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not only all the great cities of the country but over all the great cities of all countries i related the story the poor girl i had met that night on the street had told me but i frankly asserted that i did not believe that it could be as general as he claimed smooth ally was it said who knew of her she is the and worst of them all and she is protected by who in turn is protected by like the estate what became of her he demanded by ic john marvel assistant why i don t know i turned her over to the and and i rather left her to them i was beginning to feel somewhat meek under his scornful expression that is always the way he said we look after them for an hour and then drop them back into but i placed her in good hands that is their business their business why is it not your business too how can you shift the responsibility it is every one s business listen he had been recently to southern russia where he said the system of he described had one of its sources and he gave figures of the numbers of victims girls of his own race gathered up throughout the provinces and from and other ports to other countries including america to one time was when not a was to be found on the streets but now he threw out his hand with a gesture of rage and went on he that many officials combined to at the traffic and that the were by powerful friends who were paid for their protection why there are in this city to night he declared literally thousands of women who have without any fault of theirs but ignorance vanity and been drawn into and condemned to a life of vice and misery such as the mind to believe at least if they are they are in the main willing by s mission victims i argued there may be a few instances like the girl i saw but for the most part they have done it of their own turned on me with fire flaming in his deep eyes of their own what is their in fact most of them are not voluntary but if they were it is simple ignorance on their part and is that any reason for their the of the damned in this world not to mention what your church teaches of the next world who brought them there the man who deceived and betrayed them who acted on their weakness and drew them in their the wretches who them to their destruction not at jail birds and as they are deserving the gallows if any one does which i do not think any one does but you do the ultimate is not even the who protect it but society which it to go on when by the least serious and sensible e port it could prevent it how i demanded howl by to prevent it and then to do so by simply being honest has it not broken up the institution of slavery highway robbery organized murder except by itself and its members of course it could prevent it if it set itself to do it but it is so in selfishness and that it has no mind to anything that with its pleasures we had now reached john marvel s where we found by john marvel assistant john just back from a visit to a poor girl who was ill and his account only added fuel to s flaming wrath he was pacing up and down the floor as small as it was his face working his eyes flashing and suddenly he let a light in on his ultimate motive he launched out in a against existing social conditions that exceeded anything i had ever heard he declared that within hearing of the most and extravagant class the world had ever known were the cries and groans of the most wretched that the former shut their ears and their eyes to it and themselves with tossing a few to a starving multitude went on like swine in their own look at the most talked of young man in this city to day the bon the of mothers he lives a life to make a beast blush he is a of women a of a in the life blood of women and children a swine yet he is the and of those who call themselves the best people it makes me sick this was to some extent satisfactory to me for i detested but i wondered if did not have the same reason for him that i had there was never so selfish and a society on earth he exclaimed as this which now exists in times past under the system there was apparently some reason for the existence of the so called upper classes the first castle built made necessary all the others the chief at least protected the subjects by s mission from the of others and he was always ready to his life but now when they all claim to know and do know much they sit quiet in their own content like swine and let and murder go on as it never has gone on in the last three hundred years what are you talking about i demanded impressed by his vehemence but by his furious he cooled down for a moment and wiped his hand across his eyes i am fresh from the scene of as brutal a he said as has taken place within a thousand years is the most extensive and complete persecution that has existed since the close of the no wonder the young women fall victims to the who offer them an asylum in a new	46
land and them to their destruction with gifts of gold and words of peace and this is what society does the virtue society of the twentieth they speak of what they mean is a condition which the repose of the rich and powerful there is now the that consists of want of equal government for rich and poor alike look at john marvel here preaching a gospel of universal love and acting it too said marvel don t leave me out you know i do not you are simply blinded by your affection for me but swept on yes he does if any man ever does he lives for others and what does he get by john marvel assistant off by a fat sleek self seeking priest who speaks smooth things to a people who will have nothing else you must not protested john i cannot allow you but was in full tide with a gesture he put john s protest by to preach and teach the poor how to be patient how to suffer in silence now said john taking him by the shoulders i must stop you are just tired excited if they suffer they are so much the better off their lot will be all the happier in the next world sat down on the bed with a smile what are you going to do with such a man he said to me with a despairing shrug and you know the curious thing is he believes it i went to my own room feeling still like the prodigal and that i had somehow gotten back home but i had a deeper and more novel feeling a new light had come to me faintly but still a light what had i ever done except for myself here were two men equally as poor as i living the life of self denial one actually by choice the other as willingly and y as though it were by choice and both not only content but happy why should not i enter the brotherhood here was something far higher and nobler than anything i had ver contemplated taking part in what was it that withheld me was it i questioned myself that i with no association whatever in the town except the poor by s mission yet belonged to the class that against t was there something wrong with society i could not enter freely into s of hate for the nor yet into john marvel s quiet deep and love of mankind yet i began to see dimly things i had never had a glimmer of before the association with my old friends made life a wholly different thing for me and i made through them many new friends they were very poor and did not count for much in the world but they were real people and their life simple and insignificant as it was was real and without sham i found indeed that one got much nearer to the poor than to the better class their life was more natural small things matter so much more to them in fact the smallest thing may be a great thing to a poor man also i found a kindness and generosity quite out of proportion to that of the well to do however poor and destitute a man or a family might be there was always some one poorer and more destitute and they gave with a generosity that was liberality indeed for they gave of their what was their living whatever the organized may do and they do much the poor support the poor and they rely on each other to an extent unknown among their more fortunate fellow citizens as the egyptian always stops to lift another s load so here i found men always turning in to lend their aid thus gradually in the association of my friends who were working among the poor and helping to carry by john marvel assistant their burdens i b an to find a new field and to reap in it a content to which i had long been a stranger also life began to take on for me a wholly new significance as a field of work in which a man might escape from the slavery of a selfish which cramped the soul into a larger life where service to mankind was the same with service to a life where forms were of small import and where the christian and the jew worked shoulder to shoulder and walked hand in hand how much of my new feeling was due to miss i did not take the trouble to consider father said that evening i have a poor man whom i want a place for and i must have it mr smiled you generally do have is this one poorer than those others you have on me now don t be a levity is not becoming in a man of your dignity this man is very poor indeed and he has a of children and his wife i know said mr throwing up his hand with a gesture of appeal i surrender they all have what can this one do says every in the shops is complaining that we are filling up with a lot of men who don t want to do anything and couldn t do it if they did oh i this man is a fine workman he is an expert has worked for years in shops has driven why is he out of a job if he is such a universal does he drink remember we can t take in men who drink a bucket of beer cost us twelve by s mission thousand dollars last year not to mention the loss of two lives he is as sober as a judge declared his daughter solemnly what is it then	46
account of the way in which they had been reduced from what they thought to what she very truly called circumstances i confess that i was rather bored by her relation which was given with much until she mentioned casually that miss had tried to interest her father in their case but he had said it was too late to do anything the mention of her name instantly made me alert if she was interested i was interested also i began to ask questions and soon had their whole story as well as she could give it why it may or may not be too late i said it is certainly very long ago and the chances of being able to do anything now are very remote but if there was a fraud and it could be proved it would not be too late or at least might not be oh i do you think that you could recover anything for us mr said nothing could be by john marvel assistant gotten out of it and we paid him a great deal she sighed everything we had in the world almost i do not say that but if there was a fraud and it could be proved it might not be too late the name of had given me a suspicion that all might not be straight nothing could be if he was connected with it i recalled what had told me of s selling out moreover her story had sly been a moving one they had been hardly used and i believed so when she pressed me and promised if she were ever able to do so she would reward me generously as if poor soul she could ever reward any one save with her prayers i undertook to look into the matter for them and i began next day i will not go into the steps i took to reach my ends nor the difficulties i encountered which grew as i in my investigation until they appeared almost but finally i struck a lead which at last led me to a conviction that if i could but secure the evidence i could establish such a case of fraud for my two old as would give promise of a fair chance to recover for them at least a part of their the difficulty or one of them for they were innumerable was that to establish their case it was necessary to prove that several men who had stood high in the public esteem had been guilty of such disregard of the rights of those to whom they stood in the relation of that it would be held a fraud i was satisfied that had taken proper steps to secure his by fate leads rights he might have succeeded and further that he had been bought off but the was to prove it however i determined to make the effort to get the proof and my zeal was suddenly quickened i had now begun to watch for my young lady wherever i went and it was astonishing how my quickened senses enabled me to find her in the most crowded or in strange and out of the way places it was almost as if there were some secret power which drew us together and when i was blessed to meet her the day was always one of sunshine for me however heavy lowered the dim clouds the next afternoon our meeting was so unexpected that i could not but set it down to the ruling of a higher power i had gone out to see how my were coming on having some latent hope that i might find her there but she had not been there for several days they had heard of her however for she had got the husband and father a place and that made sunshine in the wretched as bare as it was i was touched by their gratitude and after taking note of the wretched poverty of the family and promising that i would try to get the mother some sort of work i strolled on i had not gone far when i suddenly came on her face to face the smile that came into her eyes must have brought my soul into my face love is the true miracle it can change the most region into a scene of romance at sight of s slim figure the dull street suddenly became an enchanted land by john marvel assistant well we appear fated to meet she said with a smile and that my heart on for days she little knew how i had played fate during these past weeks haunting the streets near her home or those places which she blessed with her presence this meeting however was purely accidental unless it be true as i sometimes almost incline to think that some power which we cannot understand rules all our actions and guides our footsteps toward those we love john marvel always called it providence well may i not see you home i asked and without waiting for her consent i took it for granted and turned back with her though she protested against taking me out of my way i had indeed some difficulty in not saying then and there my way is where you are she had been to see one of her scholars who was sick the little whom you know she said i suddenly began to think the most interesting of mortals she gave me as we strolled along an account of her first acquaintance with her and her mother and of how john marvel had found out their condition and helped them then she had tried to help them a little and had gotten the mother to let her have the little girl at her school now they are doing a uttle better she said but you never saw such wretchedness the woman had	46
given up everything in the world to try to save her husband and such a wretched hole as they lived in you by fate leads couldn t imagine they did not have a single article of furniture in their room when i when mr marvel first found them it had all gone to the loan company they were starving john marvel had a nose like a for all who were desolate and oppressed how he discovered them except as said by some sort of a sixth sense like that of the pigeon my comprehension it is enough that he found and them out thus he had learned that a little girl a child of a noted criminal had been ill treated by the children at a public school and that her mother and herself were almost starving and had hastened at once to find her like a hunted animal she had gone and hidden herself in what was scarcely better than a den here john marvel found her in a wretched cellar the mother ill on a of straw and both starving without food or fire the door was barred as was her heart and it was long before any answer came to the oft repeated knock but at last his patience was rewarded the door opened a bare inch and a fierce black eye in a haggard white face peered at him through the what do you want to help you the door opened slowly and john mar el entered an abode which he said to me afterward he was glad for the first time in his life to be so near sighted as not to be able to see a of rags lay in a corner and on a box crouched rather than sat a little girl with a broken by john marvel assistant by her side her eyes fastened on the with a gaze of half it was some time before john marvel could get anything out of the woman but he held a key which at last every heart a divine and penetrating sympathy and presently the woman told him her story her husband was a fugitive from justice she did not say so but only that he had had to leave the city because the police were after him his friends had turned against him and against her she did not know where her husband was but believed he had left the country unless indeed he were dead she was waiting to hear from him and meantime everything which she had had gone and now though she did not say so they were starving to relieve them was as instinctive with john marvel as to breathe the next step was to help them permanently it was hard to do because the woman was at bay and was as suspicious as a she wolf and the child was as as a young john turned to one however who he believed and with good reason knew how to do things which were lost to his dull comprehension the following day into that den walked and it was to visit this woman and her child that she was going the morning i met her coming down the steps when she dropped her on the it was a hard task which john marvel had set her for as some women may yield to women rather than to men so there are some who are harder to reach by the former than by the latter and the lot of red s wife had separated her from her sex and turned her by fate leads into a state where she felt that all women were against her but was equal to the task having gained admission through the open of john name she first applied herself to win the child herself on the box she began to play with the little girl and to show her the toys she had brought toys which the child had never seen before it was not long before the little thing was in her lap and then the woman had been won when came away everything had been arranged and the following night red s wife and child moved to another quarter of the town to a clean little room not far from the small school on the way to which i first met the little but you don t go into such places by yourself i said to her when she had told me their story why it might cost you your life oh no one is going to trouble me i am not afraid well it is not safe i protested i wish you do it it was the first time i had ever ventured to assume such an attitude toward her i don t care how brave you are it is not safe oh i i am not brave at all in fact i am an awful coward i am afraid of and all such ferocious and as to a why little miss was a heroine to me i know i nodded watching the play of expression in her eyes with secret delight but i am not afraid of people they are about the only things i am not afraid of they appear to me so by john marvel assistant pitiful in their efforts why should one fear them besides i don t think about myself when i am doing only about what i am doing what is the name of your little g e s father the criminal i asked they call him red he s quite noted i believe red why he is one of the most noted in the country i remember reading of his escape some time ago he was in for a long term it was said no prison could hold him yes he has escaped she said i once more began to protest against her going about such places	46
by herself as she had described but she only laughed at me for my earnestness she had also been to see the miss she said and she gave an amusing and at the same time a pathetic account of miss s brave attempt to cover up their poverty it is hard to do anything for them one can help the but it is almost impossible to help the decayed one has to be so careful not to appear to know her pathetic little and i find myself bowing and accepting all her little devices and transparent of how comfortable they are when i know that maybe she may be faint with hunger at that very time i wondered if she knew their story but she suddenly said tell me their case i do trust you can win it by fate leads i was only too ready to tell her anything so as we walked along i told her all i or nearly all you must win it to think that such robbery can be committed there must be some who were the wretches who robbed them they ought to be shown up if they were in their graves i hate to know things and not know the person who committed them as she turned to me with flashing eyes i felt a great desire to tell her but how could i do so tell me do you know them some of them well tell me their names why do you wish to know i hesitated because i do isn t that sufficient i wanted to say yes but still i hesitated was it i know why i must know her eyes were on my face and i yielded mr was one of the in fact was the president of the road but i have no direct proof yet do you mean my aunt s husband i nodded she turned her face away i ought not to have told you i added oh yes you ought i would have wanted to know if it had been my father i have the dearest father in the world you do not know how good and kind he is by john marvel assistant and how generous to every one he has ruined himself working for others i said i had no doubt he was all she said but mj heart sank as i recalled my part in the paper i had written about him i knew i must tell her some time but i hesitated to do it now i began to talk about myself a subject i am rather fond of but on this occasion i had possibly more excuse than usual my mother also died when i was a child she said sighing as i related the loss of mine and said that i was just b to realize what it was it appeared to draw us nearer together i was conscious of her sympathy and under its influence i went on and told her the wretched story of my life my folly and my failure and my final resolve to begin anew and be something worth while i did not spare myself and i made no i felt her sympathy and it was as sweet to me as ever was grace to a soul i had been so long alone that it seemed to heaven i believe you will succeed she said turning and looking me in the face a sudden fire sprang into my brain and in my heart if you will say that to me and mean it i do believe it of i mean it she stopped and looked me again full in the face and her eyes seemed to me to hold the depths of heaven deep calm confiding and as a child s they stirred me deeply why should i not declare myself i she was since her father s embarrassment of which i had read by fate leads no longer beyond my reach did i not hold the future in fee why might not i win her for some time we drifted along talking about nothing of moment the shore of the charmed unknown deep within which lay the mystery of that which we both possibly meant however to explore then we struck a little further in and b an to exchange first our early impressions of john marvel and it was then that she told me of her coming to know john marvel in the country that night during the she did not tell of her part in the relief of the sick but it was unnecessary john marvel had already told me that it was john himself with his wonderful and gift of self of whom she spoke and with his ideal ever kept in sight what turned you to i asked with a shade of irony in my voice more marked than i had intended if she was conscious of it she took no notice of it beyond saying if you mean the poor pitiful little bit of work i do trying to help mr marvel and mr among the poor john marvel did and mr made the duty dear they are the of each other jew and and if all men were like them there would be no divisions i expressed my wonder that she should have kept on and not merely contented herself with giving money or helping for that one occasion sudden generally by john marvel assistant oh i it was not any it gave life a new interest for me i was bored to death by the life i had been leading since i came out it was one continuous round of dinners parties dances till i felt as if i were a wooden in a merry go round wound up and wearing out you see i had in a way always been out i used to go about with my father and sit	46
as good a one she said i do not care what he calls himself he is why think of him beside doctor beside some of those who set up to be burning and shining lights i well i will agree to that in fact i agreed with everything she had said though i confess to a pang of jealousy at such praise as just as i thought by john marvel assistant it and i b an in my selfishness to wish i were more like either of her two models as we stood in the light for we were almost standing we moved so slowly my resolution took form it was not a place for what i suddenly resolved to do it was certainly not a romantic spot for it was in the centre the very heart of a mean district a region of small shops and poor houses and the autumn wind had risen with an edge on it and laden with dust which made the clad poor their steps as they passed along and try to shrink closer within their the lights which were b to appear only added to the appearance of about us but like the soft i cared for none of these things i saw only the girl beside me whose awakened soul seemed to me even more beautiful than her beautiful frame and so far as i was concerned we might have been in paradise or in a desert i recall the scene as if it were yesterday the very softness in her face the delicacy of her the movement of her soft hair on her blue white temple and her round neck as a gentle breath of air stirred it the dreamy depths of her eyes as the smile faded in them and she into a reverie an impulse seized me and i cast prudence wisdom reason all to the winds and gave the rein to my heart come here i took her arm and drew her a few steps beyond to where there was a vacant house sit down here a moment i spread my handkerchief on by fate leads the steps and she sat down smiling after her little outbreak leaning over her i took hold of her hand and lifted it to my breast clasping it very tight look at me she had already looked in vague wonder her eyes wide open beginning the question which her lips were parting to frame don t say that to me that about your belief in me unless you mean it all all i love you and i mean to succeed for you with you i mean to marry you some day the look in her eyes changed but for a second they did not leave my face my eyes were holding them what she gasped while her hand went up to her throat then she firmly but as i afterward recalled slowly withdrew her hand from my grasp which made no attempt to detain it are you crazy she gasped and i truly believe she thought i was no i don t know if i am my insanity begins and ends only in you i know only one thing that i love you and that some day some day i am going to marry you though the whole world and yourself oppose me she stood up but why did you say that because it is true we were such good friends we never were i never was for a moment you were by john marvel assistant never we were just beginning to understand each other to be such good friends and now you have ended it all that cannot be ended which never had a beginning i don t want your friendship i want your love and i will have it no i cannot why did you why sit down no i cannot good by good by she hesitated and then without looking held out her hand good by i took her hand and this time kissed it as i remember almost fiercely she tried to stop me but i held it firmly you must not do that you have no right she was standing very straight now i took the right promise me you will never say that again what what you said at first i don t know what you mean i have been saying the same thing all the time ever since i knew you ever since i was bom that i love you you must never say that again promise me before i go i promise you i said slowly that i will say it as long as i live she appeared to let herself drift for a half second then she gave a little catch at herself by fate leads no really you must not i cannot allow you i have no right to let you i must go and if you are a friend of mine you will never listen to me i interrupted firmly i have not asked you for anything i have not asked your permission i am not a friend of yours and i shall never be that i don t want to be your friend i love you and i am going to win your love now you can go come on we walked on and i saw her safely home we talked about everything and i told her much of myself but she was plainly thinking not about what i was saying then but what i had said on the dusty steps when we reached her home i saved her embarrassment i held out my hand and said by i love you no woman can quite let a man go at least no woman with a woman s can after i had turned away what must do but say i hope	46
what you know of the fraud that was on the of a certain colonel who built and once largely owned the road i have spoken ov fraud sir what do you mean as to what you know if anything of the arrangement by which a certain sold out his the said of the said colonel to a certain mr whose private you then were and whose retained he then became what his affected coolness was all gone his countenance was black with a storm of passion where wonder astonishment rage all played their part and i thought i saw a trace of dismay as well what do you mean what do i know of the the fraud the arrangements if there ever were any such arrangements as those you speak of i was the insolent one now i bowed that is what i am going to ask you to tell in court you have the books and you will bring them with you when you come under a i walked out as i approached my i saw out of the door and down the street his face as black as a thunder cloud he was in such a hurry that he did not e me though he nearly ran over me he had evidently been summoned by by s methods i was working on my bill a few days later when to my surprise walked into my office i knew instantly that there was mischief he looked he had just arrived that morning he said mr had some important interests in a railway property which required looking af ter and he had come on to see about them there was not much to do as the road was being managed but they thought best to have some one on the ground to keep an eye on the property and remembering our old friendship he had su that i be retained to represent mr if anything should at any time arise and mr had of course acted on his advice mr had in fact always been such a friend of mine etc the trouble with was that he always played a even when it was not necessary i expressed my sense of obligation to both him and mr but in my heart could not help recalling the chances mr had thrown away to help me in the past what sort of interests are they i inquired railway interests he has both stocks and bonds second bonds they are as good as gold pay straight along the railway has never failed to increase its net every year for ten years and is a very important link in a what railway did you say it was i inquired for i had observed that he had not mentioned the line d b d by john marvel assistant well the fact is i don t know that i could represent mr in any connected with that road oh i it is not my dear fellow you d as talk about over the bank of england it is to represent him as a sort of regular i know i cut him short but i think there will be some the fact is i have a claim against that road a claim against the p d b d i for i suppose no to upset the that took place burst out laughing to upset the of that road which took place ten twenty how many years ago was it you d better try to upset the government of the united states no come now don t be i ve come here to give you a good case that may be the beginning of a great practice for you why you may become general counsel i thought mr was general counsel you said so i remember when you were here before why ah i yes he is in a way you would of course be in a way his ah i said and i kept my eye on him have you seen mr since your arrival why yes i have i had to see him of course because he is as i told you the general counsel by s methods in a way i yes and of course i had to see him it would not have been quite professional if i had not and he to your proposition oh yes entirely in fact he he paused and then added is entirely satisfied he says you are an excellent lawyer much obliged to him i beat him in the only case i ever had against him what was that oh a small case against the estate well now don t be here is the chance of your life all the big people the estate mr mr mr why it may lead you no one can tell where that is true i said quietly then quite as quietly i asked did mr send for you to come on here did mr send for me to come on here why no of course he did not i came on to look after mr s interest and to employ me to represent him yes and to give up my as did what tell mr that neither my dog nor myself is for sale what i i don t understand stammered well maybe so but you give the message he will understand it and now i will explain by john marvel assistant it to you so you may understand i explained briefly to him my connection with the matter and my proposed line of action and he naturally endeavored to satisfy me as to the absolute of such a course as i proposed why consider he said the people you will have to contend with the idea that you can prove fraud against such persons as mr the mr i don t expect to prove fraud on	46
what then what had i ever done to you that you should be after me i you were you tried to kill me you ve cut my head open and no thanks to you that you didn t kill me t wa n t me t was that other fellow the that away and left me what s his name i don know i never seen him before what are you lying to me for what s his name and why was he after me tell me and i ll let you go otherwise i ll give you to the police i ll tell you he s a friend of a man you know of a man i know who he s a big man too a big do you mean you don t mean i didn t tell you did i you can swear to that now give me five dollars and let me go i haven t any money at all but i ll take you to a doctor and get your wound dressed i have to go to one too i don want no i m all right i won t give you up i said if you ll tell me the truth i m not after you if i d wanted to give you up i d have fired this pistol and brought the police come on but don t try to run off or i ll let you have it by ic i s methods he came along at first enough but presently he appeared to get in a better temper at least with me and turned his abuse on his for him he declared that he had not meant to do me any harm in fact that he had only met the other man accidentally and did not know what he was going to do etc i was so fortunate as to find my friend dr at home and he looked after the wound in the scoundrel s throat and then took a look at my hurt you had a close he said but i don t think it is anything more serious than a bad scrape on your head and a and on the shoulder while he was working on the i got hold of him and asked him to come there which he said he would do at once just as the doctor was through with me walked in i never saw so surprised an expression on his face as that when his eyes fell on my i saw at once that he knew him but as usual he said nothing the too evidently knew he was an officer for he gave me one swift glance of fear i however his suspicion it s all right i said if you tell me the truth who is he i asked he smiled red what ve you been up to he asked i brought him here to have his wound dressed and he s going directly i have promised him he nodded put him on to a little job and he it that s all by john marvel assistant actually looked pleased but i could not tell whether it was because his warning had been or because i had escaped t was that other muttered sullenly who dutch the don know who t was you you don t know who i am either the man gave him a keen look of inspection but he evidently did not know him leaned over and dropped his voice did you ever know i could not catch the name but the s eyes and he turned white under his dirt i didn t have t all to do with it i was in he faltered s eyes suddenly snapped i know where you were this gentleman s a friend of mine he said he saved my life once and if you ever touch him i ll have you he made a with his hand to his throat understand and not all the in the city will save you understand i ain t goin to touch him i got against him you d better not have said come here he took him out into the doctor s front office and talked to him for some little time while i told the doctor of my adventure who is when he is at home i asked him he chuckled he is the best man for you to have by s methods in this city if is your enemy he is a of mr s just then and the came in say i m sorry i took a hand in that job said the latter but that that away he put t up and he said s another friend of his got him to do it i don t know who t was he persisted i glanced at and he just nodded by if ever you wants a job done get out said don t you give t to that other i didn t know good by obliged to you and he passed through the door which held open for him it s all right said the latter as he closed the door you had a close that s one of the worst in the country he don t generally a job but he s all right now but there are others my dog saved my life he got his throat that s a good dog better keep hun close to you for a while y by the shadow a great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and r and with the men all driven by one impulse and moving in as though a part of the mighty machine is one of the most inspiring examples of directed force that the world shows i have rarely seen the face of a in the act of creation which was not fine never	46
one which was not earnest and impressive such were the men some hundreds of them whom i used to gaze at and admire and envy through the open windows of several great and mills along the street through which lay my way to my i chose thb street for the pleasure of seeing them of a morning as with and arms and and shining brows eager and earnest and bold they bent over glowing fires and flaming and rolled massive red hot irons hither and yon tossing them about guiding them in their rush and swing and whirl as though they were very sons of and ever with a catch of song or a jest though a of the of an inch might mean death itself i had come to know some of them well that b as well as a man in a good coat can know men in a workman s and numbers of them i began to know by the shadow in a sort as day after day i fell in beside them on their way to or from their work for lawyer and gentleman as i was they i think felt in me the universal touch of brotherhood we used to talk together and i found them human to the core and most intelligent was an idol among them they looked to him as to a champion he has learned said one of them to me once the secret of getting at us he takes us man for man and don t herd us like cattle he speaks to me on a level man to man and don t me he was a strong clear eyed with a foreign accent we our own home he said with pride and the building company is most my back if we can but keep at we ll soon be safe and the young ones are all at school the sun shines bright after the storm he added with a shake of his strong head ah well we are having good times now the sun b shining for many of us let us pray that it may keep shining grant it he said solemnly i was thinking of miss and the way she had smiled the last time heaven had favored me with a sight of her that was sunshine enough for me she had heard of the attack on me and had been so sympathetic that i had almost her again on the spot john marvel had made me out quite a hero the good times however of which my mill friends and i talked were rapidly passing in by john marvel assistant offices plans were being laid which were to blot out the sun for many a poor family within a day or two i began to observe in the press ominous notices of an approaching strike all the signs it was declared pointed to it meetings were being held and the men were rapidly getting out of hand of their leaders who it being on the verge of winter were averse to their undertaking the strike at this time notwithstanding what they admitted were their and long standing as i ran over the accounts in many of the papers i was surprised to find that among these was mentioned the name of it was evident however that the efforts of the element were meeting with success for in the s section through which i passed every day there was not as yet the least sign of excitement of any kind or indeed of any dissatisfaction the railway men all appeared quiet and contented and the force in the several large along my route whom i mingled with in my tramp back and forth from my office were not only free from but were easy and happy the only strikes going on in the city were those on the lines in which the interests were and they were frequently spoken of as the mills were all running as usual work was going on but a shadow was deepening over the community of the the strike which the newspapers had been for some time was not yet indeed by the proper authorities but it was de by the shadow on by the leaders and its shadow was darkening the entire section the first knowledge i had of it was the gloom that appeared on the countenances of the men i saw in the morning and when i met he was more downcast than i had seen him in a long time he had been working night and day to off the trouble the poor fools i was all he could say they are the victims of their ignorance from my earliest arrival in the city i had been aware of something about the laboring element something connected with the union yet different from what i had been accustomed to elsewhere i had ever been an advocate of the union of to protect themselves against the tyranny and insolence of those who possibly by circumstances were their i had seen the evil of the insolence added to the unlimited power of the to take on or to fling off whom he pleased and while the occupation lasted to give or reduce wages as he pleased and i had seen the exercise of this power had seen men turned off for nothing but the whim of a superior had seen them about ordered around as if they had been beasts of burden and if they ever ed told to go elsewhere as though a poor man with a family of children could go elsewhere at an hour s notice hundreds of men thousands of men laid off because it was said times were dull though the returns from their work in good times had made their rich beyond anything their fathers by john marvel assistant had ever dreamed of and i had witnessed with that joy that	46
a man feels in seeing justice out the rise of a power able to exact if not complete at least justice for the down trodden but here was something different it was still the union but bore a new complexion and a different relation alike to the the employer and the public it was a strange power and its was different it was not in active exercise when i first went among the yet it was ever present a cloud appeared to hang over the population there was a feeling that a as yet quiet might burst forth at any time and no man could tell what the end might be it was ever in men s minds not only the s but the s the s it appeared to keep on edge a keen between all laboring men as such and all other men it was nearer and more important than politics or religion it had entered into their lives and created a power which they feared and obeyed to a considerable extent it had taken away their liberties and their lives were regulated by their relation to it i saw the growth of the system and was by it for i saw individuality and personal liberty passing away men deliberately their most cherished privileges to submit to a yoke that was being put on them i noted the decline of excellence in the individual s work and of ambition for excellence in himself the decay of the standard of good i marked the mere question of wages by the shadow higher wages of better work take the place of the old standard of improved and witnessed the which in large figures had swept over the employer class now creep over and the laboring class to the destruction of all fine ambition and the of excellence to a dead level of indifferent they deliberately surrendered individual liberty and all its possibilities and became the of a which they set up i was familiar with the and the he is incident to humanity he exists in every calling and rank of life but it was novel to me to find an entire class deliberately and and on principle i saw of workmen waiting around shivering in the wind for the hour to come when they might take up the tools which lay at hand with which they might have warmed themselves i saw them on the stroke drop those tools as though the wave of sound had their arms i saw them leave the stone half set the half driven the bar half turned the work whatever it was half done i saw bright alert intelligent men whose bodies were twice and their brains ten times as active as their fellows do double work in the same time as the latter and then and loaf and empty handed beside the unfinished work with which they might readily have doubled their income i asked some of my friends why it was and the answer was always the same the union a strike was going on on the other side of the town by john marvel assistant but the direct results were not yet felt among us and as the there where the trouble existed were in conflict with those on our side and therefore our rivals it did not appear likely that we should be affected except possibly to our advantage the of our section therefore looked on and the troubles with the placid satisfaction of men who on land discuss and those tossed by storms far off whose existence is known only by the long that with spent force roll against their shore they enjoyed their own good fortune rejoiced in the good times and to a considerable extent spent their like children almost indifferent as to the future y by the walking miss had observed for some time that her father was more than usually and she knew the cause for her father discussed many matters with her it was often his way of his own views and when he asked her what she thought of them she felt that it was the highest compliment she ever received not that he took her advice she knew but this did not matter he had consulted her the fact gave her a self reliance wholly different from mere conceit it her and furnished her a certain atmosphere of calm in which she formed her judgment in other matters of late in the shadow of the clash with his which appeared to be growing more and more imminent he had not advised with her as formerly and the girl felt it was it due to the views which she had been expressing of late touching the of the laboring class she knew that her father held views its to this quite the opposite of those she had been vaguely groping toward and while he treated her views with amused indulgence he considered the whole line of thought as the project of selfish or at best of crack it might suit for the but not for a society in by john marvel assistant which every man was with every other man in fact however the principal reason for mr s silence was the growing differences between himself and mrs the struggle had grown it involved the very existence of his house he knew that if his daughter ever realized the truth that her aunt s interest had been th ov l against him and in favor of men whose methods he it would mean the end of all een them and he was unwilling that a breach should come between his daughter and her mother s sister the of the present relation with his men was however growing steadily worse and more threatening the influences at work were more and more apparent the press was giving more and more space to the breach and the danger of a	46
strike on a vast scale that should exceed ever known heretofore was steadily increasing knew that this was the cloud that left its shadow on her father s brow and she determined to make an effort to assist him she had the scheme in her little head and it appeared the very thing to do the approach of offered an opportunity for an act of good will which she felt sure would bear fruit she had talked it over with john marvel and he had glowed at the suggestion so one day at the table she broke in on her father s reverie father how many men have you in the mills and on the railway by the walking her father smiled as he nearly always did when she spoke to him as indeed most people smiled with sheer content over the silvery voice and sparkling eyes why roughly in the mills about eleven hundred there may be a few more or a few less to day tomorrow there will not be one i hope they won t do that i have such a beautiful plan what b it to give them all they demand and have them come back with a fresh and more insolent demand to morrow no to give them every one who has a family a basket a turkey her father burst out laughing a turkey better give them a goose what put that idea into your little head why they would laugh at you if they did not fling it back in your face no they would not i never saw any one who did not respond to kindness better wait till after to morrow and you will save a lot of no i am serious i have been thinking of it for quite a while and i have some money of my own you d better keep it you may come to need it no i want to try my plan you do not forbid it oh if you can the strike that they are preparing for your money will be a good i don t do it as an protested the girl i do it as an act of kindness by john marvel assistant all right have your way it can t do any harm if you succeed i shall be quite willing to foot the bills no this is my treat said the girl though i shall put your name in too so that day miss spent and getting prices on and by night she had placed her order with a man who had promised to provide the necessary number of baskets and what is more had gotten interested in her plan she had also the interest of john marvel who worked like a in of her wishes and i having learned from john of her charitable design gave my assistance with what i fear was a less unselfish happily disease is not the only thing that b it was impossible to work shoulder to shoulder with those two and not catch something of john marvel s spirit not to mention the sweet of s charming enthusiasm i learned much in that association of her cleverness and sound sterling sense as she organized her force and set them to work and i was fortunate enough to get one of her charming smiles it was when she said i want one of the best baskets for mrs and i replied i have already sent it thus in due time on the day before day a score of were busily at work carrying not only the ordered by miss as a present for each family in her father s employ but with each one a basket of other things by the walking it happened that that night a great meeting of the was held it was largely attended for though the object had not been stated in the call it was well known that it was to consider a momentous subject nothing less than an on the part of the men to the company and this many of the men felt was the same thing with a strike the name of david the chief speaker was a of this he was a man who had his way to the front by sheer force mainly she brute force from a common he had risen to be one of the leaders in what had come to be known as the s movement he had little or no education and was not known to have training of any kind some said he had been a some a some a carpenter his past was in fact veiled in mystery no one knew indeed where he came from some said he was irish some that he was some that he was american all that was known of him positively was that he was a man of force with a gift of speech and fierce which rose at times and under certain conditions to eloquence at least he could sway an assemblage of and at need he was not backward in using his fists or any other weapon that came to hand speaking of once said that not the least of the misfortunes of the poor was the leaders they were forced to follow his reputation for brute strength was quite equal to his reputation as a speaker and stories were freely told of how when by john marvel assistant was too strong for him in a given meeting he had come down from the platform and beaten into submission with his fists it was how he had n ore than once even his rivals and done them up but this story was generally told in for was now too potent and dangerous a man for most men of his class to personally without good cause his presence in the city was in itself a sign that some action would be taken for he had of late	46
come to be known as an advanced of action to this bold was due much of his power he was not afraid of the men said and so they established him in his seat as their leader to his presence was due a goodly share of the shadow that had been gathering over the s part of the section of the town which i have noted thus the meeting on the evening i speak of was largely attended for an hour before the time set for it the large hall in the second story of a big building was crowded and many who could not get in were the and the street outside a of strong tobacco pervaded the air and men with sullen brows talked in broken now and then by a discussion in some group in which possibly some other than tobacco played a part and marvel had both been trying to the strike and had i heard made some impression among the people marvel had worked hard all day miss in her friendly efforts and by the walking had been arguing on rational grounds against a strike at the b of winter i had been talking over matters with some of my mill friends who had invited me to go with them so i attended the meeting i had been struck for some time with the change that had been going on in the s districts as wretched as they had been before they were now infinitely more so the meeting b an as the meetings of such bodies usually b in with considerable discussion and appearance of deliberation there was manifest much discontent and also much opposition to taking any steps that would lead to a final breach a number of men boldly stood forth to declare for the half than no bread theory and against much they stood their ground the question of a resolution of thanks for miss s baskets aroused a little opposition but the majority were for it and many pleasant things were said about her and her father as well hb liberal policy being strongly contrasted with the policy of the other roads then there appeared the real leader of the occasion to hear whom the meeting had been called and within ten minutes he had everything his own way he was greeted with cheers as he entered and he shouldered his way to the front with a grim look on his face that had often prepared the way for him he was undoubtedly a man of power physical and mental flinging off his heavy overcoat he scarcely waited for the brief introduction undertaken by the of by john marvel assistant the occasion and refusing to wait for the cheers to he plunged at once into the midst of his subject why am i here because like you i am a working man he stretched out his long arm and swept it in a half circle and they cheered his gesture and voice and violent action though had they considered as they might well have done he had not hit a with hb hands in a number of years unless indeed a which had begun to go the was true that he had once at least performed work for the government in an institution where the labor was not wholly voluntary then came a catalogue of their and wrongs presented with much force and marked dramatic ability and on the heels of it a against all and and especially against their employer whom he pictured as their arch enemy and the chief and final act of whose he declared to be his attempt to bribe them with baskets of rotten fowls who was thb man he would tell them he held in hb hand a paper whidi pictured him in his true character here he opened a journal and read from the article i had written for the infamous of the editor which changed the whole thb was the man with whom they had to deal a man who flung scraps from his table for children to over with dogs there was but one way to meet such insolence he declared to fling them back in his face and make him understand that they didn t want from him but justice not rotten fowls by the walking but their own hard earned money and now he cried i put the motion to send every basket back with this message and to demand an increase of twenty five per cent pay forthwith thus we shall show them and all the world that we are independent american workmen earning our own bread and asking no man s meat let all who favor this rise and the sit still it was so quickly and done that a large part of the assembly were on their feet in a second indeed many of them were already standing and the protest of the was lost in the wild storm of applause over on the far side i saw little shouting and in vehement protest but as i caught sight of him a dozen men piled on him and pulled him down him into silence the man s power and boldness had accomplished what his reasoning could never have effected the shouts that went up showed how completely he had won i was thrown into a sort of but his next words recalled me it was necessary he went on that he should still maintain his old position his heart every moment but he would sacrifice himself for them and if need were he would die with them and when this time came he would lead them through flaming streets and over broken to the universal community of everything he drew a picture of the that was to follow which surpassed everything i had ever believed possible when he sat down his audience was a mob of insensible to the folly of the step i	46
took i sprang to my chair and by ic john marvel assistant began to protest they hushed down for a second i as a scoundrel a spy a hound with a roar they set upon me and swept me from my feet why i was not killed instantly i hardly know to this day fortunately their very fury them i knew that it was necessary to keep my feet and i fought like a demon i could hear s voice high above the uproar them on suddenly a cry of put him out was raised close beside me a pistol was before my face my fell back a little and i was seized and to the door i found a man i had noticed near me in the back part of the hall who had sat with his coat collar turned up and his hat on to be my principal with one hand he pushed me toward the entrance whilst his revolver with the other he defended me from the blows that were again aimed at me but all the time he cursed me violently not in here let him go outside leave him to me tu settle he shouted and the crowd shouted also so he me to the door and followed me out pushing others back and the door to after him on the outside i turned on him i had been badly battered and my blood was up i was not afraid of one man even with a pistol as i sprang for him however he began to put up his weapon chuckled and dropped his voice hold on youve had a close call get away from here by the walking it was the he followed me down the steps and out to the street and then joined me well he laughed what do you think of your friends that i hare been a fool he smiled with deep satisfaction what were you doing in there i asked looking after my friends but i don t fed it necessary to invite them to cut my throat one good turn deserves another he proceeded you keep away from there or find yourself in a bad way that is a scoundrel keep a for him he s after you and he has powerful friends night i don t forget a man who has done me a kindness and i know that fellow he turned into a by street the next morning the papers contained an account of the proceedings with glaring the account in the trumpet being the fullest and most sympathetic and giving a picture of the great labor leader the idol of the who had by his courage and character his of purpose and of aim inspired them with courage to rise against the oppression of the grinding which after them for years had attempted by a trick to them into an of the measures to secure at least partial justice just as they were about to it from its reluctant hand by john marvel assistant it was a description which might have fitted an of but what my heart down into my boots was the of the in portion of my article on the delayed train attacking mr the action of the meeting was stated to be unanimous and in proof it was mentioned that the only man who opposed it a yoimg man evidently imder the influence of liquor was promptly flung out i knew that i was destined to hear more of that confounded article and i b an to cast about as to how i should get around it should i go to and make a clean breast of it or should i leave it to occasion to determine the matter i finally did the natural thing i put off the decision miss who had worked hard all the day before baskets to the hundreds of homes which her kind heart had prompted her to fill with cheer came down to breakfast that morning with her heart full of gratitude and kindness toward all the world she found her father sitting in his place with the newspapers lying beside him in some disorder and with a curious smile on his face she divined at once that something had happened what is it she asked a little frightened for answer mr pushed a paper over to her and her eye fell on the honest laboring men resent brazen attempt at labor leader s great appeal for justice labor demands its by the walking oh father i with a gasp she burst into tears and threw herself in her father s arms that is the work of and his partner mc said mr grimly it was not the only house in which the sending back of her baskets caused tears in many a poor little there was sore weeping because of the order in not a few a turkey had not been known for years yet mainly the order was obeyed next day mr received in his office a that a of the on his road demanded to see him immediately he knew that they were coming but he had not expected them quite so soon however he was quite prepared for them and they were immediately admitted they were a of five men two of them elderly men one hardly more than a youth the other two of middle age at their head was a large surly man with a new black hat and a new overcoat he was the first man to enter the room and was the leader of the party mr invited them to take seats and the two older men sat down two of the others a little in their places and turned their eyes on their leader well what can i do for you inquired mr quietly his good face had suddenly taken on a cold self contained expression as of a	46
man who had passed the worst again there was a slight on the part of the others and one of the older men rising from his seat by john marvel assistant and taking a step forward said gravely we have come to submit to you his speech however was instantly interrupted by the man in the overcoat not by a d d sight r he b an we have come to demand two mr nodded only two what may they be please first that you discharge a man named who is a non union man mr s eyes contracted slightly and secondly that you give a raise of wages of fifteen per cent to every man in your employ and every woman too and what is the alternative pray a strike by whom by every soul in your employ and if necessary by every man and woman who works in this city and if that b not enough by a tie up that will you and all like you mr nodded i a slight spark came into his eyes and his lips just a shade but when he spoke his voice was level and almost will nothing less satisfy you he inquired not a cent said the leader and two of the others looked at him with admiration we want justice mr with his eye steadily on him shook his head and a smile came into his eyes no you by the walking don t want justice he said to the leader you want money yes our money again mr shook hb head slowly with his eyes on him no not your money mine who are you he demanded are you one of the of this road my name is and i am the head of thb are you an of this company i am the head of this the representative of the associated of this city of which the union on this road a part i will not deal with you said mr but i will deal with you he turned to the other men i will not discharge the man you speak of he is an good man i happen to know this of my own personal knowledge and i know the reason he is not a union man it is because you kept him out of the union hoping to destroy him as you have destroyed other honest men who have opposed you he turned back to the leader started to speak but mr cut him short not a word from you i am dealing now with my own men i know you i know who your employer is and what you have been paid you sold out your people in the east whom you pretended to represent and now you have come to sell out these poor people here on whose ignorance and innocence you trade and by john marvel assistant you have been against because he you in the east your demand is preposterous he said turning to the others it is an absolute of the agreement which you entered into with me not three months ago i have that agreement here on my desk you know what that says that the scale adopted was to stand for so long and if by any chance any question should arise it was to be by the assented to by yourselves and myself i am willing to submit to that the question whether any question has arisen and if it has to submit it for by them we did not come here to be put off with any such began the leader but before he had gotten his word out mr was on his feet stop he said and his voice had the sharp crack of a rifle shot not a word from you out of thb office he pointed to the door and at the same moment touched the bell show that man the door he said instantly and never admit him inside of it again ah i m going sneered putting on hb hat but not because you ordered me yes you are because i ordered you and if you don t go instantly i will kick you out personally he stepped around the desk and with his eyes blazing walked quickly across the floor but had backed out of the door for the rest of you he said you have my answer i warn you that if you strike you will close the that now give employment to thousands of men and by the walking young women you men may be able to take care of yourselves but you should think of those girls who will take care of them when they are turned out on the street i have done it heretofore unless you are prepared to do it now you had better consider go down to my box factory and walk through it and see them self supporting and self respecting do you know what will become of them if they are turned out to s gallery and see back to your work if you are men of sense if not i have nothing further to say to you they walked out and mr shut the door behind them when he took his seat a deep gravity had settled on him which made him look older by years the following day an order for a general strike on the lines by mr was issued and the next morning after that not a wheel turned on his lines or in his it was imagined and reported as only a question of wages between an employer and his men but deep down underneath lay the secret motives of and and their set who had been in secret weaving their in the gambling in the lives of men and sad eyed women and hungry children the effect on the population of that section of the city was curious	46
of all sad things on earth a strike is the and like other battles next to a defeat the scene is the field of victory the shadow had settled down on us the sunshine was gone the temper of every one appeared to have been strained the principle of as a system by john marvel assistant of protection and defence had suddenly taken form as a system of and active hostility class feeling suddenly sprang up in open and armed array and next came division within classes the talk was all of force the feeling all one of enmity and strife the entire population appeared by it houses were divided against themselves neighbors who had lived in friendliness and intercourse and exchanged continual acts of kindness discussed quarrelled threatened and fought or passed by on the other side and sweetness gave place to and good will to hate among those affected by the strike was the family of my old the change was as apparent in this little home where hitherto peace and content had reigned supreme with music to fill in the and make joy as in the immediate field of the strike the whole atmosphere of happiness a change as though a deadly damp had crept in from the outside with its presence all within and turning the very sunlight into gloom had lost her place the box factory was closed ttie house was filled with the who came around to smoke their big pipes and drink beer with old were like the rest nothing appeared to please any longer ttie was a tyrant the first a the rest of the mostly fools or worse and the whole a by the walking this was the talk i heard in the home when i stopped by sometimes of an evening on my way to my room and some of his friends arguing with him over their and pipes and a stand against the and a demand that he to their wishes the old himself stood out stoutly tlie had always been kind to him and to them he insisted he was a good man and took pride in the as much pride as he himself did but i could see that he was growing he drank more beer and practised less moreover he talked more of money which once he had scarcely ever mentioned but the atmosphere was telling the was appearing and in this of peace peace was gone i learned from one evening that in the event of the strike not being settled soon there was a chance of a sympathetic strike of all trades and that even the might join in it for they had also but i thought music was not a trade but a sion an art i said quoting a phrase i had overheard him use he raised his shoulders and threw out his hands palm upward it vas then why is it not now who knows because they not it so music dead harmony all gone in people in heart no more music in souls of people it by john marvel fight fight fight all time i who can strain ven heart is set on always who indeed i thought and the more thought of it the more clearly i felt that he had touched the central truth by my confession it is said that every woman has in her nature something i will not venture on so sweeping an assertion but i will say that one of the sex was never by any in her ability to torture and her to the victim of her charms when i met next after the memorable on the dusty steps i could not tell for my life what were her feelings toward me they were as completely veiled as though she had been accustomed from her infancy to herself in impenetrable mystery there was a subtle change in her manner profoundly interesting to me but what it i could not in the least discover and every effort on my part to do so was with art she did not look at me and at moments appeared of my presence she talked more than ever before of john marvel varied at times by admiring allusions to until i almost began to hate them both and all the while she was so natural and innocent a man may be a true friend to another ready to serve him to the limit and may wish him all the happiness in the world and yet may not desire the girl who has become his sun moon and stars to appear to draw her light from his source so presently like any other worm i turned by john marvel assistant you appear to think that there is no one else in the world like john marvel i said inwardly i do not in a way he stands by himself why i thought you thought so too yes of course i do i mean i believe you are in i hesitated to finish the sentence and changed it i believe you think more of him than of any one else i did not really believe this i wished her to deny it but not she i i was playing at a game at which she was an expert from her cradle a subtle change of expression passed over her face she gave me a half glance and then looked down she appeared to be reflecting and as my eyes rested on her i became conscious of the same feeling of pleased wonder with which we gaze into a perfectly clear fountain whose crystal depths we may penetrate but not yes i think i do in a way i think him quite wonderful he appears to me the of truth rugged and without grace but so so real so sincere i feel that if	46
great and then i shall not to borrow any more i shall all de i want my pockets full and den i pay you one two t times for all you lend me and now i de comes to you de and calls you mine friend and swear to pay you one two t times over you nod refuse me the rest was in the language of their own country the argument had its effect for i could hear the old s tone growing more and more and the other s laugh becoming more and more assured and finally i knew by his voice that he had succeeded i came near rising on the spot and going in and him but i did not i determined to wait until the next morning next morning however when i came down i received notice that my room was no longer for rent the announcement came to me from mrs who gave it in her husband s name and appeared somewhat embarrassed i could not see her husband he had gone out to meet a gentleman she said her manner was so changed that i was offended and contented myself with saying i would leave and i did so only leaving a line addressed to my old to by my confession explain my departure i was sure that their action was in some way due to in fact i was not sorry to leave though i did not like being put out my only cause of regret was that i should miss my walk through the street where the young school mistress was shining i am not sure whether it was a high motive or a mean one which made me as i left the house say to mrs you are a scoundrel in that man keep your eyes open i saw a startled look in her eyes but i did not wait to explain i did not feel comfortable that evening as i walked through the streets to the better quarters which i had taken i knew that john marvel would have said less or more i half made up my mind to go to john and lay the matter before him indeed i actually determined to do so other things however soon engrossed my thoughts and my time i had to file my bill for my old ladies and so this like most of my good intentions faded away in fact about this time i was so wholly taken up with my love for the ideal that i had clad in the of miss and adorned with her radiance and charm that i had no thought for anything that was not in some way to her my work was suddenly uplifted by becoming a means to bring me nearer to my ambition to win her my reading took on new meaning in my mind with lore or it to fit it for her service the outward form of nature displayed new beauty because she loved it the by john marvel assistant inward realm of reflection took on new grace because she pervaded it in a word the whole world became but the home and of one being about whom breathed all the radiance and sweetness that i found in it all of which meant simply that i was truly in love content with my love i lived in a heaven whose charm she created but love has its winter and it often follows close on its spring i had played fate again and her one afternoon as she was returning home from an excursion somewhere and persuaded her to her walk with an ease that lifted me quite out of myself and i began to have aspirations to be very brave and good i wished to be more like a rock rugged and simple we were walking slowly and had reached a park and i led her by a path through a part where the made it more secluded than the rest i can see the spot now as then i saw it a gray road sloping down under overhanging trees and a path with sunlight dipping into masses of with a glancing through them like a little brown playing hide and seek as we a seat i suggested that we should sit down and i was pleased at the way in which she yielded quite as if she had thought of it herself it was almost the first time that i had her quite to myself in fair surroundings where we were face to face in body and soul i felt somehow as though i had made a great step up to a new and a higher level we had reached together a new resting place a higher atmosphere almost a new by my confession land and the surroundings were fresh to me in the city for we had strayed out of the beaten track i remember that a placid pool shaded by drooping and one great lay at our feet on which a couple of wild fowl floated their graceful in the below them i pointed to one and said and my heart warmed when she smiled and said yes at peace the past for aud the future sure a quotation from a poet always pleases me it is as if one found a fresh rose in the street and where it comes from the lips and heart of a girl it is as though she had uttered a rose are you fond of i asked he seems to me very spiritual yes in fact i think i am fond of all poetry it lifts me up out of the atmosphere of the world which i enjoy too and seems to place me above and outside of myself some even that i don t understand i seem to be borne on wings that i can t see into a atmosphere that i	46
can only feel but not describe that i said as i understand it is the province of and also perhaps its test it has somewhat the same effect on me that saying my prayers has i believe in something infinitely good and pure and blessed it me i get into a better frame of mind i should think your frame of mind was always a better frame i said toward the personal by john marvel assistant compliment and yet feeling as though i were a beautiful dream you don t know how worse i can be how angry how savage terribly so i should think you look like an i feel like one sometimes too she nodded i can be one when i have the provocation as for example well let me see well for example once quite a time ago it was just after i met the very next day my heart bounded that she could remember the very next day after meeting me and should set dates by that important event i wanted to say that is the beginning of my era but i feared i got into a dreadful passion i was really ferocious terrible i i suppose you would have poisoned your slaves like the old roman what was her name i was angry enough and instead you gave the cat milk in place of cream or did some such awful act of cruelty not at all i did nothing i only burned inwardly and consumed myself and pray what was the offence that called forth such wrath and who was the wretch who the crime i had sufficient provocation of course by my confession no i mean really what why it was a piece that appeared in one of the morning papers a vile sheet that had always attacked my father j but this was the first open attack and it was simply a huge lie and it has been repeated again and again why only the other day the same paper it with huge and charged that my father was the cause of all the trouble in the city my father who is the best the kindest the most charitable man i ever knew who has almost himself to furnish to the oh i can t bear ill i wish i had that man under my heel this minute i would just grind him to powder i would she turned her eyes sparkling her cheeks glowing with her face rigid with resolution her white teeth shut together as if they were a trap to hold her enemy till death give the cat i could have poured metal down that man s throat cheerfully yes cheerfully it may be well believed that as she proceeded the amusement died out of my face and mind i turned the other way to keep her from seeing the change that must have come over me i was thinking hard and i thought quickly as tis said a drowning man thinks life and death both flashed before me life in her presence in the sunlight of those last weeks and the shadow of t but one thing was in i must act and at once i turned to her and was almost driven from my determination by the smile in her eyes by ic john marvel assistant the april sunlight after the brief storm but i seized myself and took the leap i wrote that piece she actually laughed yes i know you did i did seriously i wrote it but i saw the horror weep her face it suddenly like the on a pool when a swift cloud covers the sun and her hand went up to her bosom with a sudden gesture as of pain she gasped the next second she sprang up and sped away like a frightened deer i sprang up to follow her to make my explanation to her but though after the first twenty steps she stopped running and came down to a it was still a rapid walk and she was from me i felt as though the gates of paradise were closing on me i followed her at a distance to see that she reached home safely and with a vain hope that she might her gait and so give me an excuse to make such explanation as i could sh e h o we ve r kept o n an d soon after she passed beyond the park i saw a trap draw up beside the pavement and after a mom int in which the driver was talk ing to her a young man sprang out and throwing the reins to a joined her and walked on with her in the light of the street lamp i recognized young i turned back cursing him but most of all cursing myself it has been well observed that there is no more valuable which a young man can possess than a by my confession broken heart in the weeks i bore about with me if not a broken at least a very much bruised and wounded one it is a tragic fact in the course of that a slip of a girl should have the power to shut the gates of happiness on a man there were times when i against myself at being as big a fool as i knew myself to be and endeavored to console myself by to those wise bits of philosophy which our friends are always to us in our distress from their ground of serene indifference there were doubtless as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it but i was not after fishing somehow i could not get a grasp on the idea that there were as lovely and attractive girls in the world whom i was likely to meet as whom i	46
now felt i had lost and might possibly never recover i walked the streets for some time that evening in a very low state of mind and as he solemnly along with his head now against my leg now a step in the rear must have wondered what had befallen me by midnight he looked as dejected as i felt even when at length having my letter i took him out for a run he did not cheer up as he usually did that dog was very near a human being he sometimes appeared to know just what went on in my mind he looked so sorry for me that night that i found it a real consolation he had the heart of a woman and the eyes of an angel the letter i wrote was one of the best pieces of i ever did i set forth the facts simply and yet clearly and i felt strongly by john marvel assistant i told the plain truth about the paper and i had the sense not to even while i expressed my regret that my work had been made the basis of the and outrageous attack on her father and the lie about herself with regard to the rights of the public and the of the class that ran the and other public i stood to my guns this letter i and awaited with what patience i could command her reply several days passed before i received any reply and then i got a short little cool note saying that she was glad to see that i felt an apology was due to her honored father and was happy to know that i was not the author of the outrageous it was an icy little reply to a letter in which i had put my whole heart and i was in a rage over it i made up my mind that i would show her that i was not to be treated so if this was the way in which she received a gentleman s full and frank why i would have no more to do with her anger is a passion so long as it holds sway no other of the mind can enter so long as i was angry i got on very well i enjoyed the society of my friends and was much to outward appearances than usual i spent my evenings with marvel and or some of my less intimate companions treated myself and them to the theatre and made altogether a brave at bravery but my anger died out i was deeply in love and i fell back into a of i thought often of confiding in john marvel but for some reason i could not bring myself to do so by my confession adam driven suddenly out of paradise with eve left behind to the temptation of the serpent will give some idea of what i felt i had the consolation of knowing that i had done the right thing and the only thing a gentleman could have done but it was a poor consolation when i looked back on the happiness i had been having of late in the presence of and now between her and me was the flaming sword which turned every way my heart gave a sudden drop into my boots one evening when i came across an item in the society columns of an afternoon paper stating that it was believed by the friends of the parties that mr would before very long lead to the altar one of the of the city i had always disliked society columns as the expression of a latter day vulgarity since then i have detested them i finally determined to try to get an interview with her whose absence clouded my world and wrote her a note rather demanding one as i received no reply to this i called one evening to see her if possible the servant took in my card and a moment later returned with the statement that miss was not at home i was sure that it was not true i came down the steps white with rage and also with a sinking of the heart for i felt that it was all over between us those whom the gods hate they first make mad and it was by no accident that the passion of anger and the state of madness have come to be known by the same terms in our tongue i have always held since then by john marvel assistant that every true lover has something of madness in him while the passion i could cheerfully have her house and carried away i recalled with grim envy william the conqueror s savage when he met the count s daughter who had insulted him and rode her down to receive soon afterward her full submission this somewhat barbarous form of proving one s passion having passed out of i my by falling into a state of general which i so generously that finally asked me what had happened to me and that i must have met with a cross in love this recalled me to myself to make me my feelings at least when in his presence but i was certainly not rational for some time and sleeping or waking i was haunted by the voice of the to whom i had listened what must i do in my folly the next time i met miss which i did quite accidentally one day on the street but carry my head so high and bow so slightly that the next time we met which was far from being as accidental as it might have appeared she carried her head veiy high and did not bow at all it was at some sort of a fair held for charity and ever since then i have hated them feeling assured that would go i attended myself with no	46
been the same to and had been and had thrown up his place then she had wished to break with him but they would not let her and of late she had been staying out a good deal visiting her friends she said and when they urged her to marry she had always b and was wretched and they were all wretched count had intimated that she was in love with me and that i was the cause of her action they could not believe it yet count the old fellow was not able to go on i relieved him and he took up the thread elsewhere and told of s following me to find out and two or three nights before there had been trouble she had come in late and her mother had her and insisted on knowing where she had been and she had told her a lie and they had insisted on her carrying out her agreement with to which she assented and this morning she was missing the old fellow broke down again his grief was almost more for than for himself he a good boy he a good boy he repeated again and again maybe we were too harsh with her sir and now she may be dead he was overcome by grief i did not believe she was dead but i feared for her a worse fate he still did not suspect the was his friend he said he had known him since his boyhood by john marvel assistant i will find her i said and i knew i should if i had to choke the truth out of s throat if you do i bless you and her mother too i told him to go home and console her mother she has gone to see the preacher he will know how to console her and he will help her also why do you not go to the police oh i police police one say police police nod do for me i ham nod von union man orders ven i police say don t come home by m by ven she get i had heard the same thing said about the police and recalled what i had heard say to about keeping them from interfering but i felt that they were probably right in their views about i had recourse to my again and gave him all the information i possessed oh we ll find out where she is he said with that placid look on his face which i had learned was the veil under which he both his feelings and his purposes you can tell her father she isn t dead this in answer to the old man s suggestion that she had been murdered which i had repeated then he added but there are worse things than death his eyes and he up his coat in a way he had when there was any sharp work on hand it always reminded me of a in a few days he had a to the lost girl and justified my suspicions by seeking one that was lost it was as i feared had her from her home and had taken her to a house which if not precisely what i apprehended was not less vile it was one of those doubly places which while to be reasonably respectable is really more dangerous than the den the girl was possibly not actually at the place now but had been there getting some suspicion of the place she had insisted on but the woman of the house said knew where she was she is a hard one to handle she has protection of the police of those who control the police she has powerful friends i don t care how powerful they are i will get that girl i said i hesitated what to do i had not wholly abandoned hope of making up ray trouble with i did not wish my name to be mixed up in a scandal which probably would get into the papers i to consult john marvel and i said so to you mean the preacher won t do any harm he s straight he s helping to hunt for her too i saw him just after i her and he had already heard i determined to go and see him and told to keep on following up his when i went to mar s house however he was not at home he had been away all day since early morning the girl who opened the door told me i went to the police station by ic john marvel assistant marvel had been there and made a complaint about a house and they were to send a man around to investigate he was a terrible that preacher was but all the same he was a good sort of a fellow the said some people thought he was too and mixed up too much with affairs that did not concern him but for his part he had seen him do things and go where it took a man to go as the officer was going in a short while i determined to accompany him so waited an hour or so till he was detailed and then set out when we arrived the place for all outward signs of evil might have been a home for retired sunday school teachers a more decent and respectable hotel in a quiet street could not have been found in town only the large woman with heightened complexion mrs snow who at length appeared in answer to the summons of the solemn officer seemed to be excited and almost agitated she was divided between outraged modesty and righteous indignation the former was exhibited rather toward me the latter toward the officer but this was all she swore by all the that she knew nothing of the girl and with yet more	46
vehemence that she would have justice for this outrage she would report the officer to the captain and to his honor the mayor and have the whole th fired the officer was very all we learned was that a lady had been brought there by a gentleman who said he was her husband but she had refused to let her in she by seeking one that was lost did not take in people she did not know as there was nothing to her we left with apologies the strongest ally a man can in any cause is a clear headed warm hearted woman in all moral causes they form the golden guard of the forces that carry them through john marvel s absence when called to consult him was due to his having got on the trace of another of my friends had also got on her trace and while i was hesitating and thinking of my reputation they were acting as soon as he learned of s disappearance he consulted the wisest he knew he went with rare good sense to he had a further reason for going to her than merely to secure her aid he had heard my name connected with the affair and old john had gone to set me straight with her he did not know of the trouble at the charity fair and miss did not him miss having learned through marvel that the were in great trouble as soon as her school was out that day went to the house to learn what she could of the girl with a view to rendering all the aid she could a new force had been aroused in her by john marvel precisely what she learned i never knew but it was enough with what she had elsewhere to lead to action what she had learned elsewhere pointed to a certain place in town as one where she might secure further information it was not a very place in fact it was a very place part saloon part dance hall part everything else that it ought not to have been it was by john marvel assistant one of the in this city of confusion and the more vile because its depths were beneath a mass of and and glitter it lay on one of the most streets and dazzling with electric lights furnished one of the places on that street it was known as the an to cover a line of glaring figures hung on the walls which by an arrangement of were multiplied its owner was the same mr who kept the semi respectable saloon opening on the alley at the back of the building where i had my its keeper was a friend of mr s by the name of a thin middle aged person with one eye but that an eye like a a face to every expression save that which it habitually wore a mixture of cunning and ferocity the place was crowded from a reasonable hour in the evening till an unreasonable hour in the morning and many a and not a few crimes were said to have been planned and some around its marble tables at the side in a narrow street was a private entrance and leading to the upper stories over the door of which was the sign ladies entrance and at the rear was what was termed by mr a private hotel young women thronged the lower floor at all hours of the night but no woman had ever gone in there and not come out a shade worse if possible than when she entered the salvation army had attempted the by seeking one that was lost ing of this gilded stable but had retired baffled now and then a effort had been made in the press to close or reform it but all such attempts had failed the place was protected the police never found anything amiss there or if they did were promptly found to have something amiss with their own record to outward appearance it was on occasions of inspection as as a meeting house it was shown that the place had been offered for sunday afternoon services and that such services had actually been held there in fact a scripture text hung on the wall on such occasions while close at hand hung the more notice that no excuse whatever would be taken if one lady or gentleman took another lady s or gentleman s hat or wrap this gilded saloon on the evening of the day i called on john marvel was if anything more crowded than usual and into it just as it was beginning to grow gay and the clouds of and cigar smoke were beginning to turn the upper atmosphere to a dull gray just as the earlier hum of voices was giving place to the shrieking laughter and high screaming of youths of both sexes walked a young woman she was simply dressed in a street costume but there was that about her trim figure erect carriage and grave face which marked her as different from the gaudy who frequented that resort of sin and as she passed up through the long room she instantly attracted attention the wild laughter subsided the died down by john marvel assistant and as if by a common impulse necks were to watch the and the conversation about the tables suddenly hushed to a murmur except where it was broken by the outbreak of some half drunken youth who is she what fa she were questions asked at all tables along with many other questions and answers alike and incredible the opinion expressed was that she was a new and important addition to the soiled probably from some other city or some country town and comments were freely about as to her future destination and success among the throng seated at one of the tables was a man with	46
two young women drinking the champagne he was freely offering and tossing off himself and the women stopped him about diamond ring and rallied him on attention to the as with head up lips compressed eyes straight before her and the color mounting in her cheek she passed swiftly up the room between the tables and made her way to the magnificent bar behind which mr presided w th one eye ever into the before him walking up to the bar the stranger at once addressed mr are you the proprietor here some folks says so what can i do for yer i have come to ask if there is not a young woman here she hesitated a moment as the all had their eyes on her and a number of youths had by seeking one that was lost come forward from the tables and were beginning to draw about her mr filled in the pause quite a number but not one too many in there is just one and i think you are the very to fill it his teeth gleamed for a second at the murmur of approval which came from the men who had drawn up to the bar i came to ask repeated the girl if there is not a young woman here named the proprietor s one eye fixed itself on her with an gaze i don t know as there is he you see there is a good many young women here and i guess they have a good many names among em but may i ask you what you want with her i want to get her and take her back to her home mr s eye never moved from her face well you can look around and see for yourself he said quietly i don t think she would be here but have you not a sort of a hotel attached to your place oh yes mr i can furnish you a room if you have any friends and if you a friend i might furnish you one or two of them no i do not wish a room oh ejaculated the proprietor i wish to see and i have heard that she is here you have and who may be your demanded the coldly i d like to know by ic john marvel assistant what gentleman has sufficient interest in me to make me the subject of his conversation i cannot give you my but i have information that she is here and i appeal to you to let me see her to me you appeal to me mr put his hand on his thin chest and nodded toward himself yes for her mother her father she is a good she is their only daughter they are distracted over her if you only knew how terrible it is for a young girl like that to be away from home where every one loves her to be deceived betrayed dragged down while the earnestness of her tone more than the words she uttered and the strangeness of her appeal in that place had impressed every one within reach of her voice and quite a throng of men and women had left the tables and pressed forward to the conversation and for the most part listening in silence the expression on their faces divided between wonder sympathy and and a low murmur began to be audible among the women hardened as they were mr felt that it was a moment in his business suddenly from under the fur came the fierce and made a dig to strike deep to hell with you you d d i know you and d sort i know what you want and you ll get it in one minute out of my place or i ll pitch you in the or into a worse hole he made a by seeking one that was lost gesture with one hand such as a eat makes with its claws out a big man with a hard gleam in his eye moved along the edge of the bar his face stolid and his eyes on the while the throng fell back suddenly and left the girl standing alone with a space about her her face pale and her mouth drawn close under the unexpected assault in another second she would without doubt have been thrown out of the place or possibly borne to that worse fate with which she had been threatened but from the throng to her side stepped out a short broad shouldered man with a face speak her soft you know who she is i that is the angel of the lost children speak her soft or you ll have to throw me out too the face took on suddenly a resolution that gave the rough a look of power the broad shoulders were those of an and the steady eye was that of a man to be reckoned with and such was red when aroused the name he had given was repeated over the throng by many doubtless who had not heard of her but there were others who knew and told of the work that had been doing in quarters where any other woman of her class and kind had never showed her face of help here and there a hand lent to lift a fallen girl of in some form or another when all hope appeared to be gone it was a strange champion who had suddenly stepped forward into the to protect her but the girl felt by john marvel assistant immediately that she was safe she turned to her champion i thank you she said simply if you wish to help me help me get hold of this poor whom i have come for ask him to let me see her if only for one moment and i may save her a life of the man turned to the	46
proprietor why don t you let her see the girl he said at him or winked it could scarcely be told which what the fa it to you why can t you keep your mouth for your own business instead of interfering with other folks you hare seen trouble enough doing that before let her see the girl what business fa it of yours whether i do or not just that when i was away and my wife was and you never her and my little was this here lady came there and took care of em nd that s what makes it my business i don t one as helped me and you know it well tell you this there ain t no of that name here i don t know what she s about come let her see the you go up there and look for yourself said the proprietor take her with you if you want to and keep her there shut your mouth d n said he turned to miss she ain t here lady he d never let me go up there if she was there but i ll help you find her if by r speak her soft by by seeking one that was lost you ll tell me about her you can go home now ill see you safe i am not afraid said the girl my carriage is not far oflf and with a pleasant bow and a word of renewed to the proprietor whose eye was resting on her with a curious expression she turned and passed back through the room with her gaze straight ahead of her while every eye in the room was fastened on her and just behind her walked the figure of red a few doors oflf a carriage waited and as she reached the door she turned and gave him the name of the girl she was seeking with a little account of the circumstances of her disappearance and of her reason for thinking she might be at s place she held out her hand to the man behind her i don t know your name or what you alluded to but if i can ever help any of your friends i shall be very glad to do what i can for them my name s you ve already done me a turn m are you the father of my little girl that s me what i said just now i mean if you want help let me know or go and see mr marvel the preacher on the west you know him and you will get it and if you can find anything of that poor girl i shall be grateful to you good night night ma am by john marvel assistant the man watched the carriage until it had disappeared around the comer and then he returned to the saloon he walked up to the bar and ad to meet him if are to me he said you better not let me know but you better that out of your place and into her home or the first thing you know there will be a sign on that door the other gave a i am you wise said s trouble that s big folks for her i guess is in this town still but for him you would n be around but foi i he s a has been said he s shot bis bolt you ought to know sneered i do that the reason you take no more it s a good one have a drink said with a sudden change of manner and he did him the honor to lift a bottle and put it on the bar i ain t got work to do who s your new owner never he s a man send the home or you ll be pulled before twenty four hours you re a sunday school ain t you no but vm done for some folks that s all so long her out of your house if she s here her out of your house u by y is seeking one that was lost he walked down the room and as he passed a table the big man with the two women him who s your friend he asked with a sneer it was who having finished his labors for the day in proving to how better oflf they were than formerly was now refreshing himself in one of his favorite at his favorite occupation stopped and looked at him quietly then he said that man up there with his thumb over his shoulder he pointed toward the bar that man there has been a friend of mine in the past and he can ask me questions that i don t allow folks like you to ask me see i have known a man to his neck broke by too hard into other folks business see with an oath started to get out of his chair but his companions held him down imploring him to be quiet and the next moment the big from the bar was standing beside the table and after a word with him made his way through the crowd and walked out of the door the bar keeper beckoned to his and the two held a muttered conference at the end of the bar he s too big for his breeches said the bar keeper as he turned away he ll back there if he fools with me and pretty quick too y by john marvel s had any one of the many who were engaged m all sorts of work and otherwise m the limits of that great city been watching among the half group of and night who through the side street on which opened the ladies entrance of mr s establishment along toward the morning hours he might have seen a yoimg woman brought from	46
was not however the woman s daughter but to my horror i recognized instantly the poor girl i had once rescued from a less cruel death and had turned over to the salvation army there was no her her face was stamped on my memory she presently recognized me too but all by john marvel assistant she said was they got me back i knew they would we turned her over to john marvel while the and our search which threatened to prove fruitless so far as was concerned but at this moment a curious thing occurred who had been following me all the morning and had without my taking notice of him come not only to the house with us but had come in as well b an to nose and presently stopped at a door where he proceeded to as he was accustomed to do when he wished to be let in at a closed door i called him oflf but though he came he went back again and again until he attracted the officer s attention the door was a low one and appeared to be the entrance only to a cupboard have we been in that room the woman declared that we had but as we all knew it had not been entered she changed and said it was not the door of a room at all but of a closet open said the officer the key is lost said the woman we do not use then i will open it said the and the next moment the door was forced open the woman gave a scream and made a dash at the nearest man beside herself with rage fighting and tearing like a wild animal and well she might for inside up on the floor imder a pile of clothing lay the girl we were searching for in a state she was lifted carefully and brought out into the light and by john marvel s i scarcely knew her so battered and bruised and the thing appeared however knew and he his affection and gratitude by stealing in between us as we stood around her and the poor thing s hand it was a terrible story that was revealed when the facts came out and its details were too and to be put in print but that night madam snow s hotel was closed the lights which had so many a frail bark to were extinguished and madam snow and her wretched of slaves who had been bound to a more awful than anything which history could tell or romance could were held in the of the of the united states the newspapers next day with one exception contained an account of the pulling of smooth ally s place that exception was the trumpet but a day or two later john marvel received a for from for his poor i had never seen show more feeling than when john in the of his heart told him of the gift it is the of he exclaimed it is hush money it is blood money it is the thirty pieces of silver given for blood even returned it he made his proof dear and the money was returned by doctor it was the duty of the company under their to run through cars every day or their a wise provision doubtless but one which did not contemplate that who was trying to destroy the company should have control of the police on whose protection the ability to carry out the depended under the of this to run through cars the management of die street car line after much trouble secured a few men who for a large price agreed to operate the cars but it was several hours after the regular time before the first car ran out of the shed it made its way for some distance without any difficulty or even any attention beyond a few comments by men and women walking along the streets or standing in their doors a little further along there were a few but it turned a comer and reached a point in a street where a number of boys were playing as usual and a number of men out of work were standing about smoking their pipes and discussing with some the action of the meeting which had called the strike and with some the future as the car stopped for a moment to take on a woman who had been a by doctor number of the boys playing in the street began to and the who was evidently somewhat to handling his car and when he attempted to his and showed therein his turned into and the next moment a few of rubbish picked up in a were flung at him in a twinkling as if by magic the street filled and v taken from in front of a neighboring shop mingled with a few stones b an to rattle against the car the windows with much noise the glass quickly attracted attention it was like a call and in a minute more the road was blocked and a dozen youths sprang upon the car and a fierce fight ensued between them and the and conductor both of whom were soundly beaten and might have been killed but for their promise to give up their job and the somewhat arrival of the police who had been promised but had appeared on the scene only after the riot had taken place this collision which was b un by a lot of boys was described imder glaring in all of the afternoon papers as a riot of vast the effect of the riot great or small was and far throughout the entire section that evening the entire population of that section had changed from an attitude of reasonable to one of hostility it was a moment the spark had been dropped in the powder next day it was as	46
if war had been declared there were no all had taken sides by john marvel assistant before many days were out the strike had so far that of its being a small body of men engaged in of work with pacific methods of attempting to others who wished to continue their work from doing so or by some more positive form of argument known as of preventing new comers from taking the places of those who had struck it had developed into an active force whose frank object was to render it impossible for any man to take or hold a position as an of the railway company it was not so much that meetings were frequently held and the measures constantly grew more and more violent nor that occasional occurred as that the whole temper of the people was becoming and the conditions of life affected thereby were becoming almost intolerable the call of the company on the mayor as the representative of the public to grant them protection was promptly if somewhat replied to no man knew better than how to express himself so that he might be understood differently by different men it had been one of his strong cards in climbing to the which he had reached but the idea that the police would render aid to the company was openly and generally at in the quarters where the strike prevailed it was boldly declared that the police were in sympathy with the this report appeared to have some foundation when one cold night with the at a fire broke out in the mills owned by mr s company by doctor and they were from foundation to roof it was on the but an investigation showed that this charge like many others was at least as it allied a direct and act the evidence proved to my mind that the fire while of origin was started by a gang of reckless and youths who had no relation whatever to the but whose purpose was to exhibit their enmity against a company which was held in such generally this was the of in his papers on the incident and the view which mr afterward adopted it was only an expression of the general feeling that had grown up in the city under the influence of the strike one of the offspring of the condition which and and their like had been able to produce from the conflict which they had projected and the wretched youths who were arrested told imder the process a series of wholly conflicting and incredible lies and in time two of them were convicted on their own and sent to the state prison and the who had not yet resorted to extreme measures of violence got the credit of the crime the continued spread of the strike and of sympathy with it had already reached large proportions the losses to business and to business men and the inconvenience to even the well to do classes were and when calculated in figures were quite staggering the winter had set in with sudden severity the by john marvel assistant suffering among the poor was there was not a house or shop in the poorer districts where the pinch of poverty was not b to be felt the wolf which ever stands beside the door of the poor had long since entered and cleaned out many of the small dwellings which the summer before had been the abode of hope and of reasonable content only the human wolves who prey on misfortune and the stock who organized on the market the who robbed the poor more directly but not more the thieves of one kind or another alone the cry of hunger increased while bitterness without and within had long since b un to be universal so long as to be scarcely throughout the poor quarters the efforts of individual and organized were exercised to the utmost but the trouble was too vast to be more than touched on the outer fringe the evil which mr had predicted had come to pass and his prophecy had been far more than many of the yoimg women turned from their had disappeared from the places which knew them before and found their way to haunts like s gallery and others less splendid but not more wicked only in the sphere in which persons of extraordinary moved like the and the was there apparently no in their expenditure and display young and his comrades still their vast wealth in and display still on the stock boards in by doctor that touched the lives of thousands still plied their horses and and drove them through crowded streets heedless of the pinched and faces of multitudes but older and heads were b to shake when the future was mentioned the of sails for a storm whose were on the horizon was already taking place and every meant that some part of the crew which had sailed the ship so far was dropped overboard the devil is with the power to raise a tempest certainly are raised but sometimes even the devil cannot quiet them such was the case with the strike and co had been completely successful in getting the strike of the when it started they privately took much pride in their work received his and gratified his feeling of revenge for mr s cool contempt of him on the occasion when he called to demand terms of him had a score of longer standing to settle it dated back to the time when mr looking with dear and scornful eyes at his work gave him to feel that at least one man knew him to the bottom of his soul for a while it appeared as though mr would be ruined and and his friends and secret like would secure easy possession of the ties his power of organization had built up but suddenly an for	46
ally with abundant resources had come to mr s assistance in the person of an old by john marvel assistant friend and the fruit of their labors had been plucked from their hands outstretched to grasp it and now having raised the tempest these could not calm it in other words having started a strike among mr s for a specific purpose it had spread like a and now threatened to destroy everything the whole laboring population were getting into a state of demands were made by their leaders such as had never been dreamed of before the leaders were working them for their own purposes and were after a temporary raise of wages but there was a graver danger the people were becoming trained a new leader was coming forward and his writings were having a profound influence he could not be and he could not be bought this jew he was opening the eyes of the people unless the thing were stopped there would be a catastrophe which would ruin them all this was the judgment that and and co arrived at and was the conclusion that mr announced to his son and heir mr at the close of an interview in which he had discussed his affairs with more than he usually employed with that audacious young the fact is he said that we have failed in the object of our move we have not got hold of s lines and his men are returning to work while ours are just b to fight and instead of getting his properties we stand a blessed good show of losing our own couldn t deliver the goods and there is the devil to pay by doctor why don t you stop your nonsense and settle down and marry that girl she s the prettiest girl in town and well you might go a good deal further and fare worse there is a good property there if we don t destroy it fighting for it if you are ever going to do it now is the time and we are bound to have it if possible to save our own mr shrugged his shoulders how do you know she would have me he asked with a sort of grin which was not altogether he did not feel it necessary to impart to his parent the fact that he was b to have strong doubts himself on the subject but was no fool well of course she won t if you go around with a lot of no decent woman would but why the deuce don t you drop that business you are getting old enough now to know better and you can t keep it up as you have been doing there s a new system coming in in thb town and you ll get in trouble if you don t look out you came precious near it the other night those young men mean business get rid of that woman young for once came near to his father the whole situation and telling him the truth he however contented himself with his usual half light assurance that he was all right and that he was going to settle down he could not bring himself to tell him that he found himself bound with a chain which he could not break and that that woman would not be by john marvel assistant gotten rid of she in fact threatened not only to make a terrible scandal if he attempted to leave her but actually his life however he determined to act on his father s advice he would break off from her and if he could carry through his plans he would many and go abroad and remain until the storm had blown over and that woman had consoled herself with some other soft young among all the people affected by the strike none suffered more i believe than john marvel and i never saw any one more distressed by the suffering about them than these two men others suffered physically they mentally and in the way which comes from sympathies where gloom and dull hate from the brows of the working class sadness and sorrow john s brow though at need he always had a smile and a cheery word for every one he was soon reduced to his last suit of clothes and as the cold increased he went about and walking like fury and beating his arms to keep himself from his worn overcoat and gloves having long since gone with everything else he had to help some one than himself take a long deep breath he used to say and it will warm you up like a fire what does a young man need with an overcoat what indeed with the at and rapidly slipping still those i grieve for are the old and the sick and the young children by doctor however this was he was than going in and out among his poor writing letters making calls appealing to those able to give and what he could collect which indeed was no little for the people at large were sympathetic with suffering and generous to poverty and his assistant in the work was if indeed he was not the leader i never knew before what one man s intellect and zeal consecrated to a work could accomplish the great of poverty wide and profound at all times extending through the city the foundations and its became now and boundless into this flung himself with the earnestness of a he worked day and night oi relief associations looking after individual cases writing letters to the press and conditions with a which began to make an impression on all sides he patience and moderation on the part of the poor but made no secret of his sympathy with them and where he dealt with the injustice shown them it was with a	46
pen of flame the papers charged that his letters added fuel to the flames already blazing it was possibly true certainly the flames were as the strike proceeded and violence increased those evidences of sympathy which came in the form of grew less and at last they began to fail in the commotion the of the community were thrown up the rose to the top as in the case of mr s fire what by john marvel assistant ever were committed were charged to the the press which had b un with expressions of sympathy with the had imder the impending shadow changed its tone and was now calling on the authorities to put down with a strong hand demanding that the police should be ordered to protect the property and lives of citizens and calling on the mayor to himself and call on the governor for aid in this state of the case john marvel wishing to see what could be done to the conditions about him called a meeting of his at his church one evening just before christmas and when the time came the little chapel was crowded to it was a sombre and looking crowd that thronged the of the little building poverty and want were in every face a hopeless sullen sat on every brow the people thought that somehow some good would come of it and many who had never been inside the walls before were on hand i went in consequence of a talk i had with marvel who had casually mentioned miss s name in connection with the first suggestion of the call and i was rewarded for seated back in the crowd with her face a little more pallid than usual and her eyes filled with the of and kindness sat she was dressed with great simplicity but her appearance was not the less attractive at least to me she smiled from time to time to some acquaintance in the sad looking throng but i had a pang of jealousy to see by doctor how her gaze followed john marvel and one other member of the assembly whose presence rather surprised me after a brief service john marvel in a few touching and singularly apt words explained the reason for having called them together of their church relation and urged that as the blessed season which was accepted by as the time of peace on earth and good will to all men was drawing near they should all to lay aside personal feeling and hates and and what effect kindness and good will would accomplish he asked that all would to help each other as formerly and trust to the divine and merciful master to right their wrongs and inspire compassion for their he referred to the terrible development that had just been made among them the discovery of and the other poor girl who had been found at the snow house to the sudden of the law after years of praying and working and with a word of compassion for the poor creatures who had been and he urged patience and prayer as the means to secure s all powerful help in their distress his words and manner were simple and touching and i do not attempt to give any idea of them or of their effect but i somehow felt as though i were hearing the very teaching of christ he would call on one who was their friend as they knew the friend of all who needed a friend to say a few words to them he turned to walked forward a few steps and turned made a brief but powers by john marvel assistant ful statement of the situation and patience and forbearance he knew their sufferings he said he knew their fortitude he knew their wrongs but patience and fortitude would in time bring a of it all in the minds of the public what was needed was to make known to the world the truth not as changed and distorted by ignorance or evil design but as it existed in fact they had a more powerful weapon than bullets or the power of truth and justice his own people had been preserved by through the ages by the patience and fortitude he had given them and god s arm was not that he could not save nor his ear that he could not hear he used the same illustration that john marvel had used the of the law to defend and save poor ignorant girls who were being dragged down to the pit by organized under the protection of men who had made themselves more powerful than the law for these he had a few words he told of john marvel s going to find and referred to the aid he had received from others those connected with the railway line on which the strike existed and he them to protect themselves obey the law keep the peace and await with patience the justice of god efforts were being made to furnish them with fuel it may have been s deep flashing eyes his earnest manner and voice which affected them for though he held himself imder strong restraint he was deeply affected himself but when john marvel by doctor after a brief prayer dismissed them with the the people men and women passed out in almost silence and dispersed to their homes and their murmured talk was all in a new key of resignation and even of distant hope i felt as though i had shaken off the of selfishness that had hitherto bound me and was getting a glimpse of what the world might become in the future this simple of christ among his poor like them like them and hungry and poor illustrated his master s teaching in a way which i had never seen before and it gave me a new insight into his power i should have	46
liked to go up to and make peace with her but while i joined her and i walked home alone and thoughtful the press next morning had a fairly full notice of the meeting the first that had ever been given to the work done through the chapel and its minister the chief notices in it were the connection of the minister with the case of and the attack on the system made by a jew one paper had the heading jew and christian another s ran preacher marvel visits a and it was only below that it was made plain that john marvel had gone thither to rescue a lost girl this once informed me was the true art of making by john marvel assistant half the world don t read anything but the he asserted and the other half don t remember anything else the story made a s which himself might have that day about noon mrs received a call from her the hon who to her such a scheme to injure her property interests in common with those of every other important property in the city by a wicked wretch and his fellow in mischief who professed to be a preacher of the gospel in a chapel which she had largely helped to build for the poor that between fright and rage the good lady was scarcely able to wait long enough to summon the rev dr to her house the hon did not mention the fact that one of hb own houses was at that moment closed through the act of thb parson nor that he was beginning to shake over the idea that the investigation beginning to be set on foot in consequence of the of this same person might reach near hb own door and that he was sensible that a force was being aroused which he could not control most women trust in their lawyers and curiously enough many trust them in their affairs even when they know they are knew perfectly how to deal with mrs he on his duty to the great estate she represented and his pride in her admirable management of it one of the great fountains of charity was in danger y by doctor the reverend doctor visited his and was quite as much upset as she herself was over the information received from mr dr had but an indifferent opinion of mr he knew him to be by a protector of a man of loose morals and low instincts but he was a man of power of the brute kind and of keen insight into the conditions and his views as to the effect on property of any movement in the city were entitled to great respect and property to the doctor s mind was undoubtedly a divine institution moreover a jew who assailed it must have some design and to think of his having been permitted to speak in his chapel so dr returned to his home much displeased with his assistant and sitting down wrote him a note this note john marvel received next morning in his mail it ra n as follows mr marvel will call at the s office to morrow tuesday at promptly signed d d etc etc the tone of the note struck even john marvel and he brought it over to me we both agreed that the doctor must have read the account of the on madam snow s and of his presence there when the officers arrived and we decided that notwithstanding the of the summons it was due to john himself to go and make a simple statement of the matter by john marvel assistant we felt indeed that the interview might result in awakening the living interest of dr in the work on which we had embarked and securing the co operation not only of himself but of the powerful which he represented as of a large church dr was not a difficult man in his own way which was the way of many others he tried to do good he was only a worldly man and a narrow man he felt that his mission was to the rich he knew them better than the poor and liked them better the poor had so much done for them why should not he look after the rich like he believed that there was a power in money which was unlimited at promptly john marvel presented himself in the front room of the building attached to the church in one comer of which was the s office a servant was in waiting who took in his name closing the door silently behind him and after a minute returned and silently john marvel to enter dr was seated at his desk with a number of newspapers before him and in response to john s good morning he simply said be seated with a jerk of his head toward a chair which was placed at a little from him and john took the seat feeling as he afterward told me much as he used to feel when a small boy when he was called up by a teacher and set down in a chair for a lecture the his newspapers in a sudden little accession of excitement taking off his gold glasses and putting them on again and thai taking up one he turned to john by doctor mr marvel i am astonished at you i am simply that you should have so far forgotten yourself and what was due to your orders as to have done what i read in this sheet and what the whole press is ringing with well sir said john who had by this time gotten entire control of himself and felt completely at ease in the consciousness of his innocence and of his ability to prove it i am not surprised that you should be astounded unless you knew the facts of	46
the case what facts sir demanded dr sternly facts there is but one fact to be considered that you have a yes i knew it would look so and i had intended to come yesterday to consult you as to the best method it is a pity you had not done so that you allowed your sense of duty to be so obscured as to forget what was due alike to me and to your sacred vows but i was very much engaged pursued john with matters that appeared to me of much greater importance than anything relating to my poor self oh exclaimed the cease cease your mr marvel your usefulness is ended sign that paper he picked up and held out to him with a tragic air a paper which he had already prepared before john marvel s arrival john s mind had for the moment become a blank to some extent under the unexpected attack and it was a mechanical act by which his eye took in the fact that the paper thrust into his hand was by ic john marvel assistant a resignation declaring that it was made on the demand of the for reasons stated which rendered it imperative that he his connection with that parish i will not sign that paper said john quietly you will not what the almost sprang out of his chair i will not sign that paper and pray why not because it places me in the position of acknowledging a charge which even if true has not been stated and which is not true whatever the appearances may be as i can readily prove not true the exclaimed is it not true that you allowed a jew to speak in your church in my chapel that i did what asked john amazed at the unexpected discovery of the s reason that you invited and permitted a man named a jew to address a in my chapel it is true said john marvel that i invited mr to speak to an assemblage in the chapel under my charge and that he did so speak there uttering the most dangerous and alike opposed to the teaching of the church and to the command of the law that is not true said john you have been i do not wish or propose to discuss either this or any other matter with you mr marvel you have by doctor allowed a jew to speak in the house of god your usefulness is ended you will be good enough to sign this paper for you may rest assured that i know my rights and shall maintain them no i will not sign this paper said john marvel but i will resign give me a sheet of paper the handed him a sheet and john drew up a chair to the desk and wrote his resignation in a words and handed it to the is that accepted he asked quietly it is the laid the sheet on his desk and then turned back to john marvel and now mr marvel allow me to say that you i may say the trust i in you when john marvel held up his hand stop not one word more from you i am no longer your assistant i have stood many things from you because i believed it was my duty to stand them so long as i was in a position where i could be of service and because i felt it my duty to obey you as my superior but now that this connection is severed i wish to say that i will not one more word or act of insolence from you insolence cried the insolence you are insolent yourself sir you do not know the meaning of the term oh i yes i know it said john who had cooled down after his sudden outbreak i have had cause to know it i have been your assistant for two years i bid you good morning dr he turned and walked out leaving the speechless with rage by john marvel assistant i do not mean in relating dr s position in this interview to make any charge against others who might honestly hold the same view which he held as to the propriety of john marvel s having requested to speak in his church however much i myself might differ from that view and however i might in holding it they are the and and overlooking the matters of the law my outbreak of wrath when john marvel told me of his interview with the was due not to the of the s mind but to the simple fact that he selected this as the basis of his charge when in truth it was in hb mind by the fact that s address had aroused the ire of one of hb leading and that the doctor was thus guilty of a sham in bringing hb charge not because of the address but because of the anger of hb wealthy was savage in hb wrath when he learned how john had been treated your church b the church of the rich he said to me for he would not say it to john and when i defended it and pointed to its work done among the poor to its long line of faithful devoted workers to its and to john marvel himself he said don t you see that dr b one of its high priests and b turning out its i tell you it will never prosper till he b turned out and the people brought in i your church b the most in the world and i wonder they do not see it its head whom it considers divine and as lived and died in a continual war by doctor against and it was the foundation of all his teaching for which he finally suffered death at the hands of the	46
priests the truth in that teaching is that god is within you and to be worshipped in spirit and in truth that not the temple made with hands but die temple of the body is the one temple and that the poor are his chosen people the poor in heart are his loved yet your priests to themselves all that he suffered to overthrow your dr is only dr with a few slight changes and to the true precisely as his persecuted their master he is not my dr i protested oh i well he is the representative of die that spiritual freedom and form for substance he makes broad his and for a pretence makes long prayers it appears to me that you are very fond of quoting the bible for an i said i an i a jew exclaimed whose eyes were sparkling my dear sir i am the of the ages i only do not believe that any forms established by men are necessary to bring men into communion with god i refuse to believe selfishness and and blindness when they step forth with bell book and candle and say obey us or be damned i refuse to worship a or a church t will worship only god he turned away with that detached air which has struck me as something oriental by ic john marvel assistant as soon as it became known in his old parish that john had resigned he was called back there but the of his poor that he should not abandon them in their troubles prevailed and and i in trying to show him that his influence now was of great importance indeed the workers among the poor of every church came and him to remain little father patting him on the shoulder said come to us john the holy father will make you a bishop so he remained with his people and soon was given another small chapel under a less fashionable and more spiritual i think had something to do with his decision i know that she was so urgent for him to remain that both dr and i were given food for serious thought y by the peace maker it was in this condition of affairs that a short time after john marvel had been dismissed from his cure by his a great dinner was given by mrs which because of the of the display and the number of notable persons in the city who were present and also because of a decision that was reached by certain of the guests at the dinner and the consequences which it was hoped might was fully written up in the press if mrs knew one thing it was how to give an entertainment which should exceed in its magnificence the entertainment of any other person in the city she was a woman of great wealth she had had a large experience both at home and abroad in whose expenditure remained for years she had learned from her husband the value as a merely commercial venture of a fine dinner she knew the way to men s hearts and she felt that something was due to her position and at the same time she received great pleasure in being the centre and the of a hospitality which should be a wonder to all who knew her her house with its great rooms and galleries filled with expensive pictures lent itself well to entertainment and mrs who knew something of history fancied that by john marvel assistant she had what quite approached a to be sure those who frequented it were more familiar with and counting houses than with art or literature on thb occasion she had assembled a of the leading men of affairs in the city with the purpose not so much of entertaining them as of securing from them a co operation which bj making a show of some concession to the starving and their friends should avail to stop the steady loss in her rents and drain on even her great resources she had already found herself compelled by reason of the in her income which prevented her putting by as large a as she had been accustomed to put by year by year to cut off a of her and this she disliked to do for she not only r having to cut down her for the relief of suffering but it was a blow to her pride to feel that others knew that her income was reduced the idea of the dinner had been suggested by no less a person than dr himself to whom the happy thought had occurred that possibly if a huge mass meeting composed of the could be assembled in some great and addressed by the leading men in the city they might be convinced of the and error of their ways and induced to reject the false teaching of their leaders and return to work by which he argued the great suffering would be immediately reduced the loss alike to labor and to capital would be stopped peace would be restored and the general welfare be advanced moreover he would by the peace maker show that his removal of his assistant was not due to his indifference to the poor as had charged in a biting paper on the episode but to a higher motive what john marvel had tried on a small scale he would accomplish on a vast one he would himself he said take pleasure in addressing such an audience and he felt sure that they would listen to the friendly of a minister of the gospel who could not but stand to them as the representative of charity and divine compassion t will not attempt to describe the richness of the which made mrs s great house a bower of roses and for the occasion nor the lavish display of plate gilded and which loaded	46
the great table all of which was set forth in the press the following day with a of description and a wealth of quite equal to the display at the dinner nor need i take time to describe the guests who were assembled mr who was invited was not present but expressed himself as ready to meet his men half way every not in season was in the m it was universally agreed by the guests that no entertainment which was recalled had ever been half so rich in its or so r al in its display or so in its fare that certainly the same number of millions had never been represented in any private house in this city or possibly in any city of the country it remains only to be said that the plan proposed by the rev dr met with the approval of a sufficient number to secure an attempt at its by john marvel assistant tion though the large majority of the gentlemen present openly expressed their that any good whatever would come of such an attempt and more than one frankly declared that the doctor was attempting to rose water when really what was actually needed were guns and the doctor however was so urgent in the expression of his views so certain that the people would be reasonable and could not fail to be impressed by a kindly expression of interest and the sound advice of one whom they must recognize as their friend that a half consent was given to a trial of his plan among the notices of this dinner was one which termed it s feast and as such it became known in the s quarter its periods described the splendor of the entertainment provided for the of and pictured with simple art the of a not five blocks away in which an old man and an old woman had been found that day frozen to death i recognized in it the work of s pen john marvel might forgive dr but not dr the proposed meeting however excited much interest in all circles of the city especially in that circle of the poor whose and enclosed all other circles whatsoever what was indeed of mere interest to others was of vital necessity to them that some arrangement should be arrived at by which work should once more be given to the ever increasing body of the whose by the peace maker sombre presence darkened the brightest day and tinged with melancholy the fairest expectation in of dr s plan a large hall was secured and a general invitation was issued to the public especially to the of the section where the strike to attend a meeting set for the earliest possible moment an evening in the beginning of the next week the meeting took place as advertised and the attendance exceeded all expectation the heart of the poor beat with renewed hope though like their wealthy neighbors many of them felt that the hope was a desperate one still they worked toward the single ray of light which penetrated into the gloom of their situation the seats were filled long before the hour set for the meeting and every available foot of standing room was occupied the of the building were filled and the streets outside were thronged with groups discussing the possibility of some settlement in low and earnest tones broken now and then by some note of or sullen growl of hate knowing the interest in the movement throughout the quarter where i lived and having some curiosity besides to hear what and the rev dr had to say i went early in company with and john marvel the former of whom was absolutely the latter entirely hopeful of permanent results s eyes glowed with a deep but flame as he spoke of dr on arrival at the hall he left us and moved to the front rows the crowd on the platform by john marvel assistant represented the leaders in many of business in the city among whom were a fair of men noted for their particular interest in all public and good works and in a little group to one side a small body composed of the more element among the leaders of the in the city the whole affair had been well worked up and on the outside it gave a fair promise of success a number of boxes were filled with ladies interested in the movement and i had not been in the hall five minutes before i discovered in one of the boxes face grave but her eyes full of eager expectation it was with a sinking of the heart that i reflected on the breach between us and i fear that i spent my time much more in considering how i should overcome it than in plans to relieve the distress of others the meeting opened with an by the rev dr which appeared to strike some of the assemblage as somewhat too eloquent rather too long and with an expression of compassion for the ignorance and facility for being of the working class he began the assemblage was highly when he ended there were murmurs of criticism and discussion audible throughout the hall the statement of the reason for the call was made by the hon who as mayor of the city lent the dignity of his presence to the it was long eloquent and absolutely silent as to his views on any particular method of settlement of the question at issue but it expressed his sympathy with all by the peace maker classes in terms highly general and concluded with an impartial expression of advice that they should get together provided all could get what they wanted which appeared to him the easiest thing in the world to do following him one of the of the city mr james delivered a brief business statement of the loss to the	46
city and the community at large growing out of the strike expressed in figures which had been carefully and closed with the emphatic declaration that the working people did not know what they wanted one other thing he made plain that in a strike the working people suffered most which was a proposition that few persons in the hall were prepared to deny then came the rev dr ca who was the chief speaker for the occasion hb manner was graceful and self assured his voice and well and his tone was sympathetic if somewhat too his first sentences were to with attention he expressed his deep sympathy somewhat as the mayor had done but in better english and more tones with all classes especially with the working people a slight cough appeared to have attacked one portion of the audience but it stopped immediately and silence once more fell on the assemblage as he proceeded and now he said as he advanced a step nearer to the edge of the platform and having delivered himself of his preliminary expressions of threw up his head and assumed his best pulpit manner under a full sense of my responsibility to my people and my by john marvel assistant country i wish to counsel you as your friend as the friend of the poor the slight cough i have mentioned became audible again as the friend of the whose interests i have so deeply at heart at this moment a young man who had taken a seat well to the front on the main aisle rose in hia seat and politely asked if the doctor would allow him to ask him a question j the answer to which he believed would enable the audience to understand his position better the pleasant tone of the young man led the doctor to give permission and also the young man s appearance for it was certainly my dear sir he said suddenly held up in his hand a newspaper i wish he said to ask you where you dined last friday night with whom the question provoked a sudden of and cheers and cries of derision and in a moment had broken loose the doctor attempted to speak again and again but about all that could be heard was his that he was their friend whose question had caused the commotion was now mounted on a chair and waving his arms wildly about him and presently moved by curiosity the tumult subsided and the audience sat with their faces turned toward the man on tlie chair he turned and with a sweep of his arm toward the stage he cried we don t want to hear you what have you done that you should give us advice what do you know of us when have you ever to the cry of the by the peace maker destitute when have you ever visited the and the in affliction unless they were rich when have you ever done anything but on and flatter whom are you here to help and set free to day these people high priest of wealth and power and we know you and your friends the you ask to free is not the but the robber of vice and patron of sin i his long arm pointed at the platform where sat his face black with impotent rage if we are to have a priest to address us let us have one that we can trust give us a man like john marvel we know him and he knows us he turned and pointed to marvel the effect was shouts of marvel mr marvel i marvel marvel john marvel rang from their throats and suddenly as with one impulse the men turned to our comer where john marvel had sunk in his seat to escape observation and in an instant he was seized drawn forth and lifted bodily on the shoulders of men and borne to the platform as if on the crest of a wave and dr were both shouting to the audience but they might as well have addressed a tropical the cries of marvel marvel drowned every other sound and presently those on the stage gathered about both and the and after a moment one of them stepped forward and asked john marvel to speak by john marvel assistant john marvel stepped forward to the edge of the platform and reached out one long arm over the audience with an awkward but telling gesture that i had often seen him use keeping it extended until after one great outburst of applause the tumult had died down my friends he began another tumult that it yea we are your friends still the arm outstretched silence he b an to speak quietly and slowly and his voice suddenly struck me as singularly sympathetic and clear as it must have struck the entire assembly for suddenly the tumult ceased and the hall became perfectly quiet he spoke only a few minutes declaring that he had not come to speak to them but to be with them and pray that god might give them he said us peace and show some way out of the blackness which had settled do n upon them he bade them not despair however dark the cloud might be which had them they might be sure that god was beyond it and that he would give light in his own time he was leading them now as always the presence of that assembly with so many of the leading men of the city asking a conference was in itself a proof of the great advance their cause had made that cause was not as some thought so much money a day but was the claim to justice and consideration and kindness he himself was not a business man he knew nothing of such matters his duty was to preach to preach peace to	46
preach the love of god to preach patience and long suffering and the teaching of his by the peace maker lord and master who had lived in poverty all his life without a place to lay his head and had died calling on god to forgive his enemies this b a poor of what he said very simply but with a feeling and solemnity which touched the great audience who suddenly crushed out every attempt to contradict his proposition something had transformed him so that i could scarcely recognize him i asked myself can this be john marvel this master of this great audience what is the secret of his power the only answer i could find was in his goodness his sincerity and sympathy and now he said in closing whatever happens please god i shall be with you and take my lot among you and i ask you as a favor to me to listen to dr there was a great uproar and shout for dr had after john marvel got control of his audience risen from his seat seized his hat and coat and cane and stalked with great majesty from the platform there were however a number of other speeches and although there was much noise and tumult some advance was made for a general though by no means unanimous opinion was shown in favor of something in the nature of a reconciliation as i glanced up after john marvel returned amid the shouts to his seat i saw miss in one of the boxes leaning forward and looking with kindled eyes in our direction thinking that she was looking at me and feeling very i bowed to her and it was only by john marvel assistant when she failed to return my bow that i apprehended that she was not looking at me but at john marvel if she saw me she gave no sign of it and when walked the streets that ni t strikes and occupied but little of my thoughts unless i could make up with the whole world might go on strike for me i determined to consult john marvel he had somehow b un to appear to me the of i b an to feel that he was as had once said of him a sort of ark of the y by the flag of my acquaintance was now extending rapidly i had discovered in the tide that swept through the streets of the city other conditions and moods than those i first remarked dark brooding shadows and rushing catching the lights but fierce and deadly beneath placid pools and far apart where the sunlight in and lay soft on the drift that had escaped the flood touching it with its magic and it its sweet radiance i had found indeed that the city was an of the world it took a great many people to make it and there were other classes in it besides the rich and the poor it was in one of these classes that i was beginning to find myself most at home i received one day an invitation to dine one evening the following week at the house of a gentleman whom i had met a week or two before and whom i had called on in response to an invitation unusually cordial i had not been to a fashionable dinner since i had come to the west and i looked forward with some curiosity to the company whom i should meet at mr s for i knew nothing about him except that i had met him in a law case and we had appeared to have a by ic john marvel assistant ber of things in common including objects of dislike further that when i called on him he lived in a veiy handsome house and i was received in one of the most charming it was ever my good fortune to alter and with a on the part of his wife which i had never known it was like stepping into another world to pass from the rush of the city into that atmosphere of refinement and culture my heart however was a little lower down than it should have been for i could not but reflect with how much more pleasure i would have arrayed myself if it had been an invitation to mr s in truth the transition from my narrow quarters and the poverty of those among whom i had been living for some time made this charming house appear to me the of luxury and i was conscious of a sudden feeling as i passed this evening through the ample and dignified hall into the drawing room that somehow i was well fitted for such surroundings certainly i found them greatly to my taste i was received again most graciously by mrs and as i had followed my provincial custom of coming a little ahead of time i was the first visitor to arrive a fact which i did not regret as mrs took occasion to tell me something of the guests whom she expected after describing what i concluded to be a somewhat staid and elderly company she added i have given you a young lady whom i feel sure you will like she is a little serious minded i think and some people consider that she is simply but by the flag of however eccentric she may be i believe that she is really in earnest and so does my husband and i have never seen a young girl improve so much as she has done since she took up this new work of hers what this work was i was prevented from inquiring by the arrival of a number of guests all at once a dinner where the guests are not presented to each other in no important sense from a table d h te dinner the soup is likely to be a trifle	46
colder and the guests a trifle more reserved that is all mrs however followed the old fashioned custom of introducing her guests to each other preferring to open the way for them to feel at home rather than to leave them among about the weather and their taste for opera and though a lady whom i presently sat next to informed me that they did not do it in england or even in new york now i was duly grateful having been presented to the company i found them gay and full of animation even though their conversation was inclined to be mainly and related almost exclusively to people with whom for the most part i had no acquaintance the name of young figured rather more in it than was pleasant to me and dr was handled with somewhat less dignity than the cloth might have been supposed to require i was however just beginning to enjoy myself when my attention was suddenly diverted by the sound of a voice behind me as another guest i did not even need to turn to recognize by john marvel assistant but when i moved around sufficiently to take a side glance at her i was wholly unprepared for the vision before me i seemed to have forgotten how charming she looked and she broke on me like a fresh dawn after a storm i do not know what i was thinking or whether i was not merely just feeling when my hostess came forward now we are all here mr you are to take miss in you know her i believe i felt myself red and pale by turns and glancing at miss saw that she too was embarrassed i was about to something when my hostess moved away and as it appeared that the others had all off there was nothing for me to do but accept the situation as i walked over and bowed i said in a low tone i hope you will understand that i had no part in this i did not know she evidently heard for she made a slight bow and then drew herself up and took my arm i should not have come i added had i known of this however i suppose it is necessary that we should at least appear to be exchanging with ordinary interest the ordinary of such an occasion she bowed and then after a moment s silence added i have nothing to say which could possibly interest you and suggest that we do what i have heard has been done under similar circumstances and simply count i thought of the metal down an s throat and with the thought came another did it mean that she was going to marry that young by i suppose it is necessary that we should at least appear to be exchanging the ordinary by by the flag of it was as if one who had entered and discovered eve had suddenly found the serpent himself between them very well i was now really angry i had hoped up to this time that some means for reconciliation might be found but this dashed my hope i felt that i was the person and i determined to prove to her that i would make no concession i was not her slave very well then one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen i said looking straight ahead of me and dropping every syllable as if it were an oath she gave me a barely perceptible side glance i think i had taken her by my prompt compliance she hesitated a moment or as that is not very amusing suppose we cap verses i hear you know a great deal of poetry mr told me never knew any one with such a memory as his i recognized the suggestion as a flag of i bowed and as of course mary had a little lamb was the first thing that into my head with its hint of personal application i foolishly quoted the first verse intending her to make the personal application she was prompt to continue it with i thought a little sub tone of mischief in her voice it followed her to school one day i which was against the rule she said there she stopped so i took up the challenge by john marvel assistant which made the children laugh and say a lamb s a uttle fool it was a silly and ending i knew as soon as i had finished still it conveyed my meaning she paused a moment and started to look at me but as evidently she thought better of it she however i thought we would quote verses not make them i took this to be a confession that she was not able to make them and i to show how much i was so without noticing the cut of the eye which told of her wavering i launched out there was a lady of fashion who finding she d made quite a on a certain young who built castles in spain fell straight in a terrible passion to this she responded with a which surprised me a certain young lady of fashion had very good grounds for her passion it sprang from the pain of a terrible strain on her friendship and thus laid the lash on i felt that i must be equal to the situation so i began rapidly i m sure the young man was as as infant and would wilt less if thrown in the fire than under her ir by the flag of than under her ire i repeated to myself than under the ire what the will rhyme with wilt less we had reached the dining room by this time and i could see that she was waiting with a provoking expression of satisfaction on her face over my	46
having in my attempt at a rhyme i placed her in her chair and as i took my own seat a rhyme came to me a one but yet a rhyme and since castles he s built less i said calmly as i seated myself quite as if it had come easily i was wondering how you d get out of that she said with a little smile which her cheek you know you might have said and since milk to weep o er he s less or even and since striped he s less either would have made quite as good a rhyme and sense too i did not dare let her see how true i thought this it would never do to let her make fun of me so i kept my serious air i determined to try a new tack and surprise her i had a few of italian left from a time when i had studied the poets as a refuge from the desert of my e course and now having in a pause recalled the lines i dropped as though quite naturally s immortal wail by ic john marvel assistant f i felt sure that this would at least impress her with my culture while if by any chance she knew the lines which i did not apprehend it would impress her all the more and might prove a step toward a reconciliation for a moment she said nothing then she asked how does the rest of it go she had me there for i did not know the rest of the quotation e sa il she said with a cut of her eye and a liquid tone that satisfied me i had as the saying runs stepped from the pan into the fire she glanced at me with a smile in her eyes that reminded me through i know not what subtle influence of spring but as i was she could not tell whether i was in earnest or was i into silence and took my soup feeling that i was getting decidedly the worst of it when i heard her murmuring so softly as almost to appear speaking to herself the time has come the said to talk of other things of ships and shoes and wax and and kings i glanced at her to find her eyes downcast but a little was flickering near the comers of by the flag of her mouth and her long lashes caught me all anew my heart gave a leap it happened that i knew my much better than my so when she said you can talk can t you i answered quietly and quite as if it were natural to speak in verse in my youth said his father i took to the law and argued each case with my wife and the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw has lasted the rest of my life she gave a little subdued of laughter as she took up the next verse you are old said the youth one would hardly suppose that your eye was as steady as ever yet you balanced an on the end of your nose what made you so awfully clever i hoped that she was embarrassed when i found that she had taken my by mistake and she was undoubtedly so when she discovered that she had it i beg your pardon she said as she handed me hers i bowed with that seeing my chance i turned and spoke to the lady on my other side with whom i was soon in an animated discussion but my attention was not so engrossed by her that i did not get secret enjoyment out of the fact when i discovered that the elderly man on the other side of miss was as deaf as a post and that she had to repeat every word that she said to him the lady on the other side of me was rambling on by john marvel assistant about something but just what i had not the least idea except that it related to the problem novel a form of literature that i as i was soon quite engrossed in listening to the conversation between and her deaf companion in which my name which appeared to have caught the gentleman s attention was to some extent any relation to my old friend henry i heard him ask in what he doubtless imagined to be a whisper yes i think so said miss you say he is not no i did not say so i think he b he is a fine lawyer i heard him say and i was just myself on the rapid extension of my reputation he added he is an old friend of your father s i know i was glad to hear he had come up to represent your father in his case against those a friend of yours too were the next words i heard for decency required me to appear to be giving some attention to my other neighbor whom i devoutly wished in so i was trying resolutely though with but indifferent success to keep my attention on the story she was telling about some one whom like charles lamb i did not know but was ready to damn at a venture he told me he came on your account as much as on your father s said the gentleman you had better look out these old are very no fool like an old fool you know to thb miss made some laughing reply from by the flag of which i gathered that her neighbor was a bachelor for he answered in the high key which he for a whisper you had better not say that to me for if you do i ll ask you to marry me before the i was recalled to myself by my other neighbor who had been	46
talking steadily asking me suddenly and in a tone which showed she demanded an answer what do you think of that why i think it was quite natural i said you do yes i do i declared firmly you think it was natural for him to run off with his own daughter in law i her eyes were wide with astonishment well not precisely natural under the circumstances you see it was certainly more natural than for him to run off with his mother in law you will have to admit that i admit nothing of the kind she declared with some heat i am a mother in law myself and i must say i think the at mothers in law are very for now you put me out of court i said i did not mean to be personal of course there are law and mothers in law happily at this moment the gentleman on her other side insisted on securing her attention and i turned just in time to catch the of amusement that were playing in s face she had evidently heard my by john marvel assistant he b so deaf i she half turning to me though i was not quite sure that she was not speaking to herself the next second she settled the question he is so deaf she repeated in an with the faintest accent of appeal for in her voice i again recognized the flag of but i replied calmly i passed by his garden and marked with one eye how the owl and the were sharing a pie the took pie crust and and meat while the owl had the dish as its share of the treat the color in her cheek and she raised her head slightly are you going to keep that up i suppose we shall have to talk a little i think we are attention for heaven s sake don t speak so we are being observed but i continued when the pie was all finished the owl as a boon was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon it is very rude of you to go on in that way when am speaking you remind me of a machine she smiled here am i stuck between two men one of whom cannot hear a word i say while the other does nothing but run on like a machine i observed with deep content that she was becoming exasperated at that moment the hostess forward and said what are you two so interested in discussing there by the flag of i have been watching and you have not stopped a minute burst into a laugh mr b talking to me exclaimed the hostess mr you have been in the east have you yes he came from the east where the wise men always come from said miss then turning to me she said in an you see what i told you for reply i simply quoted on though i had a little pang as i saw the shadow come into her eyes and the smile leave her mouth my father was deaf and my mother was dumb and to keep myself company i beat the drum i think that was a very good occupation for you she said turning away with her head very high will you let me say something to you she said in a low tone a moment later and without waiting she added i think it was rather nasty in me to say what i said to you when you first came in but you had treated me so rudely when i spoke to you on the street you do not call it rude not to answer a letter when a gentleman writes to explain an unfortunate mistake and then cut him publicly i did not receive it until afterward she said i was away from town and as to cutting you i don t know what you are talking about by john marvel assistant at the charity fair i never saw you i wondered you were not there had die earth opened i could not have felt more astounded and had it opened near me i should possibly have sprung in in my confusion i had as usual simply made a fool of myself and what to do i scarcely knew at thb instant the hostess arose and the dinner was over and with it i feared my chance was over too give me a moment i must have one moment i said as she passed me on her way out of the dining room with the other ladies her head held very high she inclined her head and said something in so low a tone that i did not catch it king james i never detested tobacco as i did those cigars smoked that evening when at last the host moved to return to the drawing room i bolted in only to be seized on by my hostess and presented to a and lady who wanted to ask me about the whom she had heard i knew she had heard that had not married very happily did i know no i did not know nor in fact did i care though i could not say so then another question could i tell why all the men appeared to find miss so very attractive yes i thought i could tell that because she is very attractive oh well yes i suppose she pretty and all that with a sort of but there b no but about it i interrupted she b just what you said very attractive for one by the flag of thing she has brains for another heart neither of them is so common as not to be attractive i thought of the young concealed in that softness of which the lady spoke and was determined not to permit the sly cat to see what i really	46
of the measure you the literature and the novels i interrupted yes i but mean the lot how provincial they yes they appear so well they do not dare to discuss anything and vital by the flag of yes they dare they are daring enough but they don t know how they are stupid no they are afraid afraid of what of public opinion of the so called virtue of the middle class who control everything that is the only argument i ever heard in favor of the i said what do you mean don t you agree with me i certainly do not i may not seek virtue and it but at least i it do you mean that you think we should not write or talk of anything forbidden that depends on what you mean by forbidden if you mean i think there should be no subject forbidden interrupted the lady by whom i had sat at table a stout and tightly person of some forty why shouldn t i talk of any subject i please she seemed to appeal to me so i answered her i do not at this instant think of any reason except that it might not be decent this raised an uncertain sort of laugh and appeared for a moment to her but she was game and rallied i know that is the answer i always get because it is the natural answer but i want to know why why is it simply because it is means your sex were slaves they were weaker physically less by john marvel assistant robust they were made beasts of burden were beaten and made slaves then men for their own pleasure lifted them up a little and paid court to them and finally the idea and age of chivalry came based on the high christian morality you were placed on a men loved and fought for your favor and made it the of their highest guarded you with a mist of adoration gave you a worshipped you as something and better and purer than themselves built up a wall of division and protection for you why should you go and cast it down fling it away and come down in the mire and dust and dirt but i don t want to be adored set up on a then you probably will not be interrupted my deaf neighbor i want to be treated as an equal as an an intelligent being i should think that would depend on yourself i do not quite understand whom you wish to be the equal of of men men are a very large class some are very low indeed you know what i mean of course i don t mean that sort you mean gentlemen certainly then i assure you you cannot discuss subjects in mixed company gentlemen never do nor write coarse gentlemen never do nowadays nor discuss them either by the flag of do you mean to say that great never discuss such questions she demanded triumphantly no but it is all in the manner the motive i have no objection to the matter generally provided it be properly handled but the obvious intention the rank of it see how scott or george or or or later on even handles such vital how different their motive from the of the so called problem novel oh i dear they must be very bad indeed i exclaimed a lady shocked by the sound of my they are suddenly put in my oldest neighbor who had been listening intently with his hand behind his ear only you ladies don t know how bad they are or you would not discuss them with men this closed the discussion and a group of ladies near me suddenly off into another subject and one which interested me more than the discussion of such literature as the which goes by the name of the problem novel who is in love with asked some one a mrs arrow whose mind appeared much given to dwelling on such problems she addressed the company generally and possibly my former neighbor at the table in particular is she in love asked another certainly i never saw any one so changed why she has been so i scarcely know her and she has taken to charity that s a sure sign i think it must be that yoimg preacher she talks so much about by john marvel assistant well i don t know who she is in love with said the lady who had sat next to me at dinner but i know who she is going to marry she is going to marry jim her aunt has made that match do you think so demanded our hostess who had joined the group i don t believe she will marry any one she is not in love with and i can t believe she b in love with that fat coarse dissipated creature he is simply repulsive to me i began to conceive an even higher opinion of my hostess than i had already had i don t think it is anybody continued our hostess oh yes you you think it is doctor doctor i it is much more likely to be mr marvel mr marvel i who is he oh yes the young preacher who turned jew and was put out of his church i remember now is mr marvel a jew i inquired oh yes indeed and a terrible ah i did not know that i h rd she was going to marry a jew another lady but i must say it looks very much like mr to me oh she wouldn t marry a jew suggested mrs arrow i heard there was a young lawyer or something she would if she d a mind to said	46
our hostess i still stand by doctor declared mrs arrow he is so refined and i by jim i thought at one time it was by the flag of count but since has taken him away the other seems to be the winning card i must say i think the count would have been the better match of the two i don t think that exclaimed the other lady and neither would you if you knew him possibly she knows the other i suggested no you see she could get rid of the count if he proved too objectionable and then she would still have the title i never heard a more infamous proposal i said in an aside to our hostess she laughed no did but she was only not she i i was in no mood to on the subject of s marriage my aside to our hostess drew the attention of the others to me and mrs arrow suddenly said mr which would you say you know them both don t you i do well which would you say neither said i i wanted to add that i would cheerfully murder them both before i would allow either of them to destroy s life but i contented myself with my brief reply oh i mr is evidently one of her victims laughed our hostess for which i was grateful to her i came away from my friend s with the heroic determination to prevent miss s life from being ruined and to accomplish this by the satisfactory method of her myself my resolve was a little by john marvel assistant by reading in a newspaper next day the head lines announcing an important engagement which though no names were used pointed clearly at miss and the hopeful heir and partner of mr james reading carefully the article i found that the engagement was only believed to exist i felt like a criminal he who has not felt the pangs of a passion has no conception of the true significance of life the dull cold indifferent lover knows nothing of the half anguish of the true lover or the wholly divine joy of reconciliation even in anticipation as well may the frozen pole dream of the sun bathed it was this joy that i in my heart even in face of the declaration of her expected engagement next day i was talking to two or three young fellows when and some episode in which he had figured as rather more defiant than usual of public opinion came up and one of them said to another a friend of his and an acquaintance of mine what is jim going to do when he gets married he ll have to give up his friends then he can t be running two jim ain t going to get married he s just around bet you the old man s wild for it bet you he can t why that woman he can her off her which her well all of em if he don t get married soon he won t be fit to marry by the flag of it was here that i entered the conversation they bad not mentioned any name they had been too gentlemanly to do so but i knew whom they had in mind and i was inwardly burning he isn t fit to many now i said suddenly they both turned to me in surprise no man who to be in love with any good woman i said and lives as he lives is fit for any woman to marry i am speaking generally i added to guard against the suspicion that i knew whom they referred to i know mr but slightly but what i say applies to him too oh you d cut out a good many laughed one of the young men with a glance at his friend no gentlemen i stand on my proposition the man who is making love to a pure woman with a s kisses on his lips is not worthy of either he ought to be shot there d be a pretty big if your views were carried out said one of them well i don t want to pose as any i am no better than some other men but at least i have some claim to decency and that is your gentry are no more nor less than a lot of thorough paced they appeared to be somewhat impressed by my earnestness even though they laughed at it there are a good many of them they said your friends the yes i know the s views j by john marvel assistant but at least he is sincere he is against any formal hard and fast contract and his motive is however he believes it would result in an in an increase of happiness for all he is of course hopelessly wrong but here is a man who is himself and others all others and above all the one he is pretending to above all i say he b a low down scoundrel to do it he is the highest sentiment man has ever imagined well at any rate you are vehement said one youve cut jim out said the other the conversation took place in a sort of lounging room adjoining a down town frequented by young men at this moment who should walk in but mr james himself the talk ceased as suddenly as cut off steam and when one of the young men after an awkward silence made a foolish remark about the fine day which was in reality rainy and cold s curiosity was naturally excited what were you fellows talking about women no said one of the others nothing particular yes i i said we were talking about women whose women yours i looked him steadily in the eye	46
he started but recovered himself which of em he inquired as he flung himself into a chair and looked for a match for the which he took from a jewel studded gold case i am rather well endowed with them at present what were you saying by the flag of i repeated my remark about the two establishment gentry his face flushed angrily but my steady eye held him in cheek and he took a long breath well i give a blank what you think about it or anything else he the smoke from his lungs perhaps but that does not affect the principle it stands you may not care about the rock of but it stands and is the key to the situation he was in a livid rage and i was prepared for the attack which i expected him to make but he restrained himself his was insolence you teach sunday school don t you i thought this was a reference to one whose name i did not mean his lips to and i determined to him i do i said quietly i teach for mr marvel i know the singing parson who has made all that trouble in this ie and his jew partner we are going to break them up both are men whose shoes you are not fit to clean and as to making trouble the trouble was made by those a good deal nearer you than john your precious firm and your side partners and david you d better confine your labors to your dirty jews and not try to interfere in the affairs of gentlemen as to the latter i never interfere in the affairs of by john marvel assistant gentlemen and as to the dirty jews i assure you they are not as dirty as you are for their dirt is all outside while yours is within i had supposed he would resent this but he had his reasons for not doing so though they were none too creditable to him mr was too bold with women and not bold enough with men and a little later it that with one woman at least he was as tame as he was with the other sex the woman the young men referred to kept him in fear of his life for years and he had neither the nor moral courage to break away from her y by mr has a proposal of marriage made him though i had not acted on the principle i had always felt that a young man had no right to pay his addresses to a young lady without giving some account of himself to her father or whoever might stand in the relation of her natural protector certainly that it was incumbent on a gentleman to do so i felt therefore that it was necessary for me before proceeding further in my pursuit of to declare my intention to her father my declaration to her had been the result of a furious impulse to which i had yielded but now that i had cooled my principle itself one trouble was that i did not know mr i determined to consult john marvel and i had a hope that he might not think it necessary for me to speak about it to him i accordingly went around to his room and after he had gotten through with a tramp or two who had come to him of any little which he might have left he came in i bolted into the middle of my subject john i am in love i fancied that his countenance changed i thought with surprise by john marvel assistant yes i know you are how did you know it i am in love with his countenance changed a shade more and he looked away and swallowed with a little embarrassment yes i know that too how did you know it he smiled john sometimes smiled rather sadly i want you to help me how i don t know i have to go and ask mr has she accepted you hb face was as i recalled later full of feeling of some kind no i wish to heaven she if anything she has rejected me but that is nothing i am going to win her and many her i am going to ask her father s permission to pay my addresses to her and then i don t care whether he gives it or yes i do care too but whether he does or not i am going to win her and him and marry her henry he said gently you deserve to win her and i believe maybe if he went oflf into a train of reflection which i broke in on i don t think i do i said honestly by his gentleness but that makes no difference i love her better than all the rest of the world and i mean to win her or die trying so none of your and i want your advice how to proceed i have not a cent in the world am in fact in debt and i feel that i must tell her father so by a proposal of marriage that will scarcely tend to strengthen your chances with him said john my spirits rose i can t help that i feel that i must tell though i spoke so my tone contained a yes that s right said john his mind had been working slowly my spirits drooped i was not conscious till then how strongly i had hoped that he might with me my heart quite sank at the final disappearance of my hope but i was in for it now my principle was strong enough when strengthened by john s invincible i walked into the building in which mr had his offices boldly enough if my heart at least i had myself well in hand	46
by a proposal of marriage public use and i am a harder worked man than any or in one of my shops or on one of my lines that you are exclaimed his daughter i belong to the class that produces and we are between the upper and the do you see expressed her assent the fire of course cost us a lot it was set on fire interrupted his daughter i know it well i don t know possibly it looks so anyhow it caught us at the top and while the to something the actual loss was then came the trouble with the bank so long as i was there they knew they could not go beyond the law so and the others got together and i got out and of course i know said his daughter they asked me to remain but i preferred to be free so do i i had an to day from the said mr after a moment of reflection i do not quite know what it means but i think i do what was it looked down with her face slightly averted jim came from his father to to suggest a as it were it means that they have started a blaze they cannot thai by john marvel assistant are having trouble with people and fear that our people are coming around but it means something further too i think mr ceased talking and appeared to be reflecting what said the girl after waiting a moment you know your aunt however he paused she rose and faced him father i wouldn t marry him to save his life and i have told both him and so mr gave a sigh of relief you of course declined the proposal they made said i did i think they have broken with the interest i saw your aunt to day and had a talk with her i think her eyes are opened at last i told her a few plain truths he dropped into reflection and a expression came into his eyes i had a very remarkable thing happen to me to day what was it demanded his daughter i had an offer of marriage made me s face changed at first it grew a shade then a shade i know who it was she said quickly mr shut lips firmly i did not know she is a she has been sending me flowers and opera tickets all winter and me with invitations i knew she was up to something she by a proposal of marriage spoke with growing feelings as her father s eyes rested on her placidly with an amused expression in them i wouldn t be such easy game why she d bore you to death and as to me i wouldn t live in the house with i couldn t she stood with cheek and flashing eye a young for battle i will relieve you said her father it is not the natured lady you have in mind but a person quite different miss looked relieved it couldn t be it was not aunt that would explain a lot of things you know i think she s been laying some lately she even forgave me when i told her the other evening that that was the last time i would ever accept an invitation from mr even as a favor to her she d make you miserable you couldn t no said mr in fact it was not a lady at all it was a person of the opposite sex and the proposal was for your hand who was it now she moved around the table to him as mr with eyes twinkling over his victory shut hb mouth firmly you d just as well tell me at once for you know i am going to know so you might as well tell me and save yourself trouble who was it mr took her firmly by the arms and seated her on his knee well it was a young man who appeared quite in earnest by john marvel assistant it wasn t no i know it wasn t he he wouldn t have done that and it wasn t she pondered no it wasn t he and it wasn t she suddenly paused tell me what did he say how did you like him what did you say to him so you have who it is perhaps you sent him to me indeed i did not and i don t know who it was what did you tell him i told him you were of age i am not i am twenty no i told him you were too to think of such a thing i am twenty the girl that is what i told him said mr and that i thought you were able to take care of yourself the girl rested her chin on his head and went oflf in a reverie we must hold together she said her father drew her face down and kissed her silently the man who takes you away from me will have to answer with his life he said there is no one on earth who could said m y by the riot and its victim it is a terrible thing for a man with a wife and children to see them wasting away with sheer starvation to hear his crying for bread and his wife weeping because she cannot get it for them some men in such a situation drown their sorrow in drink others take a bolder course and defy the law or the rules of their order the railway company still being forced to run their cars undertook to with the even though the protection of the police was withheld the police were instructed indeed to be present and keep the peace and	46
a few were detailed but it was known to both sides that no real protection would be granted s order to the force bore this plainly on its face so plainly that the papers him for his and for the first time began to side with the company the offer of increased wages to new men was openly by the generally but in a few houses the situation was so terrible that the men yielded one of these was the empty and home of the little had had a bitter experience and had come through it victorious but just as he was get by john marvel assistant ting his head above water the new strike had come against his wishes and his vote he had held on as long as he could had held on till every article had gone till his wife s poor under and his children s clothes bad gone for the few dollars they brought and now he was face to face with starvation he walked the streets day after day in company with a sad procession of haggard men hunting for work but they might as well have hunted on the or in the vacant desert for every stroke of work there were a hundred men the answer was the same we are laying men off we are shutting down he returned home one night hungry and dejected to find his wife fainting with hunger and his children i will get you bread he said to the children and he turned and went out i always was glad that he came to me that night though i did not know till afterward what a strait he was in i did not have much to lend him but i lent him some his face was haggard with want but it had a resolution in it that impressed me i will pay it back sir out of my first wages i am going to work to morrow i am glad of that i said for i thought he had gotten a place the next morning at light walked through the who shivered outside the car bam and entered the sheds just as their shouts of derision and anger reached i have come to work he said simply my children are hungry by the riot and its victim the first car came out that mornings and on the platform stood and white and grim with a stout officer behind him it ran down by the meeting with and cries of i and a of stones but as the hour was early the crowd was a small one and the car escaped it was some two hours later when the car reappeared on its return the news that a was running the car had spread rapidly and the street near the had filled with a crowd wild with rage and furiously bent on mischief as the car turned into a street it ran into a throng that had been increasing for an hour and now blocked the way an placed on the track brought the car to a stop as a roar burst from the crowd and a rush was made for the the officer on the car used his stick with vigor enough but the time had passed when one officer with only a club could hold back a mob he was jerked off the platform thrown down and trampled the car was and fighting like a fury was dragged out and to death before any other officers arrived when the police in force in answer to a riot call reached the spot a quarter of an hour later and dispersed the mob it looked as if the sea had swept over the scene the car was and stripped to a mere broken shell and on the ground a hundred paces away with only a of bloody clothing still about it lay the battered and trunk of what had been a man to make bread for his children while a wild cry of hate and joy at the deed raged about the street by john marvel assistant the men who were arrested easily proved that they were simply and had never been within fifty feet of the car the riot made a fine story for the newspapers and the were glaring the victim s name was according to the fancy of the for each paper and was correctly published only two days later the press except the while divided in its opinion on many points combined in its of the murder of the driver and called on the city authorities to awake to the gravity of the situation and put down violence it was indeed high time moved by the of the name to my friend i walked over that afternoon to that part of the city where he had lived it was one of the poorest streets of the poor section the street on which i had lived at the old s with its little hearth rug yards was as much better than it as the most fashionable avenue was better than that the like a moving had spread over it and was rapidly it the were filled with men and women who wore the or looks as i passed slowly along trying to read the almost i caught fragments of their conversation a group of them men and women were talking about the man who had been killed and his family the universal assertion was that it served him right and his family too i from their talk that the family by the riot and its victim had been even after lie was dead and that he had had to be buried by the city and what was more that the cruel still went on against his family ay aye let em starve well teach em to take the bread out of our mouths said one woman while another told of her	46
right into mine and i took courage enough to look into hers for an instant i have never forgotten them they were like deep pools clear and filled with light she did not look at all displeased and i did not envy st martin all she said was how do you do mr it was quite as if she expected to find me and she had she had seen me stop little and put the gloves on her she was on her way to the house and she had stopped and waited and then had followed us i did not know this until long afterward by the riot and its victim but asked her to let me wait and see her home and so i did that walk was a memorable one to me the period of explanations was past i dared harbor the hope that i was almost in sight of port when i put her on the car she was so good as to say her father would be glad to see me some time at their home and i thought she spoke with just the least little shyness which made me hope that she herself would not be sorry when i left her i went to see my old and told him of the which had been on the poor woman it was worth while seeing him he was magnificent as long as i was talking only of the man he was merely uttering his over his beer but when i told him of the woman and children he was on his feet in an instant te and all he seized his hat and big stick and pouring out so fast that i could not pretend to follow him ordered me to show him the place as he strode through the streets i could scarcely keep up with him his stick rang on the frozen pavement like a challenge to battle and when he reached the house he was immense he was suddenly transformed no mother could have been no father more protecting he gathered up the children in his great arms and and soothed them his tone a little while before so ferocious now as soft and gentle as the low velvet bass of his great drum i always think of the good shepherd now as something like him that evening rugged as a rock gentle as a by john marvel assistant he would have taken them all to his house and have adopted them if the woman would have let him his heart was bigger than his house he seemed to have filled all the place to have made it a fortress the strike had cast its black cloud over all the section and not all of its victims were murdered by the mob i fell in with the man who had spoken to me so cheerily one morning of the sun s shining for him he looked haggard and ill and despairing he was out of work and could find none in our talk he did not justify the strike but he bowed to it with as a stricken might have bowed to the blows of fate his spirit was not then broken it was only his furniture which was so nearly paid for had gone to the loan his house of which he boasted had to the building company he looked fully twenty years older than when i had seen him last i offered him a small sum which he took gratefully it was the first money he had had in weeks he said and the stores had stopped his a few weeks later i saw him staggering along the street his heart eating sorrow drowned for an hour in the only such poverty knows y by s neighbors i had not been to visit indeed had but a idea of where he lived knowing only that he had a room in the house of some jew in the quarter hitherto our meetings had taken place either in john narrow little quarters or in mine at the old s but having learned from john that he was ill i got the address from him and one afternoon went over to see him i found the place in a region more than that in which john marvel and i had our habitation and as foreign as if it had been in or in a black sea province in fact it must have a mixture of both regions the shops were small and some of them gay but the was as mean aa the most sombre the signs and notices were all in or russian the former and as i passed through the ill paved ill streets i could scarcely retain my conviction that i was in an american city it was about the hour that the of clothing etc closed and the street through which i walk was filled with a moving mass of dark humanity that rolled through it uke a dark and flood for blocks they the moving slowly on and aa i mingled in the mass and by john marvel assistant caught low unknown sounds and not a word of english all the while i became suddenly aware of a strange alien feeling of uncertainty and almost of oppression far as eye could see i could not one saxon countenance or even one they were all dark sallow dingy and sombre now and then a woman s hat appeared in the level moving of round black hats giving the impression of a floating on a deep slow current to melt into the flood could thb i reflected be the element we are and what effect would the strange have on the it of our life in the future no wonder we were in the of a strike vast to cause i was still under the dominion of thb reflection when i reached the street in which had his home	46
goose for my to make food acceptable to their be a at once no but these are places than and i should think your soul would revolt at thb i swung my ann in a half are not my he said half smiling well admit and i knew all by s along that this was the there are other brethren of nearer degree n he ejaculated i among my own people i must live among them to understand i should think them rather easy to understand i mean to foe in sympathy n he said gently besides i am trying to teach them two or what for i confess at my soul had at his surroundings that foreign bom foreign looking foreign spoken multitude who had filled the street as i came along through the vile of e russia as it was called had smothered my charitable feelings well for one thing to learn ihe use of freedom for another to learn the proper method and function of they certainly appear to me to have the by being what are i said lightly i mean of business explained i want to break up the sweat shop and the sweat system we are already making some and have thousands in various kinds of organized business which are quite successful i should not think they would need your assistance from what i saw they appear to me to have an instinct they have said but we are how to apply it the difficulty is their ignorance and prejudice you think that they hold you in some by john marvel assistant distrust and dislike possibly as his tone implied a question i nodded well that b nothing to the way in which they regard me you they distrust as a but me they as a well i must say that i think you deserve what you get for bringing in such a mass of ignorance now you are an american and a patriotic one how do you reconcile it with your patriotism to introduce into the body such an of ignorance superstition and why said you don t know our people the jew is often an of ignorance and superstition though he is not alone in this but he is never an element of when he is treated he added after a pause but whatever these people are in this generation the generation the children of this will be useful american citizens all they require b a chance why the children of these russian jews from their own country are winning all the in the schools he added hb pale face flushing that lad who showed you m b the son of who sell second hand shoes in the next street and cannot speak a word of and yet he stands at the head of hb class no how do you know he told me the little rascal i see how proud he b of it said triumphantly by s neighbors he tried to sell me a pair of shoes chuckled did he then he catching my thought that is the most important thing for him at present but wait let this develop he tapped his forehead he may give you laws equal to s or a new philosophy like bacon s he may solve or thought in any direction who knows hb face had lighted up as he proceeded and he was leaning forward in his chair his eyes glowing i know i said he ll sell shoes second hand ones polished up for new i was laughing but did not appreciate my joke he flushed slightly that s your ignorance my friend that s the reason your people are so dense they never learn they keep repeating the same thing no wonder we discover new for you to claim what new worlds have you discovered well first literature next what fa your oldest boasted scripture i thought you were talking of material worlds i we helped about that too did our full part you think queen her jewels to send to discover don t you i nodded well the man who put up the money for that little expedition was a jew the you never heard of him i never by john marvel assistant he did it all the same if you w mild lead else your narrow writings you would of the true history of now and then s like ant ter s showed through the in his what for instance since you ai ear to know it all almost any other history or philosophy read the work of the old and new and much life is than the shallow thing by that divine name by the and and who their in our faces or fasten their brazen claws in our meantime you might read my he said with a smile when it comes out well me about it meantime and save me the trouble i sometimes prefer my friends to their s you were always la he said smiling but he b an to talk laying down his of life which was i le enough thou i could not him very far i had been trained in too strict a school to accept doctrines so radical and but that i saw him and marvel and acting on them i should have esteemed them u q as it was i wondered how tar had inspired his book y by s philosophy which may be by the reader as warmed up to theme his face brightened and his deep eyes glowed the trouble with our our country the is that our whole system social commercial political every activity is based on mere sheer state and church act on it live by it the success of the jew which has brought on him so much through the ages has itself by stamping on	46
your life the very evil with which you charge him love of money what have we none but money we call it wealth we have the name and its shows ihe of the race once it meant now mere riches thou employed the very enemy and of the whose in the last of the was intended as a to embrace the whole has our whole life public and private the of riches not for use only for vulgar beyond belief the of riches not for good but for evil to gratify which never at their t anything but evil or f marks the lowest level of the by john marvel assistant intellect the and the are the of the community and the are the fit priests for such people he turned away in disgust but i him what b your remedy you fiercely but give no light you are simply destructive the remedy is more to give he said gravely because the evil has been going cm so long that it has become deep rooted it has sunk its roots into not only the core of our life but our character it will take long to it but one evil mi t be and eventually must be changed we wish to go down into the abyss of universal and destruction you mean the idea that because a man is accidentally able to acquire through and often corrupt means vast riches which really are not made by himself but by means of others under conditions and laws which he did not create he may call them his own use them in ways to the public good and indeed often in notorious of it and be protected in doing so by those laws accidentally and means m that does not happen so often it may happen by finding a gold mine once in ten thousand times or by ing some on the stock or produce exchange once in one thousand times but even then a man must have courage w powers of organization by s philosophy so has the and he inter but they are they break the law what law why law more than these others is not the law not to do evil to others the law established by society for its protection who made those laws the people through their representatives i added hastily as i saw him preparing to combat it the people indeed i precious little part they have had in the making of the laws those laws were made not by the people who had no voice in their making but by a small class originally the the the king the the rich the people had no part nor voice they received the benefit of them only the which fell from their masters tables they got the the the rack and the stick you would destroy all property rights my dear fellow what nonsense you talk i am only for changing the law to secure property rights for all instead of for a class the necessity for which no k exists if it ever did exist your own law recognized it and it i thought this a good thrust he waved it aside that was for a primitive people in a primitive age as your laws were for your people in their primitive age but do you suppose that moses would make no now by john marvel assistant i hare no idea that he would i believe they were divine surely moses acted under the guidance ol the gi eat whose law i justice and and the laws be gave were to this aad they served their purpose when served god but now when he is the letter of the law is made an excuse and is given as the command to work injustice and and surely they should be at least interpreted in the spirit in which they were given you claim to be a a very poor one in name at least you claim that th e has been a new v yes an a development precisely in place of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth the other turned to do to others as you would have them do to you i that is the ideal i have not yet reached that degree of i paused for the word i too acknowledge that that ideal why should we not act on it because of human nature we have not yet reached the stage when it can be practically applied but human nature while it does not change may be regulated developed uplifted and this teaching is based on this it has not yet borne apparent fruit it is true but it is nevertheless we both in our better moments at by s philosophy least feel it to be sound and there has been a however little and however hard to you believe in the development of man but you look only to his material development i look for his complete development material and spiritual as he has advanced through the countless ages since god breathed into him the breath of life and by leading him along the lines of physical development to a station in where the physical gave place to ihe e fer development so i believe he is destined to continue this or i growth increasing its power as the ages pass and mounting higher and higher in spiritual knowledge until he shall attain a degree of perfection that we only think of now as a part of the we see the poet and the saint living to day in an atmosphere wholly dis from ti gross of common humanity we see laws being and principles which make for the improvement of the human race we see the g and improvement of the race war	46
is b ng diminished its horrors lessened food is becoming more diffused civilization material civilization is being extended and the universal rights are being a little more recognized however dimly this means the gradual of mankind the of as well as of food growth of and as this comes think you that man will not rise higher a great is tapped and from it will flow in the future rich streams to the whole world of humanity by john marvel assistant aspirations will leap higher and higher and whole race in time will receive new light new power new with an ever horizon and a vast of spiritual truth as the field for the s exercise it b a dream i said impressed by his burning eyes his glowing face as he drifted on almost in a a dream but it might come true if if you and all like i all educated and trained would unite to bring it about your leader preached it you profess the principles now but do not practise them the state has been against it the equally it b full of sham it was that the i interrupted he swept on with a gesture yes yes i know i am not speaking now as a but at least as a jew i said laughing yes perhaps i hardly know i know about the high priest he tried to stand in with he thought he was doing his duty when he was only fighting for hb caste but what an of woes he brought on hb people through the ages but now they know they profess and yet stone the your church to fight riches and selfishness and is the greatest of all that the world knows two generations the wealth gotten by the means the robber the murderer the of homes are all accepted and by s philosophy if one he is to day as if he were a of the law if the master to whom your churches are erected should come to day and preach the doctrines he preached in nineteen hundred years ago he would be cast out here precisely as he was cast out there he spoke almost fiercely yet his he added are nearer those of the people i represent than of those who them why should we not act on it possibly some others might see our good works and in any event we shall have done our part john marvel does i know he does but he is a better christian than i am and so are you i am not a christian at all i am only a jew will you say that his have had no part in forming your character and life not my character my father taught me before i was able to read possibly i have extended his have his had no part in deciding you as to your work his john marvel s of them in his life bore a part and thus perhaps that is it why should i not in the benefit of the wisdom of a said scornfully did utter his divine philosophy only for you who were then savages in northern europe or people in greece italy and spain your claim that he did so simply the of your people by john assistant what is your remedy v call it what you will is a name some prefer and some the act is that the profit system on which all modem rests is and vicious and wrong men work and strive not to produce for use far service but for profit profit becomes the aim of human endeavor nothing higher or better competition i quoted is the soul of trade competition he said may be the soul of trade but that trade is the trade in men s souls as well as in cl the it sets man against man and brother against brother against and is with the of what would you substitute for it i demanded the remedy is always a problem i should try operation in thia co operation i it has been proved an absolute failure it makes the industrious and the the slave of the idle and men would not an idle and time worn the ambitious do not work for gold the high minded da not john marvel does not miss does not the poor do not for only bread for a crust with starvation ever grinning at them beside their door h cannot shut out its face look at your poor did he work to gold hei worked to feed starving children but would they work this great class by s philosophy yes they would have to work all who are capable of it but for high rewards we would make all who are capable work we would give the rewards to who to au who produce by intellect or labor we would do away with those who live oa the the who the life blood intellectual or physical should be the law of society they would not work i insisted why do you go on that like a morning paper why would they not work man is the most industrious animal on earth look at these vast piles of look at ike and works of antiquity work ia the of awakened there be a high and nobler for something better than the base reward they s ve and rob and each other in the mire for now men would then work for the old would revive in beauty and than ever before new and would be set up there would be vastly more who would have those what does the now know of he is reduced to a and a very poor machine at that he does not know where his work goes or have an interest in it give him that give his fellows that it	46
him create a great from to draw a better the trouble with you my dear is that you are assuming all the time that your law is a fixed law your c o so a fixed they axe not there are few by john marvel assistant things fixed in the the universal law b change growth or decay of all the and stars the pole star alone is fixed and that simply appears so it really moves like the rest only in a with other stars moving about it i smiled partly at his and partly at his earnestness you smile but it is true there are few laws the of the is one of them in its larger sense it is that under which my people have survived and that all men are by nature entitled to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness not at all or at least only in the larger sense if they were entitled to life neither nature nor the law would deprive them of it if to liberty neither could interfere with it if to the pursuit of we should have to their minds then in heaven s name what are they entitled to i exclaimed first under certain conditions to the best fruits of properly organized society to light then to opportunity to have an equal chance for what they are willing to work for among other things to work i feeling that he had delivered himself into my hands every man has a right to labor at whatever work and for whatever prices he pleases i said that you will admit is provided you allow me to define what you mean by s philosophy provided it does not injure his neighbor you as a lawyer quote your non if the and his employer contract no one else has a right to interfere not the public if they are injured by it except by law who make the laws the people in theory now and some day they will do it in fact as the spirit of the time changes the interpretation of the law will change and the spirit is changing all the time not in this particular yes in all respects men are becoming more enlightened the veil has been torn away and the light has been let in as soon as education came the step was taken we are in a new era already and the truth is you and your like do not see it what sort of era how is it new an era of men have been informed they know their power the tree of knowledge has been plucked don t appear to do much with the knowledge you think not it b true that they have not yet learned to apply the knowledge fully but they are learning see how has over the earth tyranny and opening the door of opportunity for all mankind how the principles of have spread within the last generation in germany in england now in america and russia why it is now an active practical force not much i insisted by john marvel a great deal taking into account the to it it is contrary r to the established usage and of thousands of years it to what you have been trained to consider the foundation of your me of society of order and you have been trained to believe that your most precious rights are bound up with that system every force of modem life is arrayed against it yet it advances steadily b cause und your system lies the and sin which me man to hold another down and live off of him you do not see a new era is dawning that man is developing society passing into a new phase d has come to stay because it b informed more and more men are thinking more and more men are learning to think but they will not be awe to upset the established order there is no order it is always upset in time ther for good or ih it never for change is the law generally for ill content is lost generally for good flashed the content you speak of is and death when a man ceases to move to change he changes most he dies is the law that for the universal good all growth you alter it he ceased and i took my leave that somehow he had grown away from me by ic the conflict s book was never finished when he got well it was laid aside for more imperative work the misery in the city had increased till it threatened the overthrow of everything it was necessary to do his part to the wretchedness for his word was a charm in the foreign district where disturbance was most to be feared he was the most talked of man in the city he worked night and day for a little time it looked as though the efforts of the peace makers among whom were conspicuous in the poor section of the town john marvel and to bring about a better and condition were going to be successful the men began to return to work the cars were once more being though under heavy police protection having had it made clear to him by his former friends like and others that he must act or take the consequences evening not long afterward under of an impulse to go and see how my poor woman and little were coming on and possibly not without some thought of who had her the last time i was there i walked over to that part of the town i took along or he took himself for by john marvel assistant he was my inseparable companion these days had been there but she had gone to the old s to see who was ill and had	46
taken with her the mother said the child was afraid to go out on the street now and miss thought it would do her good the poor woman s pitiful face haunted me as i turned down the street the men were returning to work the effect of the strike was still apparent all through this section of the town the streets were full of especially about the bar and their surly looks and air to the general feeling of all the of men that i have ever seen the most painful is that of men on a strike they are a hope in most there is enthusiasm spirit resolve something that beams forth with hope and most of these in striking men yet hope is absent in other her radiant wings light up their faces in strikes it seems to me that the sombre shadow of care is present in this strike had been one of the most interested while he thought it unwise to strike he the men s right to strike and to but not to employ violence it was passive resistance that he preached and he the death of as much as i did or john marvel only he charged it to and and even more to the of a society which their operations this strike had succeeded to the it of causing great loss to and said of by the conflict ing mr but had failed so far as the men were concerned and it was known that it had failed its only fruit for the working people was misery the only persons who had by it were men like mc and i held strong opinions about the rights of men in the abstract under the influence of john and s lives and the yet more potent influence of i had come to realize the beauty of self sacrifice even if i had not yet risen to the of its practice but the difficulties which i saw in the application of our theories and my experience that night at the meeting followed by the death of ha d f old associates like i could not but see that out of the movements as believed for the general good of the working classes the real were become mere tools and those who were of tongue forward in speech and selfish and shrewd in method like and used them and by them while the rest of the community were ground between the upper and the even with his pure motives had proved but an instrument in their hands to further their designs their influence was still at work and imder orders from these many poor men with families still stood idle with aims often as and as lofty as ever or enduring hardship and with the truest and most heroic courage whilst their leaders like who had been idle by ic john marvel assistant during the time of prosperity now rose on the of the commotion they had created and into importance the courses through upper egypt bearing its flood to the lower lands but the desert and hangs its lips over the very brink i determined to go and inquire after myself so with at my i passed through the fore streets crowded with the same dark elements i had observed before only now lowering and threatening as a about to break and walked over toward the little street in which the lived and presently i fell m with who appeared to have business in that direction under the ss i should have been glad to escape from him but as he joined me i could not do so and we walked along together he looked worn and appeared to be rather gloomy which i set down to his disappointment at the turn affairs connected with the strike had taken i learned from him that the influence of there was danger of a renewal of that his at had and he had at a meeting which he had attended where he had measures been down there was danger he said of the whole trouble breaking out again and if so the sympathy of the public would now be on the other side thinking more of the girl i was in pursuit of than of else and having in mind the announcement of mr s losses and reported embarrassment i expressed myself if struck by the conflict again they all th got tbey deserved to fail fox following such leaders as and to listen to their friends oh no they are just that is all they don t know give them give them time weu oh t get that s not the way to work stand fast go and see john marvel and get new him see how he i am in love i said suddenly he smiled i afterward sadly you are there was that in bis tone which i me i thought he was in love too but i y hi are and you don t know what it is so it is for you he turned on me almost with a flame in eyes not i you don t dream what it is to be in love you cannot you are incapable he at hia heart the whole truth swept over me like a flood why have you i could not go on but he understood me because i am a his c with deep a jew suppose you are she is not one to that he on me by john assistant do you think do you imagine i mean i would not myself i could never never allow myself it is impossible for me i gazed on him with he was transformed the pride of race the agony and subdued of centuries in him i saw for the first time the spirit of the chosen people in bondage yet arisen with power to call do	46
vm from heaven i stood abashed abashed i my selfish blindness through all my association with how often i had driven the iron into his soul with my arm over his shoulder i stammered something of my remorse and he suddenly seized my han j and wrung it in speechless friendship as we turned into a street not far from the l i s we found ahead of us quite a gathering and il was blue grim looking or anxious were standing about in and looking men were at the it was a strike i was surprised i even doubted if it could be that but my doubt was soon at that moment a car came a comer a few blocks away and turned into the street toward us there was a movement in a group near me a shout went up from one of them and in a second the street was that dark throng through which we had passed poured in like a torrent a exploded a half block away throwing up dirt and with a cry god of sprang forward but i lost him in the throng i found by the conflict borne toward the car like a on a fierce flood the next instant i was a part of the current and was struggling like a demon on the platform were a driver and two the i recognized as as i was borne near the car i saw that in it among others were an old man a woman and a child and as i reached the car i i know not how all three they were the old and the little girl i thought i caught the eye of the young lady but it may have been fancy for the air was full of the glass was crashing and the sound of the mob was at any rate i saw her plainly she had gathered up the scared child in her arms and with white face but blazing eyes was her from the flying stones and glass i was one of the first men on the car and made my way into it throwing men right and left as i entered it i shall never forget the look that came into her eyes as she saw me she rose with a and stretching out her hands pushed the child into my arms with a single word save her it was like an it gave me ten times the strength i had before the car was blocked and we descended from it i in front protecting her and fought our way through the mob to the outskirts the old a of and myself i with the child by the hand to keep her near the ground and less exposed and the old us both and roaring like a lion it was a warm ten minutes the air was black with stones and by john marvel assistant the crowd seemed to gone mad and were uke tbe presence of ft and child had no effect cm them bat to thej were mad with the y of but at last we got thou i was tom and they w after the and the latter had escaped into a and the ik or was shut but mob was not to be and windows were in uke paper the mob poured m and for its up stairs and down like t m a after a rat for him he had escaped out ike back way they the shop and then turned bade to for another m as we near old s house we took e there and when in that place of safety i returned to tbe scene of conflict i had caught sight of faces m the crowd that roused me beyond measure and i went back to fight i i had had a pistol that day i should certainly hare committed murder i had seen urging ihe mob on and ring it just as i stepped the oar with the to her and h and wi the old and raging at my side trying to us all and oaths in two languages my eye reached across the and i had caught of s end s heads the crowd on die edge of the mob where it was safe worn his mask the o er s was wicked with satisfaction and he was laughing a desire to kill by the conflict my if i had not bad mj charges to i have made my way to him ih oi i came b for now when i the fi t had s were being and sort of y were being into the street by drivers who with the to the of order the ai at last and in deadly earnest had in order and under their the mob was giving way only at one point they were a stand it was the comer where had stood and i made toward it as i did so the and a group stamped it self in my in the line of the mob tall and flaming and with flying swinging arms and wide open mouth by turns trying to the w d mob by turns cursing and a group of who with flying clubs and drawn pistols were and driving them slowly was trying to make heard beyond these away at the far edge of the mob the face of his silk hat over his eyes as i gazed at him he became deadly pale and then turned as if to get away but the crowd held him fast i was making toward him when a figure taller than his in between us pushing his way toward him he was fighting r his life his head was bare and his face was bleeding his back was to me but i recognized the head and of it was this sight that drove the blood from s	46
face and by john marvel assistant well it might for the throng was being parted by the young as water is parted by a there was a pistol shot then i saw the s arm lifted with the in his hand and the next second s head went down the cry that went up and the of the crowd told me what had happened but i had no time to act for at this moment i saw a half dozen men in the mob fall upon who with bleeding face was still trying to hold them back and he disappeared in the rush i shouted to some officers by me are killing a man there and together we made our way through the crowd toward the spot it was as i supposed the adventurer was down the young had hb account with him he was unconscious but he was still breathing too was stretched on the ground battered almost beyond recognition john marvel hb own face bruised and bleeding was on his knees beside him supporting hb head and the police were beating the crowd back as i drew near half rose don t beat them they don t know he sank back the yoimg with a bullet through hb clothes was already on the side of tiie street making hb way out through the crowd s and s fall and the tremendous rush made by the police caused the mob to give way finally and were driven from tiie spot leaving a half dozen and drunken leaders in the hands of the police was taken up and was carried to a hospital and john marvel lifted in hb arms just as by the conflict he was lifted a stone struck me on the head and i went down and knew no more when i came to i was in a hospital john marvel was sitting beside me his placid eyes looking down into mine with that mingled serenity and kindness which gave such strength to others i think they helped me to live as they had helped so many other poor to die i was conscious only for a moment and then went off into an illness which lasted a long time before i really knew anything but i took him with me into that misty border land where i wandered so many weeks before returning to life and when i ed from it again there he sat as before serene confident and inspiring he wore a mourning band on his sleeve where is was the first thing i asked he is all in good hands it was a long time before i could be talked to much but when i was strong enough he told me many things that had taken place the strike was broken up its end was sad enough as the end of all strikes is was killed in the final rush of the riot in which i was hurt and so perished all hb high aims and unselfish methods his father had come on and taken his body home a remarkable old man said john he was proud of but could not get over the loss of the great merchant he would have been had recovered and had been discharged from the hospital and had just married s daughter she would have him said john had disappeared on the of the strike by john assistant it had i found that he had sold out to and the companies and furnished he had now marvel did not know where t n i saw t he had been afraid to stay longer ere so many men were who had lost their through him it is always the way the innocent suffer and the guilty escape i murmured i felt marvel s hand gently placed my lips but it must be right he said god moves in a mysterious way les wonders to perform i was bitter for i was still of and the doctors me that a part o an inch more and a friend a mine would have known anything again said down at me with sorrowful kind eyes under this argument ad i was if not convinced we are always ready to providence in our especial i started another who been in the riot but i could frame the question i saw that marvel knew what i wished i learned afterward that i had talked of her constantly during my d she well he told me she had not been hurt nor had the or old e had left the pity her father was involved now in a great t the object by the conflict of which marvel did not know and she had gone away where has she gone he did not answer and i took it for granted that he did not know if i had been you i would have found out where she went to i said he took no notice of this he only smiled he did not say so but i thought from his manner that she had gone abroad he had had a note from her saying that she would be away a long time and him a generous contribution for his poor she is an angel he said of course she is though he spoke reverently i was almost angry with him for thinking it necessary to say it at all yes but you do not know how good she is none but god knows how good some women are one or two other pieces of news he told me the old and his wife had gone oflf too but only on a visit to and had been married and were living in another state i saw that he still had something else to tell and finally it came out as soon as i was able i must go away for a while i needed change and rest and he knew the very place	46
for me away oflf in the country you appear to be anxious to the city i said he only smiled i am going to send you to the country he said with calm decision by john marvel assistant when you come back i have made all the arrangements i am going to find i will find her if the world holds her yes to be sure he smiled he was so strong that i yielded i learned that a good offer was waiting for me to go into the law office of one of the large when i should be well enough to work in a capacity which would have termed that of a minor but it was coupled with the condition that i should get well first my speech at the meeting when i and my part in the had become known and friends had interested themselves in my behalf so john marvel reported and as he appeared to be managing things i assumed that he had done this too i never fully knew until after his death how truly was one of the i often think of him with his high aim to better the whole human race inspired by a passion for his own people to extend his to all mankind cast out by those he labored for denying that he was a christian and yet dying a christian death in the act of for those who him i owe him a great debt for teaching me many things but chiefly for the knowledge that the future of the race rests on the whole people and its process depends on each one however he may love his own working to the death for all he opened my eyes by the conflict to the fact that every man who to the common good of mankind is one of the chosen people and that the law is to do good to mankind i discovered that john marvel knew he was in love with though how he knew it i never learned he never told her he said but died with it locked in his heart as was best he added after a pause and then he looked out of the window and as he did not say anything from which i could judge whether he knew why never told his love i did not tell what i knew it may have been the slowly fading light which made his face so sad i remember that a long silence fell between us and it came over me with a new force how much more both these men had loved than i and how much nobler both had always been the living and the dead and i began with myself to say something which i felt i ought to say but had not courage enough presently john said very slowly almost as if he were speaking to himself i believe if you keep on she will marry you and i believe you will help each other i know she will help you his arm was resting on the table i over and laid my hand on his arm i once thought it certain i should win her i am far from sure that i shall now i am not worthy of her but i shall try to be you alone john of all the men i know are i cannot give her up but it is only honest to tell you that i have less hope than i had by john marvel assistant he turned to me with a sad little smile on his face and shook his head i would not give her up if i were you you are not good enough for her but no one is and you will grow better for the first time i almost thought him handsome you are old man no i am not i have my work to do it is useless to talk to you keep on he picked up a paper and began to read and i observed for die first time that he had taken off his glasses i made some remark on it yes my sight is getting better i can see the stars now he said smiling john you have long seen the stars i said so as soon as i could travel john marvel sent me off sent me to a where he had lived in his first a place far from the a country of woods and rolling fields and running streams the real country where blossoms and birds sing and waters murmur they are the best people in the world he said and they were they accepted me on his word mr marvel had sent me and that was enough his word was a in all that region they did not know who the queen of england was and were scarcely sure as to the president of the united states but they knew john marvel and because i had come from him they treated me like a prince and this was the man i had had the folly to look down by the conflict in that quiet place i seemed to have content in that land of peace the strife of the city the noise and turmoil and horror of the strike seemed but as the of waves breaking on some far off shore i began to new life with the first breath of the air the day after i arrived i borrowed the that belonged to my host and down the little river that skirted his place with the idea of fishing in a pool he had told me of the afternoon was so soft and that i forgot my sport and simply drifted with the current under the overhanging branches of and when turning a bend in the stream i came on a boat floating in a placid pool in it were	46
a young lady and a little girl and who but his head held high his twisted ears pointed straight up stream and his whole body and quivering with excitement it was a moment before i could quite take it in and i felt for a second as if i were dreaming yet there was under the her small white hand resting on the side of the boat her face than ever and her voice making music in my ears with those low sincere tones that i had never forgotten and which made it the most beautiful in the world i must have carried my soul in my eyes that moment for the color sprang to her cheeks and i saw a look in hers i had never seen there before well this is fate i said as the current bore my boat against hers and it lay locked against it in that pool by john marvel assistant would mr marvel have called it so she asked her eyes upon me with a softer look in them than they had ever given me no he would have said providence i am sure it was on that stream that foimd retreat in that sweet air freed from any anxieties except to please her whose pleasure had become the sun of my life i drank in health day by day and hour by hour my was only a half or so across the fields to the home of s old cousins with whom she was staying and only the f owed that path so as i it was the same place where die had first met john and she was even interested in my law and actually list with ce to details of livery of and other t not that she yet consented to many me this was a theme she had a g for however i knew i should win her only one thing troubled me as often as i touched on my future plans and spoke of the happiness i should have in her of the of a teacher s life she used to smile and contest it it was one of the of her life she said to teach that school but for it i would never have put out her fire for her that morning was ever such ingratitude of i would not admit this no providence was on my side and i took out my aiid showed them to her telling her their they still retained a faint fragrance and the smile she by i am sure it was on that stream that found retreat by by the conflict gave was enough to make them fresh again but i too was friendly to the school how could i be otherwise for she told me one day that the first time she liked me was when i was sitting by the holding the little dirty child in my arms with between my feet and i had been ashamed to be seen by her i i only feared that she might take it into her head still to keep the school and i now knew that what she into her little head to be her duty she would perform by the way you might take lessons in making up the fire she suggested i received quite a shock a few days later when i found in my mail a letter from the miss telling me of their delight on learning of my recovery and mentioning incidentally the fact which they felt sure i would be glad to know that they had settled all of their affairs in a manner entirely satisfactory to them as mr had very generously come forward at a time when it was supposed that i was injured and had offered to make to them and pay out of his own pocket not only all of the expenses which they had incurred about the matter but had actually paid them three thousand dollars over and above these expenses a sum which had enabled them to pay dear mrs all they owed her they felt sure that i would approve of the settlement because mr s had been a life long friend of mine and in some sort he said my former law partner as we had lived for years in adjoining they had signed all the papers he had presented and were glad to by ic john marvel assistant know that he was entirely satisfied and now they hoped that i would let them know what they owed me in order that they might settle at least that part of their debt but tar the rest they would always owe me a debt of gratitude and they prayed god for my speedy recovery and happiness and they felt sure mr would rejoice also to know that i was doing so well and he had them a fee for hb services i it was now approaching the autumn and i was to get back to work i knew now that success was before me it might be a long road but i was on it john marvel in reply to an inquiry wrote that the place was still waiting for me in the office he had mentioned though he did not state what it was how stupid he is i i complained only laughed she did not think him stupid at all and certainly she did not think i should do so in fact she considered him one of the most sensible men she ever knew why he could not have done more to keep me in ignorance if he had tried i and she only laughed the more i believe you are jealous of him her eyes were dancing in an way they had i was consumed with jealousy of everybody but i would never admit it jealous of john marvel i nonsense i but i believe you were you liked him very much by the conflict	46
used to tell their readers who had followed them long enough to become their friends what in the became of all the principal characters and this custom i feel inclined to follow because it appears to me to show that the is in some sort the reflection of life as it is and not as or reader would make it fate may follow all men but not in the form in which every reader would have it fall it might have satisfied one s ideas of justice if i could have told how in prison the reward of his long hidden crimes and the adventurer and degraded was driven out from among the wealthy whom he so cultivated but this would not have been true to the facts moved into the great house which he had bought with his ill gained wealth to gratify his daughter s ambition and lived for many years to outward seeming a more or less respectable man gave reasonably where he thought it would pay from the money of which he had robbed others and doubtless endeavored to forget his past as he endeavored to make others forget it but that past was linked to him by bands which by john marvel assistant no effort could ever break and though he secured the of those whom he could buy with his gaudy he could never secure the recognition of any worthy man in his desperate hope to become respectable he broke with many of his old friends and with all whom he could escape from but he could not escape from one however he strove to break with him himself chained to him by a bond he could not break was the body of his past it is the curse of men like him that those he to make his friends are the element who will have none of him thus like he ever to roll the stone to the hill and like he ever to reach the water flowing below his lips though he had escaped the l al punishment of his crimes his was that he lived in constant dread of the detection which appeared ever to dog his footsteps the last measure in the bitter cup which he had filled with his own hand came from his daughter who now called herself finding that notwithstanding her title and large establishment she was excluded from that set to which she had been admitted while she had youth and and the spirits of a not to mention the blindness of that age to things which experience sees clearly enough she conceived the idea that it was her father s presence in her home which closed to her the doors of those houses where she to be intimate the idea though it had long had a in her mind had been by the curtain by having to make her choice between her father and her social aspirations she decided promptly the scene which occurred was one which neither nor his daughter could ever forget in the moved out and took quarters in a hotel where he gradually sank into the of a lonely of his power feared only by those he despised detested by those he admired and haunted by the fear of those he hated in some sort in possession of the field but though s daughter had been able to banish her father from his own home she could not escape from her husband whose vices if apparently less criminal than s were not less black his capacity for spending money was something she had never dreamed of and like the horse s daughter he continually called for more until after a furious scene his wife e to her power and already half suddenly shut her purse as her heart had been long shut against him and bade him go from this time her power over him was greater than it had ever been before but unless them desperately they lived a life of cat and dog with all that it implied until finally was driven out and after hanging about for a few years died as i learned while his wife was off in europe continued to outward appearance a prosperous lawyer his economy enabled him to preserve the appearance of prosperity but no lawyer of standing ever spoke of him a shrug of by john marvel assistant der or a lift of the dealt somewhat freely with his domestic affairs but i never knew the facts and is often as great a liar almost as i had said as but that would be impossible my last personal experience of him was in the case of mr s suit to keep control of his railway in the final suit the out of all matters connected with the attempt of the and their set to get control of this property i was retained as counsel along with my mr and other counsel representing mr s and his associates interest appeared in the case as one of the representatives of a small allied interest held by his father in law mr which as turned out on the final decision of the cause had no value whatever this having been decided who was not without energy at least where money was concerned brought forward a claim for compensation to be allowed him out of the fund and when this also was decided against him he sought and secured a conference with our counsel at which i was present the which he set forth was based upon an claim as he termed it to compensation for expenses and professional services expended imder color of title and if the facts he stated had been so he might have been entitled to some allowance i had myself that his claims were without a shadow of yet he had the nerve when he concluded his argument or rather his personal appeal to our counsel to turn to me	46
m and also to an act entitled an act u entitled an act for the encouragement of learning by si copies of maps and books to the authors and j of such copies during the times therein mentioned and benefits thereof to the arts of an historical and other prints charles clerk of the district of u lit or i i to thi new york historical society this work is respectfully an humble and unworthy testimony of j the profound veneration and exalted esteem tf the society s sincere well and devoted servant account of the author it was sometime if i recollect right in the part of the fall of that a stranger for lodgings at the independent hotel in street of which i am landlord he was a small brisk looking old gentleman dressed in a rusty black coat a pair of breeches and a small cocked hat he a few grey hairs and behind md his beard seemed to be of some eight and hours growth the only piece of finery which he bore about him was a bright pair of silver shoe and all his baggage contained in a pair of saddle bags which he under his arm his whole appearance something out of the common run and my tile who is a very shrewd body at once set him town for some eminent country as the independent hotel is a very house i was a little puzzled at first where to pot him but my wife who seemed taken with his looks would needs put him in her best which is set off with the of the whole family done in black by those vol i ii account op great painters and wood and a very pleasant view of the new grounds on tl collect together with the rear of the poor and and the full front of the hospital so that it is the room in the who house during the whole time that he stayed with u we found him a very worthy good sort of an ol gentleman though a little queer in his ways h would keep in his room for days together and i any of the children cried or made a noise his door he would out in a great with his hands full of papers and say about his ideas which made m wife believe sometimes that he was not indeed there was more than one to make her think so for his room was covered with scraps of paper and old books laying about at and which he never let any body touch for he said he had them all away in their proper places so that h might know where to find them though for tha matter he was half his time worrying about th house in search of some book or writing which h had carefully put out of the way i shall forget what a he once made because m wife cleaned out his room when his back wa turned and put every thing to rights for hi swore he would never be able to get his papers ii order again in a upon this my the hi ventured to ask him what be did with so many hooks and papers and he told her that he was seeking for immortality which made her think more than ever that the poor old gentleman s head was a little cracked he was a very inquisitive body and when not in his room was continually about town fearing all the news and into every thing that was going on this was particularly the ease about election time when he did nothing but bustle about from to attending all ward meetings and committee rooms though i could never find that he took part with either side of the question on the contrary he would come home and rail at loth parties with great wrath and plainly proved one day to the satisfaction of my wife and three old ladies who were drinking tea with her that the two parties were like two each at a skirt of the nation and that in the end they would tear the very coat off its back and expose its indeed he was an among the neighbours who would collect him to hear him talk of an afternoon as he his pipe on the bench before the door and i really believe he would have brought over the whole neighbourhood to his own side of the question if they could ever have found out what it was he was very much given to argue or as he it about the mo t iv o matter and to do him justice i never knew an body that was a match for except it was grave looking gentleman who called now and the to see him and often posed him in an but this is nothing surprising as i have found out this stranger is the city am of course must be a man of great learning m t have my doubts if he had not some hand i the following history as our had been a long time with m and we never received any pay my wife be to be somewhat uneasy and curious to fin put who and what he was she accordingly mad bold to put the question to his friend the who replied in his dry way that he was on of the which she supposed to mean new party in politics i scorn to push a lodge for his pay so i let day after day pass on with out the old gentleman for a but my wife who always takes these matters oi herself and is as i said a shrewd kind of woman at last got out of patience and hinted that she thought it high time some people have a sight of some people s money to the old gentleman	48
a considerable good will for nay he even once went so for as to and that openly too and at his own just after dinner that a very well meaning sort of an old gentle and no fool from all which many led to suppose that had our author f different politics and written for the instead of wasting his w x account histories he might have risen to some post honour and profit to be a note public or even a justice in the ten pound beside the honours and already he was much by the j particularly mr john cook who e him very at his library and reading room where they used drink water and talk about the he found mr cook a man after his own heart of great literary and a curious tor of books at parting the latter in tes of friendship made him a present of t two eldest works in bis collection which we the earliest edition of the and s famous account the new by the last of which w greatly in this his edition having passed some time very agreeably our author proceeded to where it is but justice to say he was with open arms and treated with loving kindness he was much looked up to the family being the first historian of the and was considered almost as great a man as cousin the man with whom by t bye he became perfectly reconciled and c a strong friendship the xi id spite however of the kindness of his and their great attention to his comforts ut the old gentleman soon became restless and discontented his history being published he had pa longer any business to occupy his thoughts or my scheme to excite his hopes and to a busy mind like his was a truly de situation and had he not been a man on tf morals and regular habits there t l would have been great danger of his taking to let politics or drinking both which si we daily see men driven to by mere idleness it is true he sometimes employed himself in preparing a second edition of his history wherein endeavoured to correct and improve many passages with which he was dissatisfied and to some mistakes that had crept into it for he was particularly anxious that his work should e noted for its which indeed is j tie very life and soul of history but the glow if composition had departed he had to leave any untouched which he would fain have altered and even where he did make alterations he seemed always in doubt whether they were for the better or the worse after a residence of sometime at lie began to feel a strong desire to return to new which he ever regarded with the warmest not merely because it was liis u en si account city but because be considered it the re best city in the whole world on his return entered into the full enjoyment of the of a literary reputation he was continually ft to write ban bills and productions of similar import and i though he never with the public papers j had he the credit of writing innumerable and smart things that appeared on all subject and all sides of the question in all which he w detected by his style he contracted moreover a considerable de at the post office in consequence of the letters he received from authors and bis he was applied to every charitable society for yearly which he gave very cheerfully considering as so many compliments he once invited to a great dinner an was even twice summoned to attend as a jury ma at the court of quarter indeed so r did he become that he could no long about as formerly in all holes and of the city according to the bent of his unnoticed and but several tin when he has been the streets on h usual of observation equipped with h and cocked hat the little boys at play hai been known to cry there goes i i i the author xiii the old gentleman seemed not a little j looking upon these in the a j light of the praises of posterity a if we consideration all ad j honours and distinctions together l all an passed on him in the with which we arc told the old a r j was so much overpowered that he j sick for two or three days it must be con i that few authors have ever lived to receive illustrious rewards or have so completely i enjoyed in advance their own immortality after his return from mr i took up his residence at a little rural i retreat which the had granted him j on the family domain in gratitude for his honor able mention of their it was pleasantly j situated on the borders of one of the salt beyond s hook subject indeed to be occasionally and much in the su time with but otherwise very agreeable producing abundant crops of salt grass and bull rushes here we are sorry to say the good old gentleman fell ill of a fever occasioned by the neighbouring when he found his end approaching he disposed of his worldly affairs leaving the bulk of his fortune to the new york historical society vol i xiv account of c and s work ho city library and his saddle bags to mr b aside he forgave all his that say all that bore any enmity towards him f to himself he declared he died in good will the world and after several messages to his relations at as as to certain of our most substantial dutch he expired in the arms of his his remains were according to own request in st mark s	48
churchyard by the bones of his favourite hero peter and it is that the society have it in mind to erect a wooden m ment to his memory in the to the public to rescue from oblivion the memory of for incidents and to render a just tribute of u renown to the many great and wonderful actions of our dutch native of the city of new york produces this historical essay like the great father of history whose words i have just quoted i treat of times long past over which the twilight of uncertainty had already thrown its shadows and the night of forgetfulness was about to descend forever with great solicitude had i long beheld the early history of this venerable and ancient city gradually slipping from our grasp trembling on the lips of narrative old age and day by day dropping piece meal into the tomb in a little while thought i and those reverend dutch who serve as the tottering monuments of good old times will be gathered to their fathers s preface their children engrossed by the empty p insignificant transactions of the neglect to treasure up and posterity shall search in vain for of the days of the the o will be buried in eternal oblivion a names and achievements of v william and peter ed in doubt and fiction like those of r of king and of determined therefore to if p threatened misfortune i to work to gather together all the fi our infant history which still existed i where no could be found i have the chain of history by well au traditions in this undertaking the whole business of a long and incredible the number of learned consulted and all to but little as it may seem though such multitude lent works have been written about th there are none which give any account of the early york or of its three first dutch govern however gained much valuable and ci from an elaborate manuscript written in pure and classic dutch excepting a few in which was found in the lives of the family many legends rs and other documents have i likewise my among the family and her of our respectable dutch citizens i have gathered a host of well lit from divers excellent old ladies of my who requested that their names ht not be mentioned nor must i neglect to how greatly i have been assisted by admirable and institution the v york historical society to which i publicly return my sincere i the conduct of this work i e adopted no individual model but on the simply contented myself with the of the most ancient like i e maintained the utmost and the to truth throughout my history ve enriched it after the manner of with characters of ancient drawn at length and faithfully coloured i have profound political speculations like it with with the graces of like and into the whole the the grandeur and magnificence of xv preface i am aware that i shall the censure of very learned and judicious critics for in too frequently in the bold man ner of my favourite and to be candid i found it impossible always to resist the ments of those pleasing which like flow ery banks and fragrant beset the dusty road of the historian and him to turn aside and refresh himself from his but i trust it will be found that i have always resumed my staff and addressed myself to my weary journey with spirits so that both my readers and myself have been by the indeed though it has been my constant wish and uniform endeavour to rival himself in observing the requisite unity of history yet the loose and manner in which many of m the facts recorded have come to hand such an attempt extremely difficult this difficulty was likewise increased by one of the grand objects contemplated in my work which was to trace the rise of sundry customs and in in this best of and to compare them when in the of infancy with what they are in the present old age of knowledge and improvement but the chief merit on which i value my self and found my hopes for future regard is that la six with which i have this invaluable little work care fully away the the of and tbe fable which are too apt to spring up and choke the seeds of truth and wholesome knowledge had i been anxious to the superficial throng who like over the surface of literature or had i been anxious to commend my writings to the of literary i might have availed myself of the obscurity that the infant years of our city to introduce a thousand pleasing but i have discarded many a tale and marvellous adventure whereby the drowsy ear of summer might be jealousy maintaining that fidelity gravity and dignity which should ever distinguish the historian for a writer of this class an elegant critic must sustain the character of a wise man writing for the instruction of posterity one who has studied to inform himself well who has pondered his subject with care and addresses himself to our judgment rather than to our imagination thrice happy therefore is this our renowned city in having incidents worthy of swelling the theme of history and doubly thrice happy is it in such a historian as myself to relate them for after all gentle reader cities of themselves ix preface and id fact of themselves are without historian it is the patient who records their prosperity as they forth the splendour of their me who their feeble as the to decay who together their seal fragments as they rot and who d length their ashes into the j his work and a monument u their renown to all succeeding ages what has been the fate of many	48
us moreover that an earth has before the which he sir w ind f ot rot fr vol i of as a mere chicken of years that it has divers and that according to opinion of well informed of his it will be every fl each confiding years these are a few of the many contradictory of concerning the earth and we find the learned have had equal perplexity as to the ture of the fun some of the ancient have affirmed that it is a wheel of brilliant fi others that it is merely a mirror or of rent and a third at the head of maintained that it was not but a huge of iron or tone declared the heavens to be merely a vault of ft and that the were whirled upwards f the earth and on fire by the of its n but i give little attention to the of this the people of having i them by him from their mode of unwelcome doctrines n to in former days another feet of do declare that certain fiery ex from the earth which de ii cap f cap ap u iii p i p de j ii sec t i de iv p l new york point of the by day the tin but being battered and rambling about in the at night collect in various points and form are regularly burnt out and extinguished not unlike to the lamps in our and require a fresh of for the next it is even recorded that at certain remote and periods in of a great of the fun has been completely burnt out and sometimes not for a month at a time a lance the very idea of which gave concern to that worthy weeping of antiquity in addition to various it was the opinion of that the a magnificent abode the light it from certain luminous or clouds in its f but we will not enter further at into the nature of the fun that being an inquiry not immediately to the of this neither will we in any more of the of touching the form of this globe but content ourselves with the theory advanced in the beginning of this chapter and will pro i ii e sec i i p t i p c t os p j p n ch v i p l q history op i to by experiment the ol motion therein to this our planet i professor von or as name may be rendered into english was long a in the f of for gravity of and his talent at going to in the of to the infinite relief his hopeful who thereby worked their wa i through college with great and little the of one of his lectures the learned pro i a bucket of water it round hit head at arm s length the with which threw the from him being a the of his arm as a power and the bucket which was a foe die earth describing a circular round about the head and of von which formed no bad of the fun all of particulars were duly explained to the of gaping around him he them moreover that the fame principle of which retained the water in the bucket the ocean from flying from the earth in its rapid and he further informed them that should the motion of the earth be checked it would fall into the fun through the force of a event to this planet and one which would though it probably would not the an unlucky one of int who into the ly to annoy worthy men of the of the of the arm of the t the moment that the bucket was in which immediately with upon the head of the of youth a hollow found and a red hot oft attended die contact but the theory w s in the manner for the unfortunate bucket in the conflict but the blazing countenance of von emerged from die waters glowing than ever with unutterable indignation whereby the were and departed before it is a which greatly many a pains taking that nature often his profound and elaborate efforts fo that often after having invented one of the ingenious and natural theories imaginable ihe will have the to act directly in the teeth of his and contradict his favourite this is a am grievance it throws the of the vulgar and entirely upon the whereas the fault is not to be to us theory which is correct but s history of the of dame nature who with the of her is continually in and and really to t in all rules and the learned and of her thus it happened with to the foregoing fi factory explanation of the motion of our planet appears that the force has long fi to operate while its remains in the world therefore accord to the theory as it originally ought in j to tumble into the were c that it would do fo and awaited in impatience the fulfilment of their the planet continued that he had and a whole of learned to her conduct the took in very ill part and it is thought they would m have the flight and which they put upon them by the world had not a g natured kindly as a the parties and effected a reconciliation finding die world would not accommodate i to the theory he determined to the theory to the world he therefore informed brother that the circular motion the earth round the fun was no by the above t k became a regular revolution independent of the which gave it origin his learned brethren joined in the opinion being heartily glad of any explanation that would decently then from their and ever that me notable era the world has been left to take her	48
own and to around the fun in as thinks proper ot chap ii or creation of the world with multitude of excellent theories which creation of a world is to be no s d difficult matter as common folks would mm having thus briefly introduced my to tin world and given him idea of its form and ft he will naturally be curious to know whence it came and how it was created and indeed the clearing up of points is to my in as much as if this work had not been formed it is more than probable thai this renowned on which is the city oi new york would never have had an the regular of my therefore requires thai i to notice the or of our globe and now i give my readers fair warning that am about to plunge for a chapter or two into ai complete a as ever was ed withal therefore i them to take fail hold of my and keep at my heels venturing neither to the right hand nor to the left left they in a of unintelligible learning have their brains knocked out by of hard y greek names which will be flying about in all but should any of them be too indolent or n hearted to accompany me in this perilous g they had better take a cut round wait for me at the beginning of of the creation of the world we have a accounts and though a very is us by divine revelation yet feels in honour bound us with as an impartial i it my duty to notice their by which mankind have been fo exceedingly and it was the opinion of certain ancient fat die earth and the whole of the deity a doctrine by and the whole tribe of as by and the feet of the of the and kid and by means of his the formation of the world the of nature ad die principles both of and morals f other to the of ap i cap f i c de c i m ar p f history of and the the and the the the the and the while others the great theory which the oi our globe and all that it contains to the of four material elements air earth fire and ware with the of a fifth an and principle nor i omit to mention the great taught by old before the of revived by of laughing memory im proved by that wing of good fellows and mo by the fanciful but i inquiring whether the of which the earth i to be are eternal or recent they are or whether agreeably t the opinion of the they were or as the maintain were arrange by a intelligence whether in fact the be an or whether it be animated by foul which opinion was maintained by of at the head of whom lands th great that temperate who threw the col water of on the the form of tim ap t p f cap cap de i cap i p so in r i cap tim de o da des u p et al new york and the doctrine of refined intercourse but much better to the ideal inhabitants of his imaginary than to the race of blood which the little f fact we s we have moreover the of old who the whole in the regular mode of and the opinion of others that the earth was great egg of night which floated in chaos cracked by the of the bull rate this lad doctrine in his theory f has favoured us with an accurate both of the form and texture of which is found to bear a marvel to that of a such of my is take a proper in the origin of this let will be to learn that i of antiquity among the as and have at the of this bird and that have been caught and continued in tones from to her unto the day while briefly noticing long celebrated nt let me not over with neglect f book i ch js history of other which though and renowned have equal claims to and equal chance for thus it is record by the in the pages of their shaft that the angel into great plunged into the watery and up the earth on his then from him mighty and a mighty and placed the erect upon the back of the and he placed the upon the head of the the negro philosophers of affirm that t world was made by the hands of angels their own country which the supreme being that it might be and he took great pains with the inhabitants and mat them very black and beautiful and when he hi the man he was well with hill and him over the face and hence his no and the of all his descendants became flat the tell us that a woman fell down from heaven and that a took her upon its back every place was core ad with water and that the woman fitting the with her hands in the and up the earth whence it finally happened thi die earth became higher than the water f philosophy f account of or mi y k i forbear to quote a move of an and deplorable in of all their compelled write in languages which but few of my readers and i proceed briefly to notice intelligible and theories of their n i hall mention the great who that this globe was originally a globe of fire from the body of the fun by of a as is by of flint and that at it was fur d by which and in of time according to earth water and air which gradually ed according to their the burning or that formed ton	48
wandering that celebrated fleet which africa or by thai expedition which the forms us the or w it was by a temporary colony from ty hinted by and i whether it was by the ci as with great advances n the in under nor b hem the german as mr has t to prove to the s of die learned c philadelphia nor i investigate the more modern the founded on the voyage of prince ft in the century who having never that he have to a that for a plain if he fit not go w fe e fe could he have gone out all laying e all the above with a of others equally k i hall take f the vulgar opinion art was the th of october by a g who hat ken but for what i cannot of the and of this t hall ay nothing that they ate already known nor i undertake to prove that this country have been called after his name that being evident having thus happily got my readers this of the atlantic i picture to all impatience to enter upon the enjoyment of the land of and in full expectation that i will immediately deliver it into their but if i do may i ever the reputation of a regular bred no no curious and thrice learned readers for thrice learned ye are if ye have read all that has gone before and nine times learned hall ye be if ye read that comes after we have yet a world of work us think you the of this fair quarter of the globe had nothing to do but go on vol i and find a country read laid out and cultivated like a garden wherein they might ve i at t h e j r ea f e j no thing they had to cut wn to up to drain and fe to in like manner i have doubts to clear away to and to explain before i permit you to range at random but difficulties once overcome we hall be enabled to on right merrily through the of our thus my work hall in a manner echo the nature of the in the fame manner as the found of poetry has been found by certain critics to echo the this being an improvement in which i the merit of having invented i chap iv showing the great difficulty philosophers have had in america and how the r came to be by accident to the great re and satisfaction of the author the next inquiry at which we arrive in the regular of our is to if how this country was originally peopled a point fruitful of incredible for we prove that the did come from where it will be immediately in this age of that they did not come at all and if they did not come at all then was this country never po a perfectly agreeable to the rules of logic but wholly to every feeling of humanity as it mud prove fatal to the innumerable of this region to fo dire a and to from logical fo many millions of fellow creatures how many wings of have been what of ink have been drained and how many heads of learned have been and for ever confounded i with awe when i contemplate the ponderous in different languages with which hi of they have endeavoured to this fo important to the of but fo involved l in clouds of impenetrable after has engaged in the circle of argument and after leading us a weary r through and has let us oat at the end of his work as wife as we were t the beginning it was wild of the kind that made the old poet ma rail in a at which be heartily as an ago care a about ble things an humour to fee what is not to be and to be doing wh t nothing when it i but to proceed of the claims of the children of to the original population of this country i hall nothing as they have already been touched upon in my chapter the in are the d of thus called when he discovered the gold mines of immediately concluded with a that would have done honour to a that he liad found the from whence solomon procured the gold for the temple at nay even imagined that he the remains of of veritable employed in the precious ore yo x so golden a conjecture with extravagance was too tempting not to be immediately at by the of learning and accordingly there were divers profound writers ready to to its and to bring in their load of authorities and wife to it up and declared nothing could be more clear without the lead that was die true and the jews the early of die country while and other writers in a supposed prophecy of die fourth book of which being in die mighty s like the key of an arch gives it in their opinion perpetual scarce however have they completed their goodly in a of authors with de the great at their head and at one blow the whole fabric about their ears in fact outright all the claims to the of this country all and traces of and which have been laid to be found in divers provinces of the new world to the who has always affected to die of the true deity a remark the knowing old d made by all good who have of the religion of nations history of newly aad founded on the of the fathers of church some writers again among whom it i regret i am compelled to mention de u k and de that the driven from the land of by the jews w n with a panic that they fled	48
without behind them until to take breath th f found in america as they brought neither their national language manners feature with them it is they left them behind i hurry of their flight i cannot my faith opinion i oyer the of the learned who being both an and a to is entitled to great that north america wa peopled by a company of i and that was founded by a colony china or the ing a nor i more than that father the america to the to the to the to s par ty from and t the the to the le tc the to the d an to the together with the fur of de that england ireland and the or may contend for that honour die of that of the globe was originally an adam and eve or the more flattering of dr by many that adam waa of the indian race or the conjecture of and b highly honourable to mankind that the whole in is accidentally descended from a family of lis conjecture own came upon me and have often the in a while gazing in d wa r at the extravagant of a all at once by a of the his little did i think ch times that it would ever fall to my lot to be ed with equal and that while i was of ent methods by which they the of ancient and to d great field of warfare this was done either by by land or trail by water thus three by land by the of europe by the north of and by regions of the of th learned his by a route frozen rivers and arms of the through and and various writers among whom are de and anxious for the accommodation of travellers have the together by a chain of by which means they could over dry even this fail that old gentleman who books and manufacture has a natural bridge of ice from continent to continent at the of foul or five miles from s for which he it entitled to the grateful thanks of all the wandering who ever did or ever will over it it is an evil much to be lamented that none of the worthy writers above quoted could ever commence his work without immediately declaring every writer who had treated of the fame in this particular authors may be compared to a certain bird which in building its new tom to pull to pieces the of all the birds in its this unhappy fly to the of found knowledge are but productions ice committed to the they mould take care at like the pots which were fellow j do not crack each other for my part when j beheld the i hare gravely for unaccountable things and thus about matters forever hidden om their eyes like a blind man the light and the beauty and harmony of colours i back in at the amazing extent of n ingenuity cried i to learned men can hole out of what would be their were they with mar if they can argue and thus beyond their knowledge what would the of their did they but low what they were talking about i should old when he comes to decide upon their con net while on earth have the lead idea of the of their labours he will undoubtedly them ith notorious wife men of who a bull a rope of and a from a s ear my chief is that among the many writers have noticed no one has attempted to prove that ss history this country was peopled from the moon o the inhabitants floated hither on i as white bears about the northern oo or that were conveyed hither by m from to or by craft as among the after the of the renowned who like die new england on full b made unheard of journeys c back of a golden arrow given him by the hy but there is one mode left by country could have been peopled which i ha for the i it wc the rest it is by accident speaking of the of solomon new guinea and new profound father in fir countries are peopled and is possible have been fo by accident now if it could have hi ed in that manner why might it not have been same time and by the same means with the of the globe this ingenious mode of certain from is s in and proves the father even to for he the world without any thing to his it is only by the dexterity with old in another place cuts the g nothing he is more of both are certainly the the fame father the common father received an order from heaven people the world and accordingly it has been peopled bring this about it was to overcome all in the way and they have also been overcome f how does he put all the herd of la to the h by explaining in five what it has them volumes to prove they about on g j picking at the lock and the latch v fa e father at once door by it o n an a w h en he has it once l pr he is at full liberty to p r i n as man y nations he this proves to a that little piety is better than a cart load oi is a practical of that pro by faith ye hall move mountains from all the authorities here quoted and a variety f others which i have but which are through fear of the i can only draw the following which however are for my hat this part of the world has actually been peopled e d to which we have living proofs in le	48
numerous tribes of indians that it that it has been peopled in five hundred ways as proved by a cloud of authors who om the of their to have been eye to the tbat the pie of this country had variety of father f it may dot be thought dutch to their credit by of readers the left we on the better the therefore i is t chap v the a mighty question to the k by i he assistance of the man in the moon which not only o ram great embarrassment but likewise this book the writer of a may in be unto an adventurous knight who having undertaken a perilous by way of his fame feels bound in honour and chivalry to turn back for no difficulty nor and to or whatever enemy he may encounter under this i draw my pen and fall to with might and main at and which like fiery and bloody giants the entrance to my and would fain me from the very and at this moment a gigantic has up which i needs take by the beard and utterly before i can advance another in my undertaking but i this will be the i hall have to contend with and that in the next book i hall be enabled to conduct my readers in triumph into the body of my work the which has thus is what right had the of america to vol i history of land and take of a country without gaining the of its inhabitants or yielding an adequate for their territory has many fierce and in given much of mind to multitudes of hearted folk and indeed until it be totally v ft and put to the worthy people of can by no means enjoy the foil they wm clear right and title and quiet the of right by which property is ac in a country is discovery for as all kind have an equal right to any thing which hai never before been appropriated fo any nation tha an country and takes thereof is as enjoying full property empire therein this being admitted it follows clearly that the who america the real of the fame nothing being ne to the of this fact but prove that it was totally by would at appear to be a point of difficulty for it is well known that this quarter of the with certain that walked erect of two feet had of the human countenance uttered certain unintelligible very much language in had a marvellous tc b c c c beings but the zealous and enlightened fa ers who accompanied the for the of the kingdom of heaven by fat and on earth up this point greatly to the of his the pope and of all and they plainly proved and as there were no indian on the other die fact was l as fully admitted and that the two race of animals before mentioned were mere and many of them which of have e times of and been as and have received no quarter in ther chivalry or indeed even the bacon declared the americans to be people by the laws of nature as they id a barbarous of men and upon man s nor are all the proofs of their utter among many other writers of ills us their is fo that one can form an idea of them different from what one as of the brutes nothing the tranquillity of equally to and to though half naked they are as contented as a in his array fear makes no on them and as little all this hy of is by the authority of m it is not he to degree of their indifference for wealth and all i one does well know what to them when would th any it is vain to offer them money th that they are not hungry and the whole u that have none arid more of being tl than the objects of ambition us fame reputation riches and d tions are unknown among them so that this j ful of action the of fo much s good evil in the world has no them in a word unhappy mortals m compared to children in whom the is not completed now peculiarities although in the lightened dates of greece they would have ei their to immortal honour as having re to practice rigid and mere talking about acquired certain old c the reputation of and they clearly in the to be a abject and totally character but the benevolent fathers had undertaken to turn unhappy dumb by dint of advance proofs for as certain of the century and among the affirm the americans go naked and have no they hare nothing of the animal except the and even that was allowed to avail them but little for it was found that they were of a hideous copper complexion and being of a copper complexion it was all the fame as if they were and are black and black aid the pious fathers devoutly is the colour of the devil therefore fo far from being able to own property they had no right even to freedom for liberty is too radiant a deity to gloomy temples all which plainly convinced the righteous followers of and that had no title to the foil that they that they were a dumb seed mere wild of the and like them either be or from the foregoing arguments therefore and a variety of others equally which i forbear to it was clearly evident that this fair quarter of the globe when by was a howling inhabited by nothing but wild and that the acquired an property therein by the right of discovery this right being fully we now come to the next which is the right acquired	48
by cultivation of the of the foil art obligation by nature on whole world is appointed for the n of inhabitants but it w incapable of doing was it every nation is then ui by the law of nature cultivate the ground has fallen to its mare r le like the and modern ha fertile countries to cultivate the e ith to live by ate wanting to and deserve to be as savage and beasts now it is notorious that the knew had of when by the ei but lived a vagabond life rambling from place to place and pr gaily upon the luxuries of her to yield them any tl more whereas it has been ho that heaven intended the earth mould be and and laid out into cities towns and farms and country and plea j grounds and public gardens all which the ind knew nothing about therefore they did not the talents providence had on them th fore they were therefore they v b i ch likewise us i to right to the foil therefore they to be e ik i ate might plead that they drew a the benefits from the land which their wants i they found plenty of game to hunt which t together with the roots and fruits of the aft ed a variety for their and that as heaven merely the earth form the abode and the wants of man fo as were the will of heaven was but this only proves how they were of the around fo much the more for not having j wants for knowledge is in degree an in of and it is this both in ae number and magnitude of his that the man from the bead therefore the indians in not having more wants were very animals and it was but that they take way for the who had a wants to their one and therefore would turn the earth to more account and by it more italy fulfil the will of heaven and and and and many wife men who have the matter properly have determined that the property of a country cannot be acquired by hunting cutting wood or drawing water in it nothing but of limits and the intention of cultivation can history ot the now as the pi from never having read the authors above had complied with any of k plainly followed that they had no right to t but that it was completely at the of t comers who had more knowledge more wan more elegant that is to artificial that in entering upon a newly discovered country therefore the new comers were but of what according to the d was their own property therefore in the were their rights the laws of nature and will of heaven therefore they were guilty of ii and on the therefore the hardened god and th they ought to be but a more right than either that mentioned and one which will be the admitted by my reader provided he be of charity and is the ri by civilization all the world knows in which poor were not deficient in the comforts of life but till and unfortunately t the of their but no benevolent inhabitants of europe behold their a than they immediately went to work to z new york and improve it they introduced among them t brandy and the other comforts of life and r to read how the poor to they made m to them a by which the are and healed and they might comprehend the benefits and enjoy comforts of they in among them the which they were to cure by and a variety of other wa the condition t f poor won fly improved they acquired a wants they had before been ignorant and as he soft of who wants to they were rendered a much er race of beings t the important branch of civilization and i has been by the pious fathers of the rom church is the of the faith it was truly a tint might well horror to behold t i ft among the dark mountains o pa aw y of the horrible ignorance of cm it is r they neither nor were continent and faithful to word but though they acted right habitually it all in vain they acted for from new comers therefore every method ta in history of them to embrace and the true religion except indeed that of them the example but all complicated labours for their good was the of wretches that they to acknowledge the as their and in the doctrines they endeavoured to that from their conduct the of did not to believe in it was not this too much for human patience would not one that the from europe provoked at their incredulity and by their would forever have abandoned their and them to their original ignorance and but no fo zealous were they to effect the comfort and eternal of pagan that they even proceeded from the means of to the more painful and one of let among them whole troops of fiery and furious them by fire and by and in of which the of love and charity was fo rapidly advanced that in a very few years not one fifth of the number of in america that were found there at the tune of its w y k what right need the european advance to the country than this have not whole nations of been made acquainted with a imperious wants and comforts of which they were before wholly have they not been literally hunted and out of the and lurking places of ignorance and and into the right path have not the things the vain and filthy of	48
this world which were too apt to engage their worldly and thoughts been taken from them and have they not in lead thereof been taught to their affections on things above and finally to ufe the words of a reverend father in a letter to his in spain can any one have the to that have yielded any thing more than an to their in to them a little pitiful tract of this dirty planet in exchange for a glorious in the kingdom of heaven here then are three complete and of right any one of which was more than ample to a property in the newly regions of america now fo it has happened in certain parts of this delightful quarter of die globe i that the right of has been fo the influence of cultivation fo extended and the of and so of tion fo that wars other partial evils that often hang on the great benefit the have f or another been utterly and ti once brings me to a fourth right which is the others put together for the original the foil being all dead and buried and to inherit or the foil the s as the next immediate occupants entered as clearly as the hang man clothes of the and as they ha lone and all the learned of th their they may all actions of and this lad tight may be right by or in other w right by gun powder but left any of conscience on this head and to the of ever his pope alexander vi bull by which he granted the n covered quarter of the globe to the who thus having law and and being with great the pagan neither favour nor but the work of civilization and with ten tin fury than ever com b ii c thus were the european who j america clearly entitled to the foil and not only entitled to the foil but to the eternal thanks of for having come fo far endured fo many perils by and land and taken pains for no other but to improve their forlorn and for having made them acquainted with the of life for having introduced among them the light of religion and finally for having hurried them i out of the world to enjoy its reward but as argument is never fo well by us mortals as when it comes home to and as i am particularly anxious that this i be put to for ever i will a parallel by way of the candid attention of my readers let us then that the inhabitants of the moon by advancement in and by a profound into that the mere flickering of which have of late years dazzled the feeble and the brains f the good people of our globe let us i ay that the inhabitants of the moon by means od arrived a command of their energies tn of as to the and the regions of et us a crew of in die of an voyage of vol i history of among the chance to alight upon t planet and here i beg my readers will not have to as is too frequently t of readers when the grave tions of i am far from any vein at nor is the have been making fo wild as many may deem it long been a very and anxious me and many a time and oft in the overwhelming cares and for the and protection of this my native planet hav awake whole nights in my mind it were probable we the moon or the moon and our globe neither would the of ft the air and among the be a and to us than european of floating the world of waters to the already the art of along tl of our planet by means of as had of venturing along their and the between the former of the from the might not be greater than that between t of the and the mighty i might here an but as they would be ui new york ant to my i abandon them to my reader particularly if he be a as matters well worthy his attentive to return then to my let us that the i have mentioned of knowledge to that is to of knowledge in the art of riding on defended with impenetrable armed with concentrated fun beams and provided with engines to enormous moon tones in let us them if our will permit the as to us in knowledge and in power as the were to the indians when they them all this is very it is only our that makes us think and i warrant the poor before they had any knowledge of the white men armed in all the terrors of glittering and tremendous gun powder were as perfectly convinced that they were the the virtuous powerful and perfect of created beings as are at this moment the inhabitants of old england the of france or even the citizens of this enlightened republic let us moreover that the finding this planet to be nothing but a howling inhabited by us poor and wild beads take formal of it in the name of his history of gracious and the man in the moon finding however that their are to hold it in complete op account of the ferocious of its inhabitants they hall take our worthy the king of land the emperor of the mighty and the great king of and returning to native planet hall carry them to court as were ac indian chiefs led about as in the courts of europe then making as the etiquette of court requires they hall the man in the moon in as near as i can conjecture the following terms and mighty extend as far as eye can reach	48
who on the great bear the fun as a looking and over tides and we thy have returned from a voyage of in the of which we have landed and taken of that ob little dirty planet which thou rolling at a the uncouth w have brought into this were one very important chiefs among their fellow who are a race of beings totally of the common attributes of humanity and in every thing from the inhabitants of the moon as they carry their heads upon their i under their arms have two eyes of one are utterly of tails and of a particularly of a horrible of green we have moreover found into a late of the ignorance and every man living with his own wife and his own children of indulging in that community of wives by the law of nature as by the of the moon in a word they have a gleam of true among them but are in fact utter and taking therefore on the condition of wretches we have endeavoured while we remained on their planet to introduce among them the light of and the comforts of the moon we have treated them to of and draughts of which they a with incredible particularly the females and we have endeavoured to into them the of we have upon their the contemptible of religion and common and the profound and all perfect energy and the perfection but was the of wretched that they in to their wives and to religion and at fc v history of lime doctrines of the moon nay among other they even went fo far as to declare that this planet was mad of nothing more nor than green at words the great map in the moon ik a very profound fall in q a tea and equal authority ever thing hat do not belong tp him as did bis the pope hall forthwith a formidable that whereas a crew of have lately and taken of newly planet called the ar and ths whereas it is inhabited by none but a race of two animals that carry their heads on their of under their arms cannot talk the language have two eyes of one are ut of tails and of a horrible of pe green therefore and for a variety of other they are considered incapable of any property in the planet they and the and title to it are confirmed to its original and the who are now to depart to the planet are ap commanded to ufe every means to convert in from the of christianity an make them thorough and in of this benevolent bull our go to work with hearty seal they upon our fertile us tm relieve us from our we are to complain ill torn upon us and ful wretches have we not come of q improve your planet i have we you with moon have we not th does not our moon give you very night and have you the to ben we a pitiful return for all hit finding that we not only in of their and in their r hut even fo f ar aa to defend out y their patience hall be and they to their powers of s with us with concentrated our cities with moon tones by main force converted us to the true they hall permit us to in the of or the frozen regions of d there to enjoy the of civilization e charms of in much the fame r as the and enlightened of are kindly to the in ble of the north or the impenetrable of south america is i hope i have clearly proved and ted the right of the early to the this country and thus is this gigantic fo having fur history of then did he full three m more on on foot and in from to to to i to to the knocking his and breaking his pipe every church in his then did he advance gradually nearer and nearer to until he came in full fight of the identical whereon the church was to be built then did he i three months longer in walking round it and contemplating it from one point of view then from now would he be on the canal now would he peep at it from the other of the and would he take a bird s eye glance at it from th of one of gigantic wind mills which pi the gates of the city the good folks of the were on the of expectation and notwithstanding all i he turmoil of my great gi father not a of the church was yet i they even began to fear it would never be into the world but that its great down and die in labour of the mighty had conceived at length having occupied v good months in puffing and and walking having travelled over all holland and taken a peep into france and germany having five hundred and ninety nine pipes and three weight of the virginia tobacco my j grandfather gathered together all that knowing of citizens who prefer y s than their own and having s his coat and five pair of breeches he up and laid the corner e of the in the of the whole multitude of the month manner and with the example of my full before my eyes have i proceeded in this the no doubt thought my great grandfather ng nothing at all to the while he was a world of about the of his church and many of the ingenious mt of this fair city will lt all the preliminary chapters with the and final of america were and and that the	48
main i the of new york is not a more d than if i never taken up my pen wife people more in their con in of going to work and the church came out of my grandfather s one of the goodly and in the known world excepting that r magnificent at it was grand a that the good folks could not to more than the wing of it so like i if ever i am enabled to this n the plan i have commenced of which in truth i have my doubts it will be found that i hare the rules of my ar as in the writings of all the great can and wrought a very large on of a which now a days is one of the great triumphs of kill to pro then with the thread of my in the ever memorable year of our lord oi a saturday morning the five and twentieth day o march old did that worthy and as he has been called henry from holland in a called the half moon being employed by thi dutch india company to a to china henry or as the dutch call him was a man of renown who had learned to tobacco under fir walter and is to have been the fir ft to introduce it into holland which gained him much popularity in that country and him to find great favour io the eyes of their high the lords date general and of the honourable india company he was a old gentleman with a double chin a mouth and a broad copper which was in to have acquired its fiery hue from the neighbourhood of his tobacco pipe he wore a true tucked in a belt and a s cocked hat one tf b bead he was remarkable for always up ms breeches when he gave out his orders and his founded not unlike the of a tin owing to the number of hard north which he hid in the of his such was of whom we hare fo much and know fo little and i been thus particular in his for the benefit of painters and that they may him as he was and not according their common with modern heroes make him look like ar or or the of as chief mate and favourite companion the matter robert of lime in england by his name has been and to the of his having been the man that ever tobacco but this i believe to be a mere more as certain of his are living at this day who write their names he was an old comrade and early mate of the great with whom he had often played and failed boats in a neighbouring pond when they were little boys from whence it is the derived his bias towards a life certain it is that the old people about lime declared robert to be an unlucky prone to that would one d y or other come to the gallows vol i history of he grew up as boys of that kind often grow up rambling about in all quarter of the world meeting with more perils and wonder than did the sailor without growing a whit more wife prudent or ill natured under every misfortune he comforted with a of tobacco the truly that it will be all the fame thing a hundred years hence he was in the art of carving and true lover s knots on the bulk heads and quarter and was a great wit on board in of his playing on every body around and now and then even making a face at old when his back was turned to this genius are we indebted for many particulars concerning this voyage of which he wrote a at the of the who had an to writing from having received fo many about it when at to the of matter s journal which is written with true log book i have availed of divers family traditions handed down from my great great grand father who accompanied the expedition in the capacity of cabin boy from all that i can learn few incidents worthy of remark happened in the voyage j and it m exceedingly that i have to admit fo noted an expedition into my work without making any more of it en new york oh that i had the advantages of that writer of who in n his account of the famous expedition the whole at his and and his into heroes and although all the world knows them to have been a gang of on a expedition or that i had the privileges of dan and dan to my with giants and to entertain our with an concert of and and now and then with the of old and his fleet of but alas the good old times have long gone by when your would upon this globe in their own proper and play their upon its wondering inhabitants suffice it then to the voyage was and tranquil the crew being a patient people much given to and and but little troubled with the of thinking a malady of the mind which is the of had laid in abundance of gin and four and every man was allowed to quietly at his the wind blew true it is flight was on two or three at certain conduct of thus for he to fail when the wind was light and the weather which history was among the experienced dutch as certain weather or that the weather would change for the he acted moreover in direct contradiction to that ancient and rule of the dutch who always took in fail at night put the a port and turned in by which precaution they had a good night s were of knowing where they were the next morning	48
and flood but little chance of running down a continent in the dark he pro the from wearing more than five and fix pair of breeches under pretence of rendering them more alert and no man was permitted to go aloft and hand in fails with a pipe in his mouth as is the invariable dutch at the pre day all though they might for a moment the tranquillity of the dutch made but they eat drank and and being under the guidance of providence the hip was conducted to the of america where after unimportant and off and on he at length on die fourth day of september entered that which at this day its ample before the city of new york and which had never before been by any european true it is and i am not ignorant of the fact that in book of voyages by ii it has been in our family that when be great was with a view of his he was for the ind only time in his life to exhibit if and admiration he is to have turned to matter and uttered remarkable words while he pointed towards this of the new world m fee there and thereupon as was his way when he was uncommonly he puff out clouds of tobacco that te found a letter written to francis the first by one or on writers arc inclined to found a that this delightful bay had been visited nearly a century to the voyage of the now this it its net with the countenance of certain very judicious and learned sen i bold in utter and that for various good and first because on strict examination it will be bond that the description given by this applies about a well to the bay of new york as it does to my night cap because that this john for whom i already be in to feel a most bitter enmity is a native of and every knows the of these by which away the from the brows of the immortal called and bestowed them on their and i make no doubt they are ready to rob the illustrious of the credit of this island adorned by the of new york toe placing it beside their discovery of south america ind i my decision in favour of the pretensions of inasmuch as his expedition sailed from holland truly and absolutely a dutch enterprise and though all the in the world were introduced on the other side i would st t at as my attention if these three oi be not sufficient to satisfy every of this ancient city u i can say is they are descendants from their dutch ancestors and totally unworthy the trouble of con i thus therefore the title of head to bis discovery is fully of in one minute the was out of fight of la matter was fain to wait until the winds d this impenetrable fog it was indeed as my great great to ay though in truth i never heard him died as might be expected before i was bon was indeed a on which the eye might hai led for ever in ever new and never ending b the of wide like of fancy or fair of its hills of led gently one above another crowned wi trees of luxuriant growth pointing the ing foliage towards the clouds which were g and others loaded with a then of vines bowing their the earth that was covered with flowers gentle of the hills were the dog wood the and and white brightly among the deep green of the and here and there a curling column from the little that opened a to the weary come at the hands of their fellow creatures flood gazing with attention on before them a red man crowned with from one of and after in wonder the gallant as lit on a lake founded the bounded into the woods like a wild the utter of the jn who had never heard a or a in their whole lives transactions of our with the and how the latter copper pipes and how they brought great tore of ind how they one of the hip s d how he was buried i hall nothing x i them unimportant to my a few days in the bay in order to re after their our anchor to explore a mighty river which into the bay this river it is aid was the by the name of the we are in an excellent little in by john as called the and matter richard who wrote time afterwards the that i very much incline in favour of the of two gentlemen be this as it this river did the adventurous doubting but it would turn out to be the for to china journal goes on to make mention of divers between the crew and the natives in the river is likewise laid down in s map as and river history of voyage up the river but as they would be to my i hall over them in except the following dry joke played off by the old and his fellow robert does credit to their that i cannot refrain from it our and his mate determined to try of the chiefs men of the whether they had any in them so they them into die cabin and gave them fo much wine and that they were all and one of them had his wife with him which fate fo as any of our women would do in a place in the end one of them was which had been of our all the time that we had there and that was to them for they could not tell how to take it having by this ingenious experiment that the natives were an race	48
of jolly who had no objection to a drinking bout and were very merry in their cups the old chuckled to and double of tobacco in his cheek directed to have it carefully recorded for the of all the natural philosophers of the of which done he proceeded on his voyage with great complacency after failing however s s j til new i hundred miles up the river he found the ce world around him began to grow more l l w and confined the current more rapid and per f phenomena not uncommon in the rf but which puzzled the j a was therefore called having full fix hours they were brought to a determination by the hip s running whereupon they concluded that there was but little chance of getting to china in this direction a boat however was to explore higher up the river which on its return confirmed the opinion upon this the hip was off and put about with great difficulty being like of her exceedingly hard to govern and the adventurous according to the account of my great great grandfather returned down the river with a prodigious in his ear being that there was little of getting to china like the blind man he returned from whence he fat out and took a he forthwith re the to holland where he was received with great welcome by the honourable india company who were very much rejoiced to fee him come back with their hip and at a large and meeting of the merchants and of it was determined that as a re hi t of ward for the eminent he had the important he had made the ver be called after his it continues to be called river unto day fe new chap n ng an account of a mighty ark which i under the protection of st holland to island the descent of animals a great victory description of the ancient village of accounts given by the great of the country they had not a little talk and among i people of holland letters patent were y government to an oi merchants le india company for the river on which erected a called fort or orange from did the great city of but to dwell on the various commercial and which took place among which of block who a name to block famous for its and hall barely confine to that which h to this renowned city three or four years after the return of that a crew of low fail from the city of of america it is an to history or to and a great proof of the of the age and the lamentable neglect of the noble art of book making fo cold by knowing captains and learned that an expedition fo and important in its be over in utter to my great great grandfather am i again indebted for few facts i am enabled to give concerning it he having once more embarked for this country with a full determination as he of ending ins days here and of a race of that to be great men in the land the hip in which fail was called the fr y or good woman in compliment to the wife of the of the india company who was allowed by every body except her to be a tempered lady when not in liquor it was in truth a gallant of the approved dutch and made by the ft hip of who it is well known always model their after the fair forms ot their country women accordingly it had one hundred feet in the beam one hundred feet in the and one hundred feet from the bottom of the to the like the model who was declared to be the in it was full in the bows with a pair of enormous cat heads a copper bottom and withal a prodigious new york the who was of a religious pan far from the hip with pagan as or which i have no doubt the and of many a noble i on the contrary did erect for a head a goodly image of st equipped with a low broad hat a huge pair of trunk and a pipe that reached to the end of the thus gallantly the hip like a out of the harbour of the great city of and all the bells that were not engaged rung a triple major on the joyful my great great grandfather remarks that the was uncommonly for being un der the care of the ever st die to be endowed with qualities unknown to common thus he made u much lee way as head way could get along very nearly as fall with the wind a head as when it was ft and was particularly great in a calm in of which advantages he made out to h her voyage in a very few months and came to anchor at the mouth of the a little to the of so called because one joseph a murderer ts in chains on that island the d may vol i of here lifting up their eyes they beheld on what is at called the a village in a grove of elms and the natives all collected on the beach gazing in admiration at the a boat was immediately to enter into a treaty with them and approaching the hailed that through a trumpet in the friendly terms but horribly confounded were poor at the tremendous and uncouth found of the low dutch language that they one and all took to over the hills nor did they top until they had buried head and ears in the on the other where they all to a man and their bones being collected and decently covered by the society of that day	48
formed that mound called which out of the centre of the a little to the of the animated by this for victory our heroes in triumph took d the foil as in the name of their the lords general and forward carried the village of by that it was defended by half a of old and pop on looking about them they were to pan with the of the place that the had very little doubt the st ha them thither as the very whereon to their the of the foil was won adapted to the driving of piles the ind around them afforded ample opportunities r the of and the of the was peculiarly favourable to the build of in a word this with d the for the foundation of a great dutch on making a faithful report therefore to the new of the they one and all determined this was the end of their voyage they from the men and children in goodly groups as did the of from the ark and formed a which they called by the name as all the world is perfectly acquainted it may o treat of it in the work but my readers will to recollect that it is my chief o the age yet i write or and have to the and of half a of centuries yet to come j which time perhaps were it not for this invaluable his the great like and other great cities might be perfectly extinct and forgotten in its own mud its inhabitants into and even its a fertile men by into history of learned and mr among let me th from oblivion the humble a place which was the egg from whence was hate the mighty city of new york at but a pi among rural on that part of the which was known in anew legends by the name of and command grand of the bay of new york is within but half an hour s foil of the latter da provided you have a fair wind and may be from the city nay it is a well known fact i can from my own experience that on a d ft ill evening you may hear from the new york the of the broad ed laughter of the dutch at who like other are famous for their powers this is peculiarly the on sunday er when it is remarked by an ingenious and who has made great in the neighbourhood of this city that they laugh which he attributes to the of their having their clothes on in fact like the in the d ages all the knowledge of the place and be infinitely more adventurous and more knowing tl in the ancient maps is given to a tract of from about to w their matters carry on all the foreign trade making frequent voyages to town in loaded with and they are great the different changes of weather as accurately as an they are more over on three in they the powers of his for not a or an ox in the place when at the or before the will a foot until he hears the well known of his black driver and companion and from their amazing at up accounts upon their fingers they are regarded with as much veneration as were the tf of when into the faded of numbers as to the of like wife men and found philosophers they never look beyond their pipes nor trouble their heads about any affairs out of their immediate neighbourhood fo that they in profound and ignorance of all the troubles anxieties and of this plan et i am even told that many among them do verily believe that holland of which they have heard fo much from tradition is on long that devil and the are the two ends of the world that the country is till under the dominion of their high and that the city of new york till goes by the name of they meet every afternoon at the history of only tavern in the place which bears as a a headed of the prince of orange where the a pipe by way of and invariably drink a of to the of admiral von who they imagine it the channel with a at head in is one of the numerous little villages in the vicinity of this beautiful oi cities which are fo many holds and whither the primitive manners of our dutch have retreated and where they are devout and the of original is handed down from to the identical broad hat broad coat and broad continue generation to generation and gigantic of are in wear that made gallant in the days of the oi the language continue by barbarous and fo correct is the village in his dialect that his reading of a low dutch has mud the fame effect on the nerves as the of a hand few iii in which is set forth the true art of making a together with the miraculous escape of a in a fog and the biography of certain heroes of having in the trifling which concluded the chapter the filial duty which the city of new york owed to as being die mother and having given a faithful picture of it as it lands at i return with a of approbation to dwell upon its early the crew of the being by from hot land the went on in magnitude and the neighbouring indians in a time became to the uncouth found of the dutch language and an gradually took place between them and the new comers the indians were much given to long talks and the dutch to long in this particular therefore they each other completely the chiefs would make long about the big bull the and the great	48
to which the others would very attentively their pipes and her the poor were delighted they the new f in the bed art of and tobacco while the latter in return made them drunk with and then learned them the art of a trade for was opened the were in their dealings and by weight it as an invariable table of that the hand of a weighed one pound and his foot two pounds it is true the indians were often puzzled bj the great between bulk and weight foi let them place a bundle of never fo large one and a put his hand or foot the other the bundle was to kick the was a of known to weigh more than two pounds in the market of i this is a fact but i have it direct from my great great grandfather who had to considerable importance in the colony being promoted to the office of weigh on account of the mon of his foot the dutch in this part pf the globe began now to a very appearance and were comprehended under the general title of on account as the of their great to the dutch which indeed was truly remarkable excepting that the former were rugged and and the latter level and about this time new s the tranquillity of the dutch was doomed to a temporary interruption in captain sir samuel failing under a from governor of virginia the dutch on river and demanded their to the crown and dominion to this demand as they were in no condition to it they for the time like discreet and men it does not appear that the the of on the contrary i an told that when his in fight the worthy were with a panic that they fell to their pipes with vehemence that they quickly a cloud with the woods and completely enveloped and concealed their beloved village and the fair regions of pa so that the terrible captain on totally that a little dutch lay in the mud under cover of all this in of this fortunate the worthy inhabitants have continued to f without unto this very day which is to be the of the remarkable fog that often hangs over of a clear afternoon upon the departure of the our took full fix months to recover their m history o been exceedingly and hurry of affairs they ther st council of to over the date of t after fix months more of mature d tion during which nearly five hundred word and as much tobacco was would have a certain modern general t a whole winter s campaign of hard drinking determined to fit out an of them on a voyage of to f more and formidable might not be found where the colony would to this perilous was to the of van ham van and ten four great men but o j although i have made learn but little previous to their leaving nor need this much for like though they make great have much in their own cot but this much is certain that the of a country are invariably parts of the foil and here i remarking how convenient it would be to r our great men and great families of doubtful could they have the privilege of the heroes who whenever their origin was involved in ol new si announced from a god and who never a foreign country but what they told cock and bull about their being kings and princes at home this on the truth though it has been played off by and other illustrious foreigner in our land of good natured has been completely in this matter of fact and i even whether any tender virgin who was accidentally and enriched with a would her character at parlour fire and evening tea parties by the phenomenon to a a of gold or a river god thus being denied the benefit of and fable i have been completely at a as to the early biography of my heroes had not a gleam of light been thrown upon their origin from their names by this means have i been enabled to gather particulars concerning the in question van for was one of who tax providence for a and like enjoy a free and in he was arrayed in garments to his fortune being fringed and by the hand of time and was with an old fragment of a hat which had acquired the of a loaf and fo far did he s carry his contempt for the that it is laid the remnant of a covered his back and like a pocket h chief out of a hole in his breeches was never ed except by the of this garb was he to be h at noon day with a herd of of the feet on the of the great canal of like your nobility of europe he took his na or lack land from his landed lay fame where in of the next of our might i have benefit of the want of i have lamented have made mention as equally the of antiquity his name wa which being freely the dirt meaning beyond a doubt that like t the and the from dame or the earth i this is by his for it u known that all the of mother earth w a gigantic and van we are told a tall raw man above fix feet high t wi hard head nor is this origin c van a whit more improbable c to belief than what is related and ui admitted of certain of our or i men who we are told with die did originally from a hill of the third hero but a faint description has reached to this time which that he was a little man and from being equipped with	48
an old pair of buck was familiarly or tough breeches ten completed this of it is a but ludicrous fact which were i not in the whole truth i be tempted to over in as with the gravity and dignity of that thk worthy gentleman have been from the part of his la fact the clothes to have been a very important garment in the eyes of our owing in all probability to its really being the of among them the name of ten or tin is indifferently into ten breeches and tin breeches the high dutch incline to the former opinion and it to his being the who introduced into the the ancient dutch of wearing ten pair of but the elegant and ingenious writers on the declare in favour of tin or rather thin breeches from whence they infer that he was i but merry rogue were none vol i s history o of the founded and who was the identical that truly philosophical then why we quarrel for riches or any glittering toys a light heart and thin pair of breeches will go through the world my brave boys such was the gallant to conduct voyage into unknown and the whole was under the care and direction of van who was held in great among the of for the variety of his knowledge having as i before a great part of his life in the open among the of had become well acquainted with the f of the heavens and could as accurately when a was or a as a du husband can from the brow of his when a is gathering about his ears he moreover a great of and at firm in but what mended him to public confidence was his marvel talent at dreaming for there never was any thin happened at but declared he had it being om that always a tb after it has come to new york this f natural gift was as highly valued among the of as it was among the enlightened nations of antiquity the wife was more indebted to his than his waking moments for all his achievements and undertook any great without upon it and the fame may truly be of the good van who was thence the this cautious commander having the that accompany him in the expedition them to repair to their homes take a night s all family affairs and make their wills before departing on this voyage into unknown and indeed this was a precaution always taken by our forefathers even in after times when they became more adventurous and to or or or any other far country that lay beyond the great waters of the history chap iv how the heroes of to s gate and how they were received there and now the of began to man in the and the fun emerging ft golden and purple clouds his rays on the tin of was that delicious of the year when breaking from the of old like a blooming from the tyranny of a for old father threw with ten into the arms of youthful spring and blooming grove with i notes of love the very as the dew that the tender of meadows joined in the joyous the gin bud timidly put forth its a the voice the was heard in the land and the heart man away in oh j th had i thine reed wherewith thou c charm the gay or gen thy pipe wherein the happy the fo much delighted then might i tempt to in or the rural beauties of the but having this wherewith to wing i new flight i mud fain all poetic of the fancy and my narrative in humble comforting with the hope that though it may not fo upon the imagination of my reader yet may it commend with virgin to judgment clothed in the and garb of truth no did the rays of cheerful dart into the windows of than the little settlement was all in motion forth from the van and a bell blew a far that ill his followers then did they down to the water by a multitude of relatives and friends who all went down as the common it to fee them off and this the antiquity of long family often in our city of all ages and laden with bundles and of country about tp for home in a market boat the good his in a of three and his flag on board a little round dutch boat not unlike a tub which bad formerly been the jolly boat of the and now all being embarked they bid farewell to the gazing throng upon the beach who continued after them even when out of hearing them a happy voyage them to take good of care of not to get drowned with abundance other of and invaluable caution generally given by to as go down the in and adventure upon the deep in the mean while the cheerily th the of the bay and fix left behind them the green of ancient and they touched at two lie nearly and which are a to have been brought into about the til of the great of the when it through the and made its way to t ocean for in this tremendous uproar of the we are told that many huge fragments of re and land were rent from the mountains and down by this run away river for or fever miles where of them ran on the and formed the in while others drifted out to f and were never heard of more a it is a matter long t established by certain of our pi her that is to say having been often advanced and never it has grown to be nigh equal to a settled i that the was originally a lake up by	48
the mc of the in process of time however very mighty and and the mountains pa and weak in the back by reason of their extreme age it suddenly rose upon them and after a violent struggle its escape this is said to have come to pass in very tea time probably before that rivers had lo i the art of lull the foregoing is a theory in which i do not pretend that do fully give it my belief of the fact is that the rock which forms the of is exactly to that of the high and moreover one of our philosophers who has diligently compared the agreement of their has even gone fo far as to me in confidence that was originally nothing wore nor than a on s leaving wonderful little they next governor s terrible from its frown and grinning they would by ho means however land upon this they doubted much it might be the abode of and which in days did greatly abound throughout this and pagan country at this time a of jolly came and tumbling by turning up their ty the fun and up the element in no did the mark this than he was greatly rejoiced this exclaimed he if i hot well the b a fat well fi h a among his looks plenty and i greatly admire this round fat and doubt not but this is a happy omen of the of our undertaking so he directed his to in the tract of turning therefore directly to the left they a n the history o v i up the called the river here the rapid tide which through this on the gallant tub in which had embarked hurried it forward w in a dutch boat that the good had all his life long been ac only to of was more than ever that they were in the hands of fi natural power and that the jolly were ing them to fair haven that was to fulfil all es and expectations thus borne away by the current doubled that point of land c s hook and leaving to the right the winding of the where our in navy is now a days put out to they drifted a magnificent of water by pi ant was exceedingly to the eye while the were looking arc them on what they conceived to be a and fc lake they beheld at a a crew of painted employed in who n like the of this romantic region their lightly balanced like a feather on the of the bay at fight of the hearts of the heroes of c property i e a point of land history of were not a little troubled but as good fortune would have it at the bow of the s boat was a very man named being interpreted means chicken z same given him in token of his courage no did he behold than he trembled with and although a good half mile he a that lay at hand and turning away his head fired it in the lace of the fun the weapon and gave the an that laid him with uplifted heels in the bottom of the boat but was the effect of this fire that the wild men of the woods with upon their and hot away into one of the deep of the long this victory gave new to the hardy and in honour of the achievement they gave the name of the to the bay and it has continued to be called s bat from that time to the the heart of the good van who having no land of his own was a great admirer of other people s expanded at the of rich around him and falling into a delicious reverie he began to riot in the of meadows of and interminable patches of from this h u history at once awakened by the turning of the tide which would have hurried him from this land of had not the given to for j where they accordingly landed hard by the rocky heights of that happy retreat where our jolly eat for th good the city and the that are on here on the green by the of a that ran among the they after the toils of the bj on the ample which they had provided for this perilous voyage thus having well fortified their powers they fell into an earned what was further to be done this was the council dinner ever eaten at by and here as tradition re l did the great family between the and the which afterwards had a influence on the building of the city the eyes had been delighted with the that their along the at the bottom of s bay by all means to return thither and found the intended city this was by the ten and many arguments between them the particulars of this have not reached us which is to lamented j this much is certain that the new put an end to the by to l explore ft ill further in the route which the had fo clearly pointed out whereupon the tough breeches abandoned the expedition took of a neighbouring hill and in a fit of wrath peopled all that tract of country which continued to be inhabited by the unto this very day by this time the jolly like wanton on the of a green hill began to i down the of the heavens and now the tide having once more turned in their favour the re p again committed to its and along the were borne towards the of and here the capricious wanderings of the current not a little marvel and perplexity to now would they be caught by the wanton and round a point would deep into romantic little that the fair of	48
now were they hurried narrowly by the very of impending rocks with the vine and crowned with groves that threw a broad on the waves beneath and anon they were borne away into the mid channel and along with a rapidity chat very much the van who as he the land receding on either began exceedingly to doubt that giving them the wherever the turned their eyes a new c to bloom around no of hun appeared to check the delicious of i ture who here in all her luxuriant hills now like the with rows of vain plants of wealth and were then adorned with f vigorous natives of the foil the oak generous the graceful elm while here a there the tree reared his head the of the where now are the gay luxury half buried in twilight when the oft breathes the of foi city r there the hawk built his on dry tree that overlooked his watery the timid deer fed along now by the lover s moonlight walk a printed by the foot of beauty and a extended over happy regions now are reared the lately towers of the jones s t and the thus gliding in wonder through n and unknown the gallant of by the foot of a that foi boldly into the waves and to frown up them as they its this is t the bluff well known to modern by the ft grade s point from the fair which like an elephant it carries upon its back and here broke their view a wild and varied where land and water were as though they had combined to and off each other s charms to their right lay the point of black s in the of living green beyond it the of and the harbour well known by the name of s a place infamous in latter days by its being the haunt of who and water patches and gentlemen when in heir boats to the left a deep bay or rather creek gracefully between fringed with and forming a kind of villa through were beheld the regions of and here the eye with delight on a richly wooded country by intervals and waving lines of above each other while over the whole the purple mills of a hue of oft before them the grand of the making a bend wound among and of that to melt into the wave a character of gentleness and mild prevailed around the fun had and the thin haze of twilight like a history ot veil drawn over the of virgin heightened the charms which it half ah of foul ah gazing with wonder on the such alas are they poor i who to the of a wicked treacherous are its fatal its who to its tide and his feeble bark ami of a and thus i with the of who little n ing the before them drifted on until they were by an ing and agitation of their for now current began to around them waves to boil and foam with fury a r ft if from a dream the aloud td put about but his words were loi the roaring of the waters and now of at one time they with dreadful among tumultuous b at another hurried down they were nearly upon the hen and ch infamous rocks more then her and anon they ing that threatened to them the waves all the elements combined to j a hideous the waters raged the and as they were hurried along new york beheld the rocks and trees of the neighbouring driving through the air at length the mighty tub of van was drawn into the of that tremendous called the pot where it was whirled about in giddy until the of the commander and his crew were overpowered by the of the and the of the revolution how the gallant of was from the jaws of this modern has never truly made known for fo many to tell die tale and what is more wonderful told it in to many different ways that there has ever prevailed a great variety of opinions on the as to the and his crew when they came to their they found on the long more the worthy indeed to relate many and wonderful of his adventures in this time of peril which by his account did far exceed those of the in the traits of for he flying in the air and heard the yelling of and put his hand into the pot when they were whirled around and found the water hot and beheld uncouth looking beings on rocks and k with huge but particularly he declared with exultation that he the which a had betrayed into this peril fo the and others hiding in the however were by of the s lay in a trance as he as given to dreaming the truth of them been clearly ascertained it is to the accounts of and his traced the various traditions handed dow marvellous as how the devil has there fitting of the s back and the how he and many other in which we t df putting too much faith in the er gave this the of y been interpreted hell gale which it co bear at the day this is a narrow strait in the sound at the di miles new york it is dangerous to shipping the care of skilful by reason of numerous rocks have received sundry fr s back pot c and are ver turbulent at certain times of tide certain wise men modern days have softened the above characters which mean nothing i heave to g the name as given by our author is in s history in of as also by a journal still ei in the th century and to be found in hazard s and an	48
old m fc written in french of in names about this city de hell gate d loi chap v bow the heroes of returned some what wiser than they went and how the sage dreamed a dream and the dream that he dreamed the of night had upon this day and a night was it to the ears were with the raging of the elements and the howl fog of the that this but when the morning dawned the horrors of the preceding evening had away and had the again ran and and changed its tide rolled gently back towards the quarter where lay their much regretted home the woe heroes of eyed each other with countenances their had been totally by the late some were upon the where headed by one they took of all the country lying about the fix mile which is held by the at this writing the were driven by of weather to a where having with them a of genuine they were enabled to air up a kind of tavern from whence it is did the fair town of in which their descendants have ever continued to fee as to the they thrown upon the and nay be found in parts but the luck attended the great ten who falling overboard was from by the multitude of his garments d up he floated on the waves like a he oh a rock where e drying his many ki fe n i forbear to treat of the long ot how they determined that it would found a city in this how at length with fear sand fl f ventured once more upon the element their back for suffice it in ample to that after toiling back through the of their at length opened the point of and gained a of beloved and here they were by an y that all the efforts of the e d weary and they could no longer make head the power of the tide or rather as have it of old who anxious tow i tf to wh be founded his bold fa this world half a of potent the tub of van nd on die of thus in manner been guided by sl to his their was t fire a t the foot of a large tree that upon the point at called the battery gathering together great tore of which on the and the contents df prepared and made a the worthy van was observed to be particularly zealous in his to for having the cares rf the expedition committed to his care he deemed it in t on to at profoundly for the public good in proportion as he filled to die very brim with the dainty before him did the heart of this excellent to towards his throat ihe crammed and choked with and good nature and at times it j when tt s heart is in his throat that he may truly be li to it and his abound with and good thus having the nd it down with a fervent at bis yearning and his whole frame in warmer with unbounded benevolence h deemed excellent and delightful ot and laying his hands on each of his and rolling his half eyes around ok the beautiful of land and water before him r he exclaimed in a fat half voice what s charming the words died away in his throat he to on the fair for a moment his eye heavily over their his head drooped upon his he upon the green turf and a deep gradually upon him and the dreamed a dream and lo the good st came riding over the tops of the trees in that fame wherein he brings his yearly to children and he came and descended hard by where the heroes of had made their late and the van knew him by his broad hat his long pipe and the which he bore to the figure on the bow of the and he lit his pipe by the fire and he down and and as he the from his pipe into the air and like a cloud over head and him and he and climbed up to the top of one of the trees and fa w that the over a great extent of and as he it more attentively he fancied that the great volume of a variety of marvellous forms where in dim he palaces and and lofty all which x tor but and then faded away the whole off and nothing but the g n wood w te left and when st had his f he it m hfe hat band and laying his finger his gave the van a very look then mounting his he returned oyer the tree tops and and van awoke from his greatly and he his companions and related to them his dream and interpreted it that it was the will of st that they down and build the city here and that the of the pipe was a type how be the extent of the city inasmuch as the volumes of its over a extent of country and they all with one voice to this interpretation excepting ten who declared the meaning to be that it be a city wherein a little fire a great or in other words a very little city both which came to the great object of their perilous expedition therefore being thus happily the returned merrily to where they were received with great and here calling a general meeting of all the wife men and the of they related the whole of their voyage and of the dream of van and the people lifted up their voices and the history good st and from that time forth van was held in more honour th for his great talent	48
at dreaming and was pr ed a citizen and a right good when he was i w t t chap vl containing an attempt at and of the of the great city of the original name of the ill and wherein the of was thus thrown is a matter of and has already undergone a melancholy proof of the of all things and the vanity of all our hopes of fame for who can expect his name will live to when even the names of mighty are thus i n contradiction and uncertainty the name current at the day and which is by the great historian is which is to have originated in a among the in the early of wearing men s hats as is done among many tribes hence as are told by an old governor who was what of a wag and a century and had paid a to the wits of philadelphia hence the of man hat on given to the indians and afterwards to the a but well enough for a governor among the more venerable of on this is that valuable of the can written by richard ii wherein it is called and nor i forget the excellent little book full of precious matter of that john f who calls another more ancient and ed by the countenance of our ever to be is that found in certain letters which patted between the early governor and their neighbouring powers wherein it is indifferently and which are evidently unimportant variations of the fame name for our wife forefathers fat little by either in or which form the and ambition of many learned men and women of this age this name is to be derived from the great indian who was to make this his favourite abode on account of its uncommon delights tor the indian traditions affirm that the bay was once a lake filled with and golden in the of which lay this beautiful covered with every variety of fruits and flowers but that the history is to be found in the library of the new society r i mi hazard s col j w ml ff the i and t i ae of aw to b r w s d fog tp admit the of ne b very for p yet is there mi ancient and authority i y delight in t it is at once and lid this is recorded in the mentioned of the great written by and correctly k hat that r the of r m a wing with milk and honey been that the feat of be transferred from the green of i to a multitude em and guidance of he lad protector or to ae it e let me bear to the r d worthy fe the foil of indians before g a roof v a and al in the df and was made on the tf the i s ht history st had appeared in the dream here they built a mighty and fort and trading called fort which on that eminence at occupied by the with the open now called the green in front around this potent was a numerous of little dutch with roofs all which lovingly to under its walls like a brood of half chickens under the wings of the mother hen the whole was by an of to guard any of the who wandered in about the and that extended over tracts of country at called wall william and pearl no was the colony once planted than it root and for it would that this thrice favoured is like a where every foreign weed finds kindly and up and to and now the infant having advanced in age and it was thought high time it receive an name and it was accordingly called new it is true there were for the original indian name aad many of the bed writers of the province did long continue to call it by the title of the b t this was by the authorities as new tom and it was an excellent and to name it after a great city of the old world as by that means it was induced to the and renown of its name in the manner that little are called after great and and renowned of upon which they all copy their examples and come to be very mighty men in their day and generation the of the and the rapid increase of gradually awakened the good from a deep into which he had fallen after the building of the fort he now began to think it was time plan be on which the town be built therefore his and together they took pipe in mouth and forthwith into a very found deliberation on the at the very of the an unexpected difference of opinion and i mention it with much as being the on re cord in the of new it was a breaking forth of the grudge and that had between two eminent and ever their unhappy on the of the great had very wealthy and from his which embraced the whole chain of mountains that along the history t gulf of s bay and part of which hit have been in latter ages fr powerful of the jones s and the an ingenious plan for the city was offered by her who that k be c and by after the manner o admired cities in holland to this m was place thereof that they run out dock by means of piles driven into the of the river on which the town be built means aid he triumphantly hall we of territory from rivers and build a city that hall rival or any city in europe t proportion ten or ten breeches re with a look of	48
as much as he could he the upon the pi his as being and again very order of things as he would leave to ever for what he ba town out it is like a body without veins ar and for want of a free of the vital tough breeches on the con retorted with a upon his wh of an arid dry habit he that as to the circulation of the blood being to ten breeches was a living to his own for every body b had not a drop of blood through wind dried for good ten years and yet e was not a greater body in the whole colony have much effect in making con i in argument nor hare i ever a man of error by being convicted of at was not the at ten breeches very in reply and tough breeches was a little man and never gave up the word rejoined with ten the advantage of the but breeches had that invaluable coat of mail in called ten breeches had there the but tough breeches the bed fo that though ten breeches made a about his ears and battered and him with hard words and found arguments tough breeches hung on to the they parted therefore as is in all where both parties are in the right without ling to any but they hated each heartily forever after and a breach with between the of and between the families of ten breeches and breeches would not fatigue my reader with dull mat of fact but that duty as a faithful that i be and in truth as n now treating j f the critical period when our ft y of city like a young received the turns that have contributed to give it the feat for which k id i cannot be too minute in their after the unhappy i have merit ed i do not find that any thing further was the worthy of being recorded the confiding of the and heads the t met regularly once a week to on momentous but either they were thy the war of words they had or they i naturally to the of the tongue the of the brains certain the profound was maintained the tion as lay on the the members their pipes making but few laws wit ever any and in the mean time the of the settlement went en as it god as of the council were but little b of pot hooks and determined not to puzzle either tl or with records th however kept the minutes of the co with tolerable in a large fa ed with the journal of each i ing but of two line in dutch the council at this day and twelve f on the affairs of the colony by which k ap that the ft ft not their i hours but pipes in the fame manner as they in holland at this very an admirably exact as a pipe in the mouth of a true bom is never liable to and that are continually putting our out of order in this manner did the profound council of and and from to week month to month and year to year in manner they their infant while the town took cart of a which is to run about wild by and and other nations by which your notable and old women pi e and the children of men in and magnitude that before she had determined upon a plan it was too late to pot it in where upon abandoned the altogether lift bi t chap vn how the city f new under the protection of the there is exceedingly in thi looking back through the long of departed year and catching a of the fairy of ant that lie beyond like goodly melting into they receive a from their very an the fancy delights to up their outlines graces and of i own creation thus beam on my imagination tho happier days of our city when as yet new was a mere town in groves of s and and by foi and wide waters that to out all the cares and of a wicked world in days did this city the and noble of a community governed with out laws and thus being left to its own an the care of providence as rapid as though it had been with a dozen pan full of laws that are heap on the backs of young cities in order to make then grow and in this particular i greatly admire thi and found knowledge of human nature played by the the and his m for my part i not fo bad an opinion t mankind as many of my brother i not think poor human nature fo a piece of as they would ma e it out to be and far at i hare i am fully that man f left to would about as readily go right as it k only this in his ears bt k is his duty to go right that makes him go the try reverie the noble independence of ins nature at this intolerable t y r ann y of law and the per interference of morality which is ever his path with finger and directions to keep to die right as the law and like a he turns directly contrary and through mud and mire oyer hedges and to that he is a lad of and out of at leading and opinions are amply by what i have above of our worthy who never being be preached and be red and guided and governed by and laws id bye laws as are their more enlightened its did one and all and out of pure ignorance or in other they knew	48
no better n r i omit to record one of the of this infant settlement as it le piety of our and that like good they were always ready to god after had thus having qui down and provided own comfort they of their and good st for his protecting owe in guiding them to table abode to this end they built a fair s chapel within the fort they name whereupon he immediately new ins peculiar he has been and i devoutly hop be the of this excellent city i am moreover told that there is a little book written in low du that the image of this renowned fa he of the was elevated in front of this chapel in the of what in modern days is called th green and the treats miracles wrought by die mighty pipe held in his mouth a of which was cure for an an invaluable colony of brave as of i cannot lay upon this book i that doubt on the by the good st the of new beheld ment e in magnitude and become the divers x ter already had the tf colonies and of a found empire entered into their and fort on the fort on the and fort on the ri m to be the darling offspring of the venerable council thus to all appearance did e province of new advance in r ad the early of its metropolis a fair page by or calamity of painted about the tangled and rich of the part of the the hunter pitched his rude bower of and bark the that ran through the nd while here and there might be on funny a group of indian above the neighbouring trees and floated in the by degrees a mutual had grown up between beings and the of new our benevolent forefathers endeavoured as much as the province about this time extended on the north to fort or orange now the city of situated about miles up the river indeed the province claimed to the river st but this claim was nut much oil at the time as the country fort was i perfect wilderness on the south the province reached to fort on the south river since called the and on the it extended to the or fresh river now the do this last frontier was likewise erected a fort and trading house much about the spot where at present is situated the pleasant town of this was called fort or good hope and was intended as well for the purpose of trade as of defence f t o to their by tb gin rum and beads in exchange far di for it the kind hearted conceived a great for their on account of their being plea nt men to trade wi and little killed iu the art of making a bargain now and then a crew of half human the would make their appearance in the new painted and with beads and feathers ab with an of jn market place die little dutch boys in e of the bow and arrow at other time with liquor and and yell about the town like fo to the great may of all the good wives who would hurry tl children into the the doors and water upon the enemy from the garret windows is worthy of mention here that our forefathers w particular m holding up wild men as examples and for that n be gathered from the of tells us that for the offence the beats his wife and turns her put of and another that of th have every year a new wife whether this awful ample had any influence or not does not m tion but it is certain that our w miracles of fidelity and obedience r new york true it is that the good between ear and their neighbours was liable to and i have heard my grandmother who was a very wife old woman and well in the of parts tell a long of a winter s evening about a battle between the new and the indians which was known by the name of the war and which took place near a orchard in a dark which for a long while went by the name of murderer s valley i the legend of this war was long current i among the old wives and other ancient of the place but time and improvement have both the tradition and the of battle for what was once the blood valley is now in the centre of this city and known by the name of the wealth and of new and its at length awakened the tender of the mother country who finding it a and colony and that it to yield great profit and no trouble once became wonderfully anxious about its and began to load it with tokens of regard in the lame manner that your knowing people are to rich relations with their affection an l loving the marks of protection by mother countries to wealthy colonies were forthwith vol i history of c the care always being to rulers to the new with orders to as much from it as it will yield accordingly in the year of our lord was appointed governor of the province ef under the and of their high the lords states general of the united and the india company this renowned old gentleman arrived at new m in the merry month of june the month in all the year when dan to dance up the when the so bin the and a other wanton make the woods to with and the luxurious little among the of the meadows all which happy coincidence the old of new who were in the art of events that was to be a happy and but as it would be to the of the	48
dutch governor of the province of to be thus introduced at the end of chapter i will put an end to this fe book of my that i may him m with more dignity in the beginning of my next end book lit book iii in which it recorded the golden reign of van t chap l renowned van mb as likewise his unutterable fo the law of and ent and he great admiration of the public s and very much to be is die of the feeling who writes the history of his native land if it fall to his lot to be the fed of calamity or crime the mournful page it watered with his nor can he recall the prosperous and era without a melancholy at the reflection that it has away for ever i know not whether it be owing to an love fro the of former times or to that certain of heart incident to all but i candidly that i cannot look back on the happier days of our which i now without a of the with a faltering new d hand do i the curtain of oblivion that the merit of our venerable and ai i figures to my mental humble before the mighty such are my feelings when i the family the and a lonely hour in the chamber where hang the portraits of my fore fathers in like the forms they re with pious reverence do i gaze on the countenances of renowned who have preceded me in the march of who and temperate blood now through my veins flowing flower and flower in its feeble until its current hall be for ever i to are but frail of the mighty men who in the days of the pa but who alas have long in that tomb towards which my ate and as i pace the darkened chamber and in melancholy the images around me to more into their countenances to the animation of life their eyes to me fa every movement carried away by the of fancy i imagine by the of the departed and holding with the of antiquity ah die born in a age abandoned to the of fortune a and a weary pilgrim fa thy native land with no weeping wife nor family of children but doomed to wander through crowded and by foreign from fair where once thine held empire let me not however the in the man or the recollections of age to he while dwelling with fond on the days of the on days of and which never more will dawn on the lovely of f the renowned or walter van was from a long line of dutch who had away their lives and grown fat upon the bench of in and who had with and propriety that they were ever either heard or talked of which next to being applauded be the object of ambition of all and rulers his of is to be a corruption af the original which in means a name admirably of his habits for though he was a man up within like an and of a profoundly turn that he ever except hi yet did he never make up his mind en any doubtful point this was clearly accounted for by his who affirmed that he always con s history of every on fo a that he had not room in his head to turn it over and examine both of it fo that he always remained in doubt merely in of the magnitude of his ideas there are two ways by which men get into one by talking a deal and thinking a little and the other by holding their tongues and not thinking at all by the many a the reputation of a man of quick parts by the other many a vacant like the owl the of birds to be by a world with all the attributes of this by the way is a mere remark which i would not for the it thought i apply to governor van on the contrary he was a very wife foi he never a thing and of invincible gravity that he was never known to laugh or even to through the of a long and life certain however it is there never was a matter however and on which your common narrow minded mortals would determine at the glance but what the renowned put on a mighty vacant kind of look hook his head and having for five minutes with that he had his doubts about the matter which in new of time gained him the character of a man flow of belief and not on the of this old gentleman was at regularly formed and nobly as though it had been by the hands of cunning dutch as a model of and grandeur he was exactly five feet fix inches in height and fix feet five inches in his bead was a perfect far in magnitude that of the great who was thence called or head indeed of was it that dame nature her with all her s ingenuity would have been puzzled to a neck capable of it wherefore he declined the attempt and it firmly on the top of his back bone between the where it remained as as a hip of war in the mud of the his body was of an form particularly at bottom which was ordered by providence that he was a man of habits and very to the idle labour of walking his legs though exceeding were in proportion to die weight they had to fo that when erect he had not a little the appearance of a beer barrel landing on his face that index of the mind a perfectly or by any of lines and angles which	48
the human countenance with ki t bt what is termed two mail grey feebly in the like two of magnitude in a and his full cheeks which to hare taken toll of thing that went into his mouth were tied and treated with f d like a apple his habits were as regular as his he took his four dated meals hour to each he and doubted eight h and he the remaining twelve of the four twenty such was the renowned van a true for his mind was above or below the of this world he had lived in ii years without feeling the to whether the fun round it or it fun and he had even watched for at half a the curling from his pipe to the ce without once troubling his head with any of numerous theories by which a v have perplexed his brain in for its above the in his council he with great he fat in a huge chair of solid oak t in the celebrated of the an experienced of and carved about the arms and feet into exact of gigantic claws of a fa ke a pipe wrought with and which had been to a of holland at the of a treaty with one of the petty powers in this lately chair would he fit and this magnificent pipe would he his right knee with a motion and fixing his eye for hours together upon a little print ef which hung in a black frame die wall of the council chamber nay it has i even been that when any deliberation of length and was on the carpet the renowned would hut his eyes for foil two hours at a time that he might not be bed by external objects and at times the internal commotion of his mind was evinced by certain regular which his admirers declared were merely the of conflict made by his doubts and opinions it is with infinite difficulty i have been enabled to collect anecdotes of the great man under the facts him were b and vague and divers of them fo questionable in point of that i have had to give up the after many and decline the of till more which would have tended to height en the colouring of his portrait i have been the more anxious to fully the and habits of the renowned van from the that he was not only the but s history ov the governor thai over this s and province and fo tranquil a benevolent was his reign that i do not find throng out die whole of it a of any being brought to a of a merciful governor and a in the reign of the king log whom it is hinted the van v a the very of the career of this excellent n like that of solomon or to m like that of the governor was by an example of le that gave flattering of a wife the very morning af he had been in office and at moment that he was making his from a p filled with milk and indian pi he was interrupted by the of one a very important of new who complained of one as he f tt to come to a of that there was a heavy balance in favour of governor van as i have ready was a man of few words ho v a mortal enemy to writings of being at his having attentively to the of fl an occasional as he a of indian bis that he the pr comprehended j he called unto him his t of his breeches pocket a huge jack knife d it after the as a by his tobacco box as a warrant x was as effectual in lays as was the ring of the great id among the true the two par sing confronted before him produced a accounts written in a language and character puzzled any but a high dutch co h or a learned of egyptian the took them one and having them in his hands and counted over the number of leaves fell ly into a very great doubt and for half r without a word at length laying his his and his eyes for a mo with the air of a man who has caught a by the tail he took his pipe from puffed forth a column of tobacco th marvellous gravity and pronounced having carefully counted over the leaves and d the books it was found that one was t and as heavy as the other therefore it was tl opinion of the court that the accounts were f therefore give ba history rent a receipt and mould give a receipt and the pay the this being made known general joy throughout new for the people immediately perceived that they had a very wife and to rule over but its effect was that not another law took place throughout the whole of his and the office of fell into decay that there was not one of known in the province for many years i am the more particular in dwelling on this not only i deem it one of the and righteous judgments on record and well worthy the attention of modern but it was a miraculous event in the of the renowned being the only time he was ever known to come to a in the whole of his life chap ii containing some account of the grand council of as also divers especial good philosophical reasons an should other particulars touching the slate if tlie province in treating of the early of the province caution my readers them in point of dignity and power with worthy gentlemen who are in this enlightened republic a of unhappy of popularity who are in fact the hen beings in	48
the community doomed to bear the and of their own party and the and of the whole world set up like at to be and at by every and vagabond in the land on the contrary the dutch enjoyed that authority m all of colonies or they were in a manner in their little it if fo over both law and and to none but the mother country which it is well known is deaf to all complaints its provided they the main duty of their i history of ing out a good this hint will be of importance to prevent my readers from being with doubt and incredulity whenever in the of this hi they encounter the uncommon of a governor acting with independence and in to the opinions of the multitude to the doubtful in the of a board of was appointed which immediately over the police this potent body confided of a or with powers between of the mayor and five who were equivalent to and five who as or bottle to the in the fame manner as do to their at the day it being their duty to fill the pipes of the for for dinners and to other little offices of as were required it was moreover though not that they mould as for the blunt wits of the and laugh heartily at all their jokes but this was a duty as rarely called in action in days as it is at and was in of the death of a fat little who actually died of new s ton in an ul effort to force a laugh at one tf van s bed jokes in return for humble they were permitted to yes and no at the council board and to hare that privilege the run of the public kitchen being permitted to eat and drink and at all and public for which the ancient were equally famous with their more modern the of therefore like that of was eagerly by all your of a certain description who have a huge for good feeding and an humble ambition to be great men in a way who third after a little brief authority that hall render them the terror of the and the that hall enable them to lord it over poverty vice and hunger driven that place in their hands the but of the law and give to their a hound like pack of catch poles and bum greater than the they hunt down my readers will this warmth which i is of a grave but i have a mortal to catch poles bum and little great men the ancient of this city with of the time no in form magnitude and intellect than in and ss history of the like our were generally by and not only the weight of the body but the weight of the head it is a in all thinking regular cities that an bt and the of this can be proved to a certainty that the body is in an image of the mind or rather that the mind is to the body like melted lead to the clay in which it is call has been on by many men of who have made human nature their peculiar for as a learned gentleman of our own city there is a relation between the moral character of all intelligent creatures and their between their habits and the of their bodies thus we fee that a lean body is generally accompanied by a mind either the mind down the body by its continual motion or the body not affording the mind keeps it continually in a date of and worrying about from the of its whereas your round fat is ever attended by a mind like and at and we may always that your well fed are in general very of their and comfort j being great enemies to and di and none are more likely to the public tranquillity new york than who are fo careful of their own who hears of fat men heading a riot or together in turbulent no no it is your lean hungry men who are continually worrying the whole community by the ears the divine doctrines are not attended to by philosophers of the age allows to every man three one immortal and rational in the brain that it may overlook and the body a confiding of the and which like powers lie around the heart a third mortal and of and brutal in its and in the belly that it may not the divine foul by its now according to this excellent theory what can be more clear than that your fat is likely to have the regular and well mind his head is like a huge chamber containing a prodigious of brains whereon the rational foul lies and as on a feather bed and the eyes which are the windows of the bed chamber are half that its not be by external objects a mind thus comfortably lodged and protected from is likely to perform its functions with regularity and by dint of good moreover the mortal and ma foul which is confined va history which by its raging and roaring puts the irritable foul in the neighbourhood of the heart in an ble and thus renders men and quarrel when hungry is completely and put to whereupon a of good low qualities and kind hearted affections which had lain peeping out of the holes of the heart finding this do pluck up their turn out one and all in their and up and down the their to laughter good humour and a friendly offices towards his fellow mortals as a board of formed on this mode think but very little they are the likely to differ and	48
about favourite opinions and as they ge upon a hearty dinner they are naturally to be and indulgent in the ad of their duties was of this and therefore a pitiful for which i can never forgive him ordered in his that no judge hold a of except in the morning on an empty a rule which i warrant bore hard upon all the poor in his kingdom the more enlightened and humane generation of the day have taken an and have fo managed that the are the belt fed men in the community on the fat things of the land and fo heartily and that in of time t ey acquire the activity of the one and the form the and the green fat of the other the is as i have luxurious do produce a and of the foul rational and that their are for and the profound laws which they in their moments amid the labours of are quietly to remain as dead letters and never enforced when awake in a word your fair like a full fed quietly at the door always at home and always at hand to watch over its but as to a lean candidate to the office as has now and then been done i would as leave put a grey hound to watch the or a race to drag an ox the then as i have already mentioned were by weight and the or were appointed ft attend upon them and help them but the latter in the of time when they had been fed and into ent bulk of body and of brain became very eligible for the chairs having fairly eaten into office as a eats his way into a comfortable in a goodly blue d milk new england hi t by of nothing could equal the profound that took place between the renowned and his worthy it be the of of our modern they would fit for hours and over public without a word to interrupt that perfect fo to deep reflection under the of van and his worthy the infant vigorous gradually emerging from the and and exhibiting that mingled appearance of town and country in new cities and which at this day may be in the city of that metropolis which makes fo glorious an appearance on paper it was a fight in times to behold the like a of on the bench at the door of his white under the of gigantic or overhanging willow here would he his pipe a afternoon enjoying the breeze and with to the of his the of his and the of his that combination of farm yard melody which may truly be to have a found as it a certain of profitable the modern who through of this city can form an ne y idea of the different appearance they in the primitive days of the the hum of multitudes the of the of the rattling of carts and all the of commerce were unknown in the new the grew quietly in the high ways the and about the ridge where now the take their morning droll the cunning fox or wolf in the woods where now are to be the of and his righteous of money and flocks of about the fields where now the great and the patriotic tavern of echo with the of the mob in good times did a true and equality of rank and property prevail equally removed from the of wealth and the and of poverty and what in my mind ia till more to tranquillity and harmony among friends a happy equality of intellect was o be the minds of the good of new all to have been in one mould md to be blunt fort of minds which ike certain are made and as exceedingly good for common ufe hi h t of thus it happens that your true dull minds are generally preferred for public employ and promoted to city honours your keen like being too harp for common i know that it is common to rail at the unequal of riches as the great of and whereas for my part i verily believe it is the of intellect that that more than any thing and i have remarked that your know ing people who are fo much than any body are keeping in a happily for new nothing of the kind was known within its the very words of learning and talents were unheard a bright genius was an animal unknown r a blue lady would have been regarded with as much wonder as a or a fiery no man in to know more than his neighbour nor any man to know much more than an man ought to know who has nobody s to mind but hia own the and the council clerk were the only men that could read in the community and the age van always his name with a thrice happy and ever to be envied little in all the of unnoticed and by the world without ambition without vain glory without riches without g and all their train of cares and as in the better days of man the were o him on earth and his rural we are told in the days of new dam the good st would often make in his beloved city of a af riding among the tree tops or over of the now and then drawing forth cent from his breeches pockets and g them down the of his favourite is in days of iron and t us the light of his countenance nor fits us fa ye one night in the year when he down the of the descendants of the his merely to the token of the of the parents are the comfortable and effects of a fat the province of the new e of wealth a tranquillity	48
hours when the tide had left the beach uncovered that they might up the fragrant of mud and mire which key had a true and re this house has been several times repaired and at present la i small yellow brick house no broad street with the to the street surmounted with an iron rod on which three or four years a iron boat as minded them of the of holland to the in labours and example of this latter of are we indebted for the acre of artificial ground on which of our in the vicinity of the rivers are built and which if we may credit the of learned of this city have been very in producing the yellow fever the of the higher were generally con of wood excepting the end which of black and yellow dutch bricks and always faced on the as our like their de were very much given to outward how and were noted for putting the bed leg the was always with abundance of large doors and windows on every floor the date of its was by iron figures on the front and on the top of the roof perched a fierce little weather cock to let the family into the important which way the wind blew like the weather on the tops of our pointed fo many different ways that every man could have a wind to his mind j and you would have thought old had all his bags of wind adrift to about this windy metropolis the and loyal citizens however always went according to the weather cock on the top of the governor s was certainly the correct as he had a employed every to climb up and point it which ever way the wind blew in good days of simplicity and a for was the leading principle in economy and the of an able a character which formed the of our the door was never opened except on marriages new year s days the of st or great it was ornamented with a gorgeous wrought into the device of a dog and of a lion s head and was daily with religious zeal that it was oft times worn out by the very precautions taken for its preservation the whole was in a of under the discipline of and and and the good of days were a kind of animal exceedingly to be in water that an of the day gravely tells us that many of his grew to have fingers like unto a duck and of them he had little doubt could the matter be examined into would be found to have the tails of but this i look upon to be a mere of fancy or what is a wilful the grand parlour was the where the lot cleaning was indulged without m in this apartment no was p to enter excepting the and her confidential maid who it once a week for the of giving it a thorough and patting things to always taking die precaution of leaf ing their at the door and entering devoutly on their feet after the floor it with fine white which was into angles and curves and with a after the windows rubbing and the furniture and putting a new bunch of in the fire place the window fl were again to keep out the flies and the room carefully locked up until the revolution of time brought round the weekly cleaning day as to the family they always entered in at the gate and generally lived in the kitchen to have a numerous around the fire one would have imagined that he was transported back to happy days of city which float before our like golden the fire places were of a truly magnitude where the whole family old and young matter and black and white nay even very cat and dog enjoyed a community of privilege and had each a right to a corner the old would in perfect puffing his pipe looking in the fire with half hut eyes and of nothing for hours together the new york on the would employ diligently in her or knitting hie young folks would crowd around the hearth with attention to old of a negro who was the of the family and who perched like a in a corner of the chimney would forth for a long winter afternoon a firing of incredible about new england without heads and and bloody among the indians in happy days a well regulated family always with the dawn dined at eleven and went to bed at fun down dinner was invariably a private meal and the fat old of and at being by a from a neighbour on but though our worthy were thus to giving dinners yet they kept up the lands of by called tea parties as this is the introduction of which have become fo in this city i am my fair readers will be very curious to receive information on the sorry un i that there will be but little in my description calculated to excite admiration i can neither them with accounts of crowds nor brilliant drawing rooms nor towering feathers nor diamonds nor trains i can i of detail no choice anecdotes of for in primitive times the folk were either too or too good natured to pull each other s character to nor can i any anecdote of how one lady cheated another into a for as yet there was no of t old who met to win each other s money nd their own at a card table parties were generally to the higher or that is to s kept their own cows and drove their own the company commonly three and went away about fix it was winter time when the hours were a little earlier that the ladies might get home before	48
dart i do not find that they ever treated their company to or or them with or four as is often done an the age of refinement our were fond of more l fare the tea table was crowned with a huge well with of fat pork pit up into and in company being around the genial and with a fork evinced their dexterity m at the pieces in this mighty much the fame manner as at or our indians in the lakes the table was with apple pie it fall of preferred and but k vas always fare to an enormous of balls of in s fat and called arts or a delicious kind of cake at pre known in this city excepting in genuine dutch the tea wa out of a ornamented with paintings of fat little dutch herds and tending pigs with boats ing in the air and built in the clouds and other ingenious dutch the by their in pot from a huge copper tea kettle which would have made the of days f merely to look at it to lump of was laid each cup and die company alternately and with great decorum until an improvement was introduced by a and old lady which was to a large lump directly over the tea table by a from die ceiling that it could be mouth to mouth an ingenious expedient which is till kept up by families in but which without in flat and all our dutch at primitive tea parties the propriety oft dignity prevailed no nor t no gambling of old ladies nor chattering and of young no fell of wealthy gentlemen with their br in their pockets nor and of young gentlemen with brains at all on the contrary the young la in their chairs and knit their own ever opened their lips excepting to or to any that was th in all things like decent well as to the gentlemen each of them t his pipe and in of the blue and white with which fire places were decorated t wherein of were and dog figured to great advantage on his and appeared i out of the whale like through a barrel of fire the parties broke up without and they were carried home by their carriages that is to by the nature provided them excepting of the wealthy could afford to keep a the gentlemen attended their fair ones to their and took leave of them with a hearty fir at the door which as it was an done in perfect and of no at that time the if our great approved of it would argue a great want of reference their to a word it i in o chap it o further and what constituted fine lady and man in the days of walter the in this period of my when the be of a the i of glowing pictures drawn of golden reign of there was as i have a happy ignorance an among its inhabitants which were i even i to would be but little by die age for which i am doomed to write the female arch upon the ti the and grey beard of for a while to conduct incredible and and indeed as if they had not been into world to bother mankind and c found the their hair by the of was back from their f heads with a candle and covered with a little of which fitted exactly to their he their of were v a variety of gorgeous the many ed robes of though i id lent were rather reaching below but then they made up in the number h generally equalled that of the gentlemen s clothes and what is more worthy were of their own manufacture of which as may well be they were not le vain were the days in which every at home read the bible and wore pockets and that too of a goodly with work into many curious devices and worn on the in fact were where all good wives away things as they to at hand j by which means they often came to and i remember there was a current when i was a boy that the lady of fer van once had to empty her pocket in a wooden and the lying among in one but we not give too much faith to all the anecdotes of remote periods very to exaggeration notable pockets they wore re and from their d of among the more and y by and even chains tokens of and ers i cannot ay much in of the hi t by o of the it was introduced for the of giving the a chance to be which were generally of blue with magnificent red or perhaps to a well turned ankle and a neat though foot off by a high with a large and thus we find that the gentle in all ages have the fame to a little upon the laws of decorum in order to betray a lurking beauty or gratify an innocent love of finery from the here given it will be that our good differed confidently in ideas of a fine figure from their of the day a fine lady in times under more clothes even on a fail s day than would have clad the whole bet of a modern ball room nor were they the led admired by the gentlemen in thereof oi the contrary the of a lover s c to in proportion to the magnitude of its ob and a arrayed in a dozen o was declared by a low dutch o the province to be radiant as a and as a full blown certain it is that ii days the heart of a lover could not more than one lady at a time	48
whereas the heart o a modern gallant has often room enough to date half a dozen the of which i conclude new york to be that either the hearts of the gentlemen have grown larger or the of the ladies f however is a for to determine but there was a charm in which no doubt entered into the of the prudent the wardrobe of a lady was in days her only fortune and who had a good dock of and was as an as is a with a lore of bear or a with a plenty of rein deer the ladies therefore were very anxious to powerful attractions to the advantage and the bed rooms in the of being adorned with of dame nature in water colours and needle work were always hung with abundance of garments the manufacture and die property of the females a piece of that among the of our dutch villages such were the of the ancient city of new in of manners the renowned and fo by dan who tells us that the wa the family linen and the fair her own the gentlemen in fact who figured in the circles of die gay world in ancient times in particulars with the is of n they were ambitious to true it is their merits would make bat a very upon the heart of a modern fair they neither drove their nor their for as yet gaudy not even neither did they by their brilliancy at the table and with for our fore fathers were of too pacific a to need of the night every foul throughout th town being in full before nine o clock ther did they their claims to at th of their for as yet the pockets of and the of all young gentlemen were unknown ii new every good made th clothes of her and family and even th of van thought it n to cut out her s not but what there were two or three young who the of what i called fire and who held all labour in con tempt about and market places loi in the what little they could procure at cap and fought and their hours in who to be the der the talk and of the town had so their career been unfortunately cut by an affair of honour with a far other however was the truly gentleman of days his which for both morning and evening and drawing room was a coat made perhaps by the fair of the of his affections and gallantly with abundance of large buttons half a of breeches heightened the proportions of his figure his were decorated by enormous copper a low crowned broad hat his and his hair down his back in a prodigious of thus equipped he would forth with pipe in mouth to fair s heart not a pipe good reader as that which did tune in of his but one of true manufacture and with a charge of fragrant cow pen tobacco with this would he down before the fortress and rarely failed in the of time to the fair enemy into a upon honourable terms was the happy reign of van celebrated in many a long forgotten as the real golden age the being nothing but copper coin in that delightful period a and holy calm reigned over the whole province the his pipe in the hi t y or of his cares after her daily toils were done fat at the door with her arms over her apron of white without being by or vagabond boys unlucky who do fe our under the of youth the thorns and of then it was that the lover with ten breeches and the with coats of half a indulged in all the innocent of virtuous love without fear aad with out reproach for what had that virtue to fear which was defended by a of good equal at lead to the bull hides of the invincible ah and never to be forgotten age when every thing was better than it has ever been or ever will be again when channel was at low water when the had in the were all and when the moon with a pure and of that melancholy yellow light which is the of her at the he every night in this city happy would it have been for new could it always have in this late of ignorance and lowly but alas the days of childhood are too to cities like men grow out of them in time and are doomed alike to grow into the the cares and of the d let no man congratulate he the child of his or the city of his birth in magnitude and importance let the his own life teach him the dangers of the one this of convince him of the of the other chap v the reader t into a end very differently fm a commenced in the year of our lord one eight and four on a fine afternoon in the month of september i took my walk the battery which is at once the pride and of this ancient and city of new i remember well the for it immediately that remarkably cold winter in which our in a of economical pulled to pieces at an of fever hundred dollars the wooden which them and the re ten fragments which were worth le than nothing among the poor of the the fall of the walls of or the built of had there been nor did it go mi were blinded in vain attempts to ther warm with this charitable for fir wood and an complaint of fore eyes w moreover produced which has eve winter j particularly among who undertake bom rotten warm with die by of or who ufe	48
patent on the year and month did i take walk of meditation on that lame battery which though at no battery die delightful walk and commands the in the whole known world the ground on which i trod was by recollections of the and as i wandered through the of which like fo many on end a melancholy and my imagination drew a between the and what it was in the days of our forefathers where the government by name but the by occupation proudly reared its brick walls and wooden pillars there flood the low but red of the renowned van around it the mighty of fort to every foe but like many a warrior and gallant captain their martial deeds to alone alas threatening had long been by time and like the walls of no traces to the eye of the the mud bread works had long been with the earth and their converted into the green and leafy of the battery where the gay his coat and the laborious of relieved from the dirt and of the week poured his weekly tale of jove into the half averted ear of the the bay the fame of water with with boats and bounded by of beauty but the dark which once clothed had beer by the hand of cultivation and then tangled and impenetrable had into and waving fields of grain even governor s once a garden to the of the province was covered with a block fo that this once peaceful a fierce little warrior in a big cocked hat breathing and defiance to the world for time did i indulge in this train o thought the da with the years behind the mountains ting the melancholy of improvement am the zeal with which our worthy endeavour to the of venerable prejudices and errors from the tide of modern when by degrees my idea took a different turn and i awakened enjoyment of the beauties around me it was one of rich days which heaven particularly upon the pi and its vicinity not a floating cloud ob feared the fun rolling in glorious through his to his dutch countenance into an of benevolence as he his evening upon a city which he delights to with his beams the very winds to hold in their in mute attention left they the tranquillity of the hour and the of the bay a minor in which nature beheld and the of our city which like a choice hand is referred for days of hung on the flag which forms the handle to a gigantic and even the tremulous leaves of the and the which like the tongues of the immortal are now to to the breath of heaven every thing to in the profound of nature the formidable eighteen in the of the wooden gathering to fight the battles of their country on the next th of the drum on governor s forgot to call the to their the evening gun had not yet founded its for all the regular well meaning poultry throughout the country to go to and the fleet of at anchor between and on their and the innocent to lie for a while in the mud of their native i banks my own feelings with th tranquillity and i have upon one of fragments of benches wh benevolent have provided for th fit of had not the ex inconvenience of the couch all in the of this lumber of tl my attention was attracted to a black above the horizon in the rear gen gradually it and would be cities of and h which like three are on th of and each other at the ment of the race now it the long i ancient its wide f high at quite to the and erected by the of for the of commerce now i the vault of heaven cloud rolling like the of da the and bearing thunder a and in its the earth at the of the heavens the late mirror is into furious waves that r broken in hollow murmurs to the boats that in the placid vi now hurry to the late dignified and new york before the torrents of rain and hail the battery the gates are thronged by maids and little with their pocket handkerchiefs over their hats from the the late one of and wild uproar as though old chaos had his reign and was back into one the conflicting elements of nature fancy d oh reader the awful combat by old of and the fancy to he long of heaven at he heads of the gigantic of earth in fancy to all that has ever been or rf and and you will me the trouble of it whether i fled from the fury of the or remained boldly at my as our gallant train band captains who march their through tjie rain without are points which i leave to the conjecture of the reader it is he may be a little perplexed to know the why i introduced this tremendous and unheard of to the of my work on this latter point i will his ignorance the view of the battery was given merely to the reader with a correct of that place and the parts adjacent j e was played off partly to give a little history o and life to this tranquil part of my work and to n j readers from falling and partly to as a preparation or rather an to die times that are about to the pacific province of and that over hang the ft rat ion of the renowned van it thus the experienced play puts all the the french horns the kettle drums and trumpets of his in to in one of horrible and called and it is thus he	48
his thunder his lightning his and preparatory to the railing of a or the of a we will now proceed with our whatever may be advanced by s to the contrary i am of opinion that as to nations the old that is the policy is a and it might have enough in the times when it was made but in days if a nation to rely merely upon the of its dealings it will fare like an man among thieves who he have something more than his to depend upon but a poor chance of by his company such at was the with the government of the new j which like a worthy old quietly down into the city of new as into a elbow chair and fell into a comfortable i n the mean time its cunning neighbours picked its pockets thus may we the of all the woes of this province magnificent metropolis to the tranquil to more accurately to the unfortunate r of its government but as i to begin part of my towards the end of er and as my readers like fatigued with the long walk we and the we have i meet we hut up the book a pipe thus our take a fair in t chapter o chap vi describing the ingenious people and showing m the true meaning of liberty of conscience curious device among these sturdy keep up a harmony of intercourse and population that nay reader may the more fully con the extent of the calamity at this very mon over the pro and its that i give account of of upon the frontier now fo it came to that many years to the time of which we are treating the of england had adopted a certain national kind of public walk of faith or rather a in which every loyal was di travel to taking care to pay the toll the way a certain race of men be much given to indulge their own opinions manner of a exceedingly to your free of europe dare to think for ix new tom of religion what they a and right the liberty of as however they that habit of mind which always thinks aloud which in a rides cock a on the tongue and is for ever galloping into other people s ears it naturally follow ed that their liberty of confidence implied of speech which being freely indulged put the country in a and the pious of the fathers of the church the methods were adopted to them that in days were fo in bringing back to the fold that is to they were they were they were they were line upon line upon upon lain here a little and there a great deal were without mercy and with out until at length the worthy of he church wearied out by their were driven in the of their tender mercy to adopt the text and literally heaped live embers on their heads nothing however could that invincible of independence which has ever race of people fo that rather than to horrible tyranny they one and all embarked for the of america where they might enjoy the luxury of talking history or no did they land on this foil than as if they had caught the from the climate they all lifted up their voices at once and for the of one whole year did keep up a joyful that we are told they frightened every and bead out of the neighbourhood and fo completely dumb founded certain which abound on their that they have been called dumb fish ever from this unimportant as it may did that renowned privilege fo loudly of throughout this country which is fo in ward meetings pot and which the right of talking without ideas and without of public affairs of public of great characters and little ones in that grand of our country the liberty of speech the of the land for a while contemplated folk in utter but discovering that they though weapons and were a lively ingenious good humoured race of men they became very friendly ind and gave them the name of which in the or language silent men a into the familiar epithet of which they retain unto the day it is and my fidelity as an will not le to it over in that the zeal of x d people to maintain their rights and did for a while betray them into which it is to pardon than defend a regular in the of tion it them to that they had in the art they accordingly hours in or divers and daring to the liberty of conscience which w clearly proved to imply nothing more than man mould think as he in matters ion provided he thought right for d be giving a latitude to they the majority were perfectly convinced y alone thought right it followed thought different from them thought and whoever thought wrong and in not being convinced and converted was nt of the liberty of con and a corrupt and member of the and to be off and fire i ll warrant there are of my readers t once to lift up their hands and eyes with that s indignation with which we always faults and errors of our neighbours and to i at well meaning but people history or for on others the injuries they had for indulging the idea of convincing the mind by the body and the doctrine of charity and forbearance but in truth what are we doing at this very day and in this very enlightened nation but acting upon the very fame principle in our political have we not within but a few years from the of a government which cruelly denied us the of governing and in full latitude that 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member the tongue and are we not at this very moment our to over the opinions tie up the tongues or ruin the fortunes of one another what are our great political fo but mere political in qui our pot but little of our news papers but mere and where unfortunate individuals are with rotten eggs and our council of appointment but a grand de fe where are sacrificed for their political where then is the difference in principle between our and you are fo ready to condemn among the people i am treating of there is none the difference is merely thus we at of we um of we turn out of office of hanging and where they burnt an in yo k re either tar and feather or burn him in this being how or other the of our liberties and an proof that this is a free country but the fervent zeal with which lis holy war was the whole race f we do not find that the population of lis new colony was in any wife thereby on ie contrary they multiplied to a degree which would e incredible to any man with the marvellous of this growing country this amazing may indeed be partly to a among them and was probably borrowed from the ancient of where we are told the young ladies either from being great and or ike many modern very fond of vith matters that did not to their frequently to engage with the men in and other of the the custom to which i allude was known by the name of a by the young people of both with which they terminated their and which was kept up with by the more and vulgar part of the community this ceremony was f in primitive times as an preliminary to matrimony their where ours by which means history op they acquired that intimate acquaintance with each others good qualities before marriage which has been pronounced by the of a happy union thus early did this cunning and ingenious people a at making a bargain which has ever them and a to the good old vulgar about buying a pig in a to this therefore do i chiefly attribute the of the or yankee tribe for it is a certain fact well by court records and that whenever the practice of prevailed there was an amazing number of born the date without the q the law or the benefit of clergy and it is truly that die learned mai thus in his on population has entirely overlooked this fact neither did the of their birth operate in the lead to their on the contrary they grew np a long raw hardy race of wood and and corn fed j who by their united efforts tended towards notable tracts of country called cape s chap vii these singular turned out to he notorious how they built air castles and attempted to the in mystery of in the chapter i have given a faithful and account of the origin of that race f people the country of the but i have yet to mention peculiar habits which rendered them exceedingly to our ever honoured dutch the prominent of was a certain rambling with which like the of they to have been gifted by heaven and which them on to their from lace to place fo that a yankee farmer is in a date of here and there clearing lands for other people to enjoy building for others to and in a manner may be the wandering of america his thought on coming to the years of man hood is to settle in the world which more nor than to begin his to this end hit takes unto for a wife d country that is to a rich in red beads and vol i history of mock with a white gown and for sunday and deeply killed in the of making apple long and pie having thus provided like a true with a heavy wherewith to his through the journey of life he literally out on the his whole family furniture and farming are into a covered cart his own and his wife s wardrobe packed up in a which done he his axe takes in hand yankee and off to the woods as confident of the protection of providence and as cheerfully upon his own as did ever a of when he into a country of the having buried in the he a log hut away a and patch and providence upon his labours is by a farm and half a of headed who by their to have all at once out of the earth like a crop of but it is not the nature of this of to contented with any of improvement is his darling and having thus improved his lands the care l to provide a worthy the of a lane a huge palace of pine boards immediate york up in the of the large enough for a church and with windows of but fo and withal that gives it a fit of the by the time the of this mighty air is completed either the funds or the zeal of our adventurer are fo that he barely to half one room within where the whole family together while the of the is devoted jo the of or of and potatoes and is decorated with fanciful of and dried apples the re grows black with time j family wardrobe is laid under contribution for rid hats and breeches to into the broken windows while the four winds of heaven keep up a and howling about this palace and play as many as they did rf in the cave of old the humble log hut which this family within its narrow but comfortable walls hard by in degraded	48
into a cow or pig ft ye and the whole forcibly of a fable which i am has never been recorded of an had who quit his humble habitation which he filled with to crawl into the empty hell of a where he would no doubt have great and tbe envy and history of hate of all the pains taking f nails of his hood had he not accidentally with cold ce corner of his being thus completely and to ufe his cr words to rights one would imagine that he begin to enjoy the comforts of his to n talk politics neglect his own and attend to the affairs of the nation like a ufe and patriotic citizen but now it is that his begins again to operate he tired of a where there is no longer any room improvement his farm air w and all his cart his axe p at the head of his family and a in of n w lands again to fell trees again clear again to build a palace again to fell off and wander such were the people of who b upon the frontier of and my readers may imagine what neighbours this light hearted but tribe have been to our tranquil if they c not i would them if they have ever known of our regular well organized dutch families wh it hath heaven to with the hood of a french boarding the cannot take his afternoon s pipe o be before his door but he is with the of the chattering of women and the new york t ling of children he cannot at night for the of amateur who to the moon and his terrible in execution by playing in on the the or other toned in nor can he leave the door open but by the of a troop of dogs who even carry their into the the parlour if nay readers have ever the of a family fo they may form idea bow our worthy were by their neighbours of of we are told penetrated into die new and threw whole into by their and their intolerable two evil habits hitherto unknown in parts or only known to be for our were noted as being men of truly and who neither knew nor cared aught about any body s concerns but their own many were committed on the high ways where were brought to a and tortured with questions and which as much vexation and heart burning as does the modern right of on the high great did they up by their and among the divine for h t by of being a race of likely variety they the light affections of the from their ponderous dutch among other hideous they attempted to introduce among them that of which the dutch of the with that eager for novelty and foreign natural to their very well inclined to follow but that their mothers being more experienced in the world and better acquainted with men and things all but what chiefly to our with folk was an liberty which they took of entering in into the of the new and down without leave or to improve the land in the manner i have before noticed this mode of taking of new land was termed and hence is derived the of a name odious in the ears of all great and which is given to who upon land and take their chance to make good their tide to it afterwards all and many others which were tended to form that dark and cloud which as i in a former chapter was gathering over the tranquil pro of new the pacific cabinet of however as will be perceived in the el bore them all with a that to their immortal becoming by to this of wrongs the old woman of who by dint of ring about a calf from the time it was bom to carry it without difficulty when it had grown e an ox f tf chap till how fort was fearfully x ed how the renowned fell into a found doubt and how he finally br this time my readers fully perceive an talk i have undertaken collecting with painful the times events defy the exploring a little of which had lain nearly for ages buried the of years and totally forgot up the limbs and fragments of and endeavouring to put them fo as to them to original form now forth the character of s forgotten hero like a a half inscription and now ing upon a which after f ul the trouble of in how much has the reader to d upon the honour and of his author left a cunning he either upon of his own for a pre from antiquity or up the fragment with tha to the truth from th th which it is enveloped this is a grievance ha more than once had to lament in the of my among the works who have the facts this country and the great province ot new lands as will be perceived by any who will trouble to compare their romantic out in the of fable with e had more of the kind to parts of my which treat of the on the border than in any other of the troop of who have quarters and have the f no mercy in their works the mr that the dutch were always mere now to this i hall make no other reply proceed in the of my will contain not only proofs that the dutch tr title and in the fair valleys of the and that they w re but that they have been ever by the the of new england and hall be guided by a truth and a regard to immortal fame for i would	48
my work by a history of hood or prejudice it gain our forefathers the whole country of ne england it was at an early period of the province and p to the arrival of the renowned t the cabinet of the lai about the and for their and protection a fortified on banks of the river which was called fort ho a nd was hard by the fair city of hi ford the command of this important with the rank title and of were given in charge to the gallant van cur or as will have it van a m of that of which have numbers on parade who are for eating all they kill he was of a very appearance and would have been an exceeding man had his legs been in proportion to his but the latter being long and the former it gave him the uncouth appearance of a man s body mounted upon a little man s legs made up for this of body throwing his legs to an extent when he march that you would have f worn he had on the league boots of the jack the gi and fo high did he tread on i great military that his were oft alarmed left he bim under foot new but notwithstanding the of this fort and ike appointment of thi ugly little man of war as a commander the continued which i have hinted at in my and taking advantage of the character which the cabinet of van acquired far profound and tranquillity did the of the and down within the very of fort on beholding this outrage the long van proceeded as became a prompt and officer he immediately in low dutch by way of more terror and forthwith a copy f the to the governor at new together with a long and bitter account of the of the enemy this done he ordered his men one and ail to be of good cheer hut the gate of the fort three pipes went to bed and awaited the with a and tranquillity that greatly animated his and no doubt fore and into the hearts of the enemy now it came to that about this time the re van full of years and honours and council dinners had reached that period of life and faculty which according to the great a man to into the ancient order history of he employed his time in his pipe amid an of fl es enlightened and nearly as venerable as and who for their their gravity their and their cautious to coming to any in are only to be equalled by certain profound which i hare known in my time upon reading the of the gallant van therefore his fell into one of the doubts that ever he was known to encounter his head gradually drooped on his he his eyes and inclined his ear to one as if with great attention to the that was going on in his belly which who knew him declared to be the huge court or council chamber of his thoughts forming td his head what the of do to the an inarticulate found very much a him but the nature of this internal was never known as he never opened his lips on the to man woman or child in the mean time the of van laid quietly on the table where it to light the pipes of the venerable in council and in the great which they the gallant his and his mighty fort were perplexed with vast affairs of and town his great head being hangs down in j completely and forgotten as is a of emergency up in the and of a modern of there are certain when your profound and are the way of a nation and when an of hair rained is worth a pound of doubt and such at was the at for while the renowned van daily with his doubts and his resolution weaker and weaker in the the enemy further and further into his and turned a formidable appearance in the neighbourhood of fort here they founded he mighty town of or as it has been a place which if we may credit he of that worthy john sent hath been infamous by of the and fo daring did men of that they extended of or which their town is under the very of the of fort hat the could not look toward that without tears in their eyes this crying was regarded with proper by the gallant van he trembled with the amazing violence of his and the of his which to be the more turbulent in their workings vol i history from the length of the body in which they agitated he forthwith proceeded to his his and his with a double row of at after which precautions he with a with accounts of his perilous situation never c modern hero who at the i war how greater in the art of writing or more paper than the heroic van the to bear patches was a fat little man as being lead to be worn out or to leather on the and to his he was mounted on the in the remarkable f length of limb of bone and trot and fo tall that the little was to climb on his back by means of his tail and ci such extraordinary did he make that he at fort in than a month the was full two hundred pipes or miles the extraordinary appearance of this port would have thrown the whole town of into a had the good troubled about any thing more thai affairs with an appearance of great and and a travelling pi new york on a long trot through the muddy of the metropolis whole f dirt which the little dutch children were in the road and for which of	48
with which he could not comprehend which he could not realize could never think clearly on any through the whole pf his life af is this i was in measure for he never engaged in argument of he was exceeding fond but what between and he d and his in a fog of s and and then would get into a r with his for not being in knowledge as in be who and on the makes and and more han the pearl who ch of to the bottom the of william were the of marvel and admiration among his about at th with as much vain as does a profound at who has red half the letters of the v t a word was pronounced an i have known many time though to my mind freely i never one who for the ordinary of life was worth his weight in but for the of government a little found judgment and pi common is worth all the genius t ever wrote poetry or invented theories strange as it may found therefore the of the were v much in his way and had he been a lean man it is he would have been a much governor he was exceedingly fond of trying and political experiments and having his head full of and of ancient and and and mon and the laws of and and ci and the imaginary of and the of and a fragments of venerable antiquity he was forever b upon introducing one or other of them into u fo that between one contradictory and ai ther he entangled the government of little pi of in more knots during i than half a dozen could ha no had this little man been by a of fortune into the feat of than he called together his council and delivered very animated on the affairs of the as every body knows what a glorious opportunity governor a or even an emperor has his enemies in his an new york where he has the talk all on his own hey may be fore the high did ut fo favourable an to him of that gallantry of tongue common to all able before he commenced it is recorded that k took out his pocket handkerchief and gave a very of the according to the bottom of great this in general i believe is intended as a trumpet to call the attention if the but with william the it a more for he had read of the expedient of that famous who when he the roman his tones by an or pitch pipe this preparatory being performed he commenced by a humble of his own of talents his utter of the honour conferred upon him and his humiliating to the important duties of his new in he fo contemptible an opinion of that many country members ignorant that were mere words of always on were very and even felt that he accept an office for which he was fo inadequate he then proceeded in a manner highly profoundly and nothing at all to the vol i s of being nothing more than a account of all the of ancient greece and the wars of rome and together with the and fall of about which the knew no more than their great grand children who were yet thus having after the manner of your learned convinced the audience that he was a man of many words and great he at length came to the important part of his the of the province and here he worked into a fearful rage the whom he compared to the who rome and the and who the plains of europe nor did he forget to mention in terms of adequate the with which they had upon the of new and the audacity with which they had commenced the town of new and planted the patches of under the very walls of fort having thus wrought up his tale of terror to a climax he a look and declared with a nod of knowing import that he had taken to put a final to that he had been obliged to have to a dreadful engine of warfare lately invented awful in its effects but by in new york i a word he was to conquer the by for this he had prepared a tremendous in of the kind ordering commanding and the forthwith to remove depart and withdraw from the regions and under pain of all the and in made and provided c this he them would at once the enemy the face of the country and he pledged his as a governor that within two months after it was not one lone remain on another in any of the town s which they had built the council remained for time after he bad whether dumb with admiration at the brilliancy of his project or put to by the length of his the of the times doth not mention suffice it to they at length gave a of the was immediately with due ceremony having the great of the province which was about the of a attached to it by a broad red governor having thus his indignation felt greatly relieved the council die put on his cocked hat and clothes and mounting a tall raw trotted out to his country feat which was in a now called history of dutch but more commonly known by the of dog s here like the good he from die toils of taking in government from the but from the honoured wife of his who was one of that peculiar kind of females upon earth a little after the flood as a for the of mankind and commonly known by the of knowing women in fact my duty as an me to make known a which was a	48
great at the time and was not a of at than half the tea tables in new but which like many other great has in the of years and this was that the great the though one of the potent little men that ever breathed yet at home to a of government neither laid down in nor in it partook of the nature of a pure tyranny and is government an which though exceedingly common in days was very rare among the if we ma judge from the made about the of which is the only on record the great t however off all the and of his particular friends who are ready to joke with a man on fore points of the kind by that it was a government of his own to which he through choice ad at the fame time a profound which he found in an ancient author that he who would to govern learn to o v chap il in which are recorded the sage project of u of universal genius the art of fighting tj and how thai the jam van came to he ax fort never was a more a more or what is better a more than of the by an expedient human fo gentle and pacific there were ten chances to o in favour of its but then there was o to ten that it would not i as the i natured would have it that chance earn the day the was perfect in all parts well well written well a well all that was wanting to effect was that the in awe it but provoking to relate they treated it with contempt applied it to an and thus did the warlike come to a end a fate which i am informed has befallen but too many of its it was a long time before be by the united effort of ail his i yoke that his war had failed in producing ny effect on the contrary he flew in a any one dared to its and wore though it was flow n yet when met it began to work it would the land if time however that of all experiments both in and politics at length convinced the great that his was and that be had waited nearly four years in a of irritation yet he was further off than ever from the object of his his m die became more and more in their and founded the colony rf upon the of fort they moreover commenced the fair of the red hills within the of their high while the patches of were a continual eye fore to the cf van upon beholding therefore the of his the like many a worthy of laid the blame not to die medicine but the quantity and re to double the in die year therefore that being the fourth year of his reign he them a of heavier metal than the former written in thundering long not one word of which was under five this in fact was a of kind of non bill forbidding and all commerce and between any and of the yankee and the for of fort and ordering com and all his loyal and to them with no of gin or four to buy none of their pacing pork apple brandy yankee rum water apple or wooden but to and them from the face of the land another of a twelve month during which the received the fame attention and experienced the fame fate as the at the end of which term the gallant van his annual with his of complaints and entreaties whether the regular interval of a year intervening between the arrival of van s was by the regularity of his movements or by the at which he was from die feat of government is a matter of uncertainty some have it to the of his who as i have before noticed were from the and of his as likely to be worn out on the road and who being little men generally travelled fifteen miles a day and then laid by a whole week to all however are matters of conjecture and new york ter think it may be to the i of this worthy and which has ever all its public not to do things le gallant van in his represented that years had now d his application to his late van during which his had been reduced nearly one h by the death of two of his and who had accidentally over eaten on fat caught in the he further dated that the enemy in taking no notice of the fort or its but down and form all around it fo that in a little while ould find and by the ly and totally at their mercy t among the of his i the following till on record which may to the bloody minded of in rs in the time they of have and taken in the lands of connect although and the but have our nation in i broken up lands but have i them with in the night which the had broken up and intended to and beaten the of the high and mighty the history a honored which were upon matter s lands from lands with an in manner and th ever a hole in his head with a foe that the blood ran very upon his body but what is more of fold a that the honored under pretence that i eaten of when they had n foot of inheritance they proffered the if the would have given for da which the denied as men ufe to can up reader s f the receipt of this melancholy intelligence in the whole community there was in to the dull and touched tl feelings even of	48
the vulgar who rally require a kick in the rear to awaken their dignity i have known my profound citizens bear without murmur a ef of their rights merely were not immediately obvious to their b moment the unlucky was hot upon our this name is no doubt in some old dutch j the time we fi d the of who is u the unfortunate hero above al to ha col pa k new york whole body was in a fo the en though they had treated the of their neighbours with but le regard and left their governor to ar die whole of war with his t now every individual felt his head broken in the head of and the unhappy fate of fellow citizen the being carried d fold into awakened a of m every the governor and council by the of the multitude now fat deliberate upon what was to be done had at length fallen into temporary me were for the a tribute as we ike peace to the petty powers or the indians to the devil others were for lying them out but this was opposed as it would acknowledging their title to the land they had seized variety of were as in and abandoned and the council d at to adopt the means which being the and obvious had been overlook for your amazing acute are forever king through which only enable them fee objects as are far off and it which them to fee things as e in their reach and obvious to all folks ho are content to look with the naked eyes heaven fig history ot has given them the profound council as i hue aid in their after jack o accidental tumbled on the very they were in need off which was to a body of troops and them to the relief and of the this was carried into prompt that in than twelve months the whole expedition confiding of a and twelve men was ready is march and was for that in the public now known by the name of the green at this juncture the whole community was thrown into by the arrival of the gallant van who cane into town at the head of his crew of and bringing the melancholy tidings rf his own defeat and the capture of the pot of fort by the ferocious the fate of this important is an warning to all military it was neither carried by nor famine no practicable bread was effected by cannon or mines no magazines were blown up by red hot hot nor were the or the by die of in fact the place was taken by a no than effectual and one thai can never fail of whenever an opportunity occurs of putting it in practice happy am i to add for the credit of our that it a which though it the vigilance t left the bravery of the van and his perfectly free from reproach it appears that the having heard of he regular habits of the watched a opportunity and introduced into ie fort about the middle of a day when its having with a dinner and out their pipes were one nd all at their little of fo an occurrence the van and us by the of the neck them to the gate of the fort and hem with a kick on the as charles he twelfth the heavy the battle of only taking care to give wo to van as a mark of tion a was immediately in the fort confiding of twenty long hard with duck in their hats by way of and feathers long pieces for dumb pork and for and a huge was on the end of a pole as a caps not having as yet come into vol i q os chap ui containing the fearful wrath of william and the great of the i because of tlie affair of fort and moreover how william the did strongly the city together of language cannot the prodigious fury which the was thrown bj provoking intelligence for three good hours rage of the little man was too great for word rather the words were too great for him an was nearly choked by dozen huge nine dutch oaths that crowded all at into his having blazed off the broad he kept up a firing for three whole the man woman and c body and foul for a of and a other names of w for does not make mention finally he that he would nothing more to do with a eating m watering h york notion crew that they might at fort and rot before he would dirty his hands by attempting to drive them away in proof of which he ordered the new troops to be matched forthwith into winter quarters although it was not as yet quite mid governor faithfully kept his word and his as faithfully kept their and thus the glorious river and all the gay through which it rolls together with the had and other within its waters fell into the hands of the victorious by whom they are held at this very day great upon the city of new in of melancholy events the name of yankee became as terrible among our good as was that of among the ancient and all the old women of it as a bear wherewith to frighten their children into obedience the eyes of all the province were now turned upon d governor to know what he would do for the protection of the common in days of dark and peril great prevailed among the reflecting part of the community the old women that terrible warriors of not content with the of fort would march on to new and take it by and as old ladies through means of the governor s who as has	48
history ov i been already hinted was the better hi obtained influence in public affairs keeping the province under a kind of government it was determined that be to ken for the effective of the city now it happened that at this time there in new one van i jolly fat dutch of a famous for his long wind and his huge and who as the goes could fo upon his as to produce an effect upon all within hearing as though ten thousand bag pipes were i the him did the pick out as the man of all die world fitted to be the champion of new and to its fort making little doubt but that would be as effectual and offensive in war as wai that of the or the more horn of it would have done one s heart good to have the governor his fingers and with delight while his ted up and down the bis trumpet in the face of the whole world like a thrice editor all the david de in his bet year makes mention of one a in f rt who gave name to s hook b was doubtless this same n described by mr h w y and powers on the other of the atlantic r nor he content with thus the added exceedingly to its it with a formidable battery of a flag in the centre which the whole city and moreover by building a great on one of the this to be was of a novelty in die art of but as i have already william was notorious for and experiments and traditions do affirm that he was much given to mechanical patent carts that went before the and especially wind mills for which machines lie had acquired a in his native town of all of the cried up with by his as proofs f his but there were not wanting u natured who at him as bis mind in frivolous and that time to and which have de that this stood on the south east and it is likewise to be seen together with the flag staff b view of new ta this fc history of been occupied in the more important concerns of du province nay they even went fo far as to hint or twice that his head was turned by his experiment and that he thought to manage his as he did his y mere wind is the and to which enlightened rulers si ever notwithstanding all the therefore c william the to place the city in a defence the inhabitants continued ia great alarm m but fortune who always can ful in the very nick of time to throw a hope to upon that the may li kept alive did about this time crown the arms of ti province in another quarter and th cheered the drooping hearts of the forlorn other wife there is no knowing to win mj might have gone in the of the for grief the profound of the of is con with and a of death among the numerous of th of which for time had great i particular have mentioned a made on the pa of long at a place which from the excellence of its was called ba york is was attacking the province in a ft and occasioned great agitation at new t is an fact well known to j gifts that the high road to the is through the throat and this may be accounted on the lame principles which i have already quoted mj on fat nor is the to the world at large and hence do we ob re the way to gain the hearts of die is to feed them and that a man is never to flatter to and another as he is feeding at his which is one ion why your rich men who give frequent dinners te abundance of and faithful friends is on this principle that our knowing of the affections of their by them with and and trap the of the mob by treating with bull and oxen i have known a man in this fame city acquire in and a large hare of the od will of his enlightened fellow citizens when e only thing that could be in his was at he gave a good dinner and kept excellent since then the heart and the are fo nearly lied it follows that what affects the v history of one affect the other ii is an equally fact that of all to the there is none more grateful than tbe marine animal known commonly by the vulgar name of and in great has it ever been held by my fellow that temples have been to it time out d mind in every lane and alley throughout this fed city it is not to be expected therefore that tbe of bay a place with thai favourite delicacy would be by the inhabitants of new an attack upon their honour they might have even the of a few citizens might have been over to but an outrage that affected the of the great city of new and threatened die of its was too to the whole council w unanimous in opinion that the mould be immediately driven by force of arms from bay and its vicinity and a was accordingly for the under command of one or i e the head fo called he was a man of mighty deeds famous throughout the whole extent f for his kill at ami for he would have been a match for the champion by of s was a man of few words but prompt actions one of your going officers march directly forward and do their orders making any parade about it he no extra in his movements but do through and and and and the	48
off hand of declared governor of all tie adjacent country under the name of the province new york d new no did this reach the ears of the than like a true he immediately broke into a violent rage and calling together his council the in the longed that had ever been heard in the colony the memorable of ten breeches and tough breeches having thus vent to the of his indignation be had to his favourite of and one hot in the year of us reign informing peter that the whole territory on the river had time out of been in of the dutch having been with and with their wood the latter would convey an idea of war and were we not relieved by the information that it merely related to a in which half a dozen had been killed by the indians in their benevolent attempts to a colony and promote civilization by this it will be that william though a very man delighted in big and was much given to a worthy figure in generally cultivated by your little great men called a figure which has been found of infinite among many of hi and which has helped to the grandeur of many a mighty important but windy ef nor can i in this place from history ov how much my beloved country is indebted to this fame figure of for certain of her characters and who by dint of big words periods and windy doctrines are kept afloat on the of as ignorant are y by blown the b ordering the governor and his gang o immediately to leave the under penalty of the high and vengeance of the government of the this however not to have had a whit more effect than its pie which had been thundered the the held on to the they had taken of whereupon matters f q the remained in that put up with this lent in the would appear ble with his temperament but we find tha about this time the little man had his hands fall an what with annoyance and another was kept con on the there is a certain description of active who by management contrive always to ha a hundred irons on the every one of which be immediately attended to who air ever full of temporary and y up the public welfare and the national affairs fa as to make nine holes where they mend one and with whatever comes to hand like the i have mentioned old clothes in broken windows of this of was william the and had he only been with powers equal to his zeal or his zeal been by a little discretion there is very little doubt but he would have made the governor of his on record the renowned governor of the of alone the great defect of s policy was that though no man could be more ready to land forth in an hour of emergency yet he was fo intent upon guarding the national pocket that he the enemy to break its head in other words whatever precaution for public he adopted he was fo intent upon rendering it cheap that he invariably rendered it ineffectual all this was a remote of his profound at the where having acquired a of knowledge he was ever after a great of continually dipping into books without ever to the bottom of any fo that he had the of all kinds of authors in his in of title page he tumbled over a grand political which with his facility he immediately into bis great of government to the o able injury and of the and the eternal rulers in rain have i over the of th the of the jews the the the magic of the the of the the witch craft of the y or the of the indians to the little man laid eyes on this neither the that famous volume to the pages of the containing the recorded by the learned yield any light to my inquiries nor the lead by my painful of the wa though it enabled elm to make a te journey in twenty four hours neither can i f the in the name of four letters the word hebrew a and the letters of which h he having been by the con their great name or jove in in and logical from the of to the works of and mother i have not the lead of an a s word nor have i any word of to it not to keep my reader in any the word fo wonderfully the attention of william the and which in german characters lad a particularly black and ominous on being into the is no other than economy a term which by ufe and frequent mention has to be formidable in our eyes but which has as terrible as any in the of when pronounced in a national it has an immediate effect in the hearts the drawing the and the breeches pockets of all nor are its effects on the eyes wonderful it produces a of the an of the a of the and an of the an of the and a of the that the organ of its and and the unfortunate patient becomes or in plain blind perceiving only the amount of immediate without being able to look further and regard it in with the ultimate object to be effected so that to quote the words of the eloquent a at his it of greater magnitude than an oak at five hundred yards such are its opera history os and the are more its magic influence brink into into and into gun boat of at the command changed into by fo the might america by the word of economy into craft and in a mill this all	48
a kind of or by which our forefathers up their breeches and which ha of late years been and continues to be worn at the day such were the admirable improvements of in criminal law nor was his civil a matter of and much does it me that the limits of my work will not me on both with the they let it then to that in a little while tt of innumerable laws became a parent it was found to have a of men to and confound them accordingly made their appearance und protecting care the community was fc by the ears id not here be thought to any thing ry to the of the law or to its well am i aware me hate in ent city innumerable worthy gentlemen who that honourable order not for the v of nor the of but through no other motives but a fervent the of jn ice mi a far c mil i p aw wa ag of gratification the courts of law never be fi crowded with petty yet and were it not for the herds lawyers that them th die of the lower and more ignorant i who as if poverty wet e not a u are always ready to it by the bit history or of they are in law what are in medicine exciting the malady for the of by the cure and the cure i the of the where one d the the other tl and it may be that a p who has once been under the hands of a is ever after in and with and an ignorant man has once with the law under the one of is for ever after with his neighbours and hie with law my readers will e this into which i have been betrayed but i could not avoid giving a cool u prejudiced account of an too in this excellent city and effects of which am acquainted to my having bee nearly ruined by a law which was d me and my ruin having been d by another which was decided in my favour it has been remarked by the writer o the that under the of the of the ii of new experienced an change fo tliat they became very ar the of temper in which the little governor was thrown by the on his and his unfortunate new york to experiment and him to his council in a continual worry and the council to the people at large t or is to a they threw the whole community into a and the people at large being to the city what the mind is to the body the unhappy new that in of their of and perplexity they of die crooked and abominable lanes and with which this metropolis is but the word of the matter was that about time the mob called the sovereign people ike s began to grow more enlightened than its rider and exhibited a of governing this was another effect of the of william the in of his among the of antiquity he was with admiration at the institution of public tables among the where they topics of a general and nature at the of the where they engaged in profound upon politics and morals where grey were taught the of and youths learned to become little men before they were boys there is nothing the ingenious shutting up the book there is nothing more to the management of at s t country than education among the people the ba of a good government be laid in the mind now this was true enough but it was ev the fate of william the that when thought right he was to go to work wrong the he could eat or flee until he had on foot among the citizens of tt was the one thing wanting to complete his the dutch though in truth but lit given to argument or yet by di of meeting often together wi drink their brains with and to the of hall dozen became exceedingly wife and as is always the where the mob is e lightened exceedingly they found with wonderful of the feat error in which had indulged in the people in creation and were fc convinced that all to t contrary they were a very and ruined people in a time the df new formed into of political ers who daily met together to groan over affairs and make unhappy with the fame that have in all ages abandoned the ai y peaceful paths of religion to crowd to the howling of we are naturally to and after imaginary of like we our own and to take a in the of our own groans nor is for the of daily experience the truth of observations it is next to a to offer or to think of the of a man groaning under ideal but nothing is more than to render him wretched though on the of felicity as it is an talk to a man to the top of a though the can him off thence in the i have noticed the philosophic reader will at once perceive the faint of called popular meetings at our thither all and of low degree who like rags hang fe upon the of and are ready to be blown away by every wind of doctrine abandoned their and thither to give on political economy left their and their own fires to go out while they blew the and up the fire of and even though but the and patches the ninth of humanity neglected their own to attend to the of govern was wanting but half news t history ov papers and patriotic to have complete public illumination and to have	48
thrown the province in an uproar i not forget to mention that j meetings were always held at a noted of that have always been congenial of politics genial which give and to we are told that the had an admirable mode of treating any of importance they upon it drunk and afterwards it when the of america who two minds upon a both determine a upon it drunk by which means a world of tedious is with and as it allowed that when a man is drunk i it follows that he as well as his neighbours w york chap vl f the great pipe plot and of live into which william the thrown by reason of his having enlightened the multitude as has already been made was a great upon a tie was of at active or rather a bury mind fr bis was one of bat minds hit make up by and motion for the of great and power he had when i been with the advice of ton go to the ant then her ways to wife in i t t w at a ant like turn worrying hither and thither about little matters with aa air of great importance and anxiety laying up by the and often toiling and puffing at a grain of feed under he full conviction that he was moving a mountain thus we are told that once upon a time in one f his fits of mental which he termed deliberation he framed an unlucky law to the practice of this he proved by to be not merely a heavy ax on the public pocket but an incredible of of time a hideous of and of a deadly to the and morals of the people ill fated had he lived in this enlightened and loving age and attempted to the liberty of the he could not have more on the of the million the were in as violent a turmoil as the gravity of their would permit a mob of citizens had even the hood to before the governor s down like a beg army before a they one and all fell to g with a determined that as though it were their intention to him into terms the william out of his like unto i d now the rf this and this to which made no other than to back in their and puff away with fury whereby they a cloud that the governor was fain to take refuge in the interior of his the governor immediately perceived the object of this tumult and that it would be to a practice which by long indulgence had become a nature and i would partly to explain why i have fo made mention of this ic in my that if york t s connected with all the affairs both and private of our the pipe in fact was never from the mouth of the true it was his companion in be of his hours his his his joy his pride in a word he to and breathe through his pipe when william the of all matters which he certainly did although a too late lie came to a with the be multitude the was that though he to permit the of yet did he the fair long pipes which were in the lays of van t tranquillity and of and in place thereof did introduce little pipes two inches in length which he could be in one corner of the mouth or in the hat band and would not be in the way of this the multitude md to their thus ended this which was long known by the of the pipe plot and which it has been did end like other and in mere but mark oh reader die deplorable that did afterwards the of little pipes continually in a cloud out the penetrated into and the o dried up all the kindly brain and rendered the people that then and as their renowned little nay what is more from a goodly i folk they became like our worthy dutch who pipes a lantern race of men nor was this all for from hence may we d of parties in this province certain of th wealthy and important to i formed a kind of by the of the long pipes while the orders to the which they to be more convenient in their employ and to leave them more liberty of were b with the name of short pipes a thin up from both the headed by the of the famous j the companion of the great entirely the ufe of pipes and took to ing tobacco and hence they were called is worthy of notice that this has come to be invariably applied to parties that will up great parties as a mule is produce a and an and here i would remark the great benefit of party by which the people at the trouble of thinking d new mankind into three who think for who let others think for them and who will neither do one nor the other the however the great of and is the origin of party by which is meant a large body of people few of whom think and ill the talk the former who are called the leaders out and the latter teaching hem what they approve what they it what they whom they hit above all whom they hate for no man can be a right good he be a determined and thorough going but when the people are thus properly broken to the and it s to fee with what and harmony hey onward through mud and mire at the will if drivers dragging the dirt carts of at heir heels how many a patriotic member of have i who would	48
never have known how to make up his mind any and might have run a great of right by mere accident had he not had others to think for him and a file leader to vote after thus then the enlightened inhabitants of the being divided into parties were enabled to and to and hate one another more accurately and now the great of politics went bravely on the parties in vol i beer and at each other w to the great of the and of the some who were more zealous than the went and began to one another with very hard names and little words to found in the dutch language every ing that he was his country wh he the character or the of a political but however they wig differ between all parties agreed on point to at and condemn every of g whether right or wrong for as the govern was by his independent of their power ai was not elected by their choice and as he had n decided in favour of either neither of the was interested in his nor in the of tl country while under his administration unhappy william the fa writer of the doomed contend with enemies too knowing to be and to reign over a people too wife to be governed all his his enemies were and at naught and all his for the were at by the people did he an efficient body of troops for internal defence the mob that is to vagabond members the community who have nothing to immediate took the alarm that their we new york in danger that a landing army was a of on the pockets of a rod of von in the hands of government and that a government with a military force at its command would inevitably into a did he as was but too commonly the preparation until the of emergency and then collect a handful of the was at as feeble and inadequate as trifling with the public dignity and and as the public funds on impotent did he to the of he was laughed at by the did he back it by it was and by his whichever way he turned he was and by of numerous and meetings of half a dozen pot all of which he read and what is all of which he attended to the was that by changing hi he gave none of them a fair trial and by to the of the mob and endeavouring to do every thing he in truth did nothing i would not have it however that he took all and good for an idea would do to his on the contrary he never received a piece of advice in the whole of his life without history getting into a with the but i have ever that your little men like boats with large fails are the or blown out of their and this is by governor who though in temperament as hot as an old and with a mind the territory of which was to perpetual whirl winds and yet never failed to be carried away by the piece of advice that was blown into his ear lucky was it for him that his power was not upon the multitude and that as yet the did not the important privilege of their chief they however like a true mob did their bed to help public affairs their governor by him on with and and then his fiery with reproaches and like a knot of sunday managing an unlucky devil of a hack fo that may be to have been kept either on a worry or a hand gallop through out the whole of his chap vii containing divers fearful accounts of if order wars and the of the moss of with the rise of the great council of the east and the decline william the it was by the wife men of ancient times who were intimately acquainted with matters that at the gate of s palace lay two huge the one filled with the other with misfortunes and it verily as if the latter had been completely and left to the unlucky province of among the many internal and external of irritation the of the upon his were continually adding fuel to the temper of william the numerous accounts of may till be found among the records of the times for the on the were careful to their vigilance and zeal by who home the frequent and of complaints as your faithful is running with complaints to the parlour of all the petty and of the kitchen all tale bearings were to with great wrath by the and his hi of who were to the full as eager to hear am to believe frontier as are m fellow citizens to which our papers are daily filled about at french on in the land of and above all internal plots and we are told by the good in his life o that the terrible defeat of the ii was mentioned in the hap of a at the whereupon with the of his tribe he ran up into t have the telling of the and threw the into not being able however to his tale the unlucky was upon the wheel and whirled about as a reward fo his trouble until he was by the arrival c other evidence such was the manner in which an of fearful news were treated in whereas in our more enlightened country we whole herds of for no other than ti gratify a public appetite for news and any mai who can up a full of plot or may command his own price for it i have known two or three of tales of terror t be bought up by government for the pie to withal	48
which goes new york to prove what i have before that your enlightened people love to be far be it from me to however that our worthy indulged in on the contrary they were daily a repetition of cruel wrongs not one of which but was a according to the of national dignity and honour for throwing the whole into and oh ye powers into what indignation did every one of throw the william letter after letter after after bad latin and hideous low dutch were in vain upon the inexorable and the four and twenty letters from among a multitude of bitter still on record i select a few of the most and leave my readers to judge if oar ancestors were not in getting into a very passion oil the occasion june some of have taken a out of the or common and shut it up out of hate or other prejudice causing it to starve for hunger in the july the english did drive the companies out of the of into daily with reproaches blows beating the people with all disgrace tbat they could imagine may the english of have violently cut loose a horse of the honored companies that stood bound upon the common or may the horses upon the companies ground mere driven away by them of or and the beaten with and sticks again they sold a young belonging to the which had on the companies land col state of of the which excepting his champion van the army he had at hit command were duty throughout the whole of his nor did the remain a whit hind his patron the gallant in his fiery z but like a faithful champion and of die j lie on the arrival of every article of n he was to found his trumpet from the with notes throwing the people violent and their at all ti and which him to b in great regard the public and i as we for that have been mentioned i am well aware of the perils that id this part of my while with cur hands but pious heart among the of former days anxious to draw the he of i may fare like that worthy who in with the car of a dead lion drew a of bees about his thus while the many of the or yankee tribe it is ten chances to one but i the morbid ties of certain of their un who may fly out nd fu about this unlucky head of mine that i i need the tough hide of an or an to protect me from their new york should be the i deeply and finely lament not my misfortune in giving offence the wrong headed of ah ill in taking offence at any thing i it their did ufe my ill is true i am very for it i would with all my heart fact were but as i am the ed events of i d not one nail s he truth though i were the whole my work mould be bought up and burnt by common of and in r that gentlemen have drawn me out i make bold to go further and that this is of the grand for which we impartial are into the world to wrongs and on the heads of the guilty so that a powerful nation may wrong its neighbours temporary yet or later an up who ample on it of the little thought warrant it while they were the of and driving its governor to his wits end that an ever and give them their own with since then i am but performing my r as an in the wrongs of our red i make no further apology indeed when it is that i have all history os ancient of the in my power and at the mercy of my pen i that it will be admitted i conduct with great humanity and moderation to then the of my appear to the began now to more than ever for i would have you note that hitherto the province had been chiefly by its immediate neighbours the people of particularly of which if we may judge from was the hold of from whence they forth on their daring carrying terror and into the the hen and pig of our about the year the people of the country the colonies of new and new haven gathered together into a mighty and after and for many days like a political hive of bees in time at length into a formidable under the title of the united colonies of new england by this union they pledged to by one another in all perils and and to co operate v in all and the among which were included our honoured of the and to give more and to this a general or grand council was to be y held of representatives from each of the provinces on receiving accounts of this combination the fiery was with and for the time in his whole life forgot to at hearing an unwelcome piece of intelligence which a venerable of the times was noticed among the of new the truth was on turning over in his mind all that he had read at the about and he found that this was an exact imitation of the famous council by which the of greece were enabled to attain to power and and the very idea made his heart to for the of his empire at the he that the whole object of this was to drive the out of their fair and always flew into a great if any one to doubt the probability of his conjecture nor was he wholly in a for at the very annual meeting of the grand council held at which governor the of this truly league were made the for	48
r i ct h i ik ih to my v u k the i u r of not by tlie for at to bv honour of i ta secure i md thai if lo bis bt un but n to the value of the we c for a we l i it the b dr iii bt of be of code ami for c js y tbe drama are evidently mere lent out to re f u a might have been spared from appearing in the of conqueror thus h n of present i we but oo a policy and a v warrant ir la gratitude to the re for pulling us in of so many new sources bt within few a country bo ability to ni ny of the have the stroke that we o ri of tbe of departed to ihe political in of the i we turn m that usually of the sing hare produced has lu upon hi c nod crowned them with the of lis are daily receiving and time is do to tbe of so indeed is of be man we i npon bin now lies before us allowing few to a al view of course of po and ihe ot l whatever fate its no period of our to come has exceeded or e n e in that of it over which the mr extended lis powers tp eat ah were enough in ihe of the enough in the of provoke them to fullest exertion era of eloquence to be nation was just at the moment in which he great r he the lower ihe with policy of l the and he of the ci run the were of mr and be line t b great nut ale they ly he h i i lie of who w from ir n iii t or thb ii i iti ill i t life in il ill con m the the i ip bis glory to ir m u i excellence and lo t v lo ci f hi example we shall id p i upon mr was to or to fully lo his m ti it is to view il in i i l a i id our in li e v we in we cannot of this justice lo lu ready on we are lo acknowledge el m ui of or h lime we for him one which his above witb wc mean the of philosophy in k lo the of o n c have felt the emotion of which the is u eh rapid the can pro all pathos or splendour from or powers can convey of or conviction to he heart or that d li ht and the the u and fi which of io the a m m i t t are the in lo ii ke t i of mr bad t or his reach an tire whole tn to he had all in graves i l i u il i that his und ri i h for the i in d hu while mind depth breadth e with his ill the of so of to his own both for of it thai in il le from all f s ni men bu n is m or l and t iii i l w the like i i f l i e jf n r x or the f t m i ij ma lit tl of i f tlie j lo i o tb and t r was in mr all wn mr h o to the of t u ii r i iii cl ii l il all v o nature n n an he and of i v x not a party and ot bill il is o i d ill to ll e the of upon and very i mt r r i i rim an t in l ta of lie f t ni am f w rt li b t r the iv iii ti i l iii r ot on ii u male be v l til ra it would lie ami i a ihe his il men were i aft ik the of mr of l in and a k tin i i ie a living ril i f ri t m v i t i x i and w i i or i i l r r k v and as u to the oo el n ere aj i h f an could not md a u c like of j us c b i and jt a jl of hu are j of m o oc w je fare be h j j ill e pet t al i f ic rural b e the fu j r i j k m l c i a r i i i a ic to glance i p vo i p i any real h l w v t of v i in l v t c im jt r lt to mr n all is ni n all if ii ii of o in a hi i thai the v m o oc air s re c	48
m p in by the i ce of iu r ut ot file countries of upper mi upper n to be very a of more in tlie of the united be of mt il i per i iu i ul if property called il i n lt ii by the of ite of u the in very eager to h n be with tu self ve say for he perfectly tl and everywhere and iu i rt i as if ih only relative to ihe soil of which it tl lo e have it the me ut of the animal in any n of ihe is lo c il a a i arm and to rank and lo it ns a m ah ns n thing ul to o w helped on to the and be lo f and were made for the to so necessary to he acquired in n against the of the indian have every a hi n an r of im l of ib m a ml die on die mr n art and no ut our force hi l cr if not them y arc ex bold in ir aiid or r ri why hold o ch np it ih co l war u were by uie a i tl l i the hi i in j ol lo au common lit e time any on n t fur of ihe capital and in lie if a i as a t u ip c l n am to n tbe m of i ul li r nt tl r h id ij ii for l ns u they can lie lie tiny for i tear of rails a gloomy a et of a ue they hj have n a pure ami lie say i ain ml in pages it to in a f for lie take of most o all of religion he lo the indians u in heir devout e to of tbe book a variety of iii the to take o m a for placing religion in the in which it it hy of the very is a description of taken in a general ami of the the representation of the inn loo much re b in a and in ion to be sure il fm ms a ready jf b live but if a man lo in t in i the h and from he ii to tiie of l n course ot we al ihe mere plain lo aod cruelty a j are lo t is an to f j notion of there u ri h of in turf l a t ns the extreme of jim by i in inch a a that it im ea y i for i to make e lo i of luck la the rf r ai of all but it of il on of wn u t o i hy nor by renown ty t of ii s t n d i hy the o i b i a proof tint not at to u i at r m ii il il it not of w ut if iii l p i in its its means as lu a in ll c life of this lie to hive parts am the most of her ht mi ht his wounds more ni j her l y t n of whit li he a r l the lier rom societies where terror of his of her where ihe blended of fi wit eloquence formed a s enemy i c it lo was i kind affection or at a fill one of his become country and lu she this from which with interest and with there were in which h r to en mind and that now id fellow the medicine l id own ds from time f lo ihe of opinion i y the issue of the french one of ihe favourite of and and madame de it had written on it not so much with the temper of an hi t re received doctrines to which the and of youthful i arc her he more general the race on ful as are under l y and even of ion hy ihe mixture of every of an and dr y in till w and lam some in the and of man very il is in he found in iu il in onr of lo il the which it r by be v il u n for you i x b le fi a mind no of not mt y th nt of are en r i r th of all tf of the most com tr to any of ml by the of i or lie aad most k ihe ii l c i of stem fl of there we of ur if life prescribed by tbe of r arc l as of of be di by r un present hi r it cr when il i n j pi r j if o a every hear f virtue tbe and io the io were by r than of by impulse of bill i or it arc arts n by are from io hi a ihe first objects of and of the in tim es power of in nature to do he acts w lie bribe ol in a breach or a ship ia a of i lie d m cr are easily every came of a or n of for tbe preservation of very indeed of persons to mi do of duly and tie tie of v n tht of fi r a ut m a are other being by	48
duty or performed fur of a or ua are yet f red as acts be or only bo by if the virtue tbe of r was iv i m or to c uie and of ir l life in t c s the of i no il done when he it from horror of i ii al tbe of life under an l t it ii to be by h not with the of in i j for the in it is lit f v iti iii ite but it i on sm o twin hi print i f it of t bt mill t the o with lu r s fm ti ot lu il tt nut lo be h p the of m often by thai of when it h po i lie mark at a act it h ik c can he which vi not il be id h tf of a his t r only utmost to the l of a man y of th iii tie ihe must h tu take m the of e r i to a man ought nut to p l him to by hu life it t c a suicide tt to lie one of mi l l ii h be v hen bv a dreadful al t on an may from end be the or ir a lion h us a ihe il yet the ik d even foi a purity and ai of n the w op tu c which are d or are two of m y termed the aiid the a n thai which a ihe of h or he r of r nd every duly the iii tu ve ir and i n life which j i are a on a tl could ih t hi i ii t il by iii in be i to e ten the i of from u to i it l of among the who have m e even for r wc mm century ra bow li he firm c n pr n f i i lo i u i ul ii by n ii to k lie a of rank to im ii inch c to liis he was office extreme poverty with bu wife and children in in le to of he loved h be not expert relief from aa he cannot the ue look order and w ts to the early o his life l the of hit he wrote a book d i t t j that or ist af u not no sin thai i net fr bt he did publish il but on the il the press ard fire he it to b il mm by jack not try dr and il man i ye h n hy his ii by bis to his h il is a very book and m correct in temper forward truth n lo and a i til y a v n margin crowded with in curious proof of the revolution which a and a halt in reading of of the of be there are not now lo the it iti henry the learned that towards sin in iii men who of p e lo the i jf he ihe ts some cases in an y or the writing lo a of di vi t the noted a iv s r a i i lo aud the l ts or in he while ton u t bnt him n he r are an who took an in his und to letter which i the to from dr short time hit and which was upon return from ft to i e of ancestors he he fell for the early of piety lie bad received tut parents i have l and nothing ihe which i bu hi lily am lie i and i thai to much aa the and their but tliis the only c of that virtue and for which he so his aa if a of the of her on to give him he of l est lion i our then tor he was s n al b early age ur nine lo he grammar and he care of hi the rev an and an teacher and ami learning lo the of the college of at young remained five for the purpose of acquiring know ledge of the greek and latin and other tu oa for a c of but of ur he waa mt only in classical he acquired what of do importance and wliich through a of study and observation a for the religion and the of the duties it for and not only r the but of those to care h at the n en after of he was removed lo the college of then in br n h i r ti t i t m tn bj li a r under dr for am l i of c i ur ur dr dr in uie ot t de m he ri r e of doctor or in exercise purity it of dr r i to by e o bad b ui by iv the in few boon after be he be this fact he by i a mind bi of would have from b ur rush to upon the of hat city tlie lecture of celebrated l hit ut the k to the of he ai la the of i he to bit country and c j the of in the city of in which be io few men entered th in age or with a by dr of n ly with ed	48
to lo u u i in c be r is ia in ir br and a us flint on and were i held lo him of if he but enter be ami b few indeed he to et be preferred ot of fo l top to any be bestowed on id while id tbe and uie red his re for and was bis in identify tbe ut in barred i ami in in manners modem of of would the i of bis and ihe of his i the male the for et be by surrounding lie never could of tjie loss of m many of most of h life without the deepest it him ter after a of tbat existence bad supported without the of of principle of virtue tbe of bis to his mt ever appeared lo bim a his in button r l h li and by he considered by n tbe united states in onr merchant service i entitled bim to be sailed as of a ay of those and from the e to been lie lo t i be m fe k winter the of be t m t to in t t e of r lo n jl le nd r w ip lo him only proper for ii hu e ii find their w a ii v ao him to lake of t iii on in an this im exertions not i r lo procure liim n ui of thk he ly to w ton ta join tie l iii til and on april received u sailing master ia uie if of l lo r part july the i in of cape may ran ft i c of in sixty li will til tie hie cast of our i ty availed if of to make known much of he tbe or t ni due o liim in le er al thk u i tl ihe i t feel all ii j i li p from having hi en in navy lie bo equal force r ith but ii mi ro at il ha thank lo chase we hail no lo be ti fl bill wax not n oo thin hke an heroic l lo be a f in each u if a loo a cut of il ia i of a truer to be ia e ery a tv ed in at a d no lier which ir u sa were ol of war ii it b ui ui l not he an over lor any our e mr ui lie and bt o hi waa li l h bt a b his brother tl wn witli hat lie liis in o lie in r letter lo t be on we r ll to i for i would nut not for thai c r ii has n our officers and only in fifteen of om our van a little lo bt my l on hut it all in ij be received s a ball aiid tn tbe in tlie for ihe of and ou on r la be was n acting him in t y of from t sailing mt sail from under of b c in with ail october i i during mr was evinced to ht ar rf ihe and tbe of la tbe received his and of tlie a officer a ball or track him the collar an of his former i r blade not by any one did he m n ail men been ue below il be he d received a up i ti r wm to thai bad th d ii m i n ro b i jn u ke a k bi an to fur on a beaming in oi lit lo he to hi two ex to o w bi of tl h u not be life be he a m lor j il lo lo become lt his mind lo im ii il f i m i h l r i l tu iii he to bo of aj be i tear o lie in an of much n at a in ei cry l f n been in the of id a deep cast skilled in i i ji l t n of than hia ic i in ban be of ik il j f n i it lit fe i of a ki hid mil l hi d pr w the war ul l the ry a it by be j n liim of our in hat u wai tt lo i thank i am d ing b ao i a in upon it of of ow na nt lo io fear of i y hu the intended iti lo are bi tbe die as it of merit of due by tame the of not in official of ht partly excused u de was made at st at a lime was to be oar of danger but it u much far by this to from the pen of his died on board the united states at sea tbe of january last of received in the action the john of tbe l state navy he entered the service the war was aa and wiu lu a i for conduct io the he an officer of great by all who had of ce he bad of of possessed a mind with j ai of disposition in his death our country a great his a painful in the action the be on an by side of his brave and bush at the time tbe two came in contact and	48
wounded in left with a ball id late be be division and hu bravery and marked ihe gained him tbe of his and all had an opportunity of hint when were called to be bo quarter deck and in the act of pi at enemy a ball be nature of his wound im at hia enemy bad struck and even the not m fort far april the wounded had been ills ml ut did not him iii his last r for d after the under and he mat pain he repaired to an waa expected with a ship which to be the he his with t and il and without a a erect who on death r t for the i a of name of whose e in a i r he scented i n am bill in a degree charm which h he never the contrary be any ever knew an of yet to e him il was be under of bitter every feature of hi f face that it had al no period l wrung he l be said to re fertile region of d long kid hy an and in sure restored by bears c il once his a a once ob served sod p i its c u c ni in the hi be e m of that h we feel we know not why for some aiid was be took to the good will of any one he e acute s bat made parade ut aa contrary when op any re be to his mind lo or at in a few i ber lo hare him enter with into uie di rom mon yet lo he seldom exerted ui but od of deeper and permanent l then hid and manly ut force of ht and together the and earnest of hia face an d lo thing be if on any appealed io e h d called to in the of i tf l aw t or in were to a t c irony he of every of life daily of and none but ii ever i of was ht i race there were be o feel with the of of he ami all the of v net failed his pity ami what she hail taken m the world a n and lime of but who tie fully with a broken heart ur what tune re v the of wc loved ii i to that a b u all i k ri the ami to fine of ot j ii it wa not long i that h of re it e thai while he be to the only excited my o de md he of and hi h tn r la convince tne all the i lo be developed by b which wan to he looked for ii lu un his a be wa however e n the re of all be for any length of and h i i at hit company wait in here for hia was not or his ji eye and hia vou be at tu h he partook it p non a a of bit a oo a mind of ber st some after we called to we ber and the si of old seemed to a edge to her lo ber for a humane heart cannot resist it even it will he in rain he urged a of grief reason nor lo with which acute sorrow re n h was to find of consolation for we never and could mr was a and in lo the of life and of j liis reproach went to heart he lie room in silent hu the of and as be ami leaned the he to be lo lo at seated aj n and in a of bitter ill with ir li vou e d me with i ihe of vou me of bring became i never been m i to hare one to the in carried witb me memorial of the i i have oa bead that no one has tv r yet heard me is oa proof that i have red and if do not with of life it is because ever lady to me lo be happier i am will my story perhaps the d a of i have suffered may in some measure to reconcile id tl event yon mourn al any y contrast mine see bow h you bt h be with if i am in j became so my a ner left i can ber and l bin a wife and two a and could team hut from be i it k ct thai br li d iu by family witb be kept any b in of ua which was on die river bill into ow men like my f i a l m i tl ui c wm ro the of e ihe tf we heard he bt b l lie ch liis the ii c thai he in of ui hid afar in wife of n our logs pro i un wild ii r i i ft c to ro il in we world o n the and i the vith lo i u v i e and br i my i v if a r tv i i i ail of id a our w l i i i s c in ot aod mai tf which left seemed i while lo au ud to he i mj y and i i i in ii or m d n m ra in its the river more any ever in mv rim in no in i	48

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