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PARTING LINES,
TO A DEAR FRIEND
' The following beautiful lines, addressed to a lady
who was going North from her native city, by a
gifted clergyman now numbered with the dead, we
deem worthy of publication. They contain too much
poetical merit/und too much pure and right feeling,
to be kept from the good they might do and from the
feelings they might awaken by a wider circulation:
Farewell! farewell! sinoe thou wilt leave us, fairest,
May guardian angels guide thee on thy way;
May friends the purest, and may joys the rarest
Smile the glad welcome where’er thou ehalt stay.
Cold the world is to thee, and grief and sorrow
Thus far have mark’d the path thy feet have trod;
Bat, as from darkness days their brightness borrow,
So happier for the past may prove thy morrow.
Grant it, oh, God!
Yet look not thou to earth for thy chief pleasures :
Sin here throws poison in eaoh oup of joy;
Fading and perishing are all earth’s treasures
But there arq. those which time can ne'er destroy:
Though toss’d and restless, as was the homeless dove,
Unto the ark of God speed thou tby flight;
Admitted surely by His kind hand of love,
Thou shalt life’s raging waves ride far above—
Safe in His sight. '
Think not thou art friendless—though oft-times
weeping,'
There is One attends thee where’er thou art,
With hand almighty, and with eyes unsleeping,
He will still shield and bless thy lonely heart.
Trust thou alone in Him—His will obeying,
Watohfully shupning sin’s bewitching snares •
And thoogh thorns line the path where thou art
straying,
On His unohanging love thyself still sfcavine
“Cast all thy cares.” 1
And when from us, alas! thou shalt be parted,
’Midst other scenes and colder dimes to dwell
Remember thou the warm and faithful-hearted ’
Who now in sadness sigh their fond farewell!
Think of the friends who here have stood beside
thee,
_Who oft for thee with weeping eyes have pray’d
Who now in ardent faith to God oonfide thee,
' And still will pray, whate’er on,earth betide thee,
“ God be her aid!”
But oh! remember, too—the humblest flowers
Which lowest bow beneath the darkened skies,
Are first to drink from earth Heaven’s grateful
showers,
And first with brightest, sweetest smiles to rise;
So, if thou o’er would’st taste of heavenly pleasure,
Thus humbly bow, while clouds obscure tby way,
And in a lowly life seek thou that treasure—
A glorious life of bliss no mind can measure
In endless day. ’
Farewell’. farewell! and when, peroh’ance, another
In tones of kindness may salute thine ear,
Thou then wilt think of him who, as a brother,
Oft o’er thy sorrows shed the burning tear;
But give thy love supreme to that Redeemer
To whom he pointed thy sad, bleediDg heart;
Then shall we meet again where raptures linger,
j Far, far beyond the reaoh of grief or danger,
No more to part.
Aunt Miriam’s Adventure.
BY AMY RANDOLPH.
Evening had closed around the little
brown farm house in the hollow ; gray
November nightfall and the wild Niagara
of crimson sunset fire had poured its flam
ing sides long since into the great unseen
chalice of splendor that ließ hidden some
where beyond the - western hoiizon line—
the monumental urn where rest entombed
alike the days crowned with roses and
those baptized in tears. There was no
sound without, save the branches of the
huge sycamore tree chanting uneasily
against the moss-enameled roof, and the
complaining wind among the brown and
scarlet drifts of leaves that carpeted every
dingle of the woods. Within, the red
bricks of the hearth had been swept until
they shone as if oarved in coral, and the
many tongues of flame danoed and
sparkled and crackled among the gigantio
logs like a band of elfin spirits. The
cricket that harbored somewhere in the
ohimney corner had oommenoed his ves
pers, and' Aunt Miriam Fenner’s brisk
knitting needles shone and glanced in the
firelight, as she sat there in an old-fash
ioned cap border and spectacles, looking
almost as pretty—so uncle Peter thought
—as she used Jlo look in the days when he
went sparking, and was wont to contem
plate the evolutions of her gleaming
needles while he considered what it was
best to say next!
Nobody would have snspeoted Peter of
any such romantic meditation, as he sat
there sorting out seed corn and packages
of blue beans on his round table, and la
beling them with potentous deliberation !
So little do we know what is passing in the
minds of others.
There was a third person, sitting in the
red hearth glow, however ; a young man
of almost twenty-four years of age, with
dark brown hair and eyes to correspond,
who amused himself by tantalizing aunt
Miriam’s kitten with the good old lady’s
ball of yarn—the animal, like all the rest
of her sex, becoming more and more anx
ious for the wooly sphere, the higher it
was held.
‘ So you’ve really made up your mind to
get married, James?—do stop teasing
that kitten !’ said the old lady, with a con
trasted voice.
‘ Yes, aunt Miriam : it isn’t good for a
man to be alone, you know.’
There was a silence again. James
Ainett wound and unwound his yarn very
unneoessarily ; uncle Peter eyed his seed
peas thoughtfully and Mrs. Fenner knit
on energetically, with pursed-up slip
and a scaroely perceptible shrug of the
shoulders.
‘ Aunt Miriam, I wish you could see
Millicent,’ said the young man at length.
‘ I can’t say that I have any desire to
see your city young ladies, James,’ said
aunt Miriam, coldly; ‘ they’re too fine
spun for an old woman like me. White
hands and piano playin’ may be very
grand—l dare say it is—but it don’t suit
my taste.’
fi But, aunty, I am shure you would like
her.- Come, now, do be reasonable and go
over to Squire Brownell’s with me to
night; she is spending a week at her
grandfather’s, and she would be so much
gratified to see you !’
‘ Thank you, I ain’t curious'on the sub
ject;’ responded aunt Miriam, primly.—
‘ Only I heered that Mis’ Brownell had a
bad stroke of the rheumatiz, and I don’t
see how she gets along to wait on her new
fangled granddarter!’
f J pnn’t understand why you are so
prejudmed against p oor Millioent, aunt
Miriam, said the young man, uneasily.—
‘ 1 won t disguise from you that it makes
me very unhappy to think of marrying
without the approval of one who has been.
a mother to me, and yet’
‘ And yet you’re determined to go your
own gait; that’s the plain English of it,
>’ said aunt Miriam. ‘ Well, I sup
jiqse ... you can do withon t my . consent •
jpu’U never get it, anyhow!’ id she
£?-V27*'
poked the fire vigorously as the old olook
began to strike.
‘ Seven o’clook!’ ejaculated James,
starting up, ‘ and I promised to be at the.
post-office by this time. There’s to be a
meeting abont the minister's Thanksgiv
ing donation party, you know, nncle
Peter! Bless me, I didn’t imagine how
late it was.’
And, with a gay parting nod to his
aunt, be disappeared.
‘ There he. goes—as good a boy as ever
lived,’ said Uncle Peter; ‘but I guess
before the evening comes to an end, he’ll
contrive to get round to Squire Brownell’s.
Miriam, yon may as well say yes to that
affair at once ; he’s determined to marry
that gal—rings, oity fashions and all.’
‘ I wish we’d never sent him to oollege
in New York,’ sighed fflrs. Fenner; «then
he wouldn’t have oome across this city
sweetheart.’
‘ Then he’d ha’ oome aoross somebody
>else ; so it’s as broad as it is long,’ re
marked uncle Peter, philosophically.
‘ Yes ; but it might have been a smart,
stirring gal, who knew how to keep house
—not a useless toy, good for nothing but
to hang gay olothes on. I tell you, Peter,
I can’t approve of it, no how.’
Uncle Peter whistled ‘ Hark from the
Tombs a Doleful Sound,’ and returned
once more to the contemplation of his
melon seeds and corn kernels.
Nine o’olock ; the fire covered with a
mound of brown ashes ; the cricket chirp
ping drowsily, and uncle Peter snoring
melodiously from an inner room ; still Mrs.
Fenner sat there mechanically plying her
knitting needles, yet unoonscious that the
kitten was frisking about, and hopelessly
entangling her preoions ball of homespun
yarn—deaf and dumb and blind to every
thing but her own thoughts.
‘ I wonder,’ she began, and then stop
ped. ‘ After all,’ she mentally resumed
the next minute, < there can’t be any harm
in it if I just- slip on my hood and shawl
and go through the orchard path to Squire
Brownell’s. Not that Pd go in ; not a bit
of it ; but I’d merely take a peep in at the
beepin’ room window as I went past. I
would like to see what sort of a face it is
that has bewitched James so completely ;
but he must never be any wiser for it.’ ’
She pondered a second or two longer,
then rose hurriedly, extinguished the
candle that stood in a shining brass
candlestick on the mantle, listened a mo
ment to the unbroken monotony of unole
Peter’s snores, and, muffling a shawl
around her head, withdrew the bolt of the
kitchen door, and crept out into the star
less gloom of the November night.
It was but a short distance, under the
leafless branches of the gnarled old apple
trees and into the turnpike road. Aunt
Miriam felt a little conscience strioken as
she lifted the wicket of Squire Brownell’s
gate, and stole noiselessly up the chrysan
themum bordered walk; she could not heip
wondering what Elder Oliver would say if
he were to become aware that she, the
sagest lady in the congregation, were
prowling about like a thief in the night.
‘ It is all for James’ sake,’ said the ven
erable dame, under her breath, as she
pushed, aside the great sweet-briar that
hung over the panes, and peeped slyly into
the window.
Mrs. Brownell sat in a big arm-chair by
the . fire, her feet swathed in flannel , the
Squire was smoking a pipe over a three
days’ old newspaper ; and before a pine
table, at the other end of the room, stood
a rosy-cheeked girl, of perhaps seventeen,
the sleeves of her crimson merino dress
rolled up above a pair of exquisitely'dim
pled elhows, and her hands buried in a
wooden tray of flour—engaged, in faot, in
the operation which housekeepers call
‘ setting a sponge.’ So much at home did
she seem in the culinary art, that aunt
Miriam said to herself, very deoidedly,
‘ This can’t be the oity visitor; I wonder
where she is ?’ when her doubts were all
dispelled by Mrs. Brownell’s voice :
‘ Millicent, I wish you’d write out the
receipt for that oake you made for tea. I
don’t see where you learned to be so handy
about the house !’
‘Why, grandmamma,’ said the young
lady, gayly, < you seem to forget that my
mother was educated under your eye.
She does not believe French and music are
everything a girl needs to learn. Now,
do you put those stookings down—l’ll see
that they get mended bye-and-bye.’
Aunt Miriam turned away from the
window more bewildered than ever, but
with. a very satisfactory feeling stirring
under the prejudices that had filled her
kind old heart. If this were the much
talked-of Millicent, things might not be so
bad, after all. And Milly worked away
at the sponge, the merry smiles dimpling
her face, like sunshine on a bed of roses,
utterly unoonscious of the audience of one
who was now contemplating a retreat.
But the adventures of the night were
not yet at a close. As aunt Miriam
groped her way toward the path, lamenting
the pitohy darkness of the night, and the
craokling of erisped leaves as her not very
clastic feet shuffled through them, every
pulse in her frame came to a sudden pause
of terror, as a pair of musoular arms were
thrown round her, and a moustache came
in contact with her cheek! Suoh a kiss !
Aunt Miriam couldn’t remember its like
since the days when Peter Fenner courted
the beauty of the village. In vain she
struggled breathlessly to esoape : whoever
the individual might be, he didn’t do
things by halves, and evidently had no dis
position to relinquish his prize.
‘My darling little Milly! how did you
know I was coming to-night ?’
Then came another kiss, before aunt
Miriam could exolaim, in stifling ac
cents—
‘ James Arnett, are you crazy ? Do let
go of me, and behave like a sensible crea
ture !’
The arms unclasped with electric speed,
‘ Aunt Miriam ! how on earth’—
‘ Hush ! don’t speak above your breath!
There, now—if you’re going to laugh like
that you’ll raise the town!’
‘ I—l cant’t help it, aunt Miriam,’
gasped James, dinging to the gate post,
and vainly trying to ohgok the gusts of
laughter that would come. ‘What would
uncle Peter say ? who would.have expeoted
to find Mrs. Fenner, Vice President of the
Dorcas Society ?’
‘James, bold your tongue, if you don’t
want me to box your ears. And if you
breathe a word of this to any living
soul’— °
■ ‘ Well, I won’t, aunty—l won’t, upon
•my word, only the whole affair is so. su
premely. ; ridioulpuSi , •; • , ’ ' •
‘ NonsenßeiMaaid aunt Miriam, slipping
“THAT OOUHTBT IS THI HOST
LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 17, 1862
throng! the gate. ‘ There, you needn’t
turn baok with me, yon silly boy. Go in
and see Milly—l know that’s what yon
prefer. And Jamie’—-
‘ Well, annt Miriam V
_‘ I’ve changed my mind abont that little
Milly of yonrs. I don’t believe yon ean
find a prettier wife: so settle the matter as
soon as yon please, and wo will see whether
yonr old annt Miriam has forgot how to
make wedding cake.’
* But are yon in earnest, aunt V
‘ Never was more so in my life.’ *
‘ What has altered yonr convictions ?
surely I may ask that one question V
‘ That isn’t at all to the purpose, young
man. But remember, not a word of this
ridiculous adventure!’
‘ You know how to administer bribes,
aunt Miriam,’ said the youth, gayly, as he
enfolded the old lady in his arms, and gave
her yet a third kiss.
Through the Btarless darkness she hur
ried— under the wind-tossed apple trees,
and beneath the friendly shadow of her
own porch, where nnole Peter’s snores yet
resounded like muffled trumpets.
4 What makes you so late, wife 1 ’ de
manded a drowsy voice from the inner
apartment, as.she glided around, replacing
shawl and bonnet. ‘l’ve been as fast
asleep as a dormouse, I do believe—but I
did think I heeredthe oliok of the bolt.’
‘ It must have been the kitten among the
tin pans,’ quoth aunt Miriam—the nearest
approaoh to a fib she ever indulged in, be
fore or after. ,
And in subsequent life, when the firm
oonviotion seised her that James Arnett
had imparted her secret—in strict oonfi
denoe, of course—to his pretty wife, she
consoled herself by saying, mentally :
‘ Well, I don’t care if he has j for my
part, I shall always be glad of that peep
into Squire Brownell’s window.’
A Ghost Story.
A gentleman took a fanoy to a certain
elegant villa in a oharming part of one of
the loveliest counties in England. On in.
quiring about the rent it seemed to him so
extraordinarily low that he objected to
take it, suspecting that there mnst be
something radioally wrong in the building.
The proprietor assured him there was
nothing of the kind, but informed him that
the objection in the neighborhood to the
villa was that it had the reputation of being
haunted. He laughed at the vulgar super
stition, and at once aocepted the terms and
moved into the cottage. He was not very
• long in it before his domestios informed
him of strange noises whioh they had re
peatedly heard in the night. They had
distinctly listened to the opening of a door,
and heard the steps of a man ascending
the stairs. Another door was then opened,
water was poured out, and the sound of
washing hands was unmistakably audible.
After a short time the window was opened
and the water was thrown out; the window
was then closed, and, shortly after, steps
were heard descending, and the house door
opened and closed. This, the servants de
clared, they had severally and collectively
listened to numerous times. The gentle
man could not gainsay their statements ;
for himself and his wife had at different
times listened to the same unaccountable
proceedings.
On one occasion, particularly, on the
arrival of the ghost at the house door,
several persons went out to meet him. He
ascended, as usual, the stair-case : went
through his regular ablutions, and depart
ed, as was his custom. But, though they
followed him, their cars alone were con-,
vinced of the presenoe. of some being.
They could see nothing, notwithstanding
every one of the party was provided with
a light. These nocturnal visits were con
tinued so regularly that the gentleman was
at last compelled to abandon the villa, for
the simple reason that no servant would
remain there with him.-
Here is a poser ! We may laugh at the
credulity of those who are frightened at
ghosts and at mysterious sounds, but how
are we to account for them 1 I remember
having heard that, at the Patersville, in
the county of Meath, the sound of Colonel
Tucker’s footsteps periodically terrified,
and, perhaps, still terrifies, the present in
mates, although the veteran to whom the
property belonged departed this life many
years ago.
The only rational explanation of these
phenomena was adduoed by our fellow
traveler, the American consul. According
to him, apertures in the ground, or subter
ranean cavities, forming natural tubes,
often act as conductors of sound, so that
what may be done in one house, at a dis
tance, will be audible in another. He re
membered in a hotel in his State (Dela
ware) the sound of the trampling of horses
in a stable, which was situated some 200
yards off, was heard as distinctly as if the
horses had oooupied the chambers of the
hotel. Many ghost stories and mysterious
rappings can, no doubt, be explained upon
the same principle.
An Interesting Chapter.—lt was the
practice of an eccentric Irish divine to read
a ohapter before the sermon ; and, to the
amazementaOf his auditory, he requested
them to read with him one day, ‘ for edifi
cation,’ the first twenty-seven verses of
the tenth chapter of Nehemiah. He might
as well have asked them to read the first
twenty-seveh pages of a Sansorit lexicon.
But the doctor went on with the chapter,
and, as he enunciated, in his own mouthy
and sonorous way, one strange-sounding
word after another, ‘ Meremonth—Mag
plash—Meshezabeel—Hashabnab,’ every
eye was strained to the pulpit, hardly a
soul, for sßeer wonderment, ventured to
draw his breath. At the end of the last
verse, the reader put on one of his grim
mest looks : ‘ You will have got as much
good,’ he exclaimed, ‘ my attentive hearers,
from this chapter, as ye seem to have got
from any ohapter I ever read to you, and
ye will carry home as much of it, and ye
will carry as much of it in your daily
praetioe.’
The Crops of Illinois.— The Chicago Dost
says: From a oareful observation of our
country exchanges, we learn that the prospect
of an unusually large crop is very-bright.—
The extent of land in which grain has been
sown, was never equaled in this State in any
previous season, and never have there been
more flattering prospects of a foil crop than at
present to gratify the farmers. This rich
return is not confined to any one article nor’
to any section of the' State. It embraces'
everything that is grown, including fruit, -
which has' regularly failed for several years."
This ,at least is one cause for gratitude, and
wi.ll.'po .one great "source of relief, to .the'
people .should theiyarbe'extehdej for another
year. ~
vram uioi ( oouuu thi gmatkst uward.”-
Hon. William Dner, on Union for
the Union.
Oswego. N. -Y., May 16,1862. -
My Dear Sir: 1 have received yonr let
ter inviting me to meet yourself and.other
gentlemen constituting a committee ap
pointed by certain members of the Legis
lature designated as ‘ Republican and
Union members,’ with authority, after con
sultation with committees of other organi
zations, to fix the time and plaoe for hold
ing a : State Convention for the nomination
of State offioers. I will give you the
reasons why I think it proper to decline
the invitation.
The members of the Legislature by
whom the committee was appointed with
whioh you invite me to consult, Adopted
an address and resolutions declaring cer
tain principles, and inviting to a conven
tion whioh they recommend, ‘ All Repub
licans, Union Democrats, and loyal citizens
supporters of the policy of the Adminis
tration and responding to the . principles
and policy ’ set forth in such address and
resolutions.
I cannot oall myself ‘ a supporter of the
polioy of the Administration’ and I do not
respond to the ‘ principles and potoey set
forth in the address and resolutions,’ and,
therefore, though a loyal oitizen, I am not
embraced within this invitation.
I am ready, indeed, to support the Ad
ministration in the proseoution of the war
for the preservation of our Constitutional
Union, and I know that to this polioy the
President is pledged by numerous aots and
declarations, the sincerity of which I do
not question. But whether he will adhere
to the pledges in spite of that powerful
influence in his own party whioh is seeking
to convert the war into an abolition warj is
yet to be proved. He has already recom
mended an important measure whioh in my
judgment is impolitic and unwarranted
by the Constitution. With respect to the
vital questions that remain, I regard the
‘ polioy of the Administration,’ as some
what unfixed and uncertain, and until I
see more clearly what it is, I am unable to
call myself its ‘ supporter.’
But laying aside this objection, whioh
does not seem to embarrass Republicans
who are the open opponents of the polioy
to.ashich the President is pledged, let us
oonsider the proposed “union upon lis
merits. Is it expedient, and will it pro
mote the public welfare, to unite with the
Republican party upon the principles of
the legislative address and resolutions, for
the purpose of defeating the Demooratio
party of this State at the approaohing
election 1 That is the question.
A year ago, when the oountry was in
imminent danger, the Republicans of New
York and of other States invited Demo
crats and-all other loyal men to lay aside
partisan controversy and unite with them
in support of the war for the preservation
of the Constitution and Union. No other
motive or purpose for the war was then
heard from the leaders of the Republican
party, or indeed in any quarter having the
slightest influence upon public opinion.
The messages and speeches of the Presi
dent ; the proclamations of his Generals
pledging the publio faith to the people of
the invaded States, and of whioh his mere
silenoe was an approval and confirmation ;
the resolution of Congress passed almost
unanimously, only two Republicans voting
against them in the House of Representa
tives ; the language of the press and of
popular meeting—all united in declaring
that the war was to be prosecuted, not to
subjugate the South, nor to change South
ern institutions, nor to deprive Southern
men of their property, or rights, but simply
to establish the authority of the Constitu
tion over all the States.
Such were the appeals and assurances
under which the war commenced. But
when we had half a million of men in
arms ; when our armies were filled with
Democrats and others, who volunteered to
fight for this cause and not for abolition ;
when Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri,
relying upon our promises, had sent loyal
men to Congress, opened their territories
to our troops and placed themselves in our
power—then first wo heard, that slavery,
being the cause of the war, slavery must
be destroyed. It is notorious, that at this
day a large portion (to say the least) of
the Republican party repudiate these
pledges and trample even on their own
Chioago platform. They are the open ad
vocates of the abolition of slavery in the
States, and measures of confiscation so
sweeping and relentless, that their like has
not been known since the day of William
the Conqueror. They have theories, sever
al theories. Some of them maintain that
the seceded States are out of the Union,
and therefore have no rights. They adopt
the doctrine of secession, attaching to it a
consequenoe that enhances its absurdity.
The States, they say, are gone as States,
but remain as territories, subject to abso
lute power. This is the theory of Mr.
Sumner. It is the theory adopted by a
great meeting In the City of New York,
over which a son of Alexander Hamilton
presided. Others derive the power to
abolish slavery from a different source. It
may be done, they say, by the war power
—in other words, by despotio power. Who
can bound the war power ? And to what
a miserable state must that country be re
duoed, where it shall be thought a justifi
cation of every violation of constitutional
law, to say that it may be done .by the war
power.
I know that all these gentleman olaim
to be (prominently even) the friends of the
Union. They would sooner abolish slavery
than that the Union should perish. They
would exert a military despotism in the
South for the sake of the Union. They
are so passionate in their love that they
would sacrifice law, liberty, the Constitu
tion itself, to save the Union. Well, the
Union, to which they are so devoted, is
one for which I confess I have no respect
or attachment, I know no Union but our
Constitutional Union' of free and equal
States. It is an abuse of words to call
anything else the Union. Upon £he new
platform, Phillips, who declares that for
twenty years he has been the enemy of the
Union, and Garrison,'who formerly stigma
tized it as a compact with Hell, are both
Union men. It is the opinion" of these
gentlemen that the law of God and the
Constitution of the. United States are at
variance with each'other, and: therefore
they-sought the overthrow: of the Union,
but they havo become converted since it
has_ been''discovered that one may be an
enemy -of: . the Uonatitution, and yot a
friend of: the Union i.-So,iMr. Garrit Smith,
who sat 1 inf* seat ofhhnor at the New
York meeting, informs ns in his circular,
though, he hates the Constitution he loves
the Union. ...
The legislative address invites to the
I proposed Union convention ‘ all Republi-
I cans, Union Democrats, and other loyal
, oitizens.’ This implies that all Republi
cans are loyal; that disloyalty may be
fonnd among Democrats and other oitizens,
but nowhere else.' Such is not my opinion;
We are in arms against the disloyal men
of the South, and none here now oppose
the war. 1 1 believe- that individuals may
be found in the North who sympathize with
the rebels and wish thorn success. But it
would be absurd to organize a.political
party against persons bo few and insignifi
cant, and who dare only speak in whispers.
The disloyal men of the North, from whom
danger is to be apprehended, are they who
seek to convert the war into a war for the
emancipation of the black race, by means
of the overthrow of the Constitution.—■
Where are these men to he found 1 Sum
ner is one of them ; Wade another; Thad
deus Stevens a third. If there are Dem
ocrats or other oitizens among them, I
think they will be found to fraternize with
the or rather to be in a trans
formation state. Is it not plain that if we
need a Union party at the North, it is in
order to defeat the schemes of these men ?
But how can that be, if they are invited
to take part in the movement ?
There is no resemblance between this
movement and that whioh resulted in the
nomination of the Union tioket in this
State last fall. There was then a show of
opposition to the war at the North, but no
difference as to its purpose. We all then
were or proposed to be Constitutional
Union men. Now all opposition to the
war has disappeared, but a controversy
has arisen as to the object for which it
shall be prosecuted ; whether to establish
the Constitution or to overthrow it, and
reduce the South to the ■ condition of a
conquered provinoe. Upon this question,
the only political question that really di- ]
vides the people of the North, a true
Union party cannot be neutral or silent. \
For twelve years past I have thought
.that there was a neoessity for a Constitu
tional Union party. I wished that suoh a
party might be formed in 1850. I hoped
for it again in 1860 r -I-tbiok that loyal
Demoorats, loyal Republicans, and all
other loyal men ought to unite and form
such a party now. The basis of suoh an
organization (which might be temporary,
leaving present parties to resume their
former relations when the Union shall be
restored) may be found in the resolutions
adopted by the committee of conservative
members of Congress, of whioh Crittenden
was chairman. But I look in vain for any
suoh declaration as the times demand in
the address and resolutions adopted by the
(so called) Union members of our State
Legislature. There is muoh there about
slavery ; £ut little or nothing about the
Constitution. There is no declaration
against abolition or general confiscation ;
no assuranoe to loyal Southern men that
their rights Bhall be respeoted ; no recog
nition of any rights remaining to the peo
ple of the seceded States ; no condemna
tion of that most absurd form of secession
ism whioh converts States into territories,
and ereots a military despotism upon the
ruins of the Constitution. The play of
Hamlet with the part of Hamlet left out
is not more ridiculous than a Union party
that leaves out the Constitution.
I entertain tbe hope • that the conserva
tive men of tbe North will in some way
unite and act in concert with the loyal cit
izens of Kentucky, Maryland and all other
Southern States that are or may become
free from the usurped power of Jefferson
Davis. I trust that there will be some
movement for this purpose at Washington
before the adjournment of Congress. But
whether, this shall be accomplished or not,
I certainly can enter into no combination
with Republicans to overthrow the Dem
ocrats of this State. Whatever faults
they may have committed in the past, the
Democrats of the North are in the main
loyal and patriotic ; they are the chief
bulwark against the assaults of the North
ern disunionists ; upon them rests in a
great degree the hope of the Union. They
have not only magnanimously forborne
from factious opposition to the Govern
ment, but have even made no slight sacri
fices of partisan feeling in its support. —
They have defended the President when
many of the professed partisans have as
sailed him, and, if, as I continue to hope,
and believe he shall prove true to himself
and to his country, he may, perhaps, find
among them some of his best friends and
firmest supporters.
I have written somewhat at length, be
cause, having no opportunity of personal
consultation, it is only in this way that I
can present to you, and through you to
other friends in tbe city, the reason of my
course. My opinions and my feelings upon
this subject are both strong. I am, and
have been from the beginning, in favor of
putting down the rebellion by foroe of
arms. But lam for mercy, for humanity,
for constitutional law and liberty ; and I
abhor the fanatical spirit that to liberate
the degraded Africans would put the
whites in chains, and condemn to misery
and despair eight millions of people of our
own raoe and blood. I know, indeed, that
this atrooious scheme oan never be accom
plished ; I know that the North would not
support a war for this purpose; I know
that the South would resist it, so long as
the white race should survive ; I know
that all Christendom would rise and forbid
it. The end, reached at last, would be.
the dissolution of the Union, but after the
most frightful expenditure of money, and
saorifiae of life.
I am confident, my dear sir, that after
some experiment, perhaps, you will at last
reach the conclusion at whioh I have ar
rived. For myself, I see no use in meet
ing with gentlemen with whom I am sure
beforehand to disagree. The whole basis
of the proposed organization is. wrong. It
wants the vital principle of a Union-party,
fidelity to the Constitution. : It imposes a
test that the Southern Union men will not
admit. It embraoes men who ought to be
exoluded, and exoludes those whose co
operation is essential.. It is .but the. Re
publican party without the Republican
name ; - and I fear its tendenoy may be .to;
strengthen the radical branch of that par-,
ty, ahd to weaken" that portion which is
best disposed to support the- President in
a.Conservative aha 'Constitutional.policy.
If I am not mistaken, the Executive
Committee of the « Constitutional .Union
• party.M of;I860 still Burvives,and;you
andhaySClf are bothmembers of iti In-
defed, I suppose that it is intflat capacity
yonr letter: was addressed to me.*
good as to communicate my ans
wer to the other gentlemen.of the Com
mittee, as I suppose the question to whioh
it relates, may come before them ; and
believe me sincerely, your 'friend and
servant,
WILLIAM DUER.
E. J. Brown, Esq., New York.
* The invitation addressed by Mr. Brown,
whose name was placed at the head or the Legisla
tive Canons Committee, to Mr. Doer, beoanse he is
not only a member of the present Constitutional
Union Committee', bnt also beoanse he is one of the
Committee of the Syracuse Union, organisation of
1861, which nominated the State tisket elected last
year, and now holding office.
Valter and TJs Continue Our
Valk.
WE CONVERSE ON MASQUERADES.
Valter, my boy, did you ever stop on the
oorner of a year to oount up and think what
a queer world this is ?
‘Not muoh.’
Well, my boy, let us figure a little on it.
There are very many shows going oh. Some
are advertised—some are not. These shows
are singnlar, as no admittance fee.is asked.
Opera glasses, convex speotaoles, nose
blinders, with silk oords and gold rims, are
useless in the great show of life.' If yon
have out your eye teeth—if you have
learned to be your own fanning mill and
to shake ont the biles of ohaff, staffers are
shovelling with glib tongues into yonr
hopper, the mental vision will need no
telesoope. That is so, Valter. Some men
whistle when they have nothing to do.
Some men whittle with one eye closed.
Some sit aronnd, and their brain takos up
. all the foolishness they hear; as a bar
sponge wipes np the slops.and dregs of a
soore of filthy beverages, spilled over or
flirted out of the glasses used to drink
from. Suoh men see, about as you
would peel an old potato with a pine knife.
They don’t think. That is the trouble my
boy. They are too busy with their laziness.
Laziness keeps some men awful busy—
them in constant employ.
Suoh men never see the show—never
realize that life is one grand masquerade,
where nine out often are substitutes for
others—aoting a different part from the
oo« nature designed them for. They evi
dently got their costumes when the boss
was out.
Now, Valter, my boy, stand close.—
Don’t look wise, or folks will think you
are a fool. Look careless like, and listen.
Don’t anchor your eyes—let them float. —
Here comes a lady. She wears silk—
crinoline; No. 1 gaiters; lifts her ampli
tude daintily ; steps over a half inoh eraok
in the side walk as though it were a snake;
lets her head roll like a dram solo. She
is nice—she is pretty, as the world goes,
my boy, but all that taking style, is for
street effect. If she oaught a husband by
that bait, she will delight to play the gaudy
hook before his eyes, forever afterward.—
Look at her, my boy, then on the neat
lady over you, who, minds her own busi
ness—wears clean skirts—keeps her faoe
clean, hair in order, and saves her smiles
for one who makes earth Heaven for her.
When yon wedlook, my hoy, as you will
some day, don’t piok up the bundle tied
with the most, strings-—it may be .a stone,
nicely done np to fool somebody.
Here comes a nice looking man. Store
clothes ; mustache ; oily hair; white hand
kerohief about an inch out of pocket,
sweet stuff all over him till he smells like
Lubin’s extraots ; blacked boots; pants
strapped at both ends, and a oane. lie
taKes style heavy. Another masquerade
dress. No good for work—no good man
to battle with life. He is now young.—
By and by he’ll wedlock some frail tene
ment, and the misery clerk will have
another pair to keep account of and with.
He will have a wife—will oatoh some flirt
who likes style—in six months he will love
her but once in twenty-four hours, and in
a year he will go to the sagar bottomed
tumblers, while she makes her eyes into
piokle pots, over her own foolishness.
Ah, Valter, my boy, style is a huge
item. People will swallow a porcupine,
either way, if slaved over with style.—
Every body wears a fanoy dress. And my
boy, when twelve o’clock comes—when the
little bell says “masks off,” what an open
ing of peepers there will be, sure. No
discount on it. That happy couple so
well matched and amiable, will prove to
be a fairy and a dwarf—a square and a
circle. That holy man of God will stand
covered with brass buttons, on whioh de
ceit, envy,' malice, impudence, hypocrisy
and devilish meanness (of which we’ll tell
you, my boy, around the corner) will be
stamped in living characters. And the
man whose heart has been tied to one,
will jump for joy at the sound of the bell.
And my boy, the one you walked with so
long as a friend, will stand before you
labelled ‘ selfish that was sold.’ And the
poor man in ragged blouse, will come out
a king. And the rich man in character,
will carry hence a small valise labelled
bankruptcy. And the rough-looking,
rough-talking, sauoy dare-devil, whose
heart you think is like stella, will show
that in his soul dwells more of the true
and beautiful, more of the blessed influ
ence of a holy love and fragrant affection
than the crowd ever dreamed of. And
that poor woman win rags, now despised
for lack of silk and rouge, will stand en
robed in sacred love, the queen of all in
happiness, the heart bride of some one
really loved.
Now, Valter, my boy, learn a lesson.
T-he human from divine is all right but the
last word. When all are in disguise, don’t
be deoeived—don’f harness to a .partner
in lovd or business, till you have heard .the
bell. When the cloaks drop, go :in and
win, but don’t bet too high on: costumes.
Don’t judge people by- their dress—by
their talk—-by their style. Many, a hunter
is deceived in his game. Labels" are often
put on by mis take—often'put on to deceive.
Good old wine sometimes goes as kerosene
or cider 1 vinegar, to keep the boys from
s tealing, and so with people. There is very
muoh masquerade in the world—it is a
good show, and you and us, my boy, will
see all of it that is visible. —La Crosse■
Democrat. '■ ‘ ' : ‘
' A young lady who lately gave an
order to a .milliner for a new bonnet,'said:
“ You are tomake it plain and; at the
same time smart,-as Fsit.in a'-very' con
spicuous place in ohuroh.” :-.
.. BlF* An old maid being at, a loss fop a.
pinouBhion, made,WBe bf" an.onion. 'On;-
mornmgshe, found thajQdl
-the needWhad iears.in timk byes,, “ : ,:
xO'BTtmt^The~ur'oTa-^ilu
' °* os ®i -'damp, musty, that
of the house top ig pure and bracing. On
the surface ofthe earth the atmosphere is
oold, raw and kppure on the mountains it
is dry, rarificp and health-giving. The
purer the air is, the morelifedoea it impart
to the blood, the more perfectly is the
brain nourished, and'the more vigorously
does the- mind work' audthebody move.
Hence the ‘ study * of the clergymVn,the
‘offioe’ of the. jihysioian and thelawVer,
the ‘ library’-; of the family, the * sitting
room’ of the household, and the < ohamber’
of every sleeker, should alwaysin, the
upper stories, not for the greater
purity of. the air, but for a reason seldom
thought of, and yet of very gnat-sanitary
valne. The higher we aseend, the' more
ratified is the air, the greater bnlk is re
quired to impart a given amount of nourish
ment tp the ’ system; this greater .rarity
oxoites the instinct of our nature to deeper,
fuller breathing, without any effort on our
part, and this kind of breathingaa the re
flecting must know, is ahtagbniatib' of con
sumption, that fell scourge of oivilized
society, which destroys full one-sixth of
the adult population. Henoe- the very
suggestive remark of the distinguished
naturalist Bufion: ‘ All animals
ing high altitudes have larger lunge and
more; oapaoious ohests than those whioh
live in the valleys.’ In the same direo
tion is the suggestive statement that .in the
oity of Mexico, situated nine thousand
feet above the level of the sea, only three
persons out of every hundred perish' from
that disease. It should, therefore,'he the
aim of every student, of every sedentary
person, of every invalid, to have the room
in which a very portion of the inactive part
of life is spent, as far- above the ground**
floor as practicable, and in suok a .situation
as will allow the sun to shine into it for the
largest portion of the day, for this rarifies.
the air still more, and still more aids,in
in developing and expanding the lungs by
the greater depth and fullness of breathing
which the increased atmospheric rarity
induoes.— Hall's Journal of Health.
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