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Iliett s
anea acinersoree. Denttetey end talk Ifev- erine wes then called. When Aaron
at a geseteetye Oft* oppoilte Dick's Burk made ,bisefirst dashing expeditio
etstlliaitet, Seaforth. All or- dowe to New Orleans in 1805 at Fort n
ism Soft at the hotel will steak's linkuPt 1 Massac or somewhere above on the
Ottestioalt leibt calls reeeived at the r i h
ver e met, as the devil would have
Iffietto it, this gay, dashing, bright young fel-
low at some dinner party, I think.
Burr' marked him, talked to him,,walk.
ed with him, took hin a day or two's
voyage in his flatboat and, in short,
fascinated him. For the next year
barrack life was very tame to poor
Nolan. He occasionally availed of the
permission the great man had given
him to write to him. Thelother boys
In the garrison sneered at him because
he sacrificed in this ;unrequited affec-
tion for a. politician -the tirne which
they devoted to menortgatiela, sledge
and high -love -jack. Bourbon, euchre
and poker were still unknown. But
°one day. Nolan had hisjrevenge. Th13
time Burr came down the river not as
an attorney seeking a place for his of
lice, but as a disguised conqueror. It
was rumored that he had an army be-
hind hith and an empire before him.
It was a great day -his arrival-te, Poor
Nolan. Burr had not been at the fort
an hour befere he sent for biro. That
evening he asked Nolan to take him
out in his skiff to show him a cane-
brake or a cottonwood tree, as be said
-really to seduce him -and by thetime
the sail was over Nolan was enlisted
body and soul. From that time,
tbough be did not yet know it; he lived
as "a man without a country."
What Burr 4Ike!ant to do I know nc
morethan you, deht reader. It is none
of our business ttist now. Only when
the grand catastrophe came some of
the leseer fry in that distant Minis.
sippi valley to, while away the mono-
tony of the :summer tit Vert ,Adams
got up for spectaclea strifig of court
martiaLs on the officers there. One
and another of the colonels aad major's
were tried, and, to fill out the lish little
Nolan, agatnst whom, heaven known
there was evidence enough -tilt he
was sick of the service, had been will -
log to be false to it and would hitie
obeyed any order to March ankwhither
with any one who would follow him
bad tbe order only been signed, "By
cOmmand of His Exc. A. Burn." ' The
courts dragged on. The big files es-
caped -rightly for all, I know. Nolan
was proved guilty enough is I sitY, yet
you and I would never have beard of
bine reader, but that, when the preit
dent Of the court asked him at the
close whether hewished to say any-
thing to tbow that he bad always -been
faithful to the United! States be cried
f
out in a fit of frenzy: ,
the United States: I wish l
may never bear of the United States
again if'
words shocked old Colonel Morgan,
I sureose be did not trimly how the
who was holding the court. N-olan
had grown up in the' west of those
days In the midst of "Spanish plot,"
"Orleens plot" and aln the rest He
had been educated on, a plantatiou
where` the finest company was a Span.
ish officer ora French merchant from
Orleans. His- edUcatiotk such as It
was, had been perfected in comtnercial
expeditions tor Vera Cruz and 1 thine
he told me his father once hired an
Englishman to be a private tutor for a
winter -on the plantation. He hed spent
half his youth with an older brother
bunting horses in Texas, and, in a word,
to him "United States" was suttee-
dy a reality. Yet be had been fed by
"Malted States" for aii the years since
be had been in the army. 1elleid
sworn on his -faith as a Christian to be
true to "United States." It was "Unit-
e e ed States" which gave him the Wrote')
he wore and the sword by his side. I
do notexcuse Nolan. I only expInin to
the reader why be damned his country
and wished be might never bear her
;mune again.
orld s Greatest
ort Stories
No. L
MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
By Edward Everett Hale
1 EDWARD EVEItETT
RAI
Twenty-four famous authors were
asked recently to name the best
short story in the English language.
The .choiet of Mary Roberts Rine-
hart and Owen Johnson was "The
Man WithOut a Country," by Ed-
wird'Derett Hale. His works are
published. by Little, Brown -it co.
PART I.
TULIP 'NOLAN was asfine a
youug offieer as there Was in
the "Legion of the West," as
the western division of Mit
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Aurtant
SOT & MACKAY.,
3. G. Sada, graduate ot Victoria and
College of Physicians and Surgeons.
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Doretes for. the Count Y of Huron.
C. Mackay, honor graduate atTrinitn
Tiniveasity, and gold medallist of Trine
ety Medical College; membetr of Us Cole
lege of Physicians andSurgeons,Ontgelo
1M. II. HUGH ROSS.
Graduate of University of ,Toroutes
*faculty of Medicine, member a Cot-
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He aener ei neat her name but
.012c0 again. From that moment, Sept
23, 1807, till the day he died, May 11.
1803, be never heard her name hgalte
For that half century and more he was
a man without.fl country.
Old Morgan, as I said, was terribly
shocked_ He called the court into his
private room and returned in fifteen
minutes with a face like a sheet, to
say:
"Prisoner, hear the sentence cf tiu
court The went decides, subject tc
the approval of the president, that yote
never hear the name of the Unitet
States again."
Nolan laughed. But nobody eilee
Itairhe'd. Old Mergan was too soletun
CASTOR1A
MARY ROBERTI,
ILWERART
e.
e
and the Whole room was hushed dead
as nigbt for a minute. Even Nolan lost
big swagger in a moment. Then Moo
gan added: "Mr. Marshal, 'take the
prisoner to Orleans in an armed .boat
and deliver him to the neval cone
tnander there." '
The marshal ' gave hie., orders, and
the prisoner was taken out of court.
"Mr. Marshal," continued old Mon
gate. "see, that no one omehtions the
United States to . the prisoner. Mr.
elarshal, make my respects to Lien
tenant Mitchell at Orleans and request
him to order that no one shall men
tion tbe United States to the prisoner
while he is on board ihip. You will
receive your eveitten orders from the
officer on &Ay here thls evening. The
court is adjourned without day.'
I have always supposed that Colonee
Morgan Weasel! 'took the proceeding
of the :court to Washington city_ find
explained them to Mr. Jefferson. Cer
tain it Is. that the president approved
theme -certain, that is, if I may be
-
neve the men who -say they have seen\
his signature: Before the Nanetlus got
round fronteNew Orleans to the none-
ern.Atlantfacoast with the. prisoner Orr
hoard the. sentence, had been approved.
and he was. a Dana witbout a country:
When I was second officer of the
intrepid some thirty years after I saw
the original paper of instructions:
Washington (with the date,. which must
have been late in 1807).
Sir -You will receive from Lt. Neale the
person of Philip Nolan, late a lieutenant
In the United States army. ,
This person on his trial by court mar-
tial expressed with an oath the wish that
he might never hear of the United Stater
again. "
The court sentenced him to have his
wish fulfilled.
For the resentthe execution of the or-
der is intlusted by the president to this
dePartmen-t.
You willjtake the prisoner on board your
ship and kee him there with such pre-
cautions as sl4alL prevent his escape. s
You will prp ide him with such quarters,
rations and-, lOthing as would be proper
for an odic4 of his late rank if he were
'a passenger1. on your vessel on the busi-
ness of his government. .f%
The gentlemen on board will, make any
arrangements agreeable to themselves re-
garding his society. He is to be exposed
to no Indignity•of any kind, nor is he ever
epneeessarily to be reminded that he is a
prisoner. '
But ender no circumstances is he ever
to hear of his country or to see any in-
formation regarding it, and you:will est
pecially caution all the officers under.your .
command to take care that, in the various
indulgences which may be granted, this
rule, in which his punishment is Involved,
,shall not be broken.
It is the intention of the government
that be shall nearer again see the country
which he -has disowned. Before the end
of your cruise you will receive, orders
which will give effect to this intention.
Resp'y yours, W. SOUTHARD,
For the Secretary of the Navy.
7 suppose the commander of the Le-
vant has it today as his authority for
keeping this man In his urild custody.
The rule adopted on board the snips
on which I bave met "The Man Withoutt Country" was, I think, transmit.,
ted from the beginning. No messliked
to have him permanently, because his
presence cut off all talk of home or of
the prospect of return; of politics or
letters, of peace or of war -out off
more than halfthe talk men like to
have at sea. But it was always thought
too bard that he should never meet the
rest of us, except to touch hats, and
we finally sank into one 'system. He
was not permitted to talk - with the
men unless an officer was by. With
officers he had unrestrained inter-
course, as far as they and he chose.
But he grew shy, though he had favor-
ites. I was one. Then the captain al-
ways asked him to dinner on Mon -day.
Every mess in succession took tip -the
Invitation in its turn. According to the
size of the ship, you heel:him at your
niess mere or less oftereat dinner. His
breakfast he ate in his oven stateroom
-he always had a stateroom -which
was where a sentinel or somebody on
the watch' could see the door. And
whatever elee• he ate or drank he ate
9r drank alone. Sometimes, when the
marines Or sailors had any special Joh
!Wallas, they Were permitted to Invite
"Plain Buttons," as they called him,
They called, Mm 'Plain 'Buttons" be -
cense, while he always chose to wear a
regulation army uniform, he Was not
permitted to wear the army button,
Tor the reason that it bore either the
inftinii or the insignia of :the country
he had disowned. -
I remember soon after I joined the
navy. Some one told the syetem which
was adopted from the 'first itotii his
books and other reading. As he was
almost never perniitted to go on shore,
even though the vessel lay' in. port for
months, his titrie at the best hung
heavy, and everybody was permitted
to fend him books- if they were not
Published .in America and made no al-
lusfen to it. HeIlad almost all Vas
foreign papets that came into the ship
sooner or only somebody must
go over them first and cut out any ad-
, What* tad dies vertisement or stray paragraph that
Rio IN yds vie Nisp sipsit allude.d to America. Phillips told me a
story of semething which happened at
the Cape of Good Hope on Nolan'e first
ISISIII410, voyage, and it is the opiy thing I ever
knew Str :Mkt musk__ ridjuDe_husi
4
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eortoWed a lot of Magoon boons rrom ,
an officer, whieh In those days, as tee (511 the enemy struca. ,neene caseeente
'deed in these, Was finite a .windfall. walked - forward by way of encoring-
eimeng them, as the dere would reeler ing the. men, and Nolan touched his,
,
was the "Went the east eihistrel," kat and said: '
i
which they hnd all ot them hem] of, "I am showing them how we do this
but whicb most ,of them hurl never ' in the artillery, sir." '
seen e I' think it could _net have been And thie is a part of the story where
published long. Weil, nobody thought, all the legends agree -that the continue
there cceild be any risk of anything ne,.-, dore said:
tionnl in tba, so Nolan was permit ' "r see you do, and 1 thank you, sir,
, ted to join the circle one- afternoon . and I shall never forget this day, sir,
when a lot of them eat on deck smok. and you never shall, sir." '
Ing and reading aloud. Nolan took the h And Ver. the whole thing Was over
book and read to the others, and he and he had the Sliaglishnian's sword In
read very well, as 1, know. Nobody le the midst of the state and ceremony of
the circle knew a line of the poen, the quarterdeck he said:
only 1t Was all magic and border chive ' "Where Is Mr. Nolan? Ask Mr e No-
atry and was 10,000 years ago, eee-e-e . Jan to Wale here."
Nolan -timed steadily through the fifth
i,canto, stopped a nainnte and drank
; something and then began, .without a
I thought of what was comiag:
1 .
"Breathea there the man with soul se
deed
Who never to himself hath -said,,
•
"'This is my own, my native landr "
Tben they ail saw something was le
pay, but he expected to get throtigh; I
suppose, turned a littlte's pale, but
plunged oth '
"Wbese heart hath nererwithin him burned
As hone his footsteps he hath turned
From wandering an a foreign strand?
If such there breathe, go, mark him well."
By tbis time the men were all beside
themselves, wishing there was any
way to make. him turn over two pages,
but he had not quite presence of mind
for that He gagged a !Mille:colored
crimson and staggered on:
"For him no minstrel raptures swell.
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless MB wealth as wish can claim,
Despite these titles, power and pelf,
The wretch, concentrated all in self" -
And here the poor fellow cheited, could
not goon, but started -up, owning the
lox* into tbe sea, vanished °into his
stateroom, "and, by Jove," said Phil.
lips, "we did not see .him for two
mouths again. And I had to make Op
some beggarly story to that English
surgeon why I did not return his Wee'
ter Scott to him." -
That story shows about the time
when Nolan's braggadocio onust have
broken down. At first they said be
took a very high tone, consIderedhis
imprisonment a mere farce, affected to
enjoy the voyage, and all that, but
Phillips said, that after he came out of
bis stateroom be -never was the same
man again., He never reed • aloud
again unless it was the Bible or Shake-
speare or something else he was -sure
of.- He was always shy afterward
when I knew him -very seldom spoke
unless he was spoken to, except to a
very.few friends. He lighted up occa-,
eloaanYt but generally he had the nerv-
ous, -tired look of a heart wounded
man.
Nolan's transfer at sea to the War-
ren was the first of some twenty such
transfers, which brought him sooner
or later into half our best Vessels, but
which kept him all his life at least
some hundred miles from the country
he had hoped he might never bear of
again.
.It May have been on that second
cruise -it was once when he was -up
the Mediterranean -that Mrs. Graff,
the celebrated ;southern beauty of those
'days, danced with Theyhad
been a long time in the bay.'of Naples,
and the officers were very intimate
in -the English fleet, and there had been
great festivities, and our men thonght
they must give a great ball on Ward
the ship. They wanted to use Nolan's
stateroom for something, and they bat-
ed to dolt without asking hint 'to the
ball, so the captain. said they might
ask him if they would be responsible
that he did not talk with the wrong
people, "who would give him intelli-
gence." For ladies they had the fam-
ily of the American consul, one or two
travelers who had ventured se far and
a nice bevy of English girls and ma-
trons, perhaps Lady Hamilton herself.
As the dancing went on, Nolan and
our fellows all got at ease, as I stead-
ies mtch so that it seemed quite natu-
ral f r him to bow to that splendid
Mrs Graff and say:
"I hope you have not forgotten me,
tliss Rutledge. Shall I have the hon-
er Of dancing?" ,
•r+.
- He did It so quickly that Shubrick,
who was by him, could not hinder
him. She laughed and said: •
"I am not Miss Rutledge anyelonger,
Mr. Nolan, but 1 . will .dance all the
3ame," just nodded to Shubrick as if
to say he must leave Mr. Nolan to her
ind led him off to the place where the
dance was forming.
Nolan thought he bad got his chance.
He had known her at. Philadelphia,
and at other places had met her and
this was a godsend. He said boldly -
little pale, she said, as she told me
the story years after:
"And what do you hear from home,
Graff?"
And that splendid creatitre looked
;hrough tilrn. Jove! bow she must
day° looked through him! "Howell
nfr. Nolan!!! I thought you were the
man who never wanted to hear of
some againl", And she walked direct -
y up the deck to her husband and left
poor Nolan alone, as he al veers was.
Ele did not dance
A happier story than either of these
I have told Is of the war. In one of
the great frigate duels with the Eng-
lishtin which the navy was really bap-
tized, It fraiiheneti ethat a round Shot
from the enemy entered _one lot our
ports square and"took right down the
officer of the gun himself andrialmost
every man of the gun's crew. As the
surgeon's .people were carrying '
off the
bodies. there appeared -Nolan in his
.shirt wiiti the ammer in .his
hand, and, just as if he had been the
officer, told theen off with authority
who should go to the cockpit with the
wounded men, who should stay With
him, perfectly cheery and 'with that
way which makes men feel etre all is
right and'is going to be right And he
finished loadiag the gni; With his owr
bands, aimed it and bade the men fire
And there he stayed, captain of that
ann. keening those fellows In spirits
Children Cry
FOR FLETCREWS
CASTOR IA
And when Nolan came the captair
_ said;
Noltunewe•are all very grateful
to you today," You are one of us today.
You will beammed in tbe dispatches."
I And then the old man took oft his
' own sword of ceremony and gave it to
Nolan and made him put it on. The
man told me this who Sew it. Neter
cried like a baby, and well be might
He had not worn 'a sword since that
Infernal day at Fort Adams.
The captain did mention him in the
dispatches. It was always said he
asked that he might be pardoned. He
-wrote a special letter to the secretary
of war. But nothing ever came of it
' As I said, that was about the tine
;when they began to ignore the whole
fransaction at Washington.
PART II.
OLAN'mUst have been in evers
sea and yet almost never Or
land. He told me once, with e
grave smile, that no man in the
world, lived so methodical a life as he
"You know the boys say I am the iror
I•
Mask, - and you know how busy he
"
was.He shid it did not do for any
one to try to read all the time more
•
than to do anything else a?I the time.
but that he read just five hours a day
"Then," he said, "I keep up my note
books, writing ha them at such and
such hours from. what I have beer
reading, and I include in them my
scrapbooks." These were very curloue
Indeed. Ile bad six or eight, of differ-
ent subjects. There was one of his.
tory, one of natural science, one wield)
he called "odds and ends." But they
were not merely books of extracts
from newspapers. They had bit's/of
plants and ribbons; shells tied on am)
caived scraps of bone and wood, whicb
he. had taught the men to cut for him,
and they were bee utif u 1 ly Illustrated.
Till he grew very old, be always went
eat a great deal. Be always kept ut
his. exercise, and I never beard that he
Was ill. If any other men was he
was the kindest nurse lb the world -
and he knew more than half the sun
geons do, Then if anybody was sick or
died, or if the captain wanted him -tc
On any other occasion, he was aiwaye
ready to read prayers. I have remark-
ed that be read beautifully.
My wn acquaintance with Phille
. Nolan began six or eight years aftei
the war, on my first voyage after I
was appointed a midshipman. It was
In the first days' after our slave trade
treaty, while the reigning house, which
Was qstill the house of Virginia, had
still a sort et sentimentalism about the
suppression of the horrors of the Mid.
die Passage, and something was soroes.
times done that way. I first came to
understand anything about "the men
. w!thout a country" one day when we
overhauled a dirty little Schooner.
which had slaves on board. An officer;
avas sent to take charge of her, and
after a .few minutes he sent back hies
boat to ask that some one migbt ,be
sent him who could speak Portuguese.
.We were all looking over the rail when
the message came, and we all whibed
we could Interpret when tbe captain
• asked who spoke Portuguese. But none
of the officers did, and just aa the cap-
tain was sending forward to ask if any
of the people couldnNolan stepped out
and said he should be glad to interpret
if the captain wished, as he understood
the language. The captain thanked
him, fitted out another boat with him,
and in this teat it was my luck to go.
When we got there it .was such a
scene as you seldom see and never
want to. Nastiness beyond account
and chaos run loose in the Midst of the
nastiness. The negroes were, most. el
them, out of the hold and swarming all
round the dirty deck, with a central
throng surrounding Vaughan and ad- •
dressing him in every dialect and pa-
tois of a dialect, trim the Zulu click up.
to the Parisian of Beledeljereed.
As we came on deck Vaughan looked
down from a hogsheah' on which he
had motintee in desperation and said:
"For God's love, is there anybody
who can makeethese wretches under-
stand something'?"
Nolan said be could speak Portte.
gnese and one; or two -fine looking
Kroomen were -dragged out, who, as
It had been found already, had worked
e for the Portuguese at Fernando Po.
"Tell them they are free," said
Vaughan, "and tell them that theite
rascals are to be hanged as soon as we
cen get rope enough."
Nolan explained* it in such Portu-
guese is the Kroomen could under-
stand and they in turn to much of the
negroes as could understand'. them.
Then there was such a yell of delight
clinching of fists, leaping and dancing,
kissing of Nolan's feet and a general
rush made to the hogshead by wolf of
spontaneous worship of Vaughan as-
tbe deus machine of the occesiom
"Tell t them," said , Vaughan, well
pleased; "that will take them all to
Cape Felines."
This ifid riit answer so well! Cape
Palmas was practically as 'far from
the homes of most of them as New'Os-
leans or Rio Janeiro was-thatla, they
_
would he eternally separated from
home there. 'And their interpreters, as
nve could, understand, instantly said,
"Ah, non Palmas," and began to pro.
pose infinite other expedient& in moot
language. Vaughan was
rather dliappointed at this result 'of
his liberality and asked Nolan eagerly,
what they saki. The drops stood on
poor Nolan's white forehead as he
hushed the men down, and said;
"Ile says 'Not Painiasd He says,
Take us home, take us to our own
contact.. take us tot our oWn, house,
Clothes -stay white
if you use them right -
Use Comfort so
tette tin to our ewn poarannetnee eno
ray e n there, ille nrst tiin the stateroomand he said he
me toe eanzeor mat
,
our own women.' And this oneesayeo,"
b
choked out Nolan that he bas nt should like to see me. Oh, dear, do you
heard a word from his home in six irnevmeennithebrthehrreotzliel3nwtheebyds usedto
months. while he has been locked up in a
days? Woutell, I went in, and there, to be
sure, the poor fellow lay in his berth,
snalling pleasantly as he gave me his
hand, but looking very frail. I could not
help a glance round, whieh showed me
'what a little shrine be had made of the
box he was bring In. The stars and stripes
were Weed tip above and around a picture ,
rnents were melting withfervent, heat of Washington, and he had painted a ma-
jestic eagle, with lightnings blazing from
and that something was to pay some- big beak ahis foot just. clasping the
whole--
-where. Even the negroes themselvesglob:,dwhich his wings overshade
owed. The dear old boy saw my glance
and said, with a sad smile, "Here, you See,
I have a country." And he pointed to the •
foot of his bed, where 1 had not seen be-
fore a great map of the 'United States.ns
he had drawn it from memory and which
he had there to look upon as he lay.'
Quaint, queer old namee - were on it in
large letters. "Oh, Danforth," he said, "I
know I amdying, I cannot get home.
Surely you Will tell me something now --
stop, stop! Do not speak till I -say what I
am sure you know -that there is not in
this ship, that there is not In America --
God bless herl-a more loyal man than L
There cannot be a man who loves the old
flag as I do or prays for it as I do or
an infernal barracoon."
Vaughan always said be grew' gray
himself while Nolan struggled through
this interpretation. I, who did not un-
derstand anything of the passion- in-
volved in it, saw that the very ele-
stopped howling asthey saw Nolan's
agony and -Vaughan's almost equal
agony of sympathy. As quiek as he
conld get words, he said:
"Tell them yes, yes. Tell them they
shall go to the Mountains of the Moon
if they Lwill. If I all the schooner
through the Great White desert they
shall go home!"
And after some fashion -Nolan said
so. And they all fell to kissing him and
wanted to rub -his nose with theirs. ,
But he could not stand it long, and,
getting Vaughan to say be might go ho grilt now,
din). There are thirty-four
back, he beckoned roe down into our stars t
boat- As we lay back in the stern for that, though'I daontrtth.knot twhhanatktrid
names are. There leas never -been on:
Sheets and tbe men gave way, he said to
knicoeplytwatiTa.t Ibthank God for that. L
to me: "Youngster, let that shoot you
.without a home and without a coun- knrn
trw yha.t Altndisirtyooubearweiethvoeurtteampfts.eit:ltyo,
_anbf o_e. :1; ho,r
e g -tell me everything, Danforth,
st h,eumcii nehde sfi f;u1, el
hat duartro. u t?
t there hasneverbeen
"tell rnerth e---telfarane-
say a word or to do a thing that shall Ingham, I swear toyoot told tb
u ttat1 ;erve-
li4 •
a
put a bar hetween you and your fara- monster that I had nthing before. Danger or no danger, del -
fly, your home and your county, pray i y or anvoe dbelicacy, who was I that, 4
God in his mercy to take you that In- shocuid h
this time over fills dear, n actingtbetyrant all
stant home to his own heaven. Stick
who bad years ago expiated In hiswholebedyour family, boy. Forget you have rnhoors life the n3adness of a boy's'
a self, while you do everything for said I, "1 Will ten -
thetn. Think of your litanies boy. Write you :Nine r t'hltinrg yNooul Nolan,"
about, o n I y wheels •
shall I begin?'
and send and taik'about 'it Let it be Oh, the blessed smile that erept OVer his t
nearer and nearer to your thought the hi f cal And he pressed my hand and
fltrther you have to travel from It, and wsaidt.e. :',God bless YOUl Tell -me their
rush back' to it° when you are free, as , entaanir'seSvo 1 1 the flag,
he said, and he pointed to the
that poor black slave / is doing ' Wen, I told him the names in as goOd'
And for your country, ',boy," and the • order as I could and he bade me take:
; words rattled in his throat, "and for down his .betindui mwrft amnyd pderanIthr
in aft I best could
that flag." and he pointed to the stile,
was wild with delight about Texas; told
"never dream a dream but of serving me bowids brother died there. He ihad
her as she bids,you, though the service marked aIogoldcross
led
s where besrippened
through carry you rough a thousand hells. ! hibothebother's's grave
No matter what happens to you, no guessed at Texas. Then he was dellg144 -
, be
be saw California and Oregon. Thaty .
'matter who flatters you or who abuses h
1 _ e be• ll nheeiebrateseunspeetedi partly because
you, never look at another flag, never 0 peer elle: twoentlahg .., •
let a. 'night pass but you 'pray God to that shore, though th
so much. "And the men," said he, laugefill
bless that fiag. Remember, boy, that g, "brotieght off a' goOft , -deal besides
behind all 'these Men You have to do gra„
. TbnhewetlyeP
back"beitlier l
ho
with, behind offieere and goVerntnent, earl-
fo ask about
what was done to Barron for surrengering
and people even, there is the country her to the Leopard, and wbether •Burr
herself, your country, and that you be. en• aigyaiAeaentedehbe ground bile testi)
devils there had got hold of her to- and settled down more quietly end ve ,
calm, hard passion, but I blundered
mother. Stand by her, boy, as
da 1' would stand by your mother if those '
long to her as you belong to your own tory
yh of
the
I was frightened to death. by his
. , y 0 u a moment- that was tweeesih°aWnd
. happily to hear me tell # in an hour the
him." Then be asked about the old was
history of fifty years. i
"God tingly° me, for I am sure I forgive '
who owlwivaaismhectiblit had been somebody,
.heBustaildn
and that I had never thought of doing.
out that I would, by all that. was holy, it was a hard ethInngigltolctoenIldeyosn, ittilighami
half it. 'Century into thnatetalke with
seemed __ I abed& man, And 1. do not now know
anything else. He hardly LO ' mweaattiesI told hfirn of emigration and the
hear me, but he did, almost in a whis-
and telegraphs.
o sotfealnynviztlnan, d railroads
and books:
per, say, "Ob, if anybody had sald'sin
and literatur% of the colleges, and West -
to me when I was a you age!" Point and the naval-tichool, but with ilia
' I thlhic it was thLs half confidence ofque:resot, „ Et
that ever you heard.
__ the -tWas Robinson Crewe asking
his, which I never abused, for I never You
told this 'story till now, wbich after- alt accumulated questions of-fifty-tdz„
ward made us great friends. He was Yea"'mem-ber he asked ail of a sudden
=
rery kind to me. When we _parted vijh° as
,
I re1_
president now, and when I told.
lm -
from him in St. Thomas harbor at the iwas
if Old Abe was Cieneral
Benjamin Lincoln's son, He said he met
old *general Lincoln when he Wan quite a,
boy himself at some Indian :treaty. I said
no; that Old .Abe was a gsmarcaien, late
himself, but I could not tel aim at what
family. He had worked urr from Me -
ranks. "Good for him!" cried Nolan. "1 -
am glad of that. As I have brooded and
wondered 1 -have thought our danger was
In keeping up those regular successions
In the first families." I told him every-
thing I could think of that wouId show
the grandeur of his country and its pees.
verity.
And be drank It in and enjoyed It as I
cannot tell you He grew more and More
client, yet If never thought he was tired
or faint. 1 gave him a glass ot water,
but he just .wet his tips and told me not
to go away. Then he asked me to bring;
the Presbyterian Book of Public Prayert
Which lay there, and said, with a vane,:
that it would open at the right Places
and so it did. There was his double
red mark down the page, and I 'melt
down and read, and be repeated with Met
"For ourselves and our country, 0 grave
elms God, we thank tbee, that, hotwitlee
standing our manifold transgressions eil
thy holy laws, thou bast -continued to us
thy marvelous kindness," and so to th
end of that thanksgiving: Then he turn
to the end of the same beta, tand-I read
the 'words more fanlillar to me, 'MOI
heartily we beseech thee with thy fetvor
to behold and bless thy servant, the pr
edenn of the United States, and all oth
In -authority," and the rest of the Elphe
pal collect. "Daufortbl" said he, "7 bikini(
repeated those prayers night s.nd MOM*
hig-it is now ilfty-five years." And then
he said he would go to sleep. Ile beng
me down over him and kissed me, an
he said, "Look in my Bible, Denten*
when I am gone." .And I went away. s
But 1 bad no thought it was the end.
kntb Omuta toweartshaptipdroi, tvaunddIwwoonuitatid Idatrin tar%
be alone.
end ot,-ourcruise I was more sorry
than I can telli I was very glad to
meet him again in 1830, and latertn life,
when I thought I had some influence
In Washington, I moved heaven and
earth to have him discharged. But it
was like getting a ghost out of prison.
They pretended there was no such man
and never was spelt ft man. They will
say so at the department 110W1
There is a story that Nolan met Burr
once on one of our vessels, when a
party of Americans catneeon board In
the Mediterranean. But this I believe
to be a lie; or, rather, it is a myth, well
found, intolving a tremendous blowing
up with which he sunk Burr -asking
Mtn bow he liked to be t"without a
country." .
After that cruise I' never saw Nedan
again; I wrote to him at least twice a
year, for in that voyage we became even
confidentially intimate; but be never
Wrote -to me. The other men tell me
that in those fifteen yei's he aged very
fast. And now It seea the dear old
fellow is dead. He has found a home
at last, and a country.
' Since avrIting this 1 bave received
from Danforth, who is on board the
Levant, a letter which gives an. ac-
count of Nolan's last hours. It reMoves
all my doubts about telling this story.
To understand the first words of the
,letter the nonprofessional reader should
remember that after 1817 the position
of every officer who had Nolan in
charge .was one of the greatest deli-
cacy. The government had failed to
renew the order 01 1807 regarding him.
What was a man to do? Should he let
him go? What, then, if he were called
to accou.nt by the department for yid -
feting the order of 1807? Should be
keep him? What, then, if Nolan'shotild
be liberated someday and should bring
an action for false imprisonment or
kidnaping against every man who had
had bim in charge? The secretary al -
Ways said, 'as they so often do at
thi
Washington, that e were noispe-
cial orders to give a d that we must
I -
act on our own judgment _
Here is the letter: '
'
' Levant, ee 24' S. @ 1819 W.
Dear Fred -1 try to find heart and We
to tell you that it ie all over with dear pId
INolan, The doctor had been watching him very carefully andeye,sterday morning
came to rne and told ine that Nolan WKS '
,- aet so well and had not left his stateroom.a thing I never rememberedbefore. lie
land let the doctor come and See bitn as he
ieut in an hour when the doctor went III
glkitbr be found Mean had breathed h.*
life away with a smila B. had someee,
thing pressed close to his lips. It wa.
his father's badge of tbe Order ot Clap/
Lerma*
We looked in bis Bible, and ewe
a slip of paper at the plans schen be ha• &
marked the text:
"They desire country, even e, hags
Ey: wherefore God Is not ashamed to
railed their God: for he bath prepared
ahem a CIO."
\een this slip ot paper he heei writtesis
"Bury me in the sea. It has been
home, and I Wye It But will not
one set up a stone for my neemoret
Fort Adams or at Orlearra, ttbAtIOr
grace rimy not be moie-than
bear? Say on It:
E memory of
`r111LIF NOLAN,
Lieutenant
In tile arm 01
the 11nfted Statue
Tee loved his country as no,
bee loved her, but no man
at her heads."
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