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APPEARANCES DECEIVE.
ByJ.P. M.
Oh! trust nt the face az a type, .
Of the spirit that dwelleth within,
For beauty is often the veil,
Of wickedness, folly, and sin,
‘The moon, with its calm mellow light,
Looks peacefully down from the sky,
Yeot we know it is rugged and torn,
That its beauty but pleases the eye.
Fair snow-drifts m: y rise on the brink,
Of a pit with d.struction below,
Ho faces withswiles may deceive.
While the heast deepest hate may bestow
The traveler dying from thirst,
While crossing re deserts wild waste,
Sees before hit a silv’ry stream,
And longs for its waters to taste.
It fadew from his view like a dream,
He sees but the wide burning plain;
The mirage that taunts him is gone,
He looks for its beuty in vain,
So travelers treading lifes track,
By beaut; and smiles led estray,
Seek in vain for the goodness they saw,
Ere time wore the beauty away
Then let not the fase he a guide,
To point te a heart that is kind,
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 8, 1863.
man, it i3 unnecessary for we to say any-
thing more about hin, other than that he is
here and as ¢‘crazy as a loon.” 1 believe
that it is the generally received opinion that
he lost his reason through the too free in-
dulgence of his passion for the intoxicating
bowl—that accursed vice which sunually
destroys so many of our best and most gift-
ed men, who might haveadorfied the bar,
the bench or the pulpit.
The Criminal Court of Dauphin county is
in session here this week, Judge Pearson,
presiding. Judging frcm the list of causes
presented for trial, scoundrelism is abund-
ant in this county. A iarge number of fe-
male ‘‘hookers’’ were presen: as witnesses
and it was really painful to see the unblush-
ing effrontery with which these abandoned
creatures answered the immodest questions
propounded to them by the brazen-faceq
lawyers cunducting the causes.
In his charge to the Grand Jury, Judge
Pear on took occasion to ventilate his views
of the duty which the citizen owes to the
Government under the recent tax and con-
seript acts. Your correspondent may do the
Judge injustice, but in his opinion the
“‘charge” was more of a political disquisi-
tion upon party politics, than an impartial
For hearts can teach faces to smile, ycharge to the Grand Jury of the county,
While cruelty dwells in the mind.
Let actions be ever our guide,
To tell of the goodness of soul;
For death snatches beauty away.
The grave’s narrow realm is itx goal,
Then trust not the face as a type.
Of the spirit that dwelleth within,
For beauty is often the veil,
Of wickedness, folly and sin.
HowARrDp, Pas, May 24 1864.
rere reefer
Go! Winter, go!
Thy frozen locks and tresses white.
And locks that kindled not delight.
Ard breath that chills the younger heart's
glow,
And frowas that make the tear-drop start,
No bliss, no pleasure can impart];
Go! Winter, go!
* Miscellaneous.
LETTER FROM HARRISBURG
PrNNsyLvania House,
Harrissurag, April 30, 1863. }
DEAR “WarcaMaxN:”—In compliance with
the recommendation of President Lincoln,
to-day 1% universally observed in this city,
as a day of ‘fasting, humiliation and pray-
er.” This is eminently just and proper; for
if ever there was a time in our his'or,
when the nation necded the prayers of the
people, that time is now, With evil: coun,
sels everywhere prevailing and our country
standing on the very verge cf destruction,
we have nowhere to look but up the (od
of hosts, whose all-powerful arm can alone
save us from the fearful consequences of our
own folly and the blind ambition and wilful
criminality of our rulers. Business of ev-
ery description is suspended here to-day,
and the large crows that have attended di-
vine service in tue various churches in the
city, ave sufficient evidence of the fact tha;
the people feel, and feel deeply, the magni-
tude of the terrible danger now impending
over the country. Gol gran! that the
sincere prayers of the people— the
masses—oflerea vp today all over the
land, may be of some avail ; and that, in
answer to these humble supplications, He
will graciously condescend to Lift upon us
orce more the light of His countenance, and
restore to these bleeding and distracted
States that peace and prosperity which once
they had, but which now grems to have
flown forever.
Harrisburg, although a handsome city,
has but few places of public interest. Of
these, the State Capitol und the Lunatic Asy-
lum are the principal. The former I have a
full view of fiom my chamber window, It
8 a handsome brick structure, looking very
well, but there is nothingjgrand or mpos-
ing about it. It stands on “Capitol Hill”
snd is surrounded by grounds, well laid
out, on every side, whith ai¢ pianted full
of trees, and which make it a most attrac-
tive and pleasant place of resort in summer
time. It is just the place for lovers to stray
on a moonlight evening, and I have no
doubt that many a tale of love and devction
has been pourel into the ears of willing
maidens beneath the shadows of these hand-
ome trees.
The Lunatic As lum is situated on a most
beautiful site, about a mile and a ha'f or two
jmiles from town. Unlike the Capitol, it is
Bor extensive and imposing. On the day
fier his arrival, in cowrpany with Mr. For-
ney, your correspondent paid it a visit, We
were very politely shown through the ¢n-
tire building by Di, Curwin, the Superin-
tenden', whose fame ig as world-wide as
Ins swece:es, in the treatuent of lunacy, is
eminent, The Doctor is 8 most excellent
manager and everything is mm perfect order,
not a speck or spot of dirt or dust being
anywhere visible. It is a wonder to me
how such an immense building can be kept
80 scrupulously neat and clean. but, in the
hands of Dr. Carwin, everything appertain-
ing to this magpificent institution, goes on
fike clock work. The Doctgr is very r:uch
of a gentleman, and I really feel under ob-
ligations to hiw for his courtesy and kind:
Among the poor uifortunates who
are confined here is the celebrgted Chatles
Fenno Lloffman, the ‘‘crazy poet,” whom [
had the pleasure of seeing. As yoy are
ness,
upon subjests which came under his legiti-
mate notice. The Judge professed to have
no party feelings in the matter, and I do
not aver that he had ; nevertheless he tray-
cled » long way oat of his appropriate
course, in order, I presume, to give the K.
G. C's a dig under the fifth rib, while say-
ing nothing whatever of those organizations
styling themseives ‘‘Union Leagues.’ It
was very evident that the Judge was a
strong Republican.
Our worthy Govenror, is I believe 1m
Belletonte, attending Court this week. At
least, so the Telegraph announces in one of
its issues. By the way, ain’t you sorry
“handsome Andy” won't be on the track
this fall? Colonel Brown, of your place
will be, I know, for I have frequently heard
bim say that he “intended to stump the
State against him {rom Meadville to Erie.”
But my letter 1s alrcady too lengthy, and
must not trespass further upon your time
or space. But before I close I must inform
you that I am stopping at the *:Pennsylya-
n'a House,” where you will find me, should
you come to Harrisburg before 1 leave, Mr.
Vaughn, the proprietor of the ‘‘Pennsylva-
nia,” keeps a most excellent Houge in one
of the most respectable and refined portions
of the city. He 18, withal, a good demo-
crat, and ] want you to send our Demcgratic
friends Lere to stop when they come to town.
The hotel is situated on the same street
with the “Buchler House,” and is a first
class establishment. How long I shall re-
main here, Tam not at present able to say,
but should I remain for any considerable
time, you may here frome me again.
In the meantime, I remain, as ever,
Yours truly,
PUMP SUMPKINS, ESQ.
THE AMERICAN WAR AND SLA-
VERY.
We are no advocates of siavery ; and just
80 fur as we are peneirated with the spirit
of Christainity, we are the friend of the
weak, the simple, the poor, the ignorgnt and
the oppressed ; but we have not been accus-
tomed to look upon the innabitants of the
Northean States as the friend of the black
race, There is harmony and jeace ‘between
the slave and his waster ; there is a mutual
intgrchange of good offices bptwaen the
black man and the white in Alabama and
Mississippi—we see nothing of the sort in
Massachusetts or New York. The negro .s
loathed by the Yankee; he is the object of
sympathy, of protection, in the South. Let
any man visit the negro quarters in Phila-
delphia, let him travel through New Eng-
land, and witness the social degredation of
the black race; let hun examine the statute
books of the free States, and sce how every
avenue to advaucement is denied to the
black man of the Forth ; how he is com-
pelled, by public sentiment, to be the mere
hewer of wood and drawer of water for his
white brother, how he is simply the barber
apd the bost black of the North ; and then
let hip ask himself what such mere nomi-
nal freedom is worth? No negro dare put
up in a New Yuk Hotel, nor can he ride in
an emnilus with Northern men ; he has his
seperate gallery in the theatre, and he must
provide himself with churches in every
Northern city. New negro. religions “are
added to the other animosities in America,
lest by any means the white and black
should be found kneeling at one altar (as
they are found at the South) or lest a seem-
ing pauntepance to the idea of the common
brotherhood cf the human race should be
given by a community of raligious rites.
We are deceived by names when we pre-
fer the freedom of the Northern black to the
slavery of hig brother in the South. The
friend of humanity will tind more to revolt
him in one day’s experience of negro de-
basement in the North, than im mouths
spent on the plantations or in the large ci.
ties of the Seuthern States. The hatred
loathing of the negro, which is universal in
the Northern States is unknown south of
Mason and Dixon's live: and the hope of
the negro race on this Continent Jies in the
more perfect appreciation of its characters
and capabilities of the Southerners, and in
the real genuipe' sympathy for it, and the
familiar [with the writings of this. gifted
os
pe of mutual good offices apd lorg and in-
timate association which binds together the
Southern blacks to their masters.
But with what force can it be contended
that love of liberty for the blacks animates
thatparty in this contest, which, to gain its
ends, has deliberately renounced every
guarentee of liberty, and delivered itself up,
bound hand and foot, to a despotism such
as the world has not thus far seen?
Personal kberty, in any sense of the
word, is a peculiarly Christian ides. It
has its birth in the idea of the value of
the individual man, of the estimation
of the human soul. To the Pagan,
the man was nothing; the Empire, the
State, was all in all. It is for this Pagan
idea, destructive of all true liberty, that
the North is fighting, if it is fighting fo,
any idea at all; it is against this idea, and
for State rights, the rights of minorities»
the rights ot individuals, aud the eterna)
principles of true liberty, that the Sout
is engaged in a death-struggle. :
The use of the words “loyal and “trea-
son” in the United (?) States show that this
is so. Who is now the “loyal” man?
He that would maintain the Constitution
and Laws of his country ?—he that is op-
osed to the arbitrary arrest and impris.
onment of his fellow citizen, without form
of law? he that would not interfere with
slavery in the Southern States, because it
is a matter of local municipal law with
which the general Government has naught
to do ?—he thet protests against the sus-
pension of the Aabeas corpus—the milttary
suspension of the Courts—the forcible dis-
persion of legislative assemblies by the
hands of preturians—the disarmiug of the
citizen—the destruction of the State mil-
itia system—the forcible levying of an army
by the Federal Government without the
intervention of the State aathorities—the
placing of the parse and the sword in the
same hand—the violation of every consti-
tutional right of States, of Corporations,
and of individuals? Not at all. He is
“loys,l’’ and he alone, who is willing to
sacrifice these things—the Constitution,the
laws of his country and every guarantee
for individual liberty, who is willing to
sacrifice these things to the genius of the
Empire, to the consolidation, the advance-
ment, the glory of the despotism which is
to take place, which has already taken
the place of the old Constitutioaal Union,
“The ‘‘traitor’’ at the North is not the
man who is false to the principlo of liber-
ty, on which everything that is worthy
of honor in the institutinns of America 18
based ; it is not the man who upholds the
tundamental Constitution of the particular
State of which he is a .itizen, it i not
the man, even, who is false to the Consti-
tution of the Uaited States, ard the Cow-
promises Of ,the Great Oharter by which
the Confederacy was formed. But it is the
man, who being true to all these things,
refuses to yield to the madness of the hour
and will not acknowledge that the presen
Federgl administration, and Mr. Lincoln its
head, are the supreme absolute rulers of
the American people; amenable to no tri-
bunal, bound ky no law, degpots more gb-
solute than the Emperor of Russia, or the
Sultan of the Turks—supreme governors,
whose absolute uncontrolled domimon has
no pargilel jm civilization, and whose
counterpart only is to be found in the despot
of some savage tribe.
The tyrant’s plea of necessity is, at this
moment, accepted perforce in the United
States as the complete justification of the
most flagrant violations, not only of the
principles of that common law which the
Americans inherited from their ancestors,
and have heretofore at least professed to
prize ; but of that written Constitution which
vas once fondly supposed to be the supreme
law of the land. :
And will it be for a moment pretended
that those whs have thus placed the control
of the purse, and the power of the sword in
the hands of one man ; who have prostrated
themselves before the Dictator of their
choice, and, to gratify their love of demin-
jon, their lust for gold, or their hatred for
the South, have surrendered ever” personal
right, every guarantes for liberty which their
forefathers moved heaven and eagth to es-
tablish and maintain ; that those who have
in two years, without a struggle, almost
a murmur, seen wrested from them thos
principal and primary rights which, however
debased and destroyed in most other, coun-
tries, have ever been considered, in a pecu-
liar and emphatical manner, the rights of the
people of England and their descendants ;
will it be said that this people, that has de-
liberately sacrificed the right of personal se-
curity, tke right of personal liberty, and the
right of private property—so that, at this
moment, there is not one person in Mr. Lin-
coln’s domains who has any redress should
he seize his person or his property ; so that
as Mr. Seward wrote te Lord John Russell,
he can touch a bell at his right hand and
imprison a man in Maijpe, gt his left hand,
and imprison another in Mgryland, and no
power under heaven, save that of the Presi
dent of the United States can set him {reo 1
—shall it be pretended that they are the
friends of liberty and the rights of man ?—
That they have sacrificed the liberty of
themselves and their shildren, to secure
those priceless blessings for the negroes, in
States for whose domestic jnstitutiong they
aye in po way respopsible ! That they have
given up the liberty of speech and of the
press—the right of petition--the right of
organize as a militia under the State laws—
the rights of their States, the very funda-
mental Constitution of their country, for the
purpose of securing to negroes those rights
that they prized not for themselves ?—Mon-
treal True Witness. ;
THE VOICE OF OLD BERKS. _
One of the largest meetings ever held in
O14 Berks, came off in Reading, om the 21st.
It is represented by those present as being
an immense gathering of the honest yeo-
manry, Uon. S. E. Ancona presided on the
occasion. A committee consisting of one
from each township, borough and ward in
the city and county, reported the following
resoluticns which were unanimously ad-
opted:
WaEREAS, It is among the inalienable
rignts of a free people to assemble either
in public or in private, openly or secretely,
as they may choose, subject only to the
constitution and laws of the land; And
whereas, An attempt has recently been
made by the present authorities of the Uni-
ted States, in violation of thosa rights, by
arresting peaceable citizans of the county of
Berks, carrying them beyond the jurisdic-
tion of their own courts on charges and pre-
tences founded on merc rumor, and with-
out the slightest foundation in fact, there-
fare,
Resolved, By the Democracy of Berks
county, in mass meeting assembled, that,
while we obey the constitution and laws of
our country, and make ‘no forcible resist-
ance to the execution of any process admin-
stered by the Government within the limits
of its legitimate functions, we will not sub-
mit to nor tolerate the slightest encroach-
ments upon our rights and privileges ; such
atiempt will meet v 1th our resistance at all
hazards and regapdless of all consequen-
ces.
rcesolved, That secret societies, political
or otherwise, are nat in themselves in vio-
lation of the Constitution and laws,and that
whenever a free people see proper to organ-
ize themselves, in secret or in public, they
have a right to protection, and 1f the JGov-
ernment, for political purposes, fails to ren-
der that protection, we pledge Onrselyes
to furnish it to the full extent of our pow-
er. :
Resolved, That whenever such societies
are organized upon principles at variince
with the Coustitution and laws in their let-
ter or spirit, or whenever the tendency or
organizatien infringes upon the constitution-
&! rights of a citizen on account of the place
of hs birth, his religion, or any other guar-
anteed right, we regard such societies as it-
legal, subversive of law and order, and de-
serving the condemnation jof all good citi-
zens.
Resolved, That while the Democracy of
Berks recognize and sustain the rights of
our people, under such restrictions, so te or-
ganize, as a mere question of right apper-
taining to freemen, and deem it of the high-
est importance that éternal vigilance at all
times should be exercised ta guard against
the slightest encroachments gpon any rights
we do not deem secret political organiza-
tions either desifable er expedient, as long
as open organization can be maintained
without danger from srmed interventien or
of bodily harm. Unless such danger exits,
the tendency will almost invariably be dan-
gerous to the rights of others, by falling
into the hands of bad men. Public liberty
ag well as private rights, may be under-
mined before the public is aware of the dan-
ger. These evils; under the control of good
and true men may be avoided ; but secret
societies of a political character are favor-
ites with all that class of men who dread
the light for fear of exposure.
Resolyed, That if secret political socie-
ties have receatly been organized ameng us.
it is to be presumed they are for no other
purpose than the protection of their rights
against uneonstitational laws. Uni] the
confrary 18 proven the character of our peo-
ple warrant this belief ; but as such objects
can better be secured by the open organiza-
tion of our whole people, in strict accord-
ance with law, and without furnishing pre.
texts for armed intervention by a military
power, we earnestly recommend all such to
abandon the secret feature, and join ug in
open organization in every ward, township
and borough of our country. Such a move-
ment will give ns strength gad power
at home, inspire confidence, and wield more
al influence abroad. .
Resolved, That we gre equally hostile to
Abolitiquistg North and Secessionists South.
We regard both alike as tending to the same
result ; one is the openly advocate of a sep-
arate Confederacy ; the other the sdvoeate
of principles which mugt inevitably end
there. :
Resolved, That we regard the emaneipa-
tion proclamation, the conscription law and
the confiscation acts as clearly unconstitu-
tional ; but while we pledge our united ef-
forts to test them in all legal modes within
our reach, we will not infringe upon or vio-
lato any law, whatever may be our present
opmions, until it is pronounced by the
preper judicial apthorities to be npi] and
void. It is better to besr many griov-
| pacies of a temporary character, then to
plunge our country into anarchy, ending
in military despotism, and destroying all
: our hopes for the future,
| Resolved. That we recommend open or.
the freedom of their legislative assemblies— |
habeas corpus—the right to bear arms, and ganization in every township, ward and bor-
wugh of our country, in order to sustain the
Constitution, the Union and the laws. and
at the same time fo resist every encroach.
ment upon our own perstnal rights and
freedom, guaranteed by that instrument and
laws.
Resolved, That we are inflexably and
unalterably devoted to the Constitution and
the Union with such additional guarantee
as may protect the rights of mmeorities from
all future aggression. We do not. approve
of this war as at present conducted. We
never did approve 1t in itself, but accepted
it in preference to disunion, anarchy and
despotism, under pledges that it should be
conducted solely with a view tc the restora-
tion of the Union These pledges have
been broken, and we are free from any obli-
gations except those of obedience to the law.
Resolved, That we will patiently await
the progress of events, untii power passes
from the hands of the present Administra-
tion under the forms of law. We will con-
tinue to urge upon Congress and upon the
States the repeal of all unconstitutional acts,
and the calling of a National Convention to
amend the Constitution. If these fail; our
hopes centre in the sovereign rights of the
State of Pennsylvania. and in order that she
may be prepared to exercise those rights, we
urge uson our feilow-citizens the neccesity
of organization, and the selection and elec-
tion. of our ablest and best men, for Govera
or and legislatorsand in the mean time, we
have terms of peace tu offer to any quarter
except upon the basis of re-union.
THERESERVED RIGHTS OF THE
STATES.
Did it ever occur to the Jacohins, who
woud tramp'e on the rights reseryed, by the
Constitution, to the States, that it is pre-
cisely to these reserved States, rights that
they own their liberty, their safety, and the
very dower which they momentairly enjoy ?
If the Democratic party had not respected
these righte, where would ‘have been the
Republican parity six or ten years ago ? Did
the Democrats in 1843 and 1856 not hold
power in the three co-ordinate branches of
the Government # Werz not the House, the
Senate, and the President Democratic, and
could they not, if they had been disposed to
ignore State rights, have denounced the Ab-
olitionists and Rcpublicans as dangerous
men, threatening the peace of the country
and the permanency of our institutions ?—
Could they not have employed the militia
or the military to set aside the Personal
Liberty bills, which were clearly a violation
of the constitution? What would have be-
come of the liberty of cpeech, of the press,
and of the anti-slaaery vagitators themselves
if the Democrats had been governed by the
principles now set up - as properly control-
ling the actions of public men? Why,the
Republican party would have ceased tg
exist, the Fugitive Slaye law would have
been executed in every State of the Union,
and the men who opposed its execution,
would haye been punished as they deserved
to bg. :
But the Democratic party attempted no
such thing as the subjugation of the States.
It knew that the States were the true guar-
dians of the life,liberty, and property of the
citizens, and that the Federal Government
derives its strenght and power only (rom the
hearty co-operation of the State Govern:
ments. The Demoeratic party, in the exer-
cise of power, gave the States the benefit of
the doubt, and the Southern members and
Sensator themselves, though fecling aggriev
ed by the action of the North, preferred to
ignore the 1nsult to their institutions rather
than demand anything that eould interfere
with State sovereignty. The Republicans
then sought refuge behind the sovereignty
of the States, and they found it. Look at
their actions now ! [See how they boast that
“the Constitution is no more,” —that the
odious State rights are no longer a means of
stopping their mad career, and that
henceforth we will have a magnificent
Central. Despotism, wih the provences,
{formerly States) revolving around » com-
moa centre.
Do these Jacobines believe they will al-
ways be able lo hold power, and that the
people will always patiently bear with their
tagaries? What would become of them, if
the Democrats. in 1885, were to apply the
same principles, which these fanatics are
now advocating, ts the States which wil
then be in rebellion against the constitution
and ‘the “Government 2’
The Principles of “pnblic safety” may
require the suppression of the New York In-
dependent, the New York T'rilune, the New
York Evening Bosi, the Chicago Tribune, a
number of our contemporaries fof Philadel
phis who pow represent all the “yirtpe,pat-
riotism and self denial” of the State of
Pennsylvania, and nearly the whole press of
New England, The editors snd proprietors
of these papers may be very dangarqus men
—conspirators against the public wea! and
against the weal of the couniry.—and for
that reason they must be secured and sent
to Forts Lafayette, Warren, and McHenry,
The country may sti}l be at war, aud the
new Democratic President may find himself
under the military necessity of having some
of those gentlemen arrested and tried by
military commission.
The Jacobin Leaguers too, may come in for
a share of public notice. The secret organi-
zation ang their “unconditional loyalty to a
party, and the representative of that party”
yrs.
may be looked upon as incompatible with
the safety of the States,andthey may be put
on trial for conspiracy.
We do not say that the Democrats would
follow in the footsteps of the Jacobins, nor
that a Democratic President could ever be
induced to imitate the examploc of Mr. Lin-
coln. The Democrats, when in power, will
try to restore the Constitution in all its pur-
what they would have the power to}do under
the Constitationand the law,astheJacobines
understood them. We ask these brawlers
and boasters,these men who ere ready to
hang and quarter everybody, who does not
think as they do, to reflect on these things.
The French have a proverb which say ; —
Never say to the fountain I will dot drink
of your water,” for you may be thirsty. Do
not say to State Rights, “we shall never
want you again,” you may be glad, at som®
future dayto seck shelter under their ings:
- Phila, Age.
* Traitors."
It is quite common for Republican pres
ses and ** Unien League ' Abolitionists to
speak of and denounce Democrats and al}
friends of dhe white man's government, as
¢ traitors.”” Even pulpit demag gues, in-
fluenced more ‘by the spirit from below
than that from above, sometimes so debase
themselves as to indulge in this miserable
slang. Judging from the frequency with
which the opprobrious epithet ** traitor,” is
applied now a days, traitors must be alarm-
ingly on the crease among us. We hear
at the bar and on the bench, in Congress and
on the stump, they mect vs at every turn,
they swarm the public thoroughfares, they
hold forth at public meetings, and, worse
than all, they gather in force around the bal-
lot boxes. Yes, traitors” are waxing nu-
merous, and *‘ treason” is becoming gener-
al, and under these circumstences it seems
natural that we should feel desirous to knaw
what constitutés treason. and who are trai-
tors.
Is it treason to love the country better
than the Administration, and to hold that the
Constitution is above the Executive? Ts it
treason to prefer laws to decrees, and judg-
es to provost marshals ?—Is it treason to
believe the authorities fallible in judgment
and treasonable mn conduct ? Is it treason
to desire peace for the sake of union, and
union for the love of peace ? Is it treason
to prefer white mon to negroes ? Is criticis-
ing the Government, treason, or censuring
Congress, treason, or refusing credence to a
lying telegram, treagon 7
1s he a traitor who thinks for himself, and
says what he thinks—who refuses to manu-
facture his opinions to order, or to sell his
principles to advantage ? Is he a traitor
who, fearing the consequence ¢f this oy that
Government action, boldly wains or wisely
counsels? Is that man a traitor who, rash-
ly prudent, risks his worldly prospects rath-
er than barter away the constitational rights
and proud prerogatives of a freeman ? she
8 traitor who refuses.to believe blood letting
a universal panacea for national ills, or coer-
cion the most effective cement for a broken
Union ? Or are these traitors who, lolling
at their ease by their own snug firesides
hound on poor men to the battle-tield, de-
nounce all that speak of peace as traitors,
yet shrink from ¢ villainous saltpetre ” as
carefully as ever did creditor from his duns ?
Great is the almighty dollar! They who
possess three hundred dollars may have
peace, yot still bp loyal—they who do not
possuss three hundred dollars must fight or
be dubbed traitors. Traitors, forsooth!
Traitors in their teeth! The peace men are
the conservatives of the country, ‘and the
only loyalists, for they are loyal to the Con-
stitution gid true to the principles that un-
derlie our republican form of government,
Their minds are not narrowed to a section
nor their principles wilted to an ssn. ln
them, under God, is the only hope of ihe Re-
public ; with them are the mighty masses :
with them the solid senge of the pgople.
What matter it that such men are cailed
traitors ; Names cpnnot change things —
You cannot make white black by calling it
80; and you cannot convert light into dark-
ness, nor patriots into traiturs, by such a
simple process. If it is treason to love the
country better than its Chief Magistrate—
treason to wish for a-Union of feeling rather
than a Unjon of force, then, ** make the
most of it.” If it is treason to love oug ful-
low citizens of the South, and to prefer rath-
er to reason than to fight with them, then,
‘* wake the most of it.”” And let it never
be forgotten that those men who bandy
about the chargs of treason so recklessly,
do it not with the bgyanet over their shoul-
der, byt with pen in hand.
In this community, in every community
throughout the North, nine out of every ten
of the men who indulge in the use of the'ep
ithet ¢ traitors” towards Democrats and oth-
er conservative citizens, are men who are
base cowards at heart, and although ever
crying ‘! push on the war,” can never be in-
duced tq shoulder their musket and risk
their lives on the battle-field. They have
faith in the $300 exemption, and hope- (o
have the poor men of the country forced, by
conscription; to do the fighting. Such are
the Republican + Unton League” leadurs,
here and elsewhere ; and the people so un-
derstand them. —Ez. -
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ity to its orginal vigor; but we have gtated |
of them everywhere : in the army and navy,
YARKEE VANDALISM.
Jacksonville and Pensacola, Florida. have
been wantonly burned to the ground. The
torch was applied by the Yankees: none
others. Iliggisson was colonel of 8 Regi-
ment which landed at the first named town.
Be is a Boston freedom shrieking clergy-
man, and has been noted heretofore on ac-
count of his John Brown sympathies. Fhe
military forces now in the Gulf States are
trom New England, aud the officers Seem not
to restrain the work of malicious degasta-
tion and mercenary plunder. These secnes
reveal the true character of Abolitionigm.~
A prominent Republican. averred, some
time since, that his party would first settle
the Slavery question ; an] after that the Na-
tive American question. We ¢ztract the:
following account of Jacksonvilie from the.
editorial columns of the Ingusrer of Phile-
delphia, of the 9th inst :
*“ Jacksonville, § small but very beau: #
ful town on the east coast of Florida, has
met with the same fate wkich changed Hamp
tou and Pensacola from pleasent places of
avode and resort to umnhabitable wastcs.
In less thar three weeks from its ocrupation
by our faroes, and when every preparati u.
necessary had been made to insure safely
and continued pnssrssion if attacked, th,
order for its abandonment was received,
and our troopg again embarked upon the
transports: Tho departure, however, was
marked by a disgraceful act of vandalisne
only equallled by that perpetrated at Ponsa-
cola on the other side of the Peninsula On
27th the Catholic church sand PaIsonag
were fired by some of the soldiers, and'in a
short time were burned to the ground, the
sacred edifice having previously been sacked:
of everything it contained of value. The
next day incendiary targegs were applied : &
will, and in a few hours the black smoke
curled heavenward from all sections of the
town. The efforts of the vandals were com-
pletely successful, scarcely a public or Pra
vate building being left to denote the site
where Jacksanville ance stood in all Its beau--
ty and atfraciiveness. With what disgust,
then, must these acts by our owa soldiers
be received by their fellow countrymen,
The Union armies were organized for a no.
ble and holy purpose—not to murder or:
plundey kplpiess fAon-combatants, or t0.5ack:
and destroy their homes — and the individuals
clothed in the uniform of the United States
soldier who brings dia srace upon his com.
rades and their common cause, by thus
transgressing the mandates of justice and
christignity, shogld have speedily meted tg,
him. such pumshment as will serve ag a
warning in all fature time. The country
will anxiously awiit the intelligonco that
the incendiaries of Jacksonville and, Pensa-
cola have received their Just reward.
ee = eee
IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON.
Agonday — The Government continues hap-
py —*“ nobody hurt" -~hgs ‘Old Dan Tucker"
sung for cvening service-tells anecdotes and
goes to bed weny.
Tuesday—Government feels uncommon
mirthful—last night went to the theatre, foo
got the play—b'hieve it was “Comedy of
Errors. : :
Wednesday -- Government feels very good
—intends shortly to take a toprthrongh the
loyal States, visit his kingdom, hold comme.
nion with his subjects, and circulate, snd:
slash round generally, Government's . Sec.
retary of the Treasury,and g select corps or
the Provost Marshals, will scatter ‘Sureer-
backs,” like rose leaves in the path of
the Gov rament. Certain * Provost Mar.
shals and their Deputies hve been prac-
ticing in Conoecticnt, co 93 to circulate
greenbacks with &pproved Governwer t
Grace.
Thursday —The Government 13 particular
ly happy, Bagged J. ff, Davis’ carpet-bae.
Mrs. Gevernment bags Mrs. Jeff's unmer.
tionables. Government in high glee.
Friday—COllaed on Government carly in,
tha morning to inquire ahaoyt Jefe, carpet.
bag—Government gut of temper — J's:
boots won't ft—Governments heels tos
long—skinned heels—d—d the boots !—
Inguired How ‘t. other things titted Mrs.
Government. Government looked unusual.
ly serious —thonght inquiring a dangerous:
innovatien—doubted jt constitutionality—.
determined to submit question to Pap Bates
Pettifigger Gener! tg “Governjens. If the.
case of Mrs, Government presented unusual;
difficulties, Yan Buren and Brady would bo
sent for immediately. 4
Satarday— Government hes a religicuy:
turn to-day Dlosses faith in Dale Owen
Judge Edmond, and spirit rappers in gener.
al— hopes he 1sn’t pagt praying for—issues.
proclamation asks cvery body to pray for
Lim. Leys pray.— Court Journal,
eee cg 4 tment
OCF “Did jyou gee th 3
meeting 3’ sind ian me
democrat, “Yes; ail but the Mi. wag tha,
democrats reply.
——— a
0 1t is a Chinese maxim (hat “for ev-.
gry man who does not work, and overy wo-
man who is idle, somebod
pik y must suffer cold:
a __—
Pay-triotism is the way that a maiosit
of the men who employ of “the jority
sheuld write the ae the government.
Senne
07> Peter Sharp says his wife is equal to.
four “fulls’,—beguti-ful oul
and aw-ful when cross. Yovilgtel, army,
ee tensor !
To Iti tai ive.
Bicran, of Washin, dined (kat Doloative,
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the rebels; 3 br on, was ‘no bung by