Centre Democrat. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, January 06, 1881, Image 2
®ltt Cnvtrr jPrmotrat. Terms 51.50 per An num. in Advance. S. T. SHUQERT and R H. FORSTER. Editor.. Thursday Morning, January G, 1881. .IKFFKItSON DAVIS. The Kx-Monthrrii Chief at Home. A VISIT TO TIIE KX-cnxt EOKIIATF. EXECUTIVE llls At'PEAKANCB AMI IMIinoSOrillCAI. TEMPERAMENT — II K IMJMTSSES SI'MI'TEH AND(!tiTTVSIII R(I—TIIE M AS ITIIOI T A COI'NTRV Ills lIOI'MTI. VIEW. fV|.>m l MrCliirn'. tsllrr I" lit' 1 Tim''- Mississiuui ( it v, Miss., Dee. 1(1. 1 write on the open veranda of the dilapidated summer that consti tutes the most of the eitv. Beyond the bar-room across the way, bearing the inviting title of the " dew-drop," and the little warehouse ami station, the hotel is guiltless of tenement asso ciates ; but the air is balmv as a Northern summer morning; tlie loses we welcome in .June are in till! bloom along the broken fence that once made an enclosure about this resort of fugi tives from Yellow duck when he sways his deadly sceptre in the Crescent City, and the laziest content prevails among man and beast without reguid to race or previous condition of servi tude. I have learned to lo.>k with contempt upon my thick traveling blanket and the well-lined overshoes buckled within. They seemed to be quite superfluous luggage lat night, when, after a long, hot evening, the lightning and the tern|test danced the racquet with a running accompani ment ot young earthquakes ; but thev may grow in favor as I journey back toward the Pennsylvania mountains. VISITING .JKIKK.UNON I V VI-. A journey through the South for the study of the currents of opinion ami the present condition and proba ble progress of reconstructed State-, would be incomplete without a visit to the one man who must stand in history as the front of the over thrown confederacy. A drive of five miles through the sand and struggling jiiues which skirt the Gulf Imy, exhib its the same general dilapidation among the old-time summer homes, which were once the favorite retreats of the elite of New Orleans in the sickly season. Ihe shore of the bav lias a number of palatial plantation houses, but they have fallen into the sweeping decay that marks them as relies of an age that has gone. The only one that seems to have In-en pre server! carefully from the desolation that surrounds it, is the Dor-ev place, now the home of Jefferson Davis. In a forest of green live-oaks, richly la den orange trees, and a profusion of vines and flowers, a large frame plan tation house is presented. Jt is a single story in height and has the reg ulation pillars and broad verandas of the aristoeratic Southern mansion. There the ex ( 'onfederate President lives with his nephew, General Davis, aud their joint families. The ex- of the ( on federate Court i* a stout, motherly, cultured and genial woman, and a daughter, a strongly i marked copy of her mother, possesses unusual attractions of troth person and intellect. The house is furnished with every regard for comfort, as the i well-worn easy chairs and lounges and i the hall arid parlor divans faithfully I attest, aud the walls nre decorated i with ancient paintings and modern j bric-a-brac, while the wide chimney- i (dare and capacious mantel tell how i the cheerful pine fire sparkles when a I chill or a stray frost silences the song I of the mocking-bird and the blood-! i thirsty serenade of the mosquito. Soon I after I had been politely bowed into i the parlor Jefferson liavis entered j t alone, anil his greeting was the cordial | welcome of the proverbial hospitality i of the South. I confess to disap pointment in the general appearance of the man who stands in history to- I day as the soldier-statesman without I a country. I exjieeted to find the I strongly-marked traces of a grievous ly disappointed life, and severe civility j i and studied reticence in discussing all things of the past; but those who be lieve Jefferson Davis to be misan thropic in temperament and embitter ed against the nation nud the world greatly misjudge him. Nor is he the broken invalid that he is generally j regarded. DAVIS IN CONVKKNATION. His yet abundant locks and full heard are deeply silvered, and his face and frame are spare as they always have been, but bis step is elastic and steady and the hard lines of his brow which nrc so conspicuous in bis pictures, nre at once effaced when heT enters into conversation. Instead of impressing the visitor as a political recluse who has no interest in the laud to whose citizenship he will live and die a stranger, he at once invites the freedom of the plunter'* home, by chatting without reserve, save when his eoutemporaries are likely to las criticised, when he adroitly and pleas antly turns the discussion into inoffen sive channels. He is yet the tame positive man in all his convictions and Jf purposes that made him the leader of a causeless rebellion, lie well under stand* that be east the die for empire or for failure that must make him alien to the country and the world, and that he h*t; and he knows that he is to-day the most powerless of all men in the land to retrieve the fortunes of those who followed him to bereavement and sacrifice. Ho reads aright the inexorable judgment that makes him . execrated lor the Confederacy, while his equally, guilty subordinates have been welcomed to the fatted calf. Ilis Vice President who followed the slave empire afar oil' when doubt and dark ness began to gather about it, made haste to scramble over the ruins of the Confederacy and regain the scat in Washington from which he seceded j with Davis to nid in guiding rebellion. | Two of bis unnoted warriors have sat ' in Republican cabinets ; Is.'e's ablest ! lieutenant is the Kepublicuu minister I to Turkey ; the man who marched the first regiment of volunteers to ('harh s -1 ton ami who served as Confederate Senator until Appomattox became I historic, died as the Republican Min ! istcr to Russia, ami Senate, House and the Washington departments swarm with men who were abreast with Jef ferson Davis ill every effort to dis i member the Republic, but Davis is the i embodiment of humiliation while his fellows go in am) out without displeas ure. 1 heard no allusion to or com | plaint of this injustice, but it is plain ly evident that Davis entirely appre cintes it and that he believes lie would not be consistent with himsef ami the grave responsibilities he assumed, however mistaken he may have been in a—inning tin in, if he did not delib erately remain an alien to the govern ment that he more conspicuously than ; all other- struggled to overthrow, lie could not help the South or himself by seeking or accepting restoration to ! citizenship, and he i- wisely content with stubborn faith in the icetitude of hi- lost cause. suMi: it KM I NISI'KM 1-S or TIIK WAIt. I have long desired to know tin* ex act truth from tiie fountain of South ern knowledge on the subject, in re gard to several important events of! the war, and I was ngreeably surprised at the treisloin with which Mr. Davis met my inquiries. Why Beauregard was ordered to lire upon Anderson in Fort Sumpter, his surrender wa inevitable at a specified time without assaulting the llag, has never been en tirely understood. It was the act of , madness, as it made division in the North iui|K*ssib|c, and I have always believed that the real cause of the order to ojien fire was to unify the South and end the threatening move ments for reunion on terms. Mr. Davis answered promptly and em phatically that the order was given solely bi-oaiisc faith had been broken by the Lincoln administration in at tempting to reinforce Anderson, and j that the South needed no war to solid ify its people. I think lie errs in un derestimating the probable power of the movement in the South lor recon struction In-fore the war, but it i cvidetit that in deciding to issue tin fatal order tor the assault ujmu Surn tT, he believed the Confederacy in vincible and defiantly reseuted what he regarded as a violation of the pledge of the Federal government. I hat act practically consolidated the North, and thenceforth the Confed eracy was a fearfully hopeless venture. <>n another important (mint he an swered with the same freedom. When asked whether the aggressive move- j merit of Lee that culminated at Get tysburg was adopted ns purely military ■ strategy or the offspring of (Militienl ! necessity inside the Confederacy, he answered that it was the wisest of both military and political strategy, but that it was not dictated at all by ! political considerations. He said that the wisdom of the military movement was proven in the recall of Meade from Virginia ami the transfer of j both nrrnies to Northern soil ; but, be soberly added, the battle was a niisfor- i tune. The chances were equal, as he ; regarded it, for military success, and j that would have deranged the whole i plan of the government and impaired j its resources for the campaign of that j vtnr. As a military movement, Mr. , Davis says, the Gettysburg campaign had the entire approval of and there were no pohtu'iil divisions in the South to dictate any departure from the wisest military laws. I desire, j also, to know, whether, at the time ot the Hampton Road* conference lie tween Lincoln, Seward, Stephens ami others, Mr. Davis had received any intimation from any credible source, that Mr. Linculu would assent to the payment of four hundred millions as compensation for slaves, if the South would accept emancipation ami return to the Union, lie answered that he , had 110 surh intimation from any ! source, but that if such proposition had leen made, he could not have enter tained it as the Executive of the Con federacy. He said that he was the sworn Executive of a government Mounded on the rights of the State* ; 'that slavery was distinctly declared to be exclusively a State institution, and that such an issue could have been de cided only by the independent assent of each State. Somo of them, he added, would have accepted such terms at that time, but others would have declined iu and peace was, therefore, impossible on thai basis. DAVIS HOPKKL'I. OK TIIK SOUTII. Mr. Davis discussed the present at titude and future prospects of the South with manifest interest and great candor. While he i not and cannot lie a factor in attaining any desired political results for the South, he shares the hopes expressed by the great mass of the more Intelligenl Southern peo ple, that all the difficult problems will yet he wisely solved by gradual ad vuucemeiit and final harmony of nice" 1 and section*. lie was unreserved in expressing the belief that u civil service in the South that would insure fidelity to government and people, could not fail to end partisan or sectional issue* between the South and the Garfield administration, and unite both North and South in the pi emotion of the material interests of the whole -coun try. Hi* discussion of the relation* of the two sections under the present political aspect, was thoroughly philo sophical and Htuloxrnunliko, and while he will remain the one adjudged stranger to the Republic, he hope* yet to sec the South prosperous in common j with a prosperous North, and the scars i "I war ami the bitterness of sectional I dispute healed forever. Next to a Southern Slave Confederacy, In In lie vex a tree I iiiun the best govern ment for the Republic. A. K. Al. ♦ AlI Sft I. Vlt MFN. Among the Greek* the successful | athlete was crowned with laurel* and I loaded down with wealth mid honors. W lieu Kgcnetns, in the ninety-second Olympiad triumphant in games, en tered Agrigentum, his native home, he was attended by an e-eort of three ; hundred churiots, each drawn by two white horses, and followed by the pop ulu'-e, cheering and waving hauuers. Milo six lime* won the palm at both the Olympic and I'ytliian games, lie is -aid to have run a mile with a four . year-old ox upon his shoulders, and | afterward* killed the animal with one blow ot hi- fist, and ate the entire car j enss in one day ! So great was his | muscular power that he would hind a cord around hi- head and break it by the swelling and pressure of the veins. An ordinary meal for Milo wa- twenty pound- of meat, a* much bread, ami fifteen pints ol wine. l'olydamus, of The—alia, wax of. colo—al height and prodigious strength, : and, it is said, alone and without weapons, killed an enormous and en raged lion. < )m- day. it i- recorded, he seized a hull hv ii* hind fret, and the animal e>m|x-d only hv leaving the hoot in the grasp ot the athlete. The Roman F.oqieror Mnxiniiuu wax upward of eight feet in height, and, like Milo, of (Volutin, could -fjoeze to |xtw(h r the hardest stone with his r- and break the leg of a borne by a ki<k. His wife's bracelet served him a ring, and his every day r< past wa* sixty pound* of meat and an amphora ot wine. While a prisoner in < iermany, Rich ard I. accepted an invitation to a box ing match with the son of hi* jailer. He received thefir-l blow, which made him stagger, hut recovering, with a blow "I In- fit he killed hi- antagonist ou the spot. Topitam, also an Kng lishmaii, born in 171<f, wax posse,--<-1 of astonishing strength. Hi* armpits, hollow in the case of ordinary men, were with hint full of muscles and tendon*. He would take a bar of iron, with its two etui* held in hi hands, place the middle of the bar behind Ins neck, and then heud the extremities by main force until they met together, and then bend hark the iron straight again. One night, see ing a watchman asleep in his Ixix, he carried Ixitli the man and hi* shell to a great distance, and put them on the wall of a churchyard. Owing to do mestic troubles, he committed suicide in the prime of life. The famous Hcnndrrlx-rg, King of Albania, who was born in 1114, was a man of great -tature, and his feat* of j sword exercise have never been equaled. On one occasion, with a scimitar, he struck his antagonist such a blow that it* force cleaved him to the waist. He is said to have cloven in two men who were clad in armor from lo ad to foot. On one occasion the brother and nephew of a certain Ralhthan, who had lieen convicted of rrucltir - * townrd the Albanians, wore brought to him i hound together. Transported with rage, he cot them in two with one j stroke of hi- weapon. Maurice, fount of Saxony, the hero of Fontenoy, inherited the physical ■ vigor of his father, ami was especially j noted for the surprising muscular j power, or "grip," of hi* hands. On ! one occasion, needing n corkscrew, lie • twisted a long iron nail round into the required shajte with hi* finger* and opened half a dozen liottlcs of wine j with it. Another time, when stopping at a blacksmith shop to have his horse sh<*l, he picked up a number of new hor*c shoe*, and with hi* hand* snap ped them in two n* readily a* if made of glass, much to the disgust of the smith. It' history is to believed, Pharyllus of < rotona, could jump a distance of fifty-six feet. The exercise was prac ticed at the Olympic games and form ed part of the course of Pentathlon. Strutt, an English authority on games and amusements, speaks of a Yorkiah jumper named Ireland, whose powers were marvelous. He was six feet high, and at the age of eighteen leaped, without the aid of a spring board, over nine horses ranged side T>y side. He cleared a cord extended fourteen feet from the ground with one IHHMHI, crushed with his foot a bladder sus pended at n height of sixteen feet; and on another occasion he lighllv cleared a large wagon, covered with an awning. Colonel Ironside, who lived in India early in this century, relates that he met in his travels an old white-haired man who with one leap sprang over the back of an enormous elephant tlauked by six camels of the largest 1 breed. A curious French work pub lished in I'uri* in 1745, entitled "The Tract* Townrd* the History of Won der* Performed lit Fairs," mentioned nil Fngli-uuin, who at the fair of St. Germain in 172-1, leaped over forty people without touching one of them. lii our own day we are familinr with many remarkable exposition* of strength and endurance. Dr. Win ship, with the aid of straps, lifted a weight of .'5,.!)<) pound*, and with the little linger of his right hand could raise hi* hodv a considerable distance from the ground. ♦ - ... AN INFANT I'll FNOM FN A. ► e.tn till lll*. One of the most remarkable instan ce* of childish precocity known of late year- ha* recently appeared in Pari*. The child which i* French burn in the neighborhood of Porig* iicux'in t fctohcr, and thus scarce ly more than three year* old, i* named llerihc < iuiileinand. The parents are poor and ignorant vine dre-ser*. who, | struck when she wa* only eighteen month* old by the fact thut she had j extraordinary intelligence and a pro digious memory, took her to the school teacher ot their village, and lie amused hiiu-ell bv cultivating her astonishing talent*. In a year she had made such progress that her parent* made up their mind* to reap some advantage from it. and brought her to Pari*. She know- not only how to'read and write, but the four rule* of arithruc (ic, and solve* the little problem* that are given lor without ever making n mistake. Moreover,she know* the first act of "Alitalia," which she repeat- in her little silver voice from end to end without missing a line. And finally j | one can a-k her whatever piece he • hoo-e- troiii "II Trovatore," "Rigo letto, "Faust," and "La Jtiivc," sh< . will -ing it to him at once in the most Herniate fii-hion imaginable. Nulli ing could be funnier than to hear he cou out the "('aro nome" from "Rigo l< tto" in Italian. A lid yet, a- wa -nid, she i hut little over thrit' vear old. Not only d<x-* she look older hut her certificate of birth, atte-ti-d hv ail sort- of authorities each more offi rial than the other, prove* the fat beyond rjiir-tioti. The chihl has beei carefully examined by physician* fot any ahnormal development of tin brain or -hull, but iliey xav that ther> i" nothing of the Mrt, aud that it -ini plv i" a very well dcveh>|ied hea<i We n-ked her malinger what lie in I (tended to do when she would lie fiv< or six years obi, when what i* now -urprixing in her would no longer Ix extraordinary. "Oh." said he, "I have an engagement with h r parent for five years, all the same, aud I an quite -lire of making a good thing o it. A* she grows older I make her ex i rei-cs complicated. She ha* ju-t re cited to you the first act of ' A thai in. Now I am going to make her learn i> backward*. A* soon as she ix foui year* old I am going to begin to hav her taught mathematics!" And tin Imby • playing with nu India rubbci doll, listened to all thi* without ap [rearing in the least frightened by a future thu* hri-tling with ciphers, will incomprehensible phrases, and even, (e rhaps, with algebraic formuhe. Thi may all be very well for a year, for two year*, pcrhapa for five hut in the end thi* poor little brain cannot fail of breaking down under such a strain. It simply mean* mm itigiti* in the niorc or les* remote fu ture. We have a Society for the Pre volition of Cruelty to Animal*. Whv in the world not have one for chilli hood a* well ? Meanwhile, licrthe (iuiileinand go*-* on earning a thou sand franc* for pareuts and many more for her iniprrwsario, a sort of italinn Rarnum named Pcmarn. A lilch M*n* Whim-, fffl® th I# tl h'fi Ttlffllh. Home few weeks ago a well-to-do burgess of Vienna died, leaving the whole of his property awav from hi* natural heirs, and to the son of a | retired Austrian general with whom he had lieeu personally unacquainted during hi* life, u|>oti the s<de ground, i duly set forth in hi* will, that the Christian name of the young gentle man in question wa* identical with hi* own. When the legatee, after proviug the will, visited the testator's dwelling, accompanied by a legal offi cial. in order to take possession of the property lieqienthcd to him, his atten tion was first directed to a fireproof -afc a* a likely repository of securities. Upon opening the safe, however, it i wa* found to contain nothing hut < to craps of paper, cut up very mall with scissors, and consisting chiefly of old envelopes. A further search through the room*, however, wa* re- I warded by the discovery of bank note* < to the amount of 40,000 florin*, crura- i filed up into a ball aud hidden in a corner liehiud a curtain. Other 20,- i 000 florins were presently found in a I photograph album, containing some I two score portrait* of pretty women in < fancy costumes. Behind each one of these photograph* were concealed hank i notes corresponding in value to the de- I < ceased gentleman's appreciation of the j ladies' respective charm*, a fair beau- j I ly's attractive merits being appraised j at 2,000 florins, while those of a hand some brunette were rated at .1,000. i The notion of looking liehind these : portrait* wa* suggested by marginal note* appended to each on the page* fif the album in which they were in • y >rao<la indicated the intention of the deceased to make hi* testamentary dispositions-in such sort that each several ehurnier should inherit the sum hidden away behind Iter eounterleit presentment. Fortu nately for his heir, thin eccentric pro* ject hud hever been advanced beyond it* valuation stage,and thus the prize* originally intended to be awarded to beauty ultimately fell into the hand* of an infantry lieutenant. MAItKVINO FOIf I,OVK. The tnan who marries for love ha* Kent-rally the vital tenqx-raniciit—in eonihative, xaguciou* uud independent, and take* a general view of every thing. A Ji< of indolence and xtui.'- nation ha* no charm* for one whore hiood is warm and who*e hope* art high ; he like* to he in the thickest of the light, giving blow* and taking then: ; watching the torn of event* with cool no* and forexight ; pleased :at hi*own independence and *trnggle-; i eager to show the world what he can I achieve, and tht; context ron-o-all the i -trengtb ami manlinex* of hi* nature. ! lie win* the rexpect of hi* fellow* liv id* own worth. He often bring* home plcaxunt xorprixc* for hi* wife and children. ou may rerognixe hitn in | train* loaded with parcel*, which he iootl iiatnredly earrie* in jx-rfect tin concern of what other* think —a new Mm net, muxic, hook*, a xct of fur* f<u hi* wife ; while in another parcel the •vheel* ola i art, a juek-iu-the Ixtx, a 101 l or *kipping-ro|x- intrude through lie paper ami xugge*t the tiurserv He never torgetx the dear one* at lorne; the humanizing intluenee ol that darling rl-cheeki d little fellow •vlio ealll him father bring- a glow of rapture of the purext pleasure earth mid* ; for tin* mail who ha* never felt i tiny hand elaxp hi* will alway* laek •omething—he will be h-- human, e** hie-*e<l than other*. Thi* ix tin lohle, the hone*t, the only forin of il'e that impart* real contentment ami oy, that will mak.- a death lied glori ous, ami love see peace through it* ear*. It i- *o purely unselfish, m. endcrlv true, it *ati-tie- the highest mxtinct*, it stimulate* men to the lx-*t Iced* thev are capable of. Jiv study ug how to live, w<- must know how to lie; and the finest life i* that which nlnixter* to ot he r* need* anil increase the joy* of iliom- dc|*enduul oil ti, Uioui we love, and who hxik to u for upfxirl. solace and light, even a* the arth i* revivified hv the son; for celing i- life, the pulsation of delicious yinpaihv, the spring in a desert, the naiina from the xkie*. A rittxtiDrg ArromplHhmrat. Ifid you ever see a I'iitsburgher get j i Hake of -not off hi* face? He never j üb* it ofT. To. rub off a flake of *xt disclose* the stranger. It l-o cave* a streak of black half an inch vide in place of the flake of soot as •ig a* a three cent piece. Thi* i* not hi improvement The I'iUsburghcr j o the manor Ixtrn blow* it off", lie is > m adept at the art. If the flake* icstle on hi* nose he protrude* his j mder lip, give* one vigorous whiff, ' and the obnoxious Pittsburgh snow hike leave* bis face without a mark, j If it lights on either of hi* cheeks. ! he -mouth is puckered and stretched iround in the direction of the smut I villi the unerring accuracy of a gar- 1 len hoe. It is astonishing what al nost inaccessible portions of the face j ind head can lie reached by a native iiurgher in thi* way. I have seen one who could pull a black flake off the lack of hi* neck. Sometime* the beauty-spot will nestle in behind the left ear. where it i apparently secure ! iruin a blow a* a calm centre ; hut the native simply gives it a puff clear around hi* head from left to right; ;be current passes over the left ear, arom* on the right and comes hack and pick* up the wanderer and blows him away. They pntf these sable flakes in any position a* easily as a weekly jiaper puff* the summer circus. flow the Supreme Court Is Opened. To liegin with, there is a degree of dignity and stately bearing about the court and it* members which perme ates even to the most humble attache There is a quiet in the court room which recalls the Habhath of the Covenanters. When one enters the involuntary feeling comes on thai the room is set aside only for the contem plation of the colter side of life, and woe to him who jibe* or jokes in the presence of the court. •The court is opened in about this fashion : At 12 ojplock (noon) the Justice* come in from the consulting room and take theii seats on the bench. Away to the left of the chamber i seen a beau tiful officer, whose business it is to catch the first glimpse of the advanc ing Judges. Then comes three raps with a ponderous gavel, by the same officer. This is meant as a signal for the audience to rise. Then, with the Chief Justice in advance, the Judges enter from the right of the chamber. To the rear of the Justice* seat is an aisle. In the centre is an arched entrance for the Chief Justice. Through this aisle the Judges file and take positions on the right and left. None enter until the Chief Justice makes a glooefhl obcipaaee u> the siandiagDipdieuce, Then the Justice* tfdtfe neat*, a stroke of the ggvel is made and the an%nee seats itself. The opening of the court (alls upon a j voutbful official. It Is alter ihc'tdd English ibirt, "Oye* j Oyex," ate,, and i e conelude* wiili the word*, "fb.d biers It the honorable Hup.-erne < ourt." The I i court i* now ready for business, The I J Ju-tiee* are clad in blu' k *ilk gowns * > with an eecleiu*tic cut. In the dis- i- patch of busincxx the Chief Justice is I j quite expeditious. He i* always ready * : with a reply to a question, ami crni > fieritly satisfactory. The Justices on * the bench n*siiuie different attitudes. I Justice Miller ' ink* down in hi*chair, and hut little cutl be seen but the top [of bis bead; *o also does Justice Jiradley. I lie Chief Justice sits erect " mo*t nl'the time when not hearing an A | " argil men I, bu*y in consulting a caleu- * * dar. Judge Harlan i* the most strik ■ iug in anpearanee of any of the ! Judges. Ho is tall, will built aii'l - j sits erect. f TIIK llt IS If KKVIJLITIOX. ll were it not for the occasional acts I of individual vengeance and brutal ; ' violence, such a* the H-*ax-iiiutiou of , L.rd Mountmorre*. the presentattitude "t t he Irish |H'op|e, a. dcscrilx <1 in a ' abb- ( xtraet of a Hubliu letter to the * • l/nidon / unci, would coiiituauil the . undivided sympathy of our owncoun- 1 j try, 1 bat letter, published ye* lead ay , in our foreign despatche-, wa- not in : tended by tl.e writer to stimulate sym paluy for the Irish cause, or to excite , admiration for (be resolute frout j.re , M-iited by the |x ople under the j. : mice of their leaders in the Land i league; but it is sure to have that , effect wherever it is read bv Ameri cans wlm recall to mind the early l resistance to Jiritish misrule in the I ! American colonic-. I fie substance , al, d point of the litter i* that the f Iri-b Jeople, to give concentrated fori • , to their resistance to the evils and i oppre-siotis of which they complain, ; have improvised an interior govern _ meat of their own, which, in many j re*|M-. Ls. i- more potent than the gov i eriiineut authorized and supported by I 15riti-b law. In the language of' the letter writer, "It* code is clear, its . executive absolute, it* machinery , complete, ami it- action uniform. 1 here i- a government tic facto and a government!/' jurt —t lie former wield ing a power which i* felt and feared , and the latter (meaning the iiritish vice-regal government , exhibiting only pomp, hut little reality of power." I his <lc jacio interior government is deserilied a* having it* magistrates aud courts, in which di.-putcs are set* tied, to the exclusion of the regular law courts ami magistrates; as levy ing tax--, which are promptly paid, while the taxes under the law cannot H r markets aud fairs aud doing other ' act* in the nature of local government: ; and a, in fact, lacking hut the one J great attribute of a national armv to make it equal, if not sujierior, to the government of the Jiritish Viceroy. All Americans ought to he able to understand that, and if the tie facto rule were free Iroin acts of murder ami i other violence to the person, they M i -hould In- ready to regard it with keen 1 j fellow feeling. Leaviug" these oat, it A is our own Revolutionary experience fl over again. It requires no recent fl study of our own history to remember how petition after petition, and appeal \ I U|hmi appeal, were sent by the Aineri- i B ran colonists from 177(1 to '74 and '7" \ ■ for redrew* of the hardship* and griev- j ~fl ancea inflicted on them by a govern- • I ment which turned a dead ear to all H ; their prayers; how their appeals were couched iii terms expressing the very humility of loyalty, iu onler to get | justice by anything short of armed rebellion ; and how, instead of getting redress, they were met by delay*, words and threats, aud then by flee aud armies, with soldiera quartered their houses. Our resistance f*gan wars precisely similar to some of in Ireland at this time. There w' 1 loyalists in those days who aud some of there with reason, nm " terrorism aud social r was popular feeling of this induced ltcujamin wards L'nunt Jtumbord, to fly mw Massachusetts home to alside in Europe. • His cast? is of many. 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