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ifotttil.
THE "BOYS IN BLL'E" ARE COMING
WRITTEN BV ROBERT HAWLEV, KSP., OF WIL
RIAVSDORT.
I.
They are coming, Andy Johnsou—a host of "Boys
in Blue"—
Fresh from a hundred fields of war, the battle
scarred and true;
Not now with gleaming bayonet and roll of mar
tial drum,
But armed with ballots for the Right, in peaceful
ranks they come,
To shield the starry flag they bore from tgßitors'
bands anew;
They are coming; Andy Johnson—a host of Boys
iu Blue.
11.
They are coming, Andy Johnson—the loyal Boys
in Blue,
From Maine and from New Hampshire.nod the
Bay State ever true;
From the Green Mountains of Vermont and little
Rbodcy's shore;
From the homesteads of Connecticut the hardy
vetemns pour,
As late when flashing o'er the land the news of
Suuipter flew. #
They are coming, Andy Johnson—the loyal Boys
in Blue.
111.
They are coming, Andy Johnson—the loyal Boys
in Blue,
From New Jersey and from Delaware, and Mary
land tried and true,
And from the grand old Keystone—man an.-wcr
ing to man,
With pledges for the "Star Brigade" and Ueary—>
in the van—
To yield the of praise to worth and
valor due—
They are coming, Audi' Johnson—the loyal Boys
in Bine.
tv.
They arc coming, Andy Johnson—the eamest
Boys in Blue,
From shop and mill, and forge and field—the
steadfast and the true,
The heroes of the Empire Stat#, despite her rec
reant son,
Who-turns to shame and mockery the good deeds
hahas done,
To spurn with wrath the Mate* false, the faith
less Anrau, too,
They arc coming, Andy Johnson—the earn#3l
Boys in Blue.
T.
They are coming Andy Johnson—the. vet'rans of
the West,
From their grand prairies s :i their lakes—tho
fine.-t and the best;
From the broad rivers whose strong waves bear
joyous to the sea
Tb# treasures of a continent—the tribute of the
free,
To speak once more, in thunder-tones, a People's
high behest;
They arc coming, Andy Johnson—th vnt'rußSof
ti#; 'Vest.
VI.
They are coming, Andy Johnson—the freemen of
the land,
To save the prize they won with blood from Trcas
son's eager hand; i
From the White House t# Lake Michigan they've
heard your wanton speech,
To jeers and threats and curses laud this plain re
sponse they teach:
"By tho memory of Antiutaui and Lookout moun
tain high;
By the noble dead of Gettysburg, in honored
graves who lie;
Tit.
By memory cf Fort Donclson and Shiloh'a bloody
shore;
By memory #f the Wilderness and \ ick burg s
cannon roar:
By memory of Fort Pillow's slain—by scenes w#
may not tell
Of Lib by end of Anderson, and many a re'"ci boll;
By those who fell when Sherman matched proudly
to the sea;
By those who swcll'd at Richmond th# shouts of
victory.
vi t.
Bv memory of the levod and lost of many a North
ern home,
By mothe.widows', orphans' tears for thoso
who ne'er may come—
By memory of "our Martyr Chief," by foul assas
sins' slain:
No rebel horde, no traitor hand shall rule our
land again:
But traitors shall bo puni.-hed, and treason odious
made,
And woe to him, or high or low, by whom we are
betrayed.
tx.
They arc coming, Andy Johnson—a host of Boys
in Bine,
Fresh from a hundred fields war, the battle-worn
and true,
Not now with gleaming bayonet and roll of mar
tial drum,
But armed with ballots for the right, in peaceful
ranks they come,
To guard the starry flag they love from traitors'
hands anew,
Thei are coming, Andy Johnson—a host of Boys
in Blue!
THE PRESIDENT'S APPEAL.
The President, in his latest speech in he
half of his policy, in the very speech in
which he vaunts the case with which he
could successfully proclaim himself Dictator,
challenges the production of "a vote, a
speech or an act of his public life thai has
not been against tyranny and oppression,
and challenges the production of a time in
hie life when he 'failed to advocate the
amelioration and elevation of the great mas
ses of his countrymen." The President has
appealed to the people, and by thein let him
he tried. It i- unnecessary to produce Mr.
Johnson's record. It is before the public.
Down to the time when the war broke oat
he had a record that differed in no respect
front that of Jeff. Davis j with Davis he vo
ted upon every question involving the amel
ioration or elevation of the masses of his
countrymen. When the war hi oke out Da
vis, consistently with his previous record,
became a rebel and traitor; Johnson, aban
doning all those with whom he had previ
ously associated, became a patriot. His rec
ord front January, 1851. to May, isfifi, was
that of a sterling friend of the great masses
of his countrymen, to a previously or)]>rcss
ed and degraded class of whom he had prom
ised to lie another Moses, and to bring them
into the laud of promise, where they should
have an equal chance in the race of life.
His vote?, speeches, and acts during those
four years were directly in conflict with his
previous record, and his speeches, writings,
and official acts since May, ISOS. have been
as directly in conflict with his votes, speech
es, and acts front January, 1861, to within
sixty days after his inauguration. His pres
ent policy is a reproach to his policy during
the war; his present speeches brand the
Andrew Johnson for whom the people voted
in 3864, as adisunionist radical, an enemy of
his conntry; his official acts, are consistent
only with the record he made before the war
when, in company with Davis, his speeches
and acts were all for the perpetuation of the
slavery and degradation of the very class to
whom he has since promised to be a Moses.
The President challenges a word or an act
of his savoring of tyranny and oppression.
Let him read the manifestoes of every ty
rant that lived, and he will find that he has
but copied their language. Caesar thought
he was a mild and liberal ruler ; he did no
act that lie did not do for the elevation of the
masses of his countrymen ; he had but one
hope, and one ambition, and that was the
glory of Rome and the welfare of his people.
Like Mr. Johnson, he had held every offico
in the gift of the nation ; like him he was
military Governor of a conquered province,
and like him framed and administered iron
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clad oaths. Like him, he was welcomed by
the people, and thought that thereason why
he was always successful, was because the
people thought Ctesar was always right.
But Cmsar was none the less a tyrant and an
oppressor. He began his usurpations by
disclaiming all purpose to do so: and up to
the latest moment of his life, he was forever
disclaiming that any speech, vote or act of
his life could justly be charged with tyranny
or oppression.
Andrew Johnson has by iho force of the
national military seized upon ten States of
this Union, and denies to them and their
people freedom of action. The people of
those State.: have been iu rebellion; became
into office and by the force of military power
he has overturned and destroyed the exist
ing State Governments,; he has by the same
power erected new .Governments and offi
cered them with his tools, with men wlio.se
escape from the halter for their crimes is se
cured by his pardon. He has made fealty
to him and not fealty to the Union the test
of office; ho has made allegiance to him, and
not allegiance to the Constitution, the condi
tion of official recognition. He has forbid
den the people of these States and the gov
ernments thereof to recognize or deal with
the other branches of the Government.
Whenever any officer of these States has
ventured to do an official act not previously
approved by him, he has vested in some
subordinate and creature of his own, the
supreme authority, and has crushed out the
individual who dared to act as if his life and
all were not at the disposal of Andrew
Johnson. He has sent word to a brutal
traitor, one of his pardoned instruments,
that the military should not be permitted to
restrain a mob in any violence they might,do
to Union men not recognizing his authoiity,
and the mob, ledon by official Thugs, slaugh
tered, maimed and expelled the members of
the last organization of Union men in Lou
isiana. This, of course, is an act done for
the amelioration and olevution of the great
mass of his countrymen. These eleven St sites
he holds in his bauds as a power to sustain
him when he strikes over the Congress of
the country. He can call upon the rebels to
arm and sustain him, as Cmsar was wont to
call upon his famous legions. Should the
Legislatures of any of these States venture
to consider and accept the terms proposed to
them by Congress, they would soon feel the
avenging hand of our Republican Chief
Magistrate. He has forbidden them doing
anything save what lie commands, and as
civil war, a di-motion of the Union, and a
re-establishment of slavery are regarded by
them as probable results of obeying bis com
mands, they cheerfully submit, and hopeful
ly look forward to the success of his policy.
The chief and principal duty of the Pres
ident of the United States is to execute the
iaws made by another branch ol the Govern
ment. lie has no more authority to question
the validity of a law, or to refuse to execute
it. or to obey it personally and officially than
has any other citizen ; and when, in defiance
of law. and in violation of his official duty
he undertakes to coerce or dictate to another
branch of the Government, and venture to
legislate and execute, then he becomes a
usurper and a tyrant, deserving the condem
nation of his countrymen, and may reasona
bly anticipate that in the end he will realize
the same fate which has been realized by
every other usurper and tyrant that ever be
trayed and oppressed the great masses ol
his countrymen.
He may at: iupt to lull the suspicions of
the people by constant disclaimers and by
professing that his highest ambition is to do
the will of the people. How is that will to
be ascertained, if not through the agency es
tablished by the Constitution ? The Consti
tution provided a Congress, through which
the people should assert their will, and is not
the President daily as erting that tohimand
not to the repre entatives of the people be
longs the right to say who shall and who
sleul not be represented in that Congress?
Since the foundation of t e Government,]
there has been no attempt n i. xutive
to coerce Congress to abandon its ( institu
tional privileges, and accept from the Pres
ident members chosen by his command, by a
suffrage prescribed by him. and by Govern
ments erected and upheld by the bayonet. .
Let him read the fathers of the Republic,
and let his eyc3 be suffused with tears when
ho reads the malediction?: which they utter
upon that Executive who iu the pride of
place should arrogate to himself the powers
which the Constitution placed exclusively in
the representatives of the people. Let him
remember also, that anticipating that in
some moment of popular excitemeut, the
people, forgetting their prudence, should
elect an Executive that might arrogate to
himself an authority belonging exclusively
to the people, there was placed in the Con
stitution the grand protection, that these
representatives of the people might impeach
that Executive, and dismiss him from office.
Chicago Ti iOune.
AN APPEAL TO CONGRESS AND
NORTHERN LOYALISTS.
NEW ORLEANS. Wednesday, Aug. 23, 1860.
The subjoined important petition from
the loyal citizens of New Orleans, asking
protection from Congress and the loyal citi
zen- of the nation, has been sigued bv nearly '
every Union man in the city, and is now on
its way North.
We, the undersigned Union men of the
State of Louisiana, respectfully represent,
that after, four years combating the armed
forces of the rebels and traitors, wc are not i
prepared, nor yet willing, that these same ;
rebels and traitors should return among us, :
assume authority, maltreat with contumely ■
and contempt, or otherwise abase us. The I
facts are patent and beyond question, and it
is well shown that the real Union men of;
this State arc in the minority. The return- j
ed rebels and traitors have the balance of
power in their hands, aud it is publicly
avowed that the confederate element must
rule. Matters have assumed such a phase,
that, if not strangled in the birth, we, the
Union men, will have no security for life,
property, or honor. The returned rebels
and traitors arc daily growing more powerful
and daily insults and anuses are heaped
upon us by them. They no sooner find a
return to power, than they commence a
sreries of abuse of us. They lose no opportu
nity,* but upon all occasions use vile epithets
toward us. Our residences arc marked, and
attempts have beeu make to lire the dwell
ings of some of us who are most conspicu
ous. We are told that we are spotted, aud
daily threats are heard against us. They
not only abuse and cur.-e us in jirivate, but
publicly scorn and vilify us. Newspapers,
of which we have but two in our interest,
cannot be bought on tho streets, but, like
private papers, during the days of the inqui
sition of old, are passed from hand to hand.
Wc would infinitely prefer to return them
their aims and fight t hem in open field, than
thus to permit them, under the protection
of our Government, to assume to dictate to
us, and govern us. Our Government, un
der a misapplied ntercy, grants to prisoners
of war guilty of the highest crime against
the State—treason —the privilege, hereto
fore unknown, of dictating to their conquer
ors the upon which the conquerors
may be permitted to live in the land of their
BEDFORD. Pn,., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28. IB6G.
birth with unpardoned traitors, against all
of which we pretest. We protest against
being termed rebels and traitors by those
whose hands are yet recking with the blood
of Union men, and who boldly and with un
surpassed effrontery, not only in private, hut
throughout the daily papers, term us rebels
and traitors, and style themselves the Union
men of the South; and this too while they
are keeping up their Confcderateorganiza
tions, and utterly ignoring that they are
prisoners of war to our Government. We
protest against being ruled by prisoners of
war under parole. Wc protest against be
ing made to feel the vengeance of baffied
traitors. We protest against being used as
the lamb of the sacrifice to conciliate rebels
and traitors. Knowing our shrift would be
short, if once these assassins gain power, as
they have proved conclusively by their acts
of premeditated cold-blooded butchery of
Union men on Monday, the 13th of July, the
Saint Bartholomew-day of New Orleans, we
protest against being left to the tender mer
cies of the assassins who toe knife and pis
tols. Wc protest most emphatically againstj
being made the slaves, so to speak, of these
prisoners of war, who hate as with unuttera
ble hate, who despise and ourse us. Was jt
for this hundreds and thousands of our
Union soldiers perished? Was it for this
we waged a war for the U?ion? Was it for
this we have imbrued our vhole land in tax
ation? Was it for this we spent millions of
treasure? Was it for this we have made in
valids and cripples of our thousands of
Union men? Was it for this we elected
Andrew Johnson to the office from which
ill-starred events caused him to become
President? Was it for this we conquered?
We therefore call upon the conquerors and
loyal eitizens of the nation to protect us.
We not only petition, but demand, protec
tiou from the Congress of your country, as
wcarein duty bound.—A 7 ". V Tribune.
THE THREAT OF MR. JOHNSON.
The now rebellion is progressing rapidly.
Mr. Seward, in his Louisville speech, says
that the South is more loyal to the Union
than the North; that at the South "there
is entire unanimity," while the North is di
vided. This shows us what 3fr. Seward un
derstands by loyalty. It is loyal to support
Mr, Seward and Andrew Johnson. It is
disloyal to vote for Congressmen who oppose
them. It shows us, too, what sort of a
Union Mr. Seward wants. It is a Union
based on caste and prejudice; a Union where
rebellion is rewarded and fidelity punished;
a Union in which the Declaration of Inde
pendence is^denounced, and the Constitution
defied ; a Union where free speech, a free
press, and freedom of peaceable assemblage
will not be tojergted in ten States; a Union
clothed with the infamy of violated pledges,
reeking with the murder cf helpless loyalists,
and gory with the blood of the martyrs of
New Orleans. Such a Union is a cheat and
delusion, for it would end in war. It is an
impossibility, for it can never be established.
The loyal people, whose earnestness the
graves of three hundred thousand men at
test, will never tolerate a I'nion ruled bv
traitors, based upon denial of rights guar
anteed by the Constitution, and brought
about by usurpation and uassacre.
But slr. Seward docs hot stand alone.
Andrew .Johnson fortifies his declaration
that the South is loyal and the North dis
loyal, by the threat that unless the people
accept his policy they shall have a civil war
on Northern soil. After months of incendi
ary speech, intended to inflame the spirits
oi' his puritans to the utmost, he hurls this
threat at the people, hoping, perhaps, that
it will crush all opposition to his will.
The people know that 3lr. Johnson can
iiiunge this country into civil war again, if
hi chooses. His own language and conduct
has forced them to contemplate that result as
by no means impossible. They know that
he can make war upon the government of
the people, and at temp; to crush it by bay
onets. They know thai he has reason to
hope that the aid of Copperheads at the
North and rebels at the South would be giv
en to such a rebellion. And looking the
fact squarely in the face, the people will do
exactly as they did in IS>O. They will vote
as their conscience and judgment dictates,
and they will fight, if need be, to sustain
and enforce the decision rendered at the bal
lot-box. There are a million of veteran sol
diers who can be put in the field within
twenty days to sustain the verdict of the
people at the polls, and if Mr. Johnson or
his followers mean to resist that vordict, let
them count the cost.
Mr. Johnson, be it remembered, throws
out this threat with the returns of the Maine
election before him. He is a politician. He
knows that a Republican gain of* fifteen
thousand in that State, in spite of all bis
efforts there, is a sure indication that the
loyal States will vote down him and his pol
icy by majorities larger than were given foi
Lincoln. If he thinks to frighten the peo
ple out of the expression of their sincere
convictions and honest judgments he is mis
taken. And if he thinks that he can with
safety resist by anned rebellion a decision of
the people at the ballot-box ir. favor of the
policy of Congress—if he thinks that all the
power that he can command will suffice to
put down the millions whom he now calls
traitors —let him try it! — Missouri Demo
crat.
STANDING BY TIIE CONSTITUTION.
The President thus harangued the com
mittee that waited on him in Washington
to congratulate him on the united and cor
dial support of the rebels and copperheads:
"What gentlemen, has been your and my
sin? What has been the cause of our offen
ding? I will tell you. Daring to stand ly
the Constitution of our fathers. '
Let us see how far he dares to "stand by
the Constitution of our fathers." Sec. 3,
of article 3, of the "constitution of our fa
thers" provides as follows:
"Treason against the United States shall
consist only in levying tear against them, or
in adhering to their enemies, giving them
aid and comfort."
The law of Congress providing the penal
ty for treason. passed by "our fathers" in
1790, says:
"If any person owinjj allegiance to the
United States of America, shall levy war
against them, or shall adhere to their ene
mies, giving them aid and comfort, within
the United States or elsewhere, an l shall be
convicted thereof on confession in open
court, or on the testimony of two witnesses
to the same act of the treason whereof he or
they shall stand indicted, such person or per
sons shall he adjudged guilts °f treason
a gainst the United States, A Nit BLU.LT st'F
FER HEATH!"
If President Johnson will dare to enforce
"the constitution of our fathers, he must
proceed at once to try and hang enry dele
gate to the Philadelphia Convention from
the rebel States and probably half the dele
gates from the North. When will A. J. begin
the delectable work of enforcing ' 'the con
stitution of our fathers ?" — Chamhershr ry
Repository.
MAS BY.
Mr Nasby with the Presidential Party.
AT THE RIDDLE HOUSE, |
(which is in Detroit, Michigan, )■
Sept. 4th, 186(>. )
Step by step I am ascendin the ladder uv
fame —step by step I am climbin to a proud
iminence. Three weeks ago I wuz summon
ed to Washington by that imincntly grate
and good man, Androo Johnson, to attend a
consoltation ez to the proposed Western
tour, which was to be undertaken for the
purpose nv arousin the masses of the West
to a, sense uv the danger which was threat
cnin uv em in case tney persisted in cen
traJizin the power of the Government into
the hands uv a Congress, instid of diffusin
it throughout the hands u£ one man, which
is Johnson. I got there too late to tako
part in the first uv the discussion. When
1 arrovc they had everything settled, ceptin
the appointment of a chaplain for the ex-
The President insisted upon my
fillin that position, but seward objected. He
wanted Beecher, but Johnson was inflexibly
agahist him. "I am determined,'" sez he,
"tocarry out my policy, but I hev some
bowels left. Beecher hes dun enuff already,
considerin the pay he got. No ! no ! he
shel he spared this trip—indeed he shel."
"Very good," said fee ward, "but at least
find some clergyman who endorses us with
out hcvin P. M. to his honored name. It
would look better."
"I know it wood," replied Johnson, "but
where kin we find such a one ? I hev swung
around the entire circle, and heven't as yet
seen him. Nasby it must be."
There wuz then a lively discussion ez to
the propriety before the procession started,
of removin all the offiis-holders on the pro
posed route, and appointin men who believ
ed in us, (Johnson, Beecherand me,) that
we might be shoorof a sootable rccepshun
at each pint at wuz to stop. The
Annointed wuz in favor uv it. Sez he
"them as won't supuort my policy shan't
eat my bread and nutter." Randall and
Doolittle chimed ID, for its got to be a part
of their religion to assent to whatever the
President sez, but 1 mildly protested. I
owe a duty to the party, and I ant determin
ed to do it.
"Most High," sez I, "a settiu hen wich
is lazy makes no fuss—cut its head off and
it flops about for a while lively. Lincoln's
office holders are settin hens. They don't
like yoo nor yoor policy, but while they are
on their nests will keep moderately quiet.
Cut oft'their heads and they will spirt their
blood in yoor face. Ez to hein enshoored of
a reception at each point, yoo need fear
nothin. Calkerlatin moderitly, there are at
least twenty-five or thirty patriots who feel
a call for every offis in yoor disposal. So
long, Yoor Highness, ez them ofti.-is is held
just where they can see em, and they don't
know which is to get cm, yoo may depend
upon the entire enthoosiasm uv each, indi
vidually, and collectively. In short, ef
there's 4offisis in a town and yoo make the
appointments, yoo hev sckoored-i support
ers—till voo make the appointments voo
hev the hundred who expect to get tliem.
Tire President agreed with me that until
after the trip the guillotine shocd stop.
Secretary Seward sejested that a clean
shirt wood improve my personal appearance,
and accordingly a cirkular wuz sent to the
eleiks in the Departments, assessin em. for
that purpose. Such uv em as refoosed to
contribute their quota wuz instantly dis
missed for disloyalty.
At last we started audi must say we wuz
got up in a high conciliatory style. Every
one of the civilians uv the party wore buz
zout pins, et cettery, which wuz presented
to us by the Southern delegates to the l'hil-
Convention, wich wuz made of the
bones uv Federal soldiers' which hed fallen
at the various battles. Sum uv cm were
pertiekerly valuable as anteeks. bavin been
made from the bones uv the first soldiers
who fell at Bull Run.
TheNoo York recepshun wuz a gay affair.
I never saw Ilis imperial Highness in better
spirits, and he delivered hisspecch to better
advantage than I ever heard him do it be
fore, and I believe I've heard it a hundred
times. We left Noo York sadly. Even
now ez I write the remembrance uv that
perceshun—the recollection uv that banquet
lingers around me, and the taste uv them
wines is still in my mouth. But we hed to
go. We had a inishun to perform, and wc
put ourselves on a steamboat and start
ed.
ALBANY —There wuz such a immense
crowd, but the Czar uv ail the Amerikas
didn't get off his speech here. The Gov
ernor welcomed him, but he welcomed him
ez the Cheef Magistrate uv the nashun, and
happened to drop in Lincoln s name. That
struck a chill over the party, and the Presi
dent got out uv it ez soon ez possible. Be
iu received as Cheef Magistrate, and not ez
the great Pacificator, ain't his Egglency's
best holt. It wuz unkind uv Guv, Fenton
to do it. If he takes the papers he
must know that his Mightiness ain't got but
one speech, and he ought to hev made such
a recepshun ez wood hev enabled him to got
it off We shook the dust off uv our feet,
and left Albany in disgust.
SKENACTADY —The people uv this de
lightful little village wuz awake when the
imperial train arrived. The changes hcven t
bin made in the offises here, and consekent
ly there wuz a splendid recepshun. I diiln t
suppose there wuz so many patriots along
the Mohawk. I wuz pinted out by some
one ez the President's private adviser—a
sort uv Private Secretory uv State —and af
ter the train started I found 211 petitions
for the post-offis in Skenaetcdy in my side
coat pocket, which the patriots which hed
hurrahed so vociferously had dextrously
deposited there. The incident wuz a movin
one. "I thank God,'' thought 1,, ,; so long
cz we hev the post-offices to give, we kin
alluz hev a party." The Sultan swung
around the cirkle wuust here, and lcavin the
constitootiou in their hands the train moved
off , ~,
HOME. —Here we had a splendid recep
shun, and I never heard His Majesty speak
more felicitously, lie mentioned to the
audience that he hed swung around the
Southern side of the cirkle and wuz now
swingiug around the Northern side uv it,
and that he wuz fightin traitors on all sides,
lie left the constitooshun in their hands
and bid cm good bye. I received at this
pint only 130 petitions for the post-offis,
which I took ez a bad omen for the comin
election.
UXXCA. —The President spoke heve with
greater warmth and jerked more originality
than I hed before observed. He introdm
ced here the remark that he didn't come to
make a speech—that he wuz coin to shed a
tear over the tomb of Douglass ; that in
swinging around the cirkle he hed fought
traitors on all sides uv it, but that he felt
safe. Ho shood leave the constitooshun in
their hands, and ef a martyr wuz wanted,
he wuz reddy to die with nectncss and dis
patch. _ .
j LOCKPOBX.—The President is improvin
wonderfully. He rises with the occasion.
At this pint he mentioned that he wuz set
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ort savin the country wich hed honored him.
Ez for himself his ambition wuz more than
satisfied, lie hed bin Alderman, member
of the Legislacher, Congressmen. Senator.
Military Governor, Vice President and
President. He hed swung around the en
tire cirkle uv offices, and all he wanted now
wuz to heal the wounds of the fiashun- He
felt safe in leavin the constitooshun in their
hands. Ez he swung around the cirkle—
At this pint I interrupted him. I told
him that he hed swung around the cirkle
wunst in this town, ana ez yooseful ez the
sphrase wuz it might spile by too much use.
At Cleaveland we began to get into hot
water. Here is the post where the devil uv
abolishment is chained, and his chain is long
to let him range over nearly the
whole State. lam pained to state "that the
President wusnt treated here with rcspeek
due bis station, ne commenctdelivcrin his
sppneh, bet wuz made the subjeck of ribald
lal'ture. Skarscly hed he got to the pint uv
swingin around the cirkle, when a foul
mouthed nigger lover jelled "Veto," and
another vocifferated "Noo Orleans," and
another remarked '"Memphis," and one
after another interruption occurred until
His Highness wuz completely turned off
the track and got wild. He forgot his
speech and struck out crazy, but the starch
wuz out of him and he was worsted. Grant
which he hed taken along to draw the
crowds, played dirt on us here, and stepped
into the boat for Detroit, leavin us only
Farragut as a attraction, who tried twice to
get away ditto, but wuz timely prevented
The President recovered his ekanimity and
swung around the circle wunst, and leavin
the constitootion in fheir hands, retired.
At the next pint we wuz astounded at
scein but one man at the station. He wuz
dressed with a sash over his shoulder, and
wuz wavin a flag with one hand, firin a
saloot with a revolver with the other, and
plavin "Hail to the Chief on a mouth
organ, all to wunst. "Who are you my
gentle friend?" sez I. "I'm the newly
appointed Postmaster, sir," sez he. "I'm
a perceshun a waitinheretu da honor to our
Cbeef Magistrate, all alone, sir. There
| wuz twenty Johnsonians in this hamlet, sir,
I but when the commission came for me, the
other nineteen wuz soured and said they
didn't care a d—n for him nor his policy,
sir. WheTC is the President ?" Androo
wuz a goin to swing around the cirkle for
this 1 man and leave the constitootion in his
hands, but Seward checked him.
At Fremont we had a handsome reccp
shun for the offises heven't bin changed
there, but Toledo didn't do so well. The
crowd didn't cheer Androo much, but when
Farragut was trotled out they gave him a
rouser, wich wuz anything but pleasin to the
Oheef Magistrate uv this nation who be
leeve# in bein respected.
Finall we reached Detroit. This bein a
Democratic city the President was hisself
agm. His speech here wuz one of rare
I merit. He eathered together in one quiver
all the spaxklin arrows he had used from
Washington to this point, and shot era one
by one. He swung around the cirkle —he
didn't come to make a speech—he hed been
Alderman uv his native town —he might 1
IIUV bccu iltvinlVX buh nuvxlout und on clod
with a poetical cotashun which I eoodent
ketch, but which ez near ez I cood under
stand wuz:
"Kum wun—Kurn all —this rock shel By,
From its firm base—in a pig's eye."
Here we rcjtoso for the nite. To-morrow
we 6tart onward, and shel continue swing
in aronndthe cirkle till we reach Chicago.
PETROLEUM V. NASBY, P. M.
(which is Postmaster.)
(and likewise chaplain to the expidition.)
"RECONSTRUCTED."
As the chances of a Copperiohnson tri
umph fade away beneath the majestic
uprising of the American people, the gal
vanized loyalty of the rebel journals which
endorses the proceedings of the 14th of Au
gust Convention is rapidly disappearing
from their columns, and we find, instead,
such bold invocations to renewed strife as
wc print below, from the Richmond Ecam
iWof the 12th instant:
"We have renounced secession, and are
bound to that renunciation by an honor
which has never beeu violated. But shall
we submit forever to a tyrranny because it is
called Republican ? Shall an alien major
ity enslave us, aud make us cringe to their
behests ? Forbid it every impulse of man
hood ! The true answer to the query lies
in the historical utterance of our own PAT
RICK HENRY, who said, "give me liberty or
give me death."
It is wholly impossible that we should be
the thralls of Yankees, and it is becoming
apparent that we cannot exist under the
same government with them except in that
condition. Wo have revolution as the al
ternative. Death before dishonor, is the
cry of every true Virginian ; and, while we
are ready, eager and willing to submit to the
Union and the Constitution in their legiti
mate action, we are equally resolute to resist
the efforts of those who seek to make our
allegiance the means of insufferable oppress
ion. In resistance if we cannot, find victo
ry and lreedom, we can at least meet death
in the career of honor. * * * * If we
cannot attain the freedom that is our birth
right, we can at least retain the honorable
graves that heaven still reserves for those
who cannot endure tyrranny. We will not se
cede again, but we will die lather than be
reduced to the merciless mastery of radical-
This is accompanied, too by the following
sneers at the American flag, and the decla
ration that representation in Congress would
be a "degradation," viz :
If it were ever possible to surfeit a peo
ple with an overdose of ''flag," it is certain
that the people of these United ot*tes,
both North and South, would immediately
be seized with a horrible attack of indiges
tion. Go where you willl the "Stars and
Stripes" are around and about you, before
and behind you. There is no escape from
their all pervading presence. A "'pop
cart, '' an omnibus, or a bread wagon
goes tearing down the street with stupefying
clatter, and as it glanocs by your eye fells
upou the painted emblem. It spreads put
upon the gay wrapper of your "scarfallctti,
rolls round the handle of your pen, peers at
you from the title page of your new book,
assails you from the corner of your pocket
handkerchief, aud rides unsuspected in the
crown of your shining beaver. From the
vast consumption of raw materials one
would suppose that I 'freedom must have
made an awful rent in the "azure robes of
night," and the only wonder is that there
are any "stars of glory" left. * * * *
We long ago gave over to the sons ot the
"Pilgrim fethers" our interest in the flag,
the Fourth of July and Yankee Doodle, and
have never since felt any desire to reassert
our claims. 'Were the teat oath abolished
and the doors of Congress opened to-morrow
to Southern representation no man of deli•
cacy but vxHtla shrink from asking the best
and purset in our land to mingle with at
itncb an crew of ravening fools, and howling
fanatics. To participate in the councils of
the nation, once an honor, has now become
a degradation."
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ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT ARTICLE
BY THE lIERAED.
Congress Right—The President Wrong
The Only Hope of the South is the Con
gressional Plan.—The Constitutional
Amendment will go Through.
(From (he -Yew York Herald of Saturday.)
The fogs and clouds in which the great
question of Southern restoration has Deen
covered up since the adjournment of Con
gress, are at length breaking away. We
know now what to do. We have been
taught by the famous mariner Daniel Web
ster, after drifting about for many days in
thick weather and in an unknown sea, to
avail ourselves of the first glimpse of the
sun for an observation and a reckoning, in
order to ascertain how far the winds and
the waves have driven us from our true
i course. We thus find from the bearings of
the Maine election, that the true course for
the Soutborn States and the administration
is laid down in the Constitutional Amend
ment of Congress. In other words, we are
con vinced from the significant results of the
Maine election that this amendment will
carry all the Northern States yet to come,
and that against the solid North any further
resistance from the administration or the
excluded Southern States will be a waste of
time, foolish and suicidal to all concerned.
We would therefore urge upon President
Johnson the statesmanlike policy of a truoe
with Congress, and an active co-operation
with the fixed and predominant public opin
ion of the North, in behalf of the immediate
restoration of the South on the basis of t.hi
constitutional amendment. We have shown
that there Ls nothing in it which the Presi
dent has not himself, atone time or another
recommended as essential TO the security of
the Union. It is not the radical plan; it is
not so near in fact, to the rebel disabling and
confiscation plan of Thaddeus Stevens as the
propositions put forth from time to time by
Andrew Johnson. It is a compromise
which the President ought to have adopted
iu co-operation with Congress, and which
he ought to adopt at all events, because his
conflict with Congress, if persisted in. will
be most emphatically decided against him.
It cannot be otherwise. The inevitable re
sult is as clear to the searcher for the true
situation of things as the light of the sun
through the breaking clouds. Not one of
the States which votedfer Lincoln and John
son will fail to adopt this constitutional
amendment, since New Jersey, the only
Northern State whose vote was against them
has led off for the North in the ratification.
TMe policy and the duty of President
Johnson, therefore, are as clear as a mathe
matical demonstration, and equally clear is
the policy of the still excluded Southern
States. We have earnestly advocated the
President's policy; but after the verdict of
the jury the argument is at an end. The
example of Tennessee in the ratification of
the amendment is now the only alternative
for the outer Southern States. Tennessee
in ratifying the amendment, opened the door
to the admission of her members into both
houses of Congress. * * * *
This amendment is going through.
There is no other settlement for the South.
The Governors oftho Southern States ought
tKorofowo to wall f Loir lojupfinhirofi togOtfiOf
at once and ratify this amendment, so that
with the meeting of Congress in December
they may be all stored to both houses. In
this way they ea.i atonec secure the balance
cf power inCougress and put auend to any
farther attempt of the radicals to applv new
restrictions of State restoration. The South
ern States, too will thus be put in a position
to take their ground and shape their course
to some puiq>ose in view of the Presidential
election. What has been done in the case
of Tennessee amounts to the adoption of a
rule of admission. The way is plain, the
door is open, and in this simple act ol ratifi
cation the South will bo restored to its bal
ance of power. It is the ultimatum of the
victorious North, and the South will lose
much and gain nothing by delay in its adop
tion.
THE NJbtatO BOUNTY QUESTION.
Tho Coppcrjobnsonites, tluough the col
umns of their newspaper organs and the
throats of their blatant, orators, are making
the direct charge that Congress voted an
extra bounty of $3OO to the negroes, which
the Paymaster General Is now paying, while
Congress voted only $lOO extra bounty to
the white soldier, which the Paymaster Gen
eral refuses to pay. On this statement, the
Copperjohnsonites boldly declare that it is
the policy of Congress and therefore the
object of the Republican party to reward the
black soldier and rob the white soldier. Now,
let us look fairly at the facts involved in this
case. Every white volunteer, who enlisted
between July Ist, 1861, and June 25th, 1863,
also April Ist, 1864, and July. 18th, 1864, for
the term of three or five years, received a
bounty of $lOO. Those who re-enlisted, as
veterans, prior to April Ist, 1864; received
an additional bounty of $4OO, while those
white soldiers who did not re-enlist and
served three years only received $lOO. Con
gress passed an act giving them an extra
bounty of $lOO, while the black volunteer
only received under the act of Congress $lOO
bounty at the time the white soldier receiv
ed $3OO. Congress passed an act to give the
black volunteer the same bounty that any
other soldier received and no more. So it
will be seen that the black volunteer does
not get an extra bounty any more than the
white soldier, but merely gets the same
amount.
From these facts, quoted from the record,
it will be seen that Congress made no dis
tinctions in awarding its bounties to those
willing to defend the country, except in fa
vor of the white man, who having first en
tered (negroes at first being excluded from
the army) were awarded the extra $lOO.
Hereafter, then, when a Copperhead at
tempts to show that the negro is getting
more bounty than is the white soldier, the
facts we quote in this article are sufficient to
disprove the charge.— Harrisburg 2de
graph.
TIIE KELEAMVTJF* DAVIS EX
PKCTEI).
A story comes through the columns of the
Herald that President Johnson proposes to
release Jefferson Davis in October, and that,
in the spirit of his St. Louis speech, he will
charge the responsibility of the failure to
punish this traitor upon the radicals. The
Herald is poor authority, but the statement
is minute and circumstanU|l; it accords pre
cisely with view- recently expressed by the
President, and it has many intrinsic eviden
ces of its probability.
Jefferson Davis is simply the chief of
' many traitors, To all the rest, Andrew
Johnson extends not only pardon, but every
[ encouragement to hope that they may secure
j by his treachery what they "lost in the fight.
Some of them not less guilty than Davis,
Johnson has already pardoned into high
office ; the Governor of Mississippi, and
the Mayor of New Orleans, are examples.
It would be inconsistent for him to make
Jefferson Davis an exception. "My policy
will not be fully illustrated until that chiet
of traitors has taken his seat in the Senate.
But whether the loyal people will permit a
full illustration of "my policy is very doubt
ful.—Missouri Demoernt.