Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-03-17
THE WAY SHE TURNED HIM.

PARTY man ever met with was Jack D.,
now prosperous and influential Attor-
-nev, in s. county in this State
AT the hour of which am writing, he
was a red hot democrat, and his chief
pleasure seemed to consist in making the
fact as notorious as possible to the world,
His friends and acquaintances, who knew
him we'll, and whom he had repeatedly
'victimized,' with one consent pronounced
.JackA bore, and his politics a nuisance !;
but, with stranger, the thing was cs-
,sentially different, Seized by the button,
.at the moment of introduction, Jack
would astonish him by a rapid rehearsal
sOf tho articles of his political creed
branch out into an intermediate rhapsody
on the manifest destiny Of the great pro-
gresS!ye party, and if tie victim was
usually passive, wind up by aG eloquent
eulogy on the great ~ did" as the living
embodiment of his peculiar opinions, and,
in consequence the greatest man of the
age. Such was Jack D., at the time of
our story, acknowledged ON every side as
firm and incowuptible Democrat. But
alas! let us, however, not anticipate-but
TO our story.
One unlucky day, Jack met at the
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personal beauty and Accomplishments
attracted by her lovsliness, and captiva'
ted by her Intelligence, he became ASST
duous in his attentions, forgot for while
his principles and without inquiring
what might be the political preferences
of his lady love-, mprudently proposed,
was accepted, and they were married.
The wedding was over, the guests had
departed, and the happy pair had retired
to their chamber, and were snugly cscon-
ced in bed, when Jack in the course of a
Quet conversation with his wife, unwit-
tingly alluded to his favorite subject, by
casually speaking of himself as being a
Democrat
What = exclaimed she, turning sharp
ly and suddenly towards him, ARE you a
Democrat 2
Yes, madam, replied Jack-dclight
ed with the idea of having patient lis
tencr to his long restrained oratOry.--I
yes, madam, am Democrat, real
JetferGonian Democrat. attached to the
principles of the great progressive party
u regular om and outer double-died and
twisted in the WOOL
Just double and twist yourself out of
this bed, then Interrupted his wife, Il
with any 1aan protesting the abomina
doctrines you do
Jack was spccchless from absolute
ama2emcnt. That the worry wife of his
bosom should prove a traitor, was horri-
stratcd-in vain-tried erSuasion-'twas
Observation-Disclosures no go. She
was in sober earnest, and the only alter
Vs. IL, ~ iot;
Of his hcresy, or separate bed in another
room. Jack did not hesitate. TO objure
the great and established doctrines of his
party, to renounce his allegiance to that
faith that had become identified with his
very being, TO surrender these glorious
principles which had grown with his
growth, and strengthened with his
strength-to the mere whim and caprice
of woman, was utterly ridiculous and
absurd, and he threw himself from the
bed, and prepared to quit the room.
As he was leaving the door, his wife
screamed out to him, i say, my dear,
when you recant your heresy, and repent
your past errors, just knock at my door,
and perhaps l will let you in
The door was violently slammed, and
Jack proceeded wrathfully in quest of
another apartment,
A sense of insulted dignity, and the
firm conviction that he was martyr in
the right cause, strengthened his pride,
and he resolved to hold out until he forced
his wife into capitulation.
In the morning she met him as if no.
thing had happened, but, whenever Jack
ventured to allude to the rupture of the
night previous, there was a laughing
devil in her eye, which bespoke her pow
err, and extinguished hope. A second
time he repaired to his lonely couch. and
a second time he called upon his pride to
support him in the struggle which he now
found was getting desperate. He vented
curses, mot loud but deep on the way
wardness and caprice of the sex in gene
ral and of his own wife in PARTICULAR
wondered how much longer she would
hold out-whether she suffered as acute
ly as he did, and tried hard to delude
himself into the belief that she loved him
too much to prolong the enstrangement,
and would come to him with morning
perhaps that very night, and sue for re-
Cancellation. But, then came the recol-
lection of that inhexible countcnanCe, of
that unbcnding will, and of that laughing
and mpitying cye-and he felt convinced
tha' he was hoping against hope, and
despalrlngly he turned to the wall for
'oOHNlOn IRON the wretchcdness of his own
thoughts.
The second day was a repet;tion Of the
first-no allusion was made to tho forbid
den subject on either side. There was
look of quiet happiness and cheerful.
ness about his wife, that puzzled Jack
cora1,, ond bn fa1t that all idoa Of fo~.;-