Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-22
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\ True Story-why James Buchanan Is n
Bachelor.
"Comc thick night,

And pail me in the dunnest smoke of he'll,
That my keen knife see not the wound ii makes"
LADY MAoBETn.
More than fifty thousand centuries ago, in
far planet. inhabited by men and women
with like feeling and passions to ourselves,
there once existed great nation which had
conquered for itsefa beautiful home on n
large continent, originally possessed by will!
beasts and by sayagcs 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 sayagcs, 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 lntcr!er-
ence Of other nations. across n wide ocean
on the same planet, who had driven away
thcrfathers, and sUmetimcs threatened
them
As the men Of the great nation, then in
its infancy, struggled day ty day with un-
tanned beasts, savagcs and forests, and look
cd forward every evening in their musings,
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 instlling into those childrcn,some
Of the most glorious lessons in human life,
ever known i'll that, or any other planet
Among others, they learned to associate on
equal terms, to rely each on himself, to unite
for 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 whom 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 cut
There was one young man among them.
who early distinguished himself among all
his fellows by being stronger, more sef,re-
liant, more constant and truer than them
all
He was soon highly honored hy those he
exceiled, for they were noble nnd generous.
He was made spokesman for his neghbor-
hood.ln 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 Mt home
During all this time he never took part
ner to his home, according to the custom of
had children, and died, and those children
married and did likewise yer he rcmaincd
solitary and alone All wondered at TT
When he was at last proposed by large
number of his fellow citizens for their chief
ruler, he had become gray in the service of
his country, and was stll Il bachelor Those
who were opposed to him talked of this as
an evidence of his coldness Of heart and APP
pealcd to the women to use their efforts
against him. Only few Of his friends knew
the truth; and felt how keenly these idle re
prsaches cut him to the heart
Many years before that time, when he
was strong and hopeful youth, bat ms 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. lie and she had talk
ed and played together as children, and low
ed each other as boy and girl, until they had
become 50 inscperably intcrtwined in each
others visions Of life, that no picture or fam
cicd happiness was ever formed by either, in
dreams by day or night, which did not in
culc the other as its chief joy. Neither ev-
err passed moment, waking or sleeping,
when the ether was not present, in hope or
reality. ii he ever dreamed for moment
of the fame he was afterwards to achieve,
we may be sure that she was there 10 turn
his pride into exquisite happiness.
In the midst of all this about the tine 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 sickcned and died.
That night which has no morrow fell on his
inner life. Thenceforth there was no more
nope 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 and Jispairing. A heartless man would
have filled her place with another idol
lie was neither weak nor heartless. Ae had
been taught in the school Of the founders of
the great nation, and was at once strong and
true lie went on in hi, course, and served
his country well and hoaorably. Laurels
gathered round his brow, and every year
added to his fame But his dreams Of love
were buried in the grave of the chosen of his
heart; aud therefore he remainnd forever a
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
babblers, who had unwittingly, in idle gcS-
sip. said things that would so cruelty and
unjustly stab him to the heart if he should
perchance hear them, heard the story of his
life. they stopped short and said no more
One in particular, silly and shallow fellow,
living in a large city, near the mouth of the
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