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THE PLAYMATE.
The pines were dark on Ramoth hill,
The song was soft and low;
The blossoms in the sweet May wind
Were falling like the snow.
The blossoms drifted at our feet,
Tlie brahard birds sang clear ;
Thii.tiweetest and the saddest day
It'seertied of all the year.
ore to me than birds or flowers,
41iiymate left her home,
kwith her the laughing spring,
e jangle and the bloom.
the Idssed the lips of kith and kin,
ALZIae laid her hand in mine ;
more could ask the bashful boy
Who fed her father's kine?
• left us, in the bloom of May :
constant years told o'er
, :'", - 4 1 11eIr seasons with as sweet May morns,
t-:.,fitt;:she came back no more.
,f;Xisialir, with noiseless feet, the round
;,.14 - .-.oitnneventful years;
411,111 o'er and o'er I sow the spring
"...-;‘.4p4-reap the autumn ears.
Bias where all the golden year
' Het - summer roses blow;
The dusky children of the sun
. Before her come and go.
:Theiietaply with her jewelled hands
smooths her silken gown—
No more the homespun lap wherein
"I shook the walnuts down.
The wild grapes wait ns by the brook,
,The brown nuts on the hill,
Arid still the May-day flowers make sweet
The woods of Follymill.
The lilies blossom in the pond,
..A. , --•The bird builds in the tree,
• The dark pines sing on Ramoth hill
•
The slow song of the sea.
- .±Volider If she thinks of them,
And how the old time seems—
If ever the pines of Ramoth wood
- Are sounding in her dreams.
I see her face, I hear her voice
Does she remember mine?
And what to her is now the boy
Who fed her father's kine?
What cares she that the orioles build
For other eyes than ours,
That other hands with nuts are filled,
And other laps with flowers ?
0 playmate in the golden time!
Our mossy seat is green,
Its fringing violets blossom yet,
The old trees o'er it lean.
The winds so sweet with birch and fern
A sweeter memory blow;
And there in spring the veeries sing
The song of long ago.
And still the pines of Ramoth wood
Are moaning like the sea—
The moaning of the sea of change
Between myself and thee !
THE DISUNION CONSPIRACY.
LETTER TO ONE OF THE LEADERS
HON. JOHN FORSYTH :
" Remote, nnfriended, melancholy, slow,"
it is long since I have used my pen at any
length on the public questions of the day.
Ido so now with pain. He is a brute who
cannot or does not sympathize with the
sufferings of the people on both sides in
this sad struggle. Sympathy with your
cause is another matter.
I little thought when we met at Cincin
nati in 1856, after more than a quarter of
a century of separation, and exchanged
mutual reminiscences of our happy days at
old Nassau, and of the hisiory and fate of
our college companions, That within so
short a period thereafter, if we met again,
it would not be as friends, but as foes.
Why it is so, or at least what seeps to me
to be some of the leading reasons, I pro..
pose to consider in this letter. I think I
know something of the immediate causes
which led to the temporary overthrow of
the Democracy, and if your rebellion suc
ceeds, as it may to your own confusion, to
the partial destruction of the best, wisest
and freest Government ever devised by the
wit of man.
Quaque ipso miserrima vidi,
Et quorum par, magna fist.
I publish this with the hope it may meet
your eye, and will take such measures as I
can that it does so. Should it not, I trust
it will nevertheless not be written in vain.
To get at the real reasons of your rebel
lion it is necessary to examine your pre
texts. And first, you claim absolute sov
ereignty for your and every State. This
is the foundation of the Secession doc
trine. It is not even plausible. It is ab
surd. I will demonstrate it to be so. The
old Confederation, which was moulded out
of the furnace of the Revolution, was
strictly a league, or confederation, be
tween sovereign States, Mr. Lincoln to
the contrary notwithstanding. It resem
bled in its main features the Germanic
Empire and the Confederation of the
Rhine. It differed from them in one par
ticular. The acts of its Congress were
obeyed or not, as the several States
pleased. The decrees of the Diet of the
Germanic Empire were and are still sure
• to be enforced by the bayonets of Austria
and Prussia, when agreeable to those pow
ers, just as those of the Confederation of
-the Rhine were executed by the cannon of
Napoleon when they suited him. Our
States carried into effect the acts of Con
gress when it suited their convenience or
interests, and not otherwise. There was
no real power to enforce them e The great
men who had weathered the storm of civil
commotion, saw the helplessness of the
Government at home, and its insignificance
abroad. They called the Convention of
1787 to remedy this and other evils, quite
as plainly`proceeding from the weakness
of the Government. if the Constitution
it formed did not bind these States into a
firm and perpetual union, only to be sev
ered by the consent of all lawfully ex
pressed, and did not, within its limits, in
vest the Federal Government with absolute
sovereignty, at the same time depriving
the States thereof, then the profound and
wise statesmen who formed it did not com
prehend the purpose for which they no
toriously had assembled. They neither
understood their duty nor did it. Can
this be supposed of men, who were mainly
instrumental in arousing the public mind
to the necessity of revising their frame of
Government I if the imagination could
wander so wildly, its phantasms must yield
to the plain fact that they all spoke, or
wrote fully upon the subject. We have
their sign -manual that they well 'knew
what they were about. If you still doubt
read the speeches of Mr. Pinckney and
others, in the debates which ensued when
:the Constitution was offered to South Car
blina for ratification. If these tried patri
ots did their duty what becomes of the
absolute sovereignty of the States? If
your position be correct, Lang don, King,
Sherman, Hamilton ' Livingston, Read,
Madison, Spaight, Franklin, Rutledge,
Baldwin, their President, Washington, and
all their zealous co-laborers in this mighty
work, there assembled in solemn conven
tion, not only did not dO•the very thingS
they came together to do, but did the very
contrary. This is a logical reductio 'ad
absurdum.
Next, you claim the right of revolution.
It is undoubted. No one denies it. But
in order to justify and maintain that right
before God and man, your leaders and
your people must show a plain case of in
sufferable oppression, on the part of the
Government from whioh they have revolt
ed. Can they do so!
,They attempt it in
two ways. First, by comparison. They
put their rebellion. on the footing of the
revolt of the Colonies from the dominion
of Great Britain. A brief reference to
those things of whioh the Colonies com
plained will show how futile this is. It is
usual to consider the tax on tea as the im
mediate cause of the American Revolu
tion. It was by no means so. It was
really the pretext. That tax was, in fact,
a reduction of nine pence on the shilling.
The difference was, that whereas the tax
of a shilling on the pound C had previously
been required to be paid by the Colonial
merchants in London at the ware-houses
of the East India Company, which had the
monopoly of the trade, the reduced tax of
three pence on the same quantity, was di
rected by the act of Parliament to be paid
to the collectors of the Colonial ports, to
be accounted for to the Company. The -
effect of this was to out off smuggling,
whioh had been extensively carried on
with the Dutch and French. The advan
tages of lawful trade, with a moderate
duty, are so great, that it I cannot be denied
that this act of Parliament, although made
the pretext of the first out-burst of popu
lar fury, was highly beneficial to the Co
lonial traders. What really infuriated the
people were some thirty acts of Parliament,
royal edicts and ottarters,l leveled directly
at the trade and industry, of the Colonies.
A few instances must suffice. The charter
of William and Mary, whilst se
curing to Massachusetts vast possessions
to the eastward of the boundary line pre
viously disputed, clogged the gift with
provisions which made it almost valueless.
All pine trees of the diameter of twenty
four inches at more than a foot from the
ground were reserved for masts for the
royal navy ; and for cutting down any
such trees without special license, (which
was only a mode of indirect and unequal
taxation, and sometimes a means of favor
itism,) the offender forfeited one hundred 1
pounds sterling. As to the nature of the 1
acts of Parliament, I quote from the His
torical Essay prefixed to Mr: Lorenzo Sa
bine's American Loyalist : " Neither of
" these laws touched so much as the
"'Southwest side of a hair' of an cabstrac
" tion,' and hardly one of them, until tho
cc passage of the 'Stamp Act,' imposed a
66 direct tax. They were aimed at the
cc North, and England lost the affections
cc of the mercantile and martime classes
6 , of the Northern colonies, full a genera
., tion before she alienated the South.—
cc They forade the use of water-falls, the
c. erecting f machinery, of looms and
cc spindles, d the working of wood and
li t
cc iron ; they set the King's arrow on trees
.6 that rotted in the forest ; they shut out
cc markets for boards and fish, and seized
c. sugar and molasses, and the vessels in
cc which these articles were carried ; and
cc they defined the limitless ocean as but a
cc narrow path-way to such of the land that
44 it embosoms, as wore the British flag.'—
Your turn came in good time. I could
show how England outraged and oppressed
the South, but it is not necessary to the
argument. It would be worth your study.
I think you will admit there was real and
intolerable oppression in the- systematic
legislation I have mentioned. There was
much more of it before the Revolution
broke out.
If you compare, as you Southern gentle
men generally do, the various tariff acts
passed by Congress, to those acts of Par
liament, and cite them as oppressions of
your people, the answer is conclusive.—
They were passed by Legislative bodies in
which the South was fully, yea, more than
fully represented, as it had a representa
tion for its human chattels. The South
has flourished and grown rich in spite of
them. Passing by these two most impor
tant facts, you know, and every well-in
formed man knows, that the existence of
a really oppressive tariff in this country
has always been limited to a very short
period. It must always be so. The rea
son is plain. Nine out of ten men in all
communities are consumers, and of course
pay the tariff. As all vote, at least with
us, it does not take long to convince the
nine, that a high tariff taxes them unneces
sarily for the benefit of the manufacturer.
So true is this, that if ever that question,
alone, is made the issue between parties
again, even in Pennsylvania, she will, as
she did when it was so done formerly,
again give her 30,00.0 majorities for mod
erate duties. I rejoice to think that it
will hereafter be treated as it is, as a ques
tion of finance, and be withdrawn from the
arena of parties, with which it has no
proper affinity. So far, therefore, as the
fluctuating legislation on this subject con
cerns your rebellion, it neither deserves to
be, nor can it be, raised to the dignity of
-oppression.
Raving, I think, shown that the argu
ment whereby you compare yourselves to
the heroes and, patriots of the Revolution
(who unlike you were' loth to take up arms,
who pat off the evil day until the last
moment, and who clung to their allegiance,
until the prison -ship, the dungeon, and
the gallows, were offered them as the ten
der_ mercies of their king,) is wholly fala
oious, I next proceed to your second argu
ment.
You charge directly upon the North the
settled purpose to destroy slavery. It is
not so. The great conservative masses of
the North know that the evil is not your
fault, and as little as yourselves van they
see an adequate and practical remedy,
consistent, with:your own ',well-being. Un
til they did, they would ! never have inter
fered with it, nor then,;exoept with your
consent and co-neratio. stand, be
facts '1 I do not speak. of -opinions _but of
'deeds. You knotv that it is an elementary
principle both of the common and the civil
kW, that no than Can Sustain an action,
*doss he can prove that he has sustained
an injury. So by' the litw of nations; no
people can justify a revolt unless they
can establbith - a - case of oppression. Of
course they may, without th4tomooeed
and establish a Dewy - vernment. .Thit is
MINIMS
"THAT 001fliThar 18 THI - MOM' paoselsoui WIEI3II LABOR • OOKIWIDS Till 9ara.7113T BrilrAE/1."--BUONAHLE.
LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY „MORNING, AUGUST 6,:1561.
the case now trying., It is by the law,
and according to the law, that we North
ern men desire and intend to be governed,
and not otherwise. What has been done
by the North to injure you I Has slaveiy
ever been attacked by legislation? Not
so. There are many acts of Congress in
tended to secure and establish it ; not one
that is leveled against it directly or indi
rectly. If there be one or two, whose in
direct operation tends to weaken or destroy
its hold, such were passed at the instance
of your statesmen, by the votes of your
representatives,
and with purposes directly
the contrary. So true is this; that the last
Congress, with a clear Black Republican
majority, after the cotton States seceded,
granted yon all you have ever claimed, by
passing bills erecting the whole unorgan
ized p9ssessions of the United States into
Teiritories without the Wilmot proviso,
and thus, under the Bred Scott decision,
the acknowledged and undoubted law of
the land, opening the whole of them to
your slaves, provided you were willing to
take them there to starve. Nay more;
when this revolt broke out, the control of
the Senate of the United States, so far as
concerned legislation on this ,subjeot, was
absolutely in your hands for four years,
that of the House of Representiltives, cer
tainly for two, probably for four years; and
the Supreeme Court of the United States
had decided the law in your favor, and
could not be changed. So entirely has its
decision been respected, that the present
Executive, the only power in the Govern
ment that the Republican party could have
wielded had the South remained loyal, was
obliged to recognize slaves as property, in
consequence of General Butler's famous
" contraband " letter, and only yesterday
Senators Trumbull and Wilson recognized
them as such, by including them in the con
fiscation bill. On this point, then, if you
have any case at all, it is dannunt absque
injuria.
You may reply, if there be no real cause
for this rebellion or revolution, how came
it about? Men do not plunge into all the
horrors of civil war without some good
reason. No individual risks his life, un
less drunk or insane, without an adequate
cause. Neither do nations encounter the
expense and all the known evils of war
from the mere love of fighting. It is true,
there are two main evils for one of which
this, war furnishes no remedy, but rather
exasperates it ; whilst for the other it may.
These, with minor ones, have enabled your
demagogues, with the aid of'•mob-law, to
inaugurate this civil war, and to get your
people to present a partially united front.
The first of these is, that the agitation
of the slavery question has rendered your
labor insecure. Although the fanatics of
New England, supported by the example
and money : of : Exeter Hall, are responsible
for the commencement of this abhorrent
agitation, yet their efforts would have been
of little avail, if they had not boon aided
by the politicians of both sections. These
wretched vultures, whose grovelling na
tures disabled them from attaining the
bad eminence of demagogues, have for
years sought office at the North, by pan
dering
to and exciting the natural anti
slavery sentiments of our people, and at
the South, by the like course toward the
pro-slavery opinions of yours. In the
North their success made little difference.
All knew the Constitution, few were un
willing to abide by its provisions,and there
could, therfeore, be no practical result.—
It was mere brutum fulmen. Their exer
tions only served to give office to men,
who, for the most part, had no real at
tachment to the principles they professed,
and who certainly were not ready to make
any personal sacrifices for them. In the
South it was different. The eternal ha-i
rangues of your candidates on slavery,
could not but affect your slaves. They
are men, however ignorant and stupid, and
will think, and when opportunity offers
talk: Gradually, but surely they have
done so. The result is, brag as you will
of their fidelity, that most of their owners
are in constant dread of an insurrection.
How well justified that dread is the names
of Nat. Turner and Denmark Vesey will I
remind you with a thrill of horror.-1
It only needs the evoking of a new Tous
saint L'Overture to convert imagination
into reality. It is not surprising that a l
people exposed to the perhaps irrepressible
fury and nameless drimes of a servile in
surrection, should lend a ready - ear to the
plausible plans of the ambitious and de
signing who proposed to relieve them from
its terrors, even if they knew that their
execution must be attended with heavy
sacrifices of their interests, their peace
and their liberty.
The second o rose was first suggested to
me by the returns under the bankrupt not
of 1841. If my memory serves me cor
rectly the schedules of debts in the States
south . of Mason and Dixon's line, wiped
out by that law, amounted.to about $500,-
000,000. The appraised value of the
schedules of the assets came in the aggre
gate to something over $2,000,000. At
present the South owes the North, aocord
to the best authorities, about $300,000,-
000. This result is not owing to legisla
tion, but, as might be demonstrated, to
moral and physical causes, which will ever
keep the South in debt to some nation,
should it form its kaleidesoope Confeder
aoy. The debtors are among your most
active, vigilant, intelligent and practically
influential citizens. I do not mean that
they seek or generally obtain political
honors. Those are reserved for your
planters and professional men, among
whom I include journalists. They are
practical thinkers. They .are men who
silently control your daily life. They are
your business class, who, with
jou or with us, really guide the whole
policy of their section, without making the
noise about it which the professional or
gentlemanly politician is apt to think an
indispensable preliminary to the possession
of power. To this silent but mighty class
the civil war is a convenient bankrupt act.
Many of them are not very serupulous,
and to the best and- most honorable
man, the postponement or escape from
ruin, is a relief which will insensibly bias
his reason. Perhaps this principle may
extend into other classes. The high price of
!cotton for some years past makes it proba
ble, No doubt many of your planters,
tempted by extravagant profits, have mort
gaged their farms to buy negroes and open
up 'new-land. Our coal miners and iron
Masters are apt to pursue that, plan during
seasons -of high prices, and : rnin is gen—
erally the result.
There are many Ininor.eauses whieblave
aided to produce tolerable unanimity, 1113,
for instance,. the mutual rage, brought
about by long years of sneers and abuse,
and the like, in addition to those I have
mentioned. All of them put together
would have been unable • to over-ride the
deep Jove for the Union which I firmly be
lieve still underlies your reballion, had it
not been for your partisan leaders, and,
iI am free to confess, ours. De mortuis nil
nisi bonny:, is a maxim generally to be ob
i served. Nevertheless, where the public
acts of a man lead to such tremendous
consequences, the fair discussion of them
is no trespass on his just fame. Stephen
A. Douglas was the unquestionable author
of the repeal of the Missouri 'Compromise
line from which act dates all our serious
troubles. He was right in principle, bat
time had made the compact sacred. The
South assisted him and must share the re
sponsibility. Had that line been extended
to the Pacific,
as was wisely and ably
counselled by Mr. Buchanan in his' Read-
ing letter, the present convulsion,
would .probably have been in
defmately postponed. A was , not to be so.
The lesser lights of free-soilism who based
their notion on the let the U nion slide'
school, although no , friends to Mr. Doug
las at that time, aided him in the work, the
result of which they well foresaw. How
nobly Mr. Douglas sought to redeem his
irreparable error, I have neither time -nor
space to disbuss. He died honored by his
worst foes, beloved by his friends: We all
believe that in all human probability, his
untiring and almost superhuman labors
cost him his life, and he was as much a
victim of this miserable war as if he had
fallen, shot through the heart, on the field
of battle.
The contest of 1860 which destroyed
this great man, proved two things. • It
showed that with reasonable prudence and
conciliation, the Demooraoy would return
to power in 1864. It also showed that
when it did, the Northern and not the
Southern Democracy would for the future
govern its polioy. Hine Wee lachrynace.
I was not a member of the Charleston
Convention, but my experience in those of
Baltimore and Cincinnati, and a careful
perusal of the proceedings of those held in
1860, together with conversations had with
members of the last-mentioned, enabled,
me to see that the Southern Democracy,
satisfied that they could no longer occupy
the highest places of power under our
glorious constitutional edifice; VeWdetet
mined to pull down the pillar on whiol it
rested, even at the risk of being buried in
its , ruins, without a thought for the true
and honest hearts, who, sacrificing their
natural and honorable ambition to princi
ple, had been for years battling in their
cause ; caring nothing for, if they thought
of, the misery and desolation, ,which their
pre-determined course would bring on
thousands of innocent and happy homes at
the North and the South. Indifferent to
the well-being of the youth of the nation,
its hopes and its stay, who, left at home
in the walks of peace would have beoo 4 rpre,
useful and good citizens, but now, if txhit
killed, many may either wander crippled
and useless to a pauper grave, or worse
still, ruined body and soul by the license
of the camp, return to demoralize the com
munities, they were intended to adorn.—
They Were blinded to everything but their
mad ambition. They were 'gifted with
sufficient understanding and forecast to
see, that from the causes mentioned and
others, they could measurably unite the
Southern people in the contest, and delib
erately and with malice aforethought, they
plunged .this happy and prosperous nation
into all the horrors of a civil war. They
did it with the hope of factious and trea
sonable support in the North. It cannot
be denied. Well, be sure that not the bit
terest abolitionist who treads the arid soil
of New England, or the most fanatical fol
lower of Joshua R Giddings in the Western
Reserve of Ohto, feels half the soreness of
heart, or hopes more earnestly for vindic
tive retribution, than the sincere Breck
inridge men, who so long fought your po
litical : battles with ever diminishing forces,
with their friends and neighbors. Not ret
ribution on your people. God forbid.—
They are deluded and deceived. But on
the deluders and deceivers. I know hun
dreds of men in this State, whose talents
and knowledge would grace any, the high
est station, who have been content to lead
a life of comparative obscurity, solely on
account of their devotion to that Constitu
tion which was and is your only safe-guard.
They thought they well defended its sacred
guarantees when they contended for your
rights under it, and which were always se
cured to you. When it would no longer
serve the purposes of the selfish ambition
of Southern demagogues, they have as
plainly denounced it by their ants, as a
covenant with death and a league with hell,'
as Wendell Phillips and Garrison have in
word. They had not the apology of the
latter, of sincere conviction of the truth of
the blasphemous dogma. Those of these,
your former friends, who could go, are al
ready in the field. Those who cannot, have
or will, if occasion demands, send their
sons. It is a feud of broken faith, of un
provoked fraternal treachery, and, of
course, proverbially bitter and unforgiv
ing.
I think I do not misrepresent the North
ern Democracy when I say that they are
thoroughly in earnest to put down this re'-
bellion, nor as little, when I declare that
their attachment to State tights is as firm
and immutable as ever. The Douglas
Democrat and the Breckinridge Democrat,
as ready as they are to stake their all for
the support of the Union, just so ready are
they to wage the same stake in support of
a strict construction of the Constitution.—
They will never submit to a centralized
Government, as foreshadowed in the speeoh
of Secretary Cameron to the St. Andrew's
Society, whether he meant it or not. There
are some ominous tokens of a disiegard
and irreverence towards the letter and
spirit of the great charter of our liberties
shown by the Administration and its sup
porters, which if continued will certainly
cast it from power. It will however be
done by the ballot; and not by the ballet
and bayonet. Those we reserve for trai
tors, and though the current -news seems
favorable to your unholy cause, I feel an
abiding faith that God will not desert the
nation on which he has showered so many
favors. It has been my lot before now,
to see the wicked great in power, and flour
ishing like a green bay tree ; nevertheless
I passed, and•they were not, and the place
thereof knew them no more.' I remain no
longer your Moine,
JOHN WEIDMAN,
LEBANON ) Pa,, jily. 23, 1861.
(177 Prometination is the thief of time.
One day a Rich Man came to a Poor Man
who stood talking by the roadside.
It was where a fountain, gushing from
the rooks. and half, shadowed by vines,
sprinkled coolness upon the heated dnst
and sent low music upon the evening air.
The Rioh Man was clad infine apparel
a diamond shone above his young forehead
amid the curls of his ohestint hair. He
might turn his eyes to the right, and be
hold swelling hills dotted:with flocks of
sheep and herds of oxen. These were his
own. To the left, and see white and black
men toiling in the harvest of that fruitful
land. The toiling men and,the harvest
were alike his own. Gazing, to the west,
where the last flush of day lingered over
the white dome of a palace, he might feast
his eyes with the prospect of long lines of
slaves, who spread before the portals of
that palace ' bearing vessels of silver and
gold in their hands. And this palace,
these slaves, these stores of gold--alt were
his own.
For he was a Rich Man. The jewel
that gathered the folds of his robe across
his young breast, was worth the life long
labor of a hundred slaves.
And the Poor Man who stood talking by
the roadside was clad in the garments of
toil. The landscape before him was very
beautiful—golden harvests blooming in the
lap of emerald valleys—streams of silver
winding from the light into the shadow,
and from shadow into light again—a great
palace lifting its white dome into the sun
set heaven from amid a grove of palms—
and yet the Poor Man could not call one
inch of ground his own.,He knew not
where to lay his head. The coarse gar
ments which covered him, the rude staff in
his hand—these_ were all his possession.
He was a wanderer upon the face of the
earth.
And he stood in the midst of a throng of
men who listened to him with earnestness,
and hung upon every word as though every
word was life or death to - them. They
were all poor men—the very poorest of the
poor; some clad in rags, and not a few
orippled by disease, or pitiful with blind
ness,'or miserable to look upon with their
leper's sores. .
And the accents of the Poor Man's voice
held every ear, and those who were not
blind looked earnestly, into his eyes,, and
one half-kneeling on a solitary rock, re
garding with mute wonder—a kind of
dumb adoration—the white forehead of the
Poor Man.
For the face.of the Poor Man, with its
flowing hair covered with dust, and its sun
burnt cheeks touched by the trace of
thought, or time, or hardship, was a facie
that won you to it with a peculiar power,
and made you wish to look upon it forever,
and mark the strange light of its eyes, and
note the smile which hung about its lips.
There was, in truth, a strange Power
upon that face.
The Rich Man drew nigh with steps at
once languid and eager, with a manner at
once impetuous and full of dignity. His
fair face, and perfumed hair, and jeweled
robes, were terribly contrasted with the
rags and lameness, the disease and leprosy,
which encircled the Poor Man."
Still ho drew nigh. He was won by the
face of that Poor Man. May be he had
heard of him before ; may be some story
of a wonderous power wielded by this Poor
Man had reached the ears of the Rich Man.
However, he drew nigh, and quickened
his steps as the accents of the Poor Man's
voice trembled through the silence of the
evening hour.
The Rich Man sighed. He pressed his
hand to his fair forehead. With all his
wealth, his lands and his slaves, his har
vests and his palaces, he was not at peace
with himself. He felt his bosom devour
ed by a gnawing restlessness. He was
unhappy, and yet the darkness of these
blind men had not visited him ; his rounded
limbs were free from leper's sores ; the
curse of the Poor Man's poverty was not
upon his delicate hands.
Still ho was not at peace ; for he sighed
and pressed his hand to his brow and shud
dered within his robes of price.
He was unhappy.
Quickening his footsteps he drew near
the Poor Man, brushing his fine linen
against the beggar's rags, and with his
gaze fixed upon the dilating eyes of the
Poor Man, his ear enchained by every
sound that fell from the Poor Man's tongue.
A word rose to his lips. He could not
choke it down. And yet that word was
MASTER.'
He felt that the Poor Man, clad in the
humble garb of toil, and with no plaee to
lay his head, was his Master ! This Poor
Man, encircled by rags and lameness, by the
031 d eye-balls of blindness and the distort
ed faces of leprosy, was the Master of the
Rich Man, who'could call the lives of a
thousand slaves his own.
This he felt; and the word DIAI3TER'
rose to his lips.
Thrusting himself into the miserable cir
cle, he joined his hands, and said in a trem
ulous voice—
MASTER, WHAT SHALL I DO TO INHERIT
ETERNAL LIFE 3'
It was in these words that the burden of
his soul found utterance. It was as if he
had said, What shall I do to be at peace
with myself, and while I live, and at my
death to have a hold on Immortality 1
The Poor Man raised his eyes. They
were touched with a gleam of divine sad
ness. He looked first upon the Rich Man,
then upon the wide harvest fields, and the
herds of cattle, and the white palace with
slaves thronging before its portals—and
last of all upon the crowd of miserable men
who were gathered near him.
It was a painful contrast.
Fora moment the Poor Man did not re
ply. He raised his eyes to the sunset sky,
and his face was•invested as with the bless
ing of God embodied in sunset rays.
All the while the Rich Man awaited in
the anxiety of undisguised suspense the
words of the Poor Man.
At last he spoke :
' SELL ALL THOU HART AND GIVE TO THE
POOR !'
And a.t,these words the throng of miser
able wretches looked up in wonder, and
the Rich Man retreated backward and
bowed his head as suddenly as though some
one had smote him on the forehead.
4 SELL ALL THOUTIAST AND GIVE TO THE
Poop. !
It was as though he had said—,
You have a palace, Rich Man. Let its
luxurious chambers he tenanted by the
blind, the halt, the, famine stricken, who
now surround me. You bantiando,:•Ainh
Man. , Divide.thein among the white ana
I)4* BiskY,oo lOW now golguT(Yohar fel*
, / I
The Poor Man.
• i ll,'
with the labor .Of hopeletis bondage-and
baptize their hard earned food with;bitter
tears., Youhive herds atoxen, Rich Man,
and flocks of sheep upon every:hill. , Let
the fleece of your sheep clothe these naked
ones ; let the flesh, of your betkete give
these starling ones soma llouriphakent,
some life. Sell all thou, hest _ arid give to
the Poor, for the Poor are as much the
ohildien - of the great family of God as you
are.-:•as much' entitled to his fruits; his'air;
his lands, 'as yotfare ; with as holy a right
to peace in this world, immortality in the
next, as 'yourself.
And -as the Poor Man -spoke, his face
lighted up with a serene:glory and with the
sweetness of his accents there was mingled
a strange tone of Power. , .
Bat the Rich Man, recoiling, from, the
light of his eyes—frightened by the very
simplicity of these words, 'which said so
much in so brief a oompassturned sadly
away; and went dpwn the hillside, now rais
ing his eyes to gaze upon his
. great posses
sions' now burying his face in his tremb—
ling hands.
Bat the Poor Man remained near the
fountain by the roadside, talking to the
blind, and the lame, the slave in rags and
the leper clad in sores, who gathered near
him and felt the light of his eyes, while
the accents of his voice penetrated their
souls.
Thus it is over all the world, in all ages,
among all people.
The Rich Man goes down the hill, fall
of restlessness, yet gazing earnestly upon
his great possessions.
The Poor Man remains upon the road—
side talking tit . the outcasts of all the
world, and telling them of their'right to
peace in this life and immortality in the
next.—Lippard.
ABOUT DOGS. -If an Englishman is
persecuted and followed by a yelping our,
he can generally manage to get rid of him
by stooping down and pretending to pick
np a stone, for all ours have a mortal dread
of a thrown stone ; but, on the bogs of
Ireland, the dogs do not care a bit if the
person they are barking at pretends
to pick up a stone; they know, cunning
brutes, that there are no stones on the
bogs to be picked up and thrown at them ;
but they act very differently if there hap
toabeja heap of stones anywhere handy.
It is an unpleasant situation to be attacked
by a dog. If you are thus circumstanced,
never attempt to run; try throwing a stone
at him, present your hat in your hand, and
when he has seized it, hit him with a stick
across the nose and fore-leg. These are the
most vulnerable points in a dog ; a blow on
any part of the head but the nose will not
hurt him a bit.
Ha dog comes to you and grotvls and will
not be friendly, do not withdraw from him,
but put on a bold face, and streach your
hand towards him, keeping it quite still—if
you withdraw it after stretching it out, he
will bite yon—the dog will come up and
smell the hand behind, and having once
done this, will be your friend for life. A
chimney-sweep once made a match to
fight a bull dog single handed, armed only
with his brush. He entered the arena
with a brush in one hand, and a foot of
brnsh coverd with thorns in the other.
The dog sprung at him ; he presented the
bramble-brush to the animal who seized
it in in his month, and so got hooked by
the thorns on it; the chimney-sweep bela
bored him over the head and nose with the
back of the brush, and won the watch.—
We may learn from this, that if a man is
attacked by a bull-dog, he should hold
cut a stick between his hands, and present
it to the dog, who will seize it, and give
the man time for further measures A rat
catcher lately told me that he had a mon
key that would be a match for any dog
in a pit.' The monkey was given a short,
stout stick; he watched his opportunity,
sprang on the dog's back—it was impos
sible for the dog to throw him—and the
monkey beat him about the-head at his
will.--Buckland's Curt osities of Natural
_History.
A WISE SAYING.L An English farmer
recently remarked that cc he fed his land
before it was hungry, rested it before it
was weary, and weeded it before it was
foul." We have seldom, if ever, seen so
much agricultural wisdom conden,ed into
a single sentence. Reader have you not
some land which, this summer, will pant
and blow and struggle under the burden of
a starveling and sickly stalk of corn.'
cg Weeded it before it. was foul." Why,
some of our farmers raise weeds for ma
nure. Vile peste,of no use to man or beast,
are suffered to grow up. and encumber the
ground merely for the sake of the privilege
of burying their dead bodies to supply
vegetable matter to the soil. On a per
feotly conducted farm, no plant would be
suffered to maturcita - seed which was not
of some known and positive utility. Peas
or plover are better than Weeds—they feed
both the soil and domestic animals, and
give no - trouble to succeeding crops. Re--
member the practice of tee English farmer.
Do not wait until your land begins to
get poor' before you manure it. If it is
rich' make it richer. Do. not wait until
your land begins to fail befOre you rest it—
give it rest in time to prevent it ever being
tired. Do not wait until your farm is
stocked with weeds before you begin to de
stroy them. One weed destr9yed this
year will save much hoeing next year.—
Manure soon and well, - give abundant rest,
and cultivate clean; . He is a good farmer
who observes these rules.
A BEAU .rim UL FiGunE.—How beautiful
is the following , and how happy must be
the heart that can see these beauties and
understand them :
g Why is it that the rainbow and the
clouds come over us, with a beauty that is
not of earth and then pass away and leave
us to muse on their faded loveliness l Why
is it that the stars which bpld,their nightly
festival, around the:,miclx#ht throne are
placed 'above the se. ; . pg. our limited
faculties, forever us with their
unapproachable glory nd why ra it
that the light forms tof litmati beauty are
presented to our view and taken from us,
yet leaving the thousand streams of affec
tion to flow : in Alpine torrents upon .the
heart ,We , are borufor a higher destiny
than that of earth. There is a realm where
the rainbow never fades !, where the stars
will be set Ikefcire us like islandeslumbering
on the ocean, wheisi the bsiCiftd be
ings 'that: pass
. before us like meteors will
stay in our presence' forever.'
(h. Bacon "Then debanehes • Of
yontkare 80, Many ocuusp.irsoies against
ebt,,,age''. • •. 7 "
F'A SisoitildiNnan WOltsx ox . Be.-
lats.—The eeeentiii . l*s,Swinshelm says
that a majority CC tabu; are to their
mothers what - ..itliolria-"ti . a little girl
1 -
iminething to dreii-e meansnf displaying
'odds and eridi : ot-finem, and , exhibiting
one's-tastes. • If infanta were ;treated on
the,piinoiple on which a , fatiner ' treats
lambs,-goslings, ohiokensi.pigai eta, viz:
well:fid and kept warm, they , would live
_
and grow just as well oared for goBlidgs
live and groW;Aiid. we never. :. . knew one
die. Dutch babies wear ceps; end' how
could any lady of taste have . her baby look
like the Dutch, Just mini* the Dstch
babies generally live, laugitand gLnw fat,
for they are "smothered . - in flannel" and
feathers ' and keep all in 4 sweat" : Match
mothers do not keep their, babies for model
artist exhibitions. They cover thism up
keep' them warm and quiet en( raise a
wonderful number : of attntly boys and, girls.
. „
Gg'"While some boys were stout 'recess
recently, at one of the village schools
Sonth Adams, Mass., a gentleman- riding
by, stopped and enquired of a bright look—
ing lad,what they did , in there The nroh ,
ing looked up, scanned • his, interrogator's
face a moment, and men with a wicked leer,
and knowing wink replied, 'They taiihidee
sir!'
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