Council Bluffs bugle., 1855-04-03


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4 esa1ty, Ia one Of ths Vestern Stata:.
Al ~ hoar Of which an vri,ins. b.
@as red-hot whig. and his chief pleas
s0100lSeq % t56slSt . m1EiDg t63 ISSs
q notqf)14s ~ stossihle to the world.
AeAsasainaaase> and friends. who ksew
him ,H0kaf0hfq Aea hsa tsspeatedly
,vieli@lied. VIII @ cosssn. pronounced
Jack bdfs, md s. poI;fcs ! nuisance;
bat With straaset, thu thing vas essen
t.aHy dieerent Ssl1ed BY the bdtton at
shs aoaese y in,roduc,ion, Jack wou, d
-seoc'sh' hte 6y . rapia rshsAsssi Of the
.racles OF Asa po!iticalcrsed-hr out
INTO n mserrainabls rhapsody on the .6rs,
Fr'nc.p'e. of his party. Aad If The viosim
vas asa~lly passive. Wind up by ire
,faendsoas ealas,,y on the great Harry as
<ne hv'ng eUlboiiment Of his peculiar
opinions, and in conse queuce, the greatest
man OF she age.-suoh was Jack 3. at he
Time OF our story, Acknowledged on ere. y
Ade Is drm and incotruprible whig, But
alas ie. Us not, however. aniicipale, but
- svr story. lp sss.Efsen
One unlaeky day, Tack met at the res
idence Vt . friend, young lady Of great
personal beauty and accomplishments; At
tracted by her lovelinsss, axd cap,isatsd
by her intelligence. he became assiduous
n his intentions; forgot for while his
principles and without enquiriny shat
might be the political preference Of his
lady love- impsadeutiy proposed. was
accepted, and they we've married.
The Wedding was over. the guests had
departed, and the happy pair had retired
10 their chamber, and were snugly en-
scosced in bed, when Jack. ia the course
OF \ quiet conversation with his wife, un
Willingly alluded to his fsvorite subject.
by casually speaking of himself as being
q whig.
"Mnatm exclaimed she. turning sud-
denly and sharply towards him. 'are you
Whig?'
Yes, madam replied Jack. d, lighted
With the idea OF having patfent hstene
80 his restrained oratory; yes, madam,
am . whtg attached 10 the principles o
the great federal party-a regular out and
outer. donb!e-dyed and tw .sted in the
WOOL
Just double And twls. yourself out o.
shis led then, interrup ed the wife; L am
= Democrat, am, and will never seet
with any man processing the abominable
doctrines you do
Saek was speechless from absolute
smsxement. that the very wife of his bo-
SON should prove a traitor was horrible
she 1. asst be jesting. He demonstrated ii
vain; tried Persuasion: twas useless en-,
strety twas no 60. She was in sober
EARNEST, and the only alternative left him
~A = prompt Remuneration ,,f his heresy
or aseparase bed in another room, Jack did
aot hsStste. 10 sbirre the great ana es
sabfShed doctrines of his party, to re
nouuce his allegiance to that faith that had
become identified wit h his very being. to
surrender those gaoric US principles which
hsd grown with his 6 rowth and strength.
sned With his streagu to the mere cap
rice of q ~omza, va utterly ridiculous
and absurd, xnd thre " himself from the
hed and prepared to { uit the room.
As he vas leaving the door, his wife
screamed cut to him, L say, my dear,
wheh Won rccant your heresy. and repent
your past errors. just knock at the door.
aud perhaps I'll let you in
The door was violently slammed and
JACK proceeded wrathfully in quest of an
other apartment.
4 sense OF fiasulted dignity, and the e IN
conviction that he was martyr in the
right cause. strengthened his pride and he
resolved to bold out until he forced his
wife into fecafi.ulation.
"a the taornir. g she met him as if moth
Ing lad happened, but whenever Jack
veltared to allude TO the rupture the night
previous, there WAS 'langhing devil in
her eye, which bespo ke her power and ex
,inxhis,ied hope. A second time he re-
paifed 10 his lonely couch, and second
time he ealled upon his pri.le TO support
him ia that struggle which he now found
was getting desperate. He ventured cur.
ses, hot loud bat deep on the way ward.
ness and caprice of the sex in general and
his okh wife h :prticular; wondered how
much longer she would hold out; wbe;h
or she ghffefed ts acutely as he did, ard
tried Hard to telude himself into the be-
lief dat she Fred him TOO much to pro
long the esttxhgemens, aud would COME
10 hih with morning. and perhaps lha:
very night would sue for reconciliation,
but then came the recollntion Of that in.
flexible countenance, Of that unb~nd.ng
viii, ana Of that laughing and Implying
eve, ana be felt convinced that he was
hoping against hope, and despairingly bs
turned to the wall for oblivion from the
vretchedness 'tf Bic own thoughts.
The second DAY ws, repetition Of the
FIRST. no anas;on vas made to the ioro'd.
deu subject "a either ;iie- There yas !.
look Of quiet b.ppipess and chserfnln1esss'
about lis Viz i6at puzzled JACK soreiy,
s.d he felt that :,ll idsa Of forcing Fer into
.-.-,r.r,d.v ,,r,t n Abandoned.