Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, March 10, 1865, Image 1

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♦ $O4l 'iro* tratner-eosut PATRIOTS WUCI
VOTILD SOA LISCOLA
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\W-hy Ah, you smell
I have reasons that answer me well; •
But there Win, neighbor, young.t.':, , •
Why he ibys no person can, tell !
Sa hearty, and rugged, and brave,
" And little to do here. we know,
'ltAmen't a house nor a field,
And there Isn't (treason to show. '
'Tie true he Ilea a ptetty young Wife, '
With a sweet I,tile halm to iterarme,
But chill nnui tick themation'a leer life
Because a frail *mows bath charms ?
Ala, if be cOmprehend our need, IL
ills wife end his liable would be kiouc i. '
lie would tear their white arms from his smolt
• 'And some promptly up and Millet.
ilia 1 tiara ri,farrn and s louse,
'.And cattle -nd ,hoop on the hill, ;.
Maw rap I.turu from profit µnd low
- To 'Link of a auk nattou'a,illa
ingot munoy I'd loom if I pe nt,
What olianeochfLtrile and gain—
Then think-of the voutOrtl of home
And Um rump. and the carnage and slain
j24l'there is young Truman Lubin's.
Whose mother is widywud nut uhi r
rpi he has but little to du
:Arno their ferns by tins eberiff was seta;
If he iheuld enlist end get shot,
As 111 nay • one bas tarots,
11pe nuttier Mould cone on the tll3l,
sins ut the testily wun's dun
"lie shameful such fellow/ as he
Should turn a deaf Oar to the roll;
That koala should to plain by the Le
' Cnnn•at be the furtunea of LI.
If 1 only toad in his shoes;
With uo,fortuno or kin t Jr ,tret,
If I faltered to rhoulder toy gun,
I Night to be abut fur neglect. -
I am ratty to cheer t!re old
*it toot Op my can in tho
al it coats not a vett!.
, By the Un 4 on I'm ready to swonr
'Let the bleed of the nation irif Out
'Like n river to vnlqui , ll its no.,
1.11 ratth rtillinr and brother turn gut,
(Hi i ahLanetqx rue Iyannut 1:2:1
.-, THE POOR WASHERWOMAN
'•1 declare, 1 liavo a mind.to pgL,lLi9Led
lt Into the wash to-day. it does not
rattily need to go. eitl.cr, but I thick I will
'u u 4 It down."
“Why will you put it i t, M .1-y. if 't lusv
'not need to go?' asked Ifer good old auut,
in her quiet and expteeire way. •
~W hy,'you ace, aunt, we have but a small
`wash to-day'; ap mall that Suann will yet
'through by era' o'clock. nt the latest, and I
shalt lot re to pry 11 - er the ~tine as though
sfic , Wqrhed till eight;
'•Stop a moment, clear,• eaid thc 0,1 L(dy
'gently; •atop a moment, and think. Sup-
pon you were in - the situation poor Susan
is--obliged, you tell me, to toil over the
_ 11111trtlIll Bit dap (Mt ur tleVell for the lam.
tiyesenriee of life—would you-not 'liettlfd
Are iu nwhili•. to gel- through hefure night,
1 , , hate a fen; hours of ila)lighl to labor for
}ourself and or better will, a few
Laurin of rest? Mary, dear, it is n hard
way for a mottdin to earn a living.; Li
-grudge I/01 the poor ere.ttitre an catty day
liq IA the fourth time she bns risen' by
tndle light nod plodded through the cold
here - and there lo her ettetomer , i' iniuses,
nod toiled away existence. Let her go al
noon if rhe gets thriugl.: nho knolVs buf
that ,ol•e may have enitu • Butt t h r eick bed
,red one, end she count+ the hours,
minutes, till .I.e cult return, fearing
taut lII.e not . ) be one tuultle7 Put it luck r.n
1. le lied. nod sit clown i,ere ;Ir f- tell inn
idiot., he wit.berwottinn endured, bee•ttte her
.111i:04)3er" did n )uu 1114114.1 make out
the N trh..'
• An.l the eld woman a. I, nrr
And milled Away the tnnrt thnt from some
caw° had glitlierpil in her ageil vyea, awl
TVilti a ireiniilous juice, rell;it ed the
promised story :
..The.% net er wits n mole hlitliesoene
bridal than that of Ada It. None ever hod
higher Lupin, or mule scot Inticipat
Wedding the. limn of her T elootec. one of
buy wnmnn might be proud. low, in
deed. Ind a sunnier life in pi °epee thou
"And for ten Tears there fell no .hatiow
hn Iter path. Ilet: home wl.O oar of IreWity
end tare et - Ham It her Int:do Ind the 'emile
Mud, gentle, lot lug mun as in days of court •
ehrp ; winning hovels every , yeas in hit
profeesiou, adding new co mforts to Ids
home; nud irew joy s to loin •fire,ule. And
beside,' those blessings, (lad bad gi'veit nil
other; a little crib stood by the bedeitle; its
teilaut golden haired baby ,boy, the image
of jandble father, and .ilearer — f tl nn iliilof
else earth could offer.:_
.•Itilt I Must not' dwell. on (1;;;tte happy
days; my story hail to do with other cues.
It was with them as it ha. been with others;
plat when the cup was sweetest it was dealt.
ed away. A series of misfortunes and re
, 4erses occurred dial. startling rapidity,
end swept away from them everything but
love and the babe. Spared to one another
and to that, they bore a brave hal, and In
a distant city began a new fortune. Well
and strongly did they struggle, and at
laigth again began to see the a . nlight of
I.rosperity shine upon their home.. But a
fettle while it staid, fond then the shadow
411, the husband sieketted and lay for tunny
a month upon a weary WWI, languishing
o- 'not only with mental and bodily—pain, but
iften limos for food and medicines. All
4.st cite could cla, the wife performed with
I faithful hand. She weut from ono thing
to another, - till at length she who had worn
a satin garMent on her bridal der foiled_at
the wash-tub for the scantiest living. In
di dies& winter, long before light, she
Timid rise morning after morning and labor
toe the dear ones df hbr bendy hOme. Often
:he had to set off through the deep cold
ono*, and gtope her way to kitchens, phioTi
4Sfe sometime. smoky and gloomy, and
toll at rubbing, ringing, Old starching, and
net unfrequently wading knee-deep in the
drifts, to bank out the clothes that froze ere
e'lte bad fastened them to the line. And
when night came, with her scanty earnings
4het , Irould again grope throng 4 the cold
/how to her oftentlites lightleas and tire*s
hinsie for her husband was too Wok, lunch
zoittltis jliesb;oven to tend thi flhs'dr strike's
light, And oh with what a' shivering
beak, ski itrould draw neat, fearing she
*mild tett:Wheel It is ti fact, that for el.i
'Weeks at. olfe time r she never saw the fade
of blr liamid or 00111111:Ve 14 limp light,'
wieept soul. ' How glad she
*Odd tral, 'boon to finis bad, once in a
washientathered for her
.
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Vol. 10.
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"One thirk e itintWr miming. as she wa
preparing the frugal breakfast and getting
everything ready Were she left, her hus
band salted her to-the 'bedside.
"Ada,'' said be, almost in a whisper,
*ant you to try and get home early to-night;
be home before, the light guru; du awl."
"I'll try,"anatrered she, ,with a o as
atternnoe.
4.1)o try, Ada. I have a strange desire to
see your face by day-light. To day is Fri
day; have not seen it since Sunday I
must took upon it once vain:"
••Dolou feel worse ?" asked she anxious
ly, feeling his pulse its she spoke.
,-
nu, I think not but I do. wont *to
see your face once morn by daylight. I
eannot'wiit till '...."L0n1ay,"
woula the Lave taeried by his
bedside 011 sunlight hiod, stolen 11/laugh
their little Wuiglovr ; but it might DOI be
Money wati r anted and Plie must go fk.rili
to labor. She feft her hubband. She
reached the kitchen ef her employer, and
with L troubled face hailed fur the basket
to hp treirdit A.stoile played over her
wan face nt the ei , orted its contents. ql.e
could get thrcugh ca4i ly by two ;
ye, End if she hurried, perhaps by one.
Lose and n'ttziety lent new strength to her
weary arm% nod fire minutes after the clock
struck one she hung out ihe last garment on
the line, and was just about emptying her
, übs, when the mistras ct.ffic iu With a
couple of bed quilts, saying ' •
"As you have Boswell a wa.sh to day, Ada,
I think you may do thesoyet." .
"Ktter the mistress-had turned her back,
a cry of aptly, wrung from the •deepest
fountain of the washerwomsn's heart, gush
ed to her 'Jr. smotherin g it as best she
could, she set to again, and rubbed, and
rinsed, and hung out. It-was half past
three when she started for home, an hour
too late : " And the aged nahator sobbed.
n hone to !rue," continued she after a
•ittivause. "Iler husband was dying; yes,
almost gene Ile had - strength given him to
whisper a few words to the half ft natio wife,
to tell how he Lad I nKcd t hod, upon — her
face; that he could nr• t.et her then;, he lay
itt the thitdow of death. One. hour she
Tillowed his bead upon her 'suffering heart,
and then—he was at rest!
"Mary, Idarrlotlear,"—and there was a
soul-tottebing emphasis in the aged WOMflll'd
words--..be kind to yopr washerwoman
Instead of atm tag to wake hir days it•oek
as long no may be / shorit4 it, Jjgbten it.
Petrie oner. 'r all go out IN udiing daily unless
their needs are pressing. *Co woman on her
bridal day expects to labor in that nay ;
and he sure my niece, if she is constained
41) du so, it is the lent rekort. That poor'
woman laboring now an hard for you, 11111 i
ntt 1141 . : been a aa.shera °matt. 'tilte has
passed flit otigh tetr.lile trials, too. 1
read her story in her pale sal face.' ite Lind
to her; pay her %hat she asks, and 1,1 Le
go home no early a! she eau ' * *
have tinish.al in good time to day
: 4 1euin," said Mt.. an the anshei an
man, ' jilt her clock and' Luoil on. el:lured
the plea :alit 1,,111 lit tel Ihe tootle% slit. li>j,;
earned
1113 nit I !MVO, and Inv hear: 11 re
lieved of-a Le.ny loud, [qui; I wa , no nit aid
should he kept till ti.ght, and 1 ant lire lid
tie at boille
.19 those t4re •
, 611 , 11. •
Tivirs 10 111..! Human as
nnwered. “Ati, inn um. I left my bvby ino , t
dead this inel !ling ; he be quite to. tn-
Torr.:A I. nob it, I have seen It on ninny
ad nolie Cat a bliild of nine years
to attend LiJin. lift ! i intiet go, and quich
ly !" And gra spiyg the money she j toiled
was dy lug, bk . () litnried
co her di'cary Lome.
Shortly ,. after they followed Ler the
}Dung Wife who had never known sorrow.
and the ngebl matron whose hair was white
with trouble, followed her to her dreary
home, the home of the drunkard's babes.
She was not too late, The little dying boy
knew its Brother. At midnight ho died, and
then kind friends took from the sorrowing
mother the breathless form, closed the
bright eyes, straightened the tiny limbs,
bathed the cold clay, and folded about it
the pure white shroud ; yes, and they did
mire—they gale what the poor eo seldom
have; time to weep. ,
"Oh, auutly , Mrs: M., 'with tears in her
eyes, rrff e tiy heart blesseluxou how numb
must poor.,Susan's! Had it not Lein for you
she would have been too late. It has been
a sad, yet holy lesson. I shall always now.
kind to the poor 'Washerwoman. lint,
aunt, Was that story you told me a true one
—al4.ieue I mein ?"
'•The realiti of that story 'whitened this
head 'when it had teen but thirty . summers,
and the memory of it has been one' of my
keenestirrows. It is not strange that I
should pity the' poor washerwoman."
A SALVTARF TUOUGHT.-WIICJI I WllB a
young man there lived in our neighborhood
a farmer, Who was Usually reported to be a
very liberal man;and uncommonly upright
in his dealings. When he bad any of the
products of his thrm to dispitse if, he made
it an intfarible rule to make good measure,
rather more (hen would be requjred of him.
One of his friends observing him 'frequently
doing po, questioned him as to why he did
; hp told hied Ee gave too much, and said
it would be to hie disadvantage. • Nov; dear
reader, mark the *newer of this good man :
•'(lo$ has• perfnitted me but one journey
dean& .theworld, and when I ant goke I
tininotrittriTo rectify mistakes." Think
of ibis: t . Viers Lelrut one journey throUgh
life.
BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1865.
LINES TO A THOMAS CAT.
- Caterwintler,
Hoirid *goalies,
Can't you Nil
.
• Tone or two;
Lest I try a
fire,
Or do oily a.
Stone at yots.
From my bacli yard,
berried old blockguard,
You mulct track bard
Nor return;
Lest it 1iri,4,144
01 a stick that
Itlakeit n lick at
_Your gray stern.
•
fircoksA litnkor .
• Douse the glut u'er,
• e . A vilo Pinner. •
4 Such us yeti' ;
. All tO tlnulors, —
On tho cinders. ,
'By my isqu.lou
You ••
In the morning..
lined warn r.„:,
11 mlorning'.
M. domains,
I will protrlng,
o 7. -
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SOMETHING ABOUT WOMEN
ADVICE PROM A FATHER TO lIIS SON
Some days since I administered to you a
short but serious bit of advice concerning
whisky straight and whisky soar . ; or'rai her
es to *hat sort of people they aro who
drink 01090 nlcholic compounds. Your
trunk is now packed, your boots Mitch your
feet no more, the maternal apron string to
severed, your sister has abstracted the last
twenty dollar greenback from the market
dole, and you art; ready, eager, and ripe for
the battle of life, with all i.• mysteries .of
hard up, and miseries of down at the heel.
There is one fact, and that is next to an
hereditary fondness for 'whisky, you have
another weakness—women. Yon need not
blush. I always regard the , tol. en flushim:.
up of a mono face as ninon focus evidence
t hat he horbeen at something of which he
is ashamed. Now no man need be ashamed
of having n fondness for woman. It is
natural. It id human. Woman is divine--
especially after dinner, when her temper
ban been thoroughly crushed dOwn—flat
tenet] out beneath a tremendous weight of
roast. beef, potatoes ail npie void I rig BO
fore dinner she is, variable, sometimes ner-
Tons, sad always looking for something she
has not, lost. Commend me, toy son, to the
woman who dinps heartily, minds her own
business as we* as that of bcr.r.eighhMrs ;
who Wes not make a ten vat of herself, and
who Can drink a cup of Yong llyson %rob
mt sweetening it with the shreds of scandal
she has picked up in job lots in the street
A silent tongne in woman bespeaketh longe
vity, tote, and the me , kness of stibinision
There are liters kinds of women, my son.
Women, were they a 1 alike, wouldn't be
worth much as one of the luxuries of this
s arid. Vaiiett, my dear son, is u2i4ly
lie spice, but the comfort of life, whic,lt
prtlmps accounts for the tendency of some
married men to go abroad after thorn cotit
fmts which can be Lad ut howe.eqtl:llly as
pleasurable in their nattir , •, but which, from
longlimilutrity, do not harm the chlriti of
noselt3.. %sill, its lie has ever done
;dime the worldbrsnn , mu llion!. to run after
c gods --pal ticolarly if these strange
gods Near crinoline, have dimpled cheeks,
rosy lips, roguish eyes, and are all the more
complaisant ;tith au int:ream; ,f worshippers
Women take to tht4y, my son, as natu
rally as men do to their moriittig eye-opener.
It is the sugar of their esistenee. ]lut e
to the unlucky night who does not tinder
stand the art of administering It. It has to
be given with care. It must be prepared
and put up in doses to suit the patient, like
medicine. Some women will take flattery
and adulation a 5 the glutton swallows cream
tarts, and aro unhappy and iniserablelf they
miss their daily dose. Others take it well
disguised. The plain, 'unadorned article
disgusts and makes them qualmiah. OtLers
again, prettied to abhor compliment in all
its forms, and yet are only fishing for a
larger share than of right belongs to them.
4.1. the first nibble they toss their pretty
beads and marl the inviting lip, and are ready
for a wholesale bite. When a woman tolls,
you she detests flattery, my boy, don't be=
lieve her. The heart of d *omen is like a
fort. Theg m a selly port somewhere, by.
which all its loves, desirei, fears and hates
comes out, either aingly or in ()All Battalion.
Thsough that sally port, my boy, you oan
enter and capture the entire garrison, haul
down its flag of deftly:ace, and run up your
own good ensign of victory. But 3ou must
first, like a doctor miming a blooded horse,
find her weak and strong points, study her
every motion, mark her every w.. 1 d, never
allow a glance to escape you. There never
yet lived a roman Oiho could not be con
quered. say that advisedly. Woman *as
born to be married. To her, even in her
younger yeart t .fbe coming mail towers in
the dint future like the vision of a collossus
looming up through the misty atmosphere of
a dream. Her destiny is din, and without
him abe - doei not fulfil her mission on this
footstool.
Thero-neriivet lired one of those rusty
nondescripts, yclept Al maids, who did not
at some period of her unhappy 01y1101100,
brie a hankering after a man, and that that
particular man did not Oonquei her, and
Baia the world the infliction of an old maid,
and gain for himself a good or bad vita, as
toe make might he—Was hii.oWn fault. He
perlialla *Mt after some pet fancy of attatoo
grit . ; aft' { ' •aho. not admiring him, married
aoniabody alse, and so made him.* baattelor.
"STATE RIGHTS AND FEDEEAL UNION."
I Milne, were Lan old maid, and had been
"crossed in .1 would out of sheer spite,
marry the 'first. man I could get hold of. I'd
have satisfaction if I had to mart? forty
nten to get it. _•Old maids ntu like:some po
liticians rknew of. They rid, theft career
upon the one idea Py s t cm. They have tilt
ono Idea, and that is' their flrqt love. lhat
failing, they are ever after out at e'o,.
floundering about, always wrong side up,
and go dowb to oblivion, leaving no v . 4stige
behind in short c'..rheq or long ste,Asingti to
commemorate their existence.
I especially recommend you, my . boy, to
avoid young Mien R ho, when on promenade r
ate aidicted t Mat Fl 7, is of locornotiqn which
is not in . q,propriatCly denominated wrig
gling. who woman RllO wriggle 4 when, she
walks, , raitinds me of ono of those
yellow, crop eared poodles that dance, and
twist, and squirm about 'whenever 3 du look
at them. Tho woman who natl.:, in this
fittibion is geimrally gifted with tr very small
quantity of br.tii.:+, is devoid of common
sense, full of vanity and t.elf conceit, fier.
in disposition, tickle, and for all the ordinary
ra7nTs:iireT ,.. e"flt as a
refrigerator is fur a hotel in Siberia. Her
whole life is simply nu elongated wriggle of
wasted hours, lost opportunities, and disap
point ctdhopes.
On Ipe contrary; my son, do not choose
the won who walks as though she were a
grenadier in disguise, marching tki.th solemn
tread loward'he'r appointed end. That
man, were you to marry her, would march
through your whole married exi.detice, tram
pling under foot your every delight, crush
ing your authority, until at host these eyes,
dim with nee, would tearfully behold you
cringing to 'a petticoat, and trotting along
behind your 11118IreS.4, with your ears laid
meekly bock, and looking ten tunes inure
pitiful than a whippetVeur.
These walk irig.wonienin y mth are proud
wilful; to 1111 , 10 he age the ,111/
whit, the ndd it ion of a low colored emus( tie he
and u s euridgia in the head, and in their old
ago so nivtilly spheral that even that Imo
fru:tarot theeiormlate ancient womanhood—
the eat —shruilos.away from her prekence.
ii, my son, if you wish in display your
pod taste in tan cultirution et female sO
uiety, Ovoid tall women of the unbaiked
telegraph pule order of anatomy ; avoid the
squeezed up tumbling sty le' as well, and do
not be taken in by chalk, rouge, cotton and
curls—nor with too %hitt, teeth.
Don't he led Mtn error by apair of prel ty
ankleq, and do not let n Four of well turned
411011ikler9 teen your hood Remember that
especially in the ben of womankind there
are 00 many fish uncaught as haio es or been
hooked.
IVoinan with light brown. hair and blue
eyes, of medium height, plump hands—nh !
any soil, t hey ., nt e thcos ()Well for men to luso,
cherish, respect and trust as if they were
angels. Such angels are never entertained
uliawares. Ce vane man, full of health,
and whose vier t u ts not been pros
t ated by a continuity of Trout alley whis
key ode ignore their presence. If ho does,
he deserves to be kicked to death by
shrimps.
The brown haired, blue eyed women is
amiable in dispositiqn, true as• steel. and
nith hilt she loves, never jealous. Jealousy.
my boy, with the majority of womenkind,
like variety to Man, is the rpiee of their ex
is4inco. They revel in il, and Me the lotus
ifilers, get wild, crazy over it. and finally
either arc booked fur the Kirlsbride Insti
tute or go .elf into a chronic bystelic. A
jealous woman is a foot, and with such
woman for is wife, the husband is a greater
tool than she, if he does not g;sc her cogent
1'0:190119 fur liobnolt ing with the gree n -e, , ked
monster.
.1 red haired woman is apt to be stetirclfind
is her affections, and to toi.ler.tand ild? art
of cooking cat-fish anti.bakin e , shad to per
fection. :the has a temper not particularly
even, is inclitasi 'to break out like an epi
demic—when least earecl ed. Red haired
women, my boy, are levy fond et being wid
ows, and uf,,ioving front place to place—at
least that is my experience. Your mother's
hair was slightly 0111101 . 11, but during the
first tee years years of our mArried tee it
gradually assumed n darker tint, which fact
attribute entirely to her 810.011 acquired
rolltilleso on her part for pock and henna. I
attribute the harshness of my hair altogeth
er to a too great partiality for flash in my
younger days. I 10. 1 10 noticed, way son, that
people who eat tau freely of Hash become
a:Amend morose in their di•ipotiition--Corn
.
ed beef and cabbage super iducedinitation,
and is a very appropriate diet for politicians
and temperance lecturers who happen to le
loin in body and short in mind.
Never marry a short, diminutive woman.
You will never bo able to find her when y iris
want her. You will be just as likely to lose
her some fine morning as not. Little women
have a great prnchuta for running off with
women's husbands. In fact so far as my
observation goes—take it as a rule, which is
made all the stronger by the exceptions—
little women are always -at it. Like tfie
ekipjack on the surface of a pond, they are
never quiet. • - • a
What you want is a women who steps off
easily and gractfully, a quarter nag—one
whose planner and mein remintlitAirou of
your mother,Tor to you and Co all men,
looking back thirough the long line of dead
years into the initaclise of youth, the mother
seems perfeetiep. It is the name of moth
er that is the syrhinyine of home. Happy
is the man who sees in hie wife something of
action or words, that brings bacealmeniory
of hie mother. Ms home will be a iloppy
oue.
Select a woman for a Wife who thinks ns
muoh of a sixpence as shy does of s silk
dress, and you will be able always tg have
the formes in your pocket and the lalter.for
her.
foonomy, with a due regard to comfort,
in the household, is an assuranee to her
husband of suscoss in boaduess.—Ma. Cou
sor, in Sunday Mercury,
THE "DAMNABLE HERESY OF STATE
GOVERNMENT."
A "Loyal LeaguerOlub',' df Now York has
held a meeting on' the death of Xdward
Everett, at which Jolt Jay made speech',
in which be said it w not for what Ever
ett had done in all the past 'career of his
life that He vtas to he most honored. "Id
is rather for what he hike said and One
during the stern trials OT. the last 'four
years in the siutpie-hapactity 'Of a .private
iritisen, to fireilse the-feeling of. American
against the ""dsaitableberety of
State sovereigntx,"
-Wohavendt fitoted I bit sentence ofimpu•
deuce and folly Tor the purpose of commen
ting on the Everett meeting cf& "Loyal
Longne Club.", Whine, et• each a
meeting could briri upon:the name or mom
ory of a decd man, was afitindautly enrrie.l
lhy the tinliniiry conclusion of fir. k:‘esitites
Perhaps he merited Ilso disgrkeo
heaped upon sun by Mr. Jay's declaration,
that he v. tir not so minds to be.'honored for
all lie had done pert ions to hi, joining the
Abolitionists in their crusade sgainst .•I he
damnable lt,eresy of: State sovereignty. ,
This is given as the crowning glory of Ed
ward Everett's career—he iiaroused the
&c., against the damnable heresy of
Staid sovereignty. ' 'State sovereignly n
—damnable het e.y;" ' That is the new born
slang Of Iherresent hour of ig,wsraece.
(rime awl despotom. 1t L ie not yet four
years old. 'Never, until the middle of the
first yea's of Mr. Lincoln's mtn'inlsh a
t ion 1{,114 thereefourol a non in this ct..intry
o ignorant, impudent, so foolish, eg to call
State SoNerewnly , 'idannitthle heresy "
We 1id...v.. t hat the infamy of this diiscovely
reAs tsith Mr. Sumner ^Doe's the wretched '
demagogue not know whit he pronounces
' datunahlui the CeitQuintion awl laws of
his
own Stalo. of • Qlusatclnusettso. 'I I. it
Como .t u i.in starts out with the deolar.ol. n
flint "the people of this Comm inwealth
have the sole and exclusive,right of govern-
I
try thetnselv„as_aa,..alLex,.,
n
td u " wrefolieg, necordiug to their own eon -
aloes doctrine, in Itis fatuous oration enti
tled •q/ur Domestic Relations." The tome.
“dninnable pretension of State sovereignty"
hue licen nfinned at every revicino of the
statutes of Ms , irachnsell s, since the fun
dation of the novernment, in the following
.style: •.`t he so% ercignty and jurisdiction
of the Commonwealth extend to-all pt ices,"
&e. So chat not only the (
A,Ll`ti 11 101 l of
Mnssnchusetts, - but the title and style et nil
its statutes are bared upon the dentin Of the
"'to, ereignly of the State. A 'Mau - amble"
net they meet be, people, Constitution,
statutes, and all, according to their on n
"Senator.
Nor is Mr. Sohn Jay arty better off olth
hie own State of Nee York, whose Comti
tution deciaree (het "The people "of .the , .
shro, in their r'elit of stn erele , lt c. ore.
pi overly in or to all lands," tic. ..so alto
the statutes of New York ',Penn thus:
tttioreretird, Juri-chrtion," Thou Mr
John Jay mus. hold the Constitution and
,-tatuteir of the State of .New York Rube
"damnable heresies." And the good people
of said State may, with the greatest pro
priety, return to the delicate 00111plitnent.
by pronouncing Mr. John. Tart "damnable"
traitor, or feel. We Mlle no milder term
for such men. IThher they know them
selves to be rank traitors or impostors, or
they are lunatics. To assail State Sovre:-
°Tut y as "a damnable heresy," is to direct
a blow at the very heart of both the State
and Federal Governments. The Federal
Government is based upon the sovereignty
of the States. "Destroy the our, and tip,
other falls. Destroy State bOl ereignty, and
the authority of lid Federal Government
vanishes like a shadditl. There is but one
theory on which this Crusade upon the doe
triue of State sovereignty can be explained ;
and that is, the Serterminal ion of the party
in power to overtltrow the State Govt.) n
minds, and establish an entirely new and
foreign syeletn upon the ruins.' To an in
telli,,to man there ought no Imiger to he
any doubt that, sue h to really the pat :MR milt
object or thepresent. war. It is to ....tr.!, the
8E100! Of thell• smeleienty, and Slot,
them in an abyss of centrrheed de..potistn.
The ingenuity and craft, end we might add.
impudence, employed in this treasonable
undertiatitg, are truly suprising. The
whole style ot public, debate is designed to
gradually blind, and to lead the people away
from the ftrudanventarminciples of the gov
ern neot founded by our fathers. For
instance, Mr. Sunnier ilkeourse.s shout '•t ho
Fon era tinted to the States." PI this the
enge-4;e of a Filet eHlifttl and a patriot? is
it not rather the. jtirgon of a connl,:g eloll-
SpirlgtOr Mid demagogue? By whom Were
"tower's denied to (lie States ?" Who had a
right to deny them any powers? The Fed•
eral (levet iiment wnii the ci eat ufe oP tire
State sosereigntits. They made it jure
what they pleased. IL was the State sayer
eiguties which granted or denied whatever
power they choose to the Federal t :ovum
ment. The powers of thol'eleral hoed u
ment are not dente to the Sidtco, but they
are gimled by the Stites. The States are
the a sveretgn grantors of all power, and the
Federal Government is the dependent
grantee or reetpient, of certain &united mid
linuled powers, to he held and exereked in
trust for the "general nelfare" of thmsevei al
States. Logically speaking, therefore, sov
ereignly does not belong to the Inlet al
(love runteut at till. De powers are only cle
rical, or accontlary, and therefore cannot be
lira, for notereign.. But the nether of the
phrase*"heresy tit Slate sovereignty," Eays :
"Before the Con stitut ion,stich sovereignty
may have existed ; it was declared "iti the
Articles of Confederation; but since diet
has certeeei to exult,, It has dissappeared
and been lost in thmsupremacy of the na
tional government, to that it can no longer
be recognired."
The extreme foolieLness of 'his assump
tion is exposed by simply considering that
the veXty act of ratifying blue Constitution,
by the several States, Wes the highest act of
'sovereignty. And when ratified, iy was
merely the creature and ire agent of !Lei
sovereignty. ,
But let us see where Mr. Sumner logigel
ly lands, who'll he admits that, under the
old Arta Iles of Confederation, the ,States
were sovereign. Ni'e we challenge him, or
auy other person, to point (meta shfgle pow
ci.granted she Federal Government in the
present Constitution; -whiter plessesses
single element of - so guttythat did not
belong to the Federal Governinent under
the Articles of Confederation / when Aniner
admits the sovereignty of the States. •Tlee
power to declare war, to make peace, to en
ter into treaties, to maintain the krtny and
navy, belonged to the Federal Government
under the articles of Confederation. These
were pciwers which the several States do
elated ['hey poeseesed iu the Dellnretion of
Independence, in the following language•
••That,as free and independent States the
have full powet to levy star, conclude peace.
contract alliances, establish COMM e x cc. :tad
en . el._
o
do all other things which sued
States may of right do, Now theca hos
eign . powers, which the States declared to
he in their right, were delegitted to the Fed
eral Government in the Articles of Confect
oration. That is. each State agreed to
*Mile ifs sovereignty in these 'Titters,
jointly with the tube States, through the
general agent, the-Federal Government, nu-
Abt _cuLlur w
t er! to Congress, in the present Constitinion,
theca Is nothing to be oompirel, in dignity,
or in the ettribottunof spreriipty; stlth
these tritiob , were delegated under the old
Articles of Corifederotlon.
No. 10.
The "Fetita alisf " a. - work waren I %
Iladison and Iterniteon, and puffitshednt
periodnoteminnantotis with the idostito
tinn,ear,:
"IC the new Couseifution ue examined
with :ffeuracy laid c.inclor, it will Le fontod
that the c lunge whit h it prdpose.; e.a.soo•
1111011 }PSI ix the /1(iilillOn of re to
1101 Bi.gl 111411 in the itiv.ignr.arna of its on
, 1..yr , al I owers. TI/0 rei1:111:11 toll Of confide, ee
trtr - F, ts.a new power, bat that Fe/In, to
'be an ad iition 0 hid. few opt•osc. and from
Vi :1101 RIO .I,ll`leliensiolos are entertnito 7 d.
These powers relating to tvAr and peace . ..or•
Fides and fleets, treaties and finance. v. 1:1,
the other more considerable powers, are all
invested with the existing Congress Ify the
Art leles of, ronfedetatioft. The pie posed
change does not enlarge tlieso posers . if
and 6ubltipteq a more effectual nnide of
aclinifiL:tering theta." •
This declaration - of the men who framed
the Con,i a' tn, efleci Hall% (LSI/0140S 1)1 \t r.
Sanin,v's a , ,, t ia t ioha l that by tflopt lair the
pre..rnt Consthution the S'intea Pllrrenii , ted
tl.eir,,,icreignly. lint the following pa 4411-
gra edpv-I.li-A, u re still law • ex.!
ell , on IL: , I,n:it
TocL'.yeCC ihtltotoe tee guVerTl9lPllt
as in the ,1,1, it e general pan erS ire iced
and [gat the Male., in u'l unentimet•ated
eaQe4.. i e left in the fall eiuo% molt! of their
riverNgii and ‘571117,J177,at.
ill is tilt le' ird to the eperm ton of its 'toss
ers, it changes its espeet ellen we.. CWIIOII/•
plate it to relationito the eftent of 1114 pow
ers. The idea of a..finf tonal government
involiesin it not only an authority over the
individual citizens, but an intlefinii e Flip s
Temecy over all persons and thug=, so far es
they are oli,eet9 of lawful government, *
in this relation, then, the pi oposed govrin-
t estioot ho deotied a qv:cold opc,
bitiCe ite jUrkti:Ction to rertsin
enot-roetobjects only, nu.l leases to the
, eVerll States a residuary' and toliolable
sovereignly oYPr all Other objects." No
How will Mr Sumner. John Jay, and the
other conspirators against' !he .tioveleign , y
of "nle3, th,rose rf tht.: Luigi:age of the
min who fintord iii hiaki,ne.l . •the C,noi
ttition? 1'1%716111)o JIM ...dent before it,
a lie-culprit bor.re the bar of o ir eu d e d
, ~.. 1,, t., al.elipt t ev ide and to
lie; but they will not venture into an srgt
inert agattoo it They know That the pages
of this magazine are open to any.thing •rhey
dare attempt to 41fler in lleleilbet or their
monstrous asserl ions of "the damnable
heresies 'of State s nsinreiguty." They
know that through this tuediiith they etrlllil
reach echos of intelligent and limiest men,
I who, if converted to their side, wovint atil
an element of dignity and respeetabil.i3,
which, without falsehood, they mine f new
claim. A class of nom who can neither be
bought nor frightened. llot they dare not
accept our offer. They know that they are
the re:alcohols against the Government of
theg'eStates„ They are the conspirators,
most to be dreaded—most to be abliored.
Secen . sitin is an evil not.w Rhein remedy. It
simply denies the jurisdiction, without
waging any war upon the crpanio princi
ples of the Folet at Governuient. It leaves
the life of tht Stages unimpaired, with son/-
m.4lga power to retrnite, or reeenStruOG the
Union again. hut these Abolition conspir
ators would aasussinate the States, and
overthrow the very foundatioto on which
the thtion was built. :Yet:A.s4ton is a pcodig
al, who wander{ sway from the family
Itrincion. Aholitiontsin is a felon, who
stays at home orly to inurtlor the family,
old laze the otininutli entifice to its founda
tlens. The tarots burtb.na of .tholition or
•'ltepublieitn" Itinclaination - , in the nowspa•
pens, in the pulpit in the rime's, every
where, to against State Severeigtily. The
mass of fool, who echo this stuff, we sup•
la 141)1
pose
in sincere; but the. 'leaders—
such men a S , :mner and .1 - oho Jay—know
bettor. They deliberately seek to delude
and mislead the people. In the rare of
then hearts they are rebels to the Clon,ern
mem of I Cr tat hoes, ft lli tall ..tl lid times snore
to be feared rind despised tlitin the most vio
lent socessumitt in the lamb - %lint Is the
,4111:3 of the real friend of tine Union, whet'
he hears these eon...ph-n[ora haranguing the
people on the "dan.natle heresy of hate
So.tereignty ?" ,Vnity, to denounce them to,
their teeth as traitors, before the very peo-
ple they are 'abet Ng to deCeivo. Unmask
their ignorance, er their hypocrisy, in every
place where they are vending their seditious
wares. So much sacrifice of a njap's else
lie ewes to his country ill these degenerate
times. fluid the denouncer of State sot er
eigniy up to the people everyn - ltt.re, AS 11.
conspirator, and a toe to the Government,
who is seeking - to undermine that which leg
havii'inherited from the great men of the
Iln:retail - elf, loinllalitute in its place a nar
row _a selfish, and implacable Puritan des
put inn. —The Old Guard.
MAINTAIN DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES,
The Boston Courier, t paper which has
done goo'd service for the Democratic cause,
thus alludes to a 'lass of polittoitt . tis which
may be found in every Slate, who, on sill
fe+ing defeat at the pulls, begin to quest
taint quibble about the policy of acting from
principles. and standing trolly atid truly up
for the old faith. They will tullamost in
.tangly End smoothly of expediency; of
hunting up and manutact firing for the next
ocoasiorystlier iSSIIIQSp,Oi basting about for
tromothipg new . ol4lNetaisr, abandoning for
the thee 'th e t r ol4lk the right. - The pro
per way i" M-iasitifiitp for your principle...—
more perWstaionsayi mote persisteutly in
the hour of defeat, doubt, andeghihni !pm
in the hour of trimaph—never give urarliat
yoajmow to be fur the heel interests of the
^State and nation: - fitiirk of these things
whet. yatealect your delegates to the State
Convention. Send men to it who are sound
to the core. Says the Courses': "There is
nothing to be, gained by commencing a
search for a new sot of principles with which
to carry a township tilocLiim or elect certain
mind ide res. In this day and generation the
things that arb called new .principles are
generally oldi butubugs._ Rather let all
etrcirts be directed to instructing the public
Mind - as to what our prineip'ea are, and fit-at
ciao: cc regard for them by stowing that we
respect thew e•lough to stand ty th , nt lit yloorit
oa The minciples are good
enough ett themselves, if they wre,
•I•ir t• ly 1111•1••:,t ,,,, d. To effect t h eadopt on
lie,o.cta t ic principles, the Democratic
tar ,t ion ven=t be maintained„ Demo
craHe clubs I.,,ept up, eeund Deu3oratio
n e ,tittpet a eh cutated and read, and Demo
crtnc ducts hies inettloatednow as Worsen
vice& ion. The present revolutionary stora
in time expend its violenoe.
1.,0u.m is 0 transieo. paroxysm of fury.
TO he um& that it pill last re, to believe In
the stability of he itt cagy o
ruin. It 'must end, aka dui think soon.
.W 41 14 .1 1 0. fury taratinittyi, 20 health sod
reaspn are restored ' ' necrotic! ,pkianiples•
. 17,whelr to their o ld •.
12ii15
IS 6rieo/5411,471
Too recent conference. WOOS" Ildlitnart
Lincoln and , Seward of the °Title., tai
31.. rare• St eplisal. ; lighter 9VlLcilia_... llB lA.t__
the other part, ow the. stiNtift oftheFresto
ration of peace, 1PW494 ite, our ,Iteeg,4 ter,.
awarejo. ennuka. Theillionsta cifi.ihaptepla,
wrought up. ley ilea Alltuloiltratiort pros; to
.. as int email) , that caused thelrlseleiiiitSbinery
tit liuslac,,s to eland etill .were eiel b del * 7
.111.11 e I into slespai'r f:y the annoneeeniell
„that. 'tn_ conference woe a *natl. Ilia
cheers of the Iwo swift; that: 'greeted Ilip
,-,t uthern. qment'strieners as they parsed ....
on il eir wly to ..lilalregli Monroe wen ,
h Allled , 11', !I s t.31 , 0;111 - 1 * " . Cyr , of the noulier'e
1 ~.n., and rhil trey, gatilig into ;be future for
iii, retorts, 410SPd to-t core w. !nate, %%map
i r,...in k ,,,ir ,il te clasped hands of lite prisoner
i pi ny Mg 10 his, dreary eel - for - detteeranae
16.111 11 ts living ;loath ; fall froth their ant
tittleLf lintipitoation and ardripea nistretAtla
I,y his .Lids., as lie •liesell ,tbe sound of re , "
nosed preparation for war All %as sad-.
uess„ MUM in the tinselled parlors of army
contractors (111 , 1 • the I,l4,,,ltTai!ited studioenf
ciazy alielitiunists, on 1 in those there woe
revelry step as could characterize only ttits,
intermingled orgies of rc'*hred speculators,. -
monomaniac •leCellers of the races, "and -
soulless demagogues who ride khe L ttlieleton
lioLby of Southern exterminatipn. These
are merry over the unhappy 'issue as (he
....
I.llLI'l ion C1"00 - is merry over the deed qui:matt
which it bonito afar off. These inquire not
why peace was not °Gleaned ; they art eat-
"led to jcnoNt that the effort to °teeth) it
Ls, failed. But iiIOSC, the sueormg victims
on the Linl,b oi the la itve.s tfiet.>vtgarre
—I hp cal Re , 1 1 ,1 C ,, ptivl , 4l 41 . 4 . t, t7Ls tit
11 0 1 I trt Le.n—thz tiros and
thi:dren_ of men iv huie lives are in the
hands of the powers thst
nAct itieed to illo Moloch ur
.M:=11=1
or the coe.. , ribi on as
day, of the.li each Revolution dreamed of
the gulliotrue; those wood! like to know
why the pence conference ;As a failure, and
who is responsible fur the continuance of
the war Their inquiry is answered in the
account given by Messrs. Lincoln and.
Sea ard of their interview with the Southern
coterrKsirners. Turn wo to it and examine.
Three Commi.sioners, - Messrs. Stephens,
Hunter anti lire sent by Jefferson
Ints is to confer 1711 1- Mr. Lincoln,-or such
persons as he might designate, upon the
sulueut of pence. Thole men are well
known as conser — atives, end In favor of
reconstruction. Their selection showed a
sincere desire, on the Pan of the Southern
.Lief, for the restoration, of peace. On this'
point we find General Grunt, in iliAtlhtrolull
to the secretary of Nur, dated February 1,
1865, Using the following language:
"Now that the interview between Major
Eckert, under 1:3 written instructions, and
Sir. Stetthetis and party hos. ended. I will
state confidentially, but not officially, to
become entailer of record, that I am con
vinced upon ronvers'atious with Messrs.
Stephens and Hunter ,/ that their' intentiors
are good and their desire sincere to restore
peace anti (,7nion."
3.tr. Linco:,q says that 'lite Sauthertvcorn
miesieue.s did not soy whether [Lei wtul I
or Would not consent to reunion, kti
"seemed to desire the postponement of that .
question, and the adoption of some otter
teurec first, which as sent , ' of limn seemed
to argue, might, or might notelettd to re
union." Secretary Seward, in his despatch
to Minister Adam?, gases the following
statement concerntug the prepoeitioaof the
Suit herb Commissioner&
' , What tha insurgent party seemed chiefly
to favor was a postpotientent of the question
of separation upott which the war . was
waged and a mutual direction of the efforts
of the government as well as those rf the
insurgents to sonic extraneous policy or
scheme for a petition, during which passions
might be expected to subside and the armies
be reduoed. and Grath &u intercourse be-
tween ilie feeple of both ructions bwre
named. It was suggested by them that
through such postponement lire might now
have immediate penes, with some, not vary
certain prospect of an ultimate satisfactory
adjustment of political relation between the
goiernment and the titettes. section or peo
ple new engaged is con2lot with it."
Now, hero we have' G,neral Grant, Mr.
Lincoln'and Mtt. §ewnril ns witnesses that
the - Southern commissioners did nit insist
upon separation as the only condition of
psaco. General Grunt say she is "convinced
that their intentions were good and their
desire sincere to restore peace, And Union."
Mr. Lincoln is constrained to say that they -
favored a policy which they "seemed to
agree" might lead to reunion, and fAlt.
Seward describes that policy to be a poet:
pooeinent of the questiou of seperation, and
a motnal direction of the enema of both
ifarti2s to some extraneous scheme for. •
'morn, dining which passions might be ex
pected to littlish. the armies be reduced,
and tradd , and _ inlet course between the
peopsff cf both ..sections be resumed. This
would'have been an effee-tu.al restoration of
the Union. The bad blood between the two
sectitts cooled, the armies disbanded, the ,
ligaments of trade,, the strongest ties of
nations, binding the people together, there
could no longer be any resistance to
authority of the Federal Constitution, or to
the laws made in pursuance thereof. This
would be the restoration of the Union—.
nothing more, nothing less. But Mr. Lin
coln and Mr. Seward attclearly not satiated
TO a simple restoration of the thitoo l
Alternative they presented to the Southern
commissioners was uncondi t len tl s ubtuisaiou
to the Federal Authority on the part of the
people of the Sown,' the breaking up of
their social system and the s*rxender of the
hulk of their property, or war even unto
extermination. In proof of a6ii we eite the
propositions which Mr. Lincoln 4lecilaree in
his account of the Conference, were stated
iusieted upon by himself and Mr. Sew
ard. They istnjo-fellows
"First—The reiteration of the National
authority 14,rotagbout all the §tates.
"Second—No roceetlinrby the gsecutire
of the United States on the Slavery question
from • the position asantned thereon in the
Tate annoul,niossage'lio Congress, and in,
precceding doctt recut
Third—No caesation or hostilities short
of an end of the war, and-the diebandind of
all the forces nostila to the government."
item% according to Alr. Linoolenown
teslitnony be 4 :twisted upon" , the
of slavery" as a condition precedent to`the
restoration of peace. This the 8103,ern
cononiesiooere, hoverer. Emu trier. Jay
lut‘u been dieponed to enter ietoArrange
'lmola for reunion, would not sew to, It
- ,
west tile Frond stumbling bbek in the wer
of negotiation. and neither piny semid.
writ , il. flare ell Interchange of Idiots
mina u .... 1. Hero the .old feelnit.ef , .
erring* t,p again. Rem it died . t il =
kssaks? iii
groped, ..... , 1 on...perett .4sousi d
of the other's foetidly stii it, Veit le
C
The world helms Wlto.i.ligeaf 1.32. 9
barrier between Me Atitailitin 4111 e l zi .
the restoritled of peeve. er.d. it • .
one def. *hen kPll ltif k a,ritiea t tr?
from the iiilng of 000efor, 11 '
of bei ked tip ire tat
has hip,. hi, dietviellitiV
Mau h( 0414 4.. 3 , 1,41 t•
iiitfi woe 7n 4. ~ , ' -... ~ ' , V; - ' " "1,
Itoloo: aoted:io .' f„ - , , .-'; Iri 7. ' , j.17
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