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BELLEFONTE, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 31, 1863,
pantie; This expectation has been dis-
dhe Muse, | appointed. The slaves have not merely re-
. [fused to rise, but they have remained in
a loyal subordination, and have caused neith-
Whitten for the Democratic Watchman.)
er weakness nor alarm to their masters.
On he other hand, the utmost anticipations
formed of the resolution and endurance of
Southern freemen have been outdone by the
determination actually displayed. There
has been neither division nor flinching; the
people have been steady under the worst
disasters; the Government undismayed by
the most appalling perils: the women en-
thusiastic and devoted beyond the wont of
their sex, patrietic as they always are in
the hour of need ; the soldiers capable, not
merely of individual daring and energy, but
of collective discipline, and constancy be-
yond the warmest hopes of their most cor-
dial friends. Food, powder and cloth they
have managed to obtain in quantities suffi-
cient for their absolute wants, and the be-
ginning of the next autumn will see their
last difficulties in this respect at an end.
The quality of the Southern troops has
compensated their country, in a degree
which was unexpected, for the inferiority in
numbers and material, which seemed their
chief danger. The North has done less
A FAREWELL.
BY JOON P. MITCHEL.
My love, they tell us we must part ;
They think our souls to sever ;
But ah ! they fathom not the heart
Which loveth on forever.
Long, weary months may come and go
Before the hour of meeting ;
But, steady as time's endless flow,
My heart for thee is beating.
The breath of time may blight the flow’rs
That from the earth are springing;
But cannot touch such hearts as ours
While to each other clinging.
Relentless death may smite the life
Of those who seck to smother,
Within the world’s unending strife.
The love we bear each other;
But fadcless as the evening star,
Our love will live forever,
When those who persecute us are
Where anguish dieth never.
in them lies to put a stop to the work of ra-
pine, ruin and purposeless slaughter.
England has already considered and re-
tused the proposal of France for a joint me-
diation. France made a sort of tenauve
proposal to interpose her good offices, and
the offer was decidedly rejected at Wash-
ington. But without any such entangle-
ment as might by possibility result from
mediation, it is in our power, and surcly is
our duty, to withdraw the encouragement
which we are actually giving to the prose-
cution of such a war by tacitly allowing—
what few men in England believe —that the
hold of the Federal Government upon the
Southern States is not finally and irretrieva-
bly gone.
North to say that Europe does not consider,
or at least has not pronounced, its enter-
prise hopeless, there can be little hope that
that enterprise will be formally abandoned.
On the other hand the recognition of the
Southern Confederacy hy France and Eng.
land would inflict the heaviest discourage-
ment on the war party at ths North. To
dream of resenting it would be madness ;
to conceal its significance impossible; it
would be necessary for the Northern Gov-
t
COMPROMISING WITH TRAITORS.
+ This Administration and its partisans are
smitten with mental blindness. In nothing
is this more cleatly evidenced than in the
novel crochet that it is degrading to “Gov-
ernment to compromise with malcontents!—
Where did these insensate3 pick up this car-
dinal point in their policy ? They talk as
if it were, somewhere, an established prin-
ciple that tke people are to be governed by
temporary rulers, not accerding to tho tra-
ditional laws and usages of the people, but
according to the will of those in administra
tive office.
memorial rights of the people prove to be
rudely jostled or infringed by the hasty leg-
So long as our public policy permits the [islation of a partizan Administration, they
i esteem that the “dignity of the Government’
is vitally interested in having the people give
way to the temporary and incompent rulers 1
Truly, there is no dignity like that of an
upstart. The begzar, recently enriched, is
Where the cherished and im-
he most overdressed on the parade: Noth-
ing equals a negro for ferocity as a slave-
driver,
If we turn to history, in every age, in
every land, we find that the great men, and
the dynastic families that built up powerful
father aggravated the regal rule—well I
will add yet more to it! My leas: finger
shall be thicker than my fatker’s loins. My
father beat you only with whips. 1 will
beat you with scorpions.” :
Fooled by these simpletons, Roboam sup.
posed he was “putting his foot down firmly.”
While he was destroying the very tenure of
his rule, his silly partisans persuaded him
he was showing great resolution. But,
when the people of the Ten Tribes lLeard
this bratal and insolent language, they
cried out ; What have we in common lon-
ger with the house of David 2. To your tab-
erracles | Oh, Israel! Now see to your
own house, David! They stoned to, death
the tax-gatherer that was sent by Roboam
and the latter fled in disgrace, and housed
himself in Jerusalem.
Such is the history of a ruler that wonld
not ‘‘compromise with traitors.” It is not
certainly the less significant, because that
ruler was the grandson of David, to whose
family a perpetual rule had been promisca
over a people that God singled out from all
others—claiming aright to rule them di-
rectly, and not, as to all other nations, lea-
ving them alcogether free to choose their
rulers, or to change them, Nevertheless,
PASSIVE SUBMISSION TO WRONG.
The fature historian, as he calmly ana-
lyzes the causes of the present war, and
demonstrates to posterity the unjust and
frivolous plea upon which it was inaugura-
ted, will pause in wonder aad amazement
as he ponders over that dark passage m the
annals of our country, where the record
speaks of the enforcement, by bad and de-
signing men of the staring doctrine of
passive submission {o wrong, as we find it
ostentatiously ventilated in a Jate number
of the Washington Chronc’e,
That a people, who in the incredibly
short space of seventy years have risen
from the condition of a dependent colony,
to be one of the most important and com
manding Powers of the earth, should have
surrendered
that dearest prerogative of
American citizens — the right to criticise the
actions of those they put in power —into
the hands of the vilest political faction that
ever conspired for the overthrow of human
freedom, is certainly one of those anomalies
in the history of a nation, which strongly
reminds one of ‘he crowning incidents of
some grotesque dream.
precisely the sort of enertainment which
And yet this is
There is aland where love and gold
Together are not measured, :
‘Where hearts are not in markets sold
And love alone is treasured.
Ob, may we meet to part no more,
When this poor life is ended,
Upon the bright, celestial shore
Where hearts for aye are blended.
And though we part, my dearest love,
than was expected. Its vast resources have
been rendered unavailing by the unparal-
leled perversity and imbecility of its Gov-
ernment, and in part, also, by the weakness
which has allowed the clamrs of the mob
tojdirect the movements of the army. The
troops were of bad quality to begin with,
they have not been improved by the efforts
ernment and the Republican party to con.
fess to themselves that the termination of
the struggle and the acknowledgment of
Southern independence was merely a matter
of time; and that as the prolongation of
the war could not cffect its issue, all that
could be done was to end iton the best
terms that could be obtained.
of their Generals, and they have become
habituated to defeat and insensible to dis-
grace. They have failed even where they
might have been. expected to succeed ; not
merely have they Leen unable to contend
with space and time—the cnemy who, as
was foreseen, must baflle them at last—but
they have been beaten over and over again,
by vastly inferior numbers in the open field.
They have not even come into collision
with the interior defences of the country
—its vast extent and impassible wilderness ;
for they have been overpowered by the valor
—— OB man o
Remember time is fleeting,
And if each heart will faithful prove
There's bliss for us in meeting.
Forifby time's remorseless breath
Our ev'ry hope is blighted,
We'll be, beyond the realms of death,
In heaven—reunited,
Then fare thee well; may spirits blest
Attend thy wand'rings ever,
Until we reach the land of rest,
Where parting cometh— nerves.
Howauo, July 25, 1863.
gi Feutle Dovoeracie Werchter of the Southern soldiery, and outgener-
on for , Watchman. p
LD. ) aled by the skill of the Southern
THE SOLUIERS LAS? Wish. commanders. And while the resources of
tke South are undergoing a constaut im-
provement and development, the North has
made no progress towards the cure of its
disabilities. Each battle displays more
forcibly the inferior quality of its troops
and the signal, incapacity of its Generals,
Therefore, the conclusion which was at first
formed conditionally, by close observers,
has become the firm and absolute conviction
of all reasoning men ; and itis a very axiom
in all practical discussion upon the war, and
BY JOIN C. HENRY.
“Come home to me, my darling,
Come home,” the mother cried :
“My only joy and comfort,
My only hope and pride!
“Come home to me, my darling,
To loving ones at home ;
Broken hearts are waiting,
And praying—wiil you come
‘I cannot come, my mother,
From the Williamspert Democrat.)
THE SURRENDER OF YORK PA. TO
the Abolitionists of this place, to stigma tize
the Democrats of York, for ite moocnt
render to the rebels, we publish the follow-
ng extract of a letter addressed by a highly
respectable citizen of York to a friend in this
ted proofs of the strong and ardent propen- ! ]
ity of the Abolitionists to falsify and traduce | conveys a singular lesson to the foolish peo-
their conservative opponents : ple who know so little of stalesmanship as
In all probubility Kuropean recognition
alone would terminate the war within six
months. Eurcpean recognition is withheld
only by the obstinate refusal of the Engliss
Cabinet, On them, therefore, almost ah
much as on the Government of Washington | *
rests the awful responsibility entailed by
the continuance of this savage, fruitless and
fratricidal conflict—on them and on those
who, stifling* their own strong misgiving,
support them in the one sided inaction
which they call a “dignified neutrality.” |
THE REBELS. t
As there has been quite an effort made by
sur-f*
place. #I'hese extracts add to the accumula-
“York, Julyl3, 1863. n
els with arms in their hands.”
of England, by the same system of “com”
promising with traitors,’”’ aud taking rebels
into his favor—as the proudest of- the Plata-
genets had done before him, appeased the
DEAR Sik >In answer to your favor I] sentiol to all civil government.
governments, have done so by compromise,
more than by the sword. To overrun a
country is one thing, to hold and establish
possession in it, is another. Viribus paran-
tur, jure vetinenlur. Plutarch ascribes to
Augustus a reflection that it was folly in
Alexander, who wept because he had no
more worlds to conquer, because to conguer
is a small affair, compared with governing.
Louis XI. of France,.the ablest of the Bour-
bons, united the several Frank dukedoms
and principalities, and made France a great
nation, by compromising, .by largaining
vith, by coaxing and taking into favor ¢“reb-
Henry VIT-
actions that had distracted England. The
Emperor Charles V. won more by compro-
mises with armed forces than by his own
great martial prowess.
The pedant doc-
rines of James I. of England, reduced to
practice by his son, Charles I,, and his
grandsons, Charles and James, and the ex-
mplos af tha madern Bourbons, who have
known so well how to lose thrones, seem to
be the copies imitated by this insensate ad-
ministration cabal.
The inspired history of the Old Testament
ot to have learned that compromise 18 es-
The twelfth
children of Israel.”
when Roboam gathered his chariois and
horsemen to make war on the Tribes that
had seceded from the Confederation, God
sent a prophet to “speak to Roboam and to
the rest of the people, sayin
go up, nor fight against your brethren the
The sacrzd narrative
mmplies no censure on the Tribes.
‘not say they rebelled, but simply they 7e-
should not be forgotten that a wife has her
rights as sacred after marriage as before,
and a good husband's devotion to his wife
gallantry did while he was a lover.
ceded from, or abandoned the house of Da-
vid, aud a famous old commentator on the
Scriptures (Abulensis) says : “This they
did justly, for a people, or a republic, in
creating a king, give to him his government
and night of reigring. Then it can deprive
him of it, or restrict him, if he abuses it to
the harm of the people. For a people de-
livers itself to a ruler to be governed, not
absolutely, but on certain conditions (cons-
titutions or fundamental laws), and, if these
be not kept by the ruler, the people may
depose him.— Abul. In 111 Reg.— Freeman’
Journal.
Witten for the Democratic Watchman.)
HINTS TO HUSBANDS.
TYE DULL ULIICYUuTULLy S000 wave
to Wives,” but seldom with anything re-
specting a husband’s duties to his wife. It
mavive
will concede quite as much attention as his
Before
marriage a young man would fecl some del-
the American people have been invited to
partake of by Lis Excellency Abraham
Lincoln.
Passive submission is the burden of eve-
ry song which Las been set fo music in the
office of the Chronicle, and which has been
persistently inculeated by all the pampered
minions of despotism throughout the land.
Has a battle Leen lost and myriads of human
lives needlessly sacrificed through the in-
capacity and
conmanders, a warning is forthwith wafced
over the wires, denouncing as rank treason
any attempt to demur at the atrocious poli-
cy which could inflict such dire calamity
upon the country.
must be the order of the day.
raised agamst the barbarous practice of
concealing from a loyal and confiding peo-
the stern realities of a disastrous campaign,
the miserable factionists, whose aim is to
destroy the liberiies of the Republic, im-
mediately sct to work to fulminate their
threats of
Passive submission cun alone appease their
wrath! The immolaticn of our friends and
BUIALOW is tian savin we
imbecility of incompetent
Passive submission
1s a cry
incarceration and ostracism.
Mam UNL RELIVE A,
is, in their opinion, glory engugh for Dem-
ocratic barbarians, who should thank Heav-
en on their knees for being allowed to crawl
nto the pathways of life with heads on
their shoulders!
No matter what hideous shape the wrong
committed by those in power may assume,
Your calling is in vain;
The lips that bless your name, mother,
May never speak again.
Never think me weak, mother,
When I sigh for friends so dear ;
The bravest hand you know, mother,
Has brushed away a tear.
the policy which should be pursued by the
European powers in regard to it, that there
is no chance of the subjugation of the Con-
federate States, ‘
On the other hand, il has become mani-
fest that the will of the North to inflict in-
jury and suffering on the South, no matter
is correct.
of our being good, true and loyal men.
are sound Democrats and stand up for the
Constitution and our country.
The whole military force here, and any | The tribes sent to Jeroboam, the son of Na
_ North, if cqually resolute, had advantages
“I soon shalt go to sleep, mother,
The time is drawing nigh;
When my body’s dead to earth, mother,
My soul shall live on high.
at what cost, 1n a spirit of simple vengeance,
had been underrated; and that its power
of flicting such injury had been by no
means over estimated. The North has, for
ssive purposes, the command of the
internal waters of the South, affording ac-
cess to its richest settlements, excepting
where these waters are closed at their
mouths by strong forts still held by the
Confederates, as is the case at Mobile,
Charleston and Savannah. Movable columns
can be sent from the rivers, as a base of
operations, to burn and destroy, to rob and
to kill, for vast distances. And this. has
been largely done.” The war has been waged
in a spirit of malignant hostility such as we
attribute only to fiends—such as certainly
has not been manifested by Christian war-
riors since the devastation of the Palatinate
by Louis XIV,
It has been the boast of the North, that
the South should either return to the Union
or remain free only as a desert; that her
people should choose Letween submission
and extermination. And wherever their
power has extended, the Northern Generals
have carried out this fiendish menace almost
to the letter, They have done their utmost
to render barren and desolate for years to
come many of the richest regions of the
South, I'bey have burned defenseless towns
and quiet plantations ; they have laid waste
the fields and carried of the cattle; here
and there they have cut the levees and laid
extensive and fertile districts under water,
not for any strategic purpose, but solely for
the gratification of the malice and savagery
of their countrymen. This is all they can
ever do; but they may goon doing this for
years to come, if nothing occurs to check
their progress, Beaten till they dare no
longer face the Southern troops in the field,
their numbers and their navy will still ena.
ble them to wreak their cowardly vengeance
on the homes and fields, the women and
children of the South.
Itis this purely vindictive, this utterly
barbarous warfare that the conflict is now
practically resolved ; and surely it is time
that those whose interests are bound up
with the prosperity of America should ask
themselves whether they can permit this to
go on any longer—time that those whose
pre-eminence in power and intelligence ren-
slaves, and they were disposed to regard der them the representatives before the
the majority of these slaves at least as do- | world of Christian civilization, should ask
smestic enemies, likely to rise on the rear of | themselyes whether they can answer it to
their masters, and to render such aid to the | God and their conseience if they allow this
invaders as to make resistance practically | to go on any longer without doing all that
“Whisper words of* love, mother,
To loving ones around ;
A comrade’s hand has marked, mother,
My silent little mound.
“You’ll find the lonely place, mother,
By Potomace’s rolling wave,
Will you plant a rose to bloom, mother,
Above my lonely grave?
‘There's one yet left to love, mother,
Whom 1 never more can see ;
he’s the idol of my soul, mother,
Oh! love her, then, for me.
“She's the darling little girl, mother,
‘Wo promised, ’reath the vine
‘That shades our cottage door, mother,
She ever would be mine.
“I'll leave her to your care, mother,
Ob! guard her with your love,
Until we both do meet, mother,
With angels pure above.”
BELLEFONTE. PA.
Miscellaneous,
rom the London Morning Herald
THE AMERICAN WAR ON THE ME-
DIATION QUESTION.
From the first outbreak of the American
war nearly all well-informed men who were
calm enough to regard its prospects from a
practical point of view, were convinced that
the issue depended wholly upon the earnest-
ness and unanimity of the South. They
saw that the vast extent of Southern terri-
toyy, if defended by its people with that
spirit and determination which characterizes
all nations belonging to the superior races of
mankind, could never be conquered by the
mere force of numbers and material resour-
At the same time they saw that the
ces.
on its side which would enable it to inflict
frightful misery on its enemies. The ques-
tion, therefore. seems to them simply one of
Southern endurance. The few rational ob-
servers who doubted this conclusion rested
their doubts simply on what seemed to them
the probability of servile insurrection. Cae
third of the Southern population consists of
istance was made.
resist, we made a virtue of necessity, ana
bels, reported to our committee of safety,
gess, ag Chairman, that the rebels promised
to respect private property, provided no res-|s
As we had no force to
accordingly our Committee of Safety,
sent out four of their number an equal
number of both parties, to meet the |t
enemy and surrender the town, on the
condition that private property shou'd be |
respected.
town, the General making his headquar-
ters at the Court House, Ile imme-
and drinking houses, and detailed guards
to any person who had any thing to pro-
tect.
We never had two quieter days in York
than we had whilst the rebels occupied the
town. The streets were full of women and | €
t
On Sunday morning, after the rebelse
had obtained of us about $36,000,in money,
beef, shoes, and flour, they left our town,
and were it noc for their bands playing
we should not have been apprized of their
exit. : ; .
Tall about defending ourselves! Why,
the few men we had here, say about 300, :
marched to Wrightsville, where they were
the river. They made a stand and occupied
their entrenchments.
Only one-forth of the rebel force here mar-
ched to Wrightsville, gave our men one fire
when they all skedaddled over the river,set-
which saved Lancaster county,
our Chief Burgess all the depots, car-shops,
through his untiring exertions that they
were saved.
Our commumty with scarcely an excep-
tion know these facts, and award the praise
to whom it belongs.
satisfied, that ¢*Copperhead” York escaped
so finely. Yours truly ——"
Solomon,
rallying under his lead, the people of the Is’
would submit to his rule.
them to return on the third day after, and
he would reply. He then consulted the old
men, who had been councilors of State in the
have to say, that hardly one word you hear | chapter of the Third Book of Kings records
in regard to the rebel invasion of our town
We are slandered from the fact | mise with rebels.”
the fate of a ruler who would “pot compro”
When Solomon, the son of David, died,
bis son Roboam, went np to Sichem to re-
ceive the homage of all the tribes of Israel.
where near us was about 300 convalescent | bat, who had fled into exile 1m the time of
soldiers, who promptly marched out with
their muskets gleaming in the sunlight, to
repel 12,000 reba ls, consisting of infantry | raclitish confederation said to Roboam, the
cavalry, and twelve pieces of artillery, One |S
of our scouts who was captured by the ree
He was a valiant warrior, and
on of Solomon, that the royal rule during
the time of his father and predecessor had
become oppressive to them, and they were
composed of an equal number of men of |not prepared to endure It any longer. They
both political parties, with the Chief Bur-|asked certain guarantees aud limitations of
his power, ard said, on receiving these as.
urances for their imperilied rights, they
Roboam told
ime of the wise king Solomon, These wise
old statesmen recognized, no doubt, that in
ae glory and success of the reign of Solo-
mon, the power of the crown had encroach-
The next morning the rebels entered our | cd, little by little, on the liberties and rights
of some of the people,
men, moreover, and knew that it is only by
diately stationed guards ‘at all the hotels | the consent, or, at least, the silent assent of
a people, that the powers of a government
can be enlarged.
necessity of ‘‘compromising with rebels and
They were states-
Therefore they saw the
raitors.”” They gave Roboam this remark-
able adyice: “If to-day you will have oley-
d (!) this people, and will have served (!)
children, who were unmolested. them, and will have yielded to their demand
and havegspoken soft words to them, they
will be your servants all your days.”
But, in the days of Roboam, a new party
seems to have sprung up in the Israclitish
confederatio n,
a peculiar people, and under a special di-
vine direction—though God had given the
promise to David that the throne should re-
Though the Israelites were
nain in his family, thus distinguishing that
1 family {from ali other royal families—yet
joined by a large force from the other side of Saul, David and Solomon, had cach been
presented to the people for their choice, and
~accepled by the people.” Roboam’s new party
of inexperienced men thought it was time
to establish a ‘‘higher law’ than the will of
the people.
ting fire to the bridge, the destruction of| know whether they had a government or
not!’ Probably they thought of the de-
Had it not been for.the great exertion of | mand of Jeroboam and tho tribes, as ¢Lit-
tle Villain” Raymond of the draft—that it
&e., would have burned down. It was only | was a “reat national blessing,” vy way of
testing whether or not the people were
to have the presumption to put any limits
on the power and demands of government !
They thought it was “time to
Roboam disdained the advice of the states-
men who had been trained in the school of
It is only the Abolitionists who are dis- | Solomon. Ile turned to the new party—who
had grown up with him, and stood by him.
So “he answered the people roughly: My
ular ?
icacy in accepting an invitation to a compa-
ny to which his lady-love had not been in.
vited ; after marriage is he always so partic-
During courtship, gallantry would
demand that be should make himself agree-
able to her; after marriage, it often occurs
leave their wives alone in the evening, to at-
that he thinks more of being agreeable to
himself. How often do men, after passing
the day at their stores or places of business,
tend some place of amusement,—and even
when the evening is spent at home, it is em-
ployed in some way which does not recog-
nize the wife’s nght to share in the enjoy-
ment of the fireside. Look, ye husband,
and consider what your wife was when you
took her, not on compulsion, bat from your
own choice-—a choice based on what you
then considered her superiority to all others.
She was young, perhaps the idolof a happy
home, gay and blithe as a lark, and cher-
ished as an object of endearment at her
father’s fireside.
destiny with yours; to make your home hap.
py» to do all that woman's love could prompt,
woman’s ingenuity could desire, to meet
your wishes, and to lighten the burdens
which might press on you im your pilgrim.
age. She of course, had her expectations,
and she did expect you would, after marriage,
perform those kind offices of which you were
so lavish in the days of betrothment. She
became your wife, left her home for yours,
burst asunder, as it were, the bonds of love
which had bound her to her futher’s fireside, |
seeking no other boon than your affection:
left, it may be, the ease and delizacy of a
home of indulgence; and now what must be
her feelings if she gradually awakens to the
consciousness that you love her less than
before ; that your evenings are spent abroad;
that you only come home to satisfy the de-
mands of hunger; to find a resting place
for your head when weary, or a nwse for
your sick chamber when diseased. Why
did sh leave the bright home of her youth-
ful days? Was it simply to darn your
stockings, mend your clothes amd proyide
for the wants of your household, or was there
gome understanding that she was lo be
made happy in her connection with the man
she dared to love ? It1s our candid opin-
ion that in the majority of instances of do-
mestic misery, man is the sgeveys
el AAP Ae.
Free Tin NEGRO AND ENSLAVE Tue Wine
Max.—The doctrine of the Abolition party
cairied out, would free every negro ou the
continent and enslave every white man, who
would not igrodly surrender his faith to Ab-
olition keeping. Confiscation, emancipa-
tion, separation, contamination, colonization,
amalgamation, conflagration and damnation
are the chiet elements of modern Republi-
cation faith.
lle who would profit by such a faith, let
him beware of the wrath to come.— Iowa
Statesman,
their myrmidons, always cager to distinguish
themselves by low and dishonorable as-
saults upon the rights of American citizens,
are to be heard on all sides, howling forth
their cuckoo cries of submission, as if our
forefathers had fought in the great fight
for disentbralment from political tyranny
only to doom their children and descendants
to be trodden under the heels of a worse
and more revolting despotism.
Such is the way in which cfficial inapti-
tude seeks to secure for itself a perfect im-
munity from all responsibility for the terri-
ble crimes and atrocities which have char-
acterized the course of Mr, Lincoln’s Ad-
ministration throughout every phare of this
unholy and unjustifiable war,
In no coucttry but America could this
monstrous idea of passive submission to
wrong have been advceated so long and so
remorselessly without giving rise to some of
those popular outbreaks which generally
Yet she left all to join her | culminate in the downfall of dynasties. Bat
the American people possess powers of en-
durance which would scem almost miracu-
lous.
mast countries would have caused the mer-
cary in the barometer-of popular wrath to
rise to boiling heat.
most enormous crimes committed in their
They have borne abuses which in
They have seen the
naine, at which huminity shudders, and
the civilized world looks on with dismay.
They have seen the temple of their politi-
cal liberties forcibly entered by false priests,
and the cedar and the gold surreptionsly
stolen therefrom, and yet they rebelled not,
because they had been taught to beliove
that some infallable good was to be ae-
complished by such unlawful proceedings!
They have witnessed the suspensioa of the
habeas corpus—the arbitrary arrest and im-
prisonment of citizens for opinion’s sake—
the abrogalion of the freedom of speech
and of the press, and other enormitics
which have rendered the American name
a by-word of reproach in every civilized
land ; and all they ventured to do was re-
spectfully to protest against the further m-
fiction of such wrongs, in view of their at-
tachment to the Constitution.
salaried organ of the blood-stained criminals
at Washington becomes pertectly frantie.
Such audacity smells rank in its nostrils,
and it deliberately tells the people that pas-
B.C. {sive submission is the only part fic for
American citizens to play in the present
drama, In the name of American people
we repudiate this doclrine of passive sub
mission to wrong; and, so far as the great
State of New York is concerned, it is ex-
ploded.
and we hear the giant, who at the polls will
soon ‘‘cancel and tear to pieces that great
bond” which now keeps the people pale,
shaking his scabbard in the distance,—-N. Y,
News.
At this the
The arm of retribution is upliited,
to render it altogether nugatory.
When we compare the men of the Revolu-
tion with those who now figure on the pub.
lic stage, we cannot but be ;
immense moral and
which has befailen our
race, i
were steadily advancing in the mate
Prosperity, we were steadily declining as
moral and intellectual people. We beeam,
forgetful and unmindful of our constitution-
al obligations, indifferent as to our social
duties, and reckless in the selection of the
means of securing individual snecess. The
acquisition of wealth, as the only sure pass.
port to public consideration. became the sole
object of men’s pursuits, while reputation
itself was only looked upon as an introdag-
tion to mammon. Wealth mn afl itscountnes
secures power and a certain degree. of res-
pectability but it shares that power and res.
pectability with other conditions in life bas
ed on moral and intclleeiual sapetiority fac
above the control of fortune. With us
wealth rules supreme. It hag few, if
any, competitors for power and eansider-
ation, and it claims to be, and is, in realit '
the only distributor of the rewards of socio
ty.
That sucha State of things natarally low-
ers the standard of public morals, hat it
degrades the learned professions, and sub-
stitutes for the love of knowledge a sordid
and ungovernable desire for gain, must be
evident to all who have observed the devel-
opment and progress of onr social institu,
tions. In no respect however, has its ma. :
lign influence been more apparent than in its
influence on politics and on the men selected
by the people to transact for the the bn-
siness of governmeat. The men who treat-
ed statesmanship as a science which requires
thought, reflection and study, rapidly
disappeared trom the stage while thew
places were occupie |, first by empirics, wha
disregarded all theories and all teachings of
history, and at last, by mere adventurers,
who sought place and power merely for their
individual advancement. With these, poli-
tics beeamo a mere trade, and by no means
a respectable one. Tho art of arranging
primary meetings, of getting the proper men
elected as delegazes to couveations, and the
skill required to manage conventions, cons-
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sure the success of particular candidates
for office furnished the standard of political
morals,
Tu this way the principles of governmen
which animated and controlled the action of
the great men of the Revolution were soon
buried in oblivion, while the Constitution:
tself lost its binding force on the political
partizans who seized upon the Government
merely for ¢he sake of public plunder. All
sorts of political heresies were introduced
and no means, however base, left untried:
to secure popular adhesion to new-fangled
doctrines subversive of our institutions and
politicians secured
wealth for themselves and their adherents
and with it the means of further operations
in the ure of government for individual ad.
vancement, until a faction became bold and
powerful enough to proclaim its indepen-
dence of the Constitution and laws of the
country. All this was done within the
space of three generations, in the land of
Washington, and under a written Counstitu-
tion ! Surely no nation, ancient or moderna
bas had a more rapid decline, let us
trust that we may still be able to avert its
fall.
The only hope, now, are the people and
the ballot-box, but in order that this hope
may not prove dclusive, both must be kept
free to resist malevolent influences. Tha
coriuption which bas crept into the admin-
istrations of Federal and State Government
may exercise a bancful iuflucnce on the
voters, and they may be suggestive of means
to impede the cxercise of the franchise, or
3 is here
where the machinations of potitieal upstares
will have to be met by the resolution and
patriotism of the people, for if they fall in
this last attemot to restore the Coustitution
and to recover their own freedom, succeed-
ing generations will point to them as a de-
generate race, who were not deserving of
the freedom they had inherited from (herr
ancestors,
laws. The trading
One great step —perhaps the greatest—hag
already been taken toward regeneration—
not in the beastial sense of the 4bolitionists
of the WeNpeLL Pig Lies school, but in the
high moral sense in which alone that term
has a meaning and a practical application.
The delegates appointed to the several
State conventions which have lately wet to
nomina'e candidates for Governor in differ
ent States, have seleéted the very best men
that intelligence, wisdom and the highest
moral qualities could recommend fur the
places ; and they have dine so without solie-
itation, without a canvass, without regard
to private or class mterests, simply in obe-
dience to a high scnse of public daty, dn
enlighted public opinion pointed out the
men fit to be the standard-bearers in the bat-
tle for the Constitution and the Union, and
as the delegates bowed to the summons, so
will the people vindicate their choice at the
coming election. :
Sri men
I= 1f Democratic papers are full of trea-
son, and of enmity to the soldiers, why
don’t the black republican authorities let
the soldiers see them ?