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()It, nit•mory I gentle memory,
Thi•re's triagic in thy strain;
COlllO tshen thou wilt 011th the soul
In pleasure or In pain;
And when thought's fairy fingers run
Acres:, thy golden strings,
Nauvlit on the; earth eau Wu, ein(.l
The o.l'lll its music brings;
For Its sweet and softening port r
The soul Is lulled to sleep;
And o'er the heart steals a repose,
Profound, and pure, atilt deep.
Oh, memory ! bllsful latunury !
'Flion sheLhlest peace WI 10111;
thy power r n usetll Joyn
:\ till love to mitring to birth;
lfhere's not a heart, however nolo,
11,twever t:h.opell in sir',
fl it what, thou clnsl 111111 SOIIII. retreat.
'l'llgain :an entrant, in,
111,11 f, of heaven 111111,
Lilit It gulden harps and love,
Let n. rejoice that memory.
Shall follow tis ahoy.
f+lisrettameous.
Deceli e(1
The Incumbent or ling.fthol
I had j 11,4. arrival from Oxford, and
,tandin.4 at Om I,ook-rgall of the
I'aildillgll,ll tct•ini HUH, inquiring for a
.01,,wap, edition of one of LeVer'S 110VC1,1,
'illll.ll n middh• raged III:III, a clergyman,
came up to 111es:tine stall, and 11,1“01111e
hu-Ming 111.NV•paps t . 111011, who sets busy
folding a lunolle of newsimpers still wet
from the press, fora snr•ond-111111 copy.
of warbortow., ('rcxrrnt. and !hr Cro.
I hardly knew wlly, but i Mt face of my
MI Myr-pm . .. 11:1,T ruck tie remark
able one; :Lrel 'wingn little of au
and a1....it as pity,,i4.grionii,t,
I _aye him a Mug. and ,tmlimis look.—
ll' ma , n tall, ,trongly-malle clergy
man, in high church ccostnine:
Ii t coat, CAS! , ,,Pi: Wnistemit and I{omen
culler, tunl there Wag drt•p Lund of
1,11111 his lint. A high wide brow,
dooply furrntccd 1,3; contemplation;
cold, gray vyrs; a claw-pressed
and a full, Lold rhiu, indicating
an inflexible will, were the chief pnintii
0 1, H frooil, oaindiining tii produve ILe
face ora roan i.l
Ffir a ?fib:dim:fry
or it II:tvolm•k the sOl.lior and
--such a fai•o,ounioil
t•Vt . ry
111:11111,q,
IIIi.4IILIELVVIR,OII
lio,l Toy collt•g,., :14 tny
ill the illy firm, 11, illy olootor iu
llio limn . a , lily priest, :In IllY
1ii , h4,11, I could hate bk•li,V(q1:111111.01111-
di•cl wall. A iting,iletie scitse
,e1'111,.11
lu 11:1-. frolil hint :11111 ii,tataly
\v,alo•i•
nitt,ll'."' I "
'l'\\ I illine~
1 tool: out lily pur , ,, hut I found to
I liatl nu worn
:Ltd only th, tV:1) L . 20 !lofts my fatin.r
had tr Illy trip to Corn wal I.
" I
:tin Z.0 . 1 . V, " 141 flit, 111/)l\':`.l:ii]
iiiiVe f/I),i/VIT, and Only LW,,
.C2ii WIN,. I 'Oil/I/1,4( . 1 ( . 1/id(' nut tak
the I/111/k and hit* it, \\Awn I rctUrll-
Ctlfl'olll
"Nol emititty," said the malt
he to-
I'vis ihitit• that mice ttio orlon.
N.., nut fir
nevi! not he itt,ittent," 1
rather
"\\'r givt. tlik cs
!"
" Pray ve;hr plr:uurr
t 144• 1,44,1; ill 4014 , ,ii44:1," said
lily j' 114,w 14111.4.11'.1 , -4•1., ,14.41,14itig 14,ward
11111 4 "I 1 11.1,11, I 111 ': 11.11 Y 11,1 ' 1, Y Yr"' \v're
4.4,1144_4; 11'4.-1 In 1'4,11 4‘v;411. a :lin I.
WI. 110-
111:11ilo.t1 liiri, tif•ck•plod
cxplailw,1111:11 I 114)te, in illy
...11V1 . 1% tl. till'
I:reNt \Ve , iprri 11”101.
wa- , he. 1\ ly ;111,1 he
believed, ie1 . 1,1-.1 cone 011 by the saint
\Ve walked together to the hotel.
Ile proved 1110. t ag:reealde ; a thorough
traveled inan full of alter
dote and hutininue-itlltision. Reverend
henry Viearago, I;agshol, that
\Vas lilt. 1111. addli•ss litl
Wr Mood in ft,. 1,0,1 taking stir
!nal roout. We WL•Ill boill, W 0 found,
going to Exeter, hy the 7:11 I. M., train
lhr nest day. I one of my
Hole., paid hack the sinall suin ',arrow
ed, thanked narte,.l.
"I lope !nee! ii.galo," lie said
parlirez.
Il e lit porter who carried
hia trunk 1,22', upstairs. I \Vatelit.4l
liiut Its he Went Mil col and Said to
'Tiuit \v”s lu,ru fi,ra,ult,s
iiinti or ; What a 'lily such a
utiul .should lie roslrirlril to (Ile 11011',
ran. , a sill:III 11,1114111
HI . i•Vt•l'y our Was in lii.:
tik world \v , all.l he very
I \vont to the theaue that night to see
the it , t horh•-iitie, as eager for London
an I ix ford man \Obi had
been 1'1,1,1111'4' hard for degree might.
hr lu\rduuoil for Leine. I did nit stay
l'or die Inst. piece, itid got back to the
howl about half-pa.t VieVell. 'Co while
half:111 ilOlll . I ,11 , 11i , 211 hill/ the
near the hotel. There
was a ralli-dt sort "r pseudo-military
111311 Isere playing with a friend, a little
Jew. They played reasonably well, and
oin, t \dee the Captain Ins lie was
ealled made a winning hazard that
rather :tsbutislted me, had it not been
obviously the elfeet of luck in., that'
skin. .kt the end of the game the Jew
left, :ind the Captain :titer one or two
experimental -.I rokes, in which he fail
ed, asked nie if I had any' ohjection to a
game. I accopted the invitation, being
rat lie.r proud of my play. Just :Is I had
selected my rue and chalked the end,
the little Jew returned and perched him
self on a high ,eat close to the marker.
Five shilling , a game the Captain pro
jit,t to prevent it being insipid.
" One get, so careless," lie
said, " if elle titieSll . l play
ytos s , he kind enough to touch the bell.
I must hsll wane lirandy hot. That
infernal eh:imp:l,4lm Wl' 11:01
lee-, I ilerlil.lli, 11:1110 Ile' feel suite
The Waiter 1,11110, 11114 II gulp or
the brandy, the Captain said he felt
notre I, and 1o:e11em.. or two very
lair strokes; then fill tin' again,
missed Ip ice.
" pried, pen', Ile ;
"r 1,1111" said the I shalt
put till 111111)ey ou this gentleman, fie .
I 111,1 1 1, MI, o r thr e e v e ry good strokes
iu sacee,ion, ono oenra,l.l by this praise
mss that 1 ; livery time I
..cored, the Jew roll,l 1111e1: i 1 his Seat
111111 051i:1ill, :
" Stroke, indeed !"
A, I turned to chalk my cue and take
the red ball out of the left hand top
pocket, into which I I Lall struck it, I
SilW it, Illy 51111iiii-ie, the stern, calm face
of my friend of the morning fixed
steadily on me. Ile had corm , nl un
noticed by me, and was sitting near the
marker, and speaking to hint in a low
voice. I nodded to hint, and went on
With the Which 1 Well ill it Canter.
" Like Illy eonfouti,dcd luck!" said
the Captain, to , -iti_ down the tive shit
lings,:mil spitefully di , zging his cue into
the chalk till it a,tually squeaked with
pain ; but I'm always a happy go
lurks' ; come, I'll have another go."
" 'l' I lot ' s right, Fred," said the Jew,
" never say die: but, lord, you're no
match for this gentleman. You never,
could do the long stroke, you never put
Side enough ell, Lilies he, marker
The drowsy marker, who had been
ineehanically doling at the seore„slirtig
ged his shoulders and said :
" The Captain plays a very good game
When he tries; but he does not always
leave 'cm as he should do."
"Suppose we have a little noire liquid
before we begin again," said the I'm,-
tain to me. " \\Amt shall it lie? I fen
awfully dry. Let's have some more
brandy. I can't hit it, somehow, to
night at all. How awfully I missed
that last earom !"
" Well, you did," said the Jew.
" \V hy, I believe I could have got that.''
"Of course, you could ; you can do
any thing. ' P ouch the bell, marker;
thank you. Excuse me a moment, sir ;
I must go and secure a bed. I didn't
tell them I should sleep here. Come
along Mosy and See about yours."
The moment they had gone, the Vicar
of 13agshot came straight up to me with
a very serious and earnest expression on
his face.
" You may think me intrusive," Ile
said, "but do let me strongly advise you
not to play another game with that fel
low. That's 'Macdougall, one of the
most notorious billard sharpers in Lon
don; the Jew is an accomplice. The
rascal has let you win the first game;
VOLUME 71
he'll now propose higher stakes, and
win. Take care too, or they'll doctor
your brandy. They've gone out now to
get something to make it get into your
head faster before the bettings. I have
no motive, you must see, but the inter
est I feel for a young man unacquainted
with London tricks. Hush: here they
come."
Just at that moment the brandy and
the two thieves came in. I observed
the Jew instantly go toward the smok
ing glasses and stir one of them round
as bc turned his back to use.
The captain pulled off his coat, turn
ed up his right shirt-cuff, and spotted
the red ball with Lis usual gay non
chalance. "You begin," Le said.
"'Thank you," -aid I, putting on toy
coat, "I don't think I 011111 play any
more to-night."
" Not play? not play", why, you en
gaged with me," lie said, looking.round
the room in surprise, half in suspicion,
half in anger. "May I ask, sir, what
has produced this sudden change of in
tention
" Marker," said I, you may take
that hrandy and water—l have had
enough ; I'm afraid you'll find it rather
strong."
" U, I see," said the Captain, unmask
ing at once and advancing threateningly
toward the Vicar, who wits watching
him like a hawk. "'Phis fellow here,
whoever he may he, has lien good
enough to slander me and 111 V friend
while my hack was turned. And pray,
sir, who arc you As he said this he
walked up to the Vicar, nourishing the
butt end of his cue menacingly. " I
don't know your name," he said with a
long, impudent, fixed " or where
you are parson, but you'r as like a lag I
onee kiIL.W in Auartlia ns turn
You remcmher Gentleman Jack,
:Vlosy
" or course, I do, and, sv . vill Me, hint
he's the very illiagu of him," jaltbered
the Jew. •
" You Were, then, I pre,tllne, in the
same chain-gang," said the Vicar, :Ls he
rose and clenched his list. " I'll bear
this insolence no longer. You are both
notorious billiard sharpers; the marker
knows it, and has been paid for admit
ting you. The police till know you.
One word more and I'll ring the hell
and send the waiter for a constable and
give you in (liarge. Now you be MI:
I won't take the trouble to knock down
this sham Captain fur his incidence—a
feat her would do that. (bo, both olyou;
I'll not let my friend here be robbed by
two such pitiful thieves."
The Captain was, a poltroon. r saw
that he could have stabbed the Vicar
on the spot. Fits odor conic 111111 Went.
lle had once resolved 4,11 a rush then a
liar sei•r.ed him, as he saw his adVersary
standing like a tu:u•Lle statue—a pha
lanx in himself. .Mtitterilltr and curs
ing the two rascals slunk away, like
Satan from the spear or the archangel.
" Perfect, st ranger to toe, I assure you,
gents," said the Marker; " never seed
'mu afore in my life."
Yon don't take to your brandy,"
said 1.
"4,11'1 ',ow lu care for any int:re,
thank ptti ‘1 , 4,1.1 ply rer t 1 1:11Pli
" l le dittisn't deserve it, but still lnc,
said the Vicar. 511 I
" The police shall know how these
rooms are contlueted, depend upon it,"
he said to the marker its we heft; " you
!night :IS garrote a man at once.—
\Vital it city !" lie said tome as we turn
ed to the hotel ;ibid. I thanked him for
his good advice. " Melt, :1 whirlimcd of
gutless iniquity! Adulterated bread—
Wille-1111111terated beer—
adulterated nicilieines —the vtir:y• :clut
tering ingredients themselves adul
terated! .At every loot one NV;likS
a snare, in every street it pit
fall; virtlie only vire disguised, and
vice itself at like virtue as if she was her
twin sister; sham every thing! When
trill the lire descend upon it \\lien
trill the fire descend!'"
it the colree rc0:11, where we sat till -
half all Muir, I expressed my
surprii4e at the Vicar's entering a public
billiard room.
\ ' i/11 du 111q.1:11i , sr me," he said. "
ant like l'aley ; I ;on never afraid of
humlitigs. I like to see the devil's
schemes, that I may counteract thrill.
\N'e I'lliirtili-of-England men I:now too
little of the world ; that is win' the lie
fiats and Asmodes of cities cheat and
fool us so often and outrageously. 1
tnal:e a point when I visit the metro
polis of going to such Another
night you might have unit me at the
erenitirne, or in the equitlly dangerous
I Alhambra. It is my duty, sir, and ho \v-
I ever unpleasant, I go every wht•re to SOU
Sill 111111 hilly in their flood-title. You
will at least admit that my experience
of rascality has been useful to you to
night."
" I o‘ve you a thou,and than k,," I
roidied. "I had heard of billiard ,barp
ttr,, but had never met any before."
" I think I'll wish Vail a good night
now," he said, "as I am accustomed to
early country hours, and begin to feel
what children call the 'sandman' busy
with my eyes. 'Po-morrow, then, at
7:15 we inert. hood 'tight.''
So [ wished the vicar good night, and
we purled. I was out nearly all day,
making calls, and transacting business.
I got back to the hotel about half past
six, ordered down my luggage, and
asked if the Itev. Mr. Atkins was gone.
The porter said he was on the platform
waiting for me. Ile had just paid his
hill anif taken his luggage forward.
. „
1 took my ticket, tun did not see him.
I got my luggage labeled for Exeter;
still lie did not appear; but \Olen the
guard opened the door of a first-class
carriage for ins, I found a plaid told some
books nn the opposite seat.
"There's a gentleman, sir, a clergy
man, taken that seat. lle'S Leon look
ing fi n • a friend. I suppose that's you,
sir. If he don't look sharp he'll miss
the train."
'rile guard had already conic for his
tickets. The sharp try "'rake your
seat !" had just gone forth when the
vicar came running up, and said, "Open
this door, guard.'' The guard opened
the door, and the vicar took his place,
laughingly, opposite me. I hardly
knew him at lint, for he wore a large
dark overcoat, and hail on a traveling
cap drawn over his eyes and naps over
his ears. lle hail a roll of papers and
two magazines in his hand.
"How I hate this fuss and hurry!"
he said, :Is he folded his plaid over his
legs; how I nit, this:lest:l:aim' of :ill
individuality ! \\Then I was young., the
conch-journey Nvas a deliberate, quiet
Mr:dr—the traveler was a recognized
in
~lividuslily' 'rho coachmen :ind guard
knew von, and ehattted ; the ostler chat
ted ; die insides and outride knew you,
and chatted. There was interest in every
village; the people came out to see yoti
pass; the 111111 in net. NV a, 1111 I using. Now
you are a mere parcel sent by train.
the signalman, are mere ma
chi illeB lint eared for hy you, and not
caring for you. NN'hiz, rattle, battle,
scream, hiss ! away you arc flashed, and
the only thing to break the journey is
the name of a station so prOnOWICCII as
In be unintolligilde."
I laughed, and hinted at the annoy
ances, delay and dangers of the old sys
tem—the overladen coaches, the exurb:-
, ant landlords, the endless fees.
"Well, - he said, "perhaps in a future
age of balloons oreleetric-spark express-
es, people will talk of the delight of
railway traveling. The past is always
praised in order to spite the present."
Then we fell to reading. We had
scarcely begun before—whirr '—the
darkness of it tunnel fell upon us.
"It is always so," said my amusing
companion. "I never began to read in
a railway in my life that we did nut pass
through a tunnel."
My traveling companion was an extra
ordinary person. He had been every
where, and seen every - thing. No capi
tal of Europe but he knew intimately.
„ You seem surprised at my having
traveled so much, but when I was at Ox
ford I spent till my long vacations in
traveling ; and during the time I was in
the army, before serious convictions in
duced me to enter the church, I saw
something of the colonies.
The Vicar's information seemed bound
less. He discussed the geology of Devon
shire and the mineralogy of Cornwall.
He had views on military tactics and
artillery. He was interested in engin
eering and chemistry, and seemed quite
conversant with all the latest discoveries
in the latter science.
"I went the other day,'' he said to
me, as it began to grow dark, " to a lec
ture on alchemy. The Professor ex
pressed his belief in great discoveries
shortly to be made, in something that
would supersede coal and steam, in wrial
navigation, and in transmutation of
metals. But tire you ? "
" Not at all."
" He expressed his own and Liebig's
beliekthat the manufacture of diamonds
and gold - would soon be possible by the
merest tyro. He showed us small ru
bies that had been produced by chemi
cal action. There seemed no bound to
the discoveries this thoughtful man did
not suggest—the principle of beef and
corn from the common earth, gold and
jewels from the very road side flints ;
gold soon would, lie said, be of no value,
poverty would disappear from the earth ;
new manures would turn the deserts
into prairies, and double the resources
of the world. He ridiculed steam ; he—"
All this was profoundly interesting;
but somehow or other, wearied by along
day's fagging about London, I felt drow
sy, and the words of my companion
seemed suddenly to change into a buz,
buz, hue, buz, that kept in cadence with
the sound of the train as it tore through
part of Devonshire.
I fell asleep and a dream arose before
me. I was alone at night in a railway
carriage with a mum who thought me
asleep. He stole toward the door, un
locked it quietly with a railway key he
took front his pocket, and opened it.
'then rifling my pockets, (some strange
numbness pc,: .enting my crying out,
he dragged one to the door, and shot rte
out into the darkness. The horror of
that moment, and some rustling move
ment in the carriage, awoke me. .I.
scarcely knew why, but a strange in
stantaneous caution prevented me mov
ing or at once opening my eyes. At that
moment I felt a light hand, with prac
ticed care, touch - my breast pocket,
where my money was, and felt hot
breath upon my c l uck, as if some 01w
was listening to, my breathing.
Presently 1 felt the breath no longer
nor the motion of the hand, and heat'd
my companion—for the breath and the
hand were his—return to his scat. A
tnoment or two after, without moving, I
opened one eye for a Moment only, and
to my horror and surprise saw the Vicar
sitting at the further window perfectly
bait and with a wig in his hand—a pair
mustaehes and a beard were on
Zi..4 7 :l'itatee:t, and he was slipping a pair of
large green spectacles into a shagrecn
case, a little bottle and a small sponge
were on the cushion by his side.
What did this mean ? \Vas it possi
ble this intellectual, thoughtful clergy
man was, after all, only a common
swindler - flying from justice. What
should I do? Should I at once arise
and denounce him? No; he might. Le
armed, and 'night shoot or stab toe be
nire I could summon the guard or arrive
at the next station. No. ' F reselved to
lie still, and wait till I could
either change earriages or inform the
police. 'l'he train rattled on Os if bound
to rush forever through illimitable space
—on, on, through the yielding darkness.
All at once a strange medicated smell
spread around me before I could open
my eyes, a sponge steeped in chloroform
was pressed chokingiv tight over my
nose and mouth. I tried to resist, but
[ felt an irresistible faintness creep
swiftly over me at the Caine moment toy
watch and purse flew from my pockets
and I was dashed back contemptuously
upon the seat—a living corpse.
When I awoke, I was lying in the
Exeter Hospital, faint, and exhausted,
and scareely able to move. The doctor
said I had had so heavy a dose of chlor
oform, that toy recovery had for a long
time seemed doubtful. 1 need hardly
say that I had been stripped M . every
thing by my friend, the Vicar, who was
professional thief of the highest class.
About two years after that event the
following pargraph met toy eye in a
, Leeds paper:
"STRANGE DEATif tiE A Tim:v.—On
Thursday a first class passenger by the
night Mail North fell from a carriage a
few miles beyond Carlisle, and was kill
td on the spot. It was supposed that
he was a professional thief, alai having
chloroformed and robbed a fellow pas
senger, a rich manufacturer from Crad
ford, was trying to creep into an empty
carriage, the better to escape at the first
station, when he lost his hold and fell,
the train passing over him. A guard
recognized hint as John Rogers, alias
I 'Gentleman Jack,' a returned eiinvict,
long notorious for railway robberies.—
Rogers, w h o Wa , accomplished and
well edlVated had utter cell in
• the church ; but having lend his gown
taken from lain for disgraceful conduct
he left England, and obtained a com
mission in the Neapolitan service; being
eventually driven from that also, he
turned swindler, card-sharper, and
swell-mobsman. Latterly, having
es
caped from Australia, he has infested
the English lines of railway under vari
ous disguises, and from time to time
chloroformed and robbed any pas,sengers
who were unlucky enough to travel with
lino by night atone."
Home Politeness
Should ;111 aequaintance tread MI yolll'
dress—your best, your very best—anti
by accident, tear it, how profuse you
are with your "never mind; don't
think of it ; don't tare at all." Irah us
band does it, he get a trown ; if a child
he chastised.
" ! these are little thing=," say
you. They tell mightily on the heart,
he assured, little as they are.
A gentleman stops at a friend's house
and finds it in confusion. •'lle don't
see anything to apologize for; never
thinks of such matters; everything is
all right, cold supper, cold room, crying
children ; perfectly comfortable."
Ile goes home ; his wife has been talc •
ing care of the sick ones, and worked
her life almost out. "Don't see why
things can't be kept in better order;
there never were such cross children
before." No apologies except away
front home.
NVlty not be polite at home? Why
not use freely the golden coin of courte
sy? How sweet the sound, these little
words, "1 thank you," or "Von arc very
kind." Doubly, yes, trebly sweet from
the lips we love, when heart smiles
wake the eye sparkle with the clear
light of affection.
lie polite to your children. Do you
expect them to be mindful of your wel
fare to grow glad at your approach, to
bound away to do your pleasure before
your request is half spoken '.".l'hen
with all your dignity and authority,
mingle politeness. (dive it a niche in
your household temple. Only then Will
you have the true secret of sending inn
into the world really finished gentlemen
and ladies.
Nearing the Other Shore
Mien, after the weary voyage that I
first made across the ocean, sick and
loathsome, I arose ~ne morning and
went upon the deck, holding on, crawl
ing, thinking I was but a worm, I sun
in the air some strange smell, and t said
to the Captain, " \V hat is the odor?"
" It is the late! breeze front elf Ireland."
I smelt the turf, .1 smelt the grass, I
smelt the leaves, and all my siekness
departed from me; toy' eyesgrew bright,
my nausea was gone. The thou g h t of
the nearness of the land came to me.
And when, afar olf, I saw the dim lice
of land, joy came and gave me
health, and, front that moment, I had
neither sickness nor trouble; I was
coming, nearer to the hind.
Oli ! is there not for you, old man,
and for you, wearied mother, a land
breeze blowing off from heaven, wafting
to you some of its sweetness? Behold,
the garden of the Lord is not far away ;
I know from the air. Behold the joy of
home. Do I not hear the children
shout? 'l'he air is full of music to our
silent thought. Oh, how full of music
when our journey is almost done, and
we stand upon the bound and precinct
of that blessed land ! Hold on to your
faith. Believe more firmly. Take Lola
fly prayer anti by faith. Away with
troubles and buffetings. Be happy;
you are saved. In a few hours visions
of t iod and all the realitiesof the eternal
world shall be yours, and you shall be
saved with an everlasting salvation.
Bound to be on 'rime
Sergeant Patrick Ryan, of a detachment
of Cavalry at the West Point Military Acad
emy, received a furlough a few days ago,
which, however, expired at ten o'clock
Monday night. On the afternoon of that
day he was in New York city having a good
time, and waiting till the last moment, he
hastened to the depot at Thirteenth street
to take passage on the 7 P. M. train for
Garrisons. After the train started, he as
certained, to his extreme disgust, that the
train did not stop at Garrisons. lie pon
dered the matter over, wondered what be
could do, and finally concluded to jump off
as the train passed the station and take his
chances—and ne did. lie rolled over and
over, receiving severe cuts about the head
and many bodily injuries, though no bones
were broken. As he lay partly unconscious,
a strong hand jerked him from the down
track in the face of a southerly hound extra
train just in time to save his life. He was
then carried to the ferry boat and conveyed
across tho river to the Military Hospital,
where the surgeon administered to his
wants. He-had promised to get back on
time, and he did.—Pouglikeepsic Eagle.
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING JUNE 1, 1870
Senator Wilson and Edwin M. Stanton
A Scathing. A_rtlele from the Pen ofJoAlgo
THE TEETH OF HISTORIC
The following remarkable strong paper
appears in the Juno number of the Unfazy,
in reply to the article by Senator Wilson,
hick was published in the May number.
To the, lion. II zNier WILSON, Senator from
Massachusetts:
In the February number of the " Atlan
tic Monthly" appeared an article of yours
entitled "Edwin M. Stanton." It contains
some statements which aro very wonderful,
if true: and if false, they ought to be cor
rected. I ask you to review this produc
tion in the light •f certain facts which I
shall now take the liberty to mention.
My principal object is to satisfy you that
you have wholly misunderstood the char
acter of Mr. Stanton, andgrossly injured
him by what you supposed to be a pane
gyric. But beibre I begin that, suffer tae
to correct swim of your errors about other
In your vituperative description of the
Buchanan administration, you allege that
'• the President and his Attorney General
surrendered the Government's right ofself
preservation " and "pronounced against
its power to coerce a seceding State."—
You refer manifestly to the opinion of
the Attorney-General, dated the Muth of
November 111011, defining the duties and
powers of the President, and to the
public acts of the President which show
that he took the advice of the Law Depart
ment and squared his conduct accordingly.
Upon this ground mainly, if not entirely,
you denounce that administration 119 not
only steak and unpatriotic, but wilfully
wit hoi I and treasonable. I propose to
show that you have committed a cardinal er
ror, i 0 not something worse. The coarse
way in which you charge the dead as well
as the living with the highest crimes,
would justify a reply in language much
plainer than I intend to uso.
Yllor modes of thinking and speaking
on subjects of this kind are so loose and in
accurate, that it is necessary to furnish you
with an idea of certain elementary princi
ple., which to most ether men are too famil
iar to talk about.
I. The government of tho United Series
is tho (702'36h/bon and laws.
2. 'File prezervation of the government
consists Uinta/uta/ming the supremacy of
the Constitution and laws.
3. For this purpose certain corTrire pow
ers are delegated to the Es eeutive, which
he may use to defe n d the laws when they
are resisted.
d. But iu tlik country, as in every other,
except where the government is an 311,4,-
111LOdcsp,tiuu, the authority of the Chief
Magistrate is //tailed and his hands arc tied
up by legal restrictions, to prevent him
from using physical force against the life,
liberty, and property of his fellow-citizens,
unless in certain prescribed ways and en
proper occasions.
5. Ile is bound by his inaugural oath to
keep within those limits; if he breaks the
lasts, he destroys the government ; he can
not stab the Constitution in the back be
cause he is afraid that somebody else will
strike it in the face.
it. The government of the United States,
within its proper sphere, is sO e - eignA :is
Much as the States are sovereign within
tilt'ir sphere. It ants immediate/3/ upon the
people ;ind claims their direct obedience
to its laws. As a State cannot make war
upon a city, or town, and put alic i a inhab
itants to the sword because sonic of them
have acted or threatened to act illegally, so
the General Government is also restrained
from exterminating the whole population
of a State for the offences, actual or intend
ed, of some who live among them.
7. The so-ratted onlinances of secession
in I.SiIU-'GI were the declarations of certain
persons ayhn made them that they intoWieri
h. di.sobey the laws of the Ivnitod States."
IL was the duty of Congress and the Presi
dent to see that forcible resistance to the
laws, when actually made, should be !net
by a counter-force sufficient to put it down ;
but neither Congress nor the President hail
authority to declare war and begin hostili
ties, Icy anticipation, against all the people
at once, and put them all in the attitude of
public enemies without regard to their per
sonal guilt or innocence.
The opinion of the Attorney General,
which you have garbled, and the messages
of President Buohanan, assert thi•se prin
ciples in plain English words. We held
that the whole coercive power of the Uni
ted Slates, delegated by the Constitution to
every branch of tilt) govermitent,
lOgiSla; i ye, and executive, including its
military and naval force, might and ought,
in the appointed way, to 111.3 used to main
tain the Supreinaey of the laws against all
opposers, to hold or retake the public prop
erty, ninnl collect trite revenue. But we as
serted, also, that powers; not given ought
not to I), usurped, and that war upon a
State, in the then circumstances of the
eountry, would be, not only usurpation,
lad destruction of the Union.
(n . eon roe, you cannot be so ignorant of
the funnimental law as not to know that our
exposition of it was perfectly sound and
correet. Y.l never pretended—no man
with sense enough to know his right hand
from his left will ever pretend—that the
President lend constitutional or legal au
thority to make an aggressive war against
the States, by his )0011 act, nor had Congress
any such power. But you think I ought
not to have answered the President's ques
tions truly, that he ought not to have been
Miluenecil by constitutional scruples. 'that
is the rub. There is IT, dispute—never was,
and never ( . ;111 the ; but Mr.
Bui•hanan's wickedness and treason l'i;11-
,i,ttql in obeying it when you think he
ought to have broken it. her this cause
vim try to excite against his memory those
I ad party passions by Which he was Mani
' del and persecuted during all the last
years of his life.
' I will make no effort to convince you
that Mr. Buchanan was right in standing,
by the Constitution which he had sworn
tin preserve, protect, and defend. That I
know would be _altogether hopeless. 'rim
lectured admirer of John Brown, the polit
ieal ally uC Jill; L3llO, the partisian of
Baker, the advocate of general kid
! napping and special murder Iffy
military COIIIIIIiSSiOIIS, the :open sup-
porter of measures which abolish the right
of trial by jury and build up an Asiatic des
potism on the ruins of free government
sueh a man would entirely misunderstand
the reason (simple as it is) upon which I
put the
. justilication Ma dead President for
refusing to perjure himself. But, if I can
not perhaps I can C.tetide him. I
Will offer sonic apologies which may possi
bly disarm your censure, or at least miti
gate the severity of your righteous indigna
tion.
In the tirst plane, then, Mr. Buchanan
Ivan born of Christian parents and educated
and at the moment of his death, he felt that
ear of (toil which a respectable authority
has de c lared to lie, not weakness, but the
beginning of wisdom" and the only
source of truo greatness. Tiro curruptions
introduced into the church by the polit
ical preachers ,)t - New England never
reached him. I ft. seas simply a Christ
ian man and a firm believer in the
morality taught by the New Testa
ment. Now, you know (at all events you
must have heard) that persons who adhere
to that kind of religion always contract a
habit of regarding the violation of an oath
with inexpressible horror, whether it be
committed by an oftieer or a witness;
whether the olject of it be to destroy the
character of a political opponent, to pro
mote the interests of a party, or to enslave
a State. All kinds of false swearing arc
alike to them. They stubbornly reject the
reasoning which ;woks to convince them
that observance of oaths by magistrates
and legislators is a mere question of expe
diency and self-interest, varying with cir
cumstances. Mr. Buchanan being a man
of this class, I submit the question whether
his projinlices against perjury (unreason
able as you may think them) aro not en
titled to some little respect. .
A part from the religious obligation of
his oath, he loved the Constitution of his
country on its own account, as the best
government the world ever saw. Ido not
expect you to sympathize with this feeling;
your affections are otherwise engaged.
But can von not make some allowanco for
his attachment to that great compact which
was framed by our forefathers to secure
union, justice, peace, State independence,
and individual liberty for ourselves and
our posterity?
Another thing: All his predecessors
governed their conduct by similar notions
of fidelity to the Constitution. In peace
and in war, in prosperity and disaster,
through all changes, in spite of till threats
and provocations, they had kept their oaths
and assumed no ungranted power. It was
the most natural thing in the world for Mr.
Buchanan to follow the example of such
men as Washington, Madison, and Jackson,
rather than the precepts of these small but
ferocious politicians who thought their own
passions and interests a "higher law" than
the law of the country.
Again: All his advisers—nnt I alone,
hut all of them—expressed the clear and
unhesitating opinion that his view of tho
law on the subject of coercing States was
right. His' legal duty being settled, not
one among them ever breathed a sugges
tion that he ought to violate it. Besides :
There was a question of natural justice,
as well as legal propriety, involved in
making war upon the States at that time.
Nine-tenths of the Southern people were
thoroughly, devoted to the Union, and had
committed no sin against it even in thought.
Would it have been well to bring the visita
tion of tire, sword, and famine upon whole
communities of innocent persons? You
will probably answer this in the affirma
tive. You think that no opportnnity to
shed the blood and plunder the property of
men, women, and children who live be
yond the Potomac ought ever to be lost.
Mr. Buchanan might have seized that oc
casion to imitate John Brown on a large
scale, and thus made himself an "heroic
character" in your eves. Butyou must be
aware that he would have been regarded
by the mass of men as a moral monster;
and the admiration of yourself and your
party in -Massachusetts would have been
but a poor compensation for the eternal
weight of infamy with which the rest of
the world would have loaded his memory.
Further still: Yon know that the Gene
ral-in-Chief of the army had reported live
companies as the whole available force for
operations in the South, and you never
proposed to increase it. Yet you wanted
war. Why? You must have desired the
Union cause to be disgraced and defeated,
for nothing else could have resulted from
such a war its you now abuse Mr. Buchanan
for not making. You and your party ni
Congress were strictly non-committal.—
You did not recommend peace, nor offer
your support to war. You would take
neither the olive branch nor the sword.
You refused to settle, and you made no
preparation for a contest. But you reveal
now what was then the secret desire ofyour
heart—that the administration, in defiance
of law and without means, w•oulti declare
war on its own responsibility. This would
have been an expulsion of the Southern
States from the Union, for it would have
placed all their people beyond the protec
tion of Federal law ; they would necessari
ly rise in self-defence; our little army of
rive hundred men would perish in a fort
night; before thoith of:March the indepen
dence of the South would be a settled fact.
-
Moreover, as you and Your party friends
in Congress did not call for a war, the
President had a right (had he not?) tn sup
pose that you approved of his determina
tion to keep the peace. Perhaps your ap
proval of his conduct is not very powerful
evidence of its justice or legality. But hero
is the point: flow cant you have the thee to
denounce a man as a criminal, after he is
dead, for public acts which you consented
to by your silence at the time they were
done?
But this is not all. You give your un
qualified approbation to Mr. Lincoln's ad •
ministration. I its not say you were true
to it (for I believe the evidence is extant
which proves that you were not.); but you
have lauded it as strong and faith
ful. Mr. Lincoln adopted precisely the
same legal principles with regard to
the coercion of the States that Mr. Buchan
an had acted upon, and carried the policy
of reconciliation infinitely beyond hint. Ile
avowed his intention not to make war or
provoke it as plainly as his predecessor had
ever done. Neither he nor his Attorney-
General asserted their constitutional au
thority to commenceaggressive and general
hostilities' for any cause then existing. Jig
received conunissioners front the Southern
States. He pledged himself not to retake
the forts, arsenals, dockyards, custom
houses, etc., then in the hands of the seces
sionists. Ile promised to continue the
mail service In the seceded States if they
would permit him. He wont further
still, and publicly assured the Southern
people that he would not irritate them
by attempting to execute the Federal
laws at any 'dace where it would be
specially offensive to them. All these
were eoneassions to the South which
Mr. Buchanan had steadily refused to
make; and iflie had made them, you would
no doubt have prtalatllleeti them treasona
ble. liut the Lincoln administration did
not stop there. That Cabinet voted six to
one in furor SlO•rendering Fort Sumter—
Mr. Blair being the only dissentient. The
President, if he did not yield to the major
ity, must have wavered a considerable
time, the Secretary of State was so sure
of him that he caused the South Caro
lina authorities to be informed that the
fort loot(/ he girt, !up. You will not
deny these facts, but you will continue,
as heretotbre, to say that the Buchanan
administration weakly and wickedly fa
vored secession, while that of Lincoln was
firmly and faithfully opposed. 'The malt
who involves himself in such inconsisten
cies, whether from want of information,
want of judgment, or want of veracity, is
not qualified to write on an historical sub
ject.
I have given more time and space than
I intended to this part of your pap,. But
I am addressing a man of peculiar chara,•ter.
To a person whose moral perceptions are
healthy ;mil natural, 1 could make my de
fence in a breath. But being re.illireti to
apologize for not violating a sworn duty,
Stalle ciroutidoeution is necessary.
Tour mere railing avensiations against
Mr. Buishanan are hardly worth a reply.
The place he is destined to occupy in his
tory does not depend on anything Sall 11111
say or forbear to say. You have m;',lsmowl
c,lge whatever of Isis character. Morally,
intellectually, and politically 110 Wll,l, alto
- h10111111•11,,ra man for you to com
prehend. The world will look for its
inforniatiomeenverning him to the acts of
his life, and to this testimony of men
who knew hint and had minds large
enough It, take in Isis dimensions.
would not titer yea the word of a Dem
ocrat ; but among those who were wills him
continually during the last weeks of his
administration are some who' have since
supported Hadieal mew-fur, with a zeal
Walla enough to make thens good witness,.
Let corral Dix speak Isis knowledge and
say whether he saw anything of the treason,
the Wl.:Otness, or the wickedness which you
impute so boldly and Se reckless. Mr.
King, the Postmaster General, cannot be
ignorant of any important fart which bears
ors this question. Mr. I has already, on
several 1/11eaSt11119, delivered his testimony.
It is a fervent tribute to the "wise states
manship and unsullied patriotism" or Ji r.
Buchanan, as well a, to "the finis and
generous support." which he constantly
gave to men and IlleaSllre, approved by
Psis conscience. The proltla of Isis groat
ability and his eminent public serviees are
found on every page of MS country's
Isis
tore from lrSu ut ISfil. During all that long
period he steadily, faithfully, and power
! ully sustained the principles of tree con
stitutional government. This nation never
had a truer friend, nor its laws a defender
who Mould inure eheerfully have given his
life to save them from violation. ° No man
was ever slandered so brutally. Ii is life's
life was literally lied away. In the last
1 months of his administration he devoted
all the energies of his mind and body to the
great duty of saying the Union, if possible,
from dissolution and civil war. Ile knew
all the, dangers to which it was exposed.
and it would, therefore ' be vain to sac that
ho was not alarmedor
fhis country; but lie
showed no sign of unmanly fear on Isis
I,Wlllteet/ 1 / 1 1t. I lie met all his vr-st respon
sibilities as fairly as any thief Magistrate
we ever had. In no ease did he shirk from
or attempt to ovade them. The accusation
of timidity and indecision is most prepos
terous. Iris faults were all of another kind :
his resol site ins once Shrived were_ general ly
immovable to a degree that bordered on
obstinacy. I M every matter of great im
portance he deliberated cautiously, and
sometimes tried the patience of his friends
by refusing to act until he had made up an
opinion which he could live and die by.—
These characteristics explain the fact that
his whole political life, from the time he
entered Congross until he retired from the
Presideney—all his acts, speeches, and pa
pers—have a consistenoy which belongs to
those of no other American statesman. lie
never found it necessary to cross Ins own
path or go I,:iek upon his pledges. His
judgment wan of ~mirso not infallible;
and in Sill lie atinntinecl 3 I.loterlaillatit,ll
with ref rep r o to the South Carolina coin
inis,ioners which I and others thought er
ne-Won, 11i1,11311L703b1e. 11111'.X.-
peetedly, and altogether contrary to hie
ustud habit of steadfast self-reliance, he
eon,enteil w reconsider and materially al
ter his derision. This change, and all the
cireurnstanees ti Ludt brought it about,were
alike honorable to his understanding and
his heart. I admit that you were not the
first inventor of these ;hinders; hut you
ought to know that it does not beutine
man in your station to take up an evil re
port and repeat it, like a parrot, without
stopping to consider whether it has any
foundation or 110 t.
YOU are not content with traducing Mr.
==l
of departments who served under hint, and
deal out your tierlitTlCiation , upon nearly
all in sneeession.
MM=
was deranging the finances and shik the
national credit. Upon whom does this
fall? Was it Cobb, or Thomas, or Dix that
committed that crime? The charge is
equally untrue whether made against one
or another. You never saw a scintilla of
evidence to justify it.
You tell your readers that the Secretary
of \Var scaitered the army and sent guns
and 1111111i6011S to the secessionists. What-
ever Mr. Fle - d may have I lane in
his lifetime, it is well establishe,l that
ho never did this. Numerous charges
have been, and others might be, made
against that officer with some show of
truth. It is curious that your appetite for
scandal could be sallied only by selecting
one which is well known to be unfounded.
You inform the country that the Secre
tary of the Navy rendered that ,f rot power
/eon. This is nut anew charge, It has been
made several times before, and solemnly
investigated more than once. Not only has
it never been supported, but it has uniform
ly been met by such evidence of Mr. Ton
cey's perfect integrity that every respecta
ble man among his political enemies
acquits him without hesitation. In your
present reiteration of it, you aro simply
bearing false witness against your neigh
bor, in fiat violation of the ninth command
ment.
But perhaps the most extraordinary of
all your averments is, that the Secretary of
the Interior permitted the robbery of trust
funds. You did not mean it to be under
stood that a rubbery occurred which he
knew nothing about, and of which he was,
therefore, as innocent as any other man.—
You intended to make the impression that
he wilfully gave his permission to the
criminal asportatiou of the funds in ques
tion, made himself accessory to the felony
before the fact, and was as guilty as if he
had done it with his own hands. You could
not possibly have believed this, unless you
perversely closed your eyes against the
light or plain truth. All the circumstances
of the transaction to which you refer are as
well understood as anything in the history
of the country. A committee of Congress,
consisting of members opposed to the Sec
retary, examined the evidence when it was
fresh, and reported upon it. The correct
ness of their judgment has never been im
pugned. IM the face of these recorded and
well-known facts, you deliberately sit
down and write out, or get somebody to
write and publish to the world on your au
thority, the accusation that Mr. Thompson
has committed an offence which should
make hint infamous forever. The force of
mendacity can go no further. I admit that
you are a loyal man, in the modern sense
of the word, and a Senator in Congress
from a most loyal State; and it is equally
true that Mr. Thompson was a rebel ; that
ho was for years an exile from his home
and country, pursued wherever he went by
an Executive proclamation which put a
price on his head. This gives you an im
mense advantage over him. But the
fact is still true that no department
of this government was ever managed
more ably or more faithfully then the In
terior while he was at the head of it. Yon
may haveall the benefit of loyalty, and y,,fl
may weigh hint down with the 'huge bur
den of rebellion ; nevertheless, his mental
ability, good sense, and common honesty
put him so immeasurably far above you,
that you will never in this life be able to
get a horizontal view of his character.
I come now to the more important part
of your article, which directly concerns SI r.
Stanton. Your attacks upon Buchanan,
Toucey, and Thompson might be safely
passed in silence,but theeharacter of St an u it i
must utterly perish if it be not defended
against your praise.
You give us the first information weever
haZifithat Mr. Stanton, though acting with
the Democratic party, was an abolitionist
at heart almost front his earliest youth.
For this fact you vouch his derlara
tbm to Judge Chase more than thirty
years ago, at Columbus, Ohio; and you
attempt to corroborate it by }citing hi+
association at Washington with Dr. Mario y
and other abolitionists. If you tell the
truth, ho was the most marvelous int pester
that ever lived or died. Among us, hi+ po
litical principles were thought to be as well
known as his name and occupation. Ire
never allowed his fidelity to be doubted for
one moment. It was perfectly understood
that he had no affinities whatever with men
of your school in morals or politics. Ills
condemnation of the abolitionists was un
sparing for their hypocrisy, their corrup
tion, their emnity to the Constitution, and
their lawless disregard for the rights of
States and individuals. Thus he won the
confidence of Democrats. On the faith of
such professions WO promoted him in his
business, and gave hint office, honor, and
furtune. But, according to your account,
he Was all the while waiting and hoping for
the time to come when ho could betray Oct
Constitution and its friends into the cruel
clutches of their enemies. ,For this cold
blooded and deliberate treachery you be
speak the admiration of the American peo
ple. You rnightas well propose to canonize
Judas Iscariot.
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I maintain, on the other hand, that ho was
what ho seemed to be, a sound and sincere
friend, political and personal, of the men
who showered their favors on his head. lle
had at least the average amount of atl:lMl
ment for "the Constitution of the United
States, and for the peace, good order, ale:
happiness of the same." As a necessary
consequence, he dreaded the dishonest awl
destructive rule which he foresaw that you
would be sure to establish as soon as you
could. His democracy (lid not cease rotten
the war opened. In the ((winer of IsOl,
when your anti-constitutional principles
began to be practically carried out by the
kidnapping .of innocent citizens, by the
suppression of free speech, and by the en
slavement of the press, ho imprecated the
vengeance of God and the law upon the
guilty authors of those crimes with as much
energy as any Democrat in the nation.--
Only a short time before his appointment
as Secretary of War, his love of liberty
and legal justice impelled hint to curse Mr.
Lincoln himself with bitter curses. Fl,
called !din by contemptuous names, and
with a simian, if not with "swinish phrase
soiled with his aklitien." I ethnic that he
changed these sentiments afterwards, but
I deny that he had adopted your way of
thinking while he pretended to concur iu
Lis conversion was a real one, tine
duced by what he regarded as " good and
sufficient reasons him thereunto moving, -
and it was accompanied, or immediately
followed, by a corresponding change of his
party attitude. 1I e was not what you make
him out, a mere fawning hypocrite.
The issue is plainly made. The frietols
of Mr:Stanton will not permit you to gib
bet him in the face of the world, after death
has disarmed him of the power of self-de
fence. You must prove the injurious alle
gations you make, or ii elso accept the just
consequences. If the chief Justice will say
that he knows Mr. Stanton In have been
"in entire agreement' with the abolition
party thirty years ago, his testimonial may
silence denial. But you must not trine
with us; we will hold you to strict prof ;
hearsay evidence will not be received ; least
of all will the fact be admitted upon the
second-band statement of a person who
thinks, as you manifestly do think, that
deception, fraud, and false pretence arc an
honor to the man who practiced them.
Next in the cronological order is y o ur
assertion that Mr. Stanton, while yet a pri
vate citizen, advised :dr. Buchanan that it
,the duty and the right of the Federal
Government to coerce seceding States ; that
is to sac, make war against all the inhabi
tants of every State in which art ordinance
of secession had been or should be passed.
Now, mark how plain a tale will put you
down. Mr. Stanton never was commited
on that subject, by the President until af
ter he was Attorney-General ; and he never
at any time gave such advice as you put
into his mouth. Ile never entertained any
opinion of that kind, for hoorms a lawyer
of large capacity and could not believe an
absurdity. lie hadtoo much regard Mr
his professional character to maintain a
legal proposition which ho knew to
he false. lie certainly would not have so
debased himself in tho eyes of the
administration with Whom he was particu
larly desirous, at that time, to stand well.
(iii this point I wish to be very distinct.
I aver that Mr. Stanton thoroughly, cor
dially and constantly approved o f and con
curred in the constitutional doctrines
which you denounce as timid and treason •
able. Ile indorsed the opinion of his pre
decessor with extravagant and undeserved
laudation ; ho gave his adhesion to the an
imal message in many ways ; anti the spe
chd message of tint January, 1551, which
expressed the same principles with added
emphasis, was carefully read over to 1111,1
before it was sent to Congress, and it re
ceived his unqualified assent. The exist
ing evidence of this can be easily adduced :
it is direct as well as circumstantial, oral as
well as documentary, and some of it is in
the handwriting of Mr. Stanton himself.—
If you are willing to put the question
into a proper form for judicial inves
tigation, [ will aid you in doing so,and give
von an opportunity to make out your case
before an impartial tribunal.
It your statement be true that Mr. Stan
ton disbelieved in the principles to which
the administration was unchangeably
pledged, how did he come to take office un
der it? \Vas he so anxious for public em
ployment that he consented to give up his
own convictions and assist in carrying out
measures which his judgment condemned
as the offspring of timidity and treason ?
Or, did he accept the confidence of the Pre
sident and the Cabinet with a predeter
mined intent to betray it? Either way you
make him guilty of unspeakable baseness.
But conceding that he would accept, why
did the President, with the consent of his
advisers, give the appointment to a man
whom they knew to lie hostile to them
upon points so vital not only to the public
interests but their own characters? That at
such a time they would invite an undis
guised enemy into their counsels, is a tale
as wildly improbable as any that ever was
swallowed by the credulity of the Salem
witch-tinders. Your own - consciousness
of this compels you to explain by attribot
ing it to a special intervention of Divine
Providence. Your impious theory is that
Almighty (toil procured this appointment
miraculously, in order that you the enemies
of the American Constitution might have a
spy in the camp of its friends. This will
serve your turn. Reason never refers a
human event to supernatural agency, un
less it be impossible to account for it in any
other way. The mystery of this case. is
easily cleared up by the hypothesis that
yon 'have misrepresented it from begin
ning to end ; which is no miracle at all, but
quite in the natural order of things.
The truth is, Mr. Stanton vias in perfect
accord with the administration, before and
after he became a part of it, on every ques
tion of fundamental principle. Ile had
unlimited confidence in the men with
whom he was acting, and they confided in
him. For his chief and some of his collea-
;pies he professed an attachment literally
boundless; for all of them who stayed dur-
ing the term, and for Thompson, who did
not stay, he was warm in his friendship.
You would now have us believe that these
were merely the arts of an accomplished
impostor ; that while he was, in appearance
zealously cooperating with us, he was re
porting to you that "he saw treason in
every part of the government;" and that
he was secretly using all the means in his
power to stir up the ♦ilest passions against
us.
Some overt acts of the treachery you
ascribe to him are curious ; for instance, the
Sumner story, which you tell with singu
lar brevity and coolness. Mr. Sumner
called on him at his office, for the purpose
you do not disclose. Mr. Stanton did not
receive his visitor either with the politeness
of a gentleman or the courtesy due to a
Senator, much less with the cordiality, of a
friend ; but hustled hint out of the building
as i f ashamed to be seen with him indaylight.
He told him expressly that he did not dare to
converse! with him there, but would see
hint at one o'clock that night. The hour
came, and then, when the city was wrapped
in sleep, he skulked away to the meeting
place, where, under the cover of darkness,
ho whispered the tales which he did not
dare to utter in the hearing of the parties
they were intended to ruin. And those
parties were his friends and benefactors 1
I Into what unfathomed gulfs of moral degra
dation must the man have fallen who could
be guilty of this! But remember, this is
another second-hand story, anti you arenot
a competent witness. We Will trouble you
;to call Mr. Sunnier, ifyou please. Let him
I testify what treason Stanton disclosed, and
explain, if he can, how this midnight anti
secret information against men whom he
was afraid to confront is consistent:with Mr.
Stanton's character as a courageous, oat
' spoken, and honest man.
; Ile said nothing whatever to us about the
' treason which he saw in every part of the
. government. He made no report of his dis-
I coveries mate President. He maintained un-
I broken his fraternal relatious with his col
leagues. By Won r own ave. - gulf. he ad mi tied
I to Mr. Sumner that ho did not dart to speak
i of such a thing even in Msown office, lest it
might reach the ears of his associates in the
administration. Among the members of
Congress whom you name as the recipients
lor his secret cumin uniCatioll3, not OM man
of moderato views is included ; touch less
i did he speak to any friend of the party ac
cused. lie mutiously selected their bit
terest enemies, and poured his venom into
hearts already festering with spite. The
House raised a eommittee "to investigate
treasonable machinations and c,,rspira
; eies," upon which there were members of
both parties. !Swahili did not go beton, it •
• and tell his story; nor did he mention the
stillteet to Cochrane, Iteyn, Oils, or Branch ;
i but he - Made an arrangement by which
Messrs. Iliovard and lames were inform- '
ed" of whatever they wanted to know. It
i appears, trio, that 0 committee of vigilance
; was orpinized by the inure active Republi
can members of Congress ; in other words,
the extreme partisans or• both Nausea got 1
I ilp a secret body of their own. not to per- ,
form any legal duty pertaining to their
offices, not to devise publie ramsures for
,iverting the ruin which threatened the
' country, hut to prowl about In the dark for
something, to gratify personal malice or
' make a little capital fir their party. You
were a mernlsir of that committee, as it
was tit you should be, and Mr. Stanton
, gave you "warnings and suggestions" how
!to proceed. This is what you call "rising
in that crisis above the claims of partisan
' ship." At night he assisted you to rake
, the sewers in search of Materials t, IJespat-
I ter lii, colleag ues, and every morning he
! appeared before them to "renew the astsur
i tames of his distinguished eonsideration.',
; It Was thus that, in your estimation. "he '
1 conseerated himself lo the b,py duties ,if an
' r.rdted patriotism."
What cargoes or deraniawry cakehood
I he must have consigned to your keeping!
You do not break the foul bulk, but you
have given us some samples which deserve ,
exam illation. Ile denounced M r.Tonvey as
I titles to his country, inspired ItaWes . reso-
i [Mien against him, and expressed the be-
lief that he ought to be arrested. Let no
look at this a moment.
To Mr. Toucey's kw° Mr. Stanton
breathed no syllable of censure upon his
official conduct as head or th, , Navy De
partment. Ti. the Presidont or Cabinet he
expressed no doubt of his wisdom, much
less of his honesty. Ile met hint every day
with a face of sniffing friendship. Tourey
eertainly had not the remotest idea that
Stanton was defaming him behind his
back, or conspiring with abolitionist:: to
destroy his reputation. Ire would as soon
hi t ee suspected him of an intent to poison
his food or stab him in his sleep, Can it lie
possible that Stanton was the milieu - of the
Dawes restitution?
That resolutton is found in the Coingres
xiored GluLe, Second Session, Thirty-sixth
congress, 1,60-61, part second, pp. 14'2:1-24.
The proceeding was begun, no doubt, in
the hope of finding something nun which the
charge could ho founded of scattering the
navy to prevent it from being used against
the Smith. But that failed miserably; and
the committeo reported nothing worse than
•• a grave error " of the Secretary in accept
ing without delay or inquiry the resigna
tion of certain naval officers. Even this
had no f ou ndation in law or fact. Its truth
was denied and the evidence called for;
wine was produced. The right to explain
and defend was demanded, but the gag of
the previous question was applied before
a word could lust said, The accusers knew
very well that it would not hear the slight
'tt investigation. Mr. Sickles said truly
amid erica of " order") that "censure
without evidence disgraces only those who
pronounce it. Mr. Tonecy's reputation
was never injuriously affected by it in the
estimation of any fairminnled man. html
vott tkli it up from the oblivion to which it
has I consigned, and try to give it de
cency and dignity by saying that Stanton
inspired it. You do not iypear to perceive
the hideous depth to which your assertion,
if true, would drag him down. It is not
trite; the whole business hears the impress
of a different mind.
. .
Mr. Stanton ;Lis,' suggested that his col-
Icagnle and frietui Toucey ought to be ttr
reoted. This could wit have been a propo
sition to take hint into-legal custody (pit a
criminal charge regularly made. That
would 10.1V0 [Well utterly illlpiiiiiiihili told
absorb. The Dawes committee itsel f eoul .1
rind nothing against hint but an error et
judgment. The sug.,,,,tion must have been
to kidnap hen, without an aCialiiiiitiiill or
profit probable muse, awl consign hint
to some dungeon without trial or hope ut
other relief. It Stanton attempted to gel
this done, he was guilty of such perfidy as
would have shucked th e basest panderer in
the court of Louis XV. lint to confute
your libel upon Tottery and Stanton both,
it is only necessary to recollect the fact that
kidnapping of A int•rican citizens was at that
time wholly unknown and absolutely tin
possible. Vie were living wider a Demo
cratic wlininistration, the countryAvas free,
and law was supreme. Tyranny had brit
vet ,unk its bloody tangs into the vitals of
the national liberty. Die systematic per
jury which afterward nettle the Constitu
-1 thin a dead letter was not then established
as a rule of political morality.
Your whole account or th,.. " cabinet
steno" :it which Flovil, "raging and storm
ing, arraigned the President and Cabinet,"
and "the President trembled and grew
pale," and "Stanton met the battled traitor
and his fellow conspirators with a storm
or nerve and fiery denuneiation," is a
pure and perfectly baseless fabrication.
It is absurd to boot. What was
Floyd's arraigninent or the President
and Cabinet tier? You say for viola
ting their pledges tit the secessionists; and
the charge against the President awl Cabi
net or violating their pledges seas predicted
solely on the fact that Col duel Anderson
hail removed from Fort Moultrie to Fort
Sumter; and Floyd was dimipp,,tnted is
rs,hmel Ar 1 ,h,,,,,, whom he " had expect
ed," as a Southern man, to "carry out his
purposes in Lill` interest ut I.lit'aSioll," 'rills
, mere drivelling at best, and it is com
pletely i•xploileir by the record, which
nilha, that Colonel Anderson ' s trallShir of
his force from Fort. Moultrie to Fort Sum
ter was in literal obedience to orders front
the President, which I•Thiyil himself had
drawn up, signed, and transmitted. More
over, Floyd at that time was not in a eon
dition to arraign anybody. Lie !Muse]
had jug before that been not only arraign
ed, and the President had notified him tha
he would bo removed if he did not re
sign. \Vas it this broken-down an,
powerless man who made the, l'resi
dent tremble and grow pale by cum
plaining that a subordinate had un
expectedly obeyed his own orders? Viol
are not silly enough to say so. Was i ,
Stanton's "storm of Morey and fiery denun
elation?" Stanton wa..s uu stormer in On
_ . .
presence of such men as he then had to dea
with. Ii is language was habitually defer
his Whole bearing decent, and hi
behaviour at the council board was entire
Iy free from the insolence you impute to it
Your tales do not hang together. No ow
ran give credence to your report of bold any
stormy denunciation by Stanton in the
presence of his chief and colleagues, and a
the Manic time believe what you say of hin
at another place, where you describe hin
as a dastard, skulking about in the dead 0
night to lied a place of concealment remote
enough to make hint safe, tint isedessing
that he did not dare to breathe his accusa
tion in the face of day. The crawling syco
phant—the stealthy spy—who bargained so
carefully for darkness and secrecy when he
made his reports, must have been wholly
untitled to play the part of J nutter TI,11:01 ,
in a square and open conflict. It is not
possible that the fearless Stanton of your
"Cabinet scene" could bo the same Stanton
who, at ono o'clock in the night, was "squat
like a toad" at the car of Sumner,
Essaying by his devilish arts to reach
The organs of hie fancy.
I take it upon me to deny most emphat
rally that Mr. Stanton ever " wrote a full
and debuted account of that Cabinet scene"
by which von can have the least hope of
being corroborated. I cannot prove a neg
ative; but I can show that your assertion
is incredible. That he should have coolly
indite,' a letter, even though he never sent
it, tilled with foolish brags of his own
prowess, which half a dozen men then liv
ing could prove to be false, was uut consist
ent either with his prudence, veracity, or
tasto. Besides, he often spoke with me
about the events of that period, and never
in my hearing did he manifest the slightest
disposition to misunderstand or misrepre
sentthem. On the contrary,w hen a statement
resembling yours about the Cabinet scene
was published in a Loudon paper, I sug
gested that ho ought to contradict it; and
he replied, explaining how and by whom it
had been fabricated, but said it wus not
worth a contradiction, for every man of
common intelligence would know It to be
a mere tissue of lies. You cannot destroy
Stanton's character for sense and decency
1.),y citing his own authority against himself.
or can you find any other proof to sustain
the story. It is the weak invention of some
scurvy politician, who sought to Win the
patronage of one administration by malig
ning another.
Some busy and Insinuating rogue,
Some cogging, cozening slave, to get sosne
•
Rath devised this slander.
Your history of his appointment to the
War Department is as erroneous as that
NUMBER 22.
which you have given of his eonduet while
Attorney-Goner:Al. You say that he not - -
dially indorsed Mr. tiameron's recom
mendation to arm the negroes against the
white people of the South ; that Mr. Lin
coln disapproved this and required it to be
suppressed; that afterward, when Cameron
"felt the pressure of the iniildplied labor,"
he proposed to resign, but coupled his offer
with a condition that "sonic one should be
appointed not unfriendly to his policy,"
mutely, the policy of arming negroes, to
which Mr. Lincoln was himself opposed
that Cameron did resign upon these terms,
and used the privilege conceded to hitu by
suggesting. the naLllO of. Stanton. Every
body who knows Simon Cameron will un
derstand the objeet of dragging this thing
by the head and shoulders into your article.
In fact and in truth, there was no kind of
connection between these twii 111011-110
sympathy nor mutual respect. Cameron
did not resign; he sea: ',lamed far good
cause. 110 bad no lot or part in bowing
_ .
his successor. The removal and the ap
pointment were both made before Mr.
Cameron know of either, and they were
made because the President saw the neees
sity of having a man at the head Or that de
partment who was competent and incur.
ruptibie. The eorrespondence afterward
published under the names of Measrs.
Lin
coln and Cameron was fictitious, and got
tat the instance of the latter to give the
Affair a false appearance. It is meraily im
possible that Stanton you'd have given his
approval to Cameron's abortive report on
the negroes ; for he was at that Little U white
man every inch of him, proud of the great
ram lie ....prang front, nod cult of faith in its
eapaeity to tig h t Its mt n battles and govern
itscl f. Nothing would have humiliated
him moro than to see the American people
relinquish their rightful place in the front
rank of the world, surrender their inherit-
11110(' of tree governmont, and sneak burl:
behind the A frit . . l.ll for prwte,tioil in War or
in peace. Lunt; after he was Secretary of
War he told Mr. )lallory, tor Kentucky,
that he hart not only refuted to sanction the
enlistment of a negro regiment but had
Famished :In ffintYr or werely proposing'
it. I understand that you !taco pr"lllisNl
to contradict yourself on this subject, and I
hope you will keep your word.
Your account ot his raid tip on the Treav
ury, in company ,ith lovcrllor Morton,
would look very stranue In a paneizyriv
Made by anyl” ,, ly el, but p.ti. I will re-
',tale the fact, you have guru, but without
the drapery liv Avhich you eiineeal from
yourself the view of them which must un-
'onlably In, taken by all nu, w ho
the obligation or any law, burn:lllM' di
vine. In the winter idlt , 63, the Legislature
of Indiana was di.ssolvr•tl before the appro
priations had been made to carry iin the
State G,verniticilt or aid in !awing troops
in the ltelil. tlf eon rse, Gongres, did not,
and cmild not, make abpropriations tor
carrying on the State tillvernment ur put
ting troops in the ticld, which the Stole WaS
hOUntt to raise itt her own expense. But
the Governor determined to get what 111 , Tiey
he wanted without authority of law, and lei
looked to Washington foraii.sistance. Presi
dent Lincoln deelitied to Mil him, bee:time
no Money could be taken from the 'errantry
without appropriation. Mr. Stanton, be
ing applied to, saw the critical condition of
the Governor, and, without scruple, Joined
hint in hiN enterprise. Ile drow a
warrant for a quarter of, million of dollars,
and gave it to the t iiivernor to spend as he
not only without hcingauthorized
y LILY :mpropriation for that purpose, hot
defiance W . eX pre, lalv lipm,proiting
no same money lo another and a totally
different objeet. If this be true, the
guilt of the parties can hardly be over
charged, by any words which the English
language will supply. ft was get ting money
out of the public treasury, not only un
lawfully, but by a process iIS aid/10110A u.s
larceny. It involved the making of - a
fraudulent warrant, of which the moral tur
pitude was no less than that committed by
a private individual when 1w fabricates :mil
o tiers a false paper. It was a gross and
palpable violation of the oaths which the
ifovernor and Secretary had both taken.—
It was, by the statute of 1544, a felonious
embezzlement of the money thus obtained,
fflhilLtlfflHi
iininent in the penitentiary. 'rho parties
iteeoriling to your ver,tion, wore bath roll
ens Of the high rite they Were perlie
trating, for you make one >av to the other
"If the cause fails, you end I wilt 150 racer
et' kith priXieElltsolls 11.1111 prObllbly nn
irisened or driven from the iiiinutry...
Y , )11 not diwinish ur lllititZatf• the ulleu cc
OM' Whit by saying that 010 money NVI. af
terward A felialy cannot
be etanponinled I2r I,lll.lllilCli by a sini
14e restitution of the spoil4t. ;Lrul lho
law I have oiled \las niaffil expressly
Its prevent officers charged with the
safe keeping, transfer, or tleibtirsement
..f public money 1 . 1,111 Using' it
:u•rsw
rnndate friends in a " critical condition. -
But what will bin said of your trustworthi
ness as a clieteiblleir iry crhen the
el learn that this \Vieth" story
is bingos? I prunounce it untrue in the ag
gregate and in thu detail—ill the Seel tutal
and in every item. The truth is this: In
ISG:t the Democratic majority of the Indi
ana Legislature were ready and willing to
pass their proper and usual appropriation
bills, but were prevented liv the Itopubli
,in minority wit' " bolted" and left ti e •
ousos WithrAlt a rouirtini 11111.1 i the eull.ti-
LIUOII3I liwit ui their expired. 'rile
iDN'CrIIOr refll,cd lu rt•coIIVCIIV thew, and
hus, Icy his ~wri fault :ul.l that of
riends, he was without the vacs and MO:MS
o pay the current expenses (d the State.
he was wrong, but his error nun that of a
•iulent parti,an, not the Priwcotn ,•orrupt.
nagistrate. Ile did not et/1111: to Washing
on with any illtellLi"11 to relieve his
noce.si ties by id undernu4 the Federal
Treasury. Ile mad, no proposition
either to Mr. Lincoln or Stan
ton, that they ur either of them should
beoomo his aceompheeN in any such
till:11114MS crime, Ms purpose Vltt, to de
mand payment of a deli due, and it,know l
edged to be due, from the Coiled States to
the State of Indiana. The n u nu•y /mil been
_ .
,iproprtrao.l by C0n.41 - c.., to pay it and it
leas pre/ aererlioe,q kII.IW not
how I\l r. Nlorhin tuay like I, !ice himself
held up as a felon confer,sing his guilt, but
I eau say, with softie ,:onlideriee, that if
Mr. Station were aliV. hn o v nulil call yon
to a very severe reekving.
What must 111111.0 the rem hers Or pill!"
than anything oh t is
feet sincerity of the Io which you
express, directly or indirectly, in every
lino of it, that the baSollll,euiellnd yeti at
tribute to Mr, Stanton is i.ininently praise-
worthy. You seem to be wholly uncoil
seiom, Of dclatning the man you incant to
eulogize. Hut, if your fact, be accepted,
the trairar and honesty of them kill MA hi.
IlleaSllred by your standards. It may be
true that public opinion has of late been
.rally thobauched ; but Ow peo
)le havo not permanvntl v changed their
001, of morality. tielOd truth between man
and man, personal integrity, social ndelity,
observance of ):11.1is, and "hone.," to OW
laws which Judd s wit•ty together, have
heretofore been II timberod among the ;vir-
ties, and they will he ;grain. 'rue govern
ment of God hay tint. Item reconstructed
Fraud nr force may aholi,h the( 'on,littilion
hut the Ten Com niandinents and the I;rddei
Hule are beyond your reach ; Sllme person.
have faith enough to believe that even - lb,
gates of hell shall not prevail :Igal Its
thew."
The Or'thins eharactor you have given Nfr
Stanton is not merely unjust in itself, but
if uncontradieted, it must teal to etLet
utisromeep Lien, Lint. Besides the
against laic,
,lustier, humanity, and trial
which you have enumerated ;Mil assigned
to him for Lis glorinvation, he has been
ehargeil with ;Alters which, if established,
must expose him to universal execration.
For instance, it is asserted that, in the win
ter of 1861, when he was a !number of the
Cabinet, he gave to iiiivernor Brown, of
Mississippi, the most emphatic assurance of
his isinviction that secessum was right, and
urged him to "go on" with it; that
in 1,62, while he was writing the most af
fectionate letters to Enteral McClellan, he
not only maligned Mtn at Washington, but
maliciously plotted his defeat and the des
truction of his artily before Richmond ;
that he refused in Istil to receive the An
dersouville prisoners when offered freely
without ransom, exchange, Or other equiv
alent, though Le knew that if he left there
they must perish miserably for want Of afar
medicine and foist which their captors had
not the means to give them. These accusa
tions, you arc aware, have often been made,
with horrible aggravations which I need
not repeat.. Ills friends have denied and
discredited them, mainly on the ground
that his character was wholly above such
But you have done your full
best to make this defence worthless. If he
wore the cloak of constitutional democracy
with us, and put on the livery of abolition -
isni with you, why hhould he not assume
the garb of a secessionist with Men of the
South? If he tried to get his friend Toucey
kidnapped, what moral principle could
hinder him from eontriving the ruin of
his friend McClellan? If he craftily ex.-
, erted himself at your end of the avenue GI
bring on a bloody civil war, which accord
ing to his own declarations at our cud was
unlawful and causeless, what crime against
human life was he not capable of commit
ting? If lie wilfully left our prisoners to
certain starvation, and then managed false
ly to throw the odium of their death upon
the political enemies of the party In power,
and thus contributed very largely to the
enslavement of the Southern States, was
not that an act of "intense and abounding
patriotism," as well worthy of your praise
as some others for which you have bestow
ed? Those who give credit to you will find
it perfectly logical to believe the worst that
has ever been said of hint.
Sejanus has passed fur about the worst
specimen of ministerial depravity whom
we . have any account of ; but nothing is
recorded of him which might not be be
lieved of Stanton, if you are regarded as
credible authority; for you have made it a
labor of love to paint him as a master in the
loathsome arts of trteachery, dissimulation
and falsehood—unfaithful alike to private
friendship and to pubilo duty. With the
talents he possessed and the principles you
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—provided the Sultan were in the tirrnic
life and bad no powerful brother near the
throne; but in a (rile limitary such a ch,f -
actor cannot be thought of without
and abhorrence.
In your eyes the "intPll.l and abound
ing patriotism" at Stanton is bufficient to
atone not only fur all the faults he had, lint
fir all the offences against law and morals
which the ottnred fertility Of your imagina
tion tan lay to his charge; and patrimii.in
in your vocabulary means devotion to tlic
interests of that piilitioal sect which has you
for ono of it priests. This Will
You cannot safely ht:a.kou It Wall M ilh on
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hand and noutraliie the eltect
on the whitewash of patriotism pith the
other. Patriotism, in itS doesh
indeed dignify and adorn human natio,
It is an exalted and compretausisc
of charity, which hides a multitude ot sins.
The patriotism of Washington, sohiwh hod
broad and deep the foUntiatitlii of
iliStalltitiliS mnl set the Wilily ovmulde
of implicit obedience 1.1 the laws; the
patriotism of John Hampden, soh..
voluntarily devoted his fortune and his
life to the maintenance of legal justice;
the patriotism of rat°, w hn resisted the dr
structiyo madness of hint I . ountrynten and
greatly fell with a tailing Suite; the patri
otism Of Daniel trConnell, solo 0110111 his
limo and talents in t•onstatit efforts
hove his peoplo from the galling yoke
of clerical oppression ; the patriotih i af ol tine
elder Vitt, who, speaking in the cause of
universal liberty, loudly rejoiced that
America had resisted the exa••tions of a
tyrannical riu - liament--1, such patriotism
some errors may be When town
like these are found to hove
fault, it is well that history should deal
with it tenderly.
its angels for I lir , tiii4Al 1111121 . 0
Weep to Nl,ll to ill.
lint the loyalty that tramples on law—the
fidelity which stab 4 the Nbertios it ought to
protect—the piddle zeal which expends it
self in gratifying the vinilietive or mereen.
ary passions of ono party by the unjust
mp
pression of ate ither—this kind i.ipatrimisiti
has less claims to the admiration el the
Nverld. It Is a cheap thing, readily sup
plied hi lITIV faetion unprincipled enough te
pay ter it. It is entirely too "intense and
;"aud its intensity anti
:ince are always greatest in the worst titers.
It does not sanctity evil deed+. If it let nit
a sin In itself, it certainly deserves to be
ranked among what 1 n...lohmon Cita% MM.
rascally virtues."
: 7 4tanton'el reputation IN just now In a
•ritienl condition. Ito took no care of it
Olin , he lived, and lie dit•d like Bacon,
eaving a vulnerable !iamb "to mon's char-
t4lllll , speelllCS." Ho TI MIS a tlwro
riminating otilotzi,t thou nutl a far
jolter ileft•mr lhan I aILI able io woke. I
qualities; I intended only to protest ;11.1:101st
your 14110.111e1e5 , 1 pill•ath , of Vit'Vek to \VlM:hilt ,
IViuniot adtlivteil,andcrillicsWhirllllo neyrr
ConlIllittf . 11; 1111,1 this I 11:1V0 114.110, not only
her:luso it is just I. him, hilt 1101 . 1 . SH:try
thu vindit.ation of others. .1. S. 111.A.,1:.
TOM In the Shumneln tttttt t—The Pennay I
•nn In Canal Company In Coort.
On the 21st of NI/Volllllllr, 1,67,a tree 1.111
was found in the court of (.2 uarter Sessions
of Dauphin county on a suit brought by the
l'onittion wealth of l'entisylvttuia against the
l'enn'a Company for maintaining a
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quelutlina river, whertMy fish and partuni -
larly spud were prevented from ascondnig
and descending the stream. 'rine bulk:linen
in the case Was preferred under the net tf
March 30, IS(III, relating to the prtssago of
fish in the Susqueliatilint river. The ease
was tried on the r,th of.lanuary, ISGS, owl
the jury submitted a special verdict 011 1110
same day, setting forth that the deft(ndan to
had not eoinplied with the Art of As:senility
providing for the free passage of fish in the
Susqueliamm, and that the lout at ('OIIIIII
Ida remained the 1.1111110 1111 before the
111011 t of the lute. TllO jury theroula (it sub
witted that if the upon the Gu-t:,
stated, should tin rd' opliden that the de
fendants were guilty In manner and term
:is they stood indicted, then they found (1,-
I(nel:tilts guilty and judgment to la , given
aveordingly ; If not guilty, the vordiet and
: judgment to be fiir defendants.
The I ',tort filed his opinion in the ease 1111
the I:ith of l'cbrilary, last year, %%hen he
,et forth that it would not be
that the Legislature, by the net of North
.(ii, tat', undertook I, coustruu or imelity
the charter Or the Pennsylvania I 'anal
l'ompany, which had uo Ifigal 1•Sis10111 . 1 1 at
01111.111101 but was incorporated on the Ist
of Slay, Isfin, and severed a truusli•r of the
works fr..mi the l'elinsylvania. Itailroad
Company on the nOth of Starch,
asserted that. the whole ail of usseinhly
rehition to the passage of fish WILS 11.11111,1111.
the railroad company, 114"1 1 f the charter of
which the Legislature had no control what
ever, itn.lconeluded by stating that it was
his duty to declare the ant null and
far as it iilll/1,421111111.1111 Pennsylvania I 'anal
Company the duty of changing the 1111110 s
at it, own proper cunt (although he was 111
1.110 opinion that the alteration, if deemed
desirable, could be tient, at jtuhlic ex pens. , 1,
and he, therefore, rendered Judgment in
favor of the delendant on the special ver
dict.
0,1 the 261.11 last a writ error
was tiled, specifying that the imirt erred in
directing judgment to bo entered or the
Pennsylvania Canal Company on the spe
cial verdict, liiitead of for the Common
wealth. The c.ase has been reached in the
supreme Court and has boon argued for the
Commonwealth by J. W. Simonton, Esq. ;
followed by Francis Jordan and Loins W.
Esqs., for the defendant in error; the
argument being closed by Attorney I lenor
al F'. Carroll Brewster for the Common
wealth.
The courtadjeurned withouLniumuncing
a decision in the rave. The decisions ill
1114.11 this and the Mobilier of A in,-
lea case will probably be published soon,,
Ulm, during the Juue MINNi1)11 I,i dill Su
preme Court.
Arrival of 1)1,11.1.1;4 . 0t.hed ontera
—Habits of the Gentle Maytag,.
Was May 21.—Tho delegation
of aborigines from the borders, consisting
of the two Brute Sion x chiefs—Spatial Tad
alld Swift Itear--and two warrior, Yellow
flair and Fast Pear—arrived horn to-day,
aecompaniod by their agent, Captain De
witt C. Pool, United States Army, and In
terpreter C. E. quern, a Fri-minium, who
has lived twenty-six years among the
Sioux. Spotted Tail is the great chief of
the Brutes, and has under has rule about
live thousand human beings of his nation.
Ile is about furty-eight yearsof age,of large,
muscular frame, and thoroughly Indian in
every particular. This evening the whole
party took a stroll along Pennsylvania
avenue. They were dressed in their native
-buckskinust our, leggings and mote :v ins,
elaborately worked With beads. Around
their bodies they wore a blanket, with a
white stripe diapmally across it. Strapped
about their waist, but nut of view, each
savage carried his six shooter, and In his
hand his pipe. During their prmcuco till
the avenue this evening a torchlight pro
cession of negroes passed by. 'fhonwner
nun
Chinese lanterns, the bands and shouts
of the crowd considerably bewildered the
sons of the forest. They looked on and, pre
serving the usual stolidity of their race, said
nothing. The party loitered bark tothe hotel
where they areinitting up, and its early as s
o'clock turned in for the night. The Indians
ecupy three rooms, which are fitted up
• with rots. The royal savages, however,
• not knowing the row fort of mattresses and
sheets cling to their primitive notions of
I luxury by sleeping on the the,. The del
egation will visit the lnrl tau Departrliellt.
,111OrrOW, nod Cloud is expected here
in a few days. Spotted Tail's party are
rather Sceptical about Red arriving
here, notwithstanding the llNSUralleel.l, that
11. is coming. They think the white people
are deceiving them. The two warriors
above referred to have each killed pale
flees, and accordingly were selected as inns
tile Indians. 'rho newly arrived Indians
were eight days on the Journey and can
plain of fatigue. They were much pleased
to be informed through the interpreter that
the accounts of their killing white people
had preceded them, as they esteem such
butcherings to be evidences Of valor.—
Spotted Tail and Swift Hear wear as ern:i
ntent:4 the medals hearing the profile like
ness Of ex-President Johnson, which were
presented to them by the Prato Commis
sion in Isuh, of which lien. Sherman was
President.
The chiefs, Spotted Tail, Swift Bear, Fast
Bear and Yellow Hair, who aro now in
Washington, had an interview with Com
missioner l'arker. Tho Commissioner
told them they were regarded UM friendly to
the United States, and he would he ready
to hear their complaints when they wore
prepared to make them. Ile alluded to the
coming visit of Bed Cloud and party, and
promised them interviews with 'lie Presi
dent and General Sherman. When the
Commissioner had spoken, Spotted Tad
said he would make known their com
plaints after they had rested. The pipe of
peace was then produced, most of the party
taking " a few whiffs," and the Indians
retired.
Despatches from Buffalo and Montpe
lier, Vt., indicate another Fenian ad
vance on the border. From Montpe
lier, it is reported that two companies of
Fenlnns left Burlington for the frontier,
that another large body were going
from Plattsburg by boat, and that all
the doubtful teams in St. Albans and
Burlington had been taken for use last
night. Large bodies of Fenians also
left Buflillo last night, but it is not
known whether they intend to cross the
neighboring frontier or to aid Biel in
the Red River District. A number of
Fen ians are reported to have left ,Brook
lyn, N. Y., for Canada, last night.
Movements of Fenian bodies are also
reported at Albany, Rochester and Au
burn, N. Y., all bound for Canada.
MEE