MISCEGENATION
I=EZEM
Bematiral word, and more beautiful thought;
None but thumb!. have Its origin .ought,
{Meter I basted .11 over In vain—
Over end over I "earthed It to vein
Looked in the books and the climb's explored;
Sought where the learning of ages was stored;
Fumble old volume., but found it got there,
Thought I should have to give it up In despair ;
Talked with the Parson, but nothing knew he,
Could'ut end out what the meaning should be;
Out of my wits, with all patience expended,
Thu., fora season, my labor was ended,
Beautlfulword, so euhlime and so pretty—
Charming It was fora nice little ditty;
Harmony Sowing in every letter,
No Other word could for rhyming be better;
Sounding ISM music's voluptiona
Thrilling my boeum end haunting 105 , 4ifain ;
Sweeter than song, ea I could not refrain
Searching and finding its meaning again;
Lexicons ancient I then did explore,
Toiling through books that I never before
Thought to examine, hot bottling could And,
Diving a meaning that suited my mind. •
Asked a Professor, and he didn't km,
&hided learning WU nothing but Al!. •
Went to the office, about to delpair,""
Found an old ^copperhead" waiting me there.
Pot him the gentian, but naught.he replied,
Solemn and thoughtful ha saletbeee.unti sighed:
Soon he looked up toward the beautiful skin,
Teen of anguish were tilling hi. eyes;
"God of my fathers "' he mournfully saidi—
"Whither, Oh ! where has sweet liberty flea ?
"Death to our freedons,and death to our nation,
"This is the meaning of miscegenation!"
Did not believe it, and went on my way,
Thinking what Oreeley's wine pupil would sitY.
Called at his office thereto the Arcade,l i
Found him in purple and linen arr a y
g l t
Flippant and Witty he talked with a ce,
Crintimoning over my hied - mint face,
SPiike o f own intelligent vigor,
Than% Jdeopserhied feeling much bigger;
Mention e word of presumption and ngor,
Said It meant blending the white man and nig-
Making a race far more lovely And fair, [ger;
Darker a little than white people are ;
Stronger, and nobler, and better in form,
Hearts mere colophon.. kinder and warm,
Bosoms of beauty that heave with a pride
Nature had ever to white folks denied,
Holum, nr wire (freely bed roin'd the word,
Fending forth Joy where ite secants war heard
Aiming the world with It now rerelation,
Teaching the peeple of this wicked nation—
All the benighted of earth and creation—
Through the Divine work of miscegenation,
Truths more sublime than the gospol reveal.,
Grander than eaters front mortaliYoncealed.
Man was hot made mulatto or black,
hence to first principles we intuit come back ;
White folks are not in the line of progreemen,
Therefore, the preeent is sheer introgreseion.
Look at the happy orriginal pair,
Cod mule them darker than white people are,
Yet there were clothed with perfection and gza
Model divine of the whole human race.
Then, In accordance with heaven's wise plan,
Blot eat forever the foot of Ivb‘t. men
Duty to God and civilisation,
Cal Is for a social reorganization.
Gire us a race with a lit le more nigger,
Dark in complexion. like Adam and Ere,
',enrage of heaven that all should race ice,
Thin will refine and enlighten the nation—
This is the mean log of miscegenation.
Then in sweet union the race should mingle,
No more fond maidens will need to live sing)
Each has a nice shining darkey to shore,
Sweet u the morning with One wooly hair
Thought molt delicious to Indy refined,
Negro for husband to 'Wm up end find•
Mothers, fond Mothers, you know 'tit your,du
Oleo up your darling to some negro beauty,
Beautiful, lovely, for black men to abate ;
Give up the maiden eo blooming and sweet,
Reared with precision and nurtiared, coniple
To a coarse darkey devoid of all grove.
This will
. produce a superior race !
Listen to reason, the Hither Law plart—
Mingle with negroes, deluded white man
Take to thy bosom the dear a bony oiggar;
Take to thy bosom the sweet-scented nigger
Cherish and honor tho beautiful wench :
Marry and lore 110 Y, reg.rdie. of 'Land.:
Nil I with maleness and mongrels the nation,
This is the meaning of misoyenation
—Exchange
INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF JOHN W
GEARY
Fellow edam :—llonored by the se4cti•
of the sovereign people's:Pr my native &ale
as their choice for Chief Magistrate of the
Commonwieeltivof Pennsylvania, it is with
mingled feeling. of humility and gratitude
that I have appeared in this presence of my
fellow countrymen, ada before the Searcher
of all Hearts, to 'lke th‘o Solemn obligation
prescribed as a qualification for that exci
ted Station, "to support the Constitution of
the United Staten and the Constitution of
Penesylvania, and to perform my official
duties with fidelity "
Profdandly sensible of everything that is
implied by this manifestation of the people's
confidence, and more deeply impressed with
the vast importance and responsibilities of
the of than elevated by its attendant
hdnore, let it be our first ,grateful duty to
return fervent thankagi•inge to Almighty
God for hie constant providence and un
ntimlieied bleesings to us as a people, nod
especially mine to implore Ilie aid and
counsel in the discharge of civil trusts, who
has been my sh•eld and buckler amidst
scenes of peril and death.
In siltiressiug you on thin occasion, in
accordance, with a custom originating with
the Republican fathers, I propose briefly to
express my opinion on such questions as
concern our common constituency, and re
late to our common responsibilities
Lake countries of the Old World, our na
tion has had its internal commopons From
the, lost of their we hale - Sigarcely yet
emerged, and during which "Mar's desola
tion" passed over our land, leaving its
blighting influencer principally _upon those
unfortunate States whose people rebelled
against the goverment, and notwithstand
ing the agonising eaorifices of a great civil
war, the States that maintained the govern.
went and detest:oaq that the Union should
to giiateiVedi, have constantly advanced in
honor, wealth, population, and general
prosperity.
This is the first lime a chance has occur
red in the Esecutiro Department of this
State since the commencement of the war of
the rebellion , a brief reference, therefore,
to that conflict, and to Us results, may not
be inappropriate
We have s consolatiowirlof knowing that
that contest between the North and the
South wee not, da our part, one for ambi
tion, for military renown, for territorial
acqdisition,nor wan it for a violation of any
of the right, of the South, but it was for the
preservation of our own rights and priviel
egos as men, and for the mnintenanee of
justice, liberty end the Union. The object
of the South *as avowedly the dissolution
of the Union and the establishment of a
jontelleracy bawd upon "the corner stone
of humatvelavery." To have submitted to
thision our part, and to have shrunk from a
manly resistance under such circumstances,
would hese leen deeply and lastingly de
grading, and would have destroyed the
value of the priceless legacy bequeathed to
us by our fathers and which we are obli
gated to transmit unimpaired to future
generations. The patrjotja and Union.loy
t4 people foltdMitt the alternative's's!, that
of life or dead to Union ; and under
the auspicious guidance of Abraham Lin•
cola, that virtuous and patrlotio Chief
Magistrate, with the blessing of him who
directs (Re tiestlnies of nations, after open
action And arlirfil'y violence on the part of
the South, the appeal to arms was made.—
We had aka* cause, and out, citizens ap•
proving it with a degree
j et unanimity
heretofore unknown, in this or Jetty %thee
country, left their various employments,
theirhome and all that. was dear to them,
- and hastened with enthusiasm to the scenes
where duty and danger called, and as the
surest pledge of their unswerving love and
fidelity to the Union, they unhesitatingly
offered their lives for its preservation. Nor
wee aby other tribute withheld in providing
the means necessary for the support of our
fleets and armies. Nearly two millions of
soldiers entered the geld from time to time
on different terms of enlistment. The citi.
he '1 t*Jricr4lir 71(114.fritt*,kito::
VOL. XII.
r•ns gltei-ally exhibited the highest degree
of "patriotism in the prompt payment of
taxes, in their liberal contributions in the
shape of loans to the Government ; and the
world was agonished by the amount expen•
dad in their benevolent care for the sick
and wounded, through the agencies of the
Bacillary and Christian Commissions and
other charitable associations. More than
six hundred sanguinary battles andle'kirm-
Mee were fooght, in which nearly three
hundred thousand of our heroic defendero
laid down their livals in their devotion to the
nation—"for God and Liberty!"
In every phase of this terrible conflict,
Pennsylvania bore an honorable and Con
spicuous part. She contritiuted three bko.
dred and sixty six thousand three buffered
and twenty six volunteer soldiers to the
rescue of the nation ; and nearly every-bit.
tle field hue been moisted with the blood,
and whitened with the bones, of her heroes
To them we owe our victories, unsurpassed
in brilliancy and in the importance of their
consequences. To the dead—the thrice
honored dead—we are deeply indebted, for
without their services it is possible our
cause might not have been auccessful.
It is natural and eminently proper Mkt
we, as a people, shoal(' feel a deep and loot
ing interest in the present and future wel
fare of the soldiers who have borne so die
tingulehed a part in the great contest which
has remitted in the maintenance of the life,
honor and prosperity of IL t nation The
high claims of the private soldiers Upon
the country are universally acknowledged,
and the generous sentiment prevails that
the amplest care should be taken by the
government to compensate them,equally and
generouidy, with bountiee and pensions, for
their eerviNs and sacrifices.
I desire that it may bo distinctly wader
stood that I do not tweak - itfimpielf, in con
nection with this subject ; but I ant happy
to avail myself of this opportunity to speak
kind words of Pennsylvanian's gallant pri
vate soldiers, and•-the ;Mile officers Who
commanded them.
, The generosity of Ibe 'people of Pennsyl
vania to the Union soldiers has been imita
ted, but not equaled, by other States.—
There is something peculiar iu the loyally
of Pennsylvania She seemed to feel, from
the first, as if upon her devolved the melting
of a superior example. The fact that alm
carried upon her standard the brighteil
jewel •f the Republic, that in her boson►
was conceived, and from her commercial
capital was issued, the Declaration of In
dependence, gave to her contributions, in
men and money, and her unparalleled char
itable organizations, all the dignity"and
force of a model for others to copy. The
rebel foe seemed to feel that if he could
strike a fatal blow in Pennsylvania, he
would recover all his losses; and establish
a resistless prestige in the old world. But
thanks to Divine Providence, and to the en
during bravery of our citizen soldiers, the
invasion of our beloved Slate sealed b e er
more closely to the Imes of freedom.
The result of the battle of Gettysburg
broke the power of the rebellion, anfl al
though the final issue was delayed, it was
inevitable from the date of that great event,
That battle rescued ell the other free States;
and when,the arch of victory was complt
ted by Sherman's successful advance from
the sea, so thej the two conquerors could
shake hands over the two fields that closed
the war, the soldiers ofPennsylvania were
equal shame in the glorious COONUMMe•-
'
tlon.
No people in the world's history have
ever been saved from so incalculable s ca
lamity, and no people have ever had such
cause for gratitude towards their defenders
Ancl here I eaeitot refrain from an ex
pression of regret that the General Govern
ment has not taken any steps to inflict the
proper penalties of the Constitution and
laws upon the leaders I,,those who rudely
and ferociously invaded the ever sacred
soil of our State
It is certainly a morbid clemency, and a
censurable forbearance, which fail to pun
ish the greatest crimes "known to the laws
of ainlissd nations," and may not the bore
be reasonably indulged, that the Federal
authorities will cease to extend unmerited
mercy to those who inaugurate& the re
bellion and controlled jhe movements of its
armies! If this be done, treason will be
"rendered odious," and will be distinctly
proclaimed, on the pages of our future his
tory, that no attempt can be made with
impunity to destroy our Republican form
of government.
And while we would remember "the sol
dier who hoe borne the battle," we must
not forget "his widow and his orphwohil
dren." Among our most solemn obligations
is the maintenance of the indigent widows,
and the support and education of the or
phan children of those noble men who fell
in defence of the Union. To !Ark' that we
owe a debt of gratitude to those who have
beep rendered homeless and -fatherless by
their parents' patriotic devotion to the
country, is a truth to which all mankind
will yield a ready assent ; and though we
assail call the dead to life, It is eprlvilege
as well as a duty, to take the orphan by the
hand, and be to him a protector and •
father.
Legislative appropriations have honored
the living soldiers, and entombed the dead.
The people, at the ballot-box, have sought
out the meritorious veterans, and the noble
spectacle is now presented of the youthful
survivors of those who fell for their country
cherished and educated at the public ex
pense. Even if fighsere differently conetitts
led, my official dillies would constrain ma
vigilantly to guard,,th is sacred trust. Du,
having served in the name cause, and ban'
honored by the highest marks of public fa
vor, I pledge myself to bear In mind the
injunctions and wishes of the people, and if
possible to increase the efficiency and mul
tiply the benefits of.tire schools and institu
tions, always so creditably established, for
the benefit of the orphans of our martyred
herpes.
The infatu/tion of treason, the downfall
of slavery, the vindication of freedom, and
the complete triumph of the government of
the people, ore all so many proofs of the
"Divinity that has shaped our ends," and
so many promises of a future crowned with
success If we are only true to our mission.
Six years ago the spectacle of four million°
of slaves, increasing steadily both their own
numbers and the pride and the material and
poittieal power of their masters, presented a
problem so appalling, that stataamen 41011-
lemtilladed it with undisguised alarm, and
the moralist with shame. To day these four
millions, no longer slave*, but freemen,
having intermediately proved their h
manity towards their oppressors, their fi
delity to society, and their loyalty to the
government, are peacefully incorporated
into the body of politic, mid are rapidly
preparing to assume their rights as citizens
of the United States. Notwithstanding this
unparalleled change was only effected after
ap.swful expenditure of blood and treasure,
Its consummation may well be cited as the
sublimest proof of the fitness of the Amert.
Can people to adnidnister 4 the government
according to the pie - ages term Declaration
of Independence.
We have but to estimate where human
slavery would have carried our country in
the course of another generation, to realise
the force of 'this commanding truth And
is we dwell upon the dedgers we have es
caped, we may the better understand what
Jetlereon meant when, in the comparative.
infancy of human slavery, be exclaimed, 'J
tremble for my country when I reflect' thit
God ih just!"
Axilapleklel...at what must have been
nor fate had slavery been permitted to in
crease will be sufficient. In 1860 the slave
population amounted, in enact numbers, to'
three milion nine hundred and fifty-three
houeand seven hundred owl sixty. Taking
J he increase, 23 39 per cent , from 1859 to
- 1860, as the basis of calculation for every
ten years, in 1900, they would have number
ed at leant upwards of nine millione. it What.
Chrietian statesman as he thanks God for
the triumph of the Union arms, does not
shudder at the terrible prospect presented
by these startling.figures?
But while there is cause-for constant so
licitude in the natural irritations produced
by such a conflict, he is but a gloomy pro
phet who does not anticipate that the agen
cies which accomplished these eremendons
results, will successfully cope with and put
down all who attempt to govern the nation
in the interesta,of a defeated ambition and
vanquished treason,
The peoplelf the eonquering North and
West have comparatively little to do but to
complete the good work. They command the
?tuition. The courage of the soldier and the
sagacity of the statesman,working harmoni
ethly, have now sealed and confirmed the
riflery, and nothing more is required but
Cfaithful adherrie to the doctrines which
have achieved such marvelous rebults.
XDOCATION Or TM* PROPLI
The overthrow of the rebellion has chang•
'od the whole system of Southern society,
end proportionately affected other interests
end sections. Demanding the enlighten
ment of millions, long benighted, it forties
upon the,North and West the considiratio.
of a more perfect and pervading education.'
al policy.
Much ae we have boasted, and have
reason to boast, of our common Seboole, ite
cannot deny, when we compare them with
those of New England, and
_contrast them
with the preparations for the education of
the Southern pespils of all ulnae., that we
have much to overcome "wrinlill. equal
the one of ttimulate the other. The recent
convention of County Sehaol Superin tend
nts of Pennsylvania exhibits some startling
facts, which deserve the attention of the
people and their representatives. Yet it is
not by legislation alone that any people can
be brought to understand their relations to
each other as citizen.. Their beet instruc
tors are themselves. However liberal the
appropriations may be, if these are not
seconded by that commendable spirit which
impels the parent to impress upon the'ttait4d
the necessity of a sound moral and intellect
ual training, your representatives are gen
erous DI vain. Everything depends upon
the people; hence the great complaint pre
ferred by the convention of teachers, of
shortness of terms in some districts, of the
small attendance of enrolled scholars, of
the employment of unqualified instructors,
and of the want of proper school house., re
sults unquestionably net so much from the
negligence of those who are invited to share
and to enjoy the blessings of a cheap and
admirable system of popular education.—
If my fellow eitisens will only recollect the
the differeriee between the opportunities of
the present generation and those of their
fathers, Rod how much ie to be gained by a
cultivation of ukodern facilities, they will
require little exhortation to the discharge
of duties which relate almost exclusively to
themselves and' to those nearest and dear
est to them.
The Importance of common 'oboe's, in a
republican government, can never be fully
estimated. To l educate the people is the
highest public, duty To permit them to re
main in ignorance is inexcusable. Every
thing, therefore, shifitid be encouraged that.
tends to build up, strengthen and elevate
our State on the sure foundation of the edu
cation of the people. Every interest and
industrial pursuit will be aided and pro
moted by its operations; every man who is
educated is improved in usefulness, in pro
portion as he is skilled in labor, or intelli
gent in the professions, and is in every re.
aped more valuable to society. Education
seems to be'esdlntial,to loyally, for no State
in the full enjoyment of free schools, ever
rebelled against-the Governernt.
Pennaylviniallrnuld bete vanguard in
the great mission of education. She should
remember that as she has been the mother
of States, she should also be the teachpr of
States. "The great problem of civilisation
Is how to bring the higher intelligence of .
the community, end its better moral feelings
to bear upon the masses of the people, so
that the lowest grades of itrieliligence and
morals shall always be approaching the
higher, and the higher still rising. A
church purified of superatildtm, solves part
of this problem, and a good irehool system
does the rest."
EC=
Nothing, after the education of Sherpa°.
ple, contributes more to the security of a
State than a thorough military system . . The
fathers of the Republic, acting upon thein!
Minot of preparing for war in time of peace
embodied this knowledge among the pri
mary obligations of the °Jima. Yet the
rebellion found us almost wholly unpre
pared. Our confidence in our institution'
was so firm that the idea of an attack upon
them from any quarter, much 'Tess from
those who hid tfflitll the "spoiled dbildren"
of the governmeia,;u never believed pos
sible, however threatened. The first clash
of arms found us equally undeceived and
Fr7r^ll
' BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1867
unorganized, and we very soon experienced
that tho oontrivers of the great slave conspi
reef isai not only strengthened themselves
ty lbe goblb shit* arns'and iertifications
of the government, but bad been for yearn
designedly in strusting their yotilltinAtie
science of arms, and when the bloody tem
pest opened upon us they were ready to
epring at the heart of the Republic, while
the citizen., in whose hands the goeern
men wan lett, were compelled to protect
themselves and their country as best they
could.
When. we reflect upon the terrible sacrifi
ces we endured to maintain our liberties,
and anticipate that glorious period of our
country whin the whole continent will be
dedicated to human freedom, and when the
despotisms of the earth will construe our
example , into a stamling threat against
their tyranny, we cannot disregard the
consideration of this important subject.
As before remarked, 'Pennsylvania con-
tributed over three hundred. thousand
troops to the national cause. Deducting
the loss of nearly thirty thousand by wounds
and diseases incurred in the field, what an
immense army has been left to circulate
among and to educate the mass of our pop
ulation ! Properly cemprehending thin
thought, we have at once the secret of our
past success, our present safety and our fu
ture power It would be easy to create an
emulation in the science oT arms among the
youth of the State, by propor organization,
and to disseminate, in ell our schools, that
l loyalty to the whole country,without which
there can be no permanent safety for our
liberty
In their late report, the •isitoreto the
West Point Millitery Academy laid a eigni-
cant stress upon the necessity of such
preceptors, in the future, as would teach
the students of that institution their first
and unavoidstle obligations to the princi
, es Oftlftsibia the goverfiment itself re
poses. The neglect of this kind of instruct
, lion wan felt in almost every movement du
ring the recent conflict ; am** is pot going
100 far to say that many who disregard their
oaths, and who drew their swords against
the government that bad educated and
nourished them, found • meretricious con
solation, in the fact that they were permit
ted to cherish an allegiance to the State in
which they were born, which conflicted with
and destroyed that love - st country which
should be made supreme and alive all oth
er political obligations
If, in our past and resent experience,
there has been exhibited the valuable and
splendid achievements of our volunteers in
the national defence, there has also been
shown the necessity - for military skill, and
that knowledge of, and familiarity with,
the rules of discipline so essentially neces
sary in their prompt and effectual employ
meat In order, therefore, to make our
military system-effective, we should have
particular regard for the lesson, that to
prevent or repel danger, our State sho — ufil
' always have a well disciplined force, pre.
pared to act with promptness and vigor on
any emergency ; nor should we forgot that
it is impossible to teltlhow soon our war
like enerpes may be required in the field
110 MR RICROURCES AND 1101111101.1106
'--4tiliOATl7g . liti•e our trials during the
tuirfkilh resulting triumph to our arms,
been so full of compensation, as in the es
tablishment of the proud fact that we are
not only able to defend ourselves trgaiast
assault, but what it equally impd'rtant, to
depend upon and live upon our own reuourcez•
At the time the rebellion was precipitated
uxtti, ue the w i ltole brinesa and trade of
the nation 'war paralysed Corn in the
West was useiL,fne.fuel, and the producer
was compelled to lose not only the interest
upon hie capital, but the very capital be
had invested Labor was in excess, and
men were everywhere searching for em.
Ployruent Mills and furnaces were abet,
doned. Domestic intercourse was so tat.
ling that the etocka,of a number of the most
Important railroads in the country fell to,
and long remained at, au average price of
lees than fifty per cent. Ilut the moment
danger to the Union became imminent, and
the necessity af a self reliance was plainly
presented as the only means of securing
protection, and the gradual dispersion of
our mercantile, marine by the epprehension
of the armed vessels of the rebels, the
American people began to practice upon
the maxims of Mr-defence and self depen
dence. From having been, if not absolute
ly, impoverished and almost without re
munerative enterprise, depressed by unem
ployed labor and idle eapitttl, all their
great material agencies were brought into
motion with a promptitude, and kept in
operation with a rapidity and regularity
which relieved them fromwanl, their coun
try from danger, and excited the-tamale.
ment of civilised nations.
Protection to the manufactures of the
country, when rightly viewed, is merely
the defence of labor against competition
from abroad. The wages of labor in the
United States is higher than those in any
other country, consequently our laborers
are the more elevated. Labor is the foun
dation of both individual and national
wealth; and those nations that have best
protected it from foreign competition have
beenj the most prosperous. It is clear ~
thateabre, the interests of the natl.. • foe.
ter, and protect domestic • • @try by re-
Haying from Internal taxation every sort
of labor, and imposing such heavy duties
upon all importations of foreign manufac
tured articles, solo prevent the possibility
of competition from abroad 'Not only
should individual enterprise and Industry
be thus encouraged, but all ppblio works, •
liberal and properly restricted general
railroad system, and internatimplevementa
of every kind, receive the fostering ogre
and most liberal aid of the Government.
We are rich in everything necessary to
meet our wants, and render us independent
of every other country, and we have cull
to avail ourselves of our own resources and
capabilities, to progress continually onward
to a degree of greatar never yet attained
by any nation. Our agricultural, mineral
and manufacturing resources are unequaled
and it should be our constant study to de
vise and prosecute means tending to their
highest development.
Why, then, should not the wisdom of
government make available Cher teachings
of experience, and at once legislate for the
manifest good of the people ? Why permit
our manithielcires to. beg that they may
live ?
ME
The government of Great Britian has, by
her protective system, "piled duty upon
duty," for more than one hundred anti fifty
years, and hence upon protection is foun
ded her manufacturing supremacy. Yet
her' emissaries come to this country, and
for sinister purposes, extol "free trade,"
speak atioffiingly of "protection," and en
deavor to persuade our people tff believe
and Apt the absorb theory, that "tariffs
hinder the development of industry noddle
growth of weentli."
The great. Republican party, in the don
vention which nominated Abraham Lincoln,
in Chicago, in 1860, as if preparing for the
very war which most of our statesmen were
at that period anxious to postpone, adopted ,
a resolution, "which," to hoe the language
of an eminent Pennsylvanian, "declared
that the produce of the farm should no lon
ger be compelled to remain inert andlosing
interest while waiting demand in distant
markets; that the capital which daily took
the form, of labor power \ should no longer I
be allowed to go to waste; that the fuel
which upderlieti our soil should no longer
there remain to be a mere support for for
eign rails ; that the power which lay then
petrified in the fort hlcoal should every
where be brought to aid the human arm; that
ourvoist deposits of iron ore should be made
to take the forms of engines and other ma
chinery, to be used as sutpstitutea for mere
muicular force; and that all our weliderful
resources, material and moral, must and
should ho an once developed. Such was
the intent and meaning of the brief resolu
tion then and there adopted, to be at the
earliest practicable moment ratified by Con
gress. as proved to be the case when MS'
Morill tariff,oo the memorable id of March,
18131, was made the law of the land, To
that law,aided as it was by the admirable ie.
lion of the Treasury in supplying machi
nery of circulation, we stand no* indebted
for the fact that we have, in the short space
of fire fors, produced more food, built
more houtes and mills, opened more mines,
coVisyucted more roads than ever before,
and so greatly added to the wealth of the
country, that the property of the loyal
States would this day exchange for twice
the quantity of gold than could fire years
Once have been obtained for all the real,and
personal property,aouthern chattels except.
ed,of the whole of the States and territories I
of which the Union stands composed,"
If the principle of protection proved to
be such a talisman in the time of war, shall
we reject it in the time of peace? Ilan an
swer were needed to this question t reforeffue
could be had to the repeated concessions to
this principle by the recent free traders of
the South. Scarcely one of the ambitious
men' who led their unfortunate people into
rebellion now freely admits that if the
.outh bad manufactured theienn fabrics,
on their own plantations, and cultivated by
skilled labor in their great oilleo,they would
have been able to prolong their conflict with
the Government ; and now to enjoy einholen
tial, instead of artificial prosperity, they
must invoke the very agencies they had so
long and so fatally disregarded. {Porte
peed not be multiplied upon this important
theme, either to make. my own position
stronger, or to impress upon the people the
value of adhering to a system which has
proved'itself worthy of our continued sups
port. and of the imitation of its former op
ponents
The eahibit of the finances of the Com
monwealth, as presented in the late annual
message of my predecessor, and the report
of the Slate Treasurer, is serlainly very
gratifying; and the flattering prospect of
the speedy extinguishment of the debt which
has been hanging, for so many years, like a
dark clotid over the prospectebf our Slate,
eembined with the hope that a reasonable
reduction will be made in our habitual annu
al expenditures, will cheer the people on
ward in the pathway of duty.
Among the most delicate and Important
obligations required of those in official po
sitions, is a strict and faithful management
of the public revenues and expenditures of
the Commonwealth. Taxation should be ap
plied where its burdens may be least felt,
and where it is most just that it should ,be
borne. Every.resouree should be carefully
husbanded, and the strictest economy prse
tised,so that the credit of the State shall be
maintained on a firm and enduring basis,
and the debt surely and steadily diminished,
until its final extinguishment Unnecessary
delay in this would, in my opinion, be in
compatible with our true interests.
That these expectations are capable of
speedy end certain consummation, has al
ready been demonstrated The public Im
provements, the cause of our heavy debt,
- which veemed-to be an Incubus upon the
prosperity of the Stateoe long as they were
managed by her agents,have been sold; the
tax OD pes4ei4le has been abolished, and
considerable reductions have alreidy been
made on the Stale debt.
This important branch of the administra
tion shall receive my constant wall sineldl4
attention.
I=
The general an. -nestle' principles of
- iaw and lib deblared in the Conetitu
lion o ' nneylvania, Mil be watchfully
ded. It will be my Ifighest ambition
to administer the .government in the true
spirit of Ural instrument. Care shall be
taken "that the laws be faithfully Timm
ted,"and the decision. of the courts respec
ted and enforced, if within their authorised
jurisdiction. Influencedionly by consider
ations for the public welfare, it is my Its.
wetlye dely.to ses that justice be imparti
ally administered. That merciful provision
the pardoning power,conferred upon the Ex
ecutime doubtlessly for correcting only the
errors of criminal jurieprudence,and secur
ing justice, shall not be perverted to the in
discriminate protection of those who may be
justly sentenced to c bsetr Penalties for An.
fractions of the laws made for the security
s nd protection of society. Those "molly"
or "excessively' punished, or erroneously
convicted,are alone entitled to its beneficent
protection, and only such should expect tie
exercise in their behalf.
Whenever the people deem It expedient
or necessary,from actual experience to alter
the laws, or to amend the Conatitution,it is
their undoubted right to do so, according to
the mode described within itself. I hers
repeat, what nave said elsewhers,that tten
long es the people feel that the power to al.
ter or bbange tbreharacter of the govern-
ment abides In them, no long will they be
Impressed with • sense of security sad of
dignity wh?oh must ever spring from the
consciousness that they hold within their
own hands a remedy for every political evil,
• corrective for every -goviromentad abuse
and usurpation "
Tom NATIONAL SITUATION.
We are confessedly in a transition state.
It is marvelous how Prejudice has perished
in the furnace of war, and now, from the
verrwshea of old hatreds and old !mines,
the truth rises purified and trtucaphant.
The context between the Executive And a
Congress twice elected by substantially the
same suffrages, a contest so anomalous in
our experience as not to Vita been 'antici
pated by the framers of the National Con
stitution, has only served to develope the
remarkable energies of our people, and to
strengthen them for future conflate. That
contest is virtually decided.
The victorious forces, physical and mor
en], of the patriotic millions, are simply
pausing before they perfect the work of re
construction. Twenty - six States have not
only been saved/from the conflagration of
sr, but have been crystalised in the sav
ing. The unreetored ten, still disaffected
and ityli defiant, seem to be providentially
delaytng.Abeir return to the Union, eo that
when they re-enter upon its obligations and
its blessings they will be the better able to
fulfil the ~one and enjoy the other. Their
condilidt is a tearful warning to men and
naticnio and especiallylo ourselves
Until alitrery fell we del not fully under
sffind the yalue of Republican institutions.
Accustomed to tolerate, and in many canes
to defend slavery, we did not...feel that Its
elose.procierwry, so Jar from assisting, was
gradually destroying our liberties ; and it
was only when rebellion lore away the
mask, that we saw the hideous features of
the monster that was eating out the 'Rile
of the Republic.
If we are now astonished and shocked at
the exhibition of cruelty and ingratitude
among those who, having inaugurated and
prosecuted a causeless war against a gener
ous government, and having been permitted
to escape the punishment they deserve, arc
once more arrogantly clamoring to assume
control of the deetiniesl of this greet nation,
how much greater cause would we have had
for surprise had slavery been permitted to
increase and multiply T
Boast as we may of our material and our
moral victories, jet is it not true that there
is no such thing as a Republica& govern
ment in the ten States that began and Car-
Heck on the war T There in not, to day, a
r• .epotio State in-Europe where the rights
of the individualman.are so de fi antly tram
pled under foot, as in the sections which
were supposed to have been brought into
full submission to the Government of the
United States. But •the disease has our
gained its Providential cure.
The abhorrent doctrine, that defeated
treason ehall' not only be magnanimously
pardoned, but Intro;Weed to yet stronger
privileges, because of its guilty failure,
seems to bore been insisted upon, ►e if to
strengthen the better and the contrasting
doctrine, that a nation, baring conquered
its freedom, ie its own beet guardian, and
that those who were defeated in honorable
battle should be constrained, to submit to
all the terms of the conqueror
The violators of the most solemn oblige
Lions, the perpetrator. of the most atrocious
crimes in the annals of time, the murder
ers of our heroic igldiers on fields of battle,
mid in losihsdmeSMOns and barbarous
prisons, they must not, shall not, re appear
in the council chambers of tile nation, to
aid in ite legislation, or control its desti
nies, unless it shall be on conditions which
will preserve our institutions from their
baleful purposes and influence, and secure
republican forme of government, in their
purity and vigor, in every section of the
country.
That they are indteposel to accept such
conditions, is manifest from their recent
and even arrultnt rejection of the propoeed
amendments tirthe National Constitution—
amendments which are believed, by many
true and pitriotio citizens and statesmen,
to be too mild and gsueritus
They have, Itpwever, been fully consider
ed by the people during the late elections,
and approved by majorities so large as t 3
give them a sanction which it would be im
proper to either overlook or disregard.
And certainly, in view of this foot, none of
the late rebel Stales should be admitted to
their former npractioal relations" to the
General Government, while' they continue
to oppose those amendments.
Co the Controls he United States the
heartfelt sympathies ail overwhelming
suffrages of the people have been generous
ly given They have fearlessly proclaimed
their unequivocal verdict—"WlLL nosa,
GOOD AND 1A17111,111. 1111117 ANTS." Upon the
deliberations and &slims of emigre% our
present interests and future welfare ail de
pend. In its firmness and courage the
whole experiment of genuine republicanism
is indissolubly involved. That this firm
ness and courage will be fully exhibited by
its controlling majorities, in the organisa
tion and adoption of measures of wisdom
and discretion, even more radical and de
eitive, if necessary, than those of the past,
I entertain no doubt. Such measures will
meet with in cordial 'grovel. And I
may well add, that while Pennsylvania
will confide in • loyal Congress, she will
not hesitate to sustain it with her entire
influence and power.
That in tke administration of the govern
:nerd I may err, is only what should be ez
paned' from the infirmities of the human
mind ; but as I enter upon the discharge of
My responsible duties with a firm resolu
tion to sot with honesty and impartiality, I
trust my errors will be regarded with char
ity and treated with the gentleness of mag
nanimous forgiveness.
And I earnestly bap. that nip interewurse
with my fellow-citizens of the Senate and
House of Rep Wives will be so frank
and cordial, that our duties to a common
constituency will be pleasantly and faith
fully discharged. Different branches of the
government as we are, with distinctive du
ties, we are, nevertheless, parts of one or
ganized and well regulated system, and as
we co-operate or disagree, the interests of
the State will probably be promoted or re
tarded. Elected by the people, desirous to
promote the welfare of use" citizen, mere
party differences ihohld not be allowed to
interfere wit& the nuintenasue of • gen
cress, & true and - telaproblissive 'Maio
policy.. ,
It was the illustrious Washington, equal
NO. 4.
Ifetstiengior and a states
man, who gave utterance to the declaration,
••that the propitious smile* of Heaven can
not be expected on a nation that disregards
the eternal rules of order and right ,7 and
Jefferson, who asserted that ..Whottever is
morally wrong cannot be politically right."
These utterances express my deepest CM.
ieti ns sr the rules and prinoipler which
should permeate and control all govern.
ments. Let us, follow.citisens, adhere to
them, be governed bg them, and our efforts
will be happily united in surrounding the
institutions of our State, as well as those of
our nation, with a rampart of truth that I
will repel the madness of ambition, the
schemes of usurpation, and successfully
resist the changes and agitations of all
coming time. - -
ONE BY ONE
They are gathering homeward (gym every land,
" One by one,
As their weary feet touch the shining strand,
• One by one,
Their brows are encircled in a golden crown,
Their trarel-etatned garments are all laid down,
And clothed in white raiment, they fest on the
white mead,
I ltialre the lamb loreth his children to lead,
One by one.
Before they rest they pass through the grits,
One by one;
Through the waters of death they enter life,
One by one.
To cewe are the floods of the river .611
A. they ford their way to the Heavenly 6111;
To others the waves run fiercely wild,
Yet all reach the home of the undefiled,
One by one.
We, t 0,,, !hail come to that river side„
One by one,
We are nearer its waters each eventide,
One by one,
We can bear the nabse and dash of the dream,
No• and again, through our life's deep dream .
Etometimeelthe dirtarall its banks o'ertlow,
gemetimes in ripple, the small waves go,
One by one.
Jesus, Redeemer,. we look to Thee,
One by one;
We lift our voices tremblingly,
One by ono.
The were. of the river are dark and cold,
We know not the spot where our feet may hold ;
Thou who did'st pass through in dark midnight,
Strengthen us, send us Thy Ina and Thy light,
One by one.
Plant Thou Thy feet beside us as we tread,
One by one;
On Thee let us lean each drooling head.
One by ope.
Let but Thy strong arm around ue be twined.
We shall cut all our cares and fears to the
wind ;
Savior, Redeemer, be Thou In full view,
gladstimely shall we pan through,
One by one.
Er g e.
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER
Taney— Our Devil.
Slippy—TA Belli3foritepareineriL
—lf two hogsheads make a pipe, how
will make ■ cigar ?
—BrUorernor Letcber was elected Mayor
of Lexington hut Saturday.
—Bathers' Sterling Price and family arrived
at St. Loam on Saturday from Mexico
—C• L. Valiant/ high= is announced to de
liver • lecture before the Tonng Men's Demo
cratic Club of Boston.
—Why is it easy to break into an old man's
house ? Because his gait is broken and his
locks are few.
—An old bachelor, at our elbow, say. that
the proper name for marriageable young ladies
is wailing maids.
—Mr Josh Billings emasks, and he knows,
eresulful easy to bee fool. A man may be
one and not know It!
—A man M Maine applied for two gallons
of rum for medical purposos. For what medi
cal purposes ? Inquired the agent. For raising
a barn, was the reply. •
—Never despise counsels from whatever
quarter they reach you. Remember that the
pearl is keenly sought for in-spite of the coarse
shell which envelops it.
r -- : 4 gentleman having Naked how many dog
days there were in a Year, renewed for an an
swer, that it was imposaible to number them,
as every dog had his de , .
—Five negroes were taken from breen co.
jail, North Carolina, by a body of armed men,
and lynched. They were charged with outrag
ing the person of a Mre. Miller.
--Quilp thinks it rather remarkable that
while several thousand feet are required to
make one rood, a single foot, properly applied,,
lkof ten sufficient to make one oiv
—There is great suffering among the poor
in Raleigh, and the Young Moo's Christian As
sociation have been supplying, for • month put,
forty females in that city with food and fuel.
—The sentence of MoGrath, the Fenian who
was convicted at Toronto, was postponed on
Monday, the Judge stating that he had re
ceived instructing not to sentence nay mons at
present.
—A telegram from New Orleans oates.that
the election. ordered by Gwe i t , k-Ins to all
vacancies in the Legislatutts, b ays reeulted I.
every instance in the choice of.Xwions opposed
0 -
to his policy.
—Please, M ice Jones, what is the meaning
of suburbia Governess (who is extensively
hrinolined)—The out-skirts of a plaee: Pupil
(seising Miss J. by the d real—Then, Miss Jones
are these your suburbs?
—Dryden was so bound up iu his books
that his wife one day exclaimed: I wish I Wert
• book that I might always be in your society.
I wish you were an almanao, so I could change
you every year, replied be.
—lt Is related of two old notch ministers
that the one asked the other if he were not sore•
ly templed at (hoes to go fishing on the Sunday
afternoon.. Oh, mon, replied his fellow labor.
sr, I am never tempted tang, I JIM gang.
—Why do you drive such a pitiful-100 lug
carcass as that ? Why don't you put • heat
oust of flesh on him. Pat ? A heavier coat of
flab! By the powers, the poor creature can
hardly carry what little there Is on him now
111110 --When .n blab priest rebuked his parish.
lower fur draokanoess, and told him that when
or er he entered in alehouse to drink his gwerd
ian angel stood weeping at the door. dad if
he had six ponce he'd ha in himself, was Pat's
reply.
—X literary gentleman, eojournlng et the
Bamare& limos, Plymouth, lit manner, called
at the town bookstore for Ooldszeitlee Greece.—
The led in attendance replied, We do not keep
It; you will And It at the watchmaker's, next
door.
—A Mr. trainman writes to a western
paper, informing the pnbile that kr thinks the
newspaper retard of his death la lasormet. •
the heft of pia knowledge he is MO aye, and
would be kicking, if he coald find the anther of
this report."
—The United States grind jury at Now
Orleans lima failed to dad an indictment against.
say person Command la the July Mots. P. H.
Morgan, U. B. District Attorney, when the jury
was empannelled, declined to apply the Met
oath to Umpires%
&romp and Jeffries Cooplotely out. done.
•
A abort time oboe we call 4 attention to
the Infamous conduct of Anwoyd, ; mis
erable itinerant Yankee siOcedar p witp got
"himself appointed Judge of s District Court
of the United Stiles ender Me Ltheoln. , The
Richmond farrespondent of the New York
Herald exposes Ids rascality as folio's.
Facts hitherto unknown In relation to the
confiscation of the property of Mr. W. N
McVeigh, in Aleiandria by Judge Under.
wood, have lately come to light It will
erty was purchased by Oakes Ames, Johit B.
be remembered• from the published state
ments, that after the confiscation this prop-
Alley„ and Samuel .Hooper, of Massachu
setts, and the worthy Judge himself; but
having tome grave double so tothe validityof
the title thus acquired, judgements obtain
ed by attachments against McVeigh during
fhe war were purchased, the property sold
again, and the above parties again becom
ing the purchuers at a mere fractional part
of its value.
In this way, as Mr. Ames stated, adouble
title was gained ; but this transaction hav
ing been brought before Judge Thomas at
Alexandria, the sale wan declared. illegal,
and the congressional trio froin Massachu
setts, as well as the Judge, had again to
fall back upon the original fee simple con-
Satiation title. 'M
Weigh, ,an original
Union man,waa at the breaking out of linatli
tiss absent from home, within the rebel lines,
and uniwithetanding repeated effgris to re
turn, was unable to do so; he persistanly
refused every inducement offered to partici
pate in the rebellion, and when at the
close of the war he was enabled to return to
Alexandria, it was only to find, as a reward
for his constanoy, bit. house occupied by
Judge Underwood, and all' his valuable
property confiscated and sold, Heimmedi•
ately called upon at; Judge and demanded
copies of papers upon which this action was
based, and was told to apply for them at
:forfolln
This he did, but Underwood, knowing e
that the tenure of the property upon these
was very uncertain, proceeded at once to
Norfolk. held the court, at which some for
ty °fritters of the late confederate govern
ment were indicted for treason, and, this
was a chance not to be lost, platted the
name of McVeigh upon the list, his being
the only civillian't appearing thereon.—
Thia.pre4uded the pouibillity of WVeigh
(now under the ban of treason) taking any
civil action for Use atscovery of his lawful
property, and until be can be tried for this
offence the matter remain. in state quo.—
M'Veigh is atm eizty , years of age, with a,
large family dependent upon him, and as
the property now held by Ames, Alley,
and Undenetatutis-tha accumulation of over
forty years of indiffitry, economy and close
attention to business, it is to be hoped the t
this outrage on the part of the - Judge and
his colleagues from Massachusetts will meet
with the censure it so eminent:) , deserves
from the public.
The Democracy Sustained.
hlr. Justine Davis, of the Supreme Court
Of the United States, delivered the opinion
4f the court in the celebrated Mlligan ease,
in reference to mlllitary emputiesions. In
that opinion be says.
"The Constitution of the United States is
law for rulers and people, equally in War
and pease, and covers with the shield of its
protection all classes of men at all times,
and under all cirempstances, No doctrine
involving more pernicious consequenees
wee ever invented by the wit of man than
that any of its provisions can be suspended
during any of the ismetiresseles of the liai":"
ernment. Booh.la despoil; Ontthe theory
of necessity on whtoh it is based is folio,
for the Government, within the Constitu
lion, has all the powers granted to it which
are neoessary to preserve its existanas, so
has been happily proved by the result of thill
great effort to throw off Its just snthority."
This is the language of patriotism, of
truth and ofgenius of our institutions. For
enunciating these immortal prinoiplos,Dem
sends have been •ilided,prosoribed and de
nounced ;but the dispassionate investigglins,
given by the'Suprenie Court to this momen
tous subject, has yielded from the pen of.
Justice Davis, an appointee of Nr.Ltneoln
himself, his
. eRSOSII4II friend and his executor,
this most-ample vindication of the aorreat
nese of the tenets of our polities} faith.—
Pairsos and Union. •
-4 lad; was told, the other day, by a
traveling gentleman, that every lady who
had a small month was provided with a hus
band by the Government.
"Ith it pothibulT" said the.lady, *slap,
her mouth se little se ebe could. '
The gentleman :added: ' , That if she bed
a large mouth she was provided with tgo
husbands."
„My gracious!” exclaimed the lady,at the
lame time throwing her mouth open to the
full extent.
The gentlemen booms alatroodt um& him
mien. end hes not been seen or heard it
CM
—"Le. met" sighed Mrs. Partingion,
"here I've been sufterin' the bigamies of
death three moral weeks. Fast I wee seis
ed with a bleeding phreublms in the left
hemisphere of the brain, whioh`was flowed.
ed by a 'topers of the Itoltyyrsglutor of the
heart. This gave me an intlatuation of the
born:, and now I'm with the °tondo= mer.
bus.—There's no bluets' like that of heath,
particularly when you're sick."
—OoleHga w•o •oknowldged to be •
bad Hd•q.. Ono day, riding trough the
street, be vu •oeoeled by n-wottild-be
nay, do you know what kapponod to
liaalain?"
Cara* dis &AVM gala and Amp
"The suns u did to me—as us spas to
himl"
—Lucretia Mott asp, 4liat • YOuni °ma
who can not persuade women to boy what they
never want, or their husbands to be able to pay
for, should never expect to Immense at all eels.
butted as • dry goods clerk. Lucretl• le snob.
sorting young • woman.
—A gooktimmum who Pam a business view
of moat this's, WWII ream* as rogweales
a moon of matte rpootio Moopotamomt,ropliod t
Oh, h.li ow, of those sum who bays ~lap
otter Um Intuit* sint &dap altar the Wolk.
r
omoblo, bat who savor pays mob.
—A 'two child, about twojoars of art
ru
woo btally n rderod by Its staplather, is do
wny county, Va., yli Ria. Upon szautisallos
of Cho body It wasibuad that the shad hoilltesa
brutally whipped, Its body pnwoutlag booboo
sad *ears tem lb. feet to W bead, sad Ms
dna wai embed µart is! • Jay.
—A wide-awake sib& Amid
empeiratios geim is slow awe Beady behre
ha had Addy emarreed, widdesly 'topped sad
exclaimed. Brethren, this WA fair; It irs't gie
tag • murkier-4 Am- Wait till I get along
• OMs, sad them it I ballet wsrth ihreolag to.
go to dm Dui aft% bsfhts I vitsOmialeasd;
give • otaa a chasm