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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.
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* POR ASSEMBLY,
ROBERT F. BARRON.
YOR COMMISSIONER,
"WILLIAM FUREY.
aren nel Gr PS
YOR DISIRICT ATTORNEY,
WILLIAM H. BLAIR.
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POR AUDITOR,
WILLIAM J. KEALSH.
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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.
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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.
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<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.
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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
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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. -
——