CHAPTER XLVI.
THE CURSE OF THE HAT.
As the spring burst upon Princess Anne in cherry blossoms and dogwoodflowers, in herring and shad weighting the river seines, and broods ofyoung chickens and peach-trees pullulating, and as the time of fruit andcorn and early cantaloupe followed, the life in human veins alsounfolded in infant fruit, and Vesta became a mother.
The forest and the court had harmonized in the offspring, and the youngboy took the name of Custis Milburn.
Healthy and comely, as if Society had made the match for Nature, theinfant flourished without a day's ailing, and grew upon its parents'eyes like a miracle, having the symmetry and loveliness of the mother,and the bold, challenging countenance of the father; and to Meshach itbrought the satisfaction of an improved posterity, and an heir to hissuccess; to Vesta, compensation for the loss of worldly society.
She found more joy in Teackle Hall, with this wondrous product of hersacrifice and pain, than with the admiration of all the good families inMaryland; and a sense of warmth and gratitude sprang to her consciencetowards the father of this matchless gift.
"I have not given him my whole loyalty," she reflected, with exactingpiety; "I have let trifles stand before my vows."
Accordingly, when Milburn, conscience-stricken, and accusing himself ofhard conditions in exacting a marriage without love, came one day, withall the magnanimity of a new parent, before his wife to make somerestitution, she surprised him by arising and kissing him.
"Sir, I have been very proud and stubborn. Do forgive me!"
He pressed her to his breast, while his tears ran over her face.
"Honey," he said at length, "what a mockery my crime to you has been--tothink that you could ever love me! No, I will give you freedom. Dear asyour captivity is to me, your cage shall open and you shall fly."
Vesta stepped back at these strange words and waited for him to explain.He continued:
"I will send you to Italy with our child. Your father shall go, too, ifyou desire. Go from me and these unloved conditions, this hatefulbondage and constraint"--his tears flowed fast again, but he let themfall ungrudged,--"find in your music and your noble mind forgetfulnessof this unworthy marriage. I can live in the recollection of theblessing you have been to me."
"What!" said Vesta; "do you command me to leave you?"
"Yes. Let it be that. I know how conscientious you are, my darling, butit is your duty to go. A hard struggle is before me: I am deeplyembarked in an untried business. Now I can spare the money. Go and findhappiness in a happier land."
She went to him again and put her arms around him.
"Leave you?" she said. "What have I done to be driven away? How could Ireconcile myself to let you live alone? 'For better or for worse,' Isaid. God has made it better and better every day."
He held her head between his palms and looked into her eyes, to see ifshe spoke from the heart.
"Husband," she whispered, "I love you."
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The minds of both husband and wife, after this reconcilement, turned tothe disturbing hat as the subject of their estrangement hitherto.
Said Milburn to himself: "What a sinner I have been to distress thatpoor child with my miserable hat! At the first opportunity she gives me,I will lay it aside forever."
Said Vesta to her father and his bride: "What a wicked heart I havekept, to oppose my husband in such a little thing as his good oldhat--the badge of his reverence to his family and of his bravery to animpertinent age. I have let it discolor my married life and all thesunshine. But my baby has melted my obdurate heart. Come, unite with me,and let us show him that everything he wears we will adopt proudly."
Therefore, when Milburn next went out, his wife came with a beaming faceand elastic step and put on his head his steeple hat. He looked at hergrimly, but she stopped his protest with a kiss.
He thought to introduce the subject to Judge Custis, but that fondbridegroom broke in with:
"Milburn, you're a game fellow. It was impudent in me to say one wordabout your hat. I'll get one like it myself if I can find one. Tut, tut,man! It becomes you. Say no more about it."
Milburn undertook to make the explanation to his niece, but before hecould well begin she cried:
"Uncle Meshach, Aunt Vesta is just in love with your hat! She won't hearof your wearing any other. We're all going to stand by it, uncle."
A man chooses his own verdict by a long course of behavior; austerity inthe family begets fear; an affectation, whether of folly or resentment,is at last credited to nature; man is seldom allowed to escape from thetrap of his own temperament.
So Meshach Milburn never obtained the opportunity to relieve himselffrom the affliction with which he had afflicted others. Like an impostorwho has established the claim of deafness, and mankind bawls in his ear,the hatted spectre was made to feel uncomfortable when he put off histile--his consistency was at once on trial. He was like a boy who hadpricked a cross upon his hand in India ink, and, growing to be a manwith taste and position, sees the indelible advertisement of hisvulgarity whenever he takes a human hand.
To have put on any other hat would have subjected him to new hoots andcomments, and made himself publicly smile at his own folly; he must haveclimbed as high as the pillory to explain the change and make apology;the society he had faced in defiance seemed all at once united to refusehim a _status_ without his Entailed Hat, and it would have taken thecourage of throwing off a life-long _alias_ and living under a forgottenname, to appear in Princess Anne in a new, contemporary head-dress.
Milburn saw that he must wear his old hat for life; he bent under theservitude, and was alone the victim of it now.
CHAPTER XLVII.
FAILURE AND RESTITUTION.
The railroad struggle was renewed from year to year.
The Legislature was annually beset by strong lobby forces, and anembittered contest between the Potomac Canal and the greater railwaycompany, to strangle each other, left the Eastern Shore railroad out ofnotice. Locomotive engines of native invention began to appear; therailroad to Washington was finally opened, and, next, to Harper's Ferry,as Vesta's boy became a young horseman and learned to read. Thevenerable court-house at Princess Anne, with its eighty-seven years ofmemories, burned down during these proceedings, and a panic extendedover Patty Cannon's old region at the whisper of another Nat Turnerrebellion among the slaves; but no mention of the thousands ofabductions there was made in the anti-Masonic convention at Baltimore,where Samuel S. Seward and Thaddeus Stevens nominated Mr. Wirt forPresident, because one white man had been stolen. The murder of JacobCannon by Owen Daw did produce some distant comment a little later,chiefly because of the apathy of the Delaware society to pursue themurderer.
By a long course of usury and legal persecution the Cannon brothers hadbecome detested in their own community, and when they sued O'Day, orDaw, for cutting down a bee-tree on one of their farms he had tilled,and then enforced the judgment of ten dollars, Daw,--now a man ingrowth and of Celtic vindictiveness,--loaded his gun and started forCannon's Ferry, and waylaid Jacob just as he was leading his horse offthe ferry scow.
"Are you going to give me back that ten dollars, you old scoundrel?"shouted O'Day.
"Stand back! stand back!" answered long Jacob; "the quotient wascorrect; the _lex loci_ and the _lex terrae_ were argued. The _lextalionis_--"
"Take it!" cried the villain, adroitly firing his shot-gun into themerchant's breast, so as not to injure his humaner beast.
Jacob Cannon staggered to the fence at the head of the wharf, and caughtthere a moment, and fell dead.
"You scoundrel," screamed Isaac Cannon from the window, "to kill mybrother, my executive comfort."
"Yes," answered O'Day, "and I'll give the other barrel to you!"
As Isaac Cannon barricaded himself in, Owen O'Day collected his effectswithout hurry, and betook himself to the wilds of Missouri.
Cannon's Ferry fell into decay when the
railroad at Seaford carried offits trading importance, but there are yet to be seen the never tenantedmansion of the disappointed bridegroom, and the gravestones which showhow Jacob's fate frightened Isaac Cannon to a speedy tomb.
In the meantime, John M. Clayton had made use of the fears of Calhounand his nullifiers, who were menaced with the penalties of treason bythe president, to pass a great protective tariff bill by their aid, thusestablishing the manufactures in the same period with the railways.
This triumph in the senate left him free to conduct the suit of Randelagainst the Canal Company, which occupied as many years as the railroadenterprise of Meshach Milburn.
The barbarous system of "pleadings" was then in full vogue, though soonto be weeded out even in its parent England, and the law to be made atrial of facts instead of traverses, demurrers, avoidances, rebuttersand surrebutters, churned out of the skim milk of words. Clayton'spleadings require a bold, dull mind to read them now, but he tired hisadversaries out, and his cousin, Chief-Justice Clayton, who was jealousof him, had yet to decide in his favor.
Then, after the lapse of years, the issue came to trial at the oldDutch-English town of New Castle, and from the magnitude of the damagesclaimed, the weight and number of counsel, and the novelty of trying agreat corporation, it interested the lawyers and burdened thenewspapers, and was popularly supposed to belong to the class of Frenchspoliation claims, or squaring-the-circle problems--something that wouldbe going on at the final end of the world.
"Never you mind, Bob Frame! Walter Jones is a great advocate, but, Goy!he don't know a Delaware jury. I'll get my country-seat, up here on theNew Castle hills, out of this case," Clayton said, as he pitched quoitswith his fellow-lawyers from Washington and Philadelphia, on the greenbattery where the Philadelphia steamer came in with the Southernpassengers for the little stone-silled railroad.
John Randel, Jr., had ruined a fine engineer, to become a litigious manall his life.
He sued his successor and fellow New-Yorker, Engineer Wright, and wasnonsuited. He garnisheed the canal officers, and beset the Legislaturefor remedial legislation, and threatened Clayton himself with damages;yet had such a fund of experience and such vitality that he kept theouter public beaten up, like the driving of wild beasts into the circleof the hunters. He had surveyed the great city of New York and plannedits streets above the new City Hall. Elevated railroads were hisprojection half a century before they came about. He now looked uponengineering with indifference, and considered himself to have been bornfor the law.
In the midst of many other duties, Clayton, in course of time, convictedWhitecar of kidnapping, on negro testimony, having obtained a ruling tothat end from his cousin, the chief-justice; and a constituent namedSorden (_not_ the personage of our tale), being prosecuted forkidnapping, in order to spite Clayton, was cleared by him at Georgetownafter a marvellous exhibition of jury eloquence, and repaid theobligation, years after our story closes, by breaking a party dead-lockin the Legislature of Delaware, where he became a member, and sendingMr. Clayton for the fourth time to the American senate.
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The Entailed Hat became more common in the streets of Annapolis than ithad been in Princess Anne, as Milburn pressed his bill for assistanceyear after year, and was shot through the back with slanders from homeand hustled in front by overwhelming opposition.
Judge Custis took the field for Congress on the railroad issue, and waselected, through the Forest vote, and his wife went through a Washingtonseason with as much dignity as enjoyment, few suspecting that she wasnot the Judge's social equal.
The ancestral hat defied all worldly hostility, but became the ironhelmet to bend its wearer's back. He prayed in secret for some pityingangel to break the spell that bound him to it, but none conceived thathe would let it go.
His boy grew strong, and took his father's dress to be a matter ofcourse; his wife pressed upon him the nauseous ornament he had so longaffected; a wide conspiracy seemed to have been formed to drive his headinto that hereditary wigwam, and he could not escape it.
Even Grandmother Tilghman, who now was an inmate of Teackle Hall, inWilliam's absence of years, forgot all about the queer hat, and rejoicedto herself that "Bill" had not married "that political girl."
Milburn had maintained his financial solvency by turns and sorties thateven his enemies admired, but a railroad built along one man's spine andterminated by a steeple depot on his head must wear out the unrelievedindividual at last.
The banks in Baltimore began to break; fierce riots ensued; the statedebt had mounted up, through aid to public works, to fifteen milliondollars; the Eastern Shore Railroad obtained, too late, the vote of thesubsidy expected, and the state treasurer could not find funds to payit.
The gazettes announced the failure of Meshach Milburn, Esq., of theEastern Shore.
Without an instant's hesitation, Vesta surrendered her own property, andshe and Rhoda Custis opened a select school in a part of Teackle Hall,and let the remainder for residences.
"Why do you make this sacrifice?" asked her husband; "nobody expectedit."
"They may say we were married to protect my parents," Vesta answered,"but not that it was to secure myself. My boy shall have a clear name."
His failure ended the active life of Meshach Milburn; too considerate ofhis family to renew his former low endeavors, he became a clerk in thecounty offices, through Judge Custis's influence, and wore his hat tostipendiary labor with the regularity, but not the rebellious instincts,of old days, becoming, instead, the victim of a certain religious tranceor apathy, which deepened with time.
Vesta saw that Milburn's misfortune extinguished the last remnant ofanimosity in her father's mind, and the two men went about together,like two old boys who had both been prisoners of war, and were cured ofambition.
Milburn resumed his forest walks and bird-tamings, all traces ofambition left his countenance, and he was as dead to business things asif he had never risen above his forest origin.
He often talked of William Tilghman, and seemed to wish to see him,though for no apparent purpose.
The Asiatic cholera, having begun to make annual visits to the UnitedStates, singled out, one day, the wearer of the obsolete hat, and put tothe sternest test of affection and humanity the household at TeackleHall.
Whether from the respect his steady purposes had given them, or thenatural devotion in a sequestered society, no soul left his side.
But it brought the final visitation of poverty upon Vesta. Her schoolwas broken up in a day. She dismissed it herself, and calmly sat by herhusband's bed, to soothe his dying weakness, and await the providence ofGod.
He rapidly passed through the stages of cramp and collapse, a nearlyperished pulse, and the cadaverous look of one already dead, yet hisintellect by the law of the disease, lived unimpaired.
"The stream cannot rise above the fountain," he spoke, huskily; "all wecan get from life is love. My darling, you have showered it on me, andbeen thirsty all your days."
"I have been happy in my duty," Vesta said; "you have been kind to mealways. We have nothing to regret."
He wandered a little, though he looked at her, and seemed thinking ofhis mother.
"Where can we go?" he muttered, pitifully; "I burned the dear old hutdown. It would have been a roof for my boy."
His chin trembled, as if he were about to cry, and sighed:
"Fader an' mammy's quarrelled; the mocking-bird won't sing. Ride for thedoctor! ride hard! Oh! oh! too late, little chillen! They'se bothdead!"
He returned to perfect knowledge in a moment, and fixed his eyes onVesta, saying,
"I leave you poor. I tried hard. Perhaps--"
His eye was here arrested by some conflict at the door, where AuntHominy, notwithstanding her imperfect wits, was striving to keep guard.
"De debbil's measurin' him in! Measurin' him in at las'!" the old womansaid; "Miss Vessy's 'mos' free!"
"Admit me!" spoke a clear, familiar
voice, "I must see him. Mr. Claytonhas won the lawsuit, and two hundred and twenty-six thousand dollarsdamages! Cousin Meshach is rich again."
"That friendly voice," spoke Meshach, with a happy light in his eyes;"oh, I wanted to hear it again!"
Yet he put his hand up with all his little strength to push away theintruder, who would have kissed him, and whispered,
"No. The cholera!"
"It's the bishop, uncle!" cried Mrs. Custis; "Bishop Tilghman, from theWest."
"Don't I know him," Milburn whispered, with sinking voice and powers."Honest man! Bishop of our church! Bishop in the free West! God blesshim!"
He was lost again, as if he had fainted, for some time, and, allkneeling, the young bishop made a prayer.
When they arose Milburn seemed speechless, yet he tried to raise hishand, and, Vesta coming to his aid, his long, lean fingers closed aroundhers, and he signalled to William Tilghman with his eyes.
The bishop came near, and, by a painful effort, Milburn put his wife'shand in her cousin's. His lips framed a word without a sound:
"_Restitution._"
"Glory to God!" suddenly exclaimed Grandmother Tilghman, who seemed tosee without sight all that was going on.
"I knew it would be so, if both would wait," sighed Rhoda to herhusband, through her tears.
There was still something on Milburn's mind, though he was unable toexplain it. Every attempt was made to interpret his want, but in vain,till Aunt Hominy broke the silence by mumbling:
"He want dat debbil's hat!"
Vesta saw her husband's eyes twinkle as if he had heard the word, and itgave her a thought. She left the room, and returned with her boy, a fineyoung fellow, obedient to her wish. In his hand was his father's hat.
"What will you do if papa leaves us, Custis?" Vesta spoke, loudly, sothat the dying man could hear.
"I will wear my forefather's hat, papa!" said the child.
The dying man drooped his eyes, as if to say "No," and looked ferventlyat his son and wearily at the old headpiece.
Vesta placed it on his pillow, and waited to know his next wish.
He made a sign, which they interpreted to mean,
"Lift me!"
He was lifted up, livid as the dead, and raised his eyes towards hisforehead.
His wife set the Entailed Hat upon his temples.
"Bury it!" he said, in a distinct whisper, and passed away.
THE END.
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] In the original manuscript a circumstantial story, as taken fromMilburn's lips, was preserved. The "Tales of a Hat" may be separatelypublished.
[2] "Slavery, in the State of Delaware, never had any _constitutional_recognition. It existed in the colonial period by custom, as over thewhole country, but subject to be regulated or abolished by simplelegislative enactment. Very early the State of Delaware undertook itsregulation, with the view of securing the personal and individual rightsof the persons so held in bondage, and to prevent the increase byimportation. In 1787 the export of Delaware slaves was forbidden to theCarolinas, Georgia, and the West Indies, and two years later theprohibition was extended to Maryland and Virginia, and it never wasrepealed, and in 1793 the first penalties were enacted againstkidnappers."--_Letter of Hon. N. B. Smithers to the Author._
[3] The skull of Ebenezer Johnson can be seen at Fowler & Wells' Museum,New York, with the bullet-hole through it. There, also, are the skullsof Patty and Betty Cannon.
[4] At this point the second episode, telling the descent of theEntailed Hat from Raleigh to Anne Hutchinson, is omitted, to shorten thebook.
[5] Frederick Douglass, afterwards Marshal of the District of Columbia,was at this time a slave boy twelve years old, living about twenty milesfrom the scene of this conversation.
[6] The Nat Turner insurrection in Virginia occurred a year orthereabout later than this time.
[7] The origin of Patty Cannon is in doubt; a pamphlet published nearher time gives it as above, with strong circumstantial embellishments,yet there are neighbors who say she was of Delaware and Marylandstock--a Baker and a Moore. The weight of tradition is the other way.
[8] This incident is fully related in "Niles's Register" of April 25,1829 (No. 919 of the full series), page 144, where also is acontemporary account of Patty Cannon's arrest. The date of the exposurein this story is transposed from April to October. She was to have beentried in October, but died in May, about six weeks after her arrest.
[9] Thomas Hollyday Hicks, the Union Governor of Maryland in 1861, wasat the date of these events member elect to the Legislature from theneighborhood of Patty Cannon's operations, and was thirty-one years old.Lanman's "Dictionary of Congress" says: "He worked on his father's farmwhen a boy, and served as constable and sheriff of his county."
[10] See "Niles's Register," 1826.
[11] See "Niles's Register," 1820, for two long accounts of this crime,saying, "One of them, Perry Hutton, a native of Delaware, formerly awell-known stage-driver, who lately broke jail at Richmond, where he hadbeen committed for kidnapping." See, also, "Scharf's BaltimoreChronicles," pp. 398, 399.
[12] "Niles's Register," 1823.
[13] Spanish proverb: "Little beard, little shame."
[14] This case is related in the "Life of Benjamin Lundy."
[15] A case actually like this, happening twenty-five years later, wasrelated to me by Judge George P. Fisher, of Dover.
[16] See the case of Whitecar in the Delaware reports.
[17] I take the following note from the _New York Tribune_ of December,1882: "The town of Richmond, Ind., is said to be the centre of Quakerdomin this country, and has five meetings in the two creeds of Fox andHicks, and the Earlham Quaker College. There I saw the large,fur-covered white hats, a few of which are still left, which wereimported into Indiana by the North Carolina Quakers from 'Beard's HatterShop,' an extinct locality in the North State, where the Quakers wereprolific, and they all ordered these marvellous hats, which are said tobe literally _entailed_, being incapable of wearing out, and as good forthe grandson as for the pioneer. They are made of beaver-skin or itsimitation in some other fur."
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