®|)c American Volunteer. PUBUSHBD EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY JOHN S. BRATTON. •riic&4onn squAßni. ißßjfa—two Dollar* per year If paid strUUy . _ advance: Two Dollartond Filly Cents If paid Jlthln three months; after which Three Dollars will’be charged* Thead terms wIU be rigidly ad hered to lh every Instance. No subscription dls Aonunned until all arrearages Repaid, unless at tbs option of the Editor. ' , ’ y _ . ■ ' . . _ MANIFEST DESTINY. (JJVem the Aldine for February) Nothing Is as it was of old. Whore cities stood the cattle browse; Weeds strike their roots through royal mould The lizards bask In Cmsax’s house. What Cheops built the Fyronld 7 Whose dust, If any, there Is hid 7 . If those, the maator-races, fell, Much more the tribes whom they o’erthrow. From whence they came, no mancan toll, Nor whither vanished like the dew.* The same destruction now, as then, Rakes obsolete these outworn men. Tbo rod man, whom our hardy Sires Found in possession o f the land; Who built In woods his wigwam fires, And smoked his pipe; or, bow in hand. Crept oh the wild fleer, 0 r the bo err or tracked the panther to his lair; Who, grim, and hard of heart at best Daubed la hla war-paint, stole away, With twenty devils In his breast, To where his hated foemon lay; Whom. If asleep ho ooald not find. And his strong arms In pinions bind. To burn him at the dreadful slake— He would devote to nudden death A ■ suddenly hl« scalp would take, Arid mo ok the rattle la hie breath ! Then, if poppoose and squaw ho saw. Would massacre pappqoso and squaw I These bronze barbarians of the Past, Oast In the moulds of hell, are gone; Their world was -wanted; far and fast Wo drove them towards the sotting sun, Ay, and If future need should be, We’ll drown them In the Western sea 1 - With Iron nets wo hold their trail; . They find us wheresoe’er they go; Though fierce they cannot make ns quail. Nor match the rifle with the bow,, We’ll give them graves, and lot them try The happy hunting grounds on high I GOLD I—BITTERLY COLD I Cold! bitterly cold I The moon Is bright. And the snow la white, Beautiful to behold, But the wind Is howling, Like the hungry prowling Wolves on the wintry world, Cold I bitterly cold 1. My shawl is ragged and old; The hearth deserted and dark, Qloddened by never a spark, And my only light Is the pltttless white Of the moonbeam’s chill. Silvery chill. Cruelly—splendidly bright. This frosty Winter’s night— Cold l-bltterly cold I Babe, more precious than gold. Rest,' little one, rest 1 Sleep, my own one, , Clasped to thy mother’s breast; Though thin and wasted her form. Her arms shall enfold, And shield thee from the cold;, For the love In her breast Is warm, Though the chill night's breeze May the life-blood freeze— Cold I— bitterly hold I Cold I—bitterly cold I My eyes are dim, ’ ■ And my senses swim, lam prematurely old 1 , Foodless and fire loss. Almost attlreless, Wrapt In rags so scanty and thin, With bones that stare through the colorless ' skin, Weary and worn, Tattered and torn, If I should wish I had ne’er been born, Tell me, Is It a sin 7 Cold world!—bitterly cold I fuMal. FOUND WANTING. THE ADMINISTRATION WEIGHED IN THE SAIANGE. A MIGHTY SPEECH BY CAUL SOHVBZ. THE FRENCH ARMS JOB LAID BARE TO THE BONE. NO MERCY SHOWN HORTON OR COHERING. &0., &0., Washington, . X». C.,. February 20. The Senate resumed the consideration of the resolution to Investigate the alleged sale of arms to French agents during the • Franco-Prussian war; Mr. Soburz was entitled to the floor. Before he be gan to speak Mr. Fenton remarked that the galleries were completely tilled, and asked and obtained unanimous consent that ladles who could not find seats In the galleries should be allowed to occupy the cloak-rooms. Mr. Schurz, (Bod,, Mo.) tbenaddress ed the Senate. He said"; • The weakness of a cause is apt to disclose itself by the nature of the arguments used In its sup port. When we bear a case advocated by insinuations and Innuendoes with regard to the motives of those who bays taken the other side, we are very apt to suppose that there must be something wrong. Nobody who baa listened to the speeches of the Senators from Indiana and New York (Morton and Conkllng) would deny; tbat the general rule applies to the present matter. The Senator from Indiana (Morton) triad to convince the Senate that there could be no suspi cion connected with the sale of arms by this government to certain persons, be cause every road" out of the Republican party led Into the Democratic—(laugh ter)—and because the platform of the Missouri liberals does not accord with his views, and must therefore b 0 unre publlcan and radically wrong, and be cause be is In favor.of the KE-ELEOTIONOF OEN. OB ANT, and 1b sure. to have It. (Laughter.)— The Senator from New Yorjt (Mr 1 Conkllng), whom I, very sincerely regret not to eee.in hlsseat alter big gallant ex ploit of y esterday, followed In the foot steps of the Senator from Indiana; He tried to convince us that! the Bales of arms must necessarily be free from blame, because there Is no impression abroad that there Is a military ring In this coun try; because there is an impression of -the existence of a Senatorial cabal bent upon destroying this administration! and because the Democrats are circula ting in New Hampshire the speeches of certain Republican Senators In order to defeat the administration, party there.— Now, sir, I will not deny that these were very eloquently' expressed, and might have been proper elsewhere, but certain ly they did not throw much light on the question now under discussion, and I should be glad to pass them over, did I the Ainetiean Balunteer Bt JOHN B. BRATTON. not desire to devote a very few remarks to onp thing said by that Senator. ■WITH AN AIR OP TRIUMPH he held np a pamphlet purporting to contain one of my speeches, saying that It was circulated by the Demoo ratio party Id New Hampshire, and was producing a greater effect than any other docu ment, I have since inquired Into that matter, and what do you think that pamphlet contains? It contains the speeches of the Senators from Illinois, Massachusetts, and Nebraskaand myself, and they, are speeches denouncing the oorrnptlon prevailing In the Custom house in New York. If such things Work against the success of the adminis tration party, then the fault does not lie with those who denounce corruption. It is those sycophants, who by covering up every abuse, ever so glaring, and de fending every violation of law ever so scandalous, who have brought the com monwealth to the pass where we now find it. Yea, there la a Senatorial cabal upon this floor. It is that cabal which defeated the Bah Domingo scheme. It is tbatoabai which forced the investiga tion of the ■ COEHUPTION IN THE NEW YORK CUS- TOM-HOUSE. It is that cabal which exposed those abuses and-rendered necessary their re formation ; “and let me tell the Senate that those speeches of ours would not have produced the least effect upon the Republican voters of New Hampshire if it conid have been said at. the same time that those abuses, which were laid open in all their deformity a: whole year ago. bad been abolished, and if it could have been denied that lieet & Stocking were at that moment still plundering the merchants of New York.” Mr. Sohurz then said that the subject before the Sen ate stripped of all personal matters, raised three questions, . The first was, what was done in accordance with the rule of con duct laid by the government for its own action—the rule tbat-no arms should be' sold to any known agent.of any belliger ent 7 Second, was what' done, in ac cordance with the laws of the country ? Third, is there in the facts as they stand' before us any GROUND FOR SUSPICION OF CORRUPT PRACTICES connected with the transaction 7. In dis cussing the first' he said it was absurd to assert that these sales were made under the ordinary circumstances surrounding previous sales. It was true that the gov ernment bad been selling arms all along since the end of the rebellion, and no body found any fault. But when the great war between France and Germany bad broken out, and the President bad Issued bis proclamation: of neutrality, would anybody say that no extraordina ry precautions were then necessary in the sale of arms 7 Individuals might be pardoned for taking refuge behind a technical ignorance of the destination of the arms, but a nation could not afford to do that, because its honor and Us char acter among nations were at stake- Mr. Bchutz tead a letter written by the Cfhlef, of Ordnance, describing, he said,’ The operations of the War Department in making sales of arms at that period. The letter staled that bids bad been invited by sending out letters to the principal dealers in arms. It was remarkable, however, that Baker <fc Co., the only very great arms merchants in New York were not notified, and only LEARNED BY ACCIDENT that the sales were to take place. Upon making the discovery Baker came to Washington and notified the Prussian Minister, The minister went to the War Department and asked that the sales should.be put off for a few days, aud It was done. The Senator from New York (Mr. Conkllng) bad said that Baker & Co,, bought arms which afterwards got Into the bands of Germany. That was. a mistake. He (Schurz) bad been in communication with' that house and had ascertained the fact, which was, that they bad bid upon a quantity of arms for the purpose of keeping them from the French, expecting to be recompensed by the German government; but the gov ernment declined to have anything to do with the arms, and they passed Into the bands of Schuyler, Hartley & £)ra ham, and afterwards Into the. hands of the French. There were new calls for bids, to be opened on the 20th of October* On October 21, at 4 P. M., the SALES OF. A LARGE AMOUNT OF ARMS to several firms were completed, and ad curding to a despatch of the French Con sul all t hose arms had been already part ly paid for by the French government oh the 22nd of October, Just one DAY after the sales from the Department were com pleted, Certainly the business was done promptly—(laughter)—and the question naturally suggested, whether when Squires was discovered .as a French agent the sales were not postponed In or der to,give him ap opportunity to make arrangements with other parties. He did not charge that this was the fact, but be would ask every fair-minded man wheth er the suspicion did not lie dreadfully near. Then came the sales to Richard son. When the War Department was not offering to the large arms dealers, did it address one of its letters to Mr. Thomas Richardson, counsellor at law at Illon, New York 7 (Laughter.) The Sen ator from New York bad laid great stress upon what be assumed to be a fact, that Richardson need not have appeared per sonally at the department in negotiating his purchase, and (bat it could have been done by merely sending in his bid ac companled by TWENTY PEB CENT. OP THE PCBCHASB HONEY. The record showed, however, that the business could not bavebeen done in that way, because some effort was necessary In order to satisfy the conscience of' the War Department about the propriety ot making the cartridges, and it showed, also, that that effort was made, not by Richardson In person, but by another gentleman—Mr. Remington—the same Remington who, on the 15tb of the pre ceding October, bad been diacoveed to be an agent of the French government. As further evidence that there did exist Just grounds for suspicion, and therefore for Investigation. Mr. Soburz read two extracts from testimony given by Mr. Remington In France on the trial of Place. Mr. Remington, being a witness under oath, said i “ X did hot regard my self as obliged to make advances, and "’.huyi this still less, inasmuch sis I bad myself to pay to the government of the .United States an advance of ten to twenty per cent." Again, before the Investigating committee of, the French Assembly, he said: “By the French government I was charged to treatwlth the government of the United States.” This last statement also showed WHAT BROUGHT REMINGTON BACK to this country In December of thatyear. He came to transact the business connec ted with the purchase which was osten sibly made by Richardson, the lawyer, and It was after his return, here on that errand that the interviews and negotia tions described In his (Remington's) letter took place. The Senator from In diana (Mr. Morton) bad objected to bis (Soburz's) statement the other day that the government was' not only bound not to sell to. men whom they knew to be agents of either belligerent, but also to satisfy themselves by all the means of Information in their possession that per sons applying for arms were not the agents Of one or the other belligerent; but he (Soburz) was willing to accept Mr. Morton’s statement of the rule, which was that If the government had reason to believe that the person buying the arms was on agent of the French government, they bad no right to make the sale, and that all the government .was called upon to know was that the purchaser was not the agent of ’one .or the other of the belligerents, and be In sisted that the government had FAILED TO DO ITS DUTY. Judge even by.that rule.' The Senator from New York (Mr, Conkllng) had said that 'cash' was the purchaser. That might be well, provided this .Mr. Cash was not ’ the representative of a known agent of the French government- No matter, says the Senator from New York (Mr. Coukling) “ cash” is the man who buys, and we look at nothing but. cash. But then where is our reasonable dili gence 7 Where is our good faith 7 No matter, says the Senator, this great American Bepublio of ours understands her good faith and Interprets her neutral duties upon strictly “cash principles,”— (Laughter.) Proudly the standard of out national morality and honor was borne aloft by the H enators from New York with a dollar mark in cash os the coat of arms of this g reat republic of the United States. (Laughter.) Seriously speaking, are vie sensible men? Are we honest men?’ Is this our rule of neutral duty 7 Is this the'rule to be observed not only by us but toward us 7 Let me warn Senators to pause long before they commit them selves to any position so absurd, so mean, so utterly dishonorable. Letmetell them it is not safe for nations to play LITTLE TRICKY GAMES and endeavor to cover themselves up with little quibbling technicalities. Mr. Sohurz discussed this at great length, and as additional evidence that there was ground for suspicion and investigation, read a passage from the testimony given by Jules Leoense who was president of .UlftArmament Committee at Tours, in France, while these sales were going on- The question was upon a pertain over charge on a lot of. rifles, and this witness said, “ 2here was no expense beyond the percentage allowed to Hemington, since WE HAD TREATED DIRECTLY WITH THE FEDERAL SGOVERNMENT OP THE UNITED STATES, which deliver ed these arms free of charge on board the vessels.” After this and. the other statements be [Mr. Sohurz] thought the Senators should oease to talk about the want of patiiotism of those who called the attention of the Senate and the coun try to this matter. It was quite evident that, foreign governments were as well informed as they were, or even better (Laughter.) These STATEMENTS made under oath in foreign courts left no course; open for the United Slates except to Investigate and show the statements to be false if they were so, or ifthey were true to pun ish the guilty. The second question was, were the laws of our own country violated ? and he argued that It.was ac least a proceed ing of doubtful legality to sell the breach loading rifles at ail. The statute author ized the sale of bid cannon, arms, and other ordinance stores which were dam aged or otherwise unsuitable 'Tor the Uni ted States, military service or for the mi litia of U, 8., and under this the Chief of Ordinance had assumed the right to sell a large number of breach-loading rifles of the patern of 1860, and that at a time when the militia throughout the country were armed with old ■ muzzle-loaders. A LAME EXCUSE. Mr. Morton said that the breach-load ers were of a discarded pattern, and that it was the intention of the government to arm the militia. with an Improved rifle. f In view, of Ibis fact, therefore', the dlsnarded-rifles-dld-not-properly-Copie- Wlthln the classes of ordnance stores mentioned In .the statute. Mr. Scburz said that the Secretary of War and the Chief of Ordnance had some doubt about the propriety of their action at the time, and be bad a letter from the Chief of Ordnance to General Belknap stating that the arms so sold were fit for the United States service. He hit au thorized, therefore, to charge FIiAOBANT AND MANIFEST BREACH OP SAW. He charged it on the ebowing of the Chief of Ordnance himself, and If there was to be any quibbling about this point he would be glad to hear it at once. Possibly an attempt would be made to explain it. away too, but he would ask the Senate what Would become of popular respect for the laws If the law-makers thus reck lessly quibbled away their meaning ? What would, become of constitutional government,!!! this country If the execu tive officers of the government were to be allowed to feel that they might (flare gard the plainest provisions of law, and that, tike Ciesar Augustus, they could al ways rely upon a submissive and obedi ent Senate? He begged the Senate to remember that theie was MOBB AT STAKE THAN CARTRIDGES or cash. Op the third point,Mr. Sohutz argued that the facts already shown were enough to Justify a suspicion of corrupt transactions. The testimony of Reming ton and of the French officials, already referred to; the anxiety, of the Chief of Ordnance to aid Remington in settling his accounts In France relating to the CARLISLE. PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 39, 1872. same transactions, for which- he (Rem ington) bad been ostensibly driven out of the War Department; the difference be tween the amounts paid by the French and those received by our government; the Jeopardizing of our national rela tions; the risking of our Internal harmo ny; the flagrant and ponfesaed violation of law by the War Department; and the mysterious disappearance of large sums of money—all these facts and circum stances went to show that there was ground for suspicion and for' investiga tion- And the Senators on the" other aide knew It and felt It keenly, as was shown by these attempts to divert the Senate and the country from the true question by charging those who urge this resolution, with acting as French agents, and with want of patriotism.— These charges were FLIMSY AND ABSURD. It was the duty of the government to In vestigate this matter, and If the wrongs charged upon the Executive Department have been committed it was the duty of the legislative department ot the govern ment to frankly and boldly disavow them. That was the duly course worthy of the American republic, and therefore be was not afraid to discuss these mat ters In the Senate and denounce the wron'g In them, for he remembered that Cobden and Bright, when they warned the British Parliament of the conse quences of its conduct during the rebel lion, were far better patriots than those who decried them for It. Mr. Sohurz then spoke of the amendment offered by Mr. Cdnkllng, ordering the committee to Inquire whether any Senator or Amer ican citizen bad been in collusion with any foreign agent or spy, &0., and said it was a subject of rather a painful char acter. He regretted that the Senator bad introduced that amendment for bis own sake. He reminded him that spies were used only in time of war, and sug gested that he should strike out that word from the amendment as lively to be offensive to the French government. Messrs. Morton and Conkling had offer ed A GROSS INSULT TO THE GERMAN GOV- ERNMENT by assuming that the agitation of this question might affect the decision of the German Emperor .as arbitrator between the United States and Great Britain, and now the Senator from New York was going to insult the French government also. If this amendment meant any thing it meant collusion of. an'improper nature and for improper purposes, and everybody knew that It was aimed at three persona—Mr. Sumner, himself (Mr. Solmrz), and the Marquis de Chambrun. He (Mr. Sohnrz) would vote for the amendment, and be would give the 1 Sen ate some evidence In advance of the In vestigation—the Marquis de Cbambriin was no spy. He was the legal advisor of the French legation; a French gentleman of distinguished family , and of high char acter and attainments. Further, he was NOT THE MAN who bad given Mr. Sohurz the first In formation on this subject. (Laughter.) But, continued Mr. Sohurz, what Is the spirit of this amendment 7 I have said that I regretted that the gentleman had Introduced the amendment. I do not know that I can make myself Intelligible to his mind or to bis moral feeling; ex cept in one way, by supposing that I had introduced an amendment directing the committee to Inquire. Also, whether those who gave letters of introduction to Remington to France' were guilty of corrupt practices In connection with these transactions. Does the Senate want to know why I did not do it? It was be cause I considered It infinitely beneath me. (Applause in the galleries.) PREVARICATION WOMB THAN LTINO. Mr. Conkling said be had not given Remington a letter of introduction,to France; he had merely addressed a note to Mr. Remington himself, the purport of which he had stated on a former oc casion. Mr. BCburz—lf the Senator bad given Mr. Remington a note stating that he had Investigated all these transactions, and that he would be very glad If the French government would settle them,' and that be bad a personal interest in them', even then I would not be the man to offer this amendment. A NEIGHBORLY NOTE. Mr. Conkling said that Mr. Sohurz had been the man to drag in the Irrelevant fact that he (Conkling) bad written a note to Mr. Remington containing statements which he had felt called upon to make in Justice ,to> neighbor and in the interest of fair play. Mr. Sohurz said that when the subject was first mentioned by him he had ie peatediy expressed the opinion that the giving of the note to Mr. Remington was onlyan act of neighborly friendship on Mr. Conkllng’s part. ’ ' ; . THE BLONDE MEANS BUSINESS. Mr. Conkling disputed this. He also said that his amendment was aimed not merely, at Sohurz, Sumner, and the Marquis de but at ail who might come within its scope, and he meant to stand by It. He bad drawn it, however, without having the statute be fore him, and if the Senator (Mr, Sohurz) found any offensive phrase in It be was willing to withdraw that phrase. A SPECTACLE FOR AMERICANS. Mr. Sohurz—Oh, r have no doubt the Senator Is earnest In this matter. I have never doubted that'lt looks just like him. (Laughter.) The Senator has referred to a statute which be held up before us yes terday, threatening us with 'line and Im prisonment. Ah, sir, it is a glorious spectacle! Here stand two American Senators, not entirely unknown to the country, whose record is not entirely de void of patriotism and service, and whose only atm Is to Investigate abuses and vio lation of law and have them punished. Those Senators are met here by one of the spokesmen of the administration, flourishing a statute in bis hand threat ening them with fine and Imprisonment. Let It be known in every nook and cor ner that be who Is In earnest in setting bis face against those in power, and who. baldly seeks to detect fraud and punish violations of . law, Is confronted by the powers that be with the Prospect op a dungeon. Why, sir, I did not know that the ad ministration was in such a desperate condition as that. (Laughter and ap- plause In the galleries.) They are « veloplng very fast j 1 .how' long will It i ™ until you cannot even get up testimony T against Leet and Stocking; 'the fenlghts of the "general order," without having some statute dug up that will line and Imprison you for It? (Laughter.) But if the Senator from New York thinks that hd can In that way strike fear Into my soul, he will soon And tbat he Is greatly mistaken. On the path of duty tbat I have walked I have seen men far more dangerous than be Is, and before a thousand of them my heart with hot quail. No, sir, I will vote for blsamend ment, vote for It with all the scorn which it deserves, (Loud applause In the galle ries,). Mr. Schurz then spoke .of the charge tbat this was a move to alienate THE GERMAN VOTE. . The Senator from Indiana (Mr. Morton) and the Senator from New York (Mr. Conklng)wereverysweeton the Germans just how. (Daughter.) They had said that no man owned, the .Germans of America. That was a fact, and be was proud of it, for he was one of the Ger mans, No man, no politician, no Sena tor, unt even the President of the United States, owned the Germans; least of all were they owned by that class of politi cians who desperately cling to the skirt of power th rough whatever mire it may drag them. (Laughter and applause In the galleries.) The Germans had fought Tammany in New York, and they would in solid array fight every Tammany, great or small, on whatever side it might appear. An attempt bad been made to suppress this investigation by CRACKING THE PARTY WHIP, but those who' made that attempt grley .ousiy mistook the lime and the spirit of the people. The people could be no longer deceived by misrepresentations of the motives of those' who were fight ing against corruption. When motives were called in question they knew that the motives of the henchmen of power were at least as. open to suspicion as the motives of those who opposed them. Let me tell those gentlemen, said he, that we knew the road to patronage just as well as others did if we bad chosen to walk it. The crack of the party, whip has lost its power |n these times. Mere party cant lies stale and nauseating upon the stom ach of the people. If you think that THE MOVEMENT NOW SPREADING ALL OVER THIS LAND is a mere plot of politicians you wifi soon discover your mistake. ■ It is a reliction against the easy political morals and the sprit of jobbery which , have .been developed in times of war and great po itical excitement. . It is an earnest up rising for. honest and pure government. You cannot repress it by party discipline —you cannot kill It with penal statut es. It may be. a mere commotion to-day; u n dertake to resist it and you will find it. a great moral end political revolution ti >- morrow. Whatever others may do (Lie said) I have taken my lot. It is to th is cause that my heatt la devoted, and with this cause 1 wilt stand or fall. THE HENCHMAN’S REPLY. Mr. Morton said that the only, new point in Mr.. Soburz’s speech was the passage quoted from the testimony of Leoesne, and Insisted that the statements of Remington and the admissions of Mr. Sohurz in his previous speech showed that Leoesne’s statements must be false. The Senator from Missouri had charged that an attempt, bad been made to stifle the proposed investigation by oraoking tbe party whip, but every Senator, and every person acquainted with the pro ceedings knew, and the Senate knew, that directly the reverse was true. No body had proposed to resist this inquiry, fie had intended, from the first, to vote for it, and the resolution would have been passed without a word of debate, had not the movers of the resolution forced debate upon the Senate by insis ting upon the preamble. The Senator from Missouri had also asserted that the Senatorial cabal bad forced investigation into the New York Custonl-house. This also was untrue, fie (Morton) and ail those upon bis side bad (voted for the in vestigation in Now York, and their on ly offence was that they were not willing, to organize a committee, a majority of which would enemies to the administration, nnuglve them power to THROW MOD AND SJI&T on the President and his administration from that time up to the next election.— He (Morton) was independent enough to support the administration. Here was an administration which could be assailed only on personal grounds of falsehood and calumny, and because the honest friends of the' Republican party stood up in the Senate to defend it, they were called party “ henchmen.” He cured not for the epitheta“of the Senator from Missouri .(Sohdrz.) .The Senator talkcd - about. oli.nglng -tQ. tba. skirts of power, but up to the time when he fell out with the administration that Senator bad made quite as many recommenda tions and obtained as many appointments to office as he (Morton) had, and ho bad heard it stated that, the. Senator’s per sonal difficulty with the administration had grown out of the removal of his friends from office. Mr.'Sohurz said ho would authorize the Senator (Morton) to t ell' everybody who told him so THAT HE LIED- Mr. Morton was not convinced by that statement. The'objeot of tb ose who bad forced this debate upon the Senate was to draw these crowds to the Se nate cham ber and to make capital against the Re publican party. The whole affair was gotten up by a long previous 'arrange ment. The charge was false frotn begin ning to end, and the evidence brought, to support It was trlval; but whether false or not the majority were willing to have It Investigated. The movers of.the reso- Jutlon, however, were determined to bring It before the country in advance of the Investigation because they knew thot the Investigation would amount to untiling. The object of the Senator from Missouri (Mr, Sohurz) was to separate the Germans from the Republican party apd from native citizens In order to make them a balance of power* The Senator was attempting to revive . r KNOW-NoraiNQlSlt IN ITS WOHHT FORM. Mr. Sohurz said that no man. in the country had more earnestly or steadily opposed the formation of any political or ganizatlon based on separate nationali ties.- ... Mr. Morton said -he must Judge the Senator hy his acts. He, was responsible ’ for the election of his Democratic oql l 'eaguo (Mr. Blair) to the Senate. Mr. B lair was Mr. Sohurz’s political offspring. (L. aughter.) . m 'r. Blair said he bad been elected to the fc 'onate, not by his colleague, but by the people Missouri. His colleague, howevi 'W, had endeavored to give the people an opportunity to have a fair election, »nd of ® ourao the Senator (Mr- Morton) d. '.ft not like that. Mr. Mort on said that was the pretence,' but the elect lon of Mr. Blair was the re sult of a ooall Hon of certain Republicans with the Dem oorata, and that coalition had not yet be en dissolved., Mr. Mor ton then charged tha't Mr. Schurz was staylngfn the Republican party for the purpose of defeating it, .'"d read an ex tract from a speech made' by him in Chicago in which he said th.'t if General Grant were renominated he (i^ r * Schurz) would not support 'him. The* Senator had a right to LEAVE THE BEPDOLICAN PA.'tTY if ho pleased, but he had no right t 0 stay in it and attempt to defeat it. M!r. Seburz asked whether he m. ’ant to say that those who were not In fa vor of the renomination of Gen, Grant h.id no business in the Republican party. Mr. Morton said he did not. Those who wore opposed to the renomination of the President had a right to express their opposition. ' But' if he should be renominated, and if. their love for the .party and its principles were stronger than their personal hatred, they would submit. A man, however, who announced in advance that if the candi date moat likely to be nominated should receive the nomination he would not support him, placed himself In a very , questionable position in-the party. Mr. Morton continued at length, and read, extracts from Mr. Blair’s speeches to show that Mr. Seburz was guilty of what he had charged. [For ths Volunteer:] REMINISENGES OF CARLISLE. Smithpield, Feb. 16, 1872. Messrs, Editors: —I was neither con vinced nor silenced by my friend’s re tort, so I replied, ’You must admit that .Carlisle has produced a great many good men; that her College has sent forth not a few men of distinction; and that many of her bad boys have turned out fine men—all the more useful perhaps for their early wildness.’ ■*l admit nothing of the kind. On the contrary, I deny each and every one of your propositions; they are true only in a relative sense. Everything goes by comr parison. As compared. with Cheyenne, qr Omaha, or even with some towns of less recent origin, I admit that Carlisle has produced many good men ; that as compared with Franklin College, La- Fayette or even Jefferson, Dickinson has undoubtedly sent forth a considerable number of men of distinction; and that, as compared with Natchez or Vicksburg, or other towns along the Mississippi, many of the bad boys of Carlisle have become, good men; All this I admit, and much comfort may it give you. But to say that Carlisle, as a town more than a hundred years old, has produced a Sjreat many good men, and that Dickie son, as a College which has been in ex istence three quarters of a century, has, sent forth not a few distinguished men, is to say” more than you can prove, and I demand the evidence before you repeat it.’ •Well, .you are the first Carlisle man I have yet s een who was unwilling to con cede this much to the old borough, and to bis old Alma Mater, I am not pre pared.at this mame nt with the proof yon demand, but I don’t mean to surrender my convlot.'on till I am compelled, which I hope I shell never be.’ ‘There you are! A Carlisler to the hack bone! Clinging to your self-ap proval with .determined tenacity, and dodging all evidence going to show you In error. Wei 1, hug your illusions if they give you pleasure. Far be It from me to attempt to dispel them, so long as they are innoce ut. But there is one of them that is uc it innocent; which, in fact, operates as a premium upon vice, and the tendency of which is injurious to the last degree- It is the idea that a bad youth, if converted, becomes ail the better and more useful man; an idea which is Involved in the popular maxim, ‘The greater the sinner the greater the saint; ’ a maxim which I abhor and ut terly repudiate.* ‘Don’t be so fast, nor so positive. , You are in opposition to the opinions of many of our best people, and in conflict with’ the obvious teachings of the scriptures and of religious experience. Was not Paul'‘the very ohlefest of the apostles?' And yet bad he nut been a 'blasphemer, a persecutor, and injurious?' Was not that eminent and useful minister, JoBiT Newton, the captain of a slave ship, and a prime promoter of what Wesley called the ‘eum of ail villainies’? Was not Col. Gardiner, Jwhom the pious Dodrige has made, famous for his zeal us a Chris tian reformer, one-of the most vicious and dissolute "of young'men 7 I cannot blit think that, on reflection, you will revise your opinions and admit that the prevalent Idea Is on the whole well founded.’ ■I have not spoken without reflection. My opinion needs no revision. I repeat what I before said, and,' in view of your reply, with added emphasis, your doc trine Is unsortptural, Irrational and uimply damnable. To. claim Paul as au thority for a fallacy so monstrous, Is to misrepresent the great Apostle of the Gentiles and pervert his teachings.— What are'the facts? As a Jew, strong in the faith of his fathers, conscientious even to bigotry In his devotedness to bis church, be railed against thp now doc trine and:persecuted Its advocates with the severest rigors of, the low; but, nev erthelcss. lu bis private ll(e and personal character be was, both as a youth and a man, a person of singular uprlghtnes.— No stain rested on bis reputation ; no consciousness of Impurity or,dishonor disturbed .bis peace ,or Impaired bis self respect. All he had to repent of was his vlolenthostliity to the doctrine of ‘Christ and him crucified,’ and this he did In the strong language which yon have quoted, but you have not finished the quotation for he adds t ‘I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. VOL. 58.—N0- 38: ‘As to John Newton, he certainly did ranch good In the latter partof his life,but whether enoqgh to compensate for the evil he did In the first-pact, and- for the. evil his example has been made to do since, I do not think can be positively asserted. The fact, as It is stated in hie ■ biography, ' that he continued four years In the African, trade after hls con version,’ has been Joy to the heart and marrow to the bones of all slave-traders, slave-breeders, and other systematic wrong-doers for more than a century.— That he himself looked with anything but complacency on bis early wickedness 1s evident from the fact, that when at eighty years of age hC was besought by bis friends to give up preaching, he said; ‘What I shall the old African blasphemer stop while he has power to speak ?’ ‘As for Col. (Wdlner, all I have to say is that hls biographer did not commend him as an example to the young just be ginning to go astray, but as an encour agement to theolderand more hardened, In their efforts to break the bands of In iquity.’ 'But you have said tbat my doctrine Is irralloual, which Ido not see; Certainly one who speaks from bis own experience; who has himself made trial of the evil of wrong-doing, and can, of his own knowl edge, testify of Its folly, is a better wit ness and more powerful advocate than one who cannot thus testify.’ 'A better witness be may be, but not a more powerful advocate. A man picked out of the gutter, dirty and ragged, blear eyed and bloated, Is certainly a better witness of the evils of drunkenness than one whose life baa always been temper ate, but hardly : a more powerful advo cate of the Temperance cause. '.But you are mistaken in ascribing the doctrine I. advanced to my Carlisle rear ing. The fact la 'I don’t think I ever beard ally one there say seriously 'the greater the sinner the (treater the saint,’ or formally teach that bad men when converted make the best Christians.’ ‘Perhaps not, blit you have beard—lf you kept your ears open—many a one in formally and by implication teach that doctrine. - You cannot have failed to no tice Chat the main hope of pious .parents In Carlisle is not in nurture and admoni tion but in conviction and conversion, not in pure and sweet domestic and so cial Influences to prevent their children from going astray; but In preaching- and praying to bring about their reclamation after-they have became wanderers.’ , • ’. ‘But tbat is hardly to the point which. I raised, which was that, a man who speaks from experience speaks with more power than la possible for one without experience;’ . 'Certainly he does; and, therefore, the man who from his own experience from his youth up can. testify to theadvanta ges of d pure and virtuous life, is—other things, being, equal—the most powerful possible advocate of purity and’virtue.— Therefore, he that ‘was without sin' was able to speak ,‘aa never mah spake,’ and to leave behind him words which are fresh with their original power after the lapse of nineteen centuries. But, I will take you on your own ground. You require that a man must speak experimentally, not only of the advantages of virtue but of the evils of vice. Then bear me: I testify to tbat which I do know and bear witness to tbat which I have proved, when I say to you tbat every act of con scious wrong doing Inflicts a lasting In jury.upon the wrong-doer. Every wil ful falsehood leaves a soar. Every deed of dishonesty or cruel ty—though repeu ted of and forgiven—loaves behind it a mark on the soul. Every deliberate act of self ish meanness will continue through life to serve as a drawback to happiness. God may forgive the liar, the cheat, the wasteful squanderer of time and opportu ty, but the man who has been guilty of these offences will never forgive himself,. nor cease to suffer In some measure their natural penalty. That Is the teaching of' my experience, does yours Inculcate a different lesson 7’ 'I wlll’anawer that question by askiug another: la this a new doctrine, which you have learned In the Church, under the teaching of your friend, the Bishop?’ ‘No, it is an old conviction which I reached while yet in Carlisle. I learned it from no man. I evolved It out of my own consciousness, and found it confirm ed by reason and the scriptures. As for the Bishop, I never beard him express himself on the subject, tho’ I doubt not from the general tenor of his preaching that be holds to the same opinion.’ 'By the way, and to change tbe subjeot, which side do you take bn the great ques tion which is now dividing you, the Ritualistic or Antl-Rltualistlc?’ ‘Neither; lam neither a Ritualist nor, In a partisan sense, an Anti-Ritualist. 1 uni : neither High Church nor . Low Church. What then am I ? Read those two books* which I gave you this morn ing and you will see exactly where I stand, I take no part in theological con troveraies or TEcoleslasilcal quarrels- I had a heart-scald of both when I lived in Carlisle. There, I used to hear the changes ring on the one band upon the ■Felagianism’ and ‘Semi-Felaglanlsax’ of the New Haven School of theology, and on the other upon the ‘Hyper-Orthodoxy’ and ‘ Supra-’CalyonlamV of Princeton.— One side denounced Dr. Taylor, and the. other derided. Dr. Green- I,remember ! once Innocently asked a round faced rosy divine of the New School who used to visit Carlisle, from a neighboring town, and who was talking very lightly about ■Original Sin,’ what that much used phrase meant. Putting on an air of much gravity, he said: ‘I will tell you.— It means; "In Adam's fall wo sinned all; . In Cain's murder we sinned ftirder; By Dr. Green oar sin Is seen." I laughed of course at the party, hit, but It did not leave a pleasant Impression on my mind, Tho fact Is, 1 Saw so'much that was ugly and puerile on both sides of the controversy that I never think of It now without disgust. The best thing you Presbyterians have done in the last thirty) years vw the burying of your hatchet as one church. ‘As for Ecclesiastical strife We had bad a taste of that, or something like It, In College a few years before. Its effect was to divide the friends of the Institution and ultimately to blow the College sky high. Tfou remember how It was. The Episcopalians were Jealous of the Presby terians and;aocnsed them of using their predominance in the Institution for the promotion of sectarian ends. The Pres byterians denied tho charge and retorted Kates for Advbbtxsxmjehtb wul ho inserted at Ten Cents per line for the first Insertion, and five cents per lino for each subsequent Insertion. Qtmt terly, half-yearly, and yearly advertisement* in erted at a liberal reduction on the above rates., Advertisements should he accompanied by Uio Cash. When sent without, any length bl time specified for publication; they will be continued until ordered out and charged accordingly.' JOB PRINTING. CAEDa.HAWDBtLM. OIBCTOAI or description of Job and Dabs Printing. by i Intimating that, the Episcopalians ware worldly and unsplrltdal, and took no Interest in the' advancement of vital religion. The quarrel ran high and at last found its way Into the State legisla ture.. ■ A. Committee of Investigation was ordered, the report of which led to the withdrawal of the annual subsidy on which the College bad depended forexlst enoe; and In a few years the Institution found itself nnable to go on for W««t of funds. Our people, (though .1 was not a churchman), triumphed but they did so at the loss of the College. They bad killed the goose which laid the golden egg. In a few years the Institution won handed over to the Methodists, Whether our friends prefered acknowledged Meth odist sectarianism to suspected Presbyte rian sectarianism, I have never heard. I must say, however, that the Jealousy of the Episcopalians was not wholly with out grounds; and I must say too that the withdrawal of the state appropriation, though we all deplored it at the time, was a very proper act of legislation. If a town wants a College let It provide means to support one. If it tries to do this and falls, let It band over Its enter prise to some powerful sect. If the sect finds it has more Colleges on its hands than it can support, let it drop the weak est and concentrate Its force upon one of the best and inost promising. In this one let thorn raise high the. standard of scholarship, and the others let them con vert into Orommar Schools or High Schools for young ladies; What do you think?’ 'I think it Istime to go to bed. It Is after twelve o'clock and we have got to be up betimes in the morning.’ ‘Don’t be In a burry ; It is not often tbat we meet. -Do you remember Andrew Carotbers 7’ '.lndeed I do, and a better man or more truly Christian gentleman'never lived.— : He was one of the Carlisle men for whose memory Ibavea'sincere reverence.’ . ‘lf Is the same with me. But I have one thing against him ; he allowed John Peck to cover.tbe most.beautiful head of silver hair 6iat ever graced human tem ples, with the ugliest black whig that ever obscured‘a crown of glory.’ - ‘Yes, but you know the bid gentleman Buffered from rheumatism in his bead, and wore his wig on that account, ‘I don’t care j It was not a sufllolent reason for thus grieving bis friends and shocking the esthetic sense of the public, Better to have Worn bis hat all day and gone to bed with it at night than to put on and wear that frightful mop. . I hate wigs'any how.' Theycome next to the dyeing of the hair, By the way, do you remember bid Bodebaugh 7’ ‘Yes, very well. You meim linden* bough, the man-who used to live but at tbe toll-gate, whose-son had a leg ampu tated by Drs. Foster and Mahon., I re member.thatcircumstance very well. It was a hot Sunday In midsummer and the doctors were afraid of mortification.— Poor fellow I How ho suffered I Chloro form—‘Heaven's bestglfl to surgery—had not then been discovered. But what of ■old Bodebaugh’ as you call him?’ ‘Nothing, only I was thinking that if he were living In these days be would be suspected of dyeing bis beard. Do yon remember Porker Simmlson 7’ ‘Yes, very well, and a very nice man he was. What of him?' . 1 • ■Nothing, only I often wondered if— when be was dyeing hats—he never felt tempted to put his head in the kettle.— Yes, be was a very nice mob; bis smiling salutations to the students as'they 1 used to pass his open window are among my most vivid recolleottons. He was sprung of good stock and belonged to a good family—the Depnysahd Murrays Includ ing our excellent , friend Mis. Boyd.— Parker used to loslst that the right panic ' of the Gerard boys was GearhaH, he said . knew their father was called by -that name when in earlier days he.fellowed the trade of a hatter. Do you remember the suit brought by Hopkins the. book agent, before Squire Squlers, against 'aid Mao’ for the recovery of the .sub scription price of the 'Biographies, of the signers of the Declaration of Inde pendence? You don't ? Well, bid Maq claimed that he bad, subscribed with the understanding that be should not be called upon to take and pay for the book; that all that. Hr. Hopkins want ed was the,use of bis name. , Bat Mr. Hopkins refused- to see it in that light, and insisted upon what was “ nomina- ’ ted in, the bopd.” Do yop remember “Dumb Sam,” and’the “Twins,” and John Sponsler’s man “Twist,”, and Noble’s “ Jake;” who 1 was minus a foot, and Jake Krlder hnd “his mare Nance,” and’ Daddy Sykes,"and old Bombarger ?" and- —• ; “Kb, I don’t remember anybody or anything more.' My bead Is all in a jumblp with your, talk, and, I must go to bed and get a sleep before , j epp see things straight again.' ' GoocLnight !” _jttessrBi!!Kdltors,JLdpiiitjneanio..aay_ tbat the dialogue .which I. have’ been relating is an actual report'of a literal conversation,-but Idomeanto say chat' there Is nothing in l these letters from beginning to end of essential . impor tArice which : is'not strictly true, and. that nothing in them which is fictitious is of any essential- Importance. , Very respectfully yours, •, K . AN OLD DicifiNsoNiAN. •Ho bad. given mo Dr. Mnwrlces’ 'I Theological Eaß»ya I ”and tho “Life and Letters”,or, tho Rev. Frederick W. Robinson, : - i . TkE poor need help. Burglary is a science. Canvas are reported scarce. The runaway market la dull. Buy coal while the snh shines. SUN beams help to support life. Tub Albany police arrest organ-grin ders. , ' Thh : black tongue disease is very fatal In Illinois. 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