he Fuse, 027 The two following poems, the one by Joe W. Furey, of this place, and the other by John P. Michell, of Howard, we publish with much pleasure. ‘Lame for Life” was written by. our friend, Joe, when a resident of the State of Alabama, now more than three years ago, and first ‘made ‘its appear- ance in the Avalanche, an influential daily and weekly journal, pnblished in the city of Memphis, Tennessee. It isa poem of ex- ceeding sadness, and the author has been frequently censured for giving expression to 80 much that is indicative of a murmuring and rebeilious spirit. We may say here that Mr. Furey only consents to the re-pub- lication of this poe, because it is necessa- ry to the proper understanding of the beau- tiful reply of Mr. Mitchell, which immedi- ately follows. LAME FOR LITE. .. BY JOE W. FUREY. Lame for ifo! and must I, then, Forever be the scorn of men? Forever feel the withering doom That fills my life and soul with gloom? Lame for 1ifo? © God! and why Was I not'doomed, a child, to die— Ero yot my soul had teltits grief, And prayed, all hopeless, for relief? Aye, prayed for many weary years, With bitter, burning words and tears. Oh! buricd deep within my heert, Licsmany & poison-pointed dart, Bent there by those whose sneers and scorn Pierce deeper than the sharpest thorn. I sit and brood, while to my brain The Past comes rushing back again; The Past, when I, a sportive child, Unthinking, roamed the woodland wild ; And laughed and sported in my glee, Nor thought of aught like misery ; Nor dreamed of what my soul, since then, Hath borne from gibes and sncers of men, For many, many weary years, 1 strovo betwixt my hopes and fears— Struggled against this wila despair— Btruggled the damning curso to bear. But all in vain—the heavy load Hath lain me prostrate in the road That Jeads to honor, glory, fame, Because the people sneer ‘‘ he’s lama I" I walk along ‘he crowded street, And mark the noble forms I meet, PT, envious grown, I turn away, + With too much bitterness to pray. And here and there a limping wretch Goes hobbling by on staff or crutch, And then with pity, not disgust, I turn away, because—I must. I kate a cripple—yer, I do, . Because, I ween, I'm crippled, too, I hate to see them walk the street. Contemned by every one they meet. Poor wretches, they—in sore distress, They’ve none to love them or to bless ; Bat, like a bird with crippled wing, They're always saddest when they sing! ¢ Unwept, unhonored, and unsung,’ With one last prayer upon his tongue, Glad to escape his earthly doom, ‘The cripple rests him in his tomb. Upon his grave should flowers spring, 'Tis nature dees the kindly thing; For nine there are to shed a tear, Or plant a rose upen his bier. Lame for lifo! ah! who can tell, Save those who know it far too well, The misery that hath oft been stirred Wihin my heart by that one word ! Lame! lama! lame! and that for life! Lame! and fallen in the strife ! Lamo! O God! can aught be worse, Than this great, withering, blighting curse? Lamo for life! beyond control Is the great sorrow of my soul; Oh! shall it ever thus impart Itsgloomy shadow tomy heart? Great God, forbid! I am 700 sad! Much thinking now would drive me mad; Bo thus I'll cease this mournful strain, And easo my fever-tortured brain. For oh! the thoughts that never tire, Have lent a sadness to my lyre; No more I’Il nurse the grief it brings, Nor sweep my hand across its strings, ‘March, 1860. Written for the Watchman.) _ THOU'RT LAME FOR LIFE. Respectfully ins ‘rived to Joe W, Furey, of Belle- ‘onte, Pa. BY JOIN P. MITCIIELL. Thou’rt lame for lifo,—sad fate for one Whose pilgrimage is but begun ; Who longs to mingle in the strife, Upon tho battle-field of life, Yot dares not mcet the envenomed thrust Of those who'd crush him to the dust, Alas! that lyre attuned so well, So gad a tale ag thine skonld tell; Alas! that one like thee, should know 80 much of bitter human woe ; That &arp-strings stretched by angels skill, Shontoe to touch, so mournful, thrill ! A weary load is thine to bear, But should not drive thee to despair: For they who thy affliction know, And dare to mock thy life-long woe, Are scorned of God, while d evils tell, With deepest shame, their deeds, in hell. A slippery path is life for all, And many by the wayside fall; The weak and poor aside are thrust, Or trodden down within the dust; The heedleas throng goes rushing by And leaves the fallen wretch to die. Thou'rt “lame for life”’—and none can know How crushing is the weight of woe, Save those who sharo with thee the load, And tread with thee the weary road ; Bc it ama nn AD Ll Yet, thou art strong : and, with thy pain, Thy God hath given thee strength of brain: And while, amid the storms of life, Thb strong ara failing in the strife, Thy mind will light the path before, Until the war of life be o'er ; Above the dust ‘twill bear thee high, While stronger frames are doomed to die. Thou’rt ¢ lame for life’’—and so was one Whose praise is heard on every tongue, ‘Who trod the topmost round of fame, And in the heavens wrote his name ; In vain his foes thronged on his track, His mighty mind still beat them back. There is a God who sees thy pain And knows the longings of thy brain : Who marks the deeds of those who dare, By taunts, to deepen thy despair; ‘Whose touch can heal the envenomed smart, Though poison shafts are ia thy heart, Hie mysteries no one ean tell, And yet, ©“ Ho doeth all things well :” Tt is not given us to see Why some should know but misery, While others, born to better fate, Arc alway? happy, rich and great. Tho future, only, can roveal The lale of human woe ard weal ; Etornity, alone, can show Why Heaven visits thee with woo; But God has still our lives in care, Nor gives us more than wo can boar, When thou hast crossed the Jordon’s tide, And thy sweet harp’s Jast wail hath died, Ite echoes will enchant the ear, And eall, from friendly hearts, a tear; Thy name wili be reriembered long With the immortal ongs of song. And when thy lyre is heard no more Upon time's tempest-beaten shore, A thousand friends will ever pray That, in the realms of endless day, Its notes may e’er responsive ring, Whilo angel voices sweotly sing ! Howarp, CeNtrE Co., PA. August 21st 1863. - Fiscellaneous. A PECULIARLY RICH DISCUSSION. THE DEMOCRATIC MEETING AT VERMILLION, OHIO. Hon. Somuel Cox interrupted by an Aboli- tion Doctor from Oberlin. Cox Questions him. A Splendid Political Tilt. Plenty of Fun. . Many of our readers do not know that quite a number of Republicans were at the Democratic meeting at Vermillion on the 7th inst. The crowd, as we have here- tofore said, was immense; and in a West- ern Reserve county, only a few miles from the seat of Abolitionism, Oberlin, it could not well be otherwise than that a goodly and godly: sprinkling of fanatics were on hand. Though we do mot suppose they would average one to every hundred in at- tendance. The Republicans, however, being astonished at the turn out, claimed that many of their party attended the meeting. If this is the fact we failed to discover them, as all, with one exception cheered the speakers, and appeared to be at home,” Wnen Mr. Pendleton spoke, a certain learned doctor (Bigelow, we believe is his name) of Oberlin, began, as Cox expresses it, ‘to propound interrogatories.” He tried some dozen on the Cincinnati Congress- man, who deftly drew him out that he did not want the old Union, with slavery. After he had been lashed into seeming good order by Mr. Pendleton, he again essayed to ‘‘propound” while Mr. Cox was speaking. The surgical operation by which his hide was taken off and his flesh lacer- ated, and his bones pounded in a mortar, has pever had a parallel dn this part of Ohio. We are requested, as Secretary ana re- porter of the meeting, to give a sketch of the performance; but no pen can picture it. The immense crowd of Germans, which Mr. Dressel had been addressing, adjourned and helped fo swell the main meeting ; and the ageemblage for size, for animation, for the place (on the lake shore, 1n a beau- tiful grove,] was one rare for this part of Ohio. The Oberlin Doctor was a severe looking man, with iron gray hair and beard. He carried a heavy cane, with which he propped up a heavy chin; and he scemed os defiant. as Don Quixote, and as sancti- monious ag Praise God Barebones, When Mr. Cox began he took up a posi- tion immediately Leneath him; the crowd pressed up close, and at the first fire all became eager to hear. The large stand wag immediately overcrowded with people. Mr. Cex was declaring, that, however wrong and disloyal Democrats’ might be, it did not become the Western Reserve Repub- licang to reproach them. He would take no lessons of patriotism from such seditious people. Ie would not call names; he would leave that to his opponents. If he said that the Republicans of the Reserve were Abolitionists, nullifiers and Secessionists, he would prove it; and by their own testi- mony. If he could not convince them of the virtue of Democracy, he would at least cloge their own pharisaical cant about the Union. The person, saidiMr. Cox, who hes been in- terrupting Mr. Pendleton, does not know, perhaps, that he has been singing over and over again Greeley’s song about the flag: “Tear down the flaunting lie, Half mast the starry flag, Insult no sunny eky With hate’s polluted rag.” For my friend, Mr, Pendleton, married a daughzer of the poet Key, who wrote the Star Spangled Barner. [Cheers] We have the old flag on our side (Laughter) and this disciple of Greeley can’t tear it down, even in this Reserve, I do not know who this maligoer of our party is; but IT will wager something that he is from Oberlin, Several voices—¢ You're right. Ie is one of the saints,” |Laughter.] Mr. Cox-+I will show you that, if he be honest he is a disunionist. If he will give me his attention a moment, he will see him. self in a mirror. You believe, sir, in Wen- dell Phillips, don’t you ? Dr. Rigelow—*‘Yes, sir ; and I can handle you at any time.” r Mr. Cox—Well, you will see about that when we get through. Judging by the way your forehead retreats so rapidly, I have handled your betters. [A laugh] Wendell Phillips said: “Until 1846 we thought it possible to kill slavery and save the Union. We then said: ¢ Over the ruins of the American Church and the Union is the only way to freedom” From 1846 to 1861 we preached that lesson.” By your admission to Mr. Pendleton that you sre not for the old Union, you have also been hand in hand with Wendell Phillips. . Perhaps you were honest in it. You do not want to be parti- ceps criminis with the sinners and criminals who hold slaves, do you, sir ? Dr. B,—¢Never 1” Mr, Cox —Then you will not commune with such sinners in Church, nor unite with them in State ? Dr. B.—I would make all men equal be- fore God. ! Mr. Cox—You therefore would destroy the Union rather than associate religiously or politically with slaveholders. What are you then but a disunionist. (Cheers) You are a twin brother of Jeff Davis. [Laugh- ter,] If you hail from Oberlin, you no doubt jomed with the other saints in com- memorating John Brown’s death, on the dark and stormy 2d of December, 1859, when Virginia hung him and sent his sou] on the downward march. (Laughter. ] When Spaulding, Riddle, Pierce, Tilden Wolcott, and your Rev. Brewster, and your negro orator Langton, deified the horse-thief marauder and murderer, you were there, I doubt not. . Dr. B. assented. Mr. Cox--You shouted when Langston said ; “But why preserve the Union, since its only object is to eternalize slavery ? Such a Union is not worth perpetuating. With all my heart, I should say, let it be abol- ished. I hate the Union of these States as I hate the devil, for by it I am bereft of every right as a citizen, and denied all protection for my personal liberty.” Oh! yes, per- sonal liberty ‘was a great thing for negroes, when you defied the Constitution ; but it is a poor thing for the white man like Vallan- digham, when the Constitution is outraged, Langston, your disunion negro, is raising regiments of blacks to fight now, and Mr. Vallandigham is in exile because he loved the Union better than even his own person- al freedom. At this same meeting of your Reserve disunionists —and I read it from a pamphlet printed by your friends—it was resolved (page 8) that}in such a contest, and under such 2 dire necessity, we say, let freedom stand, though the Union be dis- solved.” The dire necessity was the fchok- ing of John Brown, Because Virginia did that, you would not live with her in the Union. I submitit to you. now, whether you did not deserve his fate ? [Cheers] You see, sir, that I prove all I say as I go along: Now, to prove you a Secessionst, I have here a speech of President Lincoln, printed by himself, at the office of J. & G. S. Gideon, m reference to the President's Message. It was delivered January 14, 1848. On the eighth page he declares that “any people, any where, being inclined, and having the power, have the right to rise ap and shake off the existing Government, and form a new onc that suits them better. Any portion of such people ‘may revolution- ize and make their own of so much ‘of tho territory as they inhabit.” Yon voted for Lincoln! Did you approve of that doctrine? I will prove that you did, for you supported the men who plotted, by violence, to nullify and overturn the Federal anthority in Ohio, This people will remember the Welling ton rescue cases. A batch of revolutionists of Oberlin strove to break down the Federal authority right here. This man before mo may have helped to rescue the negro boy John from the United States officers. He is a pretty person to call on others to sup” port the Federal Government. (Laughter.) These Oberlin rescuers were tried, convict. ed, and about to be sentenced by the United States Court at Cleveland, when a meeting was called at Cleveland, to revolutionize and by violence overthrow the Federal power. They sought, like South Carolina, the agen- cy of the State to do it. The Republican Governor, Ckase, and his Attorney General helped it on, I have the account of that meeting in a Republican paper. Here it is! (Here Mr. Cox held up. the Qhio State Journal of May 26th, 1859, pretty well worn.) It has seen some service, this pa- per; a little the worse for wear—like the party. [Laughter Dr. B.—Let me see if you please. [Mr, Cox handed it to the Doctor. He looked 1t over, wiped his specks and pronunced it “genuvine.”’] Mr. Cox,—Thig papor says there were ten or twelve thousand Republicans from the Reserve present. No doubt Oberlin was there. |Laughter.] Perhaps you were there, sir. Dr. B.—T was, and am proud of it. Mr. Oox—And you approved of their ac. tion and their resolutions ? : Dr, B.—Yes, sir; 1 do, and did, Mr. Cox—Now, Ihave you. IfI do not prove you to be a secessionist, revolutionist ‘and nuilifier, then there is no truth in your own statements, 1 read further that this vast meeting marched into Oleveland with banners, with revolutionary devices and music, John Brown had not then heen hung, else they would have sung his march instead of playing the “Marseillaise.” Old men were put at the head of the processions, with flags imprinted with “1776.” Then came the Loraine County delegation—y our crowd, sir, of mobocrats against the Union. You were in it. Perhaps you carried the banner inscribed «‘Loraine” on ore side, and on the other— ‘¢ Hero ig the Gevornmont—~— Let tyrants beware.’ Do you remember that? You do. Well, where was the Government? Tt was not then in the Administration—oh ! no —you had not then got Lincoln and his cabinet at Washington. “flere is the Government —- in this mob of law haters and higher-law revolutionists ! Here is the power to over- throw and destroy. What a commentary ! We Democrais said then, as now, that the Government 18 not in men; not in mobs ot Oberlin nor agents at Washington but in the Constitution. [Cheers.] We say let tyrants beware who violate the government- al chart. [Cheers] We say stand by the Government against mobs in Ohio, in 1859. or in New York city in 1863 ; against usur- pations of State authority in 1859, or of Federal authority in 1863. |[Cheers.] Yet it 1c the Democracy that is reproached as disloyal by such scum of sedition as floated ever since. This meeting was a type of the Republican party. It followed Lincoln’s doctrine. Ev- ery prominent Republican in Ohio was there, in person or by letter. You, my sweet evangelical friend, voted for one of the Com. mittee on Resolutions, Mr. Blake, aad made him Congressman. Chase approved by speech, and Dennison by letter, of the meet- ing and its objects. Giddings was President. Perhaps you have heard of him. Dr. B.—A nobler man does not breathe. Mr, Cox--No doubt you approved.of his course. He told Mr. Ewing, in his letter of the 7th of November, 1860, that when he ‘held up to the Republicans, the humbug of diesolution, that he was a coward, and au unvirile minion of the slave power” —you thought him a prophet. When he advised you to shoot down United States officers, with warrants for fugitive slaves, as pirates, you thought him a loyal patriot. When he glorified the State 4aleas corpus, and the guarrantees for the liberty of negroes, you thought him a wise man. But now, when your party despises habeae corpus, outrages personal freedom for white men, and, by the perjury ot an Ohio Governor, permits a white man to be banished, not for crime, but for prevention. You think you are so high in your loyalty-that all Democrats are “Cop- perhead traitors.” |Cheers] So much for Giddings and the incivism he taught and you followed. Who else were at this revolution: ary meeting of traitorr, to revolutionize *‘a portion” of the people against the Federal Government ? Here is the Committee on Resolutions : B. F, Wade, Rapublican United States Senator ; James Monroe, now Counsel at Pernambuco, and Abelitionist and a gen- tleman; Congressmen Blake, Ashley, Ed- gerton, Philemon, Bliss; Bascom, Republi. can editor at Xenia ; Peter Hitchcock, Re publican Senator ; Lieutenant Governor R. C. Kirk, and a long list, I will not name all here. The whole Republican party were there represented. D. K. Carter, one of Lincoln's appointees to a judgship at Wash- ington, and a loud Union man now ; Root, of Sandusky : Delano, of Mount Vernen, who pretends to be shocked at traitors now ; Judge Spaulding, the Cleveland Congress- man ; President Asa Mahan, of Oberlin, and others, including tho inevitable negro Langston—Tod’s orator for biack troops-- and Governor Chase. These were the trum- pets of sedition whose voice inspired the revolutionists. One said: « Ohio shall not in God's name; she shall not, be made a huating ground for slaves catchers.” You applauded that. Dr. B. assented, Mr. Cox—He said, “stand steady, trust in God and keep your powder dry, and look for the things, that shall be.” You had dry powder too. [Laughter] Chasemade ball cartriges at Columbus. The things that should be, have since been—John Brownt revolution, and bloody war for the negros Another said, ¢‘Let the Federal authority make the issue and test the fact whether we will execute our laws. They know not how soon the { smouldering volcano will burst under their rotten carcasses.” And you applauded that, and now have the frigid coolness and brazen cffrontery to appear among us and talk, as you did to Mr. Pend- leton, about disloyal Democrats. | Cheers. } You do not deserve the attention T bestow only that you are a type of clags of slander: ers. You approved of the resolutions, or “Declaration of Independence,” as it was called, You confessed that. Do you re- member them. Here isono: “That the in- forcement of such (laws as the Fugitive Slave law) against an unwilling people, is productive only of evils threatining the pub- lic order and the stability ‘of governmental institutions”, You hurrahed for that. What now of the conscription Jaw? [Laughtor.| Some are unwilling to go to war. That law compels ; you would not enforce ft—hey? (Laughter.) What a beautiful specimen ot a Copperhead! (Laughter) Do you still approve of that disloyal resolution? You are all at once dumb. |Cheers*] You were very fond of talking all day. Your speech was ex- ceedingly free, Your intermeddling in thig meoting—like the intermeddling generally of your class—was very unpleasantly disor- derly and conspicious. Why didn’t you an- swer now ? [Cries of “Hit him agam,”— “Bully for Cox’—¢“He’s nothing but a darn ed nigger thief,””] I do not make any per- sonal attacks on him. He may thave been a nigger thief ; no doubt he‘and his Superi- ors have been making trouble by their in. termeddling politics for thirty years; but he is dumb 28 an oyster now. Wont you please say, gir—now do—whether you still favor that resolution. Just nod; yes. or no. Not & nod. [Taughter.] T am sorry I elosed yon up so quickly. (Langhter,) Well the Democ- racy say: Jet all laws he obeyed ; Conserip_ tion Law—Fugitive-sivve Taw and all. whether wo like them: or not -till they are adjudicated to be void, or repealed by statute. (Cheers.) We fought ail Inwless. ness and mobs in 1859 as we denounce them now. = We stand by the Federal Union in 1863 as we did inl1859, when this gentleman and others were, A vorce—Don’t call him a gentleman. He once said he would be willing to have a ne- gro to marry one of his daughters. There's a young man here that is ready to swear he heard it. 5 Young man,—Yes; I be. {Cheers and laughter.) Mr. Cox---Never mind that, That is a do- mestic matter, and connected more with taste than polities. (Laughter) I said I would prove this Oberlin Evangelist to be a Secessionist. What else do Jeff. Davis and his confederates hold, but that they will not have United States laws enforced on an un- willing people 2 This is Lincolu’s doctrine of 1848; and these Reserve disorganizers, sided by Chase, Delano, Dennison, 4 Co,, have been the friends and aiders of Seces. sionists, for they afforded the pretext and gave the provocation to Southern revolt. (Cheers. Consult the ordinances of secession, and Judge Brinkerhoff’s dissenting opimon it the habeas corpus case from Oberlin, and you w ill find this nullification doctrine laid dow almost as recorded in this Republican plat- form. It is the States Rights Calhoun doc- tine intensified and enlarged far beyond what Madison ever dreamed, and far beyond what Democrats ever dreamed when they us- ed it in their platforms. Madison never pro- posed to make nuliification or secession the remedy for any grievances, but his remedy was, as ours is, under the Constitution, and by its amendments, This was, and is Dem. octatic doctrine. But abolition made jtseif as secession did, the sole judge ; above the Supreme Court, above all Federal authority, of all the modes and measures of redress. Hence, when this man before me approved this heresy, he became the twin brother of Jefl. Davis. (Laughter and cheers.) 1 do not know whch is the meanest, revolution by secession and war, or revolution insid. lously by violent Abohtionism and Oberlin ethics. But until both heresies are expunged from the Americah mind, peace and good will will never return. At this time part of the stang gave way in consequence of itg being over crowded, and fcll to the ground. Fortunately, no one was seriously injured, although Mr, Pendle. ton’s son was considerably bruised by others faliing upon him. Mr. Cox and your reporter being “light weights,” remained ahove.— During the confusion the Oberlin Evangelist shpped off, and was seen no more. Mr. Cox soon resumed, and closed his speech amiq great onthusiasm, Such a lesson to Ober. lin was much needed. Tt wag given with good humor, and will long be remembered by the “saints” and others present, roe GOVERNMENT BY CONEPIRACY. America 3is governed by congpiracy.— Conspiracy implies gecresy on the part of the eonspimtors, and nommformation on the part of the people conspired against, In- fraction of the laws cn one side, and blind- ness and suffering on the other, No man needs proof of this. He hag but to cast his eyes backwards over the legislative and exe- cutive history of the last year, to see it all There it stands, as awfuily visible as the skulls in the temple of death, Now and then a member of Congress has been awak. ened to a vague halfsense of the dangers that threaten us, and has ventured to intro. duce a resolution calling upon the President for information, but hag vigilance only |! brought down hisses upon his own head, without opening the sealed chambers of ex- ecutive doings, One man for introducing a resolution asking for information from the President ona point of vital importance to the very life of our nation, was denounced as “a traitor,” a secessionist,” “a sym. pathizer with Jeff. Davis,” and he narrow- ly escaped being expelled from Congress, — Against the only two or three members who had the virtue and the oourage to attempt to discuss the doings of the Administration, schemes and threats of expulsion were in- stantly set on foot. In one instance over $10,000 of the public fands ‘were expended in carrying on a gigantic conspiracy to ex- pel a representative for daring to review the acts of the Administration on the floor of Congress. A wretch who, it was afterwards proved, had served out a term in the Sing Sing State Prison, was found to invent a tale on which charges were based, and then nen and papers and documents were sent all over the country, for the purpse of mak- ing out a case, but, in the mean time the conspiracy became so transparent to the pub” lic, that the - conspirators were forced to abandon their designs. The party accused, after he had been held up to the world ns a “traitor” and after they had caused it to be published in a hundred newspapers that they had “positive proofs of his guilt” demanded in vain, a report on his case. At almost any time of the session of the last Congress Macbeth’s address to tho witches would have been appropriate. “How new, yosseret, black, and midnight hagas? What ie’t yo do??? : And the might, have witches 3 congressional {ruly congpirators answored, with the “A deed without a name.” For, never before were such scenes enact. ed in an American Congress, Every mem- her who did not permit hrmscif to be erush- ed down into an uncomplaining, silent too} of the abolition conspiracy, was denounced as a traitor and a rebel. Aun abolition colo. pel threatened to cut the heart out of a con- gressman, while he was standing on the steps of the capitol, because he overheard him in private conversation, dissent from the unconstitutional deeds of the conspira- tors. And almost every Republican news- paper in the land applauded these threats os assassination of one of the people's repre- sentatives. Not only were men denonnced as “traitors” for offering a plea for the Uon- stitution. but they were to have their hearts cut out if they dared to call in question the I high handed proceedings of the Cataiines. When at last, a resolution was engineered through the house of Reprosentatives to ask the President for certain informaton touch- ing aflates, he refused to give it and the Republican press everywhere came down up on the impudence of such an inquiry. Not only was debato struck down in Congress but democratic newspapers were thrown out of the mails, or destroyed by order of U. S. Marshals, and men and women were everywhere dragged off to military bastiles for daring to call in question the uncenstitu- tional deed of Congressiand the Executive. The silence that sat in the Valley of Graves, was forced upon the lips of men. The admmn- stration must not be spoken of. save in un- reasoning praise, hardly looked at withont a threat of dungeons being hurled at the head’ of the offender, y : To a man of sense there is needed no oth. er proof than this malignant secresy which the administration determined should cove, up its acts, that a decp laid conspiracy was going on against our Constitution and laws —against liberty—against all kinds of liber- ty but negro liberty. = That is the great con- spiracy. The voices of white men must be dnmb, that the mouth peices of the negroes may be heard. All who are not for libera- ting the negroes, mnsy be restrained of their liberty, That is the conspiracy Since Mr. low the sun to shine unpon his illustrong head because it performs the same thing for common mortals. His assumptions of; pow- er would he scarcely more ridiculous, if he were to follow after the King of Malacca, who styles himself “Lord of the Winds,” op of the Mogul, who is “Ruler of the Thun- der storm,” Clergymen bave been ruthlessly dragged from their pulpits and their families, and plnnged into filthy dungeons, for refusing to pray for'Mr. Lincoln. No doubt Me. Lincoln is sadly in need of prayer, but re. fusing to pray for him, however unchristian it may be, is not a crime puuishable by any law krown to this country. “Sympathies” whatcaver they may be, are nog crimes, ac- cording to law. In all these cases, the ad- ministration is the criminal. I: sa consp- iracy against the laws.against the Constitu- tion, against liberty. There is no softer name for jt. Conspiracy! Its own discer- tion is the only law {4 tolerates, and the people must ask no questions, — . Tp question its acts; is to be “traitor.” Remember, if you dare, that white men were once free in this country, and you will be hunted doy gambling, « n by a finck of IeEponsiyl,, ¥en Provost Marshalls, gg nd as rapacious ag wolves. Conspiracy !' A free people governed by conspiracy ! ~The laws instead of being ad- ministered, arc suspended. By an eyecu. tive order, every judgo in the land has been deposed, every court Suspeudended, and the safety and liberty of the people put at the discretion, at the mercy of provost-marshalls, 88 ignorant as hoot-blacks, and a8 brutal ag Chinese executioners, By the late elections the people have loudly, emphatically said, that these things must cease. They - will be governed no longer by conspiracy, but by the laws. They will faithfully Support every consti- tutional measure ty put down rebellion in the South, but they will no longer permit coustitutional liberty to be put down in: the North. Down with usurpation in the Noith! Down with conspiracy in the North! Up with the Constitution ! Up with’ the laws! Up with liberty] Down with Abolitionism ! Jet the ballot speak] Jet the press speak. = Let the ignominously si lenced voice of the people speak. [Lot the conspiracy alone be dumb, : Acs, am White BewrulisFinpai by Provost Mar- shalig. unteaBomng gn The abolitionists who insist that white men ought to rejoice in the previlege of dy- ng to free the negro, are determined that. the honors of martyrdom shall be fully won: and worn by those whom they select for that distinction. A Provost marskall ap Pittsburg, of his own motion, and no color of law, ordered the infliction of fifty lashes "pen an alledged deserter within his districs and snperintended himself the execution of: this infamous sentence, A Pittsburg Journal thus describeds the scene : *IIagan was now seized I the guard and: taken to the ‘“rendezvous” 4 oa 15, where preparations were at once made for carrying the order into effect. The man, a8 we are informed, was stripped nak. ed, gagged and handenfled, A nw cow. hide was produced, and a soldier Geo. Pal- ter, corporal of the guard under the dire. tion of Deputy Provost Marshall Mellenry, who was present, proceeded to lay on the Lincoln’s advent, the country has been gov- erned by conspiracy. It has been ‘pronoun ced treason for a Judge to issue the writ of habeas ‘corpus, as by solemn oath he iS bound to do. In one of tho Marcus Ward campaign songs, lately sung in New Jersoy are these lines “No sympathetic rebel crew must man our ship oi State; Hor accursed treascnsmongors, who of ‘habeas corpus’ prate,” This is the song of the conspirators. All who demand that constitutional and statute laws shall be respected, are ‘*accursed trea- son-mongors.” All who claim «liberty for tne white man, are a “*symrathetic rebel crew.” Wherever they hear a man speak” ing for the Constitution "as it is, and the Union as it was, they cry out at him %eb- el I”