For the Watchman. "PLACE NONE OUT, AMERICANS ON THE GUARD TO4IIOHT{7-• 11Y IVA+ w. w•ena4nm The foregoing line was taken from the Pub ho Repair, and American Citizen, published et Lancaster, Pa., A D 1854, when the dogmas of fanatioism were herald throughout the nation under the name of Anon-.ad agio,. TAe words art Woddogtores. Twelve years ago, It seems not long since then, Ye men who' here espoused the negroes CUM. Held up the doctrine to the gale of toed That "native's minds ehould make the on- times law," Your eloquente no lungunge there could dna That would °sprees your heirt, pretended light, Or paint you, sweetest motto to Mankind "None 6141 American, uot,.onaril fa niyhe." _J t Your speaker's oice; eotio ing en", ilsefell, To mingle with Paciflo'e awful mu It woke the shades where inland rivers swell, And pealed along Atlantic's genial shore; Your poop to guild the new-begotten fame. Swift on their mission sped with fond delight, And oft its import from the pulpit came— " None but American* on guard to-night " Oh, fleet winged Time what wonder, yo per form' Tby LIMBO is Mirtu le thy touch is death' The lightning gashing tbro' the ruthless storm Can amiss keep pare with thy swift-flying breath Men changed with thingr! lint your unctable CEMEI Changed likeihe moon to its nocturnal flight , Vet left /helm worde to scorn yon blase be- hind : None but Americana on guard to-night Enchanter's mugs, and w l izard's midnight spell, May soothe the woes of superstitious breasts, But ran oaths bind the stubborn 'truth to dwell Enchained in darkness where blasphemy rests Those - dent //oils wherein you ofttimes wet To l.y the schemes of dread sectarian tight, Unto insulted 'Heaven, aro pointing yet, That stands aright.ue aentinel to-night Blessed words of Wa;lt mgt.], 'would you con To deadly hate, that spoke a patriot's heart, Or taint their meaning with the darkest hue Thatcould portray your thinda inaideous art ? Then, era a decade float acres. the dial, Corrupt' the sentence with your new-horn tight, And shout your motto, with • h4sue erode, "Put non. Ind Afrienno on guard 10-.0(7" Could shame your wrongs unto your conscience r show, Or, on your blushing cheeks, depict the lie That doth intent your oath-bound secret now, You'd aer your.eireo n•do(h iAe patreot's rye A damning curse was borne upon its wing When era you used it to assert your mighi,, But now thrice cursed we beer the mandate ng "Put none but A Means on guard to night." What will they say, when o'er the rolling fee, Columbia's shame our messenger. convey,— When Rumples awains behold the noble "flee," Chained hand to hand beneath the negrdes sway} They'll mourn to nee our IVuhington's command Ho mimly given in the cause of "Right," Coirtipted by ■ bue, disunion band To "none but Africans on guard to-mght." Twalreyears Igo, when ye this ensign rose Upon the h ill-tops, and along the deep, nation lay in 'wort repose With en admiring world to watch her sleep Yut now, Ida., o'er our fore ther's graves, Bedewed in blood orfratric al light— Insulted with thin line our ba cr wares, "Put none but Africans on guard tonight' The Trnam and the cell front foreign shores Brought wealth to lavish for our eountrie Assumed the sword, and bled, In all our ware With warm devotion and pat riotic lea] , But looked/at last, through promised rest to en An envious faction, In the land of right, Proclaim unto the Platt, tor are mod free ,'None but American. on guard Io night." It is a moral that iueonetoot hearts, Such as you, frail brained 113 rtreritx, possess Should thus oCt—anova crith wild apaeinoth IMM Your wrong.; to elbow, or slump The tloep tin prim Of treekcheruue zeal, which fires your eeels— There le a God, of Judier, Truth and Reght s Who all our nation. deflate. control., And stands a sentinel to your wrongs to night. But for our wolchword lot,tho purost straine, For oittc recol'e rights, float upward to th sky, And let our foes enjoy their coarse refrain Which so displays their inconsistency , Throughout all 3 etre upon our banner shine .. The words wit rob point the way of truth end tt o bur 404 on earth o'ro tempt Ho to romign Our 'loeo but white men on the match to Right." The ehon idol of fanatic eyes May lift ds head upon our blood-drenched shore, But ran the courageof the good II ha wise Be moved to bow, and the /dark god adore 7 Wo ! wo betide, and ghostly •Isigns stay, The bends that barter thus our sacred right, Redeem their hearts, oh Ood—our motto may— 'T is but white' P11(11 101 the crutch to night"rioter " (live us our land we oak for nothing moro ' Pollute it not with a corrupted blood, Lot negroee reign on A file's bongrucibe iihoro ; ' But tae mat ride where MO ingly*.thr good Unsheathed hie sword to render whitemeta Jsr., And ton hu rreforiee fo ths 'Aire outos rights— While this we auk our walchward still shell be • "PLACE NONE RUT WRITS WEN ON TIIE WATCH TO-NIGHT." Mtn Fiore, ru., Jae, 19, 1867 •__:... SPEECH OF HON. FREkERIOK KURTZ. In — The Howe o i ißeprmny(tives, Thursday afternoon, January 31„1868, on Senate WI No 3, Welled Joint4eso/ution to ratify the amendment to the Constitution of the Unites( Stales Ma KVOTZ Mr. Speaker, in , giving to the ilouse/my reasons for yottnxinst the pending psoposition to rati the , part-of Pennsylvania, the amendment to the Federal Conalitutlon proposed by Con- grass, and to be known esi the fourteenth I do not expect to influence the ',Vine of a single member op }be other side. Indeed; ivere it waif, Nor ling to demon-. strata beyond the possibility of cavil, that the several sections of the proposed article should not be made a pert of the Constitu tion, I fenr it would not avail to *mare . their rej i ection in the present temper otthr dominturtjirti.7loy only object, therefore; in speaking upon thissubject is to put upon' record inY reasons for voliu as I shall do, against the ratification of this amendment. My objects are of two. kinds First ; to the lime when and the circumstances under which the amendment is proposed ; and second, to the character of the changes thus proposed to be made in the Constitution. I hold that nothing in human affairs should be more carefully and deliberately adopted, and none more permanent in its character, than the written constitution 6f a republican form of government. In its very nature it le the fund mental of the . country. Upon it rests the whole structure of the government. By virtue of its pro visions tilt legislative, executive and judi- 41J hi VOL. XII. Mal departments have their existence, and I exercise their jurisdiction. By the limit'', Lions of power contained,iu it, • republican ' government is distingnished from am abso lutism, and the • liberties of the people sTe protected Without such a permaneut,fun dements' law, a republic 'would be the worst, possible form of government, for it would lepow more or less Alpin‘a mobocracy —the powerno execute the excited/turbo lent and uncontrolled will of the people, without regard to rightlor justice. The great defect in all democratic forms of gov ernment is, their liability to mutations, in consequence of the aroused passions of the people Smith governments, being foutfiled upon the will of the people themselves, are in danger of being changed or overthrown by every succeeding wave of popular prej udice, Le , seion or opinion. Experience deikotigrits that veneration for an estab lished government, however, excellent in itself, is but a slight barrier against the I excited wishes of the people in times of revolution or civil commotion. Al such limes the ideas of the people are controlled by prejudice and passion, and not by rea son. Schemes the most extravagnnl are then adopted, which would bring ridicule and disgrace upon their authors if propos Jed at any other period I believe no con stitution, adopted either in whole or In part, at such times, can either be beneficial or permanent One of the reasons of the excellence of our present constitution, un doubtedly is, that sufficient time had elaps ed after the revolutionary struggle through which our fathers passed, before they set about the work of framing that instrument, to let the passions and prejudices aroused in that struggle subside, and calm reason again to resume her sway. When they finally came to the work, they came as pa triot statesmen, to erect a structure Olen- ',Motional government, not for a day, nor to ,observe the ends of a mere political par ty, but to endure for all time, and for the benefit of the whole people* They trans mitted the result of their labors as a pre cious heritage to their children, and by these it has been transmitted to us True, it is a titnan work, and therefore neceesari- ' ,ly imperfent. All amendments, however, should be made in the same spirit which actilded the framers of the original 'Delco relent The prese nt is not, in my opinion, the propitious time for engrafting changes upon our Constitution. Party feelings are tionning,highoind sectional animosities ex ist to • fearful extent. The country has but just emerged frame gigantic civil strife. The biller feelings and partisan views nat urally engendered In such a contest, have not yet passed away, and all political move ments are more or less colored thereby.— Neither the people nor their representatives can, or will, examine propositions of this character with an eye single to the good of the whole country and of future generations Changes in the Contlituflon, in order to be beneffeldl or permanent, musk belififth as will meet the approval of whole generations far removed from the excitement and ran cor of the hour, and unbiased by the tem porary causes which govern the actions of the dominant party at the present lime. I see no reason for anticipating that any amendment which may now be proposed and ratified, will meet the approbation of the sober minded sod patriotic, men of the next generation, but much in the temper and conduct of the majority party to lead sic to fear the opposite result. U nw i se and hasty legislalieps by the ordinary law making power, although always to be de plored, is not as igurious as hasty and unwise changes in the fundamental law, for the former is always subject to the provi sions of the Constitution and may be readi ly repealed by subsequent Legislatures, while the later engraft pernicious principles upon the Constitutioh-itself, by the mover ,Ogn power of the people, which are with Mlle greeter difficulty eradicated, and, l a whl e they remain, tend to destroy in the min of the people, their confidence in and respec for the government under which they live. These - views appear to me not only consonant with reason, but oleo to be corroborated end established 'by the uni versal experience of all ages There is anotheeeerious objectiee to the adoption of apyosmenilnient to the Consti tution at the present -time The people of eleven Slates of the Union are denied rep reseniation in Congress. I shall leave to lawyers and jurists the discuss o n of the question, whether an article pilkosed as this was, and ratified by three fourths of the States represented in Congress, becomes 'a part of the Constitution or not, and shall base my objiatirfaiipon other grounds than the invalidity of theta tt of Congress as at present constituted. e people of all the States aro expected and required to live under, respect and obey the Federal Con stitution, becauseacocirding to our theory of government Hp their own Vcorlc, ordain ed and established by themselves. The fundamental idea of our system in, that the government originates with, and its powers emanate from the people—not the people of ' one Stale or settles or belonging to one po litical party, but. the whole people of all the States When this ceases Co be true in fact, the real merit and substantial founds- , lion of our government will be gone—the life and soul of the political_ body will have departed and even the form cannot be long preserved. When amendments are duly proposed by Congress in ordinary times, and are ratified by three fourths of all the Stales, the peo ple of the Staten rehising to ratify them, cheerfully acquiesce, for the changes are made in pursuance of the provisions of the original agreemetri, and the States have had Is full and fair opportunity of urging their Oblections in Congress when the proposi tions were pending before that body. That is not the case in the present instance The people of eleven Southern &ales were de nied representation in the EStigreas which proposed Gila amendment. Had - these States been fullysepresented, the proposi tion doubtless would not have - obtained the requisite two thiid vote r p eit9r House, and mould therefore never. 1411 7 e been sub milted to the Stales for ratification or re• jection. This Jinni might make it invalid even if ratified, and It aerial!: is a sub stantial reason why we should of ratify it. If this were but. the question o an hour, a temporary act of a party, the evil incident to it neightpess away with_tlesrafeited and revolutionary spirit, which gave it existence. But notlinth,aohange in the Government itself. This is, or should be, designed to • • Dtniutrililt f 4 "iTALTZ sizaarriilfp riniEsAct UNION," 111 MEE be perinkfint,perpetual. The evil contained inittrorigill will not only exist,but continue to grow through all owning time. The radical programme was and icto de ny the-Southern States any representation in Congress while this proposition wee pending befare that body, and then to co eree its ratification by'illiking its condition preeedent to future representation. This is a revolutionary proceeding, and if suc cessful our government will no longer be founded upon the free will and voluntary consent of the people. The descendants of the 'pillions now inhabiting those Siiptherri Slates, can never be ardent lovers add hon est supporters of any principle of govern meat so toned upon their'ancestors The leaders of the dominant party, in my opin ion, are sowing seed which must produce a crop of bitter trait to be gathered by our selves or our children II requires no pro phetic vision to forseo the consequences of their policy. Alienation of the people from their Government, dissatisfaction, discon tent, commotion, insurrections, civil wars and revolutions This is a fearful'eahtlegue, but inch and every item naturally %owe as the result of the policy now puhued by the radical abolition party of the North In addition to these, in my opinion, valid and substantial objections to any and all changes in the Constitution at the present lime, I have seem' , serious objections to the provisions ohhiit proposed article. By the first clause of the first section it is pro vidert that "all persons - born Sr naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United Slates, and of the Stale wherein they reside " The purpose of this provi sion is universally conceded to be,to confer citizenship upon the four or five millions of negroes reekling in this country—not only federal citizenship, but Slate citizenship aire„_...ay_man'y able lawyers it is contend ed that, of itself, this will confer upon the black man full political equality with the while man, including the right to exercise the elective franehise. We know this is the general and popular signification of citizen ship and we inter that this was the design of the authors of this amendment from the following extract from the report of the Committe on Reconstruction "Such a provisierli would be, in its nature gentle sad persuasive, and would lead, it was hoped, at no distant day, to an equal participation of all, without distinction, in all the rights and privileges of citizenship, thus affording a full and adequate protec.. lion to all classes of citizens, since all would have, through the ballot boa, the power of self protection " Wh e th er the wording of the c la u se al ready quoted will opa facto, confer the right of suffrage upon negroes or not, may be a question, but is quite cellain that the whole of the first section taken together, will give to Congress the right, by a sim ple statue, to thus confer the elective fran chise By a sphsequent clause in this sec tion it is provided, that "no Stale shall make or enforde any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States " In no part of the proposed article, nor in the Constitution as it now xlands, is there given a, catalogue of the "privileges and immunities" of citizens, which by this clause thel-Blates are Kohibited from abridg, \ lug. In mik of dieputs., where exi sts the authority to define these "privilege and immunities ?" By the fifth seetion of is proposed article, it is provided that I "Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article " This, it seems to me, un doubtedly confers upon Congress the pow er4\ to define what are the " rivilegos and immunities" of citizens, Re 11 as to im pose penalties upon nil who, under the authority of anypretended State law,shodld deny or abridge these privileges and Im munities Should this amendment be rati fied, and Congress, in pursuance of the authority confetred by the fifth section, provide by "appropriate legislation" to en force the provisions of the first dection,that is, by an act declare what shall oonstitute the "privileges and-immunities" of citizens, in that catalogue embracing Ova elective franchise; and providing furtlier,`Ahal if any person or persons acting under the pretended authority of any Slate Constitu tion or law, shall deny to shy nitiven, any or all of the "privileges and immunities" aforesaid, the person or portions so offend ing, shall, upon conviction in any of the courts of the United States, undergo a cer tain imprisonment and pay a certain fine; could any one pretend that such act of Con gress would be unconstitutional, or that any election officer in Pennsylvania, who should rOject the ballot of a negro, would not be liable to the punishment by such an act provided? Even if this is not the true eon etruction of these sections, I cannot doubt for a moment that it is the construction which would be placed upon them by-every abolitionist in the land, as soon as this arti cle should become a part of the Constitu• lion. Believing as I do, that universal suf frage would weaken the foundations of our government, by conferring political power upon those who are unqualiaed by nature and education, to use it for the best interest of the country, I am opposed to the provis ions of the first section, which, I believe directly or indirectly, confer the elective franchise upon the negro, who will Afigayp be, to a great extent, depentla'nr upon his employer, by which meansolopendence.sub eervinoy and corruption in polities will be increased to a fearful extent. Believing, also, that all races of hybrids, the results of amalgamation, or the Intermingling of different and opposing races of men,beeome debased, debauched, and degraded, I am op posed to all possible schemes and pretexts by which the legal barriers-heretofore ex isting between the white and black races in America, are to be removed, and opportuni ties and inducements held out fur the num edition of the twe races, upon such terms of equality as will naturally result in the grad ual:lilt contain, blending of the two into one mined raoe of people. The second notion of the proposed Arti cle is intended to impose a - penalty bpon all States wherein the negro is denied the use of the ballot It means this, and mean nothing else. A Slate forfeits a portion of its representation in Congress by not allow isg-dlggroes to vote. The allegation that the South will hare too great a representa tion in Congress since the abolition of sla very, and that this section iv intended to =MEI BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1867: provide a remedy, is a piece of demagogisin gotip by our opponents to tieceit i e the peo ple This section reduces The fepresenia lion of the Southern Staten only on the cell dilion that negroes are denied the right to rote, but allows them all the representation they ever had, and seine fourtee4 members of Congress additional if they will acknowl. edge that the black man is the equal of the 'white man My principal objection to the, third sec lion of the proposed article is, that it is an. attempt to do what the great and good men o framed our system of government said should not be done, and what the sense of humanity and common justice of the whole civilised world for centuries ha 4 said ought not to be done—the enactment of an ex poet f.&l law This section imposes ineligibili .ty to officio as a punishmont foractq done before this amendment was proposed, when the law no it stood when the acts were Bono imposed no such penalty. Ilute4side from this objection, I hold that it is contrary to the spirit and genius of our Government and igol4gais to impose ineligibility to office, or any other mark of political inferi ority, upon large numbers.of able, leading and influential men in the country:4llZr as a punishment for crime or for any , other purpose, and that such a course,instead of promoting unity and harmony among the people, and securing their attainment to the Government, must produce opposite re sults The fourth section of the amendment pro vides for the validity of our national debt, the repudiation of the confederate debt,and also for the repuiliaticn of all claims for loss or emancipation of slaves There is not a man of common sense in the State,t hat does not know Gilt the rat ifieatibn of this section would not give any additional secu rity to the holders of our national debt The payment of that debt depends upon Congress providing from time to time a nut ficient revenue and making the necessary appropriations for that purpose. If any Congress neglects or refuses to do this, the emotion in question furnishes no remedy, and in the very nature of things none can be provided A bondholder cannot sue the Government and by law enforce the pay. meet of his bond. Ile must depend upon the plighted faith of the people—if that fail him, acts of Congress, or constitutional provision' will not be worth to him the paper they are written upon. On the other bond, the confederate debt never lied any loge] existence as far as we were Concerned It was a myth unless the confederacy was recognised and become an acteal govern- ment., With the overthrow of the govern ment of Jeff Davis, the rebel debt ceased to exist. Besides that, it has already been repudiated by every State connected with the "confederacy." It is the grossest char. I. lenient to pretend that it is necessary to trovide by an amendment to the Federal Constitution that this debt shall not be paid The only provision of the section which has any significance or menning whatever is the one prohibiting the payment of any claim for the lose or emancipation of say slave By an act of Congress pealed during the war, the'ttloyal" master of each slave who .should be enlisted in the service of the Government, was entitled to receive three hundred dollars from the public treasury, the slave so enlisted being, by the provi sione of the act, emancipated from slavery Thousands,.if not tens of thousands of ne. grove ,were finished to the Government by the l owners in the itorderStates in con sequence of the passage of that act The faith of the Government was, therefore, pledged that they should be paid three hundred dollars for every negro so furnish ed as a soldier These obligations, as a general thing, have not .been paid To tleny payment now is an not of repudiation The clause of the fourth section of the amendment under considerntion is doubt- ee designed to bide the disgrace and in Lamy of fide first act of repudiating the obligation. of the fiovernment, proposed and carried out by the radical party of the North. For these several reasons, and many more which might be given, I am opposed to the ratification of the proposed amend ment to the Constitution, and shall record my vote accordingly, knowing that by so doing, I arn truly representing the great body of my constituents A ?caw WAY OF GETTING A DyNK —A good joke is told bn one of our clever saloon keepers, which is too full of genuine hu mor, thunder passing circumstances," to be lost A short tlnto ago a representative of the Oreen Isle stepped into a saloon of the per son above alluded to, and with a counten ance full of inquiry, said: "An' have you got any good rye whis kyV ~ V 96 v ery good, the best in town," said be saloon man "Au, hare you got any half pint belles, my good min?" ' Yes," was the reply "An, will you please to fill one with your best rye whisky for me?" "Of course," said tile obliging denim ;and after reachang for the required flask and spending full half oour in cleaning it, repaired to the cellar, drew half s pint of his Bourbon, anti presented it to the gentle,. man in waiting look the bottle,raised it to his lips swallowed agent one half ocpit ti contents and then, after making the appropriate face over it, said in a •ery confidential tone: you plaice nit this to one side till I collier It?' The saloon keeper, "smelling a large sized ret trap full of small mice," carefully slowed awo,S , the said half filled bottle The feikow'bnveroalled for it, but took this novel way of obtaining a drink.—Er. —The Tariff Bill was finally passed throirgh the United Suttee Senate during the past week Il has increased the dully materially. on iron, steel, coal and wool Amendment. to lesson ths duties on Co ff ee and Sugar from five to free per cent and on printing paper from twenty to fif .leon per cent were votod down. The Bill now goes, to the ffonse, where it may proba bly undergo still farther change' before passing through that body. It appears to be settled hemmer that a Tariff Bill of some kind pass bcdlnflouseN elkis session. Exchange. THE SUPREME COURT.' .19tY.Iill Of lION . VARNISH S {IL tt•A TIIOI fekloitisig able speech was delivered on the evening, of the-Bin ult , at the No tional Hotel, Washington, at the banquet given in honor of the fifty-second nnnirer snry of the battle of New Orleans The speech. was made in response to a toast complimenting the United State Supreme Court - Ma Clinton,: • In the history of this country it has never before been thought necessary either ti toast Ole : Supreme Court or defend it Bo( tutee have changed Very recently attacks full of bitter nialig hity have bean made on that Crib anal, and measures are dehberajp,ly taken to break dtiwn its authority. Consulertm . bz whom these assaults are made, and what the ob ject of them is, it would, perhaps, better to encourage them, since it is certaitt that in the long run they can do no harm to any body but their authors If you have a Viper to deal with, or a nest of vipers, it is better to keep them biting at a file than nritthing else they can lay their teeth to Still, it may not be inappropriate to look for a mo ment at the occasion of the present verse dint ton. Three privnie citizens of Indiana, per fectly innocent of any offense—l say per fectly innecent, because, up to this time, no human being has ever legally sworn even to a Lehr/ of their guilt—these citizens were arrested, kidnapped, and carried before a body of men wholly without - power to med dle with them—not authorize - Then to swear a witness for them or against them—and there, after a proceeding which it would be mockery to call a trial, they were ordered to be killed on a certain fined day: In this condition of things the judidial authorities interveneM, and, with the aid of President Johnson, the victims we're rescued. When the cause came in the Supreme Court the simple question wns, whether A citinen could be lawfully deprived of his life without a fair. honest trial, before an im partial jury antila regular court To thi s there could be but one answer, a nd"ebat an swer was given Moon mouldy, all the judges yielding alder full and unreserved assent to it They held, in effect, that the pretended trial wns a conspiracy, and that the men tion, if it bad taken place, would have been mere lawless murder . What elec t could they do' To bang men wit boat judge or jury is an act so clearly forbidden by the fundamental law that no one can make any mistake about it, if he has sense enough to -know his right hand from his left The prohibition is written down as plain as any one of the len commandments; ; there in not a sentence in the Lord's Prayer more sim ple ; not a moral precept can be found in the child's primer that is more easily un derstood. Yet the court is •ilipsouled, and abused, and slandered (or saying it. The organs of disunion and anarchy publicly ,proclaim their determination to disregard the decision, not because it i• erroneous, but because it confines their power by lim its inconveniently narrow They declare that they will do, in defiance of it, what ever grates their own passions or pro motes 1116 own interests; and they impu dently use this very expression . Jf the lair stands to our any, en lotteh the a orse for thr low Mr Thaddeus Stevens, the leader and driver of the prevent Congress, denounces this decision on the door of the House To my certain knowledge he knows it to be perfectly right. The senseless twaddle about hanging American citizens by the Isec ... tit nations, on criminal accusations of their owti government, could not for a sin gle insts l. impose on an understanding like his; hut he slanders the judges for decid ing what 110 knows and what they know to be true, for, no conceivable reason except his desire that his particular friends may continue to enjoy the delight fat luxury of shedding innocent blood The judges, and all whAbink with them, are called traitors becriudi theyAcclare the Constitution to moan what it u o, and be cause they will not violate a themselves or permit its violation by others when they can prevent it If this conflict for and against Hie Constitution implies trenaon on either aide. the guilt does not lie at our door. It is not the man who sustains and loves and believes in tLe laws of his coun try that can be justly called a traitor. lint if there be all American citizen anywhere who, with an oath upon his conscience to support the Constitution, would make war upon it, subvert it by brute force, and take away the defenses it affords to life, liberty and properly, leaving them to the mercy of mobs, Murderers, kidnappers, military com missions, and bureaus of military justice, ouch a man is thoroughly a traitor "Aye, from the extremest upward of his hood To the descent and dust beneath his feet, A most toad spotted trultor: these arrows which they cast against us, barded and poisoned with the accusation of treason, rebound from cur •inpenetrable se nior, and fall harmless nt our feet , for we are shield.] and liclined, and wenpoued with the truth ; but if we choose to take them up am end them back at our ether saries, weld leave them quivering in their veryrte. A great truth, on which the safety of so ciety and the security of individual rights must depend, is in its nature indestructible. You may crush it to day, but it will reap pear and vindicate itself to morrow. Oo' the other hand, nothing is so evanescent or so tickle as the passions that spring from the interests and prejudices of the hour.— Let ths lessons of history be heeded. Titus Oates,li ft edloe, and Dangerfleld enjoyed a far greater measure of popular confidence than ever was bestowed on Mr Holt. Mr. Conover, Mr. Campbell, alias Hoare, or upon all the officers, agents, spies, delators, and witnesses of the Military Bureau put together. They—l mean Oates and cow pany—were loudly applauded in Portia. ment ; they were the prime faiorites of the British people, and they were the very detl lags of all tho clerical politicians. They hikid the life and honor of the nation in Cur hands If they but pointed a finger al any individual he wq,e doomed, and no purity of previous chtiracter, no proof of innocence, however clear, could save him from des• truetion. Such was their overflowing pros perity one year; but before the nexe.eame round those wretched miscreants wore bowl ing at the cart's tail, under theplash of the public executioner, and the vl le popula. Hon of London was clapping'its hands with joy Let the man who puts his trust in a false popularity beware of the rebound which is sure Ici . 'come:oooner or later It is written down among the unchangcalfle decrees of Almighty (toil -that no I,ie shall live forever; and especially is this trite of a great, monstrouN, bloody lie, like that which the Supreme (,burl has put its broad foot upon I have spoken of the court as a:collective body All the jutiges concurred in the do mama of the question before them. tin a merely kipneulative point which lay outside of the meal! there was a dissent. The Ml' aunty was wrong, of course, as all minori ties are Each judge, however, met his duly lathe case itself, and all are therefore entitled to the reverence and respect which is due to the higliest talent, coupled with the purest integrity But one among them is prima. titer parrs, uot-bect}use he is bet ter or greater than the others, but. hqcause be it more fortunate Ile 'W - as selec ted as 4 6' °Natiof the majority, and gave expression to their judgment. The thoughts that breathe and the !fords that burn all over that war/vinare ills thoughts and his words The irresistible logic which goes through and through all adverse argument, and the felicity of illustration which makes the whole subject blase with light, are his own That great 'production will be a guide and a landmark for all fu ture time II identifies its author, forever with the great cause of constitutional lib erty, and makes his "One of the few, the immortal 11.11/0t Thehwere not horn to die." It gives him a positron to which no earth ly station can add any dignity, for n man of just ambition would always rather be a public benefactlr than In bold high office Mr. Chairman, when you recollect that the court has saved us front nothing lees than the total overthrow of our free govern and when you observe the roaring and foaming of the calumny which assails it, I think you will agree with me that it is the duty of every Wiristien man in Ameri ca to put up a morning and evening prayer for the long hits of all the judges, and the perpetual preservation of their just author ity. FRIGHTFUL DEVELOPMENTS.' 'the Auburn Advertiser has the following account of an affair.which happened a few days ago in that •loveliest village of ,the plain." It states that a gentleman from the West was recently Inniried in that city, and re tired to rest ip the bridal climber of ,the blancque in company with his bloom ing bride, whose rosy cheeks. surpassing the rich bloom of Pomona's choicest; bril liant eyes sidling in sparkle with the diam ond's lustre; teeth excelling the Orient pearl lips of cherry plumpness and color; trim-built limbs, eclipsing the statuesque proportions of sculptured marble; flowing tresses of more then Hyperion luxurience and gloossiness of texture, in short— whose every grace, combined with full-chested healthiness end faciaating appearance go . , erally,had won him rapidly at the previo us evening's hall, to the subsequent calling in of a olergymnn and the investment of a $lO greenita„ , c , k in matrimony. An alarm of fire aroused the sleeping bridegroom in the email licurs of the morn ing, and without disturbing his fair part ner, he bounced out to the ball and found the alarm la be a false one Itelnrititig to his chamber lie turned on the gas, when, horrible to relate, he discovered, as he sup posed, the Mortifying fact that he had mistaken the room Too numb bewildered to collect his disturbed nominee, kis eyes mechanically took iu a ,beterogenious dis play of horrors promiscuously strewn about the nppartnient, in choirs;„ on tables and the floor, and suspended to the bed posts. which caused him to suepeot he had entered the den of Borne practical anto mist; for open the bed, clearly defined by the light of the now blazing gas, lay the shape of an almost fleshless skeleton, with bare ekull and only one browless, Inshless eve; toothless, pale liped mouth , wrinkled brow soil sunken cheek •unkon limbs and consiunpli•e thorax About the presiders.- lay fraginents of humanity, to all appenrance—here an eye, freed horn its socket, but glassy and sp. .- ling, there a row of grinning, snow while teeth detached from the jaws, but with Hie goals N ill adhering, a mess of humaq hair, just as it might have been scalped from the skull; two fragmeqta of human, limbs, con stituting what appeared to be line fleshy part, or calf of the leg, also what seemed to be a female bust, or chest, still moving as in the act of respiration, while in it were the Miter portions (apparently artificial) of two bunion cheeks, a saucer of rouge, hair dyes, seven bottles of cosmetics, pearl pow- der, a stay lace in six fragments, a box bearing the label, “patent false another labelled "plumpers for the cheeks,' . still another "heavers,' a set of "patent eyebrows and lashes” were grouped about , and added to the light which wee breaking over the mystified bridegroom, who upon approaching the bed succeeded in tracing amid the bones and parchment (here ex tended what was left (after subtracting the machinery) of his lately bloominglitidt Crowding the whole lot of traps and bondx into a eataboll, he rushed to a corner and delivered up the debris, not even waitirlg to attend the inquest The next train West bore the horrified widower to his home, where he ii now living under Tons of eter nal celibacy. 1,4 A 11119UIT —A q Idie had instituted a suit, for medical servioes egainst one of his rleigebors, when the Ipposiug counrel subjected him to the following cross•eznm• irtation:— 4 .llitijou treat the patient according to the most , tipproved rules of surgery!" naked the eouneel. "Ity all means," replied the witness. "Certainly I did." “Did you desaptitatc him" "Undoubtedly I Ilid That we s a mailer of course "Did you perform the Caesarean uppers tion upon himl" ' , Why, of course His condtion.teguired it And it was attended with very great 811001111.1." e “thil you then subject his person to au topsyl" “Certainly, thnt.was the very last reme dy I adopted." "Well, I hen, doctor," puppied the Co 'eel ironically, "you first phi off the defe 'atit's beta, then dimeted him, and he et survivekit I have n*ore to ash; and, if youtelaim survives it, iftedokery deserves to be immortal" The "doctor" lost his case . t 11411,, I=l THE LITTLE BOY'S CRAVE, o Ica only a hole gust e,' thet PAM. , '•Only pot a child that's dead - - And so the) carelessly turned away From the mound the spade had made that dit Ah, they did not know huts deep A Awls That little grate insong,hunte had mtule I know the esoliiin wan mows, and entail; One yaild would Inane served as an ample pall. And one man 111 Ins um: , Could Lase lusole The nine-wood and Bo freight of rlar . But I knot, that darling Loire nre Ind Beneath tit.it hide collie lid. I know that a mother etuod that day, With folded hands Ly that form of clay I knoW that burning tears were hid. 'lsteath the drooping LrlM e t aching 11.1, And I knuw her hp,andl , freelt and brim Werralnattet as mute as her baley'e au* I know that sumo things were hid away, The crimson leek and wraptingigay, The little aoek and the hAlf.worilkiili,e, The cap with its plump soil tassels blue, And an empty crib, with curers spread ' As white au that face of the guileless dead Tie a halo grate , but oh, hale care, The world-wild hopen are buried there. And ye, peehape in coming years May seek like her, through blinding tenet, How inueli,of light, how ranch Joy, Is boned tkottrult my only boy THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER. pro's farewell to !lir I Llti:lind on Ins going boy —When Is n s eeeel thin a hnnnel', When it ,•nr-.gyred --The rgentirt who t.. the floor, bar flint, been arrested fee rtealing lumber ---Don't mine with a man who has been in the pen itentia4 - . Ile is wt. Conviction —lt lo undvrotood that Portmaster Hull, of resignel, == 21THI --Fastness say they cannot well do a ithout n /in.. nun now 111111 then, buenuse it is so much —When !me !named people peered through the olphnbet of love' When the) peach the ha be. —lt him been diseavered that pthello h•J • legal am well as n military offire,in Venice. Ile was n•tnwny.generid —As the quickest way to make a Mamma untemporary suggests marrying a fashionable 3 oung hull . and selling her clothes. —The way to cure our prejudices is this • That eiery man should let alone those that he complains of in others, and examine his dwn. —Forty-use pearls, tarty Thatuonds, and fire thousand small brilliants form the erovm of the Queen of Belgium —Attning man just out of Auburn Prison, nays Itlf las lost all loco and admiration for IMMEM —A•young gentleman whose lady-lot a sud denly left him in the lurch, mournfully prays that she will come soon and takwhim out. --It's a had 'rei that don't work both wa3r, as the boy said when he threw Lark the ntle which ins teacher flung at Mtn! --The ie. on !to Allegsny and Ohio, broke up on the 4th imeennt Very httlo datuagoapia done. Tint. reported Indian ntaasarre on Hooky 11111 route, Colorado. is dtsbnlieved nt Dent er. --Tho signs of the limes strongly indicate the ignotnininiis collapse of the Radical Repub lican party. took 500 laborers to clear the track of the Western Railroad, from Alben3, N Y. of mow drifts after the lele storm ihourand men ha,e been employed, al 'Lewd 0f550,000. In clearing the anew of the late karma from the etrcets of Boat.. —Rocca grow blooming and rtrti t itAierrica ripening ligealifornia. Out therc—iwiliter . merely a conventional term. --T4Radiral State Committee of Conoco tient taken Num, ground in fan or of negro rut (rage. —The monstrous procession of Trades-peo_ plc in London constituted n close proceeeion,ten miles long, six abreast first part of married life is the shine of the liono3nloon; the rest, too kf!en, common moonshide. - --A Moral debnling eociety out IViritip en gaged M n dieeumion on the followingiquestimi If a husband &merle hie wife, which is the moot abandoned, the manjor woman I An American torturer of note solemnly soot one el ening ''Parents you may have 'children, or If you liar e not, 3 our daughters mal hare 't t 4 —,- 7 A negro, maned 13301, Chrsb, shot at • poll'eeman, in Memphis, on the 4th hereon. the latter had ordered some drunken negroes to clean the Fidmvalkis —The hew 'itroil,teatinuites that (13,- bnep•ntone in that city pursue cc oratin', in that oily ttenight, exclueivo of innocent amuse ment seekers. , --Time and labor, devoted o tile collection of materials to ho converted into Lenore, are the moot fruitful sources, of prollt in the whole range of farm economy aEverticament in Ilia Itinniqgbam (England) N./ rondo • A lady, unable to gat daily leaching, desires daily cooking, waxhing and scrubblog. --A ientimental young man thus feelingly expresses himself. Even as nature benevolent ly guntda the role with thorns, no does she en dow womA r icwith pins. " a negro ball, m Iwo of Dot tranakvii_ tile on • tiolMt, • notice was posted mer • door Nu gentleman admitted unites he comes hisself. -- The radical majority of the Lower Hones of the Legislature hare passed an act tn increase the salary of the Secretary of the Common wealth. --k clerk in a mercantile establishment writes to a friend at home I hale a nice lime of it now spdays, Very little w rk to do—our firm don't &di ertisc. —The wife of Dr. Swett, of Kennebunk, poisoned him lest week with strychnine which she put into Int chide) to core him of drinking. the cured him. —Punch's latest and most atrocious hauling is thin—lf you saw the Khan of Tindery laugh. ingilt to kill himself, situ% might you he sure be would evidently be A .111,4 ,y Kimo. —Joel Lindsley, the reserend fiend who whipped his own child to death because it would not nay its prayers, has been triad and found guilty of murder in the third degree. lietshould have been hung• —Men's lives should be Ike the day, more beautiful in the evening; or, like the sumuker, aglow with promise; and the autumn, rich with the golden sheetea where good words and deeds have ripened on the field. —An inpine tusyasotof a train at Horn ell° ills, N V. a fa day4inee, burned one hundred dollar, in greenback, in thii . station, and then went out and eat lo a mow bank until his legs got frosen. • THE PROSPECTS OF T COUNTRY Again, as in 1800, we are drifting rapid ,ly into • lamentable olvil war The great bulk of the people, now as then, w'll not believe. it ll . snce it is corn t.it on: If the people would believe it, itnould not hap ' pond.itir the reusing of * ipublic sentiment against such a result would prevent it. We are now persuaded that the Radicals mean to impeach the President; anti, by violence, remove him from office After thin they will go on from one Mad set to another till they set the country in flames It will be ugly work. Too late the bond holders will find that thetr intercitta are af fected But. tbei l l 11 1 11. f they make opposi lobo, they will he Inounced ,dOloyal, and this word. now it, our political nomencla— ture, will be the warrant for any manner of reveltition•ry, acts—even to declaring all bonds held by such dislOyal dentins as forfiettil'i hlldiere hirillbitter think of this in Men do noriree signs of Ike to tiing res olution They did see the aligns they pTe °reded strange species'of public nod con tagious ohAranoty t but we celled ••populsir NO. 7. But these happened, nevertheless, and in this city, and elsewhere, thecornplewton of '.public sent tment" is changed in a Jay' It to the duly of good citizens nut id lose any Dine in organizing, and in promoting sound and sober hicks of public policy, by reading, and by public meetings and , dis• cuseions ' More than Ibis is requireal.--, They !should get themselves ready to re spond, should any Department of the Gen eral Government be threatened, sad the Federal Exteultre —to whom the duty is l t. commuted a ommanding the , militia, as well as 13Fe i gular army, when it is called into active service—give them the order! PJ g Inge If the Militia of the States are not called , out the Regular army is under the com mand of the President, and can protect hini frem usurpation If the :Militia are called out the President, again. /tete' command er in chief of these. , ThilGo•errit re of Stain may maneuver to get .... the (Una.) of Oeir eau in all the cAnmatull4 position', but went American preceedents are to the effect that, with us, the command of. the General Government, as superior, makes null any inconniatent,or opposing command of the State Government, as inferior. This to the way the rule has run Barmy the war. .Is the war seems MA to be over yet,we in sist on not changing the music till this dance is over • ••The President is the Cm rnunro(," was the movie when Lincoln's war began "The President is the Govern ment," will do for the purpose of directing the Militia, are well as the Regular army to the orders of their Commander-in-chief The imperchnient humbug will make no difference. The Constituiloo, if any one troubles his bead with it now, directs that the President, &c , shall be remove, from of fice on imperichmiffit ,for, and conviction of, treason," &e By this, he holds his office, and exercises it. fill conrirtion, as welt as mpeschment! The enemy—the Radicals—mean to to spring a surprise on the country, and to act so quickly as to preclude effeettve op position. Thhis would lead 'to terrible bloodshed, in the end. The real woy to preserve peace Is to Ace the danger of so other civil war, and to pram', for it. If this spirit is shown all over the country, we may hope that the Radicals will take'ioun eel of their cowardice—in the absence of any other or better principle. ' The eilracts we make from the doings In Congress, add other things that no decent paper oan report—show that the• Radical Rump have thrown off all restraints, and have entered on a carnival of violence —N Y Freeman'. Journal. "NOTHING TO DO." The many thopsand woricingmen who by their •otce last fall endorsed the present Congress, now have, thanks to the policy of that holly andltl time to reflect on the wis dom of their cqurse It is certain that ski least one-thrtl* indeed not a larger pro portion of the class who so voted, are now out of employment, and it is equally sure that the retention of those who have some thing to' iiNitremely problematicdl The explanation of-the fact that employers are daily discharging those to their hire is found in two, circumstances First—the Sdlsthern ditties are not admitted to the Union ow . an equality—and second, the country i a state of alarm owing to the revolution y measures of the dominant party Thefirthern Slates, if they were represents tM CCegress, would be to day, what they always were, our best oustom era. but it cannot be expected that capital ists will invest money in Stales whose fu ture may be such air will characterise that of any land governed by narrow-minded and unscrupulous rulers Then again, — it will be readily seen that no nation is likely to thrive where one branch of the govern ment is constantly and unconstitutionally legislating to destrOy the authoritrif the other two governmental departments. Men of sagacity and prudence fear that such at tempted revolutiona in law will result in a revolution by force, and consequently hes itate to expend their money. This is seen to day in our own land, where Congress is continually attempting legislation whereby to cripple the legal power of the Executive and the Supreme Court. People do not know where this will end, and, therefore, very wisely reduce their expenditures The persons, therefore, who regard the dis tress and inconvenience experienced by those who have been ejected from employ' ment, will please to recollect that the pres ent financial trouble has been caused solely by the policy of the Radicals —.New York 'Express DRIAD ROTRIOIiTION.--During the war a Deetsleratio editir in Dayton, (0.) Boll meyer, was murdered by an Abolitionist, without any provocation. An Abolition Court tried and acquitted the murderer:-... The whole trial was a disgraceful farce,aud all who participated in it were guilty of official perjury. Some three years have elapsed, and the County Clerk,the Sheriff, and about one half the jury, are dead while tho inffimous Judge, who outraged 'justice at the trial, in an idiot in a lunatic asylum Jim Lane, while ids hands was yet smoking with blood of murdered victims, was elected to the office of U S. Senator by a Puritanic Legislature. For one of his murders be jraa l tried and of course acquitted. He has }ellen by his own hand. IL Is now believed by moat of mankind, that Mrs. Starrett wan guiltless of participation In the murder Of Mr. Lincoln. {Viten she was under 11100iOnce of death, after a trial which will be con sidered a blot on our country and age, Mr. Preston King 'Prevented GOMM to the prealdent, and denied admission to her `daughter, who almost shrieked and sobed her life away on the stepe of the Executive. mingle:l, A few months afterward., Pres ton King stilled a remorseful conscience in this Todd by self-morder.—Er. ---Everybody should Elubsdribe for the I=2
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