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FINISH THY WORK.
Finish thy work, tho tim® is short;
Tho sun is in tho west,
Tho night ia comio£ down —till thofi
Think not or rost.
Tos, finish all thy work, then Vest;
.. Till then, rost never;
Tho rest prepared for thee by God
Is rest forovor.,
Finish thy work, then wipo thy brow;
Ungird thco from thy toil ;
Take breath, and from each weary limb
off tho soil.
Finish thy work, thou sit thco down
On some celestial hill,
And of its strength reviving air
Take thou thy fill.
Finish thy work, then go in peace ;
Life’s battle fought and won,
Hoar from tho throne tho Master’s voice,
* Well done! well done,!”
Finish thy work, then toko thy harp,
Give praise to God above ;
Bing a now song of mighty joy
And endless love.
Give thanks t'o Him 'who bold thco up
lu all thy paths below,,
Who made thoo faithful unto death,
And crowns thee now I
3&iafellnneniio.
A BOY’S TRIALS.
hts REGULATIONS WITH THE “ OLD SIAN.’'
We suppose the first severe trial a boy Ims
lo undergo is to submit his will to the old
man, win* he is taught to consider his father.
To bo restrained in doors at night, Co bo for
iiiddim to go in RW'inming five times a day,
or tn be hindered from pinching the rest of
the children just, .for fun, is an interference
wah natural unalienable rights, every way
injurious to his feelings. And, then, when
upon some overwhelming temptation, the boy
averts his independence of paternal, control
nnd receives r tslitrting with a sWitch from a
rpiinoe bush upon the back or bare foot, it
really becomes a very serious thing. We
never could see that theymiart of the opera
tion like this was as sad god by the affection
ate {insurance that it was bestowed out of
pure loye.
the riftst tofcc tAlbfeh tOAI.
Wo do not think that any boy ever put on
bis first long-tailed coat without a sense of
Flm’me. llq first twista his back half off loo
king at it in the glass, and then whence
steps out of doors it seems as if all creation
was in a broad grin. The cun laughs in the
flcvMhe cows turn to look at hinl; tllefo tiro fa
tes at every window; his very shadow mocks
him. When ho walks by the cottage where
I ihmt lives ho dare not look up for his life.—
I The very boards ip’cak with consciousness of
I the strange spectacle, and the old pairofpan
| luloons that atop a light ih the gilrret window
I nod with derisiun. If be is obliged to pass a
13 group of men and boys, the trial assumes its
most terrific stage ; his legs got all mixed Up
villi embarrassment, and the flap of the
dangling appendage is felt against them,
| moved by the wind of his oWn agitation ; hd
| could not feel any worse, wore it a dish rag
| to be worn by him ns a badge of disgrace. It
| is a happy time for hinl When lie gets to
i church and sits down with his coat tail under
I him; but he is still apprehensive with think-
I tog of the Sunday School, and wonders if any
I of the children will ask him to sWing his
s tong tail blue*
going itoiiE witil trtE Girths,
The entrance into society may bo said to
toko place after boyhood ha* passed away,
Jet a multitude take the initiative before their
hearts are presentable. It is a great trial to
ft tender or a tough age. For an. overgrown
hnytogi to a dour knowing that there are a
hzchuf girls within and knock or ring with
ftnahnoluto certainty that in two minutes all
Iheir eyes will be upon him is a severe tost
of courage. To go before these girls and
n,fl ke a satisfactory tour of the room without
hopping on their toes, and then sit down apd
f ,a p'iflo of-one’s hands withmit'putting them
into one's pocket,.is an achievement which
tow can boast. II n boy dan get so far as to
tocasuro off ten yards of tape with one of
*hc Kiris, and cut it short at one end ho may
Mind a chance to spend a pleasant evening ;
hut let him not flatter himself that the trials
J* Iho evening are pvor. There comes at last
tho breaking up. The dear girls don their
hoods and put on their shawls, and look so
Baucy.ao mischievous and unimpreasible, as
“ they did not wish any onestogo homo with
mem. Then comes tho pinch, and the boy
lhat has the moat pluck makes up to the
Prettiest girl, his heart in his throat, and
J ,s tongue clinging to tho roof of his mouth,
wd crooking his ’elbow, stammers out tho
“shall I see yoil home?" She touoh-
his arm, and thus walk home
"“j* 1 a foot apart, feeling as awkward as
cL i^ 8, soon as she is safe inside her
doors, he struts home, and thinks be has
■ a,, 7 been and gone and done it. Sleep
ij mcB *o him at last, with dreams of crino
-00 and calico, and he awakens in tho mor
lj 8 and ho dads the doors of life open to
. and tho nig* squealing for breakfast.—
* prtn 9 fad ££ublican t
'N. Y. Post calls upon the loyal
hro? 11 lea ij u erB to bestir themselves and vol
er - The advice is needed.
«in^' Vh ™ did Noah . go into'the wmo bu
tu ill i , ma do port about forty daye af
r th » deluge began;
|MtiraL
CONGRESSIONAL ADDRESS.
44 You have not, as good Patriots should do studied
The public good, but your particular ends,
Factious among yourselves, preferring such
To <i£icen and h morn, an ne’er read
The element* oj saving policy /
But deeply skill'd in all the principles
That usher to destruction !"
Timolcoii to the Citizens of Syracuse,
An address
To the People of the United States and Par
iicularly io the People of the States which
adhere io the Federal Government,
[cOtJTINUEp FBOU LAST WEEK.]
Insecurity.
But, it 13 equally true, that a free poverh
ment, not one free in formerly but in fact
is tUo most secure, both as regards danger
from external force and from internal con-
Tulsion. If it he established for a people not
base minded but civilized and honorable, it
'will impart to tlibm enormous force for resis
ting foreign augrossion, while it preserves
them from internal revolt. Unquestionably,
under ordinary conditions, that,government
is most secure which is PlostYreU. But in the
hands of a sectional party, tho future of this
country is not secure. Not only is tho dan
ger of renewed revolt a possibility of the fu
ture, but the dangers of a foreign war are
immensely increased. A disaffected popula
tion weakens tho Government in resisting in
vasion, and if such disaffection he sectional,
then tho country has a weak part through
which a foreign foe may strike its effectual
and fearful blows.
Corruption of Race.
A still more imphrtant consideration f-U
-ttinina to bo stated. \Ve moan tho social ques
tion, tho Question of tho relations of mco—
with rulers am so little fitted to
deal, an'd upon'which such extreme, offensive
end ditngGroua opjnions are held by their
promiuentsupporters. Whatever may bo de
termined as to ihe negro race anvmgta us, it
is manifest it Ift unfitted to participate in the
exercise Of political ppwtjrv and that Its in
corporatijn, socially, and upon a principle of
equality with tho mass of our countrymen,
constitutes a danger compafod to which all
other d Angers arc insignificant. s We suppose
tho men Who established suffrage in this
country, and from time to time have subjec
ted it to new regulation, proceeded, upon the
, principle of vesting it in those who were fit
ted, fur its exorcise. , Political powers being
in 'their nature conventional, it is proper that
they be established upon a basis of utility
and ’convenience., and in such manner that
they will not be subjected io abuse. Pursu
ing the same lino of action pursued by our
fathers, suffrage is to be withold from those
members of the social body who are mani
festly unfit to exercise it, and whoso partic
ipation therein mast necessarily lead to abuse
Manliest! v, a race of mankind who cannot sup
port free institutions, regular gov’t, produc
live industry, and a high deg.tce of oivilza
tion, of themselves, acting in an independent
capacity, are unfit for performing the func
tions of freemen in conducting the business
of government amongst us. The argument
of equality of rights for all men fails in their
case, because of thtt absence of the conditions
upon which it is founded. In the organiza
tion of a Stato.it is perfectly manifest that
the SDcial body cannot bo identical with tho
political; that" vas.t niiiriborsComprised with
in tile former are hot to be included in the
latter; We do not; in this country, include
females minors, unnaturalized foreigners,,
particular criminals, nor the insane, among
those wbooxercisb the right suffrage. Inca
pacity or unfitness exists, to ft greater or less
extent, with all these extensive divisions of
human beings, and the same ground of exclu
sion prGGiaely exists in the case ot tho negro
or other inferior race, Who may be casually
or perraanetly placed amongst us. Chinese,
Malays, and the Uncivilized Indians, fall With
in the same principle of exclusion. There
is no reason why any general
insufficient capacity for electoral action
should bo ignored in the'easo of one of those
classes and notin another. Our governments
wefe established by white men and for White
men and their posterity forever, and Ujs for
the Goth men advantage of all states find con
ditions of humnrt beings, that the exclusion of
the inferior races from suffrage should bo
permanently continued. Thus only can this
great experiment of freedom begun by our
ancestors and continued by us, be carried for
ward successfully, and be made to accomplish
the great and beneficent results of which it
is capable. .
But the Social aspect of this subject of the
11 relations of race,” is equally important with
the political, and intimately associated with
it. It is of the highest policy, it is of tho
greatest necessity, that the races should bo
kept distinct* socially; that they should not
blend together to their mutual corruption and
destruction. If an example Were needed to
admonish us Upon this high point of policy,
if would be furnished by the Spanish Amer
ican Republics, who have run their troubled
and inglorious career under our observation,
and Whoso present condition may well awaken
the pityorconteirtpt of mankind. Iho Span
iard in tho Now World had not self-respect
enough to koep himself uncontantinatod from
the Negro and the Indian, and he inflicted
upon his colonies all the curses and horrors
of hybridism, until their social state has be
come degraded and poisoned beyopd apparent
redemption. Throughout all those extensive
countries brought under control by the arms
of policy of the Spanish ofown, and which
within tile present century and in imitation
of our example, have assumed republican
forms of government, this disregard of nat
ural lawi this ignoring of the differences of
race, has been the prolific cad se of the social
and political evils which scourge and afflict
those unhappy countries. Social vice's pre
vail to a fearful extent; society is enfeebled
and oatin nut by them; there is no steady
productive labor, no increase of population,
no uniform and just administration of law,
but contrast revolutions and insecurity of all
those rights which governments are estab
lished’ to protect and defend.
Opposition to he Organized.
in .view of tho foregoing considerations, and
of many others which might be mentioned,
an appeal for popular action against the evils
cf the time and the dangers which threaten
us, roust be thought timely and proper. Tho
sure restoration pf the Union and of _ a. true
administration of oursysleni'of Constitution
al government, await the success of a groat
opposition party actuated by just aims and
inspired by an earnest, patriotic determine
lii.n to save fhif country and perpetuate its
liberties, , , .
The idea of ignoring, party in the nccom
. plislimeht of groat public objects, cannot be
accounted'one of Wisdom’. Gtoat masses of
“OUR COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWAYS BE RIGHT—BUT RIGHT OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY.”
men in a free country can usefully and stead
ily only through some organism which com
bines their power and gives it direction.—
Without organization, their strength, (all
powerful when consentrated,) is dissipated
and wasted, and tho adventurous few seize
upon the powers of government arid pervert
them to their own sinister designs.
No* truth is more certain than this, tniVfc
the destructive clomeiUs of society, (for in
stance fanaticism and rapacity by both of
which wo are now afflicted,) can bo held in
permanent check in a republic, only by
uniting patriotic and just men against them
in some enduring association, which shall
act steadily and powerfully Upon govern
ment and preserve it in its duo course.
TlVe problem for ua now to solve is this ",
Are the peopl'd of tho United States, compe
tent to organize themselves iri defence of
their system of free government And volun
tary union, or must they resort to ndictator,
armed vVi’th large powers, who will crush
faction And restore peace and union at the
sacrifice of liberty ? Evil in the State will
not die out, if left to itself. Some instru
ment adequate to its expiration must be
sought and found, in the direction of cither
dictatorial or popular power.
Instead of looking to c dictator, to the des
potic principle, to a strong executive govern
ment of large and' concentrated powers,
those who have faith in our American prin
ciples will look to the people, and Will seek
to rouse and organize them and direct their
united strength against tho evils of tho
time. Thus we believe the nation may bo
saved, And saved by itself, and be prepared
to ro>umo its career of prosperity ritlel.y in
terrupted by the war.
A great opposition party, irtado strdng
enough to carry tho elections of 1864, is now
tho appropriate instrument for national re
demption, and its success will be the tri
umph of free government and will extricate
us from the jaws of-destruction.
That the party of the Administration is
both vicious and incapable, has been moat
abundantly proVod and ought no longer to
bo denied. It has failed to restore tho
Union aftefr thrOe years of trial, though pos
sessed of All th‘o powers of Government
and of all the, of the country.—
And meantime it has struok heavy blows at
liberty, and is carrying us away from all the
old landmarks of policy and’administration.
We are literally drifting toward destruction,
with the knowledge that those who have
charge of our vessel of State are unfit to di
rect its course.
But there is yet tirti'o lo avert much oF ca
lamity. The future at least may bo made
secure. To all who really desire the Union
restored, and along With it honest, constitu
tional government, tho appeal may now be
made,to assist in elevating a party to power
which Will bG faithful to the Constitution,
which.will Unite together tho union elements
of the whole cmintry, wilt Chastise corrup-"
tion and fanaticism from tho public A'ltdin'-
istration, and will secure tho future from
convulsion and despotism.
. Let tho fact sink deeply into the hearts of
our countrymen, that the great obstacle to
peace,, to re-union, to integrity in public af
fairs, and to the renewal of prosperity, is tho
presence at the capitol of the nation of tho
chiefs of a sectional party, who have been
instrumental in plunging the nation into “ a
sea of troubles/' and who are both incapa
ble and unwilling to save it.
Policy oj the Opposition.
Having already spiken with just freedom
of-the Administration and of its policy and
conduct, we proceed to indicate the r position
and views Of the Opposition, who contend
with the Administration for the possession
of popular favor.
We hold that all laws duly established
and existing shall be kept, and kept as well
by persons in official station as by the mass
of the people. Disregard of law and of
rights established and guarantied by it, is
one of the great evils of which just complaint
must now bo made. A change of Adminis
tration and of party power, will secure
throughout the whole country subject to our
jurisdiction, a just, faithful, and uniform ad
ministration of the' laws by the courts and
by the President and his subordinates, and
it will secure in the Congress of the United
States, faithful to the Constitution
and fctf Hpb'est Construction of the powers
conferred by it tipon the legislative authori
ty. The interruption of justice caused by bn
unnecessary suspension of the /fdftcrts corpus
in the unrovolted States will, forthwith ter
minate ; arbitrary arrests of persons in civil
life .will become unknown, ami a pretended
necessity overriding justice and right, and
made the pretext for various forms of op
pression and injustice, will disappear before
a returning setise of obligation and duty in
our rulprd. . ,
In the policy of the Federal Oovertmtont
there will be no' recognition of doctrines
which tend to the social debasement and
pollution of fchg pepplq. .. T,ho. pruflirtaW end
pßrniciodS theories which, under the garb
Uf philanthropy rir.d a regard for hitman
• rights, would overthrow the natural barriers
between different races and ignore wholly
organic laws of difference jbetweop.tlierri, will
not be promoted or favored in thb polity of
the Government of the United States.
There will be an earnest and proper ©f-
fort irfhjlo to retrace tHd steps, already taken
in debasing the eUfrehcy of the United
States by Inrgq tttid Unnecessary issues of
paper money; a system at once unauthorized
and injurious, which impoverishes the coun
try and distributes the earnings of labor to.
hands that have not earned it, will invite
immediate revision and ultimate removal
from tho statute book of the United States.
The troops raised for tho public service,
whenever a necessity for raising them shall
exist, will be rightfully obtained through the
agency of the State Governments and be of
ficered by State authority ; thus securing, in
tho raising of armies for extraordinary occa
sions, the true intent and meaning of the
Constitution, and preserving the anodes of
the United States from the undue political
control of the Federal Executive.
The notion of the Government in its finan
cial disbursements and other features of its
administration, will be thrown open to full
investigation, and an earnest effort he made
to purge it in nil its branches of corruption.
Economy of outlay, so much spoken of by
those who now hold power previous to their
election and so little regarded by them since,
Will bo reinstated' in tho, practice ol the Gov
ernment ns one of the essential rules of its
notion.
Tho doctrine' that the States shall, possess
and exercise all übgranted powers, and shall
be free Within thnir jurisdiction from the en
croach ments of Federal authority, shall ho
tigidly maintained. r ,
'flic systehiof public revenue shall ba nd
jnsled so 1 as to hear equally upon all sections,
and interests, and the unnecessary increase
of officers in collecting it, as well as in other
departments .of public seryico, shall bo
avoided.
CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 18,1804.
Tho exertion of public force in tho wap, fo
be exclusively for tho object for which the
war was begun, to wit: the restoration of the
Union and tho jurisdiction of our laws over
tho revolted country ; and being confined
to that object, and relieved from the incum
brance of other objects, to be brought to a
speedy and honorable Conclusion. But fur
ther, it may bo confidently Asserted, that an
opposition triumph in oUr elections will call
into existence moral forces more powerful
oven than physical force for securing peace
upon the basis of rC-dnion. And it may be
the only means for securing that great ob
ject, hitherto unrealised, and postponed and
prevented by tho policy and incapacity of
odr rUVArft.
Beside the revision of odr domestic policy
and tho restoration of constitutional princi
ples therein, tho great objects to which we
look, are, tho crinclusiod of the war and the
just determination of the questions connected
therewith. Tho burden of this contest has
become intolerable. Baticnco has been ex
hibited by tho people of tho United States to
the utmost extent of forbearance. They
were told the war would last but sixty days;
they were told the South was not united ;
they have be6n deluded throughout the con
test, now more than throe years in duration,
by promises of speedy success ; they have
been told to trust and applaud military chief
tains who were afterwards retired front ser
vice, and denounced ana oaluminnted by
those who had inculcated their praise ; they
'have seen a variety of enterprises, both by
land and water, miscarry outright, or fail irt
securing the objects for \Vliich they were dn
dertaken ; they have s6en the prices of all
the necessaries and coni forts of life go up to
enormous rates, beyond the ability of all who
are not rich, or favored by Government pa
tronage; they have undergone domestic be
reavement and bitter SdrroW in all their
homes, from losses incurred in the war ; they
have been constantly supplied with false in
formation about current events, and have
still offered them pronlisoj of speedy and
complete success quite unwarranted by the
past achievements of their rulers, and which
igiiorfe all the real, indubitable difficulties,
original and created, which attend the strug
gle. Hut one thing they have not been told
one gt'eat and important fact has not been
disseminated under Government censorship,
nor appeared anywhere in official documents
—to wit, that success in the war and .the
speedy return of peace, have been all this
time prevented—and will lie hindered if not
prevented hereafter, by the evil and odious
policy and the incapacity of the Administra
tion Itself I Thege, have United the South;
these, herb nerved the arms of Southern sol
diers in the field and inspirited them to uni
ted, earnest, determined resistance to our
arms ; those, in the darkest moments of the
contest, have rendered their submission im
possible. They, and the populations they
represent, have seen before them the alterna
tive of complete independence on the one
hand, as the posSibld result to be achieved by
valor, skill, and endurance, and on the other,
as the result of submission, confiscation,
emancipation, disgrace, and the iron rule of
the conqueror; and viewing their position as
presenting onlv a choice between those re
suits, they have girded themselves up to her
culean and desperate efforts and still stand
defiant and unbroken.
It is not for us to foretell the future, but it
is possible to conceive its dangers and to
man reasonable provision against them. Cer
tainly, it is possibe for the people of the Uni
ted States, by selectin'; new rulers, to put
their public affairs, including this business of
the war. upon a new footing—to remove the
main obstacle to peace ami reunion, which
baa impeded their great efforts hitherto, and
rendered their Bufferings and sacrifices una
vailing' for tlie object for which they were in
curred. This is the great and necessary
work to be dons by them in regaining tbo
mad of safety, and to its performance they
are earnestly invited. - , ;
When the members of the present Admin-
istration are removed from power, and patri
otic and just men are ttmdfe to fill lliUir places,
the people of tile .adhering sections of the
country will hAVb done their, jiart in remov
ing thd cailsA of w.ar Arid the obstacle to
peace, And will ho represented by. men com
petent Alike to conduct war And to secure
peace, who will call into existence, for the re
demption and reunion of the country, moral
influences more potent than physical force,
and who will achieve their mission before
exhaustion And intolerable Buffering have
been incurred.
the lirop'daitions vtdlioh should obtain in
tile reconstruction of the Union are not diffi
cult of statement, and when contrasted with
the policy of the Administration will appear
to peculiar advantage.
' the first is, that the States Shall strtrid ris
before the, wAr, except as to o'hanges which
may lie agreed updn between or among them.
Tbit Constitution of the United States is the
rightful and drily bund of union for the StAtes
co7nposinff the Confederacy, and it is to stand
ns it is,' in its full integrity, Until the parties
who Are botlrid by.it shall change its terms
or add td it ncif provisions. • Any ocher, doc
trine is vCvolutioriary and destructive .Arid to
bo (tttefly rejected, whether founded Upon
P'roaideritiAl proc.lutUAsions or statues enacted
by Congress; The powers of tlie Federal
Government id all its braridhes are confined
within tlie provisions of the Constitution and
cannot tfanscerid them. Therefore the Con
stitution as it is, including itap'owor of regu
lar amendment, is the leading doctrine of tho
groat party which proposes to save the ra
tion in this the day of its sore trial. Let tlie
false and guilty doctrine that the President
of tlie United States by proclamation, or the
Congress thereof by statute, can prescribe.
Alter, add to or diminish tho conditions of
union between tho States bo discarded at
once and forever, and most of tho difficulties
which appear to tend tho question' of recon
struction will wholly disappear. Those de
partments of the Government are confined to
particular legislative and executive duties;
and cannot touch or determine the relations
of the States with each other. That field of
power is sacred to tho. groat organ,zed com
munities by whom the Union was formed and
br whom 1 alone it can ho subjected to modiu
cation or change. We have fought to restore
tho Union, not to change it. much loss to sub
vert its fundamental principles, and the ac
complishment of its restoration.is the com
pensation wo propose to ourselves for all the
cost and sacrifices of the struggle
But what is impossible to the Presidents
to Congress it is compote"? for the States, m
their severe, ign capacity, by free mutual con
sent, at the proper time, to, perform.
The American States required a compact
of union to go through the war of the Revo
■ lution, and it was made. Subsequently they
; required ah amended compact, creating a
, more intimate union, to secure thend the
■ fruits of independence. From, their dol.her
, ationsonthe latter occasion there resuUAd
that nibst admirable instrument, the Oonsa-
JleconsthictiOn.
tution of the United States, under which the
Republic has existed and prospered for more
than seventy years, And now, under our
experience of revolt and war and misgovern
ritent. wo may conclude that additional secu
rities for liberty And Union should bo estab
lished in tho fandaniehtAl law. But these
securities must consist of limitations rather
than of extensions of Federal authority, and
must not invade those fields of power which
were loftsAcred to State jurisdiction in the
original scheme of Union.
The Constitution should provide against
the uncontrolled domination of sectional par
ties, South or North, in tho Government of
the United States, as the most indispensable
and vital regulation possible for our safety
And continued 'existence As a Republic. We
refer upon this point to our remarks at the
beginning of tho present address, as exhibit
ing the grounds upon which,.this most im
portant proposition may stand, and ns illus
trating its utility and necessity beyond all
cavil or question. An adequate, real, nqd
cfiioieiit check in Government, securing a
balance of power between political ifitereSta,
is unquestionably tho highest and most im
portant point in constitutional science ; and
it is most evident that because our system
has been found defective in this particular
we are now involved in war and scourged by
misgovernment in its moat intolerable, odi
ous and lawless frtrms. The chocks already
provided in our Constitution and which haVo
boon so salutary in their action and influence
upon the Government, must be supplemented
by some proper provision which shall more
perfectly perform tho office and function for
which they were designed. For it is now
proved amid tlje blood and tears of this na
tion, that all balance in our Government
may bo lost and all its checks bo found insuffi
cient to curb tho insolence and guilt of fac
tion and secure obedience to those fundamen-
tal principles of liberty,. law, and right,
which were established by our fathers. We
Are at War, and blood, flows, and wealth is
wasted, and fanaticism runs riot, and the
Constitution is broken, and we are bowed
down by bitter grief and sorrow in all our
homes, because a sectional faction rules the
Government of the United States, free from
restraint,or curb, or limitation of its powers.
And it should be made impossible that this
condition of things'can again efcist, after we
have once extricated ourselves frofii the grasp
df calamity. ,
There should also bo a judicious liniitatibrt
upon the distribution of Federal patronage.
The prodigious growth and present extent
of that patronage in ‘ official appointments,
constitutes a fertile so'dree of corruption and
danger. Nearly the whole mass of Federal
appointments are poised every four years
upon a presidential election, intensifying
and debasing the struggle far power, apd
sowing the seeds of corruption broadcast
throughout the \ai\d. Furity, economy and
justice in government become almost impos
sible under this system, and theitfrestoration
and maintenance demand its amendment.-
A change by which the great body ot public
officers would bold for fixed terms, and be
rcmovaHo only for lawful cause, would be
one of great merit and wisdom, and is amon g
tho most desirable objects to be sought id Cur
public policy.
Amnesty.
Another proposition pertaining to recon
struction is, that .as to individuals there
shall be a’mneaty except for particular of
fences. All the excesses of a state of war
cannot be visited with judicial punisliriient.
Both necessity and policy require that, at
tlie conclusion of shell o struggle, the man
tle of oblivion shall co.vtir the past. A na
tion torn by civil ft-ttr deriiands repose at its
conclusion, that society may bo reorganized
and that tile passions and demoralization pro
duced by war niay disappear before the re
newed action of moral forces. Laws of con
fiscation and treason may bo politic and nec
essary to prevent insurrection or to check it
in the outset, but tl\ey become inapplicable,
when revolt lias ripened into public wAr, And
one entire people arc organized Agairiat an
other. Penal enactments when dire.ctod
against a whole popplAtiha Are odious
and useless, and their tendency is to
to prolong and intensify war, and to embar
rass or prevent its just-conclusion. Their
office is to chastise individual offenders with
in Government jurisdiction, and not entire
communities contending for iridep'emloncd or
other public object. ' The laws Of war', nec
essarily and properly obtain between the
parties to a war pending tho contest, and dis
place or sdpefsedo those of municipal enact
ment. Amnesty therefore, within tho limit
of public safety; follows of course tlie termi
nation of such a, contest as that in which we
are now engaged.
It ujay lie Added that olqar justice requires
tljrtt Unionists Who have Bed from tho revolt
ed country should bo restored to their
tates, and that tho particular wrongs inflict
ed upon them should as far as possible be
fedressed.
A Contrast,
have thus taken notice of several ques
tions connected with the subject of Recon
struction and indicated our views upon, them:
Ifow mucli op'poscd those views are .to them,
the Administration will Appear, upon the
most cursory examination. They ffnirit to
tho determination and settlenirrit of disputes
upon A jrist'Arid reasonable basis, arid to the
security of the co'iintfy against the recurrence
of war hereafter; while the policy of the Ad
ministration points to a simple alternative
between the sulijuguion and independence
of tho SoUth. If we succeed in the war, we
have A conquered country to hold and gov
ern as wo best may ; and if wq fail in the
war, a rival and hostile power will be estab
lished beside its. Tlie Administration has
rioinstrument for national redemption except
physical force, (which it has shown itself
hitherto incompetent to wield.) and whether
it succeed or.fail; the (uturb is opoorepassed
with dangers. Representing radical and vi
olent elements of population among us, its
party interests require of it an uncompromi
sing and hostile attitude not only towards the.
confederate govermrfentbnt to thSwholo Sou
thern people. In fact,-flip President virtual
ly announces fo us in his bogus State proola
mAtiori, th’at h'o .can trust no men in the South
except under most stringent oaths,of appro
val of bis policy arid Within itio direct mili
tary influence of the af'my. Under the pres
ent administration, therefore, each parly to
the war Strives tor a clean victory or an ut
ter defeat, arid, no agreement between them
except one of disunion is 1- proposed or is pos
sible; Wo rraUniit to our countrymen! that
this statement of fact. pronounces tlie rittor
condemnation of , the Administration and es
tablishes solidly the'argument for its removal
from power, and this, too, independent of the
other considerations winch we have pro?on
to), Impotent in war, incapable of securing
a just and and speedy peace, competent only
to waste tho blood arid resources,of tho peo
ple. it stands as fully condemned m its pqlir
oy against the enemy as it does in measures
of internal administration. And we are jus
tified in concluding upon tho whole case, that
if tho Union ia to bo restored, liberty preser
ved, and prosperity renewed in this country,
those results must follow the defeat
tion of the'Administration by tho American
people. 0
The defeat op Mr. Lincoln removes the
MAIN OBSTACLE TO REUNION AND RESTORfeS AT
ONCE THE JUST RULE OPTUS CONSTITUTION
OVER THE ADHERING STATES,
Conclusion,
There are but two classes of men in this
country who may rejoice in existing condi
tions: First, Those who make money out of
the war, and second, those who desire to
achoive emancipation by it. As to tho for
mer, their thirst lor sudden wealth is grati
fied and it is not in their nature to regret
deeply those calamities which fall upon their
fellow-countrymen but from which they arc
exempted. And as to the radical abolition
ist, his cup cf enjoyment is almost full. Ho
believes that emancipation will take place or
the Unidn remain broken forever. Either
result satisfies him profoundly and wholly,
and no possible event during his 'existence
can compete with cither ol these in merit And
excellence.
But has not tho country borne all it can
reasdnably boar, in fact much more than it
can reasonably bear, for tho gratification of
these two classes of men, and shall not the
Administration of the Government under fa-
Vor of whicu they nestle in power and grati
fy their unholy greed and their v detestable
pasSbms, be thrown out of power, thus reliev
,!ng the country from this nightmare of cor
ruption and fanaticism which is pressing out
its verv existence?
Short-sighted-and passionate men rush on
to accomplish an immediate object, unable to
perceive the consequences which Ire beyond
the present moment, and unwilling to believe
that nepr obstacles in their path ot passion
and vfengeanco will succeed to the existing
ones. They vainly think that if slavery bo
struck down by force, regardless of law or
civil obligation, and negro equality be estab
lished in its stead, no subject of difficulty, no
cause of national peril, no “stone of scum
bling” will remain in the path of our nation
al progress. Yaln delusion I Such expecta
tions are proved tube false by a thousand ex
amples in history. The scource of danger
is in the these wild passions let loose in the
land which will not regard civil obligations
and which in their headlong fury trefid Under
Foot both public law and individual right—
We do'not decry theory, but tfo assert that
statesmanship is concerned Uiainly in the
domain of the practical, and that in the pres
ent imperfect condition of human affairs it is
obliged to modify general ideas and adapt
them to existing cohditidns, which are infi
nitely diverse in different countries and at dif
ferent times. And asall political powers are
conventional, thfttis, established by express or
implied cotisent.the validity of any political
act must rest upon the ground that it is au
thorized. trome distinct authority for it must
bo shown, or we must determine against its
existence. And to the existence of a fr£c
govfcrmont and to the harmony and prosper-
Ityof ficoiintry wherein itia established, there
must be a profound and constant respect by
rulers and by people forull those things which
have been agreed upon or instituted in affairs
of government, and there must be a careful
repression of all l the destructive forces by
tohich the blinds of society are loosened and
license or abuse introduced into public or so
cial action. Of destructive forces constitu
ting capital causes of danger, corruption and
fanaticism (before mentioned) uniat bo rank
ed as cheif; and are they not now both in
existence, and conspicuous beyond apy for
mer example ih these United States? Are
thet not predominant characteristics of the
party trhich achieved siiccesfi in 1800, and
has ‘Since held and now holds possession of
political power? And can there bo hope of
thb future So long as these destructive prin
ciples rlin tbhif* course and uncur
bed? I 1 ho sound elements of society must
be brolfgHt to the surface, tllo body politic
be purged of its unhealthy demerits, and in
places of public trust, just and broad-minded,
pure find tolerant men be substituted for'rad
icals arid corruptionists. Then will the laws
ho kept; then will free individual action be
permitted and permissible; crime only will
be punished, and harmony and peaceful re-
Ifitidhs and widely-diffused prosperity suc
ceed to violence, intolerance, wtistb, bloodshed
and debauchitierit of the national life 1
C. R. BUCICALEW,
SAMUEL J. RANDALL,
JOHN D. STILES,
S. E. ANCONA,
WYER STROUSEi,.
PHILIP JOHNSON,
CHARLES DENISON,
AVM. 11. MILLER,
A. 11. COFEKOTH,
Pennsylvania.
GEORGE IT. PENDLETON,
J. F. McKINNEY,
F. C. LeBLOND,
CHILTON A. WHITE,
g. S. COX,
YYILLIAM JOHNSTON,
WARREN P. NOBLE,
W. A. HUTCHINS,
WILLIAM E. FINCIC,
JOHN O’NEILL,
GEORGE BLISS,
JAMES U, MORRIS,
J. TV. WHITE,
THOMAS A. HENDRICKS,
JOHN LAW,
JAMES >A. CRAVENS,
JOSEPH K. EDGE ETON,
james f. McDowell,
Indiana.
W. A. RICHARDSON,
C. M. HARRIS,
JOHN 11. EDEN.
LEWIS W. ROSS,
A. L. KNAPP.
J. C. ROBINSON, . .
W. R- MORRISON. '
WILLIAM J. ALLEN.
Illinois.
CHARLES A. ELDRTDOE,
Wisconsin.
L. W. POWELL, ,
GARRETT DAVIS. ... ..
Kentucky,
JOHN S. CiRLISLE,
Virginia,
W. SAULSBDRY,.., ,
GEORGE RE Ad)" RIDDLE,
Delaware,
A. J. ROGERS,
New Jersey,
DANIEL MARCY r ,
A r etd Hampshire.
RTaBhin«t6n, July S, 1864.
,----
[From the La Crosfio fWia.) Democrat)
PURCHASE YOUR MOURNING CLOTHES.
tiinco’n has called for Jive hundred thou
sand more victims I On the sth of Septem
ber half n million of men are to be drafted to
fill up the ranks of the army ,to fighting di
mensions —to get soldiers for thCshnny South.
Glut,ready. Set your house in order. Make
arrangements to secure your fall crops by
proxy, and get ready to join the throng of the
hundreds of .thousands who have gone before.
Let the women buy mourning goods, for in a
month or bo there-.will not be money enough
in the country to use for that purpose.
The draft comes. No ofie wants to go to
war. Patriotism is sick 1, The nation is dit
cuUraged. Half the men. sent before have
been lost to us and the cohntry. The *ev
enty-tive thousand Wide-Awakes who were to
sweep the rebels into the Gulf of Mexico, have
not been heard from lately. Half a million
more men nro to go forth to he slaughtered
for glory. Fivo hundred thousand more men •
are to be taken away from their industrial
pursuits. It is now revolt, Canada or fight.
Lot us see what the people will do. # .
Oh I'that Wisconsin had'a Governor with
pluck equal to the emergency. Would to
God that the Chief Magistrate of this State
had nerve to say to Abraham Lincoln that
not a man should go from the State till the
quotas of the New England States are tilled.
How the people would respect that
But no ; the young West must he sapped
drained of its life blood, while the abolition* X
ized New England States, which are growing
rich out of this war, are thousnndsbl men in
arrears under lormer calls. The fanatic*
and speculators of. Now England sit at the
feet of Lincoln and their States are passed
over. The working men of the West have
no friend at court, and can go to war in an
swer to calls or bo hunted ddwn.
If wd could see but t glimmer of light
throbgh this darkness, fill would be well. If
the half million now called for would cndlhs
war wo’d go at once. oV'en if never to return,
But there is no bead to guide or arm lo di
rect. The Administration has lied to ua dai
ly from its organization. It has made ikg
last call half a dozen times before—it has re
sorted lo all means to till the army—it ha«
sacrificed a million of lives on the altar of in
competency —it has ignored or shelved the
best military talent of the ago—it has disap
pointed the land every month for three year*
and still the war goes on. ;
Only half a million more 1 Oh, that is no
thing. Wo are bound to free the niggers or
die 1 Lot's all go ! The rebels -can’t fight.
One northern abolitionist who rants and
prays, is better than ten southern men to
light! Tim rebels cannot raise men enough
in all the South to make an array or raako a
decent battle ! The rebels have deserted till
none are left I The South is a barren waste
and her firriiy has subsisted on quarter ra
tions for throe years 1 The rebels are bank
rupt in means, men and military skill I
The niggers lire all free by Old Abe’s pro
clamations and are now our* allies! The
arming of the blacks docs away with calling
for more white troops 1 This is merely a lit
tle excursion party, in which no one will bo
hurt I The rebel troops are . sick, starving,
naked, without drriis—cowards, find- terribly
deniqralized I , A A
this is what the administration has taught
us, and being * facts, where, in God's name,
are the brave men the North has scot forth
already ?
Rally round tjib Sag, boys. Continue this
adiiiiniotration in power and we pan all go to
war; Canada or to, hell before 1808, Only
half fl million f Modest Abraham I Alight
better have called for d million, for they will
bo needed before this abolition crusade is
half over with, unless conducted on a plan
different from 4< my plan.” Ilalf a million I
Hurrah boys, let’s go I
"WTdttah Lost.” —We never mot a man
■who had deserted the old Democratic faith
■who would admit that he had changed his
views. Their invariable excuse ia : “It is
hot 1 who have left Uie party, but the party
that has lefKyno. ” The slim and substance
of this strange tlicovy amounts to just this,
that the million and a half pf staunch men
who standby the organization, have forgotten
the elements of true Democracy, while the ferr
renegades who link . hands with the opposi
tion, and soon become worse revilers of their
former associates, than the original encmiei
of the Democratic party dare he, are the only
possessors of its corrupt principles. A con
temporary tolls us a story, which admirably
takes off this stylo of argument: ...
“An Indian ivbo had lost his reckoning in
the woods, suddenly stopped and exclaimed ;,
“Indian lost I”, but unwilling recognize
his own blunder thus, lie thought a moment,
and added, “No! Indian not lost—wigwam
lost.” These fellows who leave the Democra
tic party never get lust—the party is lost,”
A LeoaL Knot.— Rather ri ffioe. legal ques
tion has been raised in the lands of the Cn
nueks. The owner.of li boat oii tlfq Niagra
rivet* tied dp bis vessel along .shore with a
hdy fb'p'o. . A hull belonging to his neighbor
jumped aii'oard' the borif and proceeded to sat
isfy his appetite from the bay ; eating off the'
Tripe, hbll and boat went adrift.. Being cap-,
tain rind all hands, and a poor sailor at that,
he was unable to manage the lubberly oraftf
and away, they werit pell moll down the rap
ids rind over the falls. The owner.of the bifll
has. brought a suit against the owner of the
bout for carrying off his bnll; while .the own
er of the boat has hedged dy bringing an ac
tion ngaint the owner of the taurine fur un
mooring his craft. '
Ohio.
Our Formidable Pension List. —lt Is of
ficially elated that the work of the Pension
Bureau is now well up and that all applica
tions made prior to, the .first of-Juno have
been disposed of. The number of claims aR
lowed to invalids and widows has ai'entgod
about five thousand a month for the last four
months. If the war is continued a few years
longer and our pensioners inoroise at the.
rate of five thousand a month very soon wd
shall have entailed upon u‘s annual expendi
ture quite equal to the cost of supporting the
vast armies now in the field.
f’rcsldtiiit Ijifiohlif nJdbetj {ftS issoe.-i
It is that the Abolition of Slavery is the
great object of the war—that abolition must
triumph before there can be oven negotia
tions for peace- .
K 7" A “ three years soldier” complains in
the Philadelphia Press that the Sanitary
Commission’s stores never roach the soldiers,
being exclusively appropriated by officers.
Uy George Francis Train, Esq., lias bean
elected a delegate to the Chicago Convention
from Nebraska Territory.
O” A large Democratic gain Is noted _ in
the city of Columbus, Ohio, at aq election
held for eity officers on ths 80th nit
NO. 10.