The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-23

I Rich, he was generous; strong, he was 1 merciful; independent, he was arro- gant; used to his own way. he was fierce and cruel when crossed in that way.
 as he liked, certainly he had elected first of all to live somewhat as gen tleman. The mansion house was mod eled after the somewhat stereotyped
 pattern of the great country places of the south. Originally planned to con- sist of the one large central ediflce of brick, with a wing on each side of
 somewhat lesser height, 1t had never
 been entirely completed. one wing only
 having been fully erected. The main
 portion of the house was of two sto- ries. its immediate front occupied by
 the inevitable facade with it's four
 white pillars, which rose from the
 level of the ground to the edge of the roof, shading the front entrance to the middle rooms. Under this tall gallery roof. whose front showed high, white and striking all across the valley, lay four windows, and at each side of the great double doors lay yet another two windows On either side of the pillars and in each story yet other two ad- mitted light to the great rooms and in the completed wing which lay at one side of the main building deep embrasures came down almost to the level of the ground. we'll hidden by the grouped shrubbery which grew close to the walls. The visitor approaching up the straight gravel walk might not have noticed the heavy iron bars which covered these, giving the place something the look of jail or for tress.
 Tradition had 1t that the reason the building had never been completed was that the old master would have been obliged to cut down a favorite elm in order to make room for 1t, and he had declared that since his wife had died and all his children but one had followed her. the house was large enough as 1t was.
 Straight through the nid-body of the house ran a wide hall To the left. beyond the existing wing, lay the fenc- ed vegetabIs gardens, where grew rankly all manner of provender in- tended for the bounteous table, whose boast it was that. save for sugar and coffee. nothing was used at Tallwoods which was not gnown upon it's grounds.
 It might have been called matter of course that Warville Dunwod7 should be chosen to the state legislature. So chosen. he had though sheer force of his commanding nature easily become a leader among men not without strength and individuality, a self con tained man who never lacked money. who never lacked wit, whose hand was heavy, whose tongue was keen. whose mind was strong and whose purse was ever open.
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 ton was now building up a rival to Benton. That giant, then rounding out history of thirty years continuous service 1n the senate of the United States, unlike the men of this weaker day, reserved the right to his own hon. est and personal political belief. He steadily refused to countenance the ex- tending of slavery, although himself a holder of slaves; and, although he ad- mftted the legality and constitutional ity of the fugitive slave act, he de- plored that act as much as any.
 Perhaps thirty or forty slaves were employed about TaIiwoods home farm. as it was called. Idle and shiftless, relying on the frequent absence of the master and the ease of gaining a Hv- ing, they worked no more than was necessary to keep up a sembIance of routine.
 But now another and most impor- tant matter for our note-there was no woman's hand at TalIwoods. The care WAS that of servants, of slaves When things grew insupportab1e in their shiftlessness the master lashed out an order and got what he demanded, then soon matters sank back again to their old state