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THE TIME TO 818.
It scemetb hard to die at morn,
, When love and joys'urb young,
scarce We Vo listened to the fcalo ;
The siaen hope bath sung.
'When dancing feet and songs of mirth
Keep time to pleasure's merry call,
It Hecm’a a dreary change for those—
Thbcoffiu and the sable pall. .
It seemeth hard to die at noon—-
In manhood's glorious pride—
'When every life chord of the heart
Is held by loved oro* by our aide.
It seemotU bard to fold our bands—
Our labor yet to leave.undone—
And follow Death's pale messenger
From realms beyond the sun>
It scowetb hard to tlie at eve,
..When, resting from our.day* of toil,
>Ve bold bur treasures to our hearts,
And though tbo aim of Death, to foil*
Forgetting that the life of wnvn
Js as-the twinkling of an eye—
The dashing of a.meteor
‘Athwart the troubled sky.
But 'Us a blessed boon to die.
At morning, noon, or night,
when o'er our cherished hopes despair
Hath shed a poisonous blight*’ .
When all wo trusted, all Wo loved,
, : Have sunk beneath Time's rolling wave
’Tis thou a blessed boon to die.
And share with them tbo silent grave.
In his own time God callbth all—
The king must leave his throne
And journey, like the poorest man,
Through Death's dark realm alone j
And ■happiest he whoso life can show
Tho purest, most unsullied page, .
though,ho were called iu early youth*
Or wore tbo wintry crown of ago.
hie itEsnmm
a toomont, brothers, Usteiv .
To tho moan that comoth up
Prom tUo thiu lips of the destitute,
drink Ulb’b angujeh cupj ;
There icro *»rt«we as pato as *hljo9 #
.!Hhoi«'ttTQ 'eolti «s Bivo"W>
v Coursing on life’s dusky highway—*
Look, and you will Imd it so!
■There is many a lone, !ono orphan,
Beating out the march of life,
'Alid tho clamor and confusion, •
All alone amidst tho strife.
"Treat them, kindly, deign to love th<om>
And thy mother’s feelings prove }
Do not pass them coldly, saying,
“Mine are all that I cun love."
BiUttlldllMM:
THE DEACON’S DILEMMA
’ 08, THE USB OF TUB BEAUTIFUL.
Deacon TilUon hai tiic aquarest, neatest
'vnite lions- that over showed its keen angles
from the mi.my clumps of old lilac hushes.—
to front of it stood, on each side of the door
way, two thrifty cherry-trees, which boro a
bushel every season. Excepting the aforo
. mentioned lilac trees, there was not a flower
or shrub round' the place. Rose hushes the
Deacon, thought rotted the house, and the hon
eysuckle which his wife tried to train over the
(porch, was torn down when the painters came,
and on the whole, the Deacon said, what was
me use of putting it up, so long as it did not
hear anything?
By, the side of the house was a thrifty, well
epc garrlon, with plenty of currant bushes,
go isehcrry bushes, and quince trees—and the
beota. nml carrots, and onion's were the pride
£ 8 ***** but ’ )lc often proud
ly said, everyth,ng was for use"— there was
nothing fancy about tt. . His wife nut in ti
morously one season for a flower-border—Mrs
Jenkyns hud given her a petunia, and Mrs.
Simpkins had brought her a package of flow
er seeds from Now York—and so a bed was j
.laid .out. Blit the thrifty Deacon soon found
that the weeding of it took time that Mrs. Til
deamighfc give to her dairy, or making shirts,
nnd knitting stockings, and so it really troub
led h,s conscience. The next spring Tie turn
ed it into his corn-field; and when his .wife
mildly intimated her disappointment, . said
V'lCidly, “After all, ’twaa a thing of no use,
and took time”— and Mrs. Tildon being a
roman, and one of, the kind of saints who al-
m-!! 8 ler I er ? l)Ie . sin"er,s
vexed about the incident” °, f be,n K ’"wardly
night, and prayed h,iT her P ra y e . rB that
turned off f om beholding vunit°v | be
rlJ™ f fT- Pj? rlor .° f tho house was
the most frigid asylum of neatness that ever
discouraged the eyes and heart of a visitor—
the four blank walla were guiltless of any on
graving or painting, or of any adornment but
an ordinary wall paper, and a framed copy of
the declaration of independence— on each of
the three sides stood four obairs-undor the
“ sh , inin « mahogany table,
aml an almanac on it—and
?l pa ’. r “ brass andirons illus
fi7:p,.a?°;, * Th« mantle shelf above
a niJr of of i? rl « [ ' t .brass candle sticks, with
ThTn„I Sni !u e 7 hhtweep—and that ,was all.
—no nnS" 7® v was P ,ttin and simple
,^ over y t hing for L
ona nothing for show—it suited him. His
when sho mOB p '?hed and .looked round it.
thine „ h n Vir BeW, " ff : M , ifp he wanted Some
s’ nnd ‘hen sung in the good old psalm—
" From’vanity turn ofTniy ores; ' '
• . hot no corrupt design
Or covetous desire arise
•• Within this honrt.of mine."
biiUron o^ 1 (leBiRP which this estimable
chase of h “ d aeen ,‘«mpte'd. had been the pur.
henuty hhli P v r PtL [ lan flower-vases, whoso
with rU ° k 7 h « r heart When she went
city^but b rW li a ?- d 6f r B to tho neighboring
resolute?! 7 t,nß *'°rself in time she had
*ml anont t! Ut her *» the allurement
sugar H mon ®y W/Utli/ in buying loaf
Wof 1 tho Won was
good eating, and prided faimeelfonthe
fXmrrifnn WUk^slmtm.
TEKMS
i Bacon observed, justly,
diat the beat part of beauty is tliat which a
picture cannot express. Lord Shaftesbury
asserts that all beauty is truth. True feat
ures make the beauty of the face, And true
proportions the. beiuty of architecture, as
true measure the harmony and music In
poetry, which is all fable, truth still is the
perfection. Fontenello thus daintily com
pliments the sex when he compares women
ana clocks; the latter servo to point out. the
hours, the former to make us forget them.
There is a magic power in beauty, that all
confess—a strange witchery that enchants us
with a potency as irresistible as that of the
magnet.; It is to' the moral world what grav
itation is to the physical. It is easier to write
about in woman, and its all-pervading in-
Huonce, than to define what it is. Woman
!!o; . pi ’ elry of , th ® the same sense
as tbp stars are the poetry of .heaven. Clear,
ilml'i i mg ’ harmonious, they are the terres
kibd planets t mt rule t,ie destinies of man-
~4 ? Pe ; lEeR ' nt 'i' stumn moating, declared
that ho knew no East, no West, no,North no
South.. Then,” said ' a bystander, “yon
ought to.go school tfndlearn your geogra-
bounties of hia wife’s table. , Few''women I . « CODiUII lifts
knew better how t } sot one—and the. snowy , , .. ' . 1 *
broad, golden butter, clear preserves and jet- , 10 18 '“ ere who desires to appear to his
lies wore themes of admiration at all the tea- f° mv creatures precisely what he is? I have
tables hi the land. The Deacon didn’t mind “ wn MUO ' l peonle-and adniired them, for they
a fow cents in a pound more for a nicer hnni, ar ! : conl parativeiy few; Why does Mr. Smith,
and would every now and then bring in a treat e . n 8l)mo hundreds of miles from home, talk'
of fresh oystersfrom the city when they were °; ‘ us pmCO in the‘conn fry? In the etymolo
dearest. Thesfe Were comforts, he said—nine £ l0( " sense of the words it certainly is a place
must stretch a point for the comforts of life, j lll “ 10 country, for it is a seedy one-storied cot-
Tho Deacon must not be mistaken fur a ty- tnf ? u V'Jhuut a tree near it, standing bleakly
rannicnl man or a bad husband. When he on a J“H.-side, But a place in the country
quietly put his wife’s flower-patch into bis BB gn ostß to the mind long avenues, great
corn-field, he thought ho had done hor service ' robberies, extensive.green-houses, fine con
by curing her of an absurd notion for things Sol ’vatoriea, lots of horses, abundance of ser
that took time and made trouble and were of ™" tB ’ and tllat ‘ 8 t * lfi picture which Mr. Smith
no use; and she, dear soul, never had breathed deBires to call up before the minds eye of those
a dissent to any course of his, loud onougii to "'hombo addresses.- /
Ipt him know she had one. lie laughed in his | ' |en r - Robinson talks with dignity
sleeve often, when he saw her so tranquilly , a | loU * ; , M’ e . political discussions which take
knitting or shirt making at those times when P‘ ac ® 'J 1 h’ B Servant’s hall, the impression oon
she had been want to give to her poor little ' ve y cd 18 tl >at Robinson has a vast establisb
contraband pleasures. As for the flower va- i Illen . t of Gnostics. A vision rises of ancient
ses, they were repented of—and Mrs. Tilden i refa ' rier ». of a dignified housekeeper, of o bish
put a handfull of spring anemones into a °P"iiko butler, of Jeamses without number, of
cracked pitcher, and sot it on her kitchen ta- . unnfifctfid October*. A man of strong ithaod
ble, till the Deacon tossed them out of the win-; * afc,< J n ma X QV *n think of huntsmen, falconers,
dow—*‘he couldn’t bear to see weeds growing' u r»era—of a grand baronial menage, in fact.
, \t-T would not think that Jlo,hinson> estab
, poor little woman had a kind of chron-' * ,s hment consists of cook, <x housemaid and a
ic heart-sickness, the pining of a teething Btai> .y y ; Ver for the follow tou; hut
child, but she never knew exactly whaMt was W J£, * he va P or ?
she wanted. If she over was sick, no man When Mr. Jones told me the other day that
could be kinder than the Ueacon. He has 80^G thmg or other happened to him when he
been known to harness in all haste, arid rush y as out ** to the,stables to look at. the
to the neighboring town at four o’clock in the ” orBe s<” I naturally, as one fond of
morning, that he might bring her gome deli- horse flesh, that it would he a tine sight to see
cacy she had a fancy for—for that ho could J ‘ mes stables, as he called them. , I thought
see the-use of, but he could not sympathize in , , handsome carriage horses sixteen
her craving desire to see Powers’* Greek slave, a P ftir of pretty ponies for his wife
whmh was exhibiting in a neighboring town. r* c * nrG ' some hunters* beauties to.look at and
“ w haft did Ohristian people want of stun hn- tr ?“ G pqous fellows to go. The words used
ages?” he wanted to know. He thought the even have justified the supposition of
Scriptures put that down—** Eyes have they, two or . threerace horses, and several lads with
but they see not—ears have they,-but they long jackets walking about the
hear not—neither speak they through their • was with fury when I learned
I throat. They that make them are like unto Jones’ horses consisted of a largo brdugh
them ; so is every one that trustoth in them/" *^” orse rhroken winded, und a spavined pony.
, There was the Deacon’s opinion of the arts; 1 h ft vo known a man who had a couple of
and Mrs. Tilden only sighed, and wished she j? oor ‘^ n d farms, habitually talk of his estate.'
; could see it, that was all! onc °f thG commonest and. weakest ways of
But it came to passthatthe Deacon’s eldest Va P orin g, is by.introducing into your conver-
I eon weut to live in New York, and* from that Bftfcl o Q v ver.y familiarly, the names of people of
! time strange changes began to appear in the f/ you know nothing earthly about,
faraily that the Deacon didn’t like ; but as , w , Ba( * lfc Ba *d Jenkins to mo the
Jethro was a smart, driving lad, and making ?J ier “about the duchess being so ill!
money at a great pace, he at first said noth- *y or ’ dear thing! Wc are all.in such great
mg. ■ But on his mother’s birth day, down he dlB^l- ®ss about her!” “Wo ail” meant, Of
came and brought a box for bis mother, which, c ? u^ e .’ *he lilrtdfid aristocracy of f)m district, I
being unpacked, contained a Parian statuette Mre. Jenkins-bad lately become a
of Paul and ’ Virginia— a lovely, simple group meill ber, Jenkins having retired from the hard
as ever told its story in clay. ware lino and bought a small tract of quag-
Everybody was soon standing round it in .
opoH-moutlred admiration, and poor Mrs. Til- timtuigo a than told me that be had
don wiped her eyes more than once as she ” een dfl>vn to Oatmealshire to see his tehan
looked on it. It seemed a vision of beauty in course lie was nut aivare that I kne\v
the desolate neatness of the best room. ml- ■ was the owner of just one firm.—
“Very pretty, I s'pose.” said the Deacon, " " h , ,s 18 Pjy pnvish we have mitered," said a
doubtfu.'ly—.for like most lathers of spirited y aut h qf clerical appearance to me in a rail
twenty-itii-ee elders, he began to feel a little In way carriage. In one sense; it; was; but he ’
| awe of his sun—but dear nvo, what a sight yV? • ■ Upt haye said so had ho been aware that
of Igivfe for a thing that after all ik .tciia the curate,Xnur'thc^le^o'rT—^
ol uouae !’ ‘ How; can Brown and his wife £efc on^ T’ a
“ I said Jethro, looking at his moth- person observed to me ; “ they cannot
er's suffused eycs> *• it i$ one' of the most use- will starve. Think of bey
/tilthmgs that has been brought into the house P^ e . being married with not more than ei"ht
this many a day.” or nine hundred a yearl”_ ‘ Wdwdi^iiifeecrhe
Bee how you’re going; to make that y*oUghfc bo looked as ho made.the remark
out, said the Deacon, looking apprehensive was . a thing to represent that he could
at the young Wisdom' that had risen in his n^ fc Ullderst ttnd how human beings ; could d«;
household. ( what he was well aware was done by multi
“ Wlmt will you wager, mu,'father, that I
will prove nut of your own mouth that this
is us useful as your cart and oxen ?”
" j ??, w y° u ’ve got a great way .of coming
rc,Ull< ~ und twitching them up before
they fiurly know where they are; bull’ll stan’
you on this quealion, any way.’’ And the
Deacon put his yellow silk bandanna Over his
bam head) and took up his position iki the
uoTt seat.
“ Well how, father, what is the use of your
curt and oxen ?”
Why I could not work the farm without
them, and you'd all have nothing to eat, drink
or wear.”
AVell, and what is the Use of our eating
drinking, and wearing?” .
” Use? why wo could not keep alive without •
■“ And whal is the use of our keeping alive ?”
“ The use of our keeping alive?”
• “ Yes, to he sure, why do wo try and strive
and twist and turn to keep alive, and what’s
the use of living ?”
‘‘Living!—why wo want to live; we enjoy
living—all creatures dp—dogs and cats and
every kind of boast. Life is sweet.”
. “ use of living, then, is that we enjoy
“Yes.”
“ Well, wo all enjoy this statuette, so that
there is the same value to that, that there is
in Jiving; and if your oxen and carta and food
n , . clothes, and all that you call necessary
things, have no value except to keep in life,
and life has no value except enjoyment, then
this statuette is a sborf, cut to the great thinn
for which your farm end everything else is
designed. You do not enfoy your cart for
what it is, but because of its use to got food
ana clothes—and food and clothes wo value
I for the enjoyment they give. But a statuette
or a picture, or any beautiful thing, gives en
joyment at once. Wo enjoy it the moment wo
see it—for itself, and not for any use we want
to make of it. Sd»that strikes the great end
of life quicker than anything else, don't it?
Hoy; father—haven’t f got my case ?”
“ I believe the pigs are getting into the gar
den, said the Deacon, rushing out of the front
door.
*i'r^ k* s wife he said before going to bed,
‘ Isn fc it amasing the-wiiy Jethro can talk?
I couldn’t do it myself, but I had it in me
though, if rd had his advantages, Jethro is
a chip of the old bio*"
iudtts of wiser people than himself.
“ It is a cheap horse, that of Wiggins’,’’ re
marked Mr, Figgins; ” ifc. did not cost more
than seventy or eighty pounds,” Poor silly
Figgins fancies that all who hear him Will
conclude, that hia own broken-kneed. hack
(bought for £25) cost at least £l5O. Oh, sil
ly folk who talk hig, and then think you are
adding to your importance—don’t you know
that you are only merely making fools of your
selves ? In' nine cases out of ten, the person
to whom you ,are relating your exaggerated
story knows what the precise fact is. lie is
too polite to contradict you and Jell you the
truth, but roly on it he knows it. .
No one believes the vaporing story told by
another man ; no, not even the mnnwho fan
cies that, his own vaporing story, is believed.
Every one,who knows anything of the world
knows how, by an accompanying process of
mental arithmetic, to make the 'deductions fr.ini
the hig story told; which will bring it down
to something near tlio.truth. Frequently has
my friend Mr, Snooks'toid nicof the crushing,
retort by which he shut up Jeffry upon a mem
orable occasion.
I can honestly declare that I never gave
credence to a syllable'of what he said. Re
has my friend Mr, Longbow told me
ox hts remarkable adventure in the Bay of
Biscay, when a whale very nearly swallowed
hup. ISever once did I fail to listen with eve
jy mark of implicit belief to niy friend’s nar
rative, but do yon-think I believed it? And
more than once’has Mrs.-O’Callnghan assumed
me. that the hot-house on her “ fawther’s es
teot, wore throe miles in length, and that
each cluster of grapes grown on that favored
spot weighed above a hundred weight, ■ With
profound respect I gave ear to all she said :
but, gentle daughter of Brin, did you think I
was as soft as I seemed? You may just as
well tell the truth at once, ye big talkers, for
everybody will know it, at any rate.
O"* The brightest boy of tho clas<* cxamln
eil ior admission to tho Annapolis Naval
Academy, was a little follow from Texan,
about fifteen years of age, who hail been three
[years setting typo in a newspaper olfieo.’aml
baa studied mathematics and arithmetic with
a dip candle in the garret of a log cabin at
night. He was poorly clad when ho reached
Annapolis, and on being asked how he ob
tained the means to reach Annapolis, replied .
that he worked for it, and that his money fall
ing short on tho route, ho had got some small
jobs at typo-sotting in Now Orleans and other
points of Ida journey. If ho should not bo
admitted, ho expected to'work his way homo
again. lie is now to bo seen on board, the
Constitution* in his naval uniform, with his
gilt buttons and anchors, looking as bright
and hopeful as if ho anticipated becoming a
.Commodore, **'
The Pbess vs. tiil Pulpit. —Henry Ward 1
Beecher, on a recent occasion, said: " The
articles of the press go further than the .ser
mon, and carry with them really more weight,
certainly when one hears throe a day, which
is an abomination before God and man. No
preacher, who is fit to preach a sermon, is fit
*q preach more than one a day-; and no man
is fit to hoar more; or, if he does, he is not
fit for much else. Sermons are like boys’
pop-guns.; however many wads you put in,
it’s the last wad that drives the others out.”
O' The Court will please to observe,” said
an Arkansas lawyer, “ that the gentleman
from the East has given them a very learned
speech. He has roamed with old Romulus,-
socked with old Socrates, ripped with old
Euripides, and cantered with old Cantharides 1
but what—your honor—what does ho' knot*
about the laws in old Arkansaw f”
" OUR COUNTRY-MAY IT ALWAYS BE RIOHT-BUT, RIGHT OR WRONG, OUR COUNTRY."
CARLISLE; PA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3. 1861.
around Parist
, But tlie French havejao innate nn aversion
for everything VurillijSJat. they fly even this
mollified rusticity, if dWr they get a chance
to do so. Paris is tire pole-star to which
then' hearts incessantly turn. Each boy
longs to go to Purisi jlod “ make himself a
Monsieur." . Girls hum to become famennes.
Paris is their Golcona and Arnby, whore dia
monds and gold and peWumcd atmosphere are
the heritage of eveeyhody. When a lad or a
lass has once lived ju Paris, there is no get
ting them homo again to the country. They
prefer want in the do'pilal to plenty in the
country ■ and this not innly because they de
light in the animation; which reighs here, and
the company always,-tp-Jie found hero, but be
cause they are perspadfid they shairturri up,
a little sooner or a little later, a fortune that
is, What they think a fortune; a petty shop,
ora petty office in sbme joint stock company
or under government. Success almost always
comes to crown their hopes with fruition.
Pretty eyes and rosy cheeks, worn by the oth
er sex, never fail to command fortune.
This aversion for thfercouutry may be de
tected easily in the villages around Paris.
The excessive rates of rent now obtained iii
Pans have given a singular vogue to -the in
numerable villages which broach the environs
of the capital with their gay white walls. A
groat many of them are- beautiful, either by
reason of the extensive-view they command
from their lofty hills, which load it over the
whole horizon—-an extensive one—or by their
being embowered in some forest full of old
trijes and.delightful vistas, nr.by being laved
by some broad, .'clear pond. All of them are
cheap. The government has done, and is do
ing its best to attract tile people of Paris to
them, not only ns a means of carrying wealth
to the country, but as a means of assuring
public contentment by -disseminating cheap
living,. This latter design is, in a measure,
frustrated by the gregarious habits of the
people. -They will persist in climbing stair
eases and living on "flats” even in the coun
try ; this necessarily interdicts the garden,
orchard, cow and_ poultry yard, which play so
beneficial a part in the. household of the mid
die classes. Xn these houses you have neith-,
ler town nor country. .-They have (apart from’
tlie rate of rent) the inconvenience of both.
Each tenant (although; there is no such thing
as " scraping acquaintance” allowed by cus
tini, which reigns With urban tyranny there,)
knows everything, about his neighbor, and
everything that takes place in his neighbor’s
suit of .rooms. The walls are far from making
any pretention .tq cityVsolidity, and allow'
one not only to hear a great many things said
and dope in a rioiglihfrr's room, but their
r ri’S tUo roof
life " eU;^ re ok<a>e-y a charm of country
GaWJty iajnterdicteijj-comiinny'inust be re
ceived only in limited, number, there can be
no smoking, no fond talking, update, bolster-,
i °! ls v, 1(lU *’® The garden is common to
all the tenants, blit it is.-so small, and there js
I so little-shade in it, if One, tenant is in the
garden, all the -others keep aWny, as there is
| really ns .elbow .room fpr tWo hi it-; Not a
e . ft f* IJt ach les i a flower or fruit, cun. be pluck
ed m it. The tenants are expected to dress
as much to walk in the garden as if they were
at Haden .or iVourviJJe ; and it is not unusual
tor ladies to .wait all the, morning in their
room because their hair-dresser ius not come,
l lioy dure not breathe the morning air unless
then* hair has been dressed by thoir hair
dresser...- .
But despite nil these disagreeable things,
one enjoys the buzz of company around him,
one may persuade himself he is still in the
| city—and those are the pleasures the French
hod m the villages around Paris. A good
many of the cottages are even let as furnished
lodgings, but these arc commonly rented for
the summer season. It/requenfly happens
that the owner of the cottage occupies the
fourth and ho li(nisei/ is the lodger,
iheso landlords are sometimes* bachelors or
childless husbands, wild are independent of
fortune, and lure out a portion of their house
i H V. n li 10 sa k° company. It occasion-1
ally happens that there are eccentric persons I
why only let their ( Tooms upon whimsical con* *
dl l as the right, in addition to the
rent, (which is, of course, proportionally di
minished <theref(|r,) to ;dino; and spend one
evening each Veek with the tenant—and they
contrive to havens many tenants as there are
days in tlie they may have em-,
ployment ?from Sunday till Saturday, both I
inclusive. I > • 1
I have Heardof another who fed his tenants.
He was, as it peeing, a retired tradesman who
hail made a large fortune. Ills ambition .in
this way, being! gratified, a new ambition
awoke within him, and its object was to go
info As lie;had no acquaintan
ces in society, itjwas n very difficult task for
him to. achieve, quit, of a truth, ho could hit
(and you may be sure be long bent his inven-.
fion,) upon no other way of reaching his end,
than by purchasing a beautiful villa in some
village frequented by people of fashion, fur
nishing i( sumptuously, hiring a good cook,
and buying a good collar of wines. This
douche advertised for tenants. They came.
rooms cheap,‘and boarded his ten
ants ifPreiifionalJlo terms ; in which way ho
was sure of breakfasting and dining with per
sons in good sodiety every day for six months
m the year* lie is Very properly contented
with Ins success, and his old acquaintances
nave preteudedjto discover upon his manners
and conversation, something of the varnish of
the fashionameiworld. Ido not know wheth
er lie has any tincture of letters which' may
have made him the more readily contented
with his fortune by suggesting the names of a
great many favorites of the nnoteni gods,
whose year wajs divided into portions equal
jjj. rcspc'ot to jimo, and uhequal in degree of
!D" An old'clergy man, one Sunday, at the
close of the sermon, gave notice to the congre
gation that inf he course of ft week, he ex
pected to go on a mission to the heathen. At
this, one of the deacons, in great agitation,
exclaimed: ‘‘Why, my-dear sir, you have
never told us onc word of this before; what
shall wo do ?’f
“ Oh, brother,” said the parson, “ I don’t
expect to go but of town." I
_ Wi tty. —When Mr. Wilberfotco was a can
didate for Hull, his sister, an amiable and
witty young lady, offered the compliment of'
a new gown to each of the wives of- those
freemen who voted fpr hor brother ; on which
fihe was saluted with a orypf "Mise Wilber
force fur ever 1” when she pleasantly observed ;
“ I thank you, gentlemen ; bufcf cannot agree
with yon—for really Ido pet wish to be Miss .
Wilborforoo >'
Cheap l|oWsci. for liie Peuple,
The French correspindent of the Boston
Traveler thus d6sori))Cslm bis last letter, the
life of tire toiycuts of tl.e cheap cottages so
nUnWnniH in- the .prettjf villages that, cluster
STATE op the union.
SPEECH OF
HON. ITM, BIGLER.
/ . IN THE
U. S. SENATE, DECEMBEB U, 18C0.
Mr. Bici.er. I took the floor, Mr. President
yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of mak
ing a very few remarks on the present un
happy condition of the country. I intended
then only to say \vhat was necessary to indi
cate my own position on the great question
which is agitating the people of this country,
that is my only purpose this morning. I
shall reserve for some subsequent occasion,
when perhaps this whole subject will be more
fully before us, the discussion of the main
questions which it necessarily presents.
Sir, it was too truly remarked by the Sena
tor from Mississippi [Mr. Davis,] yesterday,
that we have fallen on evil times. It is too
sadly apparent that this great Republic of
ours is m imminent danger of dissolution.
Ine whole political, social, and commercial
system is seriously disturbed, and shows un
mistakfthle evidence of depression and distress,
bommeree. trade, and finances are disturbed,
.the banks have-ceased to redeem their notes'
in specie, and the Treasury of the United
States is unable to meet the current demands
upon it. Indeed, sir, a genera! gloom scorns
to have spread over the entire country. Why
is all this? Have the great elements of pros
perity, progress, and general thrift in the
country, become suddenly, exhausted ? No,
sir;, these'were never more abundant than
now.' What is it, then? Why, sir, disguise
it as yon may, this sad picture is the result of
a political panic. ■. I almost shrink from enun
ciating the precise cahse* obvious as I think
it is to every Senator, and to every intelligent
man in tho laud. The startling cause i$ that
men are beginni.ng to doubt tho integrity and
future existence of. tho Government. State
after State has taken steps on the subject of
withdrawing from this Confederacy. We
hoar of Legislatures being assembled, conven
tiorls of the people being ordered, all to con
sider tho grave question whether our relations
are’to continue or not. It; is. not singular,
then, that wo have seen manifestations of
deep concern and distress in .the land.
Sir, this is a startling picture; hut it seems
to me it is the part of patriotism and duty to
iook.it fairly in the face.. My own impress
ions first were, that the loss' that was said
here the better.", I have changed that impres
sion. I believe that the times require that
the public men, the selected men of the na
tion,, should come up to this great question.
Let the people understand what view is taken
of jt here. For one, lam prepared to sepa
rate myself/as iar as possible iroih pastpreju
dioes and party allegiance, and consider the
condition of. the country in- a 1 spirit of devo
tion to its welfare. I most heartily commend
. -lha_Sen^4ci!m.cC?u
necticut, [Mr. Dixon.] Without understand
ing; the desires of. the men of his own party,
as he has told us',-regardless of his connection
with them, of his party prejudices—for I be
lieve ho is a friend of tho President elect—he
I has come boldly forward and taken his posi
tion for tho Constitution, fin- the Gnion as
( made by the Constitution, for tho equality of
f r!u t o Ca : “ nii ß? r ''. 9t ' c<! 1,r1,0n o tho oitiioiisj
CCM Zr a^ B'’ 8 '’ ®' r; J oxtor >d to him the hand
of fellowship, and 1 moot him in the same
spirit, ana under .similar circumstances, for I
have no idea-how n(y views will bo received /
on this side (if the Chamber. In the spirit of
the Senator from Illinois on this side, [Mr. I
Douglas,] I go with men of any party, and
men of every party who will devote them
selves to the great work of rescuing tho conns
try froin the impending danger.
I • Mr. President, fur weal or for who, lam a
Union man. lam for the Gnion as made by
l our fathers, I am for thoOonstitutional Union
as it is, and, in the spirit of the remark of the
| Senator from California yesterday, I expect
I to ho of and''for the Union as it is to be.
| Whatever a humble individual like myself
can do, or suffer, or sacrifice in tho cause of
( llie Union, shall he freely offered up.
But, sir, what can ho done? I think the
J motion of the Senator from Kentucky, to re
fer so much of (ho President’s Message as re
fers to this subject, to a select committee, is a
movement in the .right direction. I thank the
oenator for it. and I shall cheerfully vote for
its adoption. ' . ~
I was somewhat surprised at the view taken
of that proposition by tho distinguished Sen
ator from Virginia, [Mr. Mason.] That hon
orable Senator said ho would vote for tho res
olution ns a more matter of parliamentary
courtesy, because the message should he re
ferred to a committee. Ho said that much,
lest his vote might bo misunderstood by his
constituents, that they should be under the
impression that he had concluded that a rem
edy for the present difficulties which beset the
country could ho instituted, while, in his
judgment. Congress could do nothing on tlult
subject. .That honorable Senator must know
that, in some way or other, any adjustment
that may bo made’ on this subject, must, to
some extent, ho connected with Congress.
Congress must necessarily bo connected witli
it, Unless it be tho question, which belongs to
the States only. If it be possible to agree
upon an adjustment in tho shape of a law,
then Congress and the Executive will perform
tho whole work; If the oommiftoe should
find that it required an amendment to tho
Constitution, then Congress must either adopt
that amendment and submit it for the.appro
val of tho States, or else, when two>thirds of
the States petition Congress provision must
be made for a convention of the States; so
that, in any event, congressional action will
he necessary. That is a reason why there
should ho no hesitation whatever in consider
mg the question .bore, and inquiring calmly,
soberly, and earnestly of each other what can
bo done to rescue tho country.
Sir, I have a word or two to say to my
friends on this side of the chamber— l mean
those from the far-off South; those with whom
I have so long and cordially co-operated here;
for whose, rights I zealously contended long
before I mot them on this floor; Whoso causei
has been our cause in the North; and whose I
cause to some extent, in the late contest for I
Presidon t, fifteen hundred thousand northern
men embraced. It scarcely becomes mo to un-1
dertake to judge of their case. I confess. I
am, perhaps, incapable of appreciating their
i precise position and feelings. X acknowledge,
as they are aware', the justice of some of their
complaints. I acknowledge that there has
I been kept up a war of aggression upon their
J feelings, well calculated to alienate them from
I the people of the North j that in some instan-
I cos their clear constitutional rights have been
| vexhtiouttly embarrassed, and at times defeat
ed; and furthermore, that the party about to
nsstihie the reins of Government, in the late
contest avowed doctrines which, in my judg
ment,- are -inconsistent with the equality of
the States; for so 1 regard the doctrine of the
exclusion of the owffeV of a slave ffotn ihs
common Territories unless ho leaves his pro
perty behind him. But. Mr. President, is
dissolution a remedy ? Is that thd be«t and
wisest of all the alternatives left 1 Uaa the
time come to embrace that remedy ? I think
not. I said before that it was not for me to
speak of what concerned them and their in
terests; hut I say no more fatal step can be
taken for the interests of the great State which I
1 represent hero, and, as I verily believe, far
every other State in this Confederacy..
I know, sir, it may bo said—it was said
yesterday by tire Senator from Mississippi,
[ Mr. Brown, ] —that war, and oven death,
are to be preferred to dishonor, and that a
State r6iWaimn£ in this Union less than an
equal, denied of its constitutional rights, is in
some measure dishonored ; but my fnend from
Mississippi, and those who not with him,
should view this question in a more hopeful
light, , i
After all, Mr. Lincoln is in a minority of
nearly nine hundred thousand votes, and in
his election the people of the United States
have not passed judgment against the claims
of the South to equality andjustice.
Mr, President, I want to,call the attention
of those Senators and of their friends at
home to n particular point in this case; Ido
not care to inquire into the question of the
right of secession. Whether it he a right, or
whether, when a State withdraws, it is rev
olution, the consequence to the seceding State,
and to do the remaining States will be essen
tially the same, and the remedy, if remedy
there be, will, bp the same. But the point!
wish to make is this: even if it bo a right, is
it just to the other States to resort to that rem
edy until redress has been sought and denied
at the very fountain of,political power and
authority, and through the precise channels
■o which this Confederacy was formed? I
think not. Such precipitate notion is not just
to their friends. Lot the Southern Stntes'nsk
the people of this Confederacy, separate and
aside from ordinary political considerations,
to consider and adjust this question. Let
them ask redress for their grievances at the
hands of those who have the power'to grant
it, and in the form prescribed in the compact
under Which we live. If redress bo denied,
if two-thirds of the States refuse to call a
convention, or, calling a convention, if threo
forths of the States decline to approve such
amendments to the Constitution as the South
ern States deem essential to the protection of
their rights and to the maintenance of their
equality in the Union, then the time will have {
arrived for considering this question of dis- 1
solution. But until all other'means have]
been exhausted, it should not, -cannot bo se
riously entertained.
Mr. President, lam ,ono of those who be
lieve that the remedy for the present distract
ed condition of the ‘country, after all, riiust,
sooner or later, come from tho people, if it is
to como at all and be permanent. I do not
say that amendments should not he sub
mitted here. lamby no means intending to
to indicate that the effort should notbo made;
; hut Xdo say that I have little hope that mea
r ouroa^gadjustment-can Congress- that
will meet this ease. Itis.nardly to be expect
ed that the politicians or partisans of-tho
I country brought into position in thoniidst of
I party struggles, committed to one stele broth
er of the, controverted points,- are prepared
I fu- this delicate work, it must go into other
•I hands. Let the people select representatives
I hn this single subject alone, and to remedy the
I defects which experience has shown, and if
/ needs ho, give now.gcaranfees to thehggriov
(ed States. Ti.on, sir, you will have siti<de
ncss of purpose and pdtvintisui, and olir South'-
feril ffihnds Will ascertain the real sentiments
of the northern people in reference to their
r gilt; and position in the Union; and while
I confess that all tho evidence seems toon tho
other side, I tave a belief, a firm belief, that
■ suc h a test the conservative element of the
N irtli would prevail—(hat the South would
be mot m a spirit of justice, fraternity, and
even generosity.
'But it may be asked, as it has been already,
what is to become of tho country in tho moan
time ? What measures si all bo adopted to ar
re t. the. progress of dissolution ? I confess,
Mr. President, I am not prepared to answer
that question. That is more especially fm
our friends from those States which are mov
ing for secession. If they know no means of
arresting tho. progress of separation, then,
sir, we are truly in a hopeless condition. Bu :
lam not so despondent. I have still hope
that if there were such indications from the
North of a disposition to deal kindly on the
subject: to hoar their southern brothorn fair
ly and fully, and answer, if possible, favora
bly their demands, there would boa fooling
of reaction in the South; that men would
rise i hove the madness of tho hour, and stay
1110 fatal step, at least for a brief season, un
tit another eftort.Ouuld be made to save the
G ivernmont, and to satisfy the southern State
that they can maintain their rights within the
Union,
St, I am not of those who view this disease
lightly. lam sensible that it is deep seated,
apd to sonic extent uialignrtnt, but not incur
able. It is not my purpose to talk of diatinc
tve propositions now; but Ido say that tho
best possible remedy that could be applied,
nce f orcocr the tear of crimination in the
North, would be to separate this question of
s aoerij, as fur as possible, from the papular
elections in the non-sliwc-holdiitff Stales. There
are a class of men, we all know, in'the North
wh i are zealous ami sincere enemies of shive
ry, and an long as they ean disc ivor tho slight
est opportunity of interfering to perform what
they call a duty, they will keep up those as
assults amt an unjust war upon the feelings
of tho citizens of the southern States. Sepa
rate them entirely, so that they can have no
Connection with it, can in no way influence
the question of where slavery shall he, or
where it shall go, or whether it shall ho Car
rie 1 into our now Terri tories, of even ffom
the question of the admission' of a State,’
whether it be free or slave/
How can that bo done ? Sir, I do J not wish to bo
understood as presenting any view to which I shall
adhoro with .tenacity. X throw out general views for
what tboy afe worth. I ara so convinced of the wis
dom and tho true policy of maintaining this Confed
eracy entire, that X will resort to any honorable ex
pedient, any reasonable measure to save it; I thiaK
the poojrto of tho North would go. yor> much' further
than their representatives on the Uepubiican aide bo- rr-i* 4 :
iievoj in order to accomplish this desirable end. If A young laxly,.in 1 r6niy to' hSr fAtfaUr^fl
needs bo. sir, lot the territory bo divided from ocean- question why she (fid noltteaf tiififttfrrihTt'H**
to ocean t north of which slavery shall not go, south , angora, aaid ‘-si 6 f-°
erf which it ahull not be disturbed. Lotus have-a “ ReWaiißA V»n« n * . - .
I deep gulf or a high wall buttfeon tho North rind South hndv *m if u• 't 0,0 whfin aOj
loh this Siibjoof. If that will not allay tho demon of; ,Vw? U ?? ZOS . , h! * nJ ‘ 1
dnoortl, then, instead of tho present provision that ■ W lneßS ttvQ Jotf to have year band
Congress may admit States into tho Dnion—wbiih ! squeezed ?” J • “
"° n °7 lU i " d “ co n eJthiin class of people to agitato “ Certainly n o*llo, but Still ionfcnow
s»:srasa waft Sus
tion of the President npon the establishment of tho aid ‘’■ * an l orohar(1 without bio*
foet-v Then, sir, the North would be separated W " d • Bp , r .‘, ng T wl l thout ■»«»& Ahp u *>
this question; the Nortli and the South, on this dis- Bona is lijfo Lebanon With its cedars
turlimg element, would bo entirely free of each oth.‘i .' , l? au S htera the fireside ara like roe*-
er s while nil tho other relations would remain, and : >U Sharon. loa T
tnn. gr °w o . OTo r“ mon t 8° °e performing its funo-i ——:’T— •
tions. Wo should retain its powor, its prowess, its ' , Nl ? doctrine is good for anything tliat
'■j’t 4 ?“i 18 influfmco in tho world. Perhaps does pot leave behind it an ethereal famw*
less radical obanges.may do. If.po, all the bettor. 1 ready for the planting of seeds' whinh «h.l»
Xbs President of ffiolfuited States, with epaWl- j spring up and
) otic desire to settle this question, bai iuggest»d*h*»
. h'e supposed would bo sufficient for the exigency.-u-
U toustsay, and I_ say it.with regret, that fdonot
thihk his remedies will meet the ease. I think tb»
disease is deeper and wider than the remedy—in the
first place, the points presented by him embrace tlie
controverted topics over Which parties hare strag
gled for years, the very source over which the bit
ter struggle for ascendency was made in. the'late
presidential contest. And! can seoso reason to an
ticipate thelb adoption by the dominant party In'the
( North. Nor do I think they would reiob tho eeat
of the disease if they were adopted; for my belief is,
this war of crimination and recrimination is theseat
of this disease; and if you'want permanent peace,
you must strike atthe scat Of the disease ;.you must
separate the non-elaveholding States from the. ques
tion of slavery, in order that the question may have
no resting-place in the northern mind. '
Honorable Senators yesterday said the hearts of
men must bo changed. The hearts of men ought to
bo changed. I trustin'God's numo that many of
them will be changed; but that is no work Tor poli
ticians or Senators. It will be idle to hope for an
escape in that way. You must separate the agita
ting cause, if you expect those men, who are bitter
ly anti-slavery to drop the subject. lam of those
who think they ought to have done so long ago.—
No-man has given that feeling leas countenance thaa
myself. \ have never, been in a political struggle is
my life that the rights of tho South wero not a lea
ding issue; and never fallen that I did not fail by
tho weight of a southern issue.
But, Mr, President, Ido not know that I can nse- •
tally pursue this subject further. I desire to* a*y
however, in reference to my own State, uotwkhstanl
ding its, vote tor. the Republican candidate at the late
fliectionj that it is d conservative and a just State :
that our southern friends can roly with confidence
upon the future action of .that Slate; . If they ask '
redress in the form in which I have any
other on which tho people can act separate froln oth
, er . considerations, I have not a doubt that they'Would
give all tho guarantees which any roasoudhlo souths
I orn man would demand;
It may bo said Wat; id J, iiiinoritV, as 1 am, lam
hot warranted thus to speak, fur I should not he
regarded as authority; but, sir, every man of intel
ligence in my .State knows that other potent influ
oncos than tho more distinctive principles of the
Republican party weighed in the, late election.-
Xtioro Were a complication of influences against us,
and artong them tho m'oat potent, next to this; sla
very agitation, was tho question of tho tariff; The
operatives in tho manufacturing establishments and
the mines away down in the earth had felt and bo
iieveu that thei policy of the Democratic party was
prejudicial to their iritorpsts; Und at the late elec
tion, though they were naturally With ,tho Demo
cratic party, they voted in ahody- against us. . I
doubt not that that vote was forty thousand in the
btate. No man is warranted, therefore, in assnm
tng that the State of Pennsylvania will adhere to '
the distinctive doctrines of the Republican party
I,do not bolieVo d disllribtlve iSsUb <6h
pressiblo conflict,” as usually interpreted in that
State, would get one hundred thousand votes. No
war of aggression is intended by the people of that
State. She will respond promptly to any demand
for consideration and for redress made in the pro
por spirit by her sister Stalest and I doubt not she
will avoid even the appearance of wrong by dis- -
carding curtain of her statutes, which, though in
tho main a dead letter, have been mado the subject
of complaint; J
But, Mr. President, I. should, bo glad, indeed, if
Senators bn the other side—those who speak-for tba -
dominant party—would indicate what their present ‘
views are. I think,,air, in the imminent peril that
surrounds ns, they huglil to do at least this. It is
no ordinary occasion. It is-not a time when mob
may stand upon a more partisan victory. 'ff'hnt'is
a party victory if tho country is to ho tomW.vio.
ml’bo rlo ii'nnd.inuhs, in your commercial citici;
on questionsb£ employment and broad? V/hatii
a party triumph worth if the. tf ovoraffiehlihoiild
not endure ? Sir, it is Worse than a delusion,
. F^shiont, tho gravo responhibilitics
that attach to what I say. I may bo laughed at
[ for much that I have uttered; Bo it so. Ibvoojd
uot have Uttered it if I did not feel that the ¥mos
tm / 0,1 “, T man > faffardless of consequences,
P ,° rf °o a hia P !l . rt : 1 sh all only fopcSt, there.,
tore, that m the remammg part of my brief official
career hero, whatever it may'bo for mb to
“hht'PPJ.diffetohcCß, t shall do.
fam not bulitoly despondent. I cannot bring my
mind bo realize a separation of these States, much
mmldfoiw, 0 00ntoIU J“ lato tho consequences which
1 1 o u ir ’3 0t i'i: as ono man, address ourselves to this
-Vhy ai Tc d °W fti.otlda It-oth Urn %’
South dosiro to Ropnrato train those In’ tho North
who have so long stood by them? Wbjvgentle
men, more men in the States of Now York and
along ospouked your cause in the lot#
oonfost than can bo found in all the States that are
talking Of separating from the . Union. A million
lifiorT hnlf of voters have, in a largo measure, iden
iificd themselves with you in the issue against the
Black Republican party! and it is my impression
that, if this form of government remains, and the
inmo issiies are to bo made four years hence, the
Republican party, with its sectional flag, will bo
driven to the wall ns completely as any party ever
Z 3 .fn' T r" “ ‘ h l S Co, ‘ ntry ' 1 ““ n “ prophet,°nor
victory »°h f . a w rOP w‘ i but 1 prudicUhat >t S the last
victory the Republican party will ever gain. Let
us rem ,a . la _togethor, then; lot us contend for your
lights Within the Constitution and the Union, and
in a short time you who are now desponding and
complaining and" threatening disruption, will bo the
contToUho o nrfy; • y ° U and yo " r fri<,ndfl north #ill
control the Government once more; and lodif ei'e
'I 1 ' 1 /’ d solemnly■ believe, if the effort ho made in the
n ht direction, tho people of this country will give
Uon. wiifdtmand 3 ‘ Up * n f “"
Them ’ere Legs— A son oftlißold Graiiift
titatoyent down to tho city of Memphis to
•>cek his fortune. 110 found; ittstfcad, a
Wicca, which gradually saps lift iri d tWla
form. ' » ,
It was with this that poor Jim Barely was
picked up. And month after month it tugged,
until at length ho was but the outline ofbi*
tiirmer self; a pirfeot skeleton;
A worthy minister saw the poor fellow, ami
seeing that the king of terrors had spottea
hun determined to call on him andofferspir
itual consolation; lie bro'aehdd the intpor
luUt sabieot siiritcwllat thlis:
V Afy dear Mr. Bngely, in view of your re
lations with tills life, how do you feel?"
D— n sick,” waa the prompt reply.
"Don’t swear, my poor friend,” Raid the
parson, “and let mo ask you if you ever think
of your latter end ?” '
" D ird I" said Bngely. “I ha'inf thought on
anything else for morg’n throf iWoAthsr’
“ Hot, fnrti affrtid, in the right way, Mf;
X hog you to pause and reflect. It
Is time you lA'gin to wrestle with the. Lord,”
rtio sick niiiii looked down at lilti miserable
poker legs', extending before him', and with an
expression of wild amazement in bis oottntfci
nance'. exclaimed:
| “ Hassle with the' Lord ? tfhat, with thoni
era legs?’ pointing to his own; “Why
parsop, he'd flip’ me to the very firnt
nc J ho P arson gave him up as a hardened gin-!
*' rfc
NO. 30.