VOL. 47
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Bury Me in the Morning.
Bury me in the morning, mother,
Oh, let me have the light
Of one bright day on my grave, mother,
Ere you leave me alone with night.
Alone in the night of the grave, mother,
'Tie a thought of terrible fear;
And you will be here all alone, mother,
And stars will be shining here;
So bury me in the morning, mother,
And let me have the light
Of ono bright day on my grave, mother,
Ere I'm alone with the night.
You tell me of a Saviour's love, mother,
I feel it is in my heart—
But, oh ! from this beautiful world, mother,
'Tin hard for the young to part;
For oven to part when here, mother,
The soul is fain to stay ;
For the grave is deep and dark, mother,
And Heaven seems far away,
Then bury me in the morning, mother,
And let me have the light
Of one bright day on my grave, mother,
Ere I'm alone with the night.
Nev.. unclasp my hand, mother,
Till it falls away with thine—
Let me hold the pledge of thy love, mother,
TPI I feel the love divine;
The love divine—oh! look, mother,
Above the beams I see—
And there an angel's face, mother,
Is smiling down on me,
So bury me in the morning, mother,
And let me have the light
Of one bright day on my grave, mother,
And lead us to the light en high.
Distrust,
Distrust, thou art the curse of life
To many beings pure:
Unjust suspicions ever rife,
Engend'ring hate and deadly strife,
And thus thine aims secure.
A Send in serpent's guise thou art,
And well thy part dost play;
Thy subtle poisons pierce the heart,
When friends enact a trait'rous part,
And love and trust betray.
Oh! leave this earth; thy mission here
Is one of sin alone;
Dire discontent doth oft appear
To tempt the heart when thou art near.
Canst thou for this atone ?
True confidence alone will yield
Content without alloy;
Its pure delights will be revealed
To loving hearts, till then concealed,
And doubting thoughts destroy.
Oh! haste thee now from sadden'd hearts,
Let truth assert her sway :
Thy base designs—thy creel arts,
To innocence thy guilt imparts.
Unkind distrust, away !
Zhe Aorg-Etlitr.
CONFESS A FAULT.
A Lesson for the Old and Young
Ma. BENJAMIN GOODWIN took his eld
est son to the great city, for he had ob
tained, as he thought, an excellent place
for his boy. It was a situation in the store
of Mr. Andrew Phelps. Mr. Phelps was
one of the heaviest merchants of the city;
a dealer in cloths of all kinds, descriptions,
qualities and quantities. He was one of
those exact, nervous men who want no
second say in the way. It was near noon
when Mr. Goodwin entered the merchant's
counting-room, leading his boy by the
hand.
"I have brought my son, Mr. Phelps, as
we had arranged, and I am sure you will
find him punctual and faithful.
"Ah, Master Gilbert ; ahem—yes, I like
his looks. Hope he will prove all you
wish."
As the merchant spoke in a matter of
fact sort of way, he smiled kindly upon the
boy, and then turning to the parent he
resumed :
"Have you found a boarding place for
him yet ?"
"Yes, sir; he will board with his uncle
—my wife's brother."
"Ah, that is fortunate. This great city
is a bad place for boys without friends."
"Of course, sir," added Mr. Goodwin,
"and yet I hope you will overlook his af
fairs a little."
"Certainly, what I can. But of course
you are aware that I should see little of
him when out of the store."
Mr. Goodwin said "of course," and there
was a silence of some moments. The pa
rent gazed down upon the floor a little
while, and finally said :
"There has been nothing said yet, Mr.
Phelps, about the pay."
"Pay ?" repeated the merchant.
"Yes, sir; what are you willing to allow
my son for his services ?"
"Ah," said Mr. Phelps with a bland
smile, "I see you are unacquainted with
our customs. We never pay anything the
first year."
"No pay ?" uttered Mr. Goodwin, some
what surprised. "But lam to pay Gil
bert's board myself, and I thought of
course you would allow him something for
pocket-money."
"No, we never pay anything the first
year. If you were going to send your son
to an academy or college, you would not
expect the teachers to pay him for his stu
dying."
"No, sir."
"Just so it is here. We look upon our
apprentice as a mercantile scholar, and for
the first year he can be of little real bene
fit to us, though all the while he is reaping
valuable knowledge to himself. Why,
there are at this moment fifty youngsters
whose wealthy parents would be glad to
get them into the berth you have secured
for your boy."
"Then you pay nothing," said the pa
rent, rather sadly.
"Not the first year. This is our rule.
We will teach him all we can, and at the
end of that time we shall retain him if he
is faithful and worthy, and pay him some
thing."
"Never mind, my son," the parent said,
when he and his child were alone. "You
have clothes enough to last you through
the year, and you can get along without
much more. Here is one dollar. It is
all I have over and above what I must use
to get home; that will keep you in spend
ing money for some time. But mind and
be honest, my boy. Come home to me
when you please; come in rags and filth,
if it may be, but come with your truth and
honor untarnished."
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The boy wiped a tear from his eye as he
gave the promise, and the father felt assu
red. It was arranged that Gilbert should
have two vacations of a week each, one in
the spring and one at Christmas, and then
the parent left.
On the following morning Gilbert Good
win entered the store to commence his du
ties. He gazed around upon the wilder
ness of cloth, and wondered where the
people were who should buy all this; but
he was disturbed in his reverie by a spruce
young clerk, who showed him where the
watering-pot and broom were, and inform
ed him that his first duty in the morning
was to sprinkle the floor. So at it the
boy went, and when this was done he was
set at work carrying bundles of cloth up
stairs, where a man was piling them away.
And so Gilbert's mercantil scholarship
was commenced. For a while he was
home-sick, but the men at the store only
laughed at him, and ere long he got rid of
the feeling. A month passed away, and
at the end of that time his dollar was
spent. He bad broken it at first to pur
chase a pocket-knife, which he could not
do without. That took half of it. Then
he had attended a scientific lecture, for
which he had paid half of what was left,
and the rest had dwindled away until now
he was without a penny. But he bore up
for a while. He saw that the boys in the
neighboring stores bad money to spend,
but then he thought they had rich fath
ers. He knew that the generous parent
had already burdened himself with more
than he was able to bear with comfort to
himself, so he would not send to him. And
yet it was unpleasant to be without money ;
to be in that great city, where there was
so much for amnsement and profit, with
out even a penny to purchase a moment of
enjoyment or a drop of extra comport. No
boy could be more faithful than Gilbert in
the store. The clerks and salesmen all
loved "'him, and Mr. Phelps often congrat
ulated himself on having obtained an ex
cellent apprentice. He worked early and
late, and he worked bard—performed more
physical labor than any one else in the
store, if we except the stout Irish porter.
One evening after the store was closed,
Gilbert stood on the iron steps with the
key in his hand—for he was now entrusted
with that important implement—when he
was joined by a lad named Baker, who
held the same position in an adjoining
store that Gilbert did in Mr. Phelps'.
"Say, Gilbert, going to the concert to
night ?" asked Baker.
"No; I can't."
"Can't ! Why not ?"
'Why, to tell the plain truth, Jim, I
haven't got the money.
"Pooh! Come along. I'll pay the
shot."
"But I do not wish to run in debt, Jim,
for I may never pay you."
'Pay me? Who talked about paying?
If I offer to pay, that's enough. Come
along. It'll be a glorious concert."
"But I must go and get some supper."
But Gilbert could not go without let
ting his aunt know; so Baker walked round
that way with him. Then they went to
the restaurant; here Baker paid for the
supper. Tie had several bank notes, and
poor Gilbert gazed upon them with long
ing looks. Oh, if he could only have a
little money ! Say one dollar a week or
one dollar in two weeks, how much hap
pier he would feel ! As soon as they had
eaten supper, they went to the concert
room, and Gilbert was charmed with the
sweet music he heard. He fancied it had
a noble influence upon him, and that it
awoke a more generous impulse in his soul.
But alas ! how can a man or youth be over
generous, with an empty pocket always Y
From this time James Baker was Gil
bert's firm friend, as the world goes. The
latter told all his secrets to Jim, and in
return he heard all his friend's.
"Say, Gil. how is it you never have any
money ?" Baker asked, as they were to
gether one evening in front of the store,
after having locked up.
"Why," returned Gilbert, with some
hesitation, "to tell you the plain truth, my
father is too poor. He has done enough
for me now—more than he can well afford.
He has never asked me to work on the
farm, but he has sent me to school, and
now he is paying my board while I learn
to be a merchant. But my father is good
if he is poor."
"Of course he is," warmly replied Ba
ker. "That's where you find your good
warm hearts, among the poor. But don't
you make the store pay you for taking care
of it ?"
"No, Mr. Phelps pays nothing for the
first year."
"Why, arc you in earnest, Gil? Haven't
you got any money for your hard work ?"
"No, not a penny. Two dollars is all
the money I have had since I have been
here, and those my father gave me,"
"Well, you're a moral improbability, a
regular anomaly. Why, I make the store
pay me something. Mind you, I don't call
it stealing, for it isn't. My master receives
the benefit of all my work, and I am en
titled to something in return. He is rich
while I am poor. My hard work turns
money into his till, and shall I dig and
delve and lug my life away for nothing ?
No. When I want a little money, I take
it. Did I take enough to squander and
gamble away, as some do , I should call it
stealing; but I don't. Yet I must have
something. How do you suppose our
masters think we live without money? They
don't think so; if they do, they must be
natural born fools. That's all I've got to
say about it."
"But how do you do it ?" asked Gilbert,
tremulously. _ _
"How ?Why sometimes I help myself
to a few handkerchiefs, which I sell ; and
sometimes I take a gentle peep at the
money drawer."
When Gilbert Goodwin went to his bed
that night there was a demon with him.
The tempter had come. For a long time
there had been a shadowy, misty form
hovering over him, bat not until it had
taken p alpable shape, did he allow himself
to reason on the subject, but not yet was
his mind made up. On the following
morning he met young Baker again, and
he learned that all the apprentices on the
street did the same thing.
A week passed on, and during that time
Gilbert gave the tempter a home in his
bosom. He daily pondered upon the
amount of physical labor he performed.
He saw all the others with money, and he
wondered if any one could possibly get
along without that circulating commodity.
Finally the evil hour came. The constant
companionship of young Baker had its
influence, and the shaft had struck its
mark. A bright-eyed, lovely girl had asked
Gilbert to carry her to an evening's enter
tainment. The boy loved that girl—loved
her with the whole ardor of his youthful
soul—and be could not refuse her.
At noon he was left alone in the store.
Several people came in, mostly tailors, and
bought goods, paying cash. Gilbert did
not stop to consider ; the spell was upon
him, and he kept a two dollar bill.
That afternoon he suffered much. He
dared not look the clerks in the face, though
he was sure that some of them did the
same thing. In the evening he accompa
nied his fair companion to the entertain
ment, and though he tried to be happy, yet
he could not.
That night the boy slept, and while he
slept he dreamed that his latherand mother
came to him all pale and sad, and told him
he had disgraced them forever.
On the 11)114:Ting morning he entered
the store as usual, and his duties were per
formed silently and sadly. The clerks
HUNTINGDON, PA.
asked him if he was sick, and he told them
no. Toward the middle of the afternoon,
Mr. Phelps came in and entered his count
ing-room. Gilbert watched him until he
was alone, and then he moved toward the
place. His heart beat wildly, and his face
was as pale as death, but he did not hesi
tate. He entered the counting-room and
sank into a chair.
"Gilbert. what is the matter ?" asked
the merchant, kindly.
The boy collected all his energies, and
in a low, painful tone, he answered :
"I have come to tell you that I can re
main here no longer, sir. I—I—"
"What ! Going to leave me ?" uttered
the merchant in surprise, as the boy hesi
tated. "No, no, Gilbert. If you are sick
you shall have a good physician. I can't
lose you now."
"Hear me. sir," resumed the boy, some
what emboldened by his master's kind tone,
but yet speaking in great pain. "0, I must
tell you, and I trust in your generous soul
for pardon. But I cannot stay here. Lis
ten, sir, and blame me if you will, but be
lieve we nut yet lost. My father is poor,
too poor to keep me here. I have learned
the ways of the city; I have longed for
some of those innocent, healthy amuse
ments which I have seen my companions
enjoying. For weeks together I have been
without a penny in my pocket, and at such
times I have felt much shame in view of
my extreme poverty. My father has given
me two dollars—one when he left me here,
and one when he came to visit me. But
what was that? Nearly all of it went for
small articles I absolutely needed. Lec
tures, concerts, and various other kinds of
healthy entertainments were visited by my
companions, but I could not go. At length
the fatal knowledge was mine that others
of my station had money for such things—
money that they took from their employers
without leave. I pondered upon it long
and deeply, and in pondering I was lost.
Yesterday I took two—dollars."
Here the poor boy burst into tears; but
the merchant said not a word. In a few
moments Gilbert resumed :
"You know the worst now. I took it,
and a part of it I used last night; but 0,
I want no more such hours of agony such
as I have passed since that time. Here is
a dollar and a-half; sir. Take it, and when
I get home I will send you the rest. 0,
let me go, for I cannot stay where tempta
tion haunts me. Away in the solitegle of
my father's farm I shall not want the
money I cannot have. You may say that
I have had experience; but alas! that
experience only tells me that while I re
main here the tempter must be with me.
I would not long for what I cannot possess.
While I have wants and desires the wish
must be present to gratify them. Let me
go, sir; but oh, tell me not my shame !"
The boy stopped and bowed his head.
The merchant gazed upon him in silence,
and during that time a variety of shades
passed over his countenance.
"Gilbert," he said at length, in a low,
kind tone, "you must not leave me. For a
few moments I will forget the difference in
our stations, and speak as plainly as you
have spoken. I have been in the wrong, I
freely confess. I should have known that
temptation was thrown in your way—a
temptation that should not be cast in the
way of any person, much less an unexpe
rienced youth. Since you have been so
nobly frank, I will be equally so. Forgive
me the situation in which I placed you,
and the past shall be forgotten. Until this
moment I never thought seriously of this
subject; I never realized how direct was
the temptation thus placed before the ap
prentices of our houses. But I see it all
now. I know that to a poor boy, who has
no money, the presence of both money and
costly amusements must be too fearful a
temptation for ordinary youths. But you
shall not leave.
"From this moment I shall trust you
implicitly, and I shall love you for your
noble disposition and fine sense of honor.
I shall not fear to trust you henceforth,
for you shall have pecuniary recompense
somewhat commensurate with the labor
you perform. I have often blessed the
hour that brought you to my store, for I
have seen in you a valuable assistant; and
if I ever held a lingering doubt of your
strict integrity, I shall hold it no more, for
it requires more strength or moral purpose
to acknowledge, unasked, a crime, than it
does to refrain from committing one.
Never again will I accept the labor of any
person without paying him for it, and then
if he is dishonest no blame can attach to
me. You will not leave me, Gilbert ?"
The boy gazed up into his employer's
face, but for a while tears and sobs choked
his utterance. Mr. Phelps drew him to
his side and laying his hand upon the
youth's head, he resumed :
"If I blame you for this:momentary de
parture from strict honesty, the love I bear
for your noble confession vastly more than
wipes it all away. Henceforth you shall
have enough for all your wants, and when
the year is up -we will make an arrange
ment that can but please you. What say
you, will you stay ?"
"If—if—l only knew that you will nev
er abhor me for this—"
"Stop, Gilbert, I have spoken the truth
and you need have no fear. I will pay you
three dollars a week for your own amuse
ment and instruction, and when you want
clothes and other matters of like necessity,
if you will speak to mo you shall have
them. All the past is forgotten, save your
many virtues, and henceforth I know you
only for what you shall prove."
Gilbert tried in vain to tell his gratitude,
but the merchant saw it all; and with tears
in his own eyes, he blessed the boy and
then bade him go about his work.
The year passed away, and then another
boy came to take Gilbert's place ; for the
latter took his station in the counting-room.
But the new boy came not as the boys had
come before. The merchant promised to
pay him so much per week, enough for all
practical purposes, and then he felt that he
should not be responsible for the boy's
honesty.
At the age of seventeen, Gilbert Good
win took the place of the assistant--book
keeper, and at nineteen ho took his place
at the head of the counting-room; for to
an aptness at figures and an untiring ap
plication to duty, lie added strength of
moral integrity which made his services
almost invaluable.
And now he has grown up to be a man,
and the bright-eyed girl who was so inti
mately connected with that one dark hour
of his life, has been his wife several years.
He is still in the house of Mr. Phelps, and
occupies the position of business partner,
the old merchant having given up work,
and now trusting to his youthful associate.
Gilbert Goodwin has seen many young
men fall, and he has often shuddered in
view of the wide road to temptation which
is open to so many more; and he will have
no person in his employ to whom he can
not afford to pay a •sum sufficient to re
move them from inevitable temptation.
FEBRUARY 28, 1872.
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1-11-1-IATTX.
Objects and Aims of the Organization—
General Demoralization at the South—
Report of the Congressional Committee.
WASHINGTON, February 18.—The Joint
Select Committee will to-morrow report on
the condition of affairs in the late insurrec
tionary States. The evidence taken in
in Washington and South Carolina is sub
mitted, as is also the report of the sub-
Committee to digest reports of Executive
officers of States. The testimony taken
in other States is yet unprepared and will
be submitted in a supplementary report.
The Committee say inquiry has been
made into the commission of outrages, ex
ecution of the laws, dead legislation, offi
cial incompentency, corruption, &c. There
is a remarkable concurrence of testimony
that the courts and juries administer jus
tice between man and man in all ordinary
cases civil and criminal, but evidence is
equally decisive that redress cannot be
obtained against those who commit crimes
in disguise and at night. The reasons as
signed are the identification is difficult, al
most impossible; that when this is arrang
ed, the combinations and oaths of the or
der come in and release culprits by per
jury, either upon the witness stand or in
the jury box, and that the terror inspired
by their acts as well as the public senti
ment in their favor in many localities par
alyzes the arm of the civil power. Numer
ous complaints were made of the incapa
city of many of the inferior magistrates,
and in several States the Governors are
charged with abuse of the pardoning pow
er, especially in favor of neg,roes, which
will be considered subsequently.
The Committee trace, as far as they are
able, the origin, extent, purposes and mode
of operation of the Ku-Klux Klan, the
time of whose organization is fixed in
1566, and the testimony in reference to
which covers 1,400 pages of the report of
the sub-committee o?elections. In the
Louisiana contested election cases in 1868,
the object of the Ku-Klux was to oppose
and reject the principles of the radical
party as shown by the Constitution, to be
accomplished by each member providing
himself with a pistol, Ku-Klux gown and
signal instruments. If corroborative evi
dence were needed, it could be found in
the expressions made by these bandits to
their victims when inflicting their scourg
ings upon men and their outrages upon
women. That testimony is uniform, and
out of their own mouths we condemn
them, it must be on the ground of their
hostility to the Government and to the
enjoyment by the negro of the rights con-
Iferred on him by th amendment to the
Constitution and by the laws which they
are organized to oppose.
The refusal of a large portion of the
wealthy and educated men to discharge
their duties as citizens has brought upon
them the same consequences which are be
ing suffered in northern cities and commu
nities from the neglect of their business
and educated men to participate in all
movements of the people which make up
self-government. The citizen in either
section who refuses or neglects from any
motive to take his part in self-government,
has learned that he must now suffer and
help to repair the evils of bad government.
The newly made voters of the South at
the close of the war, it is testified, were
kindly disposed towards their former mas
ters. The feeling between them even yet
seems to be one of confidence in all other
than their political relations. The refusal
of their former masters to participate in
political reconstruction necessarily left
the negroes to be influenced by others.
Many of them were elected to office, and
entered it with honest intention to do
their duty, but were unfitted for its dis
charge. Through their instrumentality
many unworthy white men, having ob
tained their confidence, also procured pub
lic positions. In legislative bodies this
mixture of ignorant but honest men with
better educated knaves, gave opportunity
for corruption, and this opportunity has
developed a state of demoralization, on this
subject which may and does account for
many of the wrongs of which the people
justly complain. It is apparent at the
same time that the demoralization is not
confined to race, nativity or political creed,
but presents specimens alike in the negro,
the carpet-bagger and the white native
citizen of both parties.
These remarks are not applicable
.to all the reconstructed States. They arc
to several of them. Taking South Car
olina as an illustration, and it is certainly
as bad in these respects as any of the
States, and there can be no doubt that
venality and corruption in the Legislature
prevailed largely there, they are spoken
of as existing by men of all parties, and
seem to be conceded. Certainly this in
stance is closest universally believed by
the people of the State. With such ma
terial in the Legislature, and such views
of virtue outside, as are showed to have
prevailed, corruption !was inevitable. We
point to the results of opinion in South
Carolina, in the fact that the negroes in
nine counties of the State iu which Ku-
Klux violence prevailed to such an extent
as to call fin the suspension of the writ
of habeas corpus in them, are according
to the testimony of Judge Carpenter,
much more intelligent than in any other
part of the State. The fact that they are
so, when placed alongside of' the list of
men murdered and maltreated in these
counties, demonstrates that it requires the
strong arm of the government to protect
its citizens in the enjoyment of theirrights,
to keep the peace and prevent this threat
ened, rather to stay this initiated, war of
races until tho experiment which it has
inaugurated, and which many southern
men pronounce now, and many more
have sworn shall be made a failure, can be
determined in peace. The race so recent
ly emancipated, against which banishment
or serfdom is thus decreed, but which has
been clothed by the Government with the
rights and responsihilitios of citizenship,
ought not to be left, hereafter, without
protection against the hostilities and suf
ferings it has endured in the past, as long
as the legal arm and constitutional powers
of the government are adequate to afford
it. Communities suffer such evils and in
fluenced by such extreme feeling may be
slow to learn that relief can come only
from a ready obedience to and B , ,pport of
constituted authority. Looking to the
modes provided by law for the redress of
all the grievances, that the Southern com
munities do not seem to yield this ready
obedience at once should not deter the
friends of good government in both sec
tions from hoping and working for that
end. Northern communities, exasperated
by delay and insubordination, may be re
minded that the elements of the two so
cieties are widely different, composed or
those who a few years since ruled the
State and enacted obedience to their will
from their slaves, and held absolute sway
over the votes of their white dependents,
but who are now reduced in influence
and in wealth by the events of the war, and
of the poor white who has found himself,
as he supposes, degraded by the elevation
of the negro to political equality with him,
his vote before having been the chief badge
of his superiority over the negro, of not
only voting but ruling the State, in office
with or over his former master, or strug
gling with the evils of poverty in begin
ning life for himself after the best years
of his life have been spent in the service
of others. All these elements beget feel
ings, and result in disorders to which
Northern communities are strangers. The
strong feeling which led to the rebellion
and sustained brave men, however mis
taken, in resisting the government which
demanded their submission to its authori
ty, the sincerity of whose belief was at
tested by their enormous sacrifice of life
and treasure, this feeling cannot be expect
ed to subside at once nor in years. It
required full forty years to develope disaf
fection into sedition, and sedition into
treason. Should we not be patient if in
less than ten we have a prospect of seeing
so many who were armed enemies becom
ing obedient citizens ? Should we not give
all encouragement to those who manifest a
disposition now to become such, especially
when it is shown that in many secti3ns
well disposed men were deterred by fear of
the power of an armed and desperate con
spiracy from affording aid to the authori
ties in enforcing the law? But while we
invoke this forbearance and conciliation,
fully recognizing that they form far the
largest part of the Southern people, re
luctant obedience is all that is to be hoped
for. Let it be understood that less than
obedience the government cannot accept.
Obedient citizens they cannot be considered
who, themselves complaining of bad laws,
excuse or encourage masked or armed mobs
that override all law. Brave and magnani
mous enemies even they cannot be reck
oned, who permit remnants of rebellious
feeling, the animosities of race or bitter
ness of political partnership, to degrade the
soldiers of Lee and Johnston into cowardly
midnight prowlers and assassins, who
scourge and kill the poor and defenceless.
Against all such crimes, as well as against
incompetency and corruption in office, the
power of all intelligent citizens and of the
courts of justice should be invoked and
united. And appealing for patience and
forbearance in the North while time and
these powers are doing their work, we
would also appeal to the good sense of
Southern men, if they sincerely desire to
accomplish political' reform through a
change in the negro vote. If their theory
is true that he votes solidly now for the
Republican party and is kept there by his
ignorance and by deception, all that is
necessary to keep him there is to keep up
their countenance of the Ku-Klux organi
zation. Having the rights of a citizen and
voter, neither of these rights can be abro
gated by whipping him. If his political
opinions are erroneous, he will not take
kindly to the opposite creed when its apos
tles continue to use the sceurge on himself
and outrage his wife and children. If he
is ignorant, he will not be educated by
burning his school houses and exiling his
teachers. If he is wicked, he will not be
made better by banishing to Liberia his
religious teachers. If the resuscitation of
the State is desired by his labor, neither
will it be secured by a prosecution which
depopulates townships, and prevents the
introduction of new labor and of capital.
The law of 1871 has been effective in
suppressing for the present, to a great ex
tent, the operations of masked and disguis
ed men in North and South Carolina. Bills
have also been found by grand juries in
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, but
comparatively few, if any, of the defendants
in the last named States have yet
been tried. The apparent cessation of op
erations should not lead to the conclusion
that the community would be safe if pro
tective measures were withdrawn. These
should be continued until there remains
no further doubt of the actual suppression
and disarming of the wide-spread and dan
gerous conspiracy. The result of suspend
ing the writ of habeas corpus in South Caro.
lina shows that where the membership mys
teries and power of the organization has
been kept concealed, this is the most and
perhaps the only effective remedy for its
suppression. And in view of its cessation
and resumption of hostilities at different
times, of its extent and power, and that in
several of the States where it exists the
Courts have not yet held terms at which
cases can be tried, we recommend that the
power conferred on the President by the
fourth section of that act be extended un
til the end of the next session of Congress.
In view, also, of the large number of in
dictments found in the several courts un
der this act, which yet remain untried and
of the evident encouragement derived from
the belief that the present United States
courts cannot possibly roach and try them•
within any reasonable time, we recommend
such an increase of the judiciary of the
United States, by districts and circuits in
the States shown to be affected by these
disorders, as in the judgment of Congress
will secure speedy and certain justice to
be administered, and leave no hope of im
punity to criminals by the law's delay.
The continuance of disabilities is the
only cause not yet considered. No man
under disabilities has avowed himself as
either committing or encouraging out
rages for that reason, and no member of
the organization has justified their acts on
that ground. It is one of the pretexts
made by those who were willing to urge
any plausible excuse for outrages which
admit of none, but to remove alleged im
pediments to local government encountered
by the existence of disabilities to hold of
fice, and being satisfied that there should
be a general removal of them with proper
conditions and exceptions, we recommend
the passage of a law for that purpose,
agreeing in the recommendation made by
the President to exclude from its benefit
any great criminals distinguished above
all others for the part they took in opposi
tion to the government. In this connec
tion we wish to say, that as disregard of
law has been an evil so largely complained
of, and so widely extended in the insur
rectionary- States, no encouragement
should be given to those who have accept
ed office in defiance of the existence of
these constitutional disabilities, or have
elected to office men Whom they knew to
be excluded by them.
The document concludes with the report
of Representative Stevenson, from the sub-
Committee oq debts and election laws of
the late insurrectionary States, the sub- ;
stance of which has been already published
pang for tlu ;1;
Woman Suffrage.
With a view to moving in the matter
before the coming Constitutional Conven
tion, the following petition is now being
circulated and signed in Philadelphia :
To the Senate and House of Representative" of
Pennsylvania:
Your petitioners, citizens of the United States,
would respectfully represent that we believe that
women will be restrained of their just rights as
citizens of the State if they shall be deluded rep
resentation in the coming Constitutional Conven
tion and a voice in the formation of the supreme
law affecting their lives, liberties, and properties ;
and therefore pray your honorable bodies;
That in all legislation providing for or regula
ting said convention, you will recognize the citi
zenship of women, and explicitly provide that
qualifications of electors and delegates shall be
without regard to sex.
. . . .
The petitions are open for signatures at the
rooms of tho Pennsylvania Woman-Suffrage As
sociation, No. 700 Arch street, from ten to one
o'clock, daily.
In this connection it may not be amiss,
and will certainly be interesting, to brief
ly recapitulate the testimony of Governor
Campbell, of Wyoming, on the influence of
the feminine element in the politics and
legislation of that Territory. Governor
Campbell has been in Philadelphia for the
past week, and in conversation, private
and public, has fully and definitely stated
his impressions ; and as a careful and in
telligent observer his statements have the
value of the evidence of an expert in the
courts. Women suffrage became the law
in Wyoming by a Republican vote in the
legislature, and the enfranchised voters
have never forgotten to whom they owe
their new franchise. There is a lesson in
this. As grand jurors the women imme
diately made themselves felt, and with
them the inquest of the county became at
once in tact what it was in name. The
liquor laws were promptly enforced and
disorderly houses mercilessly presented. As
petit jurors they incline to a severe con
struction of their duties. It is noteworthy
that a man was never convicted of homi
cide in Wyominr , 6 until women entered the
jury -box, and the first homicide case tried
before a jury among whom were women
resulted in a verdict of guilty. At the polls
the women cast their votes now without
exciting remark or even attention, their
presence, if having any influence at all,
having the same that it does in the parlor
—refining and relieving the harsher fea
tures and manners of the occasion, These
statements are facts, not opinions , and as
such have peculiar weight in the delibera
tion or argument of a question which will
speedily call for decision at our hands.—
Phiks. Press.
One Thing at a Time,
A great many things may be well done,
provided that only one thing at a time is
attempted. Many active, energetic people
suffer their lives to waste, simply because
they are without method of any kind.—
True, they are busy, and fussy, and fidget
ty, and full to the bursting with all man
ner of plans and projects; but while ago
nizing with the pains of parturition, they
seldom bring any matters of importance to
birth. They should recollect that good
deeds are not produced in litters, but are
laid down on a solid basis, after the order
of steps ascending toward the summit of a
pyramid.
As a rule, the first thing to be done is
that of immediate, present duty. It should
be done to-day, and not be postponed until
to-morrow. It should be done now, and
not when one feels more like trying it.—
The body is lazy. The mind is often slug
gish ; but to will is to do. The will has
imperial force in men of will, who firmly
resolve to rule themselves, and so far as
they can, all the circumstances around
them.
Few things worthy of being done can
be accomplished without hard work. Shift
less people are cowardly. They shrink
from contests with difficulty or hardship.
They irun for refuge to the quicksands of
idle hope.
Full 'of wishes, they imagine that, some
how, luck will fill their hands with bene
fits. And so they dream and wonder how
others get along, and why they do not.—
Life oozes out nothing but stagnation and
decay for all such cowardly spirits that
dare not compete for the prizes of diligent
industry.
Hard work grows easy and becomes a
pleasure to all who have felt the stimulus
of its medical charms. One task well done
makes the next lighter. The ancient Sy
racusan, who began by carrying the calf,
found himself able to carry the grown up
bullock with ease. "One thing at a time,
and courage." These make life pleasant
and fruitful.
A Sensible Resolve ,
-Did you ever hear, sir, how it was
that Edwards, the mason gave up drink
ing ?" said a work - man to his employer
one day ; when he was talking to him
about the evils of intemperance.
"No said the latter; «how was it?"
"Well one day Edwards was drinking
in a public house, when the landlord's wife
came to call her husband to dinner.
''What's for dinner ?' said the man.
"Roast goose,' replied his wife.
" 'ls there apple sauce ?' he asked.
" 'Well, go and make some; I don't eat
goose without apple-sauce.'
"Edwards was so impressed with the
scene he had witnessed, when the woman
had left to prepare this delicacy, that for
the first time in his life; he began to think
what a fool he had been.
"'Here's this man,' said he to himself,
'can't eat his dinner of roast goose without
apple-sauce, while my poor wife and chil
dren at home are glad to get a herring for
their dinners, and very often can't have
that. Whose money, I should like to know,
goes to provide this fellow with good
things•? Mine, and that of other fools like
me. Well, what's done can't be undone.
It's of no ure crying over spilt milk, but
that fellow shan't dine off roast goose at
my expense.'
"So he paid his reckoning, and walked
out of that public house, never to enter it
as _ _ _
A snout. time ago, a lady and gentleman
were married very quietly in the country, and
proceeded in their carriage to spend their hon
eymoon among the lakes, the gentleman, giv
ing strict orders to his Irish footman on no ac
count to state to inquirers that they were mar
ried. When leaving the first inn on the road
the happy couple were much astonished and
annoyed to find the servants all assembled,
and, pointing to the gentleman, mysterously
exclaiming, "That's him ! that's him I that's
the man I" On reaching the next stage the in
dignant master told the servant that he had
impressed upon him as a secret, and that he
had told the servants at the last inn that they
were a newly married couple. 'Be jabers, an'
it's not true your honor,' replied the servant.
'I tould the whole kit that yer honor and yer
Fionor's lady (God bless her !) wouldn't be mar
ried yet for a fortnight I"
NO. 9.
Zke *nut Sir&
The Song of the Tired Servant.
One more day's work for Jesus,
One less of life for me !
But Heaven is nearer
And Christ is dearer
Than yesterday to me,
His love and light
Fill all my soul to-night.
One more day's work for Jesus ;
How glorious is my King !
'Tis joy, not duty
To speak his beauty;
My soul mounts on the wing
At the mere thought
How Christ her life had brought.
One more day's work for Jesus,
Yes, and a weary day.
Bat heaven shines clearer,
And rest comes nearer
At each step of the way;
And Christ is all—
Before his face I fall,
0 blessed work for Jesus!
0 rest at Jesus' feet!
There toil seems pleasure,
My want is treasure,
And pain for Him looks sweet.
Lord, if I may,
11l serve thee more another day.
Vanity of Vanities ! AU is Vanity.
Dr. Matthew Arnold, of Rugby, said 'lle read
the newspapers to see how God governed the
world ;" and Dr. David Nelson, of Missouri,
used to say, "He would watch for the Lord, if
no one else did!" Let ns hear "the voice of
the Lord" in a recent event.
Ent a few days ago, inEngland, &young man
of thirty was thought to be dying. Of no per
sonal weight or influence aside from his rank
as heir to the throne, yet a marvelous chain
hangs from this link, connecting it with every
interest of the civilised world! How worth
less to a dying Prince was all the glory of that
kingdom "upon which the sun never sets."
How joyfully would he have exchanged fsr it
a title to that other kingdom which has "no
need of the light of the sun."
A century ago a young member of the same
royal family, in dying, left her testimony to
the value of "this" and "that." The Princess
Amelia, the favorite daughter of George
wrote these simple lines a shorttimebefore her
early death; and they receive dignity and
meaning in the recent extremity of the heir to
the British throne—
"Unthinking idle, wild and young,
I laughed andlalled, and danced and sung
And proud of health, of beauty 'vain,
Dream not of sorrow, care, or pain ;
Concluding, in those hours of glee,
That all Me world was made for ma
"But when the day of trial oaten,
And sickness shook my trembling frame;
When folloy's gay pursuits were o'er,
And I eonld danee and sing ao more,
And then occurred how sad 'twould be,
Were this world only made for me,"
With all the Heart.
That was a striking thing said of one of the
kings belonging to the Hebrew royalty, when
the work and its results ofbis successful reign
were being summed up : "He did it with all
heart, and prospered."
This doing things with a hearty enthusiasm
is often what makes tho doer a marked person
and his deeds effective.
It is so everywhere. The most ordinary
service is dignified when it is performed in
that spirit. Every employer wants those who
work for him to put heart into toil. He soon
picks out those whose souls are in their ser
vice, and gives them evidence of his apprecia
tion. They do not need constant watching.
He can trust them in his absence. The places
of honor and profit naturally fall to them.—
They are the rising members of the toiling
brotherhood. They are in demand. They re
buke indifference and inspire fidelity in others
by their example. They prosper • for they
work in harmony with the law which God has
established and maintains in the world.
In the sphere of religion this heartiness in
service is especially needful and vital. What
is not done heartily here is hardly done at all,
as God estimates it.
He wants sincerity, resolution, persistence,
enthusiasm—not merely the consenting word
and the formal act. A service that begins and
ends with the latter is never acceptable ser
vice with Him. The pharisee's tithes of mint
anise and cummin are often an offense; the
publican's pentient cry and the poor woman's
gift of two mites wear a right royal glory in
His eye, because He sees the whole-souled de
votion that lies behind them.—Nornisi Star.
Gems of Thought.
The greater the difficulty the more glory in
surmounting it. SkiUful pilots gain their rep
utation from storms and tempests.
Look always at the bright side of things, as
the cheering and invigorating sun does ; and
remember that content is the mother of good
digestion.
We have but one moment at once ; let us
improve it. Our moment will soon come
when this life will cease ; may we se live as to
meet it without regret.
It is avain thing fbr you to stick your finger
in the water, and, pulling it out, look for a
hole ; it is equally vain to suppose that, bow •
ever large a space you occupy, the world will
miss you when you die.
' , Swear not at all?' Deceive not. Profani
ty and falsehood are marks of low breeding.
Show us the man who commands the best res
pect; an oath never trembles on his tongue—
s falsehood is never breathed from his lips.
It is the great art and philosophy of life to
make the best of the present, whether it be
good or bad ; to bear the one with resignation
and patience, and to enjoy the other with
thankfulness and moderation.
Some men are kind because they are dull,
as common horses are easily broken to har
ness. Some are orderly because they are
timid, like cattle driven by a boy wither wand.
And some are social because they are greedy,
like barn fowls that mind each other's cluck
ing.
The Power of the Word.
A christian man, travelling in North Amer
ica, met an intelligent countryman, and found
that he was a well-instructed and humble
christian.
"Under whose ministry were yon converted V'
said the gentleman.
"By that of the Rev. George Whitefiela, re
plied he.
"I did not think that George Whitefield was
ever in these parts.
"Nor was he, sir. I never saw him in my
life."
"I thought you said he was the means of
your conversion.
"So he was. A neighbor of mine had busi
ness many miles from this ; and one day, while
he was away, he chanced 'to come to a place
where Mr. Whitefield was preaching, and beard
his discourse. When he returned, be was tell
ing me all his adventures, and among the rest,
that he had heard the celebrated Mr. White
field preach. As I was very curious to know
what this discourse was about, my neighbor
told me all he could remember—enough to
show me that 1 was a lost sinner, and that my
only hope was in coming to Christ for salva
tion. So I went to him, and trusted in him as
my savior, and a happy man I have been since
that day.
Rim's roe THZ .1011ENZY or Lt,i.—The fol
lowing rules, from the papers of Dr. West,
1 1
were,
according to his memorandum, thrown
together as general way-marks in the journey
of life : Never to ridicule sacred things, or
what others may esteem as such, however
absurd they may appear to be. Never to show
levity when people are professedly engaged
in worship. Never to resent a supposed injury
till I know the views and motives of the auth
or of it; nor seek occasion to retaliate. Nev
er to judge a person's character by external
appearances. Always to take the part of an
absent person who is censured in company, so
far as truth and propriety will allow. Never
to think the worstof another on account of his
differing from me in political or religious
opinions. Never to dispute if I can fairly
avoid it.