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'•THE COPPERHEAD."
If John Hopley don't know the Copper
head, inside and oat, there is no use living
where Union soldiers on furlough were mur
dered during the war. And here is what
John says, in the Bucyroa Journal, of June
sth:
Of all the factious men we've seen,
Existing now or loog since dead,
No one was ever known so mean
As him we call a Copperhead;
A draft evading Copperhead;
A rebel aiding Copperhead;
A growling, slandering,
Scowling, pandering,
Vicious, State'- rights Copperhead
From him the decencies of lite
And all its courtesies have fled;
He lives in fretful factious strife ;
A testy, touchy, Copperhead;
A negro fearing Copperhead:
A rebel cheering Copperhead;
An unlearned, unlicked.
Oft spurned, oft whipped,
Doughfaced, crying Copperhead.
When -'Save the Union," was the cry,
And thousands for the Union bled,
The nation's right he d.d deny
To save itself: —this Copperhead;
A Son of Liberty Copperhead;
A Golden Circle Copperhead:
A scheming, lying,
Screaming, flying.
Mean, Canadian Copperhead.
When Southern miscreants designed,
Their helpless prisoners's blood to sbed,
And Libby prison undermined,
Who then approved ? The Copperhead:
The soldier shooting Copperhead;
The patriot hooting Copperhead;
The war abusing,
Aid refusing,
Crime excusing Copperhead.
Who scoffed at Pillow s bloody fray,
And Andersonville's murdered dead?
Who victory's hour did long delay?
The traitorous, treacherous Copperhead,
The crime creating Copperhead;
Assassinating Copperhead;
The strife exciting,
Wrath inviting, *
Death delighting Copperhead.
When widows mourned their lonely lot,
And orphan children wept their dead;
Who said the just deserts they got ?
The Northern rebel Copperhead;
The widow libelling Copperhead;
The grief deriding Copperhead;
The false conspiring,
City firing,
Booth admiring Copperhead.
Nor woman's grief, nor orphan's tears,
Nor even a Nation's honored dead,
Are sacred from the jibes and sueers,
Of every brutal Copperhead;
Each church aspersing Copperhead;
Each preacher cursing Copperhead,
Each Union hating,
War creating.
Repudiating Copperhead.
Crawl to your dunghill, viper, crawl.
For General Grant with a conquering tread,
Marches to crush the thing men call,
In politics, a Copperhead:
A Democratic Copperhead:
A vile fanatic Copperhead;
A murder jeering,
Widow sneering,
Assassin cheering Copperhead.
U*n*ons.
MASBY.
The Conversion of Elder Pennibacker
lie Sees a Vision which Puts His
Feet on Solid Democratic Ground.
POSTOFFIS, COSFEDRIT X ROADS, )
(Wich is in the Stait uv Kentucky,) r
August 15, 1868. )
Joy to the world! Elder Pennibaekcr,
wich, ever sense the Noo YorkConvcnshun,
her bin a tkoffer and a sore hed. is wunst
more within the fold. There wuz more re
joicin when he come lack than over all
within the fold for he was a venerable iamb
wich hed gone estray. Like the prodigal
son. we sJayed for him the fatted calf.
I wuz particularly pleased with his re
turn. He wuz the kindest uv men, and
made the best corn whiskey in this seck
shnn. He hed alluz bin in the habit of
senden, now and then, a jug to his Pastor
at the Post Offis. but sence his dissatisfack
shun and consckcnt estrangement, these
delikit attenshuns, so grateful to one in frail
helth, hez been intermitted But that is all
over, thank Heven. Yesterday morning he
come into the offis beariti that wich to me is
the most blessed us peece oflorins, the old
familyer jug, wich, settiu down, he fell onto
my neck and wept.
"Parson!' sed he, his voice quiverin
with emoshen. and tears cbasin each other
down his nose, "it's over. I've sinned and
hev repentid. Forgive me!"
"Elder!" sed I, assoomin adignified air,
"be who departs and cometh back—don't
kick over that jug, for the stopper ain't in
tite—is to me more precious than if he
hedn't kicked over the traces. Bless you,
my son. Here's a tin cup wich will do."
The Elder then told me he hed been con
verted. He hed determined not to vote at
all. He didn't bleeve in Seymour, coz he
is pledged to pay the debt in greenbax, and
he detcstid Blare lecoz he wuz wunst a
bloo bellied hirelin, and becoz in marryin
him we marry the entire Blare family, wich
is too much. He didn't bleeve that either
uv em waz to be trusted. He didn't bleeve
that either uv em was troo to the South.
Feelin pekoolyerly bitter, he went to bed the
nite afore, and nursin his wrath he fell
asleep aod dreamed. That dream saved.
He dreamed that he was iu a vast assem
blage uv the Democracy, very like the
Nasboel Conveushun. There wus shoutin
and bcllerin, but he walked about gloomy
and sad, filled with the most fearful fore
bodins.
Presently in his dream he approached the
grand stand wich wuz okkepied by the lead
ers and devoted to the occasion. Here a
most pekoolyer site met his gaze. He no
tist one small but soft toned instrument,
holler and very much like a flute, evidently
made for peacful stranes, out uv wich
Wade Hampton wuz a straiuiu and bio win
the most ferosuhs and war-like sounds.
The hed uv the instrumeut wuz Seymour's
hed, and cz he lookt clostcr he tound it as
soomed the general appearance uv the man.
It tried hard to keep the smooth melojua
tones to wich it wuz normelly adapted, but
the grim-visaged Hampton, whose wind is
i" exhaustible, blowd sich strong blasts and
' gered the boles so adroitly, that it played
his toons and his only.
Just beside him stood Bo regard a playin
a brass instrument wich wuz shaped so like
Blare ez to be him. wich instrument wuz uv
the tromboone nacber. Boregard hed no
trouble with it It wua ez discordant nach
relly ex it cood be, and it wu* splendidly
adapted to the capassity uv the player.
I give the dream henceforth in the Kl-
HEDFORDi PA>, FKHIAV, SEPT. ||. INGS.
seemed to be sort uv cngineerin the concert,
"wat iu thunder isSeymore and Blare and
sich ez them furnishen moosic for strata
Suthcrn Dimocracv for? Are we to be com
pelled to submit to the tool uv bondholders
and to Federal soljers and sich ? Ez for nie,
I will never—"
"Don't talk like an eggTf'jis ass!" sed
this man. "Hcvn't you any sense? Can t
you see that Seymorc and Blare are merely
the instrooments wich are plaved onto, and
that Boregard and Wade Hampton are the
individooals who furnish the wind and fin
ger the holes. Listen, how grandly 'Dixie
and the 'Bonny 8100 Flag' swells out into
the air and fills surrouodin space! And
see, ez Boregard shoves out the trumbone
how it has knockt off the stand all them
wich from former attachment to the instroo
mcnt wu* close to it, and bow sweetly the
pizen breth wich is bein blowd, tho its com
bined with that of the instroomcnt itself,
hez smothered all them whos presence
would have embarast us. Miles O'Reilly it
killed, and all that pestiferous breed uv
War Dimocrats like him are layin. overpow
ered with it, flat onto thcr backs. They
may possibly survive, but they are so stoop
efied that they wont git up till after ther
opportunity for hurtin us is passed.
"Then," sed the Elder, "my drecm
changed. Metbawt the elecshun wuz over,
and that we hed triumphed. I wuz to
home in Kentucky. All here wuz peece.
The Buro offisers bed folded I her tents like
the Arabs, and silently stole away. The
military wus withdrawn, and thcr wuz noth
in bloo in tho South save and except the
faces uv the few Northern men wich cood
ent git away. The very air wuz full uv the
gosts uv the ded Federal soljeis in the
South, all uv wich wore an expreshun of
hoomiliashen, ez tho they felt they hed bin
manufactured into gosts for very considera
ble less than notbin. Reconstrucksben hed
bin undone, and all laws enfranchisin nig
gers and Ueprivin our heroes uv suffrage
wuz bustid. We wuz free. Tfcer hed bin
a gincral cleanin out uv Northern settlers,
carpet-baggers and obstreperous niggers.
I notist with infinit pleasure that Pollock's
store hed bin gutted, and Joe Bigler's
corpse (he spoke this in a low tone, and
lookin fearfly over his shoulder to make
shoor no one heerd him) wus a lyin on the
Square.
Sich of the niggers ez cood be controlled
were at work under the laws we had passed
for em regulatin labor, at an average uv
four dollars per month, and sich cz hed be
come too independent for that, hed either
bin shot or driven out uv the country. The
Amendments, given uv em votes and sich,
hed bin overruled, and in Tennessee and the
other States they hed been redoost to their
normal speer, and the power wuz wunst
more in the hands uv sich patriots ez For
rest, and sich. Brownlow hed bin hung,
their noospapers destroyed, and them which
supported em scattered to the four winds.
In the Corners all wuz peece. Wc hed nig
gers on our plantations cz before the war,
and wc, the roolin race, wuz releeved uv the
degradin labor wich so onfits the Caucashan
for the enjoyment uv life. The entire Cor
ners hevin nothin to do and plenty to live
on, wus pcrpetooally gathered in front of
Bascom's, pitchin coppers, runnin quarter
races, and ever and anon ccasin their manly
amoosetaents to quaff the flowin boles wich
he supplied.
We cood hear, any time, the cheerful yelp
uv bloodhounds in the swamp beyont the
Run, cbasin runaways, and ez thcr wus no
longer any law agin ther shootiDg niggers,
skarcely a day passed that one or more wus
not killed. My distillery wuz a runnin full
blast, the smoke uv the torments ascendin
from its chimney forever. Oh, it was gor
gus!
"And is this to be?" asked luv the dis
embodied spirit uv Bishop Poke, wich wuz
showin it to me.
"All this and more, " returned he. "Thus
will the South regain her lost rites. Thus
will the lest coz be restored. Elect Seymour
and Blair, and all will he Well."
"At this pint I awoke," sed the Elder,
"feelin how unjust I had bin —how vilely I
hed sinned and how fearfully I hed depart
ed. I wuz agoin back on my party on the
greenbax question! Wat is greenbax to
this? What is payin a debt in one way or
another compared to the extacy uv wollopin
niggers, cbasin Northern men and hevin
our instooshens back again?
"Wat is a mere greenback idea compared
to the lnxurgy uv hevin the entire Northern
Dimocracy in our hands agin, for us to muld
ez we will and do with ez we like? Why, I
woodent give the luxury uv hevin a Noo
Yorker on his knees afore me ez uv old, a
minut, for all the taxes I will hev to pay for
a century. Besides, and he busted out
afresh, "if Boregard can make scymoure
pipe Dixie, can't he also by different finger
in make the same instrument play
Repoodiashen? I shood say so. We hev em
Parson—we hev em. Forgive me! forgive
me!"
And we embraced and wept, and took a
drink, and wept agin for joy. Verily, my
way is now plessant and my path is strate.
In the exuberance uv his joy he will keep
my basket and my store —or rather my jug
and flask—full for a month.
PETROLEUM V. NASBY. P. M.,
(Wich is Postmaster).
THE hopes of the Southern rebels are
thus expressed by the Mobile Tribune, a
rank secession sheet, in an article calling
upon the people to meet and endorse Sey
mour and Blair:
If we are successful in the approaching
contest we shall regain all that we lost in
the "Lost Cause." We shall be able to re
verse the iron rule which has been imposed
upon us, and turning that iron into brands
of fire, burl them back upon the heads of
the flagitious wretches who have inflicted so
many foul and flagrant wrongs on our blee
ding country. Once more to the breach
then—yet once more! and when tho cloud
shall have cleared away from the flaming
field, our flag—the grand old Democratic
flag—will be seen in all its glory, and strea
ming like the thunder cloud against the
wind.
IF you believe that Grant and Colfax are
more deserving of the suffrages of the
American people than Seymour, wbo was
the friend of the last rebellion, and Blair,
who is the outspoken friend and leading ad
vocate of the next one, show it by yonr ear
nest, untiring devotion to the cause of liber
ty, justice and humanity by working for the
success of Grant and Colfax. Do not fail to
make a vote whercTef ,oat inflttanoe n be
SPEECH of HON. GEORGE 8. BOOT
WELL.
Mr. Speaker, I have no doubt myself that
this thousand millions will be paid in the
next fifteen years by the energy and by the
resources of this country. And I wish to
call the attention of the House to a fact de
duced by careful examination of statistics
obtained from the Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, showing that during the last three
years wc have with our resources and the
revenue of this country secured a large
diminution of the public debt. I confess, :
that after the careful examination I had
made, I felt compelled to review it to sec j
whether there was not some mistake in the
premises or in the calculation, so astonishing
is the evidence thus furnished of the ability
of the people of the country to liquidate the
public debt. From the first day of April
18 -5, to lie first day of January, I*6B, two
years and nine months, we have paid out of
the public Treasury #1,552,000,000 of
money. Upqp a careful analysis of the
expe ndilures of the Government during
those tfto years and nine months, I find that
the expenses of a peace establishment, ex
eluding interest, pensions, and bounties,
upon the basis of the year 1866 and 1867,
when the expenses of the government were
#70,000,1X10 more than they are to be the
present year, amounted to $485,000,000,
showing that we paid over and above those
expenses $1,066,000,000. On the first day j
of April, 1565, the public debt, liquidated !
snd ascertained was $2,366,000,000, and j
the $1,066,000,000 wich we paid betweonl
the first of April, 1865, and the first Janu
ary, 1868, would have been added to the
public debt as proper expenses of the war if
we had not liquidated it from the public
revenue. If we add to the $2,366,000,000
public debt on the first of april,lß6s, sl,-
066,000,000 which we paid for war expenses,
including interest on the war debt, pensions,
and bounties between the firstot April, 1865,
and the first of January, 1868, wc find that
on the first of January, 1868, the public
debt, if we had not paid expenses of the
war out of the ordinary revenue, would have
amounted to $3,432,000,000. In the face
of this great fact, that in two years and nine
months, by extraordinrry taxation and
extraordinary efforts to be sure, we paid
$1,066,000,000 of the public debt, are we to
assume that hereafter the people of this
country are notannually to make considera
ble payments of the public debt of the
country? Almost one-third of the entire
publie debt of the country has been paid in
two years and nine months, and I am not
willing to stand upon the assumption that
we shall not make large payments in each
year hereafter
INSULT TO INJURY.
It may be wicked —we cannot help it,
but if we had seen the keeper of Libby
Prison at the New York Convention; if we
had been prisoners surrounded with the
filth, misery, starvation and tyranny, we
should have done just what the two soldiers
did, thrashed the custodian if we had not
been prisoners, likely we should have grated
our teeth, pressed our lips together, and
hissed something like an epithet What
did that fiend who kept Libby prison want
at New York ? Is he one of those trying to
save the nation? Is that the kind of stuff
of which Democracy is composed ? Is he
the wan to dictate Democratic nominations ?
The Democrats, Dot content with the man
responsible in the moral law for New York
hangings, murders, burniogs; not content
with Wade Hampton, Vallandigham, Rhett
and a host of rebel Generals, Majors and
Captains, went so far as to have the jailor
of one of the vilest and most, abominable
dens in the world at the Convention. Are
the Democrats ashamed of the war ? Let
the keeper of Libby prison by his presence
at New York answer. And what unspeak
able impudence the jailor of such a den must
have to flaunt himself in the streets of New
York City. Wbo can erer forget the
miserable condition of the prisoners when
released: who has forgotton the horrors, re
vealed by the photographic art, of the suf
ferings there endured ? To appreciate the
injury and insult fully, of the attendance of
such a representative at the Democratic Con
vention, father, husband, brother or son
must lave been confined in one of the vile
dens down South.
To say the least, it was in exceedingly bad
taste to allow such a man to appear in a
representative character. Yet there was
no reproof, no apology; the Democracy took
his appearance as a matter of course, and
must take now the odium that attaches to
Libby that hell bole of torture.—Commer
cial.
OUR INDICTMENT OF SEYMOUR—
GUILT CONFESSED.
Ileratio Seymour stands indicted for:
1. Inciting to riot.
2. Yielding to Rioters their demands
on the government, at the jcril of the na
tion.
3. Threatening the President of the Uni
ted States, with the disorderly violence of
"the People," if he proceeded in efforts
vitally necessary to the salvation of the
Union.
Horatio Seymour Ls confessedly, therefore,
a Fomcnter of sedition, a Champion of
Rioters, a Menacer of Government.
A Fomenter of Sedition, in that he told
the tubulent masses of New \ ork city that
a Mob had an equal right with the Govern
ment to proclaim the law a public necessity.
A Champion of rioters, in that he es
poused their cause, said that they should be
satisfied, and demanded of the government
that the draft should be suspended and
stopped, at their violent behest.
A menacer of Government, in that he
warned it of the "temper of the people
if it did not yield to him and his riotous
friends.
And all this in criminal disregard of the
imminent peril in which his country and its
defenders were placed at the time.
Here arc the courts and the evidence in
this grave indictment. We have asked the
Argus to defend Horatio Scyiuour and it
utterly refuses to do so. The plea of Guilty
is entered. What friend of order will say
that such a man should be made President
of the United States.— Albany Evening
Journal.
DEMOCRATIC AUDAClTY.— Democratic
orators and editors have the audacity to lay
the charge of the responsibility for the
heavy taxation imposed upon us by a
Democratic rebellion, at the door of the Re
publican party. Was ever anything more
V" 1 lt is but the old Democratic
THE POLICY OF THE DEMOCRATS,
AS STATED BY THEIR LEADERS.
Toombs said in his Atlanta speech:
"These so called Governors aod Legislatures
which have been established in our midst
shall at once be made to vacate. The Con
vention at New-York appointed Frank Blair
especially to oust them."
Says the Montgomery (Ala.) Adcertuer
(Conservative): "It is better that the
Democracy of the North should realize the
truth as to the Southern Presidential vote,
in order that they may proceed at once to
reflect upon the facts and resolve upon such
action as may be suitable to the case. It
may be relied on as a fact that in the seven
so-called reconstructed States Grant electors
will be chosen, without any exception what
ever."
Howell Cobb's views of the treatments
due to Southern Union men are as follows:
"The doors are wide open, wide enough,
broad enough to receive every white man
in Georgia, unless you should discover him
coming to you creeping and crawling under
the Chicago platform. Upon them there
should he no mercy. They have dishonor
ed themselves and sought to dishonor yon.
Anathematize them. Drive them from the
pale of social and political society. Leave
them to wallow in their own mire and filth.
Nobody will envy them, and if they are
never taken out of the gully until I reach
forth my hand to take them up, they will
die in their natural clementt. (Laughter
and applause.)"
The following from the Mobile Tribune is
plain enough:
"Friends—foliow-citizens of Mobile—
comrades of the Queen City of the Gulf!
let us make one more effort in behalf of our
rights and our liberties. If we are success
ful in the approaching contest we shall re
gain all that we lost in the 'Lost Cause.' "
And this, from the Charleston Mtrcurg,
is both plain and terribly significant:
"Congressional reconstruction, as we
anticipated from the first that it would be,
is a failure. To go on further with it, will
only involve danger and increase exaserpa
tion. Being unconstitutional; all who
attempt to enforce it or to exercise power
by its authority are simply trespassers. A
trespasser can be yied in an action for dam
ages, A trespasser may be justifiably kil
led."
The following, from the same paper, is
good reading for Northern Democratic edi
tors and speakers:
"The platform of the Democratic party is
square upon the letter of Gen. Blair, and
Gen. Blair's letter is the legitimate and
actual expounding of the platform. It will
avail little to deny it North, South, East,
or West. Any palliation of the fact is a
perversion of the fact. It is more—it is all
faith to the body of the convention—and it
is an attempted deception of the voters at
the polls. The Richmond Examiner is
correct when it says that those who attempt
to lead the Democratic party, if they intend
to abandon its platform, 'might as well
abandon the field, for they are whipped
already.' "
IN his speech accepting the nomination,
Mr. Blair said "What civilized people on
the earth would refuse to associate with
themselves in all the rights, and honors,
and dignities of the country such men as
I/ce and Johnston? (Voices, None, none!)
What civilized people would fail to do honor
to those who, fighting for an erroneous cause,
yet distinguished themselves by gallantry
never surpassed? (Applause.) In that con
test for which they are sought to te disfran
chised and exiled from their homes—in that
contest they proved themselves to be our
peers." Colonel Dick de Hart, of Indiana,
in a speech at Indianapolis gave an answer
to Blair in the recitation of the following
stirring lines:
The loyal blue and the traitor gray
Alike in their graves are sleeping,
Side by side in the sunlight ray
And under the storm clouds weeping.
,Tis well to forgive the past —
God give us grace we may—
But never, while life shall last,
Can we honor or love the gray.
H
Our boys in blue are loyal and true.
For their God and their country dying,
With a watchful pride that is ever new,
We garland the graves where they are
lying.
They were murdered by rebel bands—
They fell in tearful fray,
Guarding our flag from traitors' hands—
We da not love the gray.
IU.
We would not hate, our hearts would fain
Cast a veil o'er their shameful siory.
It will not bring back our loyal slain
To recall their treason gory.
But put barriers deep and wide —
Divide the false from the true —
Shall treason and honor stand side by side?
Is the gray the peer of the blue?
IV.
Answers each loyal heart to-day,
They are peers and equals, never;
No wreath on a traitor's grave we lay,
Let shame be his wreath forever.
Do they think we forget our dead,
Our boys who wore the blue?
That because they sleep in the same cold
bed
We know not the false from the true?
V.
Believe it not—where our heroes lie
The very ground is holy:
His name who dared for the right to die
Is sacred, however lowly.
But honor the traitor gray!
Make it the peer of the blue!
One flower at the feet of treason lay!
Sever, while God is true!
—Franklin County Progress , Mo.
IN case war should break out between
I Prussia and France, Bazine would be ap
pointed commander-in-chief of the trench
army, and Dumont, Failly, and Montauban
would command corps, under him. Danro
bcrt, who is of no account in the Garde
.Mobile at Paris, and the Emperor would go
to Strasburg. This is what the officers said
at the camp of Chalons. Niel is considered
too imperious by the Emperor, who also dis
trusts MacMahon. Prince Napoleon would
preside over the Council of State in the Em
peror's absenoe, and a number of leading
Republicans, Orleanists and Legitimatiata
would be placed under strict surveillance.
THE nomination of Blair was the last
straw to break the camel's back. When
the vote was being taken, an Alabama dele
gate made this significant announcement:
"As a rebel soldier of Alabama, I take
pleasure in casting her vote for Frank P.
Blair."
iSm RESPONSIBLE PARTY.— The Demo-
I cratic party commenced the rebellion, and
is responsible tor every drop of blood shed
and every cent of treasure expended in the
war. Every soldier who lost a limb owes
VOL. 41: NO. 34
LONGFELLOW'S HOME.
It is certainly a grand old estate, this
residence of Longfellow's; almost too grand,
indeed, to harmonize with one's romantic
notion of what the abode cf rhyme-com
pelling genius should be. It is such a
house as the untitled family aristocracy of
America are wont to delight in, Tory an
cient for the new world, built with that
substantial massiveness and unpretending
plainness which symbolize the characters
tics of pre-revolutionary generations. A
simple, low, stone wall, settled a little l>y
time, separates the square lawn from the
street; half way rises a plain wooden gate
way. Looking with case over the wall, the
passer-by may survey at leisure the resi
dence of the poet and its surroundings.
On either side of the walk from the gate
to the house is a pretty simple lawn, care
fully kept, unvaried by trees. In the cen
tre is a fountain, which, however, is covered
by moss, whether by neglect or through the
fancy of the proprietor, we know not. A
small terrace surrounds the house, which is
a few feet above the lawn; steps conduct
one up to the huge, slightly ornamented
door. On either side, and at the back of
the house are some large, handsome elms,
beyond them a neat bet plain garden.
Around the edge of the walls which sepa
rate this estate from neighboring ones, are
groups of tall lilac bushes, and other shrubs.
At the side of the house toward the Uni
versity, is a cool porch, roofed, supplied
with benches and chairs.
This porch is one of the favorite haunts
of the poet; very often he is to be seen
there toward evening, bare-headed, walk
ing or conversing with his children. The
house itself is of wood, high, with slightly
slanting roof, old-fashioned windows, fanci
fully decorated at the top with an old look,
which is charming to the lover of antiqui
ties, and by its homeliness without, seems
to invite to oozy cheerfulness, to roaring
fires, to genial welcome within. It has
long ago been painted yellow; the paint at
frequent intervals, has disappeared; still
the house looks venerable, not at all slov
enly.
If it did not possess its present occupant,
a living and most interesting attraction, it
would still have a charm to all, as a speci
men of the mansions of the provincial aris
tocracy, when Massachusetts was still a
province; and to Americans because it has
a history connected with the events of the
Revolution. The spacious old rooms now
occupied by the poet were once, at a mem
orable time, the abode of America's most
illustrious son; the writer of lyrics has ta
ken the place of the actor of epics. When,
in the early days of the war of Independ
ence, Washington was elected by Congress
to thd command of the colonial army, Eng
lish troops had possession of Boston. The
; siege was formed by concentrating the pa-
I triot troops in the neighboring towns.
Washington went to new England to di
rect their movements in person, and fixed
his headquarters in convenient Cambridge—
in this same venerable mansion where Long
fellow now lives. Thence he sent out his
orders, general and special; here convened,
in anxious deliberation, the little knot of
patriot officers, unskilled in war. collected
from farmhouses and laboratories, to drill
by manual and learn the art Tof sieges.
Within this door passed the wealthy mer
chant, Hancock, who had turned his
thoughts to "rules" and "orders of the
day;" gruff Samuel Adams, a Puritan Mi
rabeau, putting his fiDger exactly on the
pith of the trouble; rewards for the capture
of these two had just been proclaimed in
Boston.
In these quiet rooms, given up now
these many years to the Muse, whence
come out ever and anon gracefulest gems of
the rhythmic art, a plan of campaign was
drawn up, experienced ex-royal Lieutenant
Washington supervising, ex-merchants,
doctors, farmers advising—all agreeing, too,
and at last succeeding; unity, a rare thing
in revolutionary councils, ever prevailing.
Washington did not stir from this Long
fellow's house till he could go in triumph.
It is no wonder, then, that Americans visit
this old place with mingled feelings—that
they find here a reminiscence as well as an
attractive presence; and while gazing at the
home af the firstof our native poets, revert to
that troublous time when there was for
America but the grim poetry of war.
In seasonable hours, visitors are admitted
to see the interior; any one whom you may
meet on the way will tell you that the poet's
hospitality is proverbial. In taking advan
tage of the privilege, you need net despair
of catching a glimpse of the poet himself.
You may see him through a half open door,
busy at his desk; you may find him frolick
ing with his children in the hall; it is not
even unlikely he may come out, and welcome
you, though a stranger, and with winning
courtesy offer to guide you through the rooms
which have a peculiar interest On the left
as you enter, is the poet's study; on the
right, the parlors; at the back of the study
the dining-room.
There is little to describe; suffice it to say
that the interior is what the exterior has
promised—home-like simplicity and com
fort, Low studded rooms; a wide cheerful
looking hall; parlors substantial and oozy,
with certain little indications here and there
of the presence of a scholar, and of a home
like womankind. The study of the poet, is
simple and elegantly furnished; a high
desk, near the window, where Mr. Long
fellow sometimes writes, standing, is, it
may be conjectured, that piece of furniture
which will be most valuable as a relic—if,
as may he the case, it is thereon that his
poems are written.
GENERAL GRANT.
A DEMOCRATIC OPINION OP HIS '"SOLID
PUBLIC SEE VICES, THE "STEADINESS
AND STAUNCHNESS OF HIS PATRIOTISM,''
AND THE "UPRIGHTNESS" OF HIS CHAR
ACTER.
General Grant's temporary acceptance of
the War Department causes a stir in the
Republican party, which confuses the cal
culations of those Republicans who, five
weeks ago, counted securely on his nomina
tion as their candidate for the Presidency.
Those Republican newspapers, therefore,
which, like the Timet, are trying to identify
General Grant vxith the Republican party,
are opposing a strong presumption by the
thinnest and feeblest of shadowy inferences.
Gen. Grant, to be sare, fitvon the execution
of the Reconstruction act s. but so also does
President Johnson. Astbeydonot differ
| on this point, tbey probably differ on none
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have bad no such laws passed as he feels
constrained to execute; nor is there any evi
dence that Gen. Grant ever favored, or tried
to promote their pesMSVtgc. President John
son concedes that Congress has practical
control of reconstruction by consenting to
execute the laics it has passed on that sub
ject; and Gen. Grant finding these laws in
force, recognizes their authority, without
going behind them to inquire whether they
ought to have been enacted. There is no
evidence that the President and Acting
Secretary of War differ on any important
practical question. The fact that the Trib
une and other Republican journals object to
Gen. Grant that he has never signified his
assent to their principles, deserves notice
and consideration. Of the steadiness and
sUiunciuuna of Gen. Grant's patriotism, or
the uprightness and the srdidity of his char
acter, no man in the country doubts, nor af
fects to doubt. The most perfect loyalty,
then, may stand with the most absolute in
difference to those objects which the Repub
lican party regards as supreme. .Or, to ex
press the same idea differently, devotion to
Republican shibboleth is no test of devotion
to the country. On the score of loyalty and
solid public services, no man in the country
can come into competition with this illustrious
sodier. Hut measure him by the usual,
Loyal League standards, and it requires a
magnifying glass of very extraordinary pow
er to discover that he has any merit of pa
triotism at all.
The Tribune is clamorous to have Gener
al Grant show his colors and take sides in
the party squabbles of the day. Mi rejoice
that there is one man ill the % country who is
above the necessity of such belittling partisan
ship. We trust that Gen. Grant loves his
whole country; that he desires the good of
all its citizens, without regard to any divi
ding lines—whether they be lines of party,
or section, or race, or color. It is the no
blest reward of great services like his, that
it exalts the character of this high level;
that it enables a man to act nobly without
appearing to be pretentious. Gen. Grant
is under a moral necessity of respecting the
great renown ox his past services, it is be
neath him to play any common part in vul
gar politics. The Presidency can be noth
ing to him; he has a more valuable office.
But -if in the hanels of Prejtielence, he could
lee an instrument for tranquilizing the coun
try, that is an honor for which he could af
ford to sacrifice ease, congenial pursuits, and
the responsibilities of greater fame as a sol
dier.
God forbid that he should descend into
the arena of party contests. If Le cannot
be elected President without such a decent,
he can do no good in the Presidency. Our
torn, lacerated, exasperated country needs
soothing, needs pacification, needs oil on
the troubled waters, which still toss and
dash after the recent tempest. We would
DO more, bare General Grant become a par
ty politician than, if we had lived in Wash
ington's time, we would have wished him
to give and return party blows. As Wash
ington was elected and re-elected on the
strength of his character and services, with
out pledges either asked or given, we h-ust
that G' ueral Grant will be elected, if at all,
in the same way. and with the same gener
ous confidence. Having rsstored the author
ity of the Government, we he,pe that he may
add the highest civic to the highest military
fame by restoring long lost orrdialihj of fad
ing.—From the New York World.
DOI'VLAS JEKItOLD.
In a recent number of the London Review
we find the followine excellent and dis
criminative characterization of Douglas Jer
rold, the prince of English satirists, whom
American readers know chiefly as the au
thor of the Caudle Lectures, which wore,
probably, in his own estimation, his lightest
and most trifling compositions:
"Douglas Jerrold was one of those taen
who put their personality into their work,
and do not simply write to order the
thoughts of other minds. Endowed by
genius, nursed in suffering, steeled in the
first instance by neglect, and ultimately
warmed by success, he acquired a distinct
and peculiar character, and that character
he infused into all his writings, down to the
most trifling and ephemeral He had his
own way of looking at things, his own stan
dards of right and wrong—notably, his own
style. His manner of literary expression
was not the least singular part of him. It
was a very remarkable style; abrupt, frag
"mentary, stammering, as it were, yet always
with a meaning in the stammer; strong with
a rough and scornful strength: very native
and homespun; pathetic at times, and capa
ble of rising into proud and passionate
words of pity or indignation; not seldom
flickering witn eiSn gleams of fancy, play
fulness, and grace, yet more frequently
speaking in plain terms of plain things, or
darting out sudden forked tongues of wit
and sarcasm, that hut rarely failed to hit
their mark.
"Jerrold was a man of wit and of strong
feeling, and it was the union of those two
qualities which made his genius. Generally
wit is an affair of the head only: in Jerrold
it wasquite as much a matter of the heart.
It is strange how people could ever believe
of him that he could say savagely severe
things, and did say them: yet it is impossi
ble to read his writings without perceiving
that the leading characteristic of his nature,
and really the central principle of his severity
itself, Was sympathy. It was because he
had so passionate a sense of the wrongs and
sufferings of the poor that he blurted out
such sharp reproaches to the rich. It was
because be felt so keenly for Lauras at tho
gate that he challenged Dives at the table
with suoh a trumpet voice. It was because
he believed so heartily in the people—in
humanity for its own sake—that he scoffed
90 loudly at erowns and coronets and purple
robes. Yet all this did not make the man
bitter at heart; nay, it kept bis heart fresh
and green amidst many temptations to
aridity and deadncss. There can be no bit
terness where there is so much faith in good:
the titter man is he who, though with a
smiling free, has lost the very sense of
nobility, of honesty and truth; who looks
upon human nature as a thing to becontroll
ed by statute law alone—a creature of base
instincts and ignoble ends.
mm m
TFL* PARTY OP TAXES. —The Democratic
party, through its rebellious Southern ele
ment, is responsible for all the oppressive
taxes under which our people arc now
groaning. The immence national debt was
created daring the bloody work of putting
down the Democraticj&eUijM ayavist Lib-