OUT WITH THE TIDE The @situe boy slept t/n his mother's breast, Heavily, slowly, }IL/ breathing come, And kin blue eon opened, an stooping low, fler soft voice whispered the sailor's name A. tho' it were sweet, while a human soul Still leaped at the sound ota mortn I word, To claim the familiar love-worn link Ere It grow in tho world beyond millottrd "Is tbe lute in, weather? I bud a dream, As I tossed about through the weary ought, Of a shining boat all of purest pearl , And a bontman clad like the Northern Light Ile bid ma sad in the pearly craft; And I seemed to kriow neither fear nor doubt As he held rue back with bi.elooMg oar, • Baying. gr.iccly, 'Wait till the toll rupsmnt ' "And then I awoke. You were just asleep, With your poor head down on the pillow bud And nn lig I thought (tithe watting bout. I linked my fill geri and truly prayed. I terid, 'Our Father,' in earned, tOtre, It rointoret nie'whon I lonalet4ide , Rut, mother dear, I ain going 011011, tieing out, going out, yhlwl3 out r the iikk 'trot.' keep toy shirt with Ile silver etnrs, Though dint nub the Nall •ea water luny, t Anti tattered because I hail virtualed so, Underneath the wrecked Ninit's rot king pro knitthe curls that laint away Frani our My wounded and at Inn,; head, ' Mho° ktitilly hands itronefit n o ',mu° to Jolt, bearers with border• trend '•ls theL tide In, mother' Ah, is, 16mow, 'Tsel the lime fur its angriest, lallest swell; What will rt carry away to pea, Beside the e and and the little shell ? The heathen:l watts and tie white boat ',eke, The wot tenth laughs an babilleii break, • And .thri wave creeps up to the eolel•eliff, Till it barker/Ird turns like 11 btealthy real, EMIE=M And lurned . hl4 cheek to the km eg breast Spenlong no word2l the' hi, polo hp, moved Wall a sorrowful 111031111/ his troubled rest tin• morning -eel fly brohe, fle kissed her softly before he dul, Ant the elfin ung boatman bore hula on, fielding out,•nfling out, with the outworn] Illy —/:•, if ft fee THE DANGERS OF THE HOUR The folriiii.ing is an elegui,t extract horn on address, delivered by ex Senator It all, of New Jersey, before The 1 oung \DM'S DemoCrat lc Club of lluston, at Tremont Temple, on Febrii try 1 1 ill 11 Ina believes r ut a single moment, that if the pot try of lint early d qv had Fell.' e , l in lire councils of this nation at rho first outtiroil, or our soonoooi ii th ou t ee, that this country could have been so thought and suddenly legislated into all th h 7 iors of our late civil wails% that such a terrible calamity . would have been permit tril to burst upon this land, tiilmul nn ap peal from the legislative body to the migh ty assemblies of the people, whose blood and treasuie were to be drained, to nuke guoPlhe iiMane hub ling of an unprincipled ,bouagogi), ..that this country could not exist halt Male and half frtle," when it bad existed and grown great and powerful un tree Just such n condition It Moult' have hues On appeal ' , from Philip thank to Phil ip sober," an appeal from the frantic I row of binaries, who had gdt possession of rho government, to "the sober second thought" •f the people, who were known to be in fiver of concession and couipro• seise. It would hove been an apptal from 3 Congress that deliriously exalted , the mere shibbolt , th of pars) , above the judg ments of toe people, who cared nollung for party triumph, so that the peace of the country could hate been preserved Ate member, it was the snore legitlative body that trampled, insultingly, under theft feet the wise and putt noise counsels of the vi tesmen %ha formed our Peaue Congress, and gave th,in country a slight foretaste of the blind obstinacy, wholesale corruption, and wicked usurpations of the Congression al Directory at 11 ashington, now aspiring to rule this nation, Ifr Jitlinsota once well said, "that fanat icism woe Poloist ignorance " We are day by Joy, having a realizing eviiplitication of the truth or this delliiipon Fanaticism, first, by In robust ignorance brought the sections ?ace to face m deadly conflict In ,ist robust ivorance t 1 trilled with the grav ity of the - criais, treating the deep-scated discontent of a large body of Stales , is if it was only the wild fury of a snob that sack ed houses and destroyed power looms It was robust Ignorance of the vi ry filet prin ciples 01 the welfare of govmlllllollt, ILnt inducedfonatiCiBlll to assert that the de= orroction of negro servitude was paramount to the question of national liappinesa and prosperity It wyks the robust ignorance of fanaticism that conceived the I.IIUO ilea that the freedom of four million dependent. beings could be fully consummated by the simplo dash the grey goose-911111 thet signed 111 C Proclamation incomprelTimble folly! to suppose thor we could decree freedom to them, such freedom as we possFss—lhat we could elflike for them in a day, vripi 92tta10:1e11.1, made for Ile in centuries ti 14 insanely thought that it could call forthrlie ill-gi own, solid oak . jay some other pthicess than that tin o' wit tell the acorn slowly unfolds and stiength ens year after year—that it could snake the wheiit-fields ripen into the harvest without • first theNJgde, then the ear, then the full none in the ear." And now the result of ell-Ibis folly and fanaticism comes to U 4 in the 4,041 of the starved and abandoned freoiltren, wandering outell'AV amid the charred remnants of their once happy homes, or in the W Iltd wastes of her aban doned plantations sinking down to the, having found the chtimea of destitution and starvation infinitely more grilling Than those of their ancient servitude. The task mas ter of northern fanaticism, whose tote is torture, and whose pathway to emanegin tion lends only througlit "the valley of the shadow - 1f death," was but a poor exchange for that ancient bondage, whoie (Oleos in castaparison were silken, and whose cruel ties were tender mereies complied with the wrong and outrage inflicted upon the no• groes in the name of northern philanthropy and conferee] emancipation And 11011, when what yrae styled the war for ilikkUnion ix ovethellgd eolary southern State once in 'rebellion has returned to its allegiance, we are pree'ented with the humiliating specta cle of thr patriotism and conservatism of the coma", involved in a struggle vita)) Radicalism for the inlegi ity of the Consti tution and !lie •pr'eservatton of the Union True it in that there were times during that King Lour of a nation's agony, when tier sweat was not-only 'as is were great drops of blend, but blood itself—lho blood of kindred abedain-in civil strife, when-per, eon al wrongs and outrages were inflicted that made the honest, patriotic breast of this nation pause in harrowing doubt,and misgiving overthe sincerity of the declara tions made byJhe party in power. It wit nessed fertile valleys, crowded cities 11 teeming villages at the South, given ovet to n wanton destruction utterly at war with e•ety principle of the modern laws of na tions The smoke of a furnece ie .aollegea, churches, libraries, works ofirl and the property of non-cOmbatants, all given to destruction by an edict that sounded like some fierce tale of vengeance in the middle ages, "whe'n the Engle of the Scala rested on the towers of Verona," The great max im inscribed by the 'power of Christianity upon the pagetto.f.the reformed laws of ma tione—"that nations ought to do one an other in peace the most good, and • in war the least evil possible," seemed swallowed 'tip in an insatiate thirst. ,for vengeance. iU 101,Pictunitriti4 VOL. Xlrl Here at the North, we experienced what woo appropriately called the Reign of Ter ror. It was nn age' of arbitrary and secret arrests, of a corrupt, cowardly, subsidized and pro-diluted prgss, of paid spiv' and pension informers. Then the post oilles every where became enli like The Lion's Mouth of Venice, into whose open jaws,the lying delator could secretly cant his Info mons aceusation, 'and from the tribunal at Washington as swift and as sure no (hoer the far famed "Council of"l'en," came the mandate that Consigned the unsuspecting citizen to' ono of the military, hostiles of this government, it might. lie Fort Warren, it might he Fort Lathyette Then timid 111011 11, rut about !•witli bated breath, and whispering humbleness," not knowing who. was to be the neat -friend struck down at their sides Ambulatory military tribitatili lo Miele, where the courts of law were! open, and the processes of tub courts unre strained, established their drum head court mirtials, whose despotic edicts sent men Au lianOdnnent rind Leath with an eipmn lin k.), nod nu crinisite joyousness on the fa ces of their belted judges, Mat ought have excited the. envy of Torquemoda 111111901 f These tailiiitry mitraps imagined that the courts were camps, and the admotstrat roil of ju stice n,.enmpnigu Honest nit could not reconcile these acts of wrong nod:out rage violative of ever) pitotile of minion toilette' liberty !lilt the smooth toogiusl, hoheyed prolipits of lore itsi:4ll%l2.mo-r= lotion and the l't on, Hutt were ever pp tip the lying lips of the ois and vindicift tors vf all these wronge'dnil outrages They had In right to suspect the honesty and question the integrity oldie motives Of uteri who could thus exhibit such glaring illellll - botween their nets and their pro fessione Therefore,, when the war was over and the South had made Mende:A , by all the means her power, a desire to COIIIO rinse More under the Prot Oct 1011 of the old flag, and to alone for the errors of the past, no honest discerning men, who tut realizing scribe of tlie wspll hyp4iisy of Radicalism 111 power, wan surpriserlo find that 11111 R the war for the Union was DI er the war against the Constitution had com menced, or rather l`illiould say was to he commenced And now in the face of their aoletuti legislative resolutions, not only in Congress, but in every legislative body of the North, in direct antagonism to the re peated declarations of their own chosen chief—with the memory oldie fervent pa lmate !appeal? frelth'iii the 111131118 of every man, woman and child at the North, this nation is cooly antf gravely told that the Union they meant was such a Union as world secure for Radicalism a life interest of power, and a right of free contrition 111 the government pastures during the life time of this generation, and that the Con - litution we wore to vindicate was not the I Constitution of our Potters, with its beau- IVO system of checks and balances, but a new instrument to be construed like the will in Dean Swift'a Tale of a Tub, tit any way that might best advance the interests alb° interpreters\ Yes, citizens, after all dies° frightful sacrifices of blood and Ilene ore freely gisen by the nation, with it con fidence and devotion Unit were pronounced by it so milling policy that on brazen laced audacit' and utrocity has no parallel in the annals of crime—this nation is nun 10 learn thst it tins been foully cheated out of all the fruits it was to enjoy, and that all these sacrifices have burn had under falseliretences that kpin.--lhe.,..istrd menus° to the eat to break it to its hope and expectation There is a frightful danger 1111 pending over us at this moment—all signs indicate every how 1t1et,1909 it,of a complete comilitlation and contralt/atitm of this gov ernment Each successive Radical encroach ment has a COIIIIIIOII origin, and points to a common object, namely, the fit in establish incnyof the Radical power by the subjec tion of the Isle revolted States to a military despotism, pp.] the last CITOIt now pending in l'ongresS, among its veiled schemes of reconsii net ion,is In out su ung ns Holy 111 it of lig it 11111 Like the ti dad, of the lion's den, iliese all lost in One Illyertioll, there Is no escape, no depot lure, no tellorn If the people of Ibis country do not title 10 the dieighill of the opportnnity oflered, and 10- mist these inutivat ions and lisitipat ions, peaceably ,f they con, forcibly if they most, then the yoke n ill lie upon their net:l.mnd they wail have become the seitsof the vilest dt spotisin Itic world has ev‘Cknown Jacob ms in Congress vvill fully ignore the coustituitonal rights of Ten States to die Union, and would wring flout them such concessions his will In the end destroy our whole 0) 010111 of replytentative government, nod till hopes, of a lusting peace They ,n slsi, 1n the winds of Dryden, that . "Al least nue', he Nadi. 'f ill pear° ifielfvuwar The Mims°llium will have his Paradise the otherseele of the Sword Bridge Over the sharp edge of the niched deimetar ate the faithful It, ree 2 telkildt 'leaven that they long for' The Radicalo in Cougtess n cold drive the men of the Soyt,lt.over a sharper path way to k restored Union. The edge upon winch they are to be mode to walk, is not euly to lie made lacerating to their feet, but humiliating to their souls. These malig nant,' in Congress, whenever they speak of the South, seem to be. imbued with the •en out of the hatred that swelled in the veins of that old Roman Itadiaal,who never spoke privately or publicly withou,t closing his speech with the words • ••Ilowever,it is my opinion that Carthago must be destroyed." Now why should such things be? A pri;c tical, sensible. statesmanelnp,should desire to bury in oblivion the end memory of our domestic dissensions. It teas a Roman Em peror, who when asked to erect Kik RIM to vengeance, to commemorate the death of Pisootho foil in civil war replied. "Private memories and hatreds engendered in civil strife should be forgotten, and public mon uments should commemorate foreign con quests, not domestic dissensions" When the Theban' conquered the Imeedemonians they created a brazen trophy in honor of the victory. A complaint vqmaile before the Amithycleonic Council, and tile noble response was, "let it be abolished, for it is not fitting that any veedrd shotild remain of discord between Greek and Greek." Should heathens and heathen nations surpass a Christian people in meroy,magnanimity and charity? Are the feeling. of personal re venge and hate to be subs - Muted for the obligations of the . .. Constitution, and must the people of this country submit tamely' and in silence to this tremendous narronal crime, which is to reduce a large majority of the (11.1 Thirteen to the cOndition of stab. jugated provinces, governed Isy Ci!ilitriry ma. traps,' If this crime is indeed to be perpe tram', then tbo duty of the President is plate Ile has sworn "to protect, preserve and defend the Constitution of the United Stales." Ily all the obligations of his oath of office by the prompting, of the phrest, most uncouth patrioti.in ; by the welfare of ths-present and all coming generations, be is boned to resort to every constitutional means within his politer to ace to it that the Republic receives no detriment. To day, I% Congressional oligarchy, controlled by traitors and disunion iota, to assuming new and frightful potters, that, if submitted to it in silence, must mil in the Overthrow of this Government Tee'issue, (only presen ted, now, is-11 nether the Constitution dint our fathers gave Us, With tto well tlelined ErtelltlVO, Legislates . ° and Judicial deport ment', shall i came iiiiimpare.r, orovlieth or the legislative dcp irtment,coneentral mg all powers within Tf7CTI; - sTiall establish - a central Congressional Directory:, to overan nod enslase this nation' It certalnly is clear, Dud if Congress usurps the power to dictate terms of admission to the late revel led Slates, and establishes in ihtnry govern -111-0.1'.1 therm, beating as milliner Iho right of each State to tegtslate Its noun do mestic insittuisons in its ono way, miring t ag upon the coast Itutional prerogatives of the , Executive, and threatening him a jilt impeachment, for Artisag to regtster its de crees, then our CUIISIIIIIIIOII has "hut a name 10 live Then the hour has blend/ when, in the sonorous language of the Dec laration of Independence, ..theollovertiment has become destructive of the ends fur which it MO created," and the solemn right has 111011 t. curt ly Scaled - in tin indignant, ouitlfgell and is,islted people to alter or nholtsdi such form of goveruntent us is thus attempted to be imposed upon them It is high time, if st. 6 intend to preAette our furor of government, that further inne •vations and encroachments were resisted ninovations originate just as a path is feinted in the fields, Taw first per son Who crosses the grass trends it down Soon where the foot , teps are, the grass has changed its colt., the depressions are dis t lief Not long aft er we rile bits and patches of the soil, where very recently the grass was only flattened, are laid bare Inn see the naked earth, the roots of the grass are dined, !he grass itself Is killed It sin ings tap no more ; and then the hare places gradually extend until the brows detours the interventng green between Ity and lig the hate worn places join one another, and all the pass betweCti them is devil 0) NI, and the I,OIIIIIIUOII/1 pal In Is for into] Ti nibs enlarge the path on either side, and gene - rally the hedges and fences tire ono ihro a, unit the ires..pas.ero go in and tut mire- Strained • Remember, citizens ' ut this lions of 141110 - VII(101111110 ellerol.lllllfla upon )011r dearest rights, and be warned in tune that ilia first the tranipletl grass, their the beaten pathway, neat the broken hedges, and pros it Ate r t ne e s, unul despotism t tdcs itei and unrestia land 111 Co'lolll4loll, 1,113111 MC 1111011 111 IS •üb jeet of encroachment, •to qtathe nom the wotilV of your own Welistel, tlelivet ea hum this rely platform, )oar own I% ebsier, tlial dead but sie,gplered sovereign who still ules 0111 spirit fioni his 4 ICI rd 11011 • The 4 114 , 111 Of liberty is untied bolsi-10d fens less sprit , but it w aleo n shaip sighted spa lt, It is a Caul rolls, angtic Int, far seeing in telligence It is jealous of cues Oilf 4411 en(, Jealous of pow., jealous of men II de mands checks, It socks for guards, it in sists on securities 'chi, is ihe n•uture of Ilim is our liberty Were ever It tier words than these Heir, -in the city of 1111 pt :de nod love, whose iti;ing arm so often sustained kiln, whose prntne was ever ott his bps, and whoNo past glories so often ',lightened has eye, and enkindled the fires of Ills malehlers elo quence, may these noble wordy of Ills sink deep tutu your laes , d4, sin ing up nod bear nboninnt ft alit A TRUE PICTURE The following de