Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-03-11

himself as being democrat.
WHAT" said she turning sharply and
suddenly towards him, "are you Demo
crat 2"
"Yes, madam" replied Jack, delighted
with the idea of having patient listener to
his long restrained oratory. "Yes, madam, |
am Democrat real Jeffersonian Demo-
crat, attached to the principles of the great
progressive party; regular out and outer,
double-dyed and twisted in the wool"
Just double and twist yourself out of this
bed, them" interrupted his wife. Il .am a
Wing, am, and viii never sleep with any
man protesting the abomnable doctrines you
do.'' .-.r.
Jack was speechless from absolute amaze
ment. That the very wife of his bosom should
prove traitor, was horrible-she must be
testing. He remonstrated-in vain--tried
persuasion-'twa useless -entreaty-twas
no 90. She was in sober earnest, and the
only alternative left him was prompt re-
nunciation of his heresy, or separate bed
in another room. Jack did not hesitate. To
abure the great and established doctrines Of
his party-to renounce his allegiance to that
that had become identified with his very be-
ing--surrender those glorious principles which
iiud grown with his growth and strengthened
with his strength, to the mere whim and ca
price of a woman, was utterly ridiculous and
absurd, he threw himself from the bed and
prepared to quit the room.
As he was leaving the door, his wife scream
ed out to him, a say, my dear, when YOU
recant your heresy, and repent your past err
rors, just knock at my door, and perhaps
viii let you in"
/ The door was evidently slammed, and Jack
p proceeded wrathfully in quest of another "a
lpartment.
: A sense of insulted dignity, and the firm
conviction that he was martyr in the ''right
caase." strengthened his pride, and he resol-
ved to hold out until he forced his wife into
q capitulation.
had happened, but whenever Jack yentured
to allude to the rupture of the night previous,
there was "laughing quirk" in her eye,
which bespoke her power, and extinguished
hope. A second time he repaired TO his lone
IL couch, and a second time he called upon
his pride to support him to the struggle
which he now found was getting desperate
lie vented curses, "not loud bat Deep" on
the waywardness of the sex in general, and
Of his own wife in particular-wondered how
much longer she would hold out-whether
she suffered as acutely as he did, and tried
hard 10 delude himself into the belief that
she loved him too much to prolong the es-
trangement, and would come to him with
morning-perbaps that very night, and sue
for reconciliation. But then came recollec-
ton Of that infeziblc cOuntenance, of that
unbending viii, and that laughing and unpi-
tying eye--and he felt Convinced he was ho-
ping against hope and despairingly Returned
70 the wall for oblivion from the wrctched-
4 ness of his of own thoughts
The second day was a repetition of the first
mo alIusion was made TO the forbidden SUBJ
ject, on either SIDE. There was look of qui-
ct happiness and cheerfulness about his wife,
that puzzled Jack sOrcly, and he felt that all
idea Of forcing her into a surrender, must be
abandoned.
4 third night he was alone with his tho 'ts
His reflections were more serious and compo-
sed Than on the night previous. What they
were, of course were known only to himself,
but they seemed to result in something deci-
def, for about midnight. three distinct taps
we're made at his wifc's door, no answer
and the signal was repeated in louder tone;
still all was silent, and a third tine the door
shook with the violent attacks from the out
side
Who's there 4" cried the voice of his wife,
as if just aroused from deep sleep.
It's nc, my dear, and perhaps little the
best Wing you ever did see."
The revolution in such opinions was radi-
cal and permanent He renloYed to another
county, became popular, offered himself as Il
candidate on the Wing ticket, for the Legis-
Iature, and was elected, and for several ses-
siohs represented his adopted county, as a
firm and decided Whig.
A Sleepy Hdt-Isn't your hat sleepy?
inquired little urchin, of a gentleman with
q shocking bad one on. No-why! inquired
the gentleman. Why, | think it is long
time since it bad anap was the reply.