Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-02

temper. and had moreover a very long
purse. They were sensible, therefore. that
the more he endeavored to divide their in
terests. the more they ought to make q
common cause and proceed in a concert
of measures.
The next paragraph relates to the union
Of the northern and southern colonies
against England and their fight for indie
pendence, concentrating the Union 1t
reads:
"As this fighting Old Bull could best
be done by giving effect to the feelings
long entertained for each other an inter-
marriage was determined on between
Jonathan and Mary. 1t was duly solem-
nized with deed of settlement as is usual
in such opulent matches and duly exc
cuted. No event, certainly of the sort,
was ever celebrated by greater fervor
or variety of rejoicings among the re-
spective tenants of the parties They
had a great horror of falling into the
hands of Old Bull. and regarded the mar
riage of their proprfetors, under whom
they held their freeholds, as the surest
mode of warding off the danger They
were not disappointed. United purses
and good advocates compelled Old Bull,
after hard struggle (the war of the
revolution), to withdraw the suit and re-
linquish forever not only the new pre-
tensions SET up. out the OLD privileges ne
had not allowed"
'@The marriage of Jonathan and Mary
was not a barren one On the contrary
every year or two added a new member
to the family; and on such occasions the
practice was to set off a portion of land
sufficient for good farm to be put under
the authority of the child Cor state of the
Union) It's attaining the age of man.
hood and these lands were settled very
rapidly by tenants going, as the case
might be, from the estates sometimes Of
Jonathan sometimes Of Mary, and some
times partly from one and partly from
the other"
1T happened that at the expiration of
homage of the tenth or eleventh fruit of
the marriage some difficulties were start
ed concerning the rules and conditions of
declaring the young party of age and Civ
ing him, as q member of the family, the
management of his patrimony. Jonathan
became possessed with the notion that an
arrangement ought to be made that would
prevent the new farm from being settled
and cultivated. as in the latter instances,
Unfortunately by persons removing
from his and Mary's estates and confine
the privilege to those going from his own.
and In perverse humor which had
seized him he listened to suggestions that
Mary had undue advantage from the Sc
lection of head stewards Presidents),
which had happened to have been much
oftener out of her tenants than his.
Now the prejudice suddenly taken up
by John against the equal right of Mary s
tenants to remove with their property to
new farms was connected with a pecul-
iarity in Mary's person not yet noticed.
Strange as it may appear, the circum-
stance is not the less true that Mary,
when a child had unfortunately received
from a certain African dye a stain on
her left arm, which had made it per-
fectly black and withal somewhat weak
er than the other arm. The misfortune
arose from ship from Africa loaded with
the article which had been permitted to
enter river tanning through her estate.
and to there dispose Of a part of the
noxious cargo. The fact slavery in the
South) was we'll known to John at the
time of their marriage, and if he con-
sidered it an objection, it was in a man.
ner reduced to nothing by the comely arm
and pleasing features of Mary in every
other respect, and also by her good sense
and amiable manners, and in part. per-
haps by the large and valuable estate
she brought with her.
In the unlucky fit, however, which was
upon him, he, Jonathan, looked at the
black arm and forgot all the rest. To
such a pitch of feeling was he wrought
up that he broke out into the grOssest
taunts upon Mary for her misfortune. not
emitting at the same time to remind her
of his forbearance to exert his superior