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” <traitor,” “sympathizer with Jeff,
Davis I” They pay an andescrved compli-
ment to Jeff. Davis, whose acts have seown
that he is almost es had as on enemy to the
Constitution as they are themselves. 4
worse enemy he cannot be. Indeed, Joff
Davis was a friend to the Constitution long
after they bad conspired to overthrow it, —
Read his speeches in the Senate, for years
after they had pronounced it “a covenant
with hell” and “a poluted rag.” Their con-
spiracy is old. The signs by which we
know it, are old, for they belong £2, every
conspiracy which history records, since the
world began, We know it by the secresy
with whicn it seeks to cover its deeds to be
discussed, if he could help it, No conspir-
ator ever permitted his designs to see the
light, if he could prevent it, Discussion and
ight are fatal to tyrants and conspirators,
Peaceful an unoffending citizens have been
driven from Boston, from New York, from
Philadelphia, from Buffalo, from Newark,
for their alleged “sympathies.” They were
lucky if they were not immured in a dun-
geod, Mr. Lincoln emulates the Turkish
tyrant, who does not permit the sacred cities
of Mecca and Medina to be polluted by the
footsteps of a christian, We shall notYbe
astonished to see hum keep on, juntil, like
the Grand Diaro of Japan, he refuses to al- |
stripes. ifagan, comparatively {powerless
though he was resisted, snd McHeanry, ag
is alleged, called on (he soldiers present to
hold him while the stripes were being laid'on
Thig the latter refused to do; wherenpon,.
as the report goes, Mellenry himself seized
the wretched man, ang held bim unti] the
entire fifty lashes were administered. Ja.
gan struggled violently in hg agony, but
before the sentence wag half carried out he
fell prostrate upon tho floor, and while in
this condition the balance of the lashes wero
administered to him, Hig condition when
taken up was pitable in the extreme. His
back was like a piece of paw beef, the cow-
hide having cut through tne skin, and he
Was 80 exhansted that he could not suppors
himself. A gentleman who saw hi
while the doctor wag dressing hig wounds,
states that he must have received a mops
shocking Rogging, and that had he nat been
a man of strong constitntion he wonld have
died under tre infliction.
[iad this thing Leen dono in Louisiana, to
a slave, and by his owners, what a tempest
of indignation wonld have blazed and than.
dered through the Tribune and Post ! Ig the
degradation of the white race, of tho Amor.
ican uniform, and the vational naine, a mat
ter indifterenco to these champions of unigen
sal philanthropy 1”
m bo-day,
et eres
WHY THE WAR 15 PROTRACTED. —
bany Statesman, a Republican aA
unteers this answer to he question :
“The Government can and should close
up the rebellion by the 1st of Noveml or.
if i fails to do this, the blame should fall
on Seward, Weed & (o., who wish to carry
the war into the next Presidential election
mn order to make capital that may inure to
toe benefit of the army and navy contrac.
tors, pet sutlers and other speculators.”
——— Pee,
IZ“So your little boy goes to school al
ready 7"
“Of conrse he does.”
“Does he learn anyihin 7
“You better belives id
“Can he wri'e already 27
“He writes like a lnwer,”
“You don’t say so 2”
“Yea, so that nohody can read it,