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Bashfulness In Youth
Young people, on their first admission
to this outer world, are especially af
flicted with false shame; so that it may
be regarded as one of the moral diseases
of the mind's infancy. It is at the bot
tom of a great deal of their shyness.
They cannot feel at ease, because they
mistrust something about themselves or
their belongings, and have that feeling
of bareness and exposure in the pres
ence of unfamiliar eyes which attaches
to sensitiveness under Untried circum
stances. Everything then assumes a
magnified, exaggerated character, the
plaee they occupy on the one hand, and
the importance of the occasion on the
ether. The present company is the
world, the universe, a convention of
men and gods, all forming a deliberate
and irreversible judgment upon them,
and deciding to their disadvantage on
account of sonic oddness, or awkward
ness, or passing slip in themselves or in
the accessories about them. But, in
most persons, time and experience bring
so flinch humility. as teaches them their
insignificance. It is not, we soon learn,
very likely that at any given time a
mixed assemblage is thinking very
much :Wont us; and then the horror of
cou.picuou, position lose , its main
sting. This on the one hand; on the
other, Nye are not as dependent on the
award of society as we were. Even a
roomful comprises, to our enlarged
imagination, by no means the NOl , ole
creation. There is
I.:u•im_ I . ol' oollt,i.le 010,e Walk.
111,4 ,, \Vt . ha \ to 101111 a sill CSIA-
Mate There is now a third
party in the question, in the shape of
sett-respect. We realize that we are to
ourselves of immeasurably more ci,li,e
41nence limn any one else can he to
Thus, either by reason or the natural
hardening and strengthening process of
the outer air, most people overcome any
4 . onspktions display of the weakness.
Tly the time youth is over, they have
either accepted their position or set
about in a business-like way to tuella ii.
Don't Squeeze
While we are growing very sensible,
indeed, in the matter of dress as far as
Foots, Bat skirts, warm stockings,
and high necks, we are degenerating in
some other matters quite as inil e
The corset is now a necessary part of a
woman's wardrobe, and, alas! when a
woman does begin to wear corsets, she
will wear them too small, and will tug
of the hives until her breath betatmes
short, and she feels it necessary to re
frain from anything like a comfortable
meal. We say clothing against a well
shaped COrtittl. guru 100 SC, but there lie,
the difficulty. A loose corset injures the
appearance of the figure instead of im
proving it, and people wear ClirSfq , that
they may have small waists. ..A.ll we
call say is, don't squeeze, Whatever you
do; you may have small waists, but
you are exposing yourself to it dozen
misffirtunes which are as had as a large
waists. First, you'll surely have dys
pepsia, and grow yellow, and cross, and
unhappy ; secondly, your hands will
grow red ; thirdly, your nose; fourthly,
you will he unable to walk a mile at
once ; ti ]'till}, dinner will be il.lllkOry ;
sixthly, your shoulder blades will in
crease ill size and altitude; seventhly,
your eyes will grow weak; eighthly, you
breakdown at thirty or thereabout-,
and be a sickly old woman from that
time forth. If these truths do not fright
en women from tight corsets, perhaps
the information that gentlemen genet
llo not admire what dressmakers
call a "pretty figure" so uncoil as It na
tural one, may have some influence.
.1 Beautiful Sentiment.
clasp thy hands meekly ~ver tlae still
breast—theyv'e ID) more Nvork . In (to;
4 close the weary eyes—theyv'e no molt
lezlN to, silo]; part the (lamp locks—
there's no more pain to bear
alike to love's kind voice, and valumny's
stinging whisper.
), if in that stilled heart you have
ruthlessly planted a thorn ; if from that
pleading eye you have carelessly turned
away ; if your loving glance, and kindly
word, and clasping hand, have come—
WI too I(dr—then (Oat forgive you! No
frown gathers on that loarhie inrow as
you gaze—no scorn curls the chiseled
lip—no Hush of wounded feel logs mounts
to the blue-veined temples. •
( ;oil forgive you! for gotor feet, to(),
must shrink appalled from death's cold
river—your faltering tongue asks 1"( !an
this be death ?" Your fading eye lingers
lovingly on the sunny earth, your clam
my hands feel its last feeble flutter.
f), rapacious grave ! yet another vic
tMl for thy voiceless keeping! What !
no words of greeting from the house
hold sleepers? so warm welcome from
a sister's loving lips? No throb or plea
sure from the dear maternal bosom
Silt ull
0, if these broken limbs were uev,q.
gathered up! If beyond death's swel
ling flood there were no eternal shore!
If for the struggling bark there were no
port of peace! If athwart that lower
ing cloud sprang no„bright how of pro-
\las, for love if this be all
And ?taught begoltd.
Solitude
More and greater sins are committed
when men are alone titan When they
keep themselves in fellowship. When
Eve in Paradise walked alone, then
mine the evil one and deceived her.
Whoever is amongst men mid in honest
company, is ashamed to sin, or, at least,
lie has no place or opportunity to (1,. so.
When David was alone and idle, and
went not to the wars, he fell into adul
tery and murder ; and I have myself
found that I have never fallen into more
sin than when I was alone. Solitariness
invite( h to melancholy, and a person
alone has often some heavy and evil
th o ught s , so bath he strange thoughts,
and construeth everything in the worst
sells,. Melancholy is an instrument of
the devil, by which he aceompliAics his
wicked purposes. The deeper a person
is plunged into that state, the more
power the devil hath over him. TO
live in all open, public state is the safest.
Openly, and amongst other persons, a
man must live civilly and honestly,
must appear to fear 1 - 40 d, and do his
duty towards men.—Lather.
Ike' The learned Buxtorf informs us
in his " Hebrew Lexicon," that the
primeval name Eve is derived from a
root signifying talk ; that it was, per-
Imps, from a dim idea of this kind that
the Robbins owned their tradition, that
twelve baskets of chit-chat—it could
not be gossip, for there were no neigh
bors to gossip about—were rained down
into Paradise, for Adam and Eve to
amuse themselveswith, of which twelve
Adam picked up three and Eve the
ether *no.
I,lartitattr ftt/ctii/genct.
VOLUME 65
Indian Justice
Many years ago a gentleman from the
central part of New Hampshire was in
the Pequawket country, attending to
his property near the village of Frye
burg, when a company of Indians from
the Penobscot tribe came there for a
temporary, al}ode, and pitched their
tents on an elevation near the Saco riv-
er. In passing to his lands he noticed
a squaw kneeling to pick strawberries,
and creeping to different parts of the
patch that furnished the fruit. Her at
titude struck hint as singular but he
concluded she took that posture as most
convenient for the purpose.
On his return she had disappeared,
and he supposed had Wine to sell her
ries. But as he approached the settle
ment, he observed the unusual isitrlit of
an In.lian Ctlrryillp; SlitlaW on hi, hapk.
A nearer view showed him the person
N5'11(1111 hi' SaW in the strawberry field.,
After having witnessed the occurrenee
severzil times, un inquiry of tile Indians
as to the einisc of this action, one of
them replied :--" lie hail Indian. lie
drink moil, Soecapec. He drunk, and,
Cheepie ;devil, get in Lim. Then he
put squaw's feet in lire. They hurl'
off," Ai- he he saw they were
crippled itnl useless. Th, tribe resent
ed the cruelty, al l it- council were
about to decide on his immediate exe
cution. I tut ime id the elder and - iser
°lithe lonelier interpose , ) his
and pair this faleice sho u t:
wake hint hula . -.Haw ;
make hint carry c luaw, t n -he
calla when squaw die, then shoot.-
I'he derision , t danee with
this eounsel, and thus ,eeured Ls lilt in
jured woman perpetual kind treattlient
front her hu,hand, factuf his own
death as soon Its she died wade him
careful i,. pre-orve her health and lile ;
and the ptini-Burnt nf bearitte . her a,
his (,n-lant burden, a , well a-.dhe com
pelled attention to her Nrelfiire, funned
a striking example ol , .the retributive
skirt wdness ,d . " Indian
ltdoire El ermor(
Oh, wonderful and InarVellMlS is lb ,
way in whieb Got!, day by day, -nr
rounds u.--Hi: fallen creature.—with
mer c ies and Irkv,oll-ly
and straipzo that we ,hould he so little
glad and grateful! that, unacknowl
edged and unthanked-for,
rel•ejy, hi inn Ulna; I,le-,ing, accept
ing them a, inath.r, ;wring.
never het,ling thew :it all, till v. e la
went their
I , houhl liko t,. take the sunflower
for iliy elid,lonl, and to have strength
:111 , 1 grace 110 • II) turn lily face to
ward-, the sun,llillu ,ThiCh mn
Heavenly Father ever illunlihes the lot
or,:o•ii MlO id 11 , . I V. not aSk free
-0:Iru [rinl, hut rras that
HINV I)Ca 1111(1()VV.I .
1)1Y be — l might always
l,aye htith to see that ( tender timer
of joys and 1 lessings far outweigh
every earthly suturing Ile, in His al
-2.0()(1 for me to
liesr.
Alas! it k upon the dark :1101 , lindY
Laths we art so apt to fix our attention.
NVe persistingly turn our eye. ni
the very deepest, ilreariilst part ti (he
wood of affliction, :Ind theu eomplain
We can no elenrsky,np ray of sunshine!
Let us lieyond, to the smiling fields
gleaming in gulden floods of light, and
canopied heaven's lirighi blue areh
or climb si IWO hill till we stand above
the glimin your through
it will make our an er-course appeal
brighter, and the very leaves mid
iiirtl iron below lookedq SO
sombre and dreary, (min above will
,how brilliant in -tin-Nine.
Illt• • Illy there is a
sunny a: Shady Sill(' to every
ka in life. tot it he our aim to traee it
out, patiently anti prayerfully and
where tie see it when we first
ga/e. let uc have faith that it is there—
pre,ent though
ud sto let it , , at our way rejoicing
ainl thankful, cver remembering that
there is one mercy for which the hymn
of praise limy at all time , its •entl—one
joy whieli always endures , —one
un
spe;il;ahle gift, the
,greatness of which,
in it , height and depth, no one of us
fathom —the promise of eternal liii pur
chased ror us by the death ate! passion
of our Lord until Saviour Jesus Christ.
ImrEntAl, v.—Tokay wine is
much esteemed by wine -drinkers, but,
as its hi! , lt price excludes it hoot gene
ral use, the following notice from the
loniteur Vink•ole may Lot be uninter
esting: The village of Tokay, which
gives its name to the wine, is situated
in Hungary, on the top of a hill near
the meeting of the Itodrog with the
'Flicks. The vineyards are to the west
of the Rodrog, and they occupy the
space or ten square miles. The earth is
of yellow chalk, mixed with large peb
bles. The wine is white, and the vin
tage is eommenced as late in the year
as possible, hut generally at the end of
October. There are four different kinds
of Tokay. The first is made by placing
ngieu
fruit, wooden vat, with a double
bottom, of which the one on which the
grapes rest is pierced with small holes.
The vat is filled with grapes amt cover
ed with hoards. After a few hours the
grapes become heated to Si deg. Fah
renheat, and the fermentation sets in.
'l'lle fit mentation destroys the tartaric
acid, and the weight of the grapes forces
the juice through the holes itt the bot
tom. The grapes are then trodden un
der foot, and the wine is paired into
casks, ' , there it remains exposed
to the air a month after having ferment
ed for two days. This is the wine which
is generally exported. When of good
quality, it has a silvery, oily color, the
taste sweet and mellow, with a peculiar
earthly flavor, slightly astringent and
aromatic, with good body. This wine
may be preserve,l for almost an indefinite
period, but h is not drinkable until it is
three years old. The ordinary prtee
Tokay wine of first quality purchased at
the vineyard is from ss. to is, the bottle.
The Empercw of Russia keeps a commis
sion agent at Tokay, who purchases -In
or .in casks of the Lest wine every year.
some vine-growers in the Arriege cul
tivate vineyards on the tops of the
highest mountains in calcareous earth
covered with stones similar to those
found in the vineyards near Tokay, but
they have not as yet succeeded in pro
ducing anything as good as the Hungar
ian wine."
—ln early youth, while yet we liv
among those we love, we love without
restraint, and our hearts overflow in
every look, word and action. But when
we enter into the world, and are re
pulsed by strangers, and forgotten by
friends, we grow more and more timid
in our approaches, even to those we love
best. How delightful to us, then are
the caresses of children. All sincerity,
all affection, they fly into °unarms ;
and then only, we feel the renewal of
our lirsl coulldene9 And first pl9asure.
Oiwllavicous.
SrEECII OF
HON. JEREMIAH S. BLACK,
At the Ilan of the Keystone Club, in
Philadelphia, October 24, 1864.
Judge Black began by saying that he
would promise the audience noamusing
entertainment. These were serious
times, and he would give some of the
grave reasons which made him believe
that the security of i l udividual rights
and the safety of the country itself from
utter destruction, depended on the elec
tion of Geneiai
Political contests, he proceeded to say,
are riot what they used to be. In form
er times we contended for points of
policy on which we supposed the intr,-
Gq:: of the country depended more or
less now our opponents themselves
tell us that the /I,' r;orYininrid
hangs on the issue. They are right.
The lif`• of this t iovernment is the lib
erty of the people, and if they succeed
in destroying lil,erty, the Government
will he dead—dead without even the
hope of resurrection to a future life.
The enemy we now have to contend
agai I
fgainsi is the A ',edition party; that body
of which the nucleus was a lit
tle gang in New Englahel, who met pe
riodieally to curse the ( lonstitution and
blaspheme the Christian religion. It
was small at firs: ; hut it has since
grow with such portentous rapidity
that its influenee now overshadows this
whole eolith lent. There was another
organization which, leer a brief while,
p'ofesse i u. be :10illg in eonvert with
Abolitionists while faintly disapproving
their principle-s. I tut the fusion has
oily of the
n',lll Il.to CrOWII loc. is
thoroughly saturated with Abolition
doctrines. Itiepubliean now dares
1 . 1,2)1 11.. In:) , “ ultra measures.
.\ oliini1•1,:!1. in Congress
it control. the Exectitii,e e.rltit 0 1,,,0e
lute sway—it commands au army whose
numbers are counted hg hundreds of
thous4nds i, proying at trill upon
the prostrate body of the hati , ,ll.
must look into the lace of that
party it Si'e Wkil to~e•l'theil;uureofour
enemy.
Ilet \veva that I]2].] . ty and the I)enio
oratie party tlic] . , exists such a diversity
of s o t tiffl,ni, opiuion and Ilrinrillle, 2is
never.Jieforc , eparated int n I any
rutut
try ally age of the werld. We diner
from them, awl t I iry faun n., upon
every lu,litil al subject 111 lent it
is in..ihto for the 11111112111 luiud In hays
difii•rellt ideas. They ditir from us on
every vestion (d . t . widaniental law that
ever v:125 raised, and upon very many
chi It here netts delkatahle
ht any hotly Litt thenisel \ es. 'lliere
not 21 sentence. line or letter in the Con
stitution, front the Nvor.k. \ the peo
ple,- at the I in the I]remohle,
doxvii to the " ieorge \Vash
ington,- :it the foot of the instrument,
thi.y Hive le]t either construed
a Nv:iy „I'lllsl` plttlipoll it sotrie
imerpretat pH entirely lie \V* aid totally
at variance \vllll that syhioh \Ve always
slpp,]-(41 to he the true
:Ire a. (vide asunder as the lades of
the earth. John 1 hunpileit didnot
so lintel] from Charles 1. nor NVilliant
'1'2.11 from 4,e2.. 5 1i r, nor the Congress of
1771] from the mini:sir ! , of 2 ;eorge the
Third. 'Nay ; the most orderly,
211111 anti-revelniitmary Frelichmttit thus
inhaldted Pziris in 1 7511, could 1101
have differed front Itohespierre about
the use (ot the guillotine, more entirely
than sve differ front the :Abolitionists
yolicuriiiiig. the 51 . 110114 purposr unit ~14
je,t of th,. 1 edrrul (k,,, , (.1(111(.11(.
They ((r, not Ineivly to th,•
vh•lv , 11 , •1 ,1 by [heir luesent 11111 a g"
they are ctlually h stile to all
liy the publi c
men Who luveeileit them. The princi
ples tit . administration Odell they 111iNiti
introduced have liven deniinneed. 1111(1
utterly reimiliitten by all the statesmen
5)110 (•ver 'held 1:1011'1' the Fedel'lll
;eVel'lllllelll, f] . oto the he•giiioing of
IV2ishingion's time to the end of Ilti
chanan's. 1 r the .Aholitiutli.l. are right,
then I,llr Whole history is but the record
of one great blunder; 41111 all the men
5)110 have had any connection m ith the
I 2overnment, previous to 'Mill, Nvere
" fools 11, dross its ever i uurancr Inane
/ trunk." Nvo 110111X111 system',
framed for di fli , rent countries or for dif
ferent times, have ever Levu more dis
sintilar than the t;overninent of the
United ]tai's before
!sin and the ,:inte ;overninent as ad
ntinistered since that time. Let its look,
11Ir a montent, at some of the points:
'l'heahmlitioii theorie, whi,h emieern
the rolutious of . the States to I iencial
tioverninent and to one another, con
l'ound all our preconceived ideas upon
that subject. \\*e supposed the United
State,: to Lea ceder:Ali \ 0 sy,lcin, created
by sovereign - , tales, for the simple and
sole purposeof watchin: over their com
mon defense and general welt'are. To
this end,
.jurisiliction was given to the
Federal t;overninent over certain plain
ly specified elasse-of suhjects, and every
other species of power was expressly
withheld. It (0 :15 a political corporation
strictly limited by its charter. It was,
not only agreed, but sworn to, that the
affairs of each state should be controlled
by its own will. Whether the States
should use this right properly or impro
-I,lly, „r untvisely, was, ill our
opini(At, noliody's business hut their
own. It' the iilieqUiv( , eal term,' of the
eom pact tin y ha.l a right to make their
local laws Ltd or good, just its they
pleased, and it is as well known as any
fart in history that the [Mon could not
have Keen ]nadein.any oilier terms.
But, the A holitioni deny this vital
principle so bitterly and so violently
that every citizen, who presumes to
hold P„ is, in their estimation, a traitor.
The e,reat e•liaraeteristie of their creed is
the elahil it;:. ror Ili, people of
one section to control the other in their
local affairs. y hold it to lie not only
the right, tout the Ignindell (111 - or the
Federal t iiivernment to dictate to the
sqatcs dome—tic
tiwir
opinion that :tmy tat, R Melt 121 . 1.1,CS
modify its local laws, when commanded
to (10 so by the President, is guilty of
the most awful crime that man can
commit ; a crime fi-r which the contu
macious :State deserves to be punished
by having its fields laid waste, its towns
burnt, its men butchered, its women
and children driven houseless, homeless
and starving into the woods. =find it is
announced upon the highest authority
among them—the chief 01' their party,
hitnself--t hat this ilwful sicourge of war
is not to Ie di, , eonti n tied until the States
now subjected to it, shall abandon the
law, approved by themselves and adopt
others which are more to the liking of
the President and the party which
sup
ports him in other States. To slfbw how
emphatic and thorough their contempt
is for our doctrine of State Itic - hts, they
think it perfectly proper to tear a sover-
eign state into pieces by main force
mud east the bleeding parts to enemies
and strangers, whilst they are yet
warm and quivering, with the agony
of the separation. If one-tenth of the
voters in a State shall feel or teen
belief in this doctrine, [hat is a saving
faith for which that small minority is to
he rewarded by giving them absolute
and uncontrolled dominion over the
liberties and pr,,p(9l:\ of the other
nine -tenths, who cannot see it in the
same way. Submission to the General
Government in all things is not merely
a condition of peace with the States
already at war; -coercion for the same
purpose is extended to States in which
there is no war, legal or actual. In
Maryland, for example, a tlecr'ee has
been made that the State Government
shall be wholly revolutionized: Four
fi of the people are, without doubt,
opposed to the change, but by means of
brute force, and a system of test-oaths,
prescribed at Washing - ton, the State
Government is entirely taken out of the
people's hands, and all political power
put into the keeping of not only a small,
but a venal and false minority, which
alone is permitted to vote. This is not
a republican Government, but to all in
tents and purposes an aristocracy, the
Government of a few, and it will not be
the fault of the systell if it does not turn
out to be an aristocracy of hypocrites
and thieves. The effect of th is contempt
for State rights, is seen, not only in
LANCASTER, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 3, 1864.
Southern States, or EKateson the borders
of the South. In Pennsylvania last
year, and only a feW days ago in Indiana,
companies, battalions and regiments of
Federal soldiers, witkiout a pretense of
right, poured their votes into the LS:hot
box to overwhelm the true voice of the
people at a State election.
Such is the contrast between us on
one subject. There is another upon
which the-divergency of our views is
equally striking. It happens, by the
permission of God's , providence, that
two distinct races of human beings have
been thrown together on this continent.
All the mental characteristics as well
aS the physical featui es and color of one
race, make it lower it? the scale of t(rea
tion than the other; I need not say
how much lower, for I suppose there is
no man here who does not know the
difference between a white man and a
negro. 'Pic, negroes themselves are
perfectly conscious of their inferiority;
nobody hut an Abolinonist ever thinlis
of denying it. The white men asserted
their supremacy in:. this country, as
they did every when,: else in the world.
They founded a nation, and formed a
government to be controlled exclusive
ly by themselves and their own poster
ity. They agreed, because it pleased
them to do so, that they would share
their privileges upon certain conditions
with other persons (r , i Caucasian blood
wliu might settle among them, but tin*
were not hound to rake Tartar., Mon
gols, Chinese or Negroes into their po
litical partnership, and they declared
that they never would. They claimed,
(somewhat proudly i; may lice their old
and liari-won right :if domination, and
gave the negro—nnt power, or
the right of ruling—imt only s uch p r „_
ieetion and kindnes*as mccre dill`, in a
government of laws, to ml subject and
The Aholitionims look upon all this
with perfect horror. They asset; eve
ryw lwre, in season and (tut of season,
the naturla right of the negro to politi
cal, legal uini social equality. Their
theories of miscegenatli'm are too dis
gilsling to be illen , :ioned. EN - ell by men
in high authority, negroeS are insult
ingly preierr,il to white men. The .kt
toriley General has Ato-bled wonsclen
tiously, no doubts that negroes tire rill
r,-"nn—pt 1 , 4 1 1 of the Government --and
therefore caporals of hobliog ottlee and
exercising public aitthorhy over us, as,
point of fact, many of them dont this
moment. In the Slates thoroughly ate
olitionized they t i ro alliiWed to Vote, and
111( Votes of negroes added to the votes
d' white men with negro prineiples,can
trample down the true white man who
is faithful to the rights of his race. Not
content with doing' This in their own
States, they extend&heir process of or
ganiot otle . .;Vl.jtates, where they
Ilse what they call the war power, to
rob the white nni 11 Of hits property, and
bestow it on the negro. In all their
measures, military and civil, in the new
Territories and the old States, you see
this pervading principle at work, strip
ping white men of the rights, inherited
from their ancestors; and clothing ne
groes with powers and prlvllegtt-I l 11 15"
never possessed before,
Now, if the African race could he ele
vated so as to matte It, in fact and in
truth, the equal of the white race, then
we would lose nothing; by the proposed
equality of the twe. But that is not
probable, and our op . ponents know it as
well we itt."N. negro will still be a
negro, inspill, Ilr 11P40 ; 11.1Mat
earl degrade the While Man to the level
er the negro--that iH easily done—but
you cannot lift the negro up to the white
man's place. All elose and intimate
emilleXion, political' or social, tending
o produce equality between two nations
or r a ces naturally differing from one
another, has the efl'ect of levelling . , not
upward but downward; Lind the degre
dation of the supern , „r nation dons not
stop even :it the point originally occu
pied by the lower -one--the amalgam
has all the vice and ivetikness of both,
without the strength or the virtue of
either. What would have been the
history of thh, continent if its white
inhabitants had gone lewd to the level
of the negroes two hundred years ago:
And what will be its future history if
w, now :fflhnot to tile same de2Tieia
? P.ospeet for the memory of our
ancestors; fidelity 1.0 the rights of our
children ; our own interests tilt the in
terests of the civilize,l world, require us
to keep and maintaig this Government
in the hands of white men, and to re
pudiate with abhorrence every measure
whieh is calculated to wring upon us the
shame and the infamy of a voluntary
descent to negro equality.
The Iteinocrat it- party believes in law
and order- —i tithe rt _ulat'adntinistration
of justice by properb; appointed tribu
nals— in trial by and the great svt'il
hrtbf r•ewprls. We knew very well
how sadly the people must stiffer with
out these illestiniable institutions. We
had read in the history of other coun
tries how men were murdered, and roll
bed, tun I kidnapped for the want of them;
and when we saw - in (tins own Constitu
tion a provision that'll() man should be
deprived of life, I ibert y or property with
out due process oilitv ,, we were sure that
we understood the full meaning, and ap
preciated the mightY value of those sub
lime though simple words.
I hit, according to our opponents, we
Were Utterly w . rong. The chief law
officer has told us not only that the
President, without any process of law',
may order a citthen to be arrested
wherever he pleases,- but he may dele
gate the power to others, and they to
others again, until :CI the favorites and
minions of the Administration shall
have unlimited control over all win,
presume to doubt its infallibility ; and
lilt power to deprive freemen of their
liberty is to be accompanied with the
power of suspending the privilege of
hub, (Is C 11171 1 ,5, and of abrogating at the
same time all other jaws which might
afford their victim a chance of redress.
This is not a mere abstract theory of the
Abolitionists; they I , ave practiced upon
it to such an appalling extent, that
mere innocent persons have been kid
napped and shut up in prison during
liree years of their, rule than all the
sycophants, and strumpets, and spies
about the Court of Louis XIV could in
duce him to send to the Bastile in the
whole of his lung ai:l cruel reign.
If any privilege wjs guarantied to the
American people ‘‘, - , 1 supposed it to be
right of discussing : public affairs by
means of free speech and a free press.
But here, again, the_antagonism is per
feet. Abolitionism 'has suppressed two
hundred and fifty newspapers by arbi
trary orders, executed at the point of the
bayonet, or by mobs hissed on to their
brutal work by the general approbation
4.f the whole party. ,
perhaps, the most curious of all their
notions, is, that the Constitution is
binding at sonic tines, and at otgers is
a mere dead letter ; .their oaths to sup
port it to be ker On certain occasions,
but disregarde whenever it confines
their powers within limits which they
think inconveniently narrow. The ap
plication of this principle is worse, if
possible, than the principle itself, for
they withdraw the protection of the
fundamental law at the very moment
when the safety of the people most im
periously requires id. When civil war
breaks out—when Oolitical rancor be
comes tiercest—whn party rage runs
highest—when agessions upon life,
liberty, and property are most likely to
occur—then it is that they remove all
legal restraints from the had passions of
men. What seems worse yet,_they hold
that an insurrection in one State abro
gates the Constitution in another, which
is five hundred miles off, and perfectly
peaceable. As yet, they have tried this
upon us only in time of war, but all
their arguments would fit just as well
for peace. If a war policy must be sup
ported by kidnappipg citizens and sup
pressing newspapers, what is to hinder
a peace policy from being sustained in
the same way? Surely, no sane man
will pretend that it is not as necessary
to preserve the peake, as it is to prolong
a war.
For the system .of laws which our
forefathers made a i ld gave to us, they
substitute that "noessity" which the
common judgment.. and common sense
o f manki n d in all: ages and countries
has branded with odium as "the tyrant's
plea." No despot ever asked for power
to du more than what he raigitt doeidsi
to he necessary, and nothing more is
needed to warrant the most infamous ,
outrages. When l'harlas I. deliberately
perjured himself, he said, and said truly
enough, that political necessities, cre
ated by a civil war, had dri'Ven him to
it. \Viten Cnnowell devoted all the in
habitants of Drogheda, men, women
and children, to indiscriminate hutch
cry, necessity was the plea upon which
he justified his brutal order, anti when
he drove the Parliament of England out
of their places. it was not, as he said,
because " the Lord had no further need
of them," but because the needs of\ his
own tyrannical- and beastly rule rti
iluired their absence anti the overthrow
of their Just authority—. \Viten Nero
threw the Christians into the arena to
be devoured by wild beasts; when he
commanded them to he sawed asunder,
to be put in sacks and east into the
Tiher, or to he (ivered with pitch and
then burnt together in great
and all ilk liiyal supporters pronounc
ed it to be necessary, for Christianity
wits, in their heathen eyes, "a pesti
lent superstition" which might give
serionstrouhle to thepowerof [het 'aisars.
Before that dim: Herod of .1 what had
heard that a tehild was born in Bethle
hem, who would one day be King of tbe
Jews; and he helieviel that Ills govern
ment eiedil not live unless that (-111111
was destroyed. lint, neither Ile nor anV
of his proost\inarshal-..1 , 01ew ex:wtry
what child It teas , :end butt created the
necessity or killing - them :ill. Thu de
cree went Mth, :and it was no doubt
eNeented with all priiptir alit! and right.
11/yill devat till There wa , lament.ttion
and \i and Niacin Bonne--kaellel
mount.'l ror her children aod would t,,,t
becomforted, I,ca they Were not BM
if ltachel 1,a,l 14,111111 i \ 0111:111,
she WOUIII have beau very
grtiatl eemiiirted by being told that the
~l,,uL th ie r ,,rthe innocent- was acre -,acr e
pre-''l', e the Itre of the t ito ernmeot.
(Mr fathers said no such power as this
should he wielded here by any mortal
man. The: deelared that all pUldie lit—
eessities should hr deteinnned by the
law. They defined the offences
it tics neeessarytopUlli,ll—theevidenee
that i-111,11111 It. I•linyii•l -11,1
11 . 11 , 1111,iiS thin lOC --
tlw form of the trial en I the quantum of
the penalty. they decreed IMO
all owl: mincers sniettit take a solenill
In be registered in Heaven's chat,-
eel y never to know any kind neces
sity but the ono Viscid supreme itee6 , ,ity
or ohedle,we to the taw,.
In our view the Gorernitiem t
cotiotry
whnsui•vt•rsostitlnsthontmost faithfully
is the hest and true , l supporter of the
Government. But Abolitionism intro
duces another standard of fidelity. Ae
iillieseence 4t the violation of law is
with them the grand lest I,l' patriotism,
and ex cry citizen who complains of an
iimoeti for trampling It under foot, is
guilty of what they t reasonable
language " tliAnyal prat-Bees."
\\",• \very, and are, in favor of a strong
tiovernment—that i,, a , trng l'onsti
tution mid strong law , . During Ow
period or ~s endancy, the
(;ov it
erident, in m ~
at I,o‘ver
ful enough to shield t , ver . v Atnerican
citizen from every specie- of wemig. It
brought security 1,, his lire-ide, si , read
its gouardian , hip around him \\lien , \ - er
he \vent, and, like n protecting angel,
it hovered over hill, and ‘v:itched him
while he slept. Now it is so weak - , con
temptible :Clot p 0.% erle.s,,, that it ,antiot
save the most upright man or the most
virtuous \\*mum, from Icing kidnapp e d
even by it , 0 \vt, ollicer , any hour of
the day nr night.
Witte aura uttism el . principle
curried nut ill Illel,lre.,
pruillives the
Circe( Which Wight he eXpeeleil.
illieal
hate the ii)vc of Hie people telloarc
uppiessetl I then!. 'l'ernwi , nl may
ittliel hind the eenal ran altt•a~'s
lie LnuL'lii, but thu~~ thing,. which
haul 1 accmliraily a Fre,
1.% • 1,01./r.
It 11111.1 Imt I' € I In lit,t•T hut in Ilwir
lottil.httt hontlr,
NVIth•II The p.),11-11,..iri
The indigo:lt too which swell, up
in the great heart tit' the American
Democracy may I." easily allayed :
but not so the animosity that rankles
in the minds our enemies. It
is easy for a magnanimous people ht
sufrer and forgive, bat "they never par
don who have done the wrong.- The
Abolitionists lime us with all their
strength, and all their souls; and they
give ex pr,,don to that sentiment in
language perfectly unequivocal. One
of their leading Senators, in a ,pel`l•li at
Washington, advocated the introduc
tion there of the treatment whieli the
opponent- of the ,A.lnlinistraton rt
eeived itt l - itsas, namely, to shoot them
down. Anotluq• declared on the floor
of the Senate, itself, when speaking - of
certain men who had been unlawfully
arrested, and kept in prison for upwards
of a year, that, in his opinion, they
Were dealt With truly 1,00
and if hr had been allowed to have
his way he would have hanged thecf ;
in other words, lie would not only
have hidintHe.d them, but he
would hate murdered them into th.
bargain. An admiral ..f the navy. I.orn
in Connecticut publicly expre , s, d his
willingness io turn the tomr of hi ,
men, it necessary, against the people or
iris nativ,• State. The Oencrahin-Chief
of the arm), . ilalleck,) in a hum: - '
liberittely written for publication, as
serted that the army would crush the
Southern rebellion first, and then put
its heel off "the Copperheads of the
North." A new species of eloquent , e
has been introduced into nearly all their
public discussions. lienweratsare con
stantly reminded that they shoul.l be
thankful for the incite which has let
them live so 101111. 11,4 2.11/SW/Sio/1
that hangs upon the lips of their ora
tors; they bring down the cheers of
their audience by the ViSt(illi , they
paint of ropes, gibbets, and daggers, and
when one of them announces that all
Democrats tilt tritit.,N, and no loll_,
put up 11l the 11;iwilc in the
heart of evw'y traitor, the sentiment is
echoed by a Mal felling shout. Even the
ministers of religion are suborned into
the service of this ferocious Moloch.
Christ said that every professed follower
of his, who hated his brother, gave COll
- evidence that he was a liar and
a murderer. But lb.. Abolition preach
ers—" those hireling wolves, whose
gospel is their maw"—are not ashamed
to avow the most intense malignity
against all who differ from then : ). They
make their titnventicles ring with de
mands for the extermination of men,
women, and children, by millions,
through half a continent, and even the
sacred ottice of prayer, as they conduct
it, becomes a long howl for blood.
Is it any wonder that under the rule of
such a party, all the joints of society
should be dislocated f."l"hey have hope
lessly, divided the country, not geograph
• ically, but morallythey have not
sundered the territory, but they have
cloven the heart of the nation in two.
The limits by which they have separa
ted us, is not any natural boundary, but
a boundary created by the sentiments
which they have forced between us—not,
the Potomac, the Ohio, and the Missis
sippi, hut the far more impassable
streams, which, according to Milton,
water the dreary abode of the damned :
" Abhorred Styx, the Hood of deadly HATE.
Sad Acheron of SORROW, black and deep—
Cocytus named of LAMENTATION loud,
11eUrd on the rueful stream; fierce Plilegethon
Whose waves of torrent tire Inflame with rage,"
It is perfectly manifest that the prin
ciples and measures of the Abolitionists
are, and must ofneeessity be, incompat
ible with the safety of a government
like ours. They put it to a work which
it was not intended for, and which it
cannot do without destroying itself. If
you have a threshing machine and place
it under the charge of a man who uses
it as a breaker of anthracite coal, it
must infallibly fly to pieces. So the
operations of your political system must
be confined to the purposes designed by
its framers, nr else you must take the
inevitable consequence of breaking it
up. The more exquisitely the several
parts of it are adapted to its one legiti
mate purpose, the snore certain it is to
be utterly ruined by applying it to an
other. Nor does it make any difference
whothor the new object proposed be in
itself good or bad. Indeed, any govern
them, however constituted, is perfectly
sure to wreck those laws which are the
essential parts of its structure, whenever
it attempts to work out the object of
some " higher law," which does not
properly belong to it.
All the pages of history art covered
with lessons which teach this truth.—
During the sixteenth and seventeeenth
centuries the rulers of Europe took it
into their heads that the great para
tuount interest which they must look
after was the spiritual - welfare of the
people : their temporal prosperity was
nothing compared to their eternal sal
vation. They resolved, theretbre, to
introduce into their governnients the
Higher Law of true religion. But what
cattle or it '."1 . 1n. Higher Law trampled
down all other laws, and tore the whole
framework td society into fragments.
Behellion, insurrection and civil war
beennte the universal fashion--millions
wore slaughtered; Prance was convuls
ed ; rtermany was laid waste and al-
Most depopulated ; the city of Prague,
which began tile thirty years' war with
two hundred thousand inhabitants,
dosed it with less than four hundred
human beings inside of her walls. All
the land ill" Ireland was confiseated four
times over. :Ind for 11.7 t, ., iOgl`i livr gene
ration alter generation of the best and
bn i vest men were ruthlvssly murdered.
i:11!2:1:111.1 I,l' 1A• - 11P
1.1).“11 Ilte 1111811‘1011111011I 4/1 tilt'
fitit It, whirl) ill.: Ilighei La\‘-
iwtoimllit•cd to I w tale. But though
Irrl:nnl wa, many I inies conciii; , l•ol:
raiiivli•it aguiti and tt_aiii
reat.t. it wa.s
ol;;y rig i 1 Ivar go It I'vzt(l. and
-rilifity, :mil
.111,th, and order never
Until opened
ed her eyys to thy truttl, and zwkn0w
h,...:,,1 th:it thy ‘vh,,i, t loi , trine of the
igh,r (kit. a great. tintilit
lw•11,11'011,..,, I/10(.1V lit'. •
\Vt. have 'had some experienvo with
thi; sante kind of llighnr Law in Our
ny, it „ „ linty. Ten or \\ . (•lVt. yea is ago
( tort:tin Yankee politiviiins, tin(' choir
huuthle iiniitators in other part., of the
111 ion, forming liig)tilL.r a eery - power
nil party, propo-ed the practical ilis
franchi;outoni an d
tilneign
horn rilizells, lii plitee of tile
I iii:y want,' the Ilighor Law of a
lirotostant a n d oxclusively native dom
ination. No\\* England protondo‘l to ho
in an agony of terror, lost tho l'opo and
the l'atholio (.11,1 \\.,,n1(1 (1,, her ;onto
; every nionther of thl
I.egislaturo hut one,
(WU ill sorrel
a lying priesthood hounded lilt the
ignorant ero . '(\'(l, lint a, thoy aro doing
itti t v ; rhurrhea cure latrinid ittnirte
rio; were assaulted ; 'at holies were (11'1V
front the poll,: and null through \\ itli
pii(dif,irl:s. If that party hall got hold
u. tho Federal Ilovoruniont, a; it 500ni
,..(1 at one time Very likcly to do, null
pill it; lliniter Law in full operation,
oivil \vat. would 11:n1' 1 , 1111 :IS
it i; note.
You can e.,il , 121/1,1 v how other
ap i dinationsof tlieprinciple would work
in any given ease. r“.l. instance: The
municipal law of all our :totes has the
proteetion of private property for one
of its: great objects; it allows the rich
nein to keep \Vhat he has, and poverty
is rowed to be , iontent with its loop'd
and windowed raggedness. - lint the
Higher Law of Christian i.harity emit
to divide with O w
It is, besides, tt great public evil, unjust
unnatu i ral, that one person should
he compelled to Struggle for the hare
nei•essarics of life, \\Atilt , another, no
Leiter than he, is rollingin the luxuries
or superfluous
11. BUt suppose We
Ivertt visitrd lty an t e•t of I longress, ur
an Executive prorlatoat ion in favor of
the 1-higher !Jaw, liaelccil by au army
with banners, to enforce au egnal divi
sion ut goods and lands, can any body
ilould that civil con:low:ion would Le
the eollset'ilielleel"rhe foundations of
order would he broken up; the rich
would rofuse to part with the half of
their property; the poor would think
thein,elve , lieenseti to 'Auntie!' it all,
an l theagents of the 1I itfiter Law would
Ito :et they have done ekewhere, rnh
Loth cit,se, alike.
Apply these plain and simple prinei
ples to Abolitionism. In doing so let
us coniaide that party to he what it is
net orthodox on every stihjeid lint that
, lavery. also, that
the relation of inieiter and servant, in
the southern Slates, is \vrolig, morally
and religiously, Neverthele , s, it is a
con , tietiliottal fart," that the
United State , arc. furnished with no
Legal power to intert'tro with it and
any attempt Ity them In (In so is i i mo
~,. /, , tiestrtit•tion of tin. Federal Httverit
no•nt, for Nvltile. it is engaged in the
t , xt•t•iitittil or the Higher Law it t•annot
rt•rinritt the itrotter function. net 'tally
assigned to it by those who made it.--
\Vu are tlierdbre without a (4 , vcrument;
anarchy, spolizttioniandhh,,ukh(.4l, con
flagration, tel h•tir,... • ~ nic in the
place of Gin - ernnient and 111 Ni
t:very one who reflect, will admit,
that it this perver,it.,, of th, (i.vern
ine,t t. the litirp:,. , Ahtitititinimn,
er :my tither purpo,e of
with
it- fates, had taken place at a former
or under :in earlier President,
the same disastrous censequences must
1011(11Ved, never was
when we eould run our vessel on such a
nick :is that without making it a total
wreek. Nor is there a single man, with
untlerstanding enough to raise hint one
single degree higher than an idiot, who
does not knot', that if a Demoerat had
been elected when Mr. Lincoln w:1, the
course of the country would still have
been onward and upward.
It is dear beyond possible doubt, that
the American people had their choice in
Yin between the government of their
fathers, with continued peace and pros
perity on one Band, eutd on the other a
Higher Law inconsistent with t hot lov
(aliment, aceontpanieit by a train of ilev
lish horrors. It wa, blind fell' to ex
pect that the law and the Higher Law
would reign together for Higher Law
will " hear no brother near the throne.' .
It'- mission is to tread down whatever
opposes it. lit every age, and lit all
countries, it has been intolerant,
tic, demoniac in temper, inexorable in
its demands, reckless of law, and ever
ready to carry its ends by brute force.
It disdains all compromise--it carries no
olive branch—it takes both hands to
wield its merciless sword. It makes its
appearance on every theatre of its act
with the foot of Mars.
" And at its heels
Leashed in like hounds, tirt%sworil and. !amine
for employment."
Our present experience is enough,
and more than enough, to prove all this.
While the Federal Government was ad
ministered according to its own laws,
and while its existence was threatened
with no serious danger of Higher Law,
our country was prosperous beyond ex
ample. Her ways were ways of pleas
antness, and all her paths were peace.
When the Abolitionists Caine into
power, disaster, disgrace and discord
came with them. Bloodshed, spoliation
and anarchy, derangement of finances,
public debt and enormous taxes, corrup
tion and treachery, conflagration, have
followed their footsteps ever since. By
their fruits ye shall know them.
But we ought to have known this
without learning it in the dearschool of
experience. We were sufficiently warn
ed. Every statesman of all parties and
sections who had a band in making the
Government, told us that it would last
so long, and so long only, as it was con
fined to the proper and legitimate pur
pose for which they intended it. We
were told not by the Democracy only,
but by the chiefs of the great party op
posed to us, that the success of Aboli
tionism would be fatal to the Union,
and peace of the nation. Moreover, the
Abolitionists themselves did not deny
that the overthrow of our political sys
tem was their object. They admitted
that its overthrow was their deliberate
aim. Their chief priests declared that
they could reach their purpose only by
marching over the ruins of the Federal
Government and the Christian Church.
The greatest of their orators claimed it
as his highest honor that he was not
only an infidel to the religion, but a
traitor to the Constitution of his coun
try. One of their principal newspaper
organs particularly denounced the Fed
eral compact as a covenant with hell,
W4iio 4TlOther maligned the flag of the
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Union as the flaunting emblem of a lie.
Another shining light of the party gave
a practical exposition of its creed. lle
was a coarse, low ruffian, who for. years
had followed no business but that of a
horse thief, and he had committed many
base and treacherous Murders in the
Western country. He went to Pinata,
and there, With a few Confederates, he
planned a„conspiracy to overthrow the
Federal Clevernment and conquer the
States, an enterprise in which he hoped
to succeed mainly by organ izing among
the uegroes a general system for the
butchery of their masters. He sneak-.
ed into a peaceful Virginia town,
and at midnight began to plunder
the public property and shoot
down the auto - toed and defenceless
people. He was taken and hanged ; but
itseldornhappens that the greatest I.ene
factors of the human race receive such
posthumous honors as the Abolitionits
bestowed on John Brown. They
amounted almost to tot apotheosis.
From poets and orators, from f•lergymen
politielans, front senators, governors
:anti statesmen of every class, from pri
mary' meetings and legislative bodies,
the expressions of admiration and sym
pathy were boundless. Ever since that
time, the most popular music they have
consists of hymns to his menmory, and
halleluiahs to his great name. Whence
came till this ecestatie reverence for the
eharacter of such a many.' It was not
given because he was a munb•rer ; other
men have committed murders without
being, worshiped thr it. It was not teen
ty because he was a thief, fur they have
Among them many others, who have
stolen on a tiff more magnificent seale
than he did. No, they love him because
he was like themselves, a deadly enemy
to the Government, Constitution, and
laws of the hand ; because he plotted
overturn them; because lit was the bold
est apostle, and the earlist martyrolthat
Higher Law, which was destined to
work out our political ruin. In their
estimation he was a greater man than
President Lincoln himself, because lie
preceded Mr. Lincoln with a " procla
mation of freedom," awl besides it came
out of hint without any "pressure."—
It may be said that I am citing *he
words and :lets only of their ultra men.
Take then the utteranc-s of the
most moderate among I hem ; the
careful, sober-minded, reflective Secre
tary of State. He has many times
avowed his devotion to the Higher
Law, and a speet'.a of his in
Massaeimuset is, during the canvass of
',OO pledged r. Lincoln as a disciple
of the M
e stunt. school. Did he misunder
stand the destructive tendency of High
er Law ? Dial he mean peace and minion
and the harmony of the States'.' No ;
in his Rochester speech, he told us
truly what would be the effect of his
doctrine—" uu irrepressible codflici be
tween the opim,ifill and enfluringfiwcf "
of the North and the South, which con
flict of forte was to last until the I I igher
Law of one section shuold put the legal
rights of the other under its feet.
Now, after all the solemn warnings
we received from all the great statesmen
of the county, that Abolitionism would
be fatal to our peace, and after we had
leant the admissions Of their own Wad
ers, that it was their very purpose and
design not to falminister the Govern
ment, but to destroy it, what right hive
WV to be astonished at the prodigious
ruin which surrounds us': We may
lament it, indeed, but not with amaze
ment, trot it came in the natural emirs,.
and sequence of things.
Rut are these calamities of co !tug a
lite that they must have no end? Is
there no chute of 'restoration? The
answer is that our hope depends on the
number of votes we pelt for Leorge
McClellan on the sth of November.—
As long as the Abolitionists remain in
power they will press the Higher Late
and we can have no more order or jus
tice. But McClellan has said that he
will make the Constitution the guide to
his path and the lamp to his feet. If he
is elected he will also swear to preserve,
protect and defend that sacred instru
ment against all opposers, coma trout
what quarter they may. Those who
know him have no shadow of doubt
that he will faithfully keep and perform
his solemn covenant with I bid and tle
country. He is not the man to, play
fast and loose with his oath. Then the
Higher Law will give place to the law
of the land. I am as thoroughly - and
profoundly convinced now, that peace
and 'Union will be the result of MeClel
lan's election as I was four years ago
that disunion and civil war would be
the consequence of Lincoln's.
But if the South, after all their riii/f/N
are conceded, should still reflttit. 1.0 per
form theta' (h/ti,,,, then the coercive
power of military force will be legiti
mately, fairly and most effectually ex
erted to compel them. lam not only
no helit.ver in the right of secession,hut
I go further than even an Abolitionist
would ask me to go. I deny what is
called the sacred right of revolution. I
believe in that divine revelation which
pronounces rebellion under any circum
stances to tic as the sin of witchcsaft.
\o Government can consent—no con
stitutional ruler has a right to consent
that the empire under his authority
shall lie dismembered.
But a war for this purpose, i .war
there must be, under Gen. McClellan,
would be conducted with an object, and
that object would be t.he simple restora
tion of the laws to their just supremacy.
Its character, as well as. its object,would
be changed, and the brutal atrocities
which have disgraced us in the eyes of
the civilized world, would be wholly
discontinued.
Indeed, there is no subject on which
the characteristic difference between
Democrats and Abolitionists displays
itself more clearly than on this question:
"How shall all im , urreetion or a 1 ,bel
lion against the laws and (-;:ivernment
of the iTnion be dealt wit i :" Both the
parties have hail an opportunity to put
their views on record, and Loth have
given an official exposition of their re
spective creeds. Perhaps I have sonic
special knoweledge of the way it was
done on our side.
Abolition and secession began to make
their mutual preparations for an irre
pressible conflict before the close of I e
last Administration. Uf course, we
.4atzl to the former that they ought to
concede to the Southern States all their
legal rights, and that peace, though
possible, was not probable on any other
terms. I speLik.. what Ido know when
I say that, if the President elect and his
party had given an express assurance
and safe pledges to govern aceording to
the Constitution, and on all disputed
points to be guided by the exposition of
the proper judicial authority, there
would and could have been no war.
But they refused this flatly and defiant
ly, and even went so far as to have their
refusal inserted in the inaugural speech.
To the South we said that secession
was no remedy for an evil, actual or ap
prehended—that a division of the coun
try was all unendurable wrong to us—
that they were bound to tight out their
battle against Higher Law inside of the
Union, with the vantage ground of the
Constitution in their favor. We held
that secession was a nulity, and the
Federal Government was as much
bound to execute.its laws after secession
as before, and that if any considerable
number of persons would oppose the
laws by force, the military power not
only might lawfully, but necessarily be
used to put down such opposition.
But we declared that the General Go
vernment was sovereign within its
sphere—directly sovereign--and acted
upon individuals, not upon States. In
executing the laws, State lines were no
more to be regarded than county lines
in the execution of State laws. There
fore, the force that sustained the laws,
must be directed against the force that
opposed them, and the individual in
surgents were personally responsible
for any insurrection—not the State in
its corporate capacity. We repudiated
utterly the whole idea that war could
be declared by the President, or by
Congress, against a State. We had .no
right, authority or power to put all the
people of the State into the attitude of
public enemies merely because some
pettons within the State had done or
threatened to do certain things incon
sistent with their Federal obligations.
On the contrary, the innocent people—
those who were no way, cencemed in
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tfrst, and 4 cents for each subsequent inser
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PATMIT IVIEDICTNES and other advers by tile
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three times, 1.50
tin. rising—were as much entitled to the
protection of the Federal Government
as if they lived in any other State.
This view was not only faultless in
till`pry and unanswerable in reason and
law—and no answer to it was ever at
tempted—but it was practically a point
of the most—transcendent importance
that ever was sultmitted to the judgment
of any human being. It is perfectly
certain that nine-tenths of the people of
the Southern !States, take them at
large, from the I'ototnac• to the Gulf,
Were devotedly attacked to the Union.
'Mr. Lincoln, four months after his in
auguration, declared, in a message to
l'ongress, that there was not a majority
for secession in any State, except, per
hap.,,, South Carolina. Yet war was
made on the States, and the innocent
11 ere eonfounded with the guilty—the
friends of the [llion wet•e compelled, in
self-defence, to unite with its -enemies,
and now, instead or dealing with a tenth
or the pcopl ,, , we hat,' a deadly anti
terrific conflict with all of them. They
are not only unanimous against us, lint
driven to desperation, and maddened
hl the most brutal oulrages on their
property, personsf-and families. The
Aholitionisis,Ml that the South could
not he hi,•ked out ~ 0 the ° - nil )11 and ,
a, 11 , the n1:01 Y, they were probably
right but they certainly succeeded in
driving them out with the itapmel, the
cannon hall, and the torch.
Let nu. illustrate this by an analogous
ease, which ver.v nearly Inappeitetl ill
Pennsylvania. ,The public authorities
of Pittsburg .11111 Allegheny county bev
y.. \\ ed large sum of money, amount
in',: to millions, and gave their lioittls,
for it, \chit the full and unreserved ap
prolcit len of the whole people. .titer
they I.l , cii Hit , Motley lift their pill'1)08eS,
f hey W , re 4,, W , 1 on to nay tut instal
ment ot . interest, tchiclt they refused,
and annottneed their determination to
repudiate the debt. The Contntission
eN, lie 'ity 'outteils, and a large party
took measures to resist payment with
all the force at their command. This
teas not only an net of gross dishonesty,
but it was lint rebellion against the
laws and I iovernru ent H the State.
What (lid the State do: It arrested the
wrong doers, imprisoned the ('ornirlis
sioners 'onneils. Ifa force of rt'-
pilliialoy- orgnoizod to resist
:lo• legal preeess, the State troops nog-lit
have been called out to nicct it:it'd quell
the insurrection. I Int if the (:overnor
11,0111, : 1,1, a ProHalliation of war against
tile; \vhole 1 • 111111 y, ordered their crops
to be deslruyc,l, their mills, houses and
bane , to he hilrilb 111(•ir cities
they V., siion have for
gotten the original quarrel—all would
have milled in WM` cithrt for mutual dc
fcnse and even outside of (lie comity
I>e:ll.T:die I taitors might have been
(blind base elleteth to sympathise with
a 11,uunuity s I harshly and hardly.
useil. I liunnut ingenuity to
sooty me a reason, foundol on Itt\v, pol
ies Ia - litinwn!ty, for mal:ing a distinc
tion hence(( rebellion against the State
in a county, and rebellion against the
(lovormiwin. or tho t'fflou in a State.
'tut, 111 . 1' I have de
tained you too long. I Kaye but ono
thin: , 11, sa'y betiire I conclude.
I,liicoln has committed (11'0 g,reat of
fense, against (lie country—blue removal
of tlu• 'mist tution and the removal cif
:\ let 'lellan --lit-retired then, both. The
citizens :toted under the orders of the
Constitution as the army fought under
the command or "IcClellati, unitedly.,
promptly, \vitli one heart
and one mind. Noll - , we say of the
Constitution, as the army says of its
I;eneral, " 1111/' old COlll
- couple these de
mands togei her, Is cause the restoration
.Tl.l, trill rho restoration of both.
hebastapol as It is
Tin. London %i)1)„ (ot a recent date,
in the of a or Trsileben's
work oa •• TIII. 'rinlvatiWar," contains
tin. folio RS it
is :
The seientihr New Zealander who )
may have completed his sketches of tit. 0
fail l's and luit e wandered over the ruins
nl that mdern. I illbyloll Nvhich sent out
ten. Camenin to conquer his Maori
forefathers, will probably lie driven by
his thirst for knowledge to extend his
explorations, and to visit scenes made
famous by the people who civilized his
raee. The Rot nails were almost as much
interested about the site of Troy and the
history of the great siege as were the
German mid English professors of the
eell II ry. ill ilk rambles the Maori
may be shot out of a pneumatic
i l l or descend by his private parachute
on a little angle (dill,. world whereupon
just ten years agii was turned in breath
less i , xpvetan,y the gaze of the great
English people. \V hot he will see,
we cannot prevent even to con
jecture. The traveller would now
behold widespread ruin, and the
solitude mid calm which succeed the
tempest i' battle. (treat ruins never
die. Tile Tartar arab:land the official's
drosky roll over the plateau where the
fresh springing vines rise up amid a
rude neeropolis. Stately forts still frown
over he deep, calm fiord in which lie
the bones or a navy as if waiting for its
resurrection, and crumbling quays,
shattered towers, and broken shells of.
houses mark the margin of waters on
which once ilietted theaarm a ments of a
giant aggressive power. A few gray
coated soldiers clamber over the heaps
of broken masonry, and creep in and
out of the dilapidated barracks and
shot-riven dwellings. Listless flat
capped and booted eitizens saunter
slowly through the city of the past.—
A group of boats in the centre of the
harbor is engaged in endeavors to raise
to the surface the hull of some rotted
ship. All sent blan ett of power is depart
ed. Encircling Encirclingthissconeofdesolation
and violent decay, rounded knoll, and
deep ravine, and undulating plain all
seamed and dented With grass-grown
earthworks, spread from the sea to the
great cleft in the plateau through which
rolls the stream of the Teehhernaya.
Within that narrow front once white
with the tents of the Western powers,
where the thunder of the cannon never
eeased day after day, and the lightning
of battle dashed from cloud to cloud and
left from hill to hill for long, long
months, the I ierdsman now peacefully
tenth: the floeks which browse fatly in
the enriched ravines, and all that strikes
is the plov'er's whistle mingled
with the lowing of the knife.
..\1()s(zulT( Tom
, of the Third Maine Battery,
as brave a soldier and capital a fellow
as there is in the ariny,) tells a story of
howThiek he once found the mosqui
toes in the northern part of 'Wisconsin,
that willemivinee anybody of his entire
uthfulness.
" Muskeetees
i l uoth Tom; "you
nyi - er saw any in Jersey. I tell you
they play `rusan conic,' on the head
waters Of the 'Wisconsin."
"Are they any thicker there than in
other localities ?" we ventured to ask.
"'Thicker' Why, man alive, one
night When we \% cre looking around for
a place to caniße struck a swarm of
regular old heroes, and every time you
struck out with your arm it left a hole
just as plain in any of our guns."
Oh, Tom'" exclaimed young lady
relation, somewhat doubtfully.
" What ? You don't believe it? When
this war is over, just Come along with
me, and I'll glint! , you thc hol e het !"
If anybody has the hardihood to doubt
Tom's word after that, he (or she) must
he prepared to tight "six-feet-four in
his stockings."
—An apothecary's clerk in Chicago
was called up at two o'clock the other
morning by the ringing of the night
hell. On opening the door he found a
a damsel, who told him that she was
going to a pie-nie that morning, and
was out of.rouge. The impudent drug
gist turned her off with the assurance
that he hadn't the stock to corer a
cheek like hers,