(Eijc American Volunteer.
PiUJljIsnED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING
BIIATTON Ac kennkby
crricE-souTii market square.
rtiKSia:—'Two Dollars per year If paid strictly
orivanco; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents If paid
‘“itiiiii three months; after which Three Dollars
•'i, })ft charged. These terms will bo rigidly ad
•*ll .•„ ju every instance.. No subscription dm
sti*imied until all arrearages are paid, unless at
'jSlon of the Editor.
fjroiessioitai ®atns.
j'tXITJSX) states claim
AND
REAL ESTATE AG ENO Y
. WM. B. BUTLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
liiico In Franklin House, South Hanover Street
rirllslo, Cumberland county, Pcmm.
Applications by mall, will receive immediate
‘pirU* euhirattontlon given to the selling or rent
mVnt Real Eslato.'ln town or country. InaUlot
.i 0 f la’QUlry, please enclose postage stamp,
jijiyll. W7o—tf
|AMES*H..,QBAU
J ATTORNEY AT LAW ?
NO. HOOTCH HANOVER HT.,
CARLISLE, PA.
OFFICE— Adjoining Judge Graham's.
March 81.187(J-tf •
n i:. BELTZHOOVIUt,
® ■ ATTORTfBY-AT-liA w,
CARLISLE, PA.
»3*()Jllco on South Hanover street, opposite
Bfiitz’s dry goods store,
poo. 1. lSti-5.
JIIMIUCH & PARKER,
J.TTORSEYB AT LAW.
(iilL‘o ou Main Stroat, lu Marlon Hall, .far
jlp. Pa.
Da. il ISAS-
pEO. B,EMIG.
ATTORNEY- AT-LA \V ,
Office with S. Hepburn, Jr.
• East Main Street,
CAR LISLE, PA
Veil.:’, 71— ly
\XT KENNEDY, Attorney at Law
]) , Carlisle, return'. Office same ari thatol
ne“American Volunteer.”
pec. 1. IS7O.
BR. GEORGE S. SEARTGHT, Den
tist. From the Baltimore Qullepe' of Dental
cry.- Olllce at the residence of his mother
tiM Lonthcr Street, three doors below Bedford
(irllslt*, Pcnna.
Wh\ 1 l»a.
feats ana afans
RESH ARRIVAL
OF ALL TIfE
AEW iJJT/-A.S
of'
HATS AND CAPS.
liie subscriber has-Just opened at No. 15 " North
'jrtwer Street, a few doors North of the Carlisle
iposlt Bank, one of tho largest and best Stocks
fIIATS and CAPS oyer offered in Carlisle.
ii)lk Hats, Casslmoro of all styles and qualities,
:1!T Brims. different colors, a*id every dcscrlp
m of Soft Hats now made.
Ilifi Duukard and Old Fashioned Brush, con
mtlyon hand and made to order, all warrant-
Ito pivo satisfaction.
A full nssoi tiuont of
MEN'S,
BOY’S. AND
CHILDREN’.^
HATS.
uaro also added to-my Stock, notions of dlflor
kinds; consisting: of
LiBIES’ AND GENTLEMEN’S STOCKINGS
Kfitw, , SuspcniTrr.i,
CbUhrs, Gloves.
Pencils, Thread,
Sewing Silk . Umbrellas, Jcc
PRIME SEGARS AND TOBACCO
ALWAYS ON HAND,
ve mo a call, and examine ray stock as I feel
Meet of pleasing all, besides saving you mo-
JOHN A. KELLER, Agent,
No. 15 North Hanover Street.
JJATS AND CAPS I
»J YOU WANT A NICE HAT OR CAP 7
ivan. Don’t fatt v*-.
J. G.CALLIO,
NO. 29. WEST MAIN STREET', -
urc can bo scon tho finest assor tmeut of
HATS .AND CAPS
r tr brought to Carlisle. He takes.great pleas
a in Inviting his old friends anti customers,
il nil now ones, to Ills splendid stock Just re
ived from Now York and 'Philadelphia, con
ning In part of fine
SILK AND CASSIMEUE HATS,
■sides an endless variety of Hats and Caps ol
;s latest style, all ol which ho will sell at the
.vest Cash. Prices. Also, his own manufacture
Hals always on hand, and
BATS MANUFACTURED TO ORDER.
He has the best arrangement for coloring Hats
;l nil klnusof Woolen Goods, Overcoats, «fcc., at
ijsliortest notice (as Up colors every week) and
i the mo.strcasonabloTerras, Also, a fine lot ol
;oico brands.of
TOBACCO AND CIGARS
fays on hand. Ho desires to call theattentlou
’persons who have
COUNTRY FURS .
-Jell, ns ho pays the highest cash-prices for lie
me,
Give him a cull, at tho above number, his dd
Wil, us befools confident of giving entire su .is*
'-Hon.
;ci.ib7o.
ihundm’S, Sr.
!M ? M'M s
WES CAMPBELL. ) W. F. HEN WOOD
AKPBELL & MBNWOOl),
PLUMBERS,
iiS AND STEAM FITTERS,
No, 18 North Hmv uer St,
CARLISLE, PA,
■flU TUBS.
Water closets,
WASH BASINS.
HYDRANTS,
XiIFT AND FORGE PUMPS,
CISTERN ANT) DEEP WELL PUMPS,
GAS FIXTURES.
AS SHADES AND GLOBES «6c.,&c.
sill Iran and Terra Cotta Pipe,
OHIMNEY TOPS and FLUES,
AJI kinds of
BRASS - WORK
:! *leam and Water constantly on hand.
''ORK IN TOWN OR COUNTRY
, promptly attended to.
attention given to orders for
K «erlttl or work Irom a distuuce.-JQr-
Ijjjjg special ndvnntngos wo aro prepared to
'COPPEB WORK.
!*" descriptions for Still Houses landj;other
eposes oit homo or nt a distance.
COPPER PIPE
wished to order either drawn or brazed.
kk k k k k k k's
•>B, I, 70-ljr
Fresh and prime i
clean, pat and juicy.
SMITH’S
•VOTES SALOON,
A, IN TUB VOLUNTEER LUILDINO
South Market Square ,
lf’ r , f°|. 1 * 111 y”SraUh is now opening superior Oys
r“ twice a week, which ho sells at
hotlou in price.
W 2,i I .vl B aro leapt neat and clean and fur-
FnivTu. 11 ft li the necessary accompaniments.
* . M 6u PPliod with llrat quality of Oysters
at-pV/kt notice. The celebrated NEWARK
Hr,• a *V l MA.TBEY & COLLINS’ LMIXLAJUEL
oVAAU. on draught.
1 tQlal ttUtl h 0 will ou^eavor to B l vo
* JNO. B. SMITH.
WOEK, of every description, ex
9cuted at this office.
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BY BRATTON & KENNEDY.
®i'l> (Boois
D RY GOODS!
—AT—
HARPER’S
r Sou(h Hanover S(, t
new stock of fall goods,
i».rt t «J c » o iP leasu . rG . lnofi * 10 ni .v patrons an
&®EwWi.9.-Amafc.p/.
DRY GOODS,
loto . ln °y cry branch, and u t excelled in
quality, beauty, and cheapness. T have now
open a beautiful stock of
FASHIONABLE DRESS GOODS,
comprl lug Black Bilks, Black and to >red AU
iVIJ .., Re P H ' Black and Colored All 'AoolPop
im R. black and Colored Wool Delaines, Black
ana Colored Merinoes, Rich Plaid Poplins, Sor
ces. yelonrs, Flue Tamlso. Bombazines, Pure
Mohairs new brand of Double Warp Black AN
pacn, for beauty of color, weight of texture, and
market ttt ces 1110 Joatl of an Y Alpacas In tho
ndPlaw'" 1110 Sllnw * s ’ ln now styles of Stripes
Long and Square Thibet Shawls, nil of which
I oftor exceedingly ohenp.
BLANKETS,
While and Gray. Bargains guaranteed.
■ 'FLANNELS,
in every variety.
tlt.t)aicinoh ‘Blade Heave, s, Velve-
While Corduroy. Opera Flannels. Plaids
loi cucmars
WATER-PROOF! WATER-PROOF !
House Furnishing’Dry Goods, Table Linens
Napkins and White Goods. .•
All the popular brands of Domestics, at prices
to .meet the lowest quotations.
Merino Vests. Shirts, and Drawers, for Ladles.
Misses, Mon, and Boys. ’
Knitting Yarns, Zephyrs, Germantown Wool.
J erst in M 001, and Balmoral Yarns, Hamburg
Edgings and Insertlngs, Thread Laces. Gutpue
Laoes Linen mm Lace Collars, Kid Gloves
Handkerchiefs, Felt, Balmoral,andHoop Skirts
Corsets, and a general variety of.nottons. '
CLOTHS AND CASSIMERES,
Furs! Furs! Furs!
No hesitancy In saying that, the prices will be
as low as any in town.
All goods bought at the head of tho market,
for cash, and superior Inducements will e offer
ed at the Cheap Cush Store,
Cor. Hanover and Pom fret Ms.,
Oct. 70 70 - TIIOH - A ' HARM:B -
E W GOODS!
Wo have Just relumed from tho city, with
another very heavy stock of/Qoods, makingour
stock Mie largest ever held in Carlisle, by any
other House. Wo have extra good and thick
BLACK SILKS, COLORED SILKS,
SILK POPLINS, of all shades.
SILK AND WOOL EPINGLINES
WOOL HEPS, *
WOOL PLAIDS,
;alpaccas AND delaines
MOURNING GOODS.
all kinds.
PLAIN aj>p FANCY SACKhto FLANNELS,
WATER PROOFS AND CLOAKINGS,
CLOTHS AND CASSIMERES,
QUILTS AND COVERLETS,
Carpets and Oil-Cloths,
DO MESTIZO- GOODS
In great variety
Shawls, Gloves, Hosiery, <f-o.
Wo have ns a whole tho most splendid assort
ment of Goods outside of the cities. Wo have
the very best and most handsome
ASH RIBBONS,
In the town, nil of which we are Bolling cheaper
and at smaller profits than any other big store
In tho United States.
Give us a call and you will save a good deni of
money in your purchases. &
Nov. 10,70.
rjiHE OLD ESTABLISHED
!TGVE MB TfflWMi STORE,
<<*■
JamoSi McGonigal,
No, 83, South Hanover &t.,
(Adjoining Blair & Sons’ Groce v >’ Store.)
CARLISLE, PA.
After an experience of over thirty years in th
Stove and Tinware business, In Carlisle, the an
dorslgned feels confident that hla recommonda
tlon of Stoves has some weight with the com
munlly. He now offers the celebrated
EMPIRE BURNER
which he feels satisfied is the bQSt Base Burner
In the market. It la handsome, throwing a
cheerful light around tho room; there are no
clinkers even with the worst coal; the heat is
reflected to the floor and strikes the feet instead
of tho face: the gas is entirely consumed; all
dust is can-ied-oirby a back pipe; It has a ven
tilating damper by which rooms maybe kept
thoroughly ventilated ; and it produces os great
heat from as small a quantity of coal as any
Btovo over offered to ihe public.
Ho also offers the “ COZY LIGHT and the
« BEACON LIGHT,” both Base Burners, highly
recommended by all who have used them. All
these Base Burners are insured for three years,
and If they do not work satisfactorily ralvy bo
returned. Also tho following well known
COOK STOVES:
NIUU ° D ’IRONSIDES.
fAbmer,
DIAMOND SLATE
These are all warranted and may be returned
P AUUieao atowVmay’beon jeon nt my
llshment and references can bog Wan to parties
using them.
SPOUTING AND ROOFING, •
ati ended to In town or country.
Repairing done on
Oct. 18.70-flm No. 83. South Hanover St.
j L. STERNER & BRO.,
LTVEJRY AND SALE STABLE
BETWEEN HANOVER AND BEDFOHr 3T
IN THE REAR OF BENTZ HOUSE
CARLISLE, PA.
Having fitted up the Stable with new Carrl
ges, <to,, I nm prepared to furnish first-class
turn-outs at reasonable rates. Parties taken to
and from the spring*
April 3MBT,-*2r
DRY GOODS 1
It was only an organ "grimier before tho
door—a grim, swarthy Italian, with an
evil e’ye and crusl mouth, and at his aide
a fair headed creature whose features
looked blue and pinched with cold.
It was in n West End street, and before
the door of an elegant mansion.- He
swung the organ from his back, and be
"gairtharexquisife
me to sleep, Mother. 1
A fair pale face looked down through
the closed blind of one of the upper win
dows, with eyes dimmed with constant
weeping. Even now, great tears were
swelling in theii' depths, and dropping
silently down on the sable dress, with its
heavy folds of crape. She had been
standing, there, looking listlessly down
into the street, seeing, without remark
ing anyything. Bhe had followed (lie
organ grinder’s passage across tho street,
saw him station himself before the door,
and then had turned to something else
with that vague .wandering that comes
with sorrow.
The plaintive notes rose to her ear,
and tlie quick up springing teais ibid
that they, had found their way to the
heart. The fountain was touched, and
the smarting woumhwas made to bleed
afresliT-and a memory did it.. A few
short weeks before she hud stood in tho
seif-same spot, hearing the very air, lis
tening. hot forI’the 1 ’the music's sake, but
please a golden haired prattler at her&ide
who had eouxed mamma to give the now
ho6ts, her special pride, to the poor IltUp
girl with thecokl shoes, whoso little toes,
showing redly through two great rents,
had excited the warm hearted child's
compassion. ‘ The mother drew the little
pleader to her heart, ar*d telling her how
useless would be tho boots, gave her a
warm worsted dress, and a pair of stout
■ shoes; and to encourage her child’s gen
erous impulses, left her to bestow them
herself on tho poor little starveling shiv
ering in the streets below. It was a
beautiful sight, at which theangels might
have smiled, and'the mother’s bean hud
glowed with deeper pride, a deeper ten
derness.
‘ Clasped to your heart in n loving em
brace, J —the chorus rolled forthwith thril
ling power. She forgot that it was but a
streetorgan, whose music site would have
turned from in disdain a mouth before.—
Tho music seemed almost to speak to her,
as the words chased each other through
her mind. ‘Rock me to sleep, mother,
rock me to sleep.’ She had rocked her
treasure, clasped it to her heart for the
last, last time ; held it close till the white
limbs grew cold and rigid beneath the
touch of death ; and even then her .fren
zied clasp'refused to. release itself, anti
only when nature became exhausted, and
she fell fainting to the floor, could they
take the dead child from her arms. Days
of dark delirium followed ; and while her
tongue called wildly upon them to leave
her the child, they put her darling from
her sight—shut the little face, with its
halo of golden hair, under the cofiiu lid,
and laid the tiny form in its last resting
place; and when she awoke to conscious
ness and a sense of her loss, a little grave
in the cemetery was all that remained of
her idol.,
Memory flew swiftly over the interval
between—tho drear, aching void —tho
lonely night hours, when, waking from
sleep with a fearful start,she again seem
■ irotiiar- !-‘only tire nek’l'M’Jr
with .a motionless sigh from the mocking
fancy.
The organ took up the. strain again,
this time with an added plaint, and the
hot tears fell faster. Why should He
take tier child, precious to her as her own
life, and leave such children as the one
below, to be brought up hi misery and
vice? Ami she looked, through angry,
rebellious tears, at the little figure stand
ing so patiently at the side of the organ
that readied above her head. ‘ Buffer
little children to come unto me.' The
words foi'ced themselves into the wild
tumult of thought like a holy benedic
tion, and the angry Lear! softened. —
Would the good Saviour turn from that
forlorn little one for the garb of grim
poverty that covered the shrinking form
—east her off for the wretchedness in wis
dom ordered ? Perhaps some mother’s
heart Would ache over her loss, just as did
her's over the. hah-.-form now cold in
dust. The very thought, tho picure of
another mother’s pain and desolation,
struck a tender chord that made her look
with newly awakened interest' at the
child.
She noticed the delicate, clean out fea
ture so unusual in children, of her class,
and tho tangled, curly hair, creeping
from under tho old hat, and hanging on
her shoulders in little yellow rings, just
like the bright locks she had so often
twined above the brow of her own child
—her lost Ida- There were the very
shoes, only looking poorernow, that once
pressed the little dead feet, now doing
service in many a weary trump, many a
weary hour of patient standing, as the
old organ went through its round of mel
ody—the shoo Ida had given to the ‘ or
gan man’s little girl. Why should she
not continue the lesson of charily taught
on that remembered day—again extend a
helping band to that little wail on the
sea of humanity? She might make one
heart happier in this life. Rich is this
world’s goods, but'poor iu the content
and peace of mind which make up the
heart’s happiness, she wouid_ stille tlie
yearnings of her .mother love in deeds of
charity, and find forgetfulness in seeking
to lighten the burden of others.
On 6 more look at tho shrinking figure,
and Mrs. Clifford had decided, ensuing’
the room, she pulled the bell, and a
moment after a hioad, good humored
Irish face appeared at the door.
> Jane, there is an organ grinder before
the door,and with him a little child who
looks ns though she were half frozen.—
Bring her up to my room j I wish to
speak to her. Tell her I will only keep
her a few momenta.’
‘ Yea ma’am!’ And honest Jane clos
ed the door softly behind her with n
murmured ’Bless hen kind heart! She
ain’t took no notice of anything before
since Ida died. It’s been asorry enough
house since that day. Aiid she heaved a
heavy sigh as she passed down stairs.
Mrs. Clifford watched tho man motion
the child toward the door, saw her leave
him and a moment after reappear and
then, by her earnest manner, and the
quick passage of his eye over each win
dow, knew that she was repeating J ana’s
words. His approving nod told her suc
cess, and she again ascended the steps.
It was singular, considering how de
spondent she had felt but a few momeuls
before, with how much interest she
watched for the child’s coming. She
soon made her appearance, shrinking
close to Jane’s aide as she entered that
elegant apartment,thatseomed like some
beautiful dream to the child, who had
become used to bare walls and carpetless
floors: and when Jane drew her into the
room, she advanced with bated breath,
and feet pressed gingerly on the rich
carpet, as though fearful that the little
torn shoes would crush the bright flowers
beneath. „ , ,
1 Thank you, Jane, I shall not need you
n6 And when the door had closed behind
her, she drew the shy, shrinking figure
to her, saying, gcatly, in that sweet voice
habitual to her; ‘Do not be afraid, my
child, but tell me your name.’
‘ Jesse, ma’am.’
And the blue eyes ventured to raise
themselves to the kind face above her s.
‘That Is a nice, pretty name, and is
that your father with the organ, Jessie?
‘Oh, no ma’am I’ she answered quick
ly, and with emphasis, her Up tremb-
ls some relative—your undo, per
haps. Come Jessie, X want you to tell
me all about yourself. I love little chil
dren, and whenever I find a little gin
like you,-I am going to do all T can to
and others
IpjManmitf.
THE ORGAN GRINDER.
BY HESTER DARYEL.
CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY,- MARCH 9, 1871.
help her.’ u And she Wound her arm
around her ns «ho added softly, *1 had a
little girl ouee, about as big ns 3*oll, Jes
ale. She is, an angel now, and I haven’t
any little girl left—but for her sake all
little children aye dear to me.’
She could not have explained the im
pulse that moved her to speak so to that
child, who said with a husky voice . •
‘lt was the little girl -with curls who
gave me the frock, and shoes. Mamma
used to tell mo Heaven loves those who
aheiftobd. * Mtiy he that is why it look
yyur little girl. I feel so sorry for you,
ma’am.’ And the eyes looked with
tearful sympathy into hers. Thd words,
*were - ’ si rap itrr but't thbr s dbVtn'u '■
Mrs. Clifford's heart welled up at the
touching tone.
‘Perhaps, Jessie. .Ho knows what is
best.' And with assumed cheerfulness.
I she asked, ‘Where is your mother, Jessie?
f You must tell me about yourself now.
‘Molher'is gone to papa. She told me
just before sbo died, that she wanted me
to always be good. I do try, bull feel
sometimes that I wish I might die too.’
And forgetting everything but her grief,
she put her face in Jier hands ami sobbed
aloud.
Ti was pitiful.to see tbe effort she mad©
the next miuuto to conquer her grief,
and the brave attempt to go on.
' ‘We were very poor.; ami the day aft
er mamma died, tin* organ man came to
me and asked me if I would like to go
about with him and take the pennies.—
He said lie would give me my clothes
ami victuals. I didn’t have anywhere
else to go; and so, after limy put mamma
away, I went with him. 'Hut oh, ma’am,
it is so cold, out all day ; and then he is
very cross sometimes, and 1 often go to
bed hungry. Oh, if he only knew I told
you this!’ And her face paled as she
looked towards the window.
*My poor child, [ don’t mean that .he
shall.*. And her kind heart filled with
indignation as she thought of the un
klmlness practiced toward that lonely*
and defenceless one.
‘Mamma gave this to me when she
died. She wouldn’t- sell it when wo,
were poorest, and she told mo never to'
let anyone take it from me.’
And drawing a little locket from her
bosom, she laid it in Mrs. Clifford’s hand.
A fair, girlish face looked out at her from
one side, with’ the wavy hair and bine
eyes of Jessie, and in the other a band
some, manly face, with clear cut. arista,
cratic features ; and she could boo then
from whom the child inherited her un
common delicacy of countenance
‘Papa and mamma's pictures,’ she ex
plained, simply as Mrs. Clifford laid it
thoughtfully hack in her hand.
She restored it to its hiding place with
a little start, as the organ, having played
through its r ■uml of tunes, returned to
its first melody.
‘I must go now; 1 am afraid he will
be You seem ho much like
my* own mamma that I forget every
thing.’
•• Mrs Clifford did notanawer, but looked
at her a moment iir deep thought.
‘Jessie, come to-morrow and bring the
organ-man, as you call him, with you,—
Tell him to be here about this time with
out his organ. I want to see you both.
Do not let him know what has passed
between ns if you can help it; and if he
scolds you, give him tins,’ raid she drew
a sovereign from her purse. I do not
think he will refuse to come ; but if he
should, you must find your way .here
alone.'
‘Yea, ma’am, I shan’t forget ; thank
you.’
And with a little courtesy that showed
how careful must have been her training
closely* fallowed by "Mrs/ cTilfcmlfwho
watched to see her down the stairs, and
then re-entered her romp and went to
the window in tlmeto see the chirk frown
of displeasure on the man’s face vanish
in an avaricious smile ns he clutched the
money* the child extended to him.
Jessie’s parting glance up at -her win
dow was seen and remembered own
wheji Mrs. Clifford’s/head had sought her
pillo‘w. She hud a -long talk with her
husband that night, in which she made
him' acquainted with -Jessie's history,
ami her desire to adopt her. Never re
fusing her slightest wish, how could ho
deny her that which would wean her
thoughts from the past ? And though a
great pang went through his heart at
the thought of another occupying the
place of his lost Ida, ho pressed a tender
kiss on Ins wife’s forehead as he gave
ins consent, and she never knew what
it-coat him. . .
Many times next day who found herselt
wondering whether or nottho man would
come; 'and she worked her.-alf into a per
fect fever of excitement. She knew that
the child was an advantage to him ; for
many would bestow a few pennies foi
her sake, who migl.it otherwise turn
away ; ami yet, might he not. by giving
ber up, hope to reap a stilt greater ad
vantage.' He knew that she had not
been chary of her gifts thus far. And so
she reasoned while she waited. ,
• And yet she waa surprised when both
ho ami his little companion made ther
appearance. She. noticed the qdick lltish
of delight which over-spread the lace of
the child, and her heart wanned instant
ly*. Without any preface, she introduced
the subject, stating her wishes. He lis
tened to Jier, and then began in a com
plaining, whinning sort of a way* to telU
what an expense she had been to him—
and then directly contradicted himself
with the statement that he could not get
on without her. Mrs Clifford stopped him
instantly with the assurance that ho
should not suffer ; she would.make the .
matter right in that respect, and she
named a sum for resigning her that made ,
her eyes sparkle greedily, and instantly
won his consent.
There was but one tie that linked Jes
sie to the old life—a lock of hair and a
few simple relics belonging to her moth
er ; and when these were removed- from
the miserable little room that had been
hers, and a farewell visit paid to the spot
where that mother’s life had gone out,
the last Muk that hound the past with
tiie present was broken ; uml when ;es
sio took her place in her new home, it
was as the adopted daughter of the
wealthy Mrs Clifford
PERE ANTOINE'S DATE-PALM.
IJY TII6MAS BAILY ALDBICir.
Near the levee, and not far from the old
French cathedral, in New Orleans, stands
a tine date-palm, thirty feet in height,
growing'out in the open air as sturdily as
if Us sinuous roots were sucking strength
from their native earth.
Sir Charles Lyell. in his ‘Second Visit
to the United States,* mentions tills ex
otic: “The tree Is seventy or eighty years
old; for Pero Antoine, a Roman Catholic
priest, who died about twenty years ago,
told Mr. Bringier that ho planted it him
self, when ho was young. In his will ho
provided that they who succeeded to this
lot of ground should forfeit it If they cut
down the palm.**
Wishing to learn something of Pere
Antoine’s history, Sir Charles Lyell made
inquiries among the ancient creole in
habitants of the faubourg. That the old
priest In his last days became very much
emaciated, that ho walked the streets
like a mummy, that he gradually dried
up, and tlnally blew away, was the very
meagre and unsatisfactory result of the
tourist's investigations. This is all that
is generally toldtff Pere Antoine.
In the summer of 1801, while New Or
leans wa& yetoccupled by the rebel forces,
I mot at N , on the coast of Now En
gland, ft lady from Louisiana—n Miss
Badcau by name—who gave mo the sub
stance of the following legend touching
Pero Antoine and hla wonderful date
palm. If it should appear tamo to the
reader, It will bo because I haven't a
black ribbed silk dress, and u strip of
point laco around my throat, like Mbs
Badeau; it will ho because X haven’t her
eyes and lips and southern music to tell
it with.
When Pero Antoine was a very young
man ho had ft friend whom ho loved ns
he loved his life. Emile Jnrdin returned
Ills passion, and the two, on account of
their friendship, became the marvel of
the city whore they dwelt. One was sel
dom seen without the other ; for they
studied, walked, ate,'and slept together.
Antoine and Emile were preparing to
enter the chinch; indeed, they hr\d taken
the-preliminary steps, when a circum
stance occurred which changed the color
of tbglr livens. ‘
A foreigiv some far-oft islan
in the Pacific, had a few months before
moved into the neighborhood. The lady
died suddenly, leaving a girl of sixteen
or seventeen, entirely friendless anti un-'
provrUedTeT. TlVe"ydinrg~Yh"eiiTiiuTdHieo r
kind to/ the woman during her illness,
and at her death, melting with pity at the
forlorn situation of Angllce, thedaughter.
swore between themselves to love and
watch over her as if she.were their sister.
Now Anglico had a wild and strange
beauty that made other women seem
amc*beside her ;. uud in the course ol
lime the young men found themselves
regarding their ward not so much like
brothers as at first.
•They struggled bravely with their des
tiny mouth after month ; for the holy
orders which they were about to assume
precluded the .idea of love and marriage.
Hut every day taught them to be more
fond of her. Even priest** are human.
So (hey drifted on in a dream. And she?
■lf Anglice shared their trouble, her face
told no story.- It was like the face of a
saint,on a cat hound window. Once, how
ever, as she came suddenly upon the two
men ami overheard words that seemed to
burn like tire on -the lips of the speaker,
her eyes grew very lumiftgus for an in
stant. Then she passed on, her face as
immobile as before in its setting of wavy
gold hair.
One niglit Emile .Timlin and Anglice
were not to be found. They had.flown;
but whether, nobody knew, and nobody,
save Antoine, cared.
It was a heavy blow to Antoine—for
he hud made up his mind to run. away
with her himself:
A strip of paper slipped' from a volume
bn Antoine’s desk, and fluttered to his
feet.
'Do not be angry,’ said the bit of paper,
piteously; ‘forgive us, for wo love.’
Three years we lit by wearily enough.
Ailbdno had entered the church, and was
already looked upon as a rising man. but
his face was pale and his hen'rt laden, for
theie was no sweetness in life for him.
Four years bad elapsed when a letter,
covered with outlandish post marks, was
brought to the young priest—a letter from
Anglice. yhe was dying—would he for
give her?' Emile the year previous had
fallen a victim to the fever that raged on
the Island, and their child, little Anglice,
was likely to follow him. In pitiful terms
she begged Antoine to {akj&glMirgo of the
child until she was old enough to enter
a convent. The epistle was finished has
tily by another’s hand, informing Pere
Antoine of Madame Jardin’s death ; it
dso told him that little Anglice had been
placed on board a vessel soon to leave the
island for some western port.
The letter, delayed by storm ami ship
wreck, was ■ hardly read and wept over,
when little Angllce arrived.
On beholding her Antoine uttered a
cry of joy ami surprise—she was so like'
the woman he had worshipped.
, As a man’s tears are more pathetic than
a woman’s, so is bis love more intense ;
not more enduring,* not half so subtle,
but intenser.
The passion that .had been crowded
town in his heartbrokequt and lavished
fs lichness on this child, who was to
um not only the Anglice of years ago,
his friend Emile Jardin also.
lieauTi 1 . wm'.-iUnWE#!
lowy form, the rich tint of skin, and the
large, tropical eyes, that had almost made
Antoine’s sacred robes a mockery to him.
For a month or two Anglice was wildly
unhappy in her new home. She talked
continually of the bright country where
she was born, the fruits, flowers and blue
skies, the-tall, fau-liko trees, and the
streams that went murmuring through
them to the sea. . Antoine could not pac
ify her.
*The winter passed, the balmy spring
air bad come, and xVnglice seemed to re
vive. In her little bamboo chair on the
porch she swayed to*and fro in a fnigant
breeze,' with a peculiar undulating mo
tion, like a graceful tree.
At times something seemed to weigh
upon her mind. Antoine noticed it mid
waited. At length she spoke.
‘Near onr house/ said Anglice—‘ near
our house, on the island, the palm trees
are waving in the blue skies. O, how
beautiful! f seem to Ho beneath them all
day long. I am happy, very happy. I
yearned for them so much that I grew
sick ; don’t you think it was so, mon
iero ?’
‘Mon Dieu yes!’ exclaimed Antoine
suddenlyi 'Let us hasten to those pleas
ant islands wheretbo palms are waving?’
Anglice smiled,
I aiu going there, mon pore !’
Ah, indeed I' A week horn that even
ig the wax candles burned at her feet
id forehead, lighting her on her lust
Journey.
All was over. Now was Antoine’s heart
empty* Death, like another Emile, had
stolen his new Anglice. He had nothing
jo do but to lay the blighted flower away.
* Pero Antoine made a shallow grave in
his garden, and heaped the brown mold
over bis idol.
In the tranquil spring evenings, the
priest-was seen sitting by the mold, his
linger closed on the unread prayer book.
The summer broke on (hat sunny land;
and in the 'cool morning twilight, and
after nightfall, Antoine lingcicd by the
little grave. He could never be with It
enough. One morning ho observed a del
icate stem, with two curiously shaped
emerald leaves, springing up from the
centre of the mould. At first he merely
noticed it casually; butat length the plant
grew so tall, and it .was so strangely un
like anything he had ever seen before,
that he examined it with care.
I low straight and graceful and exquis
ite it was ! When it swung to and fro
with the summer wind, in the twilight,
it seemed to'Antoine as if young Anglice
■ere standing there in the garden!
The days stole by, and Antoine tended
the fragile shoot, wondering what sort of
blossom it would unfold—white, or scar,
Jet, or golden. One Sunday, a stranger
with a bronzed,.weather-beaten face, like
a sailor's, leaned over the garden rail,
and said to him :
1 What a fine young date palm you have
there, air!'
4 Mon DienP cried Pere Antoine,
is it a palm? 1
‘Yes, indeed, * returned the man. ‘I
had no idea the tree would flourish in
■his climate. 1 9
‘Mon Lieu !’ was nllthe priest could
say.
If Pete Antoine loved the tree before,
ho worshipped it now. He watered it,
and could have clasped it in his arms.—
Here were Emile, and Anglice, and the
child, all In one.
The years glided away, and the date
palm and the priest grew together—only
one became vigorous and the other fee
ble. Pere Antoine had long passed the
meridian of life. The tree was in Us.
youth. It no longer stood in an Isolated
garden; for pretentious brick and marble
houses had clustered about Antoine’s cot-
tage. They looked down scowling on the
humble thatched roof. The city was edg
ing up, trying to crowd him oil'hla land.
But ho clung to it like liaohen, and re
fused to sell.
Speculators piled gold on his doorstep,
and ho laughed at them. Sometimes he
was hungry, and cold, and thinly clad,
but he laughed at them none the lens,
‘Uet thee behind mo, satan I’ said the
old priest’s smile.
Pero Antoine was very old now, and
scarcely able to walk; but ho could sit
under the pliant, caressing leaves of his
palm, loving it like an Aran; and there
ho sat till the grlmest speculator came to
him. But even in death Pero Antoine
was faithful to his trust.
Tho owner of that land loses U if ho
harm the date tree.
And there it stands in the narrow and
dingy street, a beautiful, dreamy stran
ger, an exquisite foreign lady, whoso
grace la a joy to the eye, the incense of
whoso breath makes the air enamored.
]\lay the hand wither that touches her
ungeutly! 4
‘Because it grew from the heart of little
Angiiue,’ said Miss Badcau, tenderly.
IMitital
THE 4 BAYONET ELECTION l&W.
Speech of Hon. George W. Woodward, of
Pennsylvania, In tho House of lien,
rcsontatlvrs, February 15, 1871.
The house having under cousidoratioi
tho bill (H. R. No, 2,(334) to amend an acl
approved May 31, 1870, entitled an acl
to enforce the rigbtof citizens of the Un
ited States to vote in the several states ol
this Union, and for other purposes. Mr.
Woodward said :
Mn. Speakku : During the last session
of congress a bill was reported by' the
chairman of the committee on the judi
ciary, and passed, consisting of twenty
three sections, entitled an act to enforce
•the right of citizens of the United States
to vote in the several states of this Union,
ami for other purposes ; and now, sir, we
have a supplement to that act, drawn by
the gentleman from New York, (Mr.
Cli urehill,) and reported by. the- chair
man of the committee on the judiciary ;
a bill consisting of. eighteen sections,
supplementary to the net of last session.
Mr. Speaker, I;have asked myself the
question, which 1 suppose is a proper one
for every representative of the people to
ask for himself when legislation involv
ing constitutional (pieaiions Is proposed,
on what constitutional ground is (his
proposed legislation bused ? I ask tills
question because the government of the
United States, bcingagovernmentof del
egated powers, ami this congress exercis
ing only the legislative powers delegated
in tlie constitution of the United States,
the very first question that arises is this:
does the proposed, legislation fall witliiu
any of the powers delegated to this legis
lative body? And upon looking into the
constitution for the excuse or justification
as gentlemen call it, for this legislation,
I am referred to the fourth section of tlie
first, article, which reads as follows:
The times, places and manners of hold
ing elections for senators and representa
tives shall be prescribed in each* state by
the legislature thereof; but the congress
may _at anytime by law make or alter
such regulations except as to the place of
choosing senators.
Now, Mr. ►Speaker, the latter clause of
this fmiith section, which gives to con
gress the power to alter the regulations
made by the states, has been and is a
dead letter in the constitution of the Un
ited states. The congress of the United
Stales has never practiced upon it, has
never asserted it; ami when 3'ou take
into view the lapse of time since this
constitution was adopted, the practice of
the government for this long period is
the highest evidence of the meaning of
this constitutional provision, which is
_that the whole subject of regulations of
elections is reserved to the states and is
not grunted to the federal government.
The framers of the constitution have
told ns what purposes the latter clause of
the fourth section to nu "
awer. One or more states might refuse
to elect senators and representatives, and
thus dissolve their political connection
with the union. If any state should so
regulate elections as to produce This re
sult, the power was delegated to congress
iq-l\UQJLJ3'illh_-lTK t ylA t -J Ol,s * This is _tho
the contingency ‘contemplated by the
framers having neverocourred the clause
bus lain a dead letter In the constitution,
and thepracticeofthegoverninentthrougl;
out its history, until the strange times
upon which we have fallen, has■ recog
nized the stale right of' regulating elec
tions. It is not in its nature an exclus
ive power. If not exercised by any par
ticular state, the federal government may
compel its exercise so ’far as to secure a
representative in congress; but if exer
cised it is exclusive and belongs absolute
ly to the stale government. And this
long practice of the government, is the
highest possible evidence in favor of this
interpretation of the clause in question.
The argument receives additional sup
port from the second section of the first
article of the constitution, which .is In
these words :
The house of representative shall be
composed of members chosen every sec
ond year by the people of the several
states, and the electors in each state shall
have the' qualifications requisite for elec
tors of the most numerous branch of the
stale legislature. -
Thus the (Constitution In providing for
members to sit in this hall, bases itself
entirely on the unrestrained sovereign
will of the states. Each state was to pro
scribe the qualifications of electors for
the most numerous branch of its .own
slate legislature. Nobody can doubt it.
It would not be a free and independent
state if it might not deline the electors of
its own state legislature; and the same
electors were to choose the members of the
house of representatives. Ami so in re
gard to electors for president and vice
president; they were to bo chosen in each
state “ in such manner as the legislature
thereof may direct." The only elective
clliccra of the federal government were
to owe their elections to such electors as
the states should qualify, and this shows
the importance of such a conditional
grant of power as that which is expressed
in the last clause of the fourth section of
article one. For if the states qualified
no electors the federal government could
have no elective odlcers ; but it thostutes
kept, up elections, as indeed they were
bound to do If they, would remain repub
lican in their form of government, Mthy,
then, federal elective olllcers were to bo
chpaeji by electors qualified by the states
and the federal government was to have
no control over state elections whatever.
Now I ask what Is the authority for the
extraordinary legislation of lost session,
■ and that which is proposed by this bill?
Not the clause of the fourth section, be
cause that was limited to a contingency
which has not happened. Every slate
has a legislature, an election law, and an
annual or biennial elections. Every slate
therefore, qualifies electors. And the
constitution of the United Slates refers
all elective officers of the federal govern
ment to those state electors The lime
has not come, the contingency has not
happened, for the exercise of iho power
delegated by the latter clause of tho fourth
section, and the proposed legislation can
not be supported upeu any such founda
tion. But gentlemen say that this legis
lation is necessary to enforce the right of
citizens to vote in the several states, ami
such, indeed was the title of the act of last
session, to which the present bill is sup
plementary—that is to say, it Is appro
priute legislation for carrying the fif
teenth amendment into effect. They
cannot base it upon the fourteenth
amendment, for that in Its first section
refers only to civil rights of citizens,
which have been guarded by abundant
legislation already. And thataection has
no reference to suffrage, else there would
have been no need of the fifteenth
amendment. The fifteenth amendment,
then, is the only ground on which the
bill can stand. Let us see what is the
very text of that amendment.
Sec. 1. The right of the citizens of the
United States to vote shall not be denied
or abridged by the United States or by
any state on account ot race, color or pre
vious condition of servitude.
* and
The amendment recognizes such a
thing ns the right of citizens of the Unit
ed States to vote in the states, and it for
bids the states to deny that right to any
citizen of the United Slates on account of
race, color or previous condition of servi
tude. It is a negative rule to the states,
which, like the other negatives and in
hibitions of the constitution, executes
Itself, and needs no supplementary legis
lation. ‘Ho state, 1 says the tenth,section
of article one of the constitution, "shall
v VOL. 57.-NO. 39.
j enter Into any treaty, alliance, or confed
. erntton ; grant letters of marque or re
» prisal; coin money; emit bills of credit;
f make anything but gold or silver coin a
, tender in payment of debts ; pass any
• bill ofrattaluder, cx jiost facto Jaw, or law
impairing the obligation of contracts, or
, grant any title of nobility. These are nil
Jcgislativoinnbilitios, self-imposed by the
states, and the fifteenth amendment is
another instance of the same disabling
character* The states surrender their
power over these several subjects ; and
until tbey attempt to resume it it is ab
surd to talk about congressional legisla
tion* to' enforce such provisions. They
■ 'noed'’'no-’"cn forcemeat-; —They-exe«MiU>—
'themselves* The moment the requisite
number cf states ratified the fifteenth
amendment (if, indeed, the requisite
number ever did ratify it) the stales were
no longer able to deny or abridge suffrage
on account of race, color or previous con
dition. And no state has attempted any
such legislation. On the contrary it is
well known to every gentleman on the
floor, as part of I lie current political his
tory of our time, that every state con
formed to the compact and admitted
negroes to the suffrage.- This Is what
the fifteenth amendment meant, and
the stales, all of them, whether approv
ing the amendment or disapproving it,
whether voluntarily assenting thereto or
cheated Into an apparent assent which
. .was unreal, or whether‘coerced by sword
and bayonet,or by legislation,-more cruel «
than swords and bayonets,,all, every one I
of theln, came bravely and promptly up i
‘to the demands of that 111 starred amend- i
nient* Now York adapted her constitu
tion to it. In Pennsylvania we have not
.vet expunged the word “ white” from
the elective clause of ourconfttltution, l»ut
Aye have suffered it to be obscured by-the
fifteenth .amendment, and our: colored
population have been as freely admitted
to the# ballot ns if the word whit© had
never been in our constitution. Other
stales have conformed to tjio rule, with
equal promptness and precision. They
have consented that their exclusive ju
risdiction over suffrage shall he so exer
cised as not to exclude negroes. Thus
the fifteenth amehdhient has had free
course and been glorified. Now, sir, in
view of these facts, which no man hero
or elsewhere will contradict, what, X ask,
hut a shallow sham, is the fltJeof this
legislation? “An act to enforce the right
of citizens to vote. Nonsense. The fif
teenth amendment enforced .that right.
True, the power to legislate for its en
forcement is granted by the second sec
tion, but this bill and no other caii bo a
sincere exercise of that power until some
body resists or denies'the right. -Legis-
lation to enforce what a .constitutional
provision has already enforced ought to
be laughed out.of thehouse. What would
my learned,friend from Oh/o [Mr. Bing
ham,] the chairman of the judiciary
committee, say of the two laws of forty
odd sections—long, complex and obscure
sections—to “enforce” any ot the inhibi
tions of the tenth section, which I have
just quoted? Would not his common
sense recoil from such preposterous legis
lation ? Yet it would be no more unnec
essary, no more absurd legislation than
that which’is proposed now, though it
might easily be more candid and honest.
No, sir, no, the fifteeth amendment, tlio*
made the stalking horse to bear up this
legislation, does not and cannot sustain
it. It is utterly without root in the con
stitution. My friend from Wisconsin,
[Mr. Eldrhlge] characterized it none too
strongly when he denounced it as a cheat,
a delusion, and a snare. It is a bill to
obstruct suffrage, to deliver the ballot
boxes of the
pimps, A bill, in a word, to
fjOOiW' tlVc democratic citizens from
enjoying a free and fair ballot. And it
marks a curious feature of our times.—
The fifteenth amendment extended suff
rage to negroes; the legislation to “ en
force” that amendment takes away the
suffrage from white men. The philoso
phy of all this is, if philosophy can be
predicated of thepolilicsoftho republican
party, that the political power of the
country Is to be torn from white men and
delivered to negroes; the African‘is to
rule the Anglo Haxon, To this complex
ion has the party of great moial ideas
come at last. By glozing speeches and
honeyed words they have deluded the
people for several years past. They hope
to continue the delusion until they shall
have undermined the south and stolen
all their rights and consolidated one
grand central empire on the ruins of the
republic- The prophetic soul of the Pre
sident already discerns the living resem
blance of our. nascent empire to Hint
whicli King William and Jiismark are
building up to bless the Germans, and
very soon. If the people continue power
ill the hands that wield it now, (be re
semblance of Die two empires will become
so palpable that common and uninspired
men will not only see but will feel what
the President hallo, in the future, the
blessings of a militaty despotism. All
Our legislation poinis this way. The bill
now before us is one of lbe steps in this
downward road. Itwould be more manly
and iair if it boro its real purpose upon
its frontlets. Why not call it a bill to
destroy the state right of regulating sutl
rago? Or a hill to prevent while men
from voting.” Or, a bill to continue the
republican party in power? Why chris
ten it with the grim sarcasm of a “bill
to enforce the right of voting ?” It is not
my purpose to analyze the details of the
bill. That has been sufficiently done by
those who have gone before me. The
effect of it will bo to take life control of
the elections out of the hands of state
officers, acting mule: state law, and de
liver it over to irresponsible federal su
pervisors, who are armed with the power
of the posf>r. comitatus; of the army and
navy; of arrests without warrant; of
challenging voters, inspecting ballots,
ami supervising returns; and they will
be very awkward agents of the ruling
power if, with those appliances, they
cannot produce any result that may bo.
required. True It is, that all this ma*
chiuory is limited to elections for federal
officers; but as most states' elect their
officers at the sumo lime and place at
which congressmen are elected, the prac
tical working of the machinery will give
to federal officers the same' control’over
the elections for state officers that they
will have in the choice of presidential
electors and congressmen. And if the
state, to escape this intolerable tyranny,
should fix state elections on other days,
and, after the fashion of former times,
should- choose their officers unawed by
federal bayonets, what would it avail in
the presence of the high and unconstitu
tional powers which congress has already
arrogated to itself? Whatatato right has
not been already denied and shamelessly
trampled upon ? What cares the mad
spirit of fanaticism for state rights, slate
protests, or stale legislation; With the
Supreme Court packed and gagged, with
four hundred millions of tribute money
annually wrung from the people, with uu
army to collect revenues and control el
ections, with u navy to absorb twenty
millions of money annually for doing
nothing but to make itself a laughing
stock of the world; with corporations
enriched with the public domain; with
legislative power stretched to every ob
ject which ambition or avarice can covet,
what does a ruthless party, so clothed
and Intrenched, care for the checks and
balances of the constitution and the re
served rights of the states? What will
they care In the-future? Literally noth-,
ing now, and nothing then. If, there
fore, state elections shall survive the
shock of this legislation, they will sur
vive to no purpose. There is hut one
remedy for the evils that are upon us,
and the greater and more appalling evils
that now threaten us In the near future,
and that is to cast out the mein who have
abused power, and bring batik the admin
istration of the government to its true
constitutional basis, and keep It there,
A new garter is heralded. It la a heavy
round, elastic chain, much the style of
llie heavy gold chains upon which lock
ets are worn, and lias a hook and eye to
it. The hook is pardonable, but the oye
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SPEECH OF HON. R. J. HAIOEHftN.
Wo publish, below tho remarks of our,
member In Congress on the subject of
land grants to Railroads.
Mu. Ham)j:maSv Mr. Speaker, I de
alro very briefly, and I am afraid discon
nectedly, (for I'bavo not time to condense
my thoughts within tho limits of a ten
ralnutes speech,) to ,stale tho general
principles -which have'governed, mo in
opposing all land grants and which will .
compel mo to vote against this measure.
Had I voted for any land grant I should
support this bjll. Were it possible for
mo-trrncl voTOterp-suhsitly-orland-graut-to—
a railroad coiporation I certainly should
favor doing with tho South that which
had been done for .the centre arid the
North. Could f bring myself to believe
that land grants and subsidies are 'bene
ficial in the long run to tho masses of the
people I should doanything to aid in the
development of tho sufleripg South, But,
sir, I am one of those who hold that land
subsidies, while they develop a particular
region of country and increase the wealth
of a certain class.of people, nevertheless
sap the foundations of republican govern
ments. Were it the great duty enjoined
upo7i us to provide for the settling up and
the development of this country, within
fifty years I might vote for land grants
and subsidies. Did I believe that the
task sot before republican legislators was
only to adopt such measures as add to
the wealth and grandeur of this country,
regardless of (he effect upon republican
institutions and truodomocraoy, I should
not scruple to adopt- this tho most efilca
cions and rapid mode of stimulating im-’
migration .and quintupling wealth. But
T chance lo.be one of Iho-e who believe
that this nation is not fora day: that we
have a duty imposed on ns in the face of
all the world; and that (hat duty is .pre
servation of republican simplicity and ,
democratic institutions, rather than the
aggrandizement of men and the building
up of magnificent empires.
Wo havo'fondly hoped that our insti
tutions were to be a'u'example for all the
world that this people was set upon a •
hill ns an exampler to nations; that >vo
were as a beacon-light to Illumine the
progress of humanity; and I have,asked
myself whether such measures and such
legislation accord, with cur aspirations. •
But I find that, on the contrary, these
magnificent endowments to railway cor- -
porationa by grants and subsidies arc un
dermining republican virtue. By their
concomitant and consequent corporations
and by the example of luxury and of ex
travagance with tho vast accumulation
of wealth which they necessarily entail,
more injury is done to tho morals of the
people than the material benefits can
compensate.
We are now forty millions of people.— '
We are receiving accessions of four hun
dred thousand a year, and will soon re
ceive half a million a year, and yet we
aroisearcely one hundred years old, but a
span in the lifoof'nalions; and u becomes
a serious question, not whether we are
rapidly to develop this country, but the
form of development which wo would
have ; not the. quantify of immigration
which you propose to introduce .into,this
country, but tho quality.’ Great railway
schemes require, in their prosecution, thq
introduction of -myriads of cheap labor
ers.Vhiob, of necessity, must bring largo
numbers of Chinese into our midst. You
can" no longer select, you can no longer
bring hither fast enough for such pur
poses homogenous people. And I assume
that the fallacy which political passions
and necessities have fostered, that all
races are fitted fo** -similar institutions,
appearing In .V£.?i'St I tl(nonce. .Races
have their own genius. Each has its own
peculiarities. Institutions and govern
ments are but the outward expression of
the feeiihg*, thoughts, and genius of a
people. ; -
The history of the world is hereafter to
be re-written. It is to be tho history of
races. The history of language is to be
written. It is the history of races with
their,comminglings and constant modifi
cations, both in language,ami in form of
government, resulting from admixtures
of blood. I contend that, representing
forty million# people and In legislating
for .the future, we must consider what
sort of people we want in this, country,
what sort of development we are to have,
and not how. rapidly we are to make the
wilderness blossom as rt rose, or how vast
the fortunes we shall accumulate.
Gentlemen have said on fill sides that
the railway question is soon to he the
greatest in this land, and that wo must
grapple with it. And it is evident that
there is something radically wrong in
all our legislation when we seotme man
in a single lifetime accumulating $lOO,
000,000. That man is the chief of the
robbers of this continent and ago. lie
and they aro(he freebootingbarons and
counts of this lime, who, like the rob
ber knights of the Middle Ages, foun
ded through force and fraud tho con
spicuous families of Europe; Unscrup
ulous cunning takes tho place of the
mailed hand, hut our .modem robbers
imitate the lordly proprietors of thick
walled castles in their exactions upon
helpless commerce, and industry.
Now, this Government is not foun
ded for great and magnificent fortunes.
Its object is not to create a single class
of men well born, well clad, and well
educated, but it is, if wo would pursue
tho intentions of Us founders, if we
would be true to ourselves aiul our pos
terity, to make a whole people well
born, well educated, well clltcl, and well
to do, and not to seller, by our legisla
tion, the accumulation of money in the
lianas of robbers who are the lineal de
scendants of those robbers, who, from
their strongholds upon the crags along
tho rivers of Europe, plundered the.
merchantmen as they floated their
goods down the Rhino, or tho Danube,
or other rivers, on their way to mar
ket.
Instead of legislating in their favor,
I hold that it 'is the duly of this Con
gress of a democratic Government to leg
islate against the possibility of such ac
cumulations of fortune in a few hands.
Instead of fostering this spirit of extrav
agance, instead of yielding to thoinsid
' nous idea that you arc to have a mag
nificent imperial Republic, with the
greatest capital'that tiro world over saw,
the proudest edifices, and the most
magnificent cities, with all the concom
itants which'you already sec spreading
through life in high places, of grand
equippages, magnificent dwellings, and
luxuriant living—that, true to the mis
sion of republican government, we
should legislate against this accumu
lation of money in the hands of n
few, and in favor of the general well
being of the masses of the people.—
And, in conclusion, having stated the
general ideas which must govern ray
course on this question, 1 have only fur
ther to say that I have no feeling but
that of good will for the people of the
South and an earnest hope that she may
soon recover from her sad prostration,
amiin to become, when freed both from
the incubus.of slavery and the curse of
meddling legislation, the opponent of
measures which aggrandize the few at
the expense of tho whole people.
Let her Flicker.—Somo of our
young men who go to sec tho girls, have
adopted n new way of obtaining kisses.
'They assert on the authority of scientific
writers that tho concussion produced by
a kiss will cause tho flames of a gas jet
to flicker, and easily induce the girl to
try tho experiment in tho interest of
science. The llrst kiss or two tho parties
watch the ilamo to see it flicker, but
soon become so interested in tho expe
rimdnt as to let it dicker if it wants to.
Ilcnco term, lior lliclcor.
Ut* Jumped ow devil in n rage, to set
two lines to 1111 this page.