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VOT JTMB11. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, MAY 24,1850. NUMBER 41
poetical Department.
.1 LINES.
Tie the midnight of beauty, so deeply intense,
The monarch of thought absorbing each sense;
As the midnight in splendor encircles the sky,
The soul of bright beauty envelopes thine eye.
Tis the rock in the desert, afar in tire maze
The hope of whose shade holds the traveller's gaze,
*Round wfyose summit the lightnings majestically
flash,
As the intellect thoughts in thine eyes brightly
dash;
Ti6 the star of yon sky, pointing ever away
To a clime where eternity is made up of day;
Vims thine eye ever points to the soul richer still,
tvijose treasures the light of ecstacy fill.
Washington city. CONSTANCY.
IT WILL ALL BE RIGHT IN THE MORN
ING.
When the bounding beat of the heart of love,
And the springing step grow slow?
When the form of a cloud in the blue above,
Lies dark iri the path below?
The song that he sings, is lost in a sigh,
And he turns where a star is dawning, [eye,
And he thinks, as it gladdens his heart and his
It will all be right in the morning."
When the "strong man armed," in the middle
watch.
From life's dim deck is gazing, [catch
And strives through the wreck of the tempest to
The gleam of the day-beam's blazing,
Amid the hard storm, there hard by the helm,
He heeds not the dark ocean yawning,
For that song in his soul, not a sorrow ran whelm?
,rHI all ho ritrlil in th? mornine!"
When the battle is done, the heart unstrung,
Its music trembling, dying,
When his woes are unwept, and his deeds unsung,
And he longs in the grave to be lying?
Then a voice shall charm, as it charmed before
He had wept or waited the dawning,
u They do love there for aye?Til thine as of yore
u It will all be right in the morning!"
Tints all through the world, by ship and by shore?
Where the mother bends over
The cradle whose tenant has gone before?
Where the eyes of the lover, [word,
Look at the heart's hidden lore?whatever the
A welcome, a wail or a warning? [heard,
This is everywhere cherished?this everywhere
u It will be all right in the morning."
TOE CONSPIRACY OF FANATICISM. I
,^$3 CONCLUUKD.
This singular example of the inextricable caprices
of fortune, we take to be one of the
most dangerous of the more diminutive race of
insects that ever buzzed about i i the tainted
political atmosphere; for he is held in such utter
1 contempt by all honest men, that no notice is
trken of him until his sting is felt. He is barely
qualified to play second fiddle in a concert of
third-rate demagogues and the only way in
which he can acquire distinction is by becoming
the'tool of greater demagogues than
himself. Some years ago, after disgracing
the state as its chief magistrate, he suddenly
found his level in the lowest depths of oblivion
or insignificance, and was only quoted,
jf quoted at all, as one of those empty bladders
which fortune sometimes amuses herself
with, by tossing to the top of her wheel and
laughing to see it tumble down again by.
its ow n want of momentum.
Bnt though this distinguished representative
of the Empire State has a great alacrity in
sinking, be has a still greater alacrity in rising,
by virtue of his extraordinary lightness. Nor
is any spectacle more common in this enlightened
country than that of a swindler? provided
it be on a great scale?after his ofTences have
become a little rusted by time, suddenly emerging
from the depths of infamy, to become an
object of popular favor or executive patronage.
Thus has it happened to our illustrious senator.
The mud has lately been stirred at the very bottom
of the pool; and he who went down a
mutilated tadpole, has come up a full-grown
bullfrog, bellowing louder than he did when,
as a State senator, he condescended to become
the agent of a principal whose claim was to
be deckled by himself and his brother members.
The wisdom and patriotism of our Legislature
have sent him as their peculiar representative
in the Senate of the CJuited States, and probably
he is fully adequate to that stupendous responsibility.
Since then, his only public exploit
has been a speech, of which we shall say nothing,
except that it would disgrace any man?
but himself. The reader, we hope, will pardon
as for thus turning aside a moment, to do justice
'o a very small man?so small, that his
smallness is unspeakably inexpressible?and
who. bv no possibility, can ever Income great
in any other sense but that of being stupendously
contemptible. It is a received maxim, that
the head of any class or profession must ncces
sarily be more or less distinguished; and the
honorable senator from Africa?we beg pardon,
New York?is undoubtedly chief of the illustrious
band of dealers in " small potatoes." A s
such, he is fairly entitled to a passing notice.
But to descend from this high elevation to my
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more nuuiuie ui??.
Fanaticism, perhaps, never assumed a more
dangerous form than that it now presents in the
United States. It is waging a direct, inveterate
warfare against the Constitution and the
Union. It asserts principles which, if carried
oat in their full extent, will unquestionably bring
about?if not now, at least at no distant period
??a dissolution of that Union, followed by all
its fat,;l consequences. Its principles have a
direct tendency to civil and servile war?to
rapine, murder and pollution. Here they ore.
Let the reader pause, refleet, and see to what
they inevitably lead.
First, " We maintain, that every American
, citizen who retains a single human being in involuntary
bondage, is, according to Scripture,
a man-stealer;" "that the slaves ought to be
instantly sot free" that all those laws now in j
force, admitting the right of slavery, are, before
God, utterly null and void;" " that no compensation
should he allowed to the planters for the
manumission of their slaves." And they have
denounced the Colonization Society as " a
cheat and a hypocrite,'* for no other reason j
than that it offers a rational and practical plan
for doing what they themselves are attempting
to do hy means destructive to the Constitution
and the Union. Hut they have not stopped
here. They have repeatedly, in their conventions,
periodicals and pulpits, declared, " We
will give the Union for the abolition of slavery, I
if nothing else will gain it;" and, to finish their
creed, have adopted, as one of their great fundamental
dogmas, " that the condition of slavery
absolves us from all the obligations of mankind."
The practical application of tins principle
would be productive of consequences that might
make even fanaticism shudder. A being absolved
from a'l the obligations of mankind, is a
wild beast of prey let loose on society. Freed
from all the restraints of morality and religion
by the condition of slavery, he holds no fealty
to the laws of God or man; he has a natural,
inalienable light to do wrong?to set fire to his
master's house; plunder his property; pollute
his wife and daughters; rob them, and murder
them: in short, run a-muck against all mankind.
Such are the doctrines of these exclusive
" fr'ends of the entire human race." To this
condition would our brethren of the South, of
our own color and race, whose forefathers had
their full share in securing to the people of the
North the blessings they enjoy,?to this condition
would they be reduced by the practical
application of this detestable dogma.
I* 1?4 *1*? -/! ??? ?) noirrn PmiccJirV
11 If MUl lilt; lunci ?inj imuv ii .....?...j
of the abolitionists, commonly known as "Orator
Douglas," was listened to at a meeting
at Syracuse, by an assemblage of white men,
and unsexed fern ile devotees of amalgamation, :
while insolently addressing them as follows:? i
" I believe the slaves would be more than a |
match for their enslavers, if left to themselves.
Let the Union, then, be dissolved. I wish to
see it dissolved. I welcome the bolt, be it from
heaven or from hell, that shall shiver it to pieces."
These are the doctrines with which the
speeches, sermons, and writings of the abolitio
lists teem. They are taught to our children;
t'iey are imbibed with the mother's first nutriI
ment, and eirliest lessons; for it is to the woj
men of this country such principles are addressed;
it is bv the aid of their powerful in1
Alienee, as wives and mothers, that these dangerous
incendiaries expect to succeed, in sap
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ping trie VvOnsUfUllOn, disrupting me uiikjii,
and establishing a hierarchy, by substituting
their own interpretations of Scripture in place
'of the authority of laws and constitutions, and
1 asserting t'ie superiority of a fanatical dogma
over them both.
Well aware of the virtues and weaknesses of
women; their tenderness of heart; their proneness
to bo led away by the feelings of the moment;
iheir quick sympathies for human suffering,
and the facility with which they may be
deceived by artful, designing men; it is among
them that they sow their seed, and reap their
most exuberant harvests. They have accordingly
enticed them from the family fold, and those
sacred duties imposed upon them by God and
nature, to instil into their hearts and minds
principles at war with society, and fatal to the
peace of the domestic hearth, as well as the repose
of society. A great majority of these rofomierg
who sign petitions to Congress insultir>?,
ftio fuplinrrs nnrt hbirlVnniiifr flip rtliMrJIC.ter.
"'ft ? ? ?
of the inhabitants of fifteen States, are females
?wives and daughters, who, with all due respect
to the sex, might much better be at home,
attending to their domestic duties, and presi
ding over the morality of the parental board,
than acting the Quixotte in petticoats, and studying
the beauties of amalgamation.
Among the signers of those petitions to dissolve
the Union, presented by men who are
sworn to uphold it, are crowds of little children,
who are thus betimes imbued with principles
directly calculated to undermine our civil and
political institutions, and, in fact, to upset the
ontiso fro mn nf cn/ntitr lur iiinnvittwtita All flir>
long-established principles of social organization.
These friends of the entire human race
go to the fountain head?they dig nt the root
Our children ure taught by their mothers at
home, and their teachers abroad, who in the
North and East are almost nil tinctured with
abolitionism, that they must give the Union for
the abolition of slavery?to "welconi the bolt,
be it from heaven or from hell, that shall shiver
it to pieces," and that the condition of slavery
absolves us front all the obligations of mankind."
f
This is no idle declamation?no shower of
arrows shot at random. We appeal to the declarations
of fanaticism just quoted ; and we ask
whether those by whom they are made, and
those by whom they are sanctioned, are not
enemies to the laws, the Constitution, and the
Union ; and whether in declaring that the condition
of slavery absolves ns from all the obligations
of mankind, they do not assert a principle,
which, if carried out in its consequences,
will cut up by the roots the entire system of
social organization in one half the States of
this Union, and inevitably produce all the multiplied
horrors of a servile war? We ask our
countrymen ot the North, whether they will
condescend to the deep humility of becoming
the instruments and abettors of this conspiracy
of apostatized freemen, andjgnorant, revengeful
slaves ?
One of tho worst and most revolting features
See Manifesto of the Nntionnl Anti-Slavery Society,
at iu firm organization in Philadelphiat
It is to thin influence, no doubt that Senator Hale alluded
in the debate on Mr. Clay's amendment* to Benton's
resolutions.
in this conspiracy of fanaticism, is its foreign
origin. It was originally imported from England,
end is beyond doubt, in a great measure,
supported by British influence, if not British
money. It was immediately alter the return of
the emissaries of the abolitionists from a great
meeting in London, where Sir Robert. Peel'figured
side by side with Daniel O'Conne!!, that
the Colonization Society was denounced as a
cheat and a hypocrite. This was shortly
followed by the organization of a National AntiSlavery
Society, which began its exploits with
a declaration of interminable and exterminating
war against the people of the South, the recognized
rights of projwrty, the lights of the States,
and the sanctity of the Constitution. The name
the violation of His attributes, and the authority
of His sacred word prostituted to purposes
equally at war with both.
The movements of the abolitionists on either
side of the Atlantic, are simultaneous?they
are pulled by the same wire; and it is evident
a close and intimate union subsists between
them. The American fanatics are little
better than cats-paws of British state policy.?
The cue is taken from the latter; every movement
in England is followed here with implicit
subserviency, and every sentiment echoed with
most abject servility. They handle the same
tools, play into each other's hands; and whether
aware of it or not, the American fanatics are
instruments of the British government, in bringing
about a separation of this confederacy,
which, if accomplished, will rid England ofher
only dangerous rival in commerce and naval
Dower: while, at the same time, it removes from
the contemplation of her half starved peasant
paupers and operatives, an object so dangerous
to the permanency of that system, which has
made so many millions of industrious, hardworking
beggars. That this4 is the key to
British Government sympathy for African
wrongs, ispfoved by its utter indifference to the
devastations of India, and the sufferings of Ireland
; by tolerating in its eastern empire, among
the lowest caste of Hindoos, a sjjeeies of slavery
far more oppressive and degrading than that
of our Southern States; by obstiuatelv resisting
all attempts to relax that system of extravagant
expenditure, which entails on the people a burden
of taxation that robs them of the ver}' necessaries
of life; by expelling the negroes of
New-Zealand from their country,* and cutting
their throats at the Cape of Good Hope for nobody
knows what, while redressing their wrings
in America, f
Can any rational man believe, for a single
moment that a government so regardless of the
rights and happiness of the human race everywhere
else should feel any real sympathy for
them in the United State! Assuredly not.?
The philanthropy of the British gooemnient is
political philanthropy?an engine of state. The
direction it has taken of late years is peculiarly
leveled at the United States, and has a two-fold
object. The result of the o|>eratioii of free institutions,
as exhibited in the unexampled
growth and prosperity of this great confederation
of empires, is the hug-bear of despotism.
It makes the old dry bones of superanuutcd
abuses rattle in their eoflins, and the spectre of
liberty haunts them in their sleep. The example
has become contagious, aud nothing can
save the crumbling edifices of despotic power
from being prostrated by the earthquake of popular
indignation, but either to remove such a
dangerous spectacle from the contemplation
of the people, by dividing and distracting this
auspicious Union, or so distorting its features
and blackening its character, that it will no
longer be the pillar of fire in the great desert of
the world, to guide mankind from the house of
bondage to the land flowing with milk and
honey.
Hence the simulated sympathy, not only of
tiie British government but ot all cairopeau
despots,for the African slave. They well know
that the institution of slavery is the weak point
of our confederation, and that in which it. may
he most successfully assailed. They are aware
that it is here the fortress is most vulnerable,
and it is here they have pointed their batteries.
The British government, as the one most deeply
interested in this conspiracy, has exerted all the
influence of its position in working on the sympathies
of the white slaves of Europe, until they
shern almost to have lust sight of their own bondage,
in pity for that of the African. The imperial
despots of Russia and Austria, while
wading knee-deep in the blood of the Hungarians,
and crushing the liberties of Europe under
the hoofs of their whiskered Patulous and Cossacks,
are among the most zealous of abolitionists.
There is nothing so pleases them as the
doctrine of amalgamation, which, if brought into
practical operation, would so debase the free
' r IT i oi .i..
wniie citizens 01 me uiuieu ouues, mat mtj
would become unworthy offreedoin, and incapable
of its enjoyment. The great bugbear would
speedily vanish, and despotism sleep in peace.
This, if we do not greatly err, is the true secret
of that extraordinary sympathy for African
wrongs, in the hearts of those who are callous
to the wrongs of the natives of every other
country. It is one of the most cunning devices
of despotism to enslave one race of mankind,
whiie displayed in such zeal for the emancipation
of another. England is the heud and front
of this communion of hypocrisy. Iler stake
in the game is greater than that of any other
power; for if the United States retain intact
their bond of union a few years longer, tho trident
of the ocean will drop from her hand, and
tho sceptre depart from Judah for ever. Hence,
it is her policy to sow the seeds of disunion,
and by means of sectional dissensions, either
bring about a separation of the states, or so
weaken tho ties that hind them together, that
they will never again act in harmonious cou
See Darwin'* Journal.
t See English Public Despatches.
cert. The attempt to arrest the destinies ol
the United States by open force has signally
failed heretofore, and become hopeless in future.
British arms have been tried in vain,
! and British philanthropy is now our most dan|
gerqns enemy. The ''protectorate" of the
| puissant King of Mosquitoes is a mask for arresting
the construction of the canal across the
Isthmus, so vitally connected with the interests
of this Republic; and sympathy for African
wrongs, the pretext for aiming a deadly blow,
which menaces its very existence. A comparatively
small sum of money, judiciously distribj
uted, for the purpose of enabling the abolitionists
to pay the expenses of their missionaries to
! London meetings and domestic conventions,
' setting up papers and periodicals, to foment
; sectional prejudices and denounce the Constitution
; and maintaining itinerant lecturers, to
j undermine the very fonndations of society, and
; inculcate on our wives and daughters the beau!
ties of amalgamation,?all this may be done
: at one hundredth part of the expense of a naval
' or militanr expedition. The plan is admirable;
"the plot is an excellent plot; and if my Lord
j Palmerston, or the pious old ladies of England,
could only manage to enlist our transcendental
senator, as the Guy Fawkes, to set fire to the
| train there can scarcely he a doubt that Senate,
' Congress and Executive, the Capitol and the
j White House, would all be blown " sky high,"
: as my friend John Randolph used to say. But
it is feared the senator is too scrupulous and
too incorruptible. He may not stickle at undertaking
an agency as attorney in a matter on
which he is to decide as a legislator; or he may
j stretch his conscience so far as to violate his
! oath to support the Constitution. But these
j are small matters to a great man, who soars
above all legal and constitutional restraints,
j and who is accountable to the great tribunal of
: his conscience alone. Many people think he
: might be bought dog-choap but, for my part,
11 hardly believe he would sell himself, unless he
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perfect safety.
This imported demon of fanaticism is not,
however exclusively employed against the Uiiioii;
it has another and still deeper purpose,
namely, to crib and circumscribe the freedom
of individuals, by substituting its own usurped
authority, its own hair-brained will, in place of
those civil laws and political institutions originally
devised for the protection of their rights,
and the direction of their conduct as men and
and citizens. It aspires to become, not only
the spiritual, but the political dictator; to mould
our civil polity; to establish a new system of
moral and religious duties; to make what has
been heretofore considered innocent an offence
against the law of God and man; and brand
our forefathers as instruments 111 inflicting on
their posterity ' the greatest curse that ever fell
011 the heads of mankind."* It makes them
I " men stealers," " dealers in human flesh;" for
nearly all the people of New York, in good
circumstances, at some time or other field
slaves. True, they were very honest people?
aye, and read their Bibles too. But though
contemporary with, and actors in the glorious
drama of the Revolution which established our
| freedom, they iiad not the remotest idea of the
distinction betwixt right and wrong?they
had not the happiness of being the eotemporaries
of William Lloyd Garrison, Abby Folsom
and our transcendental senator, whose com
science is above all laws, except of his own
creating. They saw not these burning and
shining lights which ditti the lustre of the Saviour
of mankind and his Apostles, and show
as clearly as the meridian sun, that they were
ignorant of their highest duty, or regardless
of its performance, when they so studiously
abstained from denouncing " the greatest curse
that ever fell on the heads of mankind."
It was reserved for the inspired abolitionists,
to make the astounding discovery, that what
iiad been considered innocent from the earliest
ages of the world, and practiced by all mankind,
without distinction, Jews, Mahometans,
Pagans, and Christians, was a crime of so deep
a dye, that the stain must be educed at the cost
of the sacrifice ofevery temporal blessing. That,
in short, it imposed an obligation superior to all
others combined, on those who were perfectly
innocent of all agency in its commission, to offer
up their country as an atonement, and their
fellow-citizens as victims.
The space allowed in this Review will not
permit us to discuss this most important subject
thoroughly, in all its bearings, 011 the great
universal interests of human society. Had we
room, we would trace more distinctly and
methodically, the consequences of this deep-laid
conspiracy to subjugate one race of mankind,
under pretence of emancipating, another; and
to render the reason, the experience, the laws,
and the great principles of justice and equity,
subservient to the freaks and dogmas ot fanaticism,
by subjecting the powers of the state to
its control, through an alliance with political
hvnocrisv and ambition. The union of church
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juul state will be nothing to this. The state
will become the tool of the church, and the despotism
of priests a substitute for that of kings.
The boasted freedom of action and will, now
only restrained by legal and constitutional barriers?the
light of reason, and that innate sense
of justice, which is implanted in the heart of
man, as the condition of his responsibility for
his actions, will give place to other mas*
! tors. We shall bo governed in good time?not
j by human laws, hut fanatical creeds?not by
I x.ll iitiil.irvtimil ct.-ihitnc mid IniKr.ronniniizcil
IfVH'llllHl 0 ~ ~ p
I principles, hut by tbo dream of Isaiah,! or the
Pandects of Leviticus, interpreted by a sellcreated
judge, and enlorced by a self-created
power. There will bo no personal liberty but
* See declarations of abolitionists without number.
+ The Book of Isaiah, from whence the abolitionists
draw their sole Scriptural authority for ostracising the
people of the South, commences thus ?" The Dream of
lsaiab," &c., &r.
what is sanctioned by the Twelve Tables, and
no political rights but such as are drawn from
inspired writers, interpreted by those who have
not a particle of inspiration. The friends of
the Union must do something more than cry
out?"Thf. Union must be preserved,"if they
wisli it to last. They must make war against
fanaticism and hypocrisy, instead of with each
other; tliev must look to the Constitution
which is the sole bond of that Union, instead
of fanatical dogmas, as their protector, and
watch-light, and guide; they must refrain from
all association with the fanatics, but openly
and honestly oppose them, even at the hazard
of loosing their worthless support, which can
only be obtained by sacrificing the Union, and
lifl lncs nf U'Kinli mill Kn omnl.. ???~?1?1 '
?..w .vww v. mmivu urn ux, uill^lJf ICIIIUIitJJ aieU UJ'
a rally of all who love their country more than
their party. In 6hort, they must cease their aggressions
on the equal rights of the constituent
members of this magnificent confederation?the
admiration of the world?and come back once
more to those great principles of justice and
equity, which were implanted in the heart of
man, as his guides in the great task of self-government
; which are as immutable as their Di- *
vine author; and which ordain among other
things, that no man, and no body of men, has a
right to violate a contract solemnly and voluntarily
made, under pretence of benefiting others
vrho mere not parties to the instrument. Let
them do this, and then " the Union will be preserved."
The real foes to the Union are not
in the South, but the North. The North is the
aggressor, and will justly be held responsible
for all the consequences, be they what they may.
It is evident that thft efforts nf this i>mjn!r?.
cy of fanaticism are systematic and progressive.
If they gain their point in the questions now et
issue, they will not stop here. They will cut
deeper, they will cut to the very bone. They
will demand of their tools in Congress, and the
State Legislatures, the "instant emancipation of
all the slaves in the United States, without
compensation to the planters." Nextythnt they
shall be instantly admitted, not only to political
but social equality; next, they will find some
text of Scripture, or invent some fanatical dogma,
which will enforce the duty of amalgamation,
perhaps on the great principle, that the
pride of man being an offence against God. it
will be salutary to bring it down by a due mixture
of degradation, that will makehim ashame d
of himself By becoming less manly and intellectual,
he will also be more easily governed,
witnout the aid of that dangerous instrument
called human reason, which is a sad stumblingblock
in the way of fanaticism.
When this triumph over the intellect and reason
of men is obtained, then all the rest will be
perfectly easy. Every law, and 'every institution
of society, will become a shuttlecock, and
the battledores fanatical dogmas. There will
be no other landmarks than these?no other
lights to guide us to the haven of rest, but the
blue lights of fanaticism. The civil rights of
the citizen will consist only in the indulgences
vouchsafed him by fanaticism ; and if any man,
i i* e .1 rr
any community, or any secuon 01 tne union,
demurs to its dictation, they will be expelled
from the ranks of their fellow creatures, and
become Ftr<t Ntiiura, to be hunted at pleasure
by the bull-dog terriers of fanaticism. Innocent
amusements, suitable to the years and
the condition of different classes; blameless
recreations at such periods of leisure, as fall
to the lot of those who labor for their daily
bread, " few and far betweenand all those
little relations so indispensable to restore the
elasticity, and give new vigor to the bow, will,
one by one, be filched from the mechanics and
laborers,under pretence of being contrary to the
? I'il J i.1 a! !a__ _ _ a a. r ci "
law oi uoa, or in?* auinoruy 01 a cexi 01 scripture,
interpreted so as to violate his attributes
of justice, mercy and charity. VVe shall be
immersed in gloom and superstition; our only
recreations will be at midnight conventicles,
and our only excitements the phrenzy of fanaticism.
We shall have no code of morals but
what is propounded by dogmas; no tenets of
religion, no standard of faith, and no political
rights, but what are conceded by the tender
mercies of fanaticism. Let the people of the
North look to it in time, or they will find, when
too late, that they have only cast off the despotism
of kings for that of the church?not
the good, old, moral, church, but of a new-fangled
sect, whose principles are too sublimated
for an association with reason, and too refined
for.ail "amalgamation" with that extremely vulgar
attribute called common sense, which is
what Mr. Webster calls "an obsolete idea,"
altogether too rustical and barbarous for this
transcendental age.? Democratic Review.
Matrimonial Speculation.?Some years
ago, when the world was mad upon lotteries,
the cook of a middle aged gentleman drew
from his hands the savings of some years. Her
master, curious to know the cause, learned that
she.had repeatedly dreamed that a certain number
was a great prize, and had bought it He
called her a fool for her pains, and never omitted
an occasion to tease her on the subject
One dav, however, the master saw in a newspaper
that that number was actually a prize of
jC'20,000. Cook is called up, a palaver ensues,
iiatl known her many years, loth to part &c.;
in short, he proposes marriage and is accepted.
They were married the next morning, and as
the carriage took them from the church, the
following dialogue ensued:
" Well, Molly, two happy events in one day.
You have married, I trust, a good husband;
you have something else. But first let me ask
you where your lottery ticket is?"
Molly, who thought, he was beginning to
banter the old subject, replied:
" Don't yon say more about that I thought
how it would be, I never should hear the end
on't, so I sold it to the baker for a guinea profit,
so needn't make any more fuss about that."
Blackwood's Magazine.