Whole No. 2663.
BEAD! READ! READ!
4HM M M
'• Is there a man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
My own, my native land !"
I Xl> now, when patriots look for the ear
jX. ly return of peace and prosperity and a
general resumption of business with assur
ance, we are pleased to inform the public
tint a large, new, and carefully selected stock
0 f goods has just been opened at the Old
Slaiul of JOHN KENNEDY &, Co., comprising
:4 general assortment of
Pry Goods, Groceries. Stone and
Queensware, Willow and
Cedar Ware,
Fifh, Salt, Ham, Shoulder, Flitch and
Fried lieef,
Cheese, Sugars, Syrups, Coffee, Teas, Spices,
Snaps, Tobacco, Segars, Dried Fruit, Turpen
tine and Paints of all kind-, Linseed Oil,
Fish Oil, Putty and Window Glass, Coal Oil!
and a large assortment of
Coal Oil Lamps and Chimneys.
Our Stock will be sold at a small advance
to Country Merchants. As we buy for cash,
and in large quantities, we sell LOW.
Country Produce taken in Ex
change for Goods.
Remember, one door below die Black Bear
Hotel. JOHN' KENNEDY, A<-t.
April IG, 1862—1y
PATENT
COAL OIL GREASE.
'PH.IS Grease is made from COAL OIL,
L and has been found by repeated tests
to be the most economical, and at the
same time the best lubricator for Mill
Gearing, Stages, Wagons, Carts, Carriages,
Vehicles of all kinds, and all heavy bearings,
keeping the axles always cool, and not requir
ing them to be looked alter for weeks. It lias
been tested on railroad ears, and with one
soaking of the waste it has run, with the cars,
■JtMKX) miles ! All railroad, omnibus, livery
stable and Kxpress companies that have tried
it pronounce it the neplus ultra.
It combines the body and lluidity of tallow,
beeswax and tar, and unlike general lubrica
tars, will not run off, it being warranted to
ttand any temperature.
1 have it in boxes 2Jto 10 lbs. Also kegs
and barrels from JO to dOO His. for general
use and sale. Ihe boxes are more prefera
ble; they are G inches in dhimeter by 2J inches
deep, and hold 2} lbs net; the boxes are clean,
and hardly a carman, teamster, expressman,
miller or farmer, that would not purchase
one box for trial. F. G. Fit AXC ISC Lis.
Lcwistown, February 12, ISG2.
LEWISTOWN BAKERY,
Wfd Tlarkct Street, nearly ooposite the
Jail.
/ 10X11 All I LLUIOII. JR. would res pee t-
V fully inborn his old customers and eiti
ns generally that he continues the Baking
BREAD, CAKES, &E.,
at the above stand, where those articles can
he procured fresh every day.
Families desiring Bread, Jtc. will be sup
plied at their dwellings in any part of town,
i'ruit, Pound, Spunge, and all other kinds of
cuke, of any size desired, baked to order at
jhort notice.
Lewistown, February 20, 1802-ly
AMBROTYPES
AND
aai&aiaisrewas.
The Gems of the Season.
'PHIS is no humbug, but a practical truth.
X l ire pictures taken by Mr. Burkholder
are unsurpassed for BOLDNESS. TItUTII-
I I XXESS. BEAUTY OF FINISH, and
Id LABILITY. Prices varying according
to size and quality of frames and Cases.
Loom over the Express Office.
Lewistown, August 23, 1800.
WILLIAM LIND,
has now open
A NEW STOCK
OF
Cloths, Cassimeres
AND
VESTINGS,
which will be made up to order in the neat
66t and most fashionable styles. apl9
ffl a kt w a is as
TIN WARES!
CIOUNTRY MERCHANTS in want of Tin
> Ware will find it to their advantage to
purchase of J. B. Selheimer, who will sell
them a better article, and as cheap if not
cheaper than they can purchase it in any of
the eastern cities. Call and see bis new stock
Lewistown, April 23, 1862-ly.
m* & Wmi*
233 £2 "CP
OFFICE on East Market street, Lewistown,
adjoining F. G. Franciscus' Hardware
•Store. P. S. Dr. Locke will be at his office
the first Monday of each month to spend the
week. my 31
I AA DOZEN Coal Oil Chimueys, Wicks,
1 VU Brushes, <&c., for sale at city whole
sale prices to retailers, by
mhl2 F. G. FRANCISCUS.
HAMS —An excellent article at 10 cents pe
lb., for sale by MARKS A WILLIS.
Lewistown, April 30, 1862.
graartruig) AHS) ggaaasaiaß) a? ffmisssjsaißa mtmsmim3 9 HnnHyaasr &,
IHE HIHSTMi.
From the Atlantic Mouthlv
OUT OF THE BODY TO GOD.
Wearily, wearily, wearily;
.Sobbing through space like a south-wind,
r touting in limitless ether,
Kther unbounded, unfathomed,
w hero is no upward nor downward,
... nor shallow, nor shore? *
Wearily floating and sobbing.
Out of the body to (jiod!
host in the spaces of blankuess,
J.ost ill the deepening abysses.
Haunted and tracked by "the past:
No more sweet human caresses.
No more the springing of morning,
Never again trom the present
Into a future beguiled:
I.onely. deiiled. and despairing,
Out ot the body to God!
Heeling, and tearless, and desperate,
On through the quiet of ether,
Ilelph'ss. alone, and forsaken,
faithless in ignorant anguish,
faithless of gasping repentance.
-measuring Him by thy measure, —
Measure of need anu desert, —
Out of the body to God !
Soli through the starless abysses,
•Sott as the breath of the summer
Loosens the chains of the river.
•Sweeping it free to the sea.
Murmurs a murmur of peace :
■ ui the deepness of heaven
r tiniest thou shallow or shore?
Hast thou beat madly on limit;
Hast thou been stayed in thy tleein
Out of the bodV to God!
"1 hou that hast known Me in spaces
Boundless, untraversed, uiilathomed,
llast thou not known Me in love?
Am I, Creator and Guider,
Less than My kingdom and work?
Come. O tliou weary and desolate!
Come to the heart of thy Father
Home from thy wanderings weary.
Home from the lust, to the Loving,
Out of the body to God !"
1-Miti-d i>y A. Smith, County Superintendent.
For the Educational Column.
Human Rights.
It seetus well enough, at a time when so
much is said about 4 liberty' and ( human
rights,' to occupy the Educational Column
for once with some inquiries concerning the
origin and extent of this liberty and these
rights. \V e are in the midst of an epoch
ful of human interest, and pregnant with
results that will advance our country to a
loftier career, a more wholesome prosperity,
a larger liberty, and a diviner destiny than
the world has ever seen or dreamed of, —•
except the large-hearted, prophetic souls
that believe in the constant working of a
moral purpose throughout all the agitations
oi society and the petty aims which engross
the thought of the majority of mankind ;
or will blot out our nation from the list of
leading powers, and loaVe us to be only a
byword for all time to come.
So it concerns us to understand what lib
crty is, and what constitutes the basis of
our rights.
It is sometimes loosely claimed that ev
erything God has made was designed to be
free, and that the fact of our being created
by Him is the foundation of our right to
equal Ircedom with other men. Rut this
is altogether too generous; a horse is crea
ted by a divine power, as much as a man.
and on this hypothesis, is entitled to equal
freedom. The absurdity of the statement
is obvious; for no one considers it any in
justice to the horse, to make him the serv
ant of man, if he be treated kindly. That
seems to be the object of his creation, to
find his enjoyment in lending his strong,
fleet limbs to the service of a kind master.
The same is true, to a greater or less ex
tent, of all animals ; the common voice of
humanity pronounces them servants of man
kind—as for food, clothing, labor, amuse
ment or mere adornment.
Not so in regard to man. Though al
most every race has in its turn been sub
ject to servitude, though millions are held
in unrequited service to-day, the almost
unanimous voice of humanity protests
against it, as repulsive to human conscience,
as odious in the sight of Heaven. To be
sure, there arc apologists and even strenu
ous advocates of the practice, but history
proves that it is opposed to the humane and
generous sentiments, as well as the moral
convictions, of our nature.
This general voice against the practice
of depriving any innocent persons of equal
rights with others, cannot be the result
of caprice or of accident; it testifies to some
thing in human nature that requires free
dom for its proper growth and enjoyment,
to something in each over which no other
has rightful control. And this is the basis
of all rights, the title to freedom; it is hu
man nature itself, —the powers, thoughts,
hopes, affections —or that interior essence
which urges those powers, developes those
thoughts, cherishes those hopes, and kin
dles those affections —which distinguish
men from brutes. By common consent,
these and similar characteristics are the
stamp of humanity. He who possesses
them is, by virtue of such possesion, a man,
and entitled to all those rights and immu
nities which belong to men. Even though
he possess these distinctive elements of hu
man nature in a smaller measure or a less
developed degree than the average of men,
be does not thereby forfeit his claim to be
regarded and treated as a man; only crime
can work a rightful forfeiture of this claim
and of that liberty which common conscience
pronounces the birthright of all. Any vi
olation of another's rights on the ground
of assumed superiority —whether of intel
lect, or character, or of person merely, is
an outrage agaiost the essential rights of
humanity; aod he who oomrcitß such viol&-
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1862.
tion knowingly and voluntarily, distinctly
declares himself an eneuiy to his race. lie
may veil his act uuder pretty names, and
claim for it a divine sanction, but he is
still an unblushing foe to mankind. For
it is the unquestioned right of every hu
man being to increase in wisdom, to grow
in spiritual knowledge and strength, to be
come vigorous in will to do right, to exer
cise perfect self-control; —and to accomplish
all this, it is absolutely necessary that there
be tor every one—for the weakest yet more
than the strongest—perfect freedom both of
body and of spirit, liberty to use the phys
ical powers as conscience and phi 1-
anthropy dictate, and to employ the in
tellectual and moral faculties in a manner
corresponding to the duties and dignity and
destiny of an immortal being. 8.
WAR HIWI.
THE BATTLE BEFORE RICHMOND.
i lehl oj battle before Richmond, )
SiJNDAr, June 1, 18G2. j
A battle before Richmond has at last
put to the tesi the Rebel boasts as to what
they would do with Gen. McClellan's army
when they should get it beyond the protec
tion ol the gunboats. Though the advan
tage of a sudden movement, against the
weakest point iu our lines, gave the enemy
a temporary success, the final result has
not been such as to afford encouragement
to their disheartened and demoralized
troops, or occasion any fears as to our ulti
mate possession of the Rebel Capital.
The attack commenced shortly before 1
o'clock on Saturday, on the left wing of
the army, on the further or south side of
the Chickahominy, where the advance posi
tion was held by the division of General
Casey, much the weakest in the army, com
posed almost entirely of raw rey intents, and
reduced by disease to an effective force of
some 6,000 men.
The vigor with which the enemy pres
sed forward to the attack indicated the
confidence of superior strength. A battal
ion of two regiments pressed against Gen.
Naglee on the right, another fell on Gen
eral \\ assell at tlie centre, and a third on
General Calmer to thellet,f t, pouring in at
once a fire hot and heavy, and advancing
with great resolution in face of the steady
fire of canister and grape from the rear,
mowing down their ranks in all directions.
'1 he Rebels had but little artillery, and
wore evidently disposed to make good the
deficiency by pressing to close quarters by
weight of numbers the feeble skeleton reg
iments ol three and four hundred men who
composed the advanced division.
Most of Gen. Casey's troops were thrown
forward to the edge of the woods in front
of his.position to meet the advance of the
Rebels, a few regiments being left behind
the partially completed rifle-pits, a short
distance to the rear. Thus a division near
ly new to warfare was suddenly exposed,
in an opeu field, to the heaviest of fire from
an enemy covered to a considerable extent
by the woods through which they were ad
vancing. Terrible the tempest raged, the
air almost growing thick with musket
balls; officer after officer fell, or was borne
from the field a wounded man; the men
dropped by scores, and the usual number
of weak-jointed ones were falling to the
rear. Rut spite of the rapid thinning of
their ranks, the regiments generally held
their ground until the enemy succeeded in
rushing around on the left flank, and
poured in an enfilading fire from that di
rection, against which the rifle-pits were
no protection. The sixty rounds of am
munition with which they entered the fight
were nearly exhausted, and no more was at
hand.
Arrival of Reinforcements.
Meantime one of Gen. Couch's brigades,
commanded by Gen. Abecrombie, was or
dered up to the support of Gen. Naglee on
the right, General Devens, ef the same di
vision, sustaining Gen. Wasseil on the cen
tre, and Gen. Peck, with the remaining
brigade, supporting Gen- Palmer on the
left. When Gen. Casey's troops were
forced to give way, the Rebels fell on these
brigades of Coueh's Division, who disputed
every inch of ground, until sustained by
Geq. Kearney, pressing up the Williams
burg road with reinforcements to meet
them, supported by the division of Gen.
Pooker in his rear. Pressing rapidly for
ward, Gen. Kearney advanced along the
Williamsburg road to within a short dis
tance of our original position, where he bi
vouacked for the night in front of the ene
my.
It was along this Williamsburg road that
the main attack was made, and here our
troops were forced baek for half a mile or
more, before the arrival of Gen. Ileintzel
man's corps, tho leeble brigades of Casey's
Division, averaging less than 2,000 men,
being completely broken up, many, if not
most of the officers killed, wounded or mis
sing, and the privates scattered through
the woods and along the road. Bravely and
well did General Casey do his duty, pres
sing on to the extreme front and cheering
on his men, regardless of the storm of fire
and hail that raged about him, cutting
down his officers on all sides but strangely
escaping his own person. Bravely and
well did most of his officers stand by him,
until, one after auother, they borne
from the field dead or wounded.
The Loss of Artillery.
Colonel Bailey, Chief of Artillery, was
shot early in the afternoon, the ball strik
ing hint in the head and causing his death
alter a short period of insensibility. Maj
Van Vaultenburg, the second in command
of the First New Vork Artillery, was kil
led, Adjutant William Ramsay wounded,
while every battery but one lost its quota
of men, and some of them lost nearly all
their horses. Bates' Battery of Napoleon
guns—l2-pound brass pieces—which was
to the front, thus deprived of locomotion
and stuck fast in the mud, was left behind
in the retirement of our troops, but not un
til General Xaglee had taken it upou him
self to see thut several of the pieces were
spiked. In addition to this, one 3-inch
Parrot gun of Battery H was disabled by
a shot, and fell into the hands of the ene
my. The Pennsylvania Reserve Battery,
of Couch's Division, also lost one of their
guns- these eight pieces of ordnance consti
tuting our entire loss, so far as I could learn.
We can better afford to spare the pieces
than we can afford to have the Rebels prof
it by their gain. They show every indi
cation of being much in want of artillery,
and the need is evidently stimulating their
efforts to profit by the chances of war to
possess themselves of our guns.
Gen. Sumner's Advance.
Meanwhile Gen. Sumner had succeeded
in bringing his troops across the Chickahom
iny, and was' advancing on the right to
maintain our position there where less
ground had been lost. After several days
of labor, (Jen. Sumner had thrown two
bridges across the creek between Bottom's
Bridge and New Bridge, where local re
ports held it to be impossible to find any
foundation for piles to support the super
structures. One of these bridges was some
two miles above Bottom's Bridge, and tho
other a mile further up the stream. The
lower of these was carried away during the
heavy storm of Friday night, and Gen.
Sumner was obliged to depend upon a sin
gle shaky structure for the passage of his
troops, who nearly all, however, succeeded
in crossing that night, the head of the col
umn reaching the Nine mile road, along
which the Rebels were pressing our troops,
at about 7 o'clock, holding the enemy in
check for the night, preventing them from
following up in that direction the advan
tage they had gained during the day.
The Fiyht on Sunday.
Flushed with t"'etr seeming victory of
Saturday the Rebels awoke with confidence
on Sunday to follow up their movements,
sure of driving us this time to the Chick
ahominy and beyond. But they had made
the unfortunate mistake of estimating the
strength of our reserves by the weakness
of our advance. Most bitterly did they pay
for their mistake. Pressing eagerly for
ward with confidence of victory, they were
met by the trained troops of ileintzcliuan
and Sumner, whose unyielding columns
checked their fierce assault, turning the
tide of battle everywhere against them,u/tc/
forciny them at the point of the bayonet on
toicard Richmond It was their turn now
to break and run, and their losses of the
Sabbath left them little cause for rejoicing
over the trifling gain of Saturday. Ter
rible also to them were the frequent char
ges of our solid colums, pressing them back
step by step, to the lust point of endurance,
when they broke and run, ingloriously leav
ing behind them many of their men and of
ficers, as well as privates, prisoners in our
hands. The number of these it is not yet
possible to ascertain, several days neces
sarily elapsing after every engagement be
fore a full inventory can be taken.
JffieEttASEOfß.
The Presbyterian Church on the War.
We publish below a very able and im
portant document on the state of the coun
try, and bespeak for it the attentive perusal
of our readers. It was prepared by that
able and unflinching friend of the Union,
in Kentucky, Rev. J. Breckinridge, D. D.
to his talents, influence, and efforts, per
haps, more than to any other man, was ow
ing the stand taken by Kentucky for the
Union and against rebellion. And because
of his efforts in this behalf has he been so
much persecuted and greatly villified. But
he has manfully braved all, and has the
consolation of seeing his native and loved
State standing by the stars and stripes for
their defence.
The paper was prepared by him, and pre
sented for the adoption of the General As
sembly of the Presbyterian Church, (Old
School,) of which he was a member, and
in which he is an able minister and Theo
logical Professor. That body held its an
nual meeting at Columbus, Ohio, during
the last month, when and where this paper
was presented, fully and ably discussed, and
passed without amendment by a vote of 206
to 20.
Taking into view the ability of the pa
per, the character of the body, (aoknowl
edged to be one of the most venerable,
learned, and pious ecclesiastical budics in
the world,) and the large majority by which
the document was passed, it cannot but
have great weight with the public. Histo
ry will doubtless record this paper as one
of the deliverances of this eventful period,
worthy of preservation; and be cited in
coming ages as the evidence of the loyalty
and high-toned patriotism ot the Church
which Ink? passed it:
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in the Luited States of America, now
in session at Columbus, in the State of Ohio
—considering the unhappy condition of the
country in the midst of a bloody civil war,
and of the Church agitated everywhere, divi
ded in sentiment in many places, and openly
assailed by schism in a large section of it;
considering also the duty which this chief
Tribunal, met in the name and by the author
ity of the glorified Saviuur of siuuers, who is
also the Sovereign lluler of all things, owes
to him our Head and Lord, and to his flock
committed to our charge, and to the people
whom we are commissioned to evangelize, and
to the civil authorities who exist by his ap
pointment, do hereby, in this Deliverance,
give utterance to our solemn convictious and
our deliberate judgment, touchiug the mat
ters herein set forth, that they serve for the
guidance of all over whom the Loid Christ
has given us any office of instruction, or any
power of Government.
I. Peace is amongst the very highest tem
poral blessings of the Church, as well as of
all mankind ; and public order is one of the
first necessities of the spiritual as well as the
Civil Commonwealth. Peace has been wick
edly superseded by war, in its worst form,
throughout the whole land ; ucd public order
has been wickedly superseded by rebellion,
anarchy, and violence, in the whole Southern
portion of the Union. All this has been
brought to pass in a disloyal and traitorous
attempt to overthrow the National Govern
eminent by military force, and to divide the
nation contrary to the wishes of the immense
majority of the people of the nation, and
without satisfactory evidence that the major
ity of the people in whom the local sover
eignty resided, even in the States which re
volted, ever authorized any such proceeding,
or ever approved the fraud and violence by
which this horrible treason has achieved what
ever success it has had. This whole treason,
rebellion, anarchy, fraud, and violence, is ut
terly contrary to the dictates of natural reli
gion and morality, and is plainly condemned
by the revealed will of God. It is the clear
and solemn duty of the National Government
to preserve, at whatever cost, the national Un
ion and Constitution, to maintain the laws in
their supremacy, to crush force by force, and
to restore the reign of public order and peace
to the entire nation, by whatever lawful means
that .are necessary thereunto. And it is the
bounden duty ot ail people who compose this
great nation, each one in his several place
and degree, to uphold the Federal Government,
and every State government, and all persons
in authority, whether civil or military, in all
their lawful and proper acts, unto the end
herein before set forth.
11. The Church of Christ has no authority
from him to make rebellion, or to counsel
treason, or to favor anarchy in any case what
ever. On the contrary, every follower of
Christ has the personal liberty bestowed on
him by Christ, to submit, for the sake of
Christ, according to his own conscientious
sense of duty, to whatever government, how
ever bad, under which his lot may be cast.
But while patient suffering for Christ's sake
can never be sinful; treason, rebellion, and
anarchy may be sinful—most generally, per
haps, are sinful; and probably are always and
necessarily sinful, in all free countries where
the power to change the government by voting,
in the place of force, which exists as a common j
right constitutionally secured to the people, ]
who are sovereign. If in any case treason,
rebellion, and anarchy can possibly be sinful,
they are so in the case now desolating large
portions of this nation, and laying waste great
numbers of Christian congregations, and
fatally obstructing every good word and work
in those regions. To the Christian people,
scattered throughout those unfortunateregions,
and who have been left of God to have any
hand in bringing on those terrible calamities,
we earnestly address words of exhortation and
rebuke as unto brethren who have sinned ex
ceedingly, and whom God calls to repentance
by fearful judgments. To those in like cir
cumstances who are but chargeable with the
sins, which have brought such calamities up
on the land, but who have chosen, in the ex
ercise of their Christain liberty, to stand in
their lot, and suffer, we address words of sym
pathy, praying God to bring them off conque
rors. To those in like circumstances, who
have taken their lives in their hands, and
risked all for their country, and for conscience'
sake, we say we love such with all our heart,
and bless God such witnesses were found in 1
the time of thick darkness. We fear, and we '
record it with great grief, that the Church of
God, and the Christian people, to a great ex
tent and throughout all the revolted States,
have done many things that ought not to
have been done, and have left undone much
that ought to have been done, in this time of
trial, rebuke, and blasphemy; but concerning
the wide chism which is reported to have oc
curred in many Southern synods, this Assem
bly will take no action at this time. Jtdeclares,
however, its fixed purpose, under all possiblo
circumstances, to labor for the extension and
the permanent maintenance of the Church
undsr its care, in every part of the United
States. Schism, so far as it may exist, we
hope to see healed. If that cannot be, it will
be disregarded.
111. We record our gratitude to God for the
prevailing unity of sentiment, and general
internal peace, which have characterized the
Church in the States that have not revolted,
embracing a great majority of the ministers,
congregations, and people under our care. It
may still be called, with emphasis, a loyal,
orthodox, and pious Church ; and a]l its acts
and works indicate its right to a title so noble.
Let it strive for divine grace to maintain that
good report. In some respects the interests
of the Church of God are very different from
New Series-Vol. XVI, No. 32.
tbowj of all civil institutions. Whatever may
befall this, or any other nation, theChurchof
Christ must abide on earth, triumphant even
over the gates of hell. It i 9 therefore of su
preme importance that the church should
guard itself from internal alienations and
divisions, founded upon questions and inter
ests that are external as to her, and which
ought not, by their necessary workings, to
cause her fate to depend on the fate of things
less important and less enduring than herself.
Disturbers of the Church ought not to be al
lowed—especially disturbers of the Church in
States that never revolted, or that have been
cleared of armed rebels —disturbers who,
under many false pretexts, may promote dis
content, disloyalty, and general alienation,
tending to the unsetting of ministers, to local
schisms, and to manifold trouble. Let a spirit
ot quietness, of mutual forbearance, and of
ready obedience to authority, both civil and
ecclesiastical, illustrate the loyalty, the ortho
doxy, and the piety of the Church. It is
more especially to ministers of the gospel, and,
amongst them, particularly to any whose first
impressions had been, on any account, favor
able to a terrible military revolution which
has been attempted, and which God's provi
dence has hitherto signally rebuked, that these
decisive considerations ought to be addressed.
And in the name and by the authority of the
Lord Jesus we earnestly exhort all who love
God, or fear his wrath, to turn a deaf ear to
all counsels and suggestions, that tend towards
a reaction favorable to disloalty, schism, or
disturbance either in the Church or in the
Country. There is hardly anything more
inexcusable connected with the frightful con
spiracy against which we testify, than the
conduct of those office bearers and members
of the Church who, although citizens of loyal
States, and subject to the control of loyal,
Presbyteries and Synods, have been faithless
to all authority, human and divine, to which
tbey owed subjection. Nor should any to
whom this Deliverance may come fail to bear
in mind that it is not only their outward con
duct concerning which they ought to take
heed, but it is also, and especially, their heart,
their temper, and their motives in the sight
of God, and towards the free and beuefioeut
civil Government which he has blessed us
withal, and toward the spiritual common
wealth to which they are subject in the Lord.
In all these respects, we must all give account,
to God in the Great day. And it is in view
of our own dread responsibility to the J edge
ot quick and dead that we now make this
Deliverance.
Parson Brownlow and Yancy
Duriug a recent speech of Browulow'a
delivered at New York, he referred to the
above notorious traitor and villain, as fol
lows :
But a few weeks prior to the last Presi
dential election the disunion papers an
nounced the great bull of the whole dis
union flock to speak at Ivnoxville—a man,
the two iirst letters of his name are W. L.
Yancey—a fellow that the Governor of
South Carolina pardoned from the State
prison for murdering his uncle, Dr. Earle.
He was announced to speak, and the
crowd was two to one Union men. I had
never spoken to him in all my life. He
called out in an insolent manner, ' Is Par
sou Brownlow in the crowd V The disun
ionists halloed out,' Yes, he is here.' ' I
hope,' said he, 'the Parson will have the
nerve to come upon the stand and have me
catechise him.' 'No,' said tlio Breckin
ridge secessionists. Yes, geutiemen, wo
had four tickets in the field in the last
race —Lincoln and Ilamlin, Bell and Ev
erett —the Bell and Everett ticket was a
kind of kangaroo ticket, with all tho
strength in its legs—[great laughter]—
and there was a Douglas and Johnson and
a Breckiuridge and Lane ticket. As God
is my judge, that was the meanest and
shabbiest ticket of the four that were in
the field. Lincoln was elected fairly and
squarely under the forms of law and tho
constitution, and though I was not a Lin
coln man, yet I gave in t the will of the
majority. [Cheers.] The Parson then,
resumed his story : But the crowd halloed
out to Yaney,— 1 Brownlow is here but he
has not nerve enough to mount the stand
where you are.' I rose and marched up
the steps and said I will show you wheth
er I have the nerve or not. ' Sir,' said ho
—and he is a beautiful speaker and per-,
sonally a very fine looking man—'are yout
the celebrated Parson Brownlow 'I am
the only man on earth,' replied I, ' that
fills the bin.' [Laughter.] 'Don't you,
think,' said Yancy, 'you are badly employ
ed as a preacher, a man of your cloth to be
dabbling in politics and meddling with
State affairs V 'No sir,' said I, 'a distin
guished member of the party you are ac
ting with once took Jesus Christ up on a
mount —[uproarious laughter]—and said
to the Savior, look at the kingdoms of the
world. All this will I give thee if thou,
wilt fall down and worship me.' 'Now sir,' J
said, 'his reply to the Devil is my reply to
you, 'Get thee behind mc, Satan.' [Re
newed laughter and applause.] I rather
expected to be knocked down by him; but
I stood with my right side to him and a cock
ed Derringer in my brecohes pocket. I
intended if I went off the scaffold that he
should go the other way. [Great cheer
ing.] 'Now sir,' said {, 'if you are through,.
I would like to make a few remarks.' 'Cer
tainly, proceed,' said Yancy. 'Well, sir,
you should tread lightly upon the toes of
preachers, and you should get these disun-.
ionists to post you up before you lannch out
in this war against preachers. Are you
aware, sir, this old gray headed, maa
sitting here, Isaac Lewis, the President of
the meeting, who has welcomed you, is an
j old disunion Methodist preacher* and Bu
chanan's pension agent in this town, who.