"Sam": or The history of mystery./ By C. W. Webber.

86 "SAM:" OR, T:IE HISTORY OF MYSTERY.
of tobacco, or even more; so that all the original charges
might be repaid. The debt for a wife was a debt of honor,
and took precedence of any other; and the company in conferring employments, gave preference to the married men.
Domestic ties were formed; virtuous sentiments and habits
of thrift ensued; the tide of emigration swelled; within
three years, fifty patents for land were granted, and three
thousand, five hundred persons found their way to Virginia,
which was a refuge even for' Puritans."'
"HGo, hoo, hoo!"-"first families" indeed! when your
great, great grandmothers, were bought off of transport ships
for a hundred and twenty to a hundred and fifty pounds of
tobacco each. "Here is the aristocratic for you!" he shouts
hoarsely, clutching with outstretched arm the tufted crest
of an Alleghany summit, which he rocks and heaves as if to
tear it by its roots from out his path, and thereby shaking
the chain along its whole length into a shiver. " The power
and will to do-to move-to overcome-this is my aristocracy."
The indignation of Sam was only transient, for as he saw
the startled mountains cradled back to sleep again in shortened vibrations, he smiled complacently, and said, with a
slow speech and humorous twinkle: "Why, that youngster
of mine, California, will, at this rate, soon be pluming himself upon a special aristocratic caste, sprung from the loins
of those innocent maidens captivated and bewitched into his
embraces by that enterprising admirer of the multiplication
and replenishing of the earth system-Mrs. Farnham! " But
then, he adds thoughtfully, with his foot in a notch, and leaning
his elbow upon the now quiet summit of the mountains-as
he looks out on the West-," this young fellow is rather
knowing of his age; he was born with a pickaxe in his hand;
and understands that honor is alone to be won by laborhe'11 do."
But the mood of Sam has suddenly changed; and so ye
slavish "Howlers of the East," it has iWver got into your
"round heads," that after the formal concession of "legislative liberties," the next charter of rights obtained for the
"liberty of which ye cant so much, was that of the right of
trial by jury of peers" in this profligate and ungodly
colony of Virginia! and furthermore, that this right was