A ,-5 1 ». 'S- i" r„ «t7H '4 WRlS»?»Wi tf!r- -«S -tr^ %v,~£#*r&7 •-!'-. A INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS ,, ,-'~1 1 "/•',- Mm TWO fc. or less often at at your mess more a more he was man without a country. or two's voyage In his flatboat, and, In his dinner. His breakfast he ate in short, fascinated him. For the next a stateroom, Old Morgan, as terribly own stateroom, he always had I said, was Don't Wait Until That Boy Goes The Man •year very barrack life was tame to or which was where a sentinel, shocked. If Nolan had compared He poor Nolan. occasionally availed somebody on the watch, could see the George Washington to Benedict Arnold, of the permission the great man had door. And whatever else he ate or or had, tried, "God save King given him to write to him. Long, highworded, drank he ate or drank alone. Sometimes, George," Morgan Avould not have felt Without stilted letters the poor boy when the marines or sailors had worse. He called the court into his wrote and re-wrote and copied. But any special jollification, they were permitted private room, and returned in fifteen never a line did he have in reply from to invite "Plain-Buttons," as minutes, with a face like a sheet, to the gay deceiver. The other boys in they called him. Then Nolan was sent say: the garrison sneered at him,.'because a Country with some officer, and the men Were "Prisoner, hear the seWence of the he sacrificed in this unrequited affection forbidden to speak of home while he court. The court decides, subject to for a politician the time which was there. They called him "PlainButtons," the approval of the president, that you they devoted to Monongahela, sledge, because, while he always never hear the name of the United and high-low-jack. Bourbon, euchre, chose to wear a regulation army uniform, States again." and poker were still unknown. But he was not permitted to wear Nolan laughed. But nobody else one day Nolan had his revenge. This the army button, for the reason that laughed. Old Morgan Avas too »y time Burr came down the river, not as it bore either the initials or the insignia solemn, and the wliole room was an attorney seeking a place for his Edward Everett Hale of the country he had disowned. hushed dead as night for a minute. office, but as a disguised conqueror. I remember, soon after I joined the Even Nolan lost his swagger in a moment. He had defeated I knoAv not hOAV many navy, I was on shore with some of the Then Morgan added: "Mr. district attorneys he had dined at I older oflicers from our ship and from Marshal, take the prisoner to Orleans know not how many public dinners he the BrandyAvine, which Ave had met at in an armed boat, and deliver him to had been heralded in I know not how Alexandria. We had leave to make a tjie naval commander there." many Weekly Arguses and it was rumored party and go up to Cairo and the Pyramids. The marshal gaye his orders, and that he had an army behind him As we jogged along some of the prisoner was taken out of court. and an empire before him. It was a the gentlemen fell to talking about Nolan, "Mr. Marshal," continued old Morgan, great day—his arrival—to poor Nolan. and someone told the system "see that no one mentions the Burr had not been at the fort an hour This Story Is Furnished Avhich Avas adopted from the first about United States to the prisoner. Mr. before he sent for him. That evening his books and other reading. As he This Newspaper Through the Marshal, make my respects to Lieutenant he asked Nolan to take him out in his AA'as almost never permitted to go on Mitchell at Orleans, and request Publicity Department of the skiff, to show him a cane-brake or a shore, even though the vessel lay in port him to order that no one shall cottonwood tree, as he said, really to Commission of Public Safety. for months, his time, at the best, mention the United States to the prisoner seduce him and by the time the sail hung heavy and everybody Avas permitted AA'hile he is on board ship. You was over, Nolan was enlisted body and to lend him books, if they were will receive your written orders from soul. From that time, though he did not published in America and made no the officer on duty here this evening. not yet know it, he lived as "A Man allusion to it. These Avere common [No document in actual American The court is adjourned Avithout day." a Country." Avithout enough in the old days, Avhen people history conveys a more I huve ahvays supposed that Colonel What Burr meant to do I know no in the other hemisphere talked of the powerful lesson of what citizenship Morgan himself took the proceedings more than you, dear reader. It is none United States as little as we do of in this republic means, none of the court to Washington City, and of our business just now. Only, when Paraguay. He had almost all the foreign explained them to Mr. Jefferson. Certain delivers a more searching appeal In camp, in barracks, and the grand catastrophe came, and Jefferson papers that came into the ship, to loyalty, than this fanciful re* it is that the president approved and the House of Virginia of sooner or later only somebody must cital of the Man Without a them, certain, that is, if I may believe that day undertook to break on the enroute he will enjoy new go over them first, and cut out any the men who say they have seen his Country. The unhappy creature whe,el all the possible Clarences of the advertisement or s%tray paragraph that whose living death it has graved signature. then House of York, by the great experiences you will be ailuded to America. Right in the upon the memory of mankind The plan then adopted was substantially treason trial at Richmond, some of the midst of one of Napoleon's battles, or was but a figure born of a writer's the same was necessarily Avhich lesser fry in that distant Mississippi glad to know about, and one of Canning's speeches, poor Nolan followed e\rey after. Perhaps imaginati6n. Yet, the account valley, which farther from us than Avas would find a great hole, because on the it was suggested by the necessity of of his passionate outburst Puget Sound is today, introduced the back of the page of that pajper there the best way is to buy a sending him by from Fort and of his dreadful expiation Avater like novelty on their provincial stage, had been an advertisement of a packet stirs the dullest soul, and will Adams and Orleans. The secretary of and, to while aAvay the monotony of for New York, or a scrap from the Soldier's Diary the navy was requested to put Nolan awaken emotion in the minds the summer at Fort Adams, got up, for president's message. I say this was of readers of generations yet unborn. on board a government \ressel bound spectacles, a string of court-martials the first time I ever heard of this plan, There can be no more arresting on a long cruise, and to direct that he on the officers there. One and another Avhich afterAvards I had enough, and should be only so far confined there lesson for the disloyal or of the colonels and majors Avfere more than enough, to do with. I remember the heedless, no more inspiring as to make it certain that he never tried, and, to fill out the list, little Nolan, it, because poor Phillips, who and give it to him before appeal to the spirit of true Americanism, saw or heard of the country. We had against whom, heaven knows, was of the party, as soon as the allusion few long cruises then, and the navy than this memorable there was evidence enough, that he to reading was made, told a story AA'as very much out of favor and as work of literary art and hi^hsouled sick of the service, had been willing he goes. Well bound, and Avas of something happened at the Avhich patriotism.] almost all of this story is traditional, to be false to it, and would have Cape of Good Hope on Nolan's first as I haAre explained, I do not know certainly obeyed any order to march anyAViiither convenient. voyage and it is the only thing I ever AA'hat his first cruise was. But with anyone who would follow him, kneAV of that voyage. They had I suppose that very few casual the commander to whom he in­ Avas had the order only been signed, "By touched at the Cape, and had done the readers of the New York Herald of trusted—perhaps it Tingey or command of His Exc. A. Burr." The Avas civil thing AA'ith the English admiral August 13th observed, in an obscure though I think it was one of courts dragged on. The big flies escaped, ShaAV, and the fleet, and then, leaving for a corner, among tlie "Deaths," the announcement the younger men—Ave are all old rightly for all I Nolan knoAA\ long cruise up the Indian ocean, Phillips enough noAv—regulated the etiquette AA'MS proved guilty enough, as I say had borrowed a lot of English "XOLAN. Died, on board U. S. Corvette and the precautions of the affair, and" yet you and I would never have heard books from an officer, which, in those Levant, Lat. 2° 11" S., Long. 131° according to his scheme they were Press Stationery Store of reader, but that, Avhen the him, days, as indeed in these, Avas quite a W., on the 11th of May, Philip Nolan." carried out, I suppose, till Nolan died. president of the court asked him at the windfall. Among them, as the Devil I happened to observe it, because When I Avas ses ul officer of the Intrepid close, he wished to say any­ Avhether would order, Avas the "Lay of the Last I v.as stranded at the old Mi.-.tollhouse thing to that he had ahvays been some thirty years after, I saAV shoAV Minstrel," which they had all of them in Mackinac, waiting for a Lake faithful to the United States, he cried original paper of instructions. I the heard, of, but most of them had which Superior steamer which did not choose have sorry eA'cr since that I did out, in a fit of frenzy: been never seen. I think it could not have to come, and I was devouring, to the not ccpy the whole of it. It ran, however, "P the United States! I wish been published long. Well, nobody much in this way: very stubble, all the current literature I may never hear of the United States thought Id he any of any­ there risk COM n, very seldom spoke, unless he I could get hold of, even down to the "Washington," (with the date, which cruise—it was once when ras up again!" he AA thing national in that, though Phillips deaths and marriage^ in the "Herald." must have been late in 1S07). •:is spoken to, except to a very the Mediterranean—that Mrs. Graff, feAv 1 suppose he did not know how the old had cut out the SAvore ShnAV My memory for names and people is friends. He lighted up occasionally, "Sir—You will receive from Lieutenant the celebrated Southern beauty of words shocked old Colonel Morgan, "Tempest." from Shakespeare before good, and the reader will see, as he Neale the person of Philip Nolan, I remember late in his life hearing those days, danced They who holding the court. Half the Avith him. Avas he let Nolan have it, because he said, goes on, that I had reason enough 'to him fairly eloquent on something had been lying a long time in the Bay late, a lieutenant in the United oflicers who sat in it had served "The Bermudas ought to be ours and, remember Philip Nolan. There are which had been suggested to him by States army. of Naples, and the officers were very through the Revolution, and their by Jove, should be one day." So Nolan hundreds of readers who would have "This person on his trial by courtmartial one of Flechier's sermons, but generally intimate in the English fleet, and there lives, not to say their necks, had been was permitted to join the circle paused at that announcement, if the he had the nervous, tired look of had been great festivities, and our risked for the very idea Avhich he so expressed with an oath the one afternoon when a lot of them sat officer of the Levant who reported it wish that he might never hear of the a heart-wounded man. men thought they must give a great cavalierly cursed in his madness. He, on deck smoking and reading aloud. had chosen to make it thus: "Died, United States again. When Captain Shaw was coming ball on board the ship. How they on his part, had grown up in the West People do not do such things so often May 13th, 'The Man without a Country.' "The court sentenced him to have home—if, as I say, it was Shaw—rather ever did it on board the Warren I am of those days, in the midst of "Spanish now, hut I was young we got Avhen of For it was as "The Man without his wish fulfilled. to the surprise everybody they sure I do not know. Perhaps it was plot," "Orleans plot," and all the rest. rid of a great deal of time so. Well, a Country" that poor Philip Nolan "For the present, the execution of not the Warren, or perhaps ladies did made one of the WindAvard islands, His education, such as it was, had so it happened that in his turn Nolan had generally been known by the officers for not take up so much room as they the order is intrusted by the president and lay off and on nearly a week. been perfected in commercial expeditions took the book and read to the others who had him in charge during of this department. The boys said the officers were sick do now. They wanted to use Nolan's to Vera Cruz, and I think he told and he read very well, as I know. Nobody some fifty years, as, indeed, by all stateroom for something, acid they me his father once hired an Englishman "You will take the prisoner on board of salt junk, and meant to have turtle in the circle knew a line of the the men who had sailed under them. your and keep him there soup before they came home. But hated to do it without asking him to to be a private tutor for a winter ship, Avith poem, only it was all magic and border I dare say there is many a man who after the ball so the captain said they on the plantation. He had spent half such precautions as shall prevent his several days the Warren came to chivalry, and was ten thousand has taken wine him once a fortnight, might ask him, if they would be responsible Avith his youth with an older brother, hunting escape. the same rendezvous they exchanged years ago. Poor Nolan read steadily in a three years' cruise, who that he did not talk with horses in Texas and, in a word, to "You will provide him with such signals she sent to Phillips and these through the fifth canto, stopped a minute nevi-r knew that hi:3 name was "Nolan," the wrong people, "who would give him homeward-bound men letters and papers, quarters, rations, and clothing as and drank something, and then began, i. ..ether the poor wretch hau intelligence." So the dance went on, would be proper for an officer of his and told them she was outward Avithout a thought of what was any r.nv.? at all. the finest party that had ever been bound, perhaps to the Mediterranean, late rank, if he a passenger on Avere coming— known, I dare say for I never heard can now be no possible harm and took poor Nolan and his traps on There your vessel on the business of his government. of a man-of-Avar ball that was not. For in telling this poor creature's story, the boat back to try his second cruise. Breathes there the man, with soul so ladies they had/ the family of the j-'easun enough there has been till He looked very blank Avhen he Avas told dead, "The gentlemen on board will make Who never to himself hath said- American consul, one or two travelers iKnv, ever siijce Madison's administration to get ready to join her. He had any arrangements agreeable to themselves who had adventured so far, and a nice of went out in 1817, for very strict known enough of the signs the sky regarding his society. He is to It seems impossible to us that anybody bevy of English girls tind matrons, perhaps secrecy, the secrecy of honor Itself, be exposed to no indignity of any kind ever heard this for the first time Lady Hamilton herself. amoi:g the gentlemen of the navy who nor is he ever unnecessarily to be reminded but all these did and felloAVS then, Well, different oflicers relieved each successive charge. have had Nolan in poor Nolan himself went on, still unconsciously that he is a prisoner. other in standing and talking with Nolan And certainly it speaks well for the es1 "But under no circumstances is he or mechanically— in a friendly way, so as to be sure fit de corps of the profession and the ever to hear of his country or to see This is my own. my native land! that nobody else spoke to him. The lers aal honor of its members, that to any information regarding it and you Then they all saw something was dancing went on with spirit, and after jiijsje press this man's story has been especially caution all the officers Avill to pay but he expected to get through, a Avhile even the fellows who took this -wjft^Uy unknown, and, I think, to the under your command to take care that, I suppose, turned a little pale, but honorary guard of Nolan ceased to fear ..country at large also. in the various indulgences which may any contretemps. Only when some plunged on— 1 from have reason To think, some be granted, this rule, in which his punishment English lady—Lady Hamilton, as I investigations I made in the naval is involved, shall not be Whose heart hath ne'er within him I said, perhaps, called for a set of ..archives when I was attached to the broken. burned, "American dancers," an odd thing happened. As home his footsteps he hath turned bureau of construction, that every official "It is the intention of the government From wandering: on a foreign strand?— Everybody then danced cootredances. report relating to him was burned that he shall never again see If such there breathe, so,, mark him well. The black band, nothing when Ross burned the public buildings the country he has disowned. Avhich loath, conferred as to what "American all By this time the men were beside £t AYashington. One of the Tuckers, Before the end of your cruise you will dances" were, and started off with of had themselves, wishing there was any or possibly one the Watsons, receive orders which will give effect "Virginia Reel," which they followed to make him turn over two pages of the Avay if# Nolan in charge at the end war to this intention. with "Money-Musk," which, in its turn but he had not quite presence of mind his -audi when, on returning from cruise, "Respectfully yours, in those days, should have been followed for that he gagged a little, colored JtoO reported at Washington to one of "W. SOUTHARD# by "The Old Thirteen." But crimson, and staggered on: til was the ft Cr WnTnsKieTJs—wh in "for the Secretary of the Navy." just as Dick, the leader, tapped for his navy department when .he came home If I had only preserved the whole For htm no minstrel raptures swell to begin, and bent forward, fiddlers the he found that department ignored be of this paper, there would no break High though his titles, proud his name. about to say, in true negro state, The the whole business. Whether Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, in the beginning of my sketch of this Old Thirteen,' gentlemen and ladies!" Despite these titles, power and pelf, about it, or they really knew nothing Shaw, it was story. For Captain if he. "I Wish 1 May Never Hear of the The wretch, concentered all in self,— if as he had said, 'Virginny Reel,' you a mi ricordo, determined whether it was non it in the handed to his successor United States Agalnl", if please I" "'Money-Musk,' you and here the poor fellow choked, could on as a piece of policy, I do charge, and he to hi.s. Bsi please the captain's boy tapped him not go on, but started up, swnng the not know,, this I do know, that The rule adopted on board the ships him "United States" was scarcely a on the shoulder, whispered to him, and isi7, book into the sea, vanished into his "since and "possibly before, no on which I have met "The Man without reality. Yet he had been fed by "UnitStates" of he did not announce the name the stateroom, "and by Jove," said Phillips, naval officer has mentioned Nolan in for all the years since he a Country" was, I think, transmitted dance he merely bowed, began on "we did not see him for two his report of a cruise. from the beginning. N'o mess liked to had been in the army. He had sworn the air, and they all fell to, the offi months again. And I had to make up I no need As say, there is for secrecy have him permanently, because his on his faith as a Christian to be true to cers teaching the English girls the some beggarly story to that English any longer. And now the poor presence cut off all talk of home or of "United States." It was "United figure, but not telling them why it surgeon why I did not return his Walter me creature is dead, it seems to worth the prospect of return, of politics o^ States" which gave him the uniform he had no name., Scott to him." by while to tell a little of his story, letters, of peace or of war—cut off Avore, and the by his side. Nay, sAvord Turned'a Little Pale but Plunged On, But that is not the story I started That story shows about the time way of slffwijig~vomig Americans of ray poor Nolan, it was only because more than half the talk men like to AS to tell, the dancing went on, Nolan mr when Nolan's braggadocio must have sto to a at it to know that till that moment have at sea. But it was always he was "United Sfotes" had picked you out and our felloAvs all got at ease, as broken down. At first, they said, he (joing "home." But this was .distinct A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY, thought too hard that he should never a first as one of her own confidential I said, so much so that it seemed quite took a very high tone, considered his fine a young meet the rest of us, except to touch evidence of something he had not Philip Nolan was as men of honor, that "A. Burr" cared natural for him to boAv to that splendid imprisonment a mere farce, affected thought of, perhaps, that there was no of hats, and we finally sank into one system. officer as there was in the "Legion for you a straw more than for the fiathoat and say: Mrs. Graff, to enjoy the voyage, and all that but was going home for him, evenMo a prison. He not permitted to talk the West," as the western division of men who sailed his ark for him. "I hope you have not forgotten me»^r ~tV Phillips said that after he came out of And this was the first of some twenty was our army was then called. When 1 do not excuse Nolan I only explain with the men unless an officer by. Miss Rutledge. Shall I have the hon£ his stateroom he never was the same such transfers, which brought him With officers he had unrestrained intercourse, Aaron Burr made his first dashing expedition to the reader why he.damned his country, or of dancing? a- man again. He never read aloud again, sooner or later into half our best vessels, in down to New Orleans 1805, and Avished he might never hear as far as they and he chose. He did it so quickly that Shubrick^'^ 4' unless it was the Bible or Shakespeare, but which kept him all his life at Fort Massac, or somewhere above her name again. But he grew shy, though he had favorites who by him could not^ hinder [j&pX or something else he was sure of. But Avas least some hundred from as I w'p one. Then the captain at miles the on the river, he met, the devil lie never did hear her name but oiice him. She laughed and said: it was not that merely. He, never entered country had hoped he he might, never would have it, this gay, dashing,.bright always asked him to dinner on Monday.! again. From that moment, September longer "I fuuvnot Miss Rutledge any 4*55 .1: In with the other young men exactly hear of againl Every mess in succession too,k /./young fello\v, at some dipner party, 23, 1807, till the day he died, May Mr. Nolan but I will dance all the as a companion again. He was 4^It may have been on. that second I think. Burr marked hitn, talked to up the invitation in its turn. According 11, 1863, lie never heard her name same,' jutjt nodded to Shubrick. as If y'" always shy afterward, when I knew him, walked him, him day with topk a to the size of the ship, you had^iim .again. For--that halt' century and 'i|