The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-04-16

able. Slaves that he could not use,
slaves that were not readily marketable
at Il profit, were hired out; he never
had an army OF blacks so big that he
was not ready and even anxious to aug
ment it. And the war came on. He
did not see what other men saw. He
was blinded by his passion-his life of
revenge on the young girl who had
spurned him for his Observation-Disclosures,
and he went right on with his invest
ments in the people who had been
branded by the nations supreme court
as without rights that white men should
respect. Dupe that he was, he was the
prey of men whose sentiments were
his own. Southern slave-ownofs' who
saw in the air signs of Lincoln's COM
ing proclamation ~"unloaded" their pos
sessions upon him. Jay Gould never
worked a colder-blooded scheme in
Wall street than was worked on Will
liam Hotfiington Cannon by ncighbors,
who snapped their men and their wo-
men for his money. Emancipation came
upon him as a surprise hardly less daz-
ingthan had come that first surprise of
his life, when he had been sent from a
Philadelphia maiden's presence in dis
grace. His hundreds of slaves were
free. Many believed that he was II
ruined man. But he had fight in him
still.
With a courage that was almost i'm
pudent he went to work quickly, and
by transactions that included land spec
ulatiou he saw the war end with u fair
fortune still his own. But business
tact was practically all that remained
OF the vigorous minded man of the past,
and even that lasted for the moment
only. Queer schemes soon took pos
session of him. He conceived ideas
that would have frightened the souls of
British idealists. but which brought the
plain-mannered Delaware folk to look
upon him as 4 crank, OF the projects
innumerablc that he involved. one was
for q park whose grounds should be al
most limitlcss, taking in much of the
best land OF Sussex, where he and his
neighbors should live thenceforth gem
tlemen of lordly leisure, with pastimes
such as Scott used to accord to the
knighted heroes of his romances. When
his neighbors declined to ~patronize the
scheme, William Hofington Cannon
had only the shrug of 4 shoulder to
show his contempt for their narrow
new world ideas, and then he went to
work to build the park for himself.
His wv acres he laid out in pattern
fantastic. He planted trees profusely
all over the estate, establishing in the
very center. far from the county high
ways, one hollow square of about the
area of Madison square. Here, he eN-
planned, he was to erect Il manor
house" and invite to fetes magnificent
all of the good fellows of the world who
night choose to share his philosophy in
| putting dull carr away. Unfortunately,
William Hotlington Cannon planned
and projected and planted all in vain;
an unfeeling sheriff one day descended
upon Cannon Park and the auction
GERS hammer knocked the ~incipient
paradise into the clutches of a mar
narrow-minded enough to put the
broad acres into peach trees and sweet
potatoes.
The poor fellow went quickly from
bad to worse. The black woman who
had nUsad him as a baby stood by him
the one friend that he found contin
ually within call, ready to make any
sacrifice for his sake and endure any
hardship for his comfort. She it was
who was the one sole mourner at hi
little funeral. She lived in ailiuence
practically the mistress of his mansion
IN the time when he had q fortune. A
the end she took in washing and die
mean servility in Seaford's kitchen
to provide him with food and shelter
SO from the race he had despise(
enough to sacrifice his one dream o
love came what little solacc his las
years knew. And the pretty, patriot,
Quaker sweetheart, what of her? Sh,
died during the war in Il southern hos
pital Of fever contracted in nursin!
heroes who had fought for liberty in al
the land. No, she was never married
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