The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1858-06-19


liam made ready to oour Town torrent
of the frec-and- doctrines of Not,
tingham Suns-culots.
John furesaw thetorm coming. "
won't have it, WHIP shouted he " So
stop your catalogue
" Why, father, yl've said all these
things yourself"
This was always1e last and hardest
blow to poor Sedl, senior. William
knew it. lie had wer use it in the
beginning of their 1ys. But when the
thought of the lerty and equality
which was not, bu ought to be, had
made him suiIicicntlyill and sufficiently
forgctful, he would III it at his father.
There is nothing ngs like true
u-quoque. All his 's,nics and half his
friends had wounded ru-coat John with
these irritating missi. And his own
son among the comrators Ell IT,,
Brute
However, the Notgham Caesar did
not decorously covcris head with his
mantle and fall. Hewoke the entire
lion, and reared.
-" You shall out ofac town. Towns
are breeding tubs rebellion. 4 lad
o sixteen govern E4and, and set the
world to rights Y shall out o the
town. I've often St | 'ud prantice
you to Faymcr lson. Now, by
George, I will. Noof your spouting
clubs of trayson and sphceming there.
Teach the COWS and 3 equality. Tell
pitchforks and durlls they're free
and equal. You god"
Accordingly Will went. Farmer
Wilson lived near llytfc, about six
miles from Nottingln His acquain-
lance with Sedley w'riginally trade
one. In politics thelarrcled but in
buying and scllingecp and becvcs
they agreed. Wilsoould have hated
Sedley as Jacobin, ne had not re-
apectcd him as the bier who paid the
best price. " pockebeforc politics."
as satirical Scdley VIZ observe, when
he quoted this fact az conventions of
the " Sons Of Frccdo
But, since the buer's conversion,
acquaintanccship hadened into friend
ship. 1t was Il conient thing to
Sedley to have such;cnd. AS princes
IN the middle ages, Nprcsented tLeir
children with choice Abishoprics, hur-
rlcd them through ahe ecclesiastical
offices of acolytc, sdeacon, deacon,
priest, bishop, in a dor two; so rapid
ly did the farmer int the butcher
into the shibbolcthf toryism. Mr..
Sedley was startled find himself a
full-grown tory, before had felt more
than one definite shoin his old belief.
lie was no sticklcr, sug up this point
cautiously, and thethat. lie flung
away all together. lkncw what news
papers to read; WANTING uttcranccs
to make about Mr.. l what glowing
ones about Mr.. PlttSo adept was he,
that had you met hinnong the " Loyal
Society of Britons. at the i" Eight
Bells" three monthfter his CONVEX
sion, you would hi fancicd he had
worn blue ribands inis coat at every
election for the last'cnty years.
Quick converts ahot converts: and
new converts are tra-convcrts. ~
gainst such decided yism as his fathers
William Sedley ste little chancc.-
Farmer he was comlcd to be.
Thus William SeV, all whose aspira-
tions, as become onsho had begun tc
call himself I" citize' were for munich
pal life, was condeicd for years for
ward to be inprison in the rural. lie
mournfully felt himlf an extinguished
Brutus such a Drus as lived in the
school-histories frol750 to 1900, and
in Jacobin tracts. he hand that should
have written words tinfame the nations,
was about to do pl drudgery. How
ever, he consoled mself with the re-
membrance that Ccinnatus was called
from the pillow. Alht not Nottingham.
in her hour Of nectsend to the furrowed
closes Of Radclytfe,r dcliycrer William
Scdley? Recolletthat he was but 1G
that he had cxhaued whatever knowl-
edge his school cod give him; that he
had received greatlaudits for his ora
torical politics tat his auditors had
been poor workme many of them unable
to distinguish Afrom Il that they
thought him thcrore an illumnatus OF
liberty, mental st,ngth in embryo sane
tIfymg itself in tn hottest cause; that
his only opponenthad been his father
whose talent for alliing was poor; and
whose principal wagons were parental
and strng rage; and you vii
not wonder at the dreams tha1 walkcC
beside him as he walked, and whispered
at his pillow as he eivPt. His ambition
did not extend beyond his mother town
The ensigns of mayoralty were the ut.
most honors he longed to have offered t.
lin at the pillow. But the un-Romar
lame of mayor he was bent on discarding
In his desire to realise conformitics tt
Id and new liberty, he would foresee hi.
lame appended to documents of Noting.
IAN, Gulielmo Sedleao, Dictatore.
Learning farming century ago was
IN easier thing than it is now, in the day
# agricultural colleges. Chemistry ha,
lothing to do with farming then. Geolo.
~ had nothing to do with farming
Mechanics had nothing to do with farm.
ne. Botany had nothing to do with 1t
Ianuring was not science. Persona
abor and apt wits taught everything
Hence, William Sedley had much time
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