The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-07-08

tempered gill. sbelvas "a orphan. Her orr
brother had thought him Elf summoned b, d,
love Of glesy and Of Ne country, TO leaye ~
in the year ls47, and 90 Ind Try 10 shaoAssr.
Mexicans, for endessotir RIO defend thsir lsoii
lies and csrtain lands bslspgipg to them, via
thess United States void have been mpel
bstter without, and did rot want, but whiahss
few slsveholdins indiVd als thought that ~!
did, for the better fix Of their slayes acc
supremacy. His snferR jss terminated iir Is,
Mexicans, very natarsalJ .shoo.ing him. The
poor young man, thoagt igcorant and nfatu
sted, vas generous and seIl meaning, soa De
served better fate, liz irlany other lightheart
ed and thoughslsss yorth,, Who we're buichered
Ike bsasts, ,or bsekea Town lf0r. life, IA tia
miserable and wicked | az To make osher
little sisters fatherless 81 brotherless, he left
his own, crying bitterly, the rearing of stran
gers, and his negroes, crs:ng more bitterly and
with more reason, to thes.ender mercies of I'M
overseen overseers.
How the negroes far.d, never fully trans
pred Colonel Roche'saurice Constance's
cousin. and guardian of k-g property, conscien.
tiously visited her planks tion once in every
twelvemonth, and usually sound it expedient to
place the management otdt in new hards; but
that was all that be fous:.time to do in regard
to ii, except to see that q roper amount of pro.
duce vas regularly for,he sning, aud sold, and
that the proceeds we're ptaftably invested.
Constance herself. in sbe mean while. had
done neither so well ner e. III as she might have
done. The influences o. gentle and genial
home, invaluable to rics but wayward nature
like hers, were lost to hrx She was kept. for
the most part, during the remsindsr of her mi
nority, at one and anotb boarding school at
New York, where shs issbibed the necessary
amount of spelling, aritS petic, and languages,
and learned to draw and amt little, and play
and sing msgnifcently. ~he was not generally
beloved by her sohoolmaes, because she did
not generally love theng: though she always
had one or two retainers, no admired her beau.
ty, applauded her spirit, ,hared her lavish al
lowsncs OF pocket-mones, and until she fell
out with them In their TIM, were very fond of
her, as they could hardly ielp being; for, when
she allowed herself to p gentle and fond, all
the concentrated warmtEof her natural dispo.
sition burst forth and wa ned the few on whom
it fell, as the June sun is ottest when it breaks
through q hole in the ouds on an overcast
day. She wished to besa queen among her
companions. She was Crushing in her scorn
to rebels, though her oledient subjects found
in her powerful and be- iteous protectress.
Alas, poor youth Het Nemesis stalks at
your heels. picking up Jour every fault, and
sowing it, to raise harvest of sorrow for your
reaping in after daysl 81 ~ each of your pecca-
dilloes grows up into hss5it2 And how are you
tanele and knot the Thread of w6fcs the web of
all your earthly life-the only life for which
most of us care much now-is wovenl Such
as Constance had been in her school, such she
came out of her school, and, thinking to bend
a playful, caressing kitten to her will, laid the
full weight of her girlish hand, on what rose
under it kingly young lonl
Even when kind to sher companions, she
"fslt," that is to say, fancied herself immeas.
urably superior TO them all. They were frivo.
lous, girlish, childish. Their thoughts ran on
dress and admirers and it had never occurred
to her to ask herself whether the indifference,
for which she gave herself credit on these points,
was not the mere apathy of satie.y-a safety
which met her at nursery parties and summer
watering. places, long before her regular debut
They had no such aspirations rs hers. Shehad 6
soul all on fire with what stood in her mind foI
the love of country and the South stood in
her mind for the country, and three hundred
thousand Shareholders for the South. The de
nunciations of the South, which she met Xitl
10 some quarters, and, the equally indiscree
and violent denuncistions of those denuncia
tons, which she met with in others, alike in
famed her pseudo patriotism, and, as a South
ern girl, che considered Il incumbent upon her t,
hate the North. If her country would but poin
out to her some sacrifice which she could make
some service which she could render to it
there were only Clorindas now, how she woul
rush to Mexico, and avenge the loss which sh
and her country had both sustained in her va
liant brothers death IF she had been maj
she would have conquered for it this whole COT
tinent, from the pole to the isthmus; nay, pc,
haps to Cape Horn-bigness standing in be
mind for greatness-a rare mistake! but pa
donable in q school girl--and Their, mighty j
counsel as in arms, she would have consol
dated it all into one vast republic. crow
should have been offered her by her gratef
! and adoring countrywen, but she would ha,
majestically waved it aside, preferriDg to 6h
f her own glory in the grandeur and liberty of b,
{ exalted nation.
:. The South-mesning again the council
, three hundred thousand-should govern it, c'e,
q a-dire, hold its government offices, and Eight
g it. The supple AID pusillanimous, but ingenio,
e and industrious, NORTH, should be kept out
mischief, and suitably employed in fetching, q
rying, spinning, and sreaving, for it and
o within its borders should have been beautit
order, dominion, and glory-if she had been
st man. Being not man, however, she shras
Re instinctively, as most persons of fine femini
'e natures will, from wthing herself one, as XII;
is of sin against her nature. She turned from !
j. dazzling vision, cann down from the throne
her castle in the air; and set another lord up
it in her place, thus:
When she was empncipated from her scho
a and left behind her he prosaic and grovelli
companions and TEACHERS, who could not
much as understand her, far less sympath
With her, abe expected to emerge, Of cour
III like other heroines, into an approaching Q
admiring world, all whose unmarried men vol
lr at once throw themsSlves at the feet Of a CT
ture endowed with such wealth, rank, intelld
is "a h.antv Most of her su;tors vo'