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Advebtirkmhnts— Accompanied by tho cash, and Bot cxcccding one square, will ho inserted three 'limes for One Dollar, and twcnty-flyo conts for each ’additional insertion. Those of a greater length in proportion. ' •> Joc-Pat? ,TI^o ~'^ ftS Hand-Mils, Posting-hills pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, «tc*Ac., executed with Acuraoy and at tho shortest notice. t |Mml SOM. BY EDWARD J. XIOWE. Como, doaroal, tho moonbeams arc playing O’er valley, and mountain, and plain ; Come, dearest, my sorrow allaying, IVc’ll wander together again.. 0, cun you still doubt my aJToction, Still refuse to tlkqiel my annoy; T> rupliUM' my heart's deepest dejection With bliss and indwelling joy ? I think of fhoo, dear, when awaking, Tin! Rim's silver sheen doth illume; ■WIicM storms around me arc breaking, And the heavens are darkened with gloom. 11nvo ()ioo, dour angel, more fondly Than cherub or seraph cun love ; I lovl* time, dear Annie, thee only— ■My angel, my duniug, my .dove. 0, scorn not my heart’s true affect ion ; I Lou—how charming that lino I Ky soihicc in every dejection— U, that your love were but mine ! .STATE COUNT'S COURTSHIP, I once called on my friend, Ftcve Conant, mul while there the conversation turned on •courtship; at my request, the old gentleman tuld me im incident-in his own love affairs, which I give in his own words: ‘Wall, seeing its you, I don’t mind tolling about a scrape that happened to mo when 1 whs courting Nancy boro, That i*s something that I never tell anybody. But ye shall hear it!’ ‘ No, don’t stove/ broke in (ho old woman ; ‘I should think you- would be ashamed ,of yourself, telling your love scrapes to every- Wiv.’ 1 f you cant boar to hear it, you may go out doo 1*8 —so hero poos ! When I was nigh uljuut twenty-uno 1 came up hero nil alone, and built mo n cabin. I hadn't a nahor near tr than live miles, ho ye see, I didn’t quarrel much ; hut np-it grew to bo near winter I pot kinder lonesome, and begun to think that 1 ought t<) haver a woman to keep mo compa ny; so one morning 1 started down to Len- Wa .V. to lake a look at the gals, to see if(l tomM Undone to suit me. "When I got down tu the Retrletnonllaskod.il; little chap if be knew of a girl that wanted to got married, and he told mo ho guesfod that Nancy Knox did. and if [ wanted a wife, I had hotter try ami hitch on frith her - ; and ho said that if it uas agreeable, be would go U> Deacon Knox mid iiiiike me acquainted with Nancy, and he good as his word, and twasidt an hour ufore Nancy ami I was on the best of terms. Afore rsigift I hired out « r ith the Deacon for . l, ‘ n dollars a month, and I was to work all Vr liter. 'Wall, for about twn months I felt an neat M a mouse in new cheese. I courted Nancy every Sunday night, and I was determined Mure another week to pop the'question, and Hadn’t a bit of doubt but what Nancy would Uoverjoyed at becoming my bosom compan- Jmi. Wall, about this time there came a fcl luw from one of the lower towns to keep sdioul, and he hadn’t been there moro’n a wuok. wtuve..l lotind he had a natural hanker ing after Nancy ; an'd worst of all, tiio old A'acn, who seemed inighty pleased at the thoughts of my courting his gal, begun to kinder kool off, as if he would like the rrchord- Jnastct* better for a.aori inlaw, and it'made hit* feel kinder down in the lip, t can tell you. n all oa one Sunday night, BUI Smith, for . ‘kit was the pesky critter’s name, came in just at dusk, and when the clock struck nine no didn’t seem to go. Old Mrs. Knox and tiioyaung uns all went to bed, and there none loft b.ut the old Deacon, Bill, Nan -y and I, and I kop spectrng every minute that ho would allow Bill to bod, but ho did no jucha tiling; but jest as the clock struck ten he ria up. and bob ho: J . tGVG » let’s go td bed, for wo must bo up W'f and airly to have them ere logs to thb hvcV ' ** • Wasn’t that a hint, oh ? 7. looked at 6 * lo tUrnc| 3 away her Head, and ■tins lup the ladder to bod. I was hoil- D E °yer mad with all creation —Bill, Nancy the deacon in partioular. I got in to bed 4 ™ yivored myself up, but.l folt so bad that ■ Co 'J!du’t- go to sloop. Like as not,, the “ooltiiißtfr was hugging and kissing Nan- JJoown in the kitchen, and I couldn’t shot :“J eyes for the life of mo. Wall; all at onco occurred to mo that there wore some big Mas in the floor over tho kitchen, and 1 I i watch and soo all that was going on .. "W; so oiit of bed 1 got, and crawled iJ'I'.S °t°Be .to the chimney on all fours, and mil ln K a tig crack, I looked down through, birtn N(,n .°y wore setting about two foot hLif',,| 10u gK every now and then Bill would r chair a little nearer to her. How a * ? bavo choked that man !' I watched that t a ' JOU ' a quarter of an hour, and by in n J Wtt 3 near about froze, as it was Wrimt Co * ( ' n ‘gbt, and. I hadn’t a rag on t e j y m / two shirts. But I would not go' to (tuii i° r * " nB bound to know if Naney was tliiu° and by Bill hitched his chair fcnj * c ™ or i and I could soo that he had li or >P am mind and was just going to kiss Mo h r " ec i old But I was bound to l, 6tt ‘."rough, so I moved a little to get a and at that moment the plank Cu„ “ P , “ nd down I went kerchunk'and for a *'7 00n Bill and Nancy. Bill tho’t ■lrcaknJj .tbat tho old Niok had oomo, and 'g aTo a tt out doors and as for Nancy, she ivith i, 0 lo °k, and then covered up her face as u P ron - I started out of tho kitchen goino- 1, a ? y° u could say scoot, and.ns I.was holloa 'adder, I heard old Mrs. Knox Wlr N " nc, y’ oooofc the oat down, or she’ll • 'pi o, y dish on tho dresser 1’ hiilkina r morning when she went out to eliu ort.f the question to Nancy, and Caro a bavo mo, for she didn’t ftttrriod r l Smith; and we have boon 10,1 f °rty years cum next Juno.” ABOLITION TREASON. * EXTRACT FROM THE SPEECH OF SENATOR POWELL, of Ky. Delivered in the V. S. Senate , April 8, 18G4, on the Bill to amend the tyiited States Constitution, so as to destroy Slave Property. Mr. POWELL. Mr. President, it was not my purpose a day or two ngo to make any re marks upon the main question but* - ! beg leave now to trespass on tho Senate for a short time while I reply very briefly to Homo of tho remarks that have fallen from three honorable Senators from Now England, two from Now Hampshire and one from Massa chusetts, who has just taken his scat. • I do nob believe it was over designed hy the founders of our Government that tho Constitution.,of United States should bo so amended r.a to destroy property. Ido not believe it is the province of the Federal Gov ernment to say what is or whafi is not prop erty. Its province is to guard, protect, and secure, rather than to destroy. If you ns - tho principle contended for by tho gen tlemen who urge this amendment, logic would load thorn to tho conclusion that tho General Government could, by an amend ment to its Constitution, every do mestic matter in the States. If it, by con stitutional amendment, can regulate the re lation of master and servant it certainly can, on the. same principle, make regulations con cerning tho relation of parent and child, husband find wife, and guardian and ward. Tf it has tho right* to strike down property in slaves, it certainly would have a right to strike down property in horses, to make a partition of the land, and to say that none shall hold land in any State in the Union in fee simple. It is not my purpose, however, to discuss the question in that light, lor it hn« boon elaborate!v dDobssed before', Ido not think, Mr. President, that those who aro now urging this f constitutional amendment have acted in good faith toward the adhering slave States: U you v.ill trace their history from the very beginning in cop neolion with this whole subject; of shivery in the Stales, I think you will find that they have not acted with that directness and can dor that should characterize bold, honest, and fearless men. Why, sir. do you auppoMJ that fucl) propositions would have been proposed heretofore? Not at all. Wo were told by the Government in every form in which it eould speak, at the beginning of this revolu tion. that whatever might ho tho result, tho institutions of the States would remain as they were. Tho President, in his inaugural address, announce.il that ho had no constitu tional power to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States. Tho Secretary of State announced it in a communication which ho sent abroad. Congress, by a res olution. announced virtually the same thing when they declared that the object of the war was to restore the Union as it was and to maintain the Constitution as it is. A ll these measures and promises have been utterly repudiated by the party in power. It seems as if their solo object was to deceive in order to obtain power, and the moment they obtain'power they exercise it. Wo aro surrounded hy circumstances thatcanso these valiant knights to think they ban do this with impurity, and at, once they go to work.— Heretofore they havcvsaid that not only they had not the power, but whatever might be tho result of the present contest, tho status of this institution would remain as it was. I do not mean to say that they said they had no power to pass a constitutional amendment, but this portion of my remarks is directed to .other policies that have been advocated and other laws that have been passed or are now proposed in this Chamber. I think it must ho admitted hy all candid men that the bor der States have been dealt with in bad faith. The Government has not kept faith with them. All candid, all truthful, all honest men must know it and must admit it. But. sir, they tell us that slavery is tho cause of all our difficulties ; and tho honora ble Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. Clark] rend an awful indictment against sla very. lie said it was tho cause of all our woes; that there was no ill in the land but must bo attributed to slavery; and hence, he said, it must die. With great deference to the learned Senator, I do not think slave ry lias been the cause of*-all our difficulties. In my judgment the want'of faith that has been exhibited toward the border and adher ing slave states and tho bad faith in not ex ecuting and carrying nut the laws of tho country is the source o.f our ills. _ If those who act with that Senator had carried out in good faith' the Constitution and the laws •made in pursuance thereof on this subject, wo never should have been engaged in this most unfortunate and Cruel and disastrous civil war. The bad faith of tho abolitionists has dene moro to .bring tllisw&r about than all the efforts'of the fire-eaters of the South. I admit that those men inth.o South acted unwisely and foolishly j bub I do not think the one could well have produced such re sults without other. * There wore funat is at both ‘extremes, and those miserable factions have brought this once groat and glorious country to its present unfortunate condition. .Historians, in after times- will give that as the cause, of our troubles. - It'wa.s the eternal intermeddling with this institu tion that aroused tbo spirits of tho southern men, and they in turn committed the great est indiscretions and follies, tlad there been no abolitionists frorth there never would have been a fire-eater South., But it issa'id slavery is the cause of the war, and because it is tbo cause of the war it must die. If that is the kind of logic on which honorable Senators act they would de stroy almost everything that is pure, good, and holy in the world. The blessed religion of our Saviour has been the pretext of more wars perhaps than any other subject. _ Why not strike down the Christian religion be cause it has been the subject-matter about which throats have been out, cities sacked, and empires overthrown ? There have been furious wars about territory and territorial boundaries, and there will continue to be such wars as long as the cupidity of man prompts him to make conquests. not destroy all tenure in land ? Ferocious wars have been waged about women. In Homer ic verse wo have the historic record of a ten years’ contest for frail Helen. Why not de stroy the loveliest of God’s handiwork '• Why, sir, the proposition of the Senator to destroy slavery because it is tbo cause of the war (which I utterly deny) if carried out log i oally, would destroy everything that is grand, beautiful, lovely, and groat in the world. — It is so illogical, so irrational, that I do not think it can influence the judgment of any sane man. . • I opsone IhOipropofdtion now ponding be fore the Senate, in the first place, because I do not think we should enter into any such legislation (tt this time for the reasons that I “OUR COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWAYS BE RIGHT—BUT RIGHT OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY.’* have briefly stated. In tho second place, I oppose U because I desire* tho Union to bo restored, restored as it was with tho‘‘'Consti tution t>s it is ; and I verily believe that.if you pass this amendment to the Constitution it will be the most effective disunion measure that could bo passed by Congress. As a lover of tho Union I oppose it. Adopt this amendment, say to tho people of tho South ern States that they are to bo deprived of their property and the earnings of their la bor, that their whole domestic policy is to bo overthrown, and four million of miserable blacks turned loose among them, if you please, and do you think that they will yield while they have arms to strike ? Never, sir, andMn my honest judgment (f always speak plainly what I think) those fanatical gentle men on tho other side of the House wiio de sire tho passage of this measure, intend to do one of two'things—cither to destroy the in stitution of slavery or to destroy tho Union. If they can make tho preservation of this Union a pretext by which they can be ena bled to strike down slavery, they will do so. If they find that they cannot, in my judg ment they will bo willing to recognize {ho South. Their whole policy indicates that to my mind. Pass this amendment and you make an impassable chasm, as if you were to put a lake of burning fire between the ad hering States and those who aro out. You will then have to make it a wav of conquest and extermination before you can ever bring them hack under tho flag of the government. There is no doubt about that, proposition. AV hy, sir, suppose you were to propose and pass an amendment to tho Constitution lay mg your hand upon the property interest in New England, I will not say equal but half equal to the property interests of tho south ern States which you r.qjv propose to strike down; does any man believe that all New England would not be iu revolution to-uipr row ? Yes, sir, one half of the violation et their property rights hy anattcnnptc 1 amend ment of the Constitution of the United .States inflicted upon them would put all New Eng land in revolt to-morrow. J do not stand here to denounce our Yankee hrothern of the North, but everybody knows that, cupidity ami love of gain is their strongest character istic. That is known over the whole world and acknowledged by themselves, V nowing that this will, l e Hie best disunion measure tli.it was ever ii iopted, and desiring us I do a restoration of the Union us it was with the Constitution as it is, I oppose, it. and shall oppose it here aud everywhere, with all the power that I have. Those who favor it do not v Ish the Union to bo restored as it was. They are willing, [suppose, to let the southern States come in us conquered prov inces, bereft of all their properly aad all their rights, social and political. The honorable Senator from New Hamp shire [Mr. Clark] has left us no doubt upon that point. In the very eloquent speech that ho made the other day ho scouted the idea of the Union as it was and the Constitution as it Is. He" did not want that Union, and ho had the manhood to tell us so place in, the Senate. Would the .:Sedrftfly "have ‘sat'd-' that three year-ago? I very much doubt it. I do want the Union as it \>as a|nd the Con stitution as it is, and in that I diller from the honorable Senator. lie wants the Union,lie says, without slavery, I want the Inion with all the institutions that our fathers or dained ; and I desire to leave each State the control of its own domestic policy, ami tiie choice and management of itsdomes.ic in stitutions ;'and that was, until very recently at least, the dnetrino of the party to. which the iionorablo'Sonator belongs. That .van in their Chicago platform ; but platforms with everything else are overturned now. That platform in very many particulars was very offensive to mo; but such as it was, (lie par ty in power used it merely as a scaffold by which to mount to power, and when they had attained the summit they it to the ground and trampled upon it. It is in peep ing with the bad faith ,they have exhibited to the border States dhring this controversy. The Senator from New Ilampshiio is now zealous fur a 'constitutional amendment. — The time was when the Senator was fired with no such holy zeal. When the proposi tions offered by my then venerable colleague, Mr, Crittenden, wore before the Senate, the Senator from Now Hampshire .thought no amendment of the Constitution necessary,— All that was wanted, in Ids opinion, was the execution of tho Constitution wo had. That Senator was then the most active agent in preventing constitutional amendments, when tho whole world knew that if those eonsbitu-, tional amendments were carried out, it would* have avoided this miserable war and saved tho country as a whole. But it did not suit the ideas of the Senator to favor constitution al amendments then, and hence ho proposed ' his celebrated resolution as a substitute tor the Crittenden amendment. Then, sir when those amendments of tho Constitution, which it was avowed on all hands, even by Davis and Toombs and tho whole of the southern leaders, would save tho Union, were under consideration, no Republican "Senator came forward and voted tor them. Then* whoa patriotic men throughout tho whole land de sired to avert the- impending storm that has resulted so disastrously to the country, mor ally, religiously, politically, and in every oth er respect, tho gentlemen who are now such hot zealots for constitutional amendments wore opposed tp .them. They withheld amendments, and the mad people of the South went off; but now, when this war is upon iia and has well-nigh ruined the^co en try, constitutional amendment? are their last- Specific. • Would it not be better that those in pow er should execute tho Constitution as it is be fore they seek to amend it? Every vital provision of the Constitution as it is violated, and you complain not; and now you propose to amend it solely for the miserable negro, after rejecting every amendment.proposed that was calculated to secure the liberties of tho white man. When I proposed an amendment to confine the office of the President to one term, and thus to terminate the in famous spoils system, it was voted dmvn. When another amond wns proposed to prevent the kicking out of office at the incoming of every administration of the suh-olfioials in the Executive Depart ments; no one said it was not a good amend ment; ■ and Senators voted it down. Every other amendment that is calculated to give perpetuity.and virtue to the Government you discard. You seem to care for nothing but the negro. That seems to bo your solo de sire. You seem to bo inspired by no other wish than to elevate the negro to equality, ■ and give him liberty. I have offered vari ous amendments to this proposition, but they have all been rejected. I have offered them because I thought that while wo wore at this work wo might do something for th’o white man, for I believe this Government was made by white men and for white men ; and if it is ever preserved it must bo preserved by white men. I have never mase a speech in this body on the subject of the negro ; I have CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 5, alluded to him incidentally only ;.butl would i ask Senators who are so zealous for the n'egro to point mo to a place on the earth where he has boon so civilized, so humanized, so chris i tianized, so well cared for as ho is in a state i of slavery in the United States of- America. . He lias existed, I suppose, as long as the otli i er peoples of the earth; but if-you were to • day to strike from existence everything that ■ the wouly-headed negro has given to art, to • science, to the mechanic arts, to literature, or to any of Hie industrial pursuits, the world would, notiniss it. lie is an inferior man in his Capacity, and no fanaticism cau raise him.to the level of the Caucasian race. The white man is his superior, and will bo so whether you call him a slave or an equal. It has over been so, and I can see no reason why the history of all the past should bo re versed. .But'the negro absorbs your every thought. For him you will destroy the country; for him you will allow the liberties of the white man to bo stricken down, and every sacred guarantee of liberty in the Constitution put under foot without a whimper or a censure. That is a lamentable fact has exhibit ed itself during this war. Not contented with proposing legislation to equalize and to elevate the negro, and with failing to oensuro oven in the mildest and most diluted form those who overthrow the liberties of the white man, you step out of the way to assault in every conceivable manner the slaveholding States, The border slave States are kicked and cuffed here with as.lit tlo ceremony as if they were disloyal crimi nals or outcasts. Tim Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. Clark] undertook the other day to run a parallel between the State I have the honor in part to represent here and one of the New England States, in which he doubted the patriotism of Kentuckians and elevated that of the Green Mountain- State of Vermont. Sir, I will not so far degrade Kentucky as to contrast her in miltary achievements with any of the New England Scales. Wo have had wars before this. Wo had a war with a mighty Power across the .water in 1812, when Kentucky was a young and comparatively a feeble State but did she over refuse when the country called to give the blood of her sons to carry that flair in the midst of the enemy ? No, sir. In that war of 1812 she furnished-more men than were demanded, no draft was over executed in that proud old Commonwealth; she nev er went abroad with money-bags to hire men to fill her quota. After the battle of the River Raisin, when the heroic Governor of Kentucky, her first Governor Governor Shelby, the hero of King’s Mountain, called for volunteers, more flocked to his standard than ho could take, and the young nmu wont back homo weeping because they could not be allowed to go in the army against Proctor, Tecumsch, and their cruel hosts. Slio protected all the Northwest from the tomakawk and the scalp ing-knife of tho ferocious savage, and’the equally ferocious Briton, when our soil Was invaded. ■ wd have had a war with Mex ico. What was tho condition of Kentucky then? Sho sent more men to Rio Mexican war than all New England put logeUmr: more of tho gallant sons of ih.it proud old Commonwealth of Kentml.v went, to that ' war than of all New England ; and yet the Senator twits Kentucky about h<• r patriotism . and her devotion to tho country! Allow me to Loll tho Senator that in war, with Mox- ■ ico no draft was ever.executed in Kentucky, '< and the rolls in tho adjutant general’s ollico 1 at her capital now show that over fifty regi- • ments volunteered more than were wanted ' and they were not allowed to go; and but for ( that nows getting out among the people. 1 twice fifty regiments would have been ready 1 to strike for their country in a foreign war. < The Senator has glorified the patriotism of Now England during tho present contest. I 1 admit that New England has been rampant 1 in tho Senate Chamber for this war; but I I deny, and I deny most emphatically and ] most truthfully, that sho lias exhibited that spirit at home. No draft has hecn executed in Kentucky to day; she lias heretofore fur nished her quota ; she hag filled it under eve ry call, and I believe that will be made mani fest in a few days, Wo have the misfortune to bo divided in the strife,; wo have perhaps thirty thousand of our young men in the reb el army; but notwithstanding that wo have promptly filled our quota so far, and wo have to-day one half of tho fighting population of our State under the Union flag; and if is a matter of gratulatkm to every son of Ken tucky, though ho may regret that her peo ple have gone South, that no regiment from that proud old State on any field, whether in the rebel or tho Union service, has ever shown tho “ white feather.” They fight like true sons of a proud mother, and that they will . ever do, for Kentucky is not the land that breeds recreants and cowards. How is it with New England in this war ? They some times call it a New England war. It is the 1 first war since th i war of the Revolution that * has had the ci»r<i al co-operation of New Eng- i land. Wo have .ad wars with Great Brit- ; ain; we have hud a war with Mexico; but i Now England then eamo up coldly to the i work; she had no stomach for those fights. — * How is ic now? In the Senate Hall and the i pulpit, wherever there is a Now England fa- j natic, ho is talking about war, blood, car- J nage; but do their cons respond and fill up t tho ranks ? 1 admit that in one or two of tho ) New England States it is so. I believe it is \ so in the State of Vermont; but how is it to- i day with Massaohusetts ?-rand Massachusetts,. I sometimes has the audacious impudence to 1 call it a Massachusetts war—do-they give i their sons to the battle field ; has Connecticut I done it ? Their representatives try to pass 1 laws through here almost every day to allow ■ them to go with their money-bugs down < South and the world over to buy substitutes to fight in a war that they proclaim is a Now i England war. .* , • I The Senator noed.not mock no because wo are few in numbers here. Sir, wo have for ces in tho rear, wo have the people at our backs, not only those who have heretofore 1 been Democrats but under our glorious ban ner wo will rally all tho 'conservative and honest men in tho country. We call beneath ' the-folds of that glorious flag all who are in favor of contitutional liberty, all who are op posed to public plunder and robbery, and un der that sign we expect to drive tho Goths and tho Vandals from the capital and to execute tho laws over tho whole people from tho cat aract of Niagara to the Gulf of Mexico, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and wo Will never cease until wo t accouiplish that most desirable object. * But now let me show you what tho Sena tor himself said some time ago. Two years ago ho stood out proudly in tho list of patri ots. At.that epoch all his instincts wore in tho right direction, and I thought we should his aid in correcting abuses and in driving public plunderers from high places ; hut now, 'so far from continuing in that line, he.wishes those who resist those encroachments, those .864. who desire to drive tho rouges from their places of plunder, to lie down and have their beads chopped off without resistance. Lis ten to what the Senator said about two years ngo when speaking of a little transaction of tiie Secretary of die Navy giving his brother in-law in Now York a fat contract: “ I do not know but I may over estimate, entirely over estimate the character of this transaction; but I tell you, air, I believe and I declare it upon my own responsibility as a Senator of tho United States, that the liber ties of this country are in greater danger to (bvy from the corruptions and from the prof ligacy practised in tho various Departments of this Government than it is from tho open enemy in tho field.” And about the same period another distin guished Republican,a representative in the other llpusc from the.same State of Massa chusetts, [Mr. Dawes.] srid; “ In tiie first year of a Republican Admin istration, which came into power upon pro fessions of reform and retrenchment, there is indubitable evidence abroad in tho land that somebody has plundered the public Treasury well nigh in that single year as much as tho entire current yearly expenses of the Gov ernment during the Administration which the people hurled from power because of its corruption.” Thus spoke those two distinguished leaders but now the few of us hero who resist such things and wiio seek to "prevent public plun der are treated by the honorable Senator as worthy of tho block I had hoped that he would adhere-to his own good words; hi& speech from which I have just read an extract was made about two years ago; and since then the robberies that have* taken place arc a hundred to one to those that had then oc curred. Tho transaction ofwhich ho then complained was but earnest of what has since been done. Wo hear of these things every day; they are all around us. Since then al most every vital principle of the Constitution has been overthrown, not by the rebel in arms but by the domestic traitor at home. Ami yet tho Senator wants to decapitate those of on who stand up and resist these wrongs.— Ihc Senator talked earnestly two years ago, and lie bad good reason, I thikk.for making the speech liq then delivered ; but 5 The thougot then the liberties of the people were in more danger from tho corruptions of the Depart ments hero about Washington than thoy were from the the public enemy, what must ho ■ think now? Our arms have ad vanced since then, it is true, hut public rob bery and theft have increased. Whore one dollar was stoleiKthcn, hundreds- and-thou-;. sands have been stolen since, and yet ho seems quietly to - have .yielded the contest, to have loft the field, and now he wishes to decaplate those of ns who stand up against rouges and usurpers! 1 regret to say that instead of continuing to expose those breaches of the public faith as the honorable Senator did in the report and speech he made on the occasion to which f have alluded, wo find him now acting with those who try to prevent all investigation.— But. tho other duv I offered in my place a res olution calling for .information of the Secre tary of War, asking him to send to the Sen ate tho orders that ho had issued empower ing certain persons to take possession of churches and church property, and the orders issued by lus major minerals on the same sub ject. I wished that information in order to frame, a bill to prevent those abuses ; but tho Senate laid my resolution or. tho table, and among those who voted thus to kill, it was the Senator from New Hampshire. Would any man five years ago have supposed that the Secretary of War would, without warrant of law and iu violation of the Constitution of the country, undertake to transfer a church to a minister of a diffornt religious faith from that to which it belonged; That he would send ministers through tho whole valley of tbe Mississippi to take possession of churches , belonging to a certain denomination of Chris tians, and install them as ministers to preach the gospel to perhaps an unwilling people? Would it then have been supposed that the time would ever arrive when a major gener al of tho United States would mulcrCvike to clothe provost marshals with the power to ap point ministers of the gnspel and to levy tax es on congregations to pay them, all subject to tho .General's approval ? I did not sup pose that an American Senate would over be convened which, when a resolution was offer ed calling for information on tfnch a subject most delicate to every free people, would pre vent the Secretary of War from returning such public orders for their investigation.— But, sir, such is the fact. It ■ stands on rec ord upon the Journal, and there it will remain iu my judgment, to tho discredit of those who placed it there. Mr. President, although the fjonnte may not allow that information to be sent here of ficially, we all know that tho fact exists.— There is evidence before us that the War Of fice is tampering with religion taking houses of religious worship, nut for the purpose ot of using them temporarily as hospitals for the sickand wounded soldiers, that would be pro per—but for the purpose of installing min isters in them to preach to perhaps an unwill ing people. That is uniting Church §d State, contrary to the Constitution of the coun try, and I think the Senate ought not to re fuse to .call fot information upon such.a sub- , ject. If tho party friends of the Adminis tration expect to hide tbe«« tilings from the people thoy are very much mistaken. Some of these orders have already been published. Not only have houses of public worship been taken; but I have evidence that orders have been issued, appointing certain men belong ing to the Baptist Home Mission Society iu tho city of Now York to go down through the valley of the Mississippi and take possession of property belonging to th e Baptist churches of that region. Everybody knows that the Baptist church is a very republican kind of institution; each church is seamte and dis tinct in its jurisdiction) unlike other denom ination;} in that respect. I hayo always been of opinion that in a re publican Government like this, all the acts . of our public functionaries, except those which were necessarily secret in the way of diplomatic relations, should be open to tho inspection of the people. It is the people’s Government. They are in theory, and until these unfortunate times they have been in fact, the sovereigns; and through their Rep resentatives they have a right to demand tho public official orders of their servants who are iu power for the time being. Lot the people see what is being done, so that they can through their Representatives, and if they think it is right, give their plaudits and their approval to faithful public servants. 1 have thought that this kind of secrecy was only fit for tho cabinets of princes and potentates and tyrants, and ill became this country of ours. Such, however, does not seem to bo the impression here now. • I toll Senators the people will see those or-, ders, and they might as well agree to let them oome here in proper form. Nothing you can dtf wiU hide tho truth long. Wo should have it in more authentic form if wo got It under tho sign-manual of. the parties who issued these ; but the pcoplejwill have them anyhow. H you give them to us in an authentic it will bo much bettor, and no objection can be made then that wo misstate them. When tho Sen ate hero solemnly decree that wo shall not have a view of the public Acta and orders of our public officials that are not In any wnv secret, or ought not to bo so, the world Will think ther is rottenness and* wrong being hidden up which it is desired to conceal from tho public. That will be tho result; and I think you will only injure your own cause by withholding the information. I give that advice gratis, and I hope it will hereafter be acted upon. But, sir, I have said that the groat concor* vative partv of this country has a high mis sion to accomplish. That party consists of old Democrats, old Whigs, and ilepubUc.ana who arc ready to leave you, seeing that you have not fulfilled your promises. If vou will give us free speech, a free press, and freebal lot in November next, we will drive you from power as tho hurricane sweeps a feather in •its course. But will you give us them ? Will you pass laws punishing your officers and those in authority for striking down free bal lot ? Will you pass other laws punishing by the harshest punishment, those who attempt, to overthrow tho liberty of the press? Will your^Executive strike qlf from his rolls those within his control who raise their hands to imprison ciitizens who exercise tho constitu tional right of free speech ? But the other day there was an officer from Connecticut offering high bounties to negros in tho gallant State of Indiana, within, ten miles of my homo, a State so ably represent ed by my friends, [Mr, Hendricks arrd Mr. Lank, ] and I understand that Governor Mor- ton ordered tho Yankee to pack lip and clear out. Yes sir, thcy'nro going about with thoir money to buy tho bones of the*weatern peo ple to fill up their ranks in the Army ; .they are. so unpatriotic ns not to go in themselves. I was very glad that my mdghbor’s State, hrough its officials ordered that man away. How is it with’ Indiana, with Illinois, and the other western States ? Those gallant States of tho West in the main have filleij their quota. They do not g> abroad vritr money to hire a negro there a foreigner yon der. They do-not semi abroad to import men to bo put into their ranks. No, sir ; western courage is far above that. But through the instrumentality of the must iniquitous tariff laws that were over on tho statue-book of any free and honest people, you fill your coffers with the wealth drawn from the hard pro ducts oLhonest industry in the great valley of the Mississippi, and with that you go into their midst and try to buy the muscle and bones of their people to fill your quotas ’in the Army that you have not gob the patriot- ism and tho courage to fill yourselves/ That is the truth. No man can deny it. You are attempting almost every day to slip some law of that kind through. The chairman of tho military Committee has tried it ‘twice, and I was delighted when the Senator from Ill'ni'tla .v.l Vi. <* fo *y ouys since, if you are really for the .war as you say you are, give your people' to the strife ; do not send out your money-bag.-p your ill-got ten gains wrung from hard labor of the west ern people, for tho purpose of.buying that peo pic to do your fighting. I want to see the regi ments of Massachusetts and of Connection filled with Massachusetts and Oourecticu men, not with South Carolina negroes, qi Gormans, or Irish. Kentucky has filled li *r quota from her own sons. We have no hoards of wealth which high protective laws have wrung from the labor of other people. We have given so far our children to tho strife. So has my gallant neighbor, Indiana. So has Ohio, Illinois, and tho whole West ; but New England men come here and talk again the patriotism of other States and about their divided allegiance I I scorn that kind of in terest iu a war that will not send men to the field. By this Vinci of clap-trap here you may lead the world to believe that you are the great custodians of the country ;'but bravo and honest men will look to the muster rolls to sec how many arc in the raflks from your States and how many you brought over the Canada lino.and in neighboring States, and how many you are getting from tho rice field of Louisiana. The world wdl not believe that you are in earnest until you come up to the work. I hope Congress will not pass a law to allow Yankee cupidity to buy west ern patriotism or southern slaves to fill up their ranks. There are few States, to their honor be it said, that" have not filled up their quotas. ' The other Senator from New Hampshire, the facetious and witty, and X may add . elo quent Senator f from New Hampshire. [MV. Hale.] made, I think, the most remarkable speech I everboard. I had thought that dis tinguished Senator was filled with humanity with kindness, with charity ; hut he talked as flippantly about blood and thunder, and cutting off bends, as a child would about bis toys, lie advised the Democratic party to submit quietly and gracefully, as did the royal monarch to- the severing of Ins head from his body. lie said the decree had gone forth, the commons had decreed that pulleys he placed about his royal person in case hore : sisted, to puli him to the block. All 1 and be advised us like that king to come up and gracefully put mir heads on the block ; and I suppose the Senator would glory in being tho executioner. Allow me to, tell him that he was most unfortunate in his ,simile. — Charles I was beheaded because if encroach ments upon the constitution and laws of the country over which lie reigned. Tho illus tration ofJJ his case cannot apply to a party who are feeble-in numbers in this Chamber and weak in the other House, though strong er there than here, who stand forth manful ly resisting the encroachments of tyrranny, and battling, against the usurpations of those in power. If he bad instanced tho case of tho first Charles to tell the winked men in executive office that they had better lie down and have their heads severed because of their ruthless overthrow of the Constitution of tho country as in the case of that king, tho sim ile would have been nnpositc. The Senator from Now Hampshire thinks that kin's was rightly beheaded. I will not; enter into that controversy. In history it is n vexed question. That ho committed many grievous wrongs. I admit, but Tan gen tle and kind in my nature, and I think that perhaps it would have -been bettor it his judges bad decreed some milder punishment. The Senator from New Hampshire does not think so: ho thinks Charles was rightfully executed ; he has told us so more than once. I undertake in this Chamber to declare to the Senator from New Hampshire that if he will take up the historyof that unfortunate, and I will say guilty king, for ho did commit violent infractions of the constitution of the British empire, and if he will state the infrac tions committed by Charles of the constitu* tion and laws of England, I pledge myself as' a gentleman and a man ol honor to, give him two lor one, and those more flagrant infrac tions, committed by Abraham Lincoln upon the Constitution and laws of the United Slatesof America, and I defy that ’ Senator or any other Senator who chooses to enter tlm lists to run the historical parallel. Let him present well-authenticated historical infrac tions by Charles I of the constitution and laws of the British nation, and 1 pledge my self to furnish two instances for ono of viola tions of our Constitution and laws committed, by the present Lxccutivn j.and I venture to say that no Senator will attempt to run the parallel between the two oases. But, sir. I shall not talk of putting pulleys unon tins President, for ready while [ think the Presi dent has committed groat infractions of the Constitution of the country, while I honestly believe he ought, to be impeached rind turned out of office, 1 have nosindi blood-thirsty feel ings as to want to sec the, pour man’s head chopped off. Tho. Senator from New Hampshire says that wo bad better die gracefully, He conics in as a kind of amateur to. give us that ad vice. I suppose the Senator was ferocious on the day he made that speech, and want ed us to come lihd lambs to the slaughter, so that ho might execute the functions of chief executioner. Let me tc'll him thftt the Dorn-' ocracy are not dead, and by the blessing of Ood they will not die. They have a proud ollicc to till ; they have a glorious mission to execute it; and that is to rescue the Union from -the dangers hy which it is ‘surrounded, to save our imperilled Constitution from the stabs cf domestic traitors who now assult u. * and to let tho eyes of men once more behold, this glorious country witlujhe Union restor ed, the Constitution unimpaired. That ig our mission, and that by thu blessing of Guu we will achieve. iNTLrn.vcE of Sensible Women. —lt Is a wondrous advantage to a man, in every pur suit or avocation to secure an adviser in u sensible woman. In woman*there is at once a subtle delicacy in tact, and a plain sound ness of judgment; which arc rarely combined to an equal degree in men. A woman, if she bo reullyjyour friend, will haven sensi tive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom council you to do a shabby, thing, fur a woman friend always desire's to be proud of you. At the same time her con stitutional timidity makes her more cautious than your male friend. She. therefore, sel dom counsels you to do an imprudent thing. By femah). friendships I mean true friend ships—.those in which there is no admixture of tho passion of love, except in tho married state. A man’s host friend is a wife of good sense, and good heart, whom lie loves and who loves him. Tf ho hare that, ho need not seek elsewhere. But supposing tho man to be without such a helpmate, female friend-, ships.ho must still have, or his intellect will bo without n garden, and there will be many an unheeded gap oven in its strongest fence.- Better and safer, of course, such friendships where disparities of years or circumstances ■pat the idea of love out of the question.- ,Mid r aio iuu mia rarely uus advantage: youtliond "old age have. Wo may.have female friend ships with those much older than ourselves. Moliere’s old housekeeper was a great help to his genius; and Montaigne's philosophy takes both a gentler and loftier character of wisdom from the date in which lie finds, in Maria de G-ournay, an adopted daugter, ‘ cer tainly beloved by me/ says the Horace of es sayists, ‘ with iporo than maternal love, and involved in, my solitude ami retirement, ns one of the best parts,of my being/ Female friendship, indeed, is to a man 4 pracsidum e£ dulce deem’ —bulwark, sweetener, orna ment of hi&exiatence. To his mental culture it is invaluable, .without it all his knowledge of books will never give him knowledge .u£ tho world.— Buhoci'. r Dodgtng a Patrol.— The Washington Star tells about a soldier, who, in dodging away from a patrol, hid himself in a-restau rant by jumping into a large bo k used for steaming oysters. The lid closed \yith a spring lock and the disappointed patrol went on his way bufil-d. In u little while the col ored man attending the apparatus turned on a full head of sieam. in order to prepare a mess for some co<tilmm*s. Ihe soldier began to grow uncomfortably warm and kicked and yelled lustily for lihVnition uh'il the fright.- enod negro ran awuv shouting that de dehbio was in tlie steamer.” Other employees gath ered round, and released the perspiring sol dier, who bounded out with the speed of a machine whose uiotivb poWer is slciiiu. j6Ss?**The Clarion papers state that a fatnV disoase lias broken out in that county, ami many homes have recently been .desolated.— The first indications’ of the presence of this disease is noted by a sudden trcmblingoftho body and arms, which is followed by slight symptons of fever, and paralysis of anus and lower limbs,with severe pains in the book, and finally the vision becomes affected. Sev eral physicians have been called in. hut are unable to determine (he diagnosis of the dis ease. , It is neither typhoid nor spotted and they are unable to arrive at any conclu sion ns to its nature. Its action throughout resembles the effect of some powerful narcot ic poison iu tho sys cm. oC7r* An eccentric preacher seping a flv light upon hia bible improved the occasion as tal lows : “ Ye godless sinners, ye shall bo dam ned, every one-of vou, as sure aa I shall catch thatfly." Uore ho made a fell swoop with his hand, as though he caught it; open ing each finger hlovly till at last, he found it was not there, and said : “By the hnkey; I've nrssed it! There’s a cliuuuc for yd sinful ragamuffins yet-" A young boy and girl, aged rdapotivo ly IT and 14, recently got married in Indinn na, which so enraged the bride’s mother that alio went to the wedding putty, and spanked both bride and bridgroom. OC7“ To make hens lay perpetually, hit thorn on the-head with a big club. Oftior modes have been-recomended, but this is tho only one found to be effectually. DC?* How can you lie all sweetness .to the face of an acquaintance, and speak disnara,r iugly of him when his back is turned? ° OCT 5 * The War Department will need over $07,000,000 before the Ist day ol Juljr next; “ Nobody hurt." OCT 1 * You can form a very correct estimate of character from the style of a fellow's hat and the way ho wears it. DC/* The Now York court house will coat three millions ol dollars. Wig?? Respect is better procured by exact ing than by soliciting it. JVO. 47
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