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BELLEFONTE,
Iiscellangons,
[Written for the Democratic Watchman.
ABOLITIONISM AND THE CONSTI-
TUTION.
Mr. Epitor : —I am no politican. T can
not follow all the congressional and other
speeches ; in fact Iam one of those plain
citizens who up to the time of recent start
ling developments, have ** pursued the even
tenor of their way’, reposing their trust in
the Ark which enshrines our faith and fate
the Constitution of these United States.
We have been most suddenly distracted.
Ruin and desolation now surround us, and
how and why ¢ The crowbar of Abolition-
ism is at work to undermine and destroy
our Constitution, National burglars can
not be content with the possession of their
own taking, but keep tugging away at the
public crib, making free with their neigh-
bor’s property, using every means to show
the honest masses how the Constitution may
be improved, agreeably to their conceit 3
wielding their great and mighty engines in
order that they may destroy the progress of
liberty and democratic institutions. :
Under the Abolition reform, the sweet-
scented Negro is to be our Equal, our Broth-
er, our Sister. So decree our modern Ath-
enang, and the ery re-echoes through the
mountains and hamlets of our vast, exten-
ded country, ** Well done, well done, thou
‘most faithful Abraham?”
But how comes it that, whilst thousands
of our white brethren, deluded, inflamed
and sacrificed to enforce with bloody hands,
this cherished object, whilst the time of our
Congress is usurped by grendiloquent pero-
raticns in their behalf, how comes it that
the Legislatures of these nigger-loving
States have made strong and decided appeals
against negro emigration to them, under
heavy penalties. Suppose the task of these
Abolitionisis be accomplished by blood snd
carnage, what is to become of them ?
There can no longer be any doubt that
this unhely effort is a combination of cant
and hypocrisy, intermixed with the least in-
gredient of real fanaticism, both serving the
devil in the mock livery of Heaven, whilst
Curing all this time they fill their pockets
well out of the distress in‘o which they have
brought our Country. Abo'ition, the germ,
Secession, the blossom, and Ruin, the fruit.
fo the; meantime, the hypocritical insti-
gators go quietly rouud and pocket the
spoils,
The simple fact is the treasure, and, as it
were, the very life of the nation, has been
wasted. Will any one count up the cost ?
Contractors have been fatening on the gov-
ernment ; politiciants are made generals ;
armies are marched and counter-marched
for politica! effect : ships are chartered at
fabulous prices. The yearly plunder of our
army contractors is almost sufficient to sus-
tain the whole army. And last, though not
least, Steven's negro-soldier bill—150 reg1-
ments {@ suppressing the press and free
speech. This all a ne in open day in the
face of our rulers who are still crying on-
ward with & * mure vigorous prosecution of
the war,” while at the same time they are
most happy to learn that ¢ all is quiet on the
Potomac.”
No good citizen, no true patriot ought to
rest any loager amidst this haves. Let us
» ally in our wight throughout the land, from
East to West, from North to South, under
the glorious banner of our Constitation, as
the only rock upon which to rest our Nation-
al salvation. Let all conservative men or-
ganize everywhere. Let us speak through
the ballot-box, and banish the Abolition
gang from the high places and power which
they now hold ; replace them with men true
and loyal to our Constitution as it 1s, and
eupport the Union as it was, and my word
for it, we will soon have restored out of the
present trouble, the long wanted peace, or-
der and security. Move on, ye true men
everywhere, under the banner of our Consti-
tation, CENTRE HALL.
Not Unlike Ourselves Sometimes:
One of the Richmond journals gives an
admirable account of the way war news is
circulated in rebeldom. We must own that
news from other parts of the West comes
to us to frequently in something of the same
flattering but untrustworthy style :—« So
far the news has come in what may be cail-
ed the classical style of the Southwest.—
When the Southwest army fights a battle,
we first hear that it has gained one of the
most #tupenduous victories on record ; that
regiments from Mississippi, (Texas, Arkan-
sas, Louisiana, &c., have exhibited an irre-
sistible and superhuman valor, unknown in
history this side of Sparta and Rome. As
for the Generals, they usually get all their
clothes shot off, and replace them with a
suit of glory. The enemy is, of course,
simply annihilated. Next day miore dis-
patches come, still very good, but not quite
80 good as the first. The telegrams of the
third day are invariably such as to make a
mist, a muddle and a fog of the whole affair.
But we are still assured that our troops are
victorious; and only after several days
more does the unpleasant truth leak out that
they are not quite victorious, but have, in
fact, 10st a little ground, after gaining some
brilliant successes, So far as we know any.
thing about the battle of Murfreesboro, it 18
the parallel and ropetition of Shilo.’
—— Be ee.
XYZ Howfunnyalineloskswithoutspaces.
[Written for the Democratic Watchman.
SHOULD IT NOT CEASE ?
Friexp Meek ;—Your kind generosity in
sending me that staunch, unshaken and un-
terrified truth-teller, the Watchman is duly
appreciated. It just suits me—it complete:
ly fills the bill. It used to bea little too
Democratic and came down on old “Hones-
ty” entirely to strong to suit me, 80 soon
after voting for him, but a great change has
come o’cr the spirit of my politics, and so
pitch in, you can’: hurt my *phelinks” in
the least.
So long as Abraham Linceln supported
and defended the Constitution, which be-
fore high Heaven he had taken a solemn
oath to do—an oath as strong as man can
take or man violate, so long I steadfastly
adhered to and supported him ; but when
he began to bow in servile and willing sub-
mission to the Abolition will, then I began
to distrust him and harbor misgivings for
the safety of the Republic. When he had
violated every obligation and carried out his
dictatorship with a high hand and in a spirit
of cruelty and revenge scarcely known to
modern tyrants, then I began to detest and
renounce all allegiance to him.
Abraham Lincoln, President of the Uni-
ted States, and Commander-in-chief of the
Armies and Navies, stands before the peo-
ple as a Military Dictator. Will the peo-
ple of the sovereign States submit? They
have spoken in tones that make the Tyrant
quake, No! New York has spoken it thro’
her Govenor ; Kentucky has spoken it in
the same manner, other States have spoken
it at the ballot-box and a Representation of
the people have spoken it in the Legislative
halls of the Nation.
The moral imposeibility of subduing nine
millions of people, in open, armed rebellion
is begmning to be realized. Itis a thing
unknown in history. The question now, is
not, “what is to be done with Jeff. Davis
and other leaders of the Rebellion,” but
can we still remain a Government ? and
what will be the course of the West? Will
she remain with the East, and saddle upon
herself a debt that she had no hand in con-
tracting ? or will she set up a Confederacy
of her own independent of all others ?
She will do neither the one nor the other,
The vital interests of the West are as close-
ly allied to the South as nature in her lav-
ishness could possibly make them. The
West and South can never be seperated, but
will adhere io the natural laws of attrac-
tion, as the reedle poiuts to the North pole
according to laws peculiar to itself. Wher-
ever the South isto be found, there the
West will be by her side and no human
agency can prevent it.
That the South is already acknowledged
as a separate Power, cannot be denied for
one moment. It has its President and his
Cabinet, its Congress and its Constitution,
so rearly like our own that the difference
can scarcely be distinguished, while it has
long been acknowledged as “beligarent”
and the rules of honorable warfare strictly
adhered to, just the same that they wagld
be, were we engaged in a war with any for-
eign nation.
That eleven States have left the Union
never to return is unmistakably certain
while the Government its self is tottering
from pinnacle to foundation stone. The
best blood of the nation has been copiously
poured out in this fratricidal struggle for
nations existence, while the widows and or-
phans and kindred of every degree are left
to mourn the loss and give a choking utter
ance to some dear name snatched from them
by the relentless hand of war.
Who that,saw the ushering in of the old
year, imagined one half the woe it has
brought, and want and shame. It is to be
recorded in its disasters rather than in its
victories. Under the clods of our valleys
sleep a bost, counted only by its thousands.
Yet Abraham Lincoln as far 2s he can, bids
a servile insurrection live.
He bids Garrisons go forth and if necessa-
ry kill and apply the torch to the last re-
maining shelter of every woman and child
who happens to be of southern birth or her-
itage, who are just ag deserving of liberty
as himself. The thrust that was intended
to wound may be the means of giving to a
nation a heritage and a name. How nar-
row is the vision of mankind.
Why continue this unholy butchery? Is
it to sustain the national dignity? nearly
two years have been wasted and where 1s
its dignity to-day ? It is to be found in the
nations disasters and the Governments
shame. [sit to ‘‘crush the rebellion 2"—
To-day our enemy rises up in embattled
hosts ten-fold stronger and more determin-
en than ever.
‘Then why not stop in our mad career and
try some other means of settling this terri-
ble business than by the bayonets point and
cannons mouth.
Have we “more sons to sacrifice” aad
more treasure to waste in this vain attempt
to subjugate nine milliogs of our own race,
members of our own family 3. The country
is already bankrupt with a two hundred
years debt on its shoulders ; the Joss of
near 200,000 of its best sons, the fruitful
fields so lately teeming with the husband-
mans honest toi. are converted into vast
grave-yards, while the ribald soldiery quar-
ter in and despoil the house of God, and our
Colleges turned into Bastiles for the recep-
tion of rebel prigones and such citizens as
happen to meet the displeasure of Abraham
Lincoln the Usurper or his hired minions.
Wesr Uxtox, Iowa, } Mason Jones.
January, 26th, 1863.
ACARD FROM F. W. HUGHES.
To uy DeEMocrATIC FRIENDS IN PENNSYL-
vANIA. The sympathy enlisted in my be-
half, because of the Abolition persecution
through which I have passed, and my
known views in regard to the future of our
afflicted and mis-governed country has evo-
ked expressions of regret for my defeat in
the recent contest for United States Sena”
tor. Let me assure you that you have but
little occasion for any regret on that account
but great cause for congratulation that a
gentleman of such surpassing ability and
sound Constitutional and State Rights views
as the lon. Charles R. Buckalew has been
selected. Ihave had comparatively little
other feeling or anxiety on the subject of my
election than that perhaps 1 might, in _the
position sought, be the humble instrument
under Providence, in serving my native State
and our common country.
1 believe thet God has engraven on the
face of this Western Continent, so legibly
that all should read it, that the territory
from the mouth of the Mississippi to the
headwaters of its tributaries, as well as
such a flank this space and affords outlets
to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, must be
forever governed so as to confer on every
vart free commercial intercourse through-
out the Whole, and unobstructed naviga-
tion of its inland waters. So too such
count.y should always be provided with
means for the common defence, and ‘to pro-
moe the general welfare.”
The Union as it was and Constitution as
it is, would best accomplish all this, if Abo-
litionism would permit.
While our national glory would be best
promoted by tho preservation of “ our pres-
ent political relations to the New Englanc
States, yet if they will insist upon the de-
struction of the Union by the subjugsting of
the Southern States, or by their seperation
from them, I am ready to yield to the lat-
ter rather than to the former of such alter-
natives. The New Englund States consti-
tute the seat where the doctrine of seces-
sion was first asserted, they are the hot-bed
in which has been propogated all the here-
sies that have produced national disorder —
they are our rivals in commerce and manu-
factures, and the sacrifice of submitting to
their seperation from us would be much less
than that of our separation from the great
South and West, [It is impossible for the
Western States ever to permit the control of
the rooath of the Mississippi to be lodged in
the hand of an independant government.
Their destiny is inexorably linked with
transit through the great inland navigable
waters that river and its tributaries afford.
The future prosperity of Pennsylvania is
like dependant on her connection with the
great West,
Without professing to speak or to know
the views of Mr. Buckalew on these points,
yet my confidence in his devouted patiiit-
1sm and comprehensive statesmanship gives
me assurance that he does not essentially
differ from those above stated. 1am sure
he agrees with me that the measure and po-
licy now directed by Abraham Lincoln,
more than any other, have brought us to
our impending ruin, He has the ability to
present in the Senate of the United States,
the solemn protest of Pennsyivania against
these measures and policy, and I trust the
courage and energy to see that such protest
is not in vain.
There is yet abundant work for the men
of Pennsylvania to do, to protect her true in
terest and her political and natural bonds.
To this good work I shall, a8 here ofore de-
voted my humble efforts.
F. W. Hucnrs,
Potteviile, Jan. 14th 1863.
THRILLING. —At the presentation of a
pistol to a brave Connecticut corporal, the
orator apostrophised as follows. —¢.Corporal
wy heart is fall. These times try the
souls of us all, as well as our pockets. My
words must be few, and to the purpose.
Take this weapon and go in, —Give them
Jessis—John Charles alse. Say will you
Resolve that is a big thing, aud that you
catfsee it Shoot at it. Smite them hib and
thigh, and pay no regara to camphene or
brickbats. But beware of old Bourbon.
Do your duty, Jobn! Keep out of drafts.—
Dont go off at half-cock ? and keep your
pistol pointed from you.” The Corporal on
receiving the weapon was too much affected
to make a formal reply, but promised that
the pistol should speak for him.
—
A touching mcident occured in a store on
Washington Street, on Friday. A lady
purchased a number of articles which came
to fifty cents, for which she gave a one dol
lar for change. The reciprent looked at the
giver and then at the money and then at the
giver again, as though there was some un-
fathomable mystery in the transfer. The
latter stooped and kissed the eagle reveren-
tly, and then, to counsil her feelings rushed
frantically to wait on another customer,
while the possessor, with tears in her eyes
and the silver in her purse, walked out into
the world again.
{7 A young bell in Washington, smit
ten with a Russian officer, an adventurer in
the Union army, married him in haste. ~ Af
ter five weeks she repents at leisure and
claims ggainst him for agsault and battery.
* Buttonc on the brain” is gefting to be
quite a malady.
EE ———
IO" The sunset clouds are the visible song
of theday that is dead.
NEGRO SOLDIER BILL AS IT PASSED
T HE HOUSE
The question was then taken on Mr.
Hickman’s amendment, which was rejected.
(Li authorized the-President to raise as m1-
ny regiments, not exceeding three hundred.
of African or colored persons of the United
States as in his discretion he may consider
necessary, to be umforined in some marked
or special manner, and equiped as he may
direct, etc. It also provided for a line of
steamers between New Yorkaad the coast
of Africa, ete.)
THB BILL AS MODIFIED.
The bill as moditied by Mr. Stevens is as
follows : 3
Beit enacted &c,, That the President be,
and he is hereby authorized to enrol, arm,
equipt and rece ve into’ the land and naval
service of the United States, such number of
volunteers, of African descent as he may
deem useful to suppress the present Kebel-
lion, for such term of service as he may
prescribe, not exceeding five years; the
said volunteers to be organized according to
the regulations of the branch of "service in
which they may be enlisted, to receive the
same rations clothing and equipments as
as other volunteers, and a monthly pay not
to exceed that of the voluatgers; to be
orgamzed according to the regulations of the
branch of service in which they may be en-
listed, to receive the same rations clothing
and equipments as other volunteers, and a
menthly pay not to exceed that of the - vol-
unteers ; to be officered by white or black
person appointed and commissioned by the
President, and to be governed by the rules
and articles of war and such other rules and
regulations as may be prescribed by the
President.
Provided, that nothing herein contained,
or in the rules and ar icles of war shall be so
construed as to authorize or permit any offi-
cer of African decent to to be appointed to
rauk or to exercise military or naval author-
ity over white officers soldiers or men in the
military or naval service of the United
States ; nor shall any greater pay than ten
dollars per month, with the usual allowance
of clothing and rations, be allowed or paid
to privates or laborers, of African decent,
which are or may be in the military or na-
val service of the United States. Provided
further. That the slaves of loyal citizens
in the States exempt by the President's
proclamations of January lst, 1853, shall
nat be received into the armed service of the
United States, nor shall there be recruiting
officers opened iu either of the States of Del
eware, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky
Tennessee or Missouri, without the consent
of the Governors of the said States having
been first oblained.
The bill was then passed—--Yeas 83 ; nays
54.
Yeas—Messrs. Aldrich, Alley. Arnold
Ashley, Babbitt, Baxter, Beaman, Bingham
Blair (Pa,) Blake, Brown, (Ya) Buflington,
Cambell, Casey, Chamberlin, Clark, Colfax,
F. H Konkling, Roscoe Conkling, Conway,
Culter Daws, Dunn, Egerton, Edward, Ell.
ton Ely, Fenton, 8, C. Fessenden, F A.D
Fessenden, Fisher, Frank, Gooch, Gurley ;
Hooper, Hutchins, Juhan, Kellogg, Lancing,
Loomis Lovejoy, Low, MeIntrye: Mackeen,
McKnight, McPherson, Marshton, Mitchel»
Morrill (Vt.) Nixén, Noel, Olin, Phelps, (Me
Riddle, Rollins, (NH) Sargeant, Sedwicke,
Shanks Sheffield, Shellabarger, Sherman,
Sloan, Spaulding, Stevens, Train, Trimbill,
Trowbridge, Vsnhorn, Walker, Wall
Wallace, Washburne, Wheeler, White
(Ind) Willson, Windom and Worcester—
83
Nays—Messrs. Allen (Ohio) Allen (Ills)
Ancona, Baily, Biddle, Blair (Va) Clements
Cobb Cox, Carvens, OCrisfield Crittenden,
Delaplain, Grander, Grinder, Hale, Hall,
Harding, Hamson, Holman, Heston Johnson
Kellogg. [lils| Kerrigan, Law, Lazer, Morri-
Noble, Norton, Odell, Pendleton, Price,
Robinson, Rollins (Mo) Shell, Stiles, Thom-
as, (Mass) Thomas, [Md] Vallandigham,
Ubbard, Wardsworth, Webster Whaley,
White, (Ohio) Wicklif Wood, Woodruff,
Wriggt and Yeoman 55,
The House then adjourned.
071 have just heard an anecdote eencer-
ing one of our Brigadier Generals which
i8 80 good that I fecl impelled to tell it here
and now: A certain citizen applied to for a
pass: The General motioned ta & glerk to
write one, and then proceeded to sign it.
Not being close to a table, he struck it up
agamst the whitewashed wall of the room,
which constituted his headquarters, wrote
his name with a pencil folded the pass,
and handed it to the citizen. The latter
took his departure ; but the clerk, looking
at the wall, was convulsed with laughter
to find written there, in suspiciously shaky
looking letters, the name and title of the
singer, *'——— ——, Brigdaier General.”
The Joke was obvious.
The General had been inbibing too freely
of Contrabands ligaits, sad in consequence
of the obliquity of vission oceasioned there-
by, had written his own name under the
pass insted of upon it. The astonishment
and dismay of the citizen when he presen-
ted his pass at the picket post may well be
imagined. As the General in question is
not often found in the condition which led to
this funny circumstances, [ forebear to men
tion his name.—~Naskville Cor Cincinati
Gazette
r——— GB ane.
C7 Lave ig the most intelligible when it
s unable to expremgiteelf in words.
FRIDAY MORNING, FEB.13, 1863.
THE CONTRABANDS.
A large meeting has just been held in Cin-
cinnati to relieve the wants of thousands of
emancipated negroes, described ¢ as be-
twoen Helens, Ark., and Cairo, demanding
immediate relief,” sod it is urged * they
must have relief or they suffer and die ”
These helpless beings are quietly coming on
the hands of (he North, and are pressing for
anything'to do that will give them subsist-
ence. The Cincinvati Enquirer thus versi-
fles :
They come, they some, in multitudes,
Along Ohio’s tide ;
The « ing tramp’ of their brogans,
By Susquehanna’side.
Tos feel the winter’s 1cy breath,
he dreary way along’;
Thay re coming. Father Abraham,
About four millions strong.
They come, a nation’s guests, to share
Our firesides and our .bread ;
They'll live without the grammar,
But they'll die unless they're fed.
We'd rather pray, its cheaper ; and
We'll pray both loud and long,
They are coming, Father Abraham,
About four millions strong.
Come all ye brave philanthropists,
Philanthropesses fair ;
Turn out your seedy hats and coats,
And shirts the worse for wear ;
Hymn books and musty bacon ; bring
The reeking store along.
They are coming. Father Abraham,
About four millions strong.
And though the country may be poor,
And labor be oppressed,
And white men starve and die in want,
You sruely will be blessed ;
For fools, in ages yet to come,
Will sing your praises long ;
They are coming, Father Abraham,
About four millions strong.
Then take them {o your arms, my braves,
Don’t bid them stay away ;
he good time's gurely coming now,
The long expected day ;
Le: brother Beecher raise aloft
The banner and the song ;
They are coming, Father Abraham,
About four millions strong.
A REPUBLICAN EDITOR TURNED.
Thurlow Weed of New York, for thirty
years opposed to the Democratic party now
tionists anp further. He quotes from Wen.
dell Phillips and comments as follows :
Union announces that doctrine, records it on
ofthe American citizen is hberty to the
slave or death to the Union.”
This is sufficiently explicit. The man
to the Union.’
It will, we presume, be admitted now by
the Republican journals that have failed to
understand us, that our “logic” is sound.
The war is not to “punish treason,” but
to liberate slaves, and the motto is—+‘Liber-
ty to slaves or death to the Union.”
company with abolition.
Good for Thurlow Weed! He can have
the satisfaction of knowing thousands and
tens of thousands are parting abolition dis-
union company with him.
i — a ins
Upon the banks of a dark river
W har the gold in bars was laid,
Thar lives a pert and purty widder,
In a house among the shade.
At bakin donuts shees a snorter
Keeps her cabin nice and shinin,
Looks on men as widders orter,,
When they're digin gold and minin,
She is more moral than a preacher,
More dignifided than a queen ;
No mokin bird can ever reach her
Ia singing that 1 ever seen.
On all the banks of Cosma river,
Where the miners dig the dust—
Shees stole my heart, that fairy widder—
Im bound to marry her—or bust !
I~ We hear a good anecdote concerning
a soldier laddie on one of our gunboats.—
The vessel was just going into action and
our soldier was upon his kuees, when an of-
ficer sneeringly asked him if he was afraid?
** No, 1 was praying,” was the response,
*¢ Well, what were you praying for 2’ con.
tinued the officer. 2
“ Praying that the enemy’s bullets may
be distribuied the same way as the prize
money if, principally among the officers,”
was the quick and ready retort.
ibm ——n
07" Some music teacher once wrote that
the * art of playing on the violin requires
the nicest perception and the most sensibil-
ity of any art in the kuown world.” Upon
which an editor remarks in the following
manner :
‘ The art of publishing a newspaper and
making it pay, and at the same time have it
please everybody, beats fiddlin’ higher than
a kite.”
el A A ett
An eccentric banker was eyeing with sus-
picious caution a bill presented to him for
discount. *‘ You need not fear,” said the
customer, “one of the parties keeps his
carriage.” ‘- Ah,” rejoined the banker, «I
shall be glued if he keeps his feet.”
Y7Soft—The weather,
declares that he cannot go with the = Aboli-
Mr, Philips says : **The Union, launches
on a new channel. She undertakes to say
that the system of slavery is incompatible
with the perpetuity of the republic. The
her statute book, and henceforth the motto
who speaks by authority of the abolition
press says henceforth this is not to be car-
ried on “20 punish treason,” but that we
are Yaunching into a new channel,’ and that
the motto is, ‘liberty to the slave or death
And at this “turning corner” we part
TJE PRESIDENCY.
A number of our exchanges are express-
ing their preference for the Presidency. —
We regard discussion on this question as
rather permature at present. No nomina.
tion will be made for more than a year and
itis hard to foresee what that year will
bring forth, As inatters stand at present
we have but one choice, to Wit: CLEMENT
L. VALLANDIGHAM. We believe he could
do more towara restoring the Union and
bringing back the geod old days of national
prosperity than could any other man; hence
otir choice.
* Some of our radical politicians say that
the Prezident should have freed the slaves of
both loyalists and rebels, but we suspect if
they had any money invested in * Sambo”
they would have an entirely different view
of the matter.
———— A ecm.
A City Lass.—Two young iadies of Al-
bany were spending the summer in north-
eastern New York. During their visit they
took several long rides with the daughter of
their host about the country. On one of these
occasions as they had been traveling some
distance, and the day was warm, and as a
trough of running water stood by the road
side, they concluded to give them a drink, —
One of the city lassess agreed to gei out and
arrange matters for that purpose. The oth-
ers remeining in the carriage and deeply en-
gaged in conversation, for some time paid no
attention to the proceedings of their com-
panion. When at last, surprised at the long
delay, they discovered her endeavoring to
unbuckle the crupper (the strap which pass-
es around the horses tail,
“Why what in thé world are you doing
that for 2”
** Why I'm unbuckling this strap to let
down the horses head so that he can drink."
Daan or Juoee Hart.—Judge Hall, of
Bucyrus, died on the 18th ult,, at his resi-
dence in that place. Some thres weeks be-
fore he was attacked with heminorhage of
the stomach. Judge Hall was in the 46th
year of his age, and leaves a wife and five
children to mourn his death. He served in
Congress one term, as Judge fivs years, and
was a lawyer of large experience and fine
ability. Judge Hall was one of the political
prisoners at Camp Mansfield last fall, and
doubtless his death was hastened by that
piece of abolition villainy.
[= There is a nigger down South who is
80 black that no one has ever seen anything
of him, except his teeth and the whites of
hig eyes. When he passes along the road it
becomes so dark that the birds go to roost.
—Ex,
—The writer of the above must have had
a shade of the darkey's countenance over
his intellect.
** Always buy your chestnuts biled,” said
MT, Snow to ALimelech, who was about in.
vesting a penny in that little biown com-
nodity, “cause the raw ones want looking
arter, and the wormy ones yo Lave to throw
away ; but with the biled ones it don’t make
no difference—worms can't hurt when
they're biled.”
[T= « Bill did you ever go to see 2"?
“I guess [ did. Last year, for instance,
I went to see a red-headed gal, but I only
went once.”
« Why 80 m
‘ Because her brother had an unpleasant
habit of throwing bootjacks and’ smoothing
irous at people.’
CHANGE oF Base.—Lincoln 1s absolute-
ly insolent in his Message. Ile says if
substance, if the niggers do crowd you white
people of the north, why you can leave and
take their places 1n the South.’ That is an
abolition change of hase.
A New RexpirioN.—Never say ‘nigger
in the wood ple.” Speak of them as Uncle
Abe suggests : “‘Free Americans of African
descent, come from under the accumulated
fuel I” Nigger in the dress circle--white
man in the pit.
— OO
177 Gevernor Seymour has cited Kenne-
dy, the Sherift of Chautauque county, New
York, to appear for trial within twenty
days, for making illegal arrests on the or-
der of the War Department.
We see it stated that Secretary Stanton
is about to retire from the War Department.
If be does, both he and the people will be
alike. He will be resigned, aud they will
be resigned,
The Cleveland Herald sags that ¢ Presi.
dent Lincoln takes no step backward.’ —
When a man has advanced to the edge of a
precipice, a step backwara is much better
than a step forward.
177 A man being asked, as he lay sunning
himself on the grass, what was the height
of his ambition, replied : + To marry a rich
widow with a bad cough.”
[An idle man always thinks he has a
right to be affronted if a busy man does not
devote to him just as much of his time 28 he
himself has leisure to waste.
057 Those who build hopes on the promise
of the great, build castles in the air; those
who promise themselves gratitude for such
reckon without their host.
07 A beau dismissed by a belle and a
arrow dismissed by a bow, are apt to be off
mn 8 hurry, >
: NO.6.
SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE.
~~
“Must we recognize the independence of
the Southern States 7’ That was the ques -
tion put tous a few days ago by a promi-
nent lawyer in this city, and a shining light
in the Black Republican party. His ability
in sifting and accepting of evidence, had
convinced him, at length, that Lincoln and
Seward’s war was done up. Ie owned his
surprised and unwilling conviction that Lin-
coln and his whole Cabinet were imbeciles.
We were on record, in onr own columns,
to the same purpose, long ago. So soon as
they tried it, we said they could never ‘run®
the Feder1l Government, When they tried
war we said they could not manage the war,
When the war began to show signs of ex,
haustion, we sait they could not bring
about peace, except on terms and in a way
too disgraceful for our Northern States to
accept. What was last year prediction 1s
now history,
Are we in favor of recognizing the “inde.
pendence of the Southern States?’ We
were, from infancy, Jeffersonian Democrats.
We are, therefore in favor of the indepen-
dence of all States. We are fur the inde-
pendence of Ireland, of Scotland. of Polang,
of Hungary, of Lombardy, of Naples. :
We are educated to believe “that all the
5 ates of the old Union were free and inde-
pendent States.” The English government,
at the close of the war of Indeperidence,
recognized each one of the old Thirteen, sev-
ally and by name, as an independent State.
Each one of them so considered itself—
though Yankees are too ignorant of the his-
tory, even of their own country, to know
that such was the fact. The Union that wag
projected, in 1787, was accepted by each
State as a Sovereign. In delegating and
conceding certain accurately defined sover-
e1gn powers to the Federal Union, each and
every State resolve to itself, and to its
people, the whole residue of utidefired and
ungranted —inalienable sovereignty, There
is our answer! We have neve supposed
that the Southern States, or Northern
States, or any one of thr otherwiso
than independent. T ' gag a volun-
tary Union. So it had to cuntinue, or eles
it had, by revolution, to be changed into
some other thing not the Union, and not
provided for by the Constitution that made
and const: uted the Union, We argued a
year and a half ago, that Secession was Rey.
olation. It was not a constitutional righ,
and it would be madness to suppose that ic
could be permanent, and yet be bloodless,
Therefore we opposed it, and with a force
that no Black Republican paper evercqaalled.
We opposed the war against Secession.
Thank God, we did so. We Saw then, as
clearly as now, that war could not preven:
Secession, but that it would, to the extent
to which it could go, PERPETUATE DIY-
UNION. The weak, bad memb rs of Lin-
coln’s Cabinet either saw the same, or
they were political idiots.
What is to be done then ? Are we now to
recognize, the independence of the Southers
States ? They are independent whether wo
recognize them or not. Toey are so in law
by the very Constitution of the old Union.
They are so, in fact—all except loyal Mary-
land, loyal Missouri and loyal Kentucky.—
If the British were to take and hold New
York city, it would not destroy the fact of
the indepeadence of the State of New York.
They are harrassed. They suffer iutolers.
ble evils. But they are independent States
—those States of the South,
War has not robbed them of their inde:
pendence. War will not, caniot rob them
of it. Itcavnot rob them even of their he.
groes. 4a
Is it not time to recognize, at length, the
impotency of the Federal Government to do
what it has no power to do? W cre the ad-
ministration indeed taking care of its citi,
senfffpd not exclusively of negroes who
cannot be its citizens, a solution of the
problem would be easy.
Peace! Peace! PEACE ! we cry, by
the Holy Name of im who at this Christ:
mas time wes heralded by Angels ag bring-
ing “peace to men of good will.", = ''*
Oh, stop this horrid butchery of Ameri-
caLs by Americans ! Stop this flood of woe
and desolation, by which this land is be-
coming most desolate! [lave you accom.
phshed anything? Did we not forewarn
you so? If you are so blind as not to see,
you ought to trustthose who have proved
they can see. Stop this war ! Wicked and
foolish men, you are mn despair at the pros-
pects before you, and yet you dare, ag if
you were fully gold to the demon, to ery out
still : “Slay! Slay! More Broop !—
MORE CARNAGE !”
Call a truce ! Let us put off the renewal
of the contest, if it must be renewed, till we
know for what we are fighting. Let us put
it oft till the vile cause of it, the abominable
thing, New England Fanaticism, in the
manipulation of New York Rogues, has been
put out of the way ! Then, and then only
we may have, not a tracg only, but PEACE!
—N. Y. Freeman's Journal. Eo
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elyg
I= “Sir,” said one of the Barbary Shore
tars to a crusty old captain, *<did you evel
know coffee to hurt any ong 7’
“Yes, you fool,” was the response, * J
knew a bag-full to fall ona man’s head once
and kill him.”
17" A Dutchman was summoned in court
to identify a stolen hog. On being asked if
the hog had any ear marks, ho replied :
** To only ear-marks dat I saw vas his tail
vas cut off.”