Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1864-01-09
A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTR Y.


opens with patriotic sketch with the
above title, so admirably written and con
veying moral so timely that it cannot be
too widely read.
The opening paragraph Of the article
is as follows:
r + suppose That very few casua! readers
Of the New York Herald Of August 18Th
observed, in an obscure corner, among the
" Deaths,' the announcement,
NoLAN.-Died on board L. S. Corvette
Levan.. lat. 2 deg II min. S., long. l3l
deg. W., on the llth Of May, Philip
Nolan."
The writer, Edward Hale, then proceeds
to give the history Of this Philip Nolan
(no land p who he says was Lieutenant
in the Western division of the United
States army at the beginning of the cen,
tury. Nolan was young aud impressible
and Was drawn into the Burr conspiracy
by the persona fascination Of its leader.
Court.martialed for this o(Iense, and asked
to show evidence tha. he had always been
faithful to the Uait4l Sa'2s. he replied in
a burst Of boyhh passion, "D--n the
! United States! I wish l may never hear
of the United States agan!' The court
+ senteAcei him to r~aiize his wish. lie
was sent on bmrd the ship Of nava!
| commander, with instruction, tha. be
sh mid be s,.pplrd with the quarters, ra,
tons and CLOTHING b"Gtting his rank, bu.
/ that no one should ever mcation the
! United States in his presence, and 10
> book or paper should ever be allowed to
| reach him which alluded to the land be
had ohurei. Moreover, he was never
again 10 be a!,owel to touch lis shores,
being transferred from homcward to an
outward bound vessel, whenever the t,>i-
eencies Of the service required the change
The result of this treatment was al as
+ sunei Indifference and recklpsSneSs which
ultimately gave place to deadly honesick
! humiliation, su ch as lew sensitive natures
! have ever been called upon to bear Ia
! the incidents pf this life long cruise, this
feeling was occasionally brought into un'
mistakatle prominence and power Ir.
Hale describes hiM as attempting TO read
TO circle If briher officers, iii tie
wo:irs JonIIitg corIi lie said 20 have
uiuthsrs,) the shining lines Of Scott :
I" Lay OF the Last Nl4StreI,' then New t.
al the listeners, Ut presumed from is
suffice: to c~n;a;u no oajac;iooable alIu-
sion. We 1--WE the result in the .vrds or
/ Mr.. bale:
"poor Nolan read steadily through the
fifth canto, stopped a minute and drank
something, and then began, without e
;hought o! what was coming
'Erca'hcs th-re man, with >"u' dead,
Who narer to himself hath said. --
1t seems impossible to uS that anybody
ever heard this for the first time hnt al
these fellows did then, and poor Nolan
himself! went on, still ureo~~~' Say =.
mechanically d, nay n,,;,~.-"a .-"a:
'Ih,si saw something was 10 pay;
"a Tttls1 ~ -ts tiiooS', L sdt' 1Stt
turned title pale, bu: plunged on
\ Whose heart hath ae'er within him burned,
As hone bis footsteps he hath turned
From wandering ou n ftreicn strand?
If snc3 there lie, Ens mark ban we'll
! Bv this tine the men were all beside them
selves. Wishing there was any way to make
him turn over two pages bat he had ~,
quite presence Of mind for that; he gagged
little, eo'ored crimson, and staggered
! Forlim minstrel raptures swell:
Hal though his titles prou his name.
Boaaaess his wealth wish claim,
Te>Ete these titles, power and prli,
Tha.rst h cencentred all in self, -
aud here the poor fellow choked, could not
go on, but sartea mp, swung the book
into The sea, and vanished into lis state.
room
The thorough change Of feeling from
the though'Iessness of youth to the re-
pantant loyalty of manhood is we'll
brought OFT in the remainder Of the story,
which loses nothing Of its pathetic beauty
from the shrewd hint Of the writer that
PROBABLY hey may say at the navy depart
meut thatthere never was such person.
The idea : a striking one aud developed
with ability and effect and then, as the
pseudunynous Frederick Ingaham admits,
"It will net be the first thing in the ser.
vice Of which tho department appears to
know nothing"
=, This interesting narrative concludes as
follows:
Since writing this. and while considered
whether or no would print it, rs y warn.
ing to the young Nolan''s and Greeley's and
Davis of today of what it is to throw
away country, have received from Dan.
forth, who was On board the Leyant, q
letter which gives an account OF Nolaa's