A a 3 2 The Watchman, jk W_FUREY, F7GRAY MEEK, a BELLEFONTE, PA. Friday Morning Aug. 29, 1862. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. FOR AUDITOR GENERAL, ISAAC SLENKER, OF UNION COUNTT. YOR SURVEYOR GENERAL. JAMES P. BARR, oF ALLEGHENY COUNTY. © COUNTY TICKET. : FOR CONGRESS, WM. F. REYNOLDS. Eubjeet to the decision of the Democratic -'+ ~District Convention. " a * POR ASSEMBLY, ROBERT F. BARRON. YOR COMMISSIONER, "WILLIAM FUREY. aren nel Gr PS YOR DISIRICT ATTORNEY, WILLIAM H. BLAIR. arnt A A POR AUDITOR, WILLIAM J. KEALSH. eee FOR DEPUIY SURVEYOR, "ALEXANDER KERR. _ Our Ticket. © The delegates which met in this place on Tuesday evening of last week, gave us as Standard besrers the men whose names are to fié found st our mast head. Had they have labored for months to find men better fired in every respect to represent the peo- ple.of this county in the respective offices to bo filled this fall, they could not have done it more: effectually than in the short time they were together in the Court Louse. Never, since we remember anything about Conventions, or tickets, have we known of ene that met with such universal approba. tion as the one which we now ask the Dem- ccracy aud all lovers of honest, upright men to support. Of Mi. Baxao¥, our candidate for Assn: bly, it is useless tospesk. 1lis course in the 1.cgislature last Winter recommends him to {he voters of this County higher than any words of curs can do, and wo can only ask the people to see that their own interests are iaken care of, by giving their support ‘toa wen who hss proven himself (0 bea friend 10 the people of Centre county. Vu. Funey, the Nominee for Commissiona or, isa man in whom the mest implicit con~ fidence can be placed, his ability to fill the offige for which he has been nominated can» not be doubted oven by the most scrupulous, end against his characier as an honest, pat riotic, upright citizen not 8 word can be ssid. . We bespesk for him the hearty sup- port of ail those who would sce the interest of our county well cared for. The candidate for District Attorney, W. 11. Bisir, has no competitor we believe, the opposition seeing it was entirely useless 10 attempt to defeat Captain Brain, they placed him upon their ucket thus giving him a clean field and a clean track. * Bully for Blair." : V7. J. KgaLen, our candidate for Auditor, is just the man to fill that office, bis busi- J ness qualifications cannot be surpassed by any, and the micrest which he has alwayg taken in the weltare of the people of + old Centre’ are recommendations than which none can be higher. ‘For Surveyer we have ALEXANDER Kern, oie of the very best men within the limits of aur county——well known to be an accurate aud practical Surveyor--a reliable man. a true, Democrat, and just the person to Hil the office for which Le has been nominated. All in all, our ticket is just the ticket for the times. Of course there were other good men before the Convention, wen just as well qualified to fill the offices to which they as< pired &s any that could be found, but they were uusuccessiil, yet that bas not deter red them from doing their duty; and, like all true patriots who desire the. success of democratic principles snd democratic men, they are row laboring earnestly for the aucccess of their more fortunate competi- tors. mrt The Democratic Louder. We have received the first two numbers of 's new Democratic Campaign-paper, with (he above title, published in Philadelphia, which will be furnished to subscribers ot the low rate of suenty- five cents until the election. It is recommended to (he sup port of the people by the Hon. Francis Hughes, Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, sad should receive the encouragement of all lovers of Democratic principles. Send for it friends. Address, A. D. Bollean, publisher, Democratic Lead- er 1083 South Third St. Philadelphia. sn c— A A <g¥ The first number of the. Monitor 8 new Democratic Journal, just started at Buntingdon, is before us. It is edited by Albers Owen and evinces an ability that would well become a pres of much’ greater pretentions. We wish Mr, Owen all the sucoess which au honest, .ablu advocate of Democratic principles derserves. ; n= Wik for Barron, ivr Furey, for Blair, for Kenlsh, andfor Kerr. Degradation of the White Soldiers. PRERMEN OF PENNSYLVANIA amp. The Attorney General of Massachusetts, in a letter on the subject of the enrollment of colored citizens. says : * The authcrities of Massachusetts have no more right to diminish its quota of troops by refusing to enroll blag men than they would have to reduce the age at which the obligation of military service terminates from forty-five to fortyyeara. The only possible question now open is whether color. ed men are citizens of Massachusetts, which no one, I presume will have the hardihood to deny, inasmuch as they are taz-payeérs. voters, jurors eligible to office. and there is no inequality founded upon distinction of race known to our laws.” We published an extract s few weeks since from Gov. Andrew's order in relation to enrollment of colored citizens, yet we had not the least ides at the time that the infa- mous order would be carried out, or that tho people of Massachusetts would permit such an outrage to be inflicted upon the white soldiers already in the field, we were not aware then that the laws of Massachu- setts were such as the Attorny General de” cares them to be—THAT MNERROES WERE ELIGIBLE TO OFFICE, AND THAT NO INEQUALITY FOUND’D UP'N DISTINCTION OF RACE WAS KNOWN TO THEIR LAWS. Ifthis is law in Mas sachusctts, God preserve us {from ever be. coming any closer connected with it than we are now—what stomachs and tastes these whining puritanical Yankees must have—niggers wool and all, 16 wonder the inhabitants are more than half mulattoes, and that such men ss Sumner, Phillips and Garrison are looked upon as great lights; no wonder the Abolition Republicans look up to Massachusetts and cry, © great art thou, oh mother of Freedom ! But let them enjoy the beauties (?) of their own institu. tions—1¢t them amalgamate if they will with the brutes of the ficld—let them marry their daugliters to the dogs that run the strects—we have no right to interfere. but we have & right and ae free white citizens should maintamn it to pr ve .t the degrada- tion of our own thousands ot white soldiers to the level of Massachusetts negroes. If President Lincoln and his Cabinet will ac- quiesce in such infamous designs, they arg fit for nothing but to control a Republic such as Liberia or Hayti, and should be boxed up and shipped off with the first load ofjcontia bands that leave the shores of this country. That + Old Abe ” and & majority of his Cabinet look with approbation upon this ef- fort to place the 1aces upon an equality we Eave not the least doubt, for they have auth- orized the formation of Negro regiments in Kansas and given the poor coutemptible ‘+ Swell-head ? (Sprague) of Rhode Island authority to raise, arm and equip a Brigade of negroes from that State, thus insulting the patriotism and belying the bravery” of the people of the North, what! twenty millions of whites NOT able te carry ona war successful y against five millions — Surely we have come to a pretty pass, if the negroes have to be aslled upon to preserve protect and defend our country. ‘Had'nt we better pitch-in for one of them to assist the « Rail splitter ** in administering the affairs of the Government ? Arc we, as while citizens of Pennsylvania going to assist this abolition Administration in'placing us upon an equality with the negroea? Are we going to sce ourselves de- graded in this way without raising our voiocr, or making & move to prevent it? If not, let us arouse, let us awake to the real danger that is about encompassing us — Let us warn the New Eugland States. Let us warn the Administration. Let us warn neg:o worshipers generally. whether in thi® State cr out of it, that we will not submit to it. and that there is not enough of bayon- ots, balls, or powder under their control to force us to. - The Kentucky And Vuginia Resola tions. © On the outside of to~day’s paper will be found the Virginia and Kentucky Resolu~ tions of '98 drawn ‘up by James Madison, the author of the Constitution, and submitted te the approbation of Jefferson the grear head and founder of the Democratic par~ 2. These resolutions constitute the platform upon which the Democracy stood when it defeated the Federalists and won the memorable victory in the civil Rev- olution of 1810. ’ For sixiy years there has beer the test of Democratic principles, and the standard by which every (Democratic) National and State Convention throughout the Union had been governed, and in these days of doubt and darkness, it may be well to consider those vital and elementary principles thus 1aid down by the founders of the govern ment and of the true old party that has so long, and so successiully administered it.— They are principles which we shall uvhold and defend, under all circumstances at all times, feeling assured that in doing So, we are but fulfilling the duty left us to perform by those who have showed us the blessings of a free Republic. We would advise our readers to give them a careful perusal. 77 Provost Marshals arc being appoint- ed in the various counties throughout the State. Mr. Kurtz, one of the editors of the Bellefonte Press is announced for that coun- ty. Of course be will kecp a sharp eve up- on his Democratic competitors of the Watch- man. What a convenient plan of bolster wg up Abolition papers, and suppressing those of Democratic tendencies, if strictly adhared to. . We have not heard who the fortunate individusl for this eounty is ta be Clearfield Republican. ————eat oo I7Go forth and grasp the weapons of your country. If you can’t do that, grasp the money in your pocksts to aid those who can.—Prentiss. (C7 It is reported that Capt. P Benner Wilson, formerly of this place, hae been killed. And Capt, Fravk O. Uuston badly , wounded in tho late batulce. + TneEffocts of Bmancipation. - The emancipation of the negroes in the Border States of the South, which is so earn. estly urged by the President, gives interest to all facts touching & measure 80 vitally concerning the interest of the whole coun- try. 1t is nothing more nor less than the extinguishment, at an immense cost to the nation, of a source of. immense wealth. It proposes an additional burden upon free white men, and even national retrogression, with no promise of either present or future advantage to the negro. The history of emancipationin the West India Islands would only be repeated in the South.— McCulloch, in his Geographical Dictionary, page 973, says of the present and former condition of Hayti: ¢ One of the first ef- fects of the revolution, which abolished the slavery of the blacks, was an enormous de. crease in the amount of agricultural produce. From 1794. the year which the slaves were declared free by the National Convention of France, to 1796, the value of exported pro- duce had sunk to five per cent. of what it had been when slavery existed and seven years afterwards, the country had become almost a desert—not only {from the wastes of servile war, but, also, from the indolence of the black population. The exports of sugar, for several years before abolition, was one hundred and fifty millions of pounds annually, gradually decreased to five thous- and peunds in 1824—twe thousand pounds in 1825, and, since then, to nothing. From 1776 to 1789, the colony had attained the acme of its prosperity, and its produce and commerce were more than equal to all the other West India Islands. Unhappily, bow" ever, this prosperity was as brief as it was signal; and the ruin that has overwhelmed the coiony. may be said to be complete.” — On page 975, he says, * Morals are univer sally disregarded. The private habits of the people are characterized chiefly by filth and lazinoss. Marriage is scarcely thought of and the ties consequent upon it have not the shadow of an existence.” See Cyclo peedia of Commerce, by J. Smith Homans, published recently by the Messrs. Harpers, Article, Hayti. Wequoteas follows: «In view of the Statistics of Hayti thus presen- ted, it is evident that the movement of the country has been vastly retrograde since it was a possession=of” France. In 1789 it ex- ported, as we have seen, one hundred and fifty millions of pounds of sugar, and near- ly one million pounds of indigo. In 1849, it exported none. In the former year, it exported seventy-four million piunds uf cof- fee, and more than seven million pounds cotton. In 1840, the exports of cefice amounted to less than thirty~one million pounds, and to about one half million pounds cf cotton. While tho total value of exports from Hayti 1a 1789, are given at two hune dred and five millions of francs, forty years later, they sre given at three and a half millions. '* * ® #* * The population partially live upon the produce of the grown wild coffee plantations after the model of the English, in Jamaica, and Spanish, in Cuba. do not exist. llayti 1s the most beautiful and the most fertile of the An- tilles. No where the coffee could better thrive than hero. as it especially likes a mountainous soil ; but the indolence of the negroes has brought the once splendid plan - tations to decay. They now gather the cof- fee ouly from the grown wili-wild trees. — The cultivation of the sugar cane has ers tirely disappeared, and, from supplying one- half of Europe with sugar, now supplies its own waats from Jawaica and the United States.” Here we have a sad commentry upon the capacity of the negro for progress sive civilization. For the last sixty years, the undisputed owner of one of the most fertile spots on the fice of the globe —the ++ Queen of the Antilles,” superior to Cuba, or any of the West India Islands—a gars den 1n the highest possille state of prepara- tion, all 1eady to their ba Now we see it a desert, and the negroes subsist up- on the produce of the wild-coffee tree. Compare Cuba, even under the blasting influence of Spanish management and Span- ish law, with Llayti. and we see, the reverse In 1789 she exported about ag much as Hay ti does now, and was as low as Hayti has fallen; but. under the influence of sluve labor, ‘she has gradually increased in wealth and commercial prosperity,.until now she is equal to what Hay ti bas become under «the same system. Her exports in 1789 were very little, or nothing—probably about the same that Hayti’s are now--or about half a million of dollars. In 1826 they had in creased to thirteen million dollars, in 1854 to thirty-two millions, and last year ‘proba- bly reached forty million dollars, or about two hadred million francs, whac Hayti's wero before emancipation. Compare Ja maiza with what she was before the aboli- tion of slavery. See Cyclop@dia of Come merce, by J, Smith Homans. page 1123.— « The negro on whom the cultivation of the soil depends, has gradually retired from la bor, and retrograded in the social scale. * e » During slavery, the dissenting ministers possessed great influence over the slave. He now prefers the established church, because it costs him nothinng ; but he cares little for either. Not feeling the want of education, he does not seek it for his children. Hence neither churchs or schools are wanted in Jamaica, but congres gations and scholars, These observations are concerned by the last returns. which fix the decrease of children in schools in the single year of 1854, at two thousand. * * ® The [sland must soon become 8 Seca ond Hayti. Already the enormous depre. ciation of property has caused the ruin of se many, that the name of Jamaica proprietor, once used proverbially to ‘indicate wealth, is now associated with poverty and dis. tress.” The game authority fixes the as: sessed value of moveable and immoveable property before emancipation at fifty million pounds—since emancipation it has fallen rapidly. In 1850, the appraised value wes eleven and half millions ; now, 1t is eight millious, or one-sixth of what it was previe ous to emancipation. Iu 1809, her exports excecded three million peunds sterling, and A —— rr em —— slavery existed. | razil, under the influence’ of slavery, is rapidly inereasing in welth, power, and influence. On the Western Continent she stands next to the United States. In 1850, her first line steamships with Europe: was established. . Now. she has eight. - Ler carreer 1s. in all respects onward. Her public credit abroad is of. the highest character, ‘Iuternal improvements have been projected, and are being executed on a large scale, Her exports of coffee alone, in 1854 were four hundred million pounds—two thirds of the whole consump- tion of the world. Her foreign commerce in 1855 employed 5075 . vessels, measuring 1.657.015 tons. Her imports amounted to about forty-threa million dollars ; her ex- ports to abollt lity million do'lars.— Con. stitutional, Union Philada ei see faxes. Taxing mankind, taxiog & people, from the earliest periods of the world, has been a measure ever {raught with danger to both government and governed. Taxes are, and ever have been, the device of despots, orig- inating with other outrages belonging to that state of gocicty which endorses and believes in ‘kings’ and their “divine rights In Europe where the people the masses, are ridden by potentates and priests it oftenel happens that, stung to madness the govera~ ed upset the Government, and produce pos litical and social chaos : but on the other hand it often happens, unger the firmly em planted heel of the oppressur upon the op- pressed, that each turn of the screw which forces more tribute into the coffers of the State, from the starved and overworked sub jec's, finally eradicts the last particls of manhood from their dcbased and mis: erable souls, and they bow to the rod, submitting without a murmur. A government which believes it can free ly and unhesitatingly tax a people, without consulting that people, is a despotism. Any people who would submit to taxes unscra. pulously heaped upon them, without a pro< test, are slaves: In this country the people are the Gov. ernment, and the Administration the agents only. In this country we know no such an order of creation us ‘‘a government at Washington,” bat the people recognize ‘an administration at Washington,” and hold them accountable fof the just and perfect administration of the laws, as they stand upon the statute books, and for the preser. vation of the Constitution, which great in- strament if impaired. abused and trampled, Jonves the masses without the slightest protection for that sacred boon, “life, liber ty and the pursuit of happiness,” for which in '76, the best bloo1 in Christendom was pouring out like water, that wo might en- joy. Of late the working men, the bone and sinew, the great capital creators of this country, have heard too much of Govern. ment j government does this, governm:nt says that, government is about to order so and so. We trust fellow workingmen, that the condition of American society ‘has not undergone 80 great & change in the past twelve months, as to make the administra: tion ‘‘a government,’’ and we the people its subjects. if so it is high time we undertake to guard our own liberties, for we are not safe an hour longer ; taxation as one of the many evils to fall upon us, hae but just be- gun. Let us again rouch that thems of our past articles taxation and reviaw the figu- ring under that head, and sce how the tax- payers, the capital creators, the working class, stand to day, on this question of ine terest payers, or bondmen to the capital helders. The present and prospective debt of the United States, according to-the statements of Mr. Thadeus Stevens, Chairman of the House Committee bof Ways and means, up- on which the workingmen of the country must pay interest, is something hke the following :—The debt of the United States on the coming in of the present Administra- tion, was $100,000. The Treasury Notes aathorized by Congress, July, 1861, pay- able in three years, at 7 3 10 per cent, in~ terest, was $250 000,000 ; the twenty year coupon bonds sanctioned by Congress Feb- ruary, 1862 were $500,000.000: the lege] tender notes to be in perpetual circulation, but which are n3w radidly absorbed in 9 per cent coupon Treasury notes, §150.000,- 000. Here we have in December, 1862, a government debt of $1,000,000,000, but we are not through yet. To this debt of $1,000 000.000, we add for extras not included in the Treasury estimate $50,000,000, and the loss on the goverment 20 years bonds which will have to be sold at a discount of 25 per cent, according to Mr, Stevens statemeut; this discount may be 40 per cent; but we will take the smaller sum : 25 per cent loss on $500,000,000, makes $125 000,000 more, now we footup $1,i75 000,000. Mr Ste. vens goes into prospective wants, which the Congress of December, 1862, will be requi- red to provide for, figuring up, to carry on the war to June 30, 1893, 8700.000.000,000 and to get the money on these bonds, as pub lic credit will be poor, it will cost 40 per cent, at least he thinks, making a further loss of $280,000,000 und the extras for tas king this war up to June 30, 1863, at least $120,00,000; 411 of which foots up £2,272, 000,000. Let us see how we can meet this debt.— We pay mn personal tax bills $200.000,000 ; in duties on imports, $50.000,000, making $250,000,000 this is all our resources, and it leaves us a net debt on Jume 30th 1863, of $2,025,000,000, (twa thousand and twen ty five millions of dollars,) We shall be taxed upoa this-debt 6 per cent and we must work to pay it ; and how much bet. ter off shall we be: thea the debt ridden subs jects of Great Brittain? The sum of 6 per cent on our debt of June 30th 1863 will be 8121.500,000 and the sum of six pes cent on $4,050,000, the great dobt of England is $121,500,000. ‘Tous the magses in "this the expiration of the Administration of Mr. Lincoln closes, ss huge taxes, as the ‘down trodden abject, hopeless subjects of Grea Brittain. ln the period of twenty four short months, this country will have steep: ed itself as deeply in debt, to all intents and purposes, for our taxes will be as heavy as the English nation were able; to do, in a cou ple of centuries, with at least twenty five years of war in that period. In one year from this time, millions upon millions of Government certificates of Inx deptedness, will fall due ; and to pay them the twenty year bonds would have to be sold. Mr. Stevens declirs that the loss to the Treasury will be 40 per cent, when these bonds are thrown upon the market to any extent. Up to the date of June 1863 te shall have an interest account heavily increased by the stealings of the wretches now making a good thing ‘out of our National troubles, of at least $121,500 000 per year; beside the cost of the administration, $125,000,000, more and how much greater the debt will be swollen, time wili“tell. The contemplation is fearful ; and the wicked recklessness of the men who have a voice in the councils of the nation is enough to provoke a revolution in every loy- al State in the North. The result of this terrible drama is in the womb of time, and we must await events with patience. ee eee tee. Future Prospects. Inland cities, which carry on an exchan- of commodities, for domestic consumption, and of a domestic character, may be said to control a selt supporting traffic which will be permanent, almost under any circums stances ; but seaboard local ities, which de- pend upon ocean commerce, and agencies received from foreign houses for the dispo- sition of foreign munufacturers, will be very likely to decline in capi‘al to a staring de~ gree. New York. Boston and Philadelphia, under an almost prohibitory tariff, cannot maintain that proud pre eminence over Chi- cago, St. Louis, Buffalo, Detroit, Cincinna- t1, &c., which they have hitherto done, for their wholesale trade will die out and their ocean commerce perish. Will any candid man for moment claim that, with a National debt so large that it calls for taxes equal to those of Great Brit- tain, with a loss in trade growing out of the war, to the masses of tax payers equal to $500,000,000 per year, with a poverty stricken section carrying all the debt, pay ing all the taxes, the South paying nothing, for it is the sheerest folly to attenpt to cons vince ourselves that we can compel her to pay, it she declares to a man she will not; with all this, will any fair minded man say that we shall not decline an individual cap=~ ital at least fifty per cent in our great sea board cities? I think not. Paper is falling, in other words, gold is rising, as one of the evils of the day. Mr. Chase has issued $70,000,000 legal tender notes, and bills are down to 88 cents on the dollar in consequence. When Mr. Chase's schemes are completed we shall in curren - cy something like the following : —Legal tender notes of February, ‘45 $150,000,000 legal tender notes of June, "92,$150,000,000 postage stamp shinplasters of July, 62, $50 000,000 . bank note circulation prior to act of February, 62. $150,000,000; probable increase since then, $50,000,000; total $5- 60,000, of which sum there sum is yet to be set afloat $300 000,000 U. S. currency, and when it is, to what points will geld rise ?— One nillion two hundred thousaud men are to wind up this game of war. Suppose that this one willion two hundred thousand men are kept in the field bui one short year. It will cost the nation $100,000,000 every thir ty days!!! and so much more will the great de.t be. This money problem is a mighty one to work out. Can this debt be paid ? can the people earry it ¢ Perhaps the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of war fancy that tue people of this country are mere beasts of burden, who will patiently be slacghtered, to bear every sort of tax, without a murmur. lt is possible they may, if the Union 18 ta be restored by all this ex penditute of blood and treasury ¢ But sup pose the effort fails # What then? "The New ¥ork banks report plenty of idle deposits, plenty of gold anl silver, and | an increase in all the special departments, the totiugs of which are weekly set fortk to the puvlic, but the great wajority of the readers of those weekly statements feel keeuly the war pressure, and take litde in~ terest in the hackneyed phrase ‘‘mouney plenty aud cheap.” Confidence is gone, wealth is being sqandered, the rich man of yesterday is a beggar to diy, commerce is in a chaouc state, there is a terrible up heaving not oniy of the commercial, but the social structure of the North, and no mab cu tell what the result will be, Men of all classes whisper to each other, Where will this thing eud ¢ 1s there no solution to this problem save ‘‘extermi- nation or subjugation!" Workingmen, we have a terrible ordeal to pass through.— Footing up what appears to be price of the «ffort to preserve the Union, it would seem that human brains and human heads cannot pay the moneyed cost of it; the principal can never be paid ; and if the buge masses of humanity expressed by the terms «« twelve hundred thousand,” are kept in the field till July 1863, England's taxes will be chi:d’s play to ours. What a fearful respongibility will the wretcheg no have inaugurated this war have to assume! How will they meet it #— Will not an outraged people in the North, turn upon these firebrands, these Abolition fanatics, who have for thirty years goaded the South to this act of madness, and wipe them effectually out 3—Caucasian. (7 Somebody has taught the Japanese Ambassadors a few English phrases, for use in emergencies, as when inconvenienced by the crowd, and so on. One of those phrases is, ** Mind your own business,” which they country will be quits likely to pay before | : { oconsionally bring cut very comieally. “dle Dr ame. - TRUTH THAY SHOULD BRE HEARD - Mr: Abram, or Abraham Lincoln, hep. | pens to be in the position, in which, if he understood it, torrents of blood not yet shed and worlds of misery might have been avoid ed. It lies in that antithesis of ‘official duty" and of “personal wishes.” For his personal wishes the American people care nothing. Let them be buried with him in the grave, orcarried further, to heaven or to hell. But oh, even now, if he could only appreciate that ¢ official duty’’ which the position in which he has been placed re- quires of im, he might undo a large instal~ ment of the manifold evils that the bad fac- tion that made him President wrought.— We are of the number of those to whom his admimstration, for which he avows himself responsible has done that wrong which a freeman, except a8 a disciple of the Cross, can never condone. Yet, with tens of thou 3 1 i ehesh : sands of others who have not dared to trust Toray in Shysies mat Jus ogque him as the nominee of the Chicago sectional | power or principle comes in on the other Convention, we would spring quickly | side, there is a swift oscillation to despotism forward to support him, for our dear coun. 29 he Oppose ee So Jnacny. Ta try’s sake, if he would but avow, what ought | 1 gical reforms. an ey Ber to be true, that in the positition to which | guarded reformations have benefitted _the he has been lifted, he has learned truths | human race and improved the condition o that he never dreamed of in the vi lage of Roms snd Republics. But sudden aud Springfield, Tliinois—and that, henceforth errible convulsions, the overthrow of found- abjuring the influence of ruinous and evil ation principles, have not in general so ro= sulted, but have on the contrary led almost, counselors, he 1s determined to walk in the beaten track the fathers trod, to take as if not quite, invariably to nations! ruin. - he found them existing the traditions that have made the country great, and to emu- late the broad patriotism that, from Wash. ington to recent times, governed every man that reached the Presidential seatr The power of the country is the power of the North, We are one country vet, des- ite the hi f fraternal war—for has it PIERS HONN Of a or ae flood and after the flood, are the rules by not been brother arrayed against brother ? | He governs, and protects or destroys "The power ofthe country is not in the Qua: } in {hese latter days. kers, and political preachers, and bran | What wild fancies have some mes, tha? bread eaters, and coward fanatics, whose | through this terrible crushin . : come out, of necessity. refined and purified ! jargon has distracted affairs for the last Tt may bo that we shall, but it will not_be vear anda half. Oh make one loud dis- lis- | because such a result is the necessary effect | unct appeal to the levers of the Constitution Proclaim that, as, by the letter of the letter of the Constitutio you were elected Pres dent so you will seek to limit all your ac- tions to the same letter of the Constution as it stands —interpreted by the Court it es. tablished for its declaration—and you will gee the declaration-—and you will see the relation of forces changed. The North will be knit as the unit. Provost Marshals in the loyal States will not be needed— only heavy bodies of armed police to save Abolitionists and prostitute newspapers from being mobbed: States now in rebell- ion will wheel into line, at the restoration of the olny order of things at Washington ; and taught by that adversity that sopers men, the rebellion may itself melt away.— Is this too good to hope for #—Freeman's Journal. ‘ in times of excitement.” Nations cease in the presence of pbpular tumult, io the solean warnings of the past. course of national history depends on ha- msn pature. The that is in man wil save, the evil that is in him will destroy io. -dividuals, communities and peoples. If he: man nature were all good, there would be no guard against evil. If there is & tenden-* cy 1h man t1 go wrong, then the only sslivs- Creator in providing compensations sg thas the results of fi action will Roto viduals, When radicalism hes pi . people into anarchy, selfishnesa itself some times becomes & saving power, and the de. sire which those who have enriched theme preserve themselves and their gains, leads to reaction. But that reaction is almost al" men of our time, “that the mills of God grind slow, but they grind exceedingly small.” The saying, 1n one sense, has m terrible significance. Those tills grind ail ways the same grist, and always the same fine dust of crushed human fabrics pours from their ceaseless whirl. The same etez~ nal principles which God established for his creatures in the forgotten ages, which des termined the fate of the nations before the with radical notions of popular reform, and condition was one of sin or political mis. the radical theory, it is's solemn truth of history that evil” has overcome the good more frequently than good has overcome evil. God sometimes, often, usus evils und sing as the upper and nether stones of the mill, out of which ¢ome no similisade of the old forms, but only exceeding small dust 82, be swept away on the wind, and some day The plots and crimes of the wicked have marred the most worthy fabrics of the hus man race in all times past. The strong sre often most liable to weakness. Nations have advanced from barbarism to meet with destruction at the pinnacles of grandeur, and the destroyers ere sometimes barbarins, and sometimes fools, and the succeeding ns- tion or power is rarely an improvement on the past. Nor, in a timo like this which we aro now passing through, is there any hope in the future except in clinging to that which has proved itself good in the past, and secking to prevent the nation frum bes ing torn off from its old foundations. There are men who talk as if the millen- nium of nations were at hand if we can only set rid of slavery. hep imagine that if in this war we cap esteblish liberty as the birthright of every human being in America, the grand end of human government is at tained and the day of pease and joy to the race is at hand. The ides is purely a chis mera, an idle dream. = Liberty itself 1v' and always will be a mere word of comparison, never of actual realization on earth or im fleaven. proximation to liberty that man can ever know. The slave that works im the rice From the Savannah News. Stonewall” Jackson. There you see self-command, perseverance and indomitable will, that seems ncither to knw nor think of any earthly obstacle, and all this without the least ad mixture of vani~ ty, assumacy, pride, fool-hardiness, or any- thing of the kind. There seems a disposi- tion to assert its pretensions, but from the quiet sense of conviction of his relative po- sition, which sets the vexed question ofself- 1wpcrtance at rest ; 8 peculiarity, 1 would remark, of great minds. It is only the littl: and the frivalous who are forever obtruding their petty vanities before the world. Is face also, also, expresses courage in the highest degree, and his phrenologizal devel- opments indicate a vast amount Of ecergy aud activity. his forenead is broad and prominent, the occipital and sincipital regions are both large and well balanced ; eyes expressing a singu- lar union of mildness, energy and concen- tration ; cheek ani nose both long and well formed. Ilis dress is a common grey suit of faded cassimere, coat pants and hat—the coat slightly braided on the sleeve, just enough’to be perceptible, the collar display - ing the mark of Major General. Of his gait it is suficicnt to say that Ae just goes along, not a particle of the strut, the miltaiy swag- ger, turkey -gobler parade, so common amon officers of small rank and smaller minds. It would be a profitable study for some of our military swells to devote one hour each day to the contemplation of tke magnificent plaloness of “Stonewall.” To mulitary fame, which they can never hope to attain, he unites the simplicity of a child, the straight forwardoess of a Western farmer. On last Sunday he was dressed ss above, and be strode as common a horse as one could find on a summer day. There may be those who would be less struck with his appearance as thus accoutred, than if bedizened with lace. and helding the reins of a magnificent barb, caparisoned and harnessed for glorious war. But to one who had seen him asl had at Cold Harbor and Malvern Hill, in the rain of shell and the blaze of the death lights of the battle-fild, when nothing less than a mountain would serve as a breastwork against the 36 inch shells which howled and shriecked through the sickly air, General Jackson in tatters would be the same here | This Army is death on Abolitionists. - It as General Jackson in gilded uniform. Tn | has got so now that the soldiers will not wy simple view he is a nonpareil —he is with- buy a Tribune any more, or look at a paper. out a peer. lle hasenough energy to sup- | of the same stripe. - You will hear nothing ply a whole manufacturing district—enough | when going through the camp but ¢ Damn military genius to stock two or three milita- | the Abolitionists,! Just wait “ till we get ry schools of the size of West Point. home !"’ are the expressions you will hear Sui pe—e=re in every camp. [It is my honest belief, tha 7 ¢ John, where 1s your master to if this army were set free now, they haf day?" clear the North of that Party. ol~ « Oh he's off, recruiting.” diers despise them worse than they do the free than the poor laborer of Now York, who starves within sight of plenty, or longs anz- iously for riches and luxury and travel, and the entry to theatres and social assemblies, and all the enjoyments among the rich.- Tho abolition of Southern slavery ig not go- ing to remove all sin from society in Amer- ica. - Men of one idea seem to image it the only blot on our souls. But alas for the na- ture that wa call ours, the mills of grind it now as they ground it in Pharacnic days, and when an exodus or an aboliti on decree of God or man makes & nation of slaves freemen, the slaveholding human nas ture clings to its old Gods and burns firea balefu! as ever, while the slave goes out te death in the desert. or another captivity in later days by the rivers of Babylon. Neither history nor remson promises any than the past. That past surely was sufi- ciently glorious and happy. The terrible crime which has brought us into our present affliction is a black spot in her history. If we can hold fast to the ola principles, Wwe. may be as we were before. But if we let them go—he dreams wild dreams who sup- soi) and destructive human nature at sa end. id rag A Suldier’s Opinion. The following extract is from a letter ments under McClellan. The writer wass participant in four of the terrible fights around Richmond, in one of which he was. wounded. He is ready for what comes next—a brave, earnest, sincere man, Af- ter te'ling of the fights and claiming that our hrave troops whipped the ¢ rebels: on every occasion, he thus concludes : « T will tell you another thing ; you may. believe it or not, but it is nevertheless true : « Recruiting is he # That's good ? where bins bo 4 : us,—the — . is he recruiting I" have pitched into General McClellan; the «Up in the White Mountains sir, recrui~ ting his health.” «t Ah! he's sick is he ter 3" + Ho took cold on account of the draft.” That's bad ; then he wont go to the war, man who is almost worshipped by ba men. That alone ts enough to cause bitter f+ ‘ings against them, and [ am afraid tna} w'oeu this army gets home, they will hav>~a Lot country if they stay in it.” . Cu We adyise the abolition howlers fa this geotion to ruminate over the above. This soldier, no doubt, expresses the foelings of pine men in ten throughout the Army of + Oh no, sir he's too * Wide Awake." the Potomac. Exchange. / aa . {C7 Unless wa prosecute this war toa Not correct.—the report that Mr. Lin- successful close, our country will soon hrye { soln had offered “Stonewall” Jackson hie no light but ‘the light of other days."Pren- | place in the White House, if he would only What's the mat- ties. ; et hit depart in peace from Washington. What lessons: mea learn from Wary, és says an exchange, are of little practical ess . tion of the man or of his inventions in gOv- ~~ ernments and nations, is the mercy of his. .. or overbalance the wrong tendencies of Jad: i we are te: of national affliction, and it will not be sof we go through the trial with our brains filled with the grand error kept prominent. that the present trouble proves that our former . take. On the contrary, 'the evil is forevér : attacking the good, and: unfortunately for. gathered into new and diverse organisms.— Contentwent is the nearest ap- fields, who is content with his lot, is mors only failing of American huthan nsture—the on a thousand strange altars as bright sud better future to the nation after this war poses the millenium at hand, or the age of written by a soldier in one of the best regi~: stlves on the spoils of others, ‘will have te There is a favorite saying of the radical. - ——
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