Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-01-13
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James BucnaDau'- EARLY Romance.
william G. Prime. in Ha pers Magazine Tor January
| When JOun1 lawA or III Lancaster,
Pennsy lvania, he was engaged to be
married to a young lady to whom he
was devotedly attached. The biog-
rapher has given US in a brief but
deeply interesting sketch the history of
this sad episode A "lovtr,' quarrel"
originating in the gossip OF village
girls, separated them. TrHrs are
causes in the philosophy OF lie, as in
nature. which sometimes produce con-
vulslOus, cltastrophes. Young girls Of
the past generation in country town
were marvelously like young girls of
the preceding and the present gener-
alton. The gossip of thoughtlrss chill
drcn, scarce grown To womahhood,
pl oduced effects which they little i'm
agined. The lovers were parted. The
separation would have been only tenn
porary, perhaps, but for her sudden
death. In very touching and elO-
quent letter he begged To be allowed TO
see his dead |, We. I'm this he said: "My
prospects are all cut Oft, and feel that
my happiness will be buried with her
in the grave. 1t is now no time for
explanation, but the time will come
AZ |, has been much abused. God for
give the authors of it! My feelings of
resent ment against them, whoever they
may be are buried in the dust. have
nov one request to make, aud, FOR the
love OF God and of your dear departed
daughter, whom loved infinitely more
than any other human being could
love, DENY me not. Afford me the mel
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body before its interment.
Perhaps to the unseutimental reader
this is but a trihing incident In a hu-
mau life. But, after all, the mighty
! forces which move humanity are the
forces which come from the affections
rather than from the cool iotellect.
! Men have died and worms have eaten
' them, aud this for love. He who en-
! deavors to measure the soul, TO analyze
) the moral ana intellectual part OF man
> or woman, and who ridicules what L
J. call sentiment, leaves out the most in.-
y pOrtaut element in the whole subject OF
" consideration When in later years
= Mr.. Buchanan became public man,
J, political antagonists, according To the
accepted American style OF political
t. campaigns, raked out of the history OF
II and falslied it, The old politician, who
20 knew better than any man III America
y how 10 meet aud reply to all the attacks
!, and accusations, true or false, ot OPP
/, ponents. never allowed the ltmn
u sacredness Of this memory to BE- tar
70 nished by any allusion to il on his part.
Is Once be told a trusted friend that there
- were anon! his papers letters and
b.,n b. InuI
DC if necessary, set his history truly before
II all who were Interested. IL would
ne seem that before his dccease he came
VI TO the conclusion that the story OF hiS
DI love BELONGED alone to himself and &c
~ her, and that it ma'tered Lutte what
y was said here when hr and she should
~ talk it over where there were no goS-
e. sips or scandal-mongers. HIS eXocu-
., tors found n sealed package endorst
~ with directi ms To burn 1T unopened
10 and they obcyed the dir ctlon
IT. The course of true love, says Oul
-, blOgrapher, in terms of very simple cl
'N Oquence, "ran III this cas-" pure hn'
no uubroKen in the heart OF the SURVIVE
10 through long and varied iite H. be
TO- came grief that could not be spoke
III Of. 10 which only the most distant aIIu
't' sion could be made; II sacred. HnceaNln
0N sorrow, buried deep in the breast OF
Oh man who was formed for domestic JOYS
~ hidden beneath manners that were mos
y" engaging, beneath strong social lef
denotes, and Y chivArOuS Od-fashlOhe
- Difference to women Of all ages, and a
:h' climes. His peculiar and revcr 'ntla
'Ou demeanor toward the sex, never varle
las b-rank or station or individual attra