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
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137-Ia MANU 8 own Son,
To whom all praise be given.
Ef mc———
iscellangous,
‘ABOLITIONISM THE CAUSE OF THE:
WAR.
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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
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Pdeavori
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0. GET THER HENCE—back, to thy den {
name and Lad the
ee enigerih Us
dug dass dni
oral
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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 <eeking 4
tcitedy. We hbdr some urging a more vig-
orous prosecution of the war. Another sug-
gests a Convention of the States; another
conciliation and concession and amendments
to the Constitution. Now, will you hear
our remedy # It is simply this: Let the
gentletfienstand aside one year and let the
ladies of the land take the government into
their own hands. And why wot 2 0 her
counfries have been ruled by females. FEv-
ery school-boy knows that to the energy
and good sense of Queen Tsabella, we are
indebted for the discovery of Amterica. The
men say tHey are unable to control the na-
tional afhairs. Then 1s it too much for the
tadies to ask ‘a trial 7 1 do not like to speak
of my own merits, but F really do think T
would make a;good Secretar of War. The
first thing I would do would be to burn up
all the powder, and then get my fair neigh-
bor, the Secretary of the Interior, to conr
vert all the cannon-balls and guns into plows
and ‘railroad iron. The Attorney-General,
at my request, should bring suit ggainst ev-
ety paper that should publish abolition or
secession doctrine ; and, takemy word for
it, at the ent of one year, we would have
our glorious’ liberty regtored. and we would
have preserved for the world's model, the
os beautiful fabric of government under
eaven. © would do all these things,
and then you ‘Lords of Creation” whan
you come before us on your knees, in. grati-
tude and love, wll ackuewledge that the
women of your country have fully as much
wisdom, and far more patriotism, than its
men. a ELvie.
Prrasant Gap, Pa, |
propt
of war ald its ourages.
Feb. 27th; 1363.
BELLEFONTE,
extent of their power, even shon!d it become |
. . [For the Watchman,
: BOBAST.
Mr Eprror :—In my last letter 1 gave
| you my views on the great and startling
| growth of infidelity. "We, of the southern
{ part of old Centre, have come tc the fina
"conclusion that We'shall just take matters
| and things as we find them, and feel well
| satisfied that they ore no Worse. Notwith.
| s'anding you people over mm the north are
| pleased to call us all manner of hard names
| such as rebels, traitors, secessionists, &e.—
| But if my mind serves mie right, it ‘is not
| long since the great I AM told us that the
citizens of the German townships were com-
linfluential. This, if I mistake not, was
{just before he put his ec! upon the frish-
men’s tecks. Many were not only pleased
with his cloquence and the sweet style of
his oratory, but followed him many miles to
hear his most parucular friend fiddle ¢ Jim
Crow," and many other good nigzer songs.
well Rdapted to an ¢l ectioneering occasion.
I will give you more about this buncomnbe
music which we bad in Rebersburg, when
the proper time anrives. Although it was
admitted by all hands at the time, tifat he
was a ‘“ bully fellow" and done it buncombe,
the whole country is now full of buncombe
bombast, and it hrs been nothing but bom.
bast from Alpha to Omega. These are big
words, and ¥ sebrcely Eo their #icafing’
further than they refeT to & great and migh-
ty question --the all-absorting Question —
Like a sponge mn & smsll taiobler of water.
-they suck up everything.
We stand on this side of the rountain
with ofir weapons prepared to defend our
rights under the Coni itntion, and nothing
shall deter ug fiom that duty which we owe
to posterity, They may preach and talk
their black jack buncombry. green back
buneombe, nigger buncombe, and the devil
and his grandmother knows what other kin¢
of buncombe. The Democracy of thia side
of the mountain, will, at the hallst-box, roll
up fifteen handred wejority in October
next. :
Father Abraham, Greely, and thers of
the same 1'k, are begging, for God's sake,
let us be united or all will be lost, (I sup-
pose they mean the Administration.) Just
give them a little Southern zoap and Nortn-
arn water, and with the slab dabs they are
cutting, they will soon make lather enough
to drown the whola nation. [want to say
to those ear¥onif=Folls Zentlemen; that these
demonstrators of philanthropy and
dom-screechers of Abolitiofism have so
frequenily told ns that the wer was about
over, during the last year, that we do not
believe them any sooner than we would be-
lieve Simon. the wig-wag.
But «+ Yow Nave the wighty fallen ¢” in
the language of the Poet. We Lave lost out
prover Yosition thiough the azency and in-
stramentality of our present rulers. We
have assumed a Kind 90 sluitipdieilar {(par-
don the big word) position. And what is
the cause of all this? Echo answers, “Oh
itis all for buncombe.” -
The people have been fed on buncomle,
such as great battles fought and victories
won, green-backs plenty, whilst the goore is
eating the golden eggs. your wife and chil-
dren will be well cared for daring our stay
in the army. All this and more bas been
promised, wlhilst# lot 6} spavined, ring-bon-
ed crib-suckerd, plit-hooped politicians have
had their noses in the public e1ib, until there
will soon be not enough fodder left to make
gruel fora sick grasshopper. These hungry
brats ave still tugging away at the publ c
teat. They say, © Let down your milk,
Sukey. or you will have a spilt bag. Do
sou thik, for a mouient, that we can be-
lfeve such bancombe as this? No-—not if
tho grat Ruler of Abolitionism bimself,
would swear to it.
Tne public grindstone is a great institu-
tion, probably the greatest that ever ross
reigned, or fell. But we think, and no'
without some reason, that there is entirely
too much private cutlery ground on it. Oc
casionally there is a big axe brought in to
be fixed up to hew down the great trees of
error, and clear out the brush-wood of igno-
rince and folly that have so lung obstructed
the progress of our army. The machine
whirls ; the axe is applied ; the people lock
in amazement ; the to! is keen-cdged; The
people stare in gaping expectancy of seeing
the work xo bravely on. What 1s the re-
sult? The obstruction remains unmoved.
"The people curse because the ear makes no
progress, or, if 1t does move, it is at the ex-
peuse of a broken wheel. I tell yott the
thing won't pay. The tifhe will corie when
these heartless grinders will be put to the
stone themselves, in the place of the hard-
ware. You will not be mach surprised if 1
tell you that this Republican thachine will
goon stop, for how can it: go for want of
grease 7 Black wool, in particular, being a
non-conductor, will roon absorb the whole
thing. 4
These daudéidical; supiersquirtical, mahog-
any-faced gentry, are the very ones that
brave got our liberty-pole off its porpendic-
ularity. "Fis they who would rend thesiars
dod stripes and who commentied the same
in the town of Bellefonte'in 65. That glo-
rioug old flag—tho Llooc of our fevolution-
ary fathers emblemed in‘its red, the purity
of the cause for which they died, denoted
by the white, the blue, the freedom which
they gttained. May it ever besecure from
all the assaolts of Abohtivnism and Infidel
free-
ity.
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 13, 1862,
posed of a prople that were intelligent and-
- President to ignore them ?
The day is not far distant when our new-
ly discovered African friends will find that it
is entirely out of the question for them to
nestle so closely in the bosom of their fath
er Abraham. Much a3 they may say, * we
have prcphesied in thy name, eat and drank
in thy name, and have cast out many Dem-
ocrats fur the eause of Republicanism, and
have done many wonderful and strange
things,” so certain as the morning of the
second Tuesday of October shall come, so
sure will the death-bell ring over the grave
of Abolitionism and Republicanism — batied
80 deep that neither will evermore arise.
Centre Harn,
rer
For the Watchman.
CHANGE AND TRIUMPH
Much as kas been said upon the Gubject
of the War, we eannot avoid expressing our
determination to stand by the Constitution.
as framed by our fathers. If ithe South
nas done a great wrong by rebelling against
the Government, is that a just cause why
the people of the North should allow Mr.
Line: In to destroy the government by tramp.
ling the Constitution under foot ¢ 1s it not
public opinion that has controlled and ever
will control the Government ? Can a Union
ever be cemented by the shedding of our
brothers’ blood in civil war? Can we dwell
together in any other way (han List of friend.
ship? The moment we lose that, we must
full. Secession is wrong, Abolition is w Long.
and Violations of the Congtitation either
North or South, are wrong. And wh, has
ever heard of twe wrongs making one right?
[tis thought by whany that Mr. Lincoln
was placed in the Executive chair as our
Commander-in-Chief alone, and 1 un atti.
tude which canuot be contrclled by any oth.
er power. Now, 1 am no lawyer, but will
on a venture, say, that when he assumed
the duties of his office, his oath was that ke
would faithfully execute the duties of the
office of President of the Umted States, and
(6 the best of his abitity, preserve, protect
and defend thes Constitution of the United
States. Tins 18 his obligation—no Ling
more, nOthing less. Las he done so ¢ No,
but on the other hand, the 44-
olitron Congress pass such laws as they deem
proper, and Me. Lincoln, in the gouduess of
his heart, or, may be, the evil, (as the caso
muy be) tries to comply with their require
ments, We Demaerats hold that the Cone
far from it ;
amount importanc® whenever it becomes a
question #s to which shell be preserved. —
I'hen it follows, as a matter of couse, that
ed,
al laws, 18 it not the imperative duty of the
He is thrown
back upon the responsibility of his offi:ia
cuth, and it then becomes his* duty to prez
ceree, protect and defend the Constitution, |
independent of Congress or law, simply by
volved the responsibility of the protection,
prescivation, ahd defence of that Constitu.
tion which alone is the on'y safe guide for
our national well-being. If the means of
preserving that Consti‘ution be placed with
in his control, from whatever source, he is
bound to accept those means.
Ah. but, says one, things have changed
very much since Mr. Lincoln came into of-
fice. A portion of our people is now in
subdue the rebellion. ell you, dandad-
lers, charcoal, arid mahogany-faced gentry,
that it is by the Constitution that we live,
have had the power and control of the gov-
ernment sufficiently long to eonvince every
man that you are not competent to admin-
ister the affairs of the American nation, from
the simple fact that yod have trampled un-
derfoot the Colistitution, and taken'the Chi-
cago Platform in its stead, preaching change
of administration, change of governm:nt,
change of laws, and change of the slave to
be free. All this you have accomplished in
the short space of two years. You have
brought about that great change, and such
a change ag it will take ceaturies to obliter-
ate from the minds of the American people.
"This is not all. You Have had your triiimph
—and what 4 thiumph! You Americén-
Republican-Abolition-People’s party, and
the Lord only knows how many other alias-
es, have had to accomplish your greatly
wished-for triumph. You have trivimnphed
over the Democracy, and this day many of
you would much rather ttiumph over that
principle, than over the rebels.’ You have
triumphed over the Constitution and the
Union with all its mighty interests—tri-
umphed over its great and glorius name and
even its strength and pride-~triumphed over
its peace and prosperity and even its future
hopes —triamphed over justice, equity and
fraternity—in a word, triumphed over ey-
erything sacred. noble and valuable toa na-
tion,
Now, what is he 1esult of your great
change ¥ Discord and disunion ; the ruin
of trade ; the arrest of industry ; the pro:
duction of want, destitution, poverty. de-
| moraliz ition, humiliation and
i What & the prospective result ‘of you!
stitution is superin to the law, and of par |
every protection shall be throw a¥6und the |
Constitution regardless of law. If the law | are fond of the smell of the sweet and fiag-
is contrary to the Constitution, 1t must be | rant flowers.
rejected ; if such laws are passed as are | there is but one fragrant flower mn Africa—
contrary to the Constitution, they ought to! and that is the Rose—the Negroes,
be rejected ; and if incapable of sustiluing | —_—
it, must be disregarded or have them repeal |
If a poor and insiguificant Congress |
pass weal and inefficient or unconstitution-| iis. :
‘ residence in Richmond, in which he passes
| plain carriage, and but few servants,
; g . : | gives no receptions, anc ii 'S avi
virtue of his oath. Upon Mr. Lincoln is de- | RIV § no reception als 3; Wii Mrs. Davis,
. | discourages the untimely revelry which oc-
| )
open rebellion, and the Constitution as it is |
and the Union as it was, mill never do to |
move and have our being as a nation. You |
shame. — |
change? Tt is Civil war, fie and word.
blooa and tears, the cries of the wounded
and the groans of the dying, the lamenta-
tions of the fathers and the weeping of the
mothers over their slain sons, and the sigh-
ing of the patriots over their once uni ed,
but now ruined country ! What a change
—what a change?
CeNtRE HALL.
A —
[Reported for the Watchman ]
SPEECH OF DR. CANFIELD.
Formerly of Wather Township, at the Cel-
ebration of Washingt Birthi-Day. on
the 23d "of Pek: at Scott's Hall.
Lock Haven, Pa.
Lavies xp Gunrieses :— Why is it. and
how is it, that 0 much discord at present
exists in our once prosperons and happy
country Twill tell yon, The bods molitic
is afflicted with a sore disease, and if we
find out the cause, the remedy will find out
itself. Slavery is not the cause, but the in-
fernal intermeddiin se with that institation
and goin counter to the advice of Wash-
ington,-is the true cause of ali cur d ffi ul’
ties. You have heard read to-day his Fare.
well Address to his Countrymen, in which
he says we should never drow any geograph.
ical lines i this Union. The Missour: Com-
promise Line was of that character. and
therefore wrong, because it was against the
advice of Washington. He ald) suid we
should Beware of all JSecict political socie®
ties as the bane of all Governments. Men
wet in secret conclave in stables, in waste
places and other dens of darkness as a se-
cret political society of Know-Nothings.
which was wrong, as it was against the ad-
vice of Washington. Ile also advised us
to beware of foriign influence, and you sew
now that ivfluence at work. Away with it!
We want none of it—for it is against (he
advice of the immortal Washington, the
founder, under the God of Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob, of this mighty Repnblic ; and
if we come back and adhere to his counsels
ard advice, all will yet be well. But if we
persist and continue in worshipping an Ab-
olition Giod, an Abolition Bible and an Abo-
lition Constitution, we will fall with Bur-
lingame, Wend ll Phillips, Horace Greely.
and all the rest of the Union-sliders, like
Lucifer, never to rise again.
Oae word mor. to my lady friends and |
have done.
You see there (pointing te & picture on
| the wall) a representation of the Goddess of
| Liberty. Cherish her in your hearts, ‘for
| she is the spiitof Washington.
You all adwire the science of Botany and
Then, never go to Africa, for
YT Tr mn
JEFF. DAVIS.
This President inhabits an unpretending
a few Lours of his daily life not occupied by
thairs of Sate. Ttis retired ald simple-
lund the hcusehold arrangements are con.
ducted on an economical seal. Ie keeps a
ITe
casionally breaks out around them. Ly ab
! staining from visiting places of amusement,
| tad accepting invitations to private enter-
!tainments given by the nabobs of Rieh-
tmond. leis a regular atteddant of the
| Episcopal Church, of which be is a mem-
|
er.
His offi :ial dutics are, as must be known,
varied, pressing, and of the gravest respon-
sibility ; and, though his mental’ facultics
seems qual to the strain, that he sufters
| phpsicaily can be seen in his wasted body
| care-worn features,
Oae of the principle
objects of tus late tour through the South
{was to recruit his health, and it is said he
[returnen to Richmond ntuch the
| it m mind and body.
better
I: gives full play to
{ mander-in-Chief of the army. Eyery
ed with him more orless times and when he
leaves, the President always shows that he
is better posted on the militéry situation in
the General's Department than any one about
Richmond. Lee is his adviser aud confident
In all military matters, and the nwo spen?
much time together plotting campaigas and
determining military opera.ons.
“ORFUL SO0THIN.”
A handsome young lady in ofr town was
50 Up with one night by a noble young spe.
citilen of thie tfue American, with scissors
in his pocket—I mean a dry good clerk ;
and the young gal’s mo her, herin’ soms-
thin pap, arose from her couch under the
impression that her oldest boy, who was
given to (riskiness, was _ holding a wild
revel on the rool beer in the west
room. But on opening the door, she dis"
kivered it was hugging and kissing
{ which had awakeced hier fross het peaceful
repose, !
+My daughter, Oh my daughter!’ this
parent did ery. “Oh! that 1 should
| have lived to ses tis doing in my own
| house.”
| lI know my dear mother,” the sweet
| village maiden did unto her mamma reply,
| “that it is quite unproper, but it is orful
soothin,”
The above is A. Ward's joke, not A. Lin-
jcolin's,
| the military genius, and is literally the Com |
lea- |
ding General coming to Richmend is closet: |
WBE F
IRST GREAT NEGRO BATTLE.
‘I'he Richmond Ezaminer gives the ful'ow-
ing laughzble discription of the first great
battle to be fought, it is supposed about the
middle of June, by the colored army uow
being recruited to supply the places of the
300.000 white soldiers whose tet of sevice:
will expire in May : —
* The fate of the negro, of the white popu-
lation at the South, and of tLe northern ar-
my respectively, will be decided ina brief
contest, which will occur about the middle
of next June, and which we will desesite as
gravely and suceintly as possible.
Ou the first of April fifty thousand ne-
groes, who hae been previously drilled in
various camps of instruction, will be de' ask
ed at Aquia creek. ;
Pagniei us Joseph
Ho ker, foruing at the wouth from, leng dy.
iy, will vrganize them into brigad s ana
divisions with the velocity of frienzed im-
patience. But it will require six weeks of
incessant toil to perform this siinple feat.
Its at last accomplished The pontoons
are laid safely and crossed without oppo
tion. To prevent Aceidennt the Gra 2 vu
orca Divivien it put in ihe van. Gedy,
its commander, refining at Aqnin ereck
‘with a powerful glass,’ after the manner of
Burus'de. The skirmishers of the Grand
Colored Division are thrown our. They di-
ploy.
“The voice of an overseer calling hogs
heard in a dis an field. They rally on tie
reserve. No rebels being viva'le, they ne
again thrown forward They fire at not -
ing, fifty feet in the air, und hit it every
time. The rebels being thus driven to their
earthworks, the Grand Colored Division ad.
vances at the pas ds chargs, to storm the en-
emy’s position and to ‘carry the crest’ at all
hazuids. Of n sudden, the Artillery of A.
P. Hill's comma d belehes forth a hurricane
of shell and shrapnel. There is a rising « f
wool, a5 of quills npon the fretful porcupine,
under the caps of Jdnsky brignliors and
s00'y major generals ; there is 8 si unltane-
ous elfusion of melliffuons pr rapirstion from
tifty thousand tarry hides; th re isa dis-
play of ivory like fifty thousand flashes «f
lightning fifty thousand pairs of charcosl
knees are knycking t gether, and one hur-
dred thousand eyobul's are rolling mandy in
their socke's, like ®o many drunken and
distracted moons dancing in an ebon sky:
the Grand Colored Divisien tramnbles like a
mighty pointer dog on an ity pavemnt -
thero is a univarsal squall, as if ail Africa
had been kicked apon the shins, ard at to
sell same moment a scattern. as if sil the
blackbirds, crows and buzzards in creaiom
had taken wings at once. To a man, the
northern ariny lies pro trate in the Hell, as-
phyxiated by the msufferable odor bequeath-
ed to the atmo: phere by the dark, dep rted
host. . For a like cause, the rebil army 14
in full retreat to Richmond. Solitary and
alons, with his rose m his hand, A. P, 1111
survers the silent scene.”
NEGROES v=. DUTCHMEN,
“he Black Republican party have for the
last two years, at least since the loaders have
abandoned Know Nothingism, pretend d to
have great respect for the German citizens
of the United States. They do this for he
varpose of securing what ikey call tio
“batch vote.”
Bit when tlic leaders are pushad on ace
count of their negro equality prineipls th ¥
thea show the eloven foot, and declare u ne-
gio to be as respectable and as much enty-
tied to the privileges of a citizen as a Duicl.-
man.
A few days since an ex~iting discussion
took place in the Ono fegislitire upon a
bill to prevent negroes from bes ning ei
zens of that Soute. Iu (ve the eourss of the
discussion Mr. Minn, a Bak Republica -
for |,
-{ 81x of his men being wounded.
Abolition member, from Moding County, re-
marked : *
“WOULD AS LIER BE AN AFRICAN
ASSOME DUTCHMEN I HAVE SEEN:
Here we have iin plain Eoahish, Not
jwittstanding, the leaders pretend grea
friendship for our Geran eivz us, thoy
are ever rendy (0° compare them to, aul
vqraliz: Lem to the negroes.
Give the Republican party ull contiol of
the country. ard they will soon revive their
old Know Nothing dogmas. ad then, not
oniy=tiermans, dut all foreign horn citizens
would be degraded to an equality with ne-
groes.—Buzle, Council Bluffs, Tow.
rr net GD Serres ene
0-7 There is some reason for believing
that the pretended French defeat in Mexico
is only “a blind” by the Emperor, under
which to get wore men and ships mio that
section, with the intention of ultimarely ta-
king Texas as well as Mexico into his “care
and keeping.” It is not to be credited, that
800 Mexican cavalry could defest 4.000
Freach infantry.
ovo
Tue Dirrrgesce, ~The Democracy are in
Savor of the government, but against its ex-
ecutive and legislative administration,
‘The abolitionists are in favor of the admin.
istration, but against the government,
This is the difference, in brief, between
the two parties, —Cin. Eng. :
I” A little boundary war has broken
out between California acd Honey Lake Vai-
ley. Resistance was. made by arms to a
service of process by a California_sherift,
At last ac-
counts, Loth parties were unconquered and
deliaut.