Butte record., 1856-08-23
NUMBER 43.
From the n. o. Dellal
True siory--why James Buchanan Is n
Bachelor.
Come thick night,

from the n. o. DeIta.1
Il True Siory--yvhy James Buchanan Is m
Bachelor.
"Corne thick night
And pail ne in the dunnesi smoke of he'll
That my keen Knife see not the wound it rnakesn
LADY MACBETH
More than fifty thousand centuries age, in
a far planet inhabited by men and women
with like feeling and passions to ourselves.
there once existed great nation which had
conquered for itselfa beautiful home on q
large continent, originally possessed by wild
beasts and by sayages in shape resembling
man., but scarcely less wild and useless than
the beasts they hunted and DESTROYED -.
This great nation had in its youth spent
many years in doubtful struggle with the
beasts and the savages, and had labored
hard in clearing out the thick forests and
Transforming them into lovely gardens and
fields, in which they might live happily and
abundantly, far from the annoying interfer
ence of other nations, across wide ocean
on the same planet, who had driven away
theirtathors, and sometimes threatened
them.
As the men of the great nation, then in
its Infancy, struggled day by day with un-
tanned beasts, saVages and forests, and look.
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to the time when their children should en-
Joy the fruits Of their many tolls and dang
ers, they were unconsciously learning them
selves and instilling into those children, some
of the most glorious lessons in human life,
ever known in that, or any other planet
Among others, they learned to associate on
equal terms, to rely each on himself, to unite
fer mutual protection, and above ALL. to be
IN all things, constant and true; so that when
in the course Of time, they became the great
nation Of whoa we have spoken, they were
fully imbued with those principles, and re-
fused to have king like the other inhabi-
tants of their planet, and chose every few
years one Of their own body to see that their
laws were carried out
There was one young man among them,
who carly distinguished himself among all
his fellows by being stronger, more self-re.
liant, more constant and truer than them
all.
He was soon highly honored by those he
excelled, for they were noble and generous,
he was made spokesman for his neighbor-
hood In the public Assembly-then a sort of
representative for division of the nation,
called a State, in whicd he lived and then
again he was the Ambassador of the whole
nation abroad, and earned as high renown
there as he already enjoyed at home.
During all this time he never took part
ner to his home, according to the custom of
his fellows. His early friends married and
had children, and died, and those children
married and did likewise yet he remained
solitary and alone. All wondered ct it
When he was at last proposed by largo
number Of his fellow citizens for their chief
ruler, he had become gray in the service Of
his country, and was still bachelor. Those
who were opposed to him talked of this as
an evidence Of his coldness of heart, and ap-
pealed to the women to use their efforts
against hirl Qnly few of his friends knew
the truth; and felt how keenly these idle re.
breaches cut him to the heart.
Many years before that time, when he
was strong and hopeful youth, but as yet
little known outside of his own immediate
circle, lie was already promised in marriage
to the girl with whom his heart had been
since early childhood. He and she had talk
ed and played together as children, and low
ed each other as boy and girl, until they had
become so inseperably intertwined in each
others visions of life, that no picture or fan
cied happiness was ever formed by either, in
dreams by day or night, which did not in
clude the other as its chiefjOy. Neither ev-
er passed moment, waking or sleeping,
Thea the ether was net present, in hope or
reality If he ever dreamed for moment
Of the iamc he was afterwards to achieve,
We may Ire sure that she was there to turn
his pride into exquisite happiness.
In The midst Of all this. about the .tn,e he
was first chosen by his comrades to be hon
ored and trusted, the sun of his inner life
suddenly set to rise no more
The lady of his love sickened and died
That night which has no morrow fell on his
inner life. Thenceforth there was no more
hope of love for him. He had played high
for happiness and lost The game was up.
a weak man would have sunk down, ruin
ed aud Jispairng. \ heartless man would
have filled her place with another idol
He was neither weak nor heartless. He had
been taught in the school of the founders of
the great nation, and was at once strong snd
true. He went on in his course, and served
his country well and hcRora5ly Laurels
gathered round his brow, aad every year
added to his fame. But his dreams of love
were buried in the gr ave Of TIE chosen of his
heart; and therefore he reElainnd forever
bachelor.
Nothing remains to be told, except the Sc
quel Of the story. 1t is almost incredible in
these days of political bloodhounds, but not
the less true. As soon as the thoughtless
babbiers, who had unwittingly, in idle gos-
sip, said things that would SO cruelty and
unjustly stab him to the heart if he should
perchance hear them, heard the story If his
life. they stopped short and said no mare.z
One in particular, silly aad shallow fellow,
living in large city, near the mouth of the
principle river Of the country, took back bis
former bable,. and publicly declar ed that,
although he disilked the great man for ru>
Ter, he would never willingly wound SO po,
bic and CO onstant 4 heart.