Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1917-06-08
THE MAN WITHOUT
= A C0UN TRY

word or to do thing that shall put
n bar between you and your family
your home. and your country pray
God in his mercy TO take you that In.
slant home 10 his own heaven. Stick
by your family, boy; forget you have
a self. while you do everything for
Them. Think of your home, boy; write
and send, and talk about IT. Let 1t
be nearer and nearer to your thought
the farther YOU have to travel from 1t:
and rush to- it. when you are free, as
that poor black slave Is doing now.
And for your country, boy" and the
words ratified In his thront, "and for
that flag" and he pointed to the ship,
"ncver dream dream but of serving
her ms she bids YOU, though the serv-
ice carry YOU through thousand hells.
No matter what happens To you, no
matter who fattprs you or who abuses
YOU. never look at another flag, never
let night pass but you pray God To
bless that flag. Remember. boy, that
behind all these men you have to do
with, behind officers. and government,
and people even, there is the country
herself. your country, and that you
belong To her as you belong to your
own mother. Stand by her, boy, as
you would stand by your mother. II
those devils there had got hold OF her
todayw
was frightened to death by bis
calm, hard passion; but I Numbered
out that would, by all that was holy,
and that had never thought of doing
anything else. He hardly Sc emed to
hear me: but he did, almost in n
whisper. say: "Oh. II anybody had
said so to me when was of your age !"
| think II was this halfconndence of
his. which | never abused, for | never
told this story till nowA which after
ward made us great friends. He was
very kind tn me. Often he sat up, or
even got up, at night to walk the deck
with me when Ii was my watch. He
explained to me a great deal of my
mathematics. He lent me books, and
helped me about my reading. He new
er alluded so directly to his story
again; bnt from one and another Off
Ger l have learned. I'm thirty years,
what l am telling. When we parted
from him In st. Thomas hnrbor nj the
end of our cruise, l was more sorry
than l can tell. / was very glad To
meet him again In 1880; and later In
life. when l thought | had some In
fluence In Washington, l moved heav-
en- and earth to have him discharged
But IL was like getting ghost out OF
prison. They pretended there was nc
such man. and never was such man
They will say so at the department
now! Perhaps they do not know. II
will not be the first thing in the serv
ice of which the department appears
TO know nothing
There Is story that Nolan me
Burr once ON one of our vessels, wheI
party of Americans came on boar'
In the Mediterranean. But this l be
lieve to be lie; or rather, II Is
myth, ben trovato, involving n tire
mendous blowing-up with which N
sank Burr. asking him how he like
To be without country" But 1t I
clear, from Burr's life that nothin
of the sort could have happened; nn'
l mention this only rs an illustration
of the stories which get agoing wher
there is the least mystery nj bottom
So Philip Nolan had his wish fu
filed. Poor fellow. he repented of hi
folly and then, like II man, submitte
to the fate he had asked for He ne\
er Intentionally added To the difficult
or dellcncy of the charge of those WI
had him In hold. Accidents woul
happen but they never happened fror
his fault Lieutenant TruXton told IN
that when Texas was annexed. Their
was Il careful discussion among th
officers, whether they should get hol
of Nolan'S handsome set of maps, an
cut Texas out Of IL, from the ma
of the world and the map uf Mckee
The United States had been cut OF
when the atlas was bought for hin
liut 1t was voted rightly enough, tina
to do this would be virtually 10 reve,
Ia him what had happened or, n
Harry Cole said 10 make him thin
old Burr had succeeded 50 II wa
from no fault of Nolan'S that n grci
botch happened az nay own table, Whcl