The Fuse. © HE EMPTATION OF CHTIST. BY JOE W. FUREY. Then wae Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when ke had fasted forty days and forty rights, he was afterward an hungered.—Mar- THEW 1v—1:2. Behold! the Tempter came and said, ++ If thou be Cnrist, the Sox, Command these stones be rarned to bread, And lo! it shall be done!” A beam of heavenly glory shone Ahaut the Baviour's face: Man shall not live by bread alone, Hut by the Farmer's grace! ihe ‘ Word of God’—n morsel rare, Shall cheer hie droc ping soul, “fleip him h.s weight of sin to bear, And blessings round him rll.” noe more the devil tries his power "To tempt our biessed Lord; And to the Tewple's tapmost tower, Leads him with specious word : «If thou be Cunist, the Lord of Heaven, From hence thyzelf east down; For to thy hands all thiugs are given, Need'st fear no Father's frown. Por it is written, ‘ le skal give Ilis angels to his own, And in their bands thou’lt surely live, Nor dash against a tone.” Urheeded, the geductive words Fall on the Saviour's car: U'how shalt not tempt the Lord thy God He spake distirot and clear. “Again Apollyon leadeth him Unrtc a mounta™ high. Whose t wering peak did seem to reach Ten to the azure sky: ““ Behold, the Kingdoms of the World Their grandeur and their might ! If thou wilt down and worship mae, All shail be thine this night!” | “Go, get thee hence !"" the Saviour aid, “ And blaspheme thou nomore ; Vo here hell's fieree burnings roar! There is one path—a righteous path, ! Woe be tothem that swerve— | Ihe Lord thi A Hiv oxpy ul 12 morshipped ba, 0 hu serve ' 137-Ia MANU 8 own Son, To whom all praise be given. Ef mc——— iscellangous, ‘ABOLITIONISM THE CAUSE OF THE: WAR. i 1 | i rt In 1819. Missouri eame ‘knocking at the | door’ fur admission as a member of the n&- ‘tional family. It appears that a portion of | the huuse-hold objected on account of a cer-! ‘tain kind of property that the young lady | ‘wished to bring with her, which wou'd’nt| Le profitable much farther North. But the | young Miss being one of the ‘**strong swine| dud,” insisted on bringing all her **dud.? with her, such a3 her oxen, cows, horses, | sheep, swine, mules and niggers. or she ! would .ive in ¢ single bl ssedness™ all hes | lite and raise tolacco, mules and niggers! instead of children. The house-hold became seriously divided | on the subject ; one portion being cager to have her taken into the family, for she prov- | ed good-looking and possessed withal a geod. | ly portion of this worlds goods, which was! not objectionable by any means, be! evin at the same time that there cou d be no rea- | sonable objection to her stuck in trade’ as | it could'nt possibly terfere with the busi- ness of the other members of the famiiy. But the other side of the honge knew that there were other young ladies not far away who would become *‘candidates,, ina few years, and the thought of admitting them with the ¢chattle’ hinted at, and being obliged to protect it when it would be of no ‘profit to themselves’, was preposterous and could not be thought of for a moment. Con- sequently, the house-hold became divided hard words passed on hoth sides and ail the freaks of passion indulged in consequént upon a “family jar.”’ Just as the dispute 1eached its highest, and about to break up in a row, a keen, shrewd chap came along and sceing the state of affairs, called an ‘Armistice’ and proposed to “mediate” for the parties. Ife proposed that they should ‘Compromise.’ Ile pgoposed that the damsel should be ad. mitt as a member of the (amily. to enjoy all 1ts protecting benefits, and all her rights as an individual, to buy ana sell, or any manner use such property, as m her judg. ment she might think would conduce to her comfort, happiness and prosperity; provided such property should be kept within such a specified limit. This was agreed lo, the | Pdeavori | 0. GET THER HENCE—back, to thy den { name and Lad the ee enigerih Us dug dass dni oral it n mnilp bh Sram there wos a simmering kept up and i fires were industriously stirred which in time were to burst into a flame and set the i great National pot boiling. | It progressed slow at first, but sure, for lit wauld,nt do to heat up to sudden as 1t | might Boil over and oxtinguish the fire, and {another thing, the son of man wasnt pre- | pared to seit his bith-right fur a mess of ab- | olition potage at that time, and Bo it was 1r0't toa boil gradualiy. cooks, Mons, Garrison, Phillips, Greely & Co. of Africa and nicely scaoned with Abolition Proclamations HOW JT WAS DONE Lecturéss were sent’ ihrough the free States preaching the abolition faith; deba.- ting societies were formed in the rural dis tricts where the abolition quesion was prin- cipally discussed, and negro cquality im- pressed upon the minds of the youth, Tiyrosters, in the shape of illiterate ne- groes were taught their les ons as the child 15 its catechism, and sent forth throngh the conntry representing themselves as having once been slaves who had bought their free- dom, or by some bold exploit had escaped from a crucl master. They would repeat | the dreadful story of the scourging they.had [ received from the *‘cat-o-nine-tails,’ every Loa armed with a wire—bu't never show- ling the gtripes. They would tell us of the | horrors of the “branding” operation, but | never showing the * “brand,” | And then we would hesr the affecting ! story of Low they were torn frem their -lub- ly dinah,’ and how she was sold to a South- j ern planter and how the taby was wicnch- | from the Mother's breast and sold to a | great Monster away oft in some other partof the globe, And that he {the fectiirer) was en ng to raise funds to parcbase their This affecting recital wonld cause old women to clench their bony fists for very tage, Mothers woull press their bates clog rT to the breast, while it was certain to bring fur h tort nts of tears from nervous These name of freed: m. old maids, like a second deluge. the Washington Snith’ er « George ry genmally ‘went hy - George r Washington Jones,” or ¢ George Washington Brown,” always the George Washington,’ | whi proved there was something ia a d:wired ftect of eausirg a geaerous deposit in the “hat,” and 3 scat along side of ¥5.ne white * Erothers.” daught- er at the thhle, which was sure to he well | Iaded with sweet-meats and * yellow legged, poiltry. These events happened ‘when 1 s a boy, and how well 1 can remember the impression it made upon my mind. — ‘these things wire not only cared on Where [ was Lorn, but all over the fYee States ; Pennsylvairia New York, the New England States, Obio--everywhere. At lost the preachers took it’ up, and Lurled it from the pulpit, and finally it" be- came So engraven upon their gospel visions that ¢ nigger’ must te incorporated in the + Articles of Faith,” and a preacher couldn't get a situation to preach the Gosuel till he first agreed to preach * mgger and him eru- cified.” The disease of *nigger on the brain’ became *‘(pidemic” and went first through families, neighborhoods, towns, counties and at last States, and finally ‘the wheels of government are thredtend (6 be clogged by it. ‘Blue Lodges” (or blacks) were forrzed and the “Under-Ground Rail Road” con- Ww ‘strucied. ¥inmissaries were sent through i the Southern States m the disguise of preach- ers and school-utasters, whose busink:s il was to run oft slaves, taking them to some designated point near the borders where other parties in the garb of Quazers would recive thert 4nd fun them to Canada. So great was their love for the African, that all the affections and tender feslings of these negro philanthropists scemed to be centered in the poor black. Bat I am inclined to be charitable, even toward an abolitionist, and believe that itis not that they ‘love them- selves less, bat that they love the nigger more.” At last thesé theiving bands of ma- rauders became so numerous, and so bold, the people of the Border States wonli lose their siaves by dozens without the possibil- ity of recovering them, as they wonid be ran from one strong-hold to another, and if the owner should presume to appear and claim his slave, he would be glad to get away with a coat of tar and feathers. Our inland villages were filled with eontrabands’ who trere arated dnd instructed to resist any attendpt to.arrest them, and dssared of as- sistance fiom their white confederates: Fi- nally so bold ani defiant had this Abolition raid become, that it became necessary for | for the people of the South to ask aid from | the government to protect them from. these bands of robbers; dnd for that purpose the THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW chalk line made and evervthiug amicably adjusted, and Missuori became a wealthy, prosperous and happy State, and an honor to the Nationul family: This was called the Missouri Compromise’* of 1820, with that far-seeing Statesman, Henry Clay for its author. This being as fur back as [ can remember, (being born some years atcer- wards, ) is consequently the FIRST WEDDING WITH SLAVERY that [ have any knowledge Bf. Then com- enced that characierisiic wedding on the | was enacted* Stung to madness, the whole ! fanatical horde poured out their tirade of ! abuse upon the Government, the ‘ Constitu- i tion, the President who signed the Act, the’ "the Statesman who voted for its passage, ‘and on down to the ‘good citizen’ who wish- ed to be ‘law abiding’—nove escap:d; our | Chief Justice's came in for a large porfion "for declaring the law constitutional even if it was so, and all the epithets were appli- ed to them that could be fouad ia the vocah- | part of persons in the North; but nothing { serious oceurred for some years, though the After soaking, and simmerirg, and stew- | ing and boihng fr a leng time, it was at fast pronounced done,” by Lincolu’s chief ulary of an abolition black guard. They even met in secret where they took upon themselves oaths to resist the Law to the necessary to take life, and preveat others from enforcing it wherever and whenever such a thing should come to their knowl- edge, ending with a horrible penalty for the violation of tlicir solemn obligation. At Boston, that Bethlehem of abo'itionism, t negroes were incited to form a mob and to release a fugitive even skould it be necessa- to kill'those baving him in chagre. [t was a very unu-ual thing for an escaped slave to be taken back to his owaer by ‘process of law, for the moment the marshal got pes- session of the body, a writ of habeas corpus = and served up with the wsual condiments | vould be issued, (a thing now denied to a white wan) and then weuld be heard the voice of some profane Abolition Orator ur- ging his hearers to rescue hi at all hazards, the oftiver threatened with violence should he atteinpt to earry out his instructions and perfoim his sworn duty. Secession was strongly talked of and advocated by hbolition orators and their journals and one State Leg- islature passed a Resolution declaing the Union dissolved. I have taken up more space than [ intea- ded and have only got fai:ly started and will be ob'iged to continue it in another le!- ter. MAJOR JONES. Weer Unton, Towa February 24,1853 } dr mo eA Str i {For the Watchman | OUR POLITICAL TROUBLES. Mn Eprror :—T very rarely go out in the country or go home, that I do not hear dreadful forebodings about our political af fairs. And éven in our schoel-room my ‘ears are frequently assailed by exclamaticns of this kind : *¢ Have you heard the news?” “Pope defeated” « McClellan discharg. el!’ “Burnside ‘resigned I" © +¢ Another | victory for the South!” Our’ Army, in many justances, freezing and starving 10 Every person appears terrified and awe- stricken. What induces men to gather in squads and talk so earnestly in qmet and subdued tones 7 What is all this about ? — Why are the school-room and our heme? in- vaded by such doleful forebodngs? I am well aware that we girls have but little to do with politic, but we caniiot help hearing these things. And &s we love newspapers for their poetry, anced: te and romance, we are forced to learn the distracted natures of thicgs from our fivorite papers,” where r- mance, poetry ald Anecdote have, pretty nearly, all disappeared. giving plece to cies of evil and (rightful anticipations Some say this was cased by Mi. Lincoln being our Pres: j ident, and that if Mr. Douglas had heen elected, our country would now be at peace. [| Now, we girls cannot exactly understana this, fur our logic bas taught ns that it i not very reasonable to expect ths saute con- clusions from so many different sources — When again we ask, in our simplicity, for other causes, we are very gravely told that the politicians are gone crazy and that all the public men are insane. This we cannot believe, for some of our very best young men are politicians, and they are anything but insane ; and the older ones are very agreeable. Then again, wa are told that the thinisters of our holy religion have for- gotten the precepts of Harr Divine Master, and are stirring up the passions of their flocks, and perverting the great tidiftgs of salvation iiito ap eals to fanaticism and false humanity. * Now, bad as all this is, we can. not appreciate its force. Again, it is said that we have too much prosperity, and euch evils are sent to warn us of the folly of hu win witdom, aud to remind as that no na- tion has ever been allowed, in the pride of its power, to furget the great Author of its existence. But, be the causes what they may, there 15 great dangar of the dissolu- tion and downfall of one of the grea‘est governments that has ever existed on the face of the earth. Everybody is