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[april 19 '6o.]
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*This poem appeared in the London Morning
Chronicle just lorty years ago. A reward of fifty
guineas failed to bring out its authorship, nor is it
yet known :
Behold this ruin 1 'Twas a skull,
Once of ethenal spirit full,
fThis narrow cell was life's retreat,
This space was Thought's mysterious seat,
What beauteous visions filled this spot ?
What dreams of pleasure, long forgot 1
Nor Hope, nor Love, nor Joy, nor Tear
Have left one trace of record here.
A Beneath this mouldering canopy
f Once shone the bright and busy eye ;
But, start not at the dismal void
If social love that eye employed ;
If with no lawless fire it gieamed,
But through the dews of kindness beamed,
That eye shall be forever bright
When the stars and sun are [sunk in night.
Within this hollow cavern hung
The ready, swift and tuneful tongue,
If falsehood's honey it disdained,
And where it could not praise, was chained ,
If bold in Virtue's cause it spoke,
Yet gentle concord never broke !
This silent tongue shall plead lor thee
When time unveils Eternity.
Say did these fingers delve the mine 1
0 r with its envied rubies shine ?
To hew the rock or wear the gem,
Can little now avail to them ;
But if the page of truth tbey sought,
Or comfort to the mourner brought,
These hands a richer meed shall claim
Than all that wait on Wealth or Fame.
Avails it whether bare [or shod,
These feet the path of duty trod ?
If from the bowers of Ease they fled
To seek affliction's humble shed :
If grandeur's guilty bribe they spurned,
And home to virtue's cot returned,
These feet with Angel's wings shall vie,
And tread the palace of the sky.
[From the Hamilton Ohio Telegraph.]
A SOLDIER SPEAKS.
" GROUND AND LOFTY TUMBLING.
We weie not a little surprised to hear thai
our friend, J. W. Wilson, since his return
from the wars, had become a decided anti war
Vallandigham-Critl-nden-peace at any sacri
fice man.—To those who listened to his battle
rallies a few weeks ago, this sudden conver
sion will be a matter ol astonishment. Il would
not be strange after this to hear of his being—
well, what is the next greatest absurdity.—in
favor of Val. for Governor.— Hamilton Intel
ligencer."
1 find the above in the abolition organ ol
this county last week. How eager must
these men be for surprises ! Almost as eager
as Bob Schenck. YVithout ever having sent
out a scouting party, or taken any pains to
discover, by personal inspection, my position
he rushes into his U. G. R. R. sheet, and char
ges pell mell upon "a deep cut." "Surprises"
appear to be a chronic complaint in the ranks
of the leading Republicans just now. It is
suprising to them thai a man should be in fa
vor of a war for repossessing the General
Government of its rightful propeity, and pro
tecting the National Capital and at the same
time opposed to a war for the purpose, as some
avow, of " wiping out slavery" and encoura
ging " servile insurrection ." lam ready when
ever A. Lincoln wants me to assist in enforc
ing the laws, but if he asks me to violate the
laws of my country, I shall turn my musket
against him.
While I am in favor of what is right, I am
opposed to what is wrong. Every soldier,
and lam or.e, is under the solemn obligation
jt an oath, to support the Constitution of this
country. lam too much of a soldiei to vio
late my oath at the command of any military
uecessity. Called out by the President in what
was regarded as a just and righteous cause, and
n conformity to the laws of the country, I
with others was made a tool of to swindle the
people out of millions of dollars, exposed to
unnecessary hardships and then under the pains
ind penalties of being called cowards and sent
tiome naked we were asked to sanction an un
authorized, open, palpable, and cleatly unnec
essary violation of the Constitution.
Very "surprising" that we would prefer to
be called cowards J It we cannot put down
rebellion without becoming rebels ourselves,
let tebellion go to the devil. 1 am satisfied
that the most fatal mistake that jever the people I
BEDFORD, PA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9,1861.
rr.ade was to countenance such usurpations as
the President has been guilty of. The rebel
lion could have been put down "'decently and
in order" in a very short time by pursuing a
straight forward course, but it is every day as
suming the proportions of a gigantic civil war.
The whole South becoming alarmed at these
violent assumptions ol prerogative, will soon be
united as one man, while the North is becom
ing more and more divided. Following upon
the heels of those ususpations, we have other
and still more dangerous indications—we find'
the leading Republican journals, and their lead
ing men attacking General Butler, Genera!
McClellan, and General Patterson—the three
great Demociatic Generals of the army. What
for? Because they are in favor of treating
slaves as ''property ," and for putting down
"servile insurrections." This
journal, which not only attacks officers in the
army, but soldiers likewise, is the loudest ir
his '•battle rallies " against them. I charge
upon his U. G. R. R. open Chicago platform
cars with the certainU of a sure aim, that he
is opposed to this war unless it is waged for the
extinction of slavery. Let t very tiue Repub
lican and Democrat keep a sharp lookout for
Abolition masked batteries, and in the eloquent
language of the immortal Bob, call upon vvery
one to do his duty. We said before the war
that Abolitionism and Secession ism, were twin
brothers. We are at war with both still.
The Abolitionists are doing more to give aid
and comfort to Jeff Davis than all the armed
men be has.
Two months ago the mighty Nonh was u
nited,"invincible. Who is dividing the North?
Old General Joshua's battle cry ringing from
the safe and pertinent jwsition which he holds
high in the authority of Ibis Administration,
finds a willing re-echo from every Abolition
pulpit and press in the land. THE CRY IS
"EVERY MAN WHO SENDS A SLAVE TO HIS MAS
TER IS A TRAITCR TO HIS COUNTRY."
The grand army of Democrats, both in the
army and at home, hurls back the charge of
treason in your very teeth. As to being a
Vailandingham man, I am no slave; I belong
neither to you nvr to him. I did not vote for
him. 1 wted for an honest old miller, who
has two sons in the army, while the Intelligen
cer has but one. When Val. says that he is
for the Constitution, first, last, and at all haz
ards, lam with him. When he says that ha
is for all that can be saved of the Union next,
I am with him; and when he says that he is
for peace as the best way to preserve both, I
am with him. You are not. Is it not a lit
tle surprising! 1 also prefer Val. for Gove ,
nor to Dennison or any of his numerous fami
ly. More sui prising still! As to Crittenden,
I was in favor of his propositions before the war,
and am in lavor ot them still. lam for peace
even at the sacrifice of the Republican war,
not to put down rebellion, but a war in which
the glorious stars and stripes are to be carried
in triumph over the heads of a few free nig
gers and 30,000,000 white slaves. There
will be more "ground and lofty tumbling" be
fore that time comes.
J. W WILSON.
A SHAMEFUL AFFAIR.—The Venango Spec
tator, published at Franklin, gives us the fol
lowing account of one ot the most reckless, bru
tal and fiiendish outrages that have yet resulted
from the lawless attempts to crush freedom ol
speech. To what state must a community have
arrived that tolerates such an atrocious condi
tion of public sentiment as this report shows?
Bad as it is, though, it is but an index of the in
dex of the inevitable results that must follow
the continued teaching ol the abominable senti
ments that have been instilled into the public
mind ol late, by the leaders and presses of the
Republican party. The Spectator says :
"A gentleman, whose veracity is undoubted,
informs us of the particulars ofan outrage com
mitted upon the family of Mr. Jacob Dietrich,
of Pinegrove township, on the 22d of June last.
The substance of our informant's statement is,
that on that day there was a pole raising at Cen
treviile, near Mr. D's. residence, in which all
parties assisted, and that all things pioceeded
in harmony until about 5, P. M. About that
time two boys, one a son of Mr. Dietrich, com
menced renewing an old quarrel, which resul
ted in several other persons taking part against
young Dietrich. A crowd of persons, several
of whom were armed, chased young Dietrich to
his lather's house. On arriving at the fence, in
front of the house, sevral of the mob seized
Mr. D., across the fence and tore his shirt from
his back. Some 'half dozen then crossed the
fence and commenced an attack upon this one
unarmed man. During this melee a portion of
the gang enteied the house, one ol whom was
scalded by Mrs. D., and another knocked
down by a stove lid in the hands of her son.—
They seized Mr. Dietrich's gun, which they
brought out and broke to pieces on the tence.
A gun was pointed at him by one of the mob
and his life saved by a man knocking the gun
aside as it exploded.
"Mr. Dietrich, with the weapons that na- 1
ture gave him, drove the mob fiom his house, j
He is a stout man and was in a fair way of whip
ping the whole party. The leader of the arm
ed portion of the mob then ordered his men to
load with ball. Mr. Dietrich, informed of his
danger, made his escape from the back part of
hi 9 house and rau towards the woods, a shoit
distance. While running, some ten shots were
fired at fcim, but he fortunately was not hit.— '
After Mr. D.'s escape the mob again entered
the house, seized Mrs. D. and told her the only j
way to save her life was to come out and carry
the flag they had with them. They threatened
to kill her if she refused, and to burn the house.
The mob, however, dragged her out, forced the
flag into her hands, ond compelled her to carry j
it. They then took their departure, threatening j
to return and sweep all the Democrats from
Pinegrove township."
,
• (VP* Glory is the shadow of virtue.
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
FANATICISM AND CORRUPTION.
If there ever was a time in the history of
,nations, a moment of precious time, demanding
/the exercise ol the highest elements of charac
ter, it is beyond doubt the present. The most
important function of government, the law mak
ing power, is now deliberating upon a state of
ftffairs exceeding in value and importance the
|Congress of 1776. We are painfully forced to
ladmit it falls immeasurably below the standard
lof that body in wisdom and self-sacrificing pat
] riotism. Party spirit has demoralized our
whole people, and corruption stalks-broadcast
throughout the land. But few genuine patriots
represent the people and find their way in
! to the councils of the nation, and these few are
j likely to be overwhelmed in the tempest of the
hour.
Let a halt be cried to the senseless bickerings
of restive partizans, and devote our best ener
gies in unity to save the greatest and noblest
government on earth. The Detroit Free Press,
referring to the action of the fanat/c Lovejoy
the other day in Congress, makes the following
eloquent appeal : While the heart of the na
tion throbs with intense anxiety at the peril
which threatens our national life, and patriots
are rushing in breatfiless haste to the field of
j battle, while the 'plain people' are fired with
the love of country, and are eager to make any
j sacrifice of time, of property, ol life itself, if
necessary, to maintain our free institutions, the
| demon of party lies in wait to bring discord and
j division into the councils of the nation, ar.d cor
! ruption, with its hundred hands, is readv to
plunder the treasury, and riot upon the means
gathered together for the holy purposes of self
defence. Like the vampyre it feasts upon the
heart's blood of the nation, and ghoul-like gloats
upon the ddsolation and ruin which marks its
footsteps. How long shall these things be with
but a change? How long will the people,
whose lives and fortunes are in peril submit
patiently either to the one or the other without
casting out their unlaithful servants ?
I " Congiess bad hardly assembled in the Halls
| of the Capitol, when Mr. Lovejoy, of Illinois,
who has won for himself the unenviable noto
riety of being th* most ultra nartizan in that
body, introduced a resolution to inquire into the
expediency of repealing the fugitive slave law.
All around him sat the repreientatives of the
bolder States, the venerable Crittenden and his
associates
from Maryland ; Phelps aud his compeers from
Missouri ; and Carlisle from Virginia, the bra
vest and noblest patriot of them all. While in
the Senata Chamber there was Johnson, of
To n n saee t* \ UMlh patmiigin )cr Vo ftf
country, equaling that of the Father of his coun
try, and with a bravery far exceeding that of
Leonidas at the Pass of Thermopylae had fought
the battle of his country's liberty in his moun
tain home. These men who had all remained
true to the constitution, true to the laws, and
had again and again exhorted their people with
fiery eloqueuce to remain true to the compro
mises of the constitution, were insulted and
confounded by this crazy fanatic. Amid the
clash of women and children, the groans ol the
dying, this man like a fiend must come to blight
the counsels of the brave. How long will the
people of the border remain true to the consti
tution it the leading men of the administration
set it at defiance? How long can Johnston of
Tennessee, aud Carlisle, of Virginia, hold their
constituents lai'.hful and act in concert with the
government to put down this rebellion if the
men who give distinctive character to the ad
ministration are forever kindling the fires of
fanaticism between the North and South ? The
constitution requires the return ot fugitive slaves
and he who swears to support it, and fails in
this point, has broken his oath, and stands be
fore the country and the world a perjurer. If
he does not die a traitor's death, he will find a
traitor's grave. Never was there more unpar
alleled impudence than this displayed by Love
joy, who in one breath proposed to repeal a law
approved by Washington, demanded by the
constitution, and in the same breath denounced
another who proposed to violate his oath by re
signing his commission in the army because his
Slate had seceded."
NEWSFAPERS ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.—
Any one who will look over a file of London
newspapers, of the reign of George 111., will
be astounded at the frequency with which
crimes ol violence were committed. Traitors
were hung, drawn and quartered ; burglary,
forgery, horse-stealing, sheep-stealing, and al
most ever) kind ol robbery, were punished with
death. Shop-lifters, when not hanged, were
branded or whipped. It was a common thing
for twenty prisoners to receive sentence of death
at one session of a criminal Court, and for half
of them to be actually executed. At the same
time, crimes of violence were the great staple
of news, and the papers teemed with horrors.—
Highway robbery was so common, was pursued
with so much courage, skill and success, as a
kind of liberal profession. We read ol gangs
of robbers, of the robbery of noblemen within
sight of the dome of St Paul's, of the murder of
women for a few shillings, of the roost atrocious
midnight butcheries. In the column of a news
paper which records several such deeds, we find
it stated that at the '' Lent Assizes," in the year
1774, one hundred and forty-six persons were
sentenced to death, of whom very few were
convicted of any of the few crimes for which a
man is to death.
KF" The moon like certain politicians, chan
ges every thirty days, when she looks at things
in general with quite a new face. If a fact
were wanting to determine the sex of the moon
it would be found in (he obstinacy about her
age. Like most ladies, she is never a day old
er than thirty.
[EF" A runaway thief having applied for
work to a blacksmith, the latter showed him
some handcuffs, and desired to know if he ever
made any of them. " Why— yes, sir," said
the other, " 1 have had a hand in them." (
®1) e Schoolmaster 31 br o a if.
SCHOOL ETHICS FOR PARENT AND CHILD.
No. 8.
A respect of property is required from pu
pils. The rights of ail must be respected.—
This is the grand principle that extends through
out the whole theory of civil government.—
Our laws aim at the protection of all our citizens,
together with their rights. Civil government
finds its end in the establishment and conserva
tion of public freedom. Although the pupils may
not strictly be considered citizens, yet they are
under the direct authority and control of state
government, and the same respect for the laws
of our country will be required from them, as
from the legal citizens of the country.
Natural laws have the penalties for their in
fringement affixed. No law of nature can be
transgressed without the subject incurring the
penalty affixed thereto. He who would act the
gormandizer and use his stomach as a sort of
curiosity pouch, must submit to the result, ar.d
be a dyspeptic. The transgression of a civil
law, too, is met with punishment. Obedience
then Jo both natural and civil laws is required for
our personal good. There is, however, a no
bler reason for obedience to law than the fear
of the penalty thereby incurred; we should o
bey laws because it is right for us to do so; be
cause it is a duty. The same principles upon
which the rectitude of state authority is based,
underlie the whole theory of school government,
and obedience to those laws and principles
should in both cases be because it is a duty, be
cause it is a moral requirement.
Pupils should be made to understand that
they have no authority whatever to violate the
rights and property of others; that each one's
rights must be preserved inviolate. All their
propensities for mischief or pleasure must be re
strained when those propensities in any way in
terfere jwith the rights of tne community, or
with the rights and privileges of any particular
portion of it. It is evident that such must be
the case in order that the ultimate end of civil
government may be subserved.
_ KAPPA.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION-
The grand problem of educators seems to be,
how best to train the mind, soul, and body at
the same time. An intellectually educated
man. without a corresponding degree of moral
culture, is likely to degrade his mental acquire
ments. A man well trained in morality and
piety, can accomplish far Mess in a weak and
diseased body, than in a strong and healthy
one. A man, if he be physically educated, and
be so deficient in mental and moral requisites,
as to use his physical powers lor the mere pur
pose of pelting and knocking the breath out of
every antagonist he meets, is of but little use to
society. The whole mac must be educated,
that our intelligent men may not be infidels ;
our moralists and divines, not such as are too
feeble to do good, our physical and muscular
men, not bullies and prize fighters.
The great fault of our present system of
education seems to be, that mind, soul, and bo
dy are each trained separately. The teacher
too often thinks tie performs his whole duty,
when he merely trains the mind, the divine,
when he presents food for the soul, and the
gymnast, when he prepares his student for the
prize ring.
The great want of common schools, as well
as higher institutions of learning, is a system of
physical culture, to be united with mental and
moral training. It is a significant lact, that as
our school terms and other educational advan
tages gradually increase, so also does the num
ber of curved spiiies, consumptives, and prema
ture graves. The midnight student is not the
one who makes his mark in the world, for the
reason that he becomes so worn down by con
tinual study and so little physical training, that
he never lives long enough. It would be non
sense to suppose that this is caused by too much
brain work. It is the legitimate result ofa neg
lect to properly train the physical powers in
connection with the mental attributes and mor
al propensities. When study and active exer
cise are intermingled, the result is beneficial
and wholesome; but when this is not the case,
the one faculty, by a preponderance of culture,
must overbalance and overturn the good of the
other. Heretofore the body seems to have been
very much neglected, and the whole attention
of the teacher seems to have been turned to the
culture of the mind. Asa consequence, our
race has become celebrated for its number of
delicate, chalk-cheeked ladies, and for its thin
fingered, feeble, feminine specimens of the male
portion of humanity. Visit our ceaietries and
the cold, silent tombstones tell you but too
plainly that the great number ol those who
sleep the long, majestic sleep of death were
consigned to their cold and narrow beds of earth
long before the middle watch of the night of
man's sojouin upon the earth.
PHYSICAL
HBOr.E.KUnilElt, 996.1.
HAVOC OF LIFE BY WAR.
It is difficult to conceive what (earful bavoc
war has made of human life. Some of its inci
dental ravages seem to defy all belief. It baa
at times entirely depopulated immense district*.
In modern, as well as ancient times, large tracts
have been left so utterly desolale, that a travel
er might pass from village to village, even Irom
city to city, without finding a solitary inhabi
tant. Ihe war of 1756, waged in the heart of
Europe, left in one instance no less than twenty
contiguous villages without a single man or
beast. The Thirty Years' War, in the seven
| teenth century, reduced the population ol Ger
many from 12,000,000 to 4,ooo,ooo—three
fourths ; and that of Wurtemberg from 500,000
to 48,000—more than nine-tenths! Thirty
thousand villages were destroyed ; in many
i others the population entirely died out ; and in
districts once studded with towns and cities,
I there sprang up immense forests.
Look at the havoc of sieges—in that of Ixm
donderry 12,000 soldiers, besides a vast num
ber of inhabitants; in that of Paris, in the six
: teenth century, .30,000 victims of mere hunger;
! in that of Malplaquet, 34,000 soldiers alone ;
in that of Ismal, 40,000 ; Vienna, 70,000; of
Ostend, 120,000; of Mexico, 150,000; of Acre,
| 300,000 ; of Carthage, 700,000 ; of Jerusalem.
: 1,000,000.
Mark the slaughter of single battles—at Le
panto, twenty-five thousand ; at Austerlitr,
| thirty thousand ; at Eylau, sixty thousand ; at
! Waterloo and Quatre Bras— seventy thousand ;
|at Borodino, eighty thousand; at Fontenoy,
one hundred thousand ; at Arabela, three hun
dred thousand; at Chalons. three,hundred thous
and of Attila's army alone ; four hundred Uai
j petes were sJain by Julius Cassar in one battle,
four hundred and thirty thousand Germans in
another.
Take only two cases more. The army of
Xerxes, says Dr. Dick, must have a mounted lo
5,283,320 ; and, if the attendants were only
one-third as great as common at the present
day in eastern countries, the sum total must
have reached nearly six millions. Yet, in one
; year, this vast multitude was reduced, though
not entirely by death, to three hundred thous
and fighting men ; and of these only three
thousand escaped destruction. Jenghis-khan
the terrible ravager of Asia in the thirteenth
century, shot ninety thousand on the plains ot
Nessa, and massacred two hundred thousand of
the storming of Kharasm. In the district ot
Herat, he butchere'd one million six hundred
thousand, and in two cities with their depen
dencies, one million seven hundred and sixty
-4 4k*c®nJ. lis• D V Ct>
years of his long|reign, he is said to have masa
cred more tbac half a million every year ; and
in the first fourteen years, he is supposed, by
| Chinese historians, to have destroyed not else
I than eighteen millions ; a sum total of over
! thirty-two millions in lorty-otie years.
In any view, what a fell destroyer is war *
| Napoleon's wars sacrificed full six millions, and
! all the wars consequent on the French Revolu
tion, some nine or ten millions. The Spaniards
are said to have destroyed, in lorty-two years,
more than twelve millions of American Indi
ans. Grecian wars sacrificed fifteen millions;
Jewish wars, twenty-five millions; the wars
of the twelve Caesars, in all, thirty millions ;
the wars of the Romans, before Julius Caesar,
sixty millions; the wars of the Roman Empire,
ol the Saracens and Turks, sixty millions each ;
those ol the Tartars, eighty millions ; those of
Africa one hundred millions.
Df. Dick saya that if we take into considera
tion the number not only of those who have
fallen in battle, but of those who have perished
through the natural consequences of war, it will
not be overrating the destruction of human life
if we affirm, that one-tenth of the human race
has been destroyed by the ravages of war; and
according to this estimate, more (ban fourteen
hundred thousand millions ol human beings
have been slaughtered in war, since the begin
ning of'.he world. Edmund Burke went still
further, and reckoned the sum total of its rava
ges, from the first, at no less than thirty-five
thousand millions.
OLD HICKORY VS. OLD ABE
"It is well known that there have always
been those amongst us who wish to enlarge
the powers ol the genera/ government; and
experience would seem to indicate that there is
a tendency on the part of this government to
over step the boundaries marked out for it by
the Constitution. Its legitimate authority is
abundantly sufficient for all the purposes for
whicb it was created; and its powers being ex
pressly enumerated, there CAN BE NO JUS
TIFICATION FOR CLAIMING ANY
THING BEYOND THEM. EVERY attempt
to exercise power beyond these limits should
be PROMPTLY AND FIRMLY OPPOSED.
For one evil example will lead to other meas
ures still MORE MISCHIEVOUS, and il the
principle of constructive powers, or supposed
advantages, or temporary circumstances, shall
ever be permitted to justify the assumption of a
power not given by the Constitution, the gen
eral government will belore long absorb all the
powers of legislaton, and you will have, in ef
fect, but one consolidated government."—An
drew Jackson's Farewell Address.
"II such a struggle is once begun, and the
citizens of one section of the country are arV
rayed in arms against those of another in doubt
ful conflict, let the battle result as it may,
THERE WILL BE AN END of {lie UN
ION, and with it the hopes of freedom.—
The victory of the injured would not secure to
them the blessing of liberty j it would avenge
their wrongs, but they would themselves share
in the COMMOJs RUIN." — JACKSON'S FARE
WELL ADDRESS.
KF"" IVhere shall I put this paper so as to
be sure of seeing it to-morrow!" inquired Mary
Jane of her brother Charles. "Oh, on the
looking glasi, to be sure," was the reply.
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