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"Oh, I m so happy!" a little girl sabl.
As the (.prang, liko a lnrk, from alow trundle led;
"'III esraitig bright morning ! lood morning,
PP!
0, glre me ono kiss for good morning, mamma.
Only just look nt my pretty canny,
Chirping bis snoot '(io d morning to M.vry;'
The ion is lieopinR straight hit" in y iy
Good morning to you. Mr. Sun. for you rise
Early to wake, my birdie and me,
And make us buppy 1,8 ''"PI1)' '" bc
"Happy ynu mnv be my dear Uttlo girl,"
A the mtthor struck f.flly a clustering culr
'Happy yon can be hut ttiink of tbe Ono
Who wakened thismorning. both y uund liioiun.
The girl turned her bright eyrs nitli n nod :
"Ma, may I say, then, good morning toiiod ?"
"Yes, little darling one, suroly y hi may :
Kneel as you kneel every mo ning to pray."
Mary knelt soltmnly down, with her eyes
Looking up eunestly into the skies.
And two little band, Hint were folded together,
Softly the laid on the l;i! of her mother,
"Good morning, (tctr Father in Heaven. "she said,
" I thank iheo for watching my smut little bed'
For taking gooi cure of mo all too d.irk night'
And waking mo up with the beautiful !i;:'..i:
0, keep me from hhiik" tiuvn s 1 1 the long :' .
Dr fattier, who ,.iujht children to limy."
An anirol luoked don n in the sunshine ai. I -l.ii'c cl.
Hut she uw not the angel, that beautiful child
From the Jtaovil.'e (Jiturterly Itovicw.
OtTE COUNTRY: IT PERIL ITS
DELIVERANCE.
Itc'V. KollllHT -i. I'. ir.CKKNr.IlKT.,
J an villo, Kentucky.
. I).
I. 1. What wc propose is, first, to ma
ike
such ft flaltmont of tho condition nl af
fairs as may bo of use to upright men, in
enabling them to determine what ought
to bo atltoinptod inidwhat cut) bo accom
plished, in the v ny of p1 eventing the ru
in of their country ; am1, .wccivlh, to make
clear tr nil m n, the pn-hiim of u vast
party in this country, who iL-Mre mnl wlo
leserve, in nil pii.-ilile cv etin, ta he un
lerstood by posterity and who, r von if
thoLr principles aie overborne Mid their
counsels art now njecte l, may. if liiey
nre faithful to ihenielve, retrieve iYom
the wreck of llieir country, whatever ur
vivt wner llie period of exhaustion small
co mo upon its destructive nifKliicst,
Thern is no esson which tho univer-:
snl courio of human alliiirs teaches so
thnrooifhlv. as their owr. instability. And i
vet there is no lesson so lniru lor nun to
learn : no lesson so pregn:int of results.
and so little heeded. How f.iithful ought
men to be when overtaken by defeat mid
ndveraity if they would consider thai
defeat ami adversity, with coinage a:ut
wwdom, are n preparation for triumph ?
Mow just and foidx-aring ought men to be
in the midst of power and prosperity, ii
they would consider that power and
prosperity, in the degree that they are
corrupt, make tho road to destruction
broad t)d sure ? And how immense, how
wwxpectcd, how ell'ectual are the resour
ces of God in the accomplishment ofwh.it
he ordains to bo results of human eun
Uuctf 3. Look fit the actual condition of pub
lic afluirs throughout this great nation
consider whither they me lendk.g con
sider whence that, tendency lias arisen
consider by w lint means it is propagating
itself: and then relleci upon the unex
pected and extrnordiinr.y nie.ms by which
ruin is overtaking every interest and
hope of the, country and upon the ab-o-'
lute completeness of the ruin, w hen t liese
means shall have worked their full eilee!.
in a state of security apparently pr.'ect,
and of prosperity apparently complete
n small and fierce parly scattered through
some of the Northern States, commenced
ft systematic and persistent .'i. i'.ition con
nected with the l'.lack nice on this conti
nent; and in tho heart of their system
lay this idea, that laws and institutions
and rights and duties and interest cf ev
erv description ought to five way, if there
Ttas need of it, to the iioeomplishnietil of
their design s. In the progtess of time
jind events, tmd the ruin of political par
tics, this fundamental idea w hich h tho
essence of lawlessness an I anarchy at
taches itscll in the public mind of roim
of tho Northern States, to that particular
Aspect of the (piesiion of (ho Lhick Itaee
which relates to the obligation, under the
Federal Constitution, of delivering fugi
tive slaves ; and laws of various kinds are
passed, throw ing tLe weight of State au
thority against the obligation of the very
highest national law. And so tho idea,
and process of disintegration, ns the ten
dency to lawlessness & anarchy strength
ens, has thus risen from the coin.titi.in of
fanaticism, to tho dignity of a principle
recognised by Stales and asserted in hws.
As if to wnrn men of tlio 1 ireiulili nf i he i
ruin involved in this tendency, and to 1 fjot those institutions wiiich everywhere
mark the extremity of tho peril arising 1 have been esteemed most sacred, and ev
from its con tiect ion with the question of'lcrywheie despises the most venerable and
ihe. IMack Race, one of the slave States ! the most chei ished traditions of our cuun-
hacl a rtatly, under a similar, but direetlv
opposito ten Jeney, formally asserted it's
nguv, not ou:y 10 onstruel the e
execution ,
Ot too laws ot ue l nite.l States, but to
j.uoojr ... -"..., an i upon its own Wind see, that when laws are violated in
'solo and sovereign discretion ; BO that the. name of morality and order, and con
the sp rit ol lawlessness ami anarchy, in titutbns are set at nought in the name of
its aWuto and universal tendency to liberty ami security, ami revolutions are
disintegrate all things-moved, though accomplished by terror and conducted
riot first, yet more tapibly nixl by lm-c underihe guidance o( irresistiblefanatieism
dccisivo ucts, at tho south :im at the thai there eat, be no result to such a ca-
r"rl- . .. , . i 'er, as long as it has way. but the des-
4. Once more in (he progress of time (ruction of evenhin,t n,i t, ,,,.. .,.....
ind events, and the ruin o p. litie.al ).,- tnents m instituted lo protect; ami that
tios tho whole nation finds itself array-, at every stop of Ihe career, the overthrow
ad, in the hist Presidential election, into , of every salutary power and tho diinte -
,tvo onposito parties, (of which the de-; ration of every healthful foiee of society
linn Iai I An.. ..t. a - . I ... J
tself into three) ; and this same question
f the Black Knee, both in the aspect rf
vie-i.s mail euougii to suiKiiviue
uiuon oi tugitivo slaves, and in (ho
- " " '""'0" ill,'.
eso sanio questions of supreme law and
lawlessness corrected therewith
counting to tho highest national impor-
-nice, .iio nppnrentls-swallowing up all
HiiivoTV in il,. i ..,-.. ts,s,&
ether (uestion.s, nro resolved, ho far it"
that election enuld resolve them. Hut
the solution is every way remarkable.
For while Mr. Lincoln h elected 1'reM
dent the majority of the nation :n so de
cidedly uijfimt t him, that ho would have
been beaten if the power of Congress to
to create uniform electoral diKtrict.s had
ever been cxerciced ; nay, would have
been beaten under thn existing syBtem.il
all oprosed to him had been allowed by
the corruption or folly of parlies to unite
on one opponent. Moreover the solution
is further remarkable, in this, that both
Houses of Congress, and, at) is alleged,
the Supremo Court of the United States,
held his most duiiLreroiw onitiion to be
unconstitutional ; and it is still further
remarkable in this, that Mr, Lincoln
himself, while representing the Northern
section of the anarehial tendency of the
times, is knoivn to repudiate tne original
principle of that faction concerning the
rendition of fugitive slaves and is by
universal coment, even of his candid op
ponents, an i hlc, Lonost, and patriotic
man. At the end of thirty j ears of woi k
ing of the spirit wo have been tracing, a
decisive event had thus put the country
in a io.il u re where it would clearly ap
pear whether the I lie hereditary la. v -abiding;
spirit, of our lace remained, the
great prop and safeguard id' ail our insti
tutions; or whether the spirt of anarchy
already so signally liianile-ted at hi. Ill
ex'.remoties of llw nation, had so far
poisoned ! he national life o? our ra.'e a!
it fountain, that the time had come for
one of tlnce great explosions of human
pasM.m which till o many mcluneholv
pages in t :ie hi -lory of our l ace.
,". It is not easy to conjecture, and it iv
itnposs
rvould
e to sav with certainty, "-hat
ive occurred il the late I'rosi-
dential election had terminated dill'eienl
ly from w hat it did, in any one of the
vni ious ways in w hich a dill'erent termi
nation was. possible This lar wo may
now spik willi cert duty, that in some
form or oilier, the spiii'. of turbulent j
miticisin which had pervaded the States
of ihe extreme North so long and so
deeply, would not w ithout a miiacle, such
as history does not record, have been al
layed cr composed under any defeat that
j was povsible, in ihe slide of national par-
ties as they are now Utio'in to have exis
ted at thai time, l-'or there was this fulal
element. Ioiil' concealed not ireneinllv
believed but openly avowed since the
secession of South Carolina that seee;
sion, as the final and d liberate choice ot
tho ex: rente South, win the point to wich
pop. leal opinion had beer, long and care
lully trai. ed, and political parties, long
and singly directed. This kital training, j
added to the widely diti'uvcd spirit o' at,.-!
archy, suiai ling under a defeat etpjallv
signal add unnecessary, and stimulated
by considerations of the very highest im-
t ortaiice connected with tho question of
tho Black Kace in every aspect of that
oucstion nrodneed the nnoiuentlv sud-
den revo.ution which has
' . ' ... ' . . - .
ready, when
these pnues are wrilliii, led the six cotton
States (South Carolina, Mississippi, Flori
da, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana) to
pass separate acts of secession from the
United States of Ainerie.t. Here then
is the consummation of this spirit id' law
lessness and anarchy, working as vc have
already said it universally works, unto tho
disintegration -the mi rcclnient of all
tilings ; the consummatiiMj of it, so far
as to embrace all the Males producing
cotton, sugar, and rice, as their great staj
ple.s. What is next to be determined is,
the fate of the mixed slave States
those divided between farming and
planting ( North Carol. na Tennessee, Ar-
kans. is and Texas); and :h n the fiile of the
harder slave States, ( Delaware, ilary land ,
Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri): and then
we may coniuloniiaiiy add, tne late or tne
nation. Whatever, in Ihe inc. intinie, it is
ofthe last importance to bear in mind.
shall bo the conduct ol tho whole of the
free States (Ne-v .Jersey, l'cinisylvaiiia,
'mio, Indiana, Illinois mid lowa), may ue
decisive alike of their own fate, and of
that of all II e lest of the nation itself for
niuuy generations.
C. Is it possible for any thoughtful per
son to suppose, that- (his spirit of reckless
disregard ol a. 1 existing nistilufons, has ,
already accomplished all the results of
which it is capable '! What shall prevent
it fiom the s.vailowing up all the remain
ing slave States ? What shall, after that
is accomplished, prevent a eounter-revo-hi
;ioii iu every one o: those slave States?
What shall pu-vent its .taking some new
direction With still more vehement force,
throughout he v i i e North? What
shall prevent a counter revolution in every
Northei n State .' Anil who can venture
to hone. thai, everywhere trarnnles under
tf and
try
our race, will tinaily slake
tl.n -
st in 'iin-liinvr Put. lumen, h moo
tail lo assuage its insaliaide rapacity
universal plunder? Cannot even the
reign ol universal anarchy ? It is as if G
should destroy every principle ofoohosi
uoie unit more conlirmi Mm nvi.-i,,.,n ...)
oil
on
in the piiysieni universe, und leave v
ery
.--(. - ."...v ... . nviMUj.. l( tjQ
inaction of all things. It j IU jf jc
should destroy pvery idea of subjection in
tho moral universe, and leave the passions
of men to work out all the hor.-nrs of in
..,,.. , i' '.,io loi-ee in ,r .- . .. .. ... .. ,
infinite disorder. !t is as the steady work- tle one hand, or its violence on the other;
ing of omnipotent force unto the produo- 'J. 'I he conduct of the I'cderal (invent
tiou of universal helplessness. It is, when ment t6war:!n those States ; us it may be
itshall pervade the earth, the lealiation lirm nod ) et tenipeiale, or as it may no
of tho conjectures of those who expound vacillating and timid: e. The encduCt of
the divine piedictions concertiing I he con- i the slave Stales eont inning in tho I 'nioii,
dition in Wiiich The &n Man wiil find :ts they miiy shnie the loudness o the six
all nations at his second coming tho uni- ' seceding States, or ns they m.iy arrest the
vers'd reign of lawlessness after tho uni- j pestilence at tho cotton line, and by their
versa! disintegration oi every element w j wisdom and course restore the Union;
pable of restraining it. W hat wo say is ' -1. The conduct of the free Slates, and c
not that theso results are inevitable : Hod pccially tho;e nlong the slave border ; as
lorbid ! Jlut we say they nro natural j tliey shall obst ina't ly persist in foment
they ure imminent they are far more to ing opinions ami performing net" i.oueli
bo apprehended than what has already oo- ' ing the wholt (juestion of the black race,
currod both in the North and in the ; iv hieh ( hey can now ckrly see must in
South, was to be (ipprehcnded thirty ' volvo tho country in one common ruin,
'cars ago. Ami we may say these things 'or as they, by a common consent, or by u
with a greater conliuenee, ol an insight ol
the teiilblo future, and a more eager he
seeching of our generation to beware ;
since during nior than thirty years we
have not ceased to lift up an' unheeded
testimony, both against the principles and
the i. roceedil'i's, both at the Noitli and at
the South
whose inghllul results tho
country is now beginning, to realize.
11. 1. I. el us now seek, art idst this
chaos, for some .round ol hope and rllort.
Throughout the eighteen free Mates, so
ciety is supposed to be under tbe control
ol the Republican party. As indicated
by the riesideutial election in November
last, it may be conceded that the majori
ty in all those States, did at that lime,
believe the election of Mr. Lincoln to the
1 1'iesideney, to be the best of the ulicrr.n
! tives then ollered to their choice; anil it
j may be further conceded, though it i not
strictly accurate, that, nt present, the lo
cal. I'olitical and military power, in all
those Stales, is in the hand
is in the minus ol I lie io.,
'publican party. Jnit it is alio true Hint a
i tuaioi it v in those States, numerically id -
most as large as Ihe entire voting popula- il ilu w hole nini; or even the greater
lion of the fifteen slave Slates, voted p art of them, embracing the leading ar.d
against Mr. Lincoln and are thoroughly powerful Stales, refuse to unite in the
opposed to the distinctive principles of movement taken by the six cotton Stales,
the republican party. It is also utide- that, movement must necessarily prove a
uiiiblo that a very huge number of those I'ailuio, both as to its avo.ved, and as t)
w ho voted tor Mr. Lincoln, nre far more any concealed object; a -nur.ter rcvolu
Whigs or Americans than they are li"-j tion in the cotton States b vomes pres.
publicans ; and it is equally certain that ently inevitable ; and those, cotton States
a very large number ol the Republican must ultimately Hccomtnad.ite themselves
party itself, strictly speaking, are patriot- j to the policy, whatever it may be. adopt 1
10 men, who, while they preferred the , ed by tln-'other and leading States i::
success of their party to the success of any stead of being able to force those far more
other party, prefer the peace, the prcs-! powerful than themselves, to follow
peritv, ami tho security of their country, blindly and scrv.lely a course disapproved
above anything that could be obtained by by them, and which rests lor its intimate
the triumph of their party, if any po- ! rer.son, upon nothing better than thesud
ilticul result in tho future, therefore, cm ' den caprice of South Carolina, or her
be considered certain, it is certain that a 'chronic hatred of the National Union.
revolution in opinion, more or less deci- j There are immense considerations, alio-
ded, w ill manifest ilselt throughout the
free States, whenever ihe issue is clearly J
i,ut to them between their country and
tiny political party. And H is equally
! certain, that what ever party shall hurry
those Slates, by w hatever means, into the
horrors of civil war, and the ang iish of
that impending anarchy of which we
have sunken, will perish bv a counter
I . ' . ' . . , , ,
rtviluuon, just as apt to no moony ' uei e
ns in any portion of 'he nation.
1. Iu the position of all the t lave States
there are peculiar circumstance.-, much
overlooked, both among themselves and
and others; hut r.evei tlielos decisive m
the Iciil' run. No lorco, however small,
but will accomplish its end, if sufficient
time be allowed-, even that which is inh
nitely miiiul il it operates through an
indefinite period. The six cotton States
appear to us to have taken their course in
: such a temper, with such purposes, upon
such principles, mid under such
conclusions, that they nei'.her
orcgon s
le-iie to
. ret m n to their forme;- position, nor would
t present agree to any thing that they
i believe would accomplish that result. 1 1
i s, 0f Cuui so. pnsdble that we are lilista-
' ;en iu this iaiufnl conclusion, and we
should heartily rejoice to Know ma. we
arc ; but, seeing no grouu 1 on w h'ch wo
' can doubt th it the ca.-e stands thus, no;-
1 t h-r do we sue any cm wiiich we can
1 avoid statine- our belief. It would be
gross injustice lo many thousands of pa-
triotio men in all the cotton maies, io
suppose that either of thnso States would
have been allowed to bike tho course it
has pu-siied, without a desperate, political
struggle in its own bosom, if the eircum-
-i. ,,,'.,. nf those
n.i en in each of those
States, had appeared to them to allow ol
resistance to the organized force which
sw?pt society away. There are also thou
sands of persons in all those States w ho
even now consider it a sland?r and a re
proach, that ulterior designs are ascribed
to those who direct this secession move
ment, which il seems apparent to all
mankind, except themselves, are. not on
ly certain to bo realized if the movement,
is permanently sustained, but which wero
amongst tho earliest and most powerful
causes of (he long cherished desire to be
relieved from the real restraints of the
rederal Government, ai.u the imaginary
perils an 1 injuries of the Federal Union.
In the actual condition of tho Sta'es
which have already seceded, as we under
stand (hat condition an. 1 the manner in
which it has Icon brought about, ive
deem it ported ly obvious that a counter
revolution must manifest itself iu every
one of them equally as decided, and
perhaps more violent, than the i evolution
vhicli has already ivcurod. That counter-revolution
may be in a direction mire
fatal bringing into uncontrolled power
parties wholly
possess it. It
onllt. nnd iinw' .rlhv to
nav be in r. direction enii-;
neitlv favoi-ii ,h to the security and pros-
perity of theso cotton States, and termin- drive matters to extremity in any diree
in their restoration to the Union, under tion.
tho lead of a party whose elements now; 1. Theo facts and considerations, taken
lie scattered, or even as yet totally undo- in detail and taken altogether, are wor
vcloned But tho. nrr-niit revolution, in thv of tho highest consideiiit ion : and
its vetv n iture, its causes, and its design
must go ueoper. in ono direction or ths
other. In uhirh direction, depends in
our opinion, in the fiist instance, in a
great deg'-ee, upon theso contingencies :
I. Tbe conduct of tho present ruling fac
tiou in those States; its fo: l;arauce oc
counter-revolution m their own bosom,
restore public opinion to it condition un
der which slave Stales may safely live in
peace w'.ih them. Under such circum..
stances it is easy to see, how great and
tldlicult is the task laid on true state- men,
everywhere, and how immense and how
. dubious are the issues submitted to them.
. i no remaining nine n'.ave Mates, ol
which live are border St.ites, and four me
mixed slave States, have in each of these
classes peculiarities as marked as those
w hieh distinguish the cotton States; yet
as the whole nine occupy a similar posi
tion at the present moment, with rcgurd
to the revolution which has swept over
tli? (.ot'on States, tliey may, for the sake
of brevity, be throvn together in develop
ing the great ideas 've are endeavoring to
di-close. What the exact, issue will be
in these ni.ie States or w hether it will
be similar in them all or in which direc
tion the revailing opinion will settle, if
dilleient lionises are taken are iiues-
tions w Inch it, is impossible to delei inine
at this time, lint it is very obvious, that
gelher independent of the real merits of
cf the great cause which is under tri ul
why the course dictated by South Caioli1
na, and adopted by the other eottuii
Stairs, should le steadfastly rejected.
Amongst these nr-3 s-ilcdl lis follow ; 1.
This method by secession ninihilutes the
very idea of all force in permanent consti
tutional union, or common government
I .11:1 . .
over sovereign .iatss, an i esiaonsnes us
inherent in nu possinte luture unions, nie
ide i of anarchy , ami deprives liberty for
ever of the possibility of le ing either
stable or strong : 2, The method of se
cession by grmrutc State .'iction, is found
ed on illusions utterly fatal and absurd,
Unit the Am
ericiin are not a natum I lie
Federal 'onstitutini not a government
the American people not bound to be
loyal except to lojal authorities, which
being assumed, condemns this eont incut
to bu the everlasting habitation of every
thing feeble factions and extravagant:
15. I he adojition of ordinances of seces
sion, by conventions called by ordinary
legislatures - without allowing tin peo
ple to determine by a previous sovereign
net whether or not tne convention s all
exist, and by a subseuuent sovereign act
-s, nether oi not its proceedings snai. nave
force des' roys the very idea of tho sov-
ereignty of the people, makes eonslitu-
tional liberty and security impossible, and
invites factions, in proportion as tley are
corrupt or incompetent, to usurp and to
abuse, sovereign power: -t. '.lie utier re
fusal to consult with Slates, all of which
were united by the highest human obliga
tions and many of w hich wero involved
iu perils the very same in kind and high
er in degree is a line of conduct, reck
less in itself, insulting to all others, ap
parently adopted with the. purpose of ren
dering all peaceful, eonsider.U.e, or tven
decoious arrangements impossible, and
necessarily jeopard, in the result reached.
Alio profitable continuance of slavery, it'i
not its very existence, in the greater part!
of the slave States, and amongst them the
most potvcrful, the most loyal, and the
most enlightened of them all. At tho J
present moment two most important
truths are perfectly distinct. The Ve' is,1
that fheactiiu hitherto txken in lb"'
States whose positions wo are now eon-
sideling, no matter what that action
may lead to involves a fundamental dis
sent from the conduct pursued by those
seceding States and contomph'.lcs re-
dress in a oliljerent way
and n 1 il
op y
po-
site principles. The ay. e. is, ileit a very
rcat port'n of'.fach of these '.' S;ates.prob
ably the majority of the people in most of
t heiii possibly in all oft liom,--are warm
ly alt u hod to the I'nion. are resolutely
d 'termined to maintain their loyalty to
that nation as their nation, at the same
time that they maintain their 1 ivalty to
the particular Slates
of which i hey are
more inclined to
citizens, line, are far
compose existing dilliculties. than to
whatever mo issue nt kvenis may ie, tney
reveal to ihe people an I to thoso they
trust, the grounds on which, and the
manner in w hich, Ihe country may In.
saved: and Ihey diseloso to posterity the
pregnant :md enduring truth, that at the
Utmost peril of the country the pc"i
would have saved it, if Ihey had been
braM'ly and wisely led. r'or under fair
and true statesmanship, the chances nre
more than eipial, in the VvC pneo, to ral'y
the immense unices ol the nine slave
Slates whose people are now pondering
their course, to such an action as w ill
make their poshing secure in the Union,
end satisfy them: . n the worn place, to
secure such a treat incut of t he subject ol
secession by tho federal Administration,
, in will ul once gi e ellic.icy to the laws,
! and avoid armed collision, except in re
j pelling lorco by force : in the Mm place,
tosetkand rciy upon tucl: a reaction
j among I he masses of the people i:i the
' free States, as will, by n common consent,
or if it becomes necessary, by nul ling
' from power those who stand i.i the way,
i make manifest the determination of those
masses to put an end to ths reign of that
atheistical and relently fanaticism, which
is tne original cause of the ruin that stares
'us nil in the face: and in the,'- irt d.iv
to expect and a wait with confidence, the
inevitaole counter-revolution in theStates
which have already seceded, which will
di.-abuse the minds ol men of the delu
sion thai the revolution there has been,
nstolhe popular masses, either spont.i..
neons or cordial, ami rest ire those States
to their tt ue position in the confederacy. 1 ol 'he ' resident win coniniunioUcd to
I. is in this manner that results, eqiidiy ' Major Anderson by u special messenger,
indispensable and glorious, are sittaiua'ile, I with instructions to open negotiations
re-ulis capa'.lo al-o. no doubt, of being I with the military nut iioritie- at Charles
defeale.i ; a'-.i that ways to various to .o j to carry the project into execution,
traced here. But when defeated, let us! These negotiations have been progress
never lorL'"t that they who defeat them ' '"g ever inee, and the numero js nu-seii-w
ill share in full measure u ith us, nllg-is that have been pa'sing netween
I resent evils, and will bear alone t he e.-j t 'Inu lesion and Washington have eoni
t orations of po.teritv. And when de- munieiitcd to Major Anderson the in
f'e.ited. what will remain for this eetiera" I si ructions of the (iovernnjent and to the.
lion will be to iv,i!i;'
that frightful condili
thi calamities ol
we have traced
in th
minieneeir.eiit of this paper :--or,
as we have attempied to show on x loriu
occasion, to construct even upon the line
between the free and the sluve States, a
new and central power competent at
once to preserve all cur institutions, to
devidope our national nioirioss. and todi-
reet the destinies of this continent.
., - -
A irozen bnip.
A whaling vessel, tvhich sailed from
London in the year ISM, found in the
1'olar 80S, a ship imbedded in the ice,
with sails furled, and no signs of life on
board. Tho captain and some of the
crew descending lino uieeainn, ion nd
coiled upon the floor a lar.o Ne.vfuund-!
laud do, apparently asleep, hut w hen ,
they touched il they found tin animal '
fro.o us hard as a stone. In the cabin j
was a young lady seated at a table, her
eyes open ns if gazing at (he intruders in
that desolate place. She was a eoi pso ! "
and had been frozen in an apparently re-
signodjind religions- altitude. Beside her j
was a young man, v ho it appeared v as
commander of lh brig, ami brother toj
the lady. IB- was sitting at the table, I
dt ad, ami before hi n was a sheet of paper, :
on which was written, "oarcodv lias en !
deavoied to strike a light since yesterday
morning, but in vain ; all is now over. '
In another part of Ihe cabi a stood the
cook, with tin flint and tinder in hand.
troen, m trie vain endeavor to strike t l.ve ; kv hen (jen. lies uregard iniimaied to ;ni
fire that could aloue sav them. Toe jor A nderson t hat, if lh demand of tho
terrors ot the seamen led the captain
ficni the spot, who took with him the
log book as the sole memento of the ill -
fated ship. It appeared thai she also was
from Loudon, and had been dozen iu that
pliU'e out fuuj'tTii years.
A Lomi-Lost Sox 1'i.m ovrni n. An
lint boy was stolen from his father and
mother at M. Louis, nearly 111 years ago,
by a hunter w ho hail lo-t his w ile mid
child and "wanted something that wouid
love him." He hurried the child into the
wilderness, employed a half-breed woman
to nurse it, and not until recently v.-as its
long bt leaved mother able to obtain any
definite information of her missing son,
She had become a widow, and had lived
jo Albany, Koches-tor. Buffalo, I VI roil, and
other places " seeking rest and finding
none.'' By means of a young spoiling
friend, w ho fi e.iuently met the old hun
ter mill his w ard in tin, far west, and ad '
roitiy cross questioned him.jhe truth was
ascel lamed, and the mother and son
were last week reunited k.l l.Vtroit, alter
a sepal a', ion ol'alniost a quarter of a e
11
tuiv. The poor woman's hair hail grown
white with ago and anxiety, ami her
son will now gladly adopt civilized habits.
Stwii it v i it k oi.D Fi.au. Now that war
has commenced no matter who is nt
fault it is the duty of nil our citizens,
iiM-csp(M-'iive of party, lo stand by ,ho old
Hag, with its glorious stars ami stripes,
and support the Goveriiuioir. in all prop
er anil legiiimalo efforts to hi ing the con
test to a suecos-l'iil issue. The lirst blow
was struck l the Seees-'ioiiisis, and now
it becomes the duty of every pa! riot to
lend his al'i m su-taining the honor ol
ceir common conn try . I i' w e have a Gov
ernment that is eipable of protecting and
perpetuating itscll, tiiis is tho time lo ex
ert its strength, and the people must
st.uu 'iy it no matter w ho is at tne helm.
We go for our counlry, our whole country
ami nothing but cur country. J.nnrns'ir
Inlrl.
Iru r.Mtim N km spa or. its. Small is the
sum that is required lo patronize a licj's
paper, and amply lewaiilcd is its patron,
I care pot Low humble, and unpretending
I lie l'Wette w hi.'h he lakes. It is next lo
impossible to fill a .sheet with printed mat-
ter without putting into ir something that
is worth the subscription price, hvorv
parent whoso son is away from home al
school, should supply him wi;h a newspa
per. 1 well remember what a marked dif
ference there was between tho-o of my
schoolmates who had, and those who had
not access lo newspapers. I il'ter (hings
being equal, (he lirst were always supcii jr
tolholast il. debate, composition and gen
eral intelligence,---Un 'L W'dxt.-r.
(I'ton, i ln llrri-h-ir.; Patriot A I'nion)
Events Preceding the Asnault upon
Fort Sumter
The leal destination and object of the
fleet sent by ihe ( iovel n men t to the
South, as well as the natnreof the nego
liidions which proceeded (he nlliick cf
tbe ( 'onfederatc butteries upon Fori Sum
ter, is still involved in doubt ami uncer
tainty. All we know is (hat several ves
sels e; osed the bar find entered the har
bor of Charleston, while (ho battle was
progressing, viihout striking a blow or
altrnipting to nllord assistance to Ihe be
leaguered garrison. Their intruelion
inav luive prevented them from taking
any part in (he conllict. 'Ihe following
narrative, published jn the Jlalt imoi e
Aiiiriii-iin before tho assault upon Sumter,
gives the most sir. igh t forward and plaus
ible account of the events preceding that
transaction :
Nearly four weeks since the l'resideut
and Cabinet, on the representation of
(ion. Scot I, decided to evacuate Fort Sum
ter as a military necessity that is to say,
the reinloieiiig uud provisioning of it was
not deemed es-enlial, in view of the cost
ol brood and trcasur it would require t"
aci oinplish the purpose. This decision
l'l i'sidenl the demands of the authorities
"' 1 '"! Sout neru (. onie.le racy . It is un
derstood that Major Anderson refused,
umlcr instrnciioiis, un unconditional sur
rcuder of the fortress to the Confederacy,
but proposed to abandon it with his garri
son, leaving the i'ott in possession of a
corporal aim iwu privates, to prou-c. me
!"q ci ty of the Government, and leave it
jthus to j-.vail luture rreuU. He is ifJs
under-looil to have deniantled of (ieneral
j Beauregard that a pledge should bo giveu
I him that no attempt should bemad to
take possession of it a fie? the evacuation
of tho garrison, and that he ollieer left in
' charge should not be molested, or his fos.
session as the nominal representative of
l lie riovernineni iiiteriereu wiiu.
This proposition did net moot the views
of tieiieial B":ojregard. -""die demanded
I hat the Hag o ' the United States should
be saluted an 1 low ered, as was done a', the
IVnsacola Navy Yard, and (hat a formal
surrender of the fort should be made by
t he Government of (In United States to
the Government of the Sou then Confeder
acy, and the Con lederacy Ihig of seven stars
raised on the Hag M;;U and saluted,
This demand, which would be a virtual
recognition by the President and Major
A mho sou of I lie ei'jsUnoe of the Sot hern
( 'on lederacy, was firmly refused, and the
decision ol Maj. Anders jj w as subsequent
ly .sustained mid approved by the i'resi
lieiit and his Caoinel. Thus matters stood
up to lie c I'linieneenieni of hut .veok,
i onledoraev v;is not oompin-d witu, fiu
order would be immediately issued to cut
'otl all further communication between
ihe fort and Churlc-lon, and (nat his reg-
' uhir supplies of inaijjeting would be ttop.
'p-'.!. 1 Ii is fact was brought to Washing
ton by Colonel Linioti. as tho ultimatum
'" ol the Confederacy. A Cabinet mectill?
was then called, and it is said that tin
lei'u-.;.; to make a formal serrender of the
fi.'i-t und the lowering i.d' the t! ig was un
ani non-1 v re-alli meij.
Immediately after this decision orders
wore given lor the military and naval
pr- mi at ions that have since o-oasioneoj
-o much excitem 'lit, the object lejg tu
use llieni if ru'cessary in jvlicviui; the
garrison of Major Aulerson troni threat
eijod sbn vat ii.'ti, ami njaiut lining the dig
nity ul the (iov erniiient and the honor of
the ll.igiu Charh'ston harbjr ; or, if not
required there, to dispatch the expedi
tion to Texas to main! alu t..e treaty
stipulations cd' (he Gov,?rr.uient on thu
frou.t.ier, and drive back the Indians and
Mexi j.is w ho j llirmtening to invadti
liheStute.
In the nie.intiine Lieut. Talbot ws dis
patched by Major Anderson, to Washing
ton w ith turl h'T information as to Ihu
condition of alliiirs, in w hich iiimorbays
that Major Anderson urged the Govurn
ineiit not to allow the flag w hu h he had
so long maintained in the face of his be
siigors to be humbled as they required--an
I to compel the galh'iit men w ho had
-nii 1 ) jjobly by 1 1 1 1 n , mclud.ng the me
chanics wle could have loft him il tliev
had desired, to witness the bitnjjliatinij
"'rd't any Hag t.ul that ol t W ir euun.ry
(.lolling Iroin us b it tletijeijts.
'fills areouul Ijvt tier stales thu.t u. soon
as information was ree"ived at Washing,
ton tjj dtien. Beauregard had cut oft' the
supplies from Fori Sumter, the President
dispatched a messenger to 'iiarleston,
.villi instruct ion-- to Major An orotj ti
nitifvthe Confederate authorities lh:ii
the Government propo'eo immediately to
di-pati h en unarmed vessel with fool for
the ga.iis'in at I'm t ."'muter: and that Im
was instructed, if the vessel should he
fired upon, to return tlie lire from tin
fort. The ine.-seiiger an ived at Charles
ton, but was denied the oppi.rtuuity of
communicating with Fort Sumter. V.
know w hat ol owed. Tho expedition
started fVo.n New York, and immediately
the s saion batteries opened upon Korj
Suuiioi . w hich, in its almost defenceless
condition, wiis cninpellod lo surretj
dor.
This acoount, which is cortainiy plilj ('
bio nu d eoijijstent, will, if it turns out t
be coiroet. surtc to explain the apparent
change of policy oil the pu t of the A'l
iuiiii iratio-i will-, rclcum.N. j, J,hnevnca-
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