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CARRIER'S ADDRESS
To the Paircm of the "Bedford Ghetto."
JANUARY 1, 18(13.
A certain sprite that dwelt- below
•Twerc wrong, perhaps, t > mention where;
Tho rounds each year is sure to gJ,
To peddle out his curious ware.
feai h New Year's morn he makes his bow-
Though sprite he be, lie's not uncivil;
And very rarely makes a row,
Unless to thow you lie s tJte un'il•
But if with smiles you pass him by,
And do not pay tho usual quarter;
Or if wit's jokes his wit you try,
Perhaps you'll find you' ve "caught a Tartar."
Now hci - he is, he's brought you news
Just fifty-two tiuii • in the year—
Bo clever and pay up your dues —
What 1 ve to say you soon shall hear.
One year tyo I passe-1 the doors,
And all -wo ; joy and life within,
Where sorrow aow her tribute pours
From many a heart rejoicing then.
Now widowed mothers through the land
Are mourning sons and husbands slain;
While silent I'ily lifts her wand
To calm the housed orphan's pain.
And maidens mourn their lovers lost,
Who sleep on many a Southern plain;
And wounded thousands hear their voice,
That ne'er shall see their homes again.
And far away, in Northern forts,
The prie'ner groans beneath his chain;
Where grim walls rise, with frowning ports,
And mark our country's deepest stain.
Above them floats the starry flag.
Our fathers bore en many a field,
When tyrants from Ih-ir thrones were, hurled,
And tyrant hosts were forced to yield;
Then freedom mildly ruled our land.
And tyrants —only {cross the sea:—
God stay the sacrilegious hand,
That takes away our liberty!
Ar.d hurl each despot from his throne,
Though fenced with bayonets of steel;
Show him Thy might, as Thou liast shown
Thy love for Christian martyrs* zeal.—
"Awake, ye bills!" a voice rings out,
And freemen vi-e on every plain—
In thunder tones I hear ihem shout:
'•Tho Constitution wo'il maintain!"
(live us the days our fathers knew—
Those clays of peace, when Hope divine
Her lmlo 'round our country threw,
And bade tier sons their strength combine.
Give us the days when gold again
Shall take the place of worthless papci—
When truth shall fall from sr .! •• -rifs lips,
Instead of lies and senseless vapor.
Give us the hope, to freemen dear,
That when tho grip of war relaxes,
Our land shall he of Huslilrs char,
' And we released from odious taxes.
Call hack the dead! —-the honest dea 1,
That now repose in peaceful slumber!—
But Vernon, and the Hermitage,
Their sacred dest must si ill encumber!
While high and low, each trust is filled,
With men unfit for public station;
Who, vampire like, prey on the dead,
And suck tho life-blood of the nation.
While "On to Lie!.moral!" X. C's crv,
And push tho general and hia forces,
And virtue preach, though on tho sly,
They speculate in army horses.-
Yes, far and wide Corruption's friends,
Arc honored, oft, with great- ovations,
By those who love the public pay,
Or live hy stealing soldier's rations!
The negro love; - -whines his plea,
While Sambo grius his approbation;
And laughs with all his barbarous glee,
To hear "Mnrse Greeley's" great oration.
And "Father Abrnm"—wondrous wise!—
To-day will make iiis proclamation;
So that the slaves en mavse may rise,
To strike for their emancipation.
Ten million whites must be enslaved
To make three, million negroes free—
Oh!. glorious land, where Freedom dwelt,
Is this thy boasted liberty ?
All this I've sung, one year has brought.
One year, alas! of grief and gloom—
God grant the, one begins to-day,
A b: r garb iu.-y soon as.mmo.
When .North and South again dial! join ;
And white winged Peace her pinions spread
O'er tropic vale and northern hill,
And every bilier feud be dead.
THE CAKRIER
VOLUME as. /
.SEW SERIES.
£lj c Schoolmaster 21 bto a I).
Are Sohooly Bettor than they Wore?
Much discussion has been had o 1 the
question wlieilior the Common School i.-; re
nhv benehte I ijy the nß'.ms \\ htcii.iave been
so freely used for it 3 improvement. Nor
mal Schools, Teachers' Institute-), Associa
tions, SUu'e and County Educational Jour
nnl.a.—have ail the to ujatlc tho school better
than it was '( Some who la.I! in wkh all
su-V-miens for change in government or in
sir action, a :ts very ready tolling the epithet
of "old ifogV** at these who can not quite
see that an innovation is sure to be an im
provement, and who doubt that all sciences
ought to be leveled down to the popular
mind, rather than the popular mind might
to be leveled up to the sciences, and that
they should be used as cci.'dcvs, and not an
aaiusst/w:its. Others are quite as ready to
sneer at the empiricism ot' t4to.se, who are,
as thev tiicu-ei'. <• -, claim, "live.teachers,"
and whose life differs from that of o liters
undid v in being more showy and los*.-. Mib
stantial, in resorting to more ingenious dc
vi'jes and short ems rather than to patient
. -kidding in well-beaten pai lis, —the paths
111 which their fathers trod, and which led
thein to a solidity of wL dom and a sobrie
ty of character which modern methods of
teacliing cannot hope to emulate.
Now, there was much, very much, in tho
old schools which 110 modern improvement
has made better or can make better. lit
some respects they were far in advance of
schools in our own day. Even this may
savor of old fogy ism too much to please
some; but the name has no terrors, and we
hold ourselves in readiness to mainlaiu the
assertion. But there can be no hesitation in
savins: we think that, on the whole, schools
\J & ;
am better now than Iney were years ago.
They are belter in that they recognize
the humanity of the pupil, and assert in all
their plan? the essential fact that the uiorc
nesrh ihe teacher gets to the child, to the
hui: heart tliat heals with its young life
and giuiies v.i ii its strong emotions and
throbs with i: ;• ready sympathies, by so mucli
the more is in struction eagerly .soughiiand in
fluence of ail kinds cheerfully submitted to.
They are better in that they strive at
least to give every thing a moral a pcct,
and ."o a moral result, and do what they do
with the aim of reaching all the issues of
life, and making the character as l veil tcrii
hed against all assaults upon its integrity,
as the intellect is well furnished with the
data and the power of correct reasoning.
They are better in that they address the
child us a chikl, and give him lessons and
explanations which a ehiid may understand,
while they do not remove the necessity of
personal exertion, by which alone he can re
ally grow.
Tkey arc better in that they do not op
prc' - 'he memory with a Lost ot' word?
which haveno connection in t in' pupil's mind
with correspondent i teat, nor in tact with
the rjucs'ion wiiich thy arc intended to an
swer, Int cn the oilier hand intend iiiat
word:; shall be v..aid only as iii j representa
tives ot' idea:-:, and insist with heroic perse
verance that power i • measured by the num
ber ot' principics clearly seen and firmly
held, rather than by the number which mem
ory may crowd in id-assorted packages into
its contused chambers.
They are better in that the very rudi
ments of knowledge are m--r.de a cons:ant
feast instead of a hated drudgery: as in
geography, by actual sight of islands and
plains, by map-drawing, by imaginary vo -
ages, by outline maps, and by simple but
lively descriptions, or, as in reading, by
the simple process of making it an invlli
gent ami a musical ciiercire, and not a mere
drophiii utterance of sounds. And thus all
through the seiiool studies, there has been
infused a new life by making- the several
lessons have a meaning and meet a want
for the child; not always a meaning he
may discover by unaided efforts, but one lie
may be made to see and understand; not
always a want he may feel spontaneously,
but one which the teacher knows how both
to create and to satisfy.
And yet. once more, they are better in
that they have done much to introdure bet
ter systems of government, and have sub
stituted the means which keep the family
in order for the brutal punishment of the
rod, though it can never be and ought nev
er to be removed entirely from the school.
If they were better in no other respect, this
alone would bo a vast benefit to the school.
The use of moral means—within a proper
limit, be it always understood and remem
bered, for we arc no advocates of the sys
tem whichbrmshes punishment—is a bless
ing for which all school going children ought
to he grateful. One who b'd suffered much
in this respect, sew :—"Thanks be to God,
(lint an,on: ;t ;!•;•. men}* cri ;;sa of reform des
tined "vc inuaiiv to turn out chimerical, this
one at lva-t can never be defea' id or e hp
sod. As a man grows more intellect eJ,
the power of nt* ; iging him by ids intellect
end moral nature, in utter con? nipt, of ail
appeal to his mere animal instinct of pain,
must go on with equal step. And if a 'To
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
BEDFORD,PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9, 1863.
Deutn' or an l O Jubilate' were to be ce! -
brated by all nations and language s, for a
ny one advance and conquest over wrong
and error won by human ordure in our time,
—to my thinking that festival should be
for the mighty progress made toward Ihe
sv.pt> 1 ' .seion (in school) of brutal modes of
punishment." And in this respect, we x•-
peat, the common school has taken it great
step in advance.— Co/i.i. Cot/ini-M />' hool
Jour. II- B. B.
Morals and Maauors iu our Schools.
Front the observation and experience of
my whole life and especially from diligent
inquiry among the most intelligent mm and
women of the eouniyi'ur the last six month.;,
I am satisfied that the chief obstacle to tho
progress and elevation ot tiie Common
Gehools, has been and now is, the feci, that
bad morals and bad wanner.? tiro rvficroil, to
prevail' >n and ..bout litem. dhvenfs of.in
telibvnce and refinement have oitea s.u lfo
mo. i hat thev were atraiu to s. id rieircail-
dron to them:—that if thev did, their chil
dren were there brought in immediate con
tact with profane sweating, and rudeness,
and vulgarity in words and actions, of the
moat di'ga.ii'.ig kind; '.hat if litis feature,
in those school's, could not be changed, they I
never could bo made t uhabje pluses fur the
proper education ot youth, is not this so a
1. have pubiiuly interrogated teachers nnd 1
scholars on this subject in tiie schools that
L have visited, and in every instance, but
one, the admission was freely made, that
profanity and vulgarity were vices lit at pre
vailed among them.
1 have invariably directed all the rheto
ric that I possess against thc.-.e vices; but
the difficulty of eradicating evif habits is
very great, and can or.ty be pecompiisiied
by proper instruction and a 'course of rigid
discipline. Common tv.'.hoojs will never en
joy the confidence and respect of people of
intelligence and refinement, until morals and
manners receive a much greater share of at
tention in them than they now do. lias
not the time arrived for greater efforts in 1
. this direction ? What i s scholarship worth
when associated with vulgarity and deprav- j
ity ? Ought there not to be as math pains ta- :
ken, iti the schools, to make a boy a (jcnt'.i'- '
man , as there is to make bun a scholar?,
In the term gentleman I include purity of j
morals as well as gracefulness of manners, j
Parents desire their sons to be gentlemen j
and their daughters to be ladic3, as well as j
to be scholars. And it is my opinion that;
efforts in this direction will be warmly sec
onded and sustained by both parents and;
children, ilow shall we go to work then,
to effect this change- in opr schools, an I '
cure what Milton calls the "virtuous educa- '
tion of youih?"
Many things are to lie considered: There 1
should be pica ant and well furnished school i
rooms ; the grounds, about the school house
should be enclosed and adorned; separate
yards should be provided with privies for
the different nexrt to prevent improper ex
posure and to preserve delicacy ot ioeiiug.'.
So much should be done by the Districts in
their corporate capacity. This is their part
of the work, and is merely preparatory, but
essential, to be in ha-mony and auxiliary
;o the part to be performed by the teacher.
What is the part of the teacher and how i 1
he. to be qualified to perform it? There
must bo e. system: the teacher must under
stand i: and bo trained to carry it out. Tiie
teacher's put is ro improve tiie minds, tin
moral:-; and the manners of his pupils. I low
i? he, to teach morals and manners? There
are principles of m imurs as well as ot *•>•
el. s', that could be reduced to a suitable form
for school use, and be taught to tiie pupils. ,
This code, of school morals and manners
might be, taught and practiced in the schools,
with the same efficiency and with tiie same :
success, that arihmctic is. A person ot in
telligence and refinement can easily be found
to prepare such a code, with instructions,
how to use it and carry out its principles. I
It should be made expressly for school-use,
with lessons to be studied and recited, with
such exercise for practice in manners, as i
good taste might suggest, if wo had such
a work, one every way suitable for school
use, then our teachers would have to he train
ed in that as well as in other subjects of school j
study; and being so trained, in all requisite j
so! 1001 studies and discipline, I can see no ren- j
son why our common or public schools should <
not be carried to the highest degree of perfec- j
tion. Then the objection could no longer be
urged, that the morula and manners of the pu- j
pits were, neglected in the schools.— Wisoo/iffn ,
Journal of Education.
From the New York World, Dec. 31.
Tlic Opening of Fort Lafayette. j
It if at la.it announced, with some sir. w of
probability, that Fort Lafayette v.-ill soon lie
emptied of its pr'soacrs. The name of the friend i
of AVa-;f ionrton, thwictimof Olniutz, the hero
of ti'* itevoluti a which in Franco proclaimed |
lit... to the captive, i.s no 100 rto he -yra
< c l bv its association with all that is base und
cowardly and creel i.i rockh-s and arbitrary
power. Tlio Government at Washington, wo j
A c told, hns made up its rain ! ti.at the first of
•lain. ry, which i- to v/ilncs an erapty i'ultninu- 1
tiotj of liberty to millions of Southern .-laves,
shall witness also the substantial restoration of
liberty to hundreds of Northern prisoners. We
trust the tale may be true; but we blush at the
thought of commending an American adminis
tration for undoing, so far as it can, the work
which no Ami rioan administration ought ever
to have lone. There are occasions on which
praise is insult, and this is one of tin in. All
to ■ Gov 'mm'at has done, however, it cannot
undo, it cannot give back to wronged and in
jured m m the frank faith in their country's laws
and justice which made obedience natural, and
"ti, ■ d lty of th • citizen a proud delight. It can
not rest • i;> anxious and sorrowing friends the
hours so; at in vain end uveas after redress, in
rick ling fairs, in maddening doubts for the safe
ty and welfare of the oppressed. It cannot en
due tin; country afresh with that loyal confi
dence in lis rulers—that sanguine reliance upon
the guarantees of liberty and the supremacy of
law, which made all sacrifices eov, all efforts
If u'ty and entire h /h; in defence of the nation
al ri ret-.
Wo ; mil not dwell on the specific enormity
of 1' -- i rica-v.s which stand out ftom tho dark
;■ ' "."ot of the American Ba'tiie with peculiar
and cir •• aalic power to startle the consciences
and to move tho seasiiiilitin of mankind. The I
day will come, if there be truth in tho messages
.of lieavoa, when tkc .-ingle life of a single bum
bo' efeiz at, blasted anil ruin • 1 through the wick
ed rcckles.-iie.-s of sonic, minion of power, will;
rise up terrible as an army with banners at the 1
judgment salt to confront the authors of so j
much general and particular wrong. But the j
lesson of tin; hour is for the hour, and it is e-'
noiigh for us to-day to set it here in characters j
of fire that all muv read it.
If the history of the arbitrary arrests in A
tncrica has been closed, with the opening doors
of Fort Lafayette this chapter of shame and
fiullering ends. We trust it may bo so. Wo
trust thct the edict which relieves New York of
this great scandal uuiy go forth throughout nil
the laud, ordaining liberty to nil that languish
in the dungeons of what we long to Mvie in
truth the free North. But with this edict let
the sense come home mora deeply than ever to
! ho whole people of the incredible disgrace which
t!i" neo -sity for such r.n edict has inflicted up
on our national name njid fame.
For from what docs it relieve us ? From a
si.-tto of things which even the organs of the
party by whose leaders it lias been brought tip
on us arc forced at last for very shame to brand
as odious ftfid deadly- Well may the Times ex
claim that such outrages as these blacken the
honor and character of the Government which
permits them- One might expect the very stones
of the'stress nay the types of the Tribune it
s<']f, to rise up against them. These tilings be
ing possible, allexee tsesof tyranny are so: and
the people which even for a season has tamely
endured these things cannot rouse itself to the
sense of the assertion of its liberties a single
hour too, soon. Woe be to them and to it il,
like the Time*, it shall not "propose to question"
the power by which these things are done. That
power it must question, question emphatically,
and wring from it an answer which shall insure
indemnity tor tie past and security for the fu
ture.
Letter from a Republican Judge.
Judge Gour.t>, of tlio N.-Y. Supremo Court,
is out in as vet - let:, rto the President in do
nmicintion of the system of arbitrary arrests.
A nephew of Judge G-, named C. C. TUACT,
it appears has b en arrested and sent to Fort
Lafayette for dealing in contractors' drafts on
the Government. Mr. TKAOV is a grandson of
tlio late Senator Trucy of Connecticut. The
Judge is very si wore. ilis views have greater
weight perhaps from the fact that in politics he
s . iapathix ' I with President Lincoln. We quota
a paragraph or two from his letter:
"I am, and alwas have been, an unwavering
rnsmv of this rebellion—(cursed in its origin,
most neemved in its progress)—and a supporter
of the Administration. lam a Judge of the
hichest Court in the State. And if no honest
voice has vet reached the ears of tin Govern
ment, I wi-ii to say. and to he heard in saying,
that Star Chamber process an 1 Secretaire's war
rants are dun. roes instruments to play with,
an! that among us, the t rue, s! auneh supporters of
the Government wtio would crush treason with
the iron heel, but a lio knows the law, are com
pelled to I a ig their la uds in silence at the men
tion of c s '.-.which have oecurcd iti our midst.
Soil s arc liar lly cautioned when they are where
they can do infinite linrin: but a powerful hand
aiui an oppres.-ive oneislaidon a person here,who
is not in n position for doing mischief if he would,
and who is supposed to have no friends. Had
I been a few hours earlier made awaro of this
ease, 1 should not lmvo troubled you with a word;
but I would have seen that the process of the
Supreme Court of this State was executed us
to protect ite citizens accused of such oilenecs
from arrest; other than one under the appropri
ate process of the courts. I beg to assure you,
in all sincerity, that this kind of proceeding
has gone too far already, and that while to the
verv last of our men and the last of our means
we are ready and determined to sustain the law,
and the Government in enforcing the law over
this whole land .is one country ; we are also
(]ctenrirnl to be judged by the law, and not
by any Secretary or any one who is not cym
jnisnmed for that purpose. We know ami ac
knowledge the rules of war, where the necessity
of the case requires the existence, of martial
law. But we know, also, the common law of
liberty, and the broad, great charter of the
Consiitutioa."
Protest Against the Suspension of tlie
Habeas Corpus.
In the Ilousejof i'vpresontativea on Monde.}*,
Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, offered a lv olntioh
that tiie protest of thirty-six members of the
House against tlie passage < f tb s bill to indem
nify the President for certain arrest) under a
suspension of the writ of habeas Co.par, bo en
tered upon the Journal. After stating the cir-
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cumstances under which t!io bill was passed,
they conclude as follows: The protest against
the refusal of the House to permit the consider
ation ami discussion of the bill as an arbitary
exercise of power by the majority, unjust to
their constituents, and derogatory to its char
acter as a legislative body. They protest against
the passage of the bill.
First. Because it purports to deprive t!i •
citizens of all existing peaceful legal modes o.'
redress for admitted wrong, and thus compel
him tamely to summit t > the injury inflicted, or
i<> seek illegal and forcible remedies.
Second. Because it purports to indemnity the
President an ! ail acting under his authority
for acts admitted to IXJ wrongful, at the ex pen- •
of thccitizcn against whom the wrongful acts
have been perpetrated in violation of the plain
est principle of justice and the just precepts oi
constitutional law.
Third, Because it purports to confirm and
make valid by at of Congress arrests and im
prisonments, which were not only not warran
ted by the Constitution of the United States,
but were in palpable violation of its express
prohibitions.
Fourth. Because it purports to authorize the
President, during this rebellion, at any time to
arr. st any person, and anywhere throughout
the limits of the United States to suspend the
privileges of the writ of /kibeaa corjius; whereas,
by the Constitution the power to suspend the
privileges of that writ is confined to the discre
tion of Congress alone, ar.il is limited to the
places threatened by the dangers of invasion or
insurrection.
Fifth. Because, for theso and other reasons,
it is unwise and unju t ; an invasion of private
rights ; an encouragement to violence, and a
precedent full of hope to all who would usurp
despotic power and perpetuate it by the arbi
trary arrest and imprisonment of all who op
pose them.
Sixth. And finally, because in both its sec
tions it- is h c! el iCo rat . palpable and dangerous
violation of the Constitution, according to tiie
plain sense and intention ol'that instrument,
and is, therefore, utterly null and void.
"(Signed)
Geo. 11. Pendleton, Charles A. Wiekliffe,
Win. A. liichardson, Charles J. Biddle,
James C. Kobison, .Samoa A. Cravens.
Philip B. Fouke, Elijah Ward,
James 11. Morris, Philip Johnston (Pa.)
Anthony I.- Knupp, John D. Stiles (Pa.)
C, L. Vallandigham, George W. Dur.lop.
C. A. White (Ohio), H. IF Wright,.(Pa.)
Warren P. Noble, Win. II- Wadsivortb,
Win. Allen (Ohio), Aaron Harding,
Samuel S. Cox, Henry 1\ rider,
Elijah 11. Norton, Charles B. Calvert,
George if. Sliiel, James E. Kerrigan,
S. E. Ancoua (Pa.) Henry May,
JesseLazear (Pa.) iiobert 11. Nugen,
Nchemiah Perry, Gorge If. Iranian,
Chaunccy Yiboard, liraJry F. Granger.
John Law,
Letter from Major Jack Domiing.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, ISG2.
To the Editors of toe Cdwatshm;
Suns:—Wttl, cf I ain't been bizzy scucc I
writ you bist, I wouldn't sty so. 1 got your
letter about seeiu Blair on the queslsbiu ol'sen
din THE CAWCASHIN in the mails, KII I hiidn't
eny doubr. but bo would do it as soon as 1 put
tbu subjeu to him in tbo rite light. Blair's l'n
j titer, "Pursuit lllair," as bo used to be tailed ill
j the old Giueral's time, an 1 use>l to bo very thick.
| Do iioiped iuo sifer a good deal wen I was posiin
; the Gincral up about BiddleV Bank matters. —
But 1 hadn't seen the old man lor a long time
j outol I called on him t'other day. lie was drcd
i'ul glad to see aic, an shuck lay hand et lie
' thought there wnrn't no t'eelin in it. .St 3 he,
"Aiajer, ifs a long time seute we've met, an 1
know you are a loyal man, for there ain't no
' follercr of Gincral Jackson that could be euv
j thing else." Bus I, 'vf there's a loyal man in
j this country, I'm one. I go for puttin down
! every feller that's opposed to the Coaslitushin,
' I don't kecr who he is. I only wish wo had an
j Oid Hickory to step in now an jest deal out jus
j tis ail round, without cuy parshalitv. i guess
! there's a good nicny tellers that don't expect it,
| who might git histed." "Wat," sen he, ".Wajer,
! I'm of your idee exactly. The truth is, iin
! thinkin liiat this udininistrushiu is played out.
i Tlie L'ltrys will ruin it." "W'al," ses I, "Air.
Blair, Tvo cum to seo you about another mat
■ ter. Your sou Moutguiumcrry, who used to be
1 a little shaver ill the old Ci moral's time, has got
| the place of Amos Kindle, an he lms been stop
; pin Diiumycratie papers in tlie mails." "Oh no,"
sos he, "1 guess not; only sum disloyal sheets."
"No," ses I, "I'llgive you a hundred dollars for
| every word of disloyally agin the Conslitushin
' you'll find in that paper." Hero 1 took u Cuw-
I cashi) i out of my pocket an handed it to hi in.
lie looked it over an couldn't findnothin to ob
ject to. Then I showed hint the motto at its
head, taken from his own words about the free
dom of the press, an then I telled hiui I want
l ed him to go with nio to Montgumuiery, an see
lef the thing couldn't be fixed. So we went o-
I ver, an you never seed a man stare soasMonl
j gummery did. "Ses lie, "Major Downing, I'm
, tickled to see you. I think you've slighted me
j scnee you've been iu Washington. Yon ve lieen
I to sec nigh about all tlie members of llicC'aby
! net except me." "Wal," ses I, "1 don't go a-
I round much, except on bizuess for the Kernel;
I but now," says I, 'Tvecuin on another errand;
I I've cum to see why you don't allow all tie
I Diuiroycratie newspapers to go in the mails!'
j "Wal,*" ses he, "Majer, Hint's jest what I'm go
lin to do. It was bad biznoss for its that we ev
ict* stopped these papers. It made more votes
I for tbo Dimtnycratif party than any other cause'.
' Tlie truth is, it never was my policy. I never
■ did believe in it, and now tli '/ all see it must
be given up." Ses I, "Mr. lllair, ef you didn't
b divvo in it, you or ter Imvo refused to da it.—
'I hat ain't tin way the old Gincral acted, an j
1 he's my model. Ef ho thought enytliing was
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VOL. 6. NO 23
rong, there waru't a mortal man, high or low,
that couhl have got liiui to do it. lie would
have died afore he would do what his conscience
told him warn't right, ati ii's tltem kind of men
that are great men, an will save our country,
of it ever is .-aved." "Wal," pes he, ".llajer,
you ro about l ight, an I don't think I shall Play
ui this bote much longer. Things are go in front
bad to was." "Yes," scs I, "they're like old
tool Hopkin s dyin cotv, ■gitlin no Letter very
fast.'" "l)ut," Pes lie, "Majcr, you can rest
cay on the papers. We're goin back to-tho
Free loc s I'riiicipul, tin let ths people have
tour own way." "Wal," pes 1, "I'm glud to
hear it. l.'s t.buul time tiicre was a change."
bo 1 bid i.im good by, an went back to see
the Kernel, who 1 found in a peck of trubbil.
Sos 1, "What's the matter now 1 tor I PUW at a
glance that stiiuthin was up. Ses I, "is llurn
piue whipt agiu, or Is toioncvvali Jackson in our
rear :"' "2o," sea lie, "Aluj or, notliin of that
port, but euoitliin jest about as bail." "Wal,"
pes i, "what is iff gt-s ho, 'there has
j :.;t been :t committy here from the isenit who
demand liuit i shall change my Cabbyuet. They
say wo Uoii't iiuvc euy success, au the jicople
demuud a change.'' ties I, "did you kick cm
down stairs >" ".No," ses he "I uidn't." "Wal,"
scs 1, "you ortcr. They might jest ns well ask
you to resign." Fes 1, "don't your Cabbynet
agree in your policy I Don't they (lo as you de-
Mief" "l'cs," scs he, "they do." "\Val,"sel,
then what's the icc of chungiu? Ef you intend
to cliiinge your policy, then it in reasonable to
ask you to change your Cabbynet, bnt other
ways not." "VVal," BCS he, "Major, that's my
iddec exactly, but 1 didn't tell cm so, I thought
I'd wait an see what you thought of it." "WW,"
scs 1, "1 see the hull cause ol the rumpus. Tlio
defeat of Buvnside luis made em so rathy that
they didn't know whit to do, an they thought
they must liiul fault about suruthiu." ties I,
••tigiiten the lebih is jest for an the world like
biir huntiu. A good uicny years ago, when it
was common up iu Maine, nigh about all the
unborn would now an liiou torn out to liuut a
bar. Et they caught him they used to have a
grand time, get up a big supper an drink whis
ky tid they all got how cum you so. llut if
Uiey didn't ketch the bar, then one was Uainin
tother, an totber another, an sumtimes the at
i'air would end by gottin into ii regular tite all
around. Jest so it is now. Ef Buruside had
whipt the rcbils, it would ull have been right."
iSes Liukin, scs he, Majcr, you're right, llut
what uiii Itodo I They complain about the
Cabbynet, an want me to change it." "iVal,"
scs 1, "Kernel, 1 tell you bow to tlx it: Git the
Committy and Cabbynet I'aco to face, an lot em
quarrel it out." "That would be a capital idee,'
.Majcr, but how am 1 to do ili" "V\ ul," scs I,
••you jest cail the Cabbynet together ior twelve
o'clock to-morrow, an then send for the Com
mitty, an put cm in the same room together, an
see how the happy family will manage." The
■Kernel was stiuck with the idee, an .>o the next
day toe Cabbynet was assembled, an pouty soon
after the Comuiitty, with Fessendon as Cheer
man, nii.de their appearance. You never sec a
more liustcreatcd set of people in this world than
these men were. Hut there was no backin out.
The Kernel called the media to order, un scd
ho had received a good many complaints, an he
wanted the matter fully discussed. Fesscndea
got up, an sod that the people were gottin tired
of the war, an that'the only way to satisfy ein
was to change the Cabbynet. llurnside had
been defeated, Hanks had been sent a great ways
off, when he was wanted at home, the sojers
warn t paid, the gunboats wain't finished, Ac.
Clutse got up first, lie sed if the sojers warn't
paid it warn't his fault. The fact was, that
paper had riz unexpectedly, an his stock was
low. Jest as soon a- [inper got more plenty, au
he got the new patent National Ten Cylcnder
It volvin Machine at work, the sojers would bo
alt paid regular. Then Stuntin got up, pulTm
like a porpuss. Scs he, ".Mr. President, tlicse
ere remarks uru impertinent, an ef I had my way,
1 would send every one of this Coiumitty to tins
Old Capitol. I'd like to know what these men
know i.ueut war, and strategy. Why, they talk
about the defeat of Burmulc. It is nonsense,
sir, ho ain't been defeated 1 The people arc hum
bugged by the newspapers. It's a pity there's
a newspaper iu the laud. They interfere with
my strategy, jiuruside. has gained a great suc
ee.-s. lie has discovered the strength of the
em.mies works at that pint, un no.v we know
that some other route is the one to take, an not
that one. Ef it hadn't been for til's battle, we
shouldn't linve found that out. This Committy
of old gentlemen, or old women, I had almost
stiid, don't understand the art of war. Their
talk is sheer impertinence. I'd squelch em with
a proclamation, it no other way."
Then -Cranial her Welles got up, an sed ho
didn't like to have fault found be.cuuse his gun
boats warn't reddy. lie sed he'd like to see eny
otic who had worked harder than lie had. He
sed he hadn't slept but 14 hours a day for six
months, while his nuterel rest required 18. He
had sacrificed all that for the good ot his coun
try, an lie didn't believe one of the Committy
had done as much. Blair got up an scd lie
didn't keer how quick they turned him out. lie
was reddy to go eny time, us ho thought tho
thing was about played out. Bates sed he tho't
things looked more cheerful than ever before, as
he had jest discovered that niggers could be cit
izens, un that the Di ed Soott decision was a
luiuibug. When they all got thru, tin-re wasa
lincral talk all around, un tln-y finally cum to
I'IC i unci as!.in that there warn't any reason tor
a cluing'- alter all, au they all went off in a
party good humor.
S.'i t,ic great Cabbynet erysis ern'.od, an tho
Kernel ic I-' like a now man. My idco of gettio
tbcni all together face to file?, tho Ivt rnfcl ses,
saved the nib hum. Teat nite we set up til! af
ter rnii'.uiic, an tinallyal'ter takin a good swig
of Old Kye, went to bed. The next mornin
the Kernel was ;v mon-y as a lark, an could tell
stories as well as evi r.
Yours till doth,
MAJEB JACK. DOWHWO