Weekly Trinity journal., 1864-11-05
WEEKLY TRINITY JOURNAL.

"SoME TO HONOR, AND some TO DIsHoxoRn
A. REMIxIscEEcE.- George Fl. Pendleton was
born in Cincinnati in the year 1925. He inherits
from his family all the instincts and qualities of
a gentleman. There we pause read the
biography of the Democratic candidate for the
Vice Presidency. Better that his mother had
yearned over her infant stl-born. or that her paps
had yielded poison to the sucking But he has
lived with that bleinheritance and how those
instincts have expanded, and how @ his social
qualities have made him pre-eminent in point of
popularity among his associates, and won for
him the confidence and esteem Of all who have
enj~yed the honor of his companionship," and
how rare laurelS waiting to enwreath his in
tellectual, manly brow-all this the partisan
biographer relates. But there is a living tomb
and there is sepulcher where reposes one DIS
honored-terrible witnesses against this man OF
" noble instincts" Long years agone, one OF
even angelic antecedents insinuated himself by
winning blandi shmeuts into the confidence OF the
head of n very large family are TO day the worse
for it to-day that same serpent strikes his fang
into the heel of the unsuspecting, whom he has
first aluSd-won By 81 gcntlemanly instincts
- social, qualities" Who that noted the events
Of the late war between Mexico and the United
States, does not remember the story of Lieuten-
ant John Richie, 4 brave and prominent young
officer who was lassoed by a mounted Mexican
on the plaza at Monterey, while bearing dis
patches for General Taylor, and dragged to a "a
vine about halt mile distant and cut up into
inches? Well, John Richie also from Gin
cinaati His widowed mother and two sweet
sisters residing there, and the latter enjoyed
tie honor of Pendietons acquaintance. Two
more lovely girls were not to be found anywhere.
Brought up with the strictest training by Chris
tain parents, and after the loss of their f,ther.
the constant companions and sole comfort of their
mother they knew of naught but innocence
unsnspicious Of the snares that would beset their
paths. For number of years they were with
out the protection of even their brother who
was n cadet at West Point, where he graduated
with distinguished honor, and was almost imme-
diateiy transferred to the fields of Mexico, where
he met his cruel fate. The - gentlcmany in
stincts of the noble-hearted George H. Pendle-
ton bore him along smoothly the current of
popularity. His family prestige gave him adj
mission into every family, and his remarkable
winsomeness secured the heart of Mary, the elder
of the two sisters. OF course. TO her, Pendleton
was soas Peur CT reProche, and she vas all
confidence and love. She trusted him the
pl GIFTED troth, the ante-nuptial present, the re-
pcated VOWS of love whispered into her car, all
banished dstrust and sM fell. Her ruin accom-
plished, the serpent threw off the disguise, the
seduccr unmarked. and the BETRAYED woman sunk
under her burden Of shame and sorrow, broken
hearted into the grave. The blow that thus
blghted the first born of her daughtcrs, fell with
deadly force upon the mother She saw her
darling "A living, loathso,ne thing, bearing the
badge of indoIibIe shame She the horr-
bic stain her family honor and prayed that
her heroic might but be spared to return
and avenge his sister ; wrong. But heaven had
ordained otherwise fer while this first wound
still fresh and bleeding and while the Ma
ton rejoicing over the triumph of her brave
soldiers in Mexico, the tid;ags came of the
sas2ination of the son and brother The hearts
that mourned before were now paralyzed with
grief. NO tears, no funeral drapery, no tongue
could tell Of the desolation. that bore down and
pallcd this stricken household. The broken
hearted mother saw the man of = gentemanly
instincts, off, permanent social virtues" bask-
ing in the sunlight of social popularity, q pam
pcred avorie OF the craae de IL crane of society,
ready to enact the same game Of pc.tdy wherever
trusting Innocence might open a door And in
the bitter anguish Of her soul she said that if
John had only been spared to avcnge his sisters
wrong, she could have been res Ened ani for
tanate was it for Pendleton that Lcntcnant
Richie was not permitted to return, for no Chi
cago Convention would then have nominated his
mouidercl bones for the second oaicc OF the
Nation.