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KAN.-AS CITY. MISSOURI.
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RUSSELL a longenbckeß,
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CINEKAL BOOM OF THE C. s. A.
, Air —''CAPTAIN JENKS."
I m (iineral Boom of ihe C. S. A.,
I one* did fight and run away:
I hope to fight another dav,
j In a new Confederate Army.
' Of course, yon know, I'm on parol-,
; My vote aiii t worth much r 4 t ihe poll,
I But 1 go for Seymour with, all niy soul,
And so will the rebei army.
tHC.ju'a.
I in Gineral fioom of tb . (• <
once did fight and r jn aWMj : '
fight auo' , !er ,i ay ,
11 u Ilew *-''.-fed- rate Army.
! For Peymoo , , ,
' He'll oial-- . ' .eratsnds our plan,
Sava h' ■ speech to the Lv. /v. Klan;
-• 'My fHinds ! I'm put your man.
->W: Blair will lead your army."
' ' Appomattox we where whipped,
A ben cru-l Cira; t our necks hail gripped;
j I felt my young ambition nipped,
And so I left the army.
I'm General Boom, &C.
; To Freed men's Bit re mi ] applied,
Corn meal to me was not denied,
1 41 flesh and pride,
i __ Aug tell just like an army.
!For Andrew Johnson 1 did shout.
I soon got office—dos t you doubt—
, And tinned a Yankee soldier out,
Who lost his leg iu the armv.
I'm General Bootr. Ac.
I'm now for Seymour beait and hand,
With Frank P. Blair I take rny stand.
, Arid we'll hurrah for Dixie's land,
And the old Confederate Ariny.
But, 0 my Lord ! there's just one ilii -g—
-' Supposing tlrant goes in next spring-
On an apple tree we all mu-t swing—
Or else disband our army!
: I'm General Boom. Ac.
COPPERHEAD OPINIONS OL GEN.
GHAN'T BEFORE IIIS NOMI
NATION.
Some months ago the copperheads were
j raflier hopeful that Gen. Grant might be
j prevailed upon to become their candidate
for the Presidency instead of the Ilepub
! lican. Their opinions of the man at that
! time may fairly be taken as honest ones,
! therefore we propose tit lay some of them
\ belbre our readers and from time to time j
compare them with such opinions as they '
; have already expressed since his nomination
j and may hereafter express. The Pittsburg .
• Prut one of the most reliable Democratic ]
j papers in th- Slate, within a ft w months,
Ipast has spoken as follows:
Suppose that, contrary to the wish of
i some of the leading Radical Black Repnb
i 'icans, who want the office themselves, Gen.
! Grant should be nominated for the I 'rest
deney by fheKepublicanparty, which course
j ought the Democratic party to pursue? j
: Ought ice to nominate a man in opposition ,
|to General Grant F Ought vet to chary
him with Wuff an enemy to hit Country) or
! in favor of unjust measures, merr'y because
he may have rednvrrl taid nomination ?
* * * *
\Ye are inclined to believe that more de- i
pends upon General Grant now than upon
any other individual in the United Ftatcs.
We Wore him tnlte far superior to the ma
jority of the far sighted politicians who
have been ruling the nation without bring
ing peace- or economy to our legi-iation.
He is knowu to all the people as a straight
! forward man. and, so far as can he judg< d.
1 a man tcU disposal to deal fairly with the
I people of all sections of the Union.
I ■ * * * ♦ *
If/rot letter thing con - do in case of
General Grant's nomination by the Pcpnb
lican party than to Y OTK FOR HIM FOll
THE FRF.FIDKNCY i Our aim should
■ be to stnngthen his hands: to render him as
much as possible independent of party, and
; to ELECT HIM AS THE PRESIDENT
i tjF TIIE PEOPLE. If unanimously, so
| much the better.
WE SOLMNEV BELIEVE THAT IF THE PFO
PT.E UF.NERAI.T R OF TIIE UNITED STATES
| CAN COME TOGETHER WITH REAL UNANIMI
TV ON GENERAL GRANT, IN REGARD TO
THE PHFSIDENCT, IT WTT.L BE THE HAPIT-
I EST THING FOR OL'R COUNTRY THAT COULD
i POSSIBLY OCCUR. The future good effects
'of this course are almost incalculable. We
earnestly a.-k our Democratic friends every
where to consider this subject careftillv.
The New York World, the leading and
most respectable copperhead paper in the
country, spoke as follows of Gen. Grant in
1865.
LIEUTENANT f VNFRAI GRANT.
Prom The World, April 11, IJSbo.
(Jen. Grant's history should teach us to
| discriminate better than wc Americans are
apt to do between glitter and solid work.
Our proneness to run after demagogues and
spouters may find a wholesome corrective
in the study of such a character as his. The
j qualities by which great things are accom
i plished are here seen to have no necessary
; connection with showy and superficial ac
complishments. When the mass of mc
j look upon .stu li a ul .ai aotcr, they iuiy icaiu
a truer respect for themselves and each
i other; they arc taught by it that high qnal
ities and great abilities are consistent with
: the simplicity of taste, contempt for parade,
and plainness of manners with whiuh direct
and earnest men have a strong natural sym
pathy. Ulysses Grant, the tanner, Ulysses
Grant, the unsuccessful applicant for the
1 post of Gity Surveyor of St. Louis, Ulysses
Grant, the driver into that city of his two
horse team with a load of wood to sell, had
within him every manly quality which will
cause the name of Lieutenant-General
Grant to live forever in history. Hi.-> caseer
is a lesson in practical democracy; it is a
quiet satire on the dandyism; the puppyism,
and the shallow affectation of our fashiona
ble exquisites as well as upon the swagger
of our plausible, glib-tongued demagogues.
Not by any means that great qualities are
incoß*">tent with cultivated manners and a
fiu-nt elocution; but that such superficial
accomplishments are no measure of worth
or ability.
Gen. Grant's last brilliant campaign sets
the final seal upon his reputation. It
stamps him as the superior of his able an
tagonist as well as of all the eomtiiandets
who have served with or under him in the
great campaigns of the la-t year. It is not
necessary to sacrifice any part of their well
earned reputations to his. Sherman and
Sheridan deserve all that has ever been
said in their praise; but there had never
been a time, since Grant was made Lieu
tenant General, when anybody hut Sher
man, on our side, could have been classed
with him. Since Sherman's bold march
IIKIIFOKI). I*A. FRIDAY. OUT. GO- IMis.
hrough Georgia, aud his capture of Savan
iah arid Charleston, there have been many
who, in their strong admiration of hi* great
tehieveroents, inclined to rank him as the
•rt-ater general of the two. That judgment,
■ve take ft is Wo# reversed by the cotirt of
inal appeal; not by dwarfing the reputa
:on vi Sherman, which suffers no just
ibafewont, but by the expansion into grand
r Vtoportions of that of Grant.
Grant stands preeminent among all the
generals who have led our armies in the late
war. in that he has exhibited the utmost
-trength of will of which the highest tvpe
if manhood is capable. The defenses of
\ ieksburg and the defenses of Richmond
wore both deemed impregnable, and were
defended with a proportionable confidence
and obstinacy: but they both yielded, at
'asf, to Grant's matchless persistence and
uneqnaled strategy. And, in both cases,
he not only took the long contested posi
tion, but compelled the surrender of the
whole force defending (hum. Nothing
■•■ old be more clean and complete, even in
imagination, thilii Gen. Grant's masterly
'Xt-cuiion. He did nut merely, in each
sase, acquire a position which was the key
if a wide theater of operations; he did not
merely boat or disable the opposing force;
lie left no fragment of it in existence except
prisoners of war subject to his disposal.
If any body is so obtuse or so wrong
icaded as to see nothing great in Gen.
ilrant, bejond his marvelous tenancity of i
will, kit that doubter explain, if he can, how j
has happened that, since Grant rose to j
ligh command, this quality has always '
>een exerted in couspicious energy precisely
it the point on which everything in his j
vhole sphere of operations hinged. There :
ias been no display of great qualities on :
mall occasions; no expenditure of herculean !
ffort to accomplish objects not of the first i
uagnitude. It is only a very clear-sighted I
nd a very comprehensive mind that could i
lways thus have laid the whole emphasis 1
if an indomitable soul so precisely on the .
mpliatic place. How, if he be not a
eoeral of the first order of intellect, as well
- of the most heroic determination, does :
! happen that, in assigning great and bril
ant parts to his subordinate commanders, I
>e has never, when the results of his strategy '
rere fully unfolded, appeared in the picture j
xcept as the central figure? However it
lay eeern during the progress of one of his
reat combined campaigns, it always turns
utat last, when it reaches that complete- i
ii'ss and finish in which he contrives to j
iiive his campaigns end, that we see Arm!
landing in the foreground, and that the
reaping is always such that the glory of the
ther generals, instead of eclipsing his own, :
ives it additional luster. It is this sureness ;
f'judgement which sees precisely where lies
he turning point; which sees precisely what
re the objects that justify the utmost
treteh of persistence; it is this ability to!
ake in the Whole field of view in juft per
pcctivc and due subordination of parts,
hat is the mark of a superior mind. Gen.
! rant has taken out *of the hands of all
i itics the question whether it belongs to him.
le has won his greatest triumph over the
tost skillful and accomplished General on
he other side; over a General who foiled him
ing enough to prove his great mastery of !
he art of war: and the completeness of j
rho. e defeat is a testimony to Grant's!
• nine such as victory over any other Gen
ral of that Confederacy, or even an earlier
ietory over Lee himself, could not have I
iven. Apply to Gen. Grant what test
ou will; measure hiln by the magnitude of I
he obstacle.- he has surmounted, by the
alue of the positions he has gained, by the |
jme of the antagonist over whom he has
riumplied, by the achievements of his '
uost iliustiious eo workers, by the sureness !
riih which he directs his indomitable energy
0 the vital point which is the key of a vast
ie!d of operations, or by that supreme test i
if consummate ability, the absolute com- i
detenessof his results, and he vindicates his !
'aim to stand next after Napoleon and \
Wellington, among the great soldiers of this
entury, if not on a level with the latter.
On the 21-t of May 180®, the very day
jen. Grant was. nominated the same paper ;
logins to disparage bis merits in the face j
if its past opinions as expressed in the
ibove artiele and attacks him in the follow- I
rg style.
From The World, May 21, 1868.
* * * It was possible for Grant, after
lis failure "to fight it out on one line" in
lis advance of 164 upon Richmond, to lav
sh the lives of thou-ands of American sol- j
Iters and to expend hundreds of thousands
if dollars of the nation's treasure upon a
)■ w campaign, and so finally wear an! wor
y down the strength of the rebellion which ;
lad already been mortally wounded by
tfeade at. Gettysburg.
Such is copperhead patriotism' Such, i
opperhcad consistency ! But the successful'
jieuerab the gallant soldier, the true patri ■
it cantp tbe hurt by such mendacity. The
1 tnest expression of their sentiments be- t
ore being tainted with partisan hatred, i
litUruess and falsehood, will be taken bv
he people as the true measure of merit,
ghile the parti-an abu.-c that follows will be
ustly ignored as the ravings of disappoint
•d, unscrupulous and despairing party lead
irs trying, but in vain, to tarnish the bright
loss of the fame of the man whom they
vere unable to coutrol and use because of
lis sterling integrity and devoted patriotism.
THE COPPERHEAD POLICY.
A few illustrations will serve to exhibit to
he commonest understanding the knavery
if the Copperhead doctrine relative to Gov
irumeut Bonds:—
"A man buys 200 barrels of pork and
rives bis note for $5OOO. When it is due
le tcnJers the pork instead of the pay on j
lie plea that this is the consideration upon j
*liich the note wasiisued. 'That would be j
■idiculous; but the plea made in behalf of!
rrecnbacks is worse, since they have no iu- j
irin-fic value whatever.
"A borrower obtains accommodation
■niong his friends by the isue of mercoran- ]
bitn checks. Finding that will DO j
onger circulate at par he offers to receive 1
them in exchange for his notes bearing inj '
terest. and payable at his Option in not less
than five nor more, than twenty years. The
.-reditors consent aDd the exchange is effec
ted.—After the five years have expired he
finds the interest burdensome, and he pro
poses to hand back to the holders the origi
nal cheeks, and cancel the bonds. And he
iostifies himself on the ground that all they
paid for the notes was in these memorandum
promises, and they ought not to complain if
they get back what tbey gave."
EQUAL taxation.
The national Democratic platform explic
itly lays down a general rule for taxation, to
take the place of the com plicated system
new enforced. "It demands," with all em
phasis—
"Kqual taxation of every species of prop
erty, according to its real value."
No exception is made. The great ques
tion which has embarrassed all governments
and at! political economists for
aud which has never before been solved to
'he entire satisfaction of am body, is now
settled. The Democratic wisdom gathered
in Tammany Hall on the Fourth of July
has made the subject simple, and has dis
covered a principle which can be universally
applied, tvery species of property is to
bs tared equally, not upon any fictions ap
praisement, but upon its real value.
This beautiful law of Democratic finance
has lot yet been fully elucidated. The or
ators of 1 ammany have not obeyed the or
ders of their chief candidate, and vigorously
pressed this subject of taxation. It is quite
time they were about it; and if they con
tiiue to avoid it, tbe Republicans ought to j
aucept Mr. Seymour's advice, and make 1
this great Democratic principle plain to j
everybody. It is not often that the party i
gives us such an explicit and intelligible j
declaration of its policy.
The "demand" of the Democratic party
implies a thorough change in our present
s'stetn of taxation. Tbe laws passed by the '
Republican Congress are far from taxing j
equally "every species of property, accord- t
iig to its real value." The Republican par
ty strongly prefer not to do so; and, although
there are, doubtless, still many mistakes in
these laws which Republicans wish to re
move, yet the charges they propose to make
are not in the direction of "equal taxation
of every species of property." On the con
trary, it is certain that every Republican of
influence in this matteT would prefer to re- >
Gin our present tax laws unchanged, rather j
than to carry out the Democratic platform. |
Here, then, is a distinct issue between tbe
two parties. The Government must raise
large amounts of money. Under General
Grant thd outlay of the nation can hardly
be much less than $20,000,000 a year. Un
der Mr. Peyraour, should the Democratic
party succeed in regaining power, those
who remember Mr. Buchanan's adminis
tration will be fure that the outlay will rap
idly rise to more than this. The Republic
an party propose to obtain the money by
adjusting taxation so that it shall burden
the people as little as possible. The Demo
cratic party propose to do away with all
suth adjustment?, and levy "equal taxation
up in every species of property, according
to its real value."
For example, the "real value" of a fancy
sulky driven in the Central Dark, and of a
fanner's hay wagon iti the country, may be
about the same. The Republican party
prefers to lay a tax on the former and none
ou the latter; believing that the vehicle kept
fot the rich man's pleasure ought to pay
rather than that kept for the laboring man's
necessity. The Democratic party proposes
to tax both equally.
That beautiful chronometer repeater,
with independent second hand and stop, with
which races are timed in Jerome Dark, costs
ju-t about as much a an average Kansas or
Minnesota farm. But the Republican Con
gress have levied an enormous duty on the
watch, equal to at least a good year's ent ire
profits from the farm, and an annual pay
ment besides; while they make the farm
free. The Democratic party proposes to
tax the farm as much as the watcb.
The Axminster carpet in a luxurious par
lor is worth about as much as a good stone
larrn house iu New l'ork or Illinois. Tbe
Republican party would maintain tbe law
which taxes heavily the rich man's tapestry,
aud leaves the working-man's dwelling free.
The Democratic party proposes to tax both
equally.
A cigar of average quality costs the con
sumer about as much as a common loaf of
bread. A bottle of choice old Madeira wine,
such as some leading Democrats of this city
give their guests, is worth as much as a
barrel of flour. The Republican party in
Congress have voted to tax the wine and ci
gars very heavily indeed; but have refused
to tax the flour and the bread. The Demo
cratic party proposes to tax equally "every
species of property, according to its real
value." If flour be taxed like old Madeira,
and bread like cigars, the loaf that is now
ten cents cannot be sold for less than twenty
five.
There are rich men who have incomes of
scores and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
There Bre poor men who find it difficult,
above their house rent, to get one thousand
dollars of ready money for their families.
The laws for which the Republican party is
respon-ihle tax the large incomes five per
cent., but do not tax the small ones at all.
The Democratic party "demaods"theaboei
tion of this distinction: which will take fifty
dollars from the one thousand necessary to
support many a laborer's family.
- y „ ,r 1,. > Kiu a 000.-o to tto to wo
can supply scores of further illustrations for
himself. Which principle of taxation do
voters of the country prefer? That of the
Republican party, to tax those kinds of
property which will bear it best; or that of
the Democratic party, to tax equally "every
species of property, according to its real
value?"
GENERAL GRANT.
A DEMOCRATIC OPINION OF HIS "SOIID
PUBLIC SERVICES," THE "STEADINESS
AND STAUNCHNESS OF HIS PATRIOTISM,'
AND THE "UPRIGHTNESS'' OF HIP CHAR
ACTER.
General Grant's temporary aoceptaoce of
(he War Department causes a stir in the
KeptiblicaD party, which confuses the cal
culations of those Republicans who. five
weeks ago, counted securely on his nomina
tion a.s their candidate for the Presidency.
Those Republican newspapers, therefore,
which, like the Times, are trying to identify
General Grant with the RepubKomi psrrty,
are opposing a strong presumption by the
thinnest and feeblest of shadowy inferences.
Gen Grant, to be sure, favor* the execution
of the Reconstruction acts, but so also does
President Johnson. As they do not differ
on this point, they probably differ on none
which is pertinent to the present posture of
affairs. President Johnson would indeed
have had 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 passage. President John
son concedes that Congress has practical
control of reconstruction by consenting to
execute the. faxes it has passed on that sub-
• ject; and Gen. Grant finding these laws in
force, recognises their authority, without
i going behind them to inquire whether they
ought to hare been enacted. There is no
evidence that the President and Acting
Secretary of i\ ar differ on any important
i practical question. The fact that the Trib
tine and otlier Republican journals object to
i Gen. Grant that he has never signified his
assent to their principles, deserves notice
| and consideration. Of the steadiness and
t staunchness of (ji /i. Grant patriotism, ar
the uprightness and the solidity of hit char
acter, MO man in the country douhu, nor of
iftit* to doubt. The most perfect loyalty,
! <hc-o. may stand with the roost absolute in
difference to thof objects which t'of Repub
lican natty regards as supreme, Or, to ex
press ihe same idea differently, devotion to
Republican shibboleth is no test of devotion
to the country. On the score of royalty and
sohd public vert ices, rm man in th* country
can c/nne into competition with this illustrious
| hoditt. lint measure hi in 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
] (riotismat all.
The Tribune is clamorous to have Gener
al Grant show bis colore and take sides in
the party squabbles of the day. He rejoice
that there is one man in the country who is
above die necessity of such belittling partisan
ship. We trust that GeD. Grant loves his
wholo 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 bis, 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 of his past services. It is be- j
neatli him to play any common part in vul
gar politics. The I'residency can be noth
ing to biai; he has a more valuable office.
But if in the heath of Providence, he could j
be an instrument for tranquiluing the coun
try. dial is an honor for which he could, af
ford to sacrifice case, congenial pursuits, and
the rtsqiousibilities of greater fame as a sol
dier.
God forbid that he should descend into
tbe arena of party contests. If he cannot
be elec ted 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
no rnoro have General Grant become a par
ty politician than, if we had lived in Wash
ington's time, we would have wished hitn
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, tee trust
that General Grant will be elected, if at all,
in the same Kay, and with the same gener
ous confidence. Having restored the author
ity of the Government, we hope that lie may
add the highest civic to the highest military
fame by restoring long lost cordiality of feel
ing.—From the Ktvc Yoflc World.
NOT TO BE TRUSTED.
' 'The war is the burden of Radical speech.
Talk of Congressional usurpation, anil they
answer. 'We will not entrust the Govern
ment to rebels.'" — X'Uiisncd JnteUingaicer.
Well, is not that right ? Should the
Government be "entrusted to the rebels,"
or to the Copperheads who aided them and
sympathized with them? Is the Govern
ment not safer in the hands of its friends
than in the keeping of its enemies? Is it a
common thing for a man to select as his
agent the individual who set-fire to his
bouse and tried to assassinate him?
One of the Intelligencer kind of Demo
crats. Jesse P. Bright, now residing in
Kentucky, but formerly a Senator from In
diana. was called upon the other day to pre
sidio over the Democratic State Convention
of that State. Of course he made a speech
on the questions of the day. From that
speech we copy tho following "specimen
bricks" of pure and undiluted Democratic
doctrine. Among other things, he said:
• He was opposed to tho war from the
beginning to the enJ. In Congress he de
nial the power of the Government to declare
irnr ngmnst a sovereign State. (Applause.]
lie uku deni'dlL power of the federal
Goterntprut to itnue vaptr money to cut the
throats of the Southern, States." (Cheers.]
No oca will dispute the orthodoxy of that
utterance. Every Copperhead in the land
will say amen to it. Every rebel, of course,
endorses if. But that referred to the past-.
Let us see as to the future. In regard to
the public debt, he said:
' lie never in tended to vote to pay a dollar
of the principal of don debt. (Cheers.] lie
was opposed to paying a dollar of the na
tional debt in coin. He would, if Democrats
so thought, vote to pay the debt in paper,
and then let the paper take care of itself'
(Cheers. ]
That is the idea exactly. That is precisely
what Pendleton, Hendricks Sherman,
Eden, Brick Pomeroy, Doolittle, Val
landigham, the Chicago Times. Cincinnati
Enquirer. Milwaukee -iota, Detroit Free
PITAS. Springfield Register, and all the rest
of the.Northern Copperheads, are driving
at.
Bright went a step further, and declared
that—
He thought that in the cud every dollar's
north of property destroyed during the war
in Kentucky and Maryland would be paid."
That is whatevexy relfcl expects will be
done if the Democracy get into power; and
it is to provide for the payment of four or
five thousand millions of damages, which
they claim to have suffered during their re
bellion, that they inserted in their platform
the plank demanding '"equal taxation on all
kinds of property at its full value. ' It will
take tremendous taxation to reimburse the
Democracy, and they have provided for it
in their platform.— Chtcaoo Tribune.
THE SL PRE.tIE COI'KT FRAUDS.
The Nation comments as follows upon
the naturalisation frauds tn our Supreme
Court: Jodge Bhars wood's course in the
mat'er is such as will cause him to be looked
on with some suspicion by honorable men
who have heretofore respected him. He
owes his election —official investigation into
tbe Luierne District Congressional election
{troves it—to votes fraudulently cast, and it
almost seems as if some of his actions had
beeu dictated by a grateful remembrance ol
this fact. Charges having been made by
the press and by his fellow-judges that the
> prothonotary of the court had illegally issued
I Wank naturalisation papers;- that voters bad
I been made by constables in the absence ol
I judge and prothonotary: that seven hundred
YOb. II: ICO, f l
I had been made in one day, which is at the
rate of about two a minute for every minute
of the working day—Judge Sharswood re
[ luctantly ordered an examination into the
! prothonotary's conduct, and the testimony
j fully sustained the allegations. But when
! he gave bjs decision, exonerating the pro
! thonotary—as may have been right—he
j admitted the probability of frauds; in fact,
j he pronounced fraudulent certain naturali
zation blanks that he held in bis hand, and
1 wrote the word "fraudulent" on the back
1 of each of them; but he gave no advice as
to the duty of the inspectors of elections,
except that he emphatically laid down tbe
law that the Prothonotary's seal was prima
fiicie evidence that the paper bearing it was
to be accepted as genuine. Having de
livered this decision, at once, before the
Attorney Genera! or anybody else could
open bis mouth, the judge declared the
J eoutt adjourned sine die. This may he
; susceptible of explanation; but it has a very
- bad look, and ought to make every man in
Philadelphia overhaul his opinions on the
subject of elective judges—the great danger
from whom, after all, is that they are
tempted to bend to tbe will of the appoint
ing power, if that power chooses to bring
its will to bear, and thai it is a thousand
times more likely to bring its wi'ii to bear if
it is a popular majority instead of a .State
Governor.
SO.MI. Til IMG TO BE CONSIDERED.
Wben a Democrat commences whining
about oppressive taxation, just ask him I
who inaugurated and fought the war which ,
made those taxes necessary.
When they prate of their devotion to the
Constitution, ask them who fought Tour
years to destroy that instrument and set
up tbe bastard Montgomery concern iu ite
place.
When they talk of their loyalty, ask them
who nominated aDd voted for a banished
traitor for Governor of Ohio.
When they profess to be in favor of a
restoration of the Union, ask thetn who has j
steadily voted against the re admission of
the revolted States.
When they claim to be in favor of peace
and prosperity, ask them who proposes to
oveiturn the reconstructed iState Govern
ments and inaugurate another war.
When they claim that seymour was loyal
during the war, ask them who made it nec
essary to withdraw an army from the front
to suppress his riots in the rear.
Wheu they say that Grant is no statesman,
ask them how it is that in all the important
positions he has held, he has never made a
mistake.
When they say he is not a good soldier,
ask them how it was that he so thoroughly
"cleaned out" Lee, Johnson, and all the
other distinguished Democrats.
! iUteccUanemi?,
PUEASAJiT HOMES.
Parents, strive to make your homes
' pleasant and attractive! If you would have
your children grow up pure, healthy aud
beautiful, attempt not to destroy their love
for beautiful things and for healthy recrea
tion. Do not labor with such cold rigid,
self denying economy to hoard up money to
bestow uponjthem at your death, rather
devote a portion of your surplus income to
embellishing and beautifying your dwellings,
and to furnish your girls and boys with the
means of home enjoyment. Introduce into
tbe family circle innocent amusements, and
above all, yourselves join and assist the
young in their recreation? and plans for
social diversion. Teach them that most
beautiful and soul inspiring accomplishment,
music; allow them to romp, laugh and he
merry.
Many parents will crush with a frown
every attempt at hilarity on the part of
their children; they will banish all atnu.-c
ment and gayety from the family circle, and
cause a shade of gloom to settle over rtitir
homes. What is the course of the children
of such parents? To escape from the op
pressive atmosphere of home becomes the
governing motive of all their actions.
When away from the immediate care of
their parents they will secretly go to places
which they have- been forbidden to visit,
and mingle with children with whom they
have been told not to associate; then they
will immediately become more hardened,
and plunge deeper and deeper into the sea
of forbidden pleasures, and resort to false
hood to shield themselves from detection,
and after they have taken this step their
downward course is straight and rapid.
They frequent drinking sliojis, smoke and
swear, associate with fast young men, soon
become 'fast' themselves, and at test cause
the hoary heads of their parents to bow in
sorrow.
Are not such parents in a measure, re- 1
sponsible for the sins of their children ? |
The young will have enjoyment and if f hey
cannot find it at home they will seek it \
ebewhere, in doubtful places and in doabrfal'
company. They are full of vitality and j
gayety; they have nngovernable desires for i
amusements and social intercourse, and thai
desire must be gratified, legitimately it may
be, or illegitimately. Attempt to suppress
it and yon will ruin your children: direct it
in the proper channel, and you will cause
them to grow up happy and contented into
the best and noblest of men and women.
One half of the depraved and abandoned
men and women of this country have been |
made what they are by their parents.
Thro' ignorance and superstition they have
been driven from their homes, which to
them should be the most attractive places
on earth, to seek the streets by the forbid
den paths, for that recreation which is es
sentia! to their very existence.
You who have children to train up think
of this! Devote a portion of yoor time and
mcney to gratifying their love fbr social
amusement. If you do not get rich quite
as fast, if you, perchance, do not die a >
millionaire, what matters it? Yon will be
compensated a hundred fold for the pecu
niary loss by the joy and pleasure you will
experience by seeing your children grow up
noble and virtuous, honored and respeeted
by those around them.—Du SWELL.
TALK about the enjoyment of wealth, it
never was and never will be enjoyment. An
abundance of money is a heap of misery. A
man who owns a small house, a small wife,
a big dog, a gpod cow, two or three fat pigs,
and two children, ought to be satisfied. If
be isn't he never will be.
IF you would not have affliction to visit
you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.
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JOSH BUIsIWiS ON BllK.
I want to say sumthing,
I want to eay sum thing in reference- to
' milk az a fertelizer.
There are various kind? of milk. Then I/,
i sweet milk, soar milk, skim milk, latter
in ilk, cow milk and tbo niiik of human kind
ness, but the mostest best milk iz the mtfk
that hazzent the most water in it Butter
1 milk izzent the best for butter*
Miik iz spontaneus and has done more to
eneOtirapc the growth of human folks than
erinv other likwid.
Milk iz lacteal; it iz also acquatic, while
under the patronage of milk vender?.
Milk iz ruiaterious. Cokernut milk ha -
iK'vcr been solved yet.
Miik iz also another nauio for huuian
kindness.
Milk and bread iz a pleasant inixtur.
Sometimes if aiilk iz iou<i to r*.au<l too
I long,' ascuru rizes to the surface, which iz
' apt to skare fokes that live in cities, hut it
chxzzent foller that the milk iz nasty. This
scum is called kreme by fokes who inhabit
the kuutry.
Ivrcme iz the parent of butter, and butter
iz 70 cents a pound.
The most koxuinon milk in use, without
doubt, iz skim milk; skiru miik is made by
skimmiDg the milk, which is consider) d
sharp practise
Milk iz obtained from cows, hogs, wood
chux rats, sheep squirrils, and all other
animals that have hair. Soaix and geese
don't give miik.
I forgot to state, in conclusion, that cow
milk, if well watered, brings ten cents per
quart.
SABBATH BEST A NECESSITY.
Nature re-affirms the Divine law that one
day in seven should be set apart fqr rest and
worship. Both the brute and human world
need it for their well-being. Dr. Farre, a
distinguished physician, says:
"Although the night equalizes the circu
lation weil, yet it does not sufficiently re
store its balauce for the attainment of a long
life. Hence one day in seveo, by the boun
ty of Providence, is thrown in as a day of
compensation, to perfect by its repose the
animal system. You may easily determine
this question by trying it on bea.-ts of bur
den. Take the fine animal the horse, and
work him to the full extent of his power
every day of the week, or give birn rest one
day in seven, and you will soon perceive, by
the superior vigor with which he performs
his functions, on the other six days, that
this rest is necessary to his well-being.
Man. possessing a superior nature, is borne
along by the very vigor of his mind, so that
the injury of continued diurnal exertion and
excitement in his animal system is not so
immediately apparent as it is in the 'brute:
but in the long run it breaks down more
suddenly; it abridges the length of his life
and that vigor of his old age which (as to
mere animal power) ought to be the object
of his preservation. . : "j . . . This is
-aid simply as a physician, and without ref
erence at all to the theological question."
TRUE HUMILITY.
He is a rare man tjiat is not wise in his
own conceit, and says not within him ,if
'T see more than my neighbors;" for we
are all bora proud and self-opinioDated. and
when we are come to our imaginary matu
rity, arc apt to say, with Zedekiah, to those
of better judgment than our own, "IVbieh
way went the Spirit of God from me to
speak unto thee ?" Ilenee have risen those
strange varieties of wild paradoxes, both in
philosophy and religion, wherewith the
world abounds everywhere. When our
fancy hath entertained some uncouth
thought, our self-love is apt to hatch it up,
our confidence to broach it, and our obsti
nacy to maintain it; and (if it be not too
monstrous) there will not want some cudu-
Jous fools to abet if; so as the only way both
to peace and truth is true humility; which
, will teaeh us to think meanly of our own
apprehensions or judgments, to ascribe
much to the revered antiquity, greater
sanctity, deeper insight of our blessed pred
ecessors —this only will keep us in the beat
en road, without all extravagant deviations
to untiodden by-paths. Teach me, O Lord,
ever more to think myself no whit wiser
than I am: so shall I racitber be vainly
irregular, nor the church troublesomely
unquiet.— Bishop Hall.
CANDOR.
There is nothing sheds so fine a light
upon the human mind as candor. It tvj*
called "whiteness" by the ancients for its
purity; and it has always won the esteem
due to the most admirable of the virtues.
However little sought for or practiced, all do
it the homage of their praise, and all feci
the power and charm of its influence. The
man whose opinions make the deepest mark
upon hi* fellow-men. whose influence is the
j most lasting aod efficient, whose friendship
| is instinctively sought- where all others have
| proved faithless, is not the man of brilliant
■ parts or flattering tongue," splendid genius,
1 fb* fommartdiog power, but he whose lucid
j c.iidor and ingenious tmth transmit the
j beau'a real feelings, pure and without re
i fraction. There are other qualities which
I are more showy, and other traits which have
j a higher place in the world's code of honor,
j but none are better, or gather less tarnish by
. use, or claim a deeper homage in the silent
j reverence which the mind must pay to vir-*
j tue.
A-9TOY BREEZE. —OId Peter H. lived in
a one story woodi n bouse of not very exten
sive dimensions, and when it was subjected
to the force of one of those hurricanes so
numerous oflate years at the AVest, its pow
er of resistance was not sufficient to withstand
so great a pressure, and it yielded the point
without a struggle, however, it was not up
set or torn to pieces, but merely moved a
few rods. In the course of the journey the
spilt out and the danger of a confla
gration was imminent. Old Peter was too
much excited to notice the removal of bis
house, and seeing the necessity of immedi
ately applying water to the burning embers
cru the floor, he seized a backet and darted
out behind the house, when great was his
astonishment to find all traces of the well
obliterated. After looking in blank amaze
ment a moment, he called out to his wife,
"Sarah, I'M be blamed if the wiadhasnot
blowed the well clear out of the lot! 'i here s
not so much as a hole lelt.
MAN considered ToSilly and morally.'
Socially—he takes to warm grog, morally
he objects to it.