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Letter from an Indiana Democrat.
[The following letter was written prior to the
late election in the State of Indiana, and we
had intended to lay it before our renders ere
this, but its publication, owing to its length,
was deferred from time to time, until now we
have determined that it shall be no longer de
layed. Wc owe our Indiana friend an apology
for our apparent neglect, but we iiope he will
write often, and we will do him justice in the
future.]
Gosupn, Indian I ,v, 18G2.
11. F. Meyeks, Est*. —
Bear Sir: Your pnper is received by me
weekly, and I assure you is quite a welcome
visitor.
I am hpppy to sec that, the Democracy of
■"Old Bedford" arc at work. It is indeed high
time that the Democracy every where were up
and doing. No man who takes an impartial
view of the events of the past year can fail to
arrive at the conclusion that the party in pow
er, from the President down, have proven them
selves utterly incompetent to administer the af
fairs of the Federal Government; and that the
country cannot be brought safely out of the
dangers which menace its destruction until that
party is reinstated in power under whose wiso
administration and able counsels we had grown
to bo the proudest and most powerful nation of
people on tho face of the earth. That the con
servative men of all parties aro awakening to a
realization of this fact is becoming more mani
fest every day.
But my purposo in inditing this letter is to
givo you a few items of news from Iloorierdotn.
The Democracy of the Hoosicr State arc all
right; and will at the coming election render in
thunder tones against tho present Administra
tion,. tho verdict} Trial, ami found wanting.—
Every Democrat seems to feel that there is an
individual responsibility resting upon him which
it is his duty to discharge. It is not office seek
ers and political tricksters who are doing the
work hero thip fall, as far as the Democratic
partv is nmoawkJ, w. ywuiunry ot
the country, tho men who feel that tho hard
earnings of yours are to be forced from their
pockets to fill the coffers of a set of unscrupu
lous dcmngoguc'B aud corrupt politicians.
I have attended our Democratic State, Con
gressional and several county conventions, and
a noticeable feature I observed about them all
was that they were composed of the solid and
substantial men of the State; men whose coun
tenances indicated that something else than the
anticipation of a holiday spree had brought
them together; that they fully realized the ex
tent of the dangers impending over our once
prosperous and happy land. The determination i
and earnestness with which they acted sent the
conviction to the hearts of political wire work
ers that they were among men who would not
be trifled with nor imposed upon.
The Republican, or so-called Union Conven
tions, present quite a different feature. I have
noticed that those which 1 have attended have
been made up of office seekers and noisy politi
cians from the several towns in the county —
men who care not how soon the country goes to
ruin; who would be willing to sec this glorious
structure of ours, reared by the hands of noble
patriots and wise statesmen, rent in twain if
that event would secure to them the patronage
of some petty county office.
Tho. opposition are making a strong effort to
stem tho tide of conservatism which is rolling
in upon them, and which threatens to sweep out
of existence every vestige of fanaticism and ab
olitionism remaining in the State. Every mea
sure is being resorted to, no matter how foul
and unfair, to keep their rotten vessel from sink
ing. One of their dodges is tlie assumption of
the name of Union party.(?) What sacrilege!
But that dodge won't work. They will be found
in about the same predicament in which a cer
tain animal was that attempted to disguise it
self by putting on the lion's skin—its long ears
would stick out. The "nigger" will stick out,
110 matter what name this "Republican" party
assumes. They ean put on no disguise that will
hido that gentleuMui's woolly head.
Another move* this unscrupulous organi
zation is their attempt to foist upon the shoul
ders of the Indiana Democracy the sins of Jesse
D. Bright. The Bth of January Convention is
stigmatized as tho Convention of the Jesse I).
Bright Democracy. That this move will be
barren of any bcacficial results to the party
which has set it on foot, I have not the slight-'
est doubt. Tho fact is—l speak positively,
having boon a delegate to the convention—that
every man on tho ticket nominated at tho Bth
of January Convention , voted and labored for
our gallant standard bcaror in the contest of
1860, Stephen A.Douglas; while the one or
two Democrats on the ticket nominated by the
paeudo Union party on the 18th of June, voted
for Breokinridgo, and with JCPSC D. Bright
were co-laborers with the Republican party in
its efforts to defeat Douglas. The Democracy
of Indiana are to-day neither Douglas men nor
Bright men. They arc laboring for no partic-
VOliliHL SS.
NEW SERIES.
ular man, but fur the success of Democratic
principles, and the preservation of the Union as
it came from the hands of its illustrious framers,
with its fundamental law inviolate, unimpaired;
with not a single star blotted out from the bright
constellation emblazoned upon our national
banner.
The probability is that our Republican friends
are going to have some trouble with their dis
tinguished convert of last, winter, Gov. Wright.
As a consideration for Wright's coming out a
gainst his old friends, the Democracy, he re
ceived the appointment from Gov. Morton, to
fill the place made vacant in the U. S. Senate
by the expulsion of Bright. The time for which
lie was appointed will expire this winter, when
a Senator will have to he elected for the full
term of six years. Now, Gov. Morton has been
looking with a longing eye upon the U. States
Senate for some time, and no doubt supposed
when he gave the Hon. Jos. A. his appointment,
that that, gentleman would have sufficient mod
esty to give way at the proper time to the claims
of his friend. Hat the redoubtable Ex-Gov.
proves not to possess so much modesty as lie re
ceived credit for. Having once been invested
with Senatorial honors he is disposed to wear
them six years longer. Wishing to get Wright
out of the way, the Republicans nominated him
for Congress to run against our able and elo
quent Voorhies. But the trick did not succeed.
"Old Joe" proved too sharp for them, and de
clined to run against the "eloquent Dan." Gov.
Morton and his friends are now in about the
sante ".fix" with Wright that the man was who
drew the elephant at a lottery. The Democ
racy wish them a good time with their prize.
We expect to save them the trouble of sending
either Wright or Morton to the Senate. We
propose to send a good Union Conservative
Democrat to that place.
But I have already''trespassed too much upon
your time, and must close. Let me say in con
clusion that it will bo glorious news for the De
mocracy to hear that tho "Old Ivevstonc" has
gone fear "tho lltnvn as It war and the otmsn
tution as it is."* Yours truly,
J. 11. HCIIELL.
*Thc Democracy of Pennsylvania sent greet
ing to the true men of Indiana, on the second
Tuesday of last October, and were gallantly re
sponded to by their Iloosier friends on that same
eventful day. Again, on tho second Tuesday
of January, the friends of the Constitution in
the "Keystone State," sent forth from Harris
burg their verdict against the corruption and
abomination of the Administration as represent
ed in the person of Simon Cameron, whilst the
glad news of the election of those true Demo
crats, Hendricks and Turpie, by the legislature
of Indiana, met half way on its electric course, J
the happy intelligence from Pennsylvania. Long'
may the two States have cause to congratulate
eac'a other upon their mutual conservatism aud
fidelity to the Constitution and the Union.
r'or the Bedford Gazette.
Reflections for the Times,
From the r.ln.-c of the war of the Devolution
to tho breaking out ol' the present civil strife,
a period of 78 years, the American people en
joyed a greater amount of social, civil, and na
tional happiness than lias ever been enjoyed by
any people on the lace of the earth, in all past
time; not even excepting the Jewish nation in
the full blaze, of Solomon's glory. There may
be mentioned as instances of great national pros
perity, Greece, Rome, and tho various kingdoms
of aueicnt and modern times, renowned for
wealth anil power, but 1 think it could bo easi
ly demonstrated, that not one of them all ever
experienced the extraordinary prosperity, tho
perfect political and religious liberty, the light
taxation, and educational advantages that wo
enjoyed up to the year of our Lord, 1861.
But, as "To whom much is given, much shall
be required," is a divine law for individuals,
may we not suppose it likewise a law given un
to nations and peoples?
Nebuchadnezzar, we read in the bonk of the
prophet Daniel, was fully convinced that the
God of the Jews was the only true God, by the
miracle wrought in favor of those whom lie had
thrown into the fiery furnace; and still more
confirmed in his belief by the revelation given
him in the drenin which Daniel interpreted to
him; yet in 12 months after, lie was so swelled
up with that pride and forgetfulness of God a
gainst which he had been providentially warned,
that, giving utterance to the ingratitude of his
heart, ho exclaimed: "Is not this great Baby
lon that I have built for the house of tho king
dom by the might of my power, and for the
honor of my majesty ?"
A great portion, perhaps, a large majority of
the American people have, I fear, sinned, after
tlie similitude of this Babylonish king. As a
nation we have been very proud and boastful
of our GREAT COUNTRY, exhausting our
mother tongue in self-laudation for courage, en
ergy of character and intelligence, above our
fellovv-mcn of other lands, (which, if truo, should
rather make us modest; too modest to boast
and too grateful to refuse our sinecrest acknowl
edgments to the Author of all good.)
We have called ourselves "sovereign people;"
each of us has, in casting his ballot for the
purpose of selecting men to perform governmen
tal functions, felt the lull share of his own im
portance as a citizen, and the sovereignty that
resides in him individually. We are, therefore,
individually as responsible to God for a proper
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 30,1863.
use of this talent as Nebuchadnezzar was; and
something like his punishment seems to be a
warded us: we are cast down from our high
and prosperous state; our boasted mental supe
riority and general intelligence seem to be de
parted from us; foreign nations look upon us
with astonishment and think us mad. So we
arc and so we will remain, as did that monarch
of old, until like him wo "lift our eyes unto
heaven,"then we may hope "reason will return,"
and peace and prosperity be restored. God grant
that "seven times" may not pass over us first,
as with them.
In Israel the Lord has seven thousand faith-*
ful ones, so now we believe he had many times
seven thousand among us; but wc must remem
ber that they too felt the parching heat for
three years, and wandered farther and farther
for water, when wells and brooks and rivers
were dried up under the sun's fierce rays. And
the handful of meal and scanty cruse of oil in
the house of the widow of Zarcphath may give
reason to believe that many other pious tiunilios
were in a similar state of want. It is also on
record for our instruction that His bountiful
hand is ever ready to succor those who trust in
Him. Let us cry unto llim as David once did
in a lime of great peril: He merciful unto me,
G.God, be merciful unto me; for my soul trust
eth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings
will I make my refuge until these calamities be
overpast that threaten the desolation of our
once happy country. G. T. I'.
Letter from a Judge of the United States
Supreme Court.
Some time in the latter part o(* last summer,
President Lincoln appointed Daniel F. Miller
a Judge of tlie Supreme court of the United
States. We remember distinctly that, when
the appointment was announced, the question
was asked by almost everybody, 'who is Dan
iel F. Miller {' lie was a man unknown to fame,
and the general impression was that 'the honest
Abe' had elevated to the highest legal tribunal
ot the nation an old crony of his with whom he
had been uceustouied to crack jokes during the
court term in the western districts. At length
we learn something of the man from himself.
It we cannot ascertain who he is, wc arc at
least informed what he is—and the information
is satisfactory to us. If Judge Miller is us
sound a lawyer as :_22 lnils t
. j,we in
good appointment.
, The Judge, in a letter dated "Ivcokuk, lowa
Noy. II) 1b02," declining on account of his
professional engagements to attend a "grand ju
bilee of the friends of Constitutional liberty and
of the Union," thus declares his sentiments:
Tho recent elections have gladdened my
heart more than I can find language to express,
for I l'eel that by the. success of the Democracy
we shall have a speedy restoration of the Union
and Constitutional liberty.
I am an old Clay Whig, as yem all know,
and when that, party went down, I united with
the Republicans, in the hope and belief that it
would succeed to all the loyal and national vir
tues of the Whig party, and that we would
have Whig principles and policy prevail under
another name, lint I pot mare than ] barpcincd
for. It was not in the covenant that we should
have civil war as a consequence of Republican
success; that the public treasury was to be plun
dered by wholesale; that "free soil" in loyal
States should be covered with martial law; that
"free speech" should bo chained in the dungeons
of the bastile; that free homes should be sack
ed to desolation, and that freedom should bo con
fined in its practical application lo the negroes
of the South, and tho Abolition wing of the
Republican party at tho North. No! We old
Whigs, in uniting with the Republican party,
did not consent to he a paity to any such vio
lations of Constitutional liberty.
Had the counselsof (ion. Scott, Millard Fill
more, John J. Crittenden, Stephen A. Doug
las and indeed ot all the wise and good men of
our nation been heeded, we would not now he
afflicted with the civil war that is upon us.—
They could have prevented South Carolina
from her attempt at revolution, hot the Critten
den proposition would have saved all the rest
of the Southern States, and long before this, at
a trifling expense of money, and at a small loss
of life, the rebellious States would have been
humbled before the flag of the Union.
Hut how did the pbrenzy of the Abolition
leaders meet flint proposition? They said n
way with it, away with it, and crucify all who
administer it. They farther said, leave the
slave States go! We can do without them, and
we will speedily reap the advantages of a sep
aration. When the conservative clement of
the nation proclaimed itself for the Union, then
the Abolitionists assumed that they were tho
war party, and denounced all others as rebel
sympathizers.
That the Abolitionists arc in favor of prose
cuting the war for their love of the Union, I am
sure is not the case. Their object is to nbolish
slavery onhj, and if that should fail, they will
again speedily raise the old cry of "let the Union
slide"
Gentlemen, it is the mission of the Demo
cratic party to save the Union.
It has always been a loyal and national par
ty it has ever upheld Constitutional law as the
only safeguard of freedom. It was the party
that hurled from power the authors of the ali
en and sedition laws, sixty years ago, and
for all that period they guided our ship of
State successfully and gloriously through the
waves of civil commotion and the dangers of
foreign wars.
I regard the Clny Whig party, and the Doug
las Democracy, as genuine branches of the old
Democratic party of 1798.
When I see Gen. Scott And Millard Fillmore,
and Crittenden, and Kctchum, and Hunt, and
all the old prominent Whigs of twenty-five
years ago, now united at the polls witli the De
mocracy, I can have no doubt that if the im
mortal sage of Ashland, that purest of patri-
ots, most eloquent of orators, and wisest of
statesmen, Henry Clay, were still alive and in
our midst, ho too would lend his voice in favor
of that party whoso watch-words are the "Con
stitution as it .is," and "The Union, it most and
shall be preserved."
The Abotitio n leaders had so little idea of the
character of this contest lliey were entering up
on. that they proclaimed the war would be over
in sixty days. They have had all the money
they asked for, till the men they asked for, and
yet the war rages with unexampled fury at the
end Of 500 days. The result for the last 18
•months demonstrates clearly the necessity of a
universal change of rulers, and as old Whigs
claim to love their country more than party I
hope they will all speedily unite under the Dem
ocratic Hag, for the salvation of our Union.
Respectfully, yours,
Daniei. F. MILLKU.
Hon. Charles E. Buckalew.
The Harruburg Fa'.not <j- Umm, in speaking
of the United States .Senator elect, gives the j
following brief biographical sketch of that gen- J
tieinaii;
Hon. Charles E. lhickalew was born in the (
year 1821, in Columbia county, in this State.!
jin 18-15 ho tilled the office ot prosecuting at-j
torncy in his native county. In 1850 he was i
chosen to represent, in the State Senate, the j
district then composed of the counties of Co- (
liitnbia and Luzerne, and bx 1855 re-elected.—
In I Soli ha was a Democratic senatorial elector j
from this State. In 1857 .lie was sent again to
the State Senate from the District composed of j
the counties of Columbia, Montour, Northum- j
burland and Snyder, and fillo l, in the same year, i
the position of chairman of tlie Democratic |
State Committee. In 1858 die resigned his seat,
in the State Senate as well as the appointment
of commissioner to revise tin! criminal code of
the. Stale, and accepted the po st oT Minister Re
sident to the Republic of Kcua dor. In August,
1801, he returned to his home, in Uloomsburg,
Columbia county, where ho has remained up to
his election.
Mr. Uuckalcw is the author of the several
amendments of the State eonsti tation, adopted
in 1857, and of numerous published reports
and speeches, .as well as many popular and po
litical addresses. In 1855 he t /as the Demo
cratic candidate !'.• 51...> I idled States Senate^|
. ....... . ~. . -ii itnicrtr.f i 1:
tion was postponed by the -action oi tne legisla
tive body.
In Mr. Buckalew's Career as a public man,
lie has shown evidence of the highest integrity
and the most distinguished ability. lie lias al
ways been a steadfast opponent ot the laruitic
al, abolition party, and a iirm supporter of De
mocracy and its measures, llis pu rliamentary
reputation in the Stale, is second to that of no
one within its limits; and as a consistent and
able politician, lie stands in the foremost rank.
As a Statesman, his rising genius inspires the
undivided confidence of the whole Democratic
party in the State who look to his future career
with unusual interest and expectation.
Wo congratulate the party and the State, up- j
on the elevation of a man, so worthy in nil re- j
spoots, of the high position to which he ha-" been j
chosen. Above all, we i'eel the deepest rojuic- j
ing at his success, as a pure minded, capable
statesman, over the arts and debaucheries ci'
corruption, and corrupters.
jDoatitution of the Soldiers and their Fam
ilies.
•If You Iruve Tears, Prepare to Slicd them now.'
MUTER KKO¥ A 80LDIEK'S WIPE TO IIEIL )lUSHANT>.
AI.I.EUIIENY, Dec. 15, 18T>2.
Dear Husband: I received your letter, and
feel sorry to hear of your situation. It is hard.
Wo indeed liavo trouble. .1 have hud but S3O
to live on the past year, and was at th- mercy
of our neighbors. lam now outof breadstufis.
Our mills are all dry, and I have not as much
means as will send this letter to you—and five
little children to see after, twovery sick of <hp
theria. lam unwell—have been quite ill, and
cannot possibly stand travelling; the doctor
says lam toodelicate to travel. Do come home.
1 would love to see you once more in this world.
We have not seen each other for two years, and
if you do not come soon, perhaps we may nev
er sec each other. Oar little children fret so
much for you; do come! Our neighbors think
if you would ask your hospital doctor, he would
give yon a pass to come nnd.aee us, under our
trying circumstances —knowing you were woun
ded in the service of your country, and cannot
be of any uso to it now. Ido assure you wo
arc in want now, and where to go for help 1
cannot tell. I feel too weak to write much at
this time. Urge upon your authorities to let
you come and see after your poor family. If
they are kind-hearted, they will let you come-
The Lord direct thein thus. If I had means I
would send it to you. hut I am penniless; 1 j
have not ono cent. Try % to do something for
us.
From your most affectionate wife, n
M S
Thousands of such letters have been written
by poor, distressed mothers, whose husbands J
can neither obtain their pay to relieve the pres
sing wants of their families, nor leave to visit
them. What terrible sorrows and sufferings
war inflicts 1
Hero is a letter from a llarrisburger in the
Reserve Corps. Poor fellows! can nothing be
done for'thoin ? Not having time to correct these
letters, we publish thcra very much as they were
written:
CAMP NEAUHEI.I.K PI.AIN J
Jan. 13, 1803. \
To tlif lulttors of iht Patriot and Union :
Having a few moments of time,'l thought I
would drop a few lines to you for publication,
in regard to the treatment of our division, tho
I'. R V. C. It is a well known fact, both to
von and to the jieople of Pennsylvania, that we
arc tkc oldest troops in the field and that we
wtie the firat'to come to the defence of the Cap-
WHOLE Hi E TIBER. 3018
! ital after the famous Bull Run disaster. We
J were the first to achieve victory on the Potomac,
and afterwards won fresh laurels before Rich
mond, at Hull Run, South Mountain, Autietam,
and lastly we were engaged in the bloody trag
edy before Fredericksburg. On that occasion
we were the only division that got possession
of any of the rebel rifle pits, and took a stand
of colors as a trophy; and after losing 1,800
of our noble baud, we were forced to fall hack.
: Now, Mr. Editor, what we want to know is,
: how does it come that, after participating in all
! the principal battles in Virginia, we have not
| only endured the storm and suffered alltbe pri
i vations of a soldier in tiie camp, hut many oth
j crs, without murmuring * It was because we
knew it became the duty of a soldier to obey
orders, and that it could not lie helped. But
I the time, has arrived that we can no longer re
| main silent; the time has come when our friends
|at home ought to know how wc are treated*
] Here we are, laying in a miserable condition ;
hundreds have not a .--hue to their feet, nor
clothes to cover their nakedness, nor do we get
more than half rations. Those that have a lit
tle money left can't buy the necessaries of life
at the Commi.vaiy's, unless they wear shoulder
straps. We are getting alive with vermin, in
consequence of not having shirts. We have
not received any pay for upwards of six mont/is,
and not only are we suffering, but our families
at home are starving. Many of them have
been compelled to go to the poor houses to keep
from perishing with eold and starvation, who
would have been comfortable and happy, under
the circumstances, had tiioy received the small
pay of their husbands that are in the army.
Lot it bo known that wc have nearly a year and
a half yet to remain in the service, and that we
neither received the fifty dollars State bounty,
nor yet any bounty from the Government.
Now this must bo remedied. If wo had not
earned what is eo ming to us, we would not
grumble; but we claim tliat we have, for we
have made three Major Generals; and, nnless
we are treated soon with the justice that is
duo to us, I assure you that the future honor
of the Pennsylvania Reserves is done for. We
can stand it no longer. This is not the voice
of one, but the sentiment of tiie whole divi
sion. Yours truly,
SENTINEL.
AbfiUiioa ui Ataalgaai.it IOA.
Tho anti-slaveryites are often very tierce in re
senting the charge that their principles lead 10
amalgamation of the races-—to social as well
as political equality—when every intelligent
reader of history knows that such has been its
result in Mexico, Central Amercco, Jamaica
and wherever else it has been carried out.—
Philosophy corroborates what facts havedemon
s tinted. The fundamental principles upon
which any society rests, will shape the feelings
and acts of the masses, and if that theory be
the equality of tho raoes, no' human power can
resist the demoralization sure to follow. Hence
it is, that Lewis Tappan, the other evening,
said, in a public speech, "Wc have not only
now to give up slavery, but to tjire y/> the prej
udice ai/aui - 'tiw colored man. A man asked him
if he would like to Irivo a negro the Governor
of Now York. Ho replied that he hud no ob
jw'ini." Wc must now give up "our prejudice
again -t the colored man," as these lunatics call
that instinct of race which God has placed iujall
ill-, c.rcuturea to keep them from marrying or
defacing the beauty and harmony of His crea
tion. The bruto animals instinctively act out
this f.ieling, and preserve their respective spe
cies pwro and intact. It is left only to man,
endowed with reason, to make himself lower
than the brute. The. vile wretches, however,
who advocate this heaven-defying doctriuo, seem
to be 'utterly unconscious of their vilencss, and
even <_;o so far as to be willing that an African
negro should occupy tho scat of Horatio Sey
mour! The suggestion, however, is perfectly
logical, for if negroes are tho equals of white
men, they are surely entitled to all the rights
which equality brings.— Caucasian.
THE COST OF FREEING NEGROES.
The a 11-absorbing question very soon with the
laboring and producing classes will be, how they
are going; to keep their children out of tho alms
house. If the lunatics go on, God only knows
where tliet country will be in a year from this
'lime. It is now staggering under a load of debt
and in a -tiort time will probably be involved
in all the horrors ot bankruptcy. Yet we are
not only : supporting gigantic armies in the field,
and the whole horde of Abolition thieves anil
"shoddy'' speculators but we are feeding, it is
now csli.nl ated, 100,000 nogruss out of the puljic
funds! Tl.io cost of these negroes, attil'ty cents
per day, would be 818,3 ">O,OOO per annum!
Then the House of Representatives has just
passed a resolution to pay 810,000,000 for the
negroes in the State of Missouri, who arc to be
freed in order that they may be added to the
number to be supported at public expense. Rut
what is this to Lincoln's idea of turning loose
three vaUions more to be a tax on the white labor
ing and producing classes ? The "Republicans,"
of course, say that they do not intend to support
them. So they said they did not intend to free
thein, but your so called conservative Republi
can does not amount to any thing. Ile is mere
ly a puppet in the hands of tho lunatics, who
shape the policy of the Administration. If you
desire to find out what tho Administration is
going to do, go to Phillips or Chcevor. Now,
upon this subject, Chcever says :
"It is the duty now of the government to take
care of these millions, who are freed; that is the
business of tho government now. G-od has pla
ced them on our hands. They arc now three mil
millions of dtieens of the United States on our
hands. All the interests of our commerce—all
the riches of our nation for a hundred years
are not to be weighed in the balance compared
with the interests of these three millions."
There is the idea. White men are nothing.
White men's rights are of no account. White
man's sweat and toil arc nothing White men's
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blood is ti'rthinjr. White man's lives are notli
ine, but the negro is everything. Thus old
Cheevcr, a drone tend a moth on society himself,
culls upon white men to sacrifice all their
wealth ujid then roll up their sleeves and go to
work ami support three millions of negroes. If
10(1,000 freed negroes cost $! 8,000,000 per an
num to support them, how much will it cost to
support 3,000,000 T Any school hoy can cy
pher this out. The sum is frightful. It is e
nough to bury a nation in poverty and rags for
ever.—Ouuca.mn.
CANNOT ESCAPE HISTORY.
The Carbon Democrat, in discussing the
President's assertion that he and his adminis
tration cannot escape history, makes the follow
ing severe reply:
No! '"you cannot escape history," but you
"v. ill borememberrd as long as mankind shall
survive. You will be remembered as tlic men
who ruined your country, destroyed "the last
bout hojHi of earth," in a base attempt to make
the negro the equal of the white man. You
will surely be "ligthed down to the latest gen
eration," by the memory of the burning cities
and towns of America, whose tiros were kindled
by the torch which you supplied. You will bo
"lighted down" to your last home, by the (lames
of a civil war which was the offspring of your
ambition, and which was neeiflessly prolonged
by your fanaticism, and your greed of public j
spoil. You "cannot escape history," but future I
ages will point to you in the same spirit that m
they now point to the Jacobins of Prance, or I
the tyrants of the House of Ilapsburg. M
The llastiles of America will cry out ugainst^l
vou. The blood of a quarter of a million
deceived buc honest patriots will dye your
so led that eternity will not cleanse them, 'ifl
mutilated remains of tho great charter
liberty, like the ghost of murdered
haunt you at every turn, and shake its
locks in your very faces. liberty,
garments trail: - ! n blood and dust,
her beseeching .1 Jto heaven and pray
geance upon her despoilers. A
ridden and oppressed posterity will cry
gainst you, and inscribe upon the page
ry that records your .acts, "dishonor."
Onrnßra C. KiatttON ARMY KURGKRI^^^H
lor T. T: —There is a certain
' vously of my latter end.and recognize
eians as tho true heroes ot the
subdued swearing of the sufferer on
the luuffied tread of the venerable nurse,
comes into the room to make sure the
reeominendcd by the doctor is not too
the patient, the Sepulchral tone of the
tal cat as she recognizes the tread of
Mortimer, the sergeant's bull terrier,
all these are things to make the
member that we are but dust, and that to
to dust is our destiny. H
Early in the week, my boy, a member of tH
Pennsylvania mud larks was made sick in ■
strange manner. A draft, of picked men fronfl
certain regiments were ordered for a perilous
expedition down tho river. You may be aware,!
my boy, that a draft Ls always dangerous to
delicate constitutions, and as the intnl-lark
happened to burst into a profuse perspiration
about the time he found himself standing in
this draft, he, of course, took such a violent cold
that he had to bo put to bod directly. 1 went
to see him, my bay, and whilst he was relating
tome flora': of the affecting anecdotes of tho tiino
when he used to keep bur, a member of tho
Medical Stuff of the United States of America
came in to see the patient.
This venerable surgeon first deposited a largo
saw, a hatchet and two pickaxes on the tabic,
and then said he :
"Mow do you find yourself, boy?"
Tin: lark took a small chew of tobacco ivith
a melancholy air, air I says he:
•'I think I've got the guitar in my hcud, Mr.
Sawbones, and I am about to join the angel
choir."
"I see liow it is," said the surgeon, thought
fully : "you think you've got the guitar, when
it is only the drum of your ear that is affected-
Well, said the surgeon, with sudden pleasant
ness, a# ho reached after the saw and one of the
pickaxes, ' I must amputate your leg nf once."
The mud-lark curled himself up in bed like
a wounded anaconda, and says ho:
"I don't see it in that light."
"Well," said the surgeon in a sprightly man
ner, "then suppose 1 put a fly blister on your
stomach, and only amputate your right arm !"
The surgeon was formerly a blacksmith, iny
boy, and got his diploma by inventing some pills
with iron in them. He proved that the blood
f six healthy men contained enough iron to
make six horse shoes, and invented the pills to
cure hoarseness.
The sick nrnn reflected on wlmt hie medical
adviser had said, and then says he :
"Your words convince nie that lay situation
must be dangerous. I must sec some relative
before I permit myself to be dissected."
" Who do you wish to send me forsays the
surgeon.
"My grandmother, my dear old grandmother,"
said the mud-lark, with much feeling.
The surgeon took me cautiously aside, and
says lie:
"My poor patient has a cold in his head, nnd
his life depends, perhaps, on the gratification of
his wishes. You have heard him ask for his
grandmother," says the surgeon softly, "and
his grandmother," lives too far away to he sent
for, wemust practice a little harmless dfcecptirm.
Wo must send for Secretary Welles of tho Na
vy Department, and introduce him as the grand
mother. My patient will never know the dif
ference."
1 took the hint, my boy, nnd went alter the
Secretary, but the hitter was so busy examin
ing a model of Noah's ark, that he could not be
seal. Happily, however, tliejpalibnt recovered
while the surgeon war getting his saw filed, and
was well encu' li last night to roconnoiter in*
force.