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" 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.
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