Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-12-09
A MAN WITHOUT 4 COUNTRY.
A Thrilling Tale Of Poor Nolan.
By EDWARD EVERETT HALE.
From the Atlantic Monthly


suppose that very few casual readers of
the New ork Hyalt Of August 18th observ-
ed, in anobscure corner, among the Deaths"
the announcement,
. NOLAN. Died, board Z. = Corvette Leyant,
Lat deg. Il minutes =. Long. l5l deg W. on
the flth OF May, Philip Nolan
| happened to observe it, because / was
stranded at the old Mission House in Mack
nae, waiting for a Lake Superior steamer
which did not choose to come, and was de-
vuurng TO the very stubble, all the current
literature | could get hold Of, even down to
the deaths and marriages in the Herodd Nv
memory for names and people is good, and
the reader viii see, as he goes on that had
reason enough TO remember Philip Nolan.
There are hundreds of readers who would
have paused at that announcement, if the
officer OF the Levant who reported il had
chosen TO make 1t thus So" Died Nav llth
The Nan without a Country" For it was as
The Man without a Country" that poor
Philip Nolan had generally been known bv
the officers who had him in charge during
some fifty years, a., indeed, by all the men
who sailed under them. ! dare say there is
many a who has taken wine with him
once a fortnight, IN three years C. use, who
never knew that his name was - Nglan." or
whether the poor wretch had any name at all.
There can be NO possible harm IN telling
this poor creatures story. Reason enough
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among tile gentlemen Of tic navy Who have
mad \ olan III successive charge. And GER
taiuly i speaks well for the esprit ii corps OF
the profession anu tine personal honor Of its
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ar whether # Wa n -. No., ~; ,.,.oy1, d.4,r,
mined a., asa niece. of ,nIi,., do moi l.noy,
But this l do know. rhat since. 1917. and nos
,lbIv before. no naval officer has mentioned
Nolan In his report OF a cruise
But. az sar. Their. +. no need for scores,
amy longer And now the poor creature il
d.9a If seems II 1ua worth Will, T., t.U Il
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Americans Of today what il is 10 he
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ihlhp AoIh was as hhe young oflcer as
there Vas III the Legion OF the est, as the
" estern Legion OF our army was then called
When aaron Burr made his FIRST daslhnS cN-
nthl!ou down 10 Ne" orleans, III 1870, NJ
foFt hdssac, or somewhere above on the NV
eE rs met, as the deNI would have i, tins
4.4y' flashing, qnSnt young leAo", az some
'AlIileI parry, tllith. burf marked MN, |
laiAed % nm, walked WIN hiin TOOK hIm a |
Jay OF Two voyage IN ms uatDoat, ana, IN |
short, fascinated hm. For the next year |
oarracN lite was very tame to poor Nolan. /
Tie occasionally awaited oil the permission the |
great man had gwen him 10 write To him. /
Long, hiEhWordeds suited letters, the poor |
10Y wrote and re"r"te ana COPIED But nev-
SIT i me ata ht nav III reply from the gay /
IrctNtf. ne othef boys IN the garrison /
sneered &C mIn, because ne SACRIFICED IN this 4
unregmted affection Tor politician the time |
Whlch thtN devoted TO MononEahela, old |
7ted5e, al4a Hi9A-ioM jack houiboh eueAre, !
alG poker, were Sttii unknown But one day |
Nolan mad ms revenge. ms time Burr came |
down tue river, not as an attorney 5ee&inE a /
pace Tor MS ONCE, out as disguised con |
4uerer. lie had defeated / know not how |
many district attorneys; he had dlned at | |
know not how many public dinners, he had |
been heralded in | know not how many
beet9a ! Tft>eS and Il was rumored that he |
had am army behind him, and empire be- |
fore him Ii was great day-his arrival |
ID poor Nolan. Burr had not been ut the |
fort an hour before De sent for him. That |
evening he asked Nolan to take him out in |
his skiH to show him a eanebrake or a cot !
ton wood tree, rs he said.-rcalIy to seduce /
him and by the time the sail was over, No /
lar was enlisted body and soul. From that /
time, though he did not yet know it. lac lived |
rs Nan WITHOUT a COUNTRY.
What Burr meant to DO | know no more
than YOU dear reader. 1t IS none of our
business Just now Only. when the grand
catastrophe came, ana Jefferson ana the House
Of Virginia OF that day undertook TO break
On the wheel ali the possible Clareuces of
the then House OF York. ley the great treason
trial at Richmond some of the lesser fry in |