The Bedford gazette. (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, May 24, 1867, Image 1
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A liberal discount is made to persons advertising by the quarter, half year, or year, as follows : 3 months. 6 months. 1 year. •One square --•s4 50 $6 00 $lO 00 Two squares ... 600 900 16 00 Three squares - - - 8 00 12 00 20 00 Quarter column - - 14 00 20 00 35 00 Half column - - - 18 00 25 00 45 00 One column - - - - 30 00 45 00 80 00 •One square to occupy one inch of space. JOB PRINTING, of every kind, done with neatness and dispatch. THE GAZETTE OFFICE has just been refitted with a Power Press and new type, and everything in the Printing line can be execu ted in the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates.—TERMS CASH. UP* All letters should be addressd to MEYERS A MENGEL, Publishers. §rttonmfisi at Jaw. S. L. RUSSELL. J. H. LONGEN'ECKER. RUSSELL & LONGENECKER, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, BEDFORD. PA., Will attend promptly and faithfully to all busi ness entrusted to their care. Special attention given to collections and the prosecution of claims for Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, AC OFFICE, on Juliana Street, south of the Court House. a pro,' 67 tf J. SFCB. SLLARTE. E F. KERR. SHARPE A KERR, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BEDFORD, PA., will practice in the courts of Bedford and adjoining counties Of fice on Juliana St., opposite the Banking House of Reed A Scheli. [March 2, '66. J. R. DCRBORROW. | JOHN LUTZ. NU R BORROW & LUTZ, J J ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to tLeir oare. Collections made on the shortest no tice. They are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents and will give special attention to the prosecution of claims against the Government for Pensions, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the "Mengel House," and nearly opposite the Inquirer office. JOHN P. REED, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA Respectfully tenders his services to the pnblic. Office second door North of the Mengel House. Bedford, Aug, 1, 1861. ESPY M. ALSIP, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Will faithfully and promptly attend to all business entrusted to his • are in Bedford and adjoining counties. Military claims, back pay, bounty, Ac., speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Ju!iana street, t >o doors South of the Mengel House. Jan. 22, 1864, F. Jf. KIMMELL. | J. W. LINGENFELTER. KIMMELL & LINGENFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Law. Office on Juliana street, two doors South •fthe 'Mengel House," GH. SPANG, ATTORNEY AT s LAW BEDFORD, PA. Will promptly at tend to collections and all business entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoining counties. Office on Juliana Street, three doors south of the "Mengel House," opposite the residence of Mrs. Tate. May 13, 1864. B. F. MEYERS. | - W. DICKF.RSON. MEYERS & DICKERSON, AT TORNEYS AT LAW, Bedford, Pa., office game as formerly occupied by Ron. W. P. Sctaell, two doors east of the GAZETTE office, will practice in the several courts of Bedford county. Pensions, bountv and back pay obtained and the purchase and sale of real estate attended to. [mayll,'66. gfntiisitry. I JR., DENTISTS, BEDFORD, PA. Office in the Bank Building, Juliana St. All operations pertaining to Surgical or Me ehanical Dentistry carefully performed, and war ranted. Tooth Powders and mouth Washes, ex cellent articles, always on hand. TPRMS—CASH. Bedford, January 6,1865. mBIUMPH IN DENTISTRY! TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN, by the use of Nitrous Oxide, and is attended with no danger whatever. TEETH INSERTED npon a new style of base, which is a combination of Gold and Vulcanite ; also, upon Vulcanite, Gold, Platina and Silver. TEMPORARY SETS inserted if called for. S >ecial attention will be made to diseased gums and a cure warranted or no charge made. TEETH FILLED to last for life, and all work in the dental line done to the entire satisfaction of all or the money refunded. Prices to correspond with the times. jy I have located permanently in Bedford, and shall visit Schellsburg the Ist Monday of each month, remaining one week ; Bloody Run tho 3rd Monday, remaining one week ; the balance of my time I can be found at my office, 3 doors South of the Court House, Bedford, Pa. n0v.16,'66. WM. W. VAN ORMER, Dentist. TYENTISTRY! DENTISTRY! A BEAUTIFUL SET OF TEETH FOR TEN DOLLARS Dr. H. VIRGIL PORTER, (late of New York city,) DENTIST, Would respectfully inform his numerous friends and the public generally, that he has located per manently „ IN BLOODY RUN, where he may he found at all times prepared to insert from ONE TOOTH to full sets of his BEAUTIFUL ARTIFICIAL TEETH, on new and improved atmospheric principles. THE TRIUMPH OF MECHANICAL DENTISTRY, RUBBER FOR THE BASIS OF ARTIFICIAL TEETH. This discovery which has met with such universal approval throughout this and other countries, has seemingly placed Artificial Teeth at the disposal of all who require them. Dr. PORTER is now in serting most beautiful and durable , at prices ranging from ten to eighteen dollars per set. Temporary sets inserted if desired, jy All operations warranted. TEETH EXTRACTED, without pain, by the use of NITROUS OXIDE or LAUGHING GAS. This is NO HUMBUG, but a positive fact. Gas administered fresh every day. As the Gas administered by Dr. Porter is pre pared in accordance with the purifying method of Dr. Strong, of New Haven, Ct., and Prof. Siliman (late Professor of Chemistry in Yale College), he has no hesitation in asserting that it is attended with no danger whatever. Persons desiring the services of a Dentist, would promote their own interest by calling upon Dr. Porter, as he is determined to spire no effort to please the most fastidious. Dr. Porter's mode of operating will at all times be of the mildest char acter, avoiding the infliction of the slightest un necessary pain, and carefully adapted to the age, constitution, health and nervous condition of the patient. Ly Special attention is invited to Dr. Porter's scientific method of preserving decayed and aching teeth. H VIKUIL PORTER, mar29,'67tf. Dentist, Bloody Run, Peuna. XHE BEDFORD GAZETTE is the beat Advertising Medium in Southern Penn ania. £l)c Bciifori) (ftnjcttc. BY MEYERS & MENGEL. (BrorerifS, &c. V"E\V GOODS! NEW GOODS! FOR SPRING and SUMMER, 1867. J. M. SHOEMAKER has just re turned from the East with a large stock of Spring and Summer Goods, which he has bought AT REDUCED PRICES and is now offering CHEAP, AT BIS OLO STAND. The following comprise a few articles, viz : Ladies' Dress Goods, Bleached and Unbleached Muslins, Ginghams, Calicos, Bed Ticking, Checks, Cloths, Cassimeres, Cottonade, Satinett, Cotton Chain, (single A double.) Hosiery, Gloves, Ac. GROCERIES, SPICES, Ac.: Coffees, Sugars, Syrups. Molasses, Salt, Oils, Teas, Spices, of all kinds. CEDAR WARE: Buckets, Tubs, Brooms, Ac. HATS, ior Men and Boys, all sizes and prices. A large and cheap stock of Men's and Boys, CLOTHING. TOBACCO—Natural Leaf, Oronoco, Navy, Con gress, Black-Fat, Twist, Smoking-tcbacco and Se gars, Ac. QUEENSWARE, all kinds. A large assortment of BOOTS and SHOES, all sizes and prices, TRUNKS, Ac. I FlSH—Mackerel, Nos 1, 2, and 3, in bbls, half j bbls., quarter and eighth bbls. LEATHER—SoIe Leather, French and City Calf Skins, Kip and Upper Morocco, Ac. |y Be sure and call at J. M. SHOEMAKER S, apr26,'67. No. 1 Anderson's Row. jgPLENDID | OPENING of CHEAP SPRING and SUMMER GOODS, AT FARQUHAR'S /V P w W /• // .• v. ci / o •> p REED'S BUILDING. CALICOES, (good) - 12ic. do (best) - - 18c. MUSLINS, brown, - - 10c. do (best) - - 20c. do bleached, - 10c. do (best) • - 25c. DELAINES, best styles, - 25c. DRESS GOODS of all kinds VERY CHEAP. MEN'S and BOYS' COTTONADES, GOOD and CHEAP. A large stock of FANCY ALL WOOL CASSIMERES ASTONISH INGLY CHEAP. BOOTS AND SHOES. MEN'S AND BOYS' HATS. GROCERIES: Best COFFEE, - - 30c Brown SUGAR - from 10 to 150 FISH: Mackerel and Potomac Herring. QUEENSWARE and a general variety of NOTIONS. Buyers are invited to examiner our stock as we are determined to to sell cheaper than the cheapest. J. B. FARQUHAR. mayl7 T) H. SI PES' MARBLE WORKS. R. H. SIPES having established a manu factory of Monuments, Tombstones, Table-Tops, Counter Slabs, Ac., at Bloody Run, Bedford coun ty, Pa., and having on hand a well selected stock of Foreign and Domestic Marble, is prepared to fill all orders promptly and do work neat and in a workmanlik e style, and on the most reasonable terms. All work warranted. Jobs delivered to all p .rts of this and adjoining counties without ex tra charge. apr!9,'66yl J ETTER HEADS AND BILL I j HEADS, and ENVELOPES for business men, printed in the beat style of the art, at THJ. QAIKTTJ JOB Orricn. ekocrrirs, &r. GROCERY AND FEED STORE! MASS'S CORSRR RECONSTRUCTED ! The undersigned has just opened a New Grocery and Feed Store, at Mann's corner, immediately opposite the Drug Store of J. L. Lewis, where he keeps constantly on hand FLOUR, FEED AND GROCERIES of all kinds, including First-class FAMILY FLOUR, BUCK W HEAT and CORN MEAL, MIDDLINGS, Ac. All kinds of Feed, such as Corn, Oats, Shorts, Rye Chopped, Bran, Ac., Ac. POTATOES, ONIONS, BEETS, BEANS, Ac. FISH of all kinds. Mackerel, Shad, Herring, Ac. Prime Cider VINEGAR, Lovering's SYRUP, Baking MOLASSES, etc. SUGARS at 14,15,18 and 20 cts. per i pound. COFFEE, good Rio, at 30 cents per pound, ard Java, of the best quality. TEAS, Young Hyson, Imperial, Ja pan, Ac. TOBACCO, Navy, Natural Leaf, Congress, Fine-cut, Solace, Ac. CIGARS, the best brands in the mar | ket. j PRUNES, FIGS, DATES, RAISINS, and NUTS of all Kinds. CONFECTIONERY, Candies of the purest manufacture, Oranges and Lemons, etc. SALT, Ground x\lum, American and Table Salt. CHEESE, the very best manufactu red New York Dairy. BUTTER and EGGS, fresh, constant ly kept on hand. POULTRY for sale whenever ob tainable in the country. SOAPS, Plain and Fancy, of all kinds. Dusting Pans, Brooms, Brushes, Shoe Blacking, Ac. SPICES, of all kinds, Pepper, Black and Cayenne, Allspice, Cinnamon, Cloves, Nut megs, etc., etc. BHs&* If you want to buy cheap as well J ALU 13 DU l uuiv. may3,'67. GOODS! —THE SUBSCRI- t BERS HAVE JUST OPENED A LARGE AND GENERAL ASSORT MENT OF jj®" SPRING AND SUM- ( MER GOODS. BUYERS IN \ SEARCH OF BARGAINS ARE RE- J SPECTFULLY INVITED TO CALL, t I FEELING ASSURED WE CAN i PLEASE ALL IN QUALITY \ OR PRICE. BteT TERMS, CASH OR PRO- 1 i DUCE. WHEN CREDIT IS GIV- 1 ] EN IT IS ONLY FOR 6 MONTHS- - AFTER THAT PERIOD WE CHARGE INTEREST ON ALL ACCOUNTS. A. B. CRAMER & CO. may3w4 STORE!! NEW GOODS!! MILL-TOWN, two miles West of Bedford, where the subscriber has opened out a splendid assortment of Dry-Goods, Groceries, Notions, &c., &c. All which will be sold at the most reasonable prices. Dress Goods, best quality. Everybody buys 'em. Muslins, " " Everybody buys m Groceries all kinds, Everybody buys em. Hardware, Queensware, Glassware, Cedarware,Ac. and a general variety of everything usually kept in a country store. Everybody buys 'em. |y Call and examine our goods. dec7,'66. YEAGER fbygiriattis. Tpvß. GE O. B . K ELLBY, \9 having permanently located in ST. CLAIRS VILLE, tenders his professional services to the citizens of that place and vicinity nov2'6fiyl WYJAMISON, M. D., BLOODY . BUN. Pa., tenders his professional servi ces to the people of that place and vicinity. Office ene door west of Richard Langdon s store. Nov. 24, '6s—ly T\R. J. L. MARBOURG, Having I / permanently located, respectfully tenders his professional services to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office on Juliana street, east side, nearly opposite the Banking House of Reed & Schell. Bedford, Febmary 12, 1864. EDICAL.—DR. S. G. STATLER, near Schellsburg, and DR. J. J. CLARKE, srly of Cumberland county, Pa., having asso ciated themselves in the Practice of Medicine, re spectfully offer their professional services to the citizens ot Schellsburg and Vicinity. Dr. Clarke's office and residence same as form -1 erly occupied by J. Smith, Esq., dec d. aprl2,'67yl STATLER A CLARKE. , QLIP BILLS, PROGRAMMES, O POSTERS, and all kinds of PLAIN AND I FANCY JOB PRINTING, done with neatness and despatch, atTHiGAZRTTB office. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 24, 1867. lilt gftllonl fettff. For the Gazette. KISSING A XIGGEB BABY. BY A PHYSICIAN. Now, you want me to tell yoi a joke. Well, I will, but not just so much of one either, unless you can giess the party concerned. Maybe some of the crowd will know. The gentleman and I were great friends, and a very estima ble man he was and very closely con nected with our present distiiguished him, and also in professional atten dance on his wife, he was engaged by the Trustee of the heirs tc put in to blast and manage Furnace in County; but owing to the situa tion of things at home, it was not de sirable for him to remain away for any extended time, and he was compelled, in order to avoid being absent at night, to ride from 26 to 30 miles daily during the short days. Like a good affection ate husband (and certainly he was one,) he was in the habit of kissing every member of the family, from the wife down, before starting and on his re turn. The interesting event having transpired at last—a handsome boy baby being the present, and he the first of the kind ever vouchsafed the family,—it being now no longer ueces sary for him. to take those fatiguing rides and his business pressing him, after the preliminary of kissing, Ac., he started to be absent till Satirday evening. On the morning of the day of his expected return, it being leces [ sary for some house-cleaning to he done, a colored woman in the neigh borhood was engaged, she brirging with her a young "nig" of 14 or 15 months, having nobody to leave him in charge of at home. During the af ternoon, Mrs. ' breasts having be come painfully engorged, and her own baby being to young to give the desired relief, "Mr. Nig." was called into re quisition, receiving a bountiful iieal for his pains. Whilst in full operation, the husband, unexpectedly anticipa ting the time of his return several hours, (the poor fellow probably CDuld not contain himself any longer, but hastened home to feast his eyes and kiss that boy once more) bounded into the room, occupied then by Maj. and his wife, the children and the servant girl, his fiast pitch to kiss his wife and then the baby. To his surprise, the baby ceased operation and turned to look at him inquiringly. "Why, Ma! Johnny looks up." Oh, Ma! screamed one of the little ones, "Pa. kissed the Nigger baby!" "D-d- (theerentlenian. when confused, or excited, an impedi ment in speech) dear oh ! the Nigger Baby! I have a notion to knock his brains out. Ell-Ell-en, here's f-f-five dollars to buy a pair of boots. D-d --don't tell the Doctor!" For the Gazette. A GOOD JOKE. When I 'tended store in Syracuse, the old man comes 'round one day, and says he: "Boys, the one that sells most 'twixt this and Christmas, gets a vest pattern for a present." Maybe we didn't work for that vest pattern! I tell you there were some tall stories told in praise of goods just about thut time; but the tallest talker, and the one that had the most "cheek" of any of us, was a certain Jonah Squires, who roomed with ne. He could talk a dol lar out of a man's pocket when he in tended only to spend a sixpence; and the women, "Lord, bless us!" they just handed their pocket books to him and let him lay out for them just whatever he liked. One night Jonah woke n?e up with: "By Jo, old fellow, if you think that that 'ere has got any cotton in it I'll biing down the sheep it was cut from and make him swear to his own wool! 'Twon't wear out either; wore a pair of pants of that stuff for five years and they are as good yet as new. Take that at 30 cents and I'll say you don't owe me anything. Eh ! too dear? well, call it 28 cts. Shall I tear it? All right! it's a bargain." I could feel Jonah's hands playing about the bed cover for an instant, then, rip! tear ! went something or another, and I hid my head under the blankets per fectly convulsed with laughter, and certain he had torn the sheet from top to bottom. When I woke next morning, alas! the unkindest cut of all, my shirt teas split from tail to collar. BREAK UP IIELL ITSEI F.— An old preacher in Western New York, who was being persuaded by some of his churchmen, during the political excite ment in that State, last fall, to join the Radical party, said: "No, my brethren, I can't join that party, because all the Abolitonists in the country are in it; and Abolitionism, my brethren, has done a wonderful sight of harm among the people. It has hurt many shepherds and scattered many flocks. It got into the Methodist Church and broke that up. It got in among the Presbyterians and split them in two; broke the old Union to pieces. And, my brethren, I don't know of anything it is good for but to break down and break up. And it you have any enmity against the Old Hoy, I advise you to send Abolitionism into his dominions, and it will break hell it self up in less than six weeks." IT is a curiosity to receive a letter from a lady which has not a P. S. at tached to it. SPEECH OF HON. UEO. IX PEXDLETOX. We subjoin a few extracts from an admirable speech lately delivered by the Hon. George H. Pendleton, at Urbana, Ohio, and commend them to the attention of the public: The old political system passed away in 1861, and another was adopted. Its little finger is heavier than the whole body of that which it superseded. No longer do we ask have we a govern ment. Its Argus eyes 9eek everywhere the accumulations of labor and capital, and its Briarean arms are ever grasp ing all those eyes can see. Its vast military and naval establishments have risen with portentous mien and over shadow the civil administrations in nearly one-half the country. Beneath the blows of their iron sway, popular government, resting on the consent of the people, has there completely fallen. Its vital energy is apparent wherever we see strife and contention, and vio lent passions and antogonisms of race, and section, and States. Its genius and humanity are conspicuous wherever healing wounds are made to gape a fresh, and to receive a new infusion of gall and bitterness. There is no doubt that we have a government—a strong one—strong in the number of men whom it can conscript- strong in the treasure it can raise by taxation—strong in its power to invade the rights of the States and the liberties of the citizens— strong in its capacity to override the Constitution—strong as Rome was strong, both east and west, under the Emperors—strong as France was strong under the Reign of Terror and the Guillotine—hut weak as they were weak when the Goths and Vandals avenged on the seven-hilled city the wrongs of the Germans, or when the blood of the murdered Danton choked the despair ing Robespierre. No government can be really strong which does not appeal both to the in terestand affections of the people, which does not attach by the beneficence of its acts as well as by its dependence on their will. The equality of the States was the bas is of the former Republic. Is it main tained ? The answer comes to us from the Re construction hill, which puts ten States under martial law, and subjects them to the will of a military officer. The strict confinement of the Federal Government to international and inter- State affairs was an element of the for mer Republic. Is it enforced ? The answer comes to us from the Civil Rights hill, which intrudes Fed eral authority upon the States and ut terly overrides tlio most, saero' 1 ...... runlpoa ..muniaic branches of the government, the distri bution of power, the separation of con stituencies from which it flows, were indispensable features of the former Republic. Their doom was written in the Tenure of Office bill, which deprives the Peesi dent of the power of removing even members of his Cabinet, and thus sub jects the Executive to the control of the Legislature. Their doom was written in the attack on the Supreme Court be cause of its decision in relation to mili tary commissions. All power now cen tres in a single hand, and is conferred by a consolidated majority. Reverence for the Constitution mark ed the era of the former Republic and warmed the hearts of all its children. Now who so poor as to entertain this sentiment? It was rolled up and pack ed away by Mr. Lincoln ; and kept thus dishonored it has fallen into contempt, and to urge its authority serves only to provoke a sneer or to call out a joke. It forms no barrier to the projects of party rage or party desire. Its provis ions are entirely disregarded or imme diately altered to justify the enactment proposed, or to command the attain ment of the end. The highest respect shown to its remains is the proposition to amend them The strife of parties, which was once under the Constitution, is now over and above it. Powers granted to the Federal Gov ernment ! Is it not true that every power which is desired to be exercised is found to be granted, and that more would be found if necessary ? Once we believed a fundamental law, guiding legislation and containing the muniments of per.-onal liberty—so sa cred that under no circumstances could it be infringed, or even amended, ex cept in the method prescribed—to be essential to free government. Now we have willingly dispensed with it, and committed unlimited power to a tem porary majority, and this we call flip pantly, the will of the nation. Tel 1 me, does one single feat ure of the former Republic remain ? We had a plain and simple and econ omical government. We have a mag nificent, complex, obtrusive, extrava gant government. We had an army of 15,000 men; we have an army of 100, 000. We had light taxes; we have enormous burthens. We had gol 1 sind silver as legal tender; we have a depre ciated Government paper currency. We had trial by jury and personal lib erty; we have military commissions made valid by law, and arbitrary ar rests justified. We had a government whose exac tions of money or duty were so light that we scarcely felt its existence. We have a government whose strength glitters in the light of the burnished bayonet, aud is reflected in the resplen ■ dent lustre of the sword. We had harmony and fraternal con cord, and due respect for States and VOL. 61.—WHOLE No. 5,394. people and opinions and habits. We have a bitter sectional strife, subjuga ted people, overthrown States, and an animosity of party warfare never be ! fore known. We had freedom of thought. We have an intolerance which strikes down independence of opinion and proscribes political differences as a crime, and es tablishes a searching scrutiny into the hearts and consciences of the commu nity. We heard in our bitterest struggles the voice of reason; now that voice is drowned in the clangor of the trumpet which marshalls prejudice and rage and hate to intensify the party strife. We had a peaceful confederation. Now, while national unity is inculca ted as the highest duty, the perpetua tion of geographical divisions and na tional hatred is rewarded with the highest praise. Congress, which was the theatre of intellectual debate, is now the registry of the decrees of a party caucus, and hesitation to record them is treason to the reigning power, and involves loss of personal preferment, even of political life. We have broken down the barriers which hemmed in that vast array ol powers—closely akin to mere brute force—which we believed the govern ment, and even society, could not, in any event, justly exercise, and have given them as the plaything of every passion. We had a republic; we have an empire. It is said that learned naturalist;- have pushed their researches so far, thai from the inspection of a single bone they can determine the species of the animal, and reproduce his form even though it be thatofthegiantmastodon. No philosopher examining the United States of 1807 could possibly reproduce, without the aid of history, the formei Republic of 1800. The change has been of the most radical character. It is tht change which converted the Rome o: Cato into the Rome of Ctesar; and no less than that is it a change wrought by the power of the sword. Nor do I wonderatit. In the first Con gress of the war Mr. Lincoln justified his suspension of the habeas corpus, on the ground that he had the right to infract one provision of the Constitution in order that he might be able to com pel others to obey the residue. lit ridiculed his constitutional power to issue his proclamation of emancipation, yet in a week's time he issued it. He asserted, in his letter to Mr. Greeley, that he had done and would colinue to do so much and no more than ht vxat>4l-' ' -0°-— e " ""ntrol of the government. They c came revoiuuumsiu. m.cy wrought these changes I have described. They are working on still greater changes. They seized with avidity the sword. The cessation of war will not give them rest. They will go on from one point to another—from the reconstruction ol 1865, which met the approval of Con gress and the President, to the consti tutional amendment—from the consti tutional amendment to the reconstruc tion of 1867—from that to the confisca tion of Thaddeus Stevens—from that to whatever worse the frenzy of the times may prompt, till the reaction shall come; and the people, sated with experiment, wearied with uncertainty, shall drive them from power, even though it be through blood. No success will satisfy them—no attainment will give them repose. The measures struggled for to day as all they desire, attained to-mor row, are instantly forgotten in some new demand. Neither, national unity nor thesuppressionofthe rebellion, nor the maintenance of the Union, nor the abolition of slavery, nor negro suffrage, nor equality of political and social rights, nor the exclusion of white men from the ballot, nor confiscation, nor corruption of blood, will foroneinstant exhaust their restless activity. For it is a law which knows no excep tion, that the leaders of revolution are constantly advancing before the fires which they themselves have lighted. The moment they pause they are en veloped in the flames. And this same orator told us that in addition to the loss of the former Re public, we would incur a debt which would add two hours each day to the labor of every working man in the country, and that the gain should be considered ample compensation for this toil. What was the gain ? The abol ition of negro slavery at the South. For this consummation they were to perform and to suffer all things; for this the Constitution was to be subver ted, the Bible was to be rewritten, a new God was to be enthroned ! Slavery has perished; all history tells us that it can not be re-established in these ages in this country. It is our bounden duty to recognize this great social change; to ameliorate whatever may be incident to it, and, so far as possible, to prepare the freedmen for the discharge of the new duties which are being devolved upon them, iiut, gentlemen, if this revolution is to go on, and the present system of govern ment is to be continued, then has our liberty perished with it; and we have realized the prediction of a profound thinker and a brilliant writer, who, twenty years ago, predicted that it would be written over the grave of our political institutions : "Here lies a peo ple, who, in order to give freedom to three millions of Africans, destroyed their own liberty." ****** And I have dwelt on these things so ! long only that J might ask you whether we have indeed lost the former Repub lic forever. Did the apostle of Radical isin read the portents aright? I can not certainly answer. All his tory is written for our instruction. It tells us that liberty lost is with diffi culty regained; that constitutional I*r once dragged to the dust by the pas sions of man is rarely again raised to govern them in the same generation; that when violence and arbitrary ar rests and destruction of the press and disregard of law, enacted by the ignor ance or prejudice or passion of the peo ple, once destroy the pure appreciation of the value and safe-guards of liberty,it is difficult to restore it, even as it is difficult to restore tho face of beauty when it is scarred, or to revive the lus trous purity of innocence when it is defiled. Jr. Webster, years ago, had occasion to discuss the same subject, and with that pomp and splendor of diction which marked all his political addresses, he said: "Other misfortunes may be borne, or their effects overcome. If war should sweep our commerce from the ocean, another generation may renew it; ii it exhaust our treasury, future industry may replenish it; if it desolate and lay waste our fields, still, under a new cultivation, they will grow green again, and ripen to future harvests. It were but a trifle, even, if the walls of yonder capitol were to crumble, if its lofty pillars should fall, and its gor geous decorations be covered by the dust of the valley. "All these might be rebuilt. But who shall reconstruct the fabric of de molished government? Who shall rear again the well proportioned col umns of constitutional liberty ? Who shall frame together the skilful archi tecture which unites national sover eignty with State Rights, individual security and public prosperity? Now if these columns shall fall they will be reared not again. Like the Coliseum and the Parthenon, they will bedestined toa melancholy, mournful immortality. Bitterer tears, however, will flow over them than were ever shed on the mon uments of the Roman or Grecian Art, for they will be the remnants of a more glorious edifice than Greece or Rome ever saw—the edifice of constitutional American liberty." Gentlemen, I feel the force of these words. I know that others feel them more deeply perhaps than I. I see a mong many good men a tendency to despair. I see among my own friends —those who agree with me generally on public affairs—a disposition to give up all for lost. They have lost hope ; they have lost courage; their despond ency counsels inaction. The newspa pers, the public speeches, but above all the private conversations, indicate this feeling. Gentlemen, Ido not sympa thize with it. I have high hopes for the. futu e. I see the dangers which are before us. I see a long and weary way. I see a long and exhausting not conceal for myself that it rnayd>e a struggle of the sword. Many of us may go down with harness on in the midst of the fight, but hope fills my heart, and the magnitude of the prize nerves my arm. * * * * The reaction will surely come. All history, all philosophy declare it. It has come to all other nations; it will come to us. It has come, sometimes clothed in the white robe of peace, sometimes with its garments dyed in blood. In every country there has been a party of power, and a party a gainst it. In every country there have been men who loved liberty as they loved virtue, and honor, aud truth, men who would avenge its wrongs, even as they would protect the virtue of the wife of their bosom, or the honor of the mother who bore them. Liber ty inspires thesoul. Its sacred fires for ever burn amid its apostles and defen ders. When peaceful means are exhaus ted, it draws the sword. Let its ene mies, then, beware, whether they sit single solitude on a throne, or crowd in the market-places. So will it be with us. Our people desire to be wise and vir tuous. Our country is young and rich and strong. Experience will not teach its painful lessons in vain. Thespleu ded recollections of the past have not entirely passed away. Its vestiges are not all buried in the ruin of The hopes of the future are bright in the reflection of its expiring giories. They will accelerate the counter rev olution. Let us diligently prepare the way. It is wisdom to accept accom plished facts. It is folly to abandon correct principles in the moment of their adversity. Principles are eter nal—institutions of the government are but instrumentalities—facts vary as the dayssucceedeach other,seem to change at the bidding of the fickle moon. Let us hold fast to principles, let us modi fy institutions, let us recognize the changing phases of facts. It is the of fice of wise men to adopt just principles of government by the aid of fit institu tions to every condition of atfairs. Liberty is the great good. Confeder ation is to be sought only because it has aided to maintain it. Centraliza tion is to be avoided only because it has always destroyed it. But at last liberty is the life, the soul, and govern ment is the form, the body through which it is developed. Let us, then, gentlemen, look at the pastonly that we may select whatisgood and avoid what is evil, that we may from its experience catch the inspira tions of a wise progress, that we may so school our hearts with lessons of mod eration and truth that patriotism and wisdom may guide the courses of the inevitable reaction and lead us back from the perils of centralized imperial ism, to the safety of a confederation, founded, supported and restrained by the checks and balances of a wise Con stitution. Thus, if we cannot restore ! the former Republic, we ean at least re i gain the blessings of liberty regulated ! by law, and a law enacted and main j tained by the spirit of virtuous liber -1 ty.