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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
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""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."
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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.