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THURSDAY, DECEMREIt 20. 1800.
The Nation's Lite and Progress.
Thkuk is no (act which strikes the stu
dent o( tlie political history ol our country
with more torco than the constant aud Jrre
HistibU1 tendency of the people towards
lationnl unity. From 10 1:1, whun the fir:
rude attempt at forming a Union was miili1.
bj the New England colonies, down to 13'Jj,
when the last desperate cllort of State
sovereignty to vindicate itselt was thwarted
!y the ualion in Its sovereign and miprema
capacity, there has been a constant growth
ot national life, t constant increase of na
tional power, a constant approximation co
a(ional unity.
During their entire colonial existence the
people of this country were, in lact, a consti
tuent and orean'c portion of the British Em
pire, but the necessities of their condition,
their common dangers and wants, the con
tiguity of the territory they inhabited, their
mutual commerce, the Intermarriage of their
children, their common language, and their
common sufTerin?s from British tyranny, had
already developed the germ ol a separate and
vigorous national life. The outbreak of hos
tilities at the commencement of the Revolu
tionary War furnished the occasion for this
new national iifo to reveal itself, and before
the Declaration of Independence the people
were alreaay acting through a common
national organ the Continental Congress.
The Declaration of Independence was a
formal assertion of the fact of the national
existence. As a nation the people 'ought the
war of the lievoiution, and vindicated their
independence. The instinct l union prompted
to a more powerful and consistent Xational
Government, and the Constitution of 11S7
was formed. And here, in the very opening
sentence, the key-note of the whole instru
ment was sounded " We the people of the
United States." It was the national life as
seiting its sovereignty in the creitioa of a
great national organ of government. No
wonder that the advocates of State sove
reignty took the alarm when they read those
Mgmficant words. " What right," said one
ol them, " had the Convention to say, we the
people instead of we the States? If the
.States be not the agents of this compact, it
aiust, be one great consolidated national
government of the people of all the States."
The development of our country since the
adoption oi the Constitution has augmented
the p wer ot the national liie. All our great
physical enterprises have served to bind us
together more firmly as one people. Every
canal that has been dug, every railroad that
bas been bu'lt, every telegraph line that has
bt-eu erected, bas contributed towards our
national unity. The progress of emigration,
sweeping on from State to State, carrying
the frontier and the border ever on, further
and further towards the West, bas contributed
to fuse the people into one homogeneous mass.
National wants and national necessities have
multiplied. National feeling and pride bave
increased.
At last, the great war of the Rebellion came
upon us a direct attack upon the national
integrity ar.d life. It was repplled and sub
dued by the nation the true national life re
vealing and vindicating itself in the most
sublime and inspiring manner. From that
conflict the people have come forth more
firmly and indissolubly welded into national
unity than ever before. The war, too, has
served to develop many of those national
ieatures in the Constitution which had before
slumbered, or been but imperfectly realized.
That instrument bas come to be regarded
and interpreted in its true character, as the
organic law of a nation not the compact of
sovereign States.
There is in this growth of national fepjing
a tendency to conform all our institutions to
the true germ of our national lite. That
germ Is to be found in the doctrine of liberty
and equality enunciated in the Daclaration
ol Independence. Slavery was the deadly
foe of all true nationality in our country. It
was a sectional institution, founded upon
piinciples openly a: war with our republican
system. Its growth and progress involved
the decay of the trua national idea. Its ex
tendon and perpetuation would have revolu
tionized the country, and founded a despotic
oligarchy upon fie ruins of the republic.
The overthrow of slavery demands that all
Irs adjuncts and accessories its unequal aud
disfranchising laws its system of taxation
without lepresentation its iniquitous plan
of representation in Congress in a word, its
whole system shall bo overthrown also. The
nation is now bound to realize 'ts true ideal.
If to do this thi Coatitution needs amend
ment, it must bu amended. The Nation
" We the people" made the Constitution,
am. the nation cua unmake it or remake it.
It is absurd to suppose that the wisdom of
all ages was exhausted by thoss who framed
the Constitution. We wore then a nation of
three mil ions; we are now a nation of thirty
millions. New wants have arisen, fue
national territory hu oxparlvl. LVsCtau
bave revealed themselves. I'he nation has
outgrown its swaddling-clothes, and uoads
the apparel of manhood.
It is the effort to prevent the realization ol
the true national ideal that now agitates the
country. The remnants of the old slave
system still encumber the track of progresa.
TIIE DAILY EVENING TKLEG K A TIT TRIPLE SIIEET.
Tbo debris of the Rebellion is in the wav.
All these things must and will be removed.
The nation will not be thwarted in Its sub
1'me and holy purpose. Over all obstacles,
despite all difficulties, it will move grandly
on to Its destined end.
Political Tbimbleiicrelnfr.
Mn. Cowan made a long speech In the
Senate on Tucrday, in regard to the condi
tion of the Rebel States:
"lie denim! the doctrine that tlm fitnte Gov
ernments were dPRtrojed by tlie act of secession
and asseitel that tt w subversive ol t'te prin
ciples in on winch tlio Const'tution was torincd.
A StMte was a corporation, limi'pd by t io chur
rrr which created it. He would nsk the Senator
irotn or.lo whether a 3'itte could r.immit irea
aim ? Mr. Cow an a-ked whther the State could
commit imy other crime, or do tt'iy other tiiiiri
which Its cliiirl."r torba 'e f Could n H'.a'e
reb'd? Thiu was lh ereat quest on now nsri
tatinp the ountry. Th? oiliciHl- ot n Sta It si 4
no aiiiliont v n such oflieers to do that which
whs lothhUk'ti b their Coiintitution and la am.
('' pomtions could not commit crime, whatever
individual niiht do."
Hie above is a pretty fair specimen of what
passes for statesmanship" and a knowledge
ol constitutional law in conservative quarters.
'lhc assumption that lies at tho bottom of
all these fallacies is that a State cannot really
do what it cannot legally do. A State cannot
legally secede, rebel, make war upon the
Union, or commit any other crime ; there
fore, it cannot do it at all. A man'cannot
legally commit murder; therefore, he cannot
actually do it. A railroad corporation is
restricted by it charter to running its trains
at the rate of ten miles an hour ; therefore. It
cannot, as a fact, run them at twenty. A
steamboat cowij any is bound by law to keep
a good life-preserver lor each passenger it
may carry; therefore, it does keep them
A bank is bound by its charter not to issue
more than three dollars in currency lor every
dollar in specie in its vaults ; therefore, it
never does, as a fact, issue more than three to
one. Humbug! There is not a day pas3es
that corpoiations do not, as a matter of fact,
transgress the requirements of their charters.
Theie is not a day pas es that they do not
steal, rob, lie, perpetrate injustice, aud com
mit other crimes. When a steamship com
pany sends au unseaworthy vessel to sea,
with a short-handed and incompetent crew
and, in consequence, she goes to the bottom
of the ocean with all on board, has the com
pany tho ''corporation" committed no
" crime ?" When a railroad company keeps
in its employ a notoriously drunken engineer,
and the result is a ' smash up" involving the
loss of life and limb, is the " crime" simply
that of the agent, aud not of the principal ?
When one State makes unjust war upon an
other, ovenuns its territory and kills its
citizens, Is the crime merely that of the blind
instruments by which it is done? There
was never a doctrine more corrupting in
morals, or more false in law, than this one
put forth by our repudiated Pennsylvania
Senator.
The late Rebel States could not legally
"secede," but they did as a matter of fict.
They could not legally wage war against the
Union, yet their armies were not, on that ac
count, a mere myth. They could not legally
confederate together, yet they did do it.
They could not legally coin money, emit
bills of credit, grant letters of marque and
reprisal, lay imposts, etc., yet, as matters of
fact, they did do all these things. The Re
bellion was a great fact ; the war to put it
down was a great fact; and Mr. Cowan's-
metaphysical platitudes will not make them
anything else than facts.
Mr. Cowan brings forward his theory for
a certain object. That object is to preserve
the Rebel State Governments. Hence, he
asserts that the Rebel States could not rebel,
commit treas m, or perpetrate any other crime.
All that was done was mere individual action.
But ere long, lorgetting the Kebel States in
bis solicitude for the BcbeU theimeloes, ho
unconsciously cuts tho throat of Ids theory.
He says :
"Citizous of tho Southern States could not be
punished tor treason, because they yi'lded
obedunce to their State Government when the
general Government afforded them no protec
tion or means ol resistance."
In answer to a question from a Democratic
Senator
"Whether a citizen ol South Carolina, which
State had seceded, and had loag protected uim
aeuiiist the compulsion of tbo Federal Govern
ment, could even, though he hud been whlmi?
to rebel, be punished lor treason, Mr. Cowan
said, 'Certainly not.'"
Here we bave tho ond'ttion of things
exactly reversed. The State is now the
authoritative party, and not the citizen. The
citizen, even though ho wage3 war against
tlie Union, cannot be guilty of treason,
because he commits it in obedience to the
State I When the State Government is to bo
shielded, then It is the citizen that does every
thing; when the citizen U to bo shielded,
then it Is tho State that does everything.
We cannot hold the State responsible, be
cause the Rebellion is the work of indi'
viduals; we canuot puni9h the citizen for
treason, because he simply obeys bis Slate.
Convenient theory 1 We kuow that there
bas been a tremendous reb llion, and that a
long and bloody war has been waged against
tlie republic ; but nobody is responsible. Our
conservative thimblerlgger is so dexterous that
justice cannot detect the criminal. Sho
beholds him dodgins, now under the citizen
and now under tlie State, but can never lay
her mailed hand upon him, and drag him
forth to judgment. And it is upon just such
miserable fallacies as thee that the entire
conservative fabric is based. It violates com
mon sense as much as it dies common jus
tice. Tho ereat misses ot tho people turn away
in distjust from ull this conservative lug
plry nnd tuimbletlgginr. The Rebellion
was too serious a matter to bo tbu3 easily
disposed of. Mr. Cowan may spend the re
mainder of his term of office In these displays
of political legerdemain, but, fortunately, after
tho 4th of March next, tho State ot Penn
sylvania will no longer be misrepresented by
one whoso treachery to principle Is only
equalled by his quackery In statesmanship.
From all future Inflictions of this sort may the
good Lord deliver us!
The Ncbiaskn Case.
Thk bill for the admission of Nebraska was
further discussed in the Senate yesterday.
There is a division of se.itlment among the
Republicans lu regard to Insisting upon the
elimination of the word "white" from the
Constitution of tho proposed State as a pre
requisite to her adiuissiou. Our own view Is
that it Is best to make a clean record on
this matter. It will be butter for Nebraska
herself to have thatqucstion rightfully settled
now. Disfranchisement on accouut ol color
is unjust, anti republican, and demoralizing.
Congress should lend it no tanction, eveu by
implication. The right of a State to regulate
the elective franchise docs not necessarily in
volve the right to permanently disfranchise
its citizens at will, and to any extent. If it
did, then any State might, at wi'l, make birth
with'n its own limits a qualification for vot
ing, nnd thus disfranchise all citizens born In
other States, or confine the exercise ot the
elective franchise to a dozen men and their
descendants lotever, thus creating an aristo
cracy. Tlie right to regulate implies only
the rieht to regulate in accordance with
tlie piiuciples of a republican form of govern
ment. Tho precedent maj as well be established
now, that no State can hereafter obtain ad
m'ssion to the Union with any despotic or
imti-republican features in its Constitution.
A Neglect nt Once to be Remedied.
AVE desire to call tlie attention of the Mayor,
or probably the Firo Marshal, to the lact that
no steps have been taken to prevent the
various fire-plugs freezing up during the
coming cold weather. None of the ordinary
precautions bave been taken to render them
secure. It bas always, heretofore, been the
custom of the authorities to cover the plugs
with straw and sawdust, and, by this means,
even on the coldest nights, tho firemen ex
perience no difficulty in procuring a stream
ol water. But unless some such careful ar
rangements are made, we cannoi doubt but
that the cng'tcs will be made useless by the
freezing of all iheir supplies of water. Large
fires, vastly destructive of life and property,
occur during every season, and, without the
aid ol the fire apparatus, no one can calculate
how far they would spread. Tne present
neglect is a criminal one, and we hope t hat the
immediate attention ami action ol the au
thorities will remedy what seems to us a
deliberate darine of Providence.
RISTOKI AS "I.A.DY MAC1IETH."
The attempted rendition into Italian, by
GiulioCascano, ol Shakespeare's sublime tragedy
of A'ac'jelh is a complete abortion, resultine
only in a mutilated semblaue.e of one of the
grandest efforts of the immortal bard, which ex
hibits not one einsle spiirk of tb? original Ufa or
spirit. Any attempt to construe into a
lurcigii tongue tho peculiar ioioiinii; and
inversely constructed blank verses of a poet
whose nieiuiiha is often singularly recoudiles,
rcquiiinu the deepest research even from miuds
to whom the linnnaze, though "native-born,''
is ever revealing n prolbunder mystery of mean
ing, must ever end in u "most la i.e and impo
tent conclusion."
In the ciiaruc'ci of "La ly Macbeth," Ristori,
with all her genius, has failed to irra?p the do
minant spirit ot that unllinchiiiiuid unquailin
uiaster-mlnd'wliose heavy crimes bear such a
grand biiblimity ot unswerving purpose that
we forget to condemn, and only feel a still and
fearlul admiration.
In the sleep-walking scene alone, Ristori
reaches to a subtle interpretation of the darkly
working heart, w hich, keeping ever its nlood
stained record, with wary, resolute hand, from
the prying eyes ot friend or foe, let out in sleep
the terrible tale of guilt, eating, vulture-like,
into the soul, thatuunionuiuglyotl'eisitsMoloch
tubute, "death without outcry."
Itistoii's line conception and perfect rendition
of this most difficult scene redeemed the entire
pliiy. Here she was again the great artist, and
with this "well kept picture in the brain," we
can allord to loieet the shortcomings and muti
lated text that made us almost marvel that the
buried biwd could sleep so quietly and know
his bondiwork so mauftled !
The s!e en scene of many portions of the
play was excellent. The banquet s"ene wa;
well and clleetively managed. 'Macbeth' was
loo spasmodic too lull of melo-driniatic ges
ticulation, nnd i lie voice of the prompter was
constantly as loud as that of the dramatis
persona.
Wc could not understand why, at more than
one exit, Ristori chose to be draugedo' by "Mac-iM-th."
The superior mind ot the wiie of the
Thanes ot Cawdor is the resistless i:iotive power
which compels the weak and vacillating nature
of "Macbeth" to dniW deeds it shrank from
with abhorrence.
The Italian translation of this tragedy cau
convey no idea to the mind of any artist of a
single character worth mentioning. Heuc, th'i
result is a most li.mentnble failure: the more to
be rruvettcd, as the reprrtore of ltitorl oilers
sullicleut scope and variety to enable her to
leove Slinkenpearc at. peace in his vernacular.
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.xortli LlOUTti r-treoi, thlru door obovu Area.
Best Needles a ad liis at 4 Cents a Paper.
Test I'eail Rations at 1. 6. and S conn.
Kti-t 'looth llruxlii-B at 6 8 nii'l Idcems.
lls r Imiflit b- . ornets; I I n n (loods, etc . at He a l
and Wholesale I'rloes.at li A itltKliuhU H;;Ot.
12 2U4t
HOLIDAY PltESliN LS.
X. .1. TAYLOR,
JE .VHLLT3F,
No. 108 C.'HESNUT ST.
Att zt'.ui is iiT. id It otl'eligi t sTO; K OF OOOUi
toitible f'
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
CO .PRIM. O
Fine Watches,
Elegant Jewelry,
Diamonds,
Fanoy Silverwar a.
Clocks,
Fancy Goods,
AT LOW CASH PRICES.
12.16' No. 11128 CIIESNUT St.
LOOKING GLASSES.
A LAKGE AND ELEQANT ASSOETMET
CHR3STMAS SALES.
'JAM US S. EABLE & SON?,
i2 20 3t No. 816 CHESSUTSt.
CHRISTMAS rRESEJVfS.
LADIK1' FOB HUMMED II90D9.
LAD1E8' bKATINU UATf.
KhENCH Ml K UMURI LL&8.
CHILDREN '8 VEI.VfcT HATS
titNTb' VV h CAl'8, COl.1 AK8 AND GLQVE9.
TIIEO. II. McCALLA,
ll AT AND CAP 1 MP i.UM,
Il2lll2'4p NO. 804 CHI SNCT ST.
Q 11 II I S T M A S ITvESEXTS.
PltKSKNTS Hill LADIEI,
FltKhKN'lS toil (.ILKIE,
..Sfive. ."i?w O" n"nl "fcsh stock of FANCY
tiOODS, wbii'h we offer at i dured prices.
FOIl tJKlV I I.KH1KN.
BleerFClisum l'lpea. lu treat variety,
Meeitclitium I igar llo der.
ltrier.Koot I ipes caived and plain,
'loliatco-ltoxts Tohaeco-liags CiKa'-Canes,
Match llnxes. Ciiiar btsnds, Flasks,
Inkstands, Katcli-ltoxea Paper Weliihta.
FOIl I.AIMKS.
lteautlful lii hemlan Class Toilet'e Hota,
Vases of 1'a'ian and Holieinlun Ulass,
CsralT.i 'loiiette ltottles, Card Uecelvera,
di ur rves and Munds 1 raveiliun-ltags,
llook-Hmrdt, lteadiug tttanda, eto.
It. &. U. A. WRIGHT,
J ' 0.624 CHKSNUT Htreet.
"RAPPERS FOR GENTLEMKN,
Gloves for Gentlemen,
Muffler for Gentlemen,
Bosiery for Gentlemen.
Shirts and Drawers'for Gentlemen,
All useful aod good presenU for Gentlemen.
RITCHIE,
At No. ISM CHI BHUT Btrei. ioUs toenethlnira at
Wuolwa frtoea, MMti
J)RY GOODS CHEAP ENOUOII.
COOPER &CONARD
AKE SKM.ltVG,
AT TUB
VERY REDUCED PRICES.
Till HI ENTIRE
MAGNIFICENT STOCK.
FINEST FROSTED BE AVARS.
IWYAL CHINCHILLAS.
VELOURS AND WHITNEY. ,
MAGNIFICENT OVERCOATLNtiS.
FINEST TOCK CLOAK I.N OS.
ALL THE NOVELTIFS.
CLOK1NOS FROM 62 UP.
NOBBY CASSIMEREH.
l'INE;T CASMMFRES MADK.
LOW ORADES CA8SIMERES.
BLACK FRENCH DOESKINS.
BLACK FRENCH CLOTHS.
RICHLY-TRIMMED CLOAKS.
ELEGANT SACQUES, CHEAl.
HANDSOME SHAWLS, CHKAI' AS EVER.
OARNET AND MODE 1'01'LINS.
GARNET AND BLUE MF.RINOES.
SUPERB POPLIN AND MERINO STOCK.
MERR1MAC CALICOES.
ALL-V.OOL DELAINES, 50 CEsJTS.
CHRISTMAS DRE-S GOODS.
BALMORALS EXTRA CHEAP.
CHRISTMAS SCARKS.
BLANKETS LOW DOWN.
T.EVT BLEACHED MUSLIN'S, 3D CENTS.
COOPER & COWARD,
NINTH
12 13 12t4p
AND MARKET.
CLARK & BIDDLE,
No. .12 C1IESMT STREET.
JEWE1LEE3,
SILVERSMITHS
Awl JrnjiarHers :)f Flue Watclu g,
Invite attention to tlieiv large assortment of
USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL ARTICLES
FOB
HGLIDAV GIFTS.
JEWELRY, WATCHES,
DIAMONDS, CLOCKS,
PRECIOUS STONES, BRONZE',
SILVERWARE, TABLE CUTLERY,
ENGLISH AND AMFRICAN PLATED WARE.
Have oa band a Stock of
PINK COKAL,
W tiich tUcy liolleve superior to anything in too Phila
delphia market.
ALfO, per gteauior 'TropontlB," a floe amortment of
English Plated Goods.
SELECTED ESPECIALLY FOR THEIR
HOLIDAY SALES 13l8t
4 V-.'?.Tv..
mm E, CALDWELL & CO.,
GOLDSMITHS,
SILVERSMITHS, anil
JEWELLERS,
No. 822 CHESNUT STREET
Are dally aiding to elr ttock artlclea suitable or
HOLIDAY PRESENTS.
CLOCKS,
WATCHES,
BRONZES,
FANS,
JEWELRY.
DIAMONDS,
SILVBR-WARE, .
PLATED WARE.
Opera Glumg,
Leather QwiU
Portenionnaie and Satcbela,
Drasirjg Caees,
Jewel Cases,
Decorated China,
Mmical Bozsa.
A culleclloD of GOODS unrivalled lor lti oompleta
dckb. licaut;, aud adaptation (o tlie wantaot the cota
munltr. iTlO 9tuthaUl?8lp
PRICES MODERATE.
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