Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, August 15, 1862, Image 2

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\—lryOur fipirits Ik're not as malignant and
glit Mat- amnia * . 134e1 at damned a'culs writhing in the black
eat portions of bell, you will rest for • mo
ment from the indulgence of malevolent pas-,
aion and rekeet, for remember we, the roe.:
of Cen,tre county of Pehnsylvanii,
P• tiB.A YTA, I Editors
BELLEFONTE, PA. "
Friday Morning Aug.-15,1862
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET
FUR AUDI TOR GENERAL.
ISAAC SLENKER,
11=1
FOR SURVEYOR GENEft.II,
JAMES P. BARR,
OF Al.l.1 O .GIOL&Y COUNTY
• Democratic County Convention.
By order of the Standing Coruniittee, the llem-•
ocratic Convention of Centre County will meet
at the COURT Ifocnc in the Borough of BELLE
FONTE on. Tht.14.4 the 26th of eing-net nt 'I
; P sntststtitir—nratir
' emitos to said,mmtention will be hold in the Per
vral townibips and boroughs, at their reel eellvo
places of holding elections on SATURDAY the
daer.El:-.4sruat
S T SIWIERT,
Chairman
•
At, RD TO MOBOCRATS.
'Tu the advocates of mob law, In this as
as other places, We have a word to say
The times, and our position as apublic jour-
nali-ds demand that we speak plainly, and,
it it is in om power to do so we shall, rt.
isaselJoaa-ofdlm-oonswqmiscwa----
When Dunmorelie men Bled our °pets,
, -
end Deitiotarictic principles were in power,
your rights were protected and paiseryed as
tt.t; secret* asi R as the privilidies Or — the must
faithful Of thie f g6o o'.d 'petty—you Were
permitted without restraint, to speak your
minds freely and fearlessly upon all sub..
loch', and your presses were left untram
reeled to discuss every topic that was of any
Interest whatever tosthe people. No mobs
were hissed on you to destroy your proper
ty, and no threats of extermination made
because you seen fit tJ, believe differently
from us. Y u were not arrested for criti
cising the courtte pursued by those in pow
Cr ; neither was your leaders consigned to
toisonous casemates of military prisons--
No ; fteeditn of thought, heedom of speech
and freedom of duel rt.sit was allowed you in
all their power, and opeti, manly --diseus.sion
was the mean. rviotted to under all diem
stlinpes to upt.old the right. a-id expose the
wrung. But tow dilteront now, mow. by
machinations, bribery and false proini,es,
you have at•ained p a cr. you have awaken
ed and encouraged a spirit of despotic v;,.
lenoe toreign to the roinciples of a free
country with which you 'attempt [Auld in
awe el who will not cringe tihyout 'tisur'Fa
Lions or assistip your.,infamtlusi outrages up
on the rights of others. You have incited
mobil to visit summary pninisturgit upon
men simp'y because they could not see an
you saw and would not talk as yeti talked
maihrnat
MEER
you have assailed the vtliolt.'llecnocratic par
ty you have exibitcrl dr ferocity of beasts
rather than the passions of men, and exem
plified with a fidelity which is startling and
with a distinctness shish can s not be misun•
deratood. The settled, relentless, murder
ous hatred n bleb you strive to uisceminate
among those whom your false pronbscs have
beguiled from the path of duty against all
honest citizens, whose better Judgment and
honest purposes, love of country and sense
of dutf to God, impel to vote for Dernocrat.c
men and Dtmoctitic.m.asures.
As to the sentiments of the party which
you have so wickedl:,. and wantlnly malign•
ed, whose supporters have been stigmatized
by you with the vilest of all vile epithets—
'Traitors.'' We need but point you to the
past history of our party, which :a the his
tory of out country, and to time bleaching
bones of the thousands of patriot Donos
crate that are now covering , .every battle
field south of the Potomac, and we will tell
Sou plainly that although tens of thousands
of noblemen have left our ranks and gone,
its they believe, to light fur the maintain.
Washington and Jefferson: Yet there are
plenty left at home Co defend, under ti/i7 cir-
cumitadces and at all hazards, the princi•
plea for which they have always contended,
I, 7l eind beep their _ names freefrom the dishonor
and ignominy which your lying longues
would heap upon them.
Your threats of vengeaco'towards Demo •
ciats, remeMber, have dot awed them into
silence, neithi;i have your demonstrations of
web violence frightened them into aub nis
'ion. The taunts and epithets ; the res
proacbes and ignominy which you have at
tempted to cast upon its members, have not
pulsed by unfelt or unheeded. No ;, peace..
.
ful citizens and law abiding men, have paft
tiently endured aft; with the lope that our
countryruld be saved from the horrors
which civil war has not been able to await-
en. They Lave, by loot, sufferings tried to
*wort the last bitter drop from the cup of
.our uationiii woe. — lintit seems flat pod
would fill it to overflowingand have it drain
od to the very dregs. ,
There uf a time when "fin beiranoe coasa
to be a virtue," and that Limb's now come,
and we would.warn you of the fearful eon_
sequences you aro about bringing upon your•
getaas4 Add but anotbqr brand to the
blade 0t hatred which hr bees en,.
kindled' , own devilish work—and
who trill answer for the result It is an
easy thid to start a • revolution, but Done
can say when it will stop. If you are hu
man luings.--if you are not fler.ds incarnate
mocrac
en masse, have borne your jetri and insults,
your threats and dentureidy,
endurance is warn ou s t\ Your Mobocratic
demonstrations have enpedered feelings, of
resentment which will no longer be Conceal
id, and woe be to tfr: roan or .set, of men
who persist in adding insult to irjiiiry, We
have warned you now of the danger, which
hangs nvtr your unprotected heads, Mid if
you woul.l escape the relentless fury of an
outraged and exasperated peoptP; you will
heed our words. Beware.
Reo, and Pottier
Another week opens with no material
change in the blOody political drama now
taking place in this distracted ard most un
fortunate couutry. Commerce, trade, rtrt,
and all else that hilnne to p o ir ce , ar c l iros .,
trade: nod hale is liemd from people, press
r pliplt, save the cry
,• to arms to arms !
The gral debt is rolling up fearfully :,"pov
erty is fastening her galling chains uplith,
the great tettly of our once happy " worlainp
classes ; taxis age to come. which will eat,'
like a canker, into the very heart of the horA
eat, tolling and hitherto independent '
cireigns ' of Ain:rico :"out fathers. brothers,
aiid non4'have left the.r limos to whitdfi
upon southern soil, or roomed to us intTit—
ated , dismembered and - fnghtlnlly centred
up, and all roi• n gLaiut's Colon, which
_ c ,,,,, u 4.l m _r e stured In ad hour,
rates of the North at once wipett,int of ex
istence. Ilnt where are we ? Just. where
we` were eighteen months ago. Tho end
,is
yet_hhe and the cost of all this, the fear
ful cost ;11111:U, NO'fti. qii.l treasure, no one
today can coenpute 'tut one thing is certain
a large iiitimmal debt is roiling up which
th'e egiuMry most pay ; and to add to the
oar debt in open coin, s another --the croon
The Ikpubheao party now power-
wouldconfer so called • freedom '.iipon the
lazy negi to to pin the shackles of au enor
mous det'ut upon the white labor of their
own country lorrver. A huge interest
would bee yang out of the white laborer,
-that the blacks might be supported in idle
ness : one half of them either in. the jails
and poor houses of the country, or existing
outside as street paupers and low thieves ;
the white man, after paying the interest on
ty lire hundred millions of dollars; tfic
value of 5 . 000,000 slaves at $7OO each, fbr
their ' freedom,' can then have the ptritleke
of being taxed to support them in crime and
debauchery as lung as the race exists. •
That the President of the. United Sul' C9 could suggest such an idea, possessing, as
-he is supposed to, common-- Ititutanity r
reasoning powcis, nod a lino-vledge of - 0
Constitution passeth all compreheri'sio u
Yet the record has Been made and will stared
and history %ill do the author of this plan
of emancipation strict justice. I would very
re' ectfully • ask of the President of the
United t•it, :la if he really riitended to pro
pose open anl bold repudiation when he ap
pended the following to the dreft of hi s
emancipation plan ?--' Any State, however,
having received ono or more of such bonds,
which shall subsequently 0-introduce or tol
crate by law, slavery within its limits, the
said bonds trill be consul(' ed null and rind
rn whosemic re, hands they way he, and the
offendui . g . State shrill e repined to refund .
all the interest winch may have been paid
OR such bonds.'
No man knows better than the President
of the United States that If the .51:0(ereigrity
of the individual State is preserved, it•Anglit
possibly happen that the people of some dew
or more of such States. ai'to-day, may free
their slaves, in course of tit* may again
insaute slavery. Ten, twenty or thirty
}vats hence, po'ssibly the verdict of the peo
ple would be against negro freedom, and
the institution be restored again. ••Does the
P. canlent of the United States really mean
to errubt a law which will destroy the 'value
of a bond of the United States in the hands
of a third, or a thirtieth party, a pier ter fo
a century hence, because, forsooth, said
bond happened to have beep originally giv•
en to soch a State, a quarter of a century
ffrior, for the cost of a slave-?
Have I legally any rigtrto repudiate a
note of Enloe, in the hands of a third party,
an innoccut holder, who paid its value, be.
cause the party I gave said note to might
not have given ale consideration for it I
Legally,l think not, nor would any princi4
set to operate against a bond-holder as tho
one which the Presidentof the . lroitod Sta tes
would desire to pot into our statute books,
touching this etuaneipltion plan.
ft is time'the wealtkEoduciog classes of
ibis country were awake, up and doing.--`
There is no limit to the schemes of the ;nail
in power!to enslave tlie white .poptilOon by
a debt so huge that figures will hardly con
vey its magnitude. Not only was i this war
debt ono created needlessly, and colargep
by the grossest Iztravagance, 'but while we
hear on all sides, the cry of•' patriots to the
rescue, your country is in danger,' I find
that.the thieving scoundrels in high places
are those who bawl the loudest about • pat •
riotism.' When you and 1, brother work
ingmen, look at the vampires sucking the
brood of the treasury, wherever a vein can
be pricked, when we see the - very Cabinet
itself helping to weaken the resources of a
eLgarty goveruMeut by - direct or indirect
robbery+ members inviting their own `rela
tives to engage in legal plunder; when Ire
see members of Congress selling their influ
ence not for thirty, but thirty thousand
pieces of silver, when we and a pay roll of
siz hundred thousand man, for an army of
four hundredythousand, and officers, from .
Brigadier Generals down to subanoms,
with ••patriotio' civilians of all grades, con
triving, plotting, matisayering in every pos r
Bibb/ way tormake a' good thing out of the
war„ , .or, in other words, to steal the peo
ple's motley ; we mty well cry, God help
our poor country ! Unto
. F Onfethytible, how
thoroughly, shamefully debauched, have the
American people become, to belie*. in such
'patriotism 'in the face cf such truths.—
But we shall all awake to the actual state
of thini t : one . thi_eda s. _
Emanoipktion
The 0-mgressidhal election of 180 q, is
harldly secondary in the magnitude of the
issues it involves. to the Presidential etee
tion of 1860. , This nation will not survive
a repetition—now inviting—of the error of
two years ago. The Jacobinatal, or ultra
Revolutionau clement in the North, hither
to in some,meacure repressed has grown in
solent with success, And arrogant with,
ptvrer, and now disclaims any purpose to
restore the authority of the Constitution
its it is;-ttr to reinstate the Union as it was.'
It demands, nothing less than the emancipa.
tion of four 'millions of semi barbarous
negro slaves, vv \ hil are invited to infest and
blacken every co tuunity et the North, to
compete with the white man in his toil for
bfead ;to our jilts *nth our
penlrliouses,with paupers, tur stree:s with
vagabonds, our lanesed alt's with thieves
—to produce in the near futuril;,a war of
races. a war of extermination, a war whose
horrors end nlruciues must equal ittfot cx
cell those of any conflict recorded in human
seine. Tiiitrnal influence is all but
pararnoutit inn last rengress. It would
if it mete not or the temper of the
people, tnat down all - oppoSitiiiii - , -- aner tists#
sweeping acts of emancipation. If the pee
,ple elect another Iteputifican Consress, it
~will..h.e_accepted pt l acted . trimu by_ the.
Radicals. and it full and unquivocal ascent
on the part of their constitueots, to their
devilish designs, The elections of a Dem
, rress !hit na
OPI - pCning H ac from cur prostrate - ard blec
iltog cartintry.
_ Let us not hear of conservative f&Tubli
cans. That delirsren must be allowed to
deceive us no mure. There is and can .be
ntr suelt-tbing-ems Eletiserfativ-e--itoputdicarr
ism. "Intitvninalg'therenrewhe rote with
that party who Wotild bo constryatkves if
let to their ant choice ; but, once ii office,
the dentoniac howling, the fiendish threats
and inV, , ctite of tbe Abolition Jacobins,
diives them to the adoption of their most
da mould, meaiures, We awl: elect a Dem
ocratic Congress, or the once - happy and
prosperous State of the North will be lrars
formed into a Pandemonium of vice—crime
—hot - tor—nom %Mii there will be no poss
ible escape, txcept thiough deeh or expw
triation.
Although we hate often warned the peo.
ple— we hays never sounded it fafee alarm,
We are not idly tampering with ; your appre
benaims now. The great dapger is real
and iinnibient. As God livca, the woes wu
predict atedimpending and nothing 'but the
overthrow of Abolitionism can save the
pt oplo.— Logan GoZrll4.
Timm; Ututscr•—llur u tg Lira past year the
Republican press, Republican orators, and
Republican preachers of all kinds, have
been zualmnily engaged in Tinging all the
changes upon the name of Breckinridgc.—
All Democrats whowould not bend the knee
to the moloch of Abolition have lieen de•
nounced as "lh•cekinridgers." The object
of this wholesale slander is Dansparrent to
the most superficial observer. They hope
to create ilipisiqn and d‘ssens! on in the
Democratic party !
We conceive that they • will meet with
t Ortifying failure hcwever.—
lleinociat,s owlet stand,, the hollowneSs of
their professions, and the rottenness of their
principles and will not be deceived by their
hypocritical cant. The truth is that, the
Republicans are driven to* great straits,
when they find it necessary to bolstrr up
their caus , e . by such mears a ...this. •Their's
is a desperate cause, and Itquiresk despe.
rate remedy.
The Democratic party was never more
firmly united than it is to day, notwith
standing the efforts of its enemies todivide.
and dbmorahze it. If there are any who
will listen to their wren sting, or join therm
in it, they are Republicans at heart; and
are better out of the party, as far -as the
interests of Democracy are concerned. The
Democratic party is based up, n principles
as deep and strong as the foundation of
the Constitution itself, and if these is any
among U 3 whose hearts cannot beat in
sympathy with those time honored prinei-
OM the sooner they .• take up their beds
and walk" the better for their own con
sciences, and the better for the interests of,
the Democratic •rt • .
inridge Democrats,' or "Douglas Demo..
('crate." There ih bnt one united party of
DEMOCRATS." They are the party of the
Constitution and the Union. Democralta •
Democrats to day as they were in thelhiOn,
Whey requiredis - tin'guiiht d
ap
pellations, The.simplo word '•Democrat'.'
I expresses all. It is eloquent of the Cow_
stitution ; of an undivided Ifnion ; of liberty
and of the peoples rights. It speaks in
trumpet tones to us of free speech and an
untrammeled press. It tells ua. of a party
of the people and for „the people,—Mauch
Chunk Democrat.
cry- The case of young Johnson, who was
arrested in Roxbury for treason, we he
tliev and is now in jail, is enough to inake
one mined of his fellow creatures. As
We Srar redibly inloned,;this young man,
born in the South , d being the re after the
rebellion got headw , was made a soldier
per force id Abe Confederate. army. After a
Tituebril*tr - unnenri he obtained - Air •..
charge, showing that ho I was not a very
willing recruit, and thereupon ho made the
best of his way to Roxbury, at the earliest
opportunity, where his Northern relations
reside. Having thus abandoned' the army
Ind the South, he is arrosted here and pht
Into close confinement, for tear we suppose,
that he will raise an army in Massachusetts
against the Government, whose protection
he has sought. Can anything be more ri
diculous, or more shameful, than such a
PettY.,cieneeeehl_ , . rag I This affair - is worse
than that of the Gordons.-IRoetors Courier.
- 131 1, 11dalds weal nothing but husbands ; thou
t ay want .elfarytblng.
The Negro ifadoos of POT, c .yal.
There ire . tw very-digarent eases of Ab
plition lunatics, who, though they start from
the Sallie premiere and much the same con
clusions, are widely separated in their acts,
f i n the means they tale to reach the tttt
they are so blindly groping after. They
both assume that negroes are beings like
themselvesovith the same wants, instincts,
&c., and, therefore, entitled to the same BM_
t,us or freedom as theinselres t but while
one would institute a policy for the "gtad.
ual abolition" of the natural supre.macy of
the white man no proposed in the border
States, the. other goes to work to recreate
the negro, and mske trim in fact that which
Ina debauched and besotted fancr suppose
be ought to be, as at Port Royal. There are
• several scores of these besotted tetetchet et
both sexes, it is said, now hard at work on
the negro at Port Royal, and diligently eh•
gaged in the impious,skilleitilish work of
"educating" negrueV thous, in the wicked
and 'monstrous effort of defacing the handy
fork of the Eternal, and transforming the
negro into the thing they assume he ought to
be -to wit: a being like themselves. It a
man: or set of teen, were to give out that
they, could transforn the imh dog into the
greyhound, everj.body would laugh at them
and if they actually went to work in such a'
monstrous and wicked undertaking, they
would be atopod by the police, of course, or
stoned by the mob.
_Or, • if SOW 'bootie
wretch were to
_give out that lie could change
ter
the sexes, the woman int, th7mitri r yr - thp
men into the woman, and should really set
to work to reverse the eternal order, ho
would -be -punished accordingly.' th, if
Horace Greeley, or Chitties Sumner, or sonic
ether "friend of freedom," were to give no
lice that he ...cdtdd charige the color, the
• 037171 - short, tot'
change the physical nature of the negro into
that of the white man, everybody would un
derstand the it!maey of ouch assumption,
and if he actually went to work to do this
thing, to set aside the Almighty, and recto
-ittellic—phys-4iititAiu-eWo-er ncht o, tltu
generous instincts of the mob would not
tolerate such wickedness, and he would be
lynched. or riddon ow a rail without hesita
tion. Did hete a7o a set of men and women
at Port royal, who undertake to change the
moral' and intellectual nature of the negro
into that of the white man, and multitudes
of wal.merming people really believe that
these besotted and impious wretches are en
gaged in a work of - benevolence ! The facts
all about there' show their wickedness 7 the
negro, fomed into' the gains of the white
man, is rapidly perishing all over the North,
mo-t rapidly of all in New England, where
the btretherr on him is Most rigidly imposed
and yet these blind and besotted Atheists
persist in •their hideous imposition, their
vain and devilish belie' that they can itn -
prdve cit'the work of the Eternil, and "ed
ucate" the negro into a being like them;
selves I
But spat is to be the end of this devil's
work ac Port Royal ? The war must soon
come to an end, and then what is to be the
fate of these debauched and perverted ,ne
groes ? They will be given up to their mas
ters, or they will be brought to the North,
and, in any event, are like to be so depraved
and worthless asp be a Curtlnn wherever
they go, and their own existence made
erable as well as useless. They will be idle,
vicious and troublesome to their masters, 9 r
if brought to the North, will be like the free
negro always rnust be, social monstrosities,
• laytimultawas . of --- ttre . • Ai
classes, and though destined to perish in
the end, they must live for a season on the
labor of the working classes. But will any
Northern State .ccept them or permit them
to come into it ? Most probably not, for
the people are rapidly getting • their eyes
open to the monstrous delusion that has
broken up the Union, and ,ltld the country
sath anises.) and desolation.
What then ? Hero orb fifty thousand
human creatures, whom the Rederal Gov,
moment declareS Ainertcar y .freemen, and
pledges itself not to restore to . (heir
mae..
tens, and yet no Northern State will permit
them to ent.w it ! The -government most,
therefore, take care of them within its own
jurisdiction or within thd Federal District,
and the-people, the white laboring classes,
must•bc taxed for supportinL these corru,,t
ed, liseasociAnd use less.beings Catozstaa,
. • Negto.Daings in Montrose.
AIyrEXPT TO BLTOrlir.U. A WIIITH MAN.-
Last Friday was a grand day among the
blanks and some AboliQfnistsm our quiet
little town. After 'holding an Abolition
w_wow on tile_Fiur Grounds. the,
cessim - Irmummg r — r up,' 0
the great annoyance of the meeting of whites
at the Court House. There were several in
dications of trouble during the day and
fight ; tut not until near morning 'Were
thire any serious developments. Fatty in
the. day one of the blacks.__Mid, demalided
change for a bill one five cent - iavestrnent
at the Keystone Hotel. A 2 the clerk could
not make change he became insolent, and
took offence. At a later hour he retyrned
with his abuse, and the clerk not being in
an apologetic mood', the fellow went over to
the Franklin noose, eqhibited a dirk, and
threatened vengeance.- The olerk was, put ,
on his guard and furnished welt a revolver
by a friend who heard.the threats. About
daylight, after-all the white men dispersed
except one or two, the offended gent, and
another armed with dirks and backed by
some thirty - others entered tic bar room
and advanced upon. the clerk. Ho kept
them at bay with his revolver, but
_they
followeh him through the room, ha:l,
into the back part of the house.. when he
called to some person to go for asssultaliee
and an officer, whorupon the Weeks 101.—
ad it not - hreri - fif Efie fiinely caution i re
ceived by the lerk there is no doubt but
that he waidd have been butchered.
Is it nol time for the abolition fanatics in
our midst to desist in - their-- work? De
they not, can the they-notittie what
harm their course is calculated to bring
about?
Let the negro riots, murdering, 4c., now
coming into fashion throughout the Noah,
be a fearful warning !
"Bully for him." A subseiber in the up
er estd•of the county returned his paper be
cause we-would not write "EN" to his
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The Chronicles of Abraham
01 . 1APITR I
1. Now in ttih first year of the reign o
Abraham. surnamed Old Abe (howbeit he
was not old), there was war in the land.
. ad e trN• of t
leader Wag one Jeff, gathered themselves
together and came and encamped over
gaiast the river of the Pdtomac.
3. And their armies were entrenched be
yond the river, from the great see, even un
to the mountain% which look on -111analeks ;
a very great Peet.
4. And the King, even Abraham, com
manded, and his armies came together from
beyond the Cape which is called Cod and
downrbist,' ,into the far country of the
Kansas and the Jayhawkers.
5. All the tribes of the North came forth
with their fighting men, under their cap
tams rf hundreds and of thousands.
G. Enutmen and horsemen and engines of
war; ind Simon, the war scribe, !dauSed the
host to be Numbered ; andl their number
as seven hundreds of thousands, and sev
en thousand and sixty end two.
7. And therewith *ent much cattle, and
Woe wagons laden with fine flour, and fir
bins of all moats, dried and salte4 molas..
ses also and codfish.,
S. Tobacco was there - and whiskey, su
gar and coffee and white beaus in grea t su
perabandance-; and the si g n of the wagons,.
and on the bi!astpldtes, and upon the ban
neva was U. S.
9. And there was a very great host, such
as hath not bean seen since (he kings of old
went up to the battles.
10. And as the vultUres are gathered un•
to the carcasses, so there Wowed them
swarms of commissaries, and sutlers, and
old Icontractors, and divers camp followers.
greedy for spoil even as grasTsliqipers — Tor I Lie.
multitude.
ii. Then came also money-changeH, and
usurers, and brokers, who take pawns, and
others of the children of the horse leech
and by these was the host deceivek;an 1
tplitirdeffti,, -- aiitripibA seveln
Ey tiles
12. Also the substance of there who
abided at home and were taxed, was cu,n
ningly eaten up by these detouring Incas*
who cried in their language, Hail-Columbia
and Yankee Doodle, ey et minted' nott froin
their spoil.
13. And the armed men and the people
groaned.
EMILE!
1. And after many days the people said,
%Vhy go net forth the hosts unto the battle ?
2. Lo these many niolithe I.dve lee freely
giden our gold and silver, our Substance
and the work of our hands.
3. While our young mon,. aro stricken
with the plague of the camp, falling as the
leaves before the wincl e .and the
_earth fes
ters with the dead of our kindred.
4. Our houses are made desofdll,an
the voice of lamentation is heat d in our
dwellings.
6. The chief men and the captains make
feasts, and are joyous with wine ; they are
fierce and haughty and their eyes stick out
with fatness.
6. Day by day are the boats placed in
battle array, and the captains and the chief
men ride before them on horsesrgaudily ap
pareled 'and rejoicing in their glory.'
• 7. They speak great swelling words, and
say, Who can withstand us in the day
- of
our wrath, when our enemies shall be swal
lowed up, as the sea swalloweth up the
repo
8. Neves &less, against the enemy, not
spear is uplifted, not a bow is Jrawn.,
O. The banners hang down upon the ban—
ner staffs, and the wren builds her nest in
the mouth of the trumpet.
10. Our chief city is belcagured, and the
groat rivers arc sealed against our ships.
11. The hoata of the enemy have us in
derision. They put out the lip disdainfully
and cry, ' Come over to no, ye Yankees,
who make merchandise of clocks, and carve
gun-flints from born, and are cunning in
nutmegs of basswood !
12. Show yourselveti; and we will give
youtfilesh to the buzzards Fairfax ; and
the hawks of the Old Dominion shall line
theMnests with your hair.
CHAPTER. 111.
I.; Wan* the captains take the rest,
and the host goes not forth from the tents,
2. In the morning the !mink) is sounded,
the drums beat the i tattoo . at ingtit ; to.
morraw•is as this.day, and the months pass
like a tale that is told.
and tho contractors, and the camp leeches
make baste to spread a feast before the cap-
•
tains
-srne annorers arc made glad in th'ett•
heartarancythe-countenartio-of
changers is lifted up.
CRAFTER IV
I Yet is the great hoe. Ito crotlydgiqUiet
ed, and the people foam
i tihe mouth, as a
war horse that champeth ON bit, .
2. Then is d oubt and fear ancranger, and
men gather at tbo - Corners of the streets.
3. And the chosen of - the chief council say
unto the captains: Tho people murmur,
nierefore tell us now, is there indeed to be.
unto you a day of battle
4. And the captains lay the finger, on the
mouth and say, shall we open. our lips t
the foe . 1 shall' the enemy come into our
5. Listen, now, an& keep silence,
bird Id the ah Carry .thb matter.
6. The host hath no RAMRODS ? More,
over, yet thirty days, and the Spring rains
shall loosen the carrots, and a young child
can pluck up the parsnips.
7. Then shall the long sarse abound, and
our hearts being strengthened, the enemy
shall bo scattered like the chaff of the
threshing•floor.
1'
8. Se thew men of the council were
appeased; ant 7
they came forth and said
unto the peopl 'lt is . all right,' and, the
captains are wiser tr‘i we.
=Xi
1. But the people
~doubted. And they
tax us even tp the !slants of the
shoes ; our 'flier and our gold are the rings,
and. our young pien in the flower of their
attength.
2. Shall , the rebel defy us forever, and
the Freitors lirigh us to scorn
3. Ey(n now; they wind embassadors un
to our enemy of old, and await the coining
bf his ships of war.
4., And the people came together, as the
eea gathers its tides when the whirlwind
rides on the waves.
,
5. And they Oaid to Abraham, even the
king, Stand forth !
6. Art thou not our-- rtalerl We—have_
lifted thee up from the duet, and have put
thee - in the seat of him in peace and war
among our rulerq.
7.. We have planed in thy right hand the
sword of this great people, and have given
to thy arm the sliicwWof their strength.
8. The great biiihk of the , Constitution.—
The Supreme Lawt is before thee ; tyrTp
hest sworn an oath to keep its mandates,
and Talk in its light. fk ,
9. Turn aside form'ci Ilan, Mack or white ;
lle, the rebel and traitor, is Wire thee
for him alone, is thy sword whetted.
10. Strike! subdue bim ; by the low,
accordingittit. In the•ntrerigth.of thin
people, in the favor of the Almighty, ttrou
carat db thin thing.' •• •
11. If peradventure, hereafter. the land ,
• shall, iu
order and justice, bring forth a season of
better life and hope for the bond-servants of
the law, then - shall all the people say,
Amen.
12. If need be, shrink not to defile thy
garments with the dust of the march, or to
abed thy blood in the fore front of the bat-
13. Art thou not our leader To whom
look we for deliverance, but to the king who
lie mighty with the - mtgbrzif the whole pee.
ple ?
' - 14. ffe who is higher than kings AO go
I (To - ,inir be -hehre im
everlasting remembrance. .
15. And the sound of the multitude was
as when seven thunder.Lutter their voices,
and they said :
16. If thy heart fail thee, give place !
For even now is there need unto us that' we
have.l Mao!
1.7. And King pibraham was troubled
•• • •
37. And the rest of the acm of King
Abraham'—arc ncf remrded in the
books of the chronicles of Seth, the Scribe 7
$B. And the songs of King Abraham, and
the book of his witty sayings, AO the pic
ttire of his beauty, to be desired of women,
and the maul wherewith he mauled rails in
his youth, and the special ple s as whereby ha
discomfitted his adversaries before the judges
of the prairie; are laid up in the Patent.,
' "39: . Even there are they laid up in cloth
of gold, nth the patent churns, and ',lash
ing machines, and perpetual mo:ions, and
all things new under the sun.
40. Howbeit the people loved . Abraham ;
and'when, even now, they take thought of
him. they,,loalt steadfastly upon each other,
and while a Iola! wale. End.
I From the 111;tford 'Plume •
An Eloqugnt Voice of Warning in 1848
31Essits. Envious :—[ send you the en
closed, thiuKina that - perhsps - rrernitght be
disposed to republish it in the Time,., and
A Suusgainsa,
Enclosed with the above letter we found
the following article. It was originally
published is the Cabot vale (Mass.) Merror.
and copied into the Weel.ly Times, August
Itith, 1848. What terrible troubles might
have been avoided had its eloquence and
prophetic warnings been heeded t
I=
We havo read of two bitter foes meeting
on a plat of,ground beiide a deep precipt.
tone chasm. They engaged hand to baud,
steel to steel, in the strife. One of them at
length, feeling that his opponent was get
ting the better of him, grappled in, and
strove to i kaar his antagonist to the, ground.
They stregled. they , wrestiod, they bent
backwards and forwards, and swayed on
either side. In the fierceness of the strife,
they approached the edgy of the cliff. Sud
denly one of them, by a mighty effort and
Hinging his whole weight and strength to- ,
wards the brink, bore his foe onward„and
in a deadly embrace, they both fell, crash
mg, bloody, lifeless, down into the abyss
below.
Muir all the blood and treasure, toil anti
sultering ; after all the prayers and
watchings, faith and bopo, in was
laid"the glorious Union of these United
States ; after all the glorious results, and
rich fictions of this Union ; after all the
_ K g e . I e • • ; • • e• -
,-. • .. .• • tons, 14 7
of that blessed ...Union," in one general sov
ereignty of many independent-States ; after
all the triumphs of wit' and , peace, which
have added glory to glory on the bright es
cutcheon of the nation ; after all the hal
lowed And WY._ awl. -B,ublime „deeds_ and
events of the past. and brighter, greater, ho
lier visions of the future iafter all the fond
hopes and strong faith of. millions )1 the op,
pressed and down trodden in the old world,
who have gazed and watched oir rising
brightness as the glad star of promise to the
world ; after all thin, and after we have at,
Mined a position among the nations of the
earth, suck.as was never reached since the
eatioh, powerful, peaceful; harmonious at
home, honored abroad, hippy Ind free—
now with insane madness, we fast stir up
, the bitter waters of contention between. the
1 North and the South, With asuicidtd_reek
lessness, we will urge ou the crisis: What
though we can hear the silken cords of fra
ternity cracking, and see thread after thread
patting. we will not falter. No ! taunt the
not Southron with the black, plague-spot
which he caught from Northern cupidity ;
tree nim for hik mifftortunes ; pet him .
his prejudices ; madden him by our pOwar ;
twit him of his poverty, and Den sneeringly
dare him to sevee the Union.
Oh; it. is vastly fine, it is transcendently
humane and. philanthropic, for us to talk
and declaim about Slavery, to mount the car
of liberty and ride in triumph over one half
of these powerful, happy States. It is high
and noble conduct after a series of gross at
tacks and aggressive Movements, which have
compelled the South to stand on the defen •
sive, then to hold up our hands in pious hor
ror at "the deep depravity of the South,"
and affect to Wonder men can be so wicked.
Bow lovely, how becoming in us, after pit
nig insult and indignity on the slaveholder,
and arousing the fiery spirits of Abe fervid
South almost to frenzy, to raise our hands
and eyes to Heaven, and give thanks that
we are not ass-othei-Men are, even as t hose
slataliolders yonder. Oh. yes .and them
maid. Apply Iho scourge ; talk of human
ity and laugh at your brother. He is la
slave . • - • mi—licr hp was
and you are strodg—be is a sinner and you
'are a saint. Hedge him - ; aorrtiund him
with a high wall ; chain him to S. reek ;
laugh at his s . truggle s ; boast. orient own
strength and tithes and then dare him to
secede from the 'Union.
Such seems to be the chosen course of
some of our superfine - patriots and philan
thropists of the North, if wo may judge by
the gusto with which many journals fling all
manner ()flaunts and opprobrious ! epithets
at the ".slaveocracy" of the South. .!1-t ma
not a labor of love, but line of bitter bate.--
Rea Son is thrown to . the winds ; kindneet
and fraternal feeling has given place to a
struggle of supremacy. .No sympathy is
felt for their misfortune': no allowance
made for their position no consideration
for the inflrmittes of human nature ; ?jut
with whip and spur they dash,on upon their
Southem. brothers. This is all noble, hu
mane, and high minded now. •
But when they have goaded the South on
vuey brink of desperation ; when as
the legifilhate and inevitable results of their
own mad career, they shall hear crashing
around them the tumbling fragmenis of our
own once :gloriofts and magnificent temple
when our land 2E1411,0 fu) petty powers,
rival States, and jealous Pr ipalities ;
when 'revolutions, insurrectious a internal
wars shall lay waste the land ; whemver.a.
Sous tariffs shall hedge up the commerce of
one State with another ; when brother mblitei
brother in battle ; when our land becomes.
like other lands, the scene of misrule, strife
ruin lhansp. , •h.p rbv' iispitimic
patriotic. humane lovers of their kind meg
begin to think that there was some reason
for the earnest and supplicatory cry—for
bear. It is pleasant and delightful now to
rail at those who strive for peals—those who
will not pluck out an eye for the sake of re •
moving a mdte which it in it.
You who are so abounding in love to all
-mankind-that you-are-williag-to-Ottne-year
country in alf thb horrors of a.eivil and sat-.
vile war, go on—from Your Nertbero' god
your Sodthetn patlea--4.lireaten• bully and
taunt each other ; call all those who have
'the courage and'independence to act for the
good of the whole, in spite of all outward
pressnie “doughfaces yield not a hair's
breadth—foe aireW 7 advedaleTi 7 of -414)1113 ,7 ,-
the oppbnents of slaiery ; you alone are
right ;• on With the glorious work—when in
stead of desti'oyiing sfavery, you shall hive l
destroyed freedom itself--when you, shall
have overthrovhi pin• present goveriribibn't
which conts‘ns a power in itself, if carried
out in the spirit of its ?winders, to cure US
very evil of alavery—'when you fliid your.
self sitting, like.Mritfuii of old, 'raid the m
ini and desolatie . -8 or ithit oven making
when the Mocking shou`te 61 tyrants and the
hopeless wailings of the (*pressed shall
ring in your earn, th . ..n yen may proudly
suridy the wreck tindsey—this, all this, is
the woilt of mg hands.
. lint the South dare not ' secede Men
will dare everything, when driven to des-
peration. When their passions are amused
they will dare even death itself, if they can
involve their enemy in their own ruin.
We are na.prophet. and ours is no rani'
throat to croak of evil ; but, if we are to,
have our sectional parties, and the Nortli lie
to be arrayed against the South, and men
are to plunge...headlong into tho sink thli
Union will as surely and vu, - speedily be torn.
aasunder, as that night 'Tallow's the day. Let
it come, you say ! the South Will suffer more
than ourselves. Yes, it will be tich. corm"
intim), while the Smith is dead.
Such may be the humanity arid,phirosophy.
of other, but for ourself, we are frank to say,
that we can hope for no political salvation(
for the slave, black or white. in the ela
world or in the new no golden hope of
progress in constitutional freedom, and indi
vidual rights, except in the pieservation of
the Union of these States. Preserve the lio-.
ion, and all is preserved, freedom. itself will ,
hernnut lir ivpretal : kuLdestrny the
and all will be destroyed—slavery will be
perpetual.
Letellatity
not puffed up. guide oar actions and dictate
our words toward each member of this great
family—let the same spirit of kindness and
forbearance which actuated the founders of
the republic, aetuate us, and the - Union will
still be preserved, and Heaves. still blsss,
us.
iFronuthe Providenao daily Post•
Acts Passed by The Thirty Seventb
, Congress•
(Not copied from the Recbrd, but put ,
down according to our recollection, nod
warranted correct in the main ;
1. An act in relation to niggers.
2. An act to emancipate niggem.
3. Amitct to prohibit, what-ye-call-it - tt?
the Territories,
4. An act to abolish what ye , -calKit in
the District of Columbia.
5. An act concerning niggers.
6. An act to confiscate nigger's,
7. An act to anticipate thp„Wives and ha..
bins of contrabands,
8. An act to emancipate niggers who fight
r the Confederacy.
1 4' 9. An eat to make 'ens fight fpr the
U mon .
10. - Itn'act to wake freed tdgors lovo
work,
13. Air set to makes little more paper
worth more than a good deal more gold.
14. An act to fres somebody's niggers.
15. An act in•reldtion to said niggers.
16. An aot to make white folks squeal.,
17. An act au%berizing the President to
draft white folks.
19. An act authorizing tho President to
arm negroes.
20. An act to givens a little more pa.
per. •
21. An act concerning niggers.
22. An act to make omnibus tiekets a le
gal tender.'
23. An act to compensate Congressman
-fur using their influence in obtaining con,
tt acts.
, 24. An act authorizing the issue of more
omnibus tickets. _ _
Z 5, An act declaring white men almost
as good as niggers, they behave them,
selves. (Laid on the table.) •
26: An act to repeal that clause of tho -
Constitution relatipg to the admission of
new States. •
SOF. 10 ropes e re
stitution.
/ 211, - Resolutions pledging the Govorn
men t to pay for emancipated niggers.
29.. An set atithoriaing the President to
pay for.saidiniggers. (Wait under%)
30. An act to contlsoato things.
41. Resolution explaining that some other
‘ lt
ail are not . meant.
An act in relation to Diggers.
3 An aot .o make 'diggers white.
An act to make 'cm a little whiter.
3 An act to make them a good deal
whi r.
37 ,An sot in reldition to contrabande.
38. Ir. act concerhinwsiggers. ' ' .
39. esol'ilion etinliournment
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