Show L man ma without A comfy bun try S edward ewelt halo hale hc t i mi t mt i taj no document in actual amerlean american history conveys convey a more f powerful lesson of what citizen f NL ship in this republic means none g delivers a more searching appeal SL to loyalty than this fanciful re NL cotal of the man without a HL country the unhappy creature jj whose living death it has graved 01 upon the memory of mankind ar was but a figure born of a writers imagination yet the ac f count of his passionate outburst and of his dreadful expiation stirs the dullest soul and will S awaken emotion in the minds manda f of readers of generations yet un f born there can be no more ar 41 yi resting lesson for tho the disloyal or 5 the heedless no more inspiring if appeal to the spi spirit alt of true amer Ican Ism than this memo memorable rabla w W work ork of literary art and high 5 L patriotism i 1 I suppose that very fcc casteal renders readers of the new york of augu augut t observed in an obscure corner unions the deaths the atio tin iia Boun ciment NOLAN died on board U 8 corvette levant lut litt 2 11 8 lorn long W oil the alth of may philip nolan I 1 happened ti to observe it because I 1 mas ft as stranded at the old mission house in n mackinac waiting for u lake Sup eilor which lid did not choose to come find I 1 was devouring to the very cry stubble ull sill the current literature I 1 could got get hold or of even down to the alic daitha and in the herald my for names and people la is jd and the redder reader alli bt its is lie goes goci on that I 1 had reason enough to phillp nolan are hundred bundre dp of reders w ho would have paused nt at that announcement if tile the officer of the levant who report reported col it had chonon chomen to make it thus died slay dill the man blan without a countr tri for it was ins as the man ilan with nith out a country I 1 that poor philip nolan had gani rally beta known by the cers who had bad him in charge during settle fifty stars oa as indeed by all the nun mca who had and under them their I 1 dare say finy iu Is ia a man who liaa has taken aaltio with him once a fort night lit in it tareo years cruise who never knew that hla his name was no laii an or tt hother hither the poor wretch hit had it nay name at all chere can now be no possible harm in tiling tills poor creatures crea turea stor enough there line lias been till now ever since Madi madison sons 8 tion nent out in 1817 for veri strict sec eciel eci tec ec the he secrecy of 0 honor itself antong tire the gentl gentlemen emea of the navy who isho hane hod had nolan in salve charge and certainly it speaks well for the ei arlt do corps corpa of the profession end and the personal por honor of its ltv luein bira that to the press this muns muna story has kittil wholly un unknown knon and I 1 think to the country at laige also alao I 1 lave to think from some in oils I 1 made in the naval archives vohen hen I 1 was ana attached attach cd to thoi bureau of construction that every of octal report relating to him was burned when ahen ross rosa burned the public buildings tit at washington one of the tuckers or possibly poa one of the Bona had nolan in charge at the tha end of the war and on returning from ills his crulie hu he report reported Ld at washington to ono one of the ids who ho waa nas in the navy davy when nhen lie he tattle home he found that the department ignored the whole business whether they really knew nothing about it or whether Nh ether it ana as a nou nil ml rl cordo determined ter mined on ns as a piece of policy I 1 to do not know hut but this I 1 do know that since mid arid possibly before no inavan has bus mentioned nolan in his report ot of a cruise As I 1 soy say there la Is no noeal for secrecy un an longer and now the poor creature Is 13 dind it seems to me worth while to a little of his bis by way of baoming young americans of today what it Is to be A MAN A COUNTRY phillp philip was vias as bile a young officer nicer us as there wits was in the legion of the IN efcy na as the westa rn dililon tit lelou of our army was then callad 1 alun lit it aaron barr lunde hla his first ex loa lon down doka to new orleans in 1801 lit ruit putt or somewhere somi where here above on the river he met as the doll vi would hun tune e it tills this gay dashing bright oeda fellow at some dinner part I 1 think burr marked him talked to him walked him took bim a day or lvios voyage in his big fiat flatboat boat and in bhart fascinated him aim for the next ear barrack life waa nas very ery tame to kocir nolan lie ile occasion occasionally all mallad the me permission the man had given him to ni walta rite to him long high worded stilted letters the poor boy brolo rute and re rote arote aid copied but never a line did he be have in reply from tile iho guy gay deceiver tho tha mothr boys la in tha ilia garrison sneered sti at him because lie sacrificed in this unrequited affection for a politician clan the time which tacy alicy devoted to monongahela sledge elge al a aind walk low jack bourbon euchre t daod poker were still unknown but ak oua day nolan had hla his revenge this kimt burr bawo down the river not as nu attorney seeking a place for or 1118 office but as a disguised conqueror ifo hi lind find defeated defelL ted I 1 know not how many attorneys lie he hud had dined at I 1 know not how bow runny public dinners he lind had bli bit a 11 heral bcd in it I 1 know not how many weekly arouses Arg uses and it wai nai ru inon ald d that he had na an army behind hirn him I 1 I 1 and an empire before him it was a groat iny day big arrival to poor nolan butr had bad not been at the fort an hour cefolo lic IL si sant nt for him aliat eNc lie ho nolan lun to take him out ira in tile big skin shiff to chov him a tulip buike or it tree as lie ho said to to seduce deduce him film and by the time the mill call was MIS ui ont nolan oin waa enlisted detill cited body end soul ironi from that time though ho he did nut not kt pt know hilow it lie he hied us ua A I 1 man ian without it a country I 1 mint alint burr meant to to do I 1 know no no indio iou dour aikler it Itis Is none of our bu anesh just now only tho the grand came end and jet fethon und and the house of virginia of 0 that city undertook to broa brink on the hel nil lilt tile tho I 1 possible Cla raices of the tha then house of york b the great treason trial lit fit richmond sonic of tile liser lan cr fry in that distant valley ath nas farther front us than nuwt S und Is today introduced tho the like naulty on oil their stage nicil 1 to lite lille nm the mollo monotony tolly if f tins the at I 1 ort adaina got up for fir 0 11 string hiring ot of court ol 01 on i tile oln olli cra cers there one wid enoth ir r of the lie colon 14 and majors acio tried arid and to 1111 umit tit the list little no inn ian against henn fuos elicie niti as enough that tiu he was ng sick or of the service had boen bo en fali ing to be false to it and would Noi ill hino 1 obied tiny any older to match etli anyone lii ho follow him had thi the hidir only bi non ui signed ui command of ills ilia A nurr burr rhu rho courts dragged on tim tho big flies eh laptad ol rightly tor for all I 1 know nolan wax was proved guilty enough as aa I 1 say buy yet you and I 1 would in never hae he e anaid lice I 1 d of him nadir but that tant eben the I 1 is istolena of the court asked him at tho the close clone hilther lie he nisha to bay an tiling thing to ghow that ho he had find alais beer been to the united states he cried out in a it of frenzy I 1 D n the united states I 1 I 1 ak I 1 imay may never hear of the united 8 again chalal I 1 I 1 suppose be did not know how tho the thord inores j old colonel lio ho anh n li the court ilala the officers sut sat in it had served through gli the revolution and thila lives not to tiny say thir necks had bet ben a risked toy for the very idea which he 10 40 cavalierly cursed lu in his hia madness lie ile on his part had grown gronn up tip in the west of those duya in fix the midst of spanish Sp onlah plot I 1 orleans plot and all the test iest ills his such as it uns hall been perfected in commercial espil gions to vua vila cruz arid and I 1 think ho he told tile mo ills his father once hired an english man to be a private tutor for a winter on the plantation lie had spent halt half ills his youth with till an older brother hunting horses in texas and la in a N nord ord to U 40 60 sa 14 4 ea 1 I wish I 1 may never hear of tho the united states him united Util ted states was waa scarcely a reality yet he hild bad been fed by I 1 unit id cd states for all sears since hu ho had find bein la in the army lie ile had inoru vorn on oil lila hid fulth faith as a christian to be true to united stata it was as united baates I 1 va aich kine ga e him the uniform ho he nore ore and the sword by ills his side nay my poor nolan it was only because united states kad bad picked you out birdt as one of lir own on confidential nun of honor that A burr cared for you a straw wore more than for the flatboat men who balled his ars aric for hirn him I 1 do not excuse nolan I 1 only euliala exi lain to the reader hy lie he damned hla his country and wished lie he might never hear benr her same again lia he never did hear her name an roe but frua oaie again from that moment ber 23 till the day lie be died may 11 1803 le ile never heard her urne ur ne for that half balf and dorethe mas a man cann without a country old morgan as I 1 sill said was waa terribly shocked sli okel jf f had find compared george washington to ir r nid or lind had cried oud coll save king george morgan would not lint have alt ft it worse lie ile calati tin tile court into his private room and returned in fifteen ml utts with a face like a sheet to say eny prisoner hoar tire the sentence of the court the court decides subject to the approval of the president tnt that lint you iier huir hoar the nume name of the united states again nolan laughed but nobody else laugh laughed d old morgan was too tio lemn irin and the whole room was hu hushed bed dead as night for a minute kven even nolan lost ills his in a ma moment then morgan added mr marshal arshal 31 take tho the prisoner pil to orleans in an arad bout boat and deliver him to tile thu naval commender oin com there ahe 1 I lie nin irshal gave ills his orders and the prisoner pr laoner was vms taken out of court air marshal continued old morgan beo that no one mentions tho the united statts statis to the prisoner mr marshal arshal Nl make my respects to lieu linnet at Or and request him to order that no one shall nit nuon the states to the prig ncr dilillo lie he la Is on board ship you will receive your written Nr itten orders from the on oil duty here tills this t veiling the court Is without day I 1 have always aann s supposed bup posed that colonel boigan took the 8 of the court to wellington wa city and explained thern to mr jefferson fferson Jc certain it Is that the president app approved tin tilt lit in certain that Is 14 it I 1 may belleve believe tho the men inen who abo say they lune lime sun lite his signature big bl nature the plan thui thin adopted vias sub tit tho satine chih necessarily follo followed NNed cur latr after perhaps it was ung by the necessity of sending him film by from adams and orleans orlean the secretary of the navy nas N as requested request reque stid Ld to put nolan til it boutil a ichiel essel bound on a long cruise and to that lie he sheild ile be only so cio fur far there ns its to make it certain that lie he never sim na or hund of the country ne e had few long cr cruises then and the navy was nas very much out of faor and us alenot t nil all of tills this story Is traditional 1 is as I 1 have explained I 1 do not know cr nhat hit his first ruise was but the commander to whom lie he was lit in trusted stol it was clugey or shaw though I 1 think it was nas one or of tho nun no e are all old enough noi no regi regulated the etiquette and tho the precautions of the affair and bolding to his scheme tiny thy were carried out I 1 suppose till nolan died NN mun it n I 1 was N ns biond so ond officer of the intrepid sonic soine thirty ienus after I 1 caw it I 1 I 1 g I 1 I 1 of ansti instructions actions I 1 luno hi alte 1 oo 00 lw le f n sorry ry vir r since that I 1 did ill nut copy the whole of it it ran how r ingot la ill tills this kiy anay INN washington ris hington ith the date which ni must fauve bian title late in 1807 loit m mill receive from lieutenant neale the pel poison son of philip no inn 1111 laic it 11 lieutenant in the united states army I 1 chis pei deion son on oil his trial by court martial expressed with on an oath the ash that he might never hear of tile the states again I 1 rho ourt court him to have his ili fulfilled I 1 hiir I 1 r the pi pie sent tile the execution of the lite arthr Is In trusted by the nt of this department you NN will ill take the pi pil idoner on boat blaid d houi oui ship ant and keep keel him blin there with such 4 i US ns shall aft ent his 1118 os saip so e 11 ip pl lou will provide him with such rs rations and clothing as would be cioper fur for tin an officer of ills his late lank stink it lie he were nere a pas passenger henger on bour elssel on the business of ills his gov tnt the gentlemen on board will mill make tin nn agit Lable to them selves ie garding his socia ty lie ile Is to bo be export expose d to 0 o no of any kind nor Is lie he t r unnecessarily to bo be rl re d tant ho la Is it prisoner put no circumstances Is lie he ever to hear of ills country or to to sit sd ani information it arid noll i ill caution fill all the cri r our command to talo take ell caie e that lit in tit the parlous ih which bell efty amny be granted tills thlu rule lit in uhla hn his pun la 13 involved shall not be broken it Is the intention of tho the g government ON erni that lie he ahall nener nguan ste iho country which lie ling has dlton td lit hi fore the md i lid of sour 5 our cruise ou oil will orders which ilitch will glie effect to tills intention ill yours W SOUTHARD for the secretary Secre tari of the navy if I 1 had only preserved the whole of tins tills capr there would be ba arlak lit in tile lie tit ginning of my mv sketch of tills thia story for captain shaw it if it was nas lit ho hannd luini ltd it to his big successor lo in tile the charge arid he to his the lule late nol opted on board the ships ou on NN I 1 have nut 1 ahe I lie man mail without x a count ri anns I 1 think I 1 from the beginning 10 mebs ilk I 1 to 1111 ahme 0 hint him i because hl his nee cut olt off all talk of homo home or of tile tho pro of return of politics or it tiers of pitak pi me or of fiur cut kofl ff more inore thlin than halt half the talk nun like to lime a fit at sll n hut but it was always too hard imad that tie ile should ut amr tr mitt tin ast of us except to 0 o boull huts hills and wp nihill sunk quill into one system steni stem lie ile wai nol to talk with tit tae nun unia tin an was as b NN jill officers lie he had in ti couise ilia far ns as they and lit he chose lut lie he grew gren sit eh though he had faor ills I 1 was as one then rhen tilt the captain captein alis asted him to dinner on mon molt iny ier mess in succession too took 1 up tile invitation lit in its turn lu in tu to the size lize of tle ship you tou had him sit nt our ur ins me ja inozu or less iq orten often tit ills brink fast lit hf ate in his hi own stateroom lie always had a state tonn lorn walh na ans whore here at n sentinel or 01 somebody homebody on the could see tin the ifor door if or and whiter tase lie he ate or 01 drank he ate or op drunk alone some linns NN when hen tile tho moil flit 4 or sailors had tiny ditl they were per 1111 matted ted to invite iraln buttons as a thin aln callad ballul hlin ilion ihen nolan was nas sent wilh some kome gilr and tile the men wire to 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