Amcrimit WBSSM H fltattert VOL. 49. AMERICAN volunteer PDBUSHED EVERr THURSDAY. MORNING BT JOIIJI 11. BRATTON. TERMS. SonaonirTioN.— Two Dollars if paid witliintlio near: and Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, if not paid Sfitlnn the year. These torinS will ho rigidly nd %crcd to .in every instance,’ N o subscription elis ion tinuotl until all arrearages are paid unless at (ho option of the Editor. Advertisements— Accompanied by thooAsn, and not exceeding one square, will bo inserted three jLjm for One Dollar, and twonty-livo cents for each additional insertion. Those, of a.greator length in proportion. Jon-PaiNTiNd —Such ns Hand-bills, Posting-bills, Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, Ac. Ao., executed with accuracy mid at the shortos notice. foal. WOULDN’T TOD LIKE TO ENOW. A MADRIGAL —BY JOHN Q. SAXE. I. know a girl with tooth of pearly And shoulders whit© as snow She lives—ah! well, I must not tell— Wouldn't you like to know.? Her sunny hair is wondrous fair* And wavy in its flow; Who made it loss One little tress 1 - Wouldn't you like to know ? ilor eyes arc blue—celestial hue! — And dazflirigAn their gIoVT; On whom they beam . With inciting gleam— Wouldn't you like to know?. Her lips aro red, and finely wed, Like jtobcb oro they blow; What lover sips ' Those dewy lips— Wouldn?t you like to know? Her fingers aro like lilies fail* When lilies fairest grow ; Whoso,hand they press. With fond caress—* Wouldn’t you liko to know? . Her foot .is small* and bias a fall Like snow-flakes on the snow; ■- And whore it goes Beneath the rose— Wouldn’t you like to know ? She has a name* the sweetest name That language can bestow ; ’Twould break the spoil ,*T If! Should-toll— v Wouldn’t you like to know? ffiimllanemis. TUE LITTLE SOLDIER BOY MB UIS SOCL AN INCIDENT OP THE WAR, The love of a mother is as truly sot forth in the'life of a soldier, as in any other which may be selected. To - hear the soldiers while seated around their camp-fires, telling the innocent tales, of youthful days and their past-times, while under the charge of parents and friends, and how they_ enjoy those days of youth, is' always relieving to the hearer, and many a time will it cause a tear-drop to steal silently down the cheek without the conscious eifect it has made. One incident as an illustration While commander of the convalescent bar racks at Ba'rdstown, Ky., in February, 1862, on one cold, stormy night, I through the wards about the dead hoar of night, ns 1 was accustomed to do. In one of the wards, during the day previous, I had noticed a small boy, not exceeding fifteen years of age, who" was from all appearance rapidly decli ning with a severe cough,-occasioned by having had the measles. His place under the circumstances, should have been in the hospital. He had come from, that institution a few days previous; and not been entered upon the books of the barracks. _ When I entered the ward, I found him sitting upon his bed weeping, and as I entered I" heard him reproaching one of his bed-mates ns fol lows: ' ‘You had no business"to throw the sock away, so you hadn’t, for you know I thought bo much of it.’ ‘You can go and get it, Bill, for your mcaness. You can have your trouble now ; go and got it, or I’ll tell the captain,’ said one of tile warders.’ ■ Bill went out of the n(hm, and soon re turned with an old sock, and threw it spite fully to the little boy upon the bed, uttering an oath ns he turned away. The little fellow caught it up and placed It in his bosom, and laid down as if content. J passed through-witbout making any re mark, and returned to my office. During the night, I felt as though I should have talked to the little sick boy, and then there appeared something singular about the tenacity with which he clung to his sock, find, finally, I again went back at breakfast hour to his ward. The soldiers werp eating ihoir breakfast, but the little feltaw still e. 1 Stood over him and watched his things. He rested upon his'back, with his right hand upon his bosom. HU eyes Ivere set, and cold perspiration stood in large flrops upon his white forehead. Ho appeared ip, bo dreaming, and occasionally a sigh would interrupt his slumbers. I gently shook him, Ivhon ho awoke, pulled his hand from bis bosom, in which was clutched his little sock, find, instantly returning it, ho looked mo gently in the face and exclaimed: Oh lit is you, captain, thank you; thank you, for waking me. ‘ Are you sick V said I. ‘Yes, sir, I am sick,’ he replied, ‘ Why did you come out of the hospital?' I asked. 1 The medical director told me I was no account, and might ns well be dead ns alive i besides, the doctor in hospital No. 2 gets drunk, and I am afraid of him and that gi eat juan, the director, and I slipped out and came here. I want to stay with you, captain, if I can.’ . , ‘ You can stay,' I returned; ‘ butyou must ®nt something,, and I will havo Doctor Mo <J° i "’un B lvo y° a modioino.’ ‘Willyou, sir? I willbo much obliged, captain, and take the medicine j but I can’t oa ‘ ; And b'o she'd tears; and bis little chin quivered; ' ®“t you must not weep,’ said f. * flh'oer Pi and I will have you cured uud send you back home.’ To this ho smiled. .* But tell me now,’ continued I, ‘.why you hold on to thatsock?’ Why keep itso close? Whnt is there so precious about it ?’ ‘ I keep it, captain,’ and his voice faltered —‘ I keep it because it was given to mo by my mother. It was knit by herfingers, and it is all I have that she gave me, and she didn’t want me to come either.’ And ho burst into a flood ot tears. ‘ Well, well, never mind the sock,’ said I. ‘Let’s have some breakfast; now, what can you eat?’ * I can’t eat anything, captain ; I am very sick, sir. I could not cat at hospital No. 2, and I have not ate for over a week.’ I then commenced to name over the differ ent kinds.of food, nil of which ho rejected, until I mentioned mush and milk, when he smiled, and immediately I had a small bowl of milk and mush taken to him, and the doc tor from hospital No. 1 to prescribe for him. I had him transferred to the barracks from the hospital books, and then placed his rations in the hands of Mrs. P—an old lady, to gether with the rations of several others, and she gave them, two meals each day, cooked in good old Kentucky fashion, and soon lit tle Pleasant—for Pleasant was his given name-—and little Jemmie, and little Willie, and Sergeant Miller, and Soltor, all of whom had been pronounced incurable, commenced to recover, and after three months’ kind treatment I liad the pleasure of seeing all of the four others rejoin'their .regiments, in health, and little Pleasant receive an honor able discharge from the service, on account of his being under age; and when he left Bardstown for his home, he_ still Carried in his bosom the sock knit by his mother.^ To some this incident may seem-.simple, ’yet to the’writer it. proved conclusively that there is ho affection so deep, so .dear to the child, as that they inherit for the mother.— The mother is always first, always uppermost in the prayers of the sick and dying son.— The wife is no more in sickness to the wound ed or dying man than the mother, and bles sed is he who has by his side, in sickness, his mother. I believe "the hope this little boy had of once more seeing his mother, occa sioned his recovery. The Wood Ant. —The wood-anta seem to be acquainted with the loading principals of civilization, their nests being the centre of a radicating system of roads, extending for a wonderful distance, and as permanent in their way as Watling street, or any of the old Ho man roads which now traverse our. land.— Mr. William Hewitt tells me that he has wached one of these roads for more than twen ty years, and foiind that on every day it was crowded.with ants going off for plunder, or returning laden with spoils for the benefit of the community.. Even on wet and cold days, when the ants, who are chilly beings, wisely stav at home, their roads aro plainly percep tible, and are marked out by their freedom from bits of sticks, leaves, oct., those having ■ been removed by tbo insects as materials for their nest." It.is always easy,.to, find the host by following up the road, and the right di rection can be at once learned by foliowipg the course adopted by the laden insects.— The difference in the demeanor of those that are setting out in search of prey or materi als, and those that are returning homo, is most notable ; the former bustling along with a quick, eager step, looking this way and. that, running first to one side and then to the other, interchanging rapid communica tion with their ■ comrades, and altogether brisk and busy. But when they have suc ceeded in their object, they march steadily homeward, with a pre-oecupiod demeanor, taking no notice of passing events', and.being apparently absorbed in the one task of de positing their burden in its proper place. A Soldier’s Life. —A soldiers life is a hard one. It is full of privations; Tt is hard ly one that would be selected by the indolent or the luxurious.’ It is one of toil and care, and no little endurance. Yet it is remarka ble how well a soldier’s life agrees with oven many of those whom we have been accustpm ed to consider effeminate. , We have person ally known several young men of feeble health and indifferent physical stamina who, having “gone to the war,” have returned ro bust, hearty, vigorous, and substantial. Some of them whom we certainly believed would soon bo carried to their graves by a camp-life have, on the contrary, been regularly built up into stalwart men by the hardships they endured, and owe the promise of a long and healthly life entirely to the extraordinary change brought about by military discipline and duties. We dare say that there are cases in which sleeping on the -ground, the fatigue of heavy marches, wet clothing, a poor diet, and so on, have exorcised a differ ent effect. Death has visited many, no doubt, simply because they were subjected to such, trials; but no instance of that kind has come under our observation, white we have been an eye-witness to a number of instances, in which sickly men have been transformed by a soldier’s life into specimens of rare manly vigor and piiysical excellence. “ All the Brains.” —The Cincinnati In quirer, in reply to the Gazelle, of .that city, in an article abating the assumption that the New England people have all the. brains in the Dnion, makes the following points upon its neighbor: “ The Declaration of Independence was written by Jefferson, a .Virginian. The Con stitution of the United States was mainly the work of Hamilton, a New Yorker, Madison, a Virginian, and Jay, a New Yorker. The great General of the war of the Revolution, and the father of bis country. Geo. Washing ton, was a Virginian. The heroes of the war of 1812, Jackson, Scott, Harrison and others, were - not from Now England. The great orators, Patrick Henry, Wm. Wirt, William Pinckney and Henry Clay, were not from N. England. The great novelists, Brookden, Brown and J. Fonnimore Cooper, wore not from New England. Now England has not impressed her views on any of the great national transactions of the Government upon the country until she thrust Abo litionism upon it! She did not take the lead in the adoption of the Federal. Constitution nor anj of the Administra tions under it for sixty years. The groat controlling men of this county, the men with big brains and greaf hearts, who have gui ded and directed the 1 do'stiuie's of this nation!, have not come from Now England. At pres ent New England brains and New England ideas are in the ascendent, and see to what a strait they have brought the country 1” Sgy* An old bachelor geologist once boast ing that, every rook was as familiar to him as tho alphabet. A lady who was present de clared that she know a rook of which ha whs vgbolly ignoraht. “ Name it. modam'!" sajid Ctelelis m 1 a 1 rage. “tt is rock th'o' cradle sir,” replied the lady. “ OUR COUNTRY-MAY IT ALWAYS, BE BIGHT—BUT BIGHT OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY.” WAITING FOB i SUAVE. Not long ago an casy-go-long auctioneer, who did not care whether he was shaved be fore or after dinner, found himself in a crowd of impatient patrons of the barber shop lie was in, Combining speculations with amuse ment, the auctioneer offered to dispose of his “ turn” at auction to the highest bidder.— There was instantaneous response, so he mounted a chair and auctioneered as follows; “ Gentlemen, my turn is next. John is now soaping the head of that gentleman, and as soon as ho is through the turn is mine.— Several of you are in n hurry, and I am not. I am willing to do one of you a good office by selling my turn. I knock down to the highest bidder. So pitch in. Who bids and what is bid?” “ Three cents,” sang out a clerk from the post-office. “Three it is—who advances?” “ Five,” responded three or four. , “ Five is offered by a dozen. Who goes higher ? Be quick, gentlemen, for this time is precious.” “ Ten,” shouted n livery stable keeper. “ Twelve,” said the landlord of a restan rent. “ Fifteen," said a merchant who had not received his letters. » “ Fifteen for the first shave,fif-fif fif-fifteen, going at fifteen, gentlemen, and the time is nearly up, and going, going, go ” “Eighteen," bid the stable keeper. “ Twenty,” the saloon keeper. “ Twenty-five,” the merchant. The barber was just topping-off. the cus tomer in the chair, and but a minute more was to spare. “ I go thirty,” responded the stable man. “ Forty,” shouted the merchant. . “ Five to that,” excitedly exclaimed the saloon keeper, “ and I'll have it if it costs me a day’s receipts.” So. will I—fifty!” promptly responded the stable-keeper, more excited now than the rival bidder. The two merchants .withdrew from the con test, and the auctioneer proceeded in a strictly business manner to urge on the remaining bidders. He used all the cunning and inge nuity of a man of the hammer. The bidders became more excited and bid against each other rapidly. The stable man bid one dollar and five cents, when the barber shouted ; “ Next—who next?’’ “ Going, going,” was the response of the auctioneer. “ Going, going, and,—” ‘‘One ten,” shouted the saloon keeper. “ One fifteen,” said the stable keeper. “And gone at one dollar and fifteen 1” closed the auctioneer. A hearty shout of laughter arose from the crowd in the barber shop, all of whom had become more or, less interested in the rival bidding for the first shave. The stable-keeper promptly paid oiler the dollar and fifteen cents to the auctioneer, remarking as he did so; *• It’s a'tear shave, gentlemen,” but! would have gone double rather than lib bent.’* ■ PluCk—call again next week,” was the response of the auctioneer, and he pocketed the clear receipts. Lighting a cigar; and spreading himself out on two chairs, he lazily awaited his do fered turn for a shave. •Advantages of Years. —You are “ getting into years.” Yes, but the years are getting into you—the ripe, rich years, the genial, mellow years, the lusty, luscious years. One by one the crudities’of your you\|i are falling ojffromyou, the vanity, egotism, the isolation, the bewilderment, the uncertainly. Nearer and nearer you are approaching yourself.— You are consolidating your forces. You are becoming master of the Situation. Every wrong road into which you have wandered has brought you, by the knowledge of that mistake, so much closer to the truth. You no longer draw your bow at a venture, but shoot straight at the mark. Your possibili ties concentrate, and your path is cleared.— On the ruins of shattered plans you find your vantage ground. Your broken hopes, your thwarted purposes; your defeated 1 aspirations become a staff of strength with which you mount to sublimer bights. With self-possess ion and self-command return the - possession and the command of all The title deed of creation, forfeited, is reclaimed. The king bas come to his own again. Earth and sea and sky pour out their largest of love.— All the past crowds to lay its treasures at your feet.—l Gail Hamilton. Father and Daughter. —Their is no pret tier picture in life than that of a daugh ter reading to her aged father. The old man, while listening to her silvery notes, goes back to other times, when another one sat by. his side, and whispered words he will never hear again, nor does he wish to do so, for in the soft evening light he sees her imagine re flected in her child ; and as one by one gen tle emotions steals over him he veils his face, and the daughter, thinking him asleep, goes noiselessly in, search of other employment. Virgin innocence watching over the cares and wants of old age, is a spectacle fit for an gels.. It is one of the links between earth and heaven, and takes from the face of the hard and selfish world many of its harsh est features. ■; Good Luck. —Some young men talk about luck. Good luck is to got up at six o’clock in the morning ; good luck, if you have only a shilling a week, is to live upon eleven pence, and save a-penny; good luck is to troub le your bead with your own business and let your neighbor's alone ; good luck is to fulfill the commandments, and do unto other people as we wish them to do to us. They must not only work but wait. They must plod and persevere. Pence must bo taken care of, be cause they are the seeds of guineas. To get on in the world, they must take care of homo, sweep their own doorways clean, try and help other people, avoid temptations, and have nn abiding faith in truth and God. K 7” A good story is told by the Newport Her ald of a voung woman in that section, who, convinced of the death of her husband in a recent battle, put on morning, drew the bounty money of the deceased, and then en gaged herself to bo married to another de fender of his country. The wedding day was appointed, the gifts made, and everything ready, when the' startling nows oame that she was no widow, her unreasonable - first having had the audacity to bo taken prisoner instead of being shot, and to return from Richmond alive and well! YYo hope she had patience' with him. How to Stbaioiiten a Neouo’s Wool.— Tho New York Tribune states that Fred. Douglas gave a lecture or speech, nt the Cooper Institute, in New York, on Friday night, on the President’s Proclamation. Among other thipgs.he said V Since the ut tering of this Proclamation I have _ greyin' taller, felt whiter, and comb my hair with much loss difficulty.” CARLISLE, .PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1863. Whose JKfltpU Is lit “ Why don’t you go out more and enjoy yourself?” we asked one evening of a lady, still young nnd attractive, who was sitting alone, amusing herself as best she could with reading and sewing-during her husband's absence. There was nothing special to keep her at home ; the husband and wife always appeared to bo on the best terms ; wo knew she liked society, and felt really puzzled at little care she seemed •to have to share her husband’s evening amusements. A lec ture was all ready at hand on the bad policy of allowing husbandsdo spend their leisure without any reference to their wives’ wishes or pleasure, and the absolute duty of a wife to share in her husband’s: enjoyments when ever it was practicable foe her to do so ; but before there was time to even make a begin ning, she said : , ■ “ I don’t care to go out' with my husbanfe and as yet I have not grbvrn wicked eumjgn to go out with anybody-olpp.” ’ ■' ’’ d, " But , why don’t you flare to go put with your husband ;J “Well, the truth’is, ho does not make, himself agreeable. He iSialways fault find ing or silent. He does not defer to my wish es in any respect as he used to before wo were married, and bo grunts and soalds at the slightest mishap imprecisely the same way ns it he was at home and fretting about his collars and coffee. Now," she continued, “ I am nut such a fool as .to expect a man to be always amiable, or always devoted and at tentive. I am willing he-jshould bo a little cross if ho finds his shirts badly ironed and the buttons off, or a poor dinner when he ex pected a good one. . I eon even make allow ances for the cares and anxieties of business, and give him at .least-fen minutes after he reaches home to clear his knitted brow and.smooth his raffled tehiper ; but whonlie invites me logo out to a lecture, for’instance, or to the theatre, I want jto be treated with something like the consideration which any other lady would receive from him under the same cirounjstancea. If Tprefer a particular part of thebouso, which?does not cost’ any more, even,-if it is a little additional trouble to reach, I want to bo able to go there with: out being scowled at. If 1 want a bill of the performances, I should ijko to ask for it without being told that there is ho need of it, and that I am always wanting something I Can’t gel. If we stop at jn, restaurant on our way Home. I don’t like to be urged to give up my own special tastes and adopt his, which I never interfere with, and, it I don’t do it, suffer his grum looks irid displeasure for the rest of the evening]. Such treatment spoils all pleasure for mef and indured it un til I was tired. I deternvinedjtheh never to go opt with him if I cuuldlielp it, to find plea sure in my own way,, and let him seek his alone. When Igo out it «in the.day time, or with friends, and Wo g,|t along much ea sier. Ho tells ovtrybody tl'lat lam the strang est'woman ; that I will .iiot, go out if he asks mo—a part of which fa true, so I do,not ■ contradict bn»,P.... ,- .- -. This is not a solitary case by any meads, and wo should like to ask liny husband who may read this paragraph if. there .is not a spice of truth in it 1 Perhaps there may be, fault on both sides ; but is it not true that most men drop very soon after marriage, the character of gentlemen in their conduct to wards their wives ? Do they perform any of those little acts of courtesy, of kindness, and of attention which all woman like, and which helped to win them ? Not often, if one may judge from the testimony of most wives. Certainly men do not realise the danger there is in such a course, and which may only escape by a seeming providence, which one. cannot imagine was interposed for their benefit.* Food, shelter and clothing is not sufficient to satisfy any woman’s nature, and we always suspect a screw loose somewhere when a.man says his wife.does not ” care to go out.” Let him ask himself if he is as kind and considerate towards her as to the wives of other .men whom he meets abroad, and if no unlucky contrasts are over forced upon her which result to his disadvantage. _ The love between husband and wife is a very delicate plant, and requires- and re pays cultivation. If it was worth having at all, it is worth keeping, and as quite often dies from starvation and neglect as from more.activo cruelty. [CT 1 The. rebel Congress have adopted a novel mode of getting, rid of the negro regi ments that General Hunter or Colonel Hig ginson or Gen. Phelps is going to load against Dixie. The negroes, when caugh, are not to be shot—but sold, for what they will fetch, — half the proceeds to go to the captor, and half to the '‘Government.” New Jersey U. S. Senator.— Wm. Wright of Essex, was on Thursday elected United States Senator by the New Jersey Legislators, for six years from the 4th of March, The vote stood: Wright 54, Wm., A. Newell 25 (CT* The notorious traitor, George N. San ders, has worked his way through Canada to Halifax, and sailed in the lost steamer for Europe. He bears dispatches to the rebel emissaries abroad. - IT* Wo see in the columns of one of our contemporaries the announcement of tho nuu’- riago of Mr. Samuel Hogg to Miss Annie G- Hogg. We presume the result will bo a lit ter of little pigs. DCT" Congress has made appropriation of $50,000 for medical attendance and medi cines for the contrabands now in the hands of the Government [£7“ A white woman at Fishkill New York, has eloped with a negro preacher, taking all the money her husband had, and leaving him three small children. jJSy* An old bachelor who edits a paper somewhere in the Western county, puts “ Mel ancholy Accidents I 'as a head for marriages in his paper. O'He who loves a lady’s complexion, form and features, loves not her true self, but her soul’s old clothes. O” Why is a drummer the fastest man m the world ? Because time boats all men, but the drummer beats time. jjgf C. L.Vallandigh'am nnnounoeshimself a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Ohio. fear that many persons, Unliko theTngel at the pbbl of tfetbseda, never trouble wafer.' n—p tthat did a blind wood-sawyer take to restore his sight? He took his horse, and saw. BEFOBEjMR BSIN. Wo know It would rain, for.all the mom A spirit on slender ropes of mist Was lowering its goldoa buckets down Into tbo vapory amethyst. Of marshes and. swamps and dismal fens— Scooping tbo dew that lay in the .flowers, Dipping the jewels out of tbo sea, To sprinkle them ovor tbo land iu showers. Wo know it would rain for tbo poplars showed .The white of their loaves, tho amber grain Shrunk in tho wind—and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skoius of rain I AFTER THE RAIN. Tbo rain has ceased, and in my room The.sunshine pours an airy flood; . And on tho church's dizzy vano The ancient cross is bathed in blood. From out tho dripping ivy-leaves, Antiquely carved, gray and high, A dormer, facing westward, looks ■ Upon tho villiago like an oyo. And now it glimmers in the sfln, A globe of gold, a dise, a speck ; And in the belfry sits a dove . With purple ripples on her neck. ftoltfual From tho California Republican, RECORD OF JUDGE DOUGLAS. Among the false pretences set up’ by that party claiming, the distinctive appellation of “ Union"- I—of 1 —of which falsehood is the, chief element of success—there is nothing so en tirely Wsoless as the assumption that it re presents and opinions of Judge Dougins. Let mwSsi-b premise that _wo would attach no undue height to the opinions of any one man, nor reject a truth because of the sourdS'from which it is elucidated. It is the theory of our government that every man most think for himself, and weigh'every principle by its merits as it is presented ,to his mind. But it is only reasonable .fithaf where differences arise, greater credit should be given to the opinions of a professor than to those of a novice, the motive to veracity being equal. Locke says—“ How many men have, ho other grounds for their tenets than the supposed honest or loifirning, or number, of those of the same profession. As if honest or bookish men could not err,-or truth were to be established by the vote of the multitude; yet this with most men serves the turn. There is not an opinion so absurd which a man may not receive upon this ground. There is no error to be named, which has not had its professors ; and a .man shall never want crooked paths to walk in, if he thinks he is in the right way whenever he has the footsteps of others to follow.” _ There has boon np American statesman for whbsa political opinions we have a more profound respect; in whoso honesty of purpose and.iptggrity °f yo}Had 'mote confi dence, and valued more highly than that of Stephen A. Dougins. Our opportunities for learning his personal views upon the political topics of the day, to near the close Qf.hisjifo, by intimate associa tion and confidential personal relations, wore second to those of but very few ;■ yet we never accepted 'his theories as dogmas, or his opinions as laws, simply because they wore his, but wo believe that ,we hold no opinion to-day upon political matters which ho would not fully endorse: and have uttered , no political sentiment which ho would not cordially approve. The same may bo said of llicliardson, Pugh, Cox, Allen, and all who wore nearest and dearest to him in life, now denounced as “ secessionists" and “ traitors” by the party which is claiming his opinions as its exclusive property, and by the dirty horde of political hucksters who arp trading upon his fame with the abolitionists, his life-long defamers, for place and profit! Upon what act-or declaration of Mr. Doug las do these abolitionists, or the so-called “war democrats" of’the present day, base their claim to his endorsement? It is only by garbling his speeches or wrenching sentenc es fiom the text and omitting the concurrent facts that they can establish the color.of such claims, and by the perversion of his senti ments they attempt to delude those “ who have nd other ground for their tenets” than the professions of one in whom they have so much confidence as in Mr. Douglas. Ho ■never endorsed one material tenet of.the pres ent abolition or “ Union party,” to his dying day; but on the contrary he to"the last warned against and denounced the very principles Which are now held as tests by that party. He advocated no war but a war of defence—to defend the President in the constitutional discharge of his official,duties, to defend the capitol from threatened attack, and above all to defend the constitution and laws. Ho had previously declared as his solemn conviction—” War is dissolution.” In his speech in the Senate, January 3d, 1861, he said: “ No man will go further than I to main tain the just authority of the government, to preserve the Union, to put down insurrection, and to enforce the laws. : I would use all the powers conferred by the constitution for this purpose. But in the performance of these important and delicate duties, it must bo borne in mind that those powers must only he used, and such measures employed as are au thorized by the constitution and laws.” In his last speech in the Senate, March 15, 1861, he said :• “ Sir, the President cannot use the army or the nayy, or the militia, for any purpose not authorized by law; and then it must bo done in the manner, and only in tile manner prescribed by law.” Again on March 25th, he continued : “Is it wise to make oiir people _ believe that the President has lawful authority to do that which the constitution and laws forbid ? Is it wiso to doludo them into tlio belief that tho party just assuming power is going to do that which the constitution dons not per mit ? Is it belittling of this government to say that the administrators of this govern ment have no right to violate the constitution and laws of the country ? Sir, our boast is, that wo live under a government of laws ; that tho President and all.in authority under him are authorized to do that which the law provides, and nothing more.” , Apropos to this, in the Senate, on llmrs day, March 7th, 1001, in doUning a former spcoob, ho said: “ I did say that if Mr. Lincoln should bo elected President, according to tho constitu tional fprms, he must bo inaugurated ; and dnder my constitutional duty,"l would sustain him in tho exercise of all tho legitimate duties of the station. I then said, if lifter he was elected, he should violate tho constitution of tho country, and commit orim'os against the laws of the land, I would be for punishing him according to the laws ; and if it was the penalty under the constitution to hang him, I would hang him bigherthan Hamm.” Let the unconditional supporters of thq ad ministration mark the distinction between Mr. Douglas and themselves- in this. He would mete out to the President the just punish ment for a violation of bis constitutional obli gations ; the republicans in Congress, in di rect violation of the express letter of the con stitution, pass an ex post Jacio act of indem nity to the President for notorious nnd re pented violations of the- constitution, and all the party endorse tho act and rule out of their party all who do not. In response to a serenade at Washington, in December, 1860, Douglas defined how far he would sustain the President; “ So long as ho observes his oath of office by seeing that the laws are faithfully execut ed, ho should be supported in all consti tutional measures by all patriotic men, and if he disregards his oath, violates tho con stitution, makes war upon the rights of any man, or upon any section, he should he held to the strictest accountability provided in the constitution." So far from Mr Douglas havingcountcnanced any disregard of tho constitution, bis last words, when he was about to bid farewell to his country, and the world, wore; “ Tell my children io love and uphold the constitution,” On the question of tho unconstitutibnality of any interference either by the President, Congress, or the army, .with slavery in the southern states, the position of Douglas was clear and explicit. He hoped to see the wttr conducted ujion strict war principles, against rebels in arms, and . not perverted to une ,of : animosity to wreak vengeance, incen diarism, insurrection nnd debauchery .upon - helpless innocence, or in barbarous devasta tion. * . . Addressing the Illinois Legislature, April 25ih, 18G1, he emphatically said : “ I can-,' appeal to them with confidence that I have never pandered to the prejudice, or passion of my section against the minority section of this Union ; and I will say.to you now, with all frankness and in all sincerity, that I will never sanction nor acquiesce in any warfare whatever upon the constitu tional rights, or domestic institutions of the southern states. [Applause.] Oh the con trary] if there was antattempt to invade these rights—to stir up servile insurrrection among their people— l would rush io their rescue, and interpose with whatever of strength I might possess to defend them from such a calamity. [Applanso.]” ’ • ' , In the speech, at the serenade above referred to, lie spoke of slavery, andtho duty of the Government: ~ “ The vexed question-of slavery existed when our fathers framed the cohtitution, as well as now, and if wo could only carry out the principles upon which they'made the government, we can preserve the Union, and transmit it toourlatestposterity. The federal government must never interfere with the questiotvof slavery anywhere, except to per- 1 form its constitutional obligation of returning fugitives.” Are these-declarations, which are among his last on earth] anything like the spirit, of the resolutions endorsed by some of the pro fessed “Douglas democrats” in the-Legisla ture in favor of emancipation,' the support of which Is made a part test ? Again, in the Senate, January 2d, 1801, he said: “ The most obnoxious sentiments I ever at tributed to the republican party, and that not in the south, but in northern Illinois, and in the strongholds of abolitionism, was that they intended to exorcise tho" powers .of the feder al government with a view to the ultimate extinction ofslavery in the southern states.” At that early day his keen perception evi dently discerned that which all now see. Douglas said, in the last speech of bis ,lifo, at Chicago: “We must hot invade constitutional rights. The innocent must riot suffer, nor.wpmen and children be the victims. Savages must not bo let loose; But while I sanction no war fare,upon the rights of others, I will implore my countrymen not to lay down their arms until our own rights are recognized.” Again, in another version of the same speech, he says: “Wo must not forget that we are Christians, and that the war must be.waged in a Chris tian spirit—not agairisttho rights of a people —riot against the rights of women and chil dren. Say that you will section no war bn rights, and say that never will you lay down your arms until those which you cloirn as your own aro recognized. We are born un der the constitution of the United States, and its provisions are our birthright. Then, bo prepared to enforce the inalienable rights which it confers." “ Sanction no war on rights 1” This would be hold by all republican authorities at the present time as treasonable language, and many a man has found himself an unwil ling inmate of Fort Lafayette for a less offense against what is now called “ the gov ernment.” It was through fear that his motives might ha misunderstood that ho used the following language in the speech to the Illinois Legis lature, April 25 th: “ The first duty of an American citizen, or of a citizen of any constitutional government, is obedience to the constitution and laws of his country. [Applause.] I have no ap prehension that atiy man in Illinois, brheyond the limits of our o\vn beloved state, will mis construe or misunderstand ray motive. So far as any of the partisan questions are con cerned, I stand in equal, irreconcilable and undying opposition both to the republicans and the secessionists.” [Applause.] The last letter which Mr. Douglas over dictated was addressed to Virgil Hiokox, Chairman of the Illinois democratic state central committee, in which ho said : “ I am neither the supporter of the parti san policy, nor the apologist for the errors of the administration. My previous relations to them remained unchanged; but I trust, the time will never come when I shall not b‘e willing to make any needful sacrifice of per sonal feeling and party policy for the honor and integrity of my country." ' Is this anything like the “ no-party" pre tention upon which some of his professed followers havo joined a party which uncon ditionally endorsed the republican policy as carried out by Congress and the administra tion ? 'Vhile Mr. Douglas lived, lie know of the war only as one of self-defense, and there was no evidence on record that it would be perverted from the object for which it was declared. Mr. Lincoln had said in his inau gural address: “ I declare that I have no purpose, direct ly or indirectly, to interfere with the insti tion of slavery in the states where it exists; that I Believe I have no lawpcl rigiit to do so, and have no inclination to do so.” The House of Repieaentativca had voted, without u dissenting voice, this avowal: Resolved, That neither Congress nor the people, or governments of the non-slaveholding : States have a constitutional right to legislate upon, dr interfere with slavery in any slave holding Slates-of the Union.’’. .. . These avowals covered tW whole case-of interference with slavery, and no one could then have supposed that either the President, or Congress, could ever in honor to them selves, give the lie to' their own declarations. So iar from Douglas endorsed the policy of the republican patty in relation to the war, he was directly opposed,- to it- _ Ho said that “ war was disunion, final and irre vocable ho thought that the .parly had re fused compromise, and insisted on' war for the purpose of either destroying, slavery on the Union. In a letter written to-CharlesH. TLanpluer, editor of the Illinois State Register, .in March, 1801, he informs his friend: “The fact can no longer be disguised, that many of the llepublican Senators desire war and disunion wider the pretext of saving the Union. They wish to got rid of the southern Senators, in order to have a majority in the Senate to confirm the appointments; and many of them think they can hold a perma nent republican ascendency in the .northern states, but not in the whole Union, For par tisan reasons, therefore, they are anxiotis to dissolve the Union,'if it canhe done' without making them responsible before the people Ho was bitterly opposed to insurrection, such as is invited by the emancipation proc lamation, and thought that it wouldoyer bo a consequence of “ republican He thought those guilty of inciting insurrec tions .to be “ murderers and traitors.” The following resolution, in relation to the Harper’s Ferry insurrection, by-.the . democratic state convention of Illinois; Jam 4th, 1860, was writtenby Douglas: • “ Resolved, That the Harper’s Ferry out rago was the natural consequence, and logical ’ result of the doctrines and teachings of the: republican party, as explained and enforced in their platforms, partisan presses, books and pamphlets, and in the speeches, of their leaders, in and out of Congress ; and for this reason an honest and law abiding people should riot be satisfied ;with the disavowal or disapproval by the ' republican leaders of John Brown’s acts, unless they repudi ate tiio doctrines and teachings which pro duced those murderous crimes, and denounce all persons who profess to sympathize with murderers and traitors, lamenting their fate, and venerating their memory as martyrs, who lost their lives in a just and holy cause;” . All of these “sympathizers, with murderers ‘ and traitors” ore now.respeotod members, of the republican party, and many of them hold ing high positions ■ under government.. An instance of this dame- under our, own ■ obser- - vat ion. A public meeting held in a, northern city on the. day of the execution'.of . John Brown passed resolutions of sympathy:, with his purposes and condolonoe with his friends. The members or the committee which repor ted these resolutions all received federal ap-, pointmonts from Mr. Lincoln; and this is but one of thousands of similar casoB._ .What man of ordiriary self-respect, holding the opinions of Mr. consent to pot with a partyin. whiohe “ sympathizers .with murderers and traitors” whore the leaders? Who] upon* reading the evidences, can for a moment suppose that if Douglas was now living :he would endorse the policy of the republican party for conducting the war.?— Who can think that he would sustain a prin ciple which holds the constitutions and laws, the inalienable rights of individuals and of States, all. which had heretofore been held dear, and.which render life valuable, must sink and bo destroyed before the omnipotent will and sovereign power of Abraham Lin coln? There will be but little cause of-sur prise that he who thinks this, should also think that the best way of restoring a revolt ing people to an harmonious Union, .will be through confiscation, emancipation and ser-„ vile insurrection; ‘ Mr. Dougins endorsed the war, not because he thought the policy of itsiinception was right, but because, when his country was involved, to a patriot there was no other alternative, lie then, thought it his duty to sustain the government in its constitutional efforts at selfproservation. Tho war, he in sisted, should bo waged for no other purpose than of preserving the Union arid Constitution against the evils of secession. I , He was fora war against wronc/s, and not against rights ; .Ho advised his countrymen to abandon party, to sustain tho government against traitors, but never advised the abaridonment of tho democratic organization in the Civil policy; much less did he advise them to join the republican orgnnizntiori and oridorse its policy. That man who joined what is colled the “ Union administration party,” under the pretence of being an adherent of Mr. Doug las or a representative of his views, can only be a fool or a knave. The Writ of Habeas Corptfs. A Republican Judge’s Opinion. The Milwaukee News publishes in full the opinion of Judge Pnipe, of the supremo Court of Wisconsin, in the Kemp habeas corpus case, which was also the opinion of the whole court. The opinion is able, and the conclu sions arrived at are briefly stated as follows: 1. The government,of the United States is invested with full power by the Federal Con stitution to prosecute war, and there is BO war-power outside the Constitution. 2, Only the.people,' through their ropre sontativos in Congress, can suspend the writ of habeas corpus, . 3. The President can execute' the laws only by such moans as the Constitution and th# laws themselves have given him power to em ploy- 4. A military commander may declare mar tial law in districts which are the actual thea tre of war, where hostile armies are mot for the purpose of destruction, or in insurrectiona ry districts where domestic violence and dis cord have effectually displaced the civil au thorities—but not elsewhere. 5. Courts Martial are courts of limited and inferior jurisdiction, and .have no jurisdiction to try any persons' except such as are by law amendable to such trial. G. The legislative is the political depart ment of the government, and When the writ qlhcbeas corpus is not suspended by Congress, the Executive has no political power to im prison the people. Judge Paine moreover declares that ho should consider the establishment of the doc trine that the President possesses illimitable power over the land by a declaration pt mar tial law, "as a'calamity little if any less to he deplored than the success of the rebellion ,” It must be remembered that the Court is en tirely composed of gentlemen who woreeleotod as Republicans. Onr readers have not over- * 3 looked the fact, that wherever these questions have earns before a fair and responsible tri bunal the decision has invariably been in fa ‘vor of the position assumed by the Democratic jiarty. no; 40.
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