The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863

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Various. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863

EMANCIPATION IN JAMAICA

ABIJAH WITHERPEE'S RETREAT

REASON, RYHME, AND RYTHM

CHAPTER III.—THE INFINITE

MRS. RABOTHEM'S PARTY

AN EPISODE FROM FASHIONABLE LIFE

DIARY OF FRANCES KRASINSKA;

OR, LIFE IN POLAND DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

PREFACE

THE LADIES' LOYAL LEAGUE

WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI

THE CAVALIER THEORY REFUTED

WHITE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES

INCREASE OF NATIVE WHITE POPULATION

NORTHERN FOREIGN IMMIGRATION AND SOUTHERN EMIGRATION

THE EARLY ARBUTUS

THE THIRD YEAR OF THE WAR

WAS HE SUCCESSFUL?

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

THE CHICAGO (ILLINOIS) AND OTHER CANALS

WOMAN

LITERARY NOTICES

RECEIVED

EDITOR'S TABLE

MATTER AND SPIRIT

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For many years Abijah Witherpee had kept, in East Hampton, the largest country store for miles around, and by more than ordinary shrewdness had accumulated a snug little fortune, and with it the reputation among the country folk of being an immensely rich man. It is no trifle, as every one knows, in a small village, to be accounted its richest man, but that was the least of Abijah's honors. It appears by record that Abijah maintained the responsible—and, since Squire Adams has been gathered to his fathers, the solitary—dignity of justice of the peace in and for the county of which East Hampton formed a highly respectable portion. It was not the mere flourish of 'Esq.' at the end of the great man's name—it was the essence of the great man himself. It found him, as he was proud to think, an ordinary, commonplace individual. The good people of East Hampton saw what it had made him, and trembled. And well they might, where justice herself, in the person of the magistrate, stood in awe of her own responsibility and power.

We have been told that, at the outset of Squire Witherpee's administration, he held his breath at the thought of venturing upon judicial grounds with much the same uneasiness that the tyro in science exhibits in some new and hazardous experiment. The honors of office had grown scarcely a week old upon him, when opportunity offered for a full display of the 'feeling and perspiration' (to borrow the words of our informant) 'with which he dispensed justice at the lowest cash price.'

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'You own that infernal piece of swamp down by the railroad crossing, don't you? That air's a valuable piece of real estate!'

'Well, yes. It's never been spoilt by too much cultivation that I know of.'

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