The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-02-28
TRUST NOBODY BUT NE.
TEE BoRDERER's IDEAS ON UNION
AND SECESSION,
lFrom the New York Mercury. ]
by W. o. EATON.

F'-'N' So -
to the blows, the edges suffer the most.
And so with the border section of land
engaged in civil war. All feel the shock
of the conflict, but the edges are put to
the most severe test. Our fellow citizens
of the Border States deserve our especial
sympathy, in so far as they are constant
to their allegiance to the Federal Govern
ment. They have confronted martyrdom
with admirable heroism, and made sacri-
fees worthy of their revolutionary fathers
! Old Andrew Morpeth, Maryland
widower, of some fiftyfve years Of age,
with farm on the border of that State,
adjoining Virginia, and worth some ten
| thousand dollars, was much more South
em in his sympathies than otherwise.
He had lived long enough to realize
that great treasures are great troubles
sometimes. A young wife, with her first
baby, finds this to be true, after the first
enthusiasm of novelty has worn away,
and she discovers that her treasure i'm
poses many regular and tedious duties
upon her. A poor man, suddenly be-
come wealthy, soon finds that wealth does
not repose on roses altogether. The hus-
band of lovely, volatile woman, soon
discovers that the penalty of his posses
son is watchfulness, perhaps jealousy
All treasures are generally burdens, one
way or another, and old Andrew Nor
peth had no less than five : FIVE blooming g
daughters, graceful, sweet-faced and fair
limbed-Julia, Adeline, Georgiana. Isa-
bella and Helen-and ranging from six
teen to twenty four, like pair of stairs.
The war broke out-with the tremen
dous victory of several thousand men
over seventy men, Worn and weary, and
under impending famine at Fort Sumter
and old Andrew, uncertain which side
! to espouse, and anxious about his daugh-
ters and his property, was smoking his
| pipe alone: and as he smoked he rumi
| mated. And this was his soliloquy:
Man is born to trouble, as tie sparks
| fly upward. I once thought I was a
lucky man. Though my wife died, had
my farm; but who knows now how long
shall have it I had five charming
daughters but who knows how long
shall have them ? One side or the other
may rob me of all, and I shall feel worse,
in that event, than if | had never had
them. | am like a chicken which has
| found worm. TO be sure | have it in
| my bill, but the other chickens see it and
will not let me enjoy it. ! possess, bul
they can chase and if | stop to rest,
they can overtake and plumber. I did
have an idea that all my daughters might
be matched off to rich Southern planters,
they are SO young, so intelligent, aud SO
handsome. But now that we are to have
civil war, who knows what will follow
[ hope that the Southerners will succeed
in seeding; for then. no doubt, can
pursue my plans for the girls. Other-
wise, unless [ move far South, my
schemes will be destroyed forever.
But 1 am determined that if I can /
get good rich Southern planters for them,
| they shall marry nothing less, if they all
have to die old maids. They shan't
marry anybody who is obliged to labor,
although SO many have a covetous eye
upon them. | mean to be severe Oh all
such. No poor suitor need expect smile
from me. But the deuce of it is, that
young blood is hot, and beauty is attrac-
tive, and loves love and praise I'm in
mortal fear, all the time, that the young
jades will fall in love before l am ready
for them, and without my consent Job,
| with all his losses and other trials, didn'
have five charming daughters and the
Bible don't state that he lived on the bor-
der, in time of civil war I lave my
doubts of my neighbors in Maryland and
| ~ - nm tHclO 10 SuCil a IiOtCll- potCIi
of opinions and who can tell which side
discretion ought to take? Whose advice
shall ask ? Better ask none. Ask no.
body, trust none. Keep mum, old An
drew see all, hear ALL and then Judge
for yourself. Heigho | reckon So .
Every Jack must have his Jill. Every
young man must have his sweetheart.
And where there are five such young
beauties in the neighborhood as Julia,
Adelne, Georgiana, Isabella, and Helen,
what wonder that there should be five
young men eager to mate them, like the
five fine fellows whose given names were
Warren. Gordon, William, Robert and
/ Alexander?
No wonder at all, and it was so.
j Not only SO, but the FIVE young ladies
were well aware Of it, and had been fol
the last six MONTHS and with the adroit
ness Of opposed young love, they hae
managed to elude the vigilance of parenta
authority, and had done most Of thei