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•What iv funny world is this,
To lie sure—to'be sure;
What a chanceful world is this,
To bo sure;
What a* funny world is this.
Whore cvorythingVamiss,
And We.find no, perfect bliss
To endure—to endure,
And we find no i>orfpct bliss'
To endure. ' .
u A moment fortune srtijlcs/*
Ah, how true.}‘ah, how true-!
A moment fortune smiles,
Ah, how true 1
A moment fortune smiles, ‘
And our happiness beguiles,
But soon her .cruel wiles
We must rue—' ,o must rue;
Aye ! soou her cruel wiles, ",
Wenmsttuo.
Oh,l,philosophy, great shade,
Whetd'avt thou—whore 1 are thou-?
.Philosophy, great shade,.
Whoro'art thou,?
Philosophy, great shade,
.How often I have prayed .
That thy soothing baud were laid
On my-brow—on. my brow f'
That thy soothing hand wcre-laid
Ou my brow....
I gaze upon the throng
Bushing by—rushing by,-
■I gaze, upon the throng . •
Hushing by;
X gaze. upon the. throng, ,
And the universal-song '
Is self-intci’cst right.or wrong j
What crilo I —whdlcare I, .
Is self-interest right or.wrong,
What care I ?
’Tis’ap easy thing, I ween, ;
To bo just—to be just;
fTis an honest thing, I w.ccn,
To.be just.'
..'Tis.an honest thing, I ween,
Bnt’sucb is seldom soon,
'Til policy so keen,
Bays wo mustAsays wo must, •
'Til policy, so keen,
6aysi,woiuusfc. v '•
Asf-wpjQurnoy oTi
•Sboul'd-itfi find—should wo find,- ,
Aa we jdurriey by the way,
Should wo find j
While wo joiirnoy by the way;
Should wo find some soul astray,
Lot’s point him Vair, and-say •
.Something kind—something kind ;
Lot's.point him fair> and say
Something kind.
Boor wanderers in the night
Though-wo be ; —though wolbo,
[poor gropers in.the night .
’Though wo'be. •
■Poor searchers in-the night,
Let us strive to find the height
That always guides aright,
■Those who’ll sou—those who’ll see,
That always guides aright
Those who’ll spoil
How bright this world would-be
; We should find—wo should find,
, How bright this world would bo
, Wo should find j ,
How bright this world would bo
-If wo struggled to agree, •
• And had.more charity
■ Bor our kind—for our kind,
’Oh ! had more charity
- Bor our kind.
Well, we all must plod our way ■
While we’ve breath—while we’ve breath,
, Wd all must plod our way
While woVo breath.’
Wo all must plod our way,
And pur destinies obey,
Until at length wp stray
Unto death—unto death.
Until at length wo stray
Unto death.
ftolitiraL
REMARKS OF
HON. C. L LAMBERTONr
t Delivered in the Senate , March 11, 18G2, on
bill entitled “ Joint Resolutions relating to
the Abolition of Slavery in the District of
Columbia.”
The question being on Senate bill No. 323,
entitled " Joint resolutions relative to the abo
lition of slavery in the District of Columbia."
• " r - bamborton moved to substitute the fol
lowing resolution for the one before the Sen
ate, and asked that the acuompanying pream
ble to his substitute bo read for information;
W [iereas, Congress, by a vote nearly unan
imous, passed the following resolution, which
expresses tho voice of the Nation and is the
true standard of loyalty—“ That tho present
deplorable civil war has been forced upon tho
country by the disunionists of tho Southern
States, nowin arms against the constitutional
government, and in arms around the-capital;
that in this. national emergency Congress,
banishing aH feeling more passion or re
sentment, will recollect only its duty to tho
whole country ; that this'war is not waged
pn their part in any spirit of oppression, or
for any purpose of conquest or subjugation,
i>r purpose of overthrowing or interfering
With the rights or established institutions of
those States, but to defo..d and, maintain tho
Supremacy of. the Constitution, and to pre
pervo the Uniqn, with all the dignity, oquali
y and rights of tho several States unimpair
i ’ apd that as soon as these objects are ao
fortr 181CC * t '* l ° war oa S ht t 0 ooaB ° >” thore
h,Jthe Senate and House of Repre
ianiain^r’ 01 tfle , ■^' ullt 'nonwca!th of 1 ennsyl-
Orgies of Assembly met, Tliat tho on
to the BimJ Government should ho devoted
4md to the > mahil!l n ° f tho existing rebellion,
Constitution * * I na . neo . of 1,10 u,lion an(l tbo
time, for Oon’m™ i ls inex P°diont at this
j®°t of nbolishiniF nn ° si3l,lt ? u P l,n tbo Bub '
State, Torritcn-v ® no S ro servitude, either in
And that our t 10 ?‘ 3triot of,Columbia :
they are Wobv nT "I ? on S^ as3 ’ be. and
JiSic i
TERMS
■jWiral
SINGLE,
The question being on the amendment,
Mr. Lamherton. Mr. Speaker* the amend
ment i offer embodies my sentimental 'While
the people'nf this Country ore engaged in a
struggle with traitors, fi.r the life of the Gov
ernment, for the vitality of the Constitution,
the preservation of the Union, and the supre
macy of law-, it is one of those blunders which
Amounts to a crime, to agitate in the halls of
legislation, or elsewhere, any question that
Will distract the people, and divert their en
ergies from the great mission in which all
are engaged* "
. Timeand again has itbeen charged Upon the
Democratic party that that great political or
ganization was, for'partisan purposes, con
stantly agitating this pestilent question of
negro servitude- But history in itstfuthfulut
teranoe, unswayed hy the passions of the
hour, will vindicate its character from this
aspersion, and apeak in glowing eulogy of
its struggle to preserve the Constitutional
Rights of all sections from the assaults of a wild
fanaticism. Qur earnest endeavors has been
to transmit to posterity, unimpaired, the in
valuable legacy of the free institutions which
\ve have received in trust from our fathers.
, Why, Mr. Speaker, so assiduously, ;ivnd
with so much solicitude have wo been devoted
to this great purpose, that in derision the De
mocracy has been stigmatized as.a party of
■“• Onion savers.” When we pointed to the
inevitable results of this incessant abolition
■agitation, results which are now fulfilled
prophecies, we were met with those derisive
cries. But sir, this term of intended obloquy
■and reproach is the brightest gem that adorns
the co'rone’t Upon its lirow. ■ We are now ar
raigned, not for too much iidelity *
but for sympathizing with one c,
who. are seeking its destructim
whelming refutation of this parti!
dorous, aoons'ation I have but to
■masses of its followers' from M’Cl
'and M’Clernand, and other bn
down to the humblest private it
who have rushed by thousands tu
of our flag ; and to the alacrity with which
its representatives stand ready to send the
Inst man and vote-tho last dollar to sustain the
National Government and crash treason.
. The Democratic party needs, sir, no eulogy
or defence.at my hands. Step by step, it has
■kept march with the country in its' road- to
'empire ; and the great achievements of the
-country’s past, gro- tlie enduring monuments
■of its fidelity to the Republic.
That party has ceased to control the policy
of the National Government, yet the agitation I
of the abolition of negro slavery does notecase.
It is still ringing in the halls, of Congress
and even like an unwelcome visitant obtrudes
itself in thisrehambor. Not a.single mem
ber, of that party there nor hero lias sought
to introduce it. The agitation comes from
the opposite side of this body. Now, sir, why
should this tiling be? To give-assurance to
the people that no assault was intended upon,
the constitutional righ ts of any State ; that a
deep reverence for our written charter anima
ted the Republican party; although sectional
in its organization, incorporated in their
platform iif principles framed at Chicago, and
upon w,hich tjiey elected a President, irreso
lution “atfti law lihto'themselvesahd to him,”
that the “ maintenance inviolate.of the rights
of flie States, aßd especially the right of each
State to order and control, its own domes
tic institutions . ace lading to its own judge
ment exclusively, is essential to that balance
of power on which the perfem.ion and endu
rance of imr po.Uieal fabric depend ; and wo
denounce the lawless invasion by armed force
of the soil of any State or Territory, no mat
ter under what pretext, as among the gravest
of crimes.” To give still lit ther as-u ranees
to the country, the President, on the day of
his inauguration, from the eastern portico of
the Oapiiol, in the presence of congregated
thousands from all parts of the Union, reitera
ted these sentiments and declared that lie
pressed “ upon the public attention the most
conclusive evidences of whichthe case is sjs
coptihle. that the property, peace and security of
on section uni to bo in anywiseendangered by the
now incoming Administration,” and “ that
all the protection which consistently with the
Constitution and the laws can be given, will
be cheerfully given to all the States when
lawfully demanded, fur whatever cause, as
cheerfully to one section as to another and
further that he “ had no purpose directly or
indirectly to interfere with the institution of
slavery in the States where it exists that
life had not the “ lawful right to do so,” and
no “inclination to do so” if it was lawful—
sentiments which he again repeated in his
message of July. To give additional pledges
that no aggeossivo assault was intended upon
State rights, Mr. Corwin, the Republican lea
der in the last Congress, offered in that body
to be passed and subsequently submitted fir
ratification to the several States, an amend
ment to the twelfth section of the Constitution,
declaratory that hereafter “ no amendment
| shall bo Blade to the Constitution which will
authorize or give Congress power to abolish
or interfere within'any State, with the do-i
mestio institutions thereof, including that or
persons hold to labor in servitude by the laws
of said State*” J
Thus was the record made up and so has
the country read and approved it.
But sir, before proceeding to the discussion
of this resolution, permit mo to suggest that
as legilators wo are too often inclined to for
get ous limited sphere of duty, that wo are
deputed not to represent the people in Con
gress, but to legislate for the good of our
constituents and the interests ef thoOommon
wealth, and that when these duties are done,
ours here ure ended. We are to prone to as
sume superior wisdom, and forgetting to
“ Blind our own business,” drift into the dis
tracting current of national polities, and
and thereby neglect the interests of the State,
prolong our session, and increase the already
oppressive taxation upon the people. And 1
should not participate in the discussion upon
this needless, and, as I deem it, profitless
question, weyo it not for certain remarks that
have fallen from Senators, who havo preced
ed.mo in this debate, which I cannot suffer to
pass unnoticed.
Mr. Speaker, whatever may he my individu
al opinions as to the propriety of permitting
the slave to linger at the portals of our com
mon Capitol, I shall forego their express! on
now and reserve for some more appropriate
time and occasion, their candid avovvel
at this time, air, as I have already stated
when the nation is battling for its very
existence, I cannot but view the original re
solution offered by the Senator from Alloghenv,
(Mr.-Irish,) as uncalled for, evil in tendency’
inexpedient, unwise and incendiary in char
acter.
Is it not uncalled for ? Whp are asking, for its
passage ? Do you find petitions comfn» up
from the people to these halls, demanding le
gislation of this character ? No, sir "the
hearts of the conservative people of Pennsyl
vania are fired with that same undying
triotism which exists in all the staunchly loy
al States of tho, Republic. Pull well they
know, for they are taught by the itjatiptolj of
fiolf-presoryation in tho presence of great dan
ger, that tho agitation of any disturbing issue,
and especially this miserable subject of aboli
tion, must inevitably paralyze the energies
ol the government in suppressing this most
accursed rebellion. This legislation is not
asked for by the popple, but seems to bo in
troduced, in obedience to the behests of the
same spirit which has brought all this woe
upon the country. It is evil in tendency.
Disconnected from ulterior considerations, it
would not rise to the dignity that now attaches
to "it, but at this time, accompanied as it is
by such aggressive declarations upon the part
of its friends, its introduction here indicates
the inception of a policy pregnant with untold
ills to the country. We are told it is to he
hut the beginning to the universal scheme of
negro emancipation; tt is, sir, the small
■black blond that precedes the gathering storm,
ready to burst with irresistible fury over the
land. When I : assert that this is but the en
tering wedge to ruthless invasion of Consti
tutional right, I speak, sir, not without war
rant.-fur at a largo mooting of the members of
this emancipation party, held at the Copper
Institute, n few days since, in New Turk, I
find by the reported proceedings indite Tri
bune of the seventh instant, Carl Schurz, the
representative of the government in a high
and responsible position abroad, aayino- amid,
load ami continued applause, “ left .-slavery
ip the District of Columbia, and wherever the
government, has immediate authority, bo abo
lished.” Senator Wilnmt in a letter to the
sarito meeting, declared, “ wb must and will,
now and forever, destroy and wipe out from
this nation the accursed institution of slavery.”
Without seeking beyond this hall for evidence
of this intent, the sentiments of the Senators
' Allegheny and Bradford sustain mo in
position.. The Senator from Bradford.in
issing the Senate at a previous stage of
liffusiim said, ‘f the District of Columbia
> place to begin to attack this institution ;
will'serve as hit entering wedge ; ft is
I stop there, that is certain.” The Sena-’
om Allegheny, (Mr. that
dition of slavery in the District of Cnlnni
bia is the blow which is to shako the whole
slave system to.lts . foundation, and that in
his opinion this constituted the. groat impor
tance and grptit merit of the measure submi'
ted to Congress. . .
Now, sir, I am not the champion of slavery;
hut is this contemplated attack on ’tire''rights
of property of the loyal men in the seceded
States, and of the. border States now battling
for the Union, in keeping with the recorded
sentiments of the Republican party at Chica
go and in Congress ? If it was unconstitution
al, heretofore, to assail rights in the States,
is.it any the less so now ? We must preserve
the Government inside of the boundaries of
constitutional law, else wo will,, if disregard
ing it on.oar part., present to the world the
strange andmoly of invoking the power of the
Government to defend the Constitution from
the frei ziud.assaults of rebels, whilst wo are
violating it ourselves, ‘
The original resolution is ■expedient, be
cause it panders to the abolition sentiments
of the ■Wendell Phillipses, the Garrisons, the
Oheevevs—that class of men who the donator
from Bradford says, “have told tlTo wmdd
more truth than thd world have giveii them
credit for”—a.olass of man who are disonion
ists per Jf«, men who have denounced the Con
stitution of our fathers as “ a covenant with
death and a league with hell,” and union nf
free and slave States made by the men of the
Revolution; “ a chaining of the living 'n the
dead.” They have longed for this hour qf I
civil War ; to .them it is the forerunner of a |
negro •‘jubilee.” They, desire not the Consti
tution to bo maintained as it is and the Union
preserved us it was. To them the conflict of
contending brotherhood emits sounds of me
lodious music, they rejoice with exceeding
joy, for, to them in the language of ’ Lloyd
Garrison, it is as if “ the last covenant with
death was annulled and the agreement with
bell . broken.". And IVendell Phillips, ■to
whom the Senator from Bradford alludes, as
one of the progressive men of the day, “ an
apostle of liberty,” declared that the party
he represented are disunioeista, and alluding
to South Carolina said, “ and Egypt will re
joice that she has departed.” Again, he de
clared, when addressing the Congregational
Society of Boston, on the “ Political lessons of
the Hour," that he was a disunion man and
was glad to see that South Carolina and oth
er Sdutheru States had practically initiated
a-disunion movement. He hoped all the
slave. States would leave the Union and not
stand upon the order of their going, but go
at onco. Aiid again, is adiscourso delivered
upon the 2lstof April lust,on Boston, ho said
that “ many times this winter, hero and else
where,.! have counselled peace, urged as well
as I knew how, tho expediency of acknowl
edging a southern confederacy, and the
peaceful thirty-four States ; one of the journ
al announces to' you that I come hero this
morning, to retrace these opinions. No, not
one ot thorn,l need them all,every word Iliuve
spoken this winter every act of twenty live years
of my life,to make tho welcome I give this war,
hearty and hot." '
Now, Mr. Speaker, these are the men thus
uttering sedition and treason, wlio are lead
ing m this crusade upon the constitutional
rights of some of the States of this Union.
These are the men who are driving this “en
tering wedge.” I cannot follow whore such
apostles lead. Nor does tho Democratic party
recognize .their inspiration.
, -A-gein, sir, it is inexpedient, because it will
be additional evidence to be used by the
Southern Secession leaders to further pervert
and inflame the Southern mind. ~
Prom the days of the Revolution, when
Northern and Southern blood commingled on
a common battle-fleld to establish our indepen
dence, there has been a deep and abiding at
tachment in the masses of the South for our
free institutions. They looked upon the re
splendent and beauteous banner of the coun
try, as the symbol of its protecting care and
majesty. They saw it circling the globe, and to
every citizen of tho Republic giving as am
ple protection beneath its folds as over tho
Roman eagle did to him who could utter the |
proud declaration, “ I am a Roman citizen.”
They oaw.it—the symbol of the Government
-—thrown about tho form of the exile Kosta,
and giving him, as ho stretched forth his
hands to it, safety and security from Austri
an tyranny. They saw itgo to tho uttermost
ends of tho earth, opening the isles of tho sea
to commerce and civilization
With them, around it clung the same stir
ring recollections of the ’past and tho same
glorious hopes 'for .the future. this
proud attachment for the institutions of tho
country, it required more than ordinary moans
to arouso the passions and jealousies of tho
Southern people, and induce them with frat
ricidal hand to strike down tho host and freest
government over founded upon tho face of the
earth. But these Southern conspirators,
brooding over treason for years, found tho
moans at hand to “ fire the Southern mind,”
and, strange as it may appear, those means
wore furnished by thouthcr extreme upon this
question of slavery. , The extremes mot'and,
joined hands in kindred design. These
Southern leaders in treason seized tho decla
rations of tho Northern Abolitionists, and
“OUR COUNTRY-MAY IT ALWAYS BE RIGHT—BUT, RIGHT OR WRONG, O%R COUNTRY.-
CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1862.
I gave .them to .the wings of the wind iis the
sentiments flf the entire North. The South
ern press, tfte pulpit, the hulls of legislation,
and oven their very articles of secession, as if
by concert, spoke of the aggressive acts of the
Abolitionizod North—showed how their “ pe
culiar institution” was denounced, with poly
gamy, as the twin relic of barbarism—quoted
Mr. Seward's “ irrepressible conflict" doctrine
—pointed to the insane raid of John Brown
until many who doubted, believed, and fever
ish thousands in the South became convinced
that the Government of their ancestors was.a
failure, and that the time was fast approach
[ing when then should be thrown back upon
nature’s first grand principle—the duty and
necessity of seh-presorvntion for it was.tru
ly stated by Post Master General Blair, in
his letter to the meeting at.the--Cooper Insti
tute, that “ it was proclaiming to the labor
ing whites who fill tho armies.of rebellion,
that the election of Mr. Lincoln involved
emancipation, equality ' of the'negroes with
them, and consequently an amalgamation, that
their jealously was stimulated tl) the fighting
point.” The result of this accursed con»pin£
cy and this miserable delusion is before us.
No, sir,, it is. our true policy so to legislate
and act as to’separate-the deluded followers
from the leaders. To do this, make clear that
the whole North is.nbtabolitioniaed, and sus
tain the earnest protestation of,loyal men in
the South, that the resolutions)’!)!" Congress
which'form the preamble to my amendment,
are not meaningless, but express the true
sentiments of our people, Such' legislation
as (hat contemplated by the original resolu
tion, with its subsequent intent, will be worth
more to the Waning fortunes’of .the enemy
than an army with banners. ) .
Again, sir, it is inexpedient, because em
ancipation would not .hasten the return of
peace, blit by exasperating the loyal men of
the South.would unite them witfitlie rebels
against us and prolong the war. In this
view I am not singular, but again quote. from
that candid and truthful letter of Montgomery
Blair : ”Gur d fficuliies will not he lessened'
'by emancipation by Congress, com if sucK an
acl ioas constitutional. It. would certainly add
to the exasperation of . the iion-slavolioldiii"
whites of the South, and might unite them
against the Government and if so 1 they Would
be unconquerable. As matters . stand, we
can put down the rebellion, because the peo
ple of the natural strongholds of'the countrv
aro with us. It is chiefly. in the lowlands,
accessible from.the ocean and navigable riv
ers and bays that treason is rampant. The
mountain fastnesses, whore alone a guerilla
War can bo sustained, are now held by Union
men, ami they are more numerous jj,nd more
robust, intelligent and independent than .the
rebels; It is chiefly the more-degraded class
of.nnn-slaveholders, who. live in. the midst of
slavery, who aro now engaged against the
Government. But the mm-sluvoholders of
the mountain and highland regions, while
for tho Union, are not free from tho jealousy
of caste, and the policy, I..object to, (cmaHc'i
pafiiyn.) would, if adopted, I apprehend, 'ar
rayed them agfßnst usu’V. 1 - ■ -‘o : ,
.Such'.nrg the. nows imd hy
Mr. Blair,'who decuples a’position us one (if
the President’s Cabinet and counsellors and
with all the avenues of information open to
him. No one, will accuse him with-having
had at any time any sympathy with slavery,
lie speaks like a patriot, and would not Sena
tors do well to heed his counsels'?
Now, sir, if, instead of undeceiving the
“ laboring Whites” of the South iwho fill the
rebel army as privates, .vo, by incendiary le
gislation and acts, unite to them the loyalists
of the mountains, where liberty over lurks,
with one common belief that the North in
tends tho elevation of the negro to the level
of the white race ; that negro equality is our
ultimate, aim ; that they can, no longer live
in the Union with constitutional - rights,
(he past; that they are: to be reduced to a
state of vassalage .; that, the loyal as well as
disloyal .are to meet one common fate, much
will have been accomplished for the failing
cause of these rebel loaders. You will have
united them in desperation. The war will bo
lingering* and protracted, our increased na
tional debt will he overwhelming, and our
taxation fearfully oppressive.
Refuse to recognize the constitutional rights
of the loyalists of tho South.; take hack all
tho declarations of the inviolability of the
rights guaranteed to them ; strike a blow at
the institutions recognized. by. State laws ;
drive them by oppression and . inju-tico to a
union with traitors, and this war will not end
fur years. In the end they will be subjugat
ed ; for what vast armies-and navies and
abundant financial resources have done in
tlie past, they can do'in the future. You may
thou subjugate those men who are true and
loyal now, as partitioned Poland is subjugat
ed, always chafing at the-chains that hind
her. You may hold tlioin as Austria holds
writhing Hungary, hut take care lost, too,
like the Hungarians, to recover thoir right',
they do no .carry menace to the Very walls of
the capitol of their oppressor. You may
trample them in the dust as was classic
Greece, hut like her they may rise in their
despair to become a nation. You may en :
thrall them as was Italy by that royal house,
which,, lik#- the Bourbon, “neither learns
nor forgets,” but, Mike Italy, thoir .condition
may invoke tho-sympathy of tho world, and
they wake up to become a people audst pow
er on the earth.
Sir, wo cannot do wrong and prosper.
There is a God of Nations. We cannot rob
| loyal men of the South, although they ha fow,
and even though they bo slaveholders, of
rights vested in them by the same Constitu
tion which protects us all, without exposing
ourselves to its wrath.
Then let us be most careful, sir, lest in the
attempt to wrong and afterwards subjugate Jhe
struggling loyalists ot the South, wo do not
destroy our own.liberties, and upon the wreck
of constitutional government build a'military
despotism.
With all faith would I have this war carri
ed on in the spirit and manner and fur the
objects indicated in the resolution offered in
Congress by the venerable Crittenden, which
constitutes the preamble to the amendment
I have offered, and which was read a few
minutes since by the Clerk for the information
of the Senate,
I would carry the power of the government
to the aid of every loyal man of the South.
I would have hint protected in every right
that he has a citizen of the Union and in ac
cordance with the constitution. This the
government is bound to do. It is' told that
Richelieu suffering under painful disease.
Sought in his suffering the help of a distin
guished surgeon. lie was told that to bring
releif and euro, the knife must bo applied.
As the noble roproseiUati vo of a public pro
fession was about to enter on Ins duty, ho
was reminded by the groat cardinal, Ko
mombor, sir. you operate upon the Prmio
Minister of Franco.'* To which bis mem
orable reply was made by him who so wolf
understood his mission to diurannity, ‘ Your
Eminence, the humblest patient in my hospi
tal is the Prims Minister of Franco to mo."
So, sir, should the sumo dutiful cn.ro that is
extended to the highest dignitary in the land
m the preservation of the constitutional right,
bo given in like manner to the humblest loyal
citizen, whether in his little home in the free
North, or, like the children of Tennessee's
patriot Senator, ho bo a fugitive in the moun
tains, or a captive in a Southern prison.
Follow the policy I have just indicated, and
almost everywhere, save perhaps in South
Carolina, you will find the terrorized people,
when sure of protection, as on the banks of
the Cumberland, "greeting the old .flag with
shouts of joy, and hailing it as
I would undeceive the masses, wbllaHßpjeon
deluded by the loaders in roholHnußßiwbuld
induced them to return to their allegiance;
but I would crush with merciless hand the
immediate authors of this insurrection. I
would have the Constitution maintained as it
is, and not for the sake of negro emancipation
have a new reading of the' law. a. new Con
stitutionl; and a new Union. This' govern
ment was good.enough for the men who estab
lished it, and it ought to be good enough for
their posterity, who have inherited it,. If we
are not lighting .to restore "the .Union and
preserve the Constitution, what are wo strug
gling for? If it js only a crusade against sla
very, how have the consorntive masses of all
parties, professions and closes, who fill our
army, bpen missled? How have they, hpnn
duped who rushed at the'call of the President,
“to aid this effort to maintain the honor, the
integrity and existence of our national Union,”
with a more fiery zeab and a . holier enthusi
asm than ever impelled knightly crusader to
the rescue of the sepulehero of our Lord from
the defiling touch of the-infidol Saracen; If
sir, they are to bo diverted from this high,
purpose, to support and extend abolition fiiii
aticisra, then indeed has that,great army-of
thousand men,.gathered from the
hills and valleys of the north and west—the
grandest army ever marshalled in the world
—been enlisted under false pretences. Aga
inst this, prostitution .of the grand object of
the war, at the dictate of a philanthropy, I
protest in the name of one-third of the voting
.population of my own country who have cn°
tored the ranks of bur army—l protest in the
name of the thousands from the ,district I have
the honor to represent on this floor, who have
gone Out to this.groat contest for the peretui
ty of .free government—l protest in the name
of the-Constitution and ou behalf of the peo
ple, ' ..ii
I have shown, sir, and it- lias.been declar
ed on this floor, the proposed abolition-of sla
very in the District of Columbia, was but the
“ entering wedge”.for .negro emancipation;
And it is most apparent that the aholitionst
does not intend to. stop in the District of Col
umbia. The prophecy of, the Tribune that
“John Brown-deaa is a power in the land,”
is to tm verified; An inciter of a servile.in
surrection, tried, convicted, condemned, and,
executed asafelon, is now to be canonized.
This outlaw, whoso “lawless invasion'’ of
the soil of Virginia was even denounced by I
the Clue ago convention, as ‘'among the gra
vest of crimes,” is now to be immortalized by
this aboUtiorp party,, ,as a .ipartyt-to liberty.
• -Ilia admirers have written and talked fm-
Jalcifmi. They have preached it until their
misguided disciples have rushed upon , thoir
own destruction: and, sir, at last they have
even got to chanting.it. I have before mein
the New York Tribune of February 28lh,'a
paper that once advocated a peaceful dissolu I
Hon of the Union and recognition of the
Southern Confederacy, and the organ of the
Republican party, a song set to music with |
he atrocious sentiment that,
‘John Brown’s body lies mouldering in the
grave,
Ilis soul is marching on.”
Helped out with the chorus, profane in this
connection, of.
. “Glory, glory, hnllelujahl”
Is it because John Brown with his negro
and half-crazed white’followers, if unopposed
would have turned the murderous hand of the
brutalized negro against innocent women and
children, and would have wrapped the homes
of a then peaceful Commonwealth in flames,
the “glory.hallelujah” is to ascend on high?
Is it because rapmo and murder have become
ennobled, that this incendiary musical effu-
sion is headed; “a song that is now rather
popular?”
If "his soul is marching on,” os was its
wont when in the body, to execute the man--
dates of abolitionism, it seems to be drawing
near this hail; but I hope that hero at least,
to use tho language of the same soUg, none
of, ■ ' ‘
is pet lambs will meet him on the wa3 r .”
Can you perpetuate the Union by teaching
such sentiments? Never sir. Do .such im
pious dootrins correspond with, tho reoord.of
the past accord with the justice of tho pre
sent? ,
Mr. Speaker, in attempting to vindicate the
constitutional rights’of such of tlio people of
tho South as are loyal, I will not bo misun
derstood. I cannot in any way sympathize
with traitors. From my inmost soul I loathe
an I abhor them.
■ To the blinded followers of tho loaders, when
they shall return to thoir allegiance and rec
ognize the supremacy of tho law, it might be
well and wise to extend amnesty and pardon.
In tills we would only be guided by the ex
perience of tht past. But at tho same time I
would punish the loaders and immediate au
thors of this gigantic and fearful rebellion,'
with all the powers and penalties of offended
I would arrest tho Davies, theTombses, tho
Masons and Floyds of this insurrection. 1
would try them for treason, convict and exe
cute them. I would go further, and visitjust
retribution upon the pestilent and rebellious
city of Charleston, the accursed nest where
this treason was hatched, I would seal its
harbor despite English protest, and the white
wings of peaceful commerce no more should'
flag upon its silent waters. And if I dared,
I would raze its habitation to the ground,
I would blough up its accursed soil and sow
it with salt, so that man never more should
make it his dwelling place. In its desolation,
I would have it the Ninevah or the .Babylon
of the nineteenth century, its silence unbro
ken save by the bootings of the owl or the hiss
sing of the serpent, and not oven the carrion
vulture that now haunts its skies and streets
should disturb the glooiny stillness. And
so should it remain during our existence as
a people, the porpotunlnionument of the in
famy and perfidious atrocity Of this rebellion.
In short, Air. Speaker, it is inexpedient to
legislate upon this subject in the present exi
gency, because it will give no strength, to the
arm of the Government. It will neither atl l
a soldier to the army, nor a dollar to the trea
sury. Not a Senator on tliisfloor has shown
that it will. On tho contrary, in my judg
me
,ud I believe such are the sentiments
of the country, it will weaken, our strength
ami give now vigor to the enemy. It will re
kindle in the halls of legislation and elsewhere,
the dying embers of partisan agitate n, now
happily, smothered, beneath an enlarged pa
triotism.
■ It will toud to demoralize ,our army, pro
long tlii* war, ami thus inocoaao tUo national
Uoht nnd the onoros taxation upon nil classes
ol the people, until, in the language of the Sen
ator from Erie, everything will be taxed, from
"‘the cradle to the grave."■
Lot us make no false move now. AVo can
not aflord to incur all tho dangers which I
have pointed out, without deriving a single
advantage in return. ' °
Our people, jubilant over Roanoke, Henry,
Dennison and other victories that have recent
ly crowned our arras, begin to sea that the
clouds arc breaking, that the night of doubt
is past, and the sunlight of tho coming day is
upon us. Rut still Wo must not forget tho
strength of treason. Tho armies of rebellion
are yet in the held, controlled by men of des
perate fortunes, who have staked their all in
the mad hope of success. Then why should
wo help them by legislation of this kind?
In the time of peril, if a Jesse I>. Rrigh't or
a clement L, Vallandigham'had offered a res
olution bn a subject oo manifestly calculated
to distract and. agitato tho public mind and
impair the energies of. the Government, it
would have boon hero and' elsewhere de
nounced as a deliberate attempt fogivo aid and,
comfort to the enemy ; and perhaps the Sen
ator from Erie, with his coadjutors, would
make haste to have him .expelled from the
HiiUs ot - Congress.- But tho obnoxious nieas
uro is introduced, advocated and pressed to a
conclusion by those who claim .to bo tho spe
cial keepers of the Government, and who are
so swift upon all occasions, untruly to charge
tho Democracy with sympathy with traitors.
And how, Mr. Speaker, a lew words in re
ply to the remarks of .the Senators from Ale
glieuy and Bradford. Tho Senator from Al-
Allegheny. (Mr. Irish,) has given ns an extrh
ordimiry reason for the. adoption of this reso
lution. AVeare told that by so doing, sym
pathy would ho, excitoddor us in England. :
Is our deep debasement, in pandering to the
seinimoatsaud.leoiings of that nation, never
to end ? Are wo to hear echoed in this Cham
ber-aud through the country, as .if to ho a
consolation to. us in this hour, .tho trite and
.deceiving aUusipns to a “common literature,
a common language aud a common religion."
, Sir, in our time of extremity, England for
got that she;had any part in our birth, and'
gavo us little sympathy. AVo ask not her
help, hut puly that she will not interfere
against ns until our work here is dona. Shir
has forgotten that she planted slavery upon
our shores aud that tho abolition emissaries
liom Exeter Hall, united with-tho fanatics of
•of our own soil in giving aid to Southern con
spirators, She has remembered simply and
only her own material and soliish interests
from the beginning of our struggle. She has
tened to recognize the rebels as ‘'•Belligerents."
She - permitted their vessels.to,.coal in her
ports,.dad, 'it _i§ said, even-plotted, with tho
Emperor of Erauco.lbr the recognition of the
rebellious States as an independent Govern
ment. Sic, we will nut soon forgot her arro
gant demeanor in'tho all'air of the Trent, when,
she accompanied w-ith a threat, her demand
; for -the restoration of Mason and Slidell to the I
protection of her Hag, aud when to.intimidate
ns, caused her whole kingdom to resound with
thwprepiU-ationTor'"war. "INevdr more lot our
■policy he controlled by any hope of England's
sympathy. When we .needed it most, wo had
it least.
. The Senator from Bradford has to Mbs that
this is our hour ol trial, that ,we were hut
passing through tho agonies ofa second bir
—that other, nations have had their ordeals-
•mt England hud hers, and. France hud hers,
Mr,/Speaker, the Senator is unfortunate, in
liis illustrations. England’s test hour of rev
olution was .brought on by Jhoso,- who, aim
ing at absolute puwor, sought to crush out
rights secured by the great charter of the
realm. .
Mr. London, I rise to explain. That was I
the very thing that I affirmed—because they I
robbed the pour people of their puwor.
JMr.Lambortou.—The Senator.will have an
opportunity of explaining when I have fin
ished my remarks. Ido not wish now to bo
interrupted. . * '
Iff was an unfortunate attempt and a signal
failure. , It was that, sir, that called forth
from John Hampden the memorable and histo
ric expression, “the payment of twenty shil
lings of ship money willnut make me a poor
man, but the payment of one penny will make
mo a slave." . The aggression upon constitu
tional rights brought the kingly head of the
nation to the block,. and for a time at least
the rights of thepeoplo were vindicated. Can
the Senator frorfpiradford see. no parallel be-1
tween that attempt m br.cak down, the barri
ers of constitutional right, and the efforts now
making by the abulitiSSists to destroy rights
of property protected by the organic law ?
It is not an attempted repetition ol wrong, af
ter the lapse of 'centuries.? ■ Lot the example
bo a warning. Would ho, have us imitate
Trance, and pass through a baptism of lire
and blood? Hoes ho nut remember that the
men who inaugurated that revolution were
unable to control it—that passion ruled the
hour, poured upon the streets of Haris the
best blood of France; and swept the very au
thors of the revolution to the guillotine ?
‘■Liberty, Equality and Fiafceinily," was then
the cry. With one , agrarian blow they
drogmed of placing on the same level the vir
tuous and the vicious,, the pure and the de
bauched, the noble and the beggar. There
was no security, for property or lite. Religion
was banishod--the Christian Sabbath was
abolished was dethroned, audit pros
titute elevated in her stead, and worshipped
as the goddess of reason—and God, the Crea
tor, the Ruler, the Beneficent, pronounced as
one of the infidel philosophers of the day by
but the highest term of chrystalization.'—
I Such was the ordeal of France. And one no
less horrible might come on our nation if the
slave. learns this banner-cry of Liberty-
Equal, ty and Fraternity, and is thereby infu
riated and arroused to insurrection. No sir,
the country is not prepared'to passthrough
all the horrors ofaFieach revolution in order
to place the negro whoio ho does not belong
un the same level with the white man ; nor
ready to iorget that the Cons. Lotion is the po
lar star to guide us amid the turbulent sea of
revolution.
Tho Senator, from Bradford has told us al
so, tnat “tho pulpit is awake." Sir, the pul
pit of tho class to which he refers,' lias been
too long; awako iu a peculiar maimer, for the
good of tho country. It is.this olngs of pulpit
orators who, forgetful of the teachings of their
high and holy culling, instead of preaching
Christ and Him crucified, preach the slave
holder and him damned.
Wo had hero one of those "wide awake",
pulpit orators, a certain Dr. Chqcvor, whom
wo heard a few days since iu this very Capi
tol utter his seditious sentimenti, denounce
tho President, attempt to destroy tho confi
dence of the people in the Commauding'Gou
eral of. our army. and upon tho mere rumor
that live Illinois regiments had lain down
their arms—
Air. Lowry. That hover occurred.
Mr. Lambertun. 1 hope tho Senator from
Erie will exorcise'a little patience and not in
terrupt me. ,
The Speaker. The Senator fromsErio will
not interrupt tho Senator from Clarion, who
is entitled to the floor, and will proceed.' ...
Mr. Lamljerton. I know it never occurred:
and yet upon the false rumor that five XHi
noia regiments had Jaid down their arms rath*
or than debase them to a miserable foray in
favor of negro emancipation, ho declared if
i ho had the power ho would decimate them,
that he would shoot , them down as mutineers.
Sir, while ho was thus commending these
men to the executioner, ajui while his words
wore yet lingering in,our cars; they, under
the inspiring cry of the bravo and wounded
Logan, “ suffer death, but never disgrace,"
were following the; old flag through flame and
| death.up the height of Bonclson to glorious
victory. Why, air, u cinglo company, (tho
color company of tho Eleventh Illinois rogi- •
meat,) entered upon that, battle with eighty
five brave hearted men, and when the con
flict was over there was but seven left to an
swer atroll call., .But these seven had brought
back with them the flag whose honor it had
cost so much to maintain. Such vrere tho
men, rivaling in valor those’, who fell at th®
pass of Thcrmopyla), who wero commended
to tho executioner. .
Mr. Speaker, the cue hundred thousand
nvCn of our own State, and all tho great drmy
uow fighting tho battle of free government.
and tho Union, went.not forth to contend for
tho abolition of slavery. Sir, theirs is as holy
a cause us ever led brave men to tho battle fieldL,
lb is tho cause tipified by the banner of tH
Union -wherever it is advanced, and which
liko the white plumb of Navarre at Ivry
“ leads in the pathway of honor and glory
Then, sir,, lot this abolition .agitation now -
cease. Let, this rebellion be crushed, treason
punished, and peace once more abide in our
land, and it will then bo more in season fop
gentlemen to-discuss such questions oai tor®
now before the Senate. Wo will moot them
in the past, in free and candid'dis-
I cussion, and consult as to what will best pro
mote the good of the whole country. But
now, when bur aims should, be one, our ef
forts united, and all our means devoted to th®
thorough eradication of treason, and : to the
preservation of all that; protects us in our per- *
sons and homes, I would, have those vexing
questions put behind us. Lotus bend all
our energios. as the amendment I have offered
indicates, to the suppression of this rebellion- J
This accomplished, once more will our coun
try,‘resume her proud position as the fore- ;
most nations I jA.II her avenues of . trade
opened, her . manufactories again .supplying ■
the world, her citizens following their former
peaceful ; avocations/she will and must be
come tho one groat nation of tho earth to
which the. eyes of the oppressed on qthdr lands
shall turn with desire. Everywhere her peo
ple honored'and respected; sko-wUI occupy
that, high and commanding station to which
God and nature entitle her. Let that tuna. '
come—and come.it will—-wo shall hear of no
dictation of arrogant dnd selfish- England as
to whether wc shall shut up froiA bommeree
any of our. ports ; nor shall we hear any mla
i crahlo combination among .the ruilors of Eu
l-ropo, to Impose as a king, upon the Unwilling
people of Mexico, a scoin of the lloiiso of
Hapshurg. AVo would*tcach these and all
other governments that we still cling to"the
Monroe doctrine, and that our determination
was earnest to maintain it in its integrity, : at
[ all hazards and at whatever cost. And be
sides nil, sir, never forgetting the indignities
I which England so recently sought to put up** •
/on ms, with the spirit of 1776 and 1812 still. •
animating Us, we could then teach the; opj'
' pressor of Ireland, the boasted mistress of
the seas, that the day of retribution had come
to her. We shall demand of her “indemnity $
for the past and security for the future,"-^*
She shall yet learn that this grand expen- *
ment.of man’s ,capacity for self gdvernnlonfc
is no failure, that the ,“great llepublio,” with
her millions of freemen, can sot bounds to her ’
pretensions, and wields the power to enforce
the command, if thus far.shalt thou go and .
no farther, hero let thy proud waves stayed; 1 *
LiUGniNo.—The man that laughs is-a doe*
-tor without a diploma. .His face does> mors
good in a sick room than a bushel of potvdors
or a gallon of bitter draughts.- People are
always glad to see him. Their hands in
stinctively go half way to meet his graspi
while they turn involuntarily, from the clam
my touch of the dyspeptic, who speaks in the
groaning key. .1 16 laughs -you out of-your
faults, while you never know, what a pleasant
world you arc living in, until he points out
the sunny streaks on its pathway. .
■ DZ7” A sailor dropped out of tho rigging ofr
a ship-qf-war, Bome.fifteen of twenty fee, and,
fell phinip on the first lieutenant.' ,
“ Wretch, whore d|d you comefrom !” said
the officer, as he gathered himself up.
“ I came from the North of Ireland yoUr
honor.”
017* Dr. Chalmers once asked a woman
what could he done to induce hcrlinsband to
attend tho kirk. ,“I don’t know,” she re
plied, “ unless you were to’put a pipe and a
pot of porter ih the pew.”
O* A Doctor wont to-bleed a dandy whq
languidly exclaimed, ‘-Oh, Doctor, you’re
good butcher 1” to which the Doctor replied,
“Yes I'm good at sticking calves.”
OTT” Quilt quells the courage of the bold,
tics tho tongue of tho eloquent, and makes
greatness itself sneak and lurk liken cow
ard.
T 7” Ah eminent physician has discovered
that the nightmare, in nine cases out of tonj
is produced by owing a hill for a newspaper.
ICT* There arc thirty, of the blood relation*
of tho late (Jen. Lyon, how fighting for th»
cause for which ho lost his life.
BST" Tears are nature’e lotion for the eyes.
The eyes see better for being washed with
them.
OfT’ Lewis G. Holing, o.f Williamsport, is
appointed Commissary with tho rank of
Alajor.
B®* Not scarce—Mon that have, nothing,
to do, and young ‘ ladies that want huebans.
BIT' What relation is a Dutchman,to an
American. Hie Cousin Gorman, pflSoourso.
DC?* Ho who. sets one. great truth afloat la
ho world, serves his generation.
i i ■ >■ ■ ii , I
figyWhy is an npple-troe like a crooked
wall ? Because it isn’t plumb.
DZ?*'Satan id a subtle indivdual, but the
army tradorie a Sutler.
317” In all the wedding cake hope is ,ibo
sweetest of the plums.
asa?” Coming out—Several new bonnets hpvq
made their appearance.
To please everybody—-Mind your owh
business.
Coming—Tho weather tfeat trie*''At 1 -
men."
NO. 50.