LITEIIAT UHE.
Life op FnrDrmcK thb Grrat. Br Thnross
k Carltle, six volumes. Harper A Brothers. J.
U. Lippincett & Co., Philadelphia agents.
We receiTc the last volume of tho history of
the times of "Frederick the Great," wltn a sense
f relief. We bad feared that the old roan of
eighty would have died before he bad put a
ported to hU lomsr work, before he had placed
Frederick quietly la his tomb. We therefore
are glad to Booths present volume; but. we
view it rather ai a book of reference thnn as an
addition to the cuiroiit literature of the day.
There was a time whaa Carlyle wrote with
vlftorous force: his wild ecrenlricitlcsof expres
sion, bis originality of phraseology, aad the
vivid power of comparison nul expression
which he exhibited, acted as charms te add
lustre to his productions. But in his old aso be
has degenerated into affectation. What then
was natural, vlrid, and ttronir, is now rapid and
stilted. His complexity has Increased and bis
force has diminished. It is not our purpose to
enter into an extended criticism of Carlyle's
style. A newspaper ittIcw Is not a field for
such an undertaking; but suffice it to say, that
those who have labored through the preceding
five volumes will fiad the last an improvement
in point of simplicity.
The time of which it treats Is the last three
jcars ot his life. The author rambles on with
out any restraint through literature, politics,
war, strategy, and diplomacy. He gives us all
the diflcrent views ot his character, and Anally
brings it down to his last hours. As the pic
ture of this scene Las been before the reading
public for years, we quoto that portion of the
work which terminates the life and concludes
the history of the "last of the kinns: "
'Frcm San-Soucl the King did appear again on
borsebuck; rode out several times ('Conde.'a
fine English horse, one of his favorites, carry
ing him the Coude who had many years of
sinecure a I forwards, and was well known to
Touring people): the rides were short; once to
the New i'uluce to look at seine new Vinery
there, thence to the gates of Potsdam, which be
was lor entering; but finding masons at work,
and the streets encumbered, did not, and rode
home instead : this, ot not above two miles, was
the longest ride of ail. Belle's attendance, less
and less hi esteem with the King, and less and
less followed by him, did not quite cease till
June 4; that day the King had said to Selle, or
to himself, 'It is enough.' That longest of his
rides was in the third week alter, June ii, Mid-summer-Day.
July 4 be rode again; and it was
for the lust time. Aboat two weeks aiter Conde
was again brought out; but it would not do.
'Adieu, my Conde; not poisibie asthmas are!'
"During all this while, and to the very end,
Friedricli'B affairs, great and small, were, in
every branch and item, aided on by him with
a perfection net surpassed in his palmiest duys;
be saw his Ministers, saw all who had business
with him, many vfiio had little; and in the sore
coit ot bodily miseries, as Herizberg observed
with wonder, never was the King' intellect
clearer, or his judgment more just aud decisive.
Ot his disease, except to the doctors, he spoke
no word to anybody. The body of Friedrlch is
a ruin, but his soul is still hercj and receives
iiis friend and his tasks as formerly. ' Asthma,
dropsy, erysipelas, continual loss of sleep- for
many mouths past he has not bi-n in bed, but
sits day and night in an ea?y chair, unable to
get breath except in that posture. lie said one
morning, to somebody entering, 'If you hap
pened to vtant a night-watcher, I could suit you
well.'
Ilia multifarious military business camps first;
then his three clerks i til the civil and politi
cal. These three he latterly, instead of calling
about 6 or 7 o'clock, be has had to appoint fir
4 each morning. 'My situation lorci-e me,' bis
message said, 'te give them this trouble, which
thev will not have to sutler long. My lite is on
the decline. The time which 1 still have I must
employ ; it belongs not t me, but to the State.'
About 11, business, lollcwed by short surgical
details or dressings (sadly insisted on lu those
books, and in themselves sullicieutly sad), being
all Uoue his friends or daily company are ad
mitted; five chiefly, or (not counting Minister
Ilertzberg) four, Luccbesini, Bchwenn, Pinto,
Cort.jwho sit with hlu about one hear now, and
two hours in the evening again dreary company
to our minds, perhaps not quite so dreary to the
King's; but they are all be has lett. And he
talks cheerfully with them en 'literature, his
tory, ou the topics of the day, or whatever topic
rise-, as it there was no sickness here.' A mau
adius.ed to his hard circumstances; and bearing
himself manlike and kinglike among them.
"lie well knew hiutseii to be dyiag; bat sons
thiuk, expected that the end might bs a little
iuitQcrotl. There is a grand simplicity of stoi
cism in him; coming as it by nature, or by long
feci(i-nature; finely unconscious of itself, and
filming nothiug ot peculiar In this now trial laid
on it. ' From ot old, lite has been infln.tel7 con
temptible to him. In death, I think, ho has
neither fear nor hope. Atheism, truly, he never
could abide; to htm, as to all of m, It was il-uly
inconceivable tuat intellect, moral emotion',
could have been put iute Inm by an entity that
bud none ol us own. But there, pretty muuh,
bis Tneism teems to have stopped, instiact
ively, too, he believed, no man more ttrruly, that
liicht alone has ultimately any strength in this
woild: ultimately, yes but for hint and nu
poor brlet interests, wnat good was it 1 Hope tor
iilu.self in Diviue Justice, in Divine Providence,
I think be bad not practically any; that the
unfathomable Deminrgus sheald concern him
eelf with such a set ot paltry ill given animal
cules as oneself and maukind are, this also, as
we have olteu noticed, is in tho main incredible
to him.
"A sod Creed, this of the King's he had to do
bis duty without; tee or reward. Yes. reader
and what is well worth your attention', you a ill
have difficulty to find, in the annals ot any
Creed, a King or man whe stood more faithfully
to Lis duty; aud, till tho last hour, alone con
cerned liiuiseif with doing that. To poor Friod
ritli that was all the Law and all the Prophets:
and I much recommend you to surpass him, if
you, by good luck, have a better copy of those
Inestimable documents! Inarticulate notions,
fancies, transient aspirations ae might hive, in
the background of his mind. One day, sitting
for a while out of doors, gazing iito the sun, he
was heard to murmur, 'Perhaps I shall be nearer
tine soon'-and, iuiced, nobody knows what
his thouebts were in these Ana! mouths. Tnere
is traceable only a complete superiority to Fear
aud Hope; in parts, too, are half elimpses of a
great motiouless interior lake of Sorrow, sadder
than any tears or complainings, wtiich ara alto
gether waning to it.
"Friedrlch's dismissal of Jollo, June 4, by no
means meant tnat be bad given up hope from me
dic, ue; on the contrary, two days alter, he had a
lcter on the road tor Zimnierniann ut Hanover,
whom he always remembers ravorablv since that
'Dialogue' v. e read liitecu years ago. His nrst note
toZiuiuier:aanuisof JuueO, 'Would you const-nt
to come lor a fortnig.it, aud try upon mo'f
fciniinermaiin'a overjoyed answer, 'Yea, thrice
surely yes,' is of Juno 10; Fiieanrh's second is
ol June i(, 'Coi'ic, then!' And Zlmraerai&an
came aceorditir.lv, as is still too well known.
Arrived, 23d June; ktayed till luih Julv; had
Thirty-three Interviews or Dialocues with him;
one vkt the last day: two, morulog and even
ing every preceding day arid published a book
about them, which made lwm-nso noise in the
world, und is still real, with little profit or none,
by inquirers into t'riedrieh. Thirty-Tbres Dia
logues, throwing no new 1 ght on Fnudrich,
none 'Of them equal in interest to the old spool
mi n known t' us."
The DuchesE,' last letter or lotters to her bro
ther are lost; but this is his answer:
Fritdrich to the Ihicheti Duwagtr of Dmnewick.
"Saks Souci, 20th August, 17s My adorable
JStster: llie Hanover Doctor has wished to
make himtelt important witu vou. tni tool sis
ter; but tho truth is, be bos been of no use to me
THE DAlLl EVENING TELEGRAPH. PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY,
(m a ete tnv(ife). The old must give pla"e to the
young, that each generation may tind room
clear lor it; and life, if we examine strictly what
Its course is. consists in seeing one's Wlo
rjeattires die and be born. In the moanwhile, I
have felt myself a little easier tor the last day
or two. My heart remains luviolnblv aitached
fo you, my good sister. With th' highest con
sideration ray adorable sister vour laitbfal
brother and servant, 1'biedbicj."
Here, then, ends the largest of Mr. Carlylc'l
many works. We do not think, however, that
by It will bo be Judcred by posterity, II is fame
rests on bis early productions. His "Past and
Present" and Us immediate successors reileot
much more truly bis power. They Rive us bis
ability when naturo, and not artltlctelity, was
bis rule. They give us bis best parts of skill,
and leave the wash and paint of old age to bis
late workj. However, with all bis faults, he
can well say, "Is'ow let thy servant depart ia
peace.' For over half a century bo has been
laiefaligable in bis literary industry, and now
that bis last great work is ended, wo can apply
to bim the words, "Well done, goo I aud faith
ful servant;" eater new into thy deserved rest.
A Tixt-Book of Pnvsioi.ouY. By John Williim
Draper, M. D., LI I). Harper & Brothers,
Sew Yotk. J. B. Lippincett & Co., Agents.
Within two weeks we hava receive 1 no less
than three test-books on Physiology one by
J. C. Draper, M. D., another by Austin Flint, Jr,
M. D., and the ono before U3. It is a compen
dium of a larger work on the same subject,
which, published a few weeks since by Br.
Draper, has nvt wi'.h a warm reception from
our medical world. Of the merits of the enlarge!
edition we have already spoken. We will there
fore simply say, that the little volume now on
our table is as full a synopsis of all the Impor
tant points as wo could liavo imagine 1. It is
sabstantially bound, and will, beyond all doubt,
receive a large patronage iu our schools.
Child's IIistosy op the Ujuted States. Vo
lume 5. By John Bowcn. Harper & Bros.
J. B. Lippincott & Co., Agents.
The present volume of this juvenile work com
mences with the Rebellion, and conducts us
through the first two years. It is a loyally written
and trnthfnl account ef the events of the past
four years, interspersed with such incidents, as
are calculated ''to interest children, and are not
too trivial to attract the attention of persons ef
larger growth. It is the resume of a similar
work by Mr. O. Lunt, of the Boston Courier,
which we understand poriccts the history for
present purposes.
We have received a copy of "The Zambesi,
and its Tributaries. Adventures in Africa." By
the Brothers Livingstone, which Messrs. Harpers
have issued in their usual tasty style. We will
review it at length next week.
Thi Futbn ISkrker. A NovcL By Mrs. E.
D. E. H. Soatb worth.
This fine romance is just published by the
well-known firm of T. B. Peterson & Brotber,
No. 20G C'hcnut street. It is the best ever sent
from the prolific pen 6f the gilted authoress.
The story is interesting, romantic, and occasion
ally almost a picture of real life. We have not
time to-day to give a sketch of the plot. It is
full of incidents and excitement, and the whole
account of the heroine's adventures on Rum
ford's plantation, in Louisiana, is as powerfully
wrought as any of the scenes to be found in the
works of the celebrated Miss Briddon or Mrs.
Henry Wood.
IIisioky op the Life and Times ov James Madi-
son. By ttillnini C. Rives. Vol. II, 8vo, pp.
657. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
In this volume of the biography of tho fourth
President of the United State, the author relates
the political eveuts of a most liaportaut period
of American history. The topics which it em
braces are of more than common interest at the
present moment. It covers the space of timo
from the close of the Revolutionary War to the
adoption of the Federal Constitution, and gives
a copious summary of the proceedings and de
bates of the Convention by which that instru
ment was formed. Great ute has been made of
Mr. Madison's papers and correspondence in the
preparation of the work, and his opinions on
the leading points of discussion ameng tha
statesmen of his day, and the arguments by
which they are sustained, will be found especi
ally instructive and Interesting. Speaking ef
this work, the New York Tribune, referring to
tho vexed question of the right of secession,
says:
"It has been supposed that Vlrcrinla Tivthn
language of her ratification of the Constitution
reserved to houelt the nght ot seceding lrom
t tie compact, according to her own ludgmeut.
Mr. Mauison's letters, as Cited by the author, are
iguiLcunt and aeoiBive on this point. In his
view, no ngiu ot secession was conceded by the
founders ef the Constitution: but bavin? nrn-
vided every security against the abuse and per
version ef power, they lett the result to the
supreme law of nature the right or resistance
to oppression, paramount to all written consti
tutions, the appeal from the constitutional com
pact to original rigat. and the instinct of self-
prenervation, whicn is the final arbiter of ad
governments, wnetnox. consolidated, confede
rated, or a compound of both. The work of Mr.
Rives owes it chief interest to tno political im
portance ef its subjuut rat'ier than to any pecu
liar attractions in its execution. It reads more
like a collection of State papers than a finished
historical comuosition a delocr, however, which
it shares ' with another, standard biographical
production ot a Virginia pen, Marshal s 'Life of
Washington.' "
The Lvening Post, in concluding a long review
of nearly two rolumns, says
"Aside from all the o'her feahirps f n inn.
laborious, and h'ghly successful public career, his
share iu this great work would alone entitle h'un
to the unbounded eratltudo of all true Ameri
cans, as loan a they continue to enjoy the price
less aud manitold Westings that have resulted
lrom the adoptlouQ ot a Constitution which
mroueuout snows tne traces ot Mr. Madison's
pr.ictical, comprehensive, and far-seeing statoj
manhip. "r.r presenting the hlstorv of the Hfn mid
public etlerts of Mr. Madison so clearly and fully
a mr. uives uas uone, we aro sincerely tnankful.
We could have wished he bud given us a more
vivid realization of Mr. Madiaon's priva'o walks
and wajs, iu which ro?p.rd liaadall's 'Life of Jef
teisou' and Barton's 'Jack'on' aie far liore
(.rapine. It ia trae, however, tnat Mr. Madiooa's
puWie lite was pretty nearly nis whole lite. As
free trom personal peculiarities as from pa33lona
or vices, his who'o lite se.-mnd to ba'e beea al
sorbed in public duties aud la the studies which
prepared bim for their performance."
Sir Samuel Morton Peto, with whom as an
Enalibb capitalist tho American public Is preity
well ucquninted, hn3 a work in the press en
titled "The Prospects und Resources or America."
. The London correspondent of the Jiouni
Talle gives us a little on dd ia roard to Charles
Dickens:
Mr. Charlos Pick-ns appears fn public now-a-bjs,
m Jenny Llnd does, omv to help charitioi.
He recently read at IstinKtou (a suDurb of Lo.idoai
treio hii works In the interest ot a buuevoleut jusii
tutien there, tiid never was hapier. It is a wonder
lliat Dicken did not follow tli a atajr as a profbi
sion. iOKioatishnpoworofaotinn xt buows how
ri'id are tlie ajc-tiurdeiied walls of caste In En.
lund tint eueli man ii not yet lu the "boat En.
llrti (Dl'iotV. tlloUKh it tnninminuri l,
b.lity itit, If it ima not been mr some who would
have Tisd tore rretvrd with htn he would ton
aco havo hernia encli society. Ho In V- rr proul
about It, ai.d when the Queen wnhad turn to
act at Windsor in a ccrlHtn amnteur pit
turn i nee which had been a pood di-al talked abDitt,
be n piicd rromptly that "he doclinea te no us a per
lonnrr tnro Ue could not k as a pnvwtn rolI e
" llio vcoile a?nc;Rto him H!l withotrerr
Kt ii roue aud uopular proli-ct, and recently wont sn
lar as to circa rle a rerorl that tho "amateur carnal"
.wl o Meet in tki worlioue in or. er to (U'Uit Its
cine tips, as no othor than tho nnthor el "() Ivor
Iviisi!" On v oilucilay even n? lust Vlr. Dickons
took the chair at the annivortnry fetival ot the
lramat.c, fcqu itrlun, and Musical Siok Fund Aso
cut ion. and cave an excellent addroM ia nuhall of
itiut itist.'urton.
V'fno nust know." he said, "something of the
UMifrnl Calling ot tMth alncal prnfo-isio lo form
, an idea as to the chnmctpr of tno spp (rants for
I rol tf, Jt was not often the tsuli of tho r uiVorcrs
that tley leil into straits, llie at. uirilnr actor
n ust i eceariiy chaiii e trom p'.ace to pluoj, and
1 wis, tncrcroro, a strnrer in mauy loctlitin ho vi-it-i
eel. A vtiy tlipht oircumtawce a'pissinrjl Ihom of
n w 't or cliit a 'serious' town, an anathema1 . ng
! expounder of the rospi-i anv one ef thive caus -s
I rmfrtit ovcra e upains' bis fortune and this too etf,
I vwtb the nlac itv of tho crew ot a li'e-bont, dashed
fer worn and protected thm all. As to the imputa
tion of the improvidence and rerklessaess ol ihe
nit tituilo of tlio profession hi believed it to be a
cruel table. There was to cass of soe'ety the m m
lersef which so well hcipcd themselves or so well
hi'l'ed each other.
Mr. VYhitticr's idyllic poem, "Snow-Bound,"
is now in its tenth thousand.
Mr. George Bnncroft is uboat to publish the
ninth volume of his v,-ell-known history, which
has been for i-ome time annouueej. It will
snecdily be followed by two more volume,
wtich will completo his original design, and
bring the narrative to tho adoption of the Con
stitution of the United Stales.
Mr. d'eorge Applcton, of thn firm of f. A
pleton & Co., sa led for Europe a few days since,
and Mr. Joseph Iiarper, ot Harper Bi others, for
Cuba.
Ma itimc George Sand, who was announced
to lecture in Paris, backed out at the last mo
ment, exciiHing herself on the ground of exces
sive tmidity, in the following not:
"tiir, you toro from me a promi'e which I am un
able to lutfll. Ton, and the eminent writers who
seconded you, wro peisna-dvo, kind, indulgent,
irrrslsiibie;butl nrsxtiued too uiwcli on ray strength
In the Ince ot a duty to be parlormed. t here aro,
too, cluiits owed to 'ha public, lisuonld not be
enticid with an attraction which one fa-la one is in
capable of firing it lou would loci reirr t at
having ussuinhlt'd it to exhibit a liund and awkward
pi isonwi.o could not open her lips Uv cln.dren
and my trienda jumprd up at the adrortlseraeat ot a
lecture by mo. i'huy oppose it every wav in tbir
power. They know t:iat andcr uo ciroiimtii'ioos
nave I been able to surmoant my ombarraasniont,
lav absolute distrust et myself Ask me to ao auy.
thin ir provided I siiall not appear iu per-iou. 1 pray
)ou aiid the members ot tho committee who honored
me with thrir visit to beln ve tlmt 1 cauaot conioio
myself tor mv want of power a id my rotreat .oo;)t
by recollection ol llio kindness you showed me, and
the pratitudo witn which thuy have rilled me.
' (jEOKOE SAND."
TI. Champflenry is about to publish a book
on cats, of which "harmless necessary" anima
Le is very fond.
M. Duixas, who was not successful as a 133
turer, is writing i'i La Pa'rie an account of his
travels in Austria and Unnearv.
M. Michclet has a ne work in the presi,
entitled "The Working Girl."
M. Paul Fevul is engaged upon a niamaioth
novel, "Ruo de Jerusalem," thu locality ia
question being tne police headquarters ot Paris.
The puraerrHphisw aro never tired of scrib
lin items about M. Victor Iluo. Tho latest,
which made hint blind, or nearly so, bo thus
contradicts :
"You have heard, perhaps, that mv eves wore
very sore ; omo nowspaoers havo couo so fur as to
make mo blind, on ilouierio honor to which 1 do
not pietcLd. I have re id. in soin3 Engibii nows
l.apors, uuthent o purticulurj ot my cainpluta b iu 1
ness ; I wis comtoricd ly knowiutf 1 road what they
said. Xlils Oj.litlialuiia which -ha for a nioia nt
vi tv acuto, very pmulul, und quite inipoitu
naic w.li explain uay lou bi-cnca to you. t
present I h-ive entuely tecovoieu my nxlit to
read aad write."
M. Ponsard had bis bi'lln-place in an ob
scure feat in a private box revealed to the
audience during the first performance of a new
play of bis, by the kisses which bis wife
showered upon him when tie applause of the
bouse decided that be was successful. The
audience was one of the most brilliant ever
assembled In Paris, containing the Emperor, the
Empress, a score of princes, princesses, counts
and countesses, tweuty iombers f tae Jockey
Club, the two Dumas, Jules Janin, Theopuile
Guutitr, Nisard, Eraile Angier, and the greater
part oi tbe French Academy. .
Mr. Edmund Yateo' novel, "Broken to Har
ness," is being translated into French tor the
liecue dts Teux Maudes.
Mr. R. II. llutton, of the Spectator, and not,
as was rumored, Mr. T. F. Palgrave, is the writer
of "Studies ia Parlianieut: A Series of Sketches
ot Living Politicians," which have iust been
reprinted from tho lJall Mail Gazette.
The proposal of Mr. Henry Yates Thompson
for the endowment of an American lectureship
at Cambridge, England, meets tbe worm appro
bation of Tiofessor Kingsley, the professor of
modern Lislory at the saute place, who has
published his views regarding it to the following
effect:
"I trust that It will not be considered as Imperti
ncnt if I, as pioleHor of modern hiatoiy, adUrtfi a
to w words en this matter to the inas era of arts iu
this UBive.sity. Mv own wih is, th.it tbe pro os.il
bs accepted as trauk.y as it has been made. Har
vard tbiveisity an ollshoot. pratitioaily, wt our own
uuiverait a a bedy so uutiuituishod, tha any jira
poMtiun corning lrom it di-servo our most re.ipoi;'.
ul cei.bideration ; and au oiler of this kmd, oa the-r
part, ia lo te looked on as a vry gracjful coiap'.i.
meat. Tbe objections are obvious; bm, afior louk
mc tlnni throutrh fairly as they savtstod thum
se Ves to me, X n.ust cay that t hoy are inllv mut be
lir. lliom son's own conditions, iy t e Vico chau.
ceiloi's vote, aud by tho clause empowering on Urn
uniyersitT to put an end te tlieiociur. tlup wlion thoy
l ie. But they aro best met oy tho oharacter of
Harvard Ui iven.it y Itself. Jrg rulers, learaod aud
liivb-nilndcd gcnilmn, painruhv, aware of ou.
tcnrrjl iynuiuiicu about lliom. aud hoi.urab y
UI..MOUS io prove lliemrclvei (whai llioy are) our
equals in civii:z tion, win take care to suae us the
vtrv best man whom they cuu find. Aid more tlun
ii peisoi suat-'csts hlmseif to my in lid whom, f
they choceoiks Uioy would bo very like y to chojj-),
would gludiv woictinie as my own lustruo.ur iu
iho hmtory el'bis couutry."
The Great Itondi Itobbeiy-Unfounded
Kumois Tbe Thieves (Still ot Largo.
P.umors were vesterdav current in' the busi
ness portion of the city to tho effect that some
ol the bonds recently stolen lrom Mr. Rufus L.
Lord, of Exchange place, bad ben recovered.
On investigation all reports proved to be wholly
unlounded, noclite having been thus far obtained
to tho identity of the thieves. The police are
using their utmost endeavors to truck the
rogues, but well-lul'ormed individuals state that
the guilty patties will probably return the money
il they bo accorded Impunity und the promised
reward of twenty-five per cent, of the stolen
proj erty long botore our skilled dptoctives s ic
ceed in ellectlug any arrest. Meantime Mr. Lord
bus issued, revised aud corrected circulars, coin
prhlug the numbers and dates of the valuable
documents, and these have been olstributod ex
tensively throughout tho city, and forwarded to
promineut baukeis and buiiiich men generally
in the States. Time will show if thero be- auy
elements of success In the many plins that are
being devised for the capture of the criminals.
JVfte York Uerald, lOtVi.
I : i
Madame Dora d'lstria has been mniltiatiid a
member ct the Imperial Geographical S,ci"ty j.)
Kusna in the place ol Ida Pieitlor. IL'i "StuiuB"
cn Itoumelia and Moica ore her trie- ,tu thli
distinction.
TIIE NEW YCHK THESS.
c.'itorial Opinions cf the Lea din a;
Jourri&ls Lj.cn tho Tt'cst Import
lent Top, let. cf the Hour.
couriLFD i. vi nv hat run kving tglegtl&fq
C'onnccticuU
Frtm the Tribune.
The Republican limiorily in our dsW State
rnncrs from 2u'M) to 6000; yet Governor Hacking
bum wu3 re-elected U4 year by 11,11.15. Tho
bet .'drhi.is truthlully cxpbtius that remarkable
result:
"'tho eitt!en 1nt vcftr, when I!aoklnsrham rol eit
up a uirjei ity oi 11 000. may be aaid to have rone l'V
ue'au I Ob the very day ot t no n eclmn, cannou
weie tiriiif over tno who Mu'o lur lao lull ot i.icii
moi d, aiid fir l.i-u'n piirroiiner. It. was a ho niv,
ratlu r Dnu a wik-iiav, even at the pu.is. Ihoa
tends ot fi mociat via ed at home,"
: Ilol davs naturally btig out Democrats in
i v. arms: but not a holiday caused by Rich
uiond'B lecovery to the Lnicn aud Leo's sur
lentier. "L)euu'crat," f the Connecticut str.pe,
ilidu't like to be seen in the streets on such au
cecasion. lour true Cuppuihend preieirud the
chill td dime ol bis den to tue lizlit and
wuTuT.h of ilio public CAiKUijoa. Ileace, you
see, "t.iotif.nna oi Dowoeiais staved at hjinn,"
&lU let the tlvction po by 'deiaiilt latlar
than meet their nei.uuboi' jo.yful salutation:
"You told us the war would never eud it
Lincoln sliou.d be re-elected. What do jou
think icoio!"'
the U'cWd is rislit for once. A vol
ttken iu i'oniKCucBi while "cannon were tir;u
Mr the wi.cle b'ate" lor the hual colia;iso ol
the tlau'holders' Rebelliou, proves liotuinirnt
to the po tilar sent.iiieDt. J I as it a lair tast.
'ibiu is aiioidtd bv tne two recent eloctioas,
wkeieiu tach patty did i:s best, and each was
continent ol success. These were tho Stat a
election jnf 1803, when T. II. So mour was rnu
on tbe lilcl of buruside's bleody rpulsa at Fre
dericksburg, Grant's long pause iu trout of
Vicksburs, and tae shauioi lily iuexplioable dis
aster to our arms in Galveston harbor; and the
Presidential election ol l(it. At these twe
elictions tho aefeiwgate vo-.e of Ceunecticut
ktood:
1803. . 1304.
Buckmpham 41.032 Lincoln 41 091
Hcymour , UU &)a loL ieliau. ii 2:j
Ec, ubhean maj.. 2G37I Republican mij.. 2,4)8
The real minority in the State, when every vote
is called out, is jinl about V'iO'i; and it is this
which the ebani Democracy, by cr.vtag "John
sou !' "Johnson !" aud putting lip a "lair man tor
Governor, who voted in Congress lor tho Con
stitutional Amendment, are now striving to
ovcm.ine.
Ve reioicc that our friends in that Stato are
making the contest one ol principle solely. They
do not assail the oppoauir candidates. They
present lor Governor one y.ho, believing it was
riyht to uphold the Union by arm-, when
traiturs conspired to ubverl it by arms, volun
leerca t j h;ht, and louaht to the eud wub tlio
hearty approbation ot his Btineriors. General
lliiwley loucht to put down tne Rebellion,
wliile nine-tenihs ot those who will vote for
his competitor in t'leir hearts desired the failure
ol the war uud the virtual triumph of the Rebels.
Mr. Eiiii'-h is said to have been a Wur Demo
crat; but bis record does not sustain tnat aver
ment, lie voted, with Vullauilit'ham, Voorhees,
uud Den. Wood, in a minority ot 49 against flu,
to deli at the ut of March 3, 18(13, "enrolling aud
calling out the national lotces," wtite'a :u fact
determined that tho Uebeil on should bo put
down at whatever cost an act witliDut which it
could not bo put down. Ho vot1 aaiust the
supplcmei tary act ot July 4, 1So3, striking o.H
I bo 53(10 exemption, aud requiring every one
wiio should he dial ted to serve iu person or by
pubstuute.
He voted, December 17, 18(i3, to lay on the
table Green Clay Smith's resolve that in tha
: tniKeie which had b';ea forced on the loyal rco-i-le
ol this country, thete could be but two oar
in s patriots and traitors; and, this motion
btinu deteuted, be voted nay ou that proposition.
In t-hort, Mr. Kujsiish laiily leptfoent the party
which in lfet3 rc-tdectbd ht'ui to Congress ou tno
T. H. Semour ticket, and which failed to re
elect bim lost Apt il, flmply bcatne the R3bel
hon bad collapsed ai.d Richmond been restored
to ti e Union only a duy or two belore. General
Ilawley, on ihe other hand, fairly represents
that party which carried tbe couutry success
fully through the war, and is now fully resolved
not to surrender to the dpieated Rebels tae
fruits o( its victory. And thevoternol Connec
ticut will take due notice and govern themselves
accordingly.
Tbe Political Aspect.
From the Timet
Tbe communications on political questions
addressed to "the editor of tue Times" at Wash
ington, within the last three months, would till
a largo quarto volume. That they have not
been umlormly of the quality and beariug of
those lrom which we have published extract",
will readily be uuder-tood. But tho exceptions
aiP ko few and so feeble that they would barely
be worth quotiug as indications ot public opi
nion. The purport ot this voluminous correj
pomience, in brief, is dimple aud easily co.n
ptibberj. It looks to no party end; it s-iggest uo
liew party enterprise. Tuere is not in any ono
ot these abbreviated letters tbe am symptom ol
& wish or thought which does not embrace the
whole country, aud which does uot coite.nplate
toe assurance ol full aud eual justice to all
Classes and to all sections.
it is in this v lew that ve give the space we do
to (.onions ot a correspondence mainly iatendoj
no doubt lor the euit n' own eye.
The central la. -ten which these correspond
ents lcpiesentiug ail sections of th'i t'n oa
aceire to dvcll, is the loyalty aud good faith
which bus uiurkrd the Eeca;ive policy lrom the
hour when the teirihlj respouuihiiit ot govern
ment was placed upou 1 in nhouldeis. They can
see uothiag in Pi evident Joauaou'b pail history;
nolbiug in bis uiliaucoj since irte goveruuieiit
viiib put on Its trial life years ivo: uotaiu in his
jiieserit. ali.liaiioiis or ins avowed piirpos:s
which should tor one noiuent shake their faith
in Ins administratiun. u
Tbey sec, on the contrary, a simple, plain,
unadorned record ol an Ameiiuau public niaa
cull him statenh,an, or call bitu au tbiug else
who comes ol tap people; 'who knows the peo
ple; who has no secfoual , interest which he
could aprropitate to biaiseli it he wished; who
has trnddun the path oi adversity wheu loud
niouihed patriois of thii peacatul ujiocU stao J
withiu door1'; who never "ouht the lioimnatioa
whica resulted iu his elevailuii to the Presi
dency; and who it now ruad.v to bear ever sow
of contumely lrom the umeefveis who were
crawling at 1.1s leec the other day, and whj
would crawl ut hU leet to-morrow it they bid
the chance.
This ie .he burden of our correspondence. It
conies entirely lrom the heart of ihe pejple,
Hiid the appeal it mattes in bubalt ot kludly
Kood-will between Hip two sections of, the couu
try is 6inijjlp, duect, and honest. , .
. "Appropriate Legislation."
fr the Timet.
For a rare specimen of blundering logic and
partisan chicane, we commend a brief articlo
which appeared in the Triburn the other day iu
praise ot Governor Yates au1 universal suffrage.
Setting out fro u the groundless statement that
the power to enforce the prohibition. ot slavery
by "appropriate legislation" (meanlue, of course,
the radical measures) maybe derived It om the
flibt clause ol the amendment, nudor a previous
provision ot the C institution, it proceeds, by the
false statement that all tho political gain of tb.3
war will bo Imperilled by leaving to the s-veial
Stales the uniut-tiiieiit of the rcNt'iuni of t.t
tieciluieu, to thu conclusion that tlie distiuoiloa
betaeim ri v 11 and Poln Cl lliibtj IS tt.l lllinol V
one. ltls uuusuul, eveu among the dojinatiits
MATiCn 17, 18GG.
who ndorn the ridic al ranks, to find a publicist,
i rofts.'iug to instruct poculai opinion, so rcck
cps in tbe asert on of bis premise, aud so
inct lierent in bis attempted deduction.
It has hot been loigotten that when some of tha
Southern Legislatures, while drscusing the
amendment abolishing slavery, expre-'ned dis
trict as to the powers uud purpose veiled under
its 6icond section, they were rea'sured by theex
platialion that this a merely a formal statement,
of no novel mi ,ioit,Bnd thnttlie litcol theanie id
ment br-gan and ended In its first ctnu'e. Warn
ings enou.uk were inised nt the lime that this
tail to thu act contained latent atin?s which
inkht bo unsheathed lor rui ichtel, but the virtue
ot the t'Xtrr mists was shocked nt the supposi
tion, and the Southern tstates, lulled by aiss i
fauces ot its harmlcssness, accented the auieud
nieut as it stood.
how, i he radicals boldly avow that tbe second
section contains, an I thai it was meant to cn
tnin, the gums ol tbe most sweeping revol itinn
in the whole fiaino ol Southern society. Tuey
c xutt in :t, bs cemmanrting interference in tho3e
iiiternul political matters wulch have been tr m
the bi'K uuing declared by ail sound interpreta
tion ot the Consiiti tion to be exclusively re
terved lo tlie states tlicmselves. This is not the
i t of government H is such paltry trickery as
statesmen despise. It is obtaining, under fabo
pieteures wh.tb no delusion of lauatictsm can
evcute, a power lo oppress wb.chthe blind will
ol tana iclsm stands enger to seie.
Ihe clear result trom all the candid testimony
wcli.ive with regard te the (titteof feeling at
the South is that her best citizens tear to trust
the coierid race indiscriminately vuth lha bal
lot. Ihe light of common sense shows, aud
the voire ot all history dcrlnres. that a long
emlrutid ince. suddenly eulranchlnod, 1s not
tit to govern lt:elr, uiucU Jess te share lu cov
ciniiig olheni. 'these radical reiormers are
they .ho would imperil the cin of the war by
cr i osiiiir the couutry to a coullicl of Taco, in
which the leys advuncrd and intellieent is to be
bulked Dy Govtrnmeut illegally stretching its
crph titutional powers, lor uo sophistry can iujtity
that leptslatiou which destrojs the very touuda
lions el our national system, by directing ia
gicbs to lutcrlere with coucerns'reserved by the
(if ut charter itself to the several bintes.
It will aftonitb philosophers tolcacn that the
distinction between civil and political rights ts
an iliusiTy one. There hai, beon a tejeral
content amouK those who havo given tho sub
ject some ser ous thought for a few centuries
be: ore the aavent ol this ultraist sage, that,
while natural rights were plain enough, and
civil rights were such as justice requited that
every citizen should share, political rights con
stituted quite another order. It is the good of
the whole body politic which must determine
what classes shall enjoy the political rigut ot
taking putt in the Government. Protection by
the lutts is a civil right which all men may
claim. The power to make the laws is a poli
tical right which society bas always had tne
wUdcni to exclude certain ot its members lrom.
Aud we have contldence enough iu tbe good
sense of tho American people to believe that
such a distinction will endure amotg them lor
some centuries vet, iu spite of the treacherous
invitations held out by the igni falui ot these
new lights. '
The Vital Question.
Frcm the Tribune.
Throughout our great struggle, the enemies In
Congress ot the War for the Union submitted
proposition after proposition affirming that the
revolted States were not out of the Union. (See
Vallandighnm's resolve, December 5, 18G2. IIol
mnu's, December 14, 1803, and many others.)
The bepublican majority uniformly 1 lid these
retolves on the taole, thereby indicating its de
cide! cnsent irom their doctiine and purpose.
Ibis same old song is now revive I in the in
t'rctiot the defeated Rebels, who propose to
rule the nation that they proved loo weak in
power, but not in will, to lata, Thus tno fiew
Yoik 2'mes says:
"M e are, as long as Congress holds that Statos sre
ont ot the Union, enaotiue a Ii" The roverso ot this
proiioMiiuu w as hflliuioa in 1831 by an almost utmui
muus vote oi Congress. To niAiurain Unit posmou,
thb l eopie pave up millions of treasure and rivers of
hicod. Aua low Congreia, after tli Kobolliou is
cokijoeroa, alultilyinx its rucord, holds that tho
H atu which we insisted con d uot be taken out of
tl.o tnion aro out ot itt Success would huvocou
vrrtcd the Kebeiliou into a revolutiou. Thou the
itbo Ulus 8'aies would have become an mdupouduut
( oiiieneracy. Bui defeat leaves the Status in tne
L'mou and the Union intact."
W e believe the editor of ihe Times has not vet
responded to a lequest made in tho House that
he would define the State wich he insists has
never been out ol tbe Union. If he means the
territory included within the limits of Vinrlnia,
Georgia, or Texas, there is no room for disagree
ment but ii be means the political corporation
whereot William Mnith, or Josepa E. Drown, or
Penoleton Murrah was Governor ono year since,
then the loyal people of the United. States de
cidedly dissent. They recognize no right in
ili at State tct a voice in the councils of tho Union.
but if by a State the people are in'endod aud
you mean the whole people we can easily come
to an understanding. We will take Souta Caro
lina lor an illustration of tbe matter really in
dit-pttc. She bus a population whereof a large
majority are unquestionably loyal to the Union,
and hostile to a monopoly oi power by the au
thors and upholders ot the late rtebrllnn. This
majority do uot choose to repudiate the national
oebt, nor to be taxed to pay that incurred tn up
holding the Rebellion. Let tbe State Da so reor
ganized as to give this loyal majority a lair and
tqual voice in its Government, and wo have no
shadow of doubt that her "restoration" will soon
be complete.
Lut the President's South Carolina Is made up
uluiost wholly ot ei-Keoels of men who
biibu it to the Union as a dire necessity who
keenly deplore the victorie of its arms, and
cur-e tho Emancipation policy whereby us
triumph was secured and who are determined
to keep the loyal maor,ty not only disirnuchtsed,
but uneducated, dependent, and as nearly slaves
a possible. Aow. ihcn, the loyal pa pie have
not lavished ''millions ol treasure aud rivers of
blood" in otder ts re establish tbe sellish, des
po.io rule ol the deleated Rebel oligarchy oi the
South ovr their loyal fellow-citizens. They de
not leeurd such a restoration as worth iti tearful
co't. 'ibey demand iusteud a "recoustruo ion"
v, tli'h thail secure te the loyal majority of the
South Cuioliuiana a voice ia tbe Government ef
their own State and of the Union a chance to
.ive aud labor, to earn and cnoy, under equal
and just laws. This is venomously resisted by
the Rebels ot tho !oulh, and the Copperheads of
tho Isoitu. And this raises tbe main question
now htiv ungroibiuff tke public attention. Why
(iocs the times seek to vhutUa it out of sisjht?
illisicprcfcnttiUons ol the Radicals -Taslr
' iSchcmes lor tbo .Next 1'iCbiJeiicy.
Frcm . llciald.
The radical disorgani.erB in Congress and
their organs throughout tbf country are doing
their utmost to create a lalso impression In re
gard to President Johnson's course in reference
10 rest rat ou. On no one point is this more
marked than on the position of Mr. Johnson in
regal d to the admission ot Southern representa
tives in Congress They are constantly harping
upon a statement that tbe President is trying to
force tongress to receive late Rebels and Seces
sionists into that body. Tbeir orgaus are tilled
with mlsrepresuitatious of this kind, all tending
to cieate an impression on the public mind that
the l'ribldent u lpsisting that tne doors of the
NaiioLal Legislature shall be opened to the
bulling SeccbKionittii and the important trust
ot the nation placed in their hands aud at their
dicpotal. '
'Ibis is tho burden of the radical speeches aud
toe song of the radical editors. In tnis course
they have to a certain extent milled that por
tion ot thp ptibbo who take only a superficial
giance at the policy of the Executive. Their
leiit.ciit reiterations of these false statements
have bad the elleet of convincing many that
11 ev nru tiue. Dpt nothing can be further from
tb' truth than th ir assertions about President
J. .1 n on's position ou the admission of those
Ibpnsei.ti tives, and none know ih's better tha-i
the rail ual lead pis. But it aervoa thcr purpose
to kppp up their misreprcenntlon, and they ar
constantly repeating tliem. It is part of their
scheme tor success in the next Presidential elec
tion, and as long as they see that the ptiblio aro
ready to swallow their falsehoods, Just so long
Will they continue to repeat them.
The position ol the President on the admission -of
Southern representatives is so well defined,
and has been so plainly stated by bim, that it
dees not seem possible that any person with tho
leant self-respect would have tho etlrontery to
repeat the malicious siateruents of the radicals
The policy of Andrew Johnson on this point is
precisely thisi
F.rat. That (he Southern States are in the '
Union. Their ordinance of secession being null
and void, thay have never beou out, aud are
Icaally cutitled to rppresrntntion in Congress,
tbo un;e an New Yet k or Massachusetts.
Sfcond. That whenever the people in any of
those State elect Lniou men, of wuose loyalty
tb eve cun be ne question or doubt, it is the du'.y
of Concrers to aotiitt them.
2d, That all those claiming seals In Coagiess
from the Hotithci n SUi'cs, who were prominently
idtnlitied with fie Rebel Government or Rebel
army, should be immediately reiect"d, and
their constituents requested to elect loval Union
men in their places.
These three points embrace Mr. Johnson's po
licy ou this subject. Nothing could be plainer
or more lair than this proposition. This is the
Iioition he has been urging Congress to take,
lut instead ol meeting him onthut ground, thy
have appointed their "Central Directory," tho
Committee of Futren, and retnse to consider tho
claims even of t'loso men who fought in the j
Union armies, and were loyal to tbe Union in tbq
daikest days of oar war. In order to sustain!
themselves belore the people in their opposition
to this plain, sensible, and praotical plan, they
are continually n wriing thit the President is
tnin ,o force tl.uin to open tae doors of Con
gress to the lead'iig secessionists. They know
that if Ihe p-opln' once fully comprehend Mr.
Johnson's position they will tally to his support
en masse. Cut by a system of misrepi-e-cntation
tl ey hope to creue a prejudice nsaiust tbe Kic
cutive, Fecnre tbeir own ro-eieciion, and nn
endorsement of their course in rejecting all
emimauts for seats Irom the Souh.
The elleet of the two systems will be d'rectly
orposite. If that of the 1'residont could bo
aiiopitd it would strengthen tho loyal Union
men In the Seuth, and, trom necessity, make
them the nucleus lor the controlling party tn
all those Mates. Tho people would at once see
that their only course, their only snlvation, was
iu tbe election ot men who had not been promi
nently identified with the secession cause;
wliile, on the other haud, tbo policy announced
b Conuress places the few men wbo reinaiueit
loyal and true to the Government during the
Rebellion at the merey ot the oid secession sts
and nestroyi their power and lnlluence at honi
The late Rebels will very justly say to such men
as Maynard, Stokes, and Marvin : You mlsiht
art. well have united with us in the Rebelbon.
You have named nothing by remaining loyal
to the United Statej; for now tnat tho war ii
over you are received no hettor by .Congress
thin we are. So long nsCongress places the
loyal men of the: South in this position there is
no possible chance tor the growth of Union
Bentimentin those Slates. Tho 'people cannot
ere how they ate soing to gain anything by
electing loyal men to represent them in Con
gress, and the result is that thev are daily losing
their strength and influence at home. Thus,
w hile the policy of tho President, if carried out,
will srrenetben ur.d increase tbe Union senti
ment of the South, and make those men who
remained loyal throughout the war the basis
for the governing party in that section, that
pursued by Congress emboldens the secessionists
and continues the political control of all of
those eleven States in the hands of the very men
who led the people into the maelstrom ot' eeces
fcion. This is the issue between the President
aud the radicals. Let ihe people take their
choice.
but the radicals are determined that the Issue
shall not be made up in this way. They, there
fore, are laboring night and day and spreading
fnl.'e statements of Johnson's position before the
country in hopes of misleading the publio.
They adopt for this purpose the cry that the
President urges the admission into Congress of
all who have been elected in the late rebellious
States. There is not a shadow of truth in this
assertion. Dut they have an object in their
persistence in these statements. They are
determined to keep tbe Southern "States
unrepresented until alter another Presidential
election, and take this course to lustily their
action belore tbo people. By keepinar thoao
States out ihey imagine that they can senure the
election of their candidate for tlie Presidency in
1H8, and thus obtain anotherlour years' control
ot ihe Government.
Tnis is the secret of all their movements.
Party and power, instead of the interests of the
countiy. are the motives that actuate them. If
they are permitted to carry out this scheme,
then we may look for another revolution and
more bloody scenes than anv that wo have here
tofore witnessed. Suppose, "for inntanco, that in
the election ol 1SG8 tbe parties are nearly evenly
balanced iu the Northern States, or that the
rt.dicalB have olIv one or two majority m the
Electoral Collect, and that the Southern States,
w bich have been dee ded by the Supreme Court
to be States iu tLe Uulon, although not repre
sented in Colore.-), should hold their elections
and give their electoral votes to the conservative "
canaidate.
The result would bo that" wo would be plunged
into a struggle nt ouce for the possession of the
Government. TuU is the lozieal rcult and the
sequence to ihe present policy of the radicals.
It wou d be a simple both tierce and relentless.
This the President wishes to avoid, and bas
designated a policy which will secuie a poaccf.il
ai.d permanent restoration of the country, with
out any danger ot collisions hereafter. If tho
people desiie an early aud am'.cable adjustment
ot the aft airs ol the nation, and to avoid all
breakers ahead, thea let them rally to the sup
port of the President Hut if thoy desire another
war, another resolution, they can have it by
suttaining thu radical Jaooolns. This Is the
issue, aud the people must not be deceived in
regard to it. -
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