COLONEL DELANCEY'S FINAL DEPARTURE FROM WESTCHESTER It had now been long evident, that the war was drawing to a close, and those Whigs whom civil strife had driven into vol-untary exile, had been for some time returning. The refugees from above and the loyalists in general who had been active supporters of the crown were busied with preparations to leave their native country for the purpose of se…

Yet notwithstanding his attainder and the approaching relinquishment of royal authority, he had clung to his early home with all the fondness of an infant for the bosom of its mother, and that too, long after a further stay had become dangerous. Of all the Tories he was the most obnoxious to the violent Whigs and when, by common con-sent, a cessation of active hostilities took place, individual en…

The last upon whom he called, though much his senior in years, had been a friend and associate from early life, and was just returned to the farm which civil dissension had compelled him, for a while, to abandon. "Hunt," said the Colonel. "I have called to bid you good-bye --I hope you may prosper." "I don't know how that will be," answered the husbandman, -- "Peace, it is true, has come at last; …

The consciousness that he beheld them all for the last time, and the uncertainties to be encountered in the strange country to which banishment was consigning him, conspired to awaken emotions, such as the sternest bosom is sometimes compelled 52 THE McDONALD PAPERS to entertain. It was in vain that he struggled to suppress feelings which shook his iron heart. Nature soon obtained the mastery, a…