VOL. LXV
THE LANCASTER INTELLIGENCER
organ, in an editoitial a few mornings
since, said : " Charleston has not yet been
taken; Lee maintains a bold front on the
Rapidan ; the Florida expedition was a
failure ; the Sherman expedition has not
been a success, and the rebels have every
where shown more vi g or than they were
supposed to possess." Although the same
paper, and others in support of the Ad
ministration, have told the country from
time to time during the past. winter, that
the rebellion was crushed and slavery was
dead ; that the Confederates were desert
ing in whole regiments at a time, coming
within our lines, taking the oath, and de
scribing the most horrible suffering and
demoralization from want of food, clothing
and ill-treatment, yet at the very time the
people have been so deceived and misled
from day to day the President calls for
500,000 more troops, and in a few weeks
follows it with an additional call for
200,000 more, making 700,000 since the
commencement of the war out of the
3,500,000 who voted in the so-called loyal
States at the last Presidential election,
when 75,000 militia were to end it in
twenty, or at most sixty days.
Mr. Chairman—l have thus made a very
brief statement of facts as to the condition
of the Union to-day, for doing which I
have no doubt the usual charge of , en
couragement for the rebels,' the prolon
gation of the war,' the rebels are aided
by their friends on this floor,' and the like
charges will be repeated again by gentle
men on the opposite side of the House ;
SPEECH OF and, as I have heard such charges so re-
HON. ALEXANDER LONG, peatedly during the past four months, I
DBLIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF RE p R EsEN_ say now and here that the real friends of
TATIVES, APRIL 7, 1561. the Confederates—those' who give them
The House being in Committee of the aid and encouragement, and enable them
Whole on the State of the Union in con-
to carry on the war—are on the opposite
sideration of the President's Message,
side of the house and in the control of the
Mr. Long said :
Government. Your confiscation resoln-
Mr. Chairman—l speak to-day for the tion, voted for and passed by the friends
of the Administration, by which yon pro
preservation of the Government, and
although for the first time within these
pose to thrust your hands into the coffin of
walls, I propose to indulge in that freedom the deceased father, and take all he may
of speech and latitude of debate so freely have left at his death to his widow, and
exercised by other gentlemen for the past innocent and unoffending children, is worth
four months, and which is admissahle under more than fifty thousand men to the Con
thefederate army The order issued by the
rules in the present condition of the
House; but for what I may say and the
President to General Saxton, dividing , up
position I shall occupy upon this floor and and parceling out the State of South
Carolina among the negroes and enterp
before the coon try, I alone will be respon
ing Yankees of Massachusetts, gives
Bible, and in the independence of a Repro
courage, energy and enthusiasm to the ,
sentative of the people, I in tend to
men now in arms in the Confederate
proclaim the deliberate convictions of my
ud ment in this fearful hour of the coon-
States. The order of the President to his
try 's g
peril. And now, Mr. Chairman, as
military commanders in Louisana and Ark
wet are in Committee of the Whole on the' auras, and the order issued in pursuance
State of the Union, let us inquire how thereof by General. Banks to the people of
stands the Union to-day ? Louisiana—in which by a single dash of
his pen, he strikes out of existence the
A . little over three years ago, the present
occupant of the Presidential manaion,at the Constitution and organic law of the State,
other end of the avenue, came into this I and by virtue of the power vested in him
pity under cover of night, disguised in a I as a Major General, proceeds to call and
hold an election, and inaugurate State of
plaid cloak and Scotch o p, lest, as was
feared by his friends, he might have re-
ficers, and set up a State Government—
and the legislation consummated and pro
oeived a warmer greeting than would have
posed by Congress, and speeches made
been agreeable on his way through
upon this floor in support of Radicalism, is
Baltimore at the hands of the constituents
strengthening the Confederacy and pro
of the honorable gentleman from Mary
longing the war. Herein, Sir, is where
land (Mr. Davis.) On the 4th of March he
they find strength ; the true friends of the
was inaugurated, and in his address depre-
Confederacy in the North are the Radical
eated civil war, using that ever to be
Abolitionistq, and the Radical press goad
memorable language, Suppose you go to ing on the President to issue proclamations
war, you cannot fight always, and when,
after much loss on both sides, and no and military orders, which provide food,
gain on either, you cease fighting, the
raiment, strength and support for the Con
identical old questions as to terms of in-
federacy.
tercourso are again upon yea.' Seven If Mr. Lincoln had made a gift of
States had up to that time seceded from millions of greenbacks to Jefferson Davis
the Union. All believed that war would to be used as bounty money in recruiting
be averted. At the conclusion of the ad- I the Confederate army, he could not have
dress the lamented Douglas,who had close- done better service to the cause of the
ly watched every word as it escaped South than he has done by his silly, absurd
from the lips of the President, turned to a and insulting Amnesty Proclamation, and
friend, and with tears in his eyes,' thanked his equally absurd attempt to create State
God that after all the election of Abraham Governments by dictatorial power. He
Lincoln would not involve the nation in has in effect said to the Southern people :
You shall not return to the Union except
66 Y
war. " A secret meeting of the Governors
of a number of States was soon after held under such local Governments as I and
in this city. A scheme was devised and my military officers dictate," and with the
a vessel sent out under pretence of fur-
aid of his friends in Congress he is enabled
nishing provisions to the troops with
to add : in the event of your submis-
Major Anderson in Fort Sumter. On ar-
sion and return, your estates shall be con
fiscated ; your property, personal and real,
riving in Charleston Harbor the people of
s
that city fired upon the fort. The tele- shall be taken from you ; your children
shall be disinherited and left homeless and
graph bore the news to this city, and on its
first mention to the President, he ex- penniless -to starve, under the scorn and
claimed, " I knew they would do it," hatred of Northern fanatics ; your lands
which to my mind is conclusive that it was and manor houses shall be parcelled out
intended expressly for that purpose, among our retainers ; the negro (Freedmen)
Seventy-five thousand men were immedi-
and the adventure shall sit and rule at
ately called for,war was inaugurated, triien-
your heartstones, and you—beggars and
ty days were given the insurgents to lay outcasts—shall be forbidden representa
down their arms; an additional five hundred lion iu our national councils, and be shut
thousand men were soon called for ; hostil- out forever from offices of trust and honor."
ities commenced. The rebellion was to be Such is the language in which Lincoln and
crushed inside of sixty days, more troops this Congress and the preceding Congress
were called for, the Union was to be re- have spoken, and are speaking to the
stored with all the rights, equality and people of the South—and now, sir, with
dignity of the States unimpaired. No such a prospect before them, as the sequel
of submission, outlawry, disfranchisement,
man was permitted to question for a mo
ment the right of the Government to coerce social, moral and political degradation,
the States back into the Union. To doubt Penury for themselves and their children,
d
the right or question the speedy suppres
ecreed as their portion, will they throw
sion of the Union was to be denounced as down their arms and submit to the terms 1
a traitor to the Government and a syni-
Who shall believe that the free, proud
pathizer with the South. Thus, Sir, was American blood which courses with as
the war inaugurated. The first year past quick pulsation through their veins as our
away, the second oame and passed in like own, will not be spilled to the last drop in
reiostance ? This is the source, sir, from
manner, so of the third ; and now, Sir, let
me again inquire how stands the Union to- whence comes encouragement, strength,
day? The brief period of three short years support, and sustenance for the Confeder
has produced a fearful change in this free,
ates ; herein lies the secret of their action,
t
happy and prosperous Government; so free the prolongation of the contest, and the
in its restraints up3n personal liberty, and desperation of the conflict produced not by
so gentle in its demands upon the re- anything said, or measures proposed by
sources of the people, that the celebrated gentlemen upon this side of the House, or
Humboldt, after traveling through the by any measures proposed or policy advo
oountry,nn his return to Europe, said, sated by the Democrat .° party, but by the
" Theainerioan people have a government acts of gentlemen who make the charges,
whitoliyou can neither see nor feel." S o and the President and his military corn
different is it now, and so great is the manders, who issue the Proclamations and
change, that the inquiry might well be - the military orders.
.made to-day are we not in Constantinople, Mr. Chairman, 1 have deemed it proper
in St. Petersburg, in Vienna, in Rome or thus to advert to the charges of encourage
in Paris I Military Governors and their ment to the Confederates so repeatedly
Provost Marshals override the laws, and made upon this floor, and I again recur to
the echo of the armed heel rings forth as the consideration of the Union. Can the
clearly now in America as in Prance or in Union be restored by war ? 1 answer
Austria, and the President sits to-day most unhesitatingly and deliberately, no,
guarded by armed soldiery, stationed at never ; " war is final, eternal separation."
every approach leading to the Executive My first and highest ground of opposition
mansion. So far from crushing the rebel- to its further prosecution is that it is
lion in sixty days, threw years have already wrong ; It is in violation of the Constitu
passed away, and from the day on which tion and of the fundamental principles on
the conflict began up to the present hour, which the Federal Union was founded.
the Confederate army have not been be- My second objection is, that as a policy it
yond the sound of their guns from the is not reconstructive but destructive, and
dome of the capitol in which we are assein- will, if continued, result speedily in the
bled. The City of Washington is to-day destruction of the government and the loss
as it has been for three years, guarded by of civil liberty to both North and South,
Federal troops in all the forts and fortifica- and it ought therefore immediately cease.
Lions with which it is surrounded to In order, Mr. Chairman, that we may
prevent an attack from the enemy, and as know what views were entertained upon the
an evidence of the despondency 'of the right as well as the expediency of coercing
. Administration, and the unsuccessful open- ; States into submission by some of the de
. ing•of ihe Spring campaign of the fourth: parted as well as living statesmen of the
year in the progress - of the war, theAfain-1 country; previous to the commencement of
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tention of the House and the country to
a 'few extracts, which to my mind are
worthy of consideration at this time,
In 1827, during the administration of
John Quincy Adams, when the Legislature
of Georgia had passed an sot setting aside
the laws of Congress regulating the inter
course with the Indian tribes within her
limits, the messages of the President on
tl e sth and Bth of February, 1827, in re
lation thereto, were referred to a select
committee of the Senate, of which Col.
Benton was Chairman, and of which
Martin Van Buren and Gen. William H.
Harrison, both afterward Presidents of the
United States, were members. The com
mittee, in their report, Senate documents,
Second Session, Nineteenth Congress,
Document No. 69, says :
" It is believed to be among those axioms, which
in a government like ours no man may be permitted
to dispute, that the only security fn. the permanent
union of these States, is to be found in the principle
of common affection, resting on the basis of common
interest. The sanctions of the Constitution would
be impotent to retain, in concerted and harmonious
action, twenty-f..or sovereignties, hostile in their
feelings toward each other, and acting under the
impulse of a real or imagined diversity of interest.
The resort, to force would be alike vain and nugatory.
Its frequent use would subject it, with demonstrative
certainty, to ultimate failure, while Its temporary
success would be valueless for all purposes of social
happiness. In such contests, however unequal, and
however transient, the seeds of disunion would be
thickly sown, and those who may be destined to
witness them will speedily thereafter be called to
lament the destruction of the fairest prospect of
civil liberty which Heaven in its mercy has vouch
safed to man. The Committee will not enlarge upon
the frightful consequences of civil wars. They are
known to be calamitous to single governments, and
fatal to confederacies."
The prediction of the committee of the
destruction of the fairest prospect of civil
liberty which Heaven in its mercy has
vouchsafed to man, is already in great
danger of being realized, and every hour
the war is continued only widens the sep
aration and increases the danger. But,
sir, I propose to introduce the opinion of
another departed statesman, of the school
of politics to which the gentlemen on the
opposite side of the chamber belong, and
for whose political opinion they entertain
the highest regard. That profound states,
man, after the experience of many years
in the most exalted positions of theonation,
and with a perfect knowledge of the
subject upon which he spoke, said :
" Nations acknowledge no judge between them
upon earth, and their Government from necessity
must, in their intercourse with each ocher, decide
when the failure of ono party to a contract to per
form its obligations, absolves the other from the re
ciprocal fulfilment of his own. But this last of
earthly powers is not necessary to the freedom or
independence of States connected together by the
immediate action of the people, of whom they con
sist. To the people alone is there reserved, as well
the dissolving as the constituent power, and that
power can be exorcised by them only under the tie
of conscience binding them to the retributive justice
of Heaven. With these qualifications we may admit
the same right as vested in the people of every State
in the Union, with reference to the General Govern
ment, which was exercised by the people of the
United Colonies with reference to the supreme head
of the British Empire, of which they formed a part,
and under these limitations have the people of each
State in the Union a right to secede from the con
federated Union itself. Thus stands the right. But
the indissoluble link of Union•between the people
of the several States of this confederated nation is,
afar all, not in the right but in the heart, If the
day should ever come (may Heaven avert it !) when
the affections of the people of these States shall be
alienated from each other; when the fraternal spirit
shall give way to cold indifference; or collisions of
interest shall fester into hatred, the bands of politi
cal association will not long hold together parties
no longer attracted by the magnetism of cormilated
interests and kindly sympathies; and far better will
it be for the people of the disunited States to part in
friendship from each other than to be held together
by constraint. Then will be the time for reverting
to the precedents which occurred at the formation
and adoption of the Constitution, to form again a
more perfeet Union, by dissolving that which could
no longer bind, and to leave the separated parts to
be re united by the laws of political gravitation to
the centre."
Thus, Mr. Chairman, spoke John Quin
cy Adams, in an address delivered before
the New York Historical Society on the
30th of April, 1839, in commemoration of
the fiftieth anniversary of the inauguration
of George Washington as President of the
United States. Mr. Adams was a believer
in the doctrine therein set forth, and the
leaders of the party to which he belonged
shared in that belief, and continued to do
so at the commencement of the present
unnatural civil war. If it was sound doc
trine before secession took plane and the
war began, what is there in either to
change the principle ?
Andrew Jackson, in his farewell address
to the American people, has so!emnly
warned them that the citizens of one sec
tion of the country arrayed in arms against
the other would be an end of the Union
and an end of the hope of freedom. He
says that, " if such a struggle is once be
gun, and the citizens of one section of the
country are arrayed in arms against those
of the other, i i doubtful conflict, let the
battle result as it may, there will be an
end of the Union, and with it an end of
the hope of freedom. The victory of the
injured would not secure to them the
blessings of liberty ; it would not avenge
their wrongs, but they would themselves
share iu the common ruin. I'he Consti
tution cannot be maintained nor the Union
preserved in opposition to public feeling
by the mere exertion of the coercive power
of the government.',
But this opinion, that the Union cannot
be preserved by the coercive power of the
government, was not confined to the de
, parted statesmen of the country.
1 William H. Seward, in his letter of
I April 11, 1861, to Mr. Adams, our Min
ister to England, said :
, ernment ; maintained their declaration of
For these reasons the President would not be independence for three years, by force of
disposed to reject a cardinal doctrine of theirs (the r
rebels) namely: that the Federal Government could arms ; and that the war has out asunder
rot induce the seceding States to obedience by con- all the ligaments, and abrogated all the
quest, even though he were disposed to question that .
proposition. But in fact the President accepts it as obligations that bound them under the.
true. Only en imperial or a despotic government Constitution. So far I agree with him,
could subjugate thoroughly disaffected and insurrec
tionary members of the State. This Federal Repub. and however unwilling we may be to ao-•
lican system of ours is of all forms of government ' cept such position as the actual condition
the very one which is most unfitted for such labor." of the Confederate' States, the history of
Such was the language of the Secretary the past three years, the law of nations,
of State, in April, 1861, three days before the genius of our government, and a re
the Sunday on which the President wrote gard for truth, compel me at least to ao
'his Proclamation calling out seventy-five I oept it, and my judgment to approve it ;
thousand troops, but after seven States and if the charge of disloyalty is brought
Ihad seceded. The Secretary shared in the again i st me for this opinion, I have only to
fears of the President, that the attempt to shield myself under the broad mantle of
subjugate the South would destroy the the distinguished leader of•the Republican
Government. Three years of civil war in party. At the oommenoement of the war
a vain and fruitless effort attest and prove England and France both declared the
Ito -day the correctness of the opinion then Confederate Statesito be belligerents ; the
held by the President : "Only an imper- United States has treated with them as
ial or a despotic government could subja- such in the exchrnge of prisoners, and the
'gate thoroughly disaffected and insurrec- Administration is to-day, without the
tionary members of the State." 44 This honesty or independece of the gentleman
Federal Repablio of ours is of all forms of from Pennsylvania to avow it, doing pre--
government the most unfitted for such la- i cisely what he proposes to do under his
bor." Who does not believe it? If there war for conquest, waged against Che Con
,
truth in the Declaration of IndePen- federate States as a foreign nation. It is
deuce, and the gentlemen on the opposite not now even pretended that the war is
side of the House will certainly not die- I carried on, having for its object the resto-
Ipute it, since they incorporated it in the ration of the Union ; 44 reconstruction,"
Chicago platform, which became a law 44 consolidation," 44 centralization," 44 with
unto the President,—who, I ask, can deny an entire change in the Constitution," are
the conclusion of the Secretary of State, the terms employed in speaking of thO
having in view always, as he and the Pres- . government that is to exist hereafter. To
ident undoubtedly had. the great cardinal' speak of the Constitution as it is, and the
truth underlying all Repriblicen govern- Union as it was, ie in offence, subjecting
mentsderiving their just powers from an officer in the army to punishment by
21.>1
the consent of the governed." If the
President and his Secretary of State gave
utterance to truth in 1861, is it any less
a truth to-day ? Has not rather the experi
ence of three years of war confirmed it
I believed it then. I believe it now. Bat,
sir, I propose to call another witness to
testify against this coercive policy, who
also spoke in advance of the war. Edward
Everett, in his letter of May 28th, 1860,
to Washington Hunt, accepting the nomi
nation as Vice President of the Union
party, of which, I believe, the'distinguish
ed gentleman from, Maryland (Mr. Henry
Winter Davis) was a member, and for
whom a number of gentlemen upon this
floor voted, then said :
" The suggestion that the Union can be maintain
ed by numerical preponderance and military prow
ess of one section exerted to coerce the other into
submission is, in my judgment, as self-contradic
tot& as it is dangerous. It comes loaded with the
death-smell from fields wet with brothers' blood. If
the vital principle of all Republican governments
is the consent of the governed' much more does a
union of co-equal sovereign States require, as the
basis, the harmony of its members, and their volun
tary co-operation in its organic functions."
It will no doubt be said that Mr. Ever
ett has changed his views upon the sub
ject. That may be so, but I have not. I
believed it sound doctrine in 1860, before
secession occurred or coercion began.—
Three years' experience in attempting
44 by numerical preponderance and mili
tary prowess of one section to coerce the
other into submission" has convinced rue
more thoroughly that it is 44 as self-contra
dictory as it is dangerous "—contradic
tory because it violates the great prinoi-
Oiples of free government which 4 4 derive
their just powers from the consent of the
governed ; ' and dangerous because, by
its exercise, especially when wielded by a
weak, vasoillating and unscrupulous man,
it destroys, instead of maintaining the
Union, Constitution and organic law ;
civil liberty and personal security are
forced to yield to what is claimed to be a
military necessity, and the Government
itself, in the brief period of three short
years, is to-day verging on the very brink
of ruin.
I: am well aware, Sir, that the cry of
disloyalty, want of patriotism and lack of
devotion to the Government, which is in
every place and at all times raised against
all who have the independence to disap
prOve of any of the ants of Mr. Lincoln, as
well as an inordinate desire for Govern
ment patronage, from the building of a
steamship and a shoddy contract down to
the insignificant position of taking charge
of a mutilated and depreciated greenback
in the Treasury building, has changed the
opinion of many men, but the fixed prin
ciples of free government, as well as the
rules of right, reason, justice and truth
are unchangeable ; and although it may
be unpopular, and even at the risk of per
sonal liberty in times like the present to
advocate them, they are nevertheless eter
nal and immutable.
The distinguished gentleman from Penn
sylvania, (Mr. Stevens,) who stands upon
this floor and before the country as the ac
knowledged le tder of the Administration
party, has had the honesty and indepen
dence, in a speech delivered at an early
part cf the session, to announce what he
holds to be the true position of the Con
federate States. He says :
"Some think that these States are still in the
Union, and entitled to the protection of the Consti
tution and the laws of the United States."
This idea he at once repudiates, and
then boldly affirms that which he holds to
be the true doctrine :
Others hold that having committed treason, re
nounced their allegiance to the Union, discarded the
Constitution and laws, organizing a distinct and
hostile Government, and by force of arms have risen
from the condition of insurgents to the position of
an independent power, de fatto ; and having been
acknowledged as a belligerent both by foreign na
tions and our own Government, the Constitution and
the Union are abrogated, so far as they are con
cerned, and that as between the two belligerents
they are under the laws of war and the laws of na
tions alone, and that whichever power conquers
may treat the vanquished as conquered provinces,
and may impose upon them such conditions and
laws as it may deem best."
In answer to any objections that may be
raised to this position, he says_;
" But it Is said that this must be considered a
contest with rebel individuals only, as States in the
Union cannot make war ; that is true so long as
they remain in the Union; but they claim to be
out of the Union, and the very fact that we have
admitted them to be in a state of war, to be belli
gerents, shows that they are no longer in the Uniui,
and thus they are waging war in their corporate
capacity, under tho corporate name of the Confeder
ate States, and that such major corporation is com
posed of minor corporations called States, acting in
their associated character.
" When au insurrection becomes sufficiently for
midable to entitle the party to belligerent rights, it
places the contending powers on precisely the same
footing as foreign nations at war with each other.
No one acquainted with the magnitude of this
contest can deny to it the cbaraoeter of civil war.
➢or nearly three years the Confederate States have
maintained their declaration of independence by
force of arms.
What, then, is the effect of this public war be
tween these belligerents, these foreign nations?
Before this war the parties were bound together by
a comp,aot, by a treaty called a " Constitution.
° They acknowledged the validity of municipal laws
mutually binding on each. This war has out asun
der all these ligaments, abrogated all the oblige
' tions."
Now, Sir, for once, at least, 1 agree
with the distinguished gentleman from
Pennsylvania, that the Confederate States
are out of the Union, occupying the posi
tion of an independent power de facto;
have been acknowledged as a belligerent,
both by foreign nations and our own Gov-
dismissal from the service, and conclusive
evidence of disloyalty in the citizen. If
the time 'ever was when the Union could
have been restored by war, which I do not
believe, it has long since been dispelled
by emancipation, confiscation, amnesty and
the like proclamations ; military orders
annulling State constitutions; setting aside
State laws, obliterating State lines, and
attempting to organize and set up a form
of State government in their stead, in
which one man out of ten who shall turn
Abolitionist,takes and subscribe an oath to
execute and obey the will of Abraham
Lincoln, whatever it may be, shall govern
and rule over the remaining nine who
refuse to become Abolitionists. These
follies of the Administration and others of
the like oharaoter, have, instead of "crush
ing the rebellion," crushed out whatever
Union sentiment may have remained
among the Southern people. It is possible
that in districts of country occupied by
the army, occasionally a man may be
found, who, seeing nothing before him but
ignominy and death, his wife and innocent
children appealing to him for protection
with all the ties of filial affection, his
property to be confiscated, and his family
to become outcasts and beggars in the
world, that such a man, in order for the
time being, to save himself, save his family
and save his property, may take the oath,
but the effect of it will be, as it ought to
be, like that of Galileo, who invented the
telescope, and who first taught the rotary
motions of the earth. That noble old
Italian, aftei many years of labor in the
study of soiende, and when he had ad
vanced to the extreme age of seventy, was
summoned before an inquisition, tried, con
demned and imprisoned in a dungeon for
teaching a heresy; subsequently he was
brought out and offered liberty on condi
tion of renouncing his heretical dootrine.
The effect of beholding the glorious light
of the sun and breathing again the pure
air of Heaven as contrasted with the loath
some dungeon in which he had been cast,
and to which he must soon return or re
nounce his belief in the earth's motion, so
far overcame his humanity that he con
sented to comply, and upon his bended
knees, with his hands upon the gospels, he
abjured his belief in the Copernican doc
trine. Part of his abjuration ran in these
terms: " With a sincere heart and un
feigned faith, I abjure, curse and detest
the said errors and heresies, (viz: that
the earth moves, &c.) I swear that I
will never in future say or assert anything
verb Ally or in writing, which may give rise
to a similar suspicion against me. Rising
from his knees with his eyes still fixed on
the earth, he Whispered to a triend, E
put si muove." It moves for all that."
So it will he with the. man who is forced
to the oath to save himself, his family and
his property. He tray take it, but in his
hart he will detest and despise the au
thority that required it. Will such a man
be devoted to or make a good citizen of
the government in which he lives ? The
history of Poland, of Hungary, of Ireland
and of Italy furnishes an an wer to the
question. If imperial governments are
•not able to hold in submissive obedience
small portions of a vast empire, once in
revolt, how much less a government hav
ing for its basis the consent of the gov
erned. But " subjugation "is the watch
word. Liberty and freedom for the slave
and subjugation and extermination for the
master is the popular cry. Meet them,
fight them, crush them, says the gentle
man from Kentucky, (Mr. Green Clay
Smith.) Sir, that is easily said upon this
floor, and is popular with those who from
day? to day fill the gallery of this House,
but even the gentleman from Kentucky, as
well as .a number of other military gentle
men, were quite willing to forego the
pleasure of the performance and exchange
their 'commissions as generals in the field
for a certificate entitling them to a seat
upon this floor ; and were I to judge by
the willingness with which it is done, and
the tenacity with which they hold on to it,
and the efforts some of them are making
to return here again, instead of the war
spirit they breathe within these walls, I
should strongly suspect them .of being in
sympathy with the peace party.
Kr. Chairman : I am no military man,
and therefore incompetent to give advice
or advance an opinion on military affairs,
but I have been often forcibly struck by a
remark of Marshal Ney, in reply to Na
poleon, as related by Headly in his "Na
poleon and his Marshals." " One day, at
Madrid, Napoleon entered the room where
Ney and several officers were standing,
and said in great glee—Everything goes
on well , Romana, will be reduced in a
fortnight; the English are defeated and
will be unable to advance; in three months
the war will be finished." The officer to
whom this was addressed made no reply,
but Ney, shaking his head said with his
characteristic bluntness, Sire, this war has
lasted long already and our - affairs are not
improved. The people are obstinate ; even
their women and children fight ; they mas
sacre our men in detail. To-day we out
the enemy in pieces, to-morrow we have
to oppose another twice as numerous. It
is not an army we have to fight, it is a
whole nation. I see no end to this busi
ness." Bonaparte followed his own in
clination, and was eventually defeated.
Mr. Chairman : is there not instruction
in the blunt yet forcible reply of the old
French Marshal to his superior officer for
us I Have we not had from time to time,
the predictions of Napoleon during the
past three years, but without a Marshal
Ney to say " I see no end to this busi
ness."
ICONCL USION INSIDE.]
One day the Duke of Newcastle
and the Duke of Cleveland were travel
ling together in a railway carriage. New
castle is a fine, noble-looking man, frank
and sociable; while Cleveland is a little,
dried-up old fellow, proud as Lucifer.—
In passing through Nottingham,.a gentle
man got into the same carriage with the
two dukes. [An English first-oltu3s car
riage will seat but eight peisons, and few
common people travel in the first-olass.]
He proved to he a manufacturer ;and New
castle soon entered into conversation with
him—asking him all about trade, the state
of markets, etc., and deriving considerable
information. Cleveland, on the (solitary,
was silent and exclusive—not deigning to
talk to a mere business-man. After a
while, the journey of the Duke of New
castle was ended, and he left the. carriage.
The Nottingham gentlemin t *dill bad been
oeitg4t4kivittl.Pbe easy colonisation ofthe
departed duke, L. - ) tamed , to , the: -other
stranger Trend Cleveland,) and asked if
he knew the gentleman's name with whom
he had been conversing. The Duke of
Newcastle,' was the reply. g You don't
say so 1' rejoined the astonished manu
facturer ; well, now, only to think that
such a great gentleman should have
talked in so free-and-easy a way to two
such snobs as you and t !
THE FURY Or A WOMAN SCORNED.-A
terrible illustration of what a scorned
woman's fury will lead her to do, oc
curred, recently, in Milwaukie. A lady
of that city returning unexpectedly from a
call, imagined she heard voices in the
room usually occupied by herself and hus
band. The door being closed, she was re
duced to the keyhole, and to this aperture
she applied her eye. She saw the figure
of a woman ; standing by her was the hus
band of the jealous wife, actually engaged
adjusting a scrawl upan the shoulders of
the female intruder. The wife went to
another room, took a loaded shot gun, re
turned opened the door, and deliberately
shot the strange woman in the bank.
The husband screamed, the wife fainted.
When the latter returned to conscious
ness, she found the wretch of a husband
bending over her, with a well-feigned
solicitude in his glance. Mutual explana
tion ensued, and the body of the woman
who had been shot was brought in. It
was a dummy ! The husband, who pur
sued the respectable calling of a retail dry
goods dealer, was wont to use this figure
to exhibit the mantillas and shawls with
which he desired to charm the eyes of the
Milwaukie ladies. The dummy, from long
exposure and hard usage, had become
shabby, and the merchant had that morn
ing brought it from the shop for the pur
pose of renovating its exterior. Not find
ing his wife, he was trying in his awkward
way to do the work, and probably swear
ing at his clumsy attempts, when his wife,
mistaking the accents of passion, let fly
the fatal shot. This tragedy in real life
will teach her a lesson, perhaps.
WHY CHILDREN DlE.—One reason why
children die is because they are not taken
care of. From the day of birth they are
stuffed with food and choked with physic,
sloshed with water, suffocated in hot
rooms, steamed in bed clothes. So much
for in-door. When permitted to breathe a
breath of pure air once a week in summer,
and once or twice during the cold months,
only the nose is permitted to peep into day
light. A little later they are sent out
with no clothing at all on the parts of the
body which most need protection. Bare
legs, bare arms, bare necks, girted middle,
with an inverted umbrella to collect the air
and chill the other parts of the body.—
A stout strong Man goes out in a cold day
with gloves and overcoat, woolen stockings,
and thick, double soled boots, with cork
between tnd rubbers over. The same day
a child of three years old, an infant flesh,
blood, bone and constitution, goes out with
shoes as thin as paper, cotton socks,
uncovered to the knees ; neck bare ; an e -
posure which would disable the nurse, kill
the mother outright and make the father
an invalid for weeks. And why 1 To
harden them to a mode of dress which they
are never expected to practice. To accus
tom them to exposure which, a dozen years
later, would be considered downright fool
ery. To rear children thus for the slaugh
ter peu, and then lay it on the Lord, is too
bad. We don't think the Almighty had
any hand in it. And to draw comfort from
the presumption that he had an agency in
the death of the child is a profanation.
B Professor Johnston was one day
lecturing before the students on mineral
ogy. He had before him a number of
specimens of various sorts to illustrate the
subject, when a roguish student, for sport,
slily slipped a piece of brick among the
stones. The professor was taking up the
stones one after the other, and naming
them. ' This,' he said, is a piece of
granite; this is feldspar,' &a. Presently he
came to the brickbat. Without betraying
any surprise, or even changing the tone of
his voice, This,' he said, holding it up,
is a piece of impudence.'
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