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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.
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