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- BELLEFONTE, THURSDAY MORNIN G, MARCH 13, 1862.
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Misgellaneons, i
Jefferson Davis’s Inaugural Ad-
dress,
A pretty free account of the inauguration
of Jefferson Davis as President of the Con-~
federate States, at Richmond, Va., on the
22d of February, is given in several of the
New York and Philadelphia journals, cop-
ied from Richmond papers. The following
is t
THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
{From the Richmond Examiner, Feb. 22.
FerLow Cimizens :—On this, the birthday
of the man most identified with the establish~
ment of American Indedendence, and be-~
neath the monument erected to commemor-
ate his heroic virtues and those of his com-
patriots, we have assembled to usher into
existence the permanent Government of the
Confederate States. Through this instru.
mentality, under the favor of Divine Provi-
dence, we hope to perpetuate the principles
of our Revolutionary fathers, The day,
the memory and the purpose seem fitly as.
sociated.
It is with mingled feelings of humility and
pride that'T appear to take, in the presence
of the people and before high heavea, the
oath prescribed as a qualification for the
exalted station to which the unanimous
voice of the people has called me, Deeply
sensible of all that is implied by this mani.
festation of the people’s confidence, I am yet
more profoundly impressed by the respon
sibility of the office, and humbly feel my
own unworthiness.
In retarn for their kindness, I can only
offer assurances of the gratitude with which
it is received, and can but pledge a zealous
devotion of every faculty to the service of
those who have chosen me as their Chief
Magistrate.
When a long course of class legislation,
directed not to the general welfare, but to
the agerandizement of the Northern section
own will. The Government had ceased to
answer the ends for which it was ordained
and established. To save ourselves from
revolution which, in its silent but rapid pro-
gress, was about to place us under the des-
potism of numbers, and to preserve in spirit
a8 well as in form, a system of government
we believed to be peculiarly fitted to our
condition, and {ull of promise for mankind,
we determined to make a new association
composed of States homogeneousiin interest,
in policy and ini fegling.
True to our traditions of ‘peace and ‘our
love of justice, we sent commissioners to the
United States to propose a fair and amicable
settlement of all questions of public debt of
property which might be in dispute. But
the Government at Washington, denying our
right to self government, refused even to lis-
ten to any proposals for a peaceful separa-
tion. Nothing was then left but to prepare
for war.
The first year in our history has been the
most eventful in the annals of this conti~
nent. A new government has been estab-
lished, and its machinery put in operation
over an area exceeding seven hundred thou
sand square miles. The great principles
upon which we have been willing to hazard
everything that is dear to man have made
conquests for us which could never have
been achieved by the sword. Our Uonfed-
eracy has grown from six to thirteen States 3
and Maryland, already united to us by hal
lowed memories and material interests, will,
1 believe, when able to speak with unstifled
voice, connect her destiny withthe South. —
Our people have rallied with unexampled
unanimity to the support of the great princi-
ples of constitutional government, with firm
resolve to perpetuate by arms the rights
which they could not peacefully secure. A
million of men, it is estimated, are now
standing in hostile array, and waging war
along a frontier of thousands of miles. Bat-
tles have been fought, sieges have been con-
ducted, and, although the contest is not end-
ed, and the tide for the moment
is against
us, the final res
ult in our favor 1s not doubt-
of the Union, culminated in a warfare on the | ful.
domestic institutions of the Southern States
—when the dogmas of a sectional party,
substituted for the provisions of a constitu
tional compact, threatened to destroy the
sovereign rights of the States, six of those
States, withdrawing from the Union, con-
federated together to exercise the right and
perform the duty of instituting a governs
ment which would better secure the liberties
for the preservation of which that Union was
established.
Whatever of hope some may have enter-
tained that a returning sense of justice would
remove the danger with which our rights
were threatened, and render it possible to
preserve the Union of the Constitution, must
have been dispelled by the malignity and bar-
barity of the Northern States in the prosecu-
tion of the existing war. The confidence of
the most hopeful among us must have been
destroyed by the disregard they have re.
cently exhibited for all the time-honored bul.
warks of civil and religious liberty. Bas
tiles filled with prisoners, arrested without
civil process or indictment duly found ; the
writ of habeas corpus suspended by Execu~
tive mandate ; a State Legislature controlled
by the imprisonment of members whose
avowed principles suggested to the Federal
Executive that there might be another add
ed to the list of seceded States ; elections
held under threats of military power ; civil
officers, peaceful citizens and gentle women
incarcerated for opinions sake, proclaimed
the incapacity of our late associates to ad«
minister a government as free, liberal and
humane as that established for our common
For proof of the sincerity of our purpose
to maintain our ancient institutions, we may
point to the Constitution of the Confederacy
and the laws enacted under it, as well as to
the fact that through the necessities of an
unequal struggle there has been no act on
our part to impair personal liberty or the
freedom of speech, or of thought or of the
press. The courts have been open, the ju-
dicial fonctions fully executed, and every
right of the peaceful citizens maintained as
securely as if a war of invasion had not dis-
turbed the land.
The people of the States now confederated
became convinced that the Government of
the United States had fallen into the hands
of a sectional majority, who would pervert
that most sacred of all trusts to the destruc-
tion of the rights which it was pledged to
protect. They believed that to remain long-
er in the Union would subject them to a
continuance of a disparaging discrimination,
submission to which would be inconsistent
with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud
people. They therefore determined to sever
the bonds and establish a new Confederacy
for themselves.
The experiment instituted by our Revolu-
tionary fathers, of a voluntary union of sov~
ereign States for purposes specified in a sol-
emn compact, had been perverted by those
who, feeling power and forgetting right,
were determined to respect no law but their
The period is near at hand when our foes
must sink under the immense load of debt
which they have incurred, a debt, which, in
their effort to subjugate us, has already at.
tained such fearful dimensions as
ject them to burdens which maak
to oppress them for generations to come.
We, too, have had our trials and difficul
ties. That weare to escape them in future
1s not to be hoped. It was to be expected
when we entered upon this war, that it
would expose our people to sacrifices and
cost them much, both of money and blood,
But we knew the value of the object for
which we struggled, and understood the na-
ture of the war in which we were ergaged.
Nothing could be so bad as failure, and any
sacrifice would be cheap at the price of suc-
cess in such a contést.
But the picture has its lights as well as
its shadows. This great strife has awaken-
ed in the people the highest emotions and
qualities of the human soul. Itis cultivate
ing feelings of patriotism, virtue and cour-
age. Instances of self sacrifice and of gen~
erous devotion to the noble cause for which
Wwe are contending, are rife throughout the
land. Never has a people evinced a more
determined spirit thar. that now animating
men, women and children in every part of
our country. Upon the first call the men fly
to arms ; and wives and mothers send their
busbands and sons to the battle without a
murmur of regret.
It was perhaps, in the ordination of Provi-
dence that we were to be taught the value of
our liberties by the price which we pay for
them.
The recollections of this great contest with
all common traditions of glory, of sacrfica
and of blood. will be the bonds of harmony
and enduring affection amongst the people,
producing unity in policy, fraternity in sen-
timent, and joint effort in war.
Nor have the material sacrifices of the
past year been made without some corres-
ponding benefits. If the acquiescence of
foreign nations in a pretended blockade,
has deprived us of our commerce with them,
i 1s fast making us a self supporting and an
independent people. The blockade, if eftec-
tual and permanent, could only serve to di-
vert our industry from the production of ar-
ticles for export, and employ it in supplying
commodities for domestic use,
It is a satisfaction that we have maintain.
ed the war by our unaided exertions. We
have neither asked nor received assistance
from any quarter. Yet the interest involved
is not wholly our own. The world at large
is concerned in opening our markets to its
commerce. When the independence of the
Confederate States is recognized by the na-
tions of the earth, and we are free to folllow
our interests and inclinations by cultivating
foreign trade, the Southern States will offer
to manufacturing nations the most favora-
ble markets which ever invited their com.
merce. Cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco, pro-
visions, timber and naval stores will furnish
attractive exchanges. Nor would the con.
will subs
stancy of these supplies be likely to be dig«
tributed by war. Our confederated strength
will be too great to tempt aggression ; and
never was therea . people whose intercsts
and principles committed them so fully toa
peaceful policy as those of the Confederats
States. By the character of their produc
tions they are too deeply interested in for-
eign commerce wantonly to disturb it.—
War of conquest they cannot wage, because
the constitution of their Confederacy admits
of no coerced association. Civil war there
cannot be between States held together by
their violition only. This rule of volun ta.
‘ry association, which cannot fail to be con-
servative, by securing just and impartial
government at home, does not diminish the
security of the obligations by which the
Confederate States may be bound to foreign
nations. In proof of this it is to be remem
bered that, at the first moment of asserting
their right of secession) these States propos
ed asettlement on the basis of a common
liability for the obligation of the General
Government.
Fellow citizens, after the struggles of ages
had consecrated the right of the Englishman
to consututional representative government,
our colonial ancestors were forced to vindi-
cate that birthright by an appeal to arms. —
Success crowned their efforts, and they pro~
vided for their posterity a peaceful remedy
against future aggression.
The tyranay of an unlwidled majority,
the most odious and least responsible form
of despotism, has denied us both the right
and the remedy. Therefore we are in arms
to renew such sacrifices as our fathers made
to the holy cause of constitutional liberty.
At the darkest hour of our struggle the pro-
visional gives place to the permanent gov~
ernment. After a series of successes and
victories, which covered our arms with glory,
we have recently met with serious disasters.
Bat in the heart of a people resolved to be
free these disasters tend but to stimulate to
increased resistance.
To show ourselves worthy of the inherit-
ance bequeathed to us by the patriots of the
Revolution, we must emulate that heroic de-
votion which made reverse to them bat the
crucible in which their patriotism was re.
fined.
With confidence in the wisdom and virtue
of those who will share with me the respons
sibility and. aid anh
affairs ; securely relying on the patriotism
and courage of the people, of which the
present war has furnished so many exam.
ples, I deeply feel the weight of the respon-
sibilities I now, with unaffected diffidence,
am about to assume; and, fully realizing
the inadequacy of human power to guide
and to sustain, my hope is reverently fixed
on Him whose favor 1s ever vouchsafed to
the cause which is just. With humble
gratitude and adoration, acknowledgin’y the
Providence which has so visibly protected
the Confederacy during its brief but event-
ful career, to Thee, O, God! 1 trastingly
commit myself, and prayerfully invoke Thy
blessing on my country and its cause.
a ’
ReseL GuNwERs 1x a6 Lats Framr, —The
man who planned the fortifications at Fort
Donelson, a civil engineer from Now Orleans
was the fist man killed in the zunboat en-
gagement on the 14th. [le was captain of
the water battery. Abou: the fourth shot
from the 8-inch shell-gun of the St. Lonis
struck one of his guns, breaking it, and
causing a heavy fragment to strike him on 4
the head. Probably thore are no better
guaners in the United States than worked
the different batteries at Fort Donelson on
the day of this memorable engagement.—
Two of the batteries were com manded by
French officers of great practical experience
in the art and science of war, and especially
that branch of it at which they were then
employed. Indeed. it is the boast of many
of the rebels: ¢ You Federals can beat us
in marching soldiers, but you can’t touch us
when it comes to shooting at a mark with
Stlect Poetry.
Oh, eradie moon thy knee, mamma,
And sing me that holy strain
Which eoothed mo last as you fondly pressed
My glowing cheek to your loving breast,
For I'saw a soene ‘when I went to rest,
That I fain would see again
And smile as you then did smile. mamma, ®
And weep as you then did weep ,
Then fix on me your loving eye,
And gaze and gaze till the tear be dry ;
Then rock me gently, and sing and sigh,
"Till you lull mo fast asleep.
For I dresaned a heavenly dream, mamma,
While slumbering on your knee ;
I lived in a land where forms divine,
In kingdoms of glory e*ernally shine,
And the world I'd give, if the world as mine ,
Again that land to cee.
I fancied we roamed in a wood, mamma,
We rested under a bough,
When near me a butterfly flaunted in pride,
And I chased it away through the forest wide,
And the night came on and I lost my guide,
And I knew not what to do.
My heart grew chill with fear, mamma,
And I londly ealled far theo,
Wien a white-robed maiden appeared in the air,
And she flung back the locks of her golden hair,
And she kissed me so sweetly oro I was aware,
Saying, «Come, pretty babe, with me.”
My tears and my foars she beguiled, mamma,
And she led me far away ;
We entered’ the door of tho dark, dark tomb,
Then passed through its long, long vault of gloom,
Then opened our eyes in a world of bloom,
And sky, of cloudless day.
I mingled with the heavenly throng mamma,
With cherub and seraphim fair,
And Isaw, as we roved though the region of blisg®
The spirits that came from the world’s wilderness,
And there was the Joy no tongue can express,
For they know no sorrow there.
Do you think of that poor old man, mamma,
Who came and called at our door,
When the night was dark and the storm was loud,
And his heart was weak and his form was bowed A
And his ragged old mantle became his shroud,
Ere the midnight watch was o'er.
He was in glory too. mamma,
And safe as the blest could he :
He needed no alms in that land of light,
e walked with patrinrehs al athad in white,
d no seraph there had a crown more bright,
Or a costlier robe than he.
Let me go again to that land, mamma,
While slumbering on your knee ;
I would live in a land where forms divine
In the kingdom of glory eternally shine,
And the world I'd give, if the world was mine,
Again that land to see.
TTT tee
IZ Many years ago a man appeared in
court, whether as pliutiff, defendant or
witness, tradition does not inform us. Be
this as 1t may the following dialogue en-
sued :
Court—What is your name, sir?
Answer—My name is
honor.
C.—Well, what is it ?
A.—Tt is Knott Martin.
C.— Knott Martin,” again! We don't
ask you what your name is not, but what it
is. No contempt of Court, sir,
A. —1f your honor will give me leave IN}
spell my name,
C.—Well; spell it.
. A—K-n-o doul le t,
Martin—Kuatt Martin.
C.—0, very well, mr.
Knot Martin your
Knott, M-a-r-tej-n,
Maniin
; iE : e see
through itnow, but it is one of the mos
knotty cases we have had before us for
some time.
———r eee.
077 The Bedford county Democracy has
spoken. At a mass meeting held in the
Court House in Bedford, on the 10th inst.,
the following. among other resolutions, were
unanimously adobted :
Resolved, That the opposition party, by
their extraordinary Horse Poliey. have just-
ly earned the appellation of the ** Horse "Par-
ty.,” and by that name should be hereafter
the big guns. We never let a man fire one
of these big guns unless he has had some
experience.” The idea thyt prevails teo
commonly in the Nocth, that Soathern ar- |
tillerymen are not expe-ts. was rapidly dis- |
pelled from the minds of all who witnessed
the aceurate direction of the 64 and 128
pounders aimed at the gunboats on fo}
day.
A a...» —..w—p
SriLL Gove Our. —Specie still continues
to go out of our country at a rapid rate. — |
luring the week ending on the 15th inst., |
there was exported from New York the sam
of $1,147,795, which. with previous expor-
tations, makes a total of $5,226,877 since
the 1st of January. In i861, the total ex-
port of specie from that port, from January |
1st to February 15th, was only $202,560 ! —
Thus, for the same brief period, the expor-
tation of this year exceed that of last more |
than five millions of dollars. This result is
rather alarming, but the responsibility tor it
must rest upon the Black Republican Con-!
ress, who, in clear violation of the Consti- |
tution and disregard of the teachings of all |
experience, declare by law that a Govern |
ment Treasury Note—a mere paper promise |
to pay—is money, gold and silver, a legal |
tender in payment of debts! No more ef-
fectual measure for driving specie out of the
country would have been suggested or adop-
ted, — Westchester Jeffersonian.
)
known in the history of their collapsed ors
ganizition.
Resolved. That those venerable, dilapida-
ted, lame, halt and blind horses, which were
purchased for wovernment service, but died
of old age before entering on such service,
are entitled to the commiserations of all hou-
est men for their unfortunate association
with a band of thieves.
Ar panel rcs
[= Old Abraham, in the start, at one big
swallow, took the whole of the Chicago
platform to his inner departments. lt was
a terrible dose for a human being to gulp
down composed asit was of mgger, tariff
internal improvements, and a host of other
ingrediments fully as poisoneus to the good
of the American people as those above na-
med. But old Abraham soon began to get
sick at the stomach, and straight way a
large number of Abolition quacks began to
gather around him with gratutions precrip-
tions but it was no use. The planks of
the platform had to come up one after anoth-
er, until Abraham began to feel quite well.
Since then old Abe has been eating consid
eraple democratic food, and he finds that it
agrees with him and thecountry a great deal
better.
a etl
0 Lady Yarmouth asked Garrick one
day why Love was always‘represented as a
child ? | He replied : ‘« Because Love never
Message of Jeff. Davis,
Bavrniore, Feb. 28th. ~The following is
the message of Jeff. Davis, delivered to the
rebel Congress :
To the Senate and House of Lecpresentatives
of the Confederate States.
In obedience to the provision of the Con-
stitution requiring the President from time
to time to give to Congress information of the
state of the Confederacy, and recommend to
their consideration such measures as he
shall judge necessary ‘and expedient, I have
to communicate that, since my message at
the last session of the Provisional Congress,
events have demonstrated that the Govern-
ment had attempted more than it had power
successfully to achieve, *
Hence, iu the effort to protect by our arms
the whole territory of the Confederate
States, seaboard and inland, we have seen
80 exposed as recently to encounter serious
disasters.
When the Confederacy was for med, the
States, comprising it were, in the peculiar
character of their pursuits and a mispiaced
confidence in their former associates, to a
great extent destitute of the means for the
prosecution of a war on so gigantic a scale
as that which it has attained. The work-
shops and artisans were mainly to be found
in the Northern States, aud one of the first
duties which devolved upon this Govern-
ment was to establish the necessary manu-
factories, and in the meantime to obtain, by
purchase from abrord, as far as practica-
ble, whatever was required for the public
defence. ”
No effort has been spared to effect both of
those ends; and though the results have
not equalled our hopes, it is believed that
an impartial judgement will, upon full inves-
tigation, award to the various departments
of the Government credit for having done
all which human power and foresight ena-
bled them to accomplish. The valor and
devotion of the people bave not only sus-
tained the efforts of the Government, but
have gone far to support its deficiencies.
The active state of military preparations
among the nations of Europe in April—the
date when our agents first went abroa|—in-
terposed unavoidable delays in the procure-
ment of arms, and the want of a navy has
greatly impeded our efforts to import milita-
ry supplies of all sorts.
I have hoped for several days to receive
official reports in relation to our discomfiture
at Roanoke Island, and the fall of Fort
Donelson. They have not yet reached me,
and I am therefore unable to communicate
to you such information of the past events,
and the consequences resulting from them,
as would enable me to make recommenda-
tions founded upon the changed condition
which they have produced. Enough is
known of the surrender of Roanoke Island
to make us feel that it was deeply humili-
wing, buwever Gwperfecs may Lave been
the preparations for defence.
The hope is still entertained that our re-
ported losses at Fort Donelson have been
much exaggerated, inasmuch as [ am not
only unwilling, but unable to believe that a
large ‘army of our people have surrendered
without a desperate attempt to cut their way
through the investing forces, whatever may
have been their numbers, aud to endeavor
to make a juction with the other divisions of
the army. Bat in the absence of that exact
information which can be afforded by official
reports, it would be premature to pass judg-
ment, and my own is reserved, as I trust
yours will be, until that information is re-
ceived.
In the meantime, strenuons efforts have
been made to throw forward reinforcements
to the armies at the positions threatened,
and I cannot doubt thatthe bitter disappoint-
ments we bave borue, by nerving the peo-
ple to still greater exertions will speedily
secure results more accordant with our just
expectations, and as favor to our cause as
those which marked the earlier periods of
the war.
The reports of the Secretarios of War and
the Navy will exhibit the mass of re-
sources for the conduet of the war, which
we have been enabled to accamulate not-
withstanding the very serious difficulties
against ‘which we have contended. They
afford cheering hopes that our resources,
1
pv-3-aa they were at the beginnin
of the contest Wir, Bun. re
come devoloped to such an extent a8 vous, ki
meet our future wants.
The policy of enlistments for short terms,
against which I haye steadily contended
from the commencement of the war, has, in
my judgment, contributed in no immaterial
degree to the recent reverses which we have
suffered, and even now renders it difficalt
to furnish you an accurate statement of the
army. |
When the war first broke out, many of our
people could with difficulty be persuaded
that it would be long or serious. It was
not deemed possible that anything so insane
a8 a persistent attempt to subjugate these
States could be made—still less, that the
delusion would so far prevail as to give to
the war the vast proportions that it has as-
sumed.
The people, incredulous of a long war
were naturally averse to long enlistments,
and the early legislation of Congress rei-
dered it impracticable to obtain volunteers-
for a greater period than twelve months.
Now that it has beconie probable that the
war will be continued through a series of
years, our high-spirited and gallant soldiers,
while generally re-enlisting, are, from the
fact of their having entered the service for
a short term, compelled in many instances
to go home to make the necessary arrange-
ments for their families during their pro-
longed absence. ;
The quotas of the new regiments for the
war, called for from different States, are in
rapid progress of organization. The hole
body of new levies and re-enlisted men will
probably be ready and in the ranks within
the next thirty days. But, in the mean-
time, it is exceedingly difficult to give an ac-
curate statement of the number of our forces
in the field. They may, in general terms,
be stated at 400 regiments of infantry, with
a proportionate force of cavalry and’ artil-
lery, details of which will be shown by the
reaches the age of wisdom and experience.’
report of the Secretary of War.
I deem it proper to advert to the fact that
the process of furloughs and re-enlistments,
in progress fur the last month, had so far dis.
organized and weakened our forces as to im-
pair our ability for a successful defence §
but T heartily “congratulate you that this
evil, which I "had foreseen, and was power-
less to prevent, may now be said to be sub-
stantially at an end, and that we shall not
again during the war, be exposed to seeing
our strength disminished by this fruitful
cause of disaster—short enlistments.
The people of the Confederate States, be-
ing principally engaged in agricultural pur-
suits, were unprovided at the commence-
ment of hostilities with ships; ship yards,
materials for ship building, or skilled me.
chanics and seamen in sufficient numbers to
make the prompt creation of a navy a prac-
tical task, even if the required appropria-
tions had been made for the porpose. Not-
withstanding our very limited resources,
however, the report of the Seeretary will ex-
bibit to you a satisfactory proportion in pre-
paration, and certainly of near completion;
of vessels of a number and class on which
we may confidently rely for contesting the
vaunted control of the enemy over our wa-
ters.
The financial system devised by the wis-
dom of your predecessors, has proved ade-
quate to supplying all the wants of the
Government, nothwithstanding the unex.
pected and very large increase of expendi-
tures resulting {rom the great augmentation
in the necessary means of defence. The re-,
port of the Secretary of the Treasury will
exhibit the gratifying fact that we have no
floating debt, that the credit of the Govern.
ment is unimpaired, and that the total ex:
penditure of the Government for the year
has been, in round numbers, $170,000,000—
than one- third of the sum wanted by tho
enemy in his vain efforts to conquer us—
and less than the value of a single article
of export—the cotton crop of the year.
The report of the Postmaster General will
show the condition of tnat Department to be
steadily improving, its revenues increasing,
and already affording assurance that it will
be self-sustaining at the date required by
the Constitution, while affording ample mail
facilities for the people.
In the Department of Justice, which in-
cludes the Patent Office and Pablic Printing,
some legislative provisions will be required,
which will be specifically stated in the re-,
port of the head of that Department. :
I invite the attention of Congress to the
duty of organizing a Supreme Court of the
Confederate States, In accordance with the
mandate of the Constitution, i
1 refer you to my message communicated
to the Provisional Congress in November
last, for such farther information as it
might be useful to lay before you, the short
interval which has since elapsed not having
produced any material change in that con-
dition; other than those to which reference’
has already been made, :
In conclusion, T cordially welcome the
Representatives, who, being recently choseri
by the people, are fully imbued with their
views and feelings, and can so ably advise
me as to the needful provisions for the pub-
lic service.
I zssure you of my hearty eo
all your efforts for the commo
the country,
-operation in
n welfare of
JEFFERSON DAVIS,
eee Oe.
[7™ As soon as it was known among the
Washington politicians that Mr. Lincoln had.
appointed Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of
War, a tremendous delegation of Blacks
called upon him and protested in the strong-
est terms against the appointment of a Dem:
ocrat to so important a position. Old Abe”
listened to all their arguments in si'ence,’
and after they were through, terminated the
interview with the’ following : * Gentlemen,
I have been considering the question, for
some time, whether I would have four Dem-
ocrats and five Republicans in my - Cabinet, .
or five Democrats and four Republicans, If
I could find four more Democrats just like
Stanton, d—d if I would’t appoint "them: —
Good day, gentlemen.
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The Republicans profess to have great
respect for the opinions of Mr. Douglas. —
Let them reflect over the following expres-
gions made by him, in his speech before the
cath: —'aturea few days before his
I will never acquiesce in any
upon the constitutional rights or stitutions’
of the South. -
*¢ If any attempt is made to invade their
rights or incite servile insurrections among
them, I would be the first to rush to’ the
rescue.”’
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tO. :
077 A kind-hearted wife onze waited on
a physician to get him to prescribe for her
husband’s eyes, which were sore. ¢ Let
him wash them every morning with brandy,’
said the doctor. A fewsweeks after the doc-
tor chanced to meet the wife. Well, has
your husband followed my advice 2” + He
has done everything in his power to do it,
(doctor, but he never could get the brandy
higher than his mouth.”
WHAT A Western Eprror Wants. —
Wanted at this office, a bulldog, of any
color except pumpkin and milk ; of respect-
able size, snub nose, cropped ears, abbrevi-
ated continuation, and bad disposition—who,
can come when called with a raw beefsteak,
and will bite the man who spits tobacco juice
on the stove and steals the exchanges.
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17= In Joo Davis county Ills., & great ex-
citement is made at a series of go called reli-
gious meetings, in which people are taken
with violent contortions* called the * jerks.”
The disease seems to affect some persons
worse than others, for while a few have died
the most of them have, after being jerked
out of their boots or thuir senses, ultimately
recovered.