The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-25
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I little dreaming what opportunity THAT
! future might speedily bring forth.
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/ April had come, soft and balmy, over
: the Kentucky shores. Birds and buds
and even blossoms were everywhere
+ along the lower Ohio, sweeping, bank
/ full, TO its confluence with the Missis-
sippi. Nature spoke in the carol Of
/ birds of Joy. peace and plenty, yet there
/ came dread and omen in every days
/ dispatches from the capital There
were days when no dispatches came
/ from the massive fortress in Charles
/ ton harbor, where the flag still fioated,
( though menaced by scores of hostile
guns. All over the south the war spirit
was rampant. The seeding states had
I chosen a president and congress of
/ their own, and designated Montgomery
as their capital. Tennessee and Ken
/ lucky were torn with conflicting loves
and duties. Brother was divided against
! brother, wise men prayed and women
| wept in fear of the coming storm. It
/ was the matter of but a moment to de-
! eide which side to take, save in these
/ fair lands along the dividing line. There
/ were men by hundreds even north of
] the Ohio. yet close to the Kentucky
! shore, who could not hide their SYM
j patty for the south, so long had south
/ ern views and leaders dominated the
[
/ versally now throughout 1.-THE states in
i rebellion" was omnlpOtent in the great
cities of the north, where were herded
/ the mass of foreign-bOrn voters, I'M
/ taught, unthinking. It was in the
/ farm, the village, the workshop, the
! factory, one read devotion as undivided
to the cause of union and universal lib
[ erty as was the sentiment throughout
( the south in favor of slavery. No need
to so into details. In every town and
| village throughout the southern states
I men were mastering for military duty.
/ In just a few of the larger cities of the
/ north there was renewed activity
/ among the uniformed and organized
/ militia. New companies met with dis
/ cOura cement however, at the start
/ No arms are to be had from the gen
I erat government, was the reply from
/ each state capital. II transpired that
{ for long months previous an aStute war
secretary, the Virginia Democrat our
peppery Kentucky ex-Whig so longed
/ to perfo rate, had been shipping south
/ ward cannon. small arms and cart
ridges by the carload, until northern
/ arsenals were stripped.
1t was in the cities close to Mason
and Dixons line and north of the Dor
der that, emulating the activity shown
/ in the southern states, the young men
organized for drill. and as early as
February there had been formed in
I d y
yet q, who called themselves the An
deTson cadets, and at one of their
February meetings there had been III
scribed on their rolls the name of Nor
man NJ. Holt. All they knew Of him
at first was that he was a younger
/ brother of Henry T. Holt, recently ad-
mitted to partnership with Mr.. Lane
in the Old-esta blished firm of Mcintyre
& Lane. Judge Mcintyre, long an
honor to the bench, would never sit in
/ Judgment on another case With 1t
affairs strangely, some said hopelessly
entangled, and after a sudden and
serious illness that left him PROSTATE
for nearly a month, the judge had re-
tired from duty and from all active
participation in the affairs of the firm.
It was understood that under the care
=, and guidance of his brOther-in-laW.
DR.. Holt of Belleview, KY, he had
, been taken to New Orleans and thence
, to Havana in the hope that rest and
, change would at least partially restore
him 1t was TumOred that the master
Of BeIlevieT had been compelled 20
make not q few sacrifices to meet the
. demands that came suddenly upon
! him, and that Mcintyre had managed
! the affairs of his brOther-in-laW as
badly as he had bungled his own, but,
as no word of complaint was ever
, heard, few men cared to question. Ger
tain fine hunters and road animals had
+
Certain offers had been made for Ger
tain of the doctors ''niggers,T as the
chattels were orally referred to. But
, Holt had never yet bought or sold hu-
, man flesh. The law made the negroes
Of BeTeview his property and thus
far it had been lucky for them. It
cost him more to feed. ClOthe and care
, for them than as servants or helpers
they were worth.
There were dozens more than he
could ever have used Neighbors said
> they were eating the doctor out of
house and home and stealing him poor.
But they did not say so to him Life
at BeIievieW had been something Al
most patTiaTchal. but Belleview. all
! but the kitchen and quarters and a pOr-
, ton of the kennel and stables. was now
! closed 10 the world. The master had
gone with the stricken brother of the
woman he had so devotedIy. passion
ately loved. Henry, his first born. was
practiCing as junior member in the
old firm, and Norman. glad to be in
Cincinnati on any plea, had begun the
study OF law under Lanes own guild
! ance, with Lanes own son for Chum
and companion. BeIleVieW had been
{ left to the care of the Overseer and his
family. to Hardness and host Of tri-
fiers. With graver face. yet with hope
? full spirit, Norman Holt had begun his
work. The dreams of squiredom and
5 luxurious ease in which the fond old
father had INDUCED were all dispelled.
E In san confidence he had confessed TO
his sons that more than half his means
| had been swept away, and that their
allowance would be stinted Henry
2 was for turning over all to Norman.
/ Even his small interest in the business
would be enough for him, but Norman
would not listen. They took rooms and
r board together in a quiet section Of the