Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-17
How Jack Became a Dem
oCrat.

party man | ever met with, was Jack
Jack was red-hot abolitionist, and
his chief pleasure seemed in making the
fact as notorious as possible His friends
and associates, with one consent, pro-
nounced Jack bore and a nuisance.
One day Jack met at the house Of a
friend young lady of great personal
beauty and accomplishments. Attracted
by her loveliness, and captivated by her
intelligence, he became assiduous in his
attentions, and forgot for a while his
principles, and without enquiring what
might be the political preferences of his
lady-love, imprudently proposed, was ac-
cepted, and they we're married.
The wedding was over the guests had
departed, and the happy pair had retired
to their chamber, and was snugly en-
sconsed in bed, when Jack, in the course
of a quiet conversation with his wife,
unwittingly alluded to his favorite SUBJ
ject, by casually speaking of himself as
a Republican
"What!'' exclaimed his wife turning
sharply and suddenly toward him, ''are
you RepobHcan?''
"Yes, replied Jack, delighted with
the idea of finding a patient listener to
his long restrained oratory. Eyes, mad
am. | am regular out and outer doub-
le-dyed and twisted in the WOOL
''Just double andta0ist yourself out Of
this bed, then," interrupted his wife;
I'm Democrat, | am; | will never
sleep with man protesting the doctrines
you do"
Jack was rather speechless from
amazement. That the wife of his bosom
should prove a traitor, was horrible she
must be jesting. He demonstrated, but
in vain; tried persuasion; twas no go.
She was in earnest and the only alter.
native left him was prompt rcnuncia-
tion of his heresy or a separate bed in
the other room.
Jack did not hesitate. To abjure the
established doctrines of his party. to sur
render those glorious principles which
had grown with his growth and strength
ened with his strength to the mere whim
and caprice of a woman, was ridiculous
and absurd, and throwing himself from
the bed he quit the apartment.
A sense of insulted dignity and firm
conviction that he was martyr of the
right cause, strengthened by his pride
resolved him to hold out till he forced
| his wife into capitulation.
: In the morning she met him as i
nothing had happened but wheneve1
Jack ventured to allude to the night pre-
vious, there was laughter-imp in he
eye, which bespoke her power and ex
: tinguished hope.
A second nj ght he repaired to hi
n lonely couch, and a second time calle'
: on his pride to support him in his strug
: gle, which he now found was gettiny
desperate. He ventured curses, "no
n loud but deep" on the waywardness ant
caprice of the sex in general, and hi
a wife in particular, wondered how lon
= she would hold out, and whether sh
), suffered as acutely as he did, and trie
r. hard to delude himself into the belle
d that she loved him too much to prolon
q the estrangement, and would come t
him in the morning, perhaps that yer
y y night, and sue for reconciliation.
) But then came the recollection of tha
= infexible countenance, of that unbenc
/ ing will, and of that laughing and III
a pitying eye, and he felt convinced ths
70 he was hoping against hope and despair
ingly he turned to the wall for oblivio
h from the wretchedness of his thought
t, The second day was repetition
!? the first. No allusion was made to I'll
Is subject on either side. There was a gu
+ ct happiness and cheerfulness about h
|: wife that puzzled Jack, sorely, and
lg felt that all idea of forcing her to su
I'd render must be abandoned.
The third night he was. alone. H
a. reflections were yet more serious than Il
T 'I previous nights what they were.
Of. course, was only known to himself, b
ur they seemed to result in something d
he cided for about midnight three distin
us raps were made at his wife's door. !
~ answer. The signal was repeated in
louder tone; still all was silent.
he third time the door shook with viole
an attack.
g. "Who's Mere?" cried the voice of t
ne wife, as if aroused from a deep sleep.
~, IN 66ttt6 TIE OeS6 DeHOCTuG you ot
It: did see. y
ed The revolution of his opinion was r;
lid ical and permanent. He removed
lie m another county, and became popular,
in. fered himself as candidate ON the De
the ocratn ticket for the Legislature, v
elected, and for several sessions rep
our sentcd the county as a firm and decit
in Democrat
do -.-.-.---
ec- A ME3DLING WoMAN-The tongue
7ht. meddling woman makes mischief wi
II ever she goes, and the path behind
ann is strewn not, only with the withe
me. homes of others. with the noxious we
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