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.HE COMMON SOLDIER.
.\obod-. eared when he went to war,
But he woman who cried on his shoulder ;
Nobov decked him with immortelles—
He as only a common soldier.
N obc t) packed in a dainty trunk,
F ed raiment and officer's fare—
A ki ipsack held all the new recruit
M eht own, or love, or eat, or wear.
Not iy gave him a good-bye fete —
' ith sparkling jest and flovver-crowflcd wine ;
'l .or three friends on the side-walk stood
itching for Jones, the fourth in line.
.ody cared how the battle went
ith the man who fought till the bullet sped
cugb the coat undecked with leaf or star,
>u a common soldier lelt for dead.
• cool rain bathed the fevered wound,
rid the kind clouds wept the livelong night;
(tying lotion Nature gave,
ill help might come with morning b^ht.
h help as the knife of the surgeon gives,
'riving the gallant arri from shoulder;
other name swells the pension list
ne meagre pay of a common soldier.
es yonder all day he stands—
•riptv sleeve in the soft wind sways,
•ids his lonely left hand out
arity at the crossing ways.
is how, with bitter shame,
s his bread and hardly lives;
' iy ekes out the sum
J a grateful (?) country gives.
cter how he served the guns,
iume and sash were over yonder ?
.i *.er though he bore the flag,
blinding smoke and battle thunder ?
-r that a wife and child
' y for that good arm rent ?
•r why that random shot
• , heir own beloved was sent?
hearts, wipeout this stain,
?led cup and sword no more;
.it no common soldier blush
e loyal blue he wore. *
nd loud for victory won
• nd leader sfaunchvacd true;
get the boys that foogbt—
he common soldier too.
fiEPI'BLjCIN" SPLIT!
-t)' il OF MONTGOMERY BLAIR,
rmaster General under Mr, Lin
en divered at Hagerstown, Md., Ju
iV L . 1865, exposing the alliance be
:ree:. Secretary Seward and Louis Na
poleon.
FEU.' v CITIZENS : I join heartily in thanks
the A nighty for the success which it has
u'iou? pleased Him to give our efforts in main
iiiing he Government of our fathers, and J
iiire tV v in the gratitude and affection which
veils ! nati m's heart towards all the gallant
;i w! tave been his instruments in this great
v.rk. am more especially grateful to the
'die:.- Maryland, some of whom we have
net h to grasp by the hand and to welcome
!. j'.n- t hey have been our special representa
v<- iiose great and ever-memorable fields,
un which are so close about us, on which
les which have decided our fate and pre
ur Government and liberties have been
Well may we feel proud of our share
great struggles when wo can say, with
t: nut on all these trying occasions the men
ot ryland have nobly performed their duty,
'f npty sleeves, the shattered limb 2, the pal
-1.! es here to-day, show that our blood has
'! 1 treely in this cause. And then our ab
ones, some of whom still languish in hos
; is. but how many more, whose sufferings are
o. -, sleep beneath the sod of those fields al
•dy so renowned in the world's history ! IV e
il never forget them, and their absence here
day speaks yet more eloquently to our hearts
the sacrifices our brethren have made fur us
;<i our children, and the cause of free govern
>nt, than the scars and shattered limbs of the
mzed veterans who surround us. Terrible
iced have been the conflicts through which
v have gone. It has lieen a contest in which
prowess, courage and talent of men—all
"ired by our free institutions—have been
upon each other. It has been tl Greek
uj Greek" with the most formidable weap
ver invented, and hence the world never
•-sed such combats, and the European world
>oked on with mingled fear and astonish-
Never before was there such destru ei j
e —so many prolonged aud indeci-i •
s fact, which the Count de Monta *.
•lore surprises Europe than even n:
pe rat ions, surprises no one here, v
1 and know that our soldiers were our
citizens, struggling to preserve our institu
- and to put down usurpation, and that they
•Id have to change their entire natures before
could be perverted by any military leader
made instruments to destroy that which
undertook at such sacrifice to preserve.
~t that our veterans are returning to their
ursuc their more congenial pursuits,
. successfully resisted the attempt to
r Government; having maintained
! T nion as it was, its basis unaltered
et, and our federal Constitution un
.. e in the amendment which forbids
a the Union; whilst it is taken as
course here, because we know that
• ult would he impossible, must rev
jropean opinion as to the :ustabili-
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NEW SERIES.
ty of the Federal republican system. In the
end, therefore, our own country will not alone
he indebted for its freedom to the valor and pa
triotism of the noble band we greet here to-day
with thanks and blessings. 1 feel how feeble
any words are to express the deepfeeiing which
not only pervades this asssembly, hut which iives
in the hearts and speaks in the eyes of every
lover of the human family throughout this
world, towards any man who has borne arms in
this cause for the love of it. To their unex
ampled bravery, to their patient labor, to their
endurance of cold and heat, hunger and thirst,
to their sufferings from wounds and disease, do
we owe it under God's providence, that we have
not now, and possibly in perpetuity, a divided
and distracted country, and, consequent thereon,
the introduction of that accursed European sys
tem of mercenary standing armies, in whose
presence all liberty vanishes like mist. Long
may the survivors of this noble band live toon
joy the honors they are entitled to trom the peo
ple for their service-, arid that choicest i all
pleasure? to siie.'i men—to witness tnc prospr
i ity, tranquility and happiness they have - curt d
to their countrymen, Terhaps there are some
of them, some of the younger sort, who would
like also the smites of their lair country-women,
and might even prefer to see themselves mirror
ed in a pair of soft eyes to obtaiuiug the horn
age of all the rest of us. That inay seem to
he irrational to some, but I confess tiiat a man
must be older than I am to he astonished at the
preference, especially when the lasses of W asii
ington, our famous highland beauties, are before j
hi in.
After the display of such irresistible power
; by the American people, wit it our web- .n ■ vn
! disposition to deal justly with an in. W(
1 ought to expect to enjoy a ioiig peace, au ;
' foreign nation would wantonly provoke a con
: thct with us, for, however powerful, it cannot
hope for any but a disastrous issue; and yet,
but for my confidence in the courage and pru
dence of I'resident Johnson, I should have seri
ous apprehensions of a war with France, grow
ing out of the iil-judged course hitherto adop
ted by our foreign department in relation to the
interference of Fiance in Mexico. No one ac
quainted with the subject can have failed to ob
serve that this department of our Government
has hitherto pursued, and continues to pursue, a
course in this matter strangely at variance with
j the feelings of our people and with the recog- j
nized principles upon which out Government
lias uniformly acted.
The present ruler of France has exhibted,
throughout our late struggle for existence, a
most unfriendly spirit, and availed himseit of j
our emergencies to invade our sister republic of j
Mexico, subvert her Government, and eslab- :
li-.li there a military despotism, under the nora- j
inal head of an Austrian prince. Would the j
crowned heads of Europe submit quietly to i
similar intervention on our part to establish the
republican system in Hungary, Italy, or any j
other European country where revolutionary
movements have arisen from time to time ? We
know that such an act on our part would com
bine every one of them against us as an aggres
sor, seeking to overthrow their regal govern
ments —the political system of that continent.
Is the invasion of Mexico by France, in the in
terests of absolutism, any less an act of hostil
ty towards the United States and a war on the
republicarvsystem of this ? Certainly not. The
proposition is too obvious to require argument
or authority to support it. This is the gist of
the Monroe doctrine, as the inanitesto made to
preserve ourselves against this mode of subvert
ing our popular institutions has been called, ev
er since l'resident Monroe declared his purpose
to resist such design when broached by the Ho
ly Alliance in 1823. He states the proposition j
to which I have alluded in this language : "The
political system of the Allied l'ower is essential
ly different in this respect from that of Ameri
ca. And to the defence of our own, which has
been achieved by the loss of so much bioodand
treasure, and matured by the wisdom of tin.ir
most enlightened citizens, and under which we
have enjoyed unexampled felicity, this whole na
tion is devoted. We owe it, therefore, to can
dor and to the amicable relations existing be
tween the United States and those Powers, to
declare that we should consider any attempt
on their part to extend their system-to any por
tion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace
and safety." Again, in 1824, he said; "It is
impossible for the European Governments to
interfere in their concerns, (the affairs of our
neighbors,) especially in those ailu 1 • f t ; (their
systemvi goverum>nt,) whie - a < vital vi i-
I on! ••rt' ding üb; in i. the inotite v -f..- i tflig rt
1 •' . ■ ; .. yv i: r. vv r < - ;
. i w oi l appear to he iq:i.u iy ,q>j.,io
| ble to us." Could language be framed more
! appropriate to portray the designs r>t t lie French
Government in their intervention in Mexico,
' and the feelings of our neople in regard to it ?
•id *.b : . a r •u.tntir. s c-f the paople. in (!•• !
1 • race ■;;; in:;:, ndopu-o n <'ee;a: ation <>f j
... : ve- . fc: ri- . bringing j
islt ■ r v , . i". •• t i iti" reb- i
: els v. t,;ist our contest was at the hieriest. There
: i • no blinking ti-? feet; tint the. Erehtb war in
j Mexico v. as the L.Tine; or'? contingent N aid of
\ the rebellion against free govern.n nt, and the
j rebellion has not ended whilst French bayonets
j maintain a despotism there.
What can lie more humbling to the pride of
. our country than to witness its Premier, through
our highest functionary abroad, making the
degrading declaration that his countrymen be
lieve that the Mexican people united and br •'(
in the foreign master, while the very allies of (
Fiance in the < in of the attempt turn thfiir
backs on it as soon as thcjffal design of oon
i quer-t was disclosed by lndeed, lndeed, he
himself had the frankness, when fairly "mbark
: ed on its expedition, to despise such subterfuges
; and to avow his real purpose to the world, pro
claiming th rough the press of Europe that his
obiect was "to give the ascendency to the
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 28, 1865.
! Latin race" throughout the southern section of
onr continent. 'This was an appeal to all of
| French or Spanish lineage holding possessions
;in the regions washed by the Gulf of Mexico
;to join hi? standard. It was in the spirit of
the de>ign of tlie Holy Alliance, when that ar
i biter ol thrones, after settling affairs in Europe,
| proposed to reestablish its viooruyships, which
j the popular power on this continent had repu-
diated. The British Minister, Canning, saw in
; the restoration of European potentates on this
! continent a renewal of colonial bondage and
commercial monopoly. The American l'resi
dent, Monroe, saw in it a war upon republican
commonwealths which inevitably involved our
own. Upon these considerations, the Ameri
can and ltritish Cabinets concurred that it was
wise to confront the design of the Holy Alli
ance with the Monroe doctrine.
It was this concurrence of the Anglo-Saxon
I governments, looking to the preservation of the
tiee institutions on which they were founded,
tha: am -t"d the steps of the Holy Allies tend
ing t" ihe re-establishment of the Latin race
with its imperial absolutism in all the Guit re
gions. Louis Napoleon renews the attempt,
; making the principal member of the Holy Alii
anee his colleague in the undertaking. Will
the N >rth of Europe—-will England, especially
j—see with indifference this rround marriage of
' France with Austria, meant to give the Bona
j parte dynasty the means and men and tiie vast
| commercial material of Spanish America to ag
i grandize its power in Europe as well as America
j and to render it more than it was under the
' first Emperor—the arbiter of botii continents'?
I I he present Emperor is ambitious to restore in
hi? -.n p. :-s .it ihe reign of f!i<> • great Caesars
> .-i ii a ivent? lie a--' m in his his
. to!"/ are. e.sseniial to the. progress of the human
race. England. it is certain, did not contribute
to build up the power of the last of them, nor
| as yet does she seem willing to assist the grand
schemes of his successor. She would not
I countenance his Mexican conquest, nor listen
|to his repeated importunities to recognize the
1 States late in rebellion against our Union—
States he sought to cut off from our Republic
and bring under his wing as consummating his
1 darling project of "the Latin race ascendency"
in all regions around the Gulf of Mexico. Eng
land will not favor it. She has too deep a
j stake in the Anglo-Saxon race and their free.
; institutions.
I? it not strange that an American statesman
should be found willing to establish the colossal
power of France and Austria in our midst—
' ready to curry out, on any opportune ocoa
j sion of new sectional discontents, the cherished
; scheme of destroying our Uuion? It is certain
; if the Latin race gains the ascendency aimed '
j at, it must absorb Central America and hold ■
i the isthmus and separate us from our Pacific;
1 States by the ocean r u!e- Already, in advance :
I we see France planting colonies of rebel refu- j
j zees, under the auspices of a California traitor, j
in S mora, to rob iis of our sister republics of
the far West; and the French Government has
already carried a vote in the legislative body j
providing for transporting a new army of 10,-
000 men to effect these objects; and this im
mediately followed the concession of our State
Department, which was read in the Chambers. ;
To take the French side in the Mexican con
test in such a crisis as this, its originator a
Bonaparte, avowing designs hostile to republi
can governments and directly subversive of our
rights ap a nation in the region around the
Gulf of Mexico, is a daring course in one hold- j
ing high station in our Government and look
ing to the highest. Does ho expect to mount
by appealing to the love of peace and dread of
war with France? Docs lie expect to gain the
support of the holders of the public debt, who
may prefix t ? run up their stock by submission
to France, rather than elevate the glory and
preserve the free institutions of their country'
and of the continent by patriotic sacrifices?
Cowardice, it should he remembered, invites
oppression, because it falls an easy prey. Cour
age averts war. because it makes peace the in
terest of an enemy.
Our Minister in Paris next gives the assur
ance to tin French Emperor and the legislative 1
body. " That we (speaking for our Administra
tion) can understand time Mexico that was J'ur a
long time ruled In/ a mon'trchw tl govenrmcnt would
Idee to return to that form of government, " Migiit
not the representative of our country at the
French or English court apply the same remark
with equal truth to the people of this country
as to the people of .Mexico? If the French u
surper should conquer us and seta Ilapsburg
■vr a- a:< Viceroy, doubtless some sycophant
n'uti i and p over among u J would give
niud r-und how the American pso
as well the Mexican?, as they were for
a I ng time ruled by a monarchical government,
would like to return to that form of govern
ment! It would he just as true of the first as
the last.
The in ?ivc to Franc having perform" l ?! its
1 ' , o for ti. • Emperor tlrsru, the State De-'
j part incut employs its organ, the New York
; Tones , to subserve the uurposes of the usurper
and maker of thrones here, by advocating his
cause before the American people. Three col
umns and a half of that journal, conducted by
Weed and Raymond, well-fed favorites from
Uie drippings of the .State and War Offices, are
employed in arguing away the Monroe doc
trine and asserting the lawfulness and justice of
the policy of the invader of Mexico. The ar
ticle is ushered in by an editorial of approval,
and has the ear mark of its Cabinet origin, by
putting in the salvo which makes a feature in
our Minister, Mr. Bigelow's communication to j
Napoleon's Minister of State, M. Bouher, as
read by hirn to the legislative bddy. It has \
the very tone of our Secretary. It has his dip
lomatic cue precisely as he gare it to Mr. Bige- j
low. "Of course (says the Times in its colon- j
ade article) the people of the United States i
would prefer to see Mexico flourish under the
republican institutions which sealed their inde
pendence in 1808. Hot it must be admitted
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
I (hat the experience of republicanism in Mexico
1 : ias not been, on the whole, flattering. Had
< the case lieen otherwise, the occasion would
) never have arisen for the European interven
f tion of 18ol." From this position everything
- done by France in regard to Mexico is vindica
, ted, and the violation of the Monroe doctrine,
sanctioned by so many 1 years of taeit admission,
is justified. The article insists that as Juarez
1 did not pay the debts due to the subjects of
1 France, had "no material means of honoring
1 his signature, in which case he represented only
an illusory or inadequate Government; or he
1 did not mean to honor it, in which case it was
proper to punish. Upon this the European
■ governments broke relations with him and uni
ted to obtain redress. Such, in a few words,
was the origin ot the Mexican expedition. It
had but one object—the recovery of sums due
to France, and security for French citizens."
Now, this is the ground upon which the over
throw of Mexican independence and of the
Monroe doctrine is justified. England and Spain,
we arc told, united with France to obtain re
dress for the grievances coplainod of. I admit
it 1 lut did they unite with France in making
(he independence of the country and-the liber
ties ttf the people a forfeiture because ii Juurez
hid HO Duiterinl means of honoring his signature,
or did not mean to honor it /" England and Spain, ;
en the contrary, renounced the alliance and
turned their prows homeward when the}' ascer
tained tti French Emperor's design was not to
exact payment of a debt or indemnity for in
jury to iris subjects, but to overthrow a Repub
! " with i lie liberties of a people.. Neither Eng-
I aid nor Spain understood, as the despatch from
our State Department authorizes our Minister
at Paris to declare to the French Minister of
State 'dee understood," that this sudden and bold
consummation of an enterprise begun under
pretence of obtaining justice, but ending in
conquering a nation, was simply the result of
respect for the will of that nation.
Put the Emperor of the French is not left to
in fere the acquiescence of this government from
even these pregnant facts, ile has it coupled
with a justification in the handwriting of our
Minister, under the authority of our Secretary
of State. Louis Napoleon's Minister of State,
M. liouher. read to tlie French legislative body
this extract from an official communication of
our Minister. Mr. Pigelow, containing an as- j
surance of our submission to the establishment
of his Mexican Empire, with a view to disarm
opposition to it from the representatives of the j
French people and to quiet their discontents.
i Mondeur, the Government official paper ;
of Fiance, reports Mr. Piglow's words thus:
'•We (our Government) do not like of course
to see a monarchy established in Mexico; we
prefer of course republican institutions; but we
respect the wiilof the people; we can under-j
' stand how Mexico, that was for a long time •
.
i ruled by a monarchical government, would j
like to return to that form of government, and j
we Would not go to war for the sake of a form
of government."
I Now, here is not only acquiescence against
our inclinations to the conspiracy which seeks [
the surrender of Mexico as the prey of the
French and Austrian potentates, but assigns as j
i reasons for it falsehoods, which are made to give j
it the appearance of a submission to an honest,;
democratic principle. While all the world
knows that republican institutions were put
down in Mexico by French bayonets, neither J
the party of Miramoo nor Juarez, at war |
j for the Presidency, consenting to surrender |
their form of government, our American Minis-!
ter is made to say that they were put down by j
the people themselves! And yielding submis
sion to this flagrant act of war upon the Mexi
can Republic, and our own, of which it was j
(he offspring, we are told is but respect to the
will of the people! Ant thus it is argued that I
tSie Mexican people, having consented to re
linquish their independence to (lie mandate ofa
foreign usurper, the people of the United States j
must abandon the time-honored policy of our :
fathers, which the public opinion of liberal Ea- ;
rope so sanctioned as to compel even the Holy
Alliance to respect it.
The course of our Foreign Secretary and
War Secretary will warrant the French Em-,
peror in asserting that the policy he has adopt- j
el to engrail French power on the institutions j
of this continent, which are cut dowm to make
a stock for its support, is approved by our Gov
ernment. See how both our State and War j
Departments have been subordinate to Napol
eon's policy. Our House ot Representatives
re-echoed tlie voice of the Convention that nom
inated Lincoln and Johnson as candidates, pledg
ed, if elected, to the Presidency, to reassert and
maintain, even in the midst of the rebellion, the
Monroe dx'trine, as a protest against the invas
ion of France to overthrow the republican sys- \
tern established as that of our continent, taken
from the type of that of the United States. The
State Department instantly despatched.a dis
claimer to the Emperor of the French through
our minister at Paris, containing the assurance
that the opinion of the House was not that of
the Government, and giving him to understand
that the Executive would not co-operate with
the House.
The War Office confirmed this intimation of
the State Department immediately by its action.
An order was entered against the exportation
of arms, which were essential to enable the Mex
icans to defend themselves, while the French
were allowed forage and transportation, which
were all they wanted. We had an equal right
to stop the means of support which were as es
! sential to maintain the Emperor's army in Mex
ico as to stop the export of arms, lest they might
fill into the hands of the invaded Republicans,
| who, thus disarmed, were compelled to submit
i to an enemy that came accoutred with the best
the armories of Europe could furnish. The
Mexicans sought, and might have obtained, but
1 for this order, the arms exported from Europe,
and rejected by our army as not equal to the
Springfield gun; but our War Secretary, in
complaisance to France, played the dog in the
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j j manger, and denied the contractors and rner
-1 chants the right to re-export what he had refu
-1 sed to receive. This interdict was continued to
- the last of June, for so late were the refuse
I arms purchased by the Mexican agents in San
• Francisco withheld, although President Johnson
, ordered its removal within one week after his
, | accession to power. Nevertheless, the revoca
: tion was not communicated to our officers in
r that quarter, and hence the Mexican arms were
; seized, and continue to be held even now.
Do I propose, then to send our veterans to
1 put it down at once? I do not, I believe it
; will not be necessary, llutitis necessary, to
prevent war, that the French Emperor should
bo no longer deceived as to the feelings of the
American people in regard to his position there.
We need not say what we are able to do. lie
has seen that wc are able to hold the territory
, which our fathers bequeathed to us. We
should make it manifest, also, in a becoming
manner, that we mean to maintain the Govern- j
ment which they framed fur us, ari l the princi
ples which they asserted as necessary to pre
serve it —asserted too, when they were compara- :
tively a feeble power m defianfe of the allied j
powers of the whole continent of Europe.
Secretary Stanton and Mrs. Surratt,
Treatment of Iter Confessor.
Wa siiington, Jtily 16.—0n thursday morn- j
ing, the 16th inst., the Rev. Father Walter,l
pastor of St Patrick's Church, in this city,
went to the War Office to ask for a pas-, igno- j
rant of the fact that she had already been con- I
demr.ed to suffer death on the following day. I
lle had never previously visited Mrs. S-, nor 1
did he know her except by reputation. On ap- j
plication, he was informed by Gen. Hnrdie, A.
A. G. to Secretary Stanton, that he could not i
give him a pass without first consulting Mr. i
Stanton, who was out at the time. Father
Walter returned home, and at 1 o'clock a. m.. !
on tffe same day, received a pass to visit the i
prison, signed, by order of the Secretary of J
War, Gen. Ilardie, A. A. G.
The messenger who brought the pass to Fa
ther Walter, being an intelligent Irishman, Fa
ther W. entered into conversation with him on i
the sid ject of theexecution, firmly asserting his j
belief in Mrs. Surratt's innocence. Il half, or
perhaps an hour afterward, Gen. Hardie him
self called at the residence of Father Walters, i
and after r-'ome irrelevant conversation, said: j
"Father Walter, you made quite an impression j
! on the mind of my messenger in regard to the j
execution of Mrs. Surratt," to which Father!
j W. remarked that life was (irmly impressed j
with her entire innocence. Gen. Hardie then 1
' said: "Father Waller, the pass you have will,
not admit you to the military prison to-mor- !
row, because it is not signed by the Secretary i
jof War. I want you to make mo a promise I
to say nothing of Mrs. Surratt's innocence, and
I will give you the necessary pass."
Father Walter, naturally indignant, immedi
ately refused to accede to Gen. ll.'s demand,!
: giving him to understand, in the plainest kind !
of language, that 110 officials, civil or military, 1
| could enforce his silence on this jjoint; and re- j
marked that he knew under whose authority .
; he (Gen. H.) was acting. Gen. Ilardie—a '
; converted Catholic, by the Way—then said, •
; patronizingly, that as yet there were no char- j
ges lodged against him, Father W , at the War j
Department, to which the latter rejoined that 1
Ihe might tell his master Stanton, that he con-;
| scientiously believed Mrs. Surratt guiltless; |
: that he should proclaim his belief, and that the ;
War Department might hang him if it thought ;
proper.
Gen. Hardie was about to go without giving j
Father W. the pass, when the latter said: j
"Gen. Ilardie, I cannot suffer Mrs. Surratt to j
die without administering the sacrament; 1 say '
! yes to your proposition; give me the pass." !
Gen. Ilardie then drew from his pocket a pass
duly filled and signed by Edwin M. Stanton,
admitting him Father W., to the prison until
j after the execution.
Previous to the removal of Mrs. Surratt
1 from the Carroll to the military Prison, Fa*
i ther W. had made application to the War Of
fice for a pass to visit her, she. being very ill,
| but in every instance bis applications were de
j nied, and up to the very day before the execu-
I tion Mrs. S was deprived by the Secretary of
War of spiritual attendants. — Xew York Tri
bune Juhj 1?.
i Nkgi to vs. white Men.—The Legislature of
Rhode Island has passed resolutions in favor of
, allowing negroes to vote in the reorganization
of the Southern States. The State of Rhode
Island does not permit naturalized foreigners
to vote uuless they own a certain amount of
property, and when at the last election it was
proposed to permit those who had served lion
i orably in the army of the United States to vote
without the property qualification, the proposi
tion was rejected by a large majority of the peo
ple. Negroes who hold a sufficient amount of
property are permitted to vote in Rhode Island,
. but white naturalized foreigners, even though
they may be soldiers in the array, are not per
mitted to vote unless they have been fortunate
enough to acquire some wealth. And yet that
State feels called upon to upbraid the President
j for riot forcing unlimited negro suffrage upon
the Southern States in defiance of their clearly
understood rights and in violation of his oath,
j e
; Wanted to go South Again.—A Confeder
. ate officer who was on his way back to his home
in Georgia, was out near the Nashville depot
yesterday. He was suddenly surprised at be
ing surrounded by five or six negroes who Lad
• recognized him and jumped down from their
wagons to run and meet him. They were dtiv
ing Government teams. He recognized them
as his own negroes, who had followed the Fed
: eral army off. They begged iiim to take them
; back home with him, and they would be -de
, best niggas he eber seed" if lie would. Ar
i rangements were made and master and negroes
i all left on the train for Georgia together last
night — Louisville Dtmocrat. Junt *2O, IB6h
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VOL. 8, NO 52.
The Price of Abolition Whistles,
On Monday we made brief mention of the
fact that it iiad been stated in the financial col
umn of the New York Herald, that instead of
three thousand million dollars, at which it has
generally been estimated, the National debt is
j likely to foot up between four and five thou
i saud millions by the time settlements are made
with all the government creditors. This puts
the debt of the United States on a level with
that of Great Britain. But it leaves us vastly
worse off than the British, because their debt
pays only three per cent- interest, whilst ours
pays from six to seven and three-tenths per cent.
IVe shall have to pay more than double the a
mount of interest annually that is paid by Great
1 Britain, which practically makes our debt dou
ble hers. The people of Great Britain are
ground down to the earth by the taxation re
quired to meet the interest on their debt. How
are we to bear a burden twice as heavy as
theirs? It cannot be borne. Ten years will
not elap-e before our bondholders will have to
submit to a reduction of interest, under penalty
of submission to something worse.
This debt, with its never-ending burden of
taxation, is the penalty we have to pay for Ab
olitionism. The Abolitionists caused the war.
Slavery did not cause it, any more than wheat
causes weevil. Under the old Republican and
Federal division of parties, there was no war
between the North and the South. Under the
Whig and Democratic division of later years
there was no war. Yet slavery existed all this
time. If slavery caused the war, how did it
come to pass that peace reigned during all ad
ministrations, without respect to party, till an
Abolition President was elected ? War came
with the success of the Abolition party, and
the debt incurred in carrying on the war is
what the people have to pay for the Abolition
v?histle.
Though we have "paid too dear for the whis
tle" already, it is not certain that we are done
paying for it. Our Abolition administration's
surrender of the Monroe doctrine threatens to
involve us in war with France. We could
scarcely get through that conffict without ad
ding five hundred or a thousand million dol
lars more to our debt, which would be just so
much more for the Abolition whistle—Lan
caster Intelligencer.
WHY WOMEN "DRESS."
The true explanation of the prevailing ex
travagance in costume is that women dress for
one another.
In other words, they dress for eyes which
can appreciate the material and estimate the
cost of every separate article they have on.
It is quite true that many men care as much
for, and are as competent to give an opinion on
the appearance of their wives, or sisters, or
friends, as any number of female acquaintances;
but the grounds upon which the two classes of
critics will base their several judgments will al
ways be distinct, and the conclusions themselves
not unfrequently quite opposite.
Ask a man and a women to tell you who is
the best-dressed girl at a ball, and you will
hardly ever find them agreeing in their answer.
Go a step further, and compare the costumes
which have been selected, and you will discover
almost to a certainty that the woman lias sing
led out the most expensive dress i* the room,
whereas the man has simply asked himself which
is the most becoming. The one has sptiered
herself to be so impressed by the richness of the
material, the elaborateness of the embroider}',
tlie costliness of the trimmings, that in the end
she has found it simply impossible to leave these
things out of the calculation. The other, hap
py in his ignorance, has looked only at the gen
eral effect, and has probably given the prefer
ence to a young lady whose gown has no other
merits than those of being scrupulously neat,
becomingly cut, and perfectly well made.
C3"A cute Yankee, in Kansas, sells liquor
in a gun-barrel instead of a glass, that lie may
avoid the law, and make it appear beyond dis
pute that lie is selling liquor by the barrel. Of
course the cute Yankee's customers are liable to
go off half cocked.
tfSfA tippler who squinted very much, used
sometimes to mourn that his eyes did not agree.
'Tts very lucky for you," said a friend, "for if
your eyes had been matches your nose would
have set them on fire long ago."
CsTChief Justice Chase, to the dishonor of
the Court of which he is the head, is stumping
it among the negroes, and insists that they shall
vote.
KiTThe aggregate expenses of President Lin
coln's funeral at Washington were §25,000.
esrlt is no misfortune for a nice young lady
to lose her good name, if a nice young gentle
man gives her a better.
Ctl-A kind word and pleasant voice are gifts
easy to give: be liberal with them, they are.
worth more than money.
CaTWhy is dough like the sun 1 Because
when it rises it is light.
©g-Whiskey is the key by which many gain
an entrance into our prisons and almshouses.
q. Brandy brands the noses of all those who
, cannot govern their appetites.
Wine causes many to take a winding way
! home. *
Punch is the cause of many unfriendly
j punches.
j Ale causes many ailings; while beer brings
I many to the bier.
Champaign is the cause of many real pains.
Gin slings have "slewed" more than the
! slings of old.