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VOL. 7.
BELLEFONTE, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 29, 1862.
NO. 33.
Select Pogtry,
TO AN UNSEEN HAND.
¥Y @80. D. PRENTICE.
They say, that thou art beaulifsl,
That In thy dark, bright eye
There foats a dream of loveliness,
Pure, passionate, and high ;
“They say there is a spell of power
Upon thine angel brow,
To whish, with wild idolatry,
High-thoughted Spirits bow.
Soft as the gush of twilight streams, .
Or stir of dewy leaves to
When the young wings are wandering out
On Bummer’s bag'iteous eves,
Thine Lidage o'er my epirit seems
_.~¥n Heaven's own light to move,
Tawiading all the chains, tha! bind
Thy mystic soul of love.
And oft through slumber’s plotured veil
Thy form, with softened gleam,
Smiles like the starlight blue of eve
Boon in a sleeping stream ,
Then on my heart the vision falls
Bo lovely and so fair,
Fo ether form can ever wake
Suok blessed feelings there.
“I
Ob 14 Is passing sweet to muse,
With feelings pure and high,
Os glorious creatures seen alone
By ¥aney’s burning oye!
There is no tint of Earth to dim
- Their holy light with tears,
Bat all is pure and beautiful
As dreams of other spheres.
Lady—I know thee not, and thon
Perchance will never see
The stranger-minstrel that now wakes
His broken lyre for thee ;
Bot oft his heart will picture thee
The loveliest of Earth's daughters,
4 ralnbow-glery sweetly throws
Upon life's stormy waters.
AFTER ALL
BY WILLIAM WINTER.
The apples are ripe in the orchard,
The work of the reaper is done, *
42d golden woodlands redden
Is the bleod of the dying sun.
Af the eottage door the grandsire
Bits pale in his easy chair,
While the gentle wind of twilight
Plays with bis silver hair
A woman is kneeling beside him,
4 falr young head is prest,
In she first wild passion of sorrow
Agelnst bis aged breast.
Ad far from over the distaves,
The faltering echoes come
Gf tbe fly ‘8g blast of trumpet
4Aod the rattling roll of drum.
And the grandsire speaks in a whisper,
‘The end no man ean see ;
Bat wo give him to his country,
4ad we give our prayers to Thee.”
T2e rlolets star the meadows,
The rose~buds fringe the door,
4nd over the grassy orchard *
The pink-white blossoms pour.
But the grandsire's ohair is empty,
The cottage is dark and still—
There's a numoless grave in the battle-fleld,
4nd » new one under the hill,
Azd » pallid, tearloss woman
By the cold hearth sits alone,
4nd the old clock in the corner,
Ticks on with a steady drone.
IMisgellangous,
[Prom the Caucasian.)
LETTER FROM JACK DO WNIXG.
WasmiNetoN, Aug. 1, 1862.
To the Editors of the Cawcashin :
Bogs :—1 tell you I’ve had my hands full
sence I writ you last. Linkin has been
sigh about down sick with the fever an ager.
Of course it wouldn't do to let the tel-lie-
graf git hold of it, forit would scare Wall
etreet in spasms an knock stocks down wus
than the retreat of Ginnera! McClellan, So
Stantin put his sensership on the news, an
that was the end of it, while I went to work
as hard as I could to cure the Kernel up.—
You see the Kernel. for the last montk or so
bas been very much broke of his sleep. —
Bumtimes he’s up nigh about the hull nite
consulten with Stantin, an Halleck, an Sew-
ard, an the nite air has been too much for
him. The banks of the Potomick in July
an August are mighty hard on the constitu-
shun, an ef there is any billyusness in a man
it is purty sure to bring it out. Linkin ses
bis constitushin is Jest like the war, so far,
nigh about all dii/yus. One day I went to
the Kernel's room, an seein ha looked kind.
or blue about the gills, ses I, ‘Kernel, what
{a the matter 3* Ses he, ‘Majer, I feel as
491d aa a frozen turnip.’ Ses I, ‘Kernel,
sint you gettin the ager? Ses he, ‘No,
Alajer, I dor ¢ think I'm gettin it, for I've
got it already.’ ‘Wal,’ ses I, ‘Kernel, ef
there is eny feller on arth who kin cure the
fever and ager, its me.’ ‘Wal,’ ses he,
*Majer, I wish you would go ahead, for I
can’t afford to be sick now. The truth is,
of I had & good ax an some chestnut timber
1 could soon work off the shakes myself I
used to have them when I was a boy, pow-
erful bad, but I could jest go out eny morn-
in an brake an ager in splittin up a hundred
roils 88 a breakfast spell ; but now I spose
1 must dose myself with sum sort of pizen
doctor stuff, jest because it wouldn't look
well for a President to split rails.” ‘No,’
ses I, ‘Kernel, you needn't take eny pizen
a a
stuff. I'll fix you sum medecin which was
a great favorite with Ginneral Jackson, anit
will cure you up as sure as my name is
Downing.” Ses he, ‘whatisit 2’ Sesl. ‘its
elder bark tea.” So I jest went to work an
got the feller in bad close, who does chores
around the White House, to go out in the
sububs an scrape me sum bark. I told him
very particaler how to ao it, an to be very
k aful an not to scrape it round about ways
of the wood. You see elder bark is the
queerest stoft in the world. If you scrape
it down. 1. acts as a fisic, an if you scrape it
Apwards it becomes an emetick, while by
scrapin in round about ways it ain’t nuther
one thing nor tother, ut jést raises a young
arthquake, gripin an panein a feller as ef the
cholery, an yaller fever, an kronick rumas
tiz had all got hold of him at once. Purty
soon the feller cum back, an I went to work
makin the tea. After I got it fixed I went
in an give it to Linkin, who was shakin
away as ef he wculd fall apart. ‘Now,’ ses
I, ‘Kernel, ef you feel bad in the nite jest
call me, an I will see what’s the matter.’
Nigh about mornin sum one was rappin at
my door like all possessed. 1 bounded out
as spry as [ could, an down stares I went.
There was Linkin a groanin an writhin an
lookin as pale as a ghost, an as lean an as
lank as a rail, They had sent for Seward
an Stantin, an all hands were in a terribul
excitement. Seward seemed to be awfully
worried. Ses he, ‘Majer, what would we
do if Linkin dies, for he’s the only one of us
left that the people’s got eny faith in at all.’
Stantin didn't say nothin, but he was lookin
around, T thought, to see where the Kernel's
trowsers was. As soon as I got a fair look
at the Kernel, an felt his pulze, I begun to
suspect what was the matter. The fust
thing I did was to call the feller in bad close
who got the elder bark, an ask him partica
aler how he scraped it. Cum to find out,
the numskull had cut the bushes down, an
then scraped them around, jest what I had
told him not to do. I comprehended the
situashin in a jiffy. Ses I, ‘Mr. Seward, I
understand all about this case, and ef you'll
stand back about four inches, an do jest as
I tell you, we'll have the Kernel all rite in
no time." Then turnin around, ses, ‘Stan-
tin, I want you to lend a hand, too, an make
yourself ginnerally useful, an don’t run off
an issoo a proclamashin afore you know
what is what.’ ‘Now,’ ses I, ‘the feller
that got the elder bark for the Kernel, scrap-
ed it the rong way, an the medecin won't
work. The only way to git it rite is to roll
the Kernel over fourteen times clean across
the floor. It is a tough remedy, but desput
diseases require desput remedies.’ So I
telled Seward an Stantin to take hold, an
the way we rolled the Kernel over an over
was a caushin. It seemed as ef it might
break every boue in Lis body, for his frame
is so full of angles that it jarred an jolted
like rollin over a wagin wheel wen there's
no fellers on the spokes. Finally, he cum
to, an we lifted him on the bed, an in a lit
tle while he felt like another person. Sewa
ard an Stantin loeked skeert yet, but I tell:
ed em they needn’t have no fears, that the
Kernel was as sound as a dollar. Stantin
sed he'd burt his spine in rollin Linkin ; at
eny rate, he puffed an blowed like a por~
pose. I telled him to go home an take sum
of Chase's ‘greenbacks’ for a poultice, an ef
that didn’t cure him, then there warn't no
virtue in ‘legal tenders.” Seward sed, as I
was sich a good doctor, he'd like to know
what was good for pizen. Wen he was a
boy, he sed he pizened one of his feet, an
that it had ailers trubbled him, more or less
ever gence. 1 telled him to get one of Sum:
ner’s speeches; an bind on the place, for
there warn’t enything like pizen to draw out
pizen, an that I thought Sumner’s speeches
would draw pizen out of ded men, an that I
wondered the doctors hadnt got to usin
them for bringin peeple who killed them-
selves with laudalum, prusick asid, an sich
things.
As soon a3 the Kernel cum to, he begun to
joke. Ses he, ‘Majer, do you know why
you an Seward an Stantin rollin me on the
floor were like men spredin hay in a meads
ow ¥ Ses i, No, Kernel, I don’t, unless
the pitchin an rollin are a good deal alike.’
‘No, no," ses he, ‘Majer, the reason is be-
cause it was done to cureme !” ‘Now,’ ses
I, ‘Kernel, that is purty sharp, but do you
know why your sickness is like the Union 2’
‘No,’ ses he, ‘I don’t see into that, unless its
because we're both haven a tough tims of
it.” ‘No,’ ses I, ‘that ain’t it.” ¢Wal,’ ges
he, ‘what is it ?’ ¢Wal,” ses I, ‘because it
has been taken the rong medecin I’ Ses he,
‘how is that. Majer ; I don’t understand
you? ‘Wal’sesI, ‘its jest here. You
know that feller who does chores for you
scraped the elder bark the rong way, and
wen you took it, it cum nigh on to killin
you. But I didn’t know but what it was all
rite, an so I give it to you. Now, jest so
its been ever sence you've been President.
Seward's been the feller who has been scra.
pin the medecin for the Union, an he has
scraped it all the rong way, an yeu've been
given it all the time without knowin it.—
You see the hull country has got the gripes
and the shakes, jest as you had a little
while ago, an it all cam from Seward 's rong
kind of medicen. You see Seward is tryin
to make the people swallow the ‘irrepressi-
ble conflict,” which is fixed about as fol
ows :
Higher Law, 2 oz.
Confiscation, 2 oz.
Taxation, 2 oz.
Justice, 0 oz.
Abolition, 8 oz.
(well mixed.)
EEE I at BE RL
Now, Kernel, such a dose 8s that would
give a countty a worse set of spasms and
agers then were ever heard of before. Old
John Dumbutter, the laziest man I ever
knew in Maine, sed he once had the fever
an ager in Mishegan so that it shook the
buttons off his coat, but such medicen ag
Seward is givin the country now will shake
even the tail feathers out of the grate Amer-
ican Eagle.’
Ses Linkin, ses he, ‘hold on, Majer, don’t
pour sich hot shot into me when I'm sick.’
So I held up, but I tell you, the Kernel has
felt very blue sence that time. One day ses
he, ‘Majer, what a grate mistake I made in
not taki Crittenden’s Compromise the ba-
sis of my administration : but its no use
cryin over spilt milk. The leaders of our
party wanted the Chicago platform put thr'o
an I'm the man to do what I undertake or
sink in the attempt.’ ‘Or split the Union ?’
ses I. “Wal, ses he, ‘1 don’t know about
that, what is in the way must cum down.’
Things look very bad here jest now, and
we all feel afraid that they may be worse
instead of better. Stantin wants to issue a
proclamashin which he thinks will set all
things rite, but Seward ses proclamashins
are played out. Linkin thought at one time
to put out a call for a day of fastin an pray-
er, but Halleck is opposed to it. So things
are workin along kinder slip shod, but I'll
try to keep you posted as usual.
Yourn till deth,
Major Jack DowxNING.
THE DYING SOLDIER.
A pious soldier mortally wounded in one
of the great battles of the Peninsula war,
was carried by two or three attached com-
rades to the rear of the scene of action.
They laid him down under a tree, unwilling
to leave him in such a condition of agony
and peril, lingered beside him to see if there
was no act of kindness which they could do.
His speech seemed much affected ; so that
he was unable to answer intelligibly to their
inquiries, but he made them understand by
signs that he would not wish them to re-
main with him to the neglect of their post
of duty in the battle, Reluctantly they left
him and returned, A little while after, an
officer who had been hastily summoned
from a distance to join the action rede past.
He pulled up on seeing a fellow countryman
alone and bleeding to death, and asked him
if there was anything he could do for him.
The soldier murmured something in the
negative, and motioned to him also to go
forward.
«“ My poor fellow,’ said the officer kindly
“If you are so far gone 43 to be beyond the
reach of help yourself, perhaps L could do
something for your friends at home ; is there
no message I could carry for you to your
wife and children 2°
At the mention of his family a flash of
corsciousness seemed to return to the dy
ing man. He said distinctly: «Yes;
knapsack—book."”
The officer dismounted and opened the
knapsack beside him. He scarched for a
book in it, and soon drew out a Bible. The
soldier continued : ¢ Read John xiv. 27.”
The hand which held it was little accus-
tomed to turn over the sacred pages, and
slowly and not without difficulty, the verse
was found and read. A radiant and heav-
enly smile lighted up the poor man’s features
as he exclaimed, in thrilling and triumphant
tones, ** There, There! is alll want. I
havepeace. I am going home ; my Saviour
is waiting to receive me.”’
The officer gazed on him a moment in
speechles astonishment, and then remem
bering that he ought to have been at his
post before now, threw the Bible into the
knapsack, sprang into his saddle and was
gone.
Within an hour afterward that same offi-
cer was carried by his men on a rude litter
out of the field of battle. He too, was mor.
tally wounded, and had not spoken until
they approached the tree where the lifeless
remains of the soldier were now stretched
on the field. The spot too vividly recalled
the circumstances which had taken place
there so short a time before. Passing his
hand over his forehead, he was heard to say
in tones of heartfelt anguisn: * I have no
peace, there is no Savior waititing to receive
me.”
Both these men were exposed to the pow «
er of the sword ; bothas to their morts
life fell victims to it; yet the heir of the
promise, in the hour of his lonely death,
experienced the *“T will” of deliverance—
his soul was redeemed from the power o
the sword.—The Sayings of the King.
A Bir oF Apvice.—Senator Sumner in
his hypocrical letter to the New York meet-
ing says :
“What I can do, let me do. There is no
work which I will not undertake, there is
nothing I will not renounce, if so I can help
my country."
Well, says the St. Louis Republican, he
can serve his country by a very ‘easy per-
formance. Let him resign his seat in the
Senate and go into the army asa volunteer
and take the front rank.
[T"Many a married soldier will go
through a campaign without a scratch, and
that’s much better than he might do at
home.
—— i Be.
05=The man who sets no value on his life
is probably not far wrong in the estimation
of it.
To The Democrats
AND ALL OTHER FRIENDS OF THR
CONSTITUTION AND UNION IN
PENNSYLVANIA,
At a meeting of the Democratic State
Central Committee, held the 20th ult,, the
following resolution was adopted .
Resolved. That the Chairman call upon
the loyal men of Pennsylvania, through the
Democratic Standing Committee of the sev
eral counties, to meet in the several cities
and counties of the State, at such places as
shall be designated by the said Standing
Committees respectively, on the 17th day
of September next, to celebrate that day as
the anniversary ofthe day of the adoption
of the Constitution of the United States.
Pursuant to this resolution, I call upon
‘he Democratic Standing? Committees res-
pectively in the several cities and counties
of Pennsylvania to request the Democrats
and all the other loyal citizens to convene in
mass meetings at such places and at such
hours as they respectively may * designate,
on the 17th day of September next, to com
memorate the adopticn of the Constitution
of the United States of America.
Since the 17th of September, 1787, there
has been no period in the history of Amer
1ca when it was so eminently ffitting gand
important as the present to bring to the
attention of the [American people, great
fundamental principles, which must under-
lie any Government where civil and reli~
gious liberty exist, ‘and especially those
{ that underlie the Government of this Union
—a Union which rests for its foundation up-
on that Constitution which affirms and prov
poses to make sacred and perpetual those
principles. That Constitution and Union,
‘‘one and inseperable”’—and now assailed
by foes throughout the whole land ; by Se-
cessionists in the South, and by Abolition~
istg in the North. The former by a bold
orgamzed movement , strike directly and
avowedly at the whole sovereignty and ex-
istence of our Constitutional Government.—
The latter by equally direct movements but
from under the cloak of recently dezlared
friendship and patriotism, are seeking to
thrust their traitorous stiilettos into the
heart’s blood of the nation.
The people of thisjland are the source of
all power, They made Constitutions, and
they can, and unless they would become
the victims of despotism or anarchy, must
uphold them. The great fandamental prin-
ciples of civil and religions liberty asserted
in the American Constitution are essential
to secure us in the enjoyment of life and
property, and in the pursnit of happiness. —
Among thsee are the {reedcm of speech, and
of the press, the right of the people peace.
ably to assemble, the right of the people to
be secure in their persons, houses, papers
and effects against unreasonable searches
and seizures, that no warrant shall issue
but upon probable cause, supported by oath
or affirmation : that no person shall be held
to answer for a capital or other.infamous
crime, unless on presentment or indictment
of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in
the land and naval forces, or in the militia
when in actual service, in time of war or
public danger thatno citizen shall be de-
prived of life, liberty or property without
due process of law ; that in all crimina]
prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the
right toa public and speedy trial, by an im
partial jury of the State or Distmsict where
the crime shall have been committed, which
District shall have been previously ascer~
tiined by law, and to be informed of the na-
ture and cause of the accusation, to be con-
fronted with the witnesses against him, to
have cumpulsory process for obtaining wit
nesses in his favor, and to have the assis
tance of counsel for his defence. That the
powers not delegated to the United States
by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to
the States, are reserved to the States, res-
pectively, or to the people.
Among ‘‘the powers uot delegated to the
United States,” but reserved to the States
respectively or to the people, is the right to
hold elections and to determme upon and
fix the qualifications of voters, With the
people of Pennsylvania this great right is
fixed by the Constitution of the State, and
no power but that Constitution, and laws
enacted in pursuance thereof can ‘prohibit
the exercise of, or limit or restrain that
right—a right most inestimable to our peo-
ple, and formidable to tyrants only,
Fellow countrymen, on the coming anni-
versary of the day of the adoption of the
American Constitution, in the exercise of
the right of the people peacefully to assems
ble, let us all solemnly and reverently in the
face of all men and before Heaven, declars
our determination to pledge our lives, our
fortunes, and our sacred honors, to preserve
protect and defend the Constitution of the
United States. Let us afford to President
Lincoln the most 1ndubitable evidence that,
in the observance of the oath of foffice to do
the same thing, we will uphold and supe
port him just as roadily as we have already
shown him that in filling up from our ranks
the bulk of the army, now and heretofore
in the field, we have always been ready a
whatever sacrifice fo strike down open an d
armed defiance to the execution of the laws
and to the sovereignty of the Government.
As Democrats, and as therefore loyal men,
we can know no other principle of political
action, but to uphold the Government - and
obey the laws, and that the best evidence
| of our firm purpose to do so is, that as a
part of the people, we will demand
the
maintainance of the Constitution in all
its parts, and the preservation of the Union
in its perfect integrity, and that we will
.| hold all men, North as well as South, who
assail our Uonstitut ion, in whole or in part,
ag disloyal men. and} the enemies of the
Union of these States,
President Lincoln in his inaugural address
quoting the entire provision in the Conv
stitution of the United States, relative to
the return of fugitives from labor from any
State, truly said that he had found th at
provision as plainly written in the Constitu-
tion as any oth~r; and in the same address
he justly declared, | have no purpose di-
rectly or indirectly to interfere with the in-
stitution of slavery in the States where it
exists. I believe Ihave no lawful right
to do 80, and I have no inclination to do so.
Yet the Abolitionist of the North are to day
bringing to bear upon President Lincoln a
fearful pressure to induce Limto exert all
the power which his official position in pre-
sent circumstances affords, to act counter
to this plain provision in the Constitution
«nlfo h'sown pledge to t1¢ American peo-
ple. This pressure has been so great that
the President in his high position, was in
duced to appeal to the (Union, loving Con.
gressmen from the Border Slave States for
relief. Let the whole loyal people of the
State of Pennsylvania come forward in mass
meetings, and with one patriotic and deter-
mined voice give assurance to President
Lincoln of that relief which he seeks. Let
us assure him that the only reliet which he
can ever obtain is from the loyal masses
numbering at least 300,000 men i= Penn
sylvania alone, who are firmly resolved
that ag they are the gource] of all power,
and are the supreme powdr in the land, they
intend to preserve protect, and defend the
Constitution of the United States, against
all its foes, whether Abolitionists or Secess-
ionists. .
Come, fellow countrynten, as ou value
the great principles of the Constitution—as
you love the Union of these States—as you
would avert despotism or anarchy—aas it is
your right to defend the Constitution
against all its foes, and, as you have the
power to do 80, devote the 17th of Septem.
ber next to such demonstra tions of (he pop«
ular heart as will give moral support to all
the friends of the country and serve to guide
the policy of the officers of the Government
in opposition to fatal and deadly counsels.
I need not add, the counsels which the Aba
olitionists seek to give. Next to the poss.
ession of our constitutional rights, we
should strive to secure the most thorough ob
servance of order, and the persousl rights
of every citizen. Our enemies seek to 1m
pute to us a willingness to produce a colli-
sion of forces. If, by this, 1s meant mere-
ly a determination to have our rights under
the Constitution, at whatever sacrifice, let
us assure them that while we feel that to
surrender these rights to avert such colli-
sion. We will appeal to, we have the right
to expect, and I trust and hope, yea, be-
lieve, we shall have the help of the officers
of the Goverment to aid us in protecting our
rights and averting such collision. Let us
show these enemies that we well under.
stand the baseness of the hearts that, dew
termined upon monstrous wrong, would par
sist in such wrong, and impute direful ca-
tastrophies which they may thus occasain
to the friends of the Constitution—of the
laws and therefore of the preservation of
perfect order. Standing up as we do, only
to resist aggression upon our rights, upon
the heads of the aggressors must be the
responsibility of any consequences ofevil. —
But, which may —you my countrymen, and
the officers of the Government co operating
guided by kind Heaven —avert.
F. W. HUGHES,
Chairman of the Democratic
State Central Committee.
Philadelphia, Aug. 14 1862.
AN ABOLITIONIST CONFIRMED AS CONSUL
10 Buenos Avres.—Our present United
States Senate has done many things that
will cause it to go down to history with the
brand of odium upon it, but one of its last
acts is the most characteristic of all. It
has actually confirmed the appoiatment of
Hinton Rowan Helper, author of the noto-
rious work called the ** Impending Crisis,”
as Consul to Buenos Ayres! This man
Helper is the most audacious of the crazy
band of fanatics who have agitated the sla-~
very qnestion until the country has been
precipitated into civil war, and his well
known book contains more anathemas against
the Union, more disgusting, unpatriotic
abuse of the South, than was ever uttered by
Wendell Phillips or Wm. Lloyed Garrison.
The selection of such a person to an impor-
tant position is virtually offering a premium
to treason and blasphemy. Itis acts lke
this, repeated in a thousand different shapes
that have United the Southern masses in
their determined resistance to the Govern«
ment, and which, if the war proves futile;
will be the main cause of it.
er yer
07™ The following epigram, which was
manufactured by cur last devil, 18 not des
void of wit :—
Miss — has #0 many charms,
'Twere heaven 1tself to be in her ar;
And she, kind girl, so godly given
Would wish MANKIND WERE ALL IN HBAVEN.
Sr ———— A ——
[7 Slanderers are like, flies that hunt and
fasten upon sores.
BR
05 The true remedy for treasonis a long
rope and a short shift, — Prestiae.
rl main Wes i)
Ded.
HOW CAN WE ESCAPE RUIN.
When and where are the * present miser=
ies to end?’ This is the question that
meets us on wvery hand, uttered by the
mouth of every American, except he be a
koave or a fanatic. There is an answer
more capital, and in the existing phase of
events more useful, as well as more prudent.
than inveighing against the follies or the
crimes of those administering public aflairs.
The fable of the starved mouse that crept
through the crack into the granary, and
baving fed fall, could not get out, has its
moral for us. To get out of our difficulties
we must get rid of the surfeit that creates
them. How came we, as a people, to fall
iuty such hands—to be reduced to so pitia-
ble a condition ?
We are witnessing and feeling the ~impo-
tency of written Constitutions, and prescri-
bed forms of Government, that are no lon-
ger the expression of the life and character
of a people. Administrations of govern®
ments are usually the expression of th®
present condition of the people governed—
not the perpetustion of & former condition
no longer existing. The centralizing en-
croachments of the Federalists under the
elder Adams were resented and repelled, be-
cause the people of the United States, at
that time fresh from the Was of Independv
ence, had a vivid and practical sentiment of
personal liberty and of the rights of Local
Self-Government. The Administrations of
Jefferson, Madison and Monroe, were pure,
not only because those great men were pat
riots, not because the people in those days,
from combining causes, would not have suf.
fered corruption in Administration to have
passed unpunished. They were a poor, in~
dustrious, little corrupted and brave people
and their rulers were such as such a people
will have, or will find.
But there is’ nothing more clearly written
in the annals of the world than tbat an ir-
religious, voluptuous and corrupted people
will speedily have, as their scourge, an un<|
just, profligate, greedy and despotic admin.
Istration of government. Ancient and mod-
ern history—sacred and secular writings, all
juin in‘persuading us that this will be so.—
The Holy Scripture says God * makes a
hypocrit’ruler on account of the perversion
of a people,” and that to the people of
Israel he *“ gave a king in his wrath.” By
the mouth of a prophet he told that people,
because they had become dissolute. avari-
cious and corrupt that ‘children should rule
over them "—that is, says a famous coms
mentator, ¢ rulers who by their silliness,
their vacillation, their caprices, their want
of experience, their blindness. their want of
reliability, and their abundance of folly, act
like children.” Woe to the land whose rus
lers are children.”’
The wise men of ancient pagan times hold
the same language. Plutarch teaches that :
¢ Tyrants and wicked rulers are sent by
God, for hangmen, vs it were, to execute
highest peralties on a perverted and wicked
people, for. as the gall of the hyena is use
ful in curing diseases, 80 also the atrocities
of a tyrant avail to the purging of a people
of its vices,” and he quotes the old gnowic
poet, Theognis, who, when he saw the proud
commercial Stace of Megara swelling with
Lixury and vices, sail; * This State is
heavy with child, but { foresee thit its off-
spring will be a tyrant, whose servitics may
correct the evils of its insolence !”
A crowd of testimonies, of ancient and
modern times, press on our memory, as we
write, and all to the same purpose. The
powers that rule the world are in all cases,
* God’s ordinance,” Ministri De: sunt in
bonum, whether, like David, and Uyrus, and
Charlemagne, and Washington, they be ho
roes in power and in virtues, or whether, as
Plutarch describes tyrants, they be simply
God's *“ hangmen,’’ to do final execution on
the vices of a degenerate people.
How, then, may we escape from the woes
that afflict this broal, and once fres land?
By getting rid of the Cabinets and Congres-
ses at Washington City. and at Richmond ?
Vain idea, if the people that occasioned those
Cabinets and Congresses remain unreform-
ed! But, oh, make the people what Provi
dence wished them to be, and all the plo‘e
tings of bad leaders will fall quickly !
Here is the only true and radical cure.—
Without this, rid the land of all the chief
plotters that now oppress it, and as bad, or
worse, will rise in their. places. Without a
return to truer principles, and to better mor
als, in the populations of this country, this
war or else other wars, must go on till pros-
tration ensues, and then famine and pestil-
ence must come to continue the scourging.
God has long called this people of the New
World, by the voice of tenderness and of
‘love They became only more deaf. Now,
He calls in the terrible tones of ** the Lord,
the God of Armies.” The pall of mourning
is in all our homes, and our hearts are crush
ed by the memories of brave friends perish-
ed. But, we suffer, and we mourn, and yet
we do not hear, we do not understand.—
The foundations are loosening under our
feet. Chaos threatens us, and aa * age of
iron ” that will grind civilized society to
powder. We look for help. but whereis it?
We listen for a directing voice, and there ig
silence, or only voices of confusion,
There is a voice yet to be heard, and it is
a voice that may bring order out of confu-
sion. It is not the voice of men, but the
voice of God, speaking through men. Chris.
tianity is the sole secure foundation for mod-
or a philosophy, but as an‘organized, tiviag
t2nching, tangible institution. The ideas of
Christianity, embodiedjin forms, and acting
in and through the livingjorganization of tis
Christian Church, can’slone rescore] society
in America to a condition in which that so.
ciety can carry out what God intended it to
perform. What a call is this on the mem-
bers, and especially on the clergy of the
Christian Church! A false and prostitute
clergy have been chief instruments in the
ruin of the country. Certainly we do not
call on them. The Beechers and Cheevers,
and the whole tribe of preachers, who have
deserted their pulpits togmount the waves
and run before winds of political agitation,
can do nothing good for the country, except
to go and bury themselves out of sight for
ever. When preachers turn politicians the
most they can hope, and what they rarely
teain, is to be the equal of other politician: »
Os.
A TEMPERANCE LECTURE.
At An Aroor, bein seized with a suddea
faintness I called for a drop of sumthin to
drink, As was stirrin® the bevrage up,
a pale faced man in gold spectacles, laid his
hand on my shoulder and said —
‘Look not upon the wine when It 13
red §
Sex 1,
Rye! .
+ It stingeth like an adder, and biteth like
a serpent,” ged the man. :
“I guess not” sed I, ‘when you put
sugar into it. That's the way I allers take
mine !"
“Have you sons growed up, sir" th
man axed.
‘Wall, ” I rephed, ‘as I put myself oute
side my bevrage, “My son Artemus junior,
18 going on 18.”
‘Aint yon afraid if you set this example
b4 him he’ll cum to a bad end ?*
“He's cum to a waxed end already. He
learnin the shomakin biziniss,” I replied
I guess we can both on us get a'ong with~
dut your assisstance sir, I observed ss he
was about to open his mouth again,
“This is a cold world” sed the man.
“Thats so. But you'll git into a warmer
one by and by, if you dont mind your bisis
ness better,”
I was alittle riled, becaws 1 never take
anything only when I am enwell. I arter
wards larned he was a temporance lecturer
and if he can injuce men to stop settin their
innards on fire, with the frightful licker,
which is retailed around the country, I shall
heartily rejoice. Better give men Prussiks
Assic, at once than to pizen "em to deth by
degrees. — Artemus Ward
i ———— a.
“ ANY Ormer Man."—A colemporary”
who appears to be more of a Biblical ste
dent than most of the craft, thinks he has
discovered the origin of this popular phrase.
He says ¢ it can be found in the 17th verse
of the 16th chapter of Judges, where Deli~
lah was coaxing Sampson for the secret of
his great strength. He divulged as fol-
lows : —“If I be shaven, then my strength
will go from me, and I shall become weak
and be like ** any other man.”
“This ain't wine. This is Old:
———————r NP
T5=Two boys going home one day found
a box in the road, and disputed who was
the finder. They fought the whole afternoon
without coming to a decision. At last they
agreed to divide the contents squally, but
on opening the box, lo and be hold it was
empty. Few wars have been more profita
ble than this to parties concerned.
——— Ye.
IZ A v:nerable lady in her hundredth
year lost her daughter, who attained the
good old age of eighty. The mother's grief
was great; andtoa friend who came to
condole wit! her, she remarked, ‘* Oh, dear?
oh, dear! T know I should never be sble to
raise that child I’
rn tS imi as
05” Never before in the world's history
was an order for six hundred thousand
troops to be levied received with such a thrill
of satisfaction as now animates the Ameri.
can heart. It is like the roar of the lion be-
fore he bcunds upon his prey.
0Z~A few days since, at an evening par
ty, a gentleman handed his wife a glass of
wine ; some one asking her if it was Mado's
ra, she replied, ‘I presume so for it came
foom my deary.'
[ZA young lady of California recently
broke her neck while resisting an attempt
of a young man to kigs her. This fur: {.hes
a fearful wirning to young ladies.
—— 0B
0>=To make some rebels behave them.
selves, nothing will answer short of the
‘moral suagion” of military prisons.—-Pran
tice.
RR i EIT
Doctor. —*¢ John, did’ Mrs. Green got ths
medicine I ordered 3” Druggist’s Olerk.—
*¢1 guess so, for I raw crape on the door
this morning.”
077 The Shakers in New Hampshire ars
enlisting for the war, and they will carry
their peculiar ceremonies among the rebels.
——
57 A mans woitiv to enjoy blessings
that he is not willing to fight for.
I~ Treason robs women of dignity, de.
cency, and self-respect:
me cl AAAI st ae.
7 Gen, McClellan is dangervas to his
enewiep, Gon. Fremont to his feiends-
Tgp
ern sooiety. Not ehristiani(y as a sentiment
3 BEE Th Gurvaga, and the fish
erman 8oglo for # livelihood.
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