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BKDFORIJ, PA., FRIDAY JAN. 19, 1866.
SPEECH OF HON. THADDEUS
STEVENS.
The House sitting in Committee of the
Whole on the State of the Country, and the
President's Message being under considera
tion. Mr. Stevens spoke as follows:
Mr. STEVENS said: A candid examina
tion of the power and proper principles of
reconstruction can be offensive to no one,
and may possibly be profitable by exciting
inquiry. One of the suggestions of the
message which we are now considering has
special reference to this. Perhaps it is the
principle most interesting to the people at
this time. The President assumes what no
one doubts, that the late Rebel States have
lost their constitutional relations to the Un
ion, and are incapable of representation in
Congress, except by permission of the Gov
ernment, It matters but little with this ad
mission, whether you calk them States out
of the Union and now conquered Territodies
or assert that because the Constitution for
bids them to do what they did do that they
are therefore only dead as to all national
and political action, and will remain so until
the Government shall breathe into them the
; breath, of life anew and permit them to oc
cupy their former position, in other words
that they are not out of the Union, the on
ly dead carcasses lying within the Union.
In either case it is very plain that it requires
the action ofCongress to enable them to
form a State Government, and send repre
sent aives to Congress. Nobody, I believe,
pretends that, with their old Constitutions
and forms of government, that they can be
permitted to claim their old rights, under
the Constitution. They have torn their
Constitutions into atoms, and built on their
foundation fabrics of a totally different char
acter. Dead men cannot raise themselves:
dead States cannot restore their own exis
tence as it was. Whose especial duty is to
do it? In whom does the Constitution
place the power? Not in the judicial branch
of the Government, for it only adjudicates
and does not prescribe laws. Not in the
Commander in-Chief of the armies, for he
can only hold them under military rule un
til the sovereign legislative power of con
queror shall give them law. There is for
tunately nodifieulty in solving the question.
There are two provisions in the Constitu
tion under one of which they must fall. The
fourth article says "new States may be ad
mitted by the Congress into this Union."
In my judgment this Is the controlling pro
vision in this case. Unless the law of na
tions is a dead letter, the late w .* between
two acknowledged beligerents severed their
original compacts, aud broke all ties that
thembound together. The future condition of
the conquered power depends on the will of
the conquered power. They must come in
as new States or remain as conquered prov
inces. Congress—the Senate and Ho', eof
Representatives—with the concurrence of
the President, is the only power on earth
that can act on the matter. Hut suppose as
some dreaming theorists imagine that these
States have never been out of the Union,
but have only destroyed their State Govern
ments so as to be incapable of political ac
tion, then the fourth section of the fourth
article applies, which says "the United
States shall guarantee to every State in the
Union a republican form of Government."
Who is the United States? Not the Judici
al}-, not the President; but the sovereign
power of the people exercised through their
representatives in Congress, with the con
currence of the Executive. It means the
political Government, the concurrent ac
tion of both branches of Congress and the
Executive. The separate action of each a
mounts to nothing, either in admitting new
States or guaranteeing Republican Gov
ernments to lapsed or outlawed States.
Whence springs the preposterous idea that
either the President, or the Senate, or the
House of Representatives, acting separate!,
can determine the right of a State to se r
members or Senators to the Congress of the
Union? To prove that they arc and have
been out of the Union for all legal purpos •,
and arc now conquered subjects to the ab
solute disposal ol Congress, I will sugge L
a few ideas and adduce a few authorites. I
the so called Confederate States of Ameri
ca were an indpendent belligerent, and were
so acknowledged by the United States and
Europe, or had assumed and maintained an
attitude which entitled them to he consider
ed and treated as a belligerent; that during
such time tkey were precisely in the condi
tion of a foreign nation with whom we were
at war. nor need their independence as a
nation be acknowledged by us to produce
that effect.
Mr. Stevens then quoted from Mr. Jus
tice Grier in the prize cases all the law on
these points. Alter such clear and repeated
decisions, he said, it is something worse
than rediculous to hear men of respectable
standing attempting to nullify the law of
nations, and declare the Supreme Court of
the United States, in error, because as the
Constitution forbids it, the States could not
go out of the Union de facto. After pro
ceeding further in his argument, he remark
ed, it is obvious that it is the first duty of
Congress to pass a law declaring the condi
tion of these outside defunct States, and
providing proper civil govcrnmentfor them.
Since the conquest they have been governed
by martial law. Military rule is necessari
desnostic.and ought not to exist longer than
is absolutely necessary. As there arc no
symptoms thatjthe people of these provinces
will be prepared to participate in a Consti
tutional Government for some years I know
of no arrangement so proper for them as
Territorial Governments. There they can
learn the principles of freedom, and eat the
fruit of foul rebellion under such govern
ment. While electing members to the
Territorial legislatures they will necessarily
mingle with those to whom Congress shall
extend the right of Suffrage. In the Terri
tories, Congress fixes the qualifications of
electors, and I know of no better place or
better occasion for the conquered rebels
and the conquered to practice justice to all
men, and accustom themselves to make and g
to obey all laws. As to these famed rebels,
they cannot, at their option, re-enter the
heaven which they have disturbed, the
garden of Eden which they have deserted,
as flaming swords arc set at the gate to se
cure their exclusion.
It becomes important to the nation to in
quire when the doors shall be reopened for
their admission. According to my judg
ment they ought never to be recognized as
capable of acting in the Union or being
counted as valid States, until the Constitu
tion shall have been so amended as to make
it what its framers intended, so as to secure
a perpetual ascendency to the party of the
Union, and so as to render Republican Gov
ernment firm and stable forever. The first
of these amendments is to change the basis
of membership to actual voters. Now all i
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the colored f.eemen in the Slave States and
three fifths of the slaves are represented,
though none of them have Votes. The Reb
el States have 19 representees of colored
slaves. If the slaves are now free, then they
can add for the other two flubs, 13 more,
making the slave representation 32. I sup
pose the free blacks in those States will give
at least five more, making representation of
non voting people of color about 37. Th
whole number of representatives now from
the Slave States is 70; add the other two
fifths, and it will be 83.
If the amendment prevails, and those
States withhold the right of suffrage from
persons of color, it will deduct about 37,
leaving them but 4G. With the apportion
ment unchanged, the 83 Southern members,
with the Democrats that will in the best
times be elected from the North, will always
give them a majority in Congress and in the
Electoral College. They will at the very
first election take possession of the White
House and the halls of Congress. 1 need
not depict the ruin that would follow. The
assumption of the rebel debt or repudiation
of the Federal debt would be sure to follow.
The oppression of the f'reedmen. the re
amendinent of the State Constitutions, and
re-establishuient of slavery would be tbe in
evitable result. That they would scorn and
disregard their present Constitutions, forced
upon them in the midst of martial law,
would be both natural and just. No one
that has any regard for the freedom of elec
tions can look upon those governments, for
ced upon them in duress, with any favor. If
they should grant the right of suffrage to
persons of color, 1 think there would always
be T-nloh wbite men enough in the South
aided by the blacks, to divide the represen
tation and thus continue the Republican as
cendency. If they should refuse thus to
alter their election law < :t would reduce the
representatives of the late Slave States to
about 45, and render them powerless for
evil. It is plain that the amendment must
be consummated before the defunct States
are admitted to be capable of State action,
or it never can lie. The proposed amend
ment to allow Congress to lay a duty on ex
ports is precisely in the same situation. Its
importance cannot well be overstated. It is
every obvious that for many years the
South will not pay much, under ourinternal
Tevenue laws. The only article on which we
can any considerable amount is cotton,
jlt will be grown largely at once. With ten
I cents per pound export duty it would bo
furnished cheaper to foreign markets than
j they could obtain it from any other part of
the world. The late war has shown that.
Two millions of bales exported at 500 pounds
to the bale, would yield $100,000,000. This
seems to be the chief revenue we shall ever
derive from the South. Besides it would
be a protection to that amount to our domes
tic manufactures. Other proposed amend
ments. to make all laws uniform, to prohibit
the assumption of the rebel debt, are of vi
tal importance and the only thing that can
p -event the combined forces of Copperheads
and Secessionists from legislating against
the interests of the Union whenever they
may obtain an accidental majority. But this
is not all we ought to do before these invet
erate rebels are invited to participate in our
legislation. We have or are about to turn
loose 4.000,000 of slaves without a hut to
shelter them or a cent in their pockets.
The infernal laws of Slavery have prevented
them from acquiring an education or from
understanding the commonest laws of con
tractor from uianacing the ordinary busi
ness of life. The Congress is bound to pro
vide for them until they can provide for
themselves. If we do not furnish thci
with homesteads and hedge them around
with protective laws, if we leave them to
the legislation of their late masters, we had
better have left them in bondage. Their
condition would be worse than our prisoners
at Andersonville. If we fail in this great
duty now, and when we have the pow-ir we
shall deserve and receive the execrations of
history and all future agys. Two things are
of vital importance. So to establish a prin
ciple that none of the Rebel States shali be
counted in any of the amendments of the
Constitution until they are duly admitted
into the family of States by thelaw-making
power of their conqueror.'. For more than
! six months the Amendment, of the Constitu
tion abolishing Slavery has been ratified by
the Legislatures of three-fourths of the
States that acted on its passage by Congress
which had Legislatures, or which were
States capable of acting or reqnired to act
on that question. 1 take no account of the
aggregotions of white washed rebels, who
without any legal authority, have assem
bled in the capitols of the late Rebel States
and simulated legislative bodies. Nor do I
regard with any respect the cunning by play
into which they deluded the Secretary of
State by frequent telegraphic announce
ments that "South Carolina had adopted
the Amendment," "Alabama has adopted
tno amendment, being the twenty-seventh
State," &e. This was intended to delude
the people and accustom Congress to hear
the names of these extinct States as if they
were alive, when in truth they have no more
existence than the revo'ted cities of Latium,
two-thirds of whose people were colonized
and their property confiscated and their
right of citizenship withdrawn by conquering
and avenging Rome.
It is equally important to the stability of
this republic that it should now be solemnly
decided what power can revive, recreate and
reinstate these provinces into the family of
States, and invest them with the rights of
American citizens. It is time that Con
gress should assert its sovereignty and as
sume something of the dignity of a Roman
Senate. It is fortunate that the President
invites Congress to take this manly attitude
After stating with great frankness in his
able Message his theory, which, however, is
fouud to be impracticable, and which I be
lieve very few now consider tenable, he re
fers the whole matter to the judgment of
Congress. If Congress should fail firmly
and wisely to discharge that high duty, it is
not the fault of the President. This Con
gress owes it to its own character to set the
seal of reprobation upon a doctrine which
is becoming too fashionable, and, unless re
buked, will become the recoguized principle
of our Government. Governor Perry and
other Provisional Governors and orators
proclaim that this is the white man's Gov
ernment. The whole Copperhead party,
pandering to the lowest prejudices of the ig
norant, repeat the cuckoo cry. "This is the
white man's government." What is im
plied by this? That one race of men is to
have the exclusive right forever to rule this
nation and to exercise all acts of sovereignty,
while all other races and nations and colors
are to be their subjects and have no voice
in making the laws and choosing the rulers
by whom they are to be governed. Where
in does this differ from slavery except in
name? Does not this contradict all the dis
tinctive principles of the Declaration of In
dependence? When the great and good
men promulgated that instrument and pled
ged tbeir lives and sacred honors to defend
it, it was supposed to form an epoch in civil
government. Before that time it was held
that the right to rule was vested in families,
dynasties or races —not because of superior
BEDFORD, Pa., FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1866.
intelligence or virtue, but because of a di
vine right to enioy exclusive privileges.
Our fathers repudiated the whole doctrine
of the legal superiority of families or races,
and proclaimed the equality of all men be
fore the law. upon that they created a revo
lution and built the Republic. They were
prevented by slavery from perfecting the
superstructure whose foundation they had
thus broadly laid. For the sake of the
Union they consented to wait, hut never re
linquished the idea of its final completion.
The time to which they looked forward with
anxiety has come. It is our duty to com
plete their work, if this Republic is not
now made to stand on their great principle,
it has no honest foundation, and the Father
of all men will still shake it in its centre.
If we have not yet been sufficiently scourg
ed for our national sin to teach us to do jus
tice to all God's creatures, without distinc
tion of race or color, we must expect the
still more heavy vengeance of an offended
Father still increasing his inflictions, as He
increased the severity of the plagues of
Egypt until the tyrant consented to do jus
tice, and when that tyrant repented of his
reluctant consent, and attempted to re-en
slave the people, as our Southern tyrants
are attempting to do now, he filled the Red
Sea with broken chariots and drowned hors
es, and strewed the shores with dead car
casses.
Mr. Speaker—l trust that the Republican
party will not he alarmed at what 1 am say
ing. Ido not profess to speak their senti
ments, nor must they be held responsible
for them. I speak for myself and take the
responsibility, and will settle with my intel
ligent constituents. This is not a white
man's Government in the exclusive sense
in which it is used. To say so is political blas
phemy, for it violate.) the fundamental prin
ciples of our gospel of liberty. This is
man's government of all men alike. Not
that all men will have equal power and sway
within it; accidental circumstances, natural
and acquired endowment and ability will
vary their fortunes—hut equal rights to all
the privileges of the Government is innate
in every immortal being, no matrer what
the shape or color of the tabernacle which
it inhabits. If equal privileges were grant
ed to all I should not expect any but white
men to be elected to office for long ages to
come. The prejudice engendered by Sla
very would not soon permit merit to be pre
ferred to color. But it would still be bene
ficial to the weaker races. In a country
where political division will always exist
their power, joined with just white men,
would greatly modify if it did not entirely
prevent the injustice of majorities without
the right of suffrage in the late Slave
States. Ido not speak of the Free States.
The slaves hid far better been left in bond
age. I see it stated that very distinguished
advocates of tbe right of suffrage declared
in this city that they do not expect to obtain
it by Congressional legislation but only by
administrative action; because as one gallant
gentleman said the State had not been out
of the Union; then they will never get it.
The President is far sounder than they. He
sees that administrative action has nothing
to do with it. If it ever is to come it must
be Constitutional amendments, or Congres
sional action in the territorial and enabling
acts. How shameful these men of influence
should mislead and miseducate the public
mind. They proclaim this is the white
man's Government, and the whole coil of
Copperheads re-echo (hiss) the same senti
ments, and upstart, jealous Republicans
join the cry. Is it any wonder ignorant
foreigners and illiterate natives should learn
this doctrine and he led to dispise and inal
trent a whole race of their fellow-men. Sir,
this doctrine of a white man's government
is as atrocious as the infamous sentiment
that damned the late Chief Justice to ever
lasting fame, and I fear to everlasting fire.
OPINION OF ATTORNEY GENERAL
MEREDITH.
THE RIGHT OF THE STATE TO TAX NATION
AL BANKS.
OPINION.
My opinion is requested by the Auditor
General on the Question whether the second
section of the act of 30th April, 1864, (im
posing additional taxes for State purposes)
imposed a tax on the National Banks located
within the Commonwealth ?
The section referred to imposes a tax upon
(among other persons and institutions there
in mentioned) "every incorporated and un
incorporated banting institution not paying
a tax to the State upon dividends under ex
isting laws."
I am of opinion that this description in
cludes the National Banks, and therefore
that the question presented to me ought to
he answered in the affirmative.
Some of the National Banks were formed
by certain State Banks of issue, in conform
ity with the enabling act passed on the 22d
August, 1854, and it has been suggested that
the National Banks so formed are in some
way, bv reason of the provisions of that act,
exempted from taxation under the act of
30th April, 1864.
The enabling act provides that, on com
pliance with certain requirements, the sur
render of the charter of any State Bank,
which may become a National Bank, shall
lie accepted.
I do not think it material to the present
question, that the act provides, in favor of a
State Bank so surrendering, a corporate
quasi-vitality for a short term, for the pur
pose of closing its concerns, "but not for
the purpose of eontinueing under the laws
of this Commonwealth the business for
which it was established."
Nor do I conceive it to be material to in
quire whether the section which provided
that the bank tax, (viz: the tax on capital
stock under the act of 1844, and the tax on
dividends under the act of 1850,) for which
those State Banks were liable, should be ap
portioned to the day of surrender, would
by implication release them from a tax on
net earnings under the act of 30th April,
1854, for which they were never liable. No
implication would seem to be necessary, for
it is beyond all doubt that they never were
subject to taxation under the act of 30th
April, 1864, inasmuch as they did pay "a
tax to the State upon dividends." Further,
I think it abundantly clear that on the sur
render they ceased to exist as State corpo
rations authorized to pursue any business
whatever, and therefore could not be taxed
at all under any existing State laws.
A National Bank, formed in accordance
with the enabling act, by a State Bank, has
in my opinion no identity with the State
Bank from orby which it was formed. It is
a different political person—its name has
been altered—it has been created and exists
under the authority of a different jurisdic
tion —it is a new institution. We are, I
think, no more to look for the rule of its
taxation to the laws which applied to the
former State Bank, than, in the case of a
National Bank formed by individuals, we
are to look for the rule of its taxation to
the laws which applied to tl individuals
who formed it.
We are, I conceive, to regard the statits
not of the deceased progenitor, but of the
living progeny; and if the latter be within
the terms of the act he cannot take himself
out ofthem, by showing that the former was
uot.
These considerations appear to show that
the legislation of the Commonwealth is not
involved in the injustice of taxing one por
tion of the National Banks and exempting
another portion, while there is in fact no
difference whatever between the two por
tions as they now exist.
I am, therefore, of opinion that the sec
ond section of tbe act of 30th April, 18C4,
embraces all tbe National Banks within the
Commonwealth.
I am quite aware that grave (aud perhaps
some new and difficult) questions may be
raised under the Constitution of the United
States, on the subject to which this opinion
relates. I express no opinion on them, be
cause I conceive that the Auditor General
would in no event be justifiable in deciding
them peremptorily and finally against the
Commonwealth, by refusing to execute the
act of Assembly on which they may arise.
W. M. MEREDITH,
Attorney General.
Attorney GeneraTs Office, \
22d December 1865. j
§?,oetrg.
A GRAND OLD POEM.
Who shall judge a man from manners?
Who shall know him by his dress?
Paupers may be fit for princes,
Princess fit for something less.
Crumpled shirt or dirty jacket,
May beclothe the golden ore
Of the deepest thoughts and feelings—
.Satin vests could do no more.
There are springs of crystal nectar,
Ever welling out of stone;
There are purple buds and golden,
Hidden, crushed and overgrown;
God, who counts by souls, not dresses,
Loves and prospers you and me,
While he values thrones, the highest,
But as pebbles in the sea.
Man-upraised above his fellows,
Oft forgets his fellows then,
Masters, rulers, lords, remember,
That your meanest kind are men,
Men by labor, men by feeling,
Men by thought, and men by fame,
Claiming equal rights to sunshine,
In a man's ennobling name.
Tbeir are foam embroidered oceans,
There are little weed-clad rills,
There are feeble inch-high saplings,
There are cedars on the hills;
God, who counts by souls not stations,
Loves and prospers you and me;
For to Him, all vain distinctions
Are as pebbles in the sea.
Toiling hands alone are builders
Of a nation's wealth or fame;
Titled laziness is pensioned,
Fed and fattened on the same;
By the sweat of others foreheads,
Living only to rejoice,
While the poor man's outraged freedom
Vainly lifted up its voice.
Truth and justice are eternal,
Born with loveliness and light;
Secret wrongs shall never prosper,
While there is a sunny right;
God, whose world-head voice is singing
Boundless love to you and me,
Sinks oppression with its titles,
As the pebbles in the sea.
Miser
A WARNING TO YOUNG MEN.
The Jackson Michigan Citizen tellsa good
story of a young man in that city who had
been in the habit of visiting the residence of
a widowed lady, who had a daughter "pass
ing fair." The young man was assiduous
in his attentions, and was a constant visitor.
This notice awoke in the young lady's heart
the tender passion, and in her dreams she
imagined that she had become the wife of
her Adonis. Matters kept on in the same
old way. The young man continued his
marked attentions, and people began to
whisper among themselves: "A match,
sure!" while knowing ones, with a solemn
toss of the head, would remark, "What did
I tell you?" The young man went out to
his supposed charmer's house the other eve
ning, for the purpose of taking tea. During
the ineal the mother of the girl asked:
."When are you and to be married?"
The young man leaued back in the chair
and coolly remarked that he had no idea of
marrying anybody, and that he and the
daughter were only friends. He said he
supposed she understood it so all the time.
The young lady said not a word, but rose up
and seized the teapot, which was filled with
hot tea, took off the lid, and threw its boil
ing contents into his face, scalding him se
verely and leaving an ugly mark. She then
furiously ordered him out of her sight.
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,"
is an old saying, and this young men can at
test to its truth.
WOMAN'S.—love, like the rose blossoming
in the arid desert, spreads its rays over the
barren plain of the human heart, and while
all around it is black and desolate it rises
more strengthened from the absence of every
other charm.
VOLUME 39: JfO. 3
INFLUENCE OF NEWSPAPERS.
Occasionally an individual says to us,
''times are so hard with me, I must stop my
paper," or, as in some instances, "my wife
thinks we can uispense with the paper now,
and I must stop." Thus it is, they stop the
paper the first thing as a useless expense,
without thinking of the actual waste of money
for things drank, eat, smoked or chewed,
which can do the system no good, but rather
harm.
The newspaper can or should be regarded
as a benefit to every household: it imparts
useful information; it furnishes subjects lor
thought and conversation; it adds a charm to
social intercourse; it makes agreeable mem
bers of society. To be without a newspaper
one might as well be out of the world; he be
comes a perfect nobody; when he gets into
society and hears others talk about current
events and discuss questions of local or gen
eral interest, he can take no part in these
things because he is not posted up, not hav
ing read the papers. And in the family cir
cle what an influence the newspaper has---the
children read it, and gain in knowledge; it
serves to occupy their leisure hours, to keep
them from frivilous amusements, and gives
an attraction at home. Sorely, then, uo wise
parent would consent to go without a news
paper in his family—and a local home news
paper, too. He may think he can get along
without it, because he is out in the world, and
can have the reading of the paper from his
neighbor's shop or store, or can learn what is
going on from others. But this is rather a
mean way. Men ought to be independent.
They ought to read for themselves. If, how
ever, they think they do not need the paper
themselves, they may rest assured that their
family does. Considerations like tne.se should
have weight, and should induce those who
have had thoughts of stopping their newspa
pers not to do so, and for those who have not
taken a paper, to subscribe at once.—Ax.
THE HONEY MOON.— Why is the first
month after marriage called the "honey
moon?" Doubtless on occout of the sweet
lunacy which controls the heads of the jar
ties during that brief and delightful period.
What a pity that they should ever get quite
rational again! That sentimentality should
give place to sentiment, sentiment to sense,
love yield to logic, and fiction to fact, till the
happy pair are reduced from the Eden of
romance to the Sahara of reality—from
Heaven to earth—and perhaps a peg lower!
Strange as it may seem, there have been
couples who have quarreled in the first month
of matrimony, and have got back to their
astonished parents before the good mother
had fairly done weeping, (and rejoicing too)
at her deughter's departure. Their "hon'
ey moon" soured at the full of her thorn,
and become a moon of vinegar, instead. A
bad omen that! There was much sense and
propriety in the text which the ancient
clergymen chose for a wedding sermon. It
was taken from the Psalms of David, and
read thus : "And let there he peace, while
the moon, endureth."
ON one. occasion, Mr. Webster was on his
way to attend to his duties at Washington.
He was compelled to proceed at night, by
stage from Baltimore. He bad no travel
ing companions, and the driver had a sort of
felon look which produced no inconsidera
ble alarm with the Senator. "I endeavor
ed to tranqualize myself," said Mr. Webster,
"and had partially succeeded, when we
reached the woods between Bladensburg and
Washington a proper scene for murder or
outrage, and here, I confess, my courage a
gain deserted me. Just then my driver
turned to me, and with a gruff voice, asked
my name. I gave it to him. 'Where are
you going?' said he. The reply was to
Washington. lam a Senator.' Upon this,
the driver seized me fervently by the hand,
and exclaimed, 'how glad I am. I have been
trembling in my seat for the last hour; for
when I looked at you I took you to be
a highwayman.'" Of course both parties
were relieved.
BEAUTY nr WOMEN.—A beautiful face aud
figure are the twa things in a woman that first
attract the attention of a man. The second is
a fine taste, both in dress and habits, and the
third is common sense. What a man moit
dislikes in a lady is untidiness, slovenly hab
its and affectation.
There is a medium between prudery and
relaxed behavior, which a man appreciates
almost by instinct. Place a man of genial
disposition, with a disengaged heart, in the
society of a woman of beauty, sense and spirit
—not too much of the latter—and the chan
ces are of immediately falling desperately in
love. The poor wretch cannot avoid it, and
in his frantic efforts to escape, he falls on his
knees at her feet and avows the might and ma
jesty of her beauty. All you have to do will
be to treat the poor fellow as kindly as you
can, and make no effort to please him. Let
r.ature haTe her own way, and depend uj>on
it, you* will be fondly pressed to the warm
bosom of some generous hearted fellow.
MOUNTAIN OK SALT.—A striking curiosity
has lately been discovered in Nevada Territo
ry. It is a mountain of rock salt, situated
about twenty miles from the valley, and onlj
eighteen miles from the head of navigation on
the Colorado river. It rises abruptly from
the plain, about four hundred feet in height,
a mountain of pure, sparkling, crystalized
salt. _
A MAN. —named Jameson, in Cincinnati,
wishing to curtail household expenses, adop
ted a novel mode to effect his object He
kissed the servant girl one morning, when
he knew Mrs J. would see him, Results—
discharged servant girl and twelve dollars
per month saved.
HERE is the pithiest sermon over preached
Our ingress in life is naked and bare, our
progress in life is trouble and care: our eg
re&s out of it we know not where; but doing
well here, we shall do well there; I could
not tell more by preaching a year.
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MR. NASBY DREAMS A DREAM
WASHINGTON, December 10, 1865.
Last nite, I was the victim of another
dream. Ef I don't quit this explorin the
realms of the fucher in my sleep, I shall be
come a second Saint John. Ef so, I make
no doubt my revelations will be uv a remark
able startlin character.
Methawt the Mblishnists had asserted the
nower we diskirered they poseest, after the
late elecshuns, and had gone the whole figger
They had forced the South into the humi
liashen uv allowiu niggers to testify, and in
the Northern States had given em the elec
tive franchise. Uv course, the edeeated and
refined democraay wood never consent to be
carried up to the polls alongside uv a nigger
uv course no Democratic offis-seeker wood
humiliate himself a treatin a nigger afore a
elecshun—it beein a article uv faith with us
never to drink with a nigger onless he pays
for it,
Therefore, bein helpless, and resolvin
never to submit, the heft uv the Democrasy
determined to emigrate in a body to some
land where the Anglo Sackson cood rool, —
where there was no mixture of the disgustin
African Mexico wuz the country chosen, and
methawt the entire party, in one solid column
marched there. Our departure was a ova
tion. The people on our route wuz all dres
sed in white ez a token uv joy, and from
every house hung banners with inscriptions
onto em, rich ez:
"Now is our hen roosts safe!"
"'Canada on its way to Mexico !"
"Poor Mexico—we bewail thy fate!"
Our march resembled very much that uv
the children of Israel. Our nozes wuz the
pillars uv fire by nite, and our breath the
piller uv smoke by day.
On our arrival to Mexico, the natives of
that country, struck probably with awe at
the majestic and flamin expression uv our
countenances, hastily gathered up their linen
and silver spoons, ana hosses, and sich, and
retreated to the mountains. It wuz a kornp
liment to us that them ez hadu't ennything
remained.
Finally we reached a plain where we, the
modern children ov Isrel, decided to remanc
and uv coarse, the fust thing to do wuz to
form a guverment.
Methawt Fernandy Wood, uv New York,
wuz chosen viva voce, ez President, and he
stept forerd to hev the oath administered to
him, wich wuz 2 be dun by the oldest Justis
uv the Peecc uv the late stait uv Noo Gersey
which hez committed sooicide. Here a new
trouble ensood—there wuzn't a bible to be
found in the whole encampment. The diffi
culty wuz got over by a New York Alder
man vellin out, —"Never mind the oath—
what s the yoose uv any oath he takes?" So
he wuz declared President.
President Wood then proceeded to organ
ize. He requested sich ez hed commissions
in the army uv the yoouited states to step
forerd three paces. Gens. Micklelan, Buel,
Fitsjohn Porter & Slocum stept forerd, and
with em some 4000, a part uv whom h'id
held quartermaster's commissions and whose
accounts.
"Just afore the battle, mother"
Didn't balance, but wich allez did jist af
ter, and others who hed ben dismist for be
in the rear, when their sooperiors desired to
see em in the front, aud who consekently
considered it a d—d Ablishin war, wich they
didn't approve uv no how.
Then nevin ascertained the material for
officerin his army he axed all them who hed
bin in the service ex privates to step forerd.
20,000 obeyed and tne President asked the
fust one where he enlisted, who answered as
follows:
"At Noo York, April 12, 1864, bounty
$1,000; and at Philadelphia, April 14.1864,
Sountv, $700; and at Pittsburgh, April 16,
1864, bounty, $800; and at Cincernati, Ap
ril 19, 1864, bounty S4OO, and at—"
"Enough" said Fernandy, aud glancin
down the line, and seein all the faces were
uv the same style and expression, he asked
no more uv em any questions.
iiemarkin that it wuz well enough to es
tablish a church he desirnd all who were
ministers uv the Gospel to step forerd. 21
stept out and desired to explain. They could
not say they were just now in full connex
ion with any church. They hed bin, but
their unconstitooshnel Ablishn Synods and
conferences hed accoosed em uv irregulari
ties in hoss tradin, and various other irregu
larities, and suspended em. and silenced em
and sich, becoz they were Democrats, but—
The President shrugged his sholders and
asked all who cood read to step out. About
onehalf answered, and then he requested
sich uv this number ez cood be prevaled
upon to accept a small office and who Sleeved
tneirselves fit, to step out agin, and to my
unutterable horror and consternation, every
one but five, stepped out ez brisk ez so many
bees. Immejitly there wuz a uproar' Them
ez coodent read swore vociferously that there
wuz nothing fair about that arrangement
They never knowd that a man wuz obliged
to be able to read to hold office in the Demo
cratic party, and they'd never stand that,
and they all stepped out.
The next step wuz to divide them up in
to employments. The President requested
them ez preferred to foller mekanikle em
ployments to step out Sum thirty advan
ced. Them ez preferred fitrmin. About
fifty stept out. Them ez expected to run
small groceries.
There wuz a sound like the rush uv many
waters. Ninety-eight per cent uv all—cep
tin the officers and preachers—sprung to
the front but when they saw their strength,
their faces turned white. "Good Lord,"
| whispered they "we can't make a livin out
uv the remainin two per cent, and the offi
cers and preache.s!"
The mass then demanded & division uv
the property, that all might start alike, but
takin a inventory, it wuz found not worth
while to bother about a division.
They then oommeiioed murmur in, and
sed one to another, "Oh, for the flesh pots
uv the Egypt we left" "I cood at hum,
live off my Ablishin nabers. ' 'There wuz
rich men in our ward,but ez we hed the ma
jority, they paid taxes, wich ire spent!" 'Ab
lishnists is pizen,but it is well to hev enough,
uv em to tax!" and ez wun man, they resol
ved to return, and the ooafusijfi that resul
ted from the brakin up awoke me.
There is unquestionably a moral in the
vision Biz often ez I hev syed for perpetuel
Democratic majorities, I * hev sumtimes,
when our party wuz successful, and bid fair
to be so permantly, wondered what we would
do with tl^ Treasury ef we didn't lose the
offices occasionally v so yt to hev the other
party nurse it into pickin condition for us.
I don't think I shood like to Kve in a un
animous Dimocratic community.
PETROLEUM V. NASRY,
Lait Paster uv the Church uv the Noo
Dispensashun.
t(*k="Pap," observed a young urchin of
tender years to his "fond parent," "does tie
Lord know everything?"
"Yes, my son," replied the hopeful sire,
"but why do you ask that question?"
"Because our preacher when he prays is so
long telling him everything, I thought hq
wasn't posted."
The parent reflected.