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Aug, J, IB72—lin,
the American Bolnnteqr
BY JOHN B. BRATTON.
IpuetkaL
TWILIGHT,
Its filmy veil o’er Bummer shies
It drew, and cooled their fervid dyes.
With tender tint on field and doll,
Tho light across the landscape fell:
It Unshod on tired Childhood’s check,
And sald: “Thy dreamy pillow seek 1”
To Plowman at ills cottago door,
It whispered: “ Host I day’s toll Is o’er,”
To wistfal Watcher by tho sea;
'* Tho mom may bring thy ship to thee I”
It crowned tho Saint npon his bier;
“ Sleep well, God’s own I—the night Is hero I’’
Kissed oil the tears from weeping eyes;
“ Have’falth I—tho day again shall rise I' 1
Its passing ray, through ohnncol pano,
Wrote on tho urn: ■* This life Is vain I”
Tho spire’s gold cross, athwart the sky.
Flashed Its last words; “ ’Tls gain to die 1“
Ami thus, with varl-colojccl thought,
Wei o evening shadows lute nvrought.
Thu ; In tho Earth tho IfidJjv: Ib'ht-
Giive beUL’dioUou.of the night.
Ca l ~^~'♦
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toSitudes nr m life of an ass.
Born of poor, but I trust, not dishon
est parents, my earliest recollections
are associated with a Wiltshire com
mon. Here I and my mother disported
ourselves, cropping the 'short grass;
and vainly seeking the succulent
thisle. She often grumbled ,at this
solitary but peaceful existence. Alas!
could I have seen the hardships
that were to await me in the
various parts which I .was destined
to play in the world’s history, how
content I should have been with my
lot. Sometimes the youth of the neigh
boring village would divert themselves
by chasing me round the common, but
this was our only excitement,
I do not know hpw it was, but some
how I could "never get much out of my
mother about her past life. She did,
indeed, intimate that a donkey’s career
was generally somewhat strewn with
thorns, that kicks were more frequent
than caresses, and that life was not all
oats and thistles, but I was too young
to understand all this.
One day, however, our master, whom
till then I had never aepn, appeared on
the common with a gentleman, and
Walking up to us commenced expatiat
ing largely on my good points and
qualities. He spoke of me as if I lived
with him, whereas he never set eyes
on me since the day I was born, and
told, I am sorry to say, many lies about
my character and disposition.,
“ Quiet,” he said, “ why, you might
put a,baby on his back, and he’d foller
you round the field as quiet as a lamb.
fuyS in a? can'go n aa you'cSn ctalp
your ’auds. You never wonts to touch
him, all ye ’ave to do is to give
’im ’is ’ead.”
The gentleman remarked here, “T
suppose he la well bred?”
“ Bred?” said the master, “ Oh yes,
his father were a well-known donkey
as traveled with Wombel’s menagerie
for years.”
The gentleman was, as I found out
afterwards, djejprgyman ; he seemed to
believe all my master said, but again
asked if I really was quiet with chil
dren.”
“ Children !” said my master, “ why
he’s as good as a miss to ’em. Blest if
my misniis don’t say that there donkey
is better than half the gals for looking
after the children,”
I could nut stand any more of these
lies, and so raised an indignant brnyi—.
This, however, my master merely
noticed by saying,
“ Haiu’t ho got a rare voice of his
own too?” ’
Eventually I was sold for M to the
clergyman, a sum which I afterwards
ascertained to be considerably more
than I was worth at the time, not hav
ing acquired that mental and physical
vigor which afterwards distinguished
me. The clergyman then left; hut my
master, diving into his pockets, pro
duced what I afterwards learnt to be a
halter. Having fastened, this on my
head, he proceeded to lead me along,
first administering to me a sound
whack, with his stick. This I prompt
ly resented by carefully planting both
my hind feet In his stomach. , The re
sult of this manoeuvre was gratifying, to,
me, but not entirely successful, as It
wag, followed by a perfect volley of
of thwacks, so I had to smother my
wrath at this ill-treatment, and to en
dure it as I best could, my master re
marking, “ Oh, yer would, would
yer.”
I suppose he thought I was now
thoroughly subdued, or else that it was
foolish to walk when he could ride, for
he next proceeded to get on my back.
I confess I was so staggered by this,
having never been mounted before,
that lat first made no resistance. As
soon, however, as I had collected my
senses, feeling his weight unpleasantly
heavy, I suddenly lay down, consider
ably astonishing my rider, who thereby
got a nice roll on the common. He
soon, however, got on my back again,
then many and severe were the blows
I got, till at last, driven to desperation,
I set off as hard as I could gallop. As
I galloped, the idea came Into my head
that were I to deposit tho fore part of
my person between my fore legs, and
at the same time to elevate tho hind
ones with some impetus, that the result
might be favorable to my release from
my tormentor. This thought I at
once acted upon, and the result was
highly satisfactory,'for head over heels
went my master. Being young and
foolish, I was weak enough to let him
catch me after this exploit; and It Is
needless for mo to relate how he re
venged himself on my hldo for his up
set, at tho samo time using language
more remarkable for strength than its
elc'dineo. At last wo slopped at a big
hmisu with a garden in front and a
green gate. My master rang the lie!!,
ami a young woman came out saying,
When she saw mo:
“ Lauk I whatever ’ave you brought
that ’orrid donkey ’ere for ?”
“ Your master ’ave bought ’lm for
the children,” was the answer.
“ Ho, ■ indeed!” replied the maid,
tossing her head. “ Well, all X can say
is, I ain’t a going trapesing through
the village with a nasty donkey, and a
lot of boys at my ’eels.”
“ Which he’d be a hornament to any
young woman,” said my master.
The maid did not condescend to an
swer this, but, opening the gate, point
ed to the yard, and went into the
house, slamming the door after her. I
wap then led into the yard, where, after
placing me in a little shed, and bestow
ing on me a parting kick, my master
left me. ,
X spent the night in the shed, and for
the first time in my life tasted hay,
which I had often heard my mother
long for, but which, like most other
things in this world, hardly .realized
my anticipation. I foil, very wretched
ami Jonuly without my mother; but,
H'.y.o.u! iifliu;,' up my -.nica'and weep-’
p>:r (Which V V.:.j moruiir-; I in an’, ul-
-U'l'.il to Co i. L \; Auy llolsu”.) 7 MIU
proud lossy I not othonvi-o g'vo
way to mj- feelings.
In the morning I heard a groat clat
tering in the yard, and presently in
rushed a troop of children.
“Oh, what a de-a-nr donkey!” said
one. ■ .
“ And hasn’t it got a pretty head ?”
said another.
“ Yea, and it’s for us all to ride,”
said a third; and. then there was a
general chorus, and patting and punch
ing of me by their little hands. Pres
ently, though, in came the servant
whom I had seed before, and catching
up - one child in her arnjs, boxing
another’s ears* and taking forcible pos
session of another by the collar; my
young friends were summarily marched
off, being scolded all the whllp for hav
ing come into the yard without per
mission.
Having some notion now of what was
to be my future career, I endeavored to
remember some of my mother’s sayings.
One I did remember; it was this: “ Nev
er move faster than a walk if yon can
possibly help It, and always hang back
with your whole weight when you are
requested to move on.” She always,
poor old lady, Imagined (quite wrongly)
that, being a rather unlntelleotual face,
dnr only chance of resisting the tyranny
of mankind was to fall back on dogged
obstinacy. My doubts as to what my du
ties were to be were soon dispelled, fora
man appeared with a curious sort of
thing,' looking like thin baskets, and
fastened this on my'back. When I tried
to screw my eyes around, so as to get a
good look at it, the man muttered:
“You a widens lot, you are; any one
can see that by the heyo on you.” Now,
I wish here to remark that we poor dumb
ePVrailtkrsaf t&inr, wun’ouc if at once Do
ing attributed to viciousness. I am sure
I have often seen men, and women too,
stamp their feet, grind their teeth, and
toss their heads and yet they are not
pronounced to be vicious, nor Is punish
ment awarded to them for these little
ebullitions of feeling ; whilst the words,
“ Come up, yer brute 1" accompanied by
a blow or a kick, Is our general treat
ment.
When thiu basket affair was fastened
on my back securely, I was led up to the
front door of the house, and two chil
dren were seated, one on-each basket. I
’had' previously resolved to make myself
ns pleasant as circumstances would al
lov.vmy m.eitor baying' always said,
‘‘TieaS them d ..-i t'vais' .V u
sa, 111 ciiil.be '.•.•in;; very heavy, 1
v :!V Very - ,. .. i.y.vbri ibe-u, i'-'
,1 , . a ~‘rvaiu ’ ' ric ’■/ laia br-d'”.
rud at li 10 same Liiju grumbling at l:io
Idas of her dignity in being obliged to
lead a donkey. We went down through
the village, and her temper was not im
proved by one or two small hoys shout
ing at-us, and.making disparaging re
marks on our appearance. My behaviour
up to this time had, I think, been all
that could have been wished, and I
might have settled down soberly, fulfil
ling the destiny of a “children’s don
key,” had It not been for an unforseen
occurrence. As we were returning home,
I heard in the distance a bray, which I
took for my mother’s. Forgetful of eve
rything else, I set off at the top of my
speed In the direction of the voice, fol
lowed by the mad, shrieking “ Murder !
Help 1 Help!” The children were strapp
ed into the basket, luckily for them, but
what with the fright and the shaking,
when I stopped they presented a most
pitiable appearance, their hats being
shaken well over their eyes, and each of
them hanging over the side of the basket
in a collapsed state, like dolls with no
sawdust In their bodies, or two pugilists
after a severe “ round.
I was stopped by a man who, the lane
being very narrow caught mb by the
bridle as I tried to get by him. The
maid soon turned up in a very agitated
state, and told the man “that she
knowed that donkey would be the death
of them all.’' The man, however, did,
not sympathize much with her, and said
I wasn’t snob n bad donkey to look at;
which I thought showed great discrimi
nation. He then offered to lend me back
to the parsonage, where, on ringing, the
maid told such a tale as to my going on,
and general bad behaviour, that the cler
gyman determined tljat he could not
endanger his children’s Uvea with euoh
a ferocious beast as myself and sold me
for thirty shillings to the man who had
caught me. He thought it very odd,
after what my previous master had told
hied regarding my gentleness with chil
dren and Indeed called on that individu
al with a view towards an explanation of
my conduct, but somehow or other he
could never find him at homo.
My now master was, as I found out af
terwards,, a plumber and glazier. Ho
was a very good man, and preached on
Sunday at a obapol threoor four miles off.
His goodness, however, did not prevent
him from driving along to his place of
worship on Sunday as fast as the Induce
ments of a severe whip could persuade
mo to go. On these occasions I feared
somewhat baldly, in ho would turn mo
out in the little graveyard of tho chapel,
id the same ti.o ; fa .enim: my jaw;; with
a hat ter, iealt, I :-m ■■■ w, I i'mold iuler
.upt Ida (.11:00111. -no doubly Ihinldiig
o one al a time' f vr ' enough* a muni not
CARLISLE, Pi., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1873.
omit that my early experiences otljar-,
ness were anything but pleasant: The
harness had to a donkeVof
much inferior .figure to myself, solhe
collar, galled. my shoulders, the emptier
hurt my tail, and the traces grazed my
sides, till I felt as if I bad been nibbed
down with a pltoh-fork. My master—
" Cardinal Putty,” as he was called tj
village wags—delivered all hia blovi
with gr.eat precision on one spot, estaU
lished thereby what he called a “ raw.
As this good man got on in business
however, he set up a pony, and sold mi
to tbe ylllage sweep. ■
I had thought my life with' the “Car
dlnal’’ anything but an easy one; bu
now, indeed, my troubles began. Md
master, who went by the name, of “ But,’
was a lazy, drunken vagabond. He
more than half starved me, and drove
me so cruelly and so fast, that I soon htd
hardly a leg to stand on, and lost mmh
of my symmetry of shape. He used jo
get up at about four o’clock in the morn
ing, huddle on his things, harness me/iy
a queer arrangement of ropes to his cart,
chuck his poor little nephew, who was
apprenticed to him, into the (art, and
drive off to some neighboring squire’s
house. On arriving (nobody bei g about
at that early hour,) ho would tur i me in
to the nearest field, and this beng as I
knew well; about all that I shoutl get to
oat, during the day, you may itmgino I
did not waste my time. After jo had
swept his chimneys, he would mt me
to the cart again, and drive off Ip. the
nearest public house, leaving me oitside
tied to the sign-post, and the poor Upy to.
amuse himself as best he could in the
cart. He would perhaps stop drinking
till the evening, when he would qime
out, jump into the cart, kick the toy,
and drive off like a madman, singingjor
rather bowling, at the top of his voire,
and belaboring me all the while, ojie
dark night, however, he was going along
in this manner down a steep hill, when
X stumbled oh a stone, and down we
went crash—“ But” cutting a somersault ■
right over my head, on to hls'own.—
Getting on my legs again, and kicking
myself free of the cart, I walked quietly
off, thinking that it would be my own
fault If my late master ever set eyes on
me again, as I felt I could stand his bru
tality no longer.
Perhaps i may lot you know some
thing of my after career at some other
time.
A WOMAN’S IDEAS.
BV JOSHUA ALLEN’S WIFE,
Prof. Theron Gusher has been a lec
turin' on free love to Jonesville and the
next moruin' Betsy Bobbet came here,
and sez she—
* Joalah Allen’s wife you can’t Imagine
what new and glorious and soarin’ Ideas
that man has got Into his head,’
‘ Let him soar,’ says I coolly, ‘ It don’t
hurt me none.’
Sez she ‘He is too soarin’ a sole to be
ought, by good right, to be in a warmer
spear.’
Sez I coldly, and almost frigidly,
• Prom what I have heard of his lecture,
I think so too, a good deal warmer.’.
Before I could free my mind any furth
er about Prof. Gusher and his doctrine,
I had a whole ' housefoll of company
come, and Betsy departed.
The next day Prof. Theron Gusher
came. Josiah was to the barn a thrash
ln’ beans, but I received him with a kam
dignity. He was a harmless lookin’ lit
tle man with his hair parted right in the
middle, and he sez to me most the first
thing after he sat down.
‘ You believe in wimmin’s hayin’ a
rigid, don’t you?'
. ‘ Yea air,’ sez I keenly lookin’ up from
my knitton’, 'Just as many rights as she
can get hold of, rights never hurt no
body yet.’
‘ Worthy sentiments, 1 sez he, ‘ and you
behove in free love, don’t you?’
‘ How freo ?’sez I coolly.
‘ Prco to marry anybody you want to
and ns lone as you want to, from h a day
up to 5 years or so.’
‘Ho, sir,’ sez I,' sternly, ‘I believe in
rights, but I don’t believe in wrongs, and
of all the miserable doctrines that was
ever let loose on the world, the doctrine
of free love is the miserabllst. Free love!’
I repeated in indignant tones, ‘ it ought
to be called freedevlltry, that is the rigbt
name for it,’ sez I.
Ho sunk back on his chair, put his
hand to his brow and exclaimed wildly.
‘ My soul aches, I thought I had found
a congenial spirit, but I am deceived
my breast aches, and sighs, and pants.’
He so awful distressed, that I
didn’t know what ailed him and X looked
pityln’ on him from over my spectacles
—and I says to him just ns I-would to
our Thomas Jefferson :
‘ Mebby your Vest la too tight.’
‘Vest!’ he repeated In wild tones.—
‘ Would X had no worse trammels than
store clothes, but it Is the fate of reform
ers to be misunderstood. Woman, the
pain Is deeper, and it Is gnawin’ me.’
Hla eyes wuz kinder rolled up, and he
looked so wilted and uncomfortable,
that I says to him, In a still more pityln’
accent.
‘ Haiut you got wind on your stum
much, for If you have, peppermint es
sence Is the best atufl you can take, and
I will get you some.’'
‘ Wind I* he almost shouted, ‘ Wind,
no It Is not wind.’ Ho spoke so deleterl
ously that ho almost skuirt me, but I kep
up my placid demeanor and kep on
knittln.’
‘ Woman,’sez he, ‘I would right the
wrongs of your sect If I could. I bear In
my heart tbejwoea and pains of all the
aching female hearts of the 19 centurys.*
My knittin’ dropped into my lap, and
I looked up at him In surprise, and I
says to him respectfully:
• No wonder you groan and writhe, it
must hurt awfully.’
‘ It does hurt,’ sez he, ‘ but It hurts a
sensitive spirit worse, to have It mistook
for wind.’
He saw my softened face, and he took
advantage of It and went on, (
‘ Woman you have been married you
say 25 years, halnt you never felt slavish
In that time, and felt that you would
gladly unbind yourself.’
‘ Never !’ sez I firmly, ‘ I don’t want
to bo unbound.’
‘ Haiut you never had yearnings and
longings to be free?’
‘Not a yearn,’sez I kamly, ‘ not a
[ yearn. If I had wanted to remain free,
I shouldn't have give my hand and
iienrt Joslah Allen. I didn’t do it doie
rlousiy, I had my senses.. You can’t sit
down and stand up at the same time,
each situation has its advantages, but
you can’t be in both places at once, and
this tryfn’ to, is what makes so much
trouble amongst men and women. They
want the rights and advantaged of both
stations at once—they want to sit down
and stand up at the same time, and it
can’t be did. Men and wimulin baint
married at the pint of tho boyonet, they
go into It with both their eyes open. If
anybody thinks they are happier and
freeer from care without bein’ married,
nobody compels them to be married,bat
if they are, they hadn’t ought to want to
he married and single at the same .time,
it is onreasonable.’ ■
He looked some convinced, and I went
on in a softer tone.
' I haint a gain’ to say that Josiab
haint been try In’ a good many times. —
Ho has raved round soihe, when dinner
wasn’t ready, and gone in his stockin’
feet 'considerable, and been slack about
kindlin’ wood, I haint a goln' to deny it.
Likewise, I have my failiu’s. X presume
I haint done always exactly as I should
about shirt buttons, mebby I have scold
ed more’u I ort to about his not keepin’
geese. But i& men and wirnmin think
they are man-yin’ angels, they'll have to
settle down,.and keep house with hu
man kritters. I never saw a year that
did’t have more or less winter in it, but
what does it say—for better, for worse,
and if it turns out more worse than bet
ter why that don’t part us, for what else
does it say— 1 Till death us do part,’ and
what is your little slip of paper that you
call a bill to that? is that death ? sez 1.,
Ho sot quailin’ silently, and I pro
ceeded on. -
‘ I wouldn’t give a cent for your bills,
I had jest as leaves walk up and marry
any married man, as to marry a man
with a bill; X had jest as leaves,’ sez
X warmin’ with my subjec’, * I had jest
as leaves join a Mormon at onee. How
'should I feel to know there was anoth
er wpman loose in the world liable to
walk in hero pny minute and 1 ook at
Josiah, and to know that all separated
them was a little slip of paper about an
inch wide?’
My voice was loud and excited, Tor
I felt deeply what I said, and sez he in
a soothin’tone,
‘ I presume that you and your hus
band are cdngenial'spirits, but what do
you think of soarin’, soles, that flndjout
when it tvas too late, that they, are
wedded to mere lumps of clay ?’
I hadn’t yet fully recovered from my
excited state of mind, and I replied
warmly.
‘ I never saw a man yet, that wasn’t
more or less clay, and to toll you the
truth I think jest as much of these clay
men, as I do of these soarers, I nevei
had any opinion of soarers at all.’,
He sunk back in his chair and sighed,
fori had touched him in a tender place
lUUU | UU muiuauiviu ruiuuij)
‘ Some women are knocked 1 down by
some some men, and dragged out.’
His meek tones touched my feelin’s,
and I continued in more reasonable ac
cents. ....
‘ Mebby if I was married to a man
that knocked mo down, and dragged
me out frequently, I would leave him
a spell, but not one cent would I ever
invest in another man, not cent. I
would live alone till he came to his
senses if he over did, and if he didn’t,
why when the great roll is called over
above, I would answer to his name I
took when I loved him, and married
him, hopin’ his old love would come
back again there, and we would have
all eternity to keep house in.’
Ho looked so depressed, as ho sat lean
in’ back in his chair, that I thought like
as not I had convinced him and ho was
sick of his business, and asked him in
a playful way, ,
■ ‘Haint there no other business you
can get into, besides preaching up free
love ? Haint there no better business ?
Hqint there no cornfields where you
could hire out for a scare-crow, haint
there no sheep you could steal, can’t
you get to be United States Senator?
Haint there no other mean job not quite
so moan as this you could get into?’ .
' He didn’t seem to take it friendly in
mo, you know friendly advice makes
some folks mad. Ho spoke out kinder
surly and sez he,
‘ I haint done, no hurt, I only want
everybody to find their affinity-’
That riled up the old Smith blood in
mo, and sez I with spirit,
- ‘ Say that word to me again, if you
dare.’ Says I, ■‘ of (all the mean words
a married woman ever'listened to that
is the meanest.’l Sez I, ‘if you ‘ af
finity ’ here in my house again young
man, I will holler to Josiah.’
He saw I was in earnest, and deeply
indignant, and' he ketched'up his hat
and cane, apd started off, and glad en
ough was I to see him go.
Necessary in a New Country.
A lenient county judge of Oakland,
N. Y., usually prefaced sentences with
the following formula:
“ Prisoner, hold up your hand. You
have been found guilty of (tresspass,
assault and larceny, as the case might
bo) but the court takes into considera
tion that this is a now country. Society
is unsettled, the laws are not under
stood, and we must expect such things
in settling a new country, So I give
you thirty days. .
On one occasion a Ilian was arraigned
for wilful perjury. He had property
and standing, but the case was so clear
.that the jury pronounced him guilty
without leaving their seats. The pros
ecuting attorney was In ocstacies over
what all criminal lawyers considered
no small exploit—the recovery of a ver
dict of guilty on an indictment for per
jury. The prisoner was brought up for
sentence? and the Judge commenced:
■ « You have been convicted of perjury,
prisoner. This is a grave offence; but
I consider that this is a now country,
and wo must have some perjury among
the difficulties of settling a now coun
try, so X shall only give you thirty
days in the county jail.”
The prosecuting attorney* to wind up
a case of false swearing, wont outside
the court house and gave vent to a largo
volume of the genuine nrticio»
piMoil.
SOLDIKBS IN COUNCIL,
Opposition to tho Pittsburg Movement I
A. '■ PROTEST TO BE OETmiUEn
Fraternity Instead of Animosity!
XEVE VOICE OF THE SOLD ZEES ! !
Eloquent Address by Oon’l McCnndless,
fFr° m Uio Harrisburg Patriot, Aug. 29.]
In pursuance of a call which appears
In the report of these proceedings, an In
formal meeting was held on Wednesday,
the 28tfi uit., in the hall of the House
of Kepresentatlves, Harrisburg, compos
ed of many of the most gallant soldiers
of the State, who are opposed to the po
litical complexion of the conclave to be
held in Pittsburg on the 17th of Sep
tember, and to enter their protest In a
firm and decided manner against the ac
tion of that body. The different coun
ties of the,State were well and ably rep
resented in the Convention which met
yesterday, and a finer body of men, con
sidering numerical strength, has seldom
assembled in Harrisburg.
The Convention was called to order at
12 o’clock by Major General. St. Clair A.
Mulholland, who delivered the following
remarks : , , ■■.
A desire has long been manifest among
the soldiers throughout our State to have
some expression given to our disapproval
of the efforts now : being made through:
the proposed meeting. at Pittsburg to
convert them to the support of the Radi-,
cal candidates at the approaching elec
tions, It is this that has brought us.to
gether to-day, and to this end the follow
ing call has been issued:
“ The approaching crisis of our coun
try demands again pur services,..not in
the field, but in the civil arena.. Seven
years ago, by opr, combined efforts, the
rebellion was crushed. Now, our liber
ties are more endangered from,. corrupt
officials, both State and National, than
they were in 1861, by attempted seoes.
Sion; The victories we so dearly won
are barren of results so long as strife and
discord are fomented . and indignities
heaped upon a gallant yet conquered foe
by the satraps of federal power: .
“The advance of imperialism upon
the States, North as well as South, has
reached the city where our independence
was declared, in the form of the Federal
marines controlling, at the polls, the
free exercise of suffrage by the citizen.
“ The maladministration of the affairs
of our own State, by Its principal finan
cial officer, appears to commend him to
the special favor of the Radical mana
gers by the attempt to elevate him to
the Gubernatorial chair.
“ Wo appeal to you, our former com
rades, in that spirit of patriotism which
you exhibited when the Union was in
peril. For the Unity of the nation, yon
fSS&JPBF JiSfegfiaa f *'n o«v t haift
rights of the States are ruthlessly assail
ed, we ask you once more to '■ put forth
your band, and overwhelm the enemies
of your country.
“ With this view we earnestly request
that you meet us in the hail of the house
of representatives, at Harrisburg, on
Wednesday, the 28th Inst., at 12 o’clock,
M., there to organize the Democratic and
Liberal Soldiers of the State.
“ Please acknowledge receipt of this;
and should you be able to attend, report
and register your name and regiment, on
arrival at Harrisburg, to General William
MoCandless, at the Bolton House. Very
respectfully,
“B rig.Geu. St. 'Clair A. Mdlholland,
“ “ Richard Coulter,
“ “ William MoCandless,
“ " Alfred B. McCalmont)
“ “ Isaac J. Wistab,
“Colonel John H. Good,
“Major D. W. C. James, .
"Captain Charles B. Bhockway.’’
We are here, comrades, not as a con
vention of men who, having once been
In the seryice of their country, now con
sider it a, patriotic duty to keep allve. the
dying embers of the late war, aud-at.eve
ry political contest .cry exultantly over
the brave and gallant but prostrated foe,
Who, seven-years ago, surrendered to our
armies, and threw themselves upon our
generosity. We do but slander our own
honored dead when we attempt to malign
and belittle the brave men who con front
ed us In the late-war, and wo ai;o not'true
to ourselves when we refuse to receive
those who, judging from our courage,
trusted to our magnanimity, and laid
down their arms that they might'once
more become citizens. But we are no
longer soldiers, and having laid aside our
uniforms, we have become a part of the
people; we are nothing more, and when
a candidate for popular favor cites his
character as a soldier and claims reward
therefor, It Is a false pretense and a fraud
upon the hundreds of'thousands of men
who, like him, too, wore the blue, and
who ask for no favors, but ate content
with an approving conscience for a task
wall done. It la unbecoming, to say the
least, gentlemen, to create a division in
the lines of the Union soldiers, who have
stood shoulder to shoulder in the army,
and knew each other only as friends and
comrades, and now that time Is fast di
minishing bur numbers, it behooves us
to cling the closer together in friendship,
that we may enjoy the memories of our
good work, and maintain the good will
of a grateful people.
On motion, Gen. 'William MoCandless
was ohosen permanent president, and es
corted to the chair by Col. Winter, amid
loud applause.
The Convention was then organized by
the election of the following officers:
Vice Presidents—W. W. Hammersly,
of Lehigh j Levi Mulsh, of York j Oapt.
Connor, of Philadelphia; Maj. Gen. Jos.
F. Snipe, of Harrisburg; S. C- Thomp
son, of Indiana.
Secretaries—Miles Zontmyor, of Hun
tingdon ; John E. Scanlon, of Cambria ;
George B. Ewing, of Cumberland; H. Jf
Hornbeck, of Lehigh ; W. H. Grier, of
Lancaster; Lieut. John Hi Sweeney, of
Philadelphia; a. J. Brlbkhouse, of
Easton.
Treasurer—Col, Bi Frank Winger, of
Franklin.
Sergeant-at-Arma —Lazarus B. Min
nlch.
General MoCandleaa tbeu proceeded tp
address those assembled In an eloquent
and efleottve apeeoh, which waa frequent
ly interrupted by applause.
VOL. 59.-NO. 13
SPEECH OP OEM. WILLIAM M’OANDLESS.
Comrades : Self-defense demands that
we shall again muster in defense of our
country’s liberties. Eleven years ago we
were called for a similar purpose. Then
we were menaced by secession ; now we
are menaced by centralization. The'lat
ter, ’if possible, more permanently de
structive of our liberties than the foi’mer.
Let us inquire why this is so. Did not
thesons of Pennsylvania, to the asm-,
her of . neatly a quarter df a million,; for
four consecutive years bare their breasts
to the storm of battle, from our own soil
to Texas, in order that "the preservation
of the Union with the dignity, equality
and rights of the several States unim
paired, 1 ’ should beaasurad? Was that war
not bravely fought and nobly one? Men of
all shades of political opinlone-Uemocrata
and Republicans—adyanced shoulder (o
shoulder, forgetting all the bitterness of
party strife, thus evincing a purity of pa
triotism and unity of purpose, of which
Greece and Eomomight have been proud
in their palmiest days. Why, then, I
repeat, are we thus called upon to light
our battles over again? Because tho fruits
of our dearly bought victories have been
garnered.by unworty hands. Hordes of
human jaokalls followed in the rear of
our victorious armies, always ;at a safe
distance, like sharks in the, wake of ship
at sea, anped with patents of loyalty to
rob, from the highest in the form of a
treasury agent with his cotton permits,
down to the smallest sattellte, who de
scribed his orbit in the vicinity of the )
freedman’s bureau. " Where the carcass
is, there will the vulture bo.’’ (These
creatures fastened themselves upon the
almost ruined States of the South, main
tained In their spoilitlons by direct arm
ed issistance from the federal power,
which held all who dare oppose them in
its toils as.mercilessly as was Lacoon in
tbecoilsof tbe'aerpent- Yet all these
wonld.net be sufficient reasons’ why we
should be alarmed and take council with'
'each other as honorably discharged sol
diers, had not some pf our former com
rades affecting to speak , for the soldiery
of Pennsylvania, called a council of war
to assemble at Pittsburg, on the .Uth of
September. ,
There,, by the force of subsidized, pa
tronage, a false halo of military glory will
bejhrown around Grant andHartranft
that would have blinded the single eye of
Hannibal, or added additional lustre to
the laurel upon the bald. first Cses.ar’s
head. In ease (heir historical muse has
not furnished them an exemplar worthy
of emulation for their heroes, ! will,- with
great pleasure, Invite their attention to
English history, during the reign of
Queen Anne* end point them to John
Churchill, duke of Marlborough, he who
never fought a battle he did not win, nor
besiege a town he did not take. His
other little takings complete the parallel.
High rank, and great riches were be
stowed upon him by a grateful country,
but when the selfishness of bis nature
love and admiration of his military ge
nius was only equaled py their detesta
tion of his venality.
His civil record covered his military
career as with a pail, aud future genera
tions wonder that eo much skill in the
field should act every other characteristic
that tends to make men great. But,
comrades, it is the bright day, that brings"
forth the adder, and whilst we would hot
detract from the honors of any man who
boldly faced the enemies of his country,
we must remember that there is some
thing in this land greater than military
prestige; more powerful than the success
ful soldier who by a fortuitous combina
tion of circumstances, or by the chican
ery of politicians is placed over us as our
ruler. That something ,1s the people's
sovereign will, as expressed'in their fun
damental law so that no intelligent man
can mistake it, so strong that no unscru
pulous man can violate it with impuni
ty, and so charitable that uo man—be ho
ever so humble—who la , not -protected
under it. Remembering always, com:
rades, that to live by oqo man’s, will be
came, the cause of all men’s misery.
But what principle, then, of political
necessity Is- the honorably discharged,,
soldier palled upon to muster in behalf,of
any particular class of political candi
dates?., is pot the country at peace with"
the world? Is not such an organization
as the one proposed at Pittsburg, at such
a time, Inimical to the beat interests of a ,
republic. Is it not for the purpose of ra
king among the dead embers of the past
to endeavor to blow ipto a -flaqie the
heartburnings of our unfortunate civil
war? That, too, after a lapse of seven
years, during which time wo of the
North have been continually on guard to
protect, If possible, what little of State
rights we bad remaining after the capa
cious maw of military necessity bad been
gorged, whilst our repentent-rebei breth
ren have beep equally busy, I regret-to
say with as, litti e success ns-we, in stri
ving to keep the wreck of their property
from finding its way into the capacious
carpet-bags of Grant’s adventurers; men
who, with a strategic .skill worthy of a
better cause, upon the charge of ku-klux
ism safely ensconced the - shepherd lu a
jail whilst they preyed upon the flock.—
Comrades, when evil men conspire good
men must, combine, is au axiom to be
observed if you would preserve your Ilb-“
erties.
We know that socially the meetings of
corps or army is the most agreeable on
earth to those who felt the elbow touch -
of comrade to comrade, advancing amid
the crash of battle. We have them an
nually, where we recount the stories of
the camp and battle, and with unselfish
patriotism count all the glories of our
chieftains over and before 1 wo separate,
standing-In silence' the heart beats a
requiem for the eternal welfare of those
who laid their Uvea upon their country’s
altar. But such'a one as Is proposed at
Pittsburg Is the antipodes of' this. It Is
as destructive of the memories of the past
os it Is fatal to our liberties In the future.
Why, Mr. President, I have read some
where, the no less true than beautiful
sentiment that the highway of the past
was whitened with the tombstones of re
publics, that, like Brutus of old, had lu
glotlously fallen under their own swords,
leaving the closing page ol their history
darkened by the horror’s of a suicide's
death.
The student of history knows that with
singular coincidence she Repeats herself,
and' he trembles for the welfare of his
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Sir, if any man bad had the hardihood
to say to the Roman Senate, or to an
assemblage of Roman citizens, that the
republic would have been overthrown by
a successful soldier of her own, he would
have been buried from, the Tarpelan
rook by the indignant people. Yet such
was the result—what the cause ?
First—corruption in the public service
a disease as deadly to the body politic as
is the cancer that knawa at the vitals of
the individual man.
Second—Prtctorlan guards; spell it
Pittsburg instead audyoubavean Amer
ican Grant in Ileu of a Roman Qaiba. He
it was who first thrust himself os a ruler
over the Roman people by the use of ids
soldiers and bis gold. The.great historian
Tacitus, wrote of him this, “that every
body would have supposed him worthy
to reign had he not reigned.”
How singularly applicable is Tacitus’
history to our State and national heroes.
Had they not been elevated to high place
before, no one but themselves would
have known of their incapacity. We
deny, sir, either; the propriety or the
right of this coming Pittsburg conclave
to speak for the soldiers of our State.
Tho vacant chair at many a Demo
oratib fireside, in our cities, on onr moun
tain slopes and through our valleys, show
from whencecaiuo the men whp gavo up,
their lives With,ttio'fuil knowledge that,
their services would not be appreciated
unless they foreswore thejolltleal breed
ofthelr fathers. ~, , ...
l! We 1 point you to the. field 'of Qattys-*
burg, where, if yon drop a tear upon tho
grave of a Radical, it will trickle upon
that of a Democrat bS'hli side.
We point you,to the genius, of Ponn
syivauia’q spns—Mcpioilany crushed, bar
oauso.envy loves %/lofty mark; .Meade,
the conqueror of Gettysburg, superceded
because tap belonged Dot.to.the/rfng j the’
princely Hancock,, ;banished becadae be
dared to differ with llie.iPresldent of bad
memory; Porter, militarily crucified be
cause an AraoricimPope blundered.
In.tbo name,then,6ir, aiid on behalf
of the Liberal Demobratib soldiers of the
State of Pennsylvania,! move that there
ba prepared, signed and forwarded to
General Burnside their protest against
the policy of the so-called Soldiers' Con
vention at Pittsburg, informldg him that
we have a contest in Pennsylvania 10 be
settled on the second Tuesday of Octo
ber next, in which tbe issue is clearly
made up and well defined. It Is honesty
in the public servlce'against dishonesty, .
and when we have driven the present
money changers from these hails we will
then discuss with him the abilities of bis
modern Mars to .administer the civil af
fairs of our country. . ■
Gen, McCandiess then suggested that
an executive committee be formed to or
ganize the (State by counties as a matter
of self-defense against the Pittsburg con
vention,to prepare a protest and.present
iSdtr- Grmit’YrEßiMnrr’ 7
Gen. Mulhqlland, moved, and it Was
agreed to, that the Convention adjourn
to meet at tbe Bolton House, at 2.30 P; M,
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Punctually at the time named the
Convention met at the Bolton house,
having received large accessions by the
trains arriving at noon.
The proceedings of the morning ses
sion were read, and on motion,adopted.
Captain Miller of Cumberland coun
ty, read a lengthy letter addressed to
the Convention from the soldiers resi
ding In Carlisle and vicinity protesting
against the nomination of Grant and
Hnrtranff, and declaring themselves in
favor of Greeleyjand Buekaiew, which
was received with loud applause.
• It was moved and- agreed to that the
chair appoint an executive committee
of niuc members, who shall appoint
one from each county to act in conjunc
tion with tliem.
: Mr. Randall, of Philadelphia, moved
and it was agreed toi that the execu
tive committee prepare 1 ah address to
counteract the address issued in behalf'
of the PitteburgConvention.
: A lengthy protest was read In reply
to the call issued by: General Burnside
in wtflch 'the objects’ and - opposition
of the present Convention were fully
and ably explained. 1 '■
A motion was made arid agreed to,
that the address read be referred to the
committee of nine, with power to make
amendments, and that copiesbe printed
and circulated:among the' soldiers of
the State.-
Colonel Maish then delivered a 'few
pertiqent remarks, after which:n>mo
tion was made that the Convention
meet on the Ist of October, to take
Whatever action may be necessary -to
counteract the influence of the Pitts ”
burg Convention. Adjourned. '1- ' ■
A Man Married to Another Man 17 Tears
. Ago’Asks Per a Divorce. ' - 1 '
Tho Carlinville correspondent totbo
Bt. Louis, Democrat relates this, story,
the circumstances of which, while they”
are exceedingly sensational, can, be '
vouched for by.persons residing in the
city: ,
due of the most remarkable divorce
cases on record was tried at the August
term of tho Macoupin County Circuit
Court. The parties have lived together
for seventeen years, known,to the world
as husband and wife. The, reputed
husband filed a bill, alleging tho
so-called marriage to have taken place
in Macoupin county in 1855, and prays
ed for a divorce on the, ground that the
person to whom ho was then formally
married is not a woman,although pre
vious to and at tho time of said reputed
marriage ho was induced to believe the
person aforesaid to bea woman. The trial .
showed tho extraordinary case of two
men having lived together for this long
period of time in tho character of hus
band and wife, an instance, „in other
words, in which a natural ■ eunuch has,
been able to personate the female char
acter, and as such to go through tho
solemn external forms of marriage, and
then to continue for mahy years to do-'
celvo tho neighbors, and even intimate'
friends as .to his real sex. The com
plainant alleged that his ignorance of
tho laws of this country, lie Doing a
Gorman,’ and'the advice of supposed,
compotent parties, prevented him from
filing a bill for release long ago from
tho bondage of this pseiulo-marri ago
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