ucn ''mes, biting her thread, or pouting her
"p'' anu wish that she had been born O maid
''i'a''' or robin, or lamb or even speckled
i'u'' TOT that had the whole brook to founder
anything but a Spencer of the Speucers, to
s' On an ottoman and work vorsted-and turn
o1' her toes when she walked-apd behave like a
proper young leddyw Oh she would make
A''seii very miserable about her destiny for hall
~ hour, and then would forget that shs ever
had any miseries
'aora looked down quite disdainfuly upon her
e'Oa'humored little sister; FIRST, because her
sraa. mp shoulders were q little higher than the
h,as curve Of aristocracy secondly, because her
r,s., were large enough to be useful, and undig-
in enOogh to be perpetually trying to be so,
way or another. Sabra, who took the deli.
I'll 'na ianguid airs Of the fine LADY, a. natu-
A.. us mocking bird takes music lessons, pri-
.n., "erself not little on her ignorance Of all
zen p'eoeian matters AZ pertain TO the comforts
No, s Her littlswhite hand was made to wave,
~ 70 work and in truth, it seemed much filter
' FORMER than the latter purpose.
,..',. Aen Mcdonald had nearly finished his uni
char, studies various changes in family affairs
d..,s, 'ne aspect Of his own and his sisters
ana a, As the young people were fortuneless,
no .,.a 'u consequently make NO figure, sustain
VA. .s' In their own proud country, il
America ''' ''''uns-seeking to
'sanis jumped half across. the hal, =, ~. a..
''''0n Of the matter, and sas very ou,.,,v