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THE LIGHT
IN TO CLEARING
A TALE OF THE NORTH COUNTRY
■ IN THE TIME OF SILAS WIGHT I
IRVING B^HELLERw
1 Autno* Of
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• CHAPTER XVIII. |
On th« Summit
My mental assets would give me a
poor rating, I presume, In the com
merce of modern scholarship when I
went to Washington that autumn with
Senator and Mrs. Wright. Still It was
no smattering that I had, but rather a
few broad areas of knowledge which
were firmly In my possession. My best
asset was not mental but spiritual, if I
may be allowed to say It, in all mod
esty. for, therein I claim no special ad
vantage. saving, possibly, an unusual
strength of character in my aunt and
uncle. Those days the candles were
lighting the best trails of knowledge
all over the land. Never has the gen
eral spirit of this republic been so
high and admirable as then and a little
later. It was to speak, presently. In
the Immortal voices of Whlttler, Emer
son, Whitman, Greeley and Lincoln.
The dim glow of the candles had en
tered their souls and out of them came
a light that filled the land and was
seen of all men.
The railroads on which we traveled
from Utlca, the great cities through
which we passed, were a wonder and
an inspiration to me. I was awed by
the grandeur of Washington itself. I
took lodgings with the senator and his
wife.
"Xow, Bart," said tie, when we had
arrived, "I'm going to turn you loose
here for a little while before I put har
ness on you. Go about for a week or
so and get the lay of the land and the
feel of It. Mrs. Wright will be your
guide until the general situation has
worked Its way Into your conscious
ness."
It seemed to me that there was not
room enough In my consciousness for
the great public buildings and the pic
tures and the statues and the vast ma
chinery of the government. Beauty
and magnitude have a wonderful ef
fect when they spring fresh upon the
vision of a youth out of the back coun
try. I sang of the look of them in my
letters and soon 1 begun to think about
them and imperfectly to understand
them. They had their epic, lyric and
drumatlc stages In my consciousness.
One afternoon we went to hear Sen
ator Wright speak. He was to an
s.ver Calhoun on a detail of the bank
ing law*. The floor and galleries were
filled. With what emotion I saw him
r.se ar.1 begin his argument as all ears
bent to hear him I He aimed not at
popular eiitlments In highly finished
rhetoric, us did Webster, to be quoted
In the school books and repeated on
every platform. But no words of mine
—and I have used many lo the effort
I —are able to convey a notion of the
masterful ease and charm of his mun
i ner on the floor of the senate or of the
i singula- modesty, courtesy, aptness
I and simplicity of his words as they
' thunderous AY ebster. the grandeur of
, whose sentence! uj American has
equaled; the agile-minded Clay, whose
voice was like a silver clarion ; the far
seeing, fiery Calhoun, of "the swift
sword"—most formidable in debate—
but I was soon to learn that neither
nor all of these men—gifted of heaven
j so highly—could cope with the suave,
Incisive, conversational sentences of
Wright, going straight to the heart of
the subject and laying It bare to his
hearers. That was what people were
saying as we left the senate chamber,
late in the evening; that. Indeed, was
what they were always saying after
they had heard him answer an ad
versary.
He had a priceless and unusual tal
j ent for avoiding school-reader English
! and the arts of declamation and for
preparing a difficult subject to enter
the average brain. The underlying se
! cret of his power was soon apparent
i to me. He stood always for that great
j thing In America which, since then,
j Whitman has called "the divine aggre
| fate," and seeing clearly how every
! measure would be likely to affect its
j welfare, he followed the compass. It
j had led him to a height of power
above all others and was to lead him
unto the loneliest summit of accom
plishment in American history.
Not much in my term of service
there is important to this little task
j of mine. I did my work well. If I may
believe the senator, and grew familiar
with the gentle and ungentle arts of
the politician.
One great fact grew in magnitude
and sullen portent as the months
passed: the gigantic slave-holding tn
j terests of the South viewed with grow
ing alarm the spread of abolition sen
timent. Subtly, quietly and naturally
t they were feeling for the means to de
I fend and increase their power. Straws
I were coming to the surface in that
session which betrayed this deep un
j dercurrent of purpose. We felt It and
| the senator was worried, I knew, but
| held his peace. He knew how*to keep
I his opinions until the hour had struck
j that summoned them to service. The
senator ne.ver played with his lance.
By and by Spencer openly sounded the
note of conflict.
The most welcome year of my life
dawned on the first of January, 1844.
I remember that I urose before day
light that morning and dressed and
went out on the street to welcome it.
I had less than six months to wait
for that day appointed by Sally. I had
no doubt that she would be true to me.
1 had had my days of fear and depres
| sion, but always my sublime faith in
her came back in good time.
Oh. yes, indeed. Washington was a
fair of beauty aud gallantry those
days. I saw it all. I have spent many
years in the capital, aud I tell you the
girls of that time had manners and
knew how to wear their clothes, but
again the magic of old memories kept
my lady on her throne. There was
one of them—just one of those others
who. I sometimes thought, was almost
as graceful and cnarming and noble
hearted as Sally, and she liked me. I
know, but the ideal of my youth
glowed in the light of the early morn
ing. so to speak, aud was brighter than
all others. Above all, I had given my
word to Sally, and—well, you know,
the old-time Yankee of good stock was
fairly steadfast, whatever else may
be said of him—often a little too
steadfast, as were Ben Grimshaw and
Squire Fullerton.
The senator and I went calling that
New Year's day. We saw all the
great people and some of them were
more cheerful than they had a right
to be. It was n weakness of the time.
I shall not go Into details for fear of
wandering too far from ray main road.
Let me step aside n moment to say,
however, that there were two clouds
In the sky of the Washington society
of those days. One was strong drink
and the other was the crude, rough
coated. aggressive democrat from the
frontiers of the West. These latter
were ufteu seen in the holiday regalia
of farm or village at fashionable func
tions. Some of them changed slowly,
and by and by reached the stage of
| white linen and diamond breasiplns
j and waistcoats of figured silk. It
j must be said, however, that their mo
tives were always above their taste.
The winter wore away slowly In
hard work. Mr. Van Buren came down
to see the senator one day from his
country seat on the Hudson. The ex
president had been solicited to accept
the nomination again. I know that
j Senator Wright strongly favored the
plan but feared that the South would
defeat him in convention. It being well
known that Van Buren was opposed to
the annexation of Texas. However,
he advised his friend to make a tight
for the nomination and this the latter
resolved to do. Thenceforward until
middle May I gave my time largely to
the Inditing of letters for the senator
In Van Buren's behalf.
The time appointed for the conven-j
[ tlon In Baltimore drew near. One day
I Took the Stage to Baltimore Next
Pay.
the senator received an Intimation that
he would be put In nomination If Van
Euren failed. Immediately he wrote
to Judge Fine of Ogdensburg, chair
man df the delegation from the north
ern district of New York, forbidding
such use of his name on the ground
that his acquiescence would involve die
loyalty to his frieud^the ex-president
He gave me leave to go to the con
vention on njy way home to meet Sally.
I had conQded to Mrs. Wright the de
tails of my little love affair—I had to
—and She had shown a tender, sympa
thetic Interest in the story.
The senator had said to me one day,
with a gentle smile:
"Bart, you have business in Canton,
I believe, with .which, trlfllna matter#
like the choice 6t k president and the
Mexican question cannot be permitted
to Interfere. You must take time to
spend a day or two at the convention
in Baltimore on your way. . . . Re
port to our friend Fine,'who will look
after your comfort there. The experi
ence ought to be useful to a young mau
who, I hope, will have work to do in
future conventions."
I took the stage to Baltimore next
day—the twenty-sixth of May. The
convention thrilled me—the lings, the
great crowd, the bands, the songs, the
speeches, the cheering—I see and hear
it ail in my talk. The uproar lusted
for twenty minutes when Van Buten's
name was put In nomiuation.
Then the undercurreut! The Soutl)
was Hgaiust him as Wright had fore
seen. The deep current of Its power
had undermined certain of the north
ern and western delegations. Osten
sibly for Vau Buren and stubbornly
casting their ballots for him, they had
voted for the two-thirds rule, which
hud accomplished his defeat before the
balloting began. It continued for two
duys without a Choice. The enemy
stood firm. After adjournment that
evening many of the Van Buren dele
gates were summoned to a conference.
I attended It with Jud^e Fine.
The ex-president had withdrawn and
requested his friends in the conven
tion to vote for Silas Wright. My emo
tions can be more reudily imagined
than described when I heard the
shouts of enthusiasm which greeted
my friend's name. Tears began to roll
| down my cheeks. Judge Fine lifted
his hand. When order was at last re
stored he begau:
"Gentlemen, as a friend of the
learned senator and as a resident of
the county which Is the proud pos
sessor of his home, your euthusiusm
i has a welcome sound to me; but 1 hap
pen to know that Senator Wright will
not allow his name to go before the
convention."
He read the letter of which I knew.
Mr. Benjamin F. Butler then said:
"When that letter was written Sena
tor Wright was not aware that Mr.
Van Buren's nomination could not be
accomplished, nor was he aware that
bis own nomination would be the al
most unanimous wish of this conven
tion. I have talked with the lending
delegates from Missouri and Virginia
today. They say that he can be nomi
nated by acclaim.ti' c. 1< it possible
that he—a stron;: i.-.an —ci:n re
sist this Iiniininii.il .-nil ,if the n.'irtv
with whose help lie has \\<;i Immortal
fume? No, it is not so. It cannot be
so. We must dispatch a messenger to
him by horse at ouee who shall take
to liirn from his friend Judge Fine a
frank statement of the imperious de
mand of this convention and a request
that he telegraph a withdrawal of his
letter in-the morning."
The suggestion \\as unanimously ap
proved aud within an hour, mounted
or. one of the best horses in Maryland
— so his groom informed me—1 was on
my way to Washington with the mes
sage of Judge Fine In my pocket. Yes,
I Jmd two days to spare on my sched
ule of travel and reckoned that, by re
turning to Baltimore next day I should
reach Cauton iu good time.
It was the kind of thing that only a
lithe, supple, strong-hearted lad such
as I was in the days of my youth,
could relish—speeding over a dark
road by the light of the stars and a
half-moon, with a horse that loved to
kick up a wind. My brain was In a
fever, for the notion had come to me
that I was making history.
The lure of fame and high place hur
ried me on. With the senator in the
presidential chair I should be well
started in the highway of great suc
cess. Then Mr. H. Dunkelberg might
think me better than the legacy of
Benjamin Grimshaw. A relay awaited
uie twenty-three miles down the road.
Well, I reached Washington very
sore, but otherwise in good form, soon
after daybreak. I was trembling with
excitement when I put my horse In the
stable and rang the bell at our door. It
seemed to me that I was crossing the
divide between big and little things. A
few steps more and I should be lookt
lng down into the great valley of the
future. Vet, now that I was there, I
began to lose confidence.
The butler opened the door,
Yes, the senator was up and had
just returned from a walk and was in
his study, I found him there.
"Well, Bart, how does this happen?"
he asked.
"It's important business," I said, as
I presented the letter.
Something in his look and manner
as he culml.v adjusted his glasses and
read the letter of Judge Fine brought
the blood to my face. It seemed to
puncture my balloon, so to speak, and
I was falling toward the earth and so
swiftly my head swam. He laid the
letter on his desk and, without looking
up and as coolly 8s If he were asking
for the change of a dollar, queried:
"Well, Bart, what do you think we
had better do about it?"
•'I—I was hoping—you—you would
take It," I stammered.
"That's because the excitement of
the convention Is on you," he an
swered, "Let us look at the compass.
They have refused to nominate Mr.
Van Buren because he Is opposed to
the annexation of Texas. On that sub
ject the will of the convention is now
clear. It is possible that they would
nominate me. We don't know about
that, we never shall know. If they
did, and I accepted, what would bA «r
pected of me is also clear. They
would expect me to abandon my prin
ciples and that course of conduct
which I conceive to be best for the
country. Therefore I should have to
accept It under false. pretenses and
take their yoke upon the. Would you
think the needie pointed that way?"
"No," I answered. j
immediately "he turned to hla desk
aficS wrote the telegram which fired
his place In history. It said no.
Into the lives of few men has such
a moment fallen. I looked at him with
a feeling of awe. What sublime calm
ness and serenity was In his face 1 As
if It were a mere detail in the work of
the day, and without a moment's fal
tering, he had declined a crown, for he
would surely have been nominated and
elected. He rose and stood looking
out of the open window. Always I
think of hlir landing there with the
morning sunlight falling upon his face
and shoulders. He had observed my
emotion and I think it had touched
him a little. There was a moment of
slience. A curious Illusion came to me
then, for it seemed as if I heard tbe
sound of distant music. Looking
thoughtfully out of the window he
asked:
"Bart, do you know when our first
fathers turned out of the trail of the
beast and found the long road of hu
manity? I think it was when they dis
covered the compass In their hearts."
So now at last we have come to that
high and lonely place, where we may
look back upon the toilsome, adven
turous way we have traveled with the
aid of the candle and the compass.
Now let us stop a moment to rest and
to think. How sweet the air Is here 1
The night is falling. I see the stars in
the sky.
(To be concluded)
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