True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1858-04-28
q Raglan, Editor and Proprietor.

who will be unwise enough to build his
affections upon as sandy a foundation as
he supposiliOn that man who has outli-
Ved the. trials Of his youth would wish to
remember where he started from. All,
vain presumption Behold how each /
man looks down the ladder of life, aud
affects to scorn those who are working
their way up the same round which he
has assembled. How soon he forgets
what he once was and how ambitious
he is to have his children CONNIE nee life
just where he leaves off; and then dares
to call his narrow minded penuriousness
a longing desire for their happiness. Call
it, man. what it is spring from the
great overgrown tree of your own ambi-
tious folly; sanctify it by no such name
as happiness for yourself and child for
they who always suspect will never be
happy. | have also learned that there is
a wide difference between the confidence
which becomes an honest upright, high
minded man, and the suspicious simplicity
which dlsgraces fool
/" Yes, loved with all the fond earn
estness Of first and only love reason.
judgment, ambition, pride, and every
aspiration Of my soul was completely
absorbed in that one great conqueriRg
passion that had been awakened in my
soul by my own dear Helen; and by her,
as did believe, and believe now, my
love was as fondly and ardently returned.
Yet men make mistakes when they allow
any one feeling to absorb every other, and
| may have made mistake, too {; for
even now, althought ii has been but few
months since we parted, rumor tells me
that another fills the heart that l was
onceso foolish as to suppose was conse-
Grated to me forever. Even we're it so I
could attribute no blame to her for |
believe, if she ever, Lowell me truly, she
loves me yet; and if it was one Of these
tricks of an artful, designing woman, TO
play upon the affections one whose only
fault was in loving "not wisely but too
WE'LL" il is, indeed, better as it is, for it
has not been in vain. 1t has taught this
heart of mine lesson Of icy coldness that
will forever, after this, make it more
intimate companion of reason. L! has
expelled from it the bounding impulses of
youthful ardor; my early and truer objects
Of life have again resumed the throne
from which they have been so ruthlessly
expelled by one of those weaknesses of
our nature, which one of the old philoso-
pliers has said, and truly said,-" Makes
a fool of a man of sense" aa.
"We parted in kindness, after | had
endured, at the hands of her father, (who
possessed far more zeal than discretion,
both as regarded his child's welfare and
mine) all the abuse that humanity could
suggest, in the way of vile and contempt
ible gossip, collected by him, secretly,
from another class Of contemplate zealots,
whose whole business of life, and whose
only pleasure consisted in robbing me,
under The cover of "con6dentially," ol
my good name the instigator Of these
vile transactions, knew we'll that his only
design was to conceal an excuse to hide
his real motive from the world, his daugh.
ter and me, and to deceive himself if pos.
sible. The last one of these laudable
objects being the only one which he
successfully accomplished, and it took
him long months Of unremitting toll tc
accomplish that. And when by such
miserable, dastardly cowardice. he had
succeeded in separating u.s. he called it Q
special Providence Of Cod that had
been suddenly and mysteriously interpo
sed, to save his child from life ofunhap
pine ss with me. elr ,,a b
"rhe only and true motive for his de
string our separation was my poUerty; hi
thought was poor; he knew my owl
exertions was my only reliance, and HI
wanted his daughter to marry money, M
matter about the man and not daring tc
reveal his real design, he resorted to :h'
dastardly ehieanery have related to CO.
yer up his most contemplate object ant
cowaldly treatment Of me. =
"Twelve months have passed away
but il has not taken from my soul tht
bitterness which has been forced upon i
by one who should have treated me will
The frankness Of fmanliness, as well as th'
decency Of politeness. | have given yo'
now an outline Of some of the events o
my life. What have just related is bu
one chapter in the volume already com
menced. Time is rapidly writing out III
remainder, aud when the last chapter shal
be finished it viii be fully determined
whether there was any ground for tn
dastardly persecution which | suffered
the sting and recollection Of which vii
last forever. My success in lie ha
hitherto exceeded my most sanguin
expectations and nevur. never again sha
il be said of Adrian Gray that his povert
is the signal for the assault Of covetou
weakness. dressed in mask so thin an
i transparent that it turns just ridicule int
} unmiligated contempt.
2 When l leave all this and recall th
: days Of my boyhood, when no cares di.
a turbed my young mind, ! live over agai
: my happiest days. | see the old brow
school house, humble, bu; sacred, wheT
tIl spent y lnFssny happy hours, longing ff