Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1865-06-03
CHAPTER II
THE PARTING,

Patty and Ezra Laudon were as good
as they we're handsome. Each was the
child of pious, praying parents, whose
lives had been, in the sint Of their house.
holds, and all who knew them, a perfect
illustration of their professions. Under
such teachings, in the quiet Of rural life,
far recovered from all the sophistications
of cities. and accustomed only to the
quaint simplicity Of the manners Of the
times, they never had the temptatiogs to
evils such as, in other circumstances
might have surrounded them. Simple,
pious, kindly, brave was Ezra Landon,
with wisdom, not learned in schools, bnt
rather the intuition of bis purc heart and
clear mind and like him was the fair girl
he had chosen, save that, in her woman s
tortitude and endurance took the place
of the brav~ry that could, with stern mein,
confront danger, and in her swee, wo.
manly meekness, she thought only of do
ing right, of ordering we'll her household,
and for his wife, relying rather on direc.
ton, thas on her own wishes.
-Four years Of uninterrupted happiness
rolled over the welded pair. Thlr home
was model Of neatncss and comfort
Within its walls Patty Landon presided
in cheerful Industry, while the wide
stretched acres of farm tecmed with their
glorious harvests, and reward her hus.
bands skill ard enercery
In this home cfpcacc and contcntment.
Of prayer and cheerful toll, two little chill.
dren were born, to bless and make ioyful
the hearts of their young parants. ALI
was prosperity and happiness in the hum.
BILE home OF Ezra Landon. when tidings of
Of the outbreak of the Revolution frs,
reached his ears.
From the earliest period Of The growing
dissatisfaction of the colonists, Ezra
Landon had spmpatLized with the feelings
that, at last, when petitions, aud remon.
s,rances had been spurned, aud followed
by acts of deeper wrong, and tyranny,
prompted the revolutionary movements in
which his native State took the lead
His spirit cha!td in inac,ion, while his
brave couutrymen fought on the fields Of
Concord and Lexington, and, at an early
period in the war, be resoivep on raising
a company from among bis townsmen and
neighbors, and joining the little army Of
patriots in the almost hopeless struggle
just commenced for freedom and iudepen
dcnce
lie was brave and strong, and his very
soul painted for the arena on which the
battle OF freedom against tyranny was to
be fought. He longed 10 mix in the tur.
MOL to wic!d the sword, to stand amidst
carnage. and to face danger in the excite.
ment Of hard fought fields. His was the
bravery that longs for action, and can
sacrifice personal ease, and life itself, in
good and glorous cause, and at the call
of patriotism His wife possessed a soul
equally noble, but hers was the courage to
endure in silence, to consummate her sac
ritices without beiraying how greatly they
were felt, to arm her beloved for the battle
and 81, at home, amidst the stiffness and
slow moving hours, in forced and deso!ate
inac,ion patiently waiting for the tidines
that should tell her il thes had been in
vain.
Who shall say that in her long and pa.
tient waiting, through slow and dreary
expectancy, woman is less brave than
man, who dies with the shout of triumph
lingering in his ear, upon tue field of vic.
tory?