The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-02-13
HOW A SOCIAL. EQUALTTYETE
WAS DOSED WITH HIS
OWN DOCTRINE.
Sophy Listens to her Parent, and Secures
for him Sable Soj,-in- Lar
rhe EequaIityiGe il taken with IA
big Disgust.
Cant Cut the Fellow Loose Some
how ?"
.,rom the New York sundav Mercnrr.

from the New York Sunday Mercury.
Jehial Is a tall, attenuated, angular
Yankee, with a countenance like a
Ratchet, and a complete edition of Cock
cr's arithmetic in each eye. His com
plexion is iron gray-his lank checks are
smoothly mown-he is a shrewd plausi-
bic, and pious, and in every respect a
typical puritanical, hypocritical New
Highlander. He was a Jealous abolition
Isl and fifteenth amendment advocate;
and it is-or rather was--his strong con-
yersational point To demonstrate by fact,
illustration, and argument, the perfect
equality Of the white man to his colored
brother. The sitting rooms Of half
dozen fifth-rate hotels in this city have
over and over again resounded with the
eIoquence Of Jehial, as he held forth on
the ebony question on the occasions Of
his annual butter pilgrimage. When all
the. privileges Of the Southern whites were
givsn to the descendants Of Ham, Jehial
rcj6iced with JOY unspeakable He had
only one further wish unqualified in lie
to see colorea president OF the Unit
od States. Then he could have exclainI-
ed with Simeon Of old, Lord, now let
test thou thy servant depart in peace, for
my ewes have seen thy salvation" Jehial
is widower, and his only earthly solace
the pride Of his life and the light of
his eyes-has been his daughter Sophia
or Sophy, as be loved TO term her Now,
this eve lamb is not exactly in the dewy
freshness Of her juvenility. She has
been most OF her years that intervene be-
tween ones twentieth and thirtieth
birthdays, and among the young bache
elors sof her neighborhood she has not
been much inquired after. For she was
not attractive in feature, and Il Broadway
mo1ste would have been bothered to
have rendered her figure even moderate
" Dresentable Still she was a woman
and had her feelings; and oil her feelings
and Instincts were hostile 10 forced ceib-
acy.
Some three months since an suspicious
wind blew fortune her way in the manly
form of Wendell Phillips Hamilton. He
was native OF Washington, ID. c., of an
unripe cinnamon complexion, and had
been a gentleman's John Thomas as well
as a tonsorial artist. His nose was not
amiss, his face was well enough, and his
mouth was better than a cash in bill
lock of flesh He was very well misin-
formed, and possessed the manners OF
Chesterfield. He wore a yellow watch
and chain, three yellow and two white
rings, diamond solitaire, large as a
robins egg, and unexceptional sartorial
appointments, that seemed to have their
origin in the Bowery Many time and
oft did Wendell Phillips sit in Jehial'
parlor and discuss the nations affairs-
Not that w. p did the Grating. Moth
ing Of the sort 1t was Jehial who spout
ed, while, unlike his namesake of Il e
Hub, w. u. maintained silence and
merely nodded assent. Sophy regarded
the intelligent coiored gentleman with
marked favor. She would have prefer
red az a mere sentiment that he had been
a dozen or so shades lighter. But, then,
custom does great deal toward uProot-
ing foolish, prejudice, and after he had
spent few evenings with her alone and
kissed gushingly, the trifiing accidents
OF race and color we're drowned in Lethe
OF course her good impressions were deep
ened by the pronounced way in which, on
the slightest proyocation, her father
chanted Wendell Phillips Hamilton's-
praises Whenever in an argument with
an opponent less enthusiastic in negro
worship than himself he needed an apt
illustration, ,Jehal would extend his long,
lean arm, and ezclaim: 4" Look at Wen
dell Phillips Hamilton There's man
a perfect man. SRA mental and pbysi-
cal giant, sir
To-day the mental and physical giant
is Jehial Turner's son-in-law, and is an
animal of another color in the old mans
eyes The felicity eventuated in this
way Jehial came to New York with
cargo of butter two weeks before Christ
mas, and before leaving home particular
ly commended Sophy to Wendell Phillips
Hanilton's protection In rider that he
might the better shield the mature maid
Ell from harm, he was enioined-with her
entire consent-to occupy a small spare
hall bedroom in the house. Christmas
dav came, then New Years, but still Je-
HAL tarried with his butter, and clung to
il until he could clutch a better price
At home, meantime, matters got mixed.
Sophy and her dusky lord deemed it best
to marry, and knowing that difficulties
might lie in their path were a wedding to
be attempted In Vermont, they Jumped
on board thecar and hurriedlv HE'D them
TO papa at New York The trains must
have crossed each other; but that didn't
matter Wendell Phillips Hamilton and
Sophie Turner were hitched up, and lived
in fine style in q hotel on Sixth avenue.
When Jehial reached home with the
proceeds Of his hutter sales sewed inside
his undershirt, and discovered how mat
tiers stood, he lost no time IN returning to
the city. Lear cursing through the tenn
pest was not a circumstance to him. He
swore oaths seven fathoms long. All his
life long principles, his Ethiopian hero
worship, his burning ambition to see
colored president we're swept to the four
winds of heaven when he found he had
become the father-in-law of respectable
colored man. lie SAYS they shall neither
of them cross his doorway, and what
money he posses : he will leave to the
Bible Society Little the married pair
seem to heed his wrath or his threats.
Wendell Phillips Hamilton feels he can
support his wife, while she feels that
colored husband IS better than no nus
band. The pair are now in Washington,
while the old man still remains in this
city. On Friday he called at the office
of F. I. King, and made minute inquiry
as to what recourse be had in law. Can't
[ get divorce for Sophy2" he eagerly
asked Can't | cut the fellow loose
somehow" He WAS informed that that
depended on Sophv herself