Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1854-10-02

THE WAY SHE TURNED HIM,

THE WAY SHE TURNED HIM,
The most bigetted and unreasonable
party G:an | ever met with was Jack d.,
now prosperous and influential attorney
in S. county, in one of the Western States.
At the hour at which | am writing, he
was a red hot whig. and his chief pleasure
seemed to consist in making the fact as no.
o!ious as possible to the world. lis
friends and acduaintances, who knew him
well, and whom he had repeatedly vic
timized, with enc consent pronounced
Jack IA bore, and his politics nuisance !;
but, with stranger, the hing vas essen
tally different. Seized by the button, at
the moment of introduction, Jack would
astonsh him by rapid rehearsal OF the
article OF his political creea-bfanch OUT
III an intefmnatle rhapsody Oh the first
principle Of his party, and Il the .ictim
was unusually passive, wind up by ire
mendous eulogy on the great Harry, as
the living embodiment o. his peculiar
Opinions and in consequence, The greatest
man eli lie age. Such was Jack D. at tie
time Of our story. Acknowledged on every
side as firm and incoffuptibie wing -,
i'att -'"S ~ So Hs'} t-o"CsCi3 aEtieipatSs
but TO our story.
One unlucky day, lacl met a. tie house
Of flienl, young lady Of great personal
beauty and mplishments attracted by
her loyeliuess, he became asslduous in his
atteniions, forgot for while his sspriuci-
pies" andswithoat inqtiriag what inighe
be the political preference D. his lady
love" impruiently proposed, YVES accept-
cd, aad tAey were married.
lhe wedding was over, the guests he'd
departed, and the happy pair had retired
to ,ileir chamber, and we're snugly en-
scoused in bed when Jack, in the course
of quiet conversation with his wife, uu-
Willingly alluded TO his fayorite subject,
by casually, speaking of himself as being a
wing.
"Nhat u exclaimed size, turning sud-
den'5 sharply towards him ARE you Il
Wig p
YES madam" replied Jack, delighted
Wit. the idea of having patient listener
10 his long res;sai1ed ofatoty yes mad
am, am nhig-attaohed 10 the princi-
pies OF the great federal pa.ty-a regular
cut aud OUTER doubie-dNed, and twisted
in the wool u
i'iust danble ard twist yourself out Of
this bed ihen," interrupted his nite:
am a Democrat, ! am, aud +! wii! never
sleep with a man processing TIE abo.nna
bic doctrine you do
Jack was ypeeetless iecm absolute
Amusement, that the very wife OF his bo.
som should prove traitcr was horrible
she must be jesting. He demonstrated III
vain; tried persuasion twas ussless en-
tirely, twas 10 SO. She was n sober
earnest, and the only alternative left hin,
was a prompt remuneration of his heresA +,
or a separate bed IN another room. Jack
did not hesitate. 20 allure the great end
established doctrine OF his party. to re
nounee his allegiance to that faith, that
faith which had become identified with
his every being, to surrender those gloEi-
Gus principles which had grown with his
growth and strengthened with his strength,
to the mere caprice of a woman was ut
teriy 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, Il say, my dear,
when you reeant your heresy, and repent
your past errors Just knock at the door
and perhaps vill let you in.
The door was violently slammed and
Jack proceeded wrathfully in quest OF an
other apartment. .s.
A sense Of insulted dignity and the ifa
convection that he was a martyr in tie
right cause strengthened his pride, and
he resolved to heIl our until he forced
his wife into capitulati IN.
In the morning she met him as II moth.
ing had happened, but whenever Jack
vcntured TO ai!ude to the rupture The nigh
previous there was Dangling devil u
her eye which bespoke her power e.stin
guished hope. A second time he repaired
to his lonely couch, and a second time ht
called upon his pride to support him il
that Struggle which he now found wa.
getting desperate. He ventured curses
not loud, but deep on the waywaidnes
aud caprice Of the sex i'll general and hi
own wife in particular, wondered how
Auc., longer she would hold out, whethe
she suffered as aentely as he did, and trie.
to delude himself into the belief that sbs
loved him too much to psolong he estrange
ment, and would come TO him with tn.
morning: and perhaps that very nigh
would Sue for reconciliation. But ths
recollection OF that intleXible conntenance
O. that unbendiug will, aud OF that laugh
lug and implying eye, and lie felt con
\ WINGED that he hoped against hope, and il
i4sn.ir ~. furrs1 IN tn, ~ all for nbliy