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Ac., executed with icirucy and at.the shortest notice. ftottiml. " MW 1 LAY m DOWN TO SLEEP/' DY TIMOTHY TITCOMB. In tho quiet nursery chambers, Snowy pillows yet impressed, Sou tho forms of little children, Knooiiug, white robed for their rest j All in quiet nursery chambers, While the dusky shadows creep, Hear the voices of the ch.ldren.— “ Now I lay me down to sleep.” [n die meadow ami the mountain, Calmly shine the winter stars. But across the glistening low lands, Slant the m»mUgliis silver bars, In the silence and the darkness, 1) irkn ;ss grnsi >g nill in »re do p, Limei L i fie litt I j cm: ir i i. I’rajitig God their souls to keep " L we die,”—-o pray the oliil Iren, And the mother's h.md droops low; (Oin from mu her 10l 1 is sleeping Djcp b.-neath the winter's snow ) “Take our souls," —and past the casement Flits a gleam oferv-tal light, Like the trailing of Ilis garments, Walking evermore in white. Little ?oula tint ifr.ud expectant, Li-tening at the gater. of life, Hearing far away, tho murmur Of the tumult and the strife ; . We, who foil'lit beneath thos.i burners, Meeting r.ml<s ol foeiuen there, Tool a deeper, broader meaning In your simple vesper prayer. When nut hards shall grasp this Mnrdard Which 10-ilay you watch fro in far, When year deed shall shape this conflict In this universal war, . iVav tu him, the Uod of battles, Whubo strong eye can never sleep, In the warning of temptation, Firm ami true your souls lu keep. When the combat ends, and slowly Clear tho smoko Irom out the skies, VIIOH far down tho purple distance, All tho noise ol battle dies, When tho last night’s solemn shadows Settle down ou you and rao, May the lovo that never f'aileth, Take our souls eternally. MWlniifoos. THE MILLER’S DAUGHTER; OK, THE A. NG E ti WISfGS. Many years ago, the community of a ham \fttin the south oT Franco was startled hy a crime rare, indeed, in their quiet, agricul tural district. A wealthy farmer was lound (lead, at early morning, within one hundred yards uf his own house, lie had been killed hy blows administered with a heavy stake, which lay near the body, covered with blood, ami all his pockets had been rilled of their mntents, including a considerable sum of money, which he was known to have reeeiv el the previous evening for some sheep sold by him in tho neighboring market town. When the awe and excitement created by this event hjid subsided a little, every cxer *hm was made by the authorities to ferret cut tho perpetrator of the crime. A regard was offered for tho discovery of the murder “b proclamation of which bounty yvas made h>r several successive Sundays at the church ‘•Lor, At last some disclosures were made •mplicating a young man nunled Laroche —a stripling (,f eighteen years. d’be person who brought . the charge Against young Laroche was a man of the flume of Landry—a stranger in the district. h»t who had lately boert ( appointed l>3 r the lord of the manor as one of the keepers of his preserves. Landry testified that he •flcl seen Laroche cutting a stake from a hodgo mi the afternoon previous to the mur der, and that he iiad reproved him for it, and hiking the stake from him, had stuck it in bank of the hbdgo at a particular spot. — Lie slake was the same one that was found hing near the hotly ol tho murdered farmer. himJry could swear to it, because, after tak ,fI.K it froth Laroche, ho had nicked it l.i a pG'odinr way with his knife. Now it so happened.that the murdered far- ? ep h‘ l d many and influential friends, while - rt °ho Siad but few. Therefore Laroche Was convicted of the murder, and sentenced f ! he hanged on a certain day, iit‘a certiiin plitco until which time lie was placed for R a o keeping in tho jail of the district—tho . )lr d floor nf a large stone budding, the lo v tr part of which was a mill: The prison coiuuHted of a single apartment, lighted by J r, o small window at a-height of about six fat from the floor, Tho side of the .Pfliling from which tho window looked ran leer down to tho water of a deojJ and dark lv . e L which crept lazily by the mill, but Quickened its pace a little lower down, until gradually became a rushing torrent, leap* ]«? wilc ! , y 00 to its fall over a perpendicular ol rooks. Bodies carried over that fall ore said never to have been recovered, and --a fixed notion among tho country peo . ~ | lat there was a sectional force in the intn*? k°l° w , by which everything tailing %Baof °* r>r * e< * i Qto . tlxo unexplored ■ ecm* Waß f before that fixed for the ex tih^:l?ll 2? y oiln g Laroche, and the priest of lelt 8 1 at *l er -Allard by name, had been Dari 1 ]?” 0 ie P r * BoU er» i Q order to pre aiiT consolation of religion, for approaching doom. To hia words of com-. fort, Laroche, listened with humility anil si lence, until the good father began to-dilate upon his chances of forgiveness in tho next world .for the terrible crime committed by him. Then the prisoner electrified him by declaring his perfect innocence of that crime —a position which he meant to.maintain, ho fluid, with his last breath. To be brief, the youth of the prisoner, his 'earnestasseveration of innocence, an I a wa vering doubt of his guilt which had at I aljmg troubled F.uher Allard’s mind, so wrought upon that worthy man, that he at lust con sented to commit himself to a plan for giving the prisoner a chance of o*capq, if hot from death, at, lea**X from the ignominy of (lying by the hands of the accursed hangman. ‘lf I die by the gallows, most reverend father,' said tho young man, * a great sorrow will someday full upon all concerned in-my death. Tho real murderer is sure to he dis covered sooner op later, and then 1 shall have been a murdered man. and tho just retribu tion of heaven will pursue my murderers Aid me to escape, rather than risk a great stain upon your conscience. Stand unon this chair, which I place upon the table, thus, and then, by mounting upon vonr shoulders I can reach the window and drop from it.’ ‘ Rut the river below !’ ‘ I swim like an otter; and, at aov rate, it is bettor to bo drowned than hanged.’ Convinced of the young man’s innocence, Father Allard consentel to aid him in his es cape. A m uuent sufficed to carry the plan into execution. The prisoner gained" the window and disappeared. Parading in a straggling way outside the building, wont one of tho minor officers of Jn-ticc —a stolid peasant, who dfmd been placed there by way of sentry, r.nd whop at this moment, happened to be looking towards the river wall of the mill. Ilis s : gbt nearly , left him. as lie afterwards stated, when ho j saw a mao drop fr»m the wndow, strike on j a platform that protruded from a doorway in ’ the second «tnrv, ru'd, rebounding from that ! fall info the wafer with a bca ;v plunge, re appearing at intervals, until ho was carried nwav into the rapids below. The alarm was at mine given . Village nf fimuls r.nsbed to the prison room, where they found Father AHard, alone, seated in the chair, pale, as if just recovering from tho flight'of sumo supernatural vision. To the questions put to him. lie replied that, as ho was administering the consolation* of bis bo-, ly offi.-e to the prisoner, a voice sounded through the appartincnt, accompanied by the shadow of a mighty pair of wings, on which the prisoner mounted to the ceiling of tho njipartment. an I was peon no inure by him. I’he voice, he added, prudaimed tho prison er’s innocence, and that the real circumstan ces uf the murder would soon lie made mani fest. It was a miracle ; and the good coun try people, ever ready to accent that form of interposition, were easily persuaded to do so on this present occasion Meantime. Laroche. when lie leaped from the window, hud forgotten all about the plat form. Am he foil upon it. hedisplaeod a sack of grain, which splashed into the dark waters of the river,.appearing to the eyes of the he wlidered'stfntry to he the body of the man who bail dropped from the prison window.— Laroche lay upih the narrow platform, stunned by his' heavy fall. Spiride, the Miller’s daughter, saw him fall. There was no one else in the mill at the time.— She die.v him quickly behind the sacks and great heaps of grain on the floor, and hav ng administered to him such restoratives as her young experience suggested, threw some loose sacks over him. and told him to lie still. That night Spiride and her lover—Laroche and slio bad been lovers fur about six hours only—made their wav to where a boat lay moored below the falls and, embarking in it. were soon carried far beyond-tho reach of pursuit, tt was supposed by the affrighted villagers that Spirido must have been carried farm the platform when tho body from tho window above was seen to strike upon it ; and, as the whirlpool below the torrent had never been known to give up its dead, but little seare’r was made for her, and her friends resigned themselves to mourning for her awful fate. te<s than six months after this, Landry was tried for tho murder of a brother keeper and was convicted and hanged according.— Previous tii the execution, however, ho made a clean breast of it to Father Allard, confess ing that he had murdered the tanner for Ins money. killing him with tho -.take out from the hedge hy young Laroche, which, as lie sta,teij. singularly enough, suggested o him the idea of committing the.crime. • , , Two years elapsed, and Father Allan! had boon promoted to a parish at a distance of Nome 'fifty miles from the one of which he had been pastor for so many years. Shortly ofter his arrival there ,hifl duties led him to take a Journey on horseback amne miles into the interiorof tlinpansli of which he had charge. Part of the road traveled hy him wound through a swampy forest region, and, after a ride of several miles, he came to a sluggish stream that had formerly boon spanned hy a bridge, of which nothing hut. the abutments now remained, however. Tho priest turned his horse’s head; and role along the bdnk.of tho river, hoping to lin t another bridge, at least.‘a ford, by which ho could cross to the further solo ; n »r had ho g me far when ho dt-co nel hy h mf in irk* a place where c.Uilo sarnie I to bo in the hah ibf wa ding through or coining to drink. The wa ter appeared to be shallow; so ho urged his dnwilling horse into it, and had got about hal f way across when tho animal began to plunge and struggle violently, sinking at the same time, as if drawn down by some invisible power Aware now that lie bad fallen into one of those quicksands which tiro not uncom mon in that part of France, tho good father knew rliat to thru”* himself from his horse would bo certain death, as the water was not deep eiiodgh to swim in, and tho hungry sand at the bottom was gaping for him. He held his horse, therefore, and shouts for help. The wafer vva* gaining upon him, as the terrified li )i'6C sank deeper a id deeper in »ho treacher ous stream. Up, up, it came, until it reach ed his saddle flaps, and then his knees, and he bad given himself up for lost, when.dis tant shouts came in response to his, which were growing feebler with each roptithm.— And now a man bursts his way through the brushwndl on tho river bank, and, laying his axo upon a tall slender yotjng tree, cuts it down with four or flv« rapid strokes, leaning it so that it falls out upon tho water, its top most boughs just brushing the sinking horse man in its fall. Graspng tlie boughs, with all his remaining strength, tho priest was drawn to t tho hank by the woodsman fainting and senseless, however, and with hardly a vis ible spark of life. When Father Allard recovered consoipus ness, he found himself in a small but comfor table room. Seeing him open his eyes, n bux om young woman, who was bathing his tem ples, uttered an exclamation of joy, calling him by name, and now, as his dizzy senses fcrightoDod, what hi* surprise to rocog- “OUR COUNTRY—MAY nizo / in his attendant the lost Spiride I Ex planations ensued, and all was made as clear us day without recourse to maryal or mira cle. Laroche, who had been engaged with tho assistance "f some neighbors in ex tricating the priest’s horse, came in, and the meeting wns an affecting one between the two, each of whom had been thus wonderful ly appointed by Providence to preserve the other. '■ t • (i *• Aly conscience is clear now,”said Fath er Allard. “Heaven has surely pardoned the little fiction framed by tne, else why ” “ R*utimid, reverend father,” cried Laroche .interrupting him; “there was no fiction,in the case ; you said that I’was carried awav, upon an ango.ls’s wings, and so I was, and tills is tho angel that saved me I” and he laughingly threw his arms around hia prot ty wife, and hugged her to his side. Poetical justice might now have been well satisfied, hub I Imv.e a few vt, rda further to add upon tho subject. Laroche—now employed as a forester upon nn estate—-was enabled by the assistance of Father Allard to return to his native village, where, not long after, lie ohtaincil.au appoint ment to the very keepership. formerly held by the assassin Landry.- The mystery atren ding his miraculous e.-capeand.re-appearance gave liim.an extraordinary influence am-mg the peasantry. Stories l-.se nothing hv r\v-' dilation. He eventually became a sanctified personage in the emnmnni.y. and ■ a rudely carved effigy of him is still to be seen, in the old chapel of tho parish, with a pair of angcl'a wings hovering over him, and a cross at his head and feet. A Court ScGne. —There is an attorney practicing in nur (‘mins, who has attained a great notoriety, among numerous ol her i hi n gs dor bullying witnesses on the opposing fidcs of cases when he is concerned. * As It, would not he polite to give Ins full name righr out in the crowd, wcwill merely call him “Wav kc.” for short. There was a horse case in the Justices’ Court one day, in which Wayke happened to he engaged. A slow and easy witness had been called to.the stand by the plaintiff, who, in a plait , stmight-forward manner, made tho other side of the cp.se look rather bine.— Tho plaintiff's attorney, being through. Wav ha commenced a regular crop.s-pxaminr.tim., which was cut short in this maimer*. “ Well, what do you know about a horse you a hor.te tlor/orf” Raid • tlie .tiarhiu inn. in his peculiar contemptuous and overhearing manner. “ No, I don’t protend to bo a horse doctor, but I know a good deal of tho nature of the hea*t.” “ That means to say that ynu know a horse fr«'m a jackass, when, you see them,” said Wayke in tlie same style—looking knowingly at the. court, and glancing triumphantly around the crowd of spectators, with a tele graphic expression, which said. “ Xotv I’ve got him on the hip ” The intended victim, gazing Intently at his legal tormentor, drawled out : “ o,ye-a«—just ko— l'd never take yon jar a Jfor.ie !'* The Supreme Court of the United Stal'-t could not have preserved its gravity through the scone that foil iwed. T e lick had; pro duced a regular stampede, and the bushel of suspender buttons that stuck to the ceiling above, brought a shower i f plaster upon the heads lelow. Kverybody was convinced that whatever the attorney might be, the witness was a “ hos.i.” Tnr. Cavalry Horsr.— The cavalry is quite as familiar with the long lists i.f v i rying trumpet signals as the rider hirim-df; he stops instantly when the signal for h ibing is sounded ; passes from a wall: to a trot, from a trot to a gallop, without, requiring any i * minder from spur or rain. If his rider f.:il in battle, or lose his stlrups, he stops *in a mo ment, wafts for him; if lie remain lying mi tho ground, he stoops his head, smells at him, and when he ascertains that there is no liopo of hih revr.oiin'.ing, makes his wav to bis troop, wedges himself in his plane in the ranks, and shares afterwards in the move ments of the rest. Music has an amazing in fluenco over him. If an air be suddenly struck up. you will see the worn out,and nvir tally tired horse raise his sick head, pink up his ears, become animated and move briskly forward to the front. During a halt, »»r when quartered for the night, tho cavalry division stretched out on the ground, lies sleeping eonfu-aliy together, a jumbling mass, which it would be impossi ble tp.disenlangle ; men and horse as pillow, or.rolling himself be-ide it to shield himself from tho cold, the faithful creature seldom changing tho position it has once taken. If it did so it is with the greatest precaution : first it moves its head and legs, endea*.ming gently to free itself, then it raises or turns its self very slowly and carefully, sons not to trample upon nr disturb those win. surround it. If the halt takes place when the ground’ is wot or frozen, tho rider will gladly force his horse ,to.one side after it has lain down awhile, which by that time is warm if net dry. o ' . The most affectionate relationship subsists between man and horse, which is the result of tneir thus living together. The animal seems to understand everything connected with his r-idbr ; lie knows his master’s stop, his peculiar ways ; knows how to seek him out from among others; is a faithful, disin • tcrested companion and friend to him, and has thin advantage o\er many another goo ) comrades—that he dobs liot grow weary of suffering for him. A Hoy lieno.— A Correspondent gives r.n account of tlio heroic fortitude of a young hoy who was wounded in a recent charge in Gram's army. Lis was in the hospital at Washington. Through each lieel, between tendons and the hone, there was a largo hole, And both were full of maggots, which had eaten their way down under the hones of his feet; there was another w< und in the fleshy, part of Ins loft thigh, where the ball carried away half a pound of flesh and mus cle ; this was also full ot maggots. Turpen tine was used hy a surgeon to get rid ol the maggots, yet the hraye little fel.o.w.lmro the intense pain like a martyr, and when a*ked if ho did not suffer, said ; “Yes I‘suffer very much, hut I am willing to be torn pieceme.J, hy joint, while living, lor my country and lor liberty." figy Six hundred tons of ice were seized from the Knickerbocker Ice Company, at New York the other day, for. the use of. tlie Government, - Nations seem to ho getting to be like individuals—whenever they get hard up, if strong, vicious and impudent enough, they take to the road with the maxim, “Stand and Deliver." Connecticut and Rhode Island dcoidscl hy a large majority, bn ft email vote, at ap elec tion on Monday to allow thoir soldiers to vote. IT ALWAYS 813 RIGHT—BUT BIGHT OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY." P CARLISLE, ?A:, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8,1804. THE STATE MILITIA BILL, The following arc tli tia Bill passed by the Sec. I. Tho Governor aud State Treasurer are authorized to hoir .w three million dollars on the faith of the Commonwealth ; to issue certificates of lojm or coupon bonds, of not less than one hundred dollars, hearing six per cent, per annum interest, payable semi annually in Philadelphia ; nut to be taxable for any lime after ten years. Sec. 2. Bonds to lie signed by tho Governor, countersigned by the State Treasurer and Auditor General. The Governor h authorized to draw warrants on the Treasur-r for expen ses of negotiating loan, tu be paid out uf tho 1 treasury. { See. 3. Authorizes the Governor t<* appoint ■ ore major'general and two brigadier gener i als, ol military education, skill and experi* J onee, to have command uf all the militia for- I cos of Pennsylvania. ! Sec. A. helatcs to tho quartcrmaM tirs’ and commissary departments, the inspection of j stoics, letting of contract*, itc. | Sec 5. Authorizes theOovcrnor to organize n military corps, to he called the Pcnti'-vlva nla State Guard, to he composed in duo pro portion of cavalry, infantry and artillery.— , T he regiments to be compos 'd of companies of like number, and to ho armed, equipped, ; clothed, di-ciplincd, governed and paid *imi ■ Jar to Federal troops, and to In; enlisted in the ; pen ice of the State fora pcrfiai not exceed - ing throe \etivu, unless Homier disci arged, to I he cillfc.i into service at such times as the i Governor may deem necessary. The G •vernnr 1 j to appoint all * egiif ental off. -ers, and <• un.pa- j ; nics to elect company officers. All officers to 1 he citiz"ns of the Commonwealth. i Sec. (>. Autlimi/.es the Go\crnorto provide 1 hospital arrangements, camps of instruction, ; arjns aecoutr-’’meuts, garrison rod camp 1 equipage, tran-poriation. subsistence and all - tiling-. nci*es-.ary for putting the (Liard into! S'-mu-o; to adopt all needuil rules and regie i let fiiOM •, to take and use-Uovses fur cavalry ! and artillery service, for which compensation shall ho made within six montiiH; and to ' seize railroads and such other means <d trans portation us the exigencies of the case dc , mand. Sec. 7. Authorizes the Governor to cause an immediate enrollment to he made and to draw the State Guard from the militia, bv draft or volunteering, from such portions of the (JomiiidiiM ea Ith as lie may deem necessa ry. I’erVons fit for •-‘•nice may he received as volunteer! without reference to age. H. /\iiilnti i/.f-Itu* (i ivornor to siso tlk* enrollment «>( tlio (Icm nil tiovernment il in**;- es>ary. If praciicahh*. however, lit is roqni red ln.nmUoMU enrollment. Assessors who refuse to cll r- •I i within live days aft or noiifi | oat ion b / t' i(• (iuv n‘in>r tit l,e mm.vod and or h- • 1 i'H appointed to nnkii ti e enrollment. Tin* (i ivernor to appoint mu* competent jummoi in 1 on<•!» <li>t riot, ii phj'i.San. who ia cm.jn not i>n 1 wiih comny or city coin mission era, shnll r.m- | stiluiea hoard of enrollment to if-toi-mino 1 exemption'. three of whom the poY'-ndan ! but no; ino— to constUn to a quorn m. All mp. j or duties of the condiment idmll bo c m Inc- j ted under the act of .May -I. IS(*>4. to which 1 this act is a supnlement,. The physician to ■ receive live ami tbo eoinnii.-Joiici s throe dol- s lavs perdav. .The (•biverndr to have power to I iiiako and enforce all ordcra necessary to give 1 •■lliiooncy to the act. | 8' ia Tlio Quartermaster (o'neral author ized to sell any unceryieeahle ordinance. tlio I proceeds tola; applied to the purchase of now. Sec. 10. Where the brigade hinds of coum I ties is not sufficient to pay the assessors mi- j dor tho :.;d section of the original act. tho.yd shall be paid Try the revoral cities and eq<fn- ■ tics in which the assessment is made: I Tiik Coming Election.—The rein ti vo strength of the several Staler in the electoral college has been considerably change 1 since (tie la-4 Presidential election, by the decen nial reapp dntmciit. Maine had 8 votes in 1 'dd. and in 180-1 will have hut seven.— Massachusetts also loses one, falling I’nan Id to I ‘2 votes; Xevv York drops from 35 to 3.1; Pennsylvania loses one, Ohio loses two, and Kentucky looses one. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia. L misitina. Missis.dpru, iVnrtli Carolina, Texas, Tennessee and Vir ginia, will, not bo heard of in the el -ctoral college. The vote of California will he in creased from -1 to a votes; Illineia will ad yaiKC from H to Id votes, lowa, wjuch had 4- votes in 1801), will now have 8 : Wiscai-in will have 8 votts in.-tead of 5 ; Michigan in creases two votes, and Kansas with he; 1 three voles will he added to the college. The fol lowing is an accurate statement of the num ber oV votes to which each State likely to participate in the election, will bo entitled ; JClrvlor*: | ’'itlC J?l-\\(m * : SltllCH Maim*, 7 Uilio, .Vo\v 11,ur,p'iiiic, '7 Inilljinn, 1- liiiiiuis, Ulkhlo M.iml, -11 Michigan, Cmmoolicut, 0 1 Wisconsin. Vonmmt. ' ;>j Miiiucouto,, 4 Now Vurlc, 3ai["W;i, 8 Ni*«‘ Jrr<oy, ,Kaiisiis. -.3 I’onnsvlruma, 2*l. Koutuolty, 11 DMauaro, Maryland, fonua, \Ve.-sl Virgi 11 ia, s(orogon, Total The total number of voles to which these slutes are entitled is 22G. A majority of this electoral college is necessary to an elec tion, and that majority is one hundred and Imirtccn voles.— A<je. Tomatoes. —The season for tomatoes ir» now at hand, and almost every one appreciates their value. Passing by si garden a tow day* ago, which, in most respects, presented evi dence of careful and intelligent culture, we were sorry to observe that the.growing toma toes were wholly mglected. The vines .were large, and spread all over the ground ; hut there was but a small show of fruit. And And hecau-e there may be many such gar dens where the tomatoes am neglected, wo say to our readers: lie summand provide some kind of support for your tomato plants ; it matters hue little how.the support is made, provided i keeps the fruit from the ground, and expose to the light and air. And, be sides, if you would have largo fruit of the best quality, cut or pinch off the laterals when a sufficient number of flowers are set. I6T* A. Bug has made its appearance in the west which destroys potato vinos and other vegetables with astonishing rapidity. From its ravages ami the distinct mark of an L oh its backbit is called the “Lincoln Bug.” IC/*' The Shoddy Contractors hate the word peace, ft nmnds’unploaanntly in their ears. The veteran soldiers, though, would greet it as they would a messenger from Heaven. (CT* General Sherman says that to put down rebellion demand* a universal draft. lie features uf the Mill- Login! situ re. lion. W. A. llielmrdson, on coming for ward, was received with rounds of applause, again and again renewed. Mu. Pkesiden't, Ladies asn Gentlemen. : —1 desire to submit a very few remarks to 7/mi to night uj reference,to the political ques tions which are agitating the public miud. — If you are hero to-night for the purpose of hearing more oratory, I do not expect to grat ify yon. lam hero to make a plain state ment to you. to satisfy you if I can that the present adminiatraiion is not aide to conduct our affairs satisfactorily to ns. ami for our prosperity ami happiness. Fellow citizens, when wc committed this war to the adminis tration of Abraham Lincoln, this was the greatest country and the most prosperous peo ple that the sun had. e'er shone upon.— IS’cw Km gland had machinery enough to manufacture for all the world ; the great imperial centre of our country. Pennsylva nia and New-Voldc and Virginia had miner al wealth enough—iron hud c oil, and others - to supply the entire universe : our south ern country coni I suuply cat m for the en tire earth ; the shores of the Pacific ocean had gold and sir.er enough for the circula tion ami commerce of the world; the great Northwe-t in which wc live could have fur njshcd men enough to light the world, and defeat it at the same time. (Great applause ) N > peoi le in history had over been ns great, as prosperous as we were. .We committed this country to the hands of Mr. Lincoln.- His friends promised i.s that they would pre serve it as they received it. There is no 1 promise that he nr they made that has been redeemed. (Applause.) They said to ns four vears ago. when we told them that there was danger from the success of a sectional party, that the South was merely boasting, and that if it created any difficulty they would ,n down there’and whip them some morning before breakfast. They said there was no trouble, there was no danger ; hut af ter they had come into power they said, “We will.n.mpier them in sixty days.” Mr. Seward s.’.'el this in a letter of instruction to our foreign ministers. There is no pledge and no promise (hat they have made In the people has been performed, and none that ever will he performed. (Applause ) Fellow-citizens, let me. state, as briefly as I can, the character of the contest, which is iilout to fiii-'u i To reelect Mr. Lmumlu is t i in'cept four years m ire of war, four years umre of trouble, of disaster, of woe, of him uf‘ min to i.bc conntry. ( Applause.) To dcCeai Mr. Lnciln, to accept the nominee >d the Oiucag i convention, (cheers) is t > bring jica-’e and harmony an I conceal and union to thc-e .slates. ( L ur.l applause) lellow citizonc, n , pi* »pb> ( iii country, at any time, has ever contributed more than wc have to the support of this administration. What is the fool in reference to-that? -Mr. Lincoln has expended, during the thrto years and a little more of his a {ministration, more mon ey than was spent to carry nn the govern ment (Vm'P George Washington down to Abraham Lincoln ; he lias cost uS six hun dred minions more of dollars than was spent to carry on the government during the sev , enty years pi nvious. (Laughter and appluuc.) the progress of these seventy years ■ we carried on two foreign wars ; we fought 1 feu* three years Great llritain ; we fought for ! twm years Mexico ; and yet with all this for j eiutn war, and with all* the civil expense of j the goveni ment lor si period of seventy yesi rs, I or nearly that, Lincoln has spent more nmn I ey by six hundred millions of dollars, during , the three ycarsof his administration. These ; people say to us sometimes. “ You coppor , heads”—they used to call ns copperheads mid little names of that s »rt, hut they have quit that justnow- 1 “ You copperheads have not supported the government.” We haye given them our treasure, ail that we had Mr., Lincoln has had under bi<i command, fur the purpose of preserving the Union, two million three hundred .thousand men.- Five hundred thousand of those tw> mil lion three hundrol thousand sleep to-day iu their graves by his folly and wicked ness 3' Missouri ~oUticaf: CHICAGO!! A MEETING ‘W 50,0110 McCLEUAXITES ! SPEECH CF SENATOR RICHARDSON OF ILLINOIS. live [iiiiulrt.nl thousand of thorn are i:uiimo<), tiripplci, their health ilo^trnyed. Oae million of t!io (l twu millions throe luin dred thousand either sleep in thoir graves or arc’destroyed, Look at the picture to-day. We have sacrificed a million of men. I don’t know how much iimno}’ we have expended,-- ,1 dun’l think there is’any man who is good enough at uteres to add and tell us within a thousand millions of how much we owe to day. '‘(Limghicr.) Yet these pconle come (hnvatd and ask ns to vote again for Mr. Lincoln. Turn ami look at the picture your selves. Look at this sacrifice of human life, worth a thousand, yes. a million times more than all the money wo have, or will ever have, ami tclljne whether you will vote for him again. Now, fclhiw-cirizens, one-third id this money that they have expended they have stolen. (Laughter and applause.) Ah mt one-sixth i f it they have devoted to the support of the negro, [ Laughter,) 1 iwn here to mako.no idle d duration,-*, The occasion is too important to deal in mere dec laratnms.. Tyro of the most distinguished men of too Republican party said—one ol t >em in the donate and the other in the House—that this cmntry is in more danger from thieves than from rebels, (Applause.) Yet they tell you that you ought to support Mr. Lincoln, because-this policy of his they say, after awhile, will bring ns out safe.— Well,-1 don't expect, to bv.e long enough to see that policy bring, us out safe. A wrong and ruinous policy never brings anybody out safe. At the beginning of this contest we had a majority of’every State in the Union for the old flag, except, the old State of South Carolina. .Upon Lincdn!s principle I do not know whether wo have got any Statu for it to day. Why hue this change boon brought about? It is because Mr. Lincoln, under the lead and .guide of fanatics in this country, has attempted to make the negro the equal of the white man. The Almighty made him inferior, and Mr. Lincoln and all (lie Aboli tionists on the face of the earth cannot undo the work that the Almighty Ims done.— (Applause.) • Now-let us -.appeal to history. We cannot undo what has' been done. The great and overruling Providence that guides and directs men as it directs the universe, has made the negro inferior to the white man. You ask mo for proof of it. Go back for eix : thousand years. What improvement and advancement Ims the negro made? Go back for six thousand years, and wherever you have found the white man ho hua been progressing and advancing. What, great discovery has the negro made? What in arts, in civilization, in improvement has b« J done? Has ho built a ship or invented a j house* or made a plow, eonstructe 1 a tele i graph, or made a loom ha* ho manufactur ed anything? The Almighty created him inferior to tho white, and «nch penny men ns Abraham Lincoln and hi* co-workers can not make him the equal. We have marched with civilization, marched with progress, ad vanced with improvement. Tho Almighty placed the negro and the white man both j upon the face of the earth with equal oppor- J tunities, and tho latter has proved his supe ■ riority. Whenever it has been attempted to j establish an equality the white man lias boon , lowered while the negro has not been elcva i ted Igo a step further, whenever you have | taken either tho Indian or the negro and , commingled them with the .white nr an you ’ have lowered the white race raid have not el evated tho other. j Do you ask me to point to examples? Go .to Mexico. The Mexican people were atone I time an far advanced as wo were in civiliza-' j tion. They had their roads, their canals, i their public highwjfvs, their schools, tfmir 1 churches. They had all thls—bi.t in an evil hour a revolutionist declared for the equality of the races'. From that hmrup to this.— ■ Mexico has fallen and she has degraded to ! the loyeof the Well, t-» Peru, go • to Chili, cro anywhere upon this continent, wherever, the white race has been preset"-nd. [ they have preserved civilization, they have : continued advancement ami improvement; wherever the bloods have been comminglei and equality proclaimed, the white man lias fallen, and civilization has lamp?! behind.— ( A pplause.) I have said that the reason Mr. Linc.dn has not succeeded is because he cli.»- od negro equality. This may he denied,— Hut he himself has set tlmt question r.t jp-jt. Some commissioners Jn Canada got up a cor respondence, and "he wrote hack a letter,— “To whom if may concern.’' Well, I think i it concerned everyh idy. He said to the po >- j pie of tfie South. “ f won’t a groe to treat with ! V"ii or settle with yon unless yon agree to abolish slavery.” 1 hat was not the b mquot to which wo were invited. We wanted to re store the Union. I will si.f»ak frankly. I would rather preserve tlie white raceHhan to preserve all the negroes inside or outside of Africa. When these people come to me to talk to me. nnd say that this institution of slavery is wrens;, I soy, “ Tha* is true,” they say. “ Well, then, you must abolish it ; you must strike it down.” I toll them “ I have not ti no, in my brief humble life, to correct all the evils on the earth, and I will accept things pretty much as I find them, for the purpose of getting alone; without worse evils. 7 ’ They used to say to us, “ We cannot treat with these southern people. Why, they are rebel** with arms in their hands : it would degrade us to treat with them.” Well I don t , believe that. I think it Is our duty to treat 1 with then*. I know that, in every war when? j tile people have into revolution, theg>>v- [ eminent has off,.red to treat with those in iev- : Million, When Ilungarv revolted »i^;iin-L ! Austria—the worst de>p"li>m probably on | Europe tiie Emperor of Austria proposed ’ forms to the nmole *f Hungary. The pc'* j ]do of Poland, fighting against the Russian government—the Emperor of llussia. the (Vn\ proposed terms to the people of Poland. , Every civilized government, every civilized 1 and great people, where they have found a j portion of their people in rebellion, have pro- 1 posed terms of settlement. Hut ’these lie pub- j Deans sr.y they would he very much disgrac- j ed if they were to propose ferlns of settle- j nient with rch .Is with arms in their bands. I Tlmfle people with arms in their ham’s aie j * lie very people I want to settle with. {am I not afraid of a man if he has no arms. ! . Hot are the Republican-* the people to talk in this way? What is their history?; Du ring the last cession of-Congress, the House of Representatives, under tlie lead of Mr. Winter Davip, of Maryland, passed iesolutiuns endorsing the Monroe dm-trine. The Mon mo doctrine had been advocated by every Congress and every executive, almost from Monroe down to this time. The resolution came up to the Senate, and we could not quite pas*» it there—we wore not .quite strong enough. 'there were too nany Repub licans. Mr. Lincoln c'MU to our minla tor, Mr. Dayton, to say to ihe’i rench govern ment that this was merely tiie action of ihe House of Representatives, in which the Sen ate did nut agree, and the President disap proves.it. We.apologized, under the instruc tions of this’man Lincoln, lor doing what we had a clear right to do. With our hands on our mouths, and our mouths in-the dust, we said, when it was demanded to know wheth er wo would stand by the Monroe doctrine, we d.arcd not doit, that wo wanted peace with Trance. Do you think it would disgrace this administration any more to say to the S-uuh. •“ We want to settle with yuv,” than to apologize to the French Lmiaroi and Min ister for doing whnt .we had a clear right to do? Tlie.iO pcplo talk-sonin'in'es about Gen eral Jrv;ks.»n. Rut if’a I'Vcncii L.noemrhad callc) upon general Jackson to apdogize un der similar circumstances, he would have re plied, “ Uy the eternal God, this is our coup try. and wo mean to manage it.” (Lord cheers.) When the Republicans'’talk to me about preserving onr national hotter. 1 tell them they who have degraded-and debased us arc not the men to doit, (Applause.) Fellow-citizens, wo haw- in the Presiden tial cludr a man. who ha-* disregarded evr.ry provision of Uie .CunslituLion, and every law made by Congress. Perhaps i have stated this too broadly. -There is one provision of the Constitution and one law of Ccngro>a to which Mr. Lincoln has paid the greatest re spect. There is a provision in the Conatitu tiuii th.it the President shall bo paid, and there is a law of Congress that his salary shall bo twenty five thousand dollars.' This is the only provision of the law be lips obey ed—the only provision of the Constitution be has not disregarded. (Laughter.) There is another provision in the Constitution to the effect that no Suite shall make anything but gold and silver a legal lender Ihr the pay ment of debts, Lincoln is very much in fa vor of that. ,1 suppose if you could examine in the Treasury Department -you could find that he had fifty thousand dollars of gold hoaring certificates. lie does not believe in this legal-tender when it cones to his own salary. (Laughter.) He takes his pay in gold ; you get yours in greeaha ‘ks. They used to 101 l us once in a while —I don't think they talk that-way’quite us much lately— that Lincoln was a great blessing sent upon the country. (Laughter.*', nice-*-* Oh hell.!',’) He was a second Washington, cr oomethir.g of that sort. From .the earliest inundation of history up to tills time, whenever a people have become prosperous, and grand, and wicked, the Almighty has sent punishment upon them. Ho v.senf upon Egypt the oast wind and the frogs. After David and Solo mon-had ruled over Israel, and made them groat and prosperous, ho sent-Jeroboam to divide them and Rehnboam to rule over them, with n wicked -hand, and when .the wicked ruled -the people mourned. The Almighty sent upon Rome, after hundreds of years of prosperity and groetuess, Noro, to fiddle. while the city burnt. Tie sept upon Urn French people the revolution, find Robeepiore and lAinton. But lie baa uflilctcd. us more terribly than r.ny of the nationa of history ; lie has gent Abraham Xfincoln to rulo over us. (Laughter and immense cheering.) Lee mo relor briefly to two or three other subjects and I have douo. In the beginning of thfa war men went f o the field for lhe‘purpose of patriotism. I think men ought to go now with the same motive. If they are to fight I think they ought to volunteer, lam not for any violation of law : I believe in obedience to law. The history of the Democratic party, with which I have been associated from ear- Hc'jt manhood to this time, is obedience to law. (Oncers.) I believe the .safety uf the country lies in respect for law. But these men tell UsS that we have got to fight this thing out until the last man and the last dol lar. Now, 1 say that the man who thinks a Republican government can be piescrvcdby force alone is a fool.' (Applauses.) Yon must carry with 3*oll your-sword—if you carry the sword—the olive branch of peace. Do you tell me you are going to conquer the southern people ? Why, fellow citizens, it was never done in history. You must build up your government there on the basis of the white people that exist here to-day. (Applause.) There.is no oilier basis upon which von can organise co'ficty. But >'r. Lincoln says, *• Free the negroes and then we will make it all right." Well, 1 don’t caro very much J about freeing the negroes now, especially ms Iwe ha\e to feed them all. (Laughter.) j Wiieieur 3*oo free a negro you ha\o to snp } port Mm. I do not desire that the while j man shall bo forced to toil from the early 1 dawn till the close of day (or the purpose of feeding those freedmen. Wrought to reverse that. I think-a negro is found to supn nd himself, especially if he is a freemen, ...■Fel low-citizens, I ask you to turn bach in Mnto -1 ry and tell me where it was that eror,hired Mohliers conquered a peace. When the Got.i and Vandal-overran Romo, and the people turned Out..from motives cf patriotism and love of country, they drove them back. For flfafiuindred years the Goth .and Vandal at tempted to ivarrup Homo. But after a while the people became enervated, and they hired, a*' v\e are hiring now, the uoidier to tight them battles, and they were conquered. I might run this parallel through history, but 1 will give but one other example. Dur ing the American revolution, when the peo ple cf Kngl.'ind desired to prevent this country from separating from them, and when they turned out their own people into'the army they took Boston, New York, Philadelphia, I Galiimoro, Charleston, the Chesapeake, and in fact the entire coast. But when the feol ! ing changed towards us, and the King of ; I'nglanil was compelled to hire Hessians to 1 C'linc here ami fight us, we whipped them.— Yuli cannot win victories with hired soldiers. They must bo moved by a higher motive and purer patriotism than the mere love of fcho ’ filar they receive for their services. I would impress upon Mr. Lincoln, and I would im press on the Republican party, that the JSoutJi cannot be put down by arming negroes.— [ Now. iVfilow-cili/.ens, they often say to' me I \s hat about r. settlement, and how is this mat- I ter to bo settled? I will tell you what I ra [ pi}*. 1 say' you can bring hack the people of i ihoJSouth if you will give them all their right?, 1 respect the rights of States and the rights of I the people, (cheers.) . They have their lead ers down tiicrc, and if they will not accept : these terms they will overthrow those loaders down there, and wo mean-to overthrow Lin coln up here. (Cheers s.pu laughtern.) I tell you we can preserve - iho entire Union, and settle this matter. ( r hoors.) I repeat wo can do it. (Renewed cheers,) Wo can d ) it by dealing justly' and with a forgiving spirit with the people of the South. You can not make terms with a neighbor while you say “ I will fight that neighbor." You must go to them with a forgiving disposition and sliow that you have tho disposition and are in a position to make terms. You can propose te’rmfl. They have git some advan tages and we have also gut.some advantages, and we only approach men of like passions ; with ourselves, (Cheers. 1 ' I \ ' I Now, fellow-citizens,! v.fill toll you what Iwo nro going to do. We aro going to elect | tho nominee of the Chicago Uunvoution.— 1 (Loud and prolonged cheering.) We aro go ing to save this Union (tremendous cheering.) Ww are going to end the war (renewed cheers) and, in doing all this, we intend to appeal to too reason and judgment of the people.— (Cheers.) Ae soon as our President is elec ted ho will issue a little declaration of free dom—not a ’proclamation, for Lincoln has given us enough proclamations—opening all the bastiles in which prisoners are confined i for more political expressions of opiniom— He will proclaim universal freedom to all pol itical prisoners In Fort Lafayette and Fort Delaware. I would raze hoik these Forts l> the ground, and would not leave on-c stone standing upon another. (Cheers.) V; T ,r>musfc doe.arc for I reodom, for liberty of speech, free dom of iho press, trial by jury, and the writ lof hibt’n.i. corpus. (Loud cheering.) And hero let me tell you that any man who is or pnred to these things is mi enemy of mankind. It is sometimes said that the election will bo interfered with, but I tell you that tho peo ple at this election arc determined to vindi cate their rights, and to hsnd down to their chil Iren the rights and privileges received from our fathers. The history of the Demo cratic party has been the vindication, at all times, of these rights. We have carried un the Government stx.lV years nut of the seventy which it lias existed ; and during that time, on land or mi the ocean, wherever the Srar Spangled Banner w is displayed, it was honored and respected. Wo have submitted and allovvcd-ninny of oar rights and privileges as citizens to bo taken away, but there is one great right that wo never have submitted to ho taken away-ytho right t»f a free ballot, (Cheers.) If this bo stricken down it becomes bur duty to perish with it. (Loud and prolonged cheering.) I say to this people, and I say to-Abraham Lin coln, that if there is not to he a free election there will be a free fight. (Groat cheering.) There is no use in stating tho ; master in any other terms. We intend and wo must restore this Government to the white race*. The Re publican party may beat us in Massachusetts, Imt Idou t even if they will do that. (Cheer ing and laughter.) Wo must wirv.for we are in favor of the cause of liberty, the cause of civilization, the cause ot right, the cause of justice, the cause ot progress and the cause ol improvomrnt. If wo fail we are not enti tled to freedom. (Cheers) But we will not' fail. (Renewed dice’s.) lam much obliged to yon for the hearing you have given mo. (Laid cries of “Go on.” ’ ”go on,” and tu muUnousoheoring, amid which Senator Rich ardson retired.) flSy*Lincoln has issued throe proclamations for conscription since the-first of January, calling for a million of men. At this rate wo shall have to give almost another million before the year closes. NO. 13:
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