Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1854-06-23
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Listen, Mr.. EIkiugtonl hear to reason.
viii society be any safer, so far as | am
concerned, ten years hence, if, by your act,
| am hardened into deliberate criminal 2
The stern purpose of the merchant be-
gan to waver. Craig saw it, and grasping
his hand, said:
Think of my poor mother, and let me go
free. Believe me, sir, your head will rest
upon a quieter pillow than if you set the
heel of imaginary justice on my heart aud
crush out all innocence beneath its iron
tread
A moment or two Mr. Ellington paused,
then in a shortened voice, be said:
What then?'
4 will pass on farther South, and under
new name seek to win back for myself,
by honesty aud industry, the position l
have lost
Mr.. L stood silent for the space of near
ly minute.
Have you any money . he theninquired.
Enough to take me as far as New Or
leans
James said Mr.. Ellington, his manner
still more softened towards the young man,
it shall be as you wish. And to show you
that feel an awakening confidence in your
good purpose, will lend you fifty dollars.
You may not readily end employment, and
destitu;ion might lead you into temptation,
Not fifty dollars, Mr.. ELLINGTON, was
the quick reply, 'butif you will make the
sum twenty dollars, it shall be paid if [
live All, sir, this generous kindness will
never be forgotten. l feel it already as a
new impulse to vir.uous action
May your good resolution fail not said
Mr.. E., with emotion. Take this and he
handed Craig small roll of bank bills.
BE true to yourself and TO your mother and
all may yet be WE'LL
Ten years passed.
Occasionally, in his native city, some one
inquired for James Craig, but from the
time he left in disgrace, no one seemed to
know anything about him.
A few months after his disappearance
his mother went somewhere to the South,
it was said to Join her son.
AS time wore on they were forgotten, ol
only thought of casually by few who had
known then more intimately than the rest
One day a Southern merchant named
Floyd, to whom Mr.. Ellington had sold
large bills of goods during the previous
four or FIVE years, but who had not visitec
the North during that time, called in a
the store of Ellington ard mentioned hi'
name. His hand was at once grasped cor
daily. and much pleasure expressed at ma
king the personal acquaintance OF valued
business correspondent
As tie two men stood looking into each
Others faces, Mr.. L. was struck with some
thing strangely familiar in the countenanc'
of his visitor.
you do not remember me, then?' sal,
Floyd.
'james-James Craigl Is it possible
exclaimed Mr., Ellington, lowering his voice
Not James Craig. That name Tas dis
honored. But Andrew Floyd, a name ye
untarnished and which trust to keel
to the end. You were just to the goo'
that remained in my heart, Mr.. Ellington
and | am, thank God! aman again. Wha
the consequence would have been, ha
} your stcrne rideas of justice had their way
| shudder to imagine
For several moments Mr. Ellington stoo
, silent, and in some bewilderment. The
t he said in a subdued manner:
And | also, All! how much harm W
5 may do by too stringent applications c
: general laws in particular cases FEAT jus
Tina is a golden rule; but when we resolv
that Justice shall be done, be very certal
that we are not guilty of the rankest iaju
tee.
r And so we say to all Let justice b
done-but pause, and consider well tt
7 case, and be sure that something real
, good is not destroyed BY your actio'
e Should such, unhappily be ther esult, the
) instead of being just, you have surel
: wrongcd your fellow men.