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DR. E. L. ET.AK • ALEE,
. P ETSICI AA AND BURGEON, b u located at Brooklyn, Ses-
Dounr. P.. WIII attend promptly to a ll WI:
wv6 be ma be Neared. Mee al L. Belden:11.
Pr. - 4'ra. Julylo,
DR. E. L. GARDNER,
PprSICIAN AND BURGEON, Hondo ., Pa. Otties over
Flom Boletls al tkarlo a ktotal.
aluttroas.Jana 3,1110.41
GROVES . REYNOLDS,
TIASITIONARLF. TAILORS. Mop ono Obaione.
r rn , 112 A venue.
Mottroso. June 12. 1222.
Da CHARLES DECKER,
,-, l rrntorAN vD SURGEON. lavtag located hlmaelf at
r rchsnlv , ll4 Suednehatma County. Pa., yell) alum) to all tbs
welch am may be favored with promptesseandatteddloa
„rd.. m am rseidexce mar orange Rotes, Ram,
Sumo. Co.. Pi. May =.
JOHN BEAII3IONT,
uenumi., Cloth Dream.. sad Manufacturer. et the old
.and known u Smith's Cardlog /Leehlr.e. Tema wade
wt. .ben the work Is brought.
:eon , Mart :a. 1851.
Dn. G. Z. DIMOCK,
T1171"n101/1T end SURGEON. MONTROSE, Pa. Once on
street, morale the Enrcrehross Ogre. Boards el
r nee. rehrnary nth, 1665.-Ipp
C. M. CRANDALL,
If Oi.
I:FACITITREII of Ltnesv-vrtmels. Wool.sheela, Wheel
-I,ada elnen-raell v &e., Wood to door to order. and
' • .o.na rem:lncr. ming Shop and Wheel FactOry Sawa
uf r mm. January rath, 1855.-U
B S. BENTLEY, JR, NOTARY PUBLIC,
MO NTROSE.
it KES AdDOWiedrnarlt of Z
Mort dm, for Any
•—te In the United Males. l ea,
Poo4oo Voen met
.NtY
• Am. elettAed before lam do 120 t require the or
. te toe
:.•L of t be Court. Waltman, Jut. 0, 18,5.—U.
CHARLES HOLES,
EILEit IN CLIN3KS, WATCHES, AND JEWELRY
U KoperlTl done WI 1111, 00 Ithortliolice er.d reasonzblet
Avenne In F. B. Chwaler's Sznre.
V.. 1 , De. 7. ISM
DR. R. L. RANDRICH,
P',,.: sTi t and Sulcosorf, rerpecttally tzadare ht• prof.
In the dttrrzt of Primaeval. and victolty. Of
of Ur. Leet_ bawls at J. Hoeford'a.
r..c../EVait,J , ./y 97, 1,14.-tf
S. W. SMITH,
SS A L , OUISSKLLOSS AT LAW and Laceszed CUM,
a nt•lat ofßce over Lea's Drag
_nom.
,t2.T/chants Der.Ot Jaassary 95. I.M.
EL BURRITT,
D rmc
x. rtovca Oils. z D t
oc k
idrr
and Aboca, !jai;
yam Dnialbes.. Orocalca, Prosisious. ac.
r,:snrc, Pa, Lpril 11. 1064.-tf
S. H. SAYRE & BROTHERS,
ar Mgt FA CTURESS of 11111CILKillspa, Castings of all klo
yi • •i - n and ra beet Iron Ware, Agricultural Implements.
•
• Drr Cloaks. Uroceries, Crockery. Go.
r fehrnary 13,1E44.
BILLINGS STROUD,
tv.trancacted by C. L. Brown.
February 1, 1.464.-11
J. D. VAIL, M. D.,
ME , .PATFLIC PHYSICIAN, Ma permanently loattst
ja Montrose, Pa_, &tore he promptly ntter.S
t Lle p , f4.01011 with which he may be favored. oMese
o,lence W?-St 01 the Court Herm, near Bentley & Ftteth's.
t Febuary I, 1864.-Oct. 73. 1861.
A. 0. WAIME,.N,
rrPIIN ES AT LAW. BOUNTY. BADE PAY Ind PEN
CLAIM AGENT. All Peruslau Char• inkreful ly prr
morn rot:petty occupied by DrlVsll. la .
• helcyr Searle'. MAO.
V. Feb. 1.1881.-4b17111888.
LEWIS KIRBY & E. BACON,
F.EP ennetnedy on hand a full atipply Of every variety or
ft* , ERIS 4 cad CONFECTIONERIES. By atrict Mien
moMmm. and fauns. in deal. they hope tomerit the Sher,'
, • -,¢...l the out:lc. An OTaTER and EATING KALOttr
to the Grocery, where bivalves, la Kamm, an served In CY
that the tastes of the pahlledem.d. Rememberlte place.
, Mot, Grocery stand. on Math Street, halo. the PostoOce.
Noy 17. 1,36.8.—mch17,63.-tf
Dn. CALVIN C. HALSEY,
PWASICILN AND ..I.7E.GEON, AND EXAILININD FUR
~ V , , N for FENSIONED.S. Ofßee over Um pure of J. Lyooo
I Ave.. Bos,is St M. Etheridge .
- arc, I , , totxr. 18.58.-tf
D. A. BALDWIN,
k ET AT LAW, and PClllllOt., Bounty. and Buck rut
akent, Oman Bend, Bnique.bsons County, Pa.
vrtat Bend. A wart 10. lell.-ly
BOYD & NVEBSTER,
D tbltove Ptpc„Ta ; or,angrs
1 p.gr.r,Codc.
ista. Thar Lumber, and all loads of Building Materials
- • sr-tries Hotel, and Carpenter bhop net the
, ~,/ PA.. January 1, 1884.-tf
DR. WILLIAM W. SMITH,
x s ,. •• st 7 RAMON DENTIST. Office over the Banhlnt
ace of Co per & Co. All Dental Operation/
grin he pe rform to usual ; good style a
• Itc.en, her, <Mee formerly of E. Smith & Son.
jawoL7 1. 1854.-41
E. J. ROGERS,
US* Jr/WTI - ELSE. of all descriptions ofWAG
oNy, csa.M.AUES. SLEIGHS. &c, In the
orw ntmanship and of the but mania*
nand of K. H. ROOEM, a few red* east
sl eratrose, where he .111 be happy to r*
• 0.1 wor want anything In hia line.
~ ..June 1814.11
DR. JOHN W. COBB,
ITtiUIl l' , de D ROZON. runrectltaly teackrz 4L scfv. kee
of 1,13 Cd owl.. County. He will gm. eEpecial
r..:, , tretni end medlcal trvatromt of Clamees of the
t • sod ~av re consulted relative to eargin.l operations
. over R. J. & S. H. IdulfornBtCre
mai:, met. eon" of J. 0. Tarbelre Hotel.
0•orr. County. Oak., Jane 11.1803.-tf
BALDWIN & ALLEN,
a.
lmo
6.
"zr,„ Syrup, Tea and Coffee. West side o
hrrht.t °IA door below J. Etheridge.
.4.OEttLIAC, January 1. 186t.-tf
DR. G. W. BEACH,
aND SUMMON. having permanently lonia'
lir,tlys, Center. Pa_ taida-a hie prat:aeon.' eer
•-•••• • clt:reue Susguehanna County.. tame corn nezaar.
.tcceplea the offlee the into Dr. 11. Richard
Me.. Richardson's.
Center, Pa.. June 11.1864.-17
F. B. WEEKS,
CTICAL BOOT A.BD SHOE MAKER: also Dealer In
0,,
J. Et, Leather, and Shoeoe FLAtoga. ItLopaleing done
.
ADC. alep,tch. Two doors above Searles Howl.
~ Jaw:l6l7 1, 11361.-tf
& Whl. H. JESStP,
4 — 7 ., !;NEI'S AT LAW. Mm2ITWA R. Pra.th,e In BuN.'
Uradford. Wupne. wrominz cnd Lure ComU
JAuctar7 Ist, 1861.
ALBERT CRAItBERLEN,
ATTORNEY AND ATTORNEY AT LAW,—
os,r the Bore formerly occupied by Peelt Brothers.
le. January 1. MO.
J. LYONS & 80N,
nEA LEM. 1 ,, DRS 000 HO, HoXanea.Croctory. Hardware
Tmware. UoOks. Hamden., Mean and all kinds. of Masi
ton;ls.
sneer Huatc Jrc. AlJur carry on BA Book Bind
s • ...tees In oil Its hrauclu.. J. LYONS,
4 'nt , -.rt, January 1. 1564. T. •. LTOSI•
ABEL TtifiRELL
ILA], Elt IN INCI7 GS. MEDICINES, CH EM ICALR,
aaJl 4.nte, Olin. Dye-stun. Vantlellea, lam ••*".
Grocerien. tlxsckery.Glnaswart Watt-P a per, Joe. . 1 ,
•• •
'Tory Perfumery bm-glasl Instrtrucuta, Trur
• • •,,ct. Brwlien. Arent for Rii or the mot P"..P.'
! , •-nt bieditlnea. Elontrose. Jarman' 1,18.51.
C. 0. FORDHAX
iv C.
of BOOTS h SHOES, Montrose,
hrwp over DeWitt's Store. 4.11 kinds of work mode
,'• set; replaying. dotte neatly. Work dense tenon pram
11euirose. April 7. 106 - If
CHARLES N. STODDARD,
CA LEI?. In 1100T8 h SIIOE-4. Id-s”.er and Find.
Maio ttdrd door I..elovr nearlr'a Hotel. it&
Work wade to order. and repairing done neatly.
o Pa_ December 12.1860.
L H. BURNS,
k ItNEY AT LAW. PM* witb J TutrelL Fvq.
Itoari.,)l Hnl L Pen6lols and iSuutity Claims adeful
42.Jitc.ltorin proinrOly made-
B. R. LYONS it CO..
DRY °CODS, OROOXII,IES, BOOTS, snots,
(katc.. Carpets, 011 (.11,tbs, Walhartd Vindov Ps.
out, &c. Store on the eut side of Public Aurae.
READ, WATROL'S & FOSTER,
rIEALEItS IN DRY GOODS. Drags, Pant; 01le
ttraterlm Hardware, arockery. Iron, Clock., Watchea, Jew.
•• s ttpotala. rerrunuory. 44c.. Stick Block. Moatnse.
a GAD
A. WAT2OIIO O. !DST=
!Swam:. January I, 1584.
WILLIAM W. 814tITH,
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V . '— -^"".. , 5, factuter. Kenya conntaney o..nndal
u
(Itanter rssrstnaz, or eat
' l ".'d . 1 111.nrt notke. &top end Ware &VMS feat of Main 81
I,l crarose. Pa, March
8, ItBB.-41
PHILA.NDER LINES,
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V
Fbr the .Inciependml Republic's&
• A DIRGE
FOB =MU NOW. Oti
Father, weep I
For the darling little daughter—
For the winsome, blue-eyed daughter—
In her young life'sisweetest blooming,
Laid to sleep
Mother, weep!
For the music of her laeghter,
Like glad birds—the 'piing showers after—
Greats no more thy listening spirit
-Yearning deep I
Brother, weep!
Standing In the homestead olden—
By its spell of sweetness holden,
Where affections' blossoms, gladly
Thou dolt reap;
Waiting vainly the earresslng,
Of those small arms 'round thee pressing,
Brother, weep!
Sister, weep!
For the youngest, and the dearest ;
Blrdling nestled warmest, nearest,
To the loving hearts at home!
Sister, keep
Fresh with tears, each memory cherished,
Of the little form that's perished;
Fresh the mound 'neath which they've laid her
Down to sleep I
Loved ones, weep l
Bat weep not wildly, nor despairing ;
With "lore ones gone before" she's !sharing
The great Shepherd's care, who leadeth
All His sheep!
AN44M:IV:W4A): 11 4: 4 00111A:1017P4e
Negro Suffrage pnd Representative Popula
tion—The Three-Plfth Principle In liggram
vetted Form.
T. the Fred,lent
Sir—From the recollection, now twenty years old,
of the years when we were Congressmen together,
I derive an abiding faith In your probity, your pa
triollam and your stern devotion to democratic prin
ciples. Suffer me to address you, and through you
to the people over whom you preside, a few consid
erations touching a great measure of public policy.
I know it is your habit kindly to receive, if even
from private and unofficial source, such honest sing.
gestions as are of a character involving sectional
harmony and national safety.
There is an aspect of the negro-suffrage question
which has, I think, arrested less attention than It
merits; not the aspect of right; nor the question
whether, in restoring to a lowly and humble race,
down-trodden for ages, their outraged liberty, we
ought to give them the ballot to defend it; but a
question more selfish, piloting to our own race; one
not of sentiment but
. of calculation; essentially
practical and of imminent Importance.
Permit me, first, to recall to your notice a few
facts which any one, by reference to the census of
1860 and to the Constitution, can verify.
The actual population of the States composing
the Union, and their representative population, have
hitherto differed considerably; the actual popula
tion. in 1860, being upward of thirty-one millions
(31,143,047,) and the representative population about
twenty-nine millions and a half only ('29,553,273.)
The difference between the two is nearly one million
six hundred thousand (1 3 594,114_) Bee Compendium
of Census, page 131-13'.1.
The reason of this is apparent. In the year ISGO
there were, in round numbers, four million of slaves
(3,1150,531) In these States. These slaves were not
estimated, in the representative population, man for
man. Five of them were estimated as three ,• for
by the Constitutional provision regulating the basis
of representation (Art. 3, Bee_ 2, R 3), there was to
be taken the whole number of free persons and
three-tins of all other persons. Two-fifths of the
"other persons" werejeft out. But two-flfths of
four millions is one million six hundred thousand.
About two million four hundred thousand of the
elves are to be regarded as having entered, under
the 'Bet census, Into the basis of representation. In
other words, the white el.veholding population of
the South obtained a political advantage the same na
that which they would have reaped by actual addi
tion to their population of two million four hundred
thousand free persona. As under the last census
the ratio of representation was fixed at one hundred
and twenty-seven thousand (census, page 4) the
South, in virtue of that legal fiction of two million
four hundred thousand additional freemen, had
eighteen members of Congress added to her repre
sentation. Her total number of representatives be,
ing eighty-four, she owed more than one-fifth of that
number to her slave property. It follows that If,
in a republican government, the number of free per
sons be the proper basis of representation, abe had
upward of one-fißh more political influence than
her just share. Each one of the voters possessed a
power, so fax as the election of the President and of
the House of Representatives was concerned, greater
by one-fifth than that of each Northern voter.
No man friendly to equal rights even If (being a
white man) he restricts the principle to persons of
hie own color, will offer a justification of a partition
of a political power so unfair as this. It was not de
fended, on principle, by those who assented to it.
It was accepted as a necessity, or supposed necessity,
in the construction, out of discontent materials, of
the American Union.
We of the North have hitherto acted upon it, as
men under duress—our hands bound by the Con
stitution—as it were wader protest. We preferred
unequal division of power, as regards the two great '
sections of the Republic, to tho t' ante of anarchy.
That was in the past. Are we, In the future,
having got rid, by terrible sacrifice, of the cause of
that injueliee, still to tolerate the ininstice Itself,
even In aggravated form ? Doubtless, new that our
hands are free, we have no such intention. Let us
take heed lest we inereasd and perpetuate this abuse,
as men often do, without Intention.
Seldom, If ever, has there been imposed on any
ruler a task more thickly surrounded with diffien Wee
than that, now before you, of reconstruction In the
late insurrectionary States. Uncertain as we are of
the sentiments and intentions of men just emerged
from a humiliating defeat, little more can be done
than to institute an experiment and then wait to
see what comes , of it. It would he premature to
lay down any settle plan from which, let events torn
as they will, there is to be no departure We are
traversing unknown and treacherous seas, and must
take soundings as we go. Nor should we omit the
precaution of a sharp look-out for breakers ahead.
It seems to me that we may expect such on the
coulee we are pursuing.
The present experiment appears to be, to leave the
work of reconstructing Government In the late
rebel South to the loyal whites; or more accurately
stated, to the whims who shall have purged them
selves from the crime of treason, actual or Implied.
so far as an oath, taken from whatever motive, can
effect such purgation. Will this experiment, if It
proceed unimpeded, result in the permanent ex
clusion of the negro from suffrage?
In proof that It will, It might suffice to remember
that these men have grown up in the belief —have
' , teen indoctrinated from the cradle in the convic
tion—that the African is a degraded race. Add that
the war has brought the blacks and whites of the
South into antagonistic relations, exasperating
ugain.t the former alike the rich planters, from
whose mastership they fled, and the " poor whitea,"
who always bated them, and to whom emancipa
tion (raising despised ones to their level) is a per
sonal affront.
But there is a motive for exclusion in this ease
stronger than anger, more powerful than hatred—
the incentive of self-aggrandliement. They who
are made the judges are to be the gainers—unfairly
but vastly the gainers—by their own decision.
Observe the working of this thing. By the Con
stitution the representative population is to conaiet
of all free persons aid - three-fifths of all other per
sons. If, by nett winter, slavery shall have disap
peared, there will be no "other pervons" in the
South. Her actual population will then coincide
with her representative population. She will have
gained, as to Federal representation, 1,000,000 per
sons. She will be entitled, not as now to 84 mem
bers, but to 94; and her vote for President will
be in proportion; Congress , if It intends that the
Constitutional rale shall prevail, will have to eller
the apportionment go as to correspond to the new
order of things.
Now, If the negro is admitted to vote, the Con
stitutional rule will operate jestly. For then each
voter in the South will bare precisely the same
pe
litieal influence as a voter in the North. The unjust
three-fifths principle will have. disappeared forever.
On the other hand, if color , be deemed cause of
exclusion, then all polltleal power which is
withheld
from the emancipated slave is gained hy the South
ern white.
For though, by law, we may denyauffrage to the
freedman, we cannot prevent his being reckoned
among those free persons who constitute the teals
of representation. His presepm, whether disfran
chised or net, adds, in spite Of all weesan do, to the
poUtical hieuence of the State, for it Increases the
number of Its voters for President and the number
of its representatives in (loneness. Now, somebody
mast gain by this. The gate le shared equally by
every retrial voter in the State. If, hinny State, the
number of blacks and whites are equal, and 11 0 In
that State,, blacks are excluded from voting, then
every white voter will go to the polls armed with
twice the political power enjoyed by a white voter
I in nay Northern State. But pgatn,.tnio Is on Ike
euppoeitiorq that every white ;adult In the State is
loyal, and therefore entitled to Tate.
Are the Ralf of all Soutima male adults at itla
Freedom and Right against Slavery and Wrong."
MONTROSE, SUSQ. CO., RA.. TTT - FqT) NY AT; GUST 8, 1865
time, or will they be for years to come, Moro thoo Wilt It f rj,rfj .6 f fff - n.:• tz
lip-loyal it even that? I think you Will not soy that .11r olvli im, •-"
they are. It Would surely he an extrovmmut colou , Unsoc-0 4 4nd e3norA, b. ohso'l' p re•off..i
latlon. If more than halt the whites In ex inthlr- Beca,ion oat Unich:
rectionsoy Staten shall actually tinnily them6olv(s hot, ha t", - yin{ .' ff , con‘ •rt oil 11m
as voters, will you not lled yoomli compelled to nhobituotw ova Cl-',. tnto po otnctniee, tif'ffrf‘'eff,
udmlniater the Government, In the late sect eg , on an F.TT,t• IT, I ,•! lb Tito Cett
portion of the Union, through the atrenchq at its t.,•1 T. -:1! . : •I
enemies? One-third would he fail cotlmato, , mato fol aft O f iVt• • 'tfl i tO jAr.I.,
mtjudgment, for the truly loyal. ;,o coodtri .•1
.
tat let us assume that two-thirds of all the white , lost blavcr , -h. I cc. -e c.d.; rord
mato adult. of the South become voters, rand that Vtat no , torts On- earls
they exclude from suffrage, Ity law or ho Constittis ~t repr.••• . J.C.1.1110 of C Jr. ~ C •
tional provision, all persona of color, what would cd I ~• t
be the political consequences under such a state of If mit rit flit ti •
things.? It, as we may roughly estimate, by to 1,4,, r, ,I 1,,n titnitinite, and W1;1,
struction through war and by depletion of poptals- son, d.l, prod oil or. If A, nett:lt-et to 'tui
tion through emigration to Mexico, to Europe and the svetn.d condition, An ellgurAtiy, on nn es•
elsewhere,ittto number of whites throughout the laic I roded teals, will grow Up In os e large section of
rebel States shall have been reduced until bltv•ks and the country, working grave Injustice towards the
whites exist there in nearly equal numbers, then, In voters of another aevtion. The tbreo-fifth abuse
the case above supposed, each voter in these States, will re-appear lu agiant form.
when they approach the ballot box daring Con- I But If we suffer Baia it cannot fall to produce, as
greasional or Prealdential election, would do so Slavery produced. alienations and beart-burnings.
wielding three times as much political Influence as Under any plan of reconstruction involving so tla
a voter in a Northern State. This vast advantage grant an Injustice it is In vain to expect harmony or
once gained by Southern whites, Ls It likely they permanent peace between the Northern and South
will ever relinquish it? ore sections of the Union.
Nor, it we disfranchise the negro, Is there any es
cape from such consummation, except by rooting
out from the Constitution the principle that the
whole number of free persons shall be the basis of
representation. But that principle lies at the base
of all free government We abandon republicanism
itself when we discard it.
Thus it appears that the presc4 experiment In
reconstruction, if suffered to run Its 'comae, and if
Interpreted sa I think we have just muse to fear
that it will be, tends, inevitably, It may be said, to
bring about two results:
First: To cause the disfranchisement of the freed
man. Whether we effect this directly, as by pro
vision of law or by a disqualifying clause in a pro
clamation, or whether we do it by leaving the de
cision to his former masters and his old enemies,
matters nothing except in form and in words; the
moult is brought about with equal certitude in eith
er way. Passion, prejudice and self-Interest con
cur to produce this result
Second: It establishes—not the odious three-fifths
clause, not even merely a five-fifth clause—but
something much worse than either. It permits the
investiture pf the Southern white with a preponder
ance of political power, such as no class of men, in
a democratic Republic, ever enjoyed since the world
began.
I do not—believe me in this Mr. President—over
look or underrate the grave embarrassments that
beset your path, torn as you will. I call to mind
the overbearing Influence of passion and prejudice,
and I shall admit that when these prevail, in exag
gerated form, throughout a large portion of any sta
tion, a wise ruler recogaites the facts of their exis
tence and regulates his acts accordingly. But the
sway of passion and prejudice, despotic for a season,
has but a limited term of endurance, and should be
treated as an evanescent thing. It Is too transient
and unstable to furnish a basis for a comprehensive
system of policy. Tenderly it should be treated, but
not falsely respected or weakly obeyed.
Mercy, God-like attribute as it is, may run riot-
It is very well, by act of grace, to restore to penitent
Southern Insurgents their legally forfeited rights;
let us be friends and fellow-citieens once more, as
Christianity and comity enjoin. Bat to suffer each
of these returning rebels, when about to cast his
vote for President or for Representatives of the peo
ple, to be clothed with three times as much power
as is possessed by a Northern voter exercising a
similar right. is, very surely, a somewhat superflu
ous stretch of clemency.
And what manner of men, I pray you, are those
whom we propose thus to select from among
their fellows—granting them political powers un
known to democracy, luvesting them with privileges
of an oligarchical character? It is ungenerous to
speak harshly of a vanquished foe, espetially of one
who has shown courage and constancy worthy of
the noblest cause; but the truth is the truth and is
ever fitly spoken. There are men whose ferrible
misfortune it has been to be born and bred under
a system the most cruel and demoralizing the world
ever saw. The wisest of those who have been sub
jected to such surroundings have confessed its evil
power. "There must doubtless," said Jefferson In
his Notes on Virgiuls, " be an unhappy influence on
the manners of our people, produced by the existence
of slavery among us. The whole commerce be
twceu master and slave is a perpetual exercise of
the most boisterous passions—the most unremitting
despotism on ode part, and degrading submission
on the other. * .• • The man must be a prodigy
who can retain his manners and his moral's under
such circumstances." (Notts, page 270. j
Those arc the habitual results of the system. To
what incredible excesses its occasional outbursts
may run we have frightful evidences daily coming
, before us; schemes of wholesale incendlarlam, in
volving deaths by the thousand of women and
children; schemes to poison, by the malignant virus
of the yellow fever, ap entire community; deliberate
plane to destroy prisoners of war by Insufferable
hardships and slow suffering; plots, too successful,
alas I to shroud a nation in mourning by assassina
tion.
Many honorable exceptions no doubt there are,
in whom native virtue resists daily temptation.
Such exceptions arc to be found in all communities,
no matter how pernicious the surroundings. But
in deciding national questions we must be governed
by the rule, not by the exceptions.
The Southern whites rimy be subdivided into three
classes: The slaveholders proper, many of whom
are excluded from pardon by the Proclamation of
Amnesty; the "poor whites," and what may be
called the yeomen of the South—of which last our
country feels that her worthy President is a noble
type, and of which we regard stout-hearted Parson
Brownlow as a clerical example.
II this last class, from whence have come the stur
diest Union men In secessiondom, constituted, like
the mechanic of New England or the farmer of the
West, a large proportion of the population, we
might hope that It would leaven and redeem the ex
tremes of society around it. But it is found sparse
and in Inconsiderable numbers, except, perhaps, In
Eastern Tennessee and the northern portion of
North Carolina. The poor whites, of whom the
clay-eating pine-lander of Georgia and other Gulf
S ta t es i s th e type, far notuumber them. Of this
last class Mrs. Fanny Kemble, in that wonderful
book of hens, " Journal of a Residence on a South
ern Plantation," gives, from personal observation,
a graphic description: "They are, I suppose" she
Rays •• the most degraded race of human beings
claiming an Anglo-Saxon origin that can be found
nn the face of the earth—filthy, lazy, Ignorant, brn
tal, proud, penniless savages, without one of the
nobler attributes that have been found occasionally
allied to the vices of savage nature. They own no
slaves, for they are, almost without exception, ab
jectly poor; they will not work, for that, as they
conceive, would reduce them to an equality with
the abhorred negroes ; they squat and steal and
starve on the outskirts of this lowest of all civilized
societies, and their countenances bear witness to
the squalor of their condition and the utter dqgra•
dation of their Datum." [Journal, page 146.]
I have often encountered this cross. I saw many
of them last year while visiting, as a member of a
Government commission, some of the Southern
States. Labor degraded before their eyes has ex
tinguished within them all respect for industry, all
ambition, all honorable exertion, to improve their
condition. When last I had the pleasure of seeing
you at Nashville, I met there, in the office of a gen
tleman charged with the duty of issuing transpor
tation and rations to Indigent persons, black and
white, a notable example of this strange class. Re
was a rebel deserter • a rough, dirty uncouth speci
men of humanity—tit'', stout and wiry -looking, rude
and abrupt in speech and bearing, and clothed in
tattered homespun. In no civil tone he demanded
rations. When informed that all rations applicable
to such a purpose were exhausted, he broke forth :
" What am I to do then ? Row am I to get home ?"
" You can have no difficulty," was the reply. —
" It is hut fifteen or eighteen hours down the river"
(the Cumberland) "by steamboat where you live. I
furnished you transportation; you can work your
way."
Work my way !" (with a scowl of angry eon
tempt.) "I never did a stroke of work since I was
born, and I never expect to, till my dying day."
The agent replied quietly : " They will give you
all you want to cal on board, If you help them to
wood."
" Carry woad!" he retorted with an oath.—
" Whenever they ask mo to carry wood, tell
them to set me on shore ; I'd rather atarve for a
week than work for an hour; I don't want to live
In a world that I can't make a living out of without
work."
Is it for men like that, Ignorant, illiterate,vleions,
fit for no decent employment on earth except man
ual labor, and 'pinning aft labor as degredatlon—is
It In favor of such Insolent ewaggerens that we are
to disfranehlse the humble, quiet hard-working ne
gro Are the votes of three such men as Stanton
or Seward, Sumner or Garrison, Grant or Sherman,
to be neutralized by the ballot of one such worthless
babarlan ?
Are there not breakers ahead! To such an issue
as that may not the late tentativea at reconstruc
tion, bow faithfully aoever conceived and intended
for good, practically tend ?
The duty of the United States to guarantee to ev
ery State in the Union a republican form of govern
ment is as sacred as the duty to protect each of
them from invasion. Is that duty duly fulfilled
when, with the power of prevention In our own
hands, we suffer the white voter In the least loyal,
the iraat intelligent, and the least industrious sec
Lion of the country to usurp a measure of political
poser thmo-fold greeter than in the rest of the ra
ges, a Totf4 Goys
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It is not here denied, nor is It deniable that, un
der ordinary circumstances, a State may, ' by a gen
eral law applicable to all, restrict the right of suff
rage; as, for example, to those who pay taxes, or to
those who can read and write. And It is quite true
that the effect of such a law would be to give addi
tional political power to those who still enjoyed the
elective franchise. But a State can only do this al
ter she has a State Government in operation, not
when she is about to frame one. North Carolina is
in the Union, as she has always been ; but her peo
ple, having lost, by war against the government,
their political rights, are not allowed to go under
their old Constitution and laws. They have to be
gin again. As Idaho, II desiring to be a State,
would have to do, the people of North Carolina
have to elect members of a Convention, which Con
vention has to frame a State Constitution, to be pre
sented, for acception or rejection, to Congress.—
Now, just as Idaho, taking her drat step towards
State sovereignty, could not, on her own authority,
begin by denying a vote in the election of members
of her Convention, to half her free population, or if
she did, would find her Constitution rejected, for
that cause, by Congress, as not emanating from the
whole people; so, in my opinion, ought not North
Carolina, having forfeited her State rights and be
ginning anew as a Territory does, to be permitted. in
advance, to reject more than a third of her free pop
niation—C6l,&aotit 924622 I hope ebe will not so
construe her rights as to venture on such a rejec
tion. If she does, Congress ought to reject her
Constitution as authorized by a part of her people
Only.
But, beyond all this, we cannot safely allow the
negro exemption clause to take its chance along
with other possible restrictions to suffrage which a
State, fully organized, may see fit to enact, Ara :
Because Mita magnitude. It is an act of ostracism
by one-half the free inhabitants of an entire section
of country against the other half, equally free
Secondly: Because of its character and results.—
It is un act of injustice by those who have assaulted
the life of the nation against those who have defend
ed the national life; an act by which we abandon to
the tender mereles of the dotibtfolly loyal and the
traitor those whose loyalty has stood every test, un
stained, unshaken; men ignorant and simple in
deed, but whose rude fidelity never failed either the
Union fugitive beset in the forest, or the Union
cause imperiled on the battle-field.
The decision of a matter so grave as this should
be taken out of the category of those rights which a
State, at her option, may grant or may withhold ;--
because, being national in its consequences, it is
national in Its character. This Is a matter for Fed
eral interference, because, like emancipation, It is a
matter involving Federal ..fety.
It is because I know the frankness of your own
character, Mr. President, that, at possible risk 01
conflicting opinions, I —etre to you thus frankly
It is because I am deeply impressed by the vast im
portance of the issues at stake that I write to you at
I think of our Union soldiers, the survivors of a
thousand fields. I recall the last days, not of con
flict but of triumph, when Confederate, arms were
stacked and Confederate paroles were Oren, nail
the Stars and Gars fell before the old Flag. I re•
member with what fierce fury those who surrender
ed at last, fought, throughout a tour years' desper
' ate effort to shatter into fragments that benignant
Government under which, for three-quarters of a
century, they had enjoyed prosperity and pmtee•
tion. I remember all that was done and suffered
and sacrificed, before, through countless discern] ,
sgements and reverses, treason's plot was trampled
down ar.d the glorious end was reached. And as,
In spirit, I follow victors and vanquished from the
scene of conflict, I think th't never was a nation
more gratuitously o- Mon. fJully assailed, and nev
er did nation owe to to deliverers front anarchy
and dismemberment a deeper de'-t of gratitude an I
good will.
Then I ask me self a great question. Shall these
soldiers of liberty, returning Irom fields of death to
Northern fields of' labor and of peaceful contest—,-f
contest in which the ballot Is the only weapon. and
the bulletin of defeat or of victory is contained In
the election returns—shall these veterans, who nev
er flinched before military force, be overborne, with
their laurels still green, by political stratagem?—
Their weapons of war laid aside, is the reward of
these conquerors to be this, that, man to man, they
shall be entitled to one-third as much influence in
administering their country's Government as the
opponents they conquered ? Are the victors on
the fields of death to become the vanquished In
Halls of LegisLtion ?
It is a question which the nation cannot fail, ere
long, to ask Itself ,• and who can doubt what the ul
timate answer will be
May God, who, throe hoot the great crisis of our
nation's history, overruling evil for good, has caus
ed the wrath of man to work out His own gracious
ends—directing us, without our will oragency, is
paths of justice and of victory which our human
wisdom was 100 feeble to discover-.--direct yon also,
throughout the arduous task before you, to the
Just and the Right ! ROl3Ellll' Dare Owme.
New-York, June 21st, 1865.
A JocyLau Crtaftriax.—A poor man lived near
Deacon Murray, referred to in the tract, " Worth a
Dollar," and occasionly called at his house for a
supply of milk. One morning he came when the
family were at breaktsst Mrs. Alumiy rose to wait
upon him, but the deacon said to her, " Walt till
after breakfast." She did so, and meantime the
deacon made some Inquiries of the man about hie
family and circumstances. After family worship
the deacon invited him to go out to the barn with
him. When they got into the yard, the deacon,
pointing to one of the cows, exclaimed, " There,
take that cow, and drive her home." The roan
thanked him heartily for the cow, and started for
home, but the deacon was observed to stand In the
attitude of deep thought until the man had gone
some rods. He then looked np, nod called out,
"Hey, bring that cow back." The man looked
around, and the deacon added, "Let that cow come
back, and yon COMP back, too." He did so, and
when be came back Into the yard again, the deacon
said "There, now take your pick out of the cows ;
I ain't agoing to lend to the Lord the poorest cow
I've got!
pgrA young lady of California recently broke her
neck while resisting the attempt of a young man to
kiss her. We know from personal experience (in
days gone by, ahts!) it Is the Saratoga Republican
that speaks—how prone young girls are to peril
their precious necks by twisting away from a fellow
at a time when, by Judicious exorcise, or silt and
bold your head steady activeness, perfect happiness
might have been abed abroad, end the ambient air
made luxuriant with glory. Deargirls, hold your
heads steady, and don't break your darling necks!
Uaronximaxn CoarsttmisOlf.—A lady entered a
dry good atom in street, and expressed a desire
to see "some wool dolelnee. The polite clerk, with
elegant address, showed her a variety of pieces of
One texture and choice coloring. After tossing and
examining to her heart's content, she remarked :
"The goods are part cotton, sir." "My dear mad
am," returned the shopmen, " them goods are as
free from cotton as your breast is (the lady starts)
free from guile," he added.
A PICTURE or vice BED SELL —HogartL wee once
applied to by a certain nobleman to paint on hie
atalrceee a representation of the destruction of Pha
raoh's host In th• Red Bea. In attempting to lit
u tu v r :pe c trir at Alo o tt r alt il b s became patri d w int . e s d lai w i w ttt z t;
to give more than hall the real valve of the picture.
at last, out of all patience, he agreed to his terms.
In two or three da,ta the picture was ready.
The nobleman, surprist.d at such expedition, im
mediately (Ailed to examine ti, and found the apace
painted all over red.
" Zounde," said the purchaser„ " what have you
here? I ordered a scene of the Red Bea "
" The Red Bea you have," said the painter.
"But where ere the Israelites?"
They have all gene over."
" And where aro the E.mtlans 7"
"They are ell drowned."
The raiser's confusion could only he equaled by
the haste with which be paid hi. I. The biter
bitten.
Wby le a eea•sick man on his way to tog
land like Whittler? Answer—he lea " conts Mato/
'49 144,A,tlikatte."
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T” . r NClrth‘V,.lt, watt of the
I- a thi:etr rof luta lar history. The de
el juaille/Inut t.tore has been eireet.
• c .ri or the existing generation.
:e• n , ••.0 :•!•1 ttlinoi., Indiana, Onio, Mehl
slid Minnesota aro linked
o
..••. • e a .•• nle Ay, lake and river connee
.
.r 7 , 1 , was , leen warningly Impro
, .:••e 3110kit3.1.V.41 of magic. Their produc
r,i: , ~cO, rattle, and the useful metals,
t—r, r^ , l iced, have covered their broad
r. t inti ~ o,s of wealthy and prosperonn popn-
1' • no better index of progress of civilization
ardong a people than that Waisted by its artificial
means of transit, and in this respect these Rates are
quite up to the progress of the age. In 1848, Great
Britian had 5,127 miles of railway, and we had 6,682
miles. In 1862 Great Britian had 11,551 miles,
showing an increase in fourteen years of 125 per
cent. At the same time the tnited States' miles
had risen to 31,769, showing an Increase of 459 per
cent. lint this increase, large as It is, by no means
measures the growth of our Internal commerce,
for our railroads are doing more business, and quite
generally many times more business per mile than
they did in 1848. The growth of lathe per mile is
not less remarkable than the Increase in miles of
line. In 1861, the total miles In ail lands was 69,-
072; of which the United States had TA. 263, or ve
ry nearly one-half Our progress hereafter In these
improvements will be measured with no one nation,
but rather with the world. We have now between
the sea-board and the West nine distinct avenues of
transportation, besides many parts of lines covering
portions of the route.
A greet empire still, the vast region west of the
%needslppl, is rapidly emerging from Its chrysalis
state. It atzetches through sixteen parallels of lati
tude anti seventeen of longitude, and embraces one
million of square miles. Of this region St. Louis is
the natural eastern entrepnrt from which flow the
MissOuri,ttavigablefor 3,000 miles,and theMialissippi,
extending north IXIO miles. The next five years
' , rill Witness a migration of men and capital thither
ward without parallel in modern history. Its min
eral and agricultural resources defy the cunning of
statistics. Even during the great rebellion it has
advanced with amazing strides. Raven hundred
steamers now fiord the Mississippi, and a large com
merce already exists between St. Louis and the ex
treme northern territory, Idaho. That great enter
prise of the age, the Pacific Railroad, which will
connect the golden elopes of the Pacific with the
Atlantlo sea board, Is being pushed forward with all
possible energy, at both ends. It takes up the rail
way connection finished 340 miles west of St. Louis,
and is advancing to the Rocky Mountain passes.
When even I.artistly completed, say 800 miles at
either end, it will Open a region of gold, sliver and
other mineral wealth, compared with which the
diamonds ofßoleon da the minveof Potosi and.Mexice,
and all the fabled treasures of Eastern story, will be
as nothing. How truly, "Westward the star of
Empire takes Its way."
FAULT.FINDI7.O Wrrte CIIILTREN—A flint to Rae
mit—Bins. H. B. Stowe, in the Atlantic Monthly,
has done a good service for both parents and child
ren in exposing this common mistake. The follow
ing extract conveys the pitch of her views on the
subject:
" Childrea aro more hurt by Indiscriminate,
thoughtless fault-finding then by any other one
thing. Often a child has ail the sensitiveness and
all the susceptibility of grown persons, added to the
faults of childhood. Nothing about him is right a s
yet; he Is immature and falsity at all points, and ev•
erybody feels at perfect liberty to criticise him to
right and left, above and below, till he takes relbge
in callous hardness or Irritable moroseness
" A bright, noisy boy rushes in from school, eager
to tell his mother something ho has in his heart, and
Number One cries out : "0, you've left the door
open' lAn wish you wouldn't always leave the
door open! And do look at the mud on your shore !
flow many times must ! tell you to wipeyour feet?'
—" Now, there you've thrown your cap on the
sofa again. When will you learn to hang it up?"
—" Don't put your slate there; that Isn't the
place for It. Haw dirty your bands are! what have
you been doing ?"—" Don't sit In that chair,
you herek the ridings bouncing."—" Mercy.
how your halt looks ! Do go op stairs and comb It."
—" There, it you haven't torn all the braid off
your coat! Dear me, what a boy !"—" Don't
Speak ec loud ; your voice goes through my bead."
—" I watt to know, Jim, if It was you that
broke tip that barrel that I have been saving for
brown dour."—" I believe it was you, Jim, that
hacked the site of my razor "—" Jim's been
writing at my desk, and blotted three sheets of the
belt paper l" Now, the question is, if any of the
grown people oft he (ninny had to run the gauntlet
of a eu , .. h crl: id,als themselves equally true
at thee, that salute La lucky Jon, would they be any
is lured about it than hu is? No; but they
07.. grown up peopl , .; they have rights that othcra
are bound to respect. Everybody cannot tell them
exactly what he thinks about everything they do.—
If ever] one did, would there not be terrible rear.
lions
1300109 U Boos AND GIRT.9.—DId you over see a
well-di - eased boy or girl compel poor woman car
rying a I , lis basket or bundle to step off the side
walk I ' , RTC, and I been also seen a glossy-coated
boy or a silk-clad miss give such poor person a look
of scorn which seemed to say:
"I am china, you arc deli. Get out of my way!
How dare you presume to stand In my path!'
You civilized little boor," I have said to myself
at such a sight '• you haven't a particle of politeness
In you. If you had, you would pity that burdened
woman and get out of her way."
If I have such an impolite boy or' girl among my
readers I wish he would take a Mason from the life
ni Napoleon. When he was on the Island of St.
Helena he walked out with a lady one day. A poor
man with a heavy pack met theta The lady kept
straight on, but the ex emperor gently waved her
on one aide saying:
Respect the burden madam."
"Respect the burden I" That's a good motto. Yon
will find that most of your schoolmates and friends
carry burdens of some sort Not on their backs,
perhaps, but In their hearts. 'Little .1511t,ggie, for ex
ample, carries a burden of bashfulness. Respect It
by being kind and gentle to the little dean s. Your
friend Robert whom you call a alnw coach," car
ries a burden of dullness. Respect It by explaining
his lesson to him. Your mother carries a burden of
sickness, your father of care and work. Respect
their burdens by giving them love, and obedience,
and help. In short you must respect everybody's
burden whom you know, and thus help make the
world happier. Do you understand? Yes! Very
good. Then mind you respect the burden! -9. B.
Advocate.
?mammal. Jawnro.—A few days since, writes
an attorney, as I was ailing with brother C— Ln
his office in Court Square, • client came in and
said :
"'Squire, D— W—,the Mahler, shaved me
dreadfully, yesterday, an d want to come up with
him.
"State your case," says
Client—" I asked him how much he'd charge me
for a horse to go to Delham. He said one dollar
and a half. I paid him one dollar and a half, and
he said he wanted another dollar and a half for com
ing bac k, and made me pay IL"
gave him some legal advice, which the
client immediately acted upon as follows:
He went to the stabler and said :
"How mach will you charge me for a horse and
wagon to go to Salem r
Stabler replied, " Five dollars."
Hamera him rm."
Clleatosent to Salem, came back by railroad,
went to t h e stable saying—
" Hero is your money," paying him Ave dol
lars.
" Where Is my horse and wagon?" says W—.
"He le at Salem," says client, "I only hired him
to go to Salem."
Bs YOUR OWN Rtouv HAND KAN.—People who
have been bolstered np and levered all their uves
are seldom good for anything In a crisis. When
misfortune comes, they loot around for something
to lean upon. If the prop is not there, down they
go. Once down, they aro ss helpless as capsised
turtles, or unhorsed men in armor, and cannot find
their feet again without assistance. Such silken
fellows no more resemble self-made men, who have
fought their way to position, making difficulties
their stepping stones, and deriving determination
from defeat, than vines reusable oaks, or sputtering
rueblighta the stars of heaven. Efforts persisted In
to achievements train a man to self-reliance, and
when he has proved to the world that he can trust
himself, the world will trust him.
We say, therefore, that it Is unwise to deprive
young men of the advantar,cs which result from
their energetic action, by a - 1)0001E1g" them over
obstacles which they ought to surmount alone.
Wuo'a HIT ?—Rov. J. Hyatt Smith, of Philadel
phia, 1,, nn address to his people, add " I have
br.tri enure pronounced upon President Lincoln
beciubo rtrfrei a theatre. My friends, I look
upon a patriot in a theater u better than a copper
head at a prnycr meeting."
rTo in, did Mrs. Green get the medicine I or.
dereA
6. j awe
"eon" replied John, " I eaw crape on the
doq,,the P 13;0;04."
DESERTED.
The river flowed past with the light on its breast,
And the weeds went eddying by,
And the round red sun esok down in the west
When my love's loving Ups to my lips were prest,
Under the evening sky.
Now weeping gene by the river I stray,
For my love he has lett me this many a day,
Left me to droop and din!
As the river ftow'd then„the river flows sWl—
ripple and foam and'apray—
On by the church, and round by the bill,
And under the sluice of the old burnt mill,
And out. of the Laing d a y.
But I love it no more, for delight grows cold
When the song Is sung, and the tale is told,
And the heart is given away.
Oh, river, run far! Oh, river, run fast I
Oh, weeds, float out to the lea!
Fur the sun has gone down on my beautiful put,
And the hopes like bread on the water I cast
Rave drifted away like thee!
8o the dream It is fled, and the day it is done,
And my Ups still mnrmar the oh - tae of one
Who will never comu back to me!
SEEPING TAVERN DOWN BELOW ;
- OR
SQUARE BALL AND /RS CUSTOMERS
In the town of Kingston, and State of -, there
was a tavern-keeper by the name of Ball. He was
en may well-to-do sort of mac, who had a longing
to be rich. He had not always been a publican ;
when he started In way a farmer, and he still
kept his fain and raised most of the matters from
It which he wanted for his family nee As this fann
ing brought him very little ready money, he took It
into his head to try some other way of adding to
his Income.
Re lived on the Comm, near the meeting.house,
and while the store and the blacksmith's shop, and
post-office, and a dozen other estanltshments were
right there, they had no tavern. Mr. Ball wastempt
ed to hang out a edmn, and add the alluring words,
" gotertainment lot man and beast," which was
common on a tavern sign in thatl.rt of the coun
try, gig - allying that super people and drunkardu
could both be entertained :here.
He thought there was DO harm In selling rum, es
pecially as he was a member of the Church; he
kept a Bible In his Bar, and often talked to his cot
ton:tent of the blessedness of religion, and the value
of the hope of heaven which he had indulged In ev
er since be was a boy. It was Squire Ball's custom,
(for he was a justice of the peace, and, therefore,
called the Squire, by everybody,) to close his bar
room at ten o'clock every night, unless the rnn of
bush:mit at the bar made it expedient to dispense
with the custom; bat on ordinary occasions he was
wont to stoat up at ten, and when ail were gone he
would take his Bible and read a chapter, and then
he would kneel down and pray with an loud a voice
that be could be heard by the neighbors for a con•
siderable distance around ; so he wee sure they
knew he was a praying man. He got a name for
this ; and as it was known that he prayed In the bar
room, where he sold his rum, it was reasonable to
Infer that the Squire was a very conscientious man
in business. Certainly he would not pray hi his bar
room, and so loud too, unless he feared God, and
meant to keep his commandments.
One night there was quite an affray in the Squire's
har-room. Some of his customers were more than
usually excited. Two of them were so drunk that
he put them out of the house, and when they sought
to return he drove them off with a horse-whip.—
And those who were not quite so drunk, were even
the most turbulent. They finally proceeded from
load words to fighting, and one of them was beaten
so badly that they were obliged to carry him home
helpless and bleeding.
It was nearly midnight before the room was clear,
and the landlord had more thirst for liquor than for
the Bible or prayer, when the house was still. He
would have gone off to htll as soon as he had locket
up, but the force of habit Is as strong sometime!, lu
good as evil, and he could not be easy at heart if be
should neglect his chapter and his prayer. So he
took dowb the book, and opening It at random, he
read the chapter which contains these words—" So
drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of Gott" They
seemed to glisten as he read them—those words did.
What did they mean?
He had begun to think over the drunkards whom
he had known, and who had died. He called up
their names ; he began to grow confused In his mem
ory, and to help hims-If on lb the work he had an
dertakce, he took down the hook of Dr. and Cr., in
which he had for years kept a running amount with
nis neighbors. There were many who had once
stood in his bar, and now they were In ettamity.—
They had died drunkards. And the Bible told him
they had not gone to heaven—they mast be In bell.
He looked over the list, and asked himself, Wes
Ulla man a drunkard? And fhia man?" And Mr.
Bail would try to recollect how they looked the beat
time they were In bit her; and ore after another
would come back to his memory, and soon a whole
group of them was there, a horrid group! dead
drunkard• ! for he had seen them all dead.
And now, when they rote to his view, they teem
ed to come from the grave and from hell ; they
laughed fiercely and swore terribly, and roared as if
they were beasts let loose. They wanted something
to drink, and would ha%e it ; and when the Squire
remonstrated with them, and told them that they
had been drinking already, and that be never sold
liquor to men after they had enough, they leaped to
the bar and helped themselves; and one of theta
leaped astride the shoulders of the landlord, and an.
other threw the Bible at Ma head ; and then they
made a great uproar, like that which had marked
the fluky Nat of the evening, until the Squire rose
up in wrath, and ordered them to quit the house.
Instantly they rushed ripen Lim like so many devils,
and seized him in their arms, and asked him, as they
hors him away, how he would like to keep a tavern
in lid!
Before be had time to recover himself, or Indeed
to get his breath so as to be able to speak, he felt
himself flying through the air on the fiery wings of
steeds, and then down, down he sunk, with his
bar-room company, WI at last, alter an boor of rapid
travel downward, he was suddenly pitched into a
world of darkness, so black that he could feel it„—
And strangely enough, he could see that this dark
world wee inhabited, for the people were like so
many names moving madly amid the dismal gloom ;
and he conid hear chain, rattling es the people
crowded along, so that he was soon convinmd that
he was in the world of despair. Here he wits to keep
tavern
The old customers who had brought him, had
been sent as a committee to end the right sort of e
man to keep tavern in hell ; for they often declared
there was no man doing so good a business as Squire
Ball, or who had so many quslifleations for the high
honor of belugthe landlord of the hosts of the prince
of darkness.
He was instantly and duly installed In office, and
commenced dealing out spirits to the spirits in prli
on.. But his surprise was great, and his confusion
truly pitiable, when he recognized in every enatom
er that came Into Ms bar the faces he bad known in
Kingston, and all of them his neighbors and their
families.
" Ile I Squire Ball, is that you ?" said a fierce
looking man, who came for a drink ; " when did
you come t"
The Squire perceived in tke new comer • man to
whom he had sold liquor for fifteen years, and who
had died in the poor-house. He was amber, decent,
Industrious man when the landlord of Kingston first
tempted him to taste a dram, and his progress le
the downward mad had become sore and rapid tram
that day.
Next came a female fury, a lost woman, a wild
spirit who dew at him as she entered his infernal
tavern, and reproached him as the cause of her ruin
and that of her family.
" Bet for you," said she, in a shrill, clear voice
that piereed his ear like a knife, " but for you I
might be an angel in Heaven , and now I am a do
mon in Hell. Yon made my husband a drunkard,
and 'now we are both of us here."
The Squire was speechless. What could he say?
Ills face blazed red with theme, and ha tried to find
some words of excuse, but In vain. At last he
thought of his and gathered courage to say:
" Didn't I often tell you that you must repent of
your sins, or you weald never go to Beacon ?"
"Yes, I know you did, and I have beard you pray
ing half a mile off; hut what good do von suppose
the preaching or praying of a rum-teller would do?
All you wanted was to get the money for your liquor,
and it was nothing to you what became of the souls
of your customers. But I am glad thatyon are here
at last. I never wanted to see anybody here as much
as you. Did you hring your Bible with you, Squire?"
No," said he, "I came away in great hurry.
Indeed, I had no thought of coming at all, but was
seized In a moment when I had no; expectation of
being summoned away, and was bght bent !against
my will; I do not see how I waaw rou anted here.
" Why yon were wanted? You were wanted that
yo - t might see the fruits of your doings, the end of
your labor; and that you might feel the tires you
have kindled for the souls you have destroyed.—
You have come to your own place, and you will
know what it is to be agent of 'Devil on earth,
and his slave In hell. I. am glad you are here."
While this wretched woman was raving and eon-
log, a troop of spirits rushed Ifito the infernal tavern,
and whom should the astonished publican behold
but the company who had been at his tavern In
Kingston the day before; and among them at the
head, were the two whom he bad driven away from
his door, after they had become so drunk that h
could bear them no bnker. In they came,
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mese of the pit ; and a s they mitered, they gave time
cheers for the landlord, that made the whole mina
of darkness ring with horror.
" Why, you are hero before us," cried ono album
Caueht you too!" said ano th er.
__ _ _ .
G. Thin i the place for you su d your business."
" You'll make money here, and get My In Mil
own coln," said another.
. .
And so they went on Jeering him until his watts
was kindled beyond measure, and he began to storm
in reply. And then they laughed.
" Why, yon can't hurt us now. We have as
a right here as you, and If you wish to have it all to
yourself, we only wish you could. Btit yon sent as
here. and now we most have yogi company
The Squire sunk down with shame and remorse.
Ile saw ids own work. These were his victims.—
Once they were his neighbors, honest, Industrious
men, until they begun to frequent his house, and
then they grew worse and worse, till they became
quarrelsome, noisy, profane, Sabbath•breshing men,
and now they were In hell, and he among them,
where he deserved to be.
Then the epirita of all the men wheitit he tart
murdered by selling rum, came thronging around
'him, and he wished - that he wee blind, so that he
could not see them ; or deaf, that he could not bear
them ; but when ho shut his eyes he could sat them
still, and be could hear them when hie cue wars
stopped. It was terrible to the poor *wretch, tad he
ins
ebrieked with agony ; and as he shriakedawoke I
The verso he had put read about driankardis bad
bold of bis imagination, and away he bad been borne
to the region's of dark devair. And, as he awoke.
the memory aids dream was all fresh and terrible,:
It was some time before he could persuade himself
that it was a dream. Ile bad been asleep perhaps
an hour, and the scenes through which be had pear
ed were Impressed upon his mind Indelibly. They
were written there with a pen of tiro
Though it woe a dream, it wee truth he bad seen
and beard ; and ho knew that this lesson wu for
his warning and coun.seL
The landlord took ble lamp, now burning dimly,
and finding hie way from the bar-room, weal to bed,
but not to rleep. Theft. wig no rest for him that
night. He toes-d upon his pillow, till his wile was
awaked by his restlesenes's,and begged to know what
.2 .4 the matter. He told her the terrible dream ha
had In the bar-room, and confessed he looked upon
it as the voice of God, that bad come to warn him
to cease from hie wicked work in which holm en.
gaged, that of waking drunkards, and abutting them
out of the kingdom of God.
" I have told you a hundred times," assid his wife,
"that this business was a wicked one, and that 1
wished you would give It up. It la an awful thing
to Mot: of, that we are killing our neighbors and
sending them down-to bell Let ns abut up the
tavern, and do something else for a living. For my
part, I would rather starve than live by nicking
drunkards"
" And 1 have thought that ft must be a bad busi
ness that does no good, and certainly leads many to
poverty, and, If there is any truth In a dream, that
leads them to hell. I have half a mind to takedown
the arta, and never cell another drop of liquor.
" Do, Mr. Ball do give it op. Here's the farm ;
we can get a living from that ; and I'll work my
fingers off, if you will only quit the bar."
And, after some further deliberation of this sort,
it was mutually agreed that there should be tumors
tavern-keeping in the home, and this resolution
having been once taken, the landlord and his wile
went to sleep, and slept till a very late hour In the
morning.
And when the inn rose up, the Squire 'stirred
himself about the house; he waited quietly for Ids
breakfast, summoning his family to worship, which
ho had seldom found time to do before, and stepped
Into the her-room to get his Bible. But just as he
enured, be heard a loud knock at the door.
"I say, SqulrP, are you sick to day ? Why don't
you open the door ?"
The landlord ratsed the window, and throwing
open a shutter, put his head out and said:
" We are not sick, exactly, but we are sick of Gell
in rum. This tavern doesn't go any more I"
The disappointed customer was frigh toned.
" Why, filpire, you're crazy," be ventured to say.
" Not so crazy as you think," said the landlord,
" rvel.ernf.d a lesson at tot, and have come L to the
conclusion that making drunkards Is no business for
me at all !"
And so he did- lie took down his sign that day,
and saved his tool from any thither mall?, In the
damnation of his fallow-men. CArtittaa Perior
Ham:vine.
Dn. Dto Luis-is—hear Sir stranger, 11 address
you on a subject vitally connected with the interests
of the race ; at any rate, of that portion, claimingto
be civilized and enlightened—yes, even ideal and ar
tistic. Some time ago, I read In the Liberator your
letter to women, on the importance of well-dresdni„
and protecting the feet and limbs, for which I thank
you most heartily. I have waited, hoping that some
one would respond, and also ask von this question-s
-can you not reach onr fashionable woman on the
subject oftight dressing, and through them, the
'rows who follow ? This question involves, to some
extent, the wellbeing of the world. The women of
America are committing deliberate suicide by com
pression of the vital organs; I say deliberate, for
onewould think enough had been said and written
by physiologists to have warned our women against
disease and death on the one hand, and to have
charmed them into admiration of nature's work
manship on the other, to have resolved them to be
no longer guilty of violating these laws of phyaical
growth and health. But, through ignorance, or
pride, or false Ideas of beauty, they are led on to
commit the same folly and the unto crime with
those who have suffered before them ; and so will
have to incur the same penalties, and pars through
the same bitter experiences.
At theSionteagle Hotel, Niagara, where Ispent
a Sunday ay= ego, I saw , ray twenty, young mar
ried women—evidently the pride of Oak husbands
—with fair forms generously moulded by nature, but
their waists so distorted by art, that without doubt
my hands and one of theirs would have much more
than spanned some of them; While others, it seem
ed, I could easily clasp myself with outstretched
fingers. It was a painfully sad sight to me, and I
could have preached a sermon, if that had been the
time and place, and (f I bad been the person. No,
no—the last (/stands right in the way; It needs,
perhapa, a man ; at any rate, • distinguished phys
iologist and advocate of the laws of health, and who
has been auccessfol. " Nothing succeeds like suc
cess," nye Emerson ; and your system of gymnas
tics is taught the country , over—fuhlonable women
and men practise, and send their children to learn
the health-giving exercise. Now, will yon not speak
to onr women and rebuke them for this flagrant
I disobedience to the laws of their being, and this
barbarous outrage upon true Ideals of beauty ? As
charitable as possible, I will believe that many need
information and teaching; that they are nut aware
or the extent of their sinning •• and if they could
Mies be set thinking, they would arouse themselves
to bring about a reform.
It needs no prophet or astrologer to read the hor
oscope of the young women mentioned, together
with tenaof thousands all over our land, ea well ea
in PranCe and England. A sensible, observing
mother, In middle life, might see them a few years
hence (and a very few) faded, diseased, perhaps for
rowing, either watching over diseased - and dying
babes, mourning those that were gone, or looking
forward to the wasting and going nut of their own
lives, so that they must leave their helpless treas
ures bellind. Ob !if these young wives could feel,
for one moment, in their souls, the trammel:dent
joys of motherhood, nothing could tempt them so
to barter away their birthright for the applause of
vanity and folly, and for the sake of compliance With
false standards of taste.
This is s constantly increasing evil, gaining by
fashion very much within a few years, and Increas
ing also by Inheritance. It needs attention of VIP
Octane, physiologists, and conscientious men and
women everywhere. It Is a vital and serious qua
lion ; and I most earnestly wish that you who hors
spoken to women of subjects so intimately connect
ed with this, would loud your influence to advance
a reform, compared with which t to me, all other
" dress reforms " shrink Into inalgnigcance.
Respectfully yours,
CLTILLEINII A. F. flrazonre.
Pfr Charles Lamb tells his sad experience, as a
warning to young men. in the following language t
The waters have gone over me. But out of the
black depths, could I es heard, I would cry out to
all those who have act a foot in the perilous flood.
Could the youth to whom the flavor of the drat wine
is delicious ea the opening scenes of life, or the en
tering upon some newly discovered paradise, look
into my desolation, and be made to understand
what a dreary thing it is when ha shall feel himself
going down a precipice, with open eyes and a pass
ive will, to his destruction, and two no human
power to stop it, and yet feel kali the way emanat
ing from himself; to see all godliness emptied nut
of him, and yet not able to forget a time when It wan
otherwise ; to bear about the piteous spectacle of
hie own ruin; could be see my 'fevered eye, leireialt
with the last night's drinking, sod feverishly look
ing for to-night's repetion of the folly; could he
but feel the body, of the death out of witich.l cry
hourly With feebler outcry to be delivered. It were
enough to mate bim dash the sparkling betting*
to the earth, In all the pride of its mantling tempt
ation, • • . •
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