Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-10-14
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Nearly thirty years aroalucklsss
| boy and his infant sister were left
by the death of their parents to the
| mercy Of legal guardian, who, hav-
! ing despotic control Of them by for
NAL indenture, was at liberty to OK
pand for their benefit the treatment
generally in store for nobody's
children. In Paris, Me-, where he
lived and 3ed choir, this guardian
was in high popular repute for his
religious severity, being one fof
those too numerous churchmcn who
talk the New Testament and live the
Old; and no sooner were the orphans
fairly within his administration THAN
his inclination to cuff, box, and
,heartifyflrrash them for their sins
was too strong to be resisted. Re-
garding them as the children of in
iquity, although that was by no
means their fathers {Fname, he
|'scourged them before him dailysun-
til they were too old to, stand. IL,
longer, and then endeayored, to Sc
cure the girls future piety and un-
happiness by striving to force her
into marriage with his son. Such
matrimonial consummation would
have kept in the good mans own
family certain homestead coming
to the maiden at her majority; and,
as her brother did not approve the
project, the attempted prosecution
of the latter precipitated revolt.
Bv advice and aid Of her fellow
sufferer in the house of bondage,
the damsel fled for rescue and
shelter to the home Of a distant re-
lative in another State, leaving her
adviser and abettor to face tho
deacon. After that, of course there
was grand scene between guardian
and remaining ward, ending in the
withdrawal of the latter from the
household. With the sears Of his
numerous earlier beatings indelible
upon his back; without cent in
his pocket, or friend to help him,
the young man went out into the
world a bcggar. but resolute to
bring his prosecutor to a reckoning
and himself to fortune some way.
Working his way by land and wa
ter to New York, he took passage
before the mast on a clipper bound
for California, and in due time reach
ed the land of gold. Nearly fifteen
wears of tirelcss labor and the usual
vicissitudes there brought him at
last to the ownership of a fine farm,
mile square, near Los Angeles.
At the present time he is one of the
most prosperous workers in his part
of the State, and could afford to for
give and forget any ordinary injury
of his earlier years; but in the in
Justice and heartless prosecutions
of his guardian, particularly as
shown to his sister, there was some
thing to ranklc fiercely unforgiyen
in his nature through all the changes
of three lustres. TN asaav of last
week correspondent of the Hart
ford Courout met him on the ears
going northward from Nashua, and
learned that he was on his way to
his old. unhappy home in Maine, for
the particular and single purpose OF
paying the debt justly due the guar
dian of his youth in one relentless
horscwhipping. He had left his
home in California upon this errand
only, was intlexible in his determi.
nation to execute his long-brooded
revenge at all costs and hazards,
and has, before now, done the retri-
butivc deed upon the tyrant OF his
boyhood, unless baffled hy the timc-
ly flight of that parsonage.