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VOL. 50.
AMERICAN VOLUNTEER.
ytffifitßHED BVERT THURSDAY MORNING BY
JOHN B. BRATTON.
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“PASSING AWAY.”
BY C. 11. M.
Where'er my eyes on oalffii i. cast,
Where'er my footsteps "stray,
One solemn-thought still fills my bronst;
All those shall pass away.
First man, God’s greatest work,
Tho creature of a day,
For whom this shining world whs made,
Soon, soon shall pass atvay..
(lowers Wo boo around,
Ail bright in spring's array,
Cold winter's chilling winds destroy,
And thus they pass away.
Tlio granite rocks, which nyo have stood,
Washed by tho ocean’s spray,
Massive, and groat, and seated doop;
E’ea those shall pass away.
Tho giant oaks our forests throng.
With ago grown strong and gray,
Receive tho universal fato,
And also pass away. *
‘Oiil Ocean's solf shall yield at last
To Time’s resistless sivay';
Though roaring now with conscious might,
Uo, too', must pass nwny.
’(the very earth on which we tread,
With ago shall know decay;
The heavens above, with sun and moon,
All, all shall pass away.
An ancient king relief did seek,
To ease his mind in pain ;
And also when good fortune smiled.
Excess of joy restrain.
A learned philosopher ho
His troubles to ailfty,
Who told his king to keep fn mind
“This, too, must pass away."
thenceforth on all his palaco walls,
Where’er his eyes might stray,
Was writ, in characters of gold,
■“This, too, must pass away."
And oven after o’or Ms srml.
It held a soothing power ;
It modified his greatest joys.
Aud chewed the darkest hour.
Q, blinded man, why wilt thou yofc ’
Thy work of faith delay ?
Prepare to join that heavenly land*
Where none shall pass away.
For hope nc*oss ike datffoSt pilth
Has flung a heavenly ray.
As with this onward march of tlmo
Wo pass to endless day.
WBttllmmm
The German Grandmother.
Grandmamma is very old ; alio la wrinkled
end has snow-white hair, hut her oyea are
bright and mild. She tolls the moat charm
ing tales, and she wears' a silken dress with
large flowers, which makes a rustling sound
na it grazes' against the walls. Grandmam
ma knows a groat deal; the reason is, that
she has lived a long time, long before papa
and mamma, that is certain. Grandmamma
has a hook of canticles with a silver clasp,
and sli ois niften reading in that book. In
the middle of the volume there is n rose, flat
tened and dried, which is not so beautiful as
the roses in the grass, and yet grandmamma
smiles happily Vfliott she looks at lb and her
ayes fill with tears. Why does grandmam
ma gaze in this Way on the dried flower in
her book of canticles ?- You want to know ?
'■very time that one of grandmamma’s tears
fella on 1 the flower, its colors resume their
brightness, it fills the chamber with its per
fume, and the walls of the tqotti fall as if
they were floating clouds, find all around 1
grandmamma Stretches the green magnifi
cent forest, whore the sunbeams make their
way between the JbliagO. At that moment
grandmamma is quite young; she is a Churni
n'J girl with light brown hair and fresh
cheeks, brilliant and beautiful, no floW’et is
fairer. By her side a young man is seated,
tall and Well made, who offers her a rose,
tndehe smiles in that way—yes, indeed, her
Smile is still tho same. Ito is gone. Athou
sand visions and a thousand thoughts have
{akeh his place. The handsome young man
re gone j the rose is laid in the hook of oanti-
c ™> grandmamma falls bank in her large
ntm-ohatr ( she looks at tho faded rose in the
book. Grandmamma is dead 1
“kb was laid in a black coffin, Wrapped in
white linen shroud. How beautiful she
Waal Her eyes were closed, but every wrin
bad disappeared. She lay at full length,
Wnh a smile on her lips, and adorned by her
“’her and venerable looks. Noons wasafrttid
’ » ° j" 6 an< f see fh° corpse, she was still
' r r r .“ n dmamnia, so good and so dearly beloved,
■too book of canticles was placed in the cof
fin, beneath her head; such was her wish. —
,no rose was in tho hook. And then they
hwn G m ndraammn. On her grave, close
‘no church wall, they planted a rose-hush,
wnoao roses waved in the wind, and said,
run ? Peasant to bathe in the dew and
f. :n ueiiniß, If we are the fairest flowers, a
flu. hand will come and gather us for
i? prettiest girl. Let us summon all our
ni,• 88 an( l all oUr perfume.” And the
j 1 heard what tho roses said, and
tfirl "I® ‘ n boner of the rose which the yotlng
ft f ni P; a . in her hook 6l cantiolos, keeping
v.', ,™% until her ones fresh eheekswora
&H ' a so beautiful to live in the
? ries of tho past I And while the night l
a ? ttn g. *bo ' ohurqh organ intoned the
thru ,° mo , UB poalrne that were In the, book
the beneath the head of the dead, and
•d«d ° on ohoue in all her splendor.— Jlani
inro more frequent than
*uen J* M PShont the country. Men and wc<
tha wl Jua i now experimenting largely with
- husbands and wfyea of others.
FOR THE LITTLE FOLKS.
tyranny of temper.
■Whom do wo study to plcaso in the family ?
Amanda, sweet and smiling,-whoso claims
ate only lovo and gentleness, who is always
ready to sacrifice herself for the good of oth
ers, whoso wildest fit of passion is as little to
bo feared ns tho assault Of a white mouse 7
Or Brasilia, irritable and billion's, with a
soul like 'a volcano, and that not covered
with snow, or covered With snow more black
than white, nor maskfJßbyvihcyards, though
it may bo by ; with a ’temper
and passions always a* explosion point;
Without a thought for others in all tho grim
selfishness of hers, and not a spark of pity in
her lurid fires of rage ond hate? Certainly
npt Amanda. She, poor lovo, gets loadoncd
With all tho burdens. Oh! .Amanda will go ;
Amanda will do if;’ Amanda will sow on my
buttons; Amanda will entertain Mrs. Wigs-
all hato Mrs. Wigshy, cross old thing,
and fly out of tho drawing-room windows
when wo hoar her little cough on tho pofch ;
Amanda will ask mamma for a holiday, and
oven beard papa with a draper’s bill. Aman
da will do 'anything, and consequently has
everything to do; but Brasilia walks, through
life scot-free, with just only half her duties
strapped to her shoulders, and shaking those
so vehemently that 'toy aft loodtly at the last
and drop oif on tho road for others to pick up
and carry. If slio could only Ehako off tho
iron of lifer evil nature as well, it would ho
~moro to tho purpose. It ia true, hoWfcver,'
that tho real master of tho house, whether it
bo wife, child, relative, or servant, is the one
with tho worse temper. This ia tho domestio
slave-driver—this is the family turnkey, be
fore whom all tho rest stand shivering in
their chains. Once establish a reputation
Tot evil temper, and you may deal in chains
to tho end of your days, and live on tho soft
est cushions of ease unmolested ; but mark
you, you will not deal in lovol And when
you glido off from ycrtir -cushions p£ ease into
the hard elm coffin gaping for you at'the'end,
■you will glido off unwept and. unFfegrettod—
tlio released spirits t>f .yowr Victims singing
Jubilate in' full chorus, as they escape through
the door of your tomb into thfe freedom you
have so long denied them.
WJiat is Arabia.
■Arabia 5b nob what Americans habitually
‘fto’uc'civo it to ho, a mere sandy dosort flat, as
sands generally arc, traversed by bands of
half starved horsemen, with two little but sa
cred cities, and a port which an American
frigate can reduce to reason by bombard
ment. It is a vast-, though secluded peninsu-'
la, with anatea of 100,600 square miles great
er than that ot Europe west of the Vistula
—greater that is, than the territories of four
of* (ho five powers, with Germany, Spain,
Portugal, Greece, Scandanavia, Poland and
Itlay added thereto. This enormous region, -
so far from being a mere saqdy plain,'is tra
versed by high ranges of mountains-fillcd with
broad plateaus, many of them as Wide as Eu
ropean kingdoms, and full jof magnificent,
though, dreary and awe-inspiring scenery,—
, The highest Arab tribes —and the point is
one too often forgotten—arc mountaineers ;
share in the forVid imagination, the brooding
and melancholy thought, which have in all
ages distinguished men bred on the higher
regions of the earth. Even the aridity of the
soil of Arabia, though groat, is, a. political
fact, seriously exaggerated,partly because the
districts nearest to Civilization are tho worst,
partly because travellers spleot tho winter
lor expfbrotions—a time when even tho fer
tile plain of upper Italy looks hideously de
solate ; but chiefly because the European'
mind has a difficulty in .realizing territorial
vastness or comprehending how enormous
may bo tho aggregate of patches of cultivation
spread over a peninsula like Arabia. When
some two years ago, tho Governor of Aden,
was permitted to visit Labej, ho, filled, like
all other Englishmen, with tho “ idea” of*
Arabia ; was startled to find himself only a
few miles from his own crackling cinders
amidst pleasant corn lands and smiling vil
lages in which dwelt a population showing
every signs of prosperity and content. Thcto
are thousands of such spots in Aaabia, to
which tho eternal boundary «f tho desort
blinds all but the keenest observers.
VilliAqe Life.— How many pleasing ideas
does the term call up in the fervid imagina
tion—peace, pnrity, cheerfulness, simplicity,
kindness, rural scenes and rustic sports. The
chord oi feeling is touched and sweetly will
it vibrato beneath the hand of the magician
fancy. Hallowed by the muse of Goldsmith
and Grabbe, village life is decked with ima
ges the most delightful. It rises up before
us even as they have painted it s the holiest,
kindest feelings live in its pages 5 the reli
gious, the domestic, the neighborly virtues
shines brightest there. The Village church
—the village schooh-tho villogo green ?
sweet thoughts of gentleness ond love, are
ye a dream f Do yO oiiat Only in the pure
minds whidli have so sweetly slitidoWKd ye
forth 1 All j how often have the inhabitants,
of the busy city, worn with the cares Of the
world, yearned for your peaceful joys, dear
village life. How of:on has the member of
refined society, satiated with gayety, long for
1 a retreat which ho thinks can oUjJ be found
among your shades. Acs I —the mourner
over past (dya—the man or tne woman who
has seen the fleeting wealth of the world de
part scots for obscurity and happiness in the
village UfUi .
Look dp.— lt is what we rejoiob to she—
judo, women and children, tho rich and tho
poor: the old and young, always looking up:
It shows the purity of jrolif intentions, nnd
the determination of your hearts; We never
despair of tt than however poof ond degraded
he may be, who looks up—springs up. We
see in him tho elements of a true man. No
matter if the seas hate swallowed your prop
erty, or tho fires have donuumod your dwoj-.
lings, look up, take fresh courage. Is your
name a by-word or a reproach ? Look up to
tho purity of the sky, and let its imago bo re
fleeted in your heart. Detraction, then, Will
rebound from you? bosom. Are you trod up
on by tho strange ? Look up, push up, and
you will stand as strong as bo. Are you
crowded out of tho society of the rich ?
I/ook up, and soon your company will ho cov*
etoch Whatever may be our .circumstances
or condition in life, always raako it a .point
to look up, to rise higher* and you will attain
your fondest expectations. Success may he
slow* hut sure it will come. Heavdn is on
the side of those who look up.
A Neglected Boti—“ Father," saida lit
tle fallow, having apparently reflected intent
ly, on some thing, “ I shan’t send yodnny of
my wedding cake when I get married.
“ Why not my son V’ was the fond fath
er’s inquiry.
“ Because," sand the young hopeful, Jon
did’nt Bend mo any of jours.’’
"(Jim COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWAYS BE BIGHT—BtJT BIGHT OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY.’’
Ocean Splendor,
Lot him who delights in scenes of gran
deur and. beauty, go down besido tho deep
blue sea, just as tlio gfelden sun is sinking
behind tho crested waves and painting tho
clouds with crimson hues. Here, upon the
rook-hound shores, which for ageh have with
stood the rolling tide, lot him stand and gazo
far out upon tho heaving billows as they
mount upward to tho sky, or break into
clouds of foam at bis very feet.
As tho sunset’s rosy light falls level over
'the waves ‘and then fades away into tho soft
sweot sriinmor twilight, and tho gentle bree
zes from off tho wator fan his brow, and whis
per by in accents soft and low, and then seem
to_ mingle their notes in blended liartfiohy
with the music of tho wffives, then will his
soul expand with now and lofty thoughts
worthy the inspiration of tho hour; and a
stronger and a deeper lo'v6 of-nature declares
-itself from his lips.
. There is over a beauty andKttblimity about
tho oooan, with its rooky shores and emerald
islands, whifeh excites admiration, and for
hours wo have sat Upon 6omo high rook
which projected fkr out into tho brinoy deep,
ond watched tho foath-cappoa waves, ns one
after another came rolling in endless succes
sion against tho rocky barriers. There upon
tho headlands you may watch tho white
winged ships as they speed ontvard over the
waves bound to some distant shore. Thoro
can tho approoiativo oye take in all tho beau
ties of tho scene, and ns the long slant sunset
rays shimmering on the soa, and tho gold and
crimson of the western 'cloods, tho emerald
banks of the islands rising abruptly from tho
water, and tho soft dark blue, upper soa, to
gether with all tho splendors of a summer
sunset unon tho wave, form a picture of rave
and sublime beauty which no painter can
faithfully portray upon tho canvass.
But not all tho splendors of tho ocean are
to bo seen upon a surface or upon its rugged
shores for as Wo go down beneath the bright
waves, now beauties unfold themselves to our
view, and far down tap cm the Ocean’s bottom
arfe Ooral-fields of Surpassing beauty. In
many parts of tho ocean thfe water is, clear
and transparent. In the Indian Ocean it js
said tho spotted corals aro plainly visible in
twehty-fivo fathoms of wator and tho Crysta
lin'O olfedrn'fess of tho Carribenn Soa excites
tlio admiration of all who have an cyo for tho
beautiful.
** In passing over tbfctfe SO splendidly ador
ned grounds,” says Schoff, “ where marine
life shows itself in an endless variety of forma,
the boat, suspended over tbo clearest crystal,
socma to float in tho air bo that a person un
accustomed to the scone, easily becomes gid
dy.” On tho sandy bottoni appear thousands
of sea-stars, nollusos, and fishes of a brillian
cy or color unknown in our temperate seas.
Burning red, intense blUo, lively greeft. and
yellow perpetually vary ; tho spectator floats
over groves of sea-plants, gorgonios, corals,
alcyoniums, flabollume, and sponges, that af
ford no less delight td that eye, Ana are no
loss gently agitated by the waters, than tho
most* beautiful garden on earth when a gen
tle breeze passed through the waving boughs.
In other parts of the ocean, especially that
lying between tho coasts of Newfoundland
and Ireland, tho bottom is represented as be
ing covered to a considerable depth with cu
rious remains of animal life, so small in size
as to rosemblo at tho first Bight, tho finest
sand dr sawdust. And throughout every
part Of the vast watery domain, are to bo
found innumerable specimens of fish and
shells of groat beauty. And yet the wonders
of tho ocean have never been told, or its hid;
don splendors half explored and brought to
light-.
What A field then, is hero represented for
study and research, and what beauties still
remain to be unfolded to the admiring eye,
The Investigation into tue Treasury
Department. —The Female Clerk System. —
Tho Washington correspondent of the New
York News thus writes:
“ Tho war now absorbs everything olsOi
and it is fortunate for at least one person that
it does; I moan Mr. Chase, Secretary of the
Treasury. Tho investigations of tho Con
gressional Committee into the affairs of the
Treasury Department, if they do not find any
kinks or leaks in tho financial affairs, will
certainly develop a groat leak in tho moral
affairs of the concern. Tho lady clerk em
ployees will certainly bring Mr. Chase to
grief, I understand tho Committee have
brought to light one of tho most stupendous
and infamous systems of immoral Conduct, to
say tho least, over known in-public affairs.—
Congressmen, gray-headßd officials, govern
ment contractors, are all brought to tho sur
face, and corruption, venal, vilo, damning
corruption, stare us stark in tho face;
The adoption of tho system of employing
female clerks in tho Treasury Department
was designed to giyo employment to tho wid
ows and daughtord Of those men Who served
their country oU the battlefield and fell in its
defense: it began well, it-IS ending bad;
because its original plan has been defeated,
and those who havo'gaincd employment; in
many instances, not generally, have been be
friended by the claims I spoke of for no good
purpose. There arc upwards of eight hun
dred young women employed in tho different
depaitments. They are frequently brought
to thoir work in carriages driven or oooupied
by prominent men, others are escorted by
Congressman and others. They go as they
come: An inspection cif thoir rooms during
working hotiffl Only go to establish the opin
ion originated by external movements. It is
no linobmmon thing to Seb thbsb female
clerks, who are takdh in out of semi : bhnrity,
Wearing costly jewelry—diamond hfdastpina,
ear drops and rings. Fancy for a indigent a
female getting a salary of $5OO per nnnilm
Wearing $450 of jewels, as has been and is
the fact in Mr; Chase’s department,
I only wish thd Congressional Ooiriiulttco
would hurry up and. make public thoir de
velopments, and I will venture an opinion if
there is an honest, moral man in. Congress;
there Will bo several resolutions offered to ex
pel some of tho debauchees that now disgrace
that body. It is enough to make the blood
of any man chill to think in the midst of a
devastating war for tho nation’s Very life, our
Cabinet Ministers, our Legislators ond Gov
ernment officials have their garments stained
with one of tho foulest sins prohibited in thd
Decalogue.
ggy Mr. Brown called in at tt neighbor «
and was urged to take slipper which ho did,
the old Ittdy all the while saying—' I’m afraid,
Mr. Brown,yon will not make a supper,; you
hate eaten nothing—do oat some more.’ Af
ter he had stopped out, he. heard tlid old la
dy sat to her husband, ' Why I do declare, I
should think Mr. Brov?n had nob eaten any
thing for a raenth.’ ,
When a youmg lady efforts to’ hem a odm
brio handkerchief for a rich bachelor, Oho
means to sew in oxdot to reap.
CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, JUNE «, 1864.
'INFAMOUS OUTRAGE BY A SOLDIER'UPON A
.. The special corrospondefat pf tho Chicago
Times, Writing from Springfield, Illinois, un
derdatb of May 12th, gives tho following ac
count df a most infiunousputrago perpetrated
in this gi t.y on tho previous day, and its tra
gic ending, Tho letter says:
“ On Tuesday Inst about noon a soldier,
Who staHd his name to bo John M. Phillips,
belonging to the 7th Illinois Infantry, and
■hero on larlough, hired a buggy at a livery
stable, and in passing .along tlio southwest
corner of tho public square, near Bunn’s hank
stopped, got out, and seized a little girl, not
ytt fiinfe year's Of tee, placed her in thfe bug
gy, and drove rapidly off to tho woods, out
side of the city. Tho child is the daughter of
ono of our moat prominent and esteemed
■clergymen. Shfe .has lujen sorely afflicted
'sThoo hoi 1- birth with a disdaso resembling
what is called “St. Vitus’ danoo.”
Upon Tuesday her parents considered her
so much better that they permitted her to go
to her brother's in another part of the city,
bat cautioned her to return very soon. She
did not return for several hours, when she
yeas found dpon the street and taken bofhe.
When she sufficiently she told
her parents what the soldier had done ; that
he had taken her out into the woods, and, on
the way, showed her aknifoand told her ho
would kill her if she niado any noise ; upon
arriving in the woods ho had her
oat oT'the buggy, and treated her most vilely.
After-remaining in the woods quite A length
of time ho brought the child back to the city
and put her out in the street. He then re*
turned the bbggy to the livery stable, and
boasted to the proprietor that hojiad played
hell with orio prefeofrer's daughter. The sol
dier then sauntbred off through the city.—
The proprietor of the livery stable paid bub
little attention to what wf s said by the sol
dier, little believing that he was in earnest,
lie, however, aoOh rbet with the father of the
child, .who was much excited, and learned
fibril him the condition of his daughter. The
two then sought the soldier, 'who was found
and recognized, by the proprietor of the
livery stable. Ho was immediately arrested
and token before a police magistrate. Hero
the father could restrain himself no longer,
• but Seized a brick and dealt the soldier a blow
upon the face, and would in all probability
have killed him hail he been permitted. The
hearing of the case was postponed until the
following day. TTib Story of the wrong spread
like wildliro throughout the city, and created
great c.vcltbtf'Cnb. A numbe** advocated the
inimbdiatb punishment of the villain, and
pb oho appeared todispn o the right of it.—
Towards evening (Tuesday) the 'excitement
increased, and'about eight o'clock a groat
crowd appeared in front of the jail where the
soldier was confined, and'demanded that he
bo given up to them. The Sheriff, as was
his duty, refused to comply. Axes were then
procured, And the door of the jail broken
open, and a number of the crowd searched
bvnry cell in th« jail, but failed to find tlm
man. The calabooo** ~-..0 sonrebed, and'
again there was a failure to find the one they
sought. It was evident that the Sheriff had
scut the prisoner out of the way.
Yesterday morning, at the time appointed
for the bearing of tho preliminary examina
tion, a crowd commenced tp collect at the
Court House,'where the trial was to be held.
The prisoner was brought to tho court-room,
which was soon completely filled wibh an ex
cited throng of citizens. Before thotrja. had
commenced, n brother of the little girl went
into the room and commenced firing a revol
ver at tho criminal. Ho fired three' times,
butono of tho'shots taking effect, and that in
tho shoulder. The criminal ran bchindHho
Judge's stand; tho "brother was prevented
from again firing, and the soldier taken
into the jury roorh at the other end
of tho court room. The Sheriff immedi
ately sent a note to General "White for a posse
oftroops to enable him to protect the prisoner,
but, long before they had time to Arrive, the
crowd burst the door of the 1 jury rooih, and
the brother again fired several shots at the
prisoner, one of which to-'iK effect in the groin.
General' White then tttadb his apearan v ce and
stated that the man was dying, and implored
them to do no filrthCr tibt. Uuring this time
cries- werfl heard of u hung him 1” but the
speech of Genf Width* espbeibily when ho
stated that tho man could not survive his
wounds, had tho .effect Of dispersing tho
crowd,
For sonic time aftci it Was believed that the
prisoner would survive; bliflle dicd last night
about dark, having admitted all that was
charged against him before ho died. Thus
ended a tragedy which has never had its coun
terpart in this city.
aiitLHOODi —Who more gleeful, happy,
charming and fascinating, thttn simple, cheer
ful girls, from twelve to fifteen years of age]?
This epoch of their life fdsombles that period
of a summer morning; known only to early
risers, which cam bines the soft light of the
magnificent splendor of .the full orbed day.
In the full promise of' dazzling noon is seen
tho glistening, sparkling dew drop, the* half
blown flower, while wood and field and lawn
are yodnl with the rapturous song of birds.
Such is a picture of the morning of girl
hood, which precedes tho glory of true wom
anhood, sparkling with angelic innocence and
purity; giving promise of all those graces
that adorn ilia affectionate wife, tho tender
mother; thb loving sister, and the Christian
tcaohot; Amiable, confiding; loving, full of
life ana good pheSf; thinking ho evil and
fearing node; dodsoiona da it wore of having
that gdod Of which it Vttla said in possession
of Mary; it shall netfif t*d taken from her.—
Would thatlhesfi dbhle grades wofe prdaf in all
oases, aS in the few against tho blighting and
withering influences of fashionable life. But
alas, they are not; which may be one reason
why they appear SO pleasing at that period
of lifts Which wti have named. There is no
higher ideal of womanhood spon in life than
that which carries those qualities of girlhood
into the fullness of life. As simple, trusting,
unaffected, cheerful; charming as a girl of
twelve years, is tho best compliment that
can possibly bo said to wife; mother, or maid
en; Such never desire to go to tho ballot
box, to sit as judges or to be members of Na
tional or State legislature.
ggy. A Troy psipor sto'tos that at tha vary
moment whorl Gendriil Wadsworth fall on
the field of battle extensive preparations wore
being made to celobroto the marriage of his
only son with onb of the most accomplished
and beautiful ladies of that tiity.
' Judge Niles; ot Belleville, Illinois,
savs ; “I go for the abolition of ■slavery, and
granting also like freedom by law to every
human being in the United Mates ” Such
sentiments will no doubt delight the occu
pants of-the jails and penitentiaries.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, the distinguish
ed author died in Boston on Wednesday.
LITTLE GIRL.
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
The Suppression of the New York
World and Journal of Commerce.
The Editor off the World to the President of
tho United States.
To IBs Excellency, Abraham Lincoln, Presi
dent of the United States:
Sir ; “ That tho King can do no wrong”
is tho theory of a monarchy. It is tho theo
ry of a constitutional republic that its Chief
Magistrate may do wrong. In tho former
the ministry tiro responsible ,for the 'King’s
acts. In the latter the President is respon
sible for the acts of his 'ministers; Bur'Con
stitution admits that tho Presidefit ifeay err
in providing fair ajudgihont upoh his doings,
by the people, in rcgfllar elections. In pro
viding fdr-b'ft 'fraibeaohmont, it admits that
he may b‘t guilty of crimes.
fn a government of laws, and not of men,
the most obscure citizen may without, inde
corum address himself to tho Chief Magis
'trafe, when to tho Constitution wbonoo you
derive your temporary power and ho tho
guaranty of his perpetual rights, ho has con
stantly paid his Unquestioning 1 loyalty, and
when to the laws, which your duty is to caro
for a faithful execution of, ho has rendered
entire obedience.
ff the matter of his address in his
person, property and rights, the Constitution
has boon disregarded and the laws disobeyed ;
if its appeal to tho pHnoip’ca of justice bo no
more earnest than Vhc solicitude of its ’re
gard for truth, and if tho manner of his’ad
dross be no less temperate than firm, ho does
dot need courtly phrases to propitato an at
tentive hearing from a magistrate who loves
his country, her institutions, and her laws.
In the World of last Wednesday morning
was published a purporting to
bo signed by your Excellency and counter
signed by the Secretary of State, appointing
a day of fasting and prayer, and calling into
military service by volunteering and draft
four hundred thousand citizens between the
ages of eighteen and forty-five. That proc
lamation was a forgery, written by a person
who, ever since your departure from Spring
field for Washington in 3801, has enjoyed
private AS well as public opportunities for
learning to counterfeit the peculiarities of
yoiir speech and stylo, and whoso service for
years as a city editor of tho New York Times
and upon the New York Ttibunc acquainted
him with the entire newspaper machinery of
tho city, and enabled him to insert his clever
forgery into the regular channels by which
wo receive news, at a time when competent
inspection of its genuineness was impossible,
and suspicion of its authenticity was improb
able. IMie manifold paper, resembling in all
respects that upon which wo nightly receive
from our news agents, and from tho Govern
ment itself orders, announcements," and proc
lamations, was left with a nigh tolerk about 3 or
4 o'clock in tho morning, after the departure
of every responsible editor, and was at once
passed*lnto the hands of the printers, pub in
type and published. No newspaper in tho
country; but would have been deceived as
wo wore !
Our misfortune was complete. A.t an ear
ly hour, however, before the business of tiie
city bad fairly begun, it was discovered that
we had been imposed upon/and were being
made to appear tho instruments of a decep
tion of the public. There was no delay ill
vindicating oht character. (3ur whole ma
chinery for spreading noWs was set in ifio
tion instantly to announce that wo had booh
deceived by a forgery—that your Excellency
had issued no proclamation. Tho sale of pa
pers over our counters Was stopped. Our
bundles to the Scotia bound for Europe that
day were stopped. The owners and purser’s
files wore stopped. News-room bundles and
■files were stopped, and tho agent of the lino
was informed that the proclamation was a
forgery. Our printers and pressmen were
brought from their homos and hods to put in
type the .story of our misfortune. OUr bulle
tin boards were placarded with the offer of
fdwilvd for tho discovery of Huh forger ; and
to the iigßiit Of tho Associated Press 1 sOnt a
telegram rCcltihg all tho facts, for himjto
transmit at once to nearly every daily paper
id tho North, from Maine to Californi.a—
Thus before the Scotia sailed,'before your
Secretary of State had officially branded the
forgery, tho wings which wo had, given to
Truth had enabled her to outstrip everywhere
tllo Falsehood wo had unwittingly set on
loot, and in many places tho Truth arrived
before’ the forger had conic to tell his tale.
For any injury done to ourselves, to the
Government, or to tho.phblio, this publicity
was ample antidote. It indeed made injury
impossible. 3
But tho insult to your excellency was the
greater in proportion to the eminence of your
station. Early in Hid afternoon of Wednes
day,, therefore, 1 wont with Mr. Win. C.
Prime, tho chief editor of the Journal of
Commerce, which had been deceived precise
ly as we were, to tho headquarters of tho
partment of the East, .ijpd wo laid before tho
commanding Goneral overy cliio.jti btir po
session which could lead to tho flificoircry of
tho guilty persons; All Hie filets dbovo re
cited wore telegraphed at once to thrdugh
tho Secretary of War by OcncrAl Cix. I as
sort our utter blantolessnoßS. • I assert, more
over, thai I -have never known a mindso pre
judiced in which acquaintance With these
mots would not enforce tho dodviotion of out*
utter blatnelessneas.
Hero was the absence df an intent to do
wrong; here was an autidotb for tin injury
unwittingly assisted, nioro complete and ef
fectual.than the injury itself; here was alac
rity in search, of the wrong-doer, and assist
ance rendered to your subordinate to discover
the author of the insult done to yoii.
With these facts sot fully before you by
the General BoiUmlinding "this department
you roitefateu an order for niy nrrest and im
prisonment in Fort Lafayette ; for tlioseizure
and oSbUpation df The )Vdrld office by a mil
itary guard, and tho suppression of its publi
oatiUOs. Tho Journal of Commerce, its, edi
tors find- publishers, wore included in tho
same order.
I bcliovd, though I cannot state of my own
knowledge, that to the commanding Gener
al’s assertion of our entire blamolessnoss it
was owing that the order for our arrest and
incarceration was rescinded., But the order
for the suppression of the IToi'W was dot re
scinded. Under your orders _ General Dix
Rent a strong military foroe-to its publioation
office and editorial rooms, who oj elded their
Occupants, and for two. days and three nights
held possession there, injuring and abstract
ing somo of their contents, and permitting
no one to creed tho threshold. . . .
Not until Saturday morning did this occu
pation cease. Not until to.-day has The
World heed free to speak. But to those who
have oars to hoar its absence has been more
eloquent than its columns could over,ho.
. To oharootermo those proceedings ns un
prccedented, would bo to forgot tho past his
tory of your Administration ; and to charac
terize them'as shocking to every mind, would
bo to disregard that principle of human na
ture from which it arises that men submit
ting onco and again to lawless encroachments
of power, with every intermission of a vigi
lance which should bo continual, lose some
thing of tho old, free, keen sense of choir true
bature and real danger.
Charles was doubtless advised to, and ap
plauded for,, tho crimes by which ho lost his
crown and life. Nor can you do any such
outrageous, oppfbssiVo, find Unjust A thing
thhfic will not bo applauded by those whose
prosperity and power you have created and
may destroy. To characterize these proo'eod
'inga as arbitrary, illegal, and unconstitution
al, would socm, if such weighty words have
not boon emptied of all significance, to befit
better on hour at which yod have not arrived,
and a place whore ndt public opinion blit the
authority of latv Speaks, after impeachment,
trial, conviction,-and judgment;
But, sir, tho suppression of two daily jour
nals in this metropolis—one tins organ of its
groat commercial public, tho other a recog
nized exponent of tho Democratic principles
which aro shared by half, or nearly half,
ylour fellow-citizens—did shook the public
riiind, did amaze every honest and patriotic
citizen, did fill with indignation and alarm
every pure and loyal breast. There were no
indignation mootings, there were no riots,
there was no official protest. Bat do not im
agine, sir, that tlio Governor 'of this State
has forgottcn.to do his duty ; do not inlaginu
that the people of this city or State, or coun
try have ceased to love their liberties:, or do
not know how to protect their rights; It
would bo fatal to a tyrant to commit that er
ror bore and now. A free people can at need
devise means to teach their Chief Magistrate
the same Icfcson.
To you, air, whohave by heart tho Consti
tution which you swore to “ preserve, pro
tect, and defend,” it may be an impertinence
to cite those natural and chartered rights
therein enumerated, among which are these :
“ That the people shall be secure In their per
sons, houses, papers and effects, against un
reasonable sci/.urcs, and that no warrant ev
en shall issue, except upon probable cause,
supported by oath, and particularly descri
bing the place to .be searched and the per
sons or tilings to bo seized ; that no person
shall ho deprived of life, liberty or property
without duo process of lawyet they are the
mpst priceless possessions of fVc’Chldn, and
these you took away from mo.
Even a captured and guilty criminal who
knew that his crime would bo pi'eved, and
that tho law would assuredly visit upon him
condign punishment, might with propriety
plead thebe rights and demand cf the Thief
Magistrate to throw over him these shields.
Assaulted by tho bayonets of a military com
mander, bo might protest and assert his in
alienable right to the orderly processes, tho
proofs, and the punishment of the law. But
has the Saxon tongue any terms-left for him
to use who, boiog tho victim of crime, has
been made also the victim of lawless,po.wer ?
It is tho theory of the law that after tho
commiesion of any crime, all proceedings ta
ken befq,ro trial shall be merely preventative;
but tho proceedings taken against tho World
were of tho nature of a aummaay execution
of judgment. IVoujd trial by law have been
denied, would the law itself have been set
aside fob Iho bayonet, would a process as
summary as a drum-head court martial have
been resorted to by you in a peaceful ci % ty,
far from the boundaries of military occupa
tionj had tho pbcss’cs which consistently ap
plaud your course, as we were, tho victims
of this forger ? Had tho Tribune and Times
published the forgery (and tho-IVihunc can
didly admits tlidt it might have published it
and was prevented only by mere chance)
would you, sir, have suppressed tho Tribune
and Times as you suppressed The World and
Journal of Commerce ? You know you would
not: If not why not?
Is there a different lawfor-your opponents
and for your supporters ?
-Can you* whoso eyes discern equality un
der cvcfy.cohiplbiiiUu; be blinded by the hue
of partisanship ?
2’hc World has abstained the Government
in its struggle to preservh’otir imperiled na
tionality. It had helped inspire the martial
spirit of the people, and encourage them to
the sacrifices they have so nobly made- It
had advocated those measures of financial
policy which could best preserve the tone
and vigor of the Government in the contest.
It had deserved well of tho llepublic, and of
those who love it.
But it also exposed and denounced the cor
ruptions attendant upon your Administration
It bad opposed a delusive unci enervating sys
tem of paper money. It had vindicating the
fame of a patriot general, whom you had re
moved from command on the evd of victory.
It had deprecated your rp-election. Bid you
not find in these fdctS the provocations to
your wrong Aml your persistence in wrong ?
Hud yob not made up your nliml against us
before tho underling, your partisan, luid con
cotilcli his plot? When you ansvverthese in
terrogatories, I will produce the proof of
'threats in ado against vis by those nearest
you, and assuming to exert your prerogative;
before this trick 0f forgery furnished you
with the specious pretense of an accusation.
Can it ho possible, sir, that for a montent
you Supposed that journals like ours could
afford to be guilty of this forgery i Lot tiro
unanimous voice of ydvif. own press answer.
Suoli a trick woilld hardly havc.succceclcd in
Sangamon ooiinty, Illinois. For it. Jiiirty
which is about to go before the people, and
ask them to commit to its Hands the admin
istration of affairs, which lias liden more gen
erous and toi'be'aririj; to your errors than you
have been just to its guides; permit mb to say
that it was 1663 possible .to be true of any
oho of tlidrir thaii it wits of any man high or
low who’suspected them.
,An 4 so tlio end hiis proved. The confess
ed and guilty forgers wore your own zealous
partisans. Joseph Howard, Jr., who has
confessed Ins crime, was a Republican poli
tician and Loyal Leaguer, of Brooklyn.—
Consider, sir, lit whoso feet ho was taught
Jus political education, and in whoso cause
ho spent hia political breath. Mr. Howard
has been from )iis very childhood an intimate
friend of the Republican Clergyman, Henry
Ward Beecher; and a member of his clulroh.
He has listened year in and year ovit to. the
droppings of the Plymouth sanctuary; 'lho
stump speeches which there fellow prayer I
find precede the benediction, he for years
reported in tho journal, which is your devoted
organ in this city. For years "ho was the
city editor of that journal, tho Now YoidE*
Times, for a long time he was tho Washington
correspondent of the chief Abolition news
paper of tho country, the Now York Tribune;
no hits boon a frequent contributor to tho
columns of, tho Independent ; ho journeyed
with you from Springfield to Washington;
he represents himself a favored visitor at the
White House since your residence there.
By ft curious felicity the stylus with which
Ilia amanuensis copied on tissue paper this
proclamation and signed your name was ab
stracted from thb editorial rooms of the Tri
bune. The party principles upon which you
were pledged to administer the Government
have been the daily meat and drink of this
forger, lie has denounced, as faithfully as
3 r ou the party by whoso defeat you rose to
power, lie has been the noisy champion of
an exclusive loyalty; ho Ims preached in
club-houses and at street corners those poli
tics which stigmatize constitutional opposi
tion to the Administration as disloyalty to
the Gpvornment. The stock brokers who
were liia confederates will bo found to bo uf
the same kidney. They all advocated a pa
per-money legal tender; they have all coun
tenanced the paper inflation ; ’they have all
been heedless of the misery to poor meu
which such inflations breed; they have all
rejoiced at the speculation thus fostered, and
by speculation they had hoped to thrive.
Fur twenty-four hours something was par
doned to your presumed hatural-trepidjitioo,
since our blariielcsshess having been alleged
to you By those hero whom it was your duty
to believe, it seemed only prudent to await
your recovery. r .
For C;Q next twenty four hours!, from mo
ment fo raomc'Ut, it was ek'peefod that you
would hasten to confess and repair your mis
take. But the mistake thus prolonged grew
to the proportions of a crime ; and till the dis
covery of the forger stripped its mask off and
disclosed the inspiring cause of the act, it
grew monstrous hourly in men's eves.
V/e wore patient that the immeasurable
infamy of the act might swell to its full pro
portions, and stand complete.
By the recall uf your arbitrary order, yod
have not niado reparation for the wrong you
have done., The injury and the insult yet
remain. The violation uf the Constitution
stands recorded, and u'nleas adequately aton
ed, becomes a fatal precedent. For the pur
pose of gratifying un ignoble partisan re
sentment you have struck down the rights of
the press, you have violated personal liberty,
subjected property to unjust seizure, osten
tatiously placed force’ above law, setting ft
dangerous example to those who, Idvc force
more than they respect law; and thus; and
by attempting to Crqsh- the organs of free
discussion, havco mad free elections impos
sible, and broken down all the safeguards uf
representative government.
It is you that in this transaction stand ac
cused before',the people. It is you who arc
conspicuously guilty. It is upon you that
history, when . recording these events, will
affix the crime of a disregard of your duty,
oblivion of your oath, and ft pitablo subser
viency to party prejudice and to personal am
bition, when the country demanded in tho
presidential office elevated character, devo
tion to duty, and entire self-ahnegfttioiu
But you are not to be left to tho judg
ment of history alone. Thank God, by tho
provisions of odr 'Constitution*, not yet whol
ly abrogated, the people are soon to pass up
on your claims to’ ro-election, and
of impeachment yet remains to their repre
sentatives. The people and their represen
tatives have tho right to speak when the pen.
is struck from the hands of a frQOnitid by tho
bayonet; when the Bastilo, once broken clowrl
on the other side of the Atlantic by the re
verberation of our Kovolution, is reconstruct
ed here.
In stormy times like these, amid
with which an unsuppressed rebellion envi*
rons us, his would have been a rash hand
which had hastily set in motion for another
purpose than the suppression of rebellion;
the machinery of justice ; who had invoked
against the disloyalty of micro the retribu
tion and redress, of the law; The danger of
such a conflict of laws is so far passed, that
not even a President could now.plcad nation
al safety as an excuse for refusing to do jus
tice. or submit to judgment; ,
Yet ho citizen who regards hifc dutied
should over hesitate at the last to oppose law
less deeds with legal remedies, The laW
may'broak down. It will thefi disclose to a
watchful people the poidt of greatestdfingcr.
Courts may fail; judges may be intimidated
by threats Oi* bribed by the aluroments of
power, and those who have sworn to execute,
the laws may shrink from the fulfillment of
t l i cir oaths. A craven Congress may sit si
lent and idly watch the perishing liberties of
• the people whom they represent, but this
cannot deter him who, in defending his rights,
is determined his whole duty, and to
whom it is competent at last to commit the
issue to that Power, omnipotent and inscru
table, who presides in events and sways thd
destinies of nations and the hearts of men,
, Man*on Marble.
New York, May 23, 1804.
General Lee's Bill of Fare. —The Rich
mond correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser
gives the following about Ocnbrh.l Leo'sniodo
of living; In General Lee's tent nieat is ea
ten hut twice H week, the General not allowing
it dftenor, because ho believes indulgence in
meat to be criniinnl in thb' present straight
ened condition of the country. His ordinary
dinner consists of a head of cabbage boiled iri
salt water, and a pone of corn : brcad. Iri.
this connection rather a. comic story is told.
Having invited a numbfcr of gentlemen to
dine with him, General Lee, in a fit. of ex
travagance, ordered a sumptuous repast of
cabbage and middling. '.'The dinner was
served; find belmld! a great pile of cabbago
and a bit fif middling about four inches long
and two inches across. . The guests, with
commendable politeness, unanimously de
clined middling, and it remained in the dish
untouched; Next day General Leo, remem
bering the delicate tit-bit which had been so
providentially preserved, ordered his servant
to bring that “ middling." The man hesita
ted, scratched his head and finally owned up.
“Do fac is, Mftssa Robert, ar middlin
was borrid middlin'; we all did'n litib nar
spec ; an I done paid it back to do man whar
I got ife from/' General Leo heaved a. sigh
of deepest disappointment find pitched iutd
his cabbage.
IXoKOits to Fallen lleuoes; —Four rnilitri~
ry posts in tho North-west, by general order
of tho AVer Department, have boon named irl
honor of Generals "Wadsworth, Hays, Steven
son and Klee, slain in the recent bfittliis in
Virginia;
I 'ey The Supreme Court of Vermont had
declared tho Soldiers’ voting bill of that Statti
.unconstitutional, so far as it relates to tliti
election of State officers.
■ KZT A letter from Covingtori; Ky., sayd
--'tho proudest and happiest man in thd
Union at present is the father of Gen. Grants
who resides In bur city.” ■
TT" Afield of sulphur, covering sixty acred;
nijd from onb to three feet thick, has been dis
co vord in Nevada Territory;
CT* Motto for oorn-gathorora: “ lend mo
your oars.”
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