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NABBY.
Mr. Nasbjr and his Friends, in Humble
Immitation of Rosecrans and Lee,
Write a Letter to the People of the
North, Giving their Idea of what the
South ought to have.
POST OFFIS, CONFEPHIT X ROADS, )
(Wich is in the Stait uv Kentucky,) >
September 1, 1868. )
Yesterday afternoon at precisely 3 p. tti ,
a stranger of prepossessin appearance hove
in sight uv the l'ost offi-. Wat I mean by
"prepossessin appearance" is, be hed on a
paper collar wich bed only bin turned waust.
"Is Mr. Nasby in ?" sed he. "But why
do I ask so stoopid a question ? Hevent 1
a Miffi.-hent knowledge uv human nachei to
read humanity ez its set forth in the human
face divine, aud don't I know that there
ain't hut one Xasby? Kin I mistake it?
Doth any other man carry that Web-tnian
front? Ilath any other nnn that eagle
nose? That eagle lips? Hatlt —"
"That'll do," rcmaikt I, in alarm, for he
was a persimmon above me. "Draw it
mild, my gusbin friend, for I can't lend you
a dollar ef it wuz to save you."
"Yoor mistaken," he did reply, "I don't
want to borrer. I ain't on that lay at pres
ent. I want informashen. 1 come to you
sir, ez the Pcrfesser of Biblekle Literatoor
in the Southern Military and Classikle Iti
stitoot—cz one who steks, in classic groves,
that peece not to be found in the busslin
world outside—informashen cz to the con
dishun uv the South, her wants and expec
tasbens, which I ptrpose to spred before my
fellow citizens uv Injeaoy. I com, sir, uv
my own accord. My mishen is a privit one
and undertaken solely for the public good.
I was a Commissary in the Federal servis,
and hev a brother who wus not altogether
unconnected with the sutlerin department.
That bruther is runuin for sheriff ou the
Democratic ticket; the Ablisheti candidate
for the same offis bein the Kernel of his
regiment, who prokcered our dismissal for
triflin irregularities in accounts and also for
what he was pleased to term swindlin the
soljors. Wat I want is sich a statement, uv
the feclins uv the people uv the South ez
will set at rest the .-landers the Ablishnists
is circulatin regardin yoo, wich I will pub
lish on my return. lam actooated, cz yoo
see, by no personal motives. Speek."
"My deer sir," returned I, "1 approve
uv your mishun, and, permit tne to say, yoo
hev come to the rite shop. But I will put
my answer in ritin and hev it signed by the
leeding citizens here, that its authenticity
may not be doubted."
I, therefore, sot down and wrote, and
when I hed finished, I sent out and got sig
natoors to the follerin document.
CAPTIN :—We perpose in this to give
you a candid statement uv what we believe
to be a pervailin sentiment uv the South
ern people on various subj'ix. Watever
opinions may have prevaled in the past on
the matter uv Afrikin slavery or the rite uv
a Slate to secede from the Yoonyun, we be
lieve we express the judgment tiv the Cor
ners when we declare that we count cm set
tled by the war, and we intend to abide by
that decision. When we bed been licked
out uv our boots and our arms wuz twist
ed out uv uur hands, and when yoo laid
em down, we cheerfully give over our ef
forts at secession, and sought to resume our
former posishen in the Government. In
thcspcrit uv magnanimity we permitted the
abolishen uv slavery by Lcgislachcrs in the
eleckshen uv wich wc lud no part, ez well
ez several other games uv that sort, not
worth while to cnoonierate. Hed our ack
shen ben met in a sperit uv corjalify, all
wood hev bin lovely. The people uv the
South entertain no feelins us hostility to
ward the Government, but they complain
that the rites under the Constoosheti, wich
they alluz loved exceptin doorin the time
they wuz a tryin to bust it, hev bin with
held from em.
The idea that the .Southern people are
hostile to the niggers and would oppress
em ef they hed the power, is absurd. They
hev growed up in our midst, and we hev
ben accustomed from our childhood to look
upon em with kindness. Troo, we import
ed cat-o-nine-tails, and hed stocks, and nig
ger-dorgs, which made it lively for cm, but
these were incidental to a pairiarkle system.
They were blood uv our blood, and flesh
uv our flesb, NoSouthener ever sold his
own mulatto children ceptin when he was
short uv means, or hed more nieggers than
be wanted. We still feel the same toward
em. Ez no troo Southern gentleman will
ever work with his own hands, without their
labor the lands uv the South wouldn't per
doose to any alarmin' extent. The races
are highly necessary to each other, pcrtik
crly to us. There must be sweatin ez well
ez eatin in this world, and so long ez we do
the eatin we are willin they shel do the
sweatin. In this way we kin adjust the re
lashens of the two races on a busis of mu
tual advantage. Ef given wat we hed be
fore, soopreme control and ascendency, we
shel treet the niggers with kindnis, forbear
ance and justice. Here in Kentucky we
hev never bin disfranchised, and the nigger
hcz never bed a vote, and here the nigger
hez that degree of kindnis wich "
At this pint uv the readin the document,
an interrupshen occurred. Ther wuz a yell
on the street, and we a'l rushed to the door
to see wat it wuz about. I wus a mere
nothin. "Sit down," sed I. "Its riothin.
A nigger and a load uv water melons. He
probably refused to give credit for his mel
ons, and —thunder, he's down, and the in
dignant populis is goin for him. Here
comes his wife with half the Coiners after
her ! Down she goes—that stun wuz well
throwd! Hah ! the nigger strikes the man
wat throwd the rock wich knockt his wife
down. That seels his fate! Good-bye nig
ger ! See how genteely they rig the rope
and how elegantly he swings. His body'll
lie all mouldy in the ground, but his sole
(ef the prognathous races hev soles,) will
go marchin on."
"But," asked the Injienian, "now that
the mother's brains is knockt out, and the
father's hung, wbat'li the children do wich
I see cry in over the corpse."
"That's nothin to us. They are in aa ab
normal condishen. and they "must suffer for
the sins uv ther father Ham wich lookd at
Noer when lie wuz drunk. Hed that nig
ger bin content to hev lived ez God and
Nacher intended him to have lived, all wood
hev bin well. But ho must be free, forsooth
and this is the result. He must try to con
trol h>s ackshens, forgettin that there is a
nateral antagonism atween the Caucashen
and Afrikin races, wich kin only result in
BEDFORD, PA., Fill DAY, OCT. f). ISGS.
sich conflicks cz you hev witnist. \ou
hav seen a specimen uv the feelin that per-
Vales, where the nigger is free —Wat must it
; be further South where the black cusses
' vote? But to resooni:
The southern people in our opinion re
gard the questions uv slavery and secession
cz settled by the war, and they hev no in
clinashcn to try em over agin. Slavery is
dead ez Joolus Ceescr—the nigger is a free
man and he'll be so for ever. All the whites ,
a-k is that they shall control cm. They in
slst, and justly so, that they shel hev the
j right to manage the inferior race. 'I hev
want, and will hev, the rite to fix ther
wages, their hours uv labors, their out-goins
and in-coinics. Uv course the Southern
! idea must be carried out There must be
no such nonsense ez skools among em, for
wat does a labrer want uv that leartiin wich
| half uv us, his sooperiors, hav'nt got? Net
| ther must they own land for that wood otifit
em from di.-ehargin titer nateral scrvi-. But
the power must be in our hands. The peo
; pie uv the South earnestly dc.-iru peace, but
i her people feel that they can't prosper so
long cz control is in the hands uv the nig
gera and the few carpet baggers which have
invaded us. The South will never be pros
perous so long ez the mass of the men rep
' resentin her intelligence are disfranchised;
! so long ez—"
Here wuz another interrupshen. "Please,
Parson," sang out Issaker Gavitt's little
j brother, a sweet lad uv 9, spitting out his
tobacco so cz to permit hiiu to speek dis
j tinctly, "L-saker wants yeo to come over
and read him a letter wich ho hez jist got.
"Tell Issaker, sonny, that I heven t time
i jist now. Run up toward the Ablishen
| Mishun skool and get any nigger girl wich
may be staiidin there and she will read it for
him." To resooui:
Understand 1 We don't want to deprive
the nigger uv the ballot becoz we bate biui,
but solely becoz we do not be leevc he hez
- the intelligence necessary to make him a
safe depository uv poiitikle power. He
wood inevitably become the victim uv dcnia
: gogues, the very thot uv wich makes me
shudder. Wood John Moriiseyor Fernando
Wood accept a seat in Congress uv sich a
constitoocney? Go ask their intelligent sup
porters wat they think about it ! It is for
them we plead. The very idea uv briugin
! them to the level of the nigger is abhorrent.
Ez for secession we have given that up
also. We can't be expectid to relinquish
our grate principle uv States rites, nor kin
we give over the rite uv withdrawal from a
| government which don't soot us. Uv course
we shel not attempt withdrawal ez long as
Ablishnists control the bayonets, for we
ain't stroug enough. But shood we decide
to withdraw, and coercion be attempted,
we shel uv course resist. But we won't do
it—probably. The organizations in the
South, wieb is interspersed with muskits
and sieh is simply for self protection gin nig
gers and Northern whites.
In conclooshen, we wish yoo to ashoor
the people uv Injianny that all we want is
j peace, offis, and a general rcstorashen uv
things, and that we aint at all partikeler vz
to terms. We demand, ez a konkered peo
ple, the abrogashen uv all the constitoosh
uei amendments adopted since the close uv
the late unpleasantnis, and the reinstate
uient uv the Soulh in all her rites. The
Government, i z a act uv consilashen, must
rclceve I lie confederit soljer uv d i.-t'i a nchi>c
inent, iind tu-wunst take votes out uv the
hand.- uv ihe niggers who irritated us by
tightiu agin us when we wuz in trouble, and
redooee eui, uot to slavery, but to watover
control we in our wisdom shel deem neces
sary for their safety and wellbein, and ourn.
Do this, and we will obey wat laws remain
wich are uot oppressive, and treat the nig
gers with gcnooinc Kentueky' humanity.
We want self-government, uot only uv our
selves, but others—we want peace, and we
want our old seats in Congress. Do this
and all will be well.
Respectfully,
PETROLEUM V. NASBY, I'. M.
(which is Postmaster.J
his
Ili'tJit X MCPELTEK.
mark
Kt.NATIIAN Poll RAM.
his
ISSAKER X GAVITT.
mark
his
G. W. X BASCOM.
mark
The Captain went away with tbia docu
ment feelin good. So good indeed did he
feel that he lent me twelve dollars and
twenty cents —twenty cents before takin
three nips at Bascotu's and twelve dollars
after. I hope no other Southern tnan will
take up this idea:
PETROLEI M NASBY,
I.Which is Postmaster.)
P. S.—l hev hcerd from Maine. I'm
siek. Bascont says its all rite—that the
Dimocrats didn't vote so ez to inflame her
brethren uv N T oo York. But I'd rather
they'd he7 done it. P. V. X.
[From the Chicago Tribune.]
1860-1864-1868.
In 1860 the Democratic party of the
country divided itself into two parties.
One faction, which afterwards nominated
Breckinridge and Lane, demanded the
dissolution of the Union even by lorec, un
less the Southern States, comprising a
minority of the whole people, were con
tinued in their anomalous political suprem
acy and dictatorship. The other faction,
led by Douglas, insisted upon the preserva
tion of the Union, and denied the possibil
ity of secession except through rebellion and
a civil war. The difference between the
two factions was 1 est shown in the speech
of Douglas at New York, where, when
asked whether the South would not be
justified in leaving the Union if Lincoln
should be elected, he answered that seces
sion for such cause would be rebellion and
treason, for which those engaged in ought
to be hanged. The campaign proceeded,
the Douglas Democracy publicly repudiating
secession as treason, and the Breckinridge
faction insisting upon it as a right to be
justly exercised in case a Republicau Pres
ident should be chosen, In November the
American people elected Mr. Lincoln, thou
sands of Democrats abandoning Mr. Doug
las when they perceived that he had no
chance of success, in order to make the
national condemnation of threatened re
bellion more emphatic.
In 1864 the threat of .1860 had been
verified; the rebellion had taken place, and
civil war with all its horrors had visited the
land. The Breckenridyo section of the
party had been openly in arm.-; and with the
exception of a small minority of its members,
who had entered the Union army, or whose
sympathies were with the Union, the Dem
ocratic party, North and South, was a unit
in opposition to the war, and in favor of
peace on almost any terms. The emanci
pation of the ala tea was resented as deeply
by the Democrats of Vermont and Wiscon
sin as by the reliels of Georgia, both de
nouncing it as an unconstitutional blow
directed against those engaged in armed
treason against the United States.
ihe Convention of September, 1864, of
which Horatio Seymour was President and
\ allandighatn and Pendleton were members,
voted unanimously that the attempt to re
duce the Southern Democracy, to obedience
to the laws and the constitution by four
years of war, bad been a failure; that Vicks
burg was a failure; that the opening of the
Mississippi river was a failure; that Gettys
burg was a failure; that the final campaigns
then commenced by Grant in Virginia and
Shermau in Tennessee were destined to be
failure.-; and, in short, everything must he a
failure which had not been instituted by the
Democratic party, with a view to the
restoration of national affairs to their con
dition in iB6O, and lo the abandonment by
the American people of any effort to wrest
th; government of the United States from
the bands of secessionists. No Rebel Gen
erils, publicly accredited as delegates, were
at that convention; but there were many
thousand tebe! soldiers in Chicago at the
lime sojourning at Camp Douglas, and
numerous rebel officers in disguise had
swarmed here from Canada to consult with
their brethren in Convention. The result
of the election in November, 1864, was an
emphatic refusal by the American people
to put the public interests, directly, or in
directly, in the charge of those who sym
pathized with the rebels in arms, and who
proposed any other policy than the un
conditional submission of all men, com
munities and States to national supremacy.
The people repudiated the Democratic party
and its candidates because of the thinly
di-guised, but essential identity in political
sentiiuent, and policy between the party and
those engaged in the rebellion.
In 1868 the fraternity with rebellion and
with rebels; the active sympathy with the
"lost cause;" the confessed necessity of con
ferring upon the rebels the exclusive politi
cal power in their .States in order to give
the Democratic party the faintest hope of
success; the open promise to the rebels that
if the candidates were elected, thejresults of
tbe war should be reversed, and "the coun
try be compelled to undo its usurpations,,'
and that the old Constitutions and govern
ments of the rebel Stales as they existed
during the war should be declared the
legitimate Constitutions and governments of
those States, notwithstanding their disfran
chiscment if every poison whose liberty de
pends upon the permanence of the Ameri
can Union; the open aud frank declaration
that the acts of Congress since 1805, provi
ding for the establi-hment of peace and or
der, liberty and equal rights in all those
States, are "void," and therefore may be
lawfully violated and tesisted: the ptomise
that a Democratic President and Cabinet
will employ the army "ro trample these
laws into the dust;" the promise that the
president elect shall declare who are to sit
in the House of Representatives and "com
pel the Senate lo submit" to 'his action—
these professions, declarations and promises,
amounting to the adoption of the recent
rebellion and its actors by tbc Democratic
party as its own—can leave no doubt in the
minds of reasonable men as to tbe conseq
uencesof the election of Seymour and Blair.
Had Breckenridge been elected in iB6O
tbe rebels would have seized the government
and forced the North either to submit to the
slave power and to the extension of slavery
as the supreme policy of the government,
or to leave the Union. Had McClellan and
Pendleton been elected in 1864 there was
danger that the policy of the government at
Washington and at Richmond would have
been concluded. These things the Ameri
can people thoughly understood, and reso
lutely forbade by the election and re-election
of Mr. Lincoln. If in 1860 there was satis
factory evidence that the cause of the De
mocracy was the cause of the rebels, the
evidence in 1868 to the same effect is over
whelming- It is furnished by every line of
the platform; by the speeches of Hampton.
Wise, Vance, Forrest. Semmes. Cobb, Hill
and Perry; and all that has been said and
written by Frank Blair since the Convention,
The popular rebuke of Democratic rebellion
was a crushing one in 1864. Let 1868 wit
ness an even more overwhelming storm
against Seymour and Blair and the Wade
Hampton platform.
THE PAYMENT OF THE BONDS IN
GREENBACKS- A REAL CASE
IN POINT."
WE have nowhere seen a more complete
exposure of the fraud involved in the prop
osition to pay off United States bonds in
greenbacks than in the following conversa
tion which took place iu the counting-room
of one of our friends a few days since. A
prominent Democrat, a tnan of strict honesty
in his private life, had just put the following
question, some discussion having preceded
it:
"Well, Mr. A., let us drop all political
antagonism and argue this question on its
merits. Upon what ground can you maintain
that one hundred gold dollars shall be paid
upon a bond for which the Government re
ceived only fifty, unless the exact letter of
the law demands such payment?
Mr. A. : "That qnestion is easily an
swered, and I will give you a ease in point.
You know old Mrs. C., our neighbor, whose
husband died in 1859, and for whom I am
trustee. Iler husband left her the house
she occupies and about SIO,OOO in money,
the income of which is all she has for the
support of herself and her siek daughter,
who is now dying of consumption. As soon
as I could collect the sums due her husband
I invested the whole in a mortgage at 7 per
cent, interest, due in fife years. The notes
became due in 1864, when the price of gold
was 190, and I was forced to take my pay
iu legal tender notes, and I again had to
look round for an investment. The interest
on the mortgage having been paid in cur
rency, the old lady had been very much
straightened for the past year, and I conclu
ded that in order to meet her espeuses she
must have her interest in gold, cud that even
then she would lose, as I had lent her money
before the war at 7 per cent., and could
now only get 6on the 5-20 bonds, but I
took them."
"Yes," said the Democrat, "but you took
thfui at less than 60 in gold value."
Mr. A.: "On the contrary, Mr. 1)., the
Goverument borrowed old Mrs. C.'s ten
thousand dollar* by force when it forced me i
to take its demand notes in settlement of the :
mortgage on which I had lent the gold, and
tb'se demand notes tearing no interest, and
although due on demand being nothiog
more nor less than failed paper. I gave the 1
Government an extension by subscribing !
tbem for 5-20 bonds. I got SIO,OOO of the
bonds, and by so doing I got no more ami
no less than the original capital, and when I
ask the Government to pay me SIO,OOO in
gold, I ask no more than the payment of
what I had in 1850. If you now force me
to take greenbacks, which are only worth 70
cents in gold, for my bonds, I shall get
S7OOO, and the Government will have con
fiscated S.IOOO of old Mrs. C.'s property."
"Well, said the Democrat. "lam not
responsible for the Legal Tender act; your
Republican Congress made the law, and
forced Mr. C., and me to take the notes."
Mr. A. : "\es, you and your party are
responsible; you refused to subscribe for the
bonds, you impeded the Government, you
rendered aid and comfort to the rebels in
every way that you knew how to without
risking your necks, your mob-leader Sey
mour brags that he never subscribed a dol
lar to a loan and never owned a bond, and
so you made it necessary for the Govern
ment to collect a forced loan or give up to
the rebels."
Well, said the Democrat, attempting
to dodge, "Mrs C. s ease is only a solitary
one; most of the bouds were subscribed for
by men who made their monev in the rise
in prices, shoddy men and such."
Mr. A.: "Indeed! are the active business
men among your acquaintances large own
ers of bonds, or were they large subscribers?
You know that your savings banks hold a
large amount, you know that your insurance
office has its funds in bonds, and you know
that the men in active business, the shoddy
men least of all, could not spare their money
from their business, except a few, like our
neighbors H. & Co., who made it a point of
honor to subscribe to every loan."
The Democrat: "Why dont you go to
work and take up your green backs—your
failed paper, as you call it ?
Mr. A. : "That is what we mean to do;
we know that greenbacks are the people's
money, and when we have elected Grant,
we mean to make them as good as gold, and
we intend to do that by burying your rebel
repudiators and mob-leaders out of sight
and hearing."
Here the conversation ended.
AN IRISHMAN S VIEW OF THE
BOND QUESTION.
The Decatur (Illinois) Gazette reports the
following conversation that occurred between
a prominent Democrat and an Irishman of
that city, recently. For convenience it
designates the persons as Jack and Pat.
Jack—How do you like the Democratic
platform?
Pat—l can't understand it; would you be
after explaining it tome—all about the bond
question?
Jack—Oh, yes, with pleasure. You see
| the rich man owns all the bonds, and the poor
men have to pay for the bonds.
Pat—The divil ye say; is that the way!
Jack —Yes; and now the Democratic
party propose to pay off the bonds with
greenbacks, and thus everybody will be
treated equally.
Pat — Is that our platform?
Jack—Not iu so many words—but that is
what it means; and now, Pat, I want you
to do all you can for our party —bring the
boys out to all the meetings, and —
Pat—Hold on, Jack; will yer paying the
bonds off in greenbacks make the poor man
as rich as the bondholder.
Jack —Not exactly; the bondholder will
have his greenbacks where we can tax them.
Pat—Then there will be ail greenbacks,
and money will be plenty; and we'll get
gold for our greenbacks, if we elect Sey
mour?
Jack —Not exactly; there is not gold
enough in the country.
Pat—Thin we are not to have gold at all.
How the divil are ye going to pay off the
greenbacks?
Jack—A part of it will be paid off by
taxation, the money we take from the people
for revenue and stamps, Ac., and as the
greenbacks get worn by constant handling
we will print new ones.
Pat—l see; you propose to take the debt
now carried by the rich bondholder and
divide it among the people—rich and poor
alike—by forcing the bondholder to spend
his money for property.
Jack—Exactly. You are learning fast,
and j'ou see— • "
Pat —Hould on—an idee strikes me. If
the Government debt is all in greenbacks,
and thin in circulation, how many cords of
,ero will it take to buy a cord of wood ?
Jack—l cannot say exactly what they
would be worth—that would regulate itself.
But. by-tbe-by, Pat, could you pay that lit
tle note you owe me ? It was due yesterday
and I need the money very much.
Pat—Yes, I know the note is due, and
I'll pay you according to the Pimmecratic
platform.
Jack—What do you mean ?
Pat—l mane I'll give you a fresh note for
the one ye have.
Jack—There's nothing about giving fresh
notes to the Democratic platform.
Pat—Y is, ye said we pay the bonds off
in greenbacks, and both of them are pro
mises to pay of the same government. Ye's
give one Dromise to pay for another one, and
I'll give you afresh promise to pay for the
one you bave now. The note you have now
says ten per cent, interest; the new one will
say without interest, and no time set for its
payment.
Jack —But this is an individual matter,
and the other is a government matter. You
honestly owe me, and promised to pay me
yesterday. Your proposition is to cheat me
out of my money.
Pat—An' it's chatir' ye out of your mon
ey, is it? An haven't las good a right to
chate ye as the government has to cbate the
widders an'orphans whoso money is allia
i government bonds ? I'll pay ye on the
Dimmecratie platform.
OF the eleven States which went into re
bellion, eight have been restored to their old
relations to the Fuion under loyal govern
ments, and are now represented in Congress.
If the Democracy had had their way, these
States would not be restored.
EVERY day is a little life, and our whole
life is but a day repealed.— Bishop Hatl.
ALL I want is a further revelation of the
beauty of the unseen Son of God. — Ruther
ford.
FOL. 41: NO. 3*
FORTRS.
CAMPAIGN SONGS.
PRESIDENT ULYSSES.
In the world to-day no prouder name
Is borne on any breeze,
And with Grant to steer the ship of State. i
flag shall rule the seas;
No "Dominion" Bhallbe North of us.
And South of us no foe—
Our Stars and stripes in the Canadas.
And likewise Mexico!
For with President Ulysses
Will be few who care to fight—
May he rule the country he has saved, I
And God defend the right!
So boys! a final bumper,
While we all in chorus chant—
"For next President we nominate
Our own Ulysses Grant!"
And il aoked what State he bails from.
This our sole reply shall be,
"From near Appomattox Court House,
With its famous apple tree!"
For 'twas there to our L'lysses
That Lee gave up the fight—
Now, boys, "To Grant for President,
And God defend the right."
A CALL TO THE"*BOYS IN BLUE. !
Your country needs your aid again,
Ye loyal boys in blue;
The rebels are once more in line—
There'll be hot work to do.
With bullets then, with ballots now,
They dare ns to the fight,
Forth, then, and meet them undismayed, '
And God defend the right.
Our foes are Seymour and his friends,
You well know who they are,
Yallaudigham and all who wear
Or cheer the rebel gray.
They have the same old leaders still,
Hampton, and Forrest, too;
But Grant, who never lost a field,
Still leads the boys in blue.
And Buckner's voice is heard again,
Cheering the Graybacks on;
We'll meet them as we met before,
With Grant at Donelson.
Then charge the foe while o'er you floats
The banner of the free.
And let your stirring battle cry
Be Grant and Victory.
GRANT FOR PRESIDENT.
Let the rebels writhe and wrangles
And blow and puff away,
Let them quarrel, fight ami jangle,
Like hungry birds of prey;
But we will have a word or two —
Who dares to say we shan't ?
The votes of all the Boys in Blue
Will shower down for Grant.
When the rebels proudly flaunted
Their rag above the land,
And men alone were wanted,
And a hero to command,
Some whispered. "You can whip them,"
Some muttered, "No, you can't;"
But our hero marched upon them 1
Brave Appomattox Grant.
Are brains the one thing fitting
To make a worthy chief.'
Then look at Grant's outwitting
The rebels all, in brief.
Or ask yon now for loyalty,
So cairn, heroic, great?
He shines with Nature's royalty,
Alike in camp and State.
Be this our nomination.
In gratitude and pride,
In love and admiration,
A strong, resistless tide.
And we must have a word or two —
Who dares to say we shan't ?
The votes of all the Boys in Blue
Will shower down for Grant.
PTOLINNTOUS.
GETTING ON IN THE WORLD.
There are many different ways of getting
on in the world; it does not always mean
making a great deal of money, or being a
great man for the peopie to look up to with
wonder. Leaving off a bad habit for a good
one, is getting on in the world, to be careful
and saving instead of thoughtless and wast
ful, is getting on; to be active and indus
trious, instead of idle and lazy, is getting
on; to be kind and forbearing, instead of ill
natured and quarrelsome, is getting on; to
work as diligently in the master's absence as
in bis presence, is getting on; in short, when
we see any one properly attending to his
dutiel, persevering through such difficul
ties to gain such knowledge as shall be of
use to himself and others, and offering a
good example to his relatives and acquaint
ances, we may be sure that he is getting on
in the world. Money is a very useful arti
cle in this way, but it is possible to get on
with small means, for it is a mistake to sup
pose that we must wait for a good deal of
money before wc can do anything. Perse
verance is often better than a full purse.
There are more helps toward getting on
than is commonly supposed; many people
lag behind or miss the way altogether, be
cause they do not see the abundant and sim
ple means which surround them at all sides,
and so it happens that there are aids which
cannot be bought with money. Those who
wish to get on in the world must have a
stock of patience, of hopefui confidence, a j
willingness to learn, and a disposition not
easily cast down by difficulties and disap
pointments.
—
LIFE bears us on like the stream of a
mighty river. Our boat first glides down
the mighty channel—through the playful
nturmurings of the little brook and the
windings of its grassy borders. The trees
shed their blossoms over our young heads;
the flowers seem to offer themselves to the
hands; we are happy in hope, and grasp
eagerly at the beauties around us. but the
stream hurries on, and still our hands are
empty. Our course in youth and manhood
is along a deeper and wider flood, among
objects more striking and magnificent. We
are animated at the moving pictures and en
joyment and industry all around us; we are
excited at some short-lived disappointment.
The stream bears us on, and our joys and
our griefs ate alike left behind us. We
may be shipwrecked, but we cannot be de
layed; whether rough or smooth, the river
hastens on till the roar of the ocean is in
our ears, and the tosssing of the waves is
beneath our foet, and the floods are lifted up
around us, and we take our leave of earth
and its inhabitants, until of our future voy
age thero is no witness save the Infinite and
Eternal.— Bishop Ileber.
| ROUNDED LIFE. —The religion of Christ
i develops men as distinct originals, and every
true believer so receives the spirit of truth
as to best direct and use his talent, his time,
and his opportunities in doing good. And
this makes religious duty constant pleasure;
and. working, the Christian rapidly strength
ens in graces and powers, and springs up
into large and symmetrical life, as a willow
j by the water courses.— The Gospel m the
| Trees.
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THE VERMONT STATE FAIR list week,
at Burlington, was notable for its fine dis
play of horses and cattle. The ox "General
Grant" was one of the principal attractions.
He was drawn by Mr. Pierce at the New
York Sanitary Fair six years ago, when he
was four years old. Two years later Mr.
Pierce offered him as a ptize to the Union
General who should first enter Richmond
before the Presidential election in 1864,
No general accomplishing this, the ox was
given to Mr. Lincoln upon his re-election,
presented by him to the Soldiers and Sail
ors' Sanitary fair at Boston, where his ex
hibition brought $3,473 to the treasury.
Some time afterwards he was sold at auc
tion at Boston, and Mr. Pierce bought him
for SBSO to keep him out of the hands of the
butchers. He was afterwards exhibited
at the Chicago, Baltimoie and Philadelphia
Sanitary fairs, and the entire proceeds of
his exhibitions at the several sanitary fairs
yielded between fifteen and twenty thousand
dollars for the treasury of the Sanitary
Commission- Mr. Pierce now keeps him on
his farm in Canada.
THE ordinary expenditures of the Gov
ernment for the present fiscal year are only
$102,818,447 in paper, whereas ten years
ago, on a gold basis, and before the era of
high prices, they were $711,000,000 in gold,
and $300,000,000 in paper. Put Seymour
into the White House, and Frank Blair
at the head of the Senate, and the
Government would with a corruption more
terrible than that produced by the bloody
dynasty of Johnson, during which the
whiskey ring of Democratic office holders
have stolen not less than $1,000,000,000!
THE Republican party is cancelling the
national debt at the annual rate of $200,-
(•00,000. Restore the Democracy to power,
and it will increase the debt, with a ten per
cent, interest, as was done under the
Buchanan administration.
DON'T TEASE. —Nothing annoys a man
more than to be eagerly questioned when he
comes home tired. Dive him a neatly-serv
ed dinner, or a pair of easy slippers and a
cup of tea, and let him eat and drink in
peace, and in time he will tell you, of his
own proper motion, all you wish to know.
But if you begin the attack too SOOD, the
chances are that you will be rewarded, but
the curtly spoken monosyllables. Put down
that piece of wisdom in your note-book,
girls; it will serve you well some day.
Do not be troubled because you have no
jrreat virtues. God made a million spires of
\ grass where he made one tree. The earth is
! fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but
grass, Only have enough of little virtues
and common fidelities, and you need not
mourn because you arc neither a saint nor a
hero.
CHRISTIANITY is essentially the disciple
ship of the heart, met by a presence and
communication as divinely suited to an in
ward connection as the visible presence and
external communications of our blessed Lord
were proportioned to the outward disciple,
ship of his followers during his ministry on
earth.— Alexander Knox.
GARDENING for ladies: Make up your
"beds" early in the morning: "sew" but
tons on your husband's shirts; do not "rake"
up any grievances; protect the young and
tender branches of your family; "plant" a
smile of good temper in your face, and care
fully "root" out ai! angry feelings—and ex
pect a good "crop" of happiness.
IT was Mr. Justice Littleton, of Mass.,
who made the following remark about the
Salem Hotel, after he had been there on
circuit. Some one asked him how he found
the table. "How ?" growled the judge.
"Everything cold but the water, and every
thing sour but the pickles."
"SIR, your account has stood for over
two years, and I must have it settled imme
diately !" To which the customer replied:
"Sir, things usually do settle by standing;
I regret that my account is an exception. If
it has been standing so long, suppose you
let it run a little while."
"I DON'T MISS my church as much as you
suppose," said a ladv to her minister, who
called on her during her illness, "for I make
Betsy sit at the window as soon as the bells
begin to chime, and tell mo who are going
to church, and whether they have on any
thing new."
CHAIRMAN WALLACE, of the Copperhead
State Committee, is said to be making ex
tensive arrangements to colonize the South
ern counties with Marylanders at the
October election. The Copperheads need
close watching all over the State.
REV. DR. CIIAPIN, in his Fourth of July
oration at Paris, wittily and wisely said that
he thought our American eagle might find
abundance of room to fly without flapping
its wings in everybody's face. Spread-eagle
j orators should take the hint.
"Bov, ' said an ill-tempered old fellow to
a noisy hoy, "what are you hollerin, for
when 1 am going by?"
"Humph!" returned the boy, "what are
you go'mg by for when I am hollerin' ?"
IK HALF TUB PAINS were taken by some
people to perform the labor allotted to
them that are taken by them to avoid it, we
should hear much less said about the
troubles of life, and see much more actually
completed.
A YOUNG AMERICAN of bibulous tendencies
says there is one convenient thing about an
ocean voyage. "You can get as drunk as
you please every day and everybody thinks
you are only sea sick."
"HEAT EXPANDS— coId contracts," an
swered a school boy to a question of his
pedagogue, and when asked to give an ex
ample, he said: "In summer the days arc
long, in winter short."
A MAGAZINIST make a grumbling porter
at the Springs say : "You call that a trunk,
do you ?—lt only needs a lightning rod to
make it look a darned sight more like a
boarding house than what's to be found in.
Saratogy!"
IT is not what we eat, but what we digest,
that makes fat; it is not what we make, but
what we save, that makes us rich; it is not
what wo read, but what wc remember ihat
makes us wise. ".
-••*, it youth be
THE riper yean. *ID
old ago miserable.