Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-05
aTHE MAN WITHOUT A SOUL.

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1906 he met, as the devil would have IT
ray. daring and bright Philip Nolan. No
Ian became involved, body and soul, 4
the Burr conspiracy. when the crasl
came. Jefferson and the House Of Vir
aInia undertook to break the consplra
tors in a great treason trial at Richmond
and many Of the lesser fry got caught
among them Nolan.
when the president OF the court asket
him az the close OF the trial IL he wished
20 say anything to show he had alway'
been faithful to the Government. he cried
out in n ht OF frenzy. Damn the United
States. 1 hope l may never hear of the
United States Old Colonel Morgan, who
was presiding. was shocked. The officers
who sat in that court were men who had
served through the revolution, and their
lives. not to say their necke. had been
rlsked for the very Idea which Nolan 90
cavallerly cursed.
IF Nolan had compared Washington
to Arnold or cried God save King
George Morgan could not have felt
worse. He called the court into his
private room, and when they came out
their faces we're like the Arctic snow.
Colonel Morgan said: Prisoner, hear the
sentence of the court. The court de-
cides, subject to the approval Of the
President, hat you never aguin hear the
name of the United States
Nolan laughed, but nobody else. Col
onel Morgan was solemn and the whole
room was hushed as dead as night. No
land lost his swagger In a moment.
Colonel Morgan added, Take the pris-
oner, Mr.. Marshal, to Orleans on an
armed boat, deliver him to the naval
EnraunanAar oV,I uaa thaN M nNn YraY-
tions the name of the United States to
the prisoner From that day, September
q, 1907, until he died, May IL, 1863, he
did not hear the name of the United
States.
THE sentence was carried out on the
following plan: Nolan was placed on a
Government vessel bound on a long
cruise. He was ordered treated with
great courtesy. 1t was ordered that he
be provided with quarters, rations and
clothing proper for an officer of his rank;
that he should be exposed to no indig-
nifty, nor unnecessarily reminded that he
was a prisoner. Under no clrcum-
stances should he hear the name of his
country nor receive information. II was
the intention of the Government that he
never see the country he had disowned.
He was granted the privilege of wear
Ing the regulation army uniform. but the
buttons were taken off because they bore
the insignia of the country he had dis
owned. He became known as plain but-
tons When present in any company OF
men on s%hiphoard the men were pro.
hibited to talk of him, prospects of re-
turn, politics. peace, war, letters or any
thing that would remind him of home.
He was not permitted to talk with men
unless al officer was present. He was
scarcely ever permitted to go ashore,
even in lands no way connected with the
United States. He was never given an
American newspaper. Even from the
foreign papers given him the advertise
ments or stray paragraphs hat alluded
to the United states were cut out.
He'd be reading something harmless
when he'd come to cut-out space. Right
in the midst of one of Napoleon's battles
he would find a hole because on the back
of the g would be an advertisement
of n ship from New York or a scrap from
the Presidents message. He literally
became a man without a country. He
lived his life torn from his country like
a child from its mothers arms.
when he was an old man q friend
was admitted to his stateroom. He
found that in the privacy of his room
had made a. little shrine, with the
rs and Stripes traced above and
around n picture of Washington upon
which he had painted q majestic eagle
with Iigntnings flying from its beak, it's
feet clasping a globe, which its wings
overshadowed.
Poor old Nolan turned a sad smile
and said: Here you see I nave a coun-
try He pointed to the foot of the
bed. where was a map of the United
drawn from memory. Quaint old
names were on 1t with large letters for
Indian Territory. Miss. Territory. Louisi-
ana Territory. He had patched in Texas
and showed the western boundary away
out into the Pacific. He haG defined
in the shape of States.
Turning to his friend Danforth he
said; Danforth. I am dying. I cannot
home. Tell me something Danforth
and told him everything. Told
him of Burr-Alexander Hamilton duel;
old him of war of 1912: told him of Loui-
purchase; told him of California,
Washington gold excitement In
s49; told him of war with MeXico-of the
and Clarke expedition; told him of
he Union Pacific railwav, told him ~ 're
on Fort Sumter; told him OF Abra-
lam Lincoln, a sweet smile covered his
ace and he went into the presence of
God with a smile ON his face. He said.
into my Bible, Danforth, when 1 am
They locke into the Bible where
vas n slip of paper marked: They desire
country, even a heavenly, wherefore
Tod is not ashamed to be called their
Tod, for He hath prepared for them a
ity.'
mote these facts about Philip Nolan,
he centre OF this story. First, Philip
Goian was born a citizen OF the United
Second, he swore away his citI-
enship. Third, he became a man with
ut a country. Some day In the light OF
hese three facts I should like to write
companion story to the Man without
Country and IL did 1 would call It
The Man Without a Soul, n l would
uild the story around these three facts:
..First-Man is born a citizen OF two
'orlds. The world OF the temporal and
le world OF the eternal-the world OF the
lateral n the world OF the spiritual.
lnce man possesses double citizenship,
in this world, second, In the world
come, his every act polls a double suf-
age. Every man faces the problem of
rating his double citizenship.
he average man looks after his citizen
Zip In the material world fairly we'll. as
applies TO the temporal, material, per-