THE OLD 00UPLE
It stands Ina Sunny meadow,
The house PO mossy Sod broirn,
With its aumbnoss old stone chimneys
And the gray roof sloping down.
The trees fold their green arms round it,
The tree.. a eantury old ;
And the winds gb chanting through them,
And the eunbeame drop them gold.
The cows lips spring to the mantles,
Rnd the roses bloom on the hill,
And Mishit, the brook in the pastures
Thu herds go feeding at will.
The children hero gone and left them,
They ed In the on •lono.
The old wife's ear' are failing,
A&d %he harks t,lthe well known tone
Thal won her heart in her girlhood.
That has bloodied her in loony Carw,
HerAnilpTir
fm.used hernow
to fo earwtherbri,ottiyaa
She thinks ►gala of her brtd►l—
Itow, dressed in her rybe*bite,
She stood by her gay young lover,
In the morning's rosy light.
Oh, the morning Is roily as ever,
But the rose ham her cheek is lied,
And the minable° still lksolden ,
But it falle on a slivery head
And the girlhood dreams once vanished,
C./1011 back In her winter time,
T 111 het feeble pulses trembled
With their thrill of spring -time'. prime
And looking north from the window,
She thinks hew the Retie hare grown
Since, clad in her bridal whiteners,
She crossed the old %door-atone.
"fhough dimmed her erre bright azure,
And dimmed her helee young gold,
The love in her girlhood plighted
line never grown dim or old.
They sat in peace in the sunshine
Tell the day was almost done,
And when at its close, an angel
Stole over the threshold stone":
Ile folded thaw . hands together—
Ile touched their eyelids with balm
And their last breath fleeted upward,
Like the close of • solemn psalm.
Like a bridal pair they tr”ersod
The unseen, mystical road,
That leads to the beautiful city,
"Whose builder and maker a God
Perhaps in that miracle country,
They will give her lost youth Lurk,
Ind the flowers of a vanished spring-time
Will bloom in the sprit's track.
One draught from the !v leg waters
Shall call back his anhood's prima,
And eternal years shall measure
The love that outlived time
But tht shades that they left behind them,
The wank lee and s liver hair,
Made holy to us by the k haat
The angel had printed there,
We will hide away 'neeth the willows,
When the tirty I. low to the west,
Whore the sunbeams cannot find them,
Nor the winds disturb their rest.
And we'll curer no tell-tale tombetone,
With ite age and date, to rim
O'er the two who are old no longer,
In the Father'. Ileum in the skim.
—t: chauje
HEINRY" CLAY DEAN AND HORACE
GREELEY.
Henry Clay Dean, of low►, au eloquent
speaker, and a man of unEmpeashed person
al character, lately challangctUloraoe area
ley to a discussion, either in the Tribune or
on the forum, on the justice and good poli
oy of paying the Bonds in greenb►ohs. The
occasion of this challenge was the use, in
obe 7'r i 6une, of foul epithets applied lo Mr
Dean—whose challenge ended as follows
In the year 1805, in a number of speeches
.lelivered in the State of New Jersey, and
pub/lobed In a number of newspapers In
different parts of the United States, I first
propelled the payment of the bonds in green
backs; as we were thee, and are now, pay
lug everything else to that hind of currency
and our courts were then, and are now, en
forcing all private and public contract upon
that basis. I then did, and now do, believe
that thin is the only practicable, wise, just
and equitable method of disposing of this
monstrous load which you have time and
again argued toast stint, the poor In their
Mott raiment, fuel and shelter for genera
tions to come, and of course coo nut affect
the rich, to *how it is paid.
Notwithstanding the employment of your
choice epithets, I hereby prepuce to discuss
this question through the Trtbune, allowing
me two columns of your paper every week,
until the whole aubjeot has fairly passed in
review Or I will meet you to Cincinnati,
St Louie, Louisville, Chicago, or any of
the Kaatern cities, and publicly debate the
questions involved in my propositions. If
you will meet me in any of the cities indica
ted, I will, in view of your style of ergo
nienie, give you two hours, and I will be
content with one alternately. .10 case you
should not accept either of theee proposi•
Clone, I extend the invitation to Wendell
Senator Henry Wikion, or to your
glib-tongued neighbor, Henry Ward Beech
er
It May not Do unkind to inform you that
I am now addressing audiences of from
three to ten thousand persons every day,
composed of Republicans and Democrats,
all of whom heartily endorse the plan, and
among the number aremany eminent officers
of the late Federal army, Including gentle
men of both political psrties I await your
early reply preliminary to arrangements for
discussion. I am, very respectfully, your
obedient servant.
1110111TCL1Y Dens.
To this I.tter Mr Greeley oonsidered it
sufficient to make the following reply
Orrice or THE TIMM! 1r
Nxw YORK, SepOMberR,IINT.
MR. DEAN-SIR :-I have yours of the
29th ult. Should I ever ointment to argue
the propriety and policy of wholesale swin
dling, I shall take your proposal into con
sideration Ido not know where the cause
of National villatny could find a fitter adv.,
.caie than yourself. Yours,
lloaAce °RISLEY.
'Henry Clay Demo. Mt. Plaasant, low•
Title was not the kind of reply to, mike
40 gentleman of hiroDean'sehanallier,, I nd
the latter has refolned,inetterriblysoathi.,
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MOUNT PtapiSANT, lOWA, lit Qctober 1867
Hooke' CinzgLST, FAQ.,
81ii-1 hereby acknowledge the receipt of
sour polite note of Abe Bth ultimo. Though
mot surpr teed at the nporteous tone andph ll
eteephioal air of your ihrief epistle,l confess
to a gratification In observing thaiyou have
added to your varied accomplishments the
brilliancy of wit as an embellishment of
your labored essays, and that you adorn
your private ootrespondenee with those
jewel. of literature, which have hitherto
been oonfined to the bar-room and ball alley
which, however, you have very properly re
deemed from their vulgar use as most sin.
holarly becoming the style, compass, and
sutkjeot matter of your teaching, and so
happily adapted to the quotes, ►noalationa
wad wants of your political pupil' and as-
I accept, with due appreolatfon, the ream-
Assw Witloh you auto for yout 'ilium upon
+the great questions of politlaal economy in•
--yoked in the unfortunate condition of - the
eountry, and rattler at.ributei to your mod-,,
lit, what you claim for your sense ofJus-.
lice
You will pardon me for thJi ammo* that,
howaser mush I may be alttriled at the use
. of suoh comprehensive terns as "wiclesale_.
•wilettllng" and "National villainy ;" yet
this,etyla of language has been so long in
Vogue amongovettemen of very moderate it.
toinmenta, thy,' It utterly , fails to produce
. coosiotion when /Wined s'ist substitute for
legio, and aos.roely autsuasne in ',captivating
silken employed as 4 rltistotlpaJ flourish to
h
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h emetr4
ikoatt,
VOL.XII.
ornament ouhapiry uuteeptione of' . ruinous
dogmatt,
Withcatt any pretentious to that astute
requaitp to reply to such startling propo
eittone as are embodied in the sweeping de
nunciations of "wholesale swindling" and
"Notional villainy," I 'Marge you, and
the free-hooters and highwaymen whom
you here led in the work of wholesale
swindling and National villany--the burn
ing of Calf., the overthrow of filets., the
desolation of the molt beautiful countries,
the murder of the innocent, the supremattly
of anarchy over law, of despotism over lib
erty, of captral over labor—that you are
now demanding the 'robbery of the or of
the necessaries of life, that the ofulent may
riot in its luxuries. To carry out this most
wicked purpose you propose to mortgage
the labor of the poor to the bonds of the
rich in all time to mune, and fasten a per
petual debt es tt camper upon the body`poll-
Upon the other hand I propose to pay oti
ie debt In greenbacks—the very currency
which it was created—that the people
y be emancipated at once.
I assume that a sound and uniform cur
rency is the life-blood of ,commerce, agri
culture, manufuntures, and civilisation its
elf, to which every government must con
form its busluess,oredits and intercourse
with other governments.
Justine requires a uniform ourrenoy to
regulate the relations of capital to labor,
that the rich may not oppress the poor, nor
the creditor consume the substance of the
debtor in exchanges, usury and extortions.
These are Lamaism never doubted and ques
tions never raised in the United States be
fore the inauguration of the 'present great
fraud upon the labor of the country.
Against these manifest principles olJus-
tine and sound policy we have under the
present odious and monstrous •• funded
system," two entirely distinct and entirely
different kinds of ourrenoies—one for the
poor and the other for the rich. The one
which is imposed upon the poor will not
carry him forty leagues from toe shores of
his own country, or be recognised in any of
the nations of the earth at spy uniform val
ue or pass as circulating tedium in any
raneaction of business—which at home if
he subject matter of every manner - of hov
ering, and is shaved by this Government
t its counters
Thil inferior currency Is the only
compensation which the poor man receives
for his labor--which the soldier receives for
his services, and his widow and children
inherit as the price of his blood—that the
farmer receives for grain, live stook, fruit,
and fir the fee simple of.the hind Itself{
The old man who loaned Kitt gold and
elver to secure an Income for helplessness
and old age, is forced to accept T y
notes In payment both of Interest and prin
cipal, although he may lose two-thii ds of
the en'ire value of his debt by the worth
lessness of this Miserable apology for mon
ey.
The mechanic who builds houses out of
material purchased with gold and silver, Is
turned to take .11 this paper money iu pay
ment of the purchase, although it WI/ from
ised in the precious metals; and "allow
ance is made for the deprecietion; whilst
all debts contracted upon a specie batik yet
due and unpaid, are payable in this Inferior
eurreuoy, subject to the II uctuations of •
drunken money market. The lawyer re
ceives it for his fees, the physician for his
medicines, the professor and minister for
their salaries.
The poor widow who works to support
her orphan uhildren is forced to take thin
shadow of money in payment of her wage',
and the poor girl, who in filial devotion la
bors dey and night, detrOig herself the
comforts of life to save her Weekly pittance
to bring her indigent mother from a for
eign land, Is forced -10 take these rag
shadows for her labor and submit them to
the merfienary discretion of.the heartless
broker In exchange for money recognised
in the commercial ports of the world.—
Even your protege, the negro, is robbed of
the productsi of his industry by the worth-,
lessness of rag■ in whioh he is paid, the
value of wnioli he is not even 'ph to de-
cipher
Such is the currency created for the be
siness and the robbery of the poor, whose
neoesettiee i forbid the possibility of their
ownerehdo barovernment or any other se
curities ; but iwho. iii excessive. tariff,
stamps, increased prloa upon rhea food, rat-
meat, fuel, house rents, medicines, burial
ti4Penses and other indirect taxation, sur
render fully one.half of ell their labor to
give an entirely different currency to a
privileged class, (abated for the purpose of
overthrowing our republican form of go.-
ernmentoesd esinbliehing oligarchy in imi
tation of the walla period, of , the Preach
derpotimu, which exotiorated the nobility
from taxation
Gold and silver, ,he airoulating medium
of the civilised world, the oommeraial pees•
port to business everywhere, la the espcoial
property of only two classes of the Atrial
can people, whose princely possessions
have platted them beyond the reach of want
who draw their 'substanoe from the other
of who,liy this very distluction in the
two currencies, are crushed beyond the
hops of recovery. The first elm, of gen-
tlemen who are espeoially oared for in this
unjust nod moralism wrong, or to Nee your
o eteigadle phraseology, •'National vil
lainy' twholesale swindling," are the
manufnothrers. For their double protection,
the keel& already prohibitory and ruinous
to the °mummer, are nearly doubled by the
differenctajtexobange oonsequedt upon the
payment" , pf tiff duties in gold and silver,
which you must liporkadds seating to the
revenue of the- Oiniarsl Government, Arti
sans* It drives commerce from the custom
house So uga control of the smuggler, sad
oppritsles the consumer by adding tariffs,
to the pries of his goods, and pays fabulous
amounts into the pockets of ths British
manufsoturer, who smuggles his goods into
British vessels to food merabaut•
men uplin the vitals of Ame;leanoommeres,
This evasion of the revenue laws by ,th
smuggler le made doublyaemunerativi
the *newswire duties *Mob are paid In gold.
This payment of duties In gold and sliver,
after having M u t us I I y enritolted the smug
gler and monopllet at the expense of the
glomming °heated of its dues, and the
poor who *Ai robbed by the duties, la than
oarsfully tau/beaded ass golden fund for
the payment of the bondholder.
The bond holder is the Moond sloes of
gentlemen who receive gold and silver in
payment of their bonds and the scorning in
terest. Of these two al a you are the
especial ahamplon.
There can be no possible reason founded
in justice why the bondholder should be
paid either the principal or interest of this
debt In any other currency than that which
by law I. declared a legal tender In pay
ment of all other debts.
The greenbacks either are or they are not a
legal tends, en the payment of debts. If they
are not a legal tender in the payment of
debts, then the Congress which no enacted,
the courts which sustain the ensetments,
and the pa,tt; which enforced this legisla
tion at the point of the bayonet, have, by
legislative eueurpation, Judicial corruption
and arbitrary power, committed minima up
on the laboring poor for the benefit of tho
idle rich, for which "wholesale swindling"
and "National villainy" are terms of but
faint expression. In thin legislation you
and your ilk have repudiated a large pro
portion of the debts due between man and
man in the ordinaryausiness of the country
and have begotten a' stem of "swindling"
compared with which wildcat Banks, Mite
si ss ippl poker and the faro gamblers are
genteel and honest. Nor does it add any
th log to your honor or mitigate your crime
that this "swindling" and "villainy" of
yours was soaked in the best blood of the
land, out of which you have coined tho
gold-accruing interest and the bonds which
bear it, which has metamorphosed you from
plain Horace Greeley, the printer, into Pis
Lordship, Hon. Horace Greeley, the bond
holder; from the defender of 'the negro
slave into the oppressor of the white free
man.
But if these treasury notes are a legal
tender, then the government cannot
to take Its own paper in payment of its now
debts; and there can be no apology found
ed in jthlikle for the demand of any other
ourrenoy than greenbacks In the payment
of duties or any other debt due the govern
meet.
The same reasons make it obligates" up•
on the bouil-holder to •ta,kyi this money An
payment of his accruing interest, and final
ly, in payment of his bonds; also, if this
money.i■ a legal tender, gold and silver can
In no iron than a legal tender. If it was
legal tender in the purchase of bond., so
it to a legal tender in the payment of bonds.
If this money is by law a legal tender, then
any discrimination made by the government
In the payment of its creditors is unjust and
invidious—that the laborer who works in
navy-yards and forts, and the soldier who
perils his life in battle, shall be paid In
lampblack and rage, and the bankers, bond
holders, usurers, extortioners and bro•
kers, shall be paid In gold and silver bought
up by the greenbacks sacrificed in the
hands of other government creditors, is an
offence against justice for which no pretext
can be offend, and involves the government
la every pbssible crime included in the
euphonious terms employed by yourself of
"wholesale swindling" and "NATIONAL VIL.
LAINT."
I. "It places the government in the at
titude ofa swindling bankrupt,who involyes
himself in debts which he is unable to pay,
Lod then, to rid himself of his obligations,
buys up his own notes at melt discounts as
is induced by • knowledge Grits bad obarso•
tor and Insolvency, that he may repeat his
swindle as often as he may renew hie bank
ruptcy by profligacy nod extravagance "
This very thing the Secretory of the
Treasury of the United States ha been do
log for the last years The pitiable
and disgraoeful el:menial° has been presen
ted to the people of the United States, of
tho government agent sitting in Wall street
buying up government obligation. in com
petition with the sharpers of Europe and
the swindlers of America, including the
bondholders, who, taking advantage of the
poverty of the government, bought up her
certillaann, of credit In their manifold
forms. In this wise the. government assu
med • position involving one of these two
mortifying aonolusione First—That it was
unable to pay its debts, • public confession
of bankruptcy, or that it was squandering
lbe public moneys to an unjust discrilnina
lion In ourreneies of equal collie.
The payment of the bonds in greenbacks
is neither "wholesale spindling" or "Na
tional 'Malay," If greenbaeks •re • legal
tender Co payment of dells , and if green
backs are not legal tender in payment of
debts, then the payment of bonds in this
'pretended currency Isnot half so monstrous
• •'wholesale swindle" nor "Nationarvil
lain," as the imposition of this paper cur
rency upon the lahoring and producing
classes of this country In exchange lat.-their
toll, and the fruits of the earth, and the li
quidation of gold end silver crested debts
due to hottest creditors, untainted with
usuryor fraud. Indeed, if, as you assume,
that the payment of debts to greenbacks In
a "National villainy" and "wholesale swim
dling, with what name 7111 you desig
nate those who have based the whole pub:
Do and private property and business of
the country upon this "wholesale swind
ling" and "National villainy,r refusing
even to rettegpica the different)e in exchange
consequent upon the depreciation of paper
money.
The extent of this swindle and villainy—
if It bli a swindle and 'Many to pay debts
In groenhaelle—esu be measured only by
the aggregate weala and holiness of the
whole limitary, which for five years have
been inv n elved In the lotion of the Federal
Governmetit.
To pay off the hOll4ll in greenbaoks saber
is or is not a “Nallonal villainy" and
"wholesale swindle."
If It is, Quo what apology can you make
to the civili4od word for your participation
to this crime. and what atonecoont sartyou
tusks for the privation , Porarty, baositrapt
ay and robbery of the poor—tho crime and
degradation of Ills PeOPle 0 0 11841 qUela upon
the ustaitst•ol lodation of UN yarrow t
And hoWitao you sitouss tilt maiden of al
arlsto:sracy itroponaigla to the ordiury
laws of taxation, sod building up a cysts ,
of monopoly which aliltorbs the labor of the
pbor sad •Wlablishes the relation of lord and
vassal in • forniowitioh eau .over 'Kist to a
fps Gauntry!
BOA( to pay olr.the hoods In gresithaakil
lo not • minas. thus why not do tialocti
MUM Wl4 Itf on, rightAtout blot strtlis 'ditarp
ths whole avow of seamen. aollasto"
splash pimps, Isfs•licas, vamps, mama
and szatanpan, !Mk tbs annasonati, an,
J eak ansatra; mod apeman , qs.w ad
3ra.,a • 3 0 "
BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1, '1867.
taxation which are necessary to euppert
them in their detestable •ocations In any
view' of the subject the payment of bonds in
greenbacks is eminently just.
If these greenbacks are a legal tender,
they are most properly the currency in
Which these bonds should be paid if they
are not a legal tender, then the 4 ► who
bought these bonds inn valulees currency,
cannot complain if their debts are liquida
ted in precisely the same currency as that
which they paid for the bond; leaving the
bogdholder in precisely the same Sunned& t
condition that he was before be bought the
bonds.
The payment of the bonds in 'IOW and
silver would be "wholesale swindling" and
"National robbery," by which the people
would lose twine the amount of the original
debt in the finali s peymerit and Mlne the
amount of annually accruing interest, as
well as paying the expenses o f supporting
a consuming army of officers, who devour
the substance of the people, which are
themselves an incubus upon society, to
be dreaded and abolished nt the earlievi
possible day as the only means of res
toring the lost liberties of the people,
the eaten) of this fraud upon the people is
measure l by the differences between par
and forty per cent.
If greenbacks owe note legal lender, then
still should the bondholder take them as
p syment of their in and bonds, It
they are not a legal tender they are a
"wholesale swindle" and “Natious I rob.
beryl' BUI they were conceived, created
and put in rogue by the bankers, brokers
and extortioners of Europe and America,
who connived corruptly with the mon in
power in the United States to perpetrate
the wholesale swindling and national rob
bery, to ovelitbrow or simple American
systent of, gousrnment' and subetitute the
odious, rotten, British funded aystein in its
stead. It is but just that, failing to per
manently swindle i the people they should
he paid in their own money.
And what gratitude should thesetbrokere
and "public robbers,"theeebondholdere and
"National villains" feel toward s forloati.-
leg people that they receive any thing at
■ll in compensation for their crime ngainst
liberty and economy.
But these certificates of oredit are a fraud
upon the publio eoonomy and the labor
of the people which aupports the govern
ment. A fraud which the bondholders well
know and bought the bonds because they
knew they were frond, by which they were
the only gainers and the people were the
vieltme.
These bond. were hawked In the market in
every - country in the world, and sold at
merely nominal .prices. Am the result of
this stupendous swindle and villainy, we
have dm double speataclo of robbery. The
European emigrant dying from the standing
armies, aristooracties, mohlzolies and fund
ed debts of Europe coming to America to
pay tariffs, stamp., license and every form
of direct and indirect taxation, for the sup
port ok.the very system from 10,10 he had
fled and the very men who ground him to
the earth in Europe, who are now the hol
ders of American bonds, 'shah they bought
at forty cents on the dollar.
The Federal soldier who reoeived bounty
and monthly pay, returns home to gtve one
half of all he earns in the various forms of
tritation to refund to the bondholder that
which he thought he was receiving from the
government. and for the iretended pay giv
en to him for a few yeare cornet in the
war he is enslaved -in perpetual servitude
to the manufacturereiand bonilholdere,bank
ere and usurers, who have grown nob upon
hie blood and the poverty that follow 4 in
the wake of destroying armies ; while the
widow and orphan of the soldier pay back
in the increased price of their food, raiment
fuel and house rent, at least twenty per
sent more than the pretended pension'
which they seem to receive.
The MAIM of the poor are haraseed with
taxes, ground down by these Irvine upon
their labor, uktil they ore robbed of the
comforts and stinted in. the neoemearies of
life to support an army of civil officers who
gather up their labor and the !military for
nee which are necessary to enslave the
country
I need not remind you that not one dollar
of these bonds cost Ito face in the purchase,
but I will remind you what you ought but
seem no! to know, that although Congress
has the power "to borrow money upon the
credit of the United States," yat it has no
right to squander money, and no not of pro:
!ligation of one Congress can bind either its
suomesors,
.ju aloe or the people whom
they hare,atisrepresented.
The payment of bonds in greenbacks la
not repudiation in any other Lan the
payment of any other debt In greenbacks
The Government of the tithed Stales either
' can or it can not liquidate its debts and re
deem its credits now lamed in the form of
greenbacks, hoods, osrtlfioates, /to. If it
cannot redeem them, then we have already
reached repudiation in its worst form of
bankruptoy, and have sounued the lowest
depth. of our financial rum; all further
argument upon the cabinet to uselessly
squandered upon a ruined country
Now if we can pay the bonds with the so
oruiog interest duly oompounded for twenty
or forty years, we are really paying them
off every eleven Ynd two-third—menn, leav
ing us the original debt to draw At In
all time to oome, wblelr,4 believe is your
plan ofilanking a national dal notional
blessing. We have also left us the civil
and military armies which still 00111111 MO
the substanee of the people flow mulah
easier then will it be for us to pay of tide
debt at one.; in greenbacks, and this amount
of Interest, and release the peaple from the
support of these armies engaged In robbing
end oppressing them!
But if can not pay oft the bonds di
rectly in greenbaeks, he* fe it pessible to
pay the interest; the armies that ere gen
erated by them I the basks with their mul
titudes of Amon and the usury, entertinn
and swindling which levy their exhausting
eantribetions open the people and after this
finally pay olf the bandit
Topi.leploar Wends oomplala the the
payment of bonds he greenp,salts will over
whelp the eountry to s impair ourrenoy
whiehmill make it voiellem. Greene&ol,Es
ere woe', dad thereon... legal leader.
' ThoY.Yp siso the 'Bumdard rod spasms et
vete% WOO/ ere nil. it Am/ me • it••id
lord of Tao, 14•111 hee4e, property, pupa
d 1 print/ aliTer, 144 qv"-
r ieeeg ods• ow& peeler% Iti jf IbQ erp
not a standard of value, then again, 'Jr.
Greeley, what apology can ,you male to
your readers for the villainy"
and "wholesale swindling" in lamp-black
and rags. which yoi; have perpetrated upon
the country, as the leader and organ of this
particular circulating rowlium. If you
should undertake this difficult task of riding
two homes travelling in opposite directions
and fail, you will hardly convince intelli
gent people by the use of slang phrases
that you un•e succeeded, unless at the earn.
time you shall relieve them of taxation
which weighs them to the earth
The bonds as they now stand will never
be paid in gold and silver, neither the prin
apel nor the interest Idpg. The question
will be fairly laid before the people and
time *ill perfecttiNomplete organization of
the horny-handed I borers of the DV ip
pi Valley. who will orget wore party Imes
and demand. the payment of the bonds to
greentiseks—a relrese of the idle capital
now enchained in ?hi funded system, and
ue acme employe out in the bueiness of
the country
We are growing n calipers, increasing
in power, and comp oting •tur forges You
now refuse to argu. the btit the peo
ple understand the argynent,--arta v when
aroused will sweep ypit deiwn like leaven in
a burning forest
Even the bondholders will gladly seek
refuge in this mode of adjusting the public
debt to preserve the debt front ativoluto and
overwhelming repudiation.
I will not call in question the modesty of
a gentleman who procured the publicatioq
of hill biography in his early manhood ; lie.
fore be bad conquered a city, governed a .,
nation, or invented any new Or useful im
plement of indium) , I will not mit in
judgment over the fitness of a gentleman to
defend wholesale .ivindling and lint wool
who commenced his career im
CEIIM
journalist, by catering to the low tastes of
the rabble in the lateen/it of the second rate
theatFes of New I orb, who leaped from-the
disgusting pit of the Bowery to the lend of
oily morality I will not call to question
the candor of a moralist who lent his paper
to the use of the monstrous villainies of the
sit:mm*lWe in the days of their wildest ab
surdities, for the parpotie of selling his pa
paper, then laughing to has sleeve gravely
informs the people that he did all this for
their benefit 1 will not impugn the rno
ti•es of a generous hearted gentleman who
has labored in the interest of agrarinnism
until the deluded people have built up your
paper, and then suddenly became the defen
der of hereditary monopoly, growing rioh
in the obesity, of opinions nail patrons.
I will not Ind ulege,minalignaut expreserions
in regard to the courage of a hero who
tamely allows a bully to break a oane over
his head, and then turns to seek his re
venge in the entire destruction of the
isation and'glory of a uontinent, whose best
blood has been eheti to slake his thirst in
an appalling civil war. I will refrain from
an illusion to the honesty of a lobbyist who
pockets one thousand dollars as a gift of
river oontraotomand after slandering trrery
body else, seeks refuge in libel soils, where
truth will not be allowed in testimony to'
justify the publication. Ile is certainly a
fit person to decline to argue the qfieetion
of the payment of the bonds in greenbacks,
because it IS wholesale swindliog," and
denounce me as a lit advocate ter national
villainy, who has denounced the taking of
constructive mileage, and books which per
tained to the business of the representative,
and afterwerds voted for 'the same gift of
hooks, for which lie was arratgped at the
time for falsehood by Dr Tom It Edwards ,
a Cougressonin trout Ohio, the glaring cher
toter of which was so tiagreut and ironaPe
rent that many yea” IS (ter wunti lieu,
Dunn, of Indiana, in his place in the house
simply recited the Nets witch effoctitnilY
eilenced your batteries, Shen directed
against moderate Republicans. This cir
cumstance loses moue of its force In the
fact that your assailant. were your life-lung
political opponents
I eon scaroeiy refrain from levity In the
recollection that you connived at your own
Arrest and momentary imprmininent in Eu
rope to give notoriety to yourself end circu
lation to your new paper iu Ituerica t apt
then became the advocate of arrests without
authortty of and lent your rri
, bun, to the entire obliteration of the safe
guards Off liberty and the corruption of a
generation of your countrymen.
I will, however, du you Justice in the on
ly consistent net of your life. !laving
yourself taught secession as the leading
tezt'of your political faith, you were but
carrying out ycur own principles Ip gener
ouely relieve Mr. Jefferson Davis by going
his bail Having no time for personal con
troversy. and no disposition to bandy epi
thets even with yourself, muoh leas with
the Insects whom you no properly portray
as in control of your party preen, I will not
waits time in the discussion of your cuur.
age, your consistently, your integrity, or
yohr veraolty ; this has all been attended
to in your biography
I therefore again lesion my challenge,
and hope you will try to exculpate yourself
from the charge of partsetps erimults In the
••wholesale swlndllug" and ..National
Islay," and argue the questlon•proposed in
my last letter.
HOOKY CLAY DIAN
DOIIOQIII, lowa. Oolobar 1, 1881
THE IDEALIZATION OF LOVE
Very beautiful it is to remember how
women idealise those whom they love, sod
thus brighten and raise noble natures to
the very nobility which they first but im
agined. 1 do lose you, dear, so much,'
said one, as she passed her arm around her
lover's neck, and looked in hie eyes.
You are so elever, no handsome, so true
—and 0,10 numb more than this, so gen.
erons, brave, so tuder l hearted, so noble I'
The two lovers emu to it hill Atop. There
at• perlodeln life when the heart elands
still, whatever physielogiete may say about
the busy organ, and when the *lee, looking
from the window of the soul, grow dim with
love, end doe body feebly Prim mama
another body for support. And be who
heard all this knew (bat the women's soul
bod touohed her tongue with •loquenee,and
placed at the window eyes the linesteolored
glue in the world, end that the belived him
all Ike said, aid sew all thee in him. And
llgaspedbe, with a sudden revitalise"
should I not try to be all ikat ehe
I slur Irby eboyl4l thistles ideal
f 4 h
an mails rooli 4od be ebbed
iff ma pee te Ike Tory bidet which'
uhp hod latiginelv—t/PO.
. ,
A LEGEND OF THE GREAT EASTERN
There is a wild legend in connection with
the Great Eastern eteametup, the origin of
which I do not know, but the ehipwrights
firmly.belmve in it So much has been
written about the construction of this fa
mous vestal, that the elightest allusion to
it here will suffice She 15 it ship with two
caries, or skins, as they are called ; that Is,
she is almost like one ship fitted inside
another Between the inner and outer skins
the workmen can crawl for repairs Dread
fully dark and sepulchral, of course, it is
in there, for, from the nature of the speee,
the wirimum Mast be completely closed in,
excepting at the spot at whit% he enters.
Very few emiths or shipwright. would care
to work in here alone, for two terrible
peotres are supposed to haunt the place.
Almost all the men who were engaged in
the construction of the vessel believe that,
somewhere there in the darkness and thick
air,' lie two skeleton. which never can be
found till the vessel is ;broken up These
are the remains of a smith and his riveter,
the latter being a Ind. During the con
struction of the venial these two worked all
through the week, keeping full time, end
their work lay in between the skins. The
smith was an elderly man, of a Moody tem.
per, who made no yo liiends, and wee not
popular with his t es No one had Been
Win leaving work , nobody was interested
about him But one pay-day both he sod
his lad failed to appear at the pay table to
draw their money. They never were heard
of any store by any one who worked on the
Great Eastern. th course their absence
was noticed by the time keeper nod other
official. ; but the missing men bologna I
hove fud, uniformltr with their comrades,
there bad been very little inquiry about
Motu Milli it was found that their money
was not cifunie.l It wav then soon noted
that lire riot time they had been Been they
were at work fit the 'Tat." of the ship, end
before long it became a fixed notion that
by a fall,ior by the effect of some vapor,
the two men had been killed, or stunned
until closA in, and all the host of meet
who worked al the great ship believed that
eomewherejn the vast hulk there lay two
skeletbns which for some reason, could
never be found . the prosaic idea that the
old fellow and hie helper land left without
warning for a better job, finding, of future.
no favor.—Xousell's Magaanc
THE LIVE MAN
A live man in like a little pig he is wean
ed young, and begins to root airly
11t in the pepper sass of creation—the
allspice on the world.
A man who kin draw New Orleans mo
lasses in the month o• January, through
a halt inch auger hole, and sing "flume,
Sweet home;') while tlcki pelages in run
ningt' may be strictly honest, but he ain't
sudden enough (or this eligkat!
The lire man is as full of biszness ay the
oonduatorefie street kar—he iso fien like
the hornet, very busty. but about what, the
Lord only knows.
Ile Vas up like o cotton fsktory, and
haint g#t any more tame tew spare man a
ekoolboy ha: tisturdlo afternoons,
HAI% like a dekoy duck, always abu•
water, and lives at least eighteen moithe
during each year
lie is like a runaway hobs, he gets the
whole or -the road.
lie trots when he walks, and lies down
at night only because every body else ha:.
The live man is not always a deep thinker;
he jump.. at conclusions Just as the frog
dun, and don't always land at the spot he
is looking at.
Ile is the American pet, aperfektmistery
tow foreigners , but has dun mote (with
charooal) sew work out thegreatnees ov this
oountry than only other man in it
Ile is just no necessary an the green ou
an nehree
❑e don't ulna die slick, but alwue dhe
buoy, and meets death a goods alleaknia an
oyster dun. without euny fun
J.111111.1.1:49!
AUTUMN.
Like the leaf, life hag ite fading. We
speak and think of it with endwise, just as
we think of the autumn mention. But
there eboold be no aadnesa at the fading o
hfe that hoe done well Ito work If w.
rejoice at the advent of a' sir life; If we
welcome the coming ars new pilgrim to the
uncertainty of this world's way, wEy should
114 e be so much gloom when all the uueer-
Willies are past, and life at its waning
wear. the glory of youiplete task ? Beau-
iful as ohildheod is in its freshness and
innocence, its beauty is that of untried life .
It is th e . beauty of promise, of spring, og
the bud.' A hiker and rarer beauty., is the
beauty whloh the waning life of faith and
duty wears.
It is the duty of a thing completed ; sod
as men come together when some great work
Ii aohieved, and see in its concluding no
thing but gladness, so oughl we to feel when
the setting sun flings back lie beams upon
a life that has answered well its parposse.
When the bud drops are blighted, and there
goes all hope of the h t, one may well
be sad ; but when the rtpened year sinks
amid the granilure 'emu flowers and
I , why should we. 4 gret or murmur
And so a life that is ready and waiting to
hear the well done" of God, whose latest
'inure. are its noblest, should be 'Wan
back to God in uncomplaining reverence, we
rejoicing that earth is culpable of so much
glut.... and is premitted such virtue.
UNPLIWIANT IP TRUL—In Philadelphia,
one pleasant fiunday evening, an did lady
whose failing eyes demanded an unusually
large prayer book, elected for eiuroh a lit
tle early. Stoppieg on the way to Ilan on a
friend, she laid her prayer book on the
oentrirtable, When the bells begantoshime
elm 'neighed what she 'apposed' to be her
prayer book, and started for church.. lien
pat was at the abuse' sad of the seller:.
—The organ seised playing, The mlnlettw
laid! ”The Lord le in his holy temple, let
'all the wilt keep silence before
In the 'tort to open het gypposed pram
book, ilia started the spring of the magic
box, whist, she had taken Instead, It be
gan to pley,alu treneterstatioe eke pet
4on the floor. It would not atop—she pot
It on the aeal = .ll pounded kinder than *ler.
Yinelly she canned it out teldhe It played
the "Wishing Alt" i11t..11/ 114 jig tonne.,
-- 4 0 1 0$ fat I , kik6 , oitypo evltif
J 4
f t. ----
INDIAN SUMMER
Just after the death of the dowers,
And before they are hurled - r. moor,
There comes a festival semen,
When nature Is all aglow—
Aglow with a mystical apiendor
That rivals the brightness of Spring—
Aglow with a beauty more tender
Than aught which fair Sommer could bring.
Some spirit akin to the rainbow
Then borrows its magical dyes,
And mantles far-spreading landscape
In hues that bewilder the eyes.
The Bun from his cloud-pillowed chamber
Smiles soft on a vision so goy,
And dreams, that his favorite children,
The Flowers hue not yet passed away.
There's a luminnemist on the mountain.,
A light, nun lone in the air,
An If angels, while heavenward soaring,
Had left their bright robot/ floating there
The brewne is so colt, so canning,
It seems a mute token of hive,
And floats to the heart like a bins leg
From some happy spirit above,
These dept. so *crone and .charming,
Awaken a dreamy deligliy— .. l '
A tremulous, tearful enjoyment,
Like soft strains of music at night ;
We know they are fading nod fleeting,
That quickie, too quickly, they'll end,
And we watch them with yearning affection,
As at pitrting we witch • dear friend.
Oh ' beautiful Indian Slimmer '
Thai favorite child of the year—
Thou darling, whom Nature enriches
With gifts and adorkiments so dear'
Ilaw fain would we woo th., to linger
On mountain and meadow awhile,
For our hearts, like the sweet haunt, of Nature
Rejoice and grow young in thy smile.
Not alone to the sad fields of A otaThn,
boat thou • lost brightness restore,
Bet thou bringest a world-weary spirit
Sweet dreams of ohildhoed onee tllOl , ll.
Thy lovaliness fills us with memories
Of all that was brightest and best—
Thy - poses •ndr serenity offer
A foretaste ol4eareuly rest •
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER.
—New lom—A thorn 4o the bush
worth two a the hand.
Woman b a delurieu ; but men will bug
In the choke or. wife, take the obedient
daughter of a good another.
—When are soldier. like good Cannel?—
When they don't . eiritk.
—A canter, ill give you ruddy cheek., a
decanters ruddy none.
—lf you can't say nothing good Of one, lay
nothing at all.
—The language of Bowen—" Well, I'm
plowed "'
Why do bird. feel.depressed early in a
...tor morning ? Boone.. their little bill.
are all over dew.
1 ray," said • wag to a tail youth,
"w•su't there • tall tree in front of your father'.
house 7" -Why eo r inquired the young fel
low• "Because you look so thundering groin
nsekonal you must bare been brought up In
the shade."
—A Wostern editor thinks if the proper
way of spelling tho Is "though,"and bos "beaux,"
the proper way of opening potatnas must, be
"poughteigtsaus." The new way of spelang
softly is peoughtleigh.
—A lady stepping into • railway ear, said
to her little son, Aren't you going to kiss
your mother belore you go ?" The atm. rogue,
eouldo't wait,:and called out '•oonduotor, won't
you kW incither for me 9"
—Could anything be neater than the PS
gro'a reply to a young lady whom he offered to
lift over a gutter, and who insisted that she
was ton heavy ? ..Lor misaus," said he, "Pee
need to lifting barrels °linger."
----A rat exterminating recipe cams. to us
from Connecticut. A gentleman horn that
State report. that he cleared hie house of rate
by catehing one and dipping him in red paint.
Ue then let him loose and the other rats left,
disgueted by hie appearance.
—An Individual calling himself "Lord
Walker;' and pretending to be heir to a Imp
English estate hen ewindled the people of Kan—
kakee, Illinois, outof hundred dollen,
and considerable ilCher property. Ile I. under
—A lady who has a gnmt horror of tobae •
co got into the New Haven man the other dey,
ansl Inquired of a male neighbor "Do you
obey. tobacco, sir ?" "No, Ma'am I don't," was
the reply , "but I eau get you a chew if you
woo dune."
—During the w.• I•dy pusang from cot
to cot through the wants of a hospital, was
chocked to hear • soldier laughing at her.
She stopped to reprove the wretched fellow.
"Why. look here, ma'am,' says be, "yon have
g ive. me • traet on the pin of dancing when
I've both lege shot of.',
----A young man. mowing that a young
ady—of whom he imagined himself enamored
understood the language of lowers. sent her
• beautiful rose, M a dee 'oat lon of love, Cl
t•ohed a slip of paper, on which wae written,
"lima seeepted I proceed to afar." In return
she forwarded a pickle Jar e ntalning a stogie
mango, (man go !
—Obeying Orders— individual was
ono. brought before the pol e court to
natti, obareed with tumult d battery. lle
frankly admitted that he .trunk his antagonist,
but mild, to extenuation, that the man had
called Mtn • liar ; "and," booth:mod he, "may
it pima, the court, I wax born I. L ir
the State of New York. There, whew • ma
.•ye you're • liar, you ma hire • liar beak,
and there's the end of It. Hut your honor, I
have lived fur Afteen year. on the Wabealtyand
there, when • man calls you • 11• r, yon kw.*
him down at once. I only *eyed my Wabash
Instruction.' " Flood one dollar and coat.
—Ass weary traveler was Wbsdhsg his
wry throe* the wad Ins ter west teen of
the eoustry, he alseforewi a young maiden
seated In front of the door of a null leg barn.
He rode up In front the Wan. sail asked the
girl for • drink of water. He &auk It, OA
she being the Ant woman he had seem tor, aur.
oral day., offered her • dime for a Ides. The
young midst/ seespied the offer, sod received
both the kiss suit the dime. The traveler *es
about to resolanlejoursey, but the girl, avow
before honing sew s dime, asked s 'What MI I
to do with the dime f" ea easy Dee IS ss
we/ you *Lek" he reilh4—"lt r worn.' "It
that's the ease. "fietd"shis "I'll gin yea, WA
the dims sad teite'snother kiss.'
—Waking sad Ittpeedlng
Jla, how did yeu sake Wilowillattli
"/Irst.reas. Wade plenty of Wag.*
'What did yea de with 11 fe
"Laid It opt la hours sad isle
"Where I"'
110•47 Pie" I it.,. been. wheal Hell were .
say. , "het k led o f houses sad lob' II"
"Oofllio-loaaof load hat of wilolty."
*Mat prlo• par yard Ao Pi
mai Ohl broactolodir sated eflllas Posagar
tan of a &fp motor.
• •
'Wits dollara,,str r
"Vvr• • 1111/4 Oat." - .
"'reel" relPti4 all Mob*. Mme !Tr AI
yowls multail mu , " „ I •11
EXCINWIG NVORONUII‘NAUL
For the last twenty yours certain news
papers in the North have made it a point to
.utdieh the moat estravagant series in re
gard to the treatment of Degrees the
South. They have not only exaggerated
occurrences In the grossest manner, distor
ting facts until they could no longer Its re
goluid.-butodnitnaletiel for &Whig dm
p loos of their racier' , grew seams they
deli .erataly invennai falanhoad. Moog a
picture of cruelty ibt i ch appeared in Abo
lition journals was a lie manufastored wit
of the whole filth, with not even a fregumett
of truth on which to rest. -
NO. 43
During the war this thing was kept up on
the tuo■t gignotio Rale, and Northern new.•
paper correspondanta sontinually taxed
their ingenuity to Invent ensiling' stories
with which to stir up the bitter passions of
their reader.. Sines the aonoloslon of the
Melts the some system he. been employed.
Tho New Y ork Tribune, Yornoy's Prue mkt
other papers of that slams have woupundy
exaggerated 'wetly little dieloulty &fetes*
the while. and the blaaki of the South.
habitually 'eying all the blame on the for
me,. and invariably iovenfing 11110.111111 for
the latter, even when the Degrees were un-'
questionably in the wrong.
This has been done with
,lb. deliberate
purpose of bolstering up the infamous at
tempt to deatroy ten States orals& Union for
the purpose of erecting a Negro Empire on
their ruin• No doubt many honest people
bare implicitly believed the majority of the
improbable stories which were circulated
throughout almost the entire Republican
newspaper press of the country. The Dem
ocratio press has repeatedly rippled Many
of these lies, but, sating with &deliberate
intention to deceive, iMpublittan journals
have almost invariably refused to auks any
retraction. At best, truth Matsuda but slow
ly on foot, while Rielly with winged railtid
it,
Within • few days put the country hoe
had another instance of the brlren•faeed
mendacity of Radical newspapers. A few
nights eines • band of implies who bad or
ganised themselves into • nipjlarypoinpany
were parading through tie streets of Balti
more, when they 4.1%10081y fired • num
ber of shots into n crowd of whites; killing
one man and wounding others. No paper
in that oily, not even the organs of the bit
ter and unrelenting Radicals of Maryland
dared th, charge that any provocation had
been given, aid the commander of the nog
roes testified at the coroner'■ Inquest that
he '•heard no nom and ovitneeeed no interfer
ence prem .. to the firing.",
—Exhang,
Yet with these facts all before them,
newspapers, such as the New York Marne
r and Forney's two dailies, are found excul
pating the black murderers and villifyln;
and abusing the white population of Balti
more. When the organs of the IRepablires
party tlemend . 9 mu t depths of infamy to
bolster up tlair mad scheme of negro out
rage, It is high time that all decent white
men should abandon an organisation wkioe
live' only by uttering Iles from day to day,
with the deliberate intention of deceiving
and beguiling the honest and tuumepeoting
mauve. We shall have this outrapotu
system of lying emustantly kept up Om
this time until after the Presidential also
don. It will constitute, a large portion of
the Radical thunder in the next campaign.
—Lancaster latellipmerr.
LINCOLN SHELTERED BY CRINOLINE
There is a eery going the rounds of the
papers which we find copied Into the is
posuory,puriorting to be an account eta deal
between the late President and Gaston
Shields. liplead of giving it publiqity the
Republican press should suppress 11.—It
Certainly does not tarnish an exalted id"
of the courage of "the late-larnented."‘ W.
would be very slow to speak an annacestry
evil of the dead, but am this' alatamennan
been paraded before the public as chnnw
teristlo of Mt. Lincoln, we cannot Yet it
pass without a nerd of comment.
The story goes that Lincoln, Shields and
MaFyToodwareallreeldenitofSpringfield.
Min Todd was then the affinneed
Lincoln. General Shields bad just return-
ed from the hlezloau *sr, and sought on
one 000411i0I1 to force the lady to unapt his
company, which gave bet great canoes.
lbe wrote a severe and /sarcastic urtkde mp•
on the General and beaded it to Kr. Liar
coin to have it published in a Opriaoseeld
paper. TMe he had done The Gametal,
very wrothy, demanded of the editor the
name of the author and threatened bite with
remedial° proseoatio* 11 he did DOl dimly,'
it. The willed mu of the guilt sought
counsel from Mr Lino°la. With Lim chino-
teristie coolneee he said. "tell Shields Abe
Lineoln wrote th■t article." Shields im
mediately challenged him. Lincoln had
the choice of weapons.. .Ife vrtiiiis him
self (according to the sterh 'Mkt an Shields
wile a very small moo, sad he very on,
with exeeedingly hog aims, he chose long
eworde es the weapons. Everything we.
awninged. The parties met. The final
Issue hod owns. Said Llneola, "Shields,
do you want to know who mote that orn
ate?" "Did yott write it ?" said Ithisiels.
"No,ldery Todd wrote It," !sidled Ltaohlw,
his valor coats out at the film of Ithr awn.
nails. ,Of alum this. ended she .dessij sod
the valiant IBM 'spared of once lo
betrothed, to seek sad lad pantos dos dis
closing bor suss In Guth s trying soaves
oy.
And thus another trprbg oklaineiliareetak
the wreath of immortality whietli htl/Wilg
the hero of th e googols attp . mati "WWI
olak.
We remember what sheath eldelthrionand
ridicule went up from 10 7 111. th ,44 0 1 two
years ago when the news wai limited all
over the land that the Mkt Dm. South-,
ern COnfedersey had bees eatottired ander
very hadierotth eireumettatteu, thall it
ntan'a attire. •
Way, gimtlingonk Radios* whams OM*
4oto Poodaint, idiot to 'Yu ellioNofoo %e
-tyma J* Div* vderliNit
politic/oats to Weld isfikr% MIA Mrl*
Wool° aboltoret nudge /144 %WU% Sala
olio, to 000spo dm stowage blade villoo.
oral 136416 ! Valley *kit.
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13141dItrIn1 1 6Adtli drilik Id
whole weep et As ' Witt t MIAt ..
h• unlit huere I
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eer i'' sumo *PAW iiPt mosit
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obese* Is AU ehililia Mir' WM :
eat be 'Ulla imilkilisias .st*.fru'"A ti.
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to s µ We '• . iir c;
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will sh it Irkfill ' 3 7 :::: - ' l l4ll • 7 YiIIOIR--•-
.t..ILOINI klaiftd Ibliii
et totkral melee, 11/b treisimel r !mils 1
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