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chism, within the sphere of his own influence, if others desired to be schismatics they were at liberty to go elsewhere, in order to indulge their tastes. Joel Strides and Jamie Allen were both disaffected to this sort of orthodoxy, and they had frequent private discussions on its propriety; the former in his usual wily and jesuitical mode of sneering and insinuating, and the latter respectfully as related to his master, but earnestly as it concerned his conscience. Others, too, were dissentients, but with less repining; though occasionally they would stay away from Mr. Wood's services. Mike, alone, took an open and manly stand in the matter,

ng mass and pr'aching that comes from any of your heretick parsons? Ye're as dape in the mire yerselves, as Mr. Woods is in the woods,

er--"It's a month, or more, sin' you seen it, and the prie

roubling! Yer conscience is aisy, Misther Straddle, so that yer

acknowledge his sins, very much as he would have done had the rock been a confessional containing one authorized to grant him absolution. Accident revealed the secret, and from that time Michael's devotion was a standing jest among the dissenters of the valley. The county Leitrim-man was certainly

pish ways about him, that I am under considerable concern of mind"--concern, of itself, was not sufficiently emphatic for one of Joel's sensitive feelings--"I am under considerable concern of mind about the children. They sit under no other preaching; and, though Lyddy

e first ought to predominate; there being something opposed to natural order, agreeably to his notions, in permitting the reverse of this doctrine to prevail. As for presbyterianism, however, even in the mitigated form of New England church government, he deemed it to be so much better than episcopacy, that he would have taken up arms, old as he was, for the party that it could be made to appear was fighting to uphold the last. We have no wish to mislead the reader. Neith

children, were memorials of the mortality of the settlement. The building was of stone, the work of Jamie Allen's own hands, but small, square, with a pointed roof, and totally without tower, or belfry. The interior was of unpainted cherry, and through a want of skill in the mechanics, had a cold and raw look, little suited to the objects of the structure. Still, the small altar, the desk and the pulpit, and the large, square, curtained pew of the captain, the on

g the tender leaves of the surrounding forest with such touches of light as are best known to the painters of Italy. The fineness of the weather brought nearly all the working people of the settlement to th

ed him. As had been usual with him, of late, he turned the discourse on the importance of having correct information of what was going on, in the inhabited parts of th

of things for the rig'lars. The captain, too, was once a soldier, himself, and his feelin's turn, as it might be, unav'idably, to the side he has been most used to. We are like people on a desart island, out here in the wilderness--and if ships won't arrive to tell us how matters

r the twentieth time, he made some suggestion about the propriet

d, "and have plenty of time to go as

and a sort of instinct which some men possess for the strongest side, had pointed out to him the importance of being a patriot. The captain, he little doubted, would take part with the crown, and then no one knew what might be the consequences. It is not probable that Joel's instinct for the strongest side predicted the precise confiscations that subsequently ensued, some of which had all the grasping lawlessness of a gross abuse of power; but he could easily foresee that if the owner of the estate should be driven off, the property and its proceeds, probably for a series of years, would be very apt to fall under his own control

done with in the Bay colony, already; and you know if the law has run out ther

y magistrate hereabout; and, when he is away, we shall have to b

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e arts of the demagogue than his friend, and who, in fact, had much less native fitness for the

is?" asked Joel, glancing

takin' on themselves the troubl

ce, having the charge of the affairs of this settlement, in order t

one, here. The carpenter, and yo

u know; and it has got to be hoed twice, and topped, before it c

wn sitting-room, whither her son was shortly summoned to join her. Expecting some of the inquiries which maternal affection might prompt, the major proceeded to the place named with alacrity; but, on entering the room, to his great surpris

with a gravity that struck her son as unusual--"I have brought you here to lis

he side of Mrs. Willoughby, and taking one of her hands, affectionately, in both his own. "It is only in after-life that we learn to appreciate the tenderness and care of such a parent

own feelings, American as I am by birth and family, rather incline me to th

feel like a prisoner who is waiting to

rtant both your father and I have always deemed it; and how strongly we have endeavoured to impress this importance on all your minds. The tie of family, and the love it ought to produce, is one of

you--what do you mean?--What can I-

er has a quick and a jealous eye; and I have seen, for some time, that there is not the old confidence, the free natural manner, in either of

erself, she was utterly incapable of raising her eyes from the floor. The former coloured to the temples, a pr

o one has done as much for you, in the way of memorial; that beautiful sash being all her own work, and made of materials purchased with her own pocket-money. Maud loves you truly, too;

ured Maud, burying her

cumstances, than herself; but she was now acting and thinking altogether in her character of a mother; and so long and intimately had she regarded the two beings befor

thing serious; but, it is painful to me to see even an affected coldness among my children. Think, Maud, that we are on the point of a war, and how bitterly you wou

bout the eyelids of Maud. Her face was pale as death, and it

in husky tones. "Here is my hand--nay, here are both. M

on her cold cheek. Mrs. Willoughby smiled at these tokens of

ons; "and I shall be all the happier for having witnessed it. Young soldiers, Maud, who are sent early from their homes, have too many inducements to forget them and thos

. No one can feel a warmer--more proper--a more sisterly affection for Robert, than I do--he was always so kind to me when a child--and so read

she seen it, would probably have closed her lips. But her eyes were riveted on the floor, her cheeks were bloodless, and her

be transplanted into another family, one of these days, where we, who know her so well, and have reason to love her so m

ntly--"I can never love any as well a

ced in her arms, an infant of a few weeks old the effect that separation might produce on others, never presented itself to her mind. Major Willoughby, a boy of eight when Maud was received in the family, had known from the first her precise position; and it was perhaps morally impossible that he should not recall the circumstance in their subsequent intercourse; more especially as school, college, and the army, had given him so much leisure to reflect on such things, apart from the influence of family habits; while it was to be expected that a consequence of his own peculiar mode of thinking on this subject, would be to produce something like

had insisted on performing all the others; and it was sometimes a curious spectacle to see the honest fellow, busy about the interior of the building, during service, literally stopping one of his ears with a thumb, with a view, while he acquitted himself of what he conceived to be temporal obligations, to exclude as much heresy as possible. One of his rules was to

he meetin' 'us, some time; you should open the doors and toll the bel

ze their fellow cr'atures, Christians I will not call 'em, let 'em mate in the mill, or the school-house, and not come forenent a church on sich a business as that. Is i

phical Joel. "Them that likes masters and mistresses may ha

startling expression of wonder. "If that be true, ye must be i

he Lord cares jist as much for me, as he does for captain Willoughby

yself. There's a plenthy of fellow-cr'atures that has a mighty good notion of their own excellence, but when it comes to r'ason and thruth, it's no very great figure ye all make, in proving what ye say. This chapel is the master's, if chapel the here

subordination in the settlement, that more than half of those who were of New England descent, had openly expressed their dissatisfaction at the delay. Mike, however, was as unmoved as the little chapel itself, refusing to open the door until the prop

tolerable, for it had created notions and usages that would have rendered them uncomfortable, in closer contact with the whites. In that day, the two colours never ate together, by any accident; the eastern castes being scarcely more rigid in the observance of their rules, than the people of America were on this great point. The men who would toil together, joke together, and pass their days in familiar intercourse, would not sit down at the same board. There seemed to be a sort of contamination, according to the opinions of one of these castes, in breaki

h he had last been chaplain. To this choice he had been enticed by the text, which was, "Render unto C?sar the things that are C?sar's," a mandate that would be far more palatable to an audience composed of royal troops, than to one which had become a good deal disaffected by the arts and arguments of Joel Strides and the miller. Still, as the sermon contained a proper amount of theological truisms, and had a sufficiency of general orthodoxy to cover

the remainder of the day, "well, this is a bold sermon for a minister to preach in times like these! I kind o' guess, if Mr. Woods was down in the Bay, 'rend

h her, accordingly. The sermon furnished material for conversation throughout the remainder of the day, at the m

arson entirely escape comm

ect," observed the captain, as he and his friend walke

ut; and to own the truth to you, I am more than half inclined to think that C?sar is

sermon three or four times already, and you have

ordination. I remember the sermon quite well, and a very good on

illis.' That the mandates and maxims of the Saviour are far beyond the mutati

circumstances. All I mean is, that the preaching which might be very suitable to a battalion of His Majesty's Fortieth might be ve

discourse; and probably prevented

ejoin his regiment without delay, unless he were prepared to throw up his commission and take sides with the colonists, altogether. To

ered into the projects of but very few; the warmest wish of the most ardent of the whigs of the colonies being directed toward compromise, and a distinct recognition of their political franchises. The events that followed so thickly were merely the consequences of causes which, once set in motion, soon attained an impetus that defied ordinar

esieged town, that his journeying on the proper road would excite no suspicion; and once in the American camp, nothing would be easier than to find his way into the peninsula. All this young Willoughby felt no difficulty in being able to accomplish, provided he could get into the settlements without being followed by information of his real character. The period of spies, and of the severe exercise of martial-law, was not yet reached; and all that was apprehended was detention. Of the last, however, ther

an opportunity of being employed by the other side. Nick was sent for, and questioned. He promised to take the major to the Hudson, at a point between Lunenburg and Kinderhook, where he would be likely to cross the river without awakening suspi

ths, with letters from the family. Many of the captain's old army-friends were now in situations of authority and command, and he sent to them messages of prudence, and admonitions to be moderate in their views, which subsequent events proved were little reg

parted for the night, some time after the