The Montrose Democrat. (Montrose, Pa.) 1849-1876, February 27, 1866, Image 2

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    to control the action of this numerous
class, and to use them for the attainment
of his owniolitical ende. .
I cannot but add "another very grave
objection to the bill. The Constitution
imperatively declares,_ in connection with
taxation, that each State shall bar:, at
least one representatives and fixes-the rule
for the number tho' which. in future times
etch State shall be entitled; it also pro
vides that the Senate of the U. States,
shall be composed of two Senators from
each State, nod adds with peculiar fore!,
that no State, witheuk . , its,
„,consent i .
lie depiiVed of its equal suffrage in the
Senate. T4e original act, was necessarily
passed in the absence Of the States chiefly
to lie affected, because their people were
then contumaciously engaged in the er
bellion.
Now - the case is changed, and some,
at least, of the States are attending Con
gress by loyal representation soliciting
the allowance of the constitutional right
of representation. At the time, however,
of the consideration and the passing of
this bill, there was no Senator or Repre
sentative in Congress from the eleven
States which are to be mainly affected by
its provisions. The. very fact that reports
were and are made against the good dis
position of the country is an additional
reason why they need and should have
representation in Congress, to explain
their condition, reply to accusations, and
assisted by their local knowledge in per
fecting measures immediately affecting
themselves, while the liberty of delibera
tion would then be free snd Congress
would have full power to decide according
to its judgment, there could be no objec
tion urged that the States most interested
had not - been permitted to behe.ard. The
principle is firmly fixed in the minds of
the American people that there should
be no taxation without representation.
Great burdens have , now to be borne by
all the country, and we may best demand
that they shall be borne without murmur ,
when they are voted by a majority of the
representatives of all the peokle. I would
not interfere with the unquestionable right
of Congress to judge and act for itself of
the elections, returns and qualifications of
its own members, but that authority can
not be construed as including the right to
shut out, in time of peace, any State from
the representation to which it is entitled
by the Constitution at present.
All the people of eleven , States are ex
cluded; those who were most faithltil dry
ring the war not less than others. The
State of . Tennessee, for instance, whose
authorities engaged in rebellion, was re
stored to- all her constitutional relations
to the Union by the patriotism and ener
gy of her injured and betrayed people.
Before the war was brought to a termi
'laden they had placed themselves in re
lation with the General Government; had
established a State Government of their
own, and as they were not included in the
emancipation proclamation, they, by their
own a et_hafj, mnded_ 7*
tio - na - to abonsu slavery Wlllllll the limits
of theirown State.
I know no reason why the State of Ten
nessee, for example, should not fully en
j.,y all her constitutional relations to the
United States. The President or the
United Statei stands towards the coun
try in a somewhat different attitude from
that of any member of Congress chosen
from a single district or State. The Pres
ident is chosen by the people of all the
States. Eleven States are not at this
time represented in either branch of Con
gress, and it would seem to be his duty,
on all proper occasions, to present their
just claims to Congress. •
There always will be differences of opin
ion in the community, and individuals
may be guilty of transgressions of thelaw;
but these do not constitute valid objec
tions against the right, of a State to rep
resentaion, and would in no wise inter
fere with thd discretion of Congress with
regard to the qualifications of members,
but I hold it my duty to recommend to
you in the interests of peace, and in the
interest of the Union, the admission of ev
ery State to its share in public legislation
when, however insubordinate,
.insurgent
or rebellions its people may have been, it
loesents itself not only in an attitude of
yalty and harmony, but in the persons
of representatives whose loyalty 'cannot
be questiened under any existing consti
tutional of legal tests. ,
It is plain that an indefinite or perma
nent exclusion of any part of the country
from representation must be attended by
a spirit of disquiet .and complaint. It to
unwise and dangerous to pursue a course.
of measures which will unite a very large
section of the country againstanotbersee
tion of the country, however,mtich the
latter may preponderate: The course of
emigration,the ',development of industry
and busineswand natural • causes will raise
up.at..the -South .men ao•devoted to tilt)
Union as those of any other part of the
land. ,But if they are alt excluded- from
Congress,• if in a ! permanent statute they
are declared not to be in full constitution
al :relations to the country, theyinay think
they have cause to becomoa unit in feel
ing and sentiment aeainstthe government.
Under the political education 'at Amen
ie.sa people, the idea is:inherent and ine
radicable that the consent of tbe majority
ofthe whole people is necessary tosecure
a 'willing-acquiescence in legislation:- t•
The bill under coutideration. refers:. to
certain.. f tlnOtates as though .they had
bgen,fully . xestgred 'in all tlieir.constitit,
tiOnaLre,lattons to the •Uriited Statesfi'-' If
thez,,havo.PoOet- us at once act together
t ccfgerge that, desirable•end at theearliest,
possible metneJA.,:lt Y.nPqf:E•fiM
for 4 ne 4iforrlA 09 13 ggssUkat!gilnY 0 *r4-
judgumt rirost of- thoso States, eo, fax at .
leasplependent on _their owpfictioe,)liee
nlreasliheen fully'restereily aitd,, are to be
•deetried,as e•ntitled..t t o ;enjoy s heir coned-
tutiA l 4o,o B As. memberstof , th4r olo XL
114asenuerem•the ,•ComititutiOn iteql4.
and frottt the actual situation of the
try, I feel not only entitled but bound to
assume that with the Federal 'courts re
stored, and those of the several States iu
the full exercise of their functions,
the
rights and interests of all-classeS of the
people will, with the! aid of the military,
in eases of resistance to the law,lie essen
tially protected against unconstitutional
infringement and violatiOn.
Should this expectation unhappily fail,
which I do not anticipate, then the Exec
utive is already fully armed with thepow
ers conferred by the act of March, 1865,
establishing the Freedmen's Bureau, and
Ileireafie r, ne iiiretofore; - he'Cab 'employ
the land and naval forces of the country
to suppress insurrection, or to overcome
obstructions to the laws, in accordance
with the Constitution.
I return the bill to the Senate in the
earnest hope that a measure involving
questions and interests so - important to
the country will not become a law, un
less upon deliberate consultation by the
people it shall receive the sanction of an
enlightened public judgment.
ANDUHW JOHNSON.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 19, 1866.
(Wrest ptmotrat.
A. J, GMRITSON, - - - - Editor.
TUESDAY, FEB. 27, 1866.
The Veto Message, No. 1.
We take pleasure in presenting the ve
to message to our readers, entire, in this
paper,, hoping all will read it carefully. As
stated by the President., the main objec
tions to the bill are: ft, gives too much
power to the Executive ; it is too expen
sive and burdensome
. h is unnecessary-;
ik was ; assed in the absence of represen.
tation of the .States chiefly to be affected
by it ; and, finally, it' is unconstitutional.
AS the negro bureau organs, will not
dare print thelnessage, but congeal its
wholesome truths from their readers, we
suggest that our friends will lend this pa
.per to their Republican neighbors, that
they may be enabled to see some of the
mums of their party.
Of course this is only veto message No.
1; Nos. 2,3, etc., will follow as fast as
the:fanatics darb force the issues upon
their " beloed President."
The Cabinet and the Veto.
A special despatch to the shoddy In
quirer says:
"It is now definitely ascertained that
Messrs. Harlan, Stanton and Speed oppos
ed the President's veto message; while
Messr3. McCtilltich, Welles and Sewsird
gin "Wang, and Mr.
Dennison gave in his adhesion to the
measure but a few days since. No resig
nations of members of- the Cabinet have
been sent in yet, nor is there any immedi
ate probability of any."
Of course not ; Stanton gt Co. don't
belong to the class of men who leave
where they are not wanted, until they
are told to go. But their time'will come.
Rejoicings of the People.
The President's veto of the Negro
Boarding-house Bureau bill has aroused
the most' unbounded enthusiasm for its
author in every city, town and village in
the North from which we have had any
intelligence. The salutes fired, the shouts,
the speeches, the ringing of bells, the de
monstrations of joy of every kind which
have taken place, testify unmistakably
how deeply the people feel upon the sub
ject of maintaining the old Constitution
and the original form of our Republic
against the innovations, the encroach
meats, and graspings after power, of those
revolutionary spirits who have unfortun
ately succeeded 'to a• monopoly of one
branch of the government.
On the other hand, the mortification
visible on the faces, and the mutterings
heard from the lips of the, partisans of. the
Stevens-Sumner school are unmistakable of
smothered wrath, which, sooner or later,
will burst forth with volcanic force, but
impotent for evil. ,
God speed the. President in the good
work commenced. Let the Union be re
stored under the' rule of White Men—as
it was founded, Maintained; and intended
to be eternally continued; let peace, and
prosperity, and harmony prevail universal
ly; Mid Democracy will everywhere re
joice, for to thOse ends alone have all its
enaties been directed,,and to these only
have itsiminutable principles pointed the
- 13$3gbpAzg of , t#o' .End:
Th,PPriddelit's-V9P, and ' ibajr4it - -
eifert, of - WA party,, to pass! the
1:41I over tit; is hot - Abe-beginning ; of
the efid. rTfO3 l) stein' in Congrese
rai4; the t tiod or
COWXIIII* 91,thkmajo,nty, or, by, the slaw
eringrof that'. partylto atom. , ;Let the
radieele eontiOttelle - war if tberdafe4 it
tir:Opleto - tbkbidOe
til9: l) :fil9A 7l r :te#Ot 044tie0 , or
shOlito le Africeimeafino,Oeftroye#
The result cannot be.dbubtfui. Ile 'White
men 4ill tiegra
piity froth p ower.
Congress and thd Veto.
The radicals had hoped that Mr. John
son, Lincoln-like, could be ootti`ed or scold
ed:into all their measures, right or wrong
—therefore the burean-makers were as
much astonished and enraged' when the
President smashed their piece of furni
ture, as the UNioN men were gratified.—
The nett day, after Trumbull had made a
tierce speech condemning the veto, the
question being celled for, the chair an
flounced. that...it-was: "Shall the bilLpasf l / 2 -
the President's objections notwithstand
ing?" Upon which the yeas and nays
were required by the Constitution. The
vote wait as' follows; :.
Yeas—Messrs. Anthony, Brown; Chand
ler, Comaess, Cragin, Cresswell, Fessen
den, Foster, Grimes, Harris, Henderson,
Howard, Howe, Kirkwood, Lane of Indi
ana, Lane of Kansas, Morrill, Nye, Po
land, Pomeroy,Ramsey,Sherman,Sprague,
Sumner, Trumbull, Wade, Williams,Wil
son, Yates-30.
Nays—Messrs. Ruckalew,Cowan,Davis,
Dixon, Doolittle, Guthrie, Hendricks,
Johnson, McDougal, Morgan, Nesmith,
Norton, Riddle, Saulsbury, Stockton,Stew
art, Van Winkle, Willey-18.
Absent, Messrs. Foot and Wright.
(Republicans voting nay, in italics.)
And so falls the negro boarding house;
a two-thirds vote in both branches being
required to overcome the veto.
Not content with their defeat, the rad-
icals at once offered, in the" Senate, an .
amendment to the Constitution to prevent
Andrew Johnson (or any other man) from
being re-elected President ; and this for
the purpose, we presume, of testifying
their undying hatred of the man who re
fuses tii - jogstitute himself, his oath of of-
See, and' the Constitution, at, their bid
ding.
In , the House; Thad Stevens,' to show
his anger at the President for having, in
the message, made complaint that the
South was wrongly excluded from Con
gress, offered a resolution that no South
ern man should be admitted until Con
gress shall see fit to so o declare ; which
was passed under the gag-rale. The
friends of the President and the Union of
fered an amendment favoring the admisr
sion of members from the President's
own State, upon taking the oath ; but
this was rejected by the majority who are
the enemies alike of the President, the
white race,`and the Union.
The Dead Duck Party.
The Dead Duck—as•the President calla
Forney cto.,—managers of the negro par
ty hold a state convention next week to
nominate a whipped candidate for Gover
nor, and unless as cowardly as fanatica l l,
will show their hands on the issues of the
day. "Lame Ducks," are common in po
litical puddles, but "Dead Ducks" are a
new variety, which of late have been fed
by Andy Johnson, who can't endure 'em
any longer. The title is not only appli
cable to the flat-footed and flat-nosed
features of the darkey-party, but is signifi
cant of the fact that the party leaders,
having committed suicide, remain to be
buried, and at the funeral Johnson will
be sexton, not mourner.
Andrew Jackson—Andrew Johnson.
When Andrew Johnson became Presi
dent, the Montrose Republican, which then
supported him, predicted that he would be
a second Andrew Jackson. If that paper,
which now opposes him, will DARE to print
his recent utterances, its readers can see
how far the prediction is being realized.
But we fear that paper will continue to
deprive its readers of a knowledge of the
President's opinions.
D. D.—Forney having classed Presid't
Johnson with Jeff Davis, he rewards J.
W. with the title of D, D.
iMournment of the Legislature.
The Legislature of Pennsylvania has
adjourned over from the 16th to the 27th
instant, eleven days. Meanwhile their
pay goes on at. the rate of about twenty
dollars a day.
This adjournment costs the State at
least forty thousand dollars, and the time
covers about one-fourth of the working
days of the session. It. is simply a great
outrage 0)2 the tax-payers of the State.—
What is the reason of it? If the Legisla
ture has no work to do, letit adjourn and
the members go hoine. -
We suspect the cause. The Republi-
Can majority want to spin out the session
unjil the new batch of constitutional
amendments can come before them and,
be sailed. Ilow . long .will , the people ,
submit .Lo .t his , ; conduct, on the part of
their., serva nts?': If they; i contippe much;
longer unchecked they will become our
masters.
—A , municipal election , was held at Syr-
Y.,-on Tuesday, resulting in the
choicanf a Derrideratio Mayor and Coun
cil. The veto message produced, thatrer
suit. •• ~ ;i ,
Sadie Kelley'ii lloittie bill erasing the
word "iihite" front the !dive or the 13is
titet of eoluiibia, and kitewn' as the Col-
Sutrreo, Writ3ned
the' Senete.—lticiterei di spatch.
Yes;
• Yeifind vetoed`! - •
ANDREW JOHNSON SPEARS-THE
LION ROUSED.
An immense ratification meeting was
held in Washington On Feb. 20, toen
dorse the President's. veto.
The Republican Senators who voted to
sustain the vetch-, and many Democrats
and other Union men were upon the plat
form., Speeches were made by.prominent
Democrats, such as S. S. Cos, Senator
Hendricks! and A.. J. Regers and- by
XPD.t.g.comM. Blair,..lOte -of _ Dir. Lincoln's
onbinet, and others. Resolutions were
adopted endorsing the rPresident, and
when the meeting adjourned, a committee
called upon the President to present the
resolutions, and the crowd followed to
serenade him. In response, the President
made a lengthy speech, of which we can
only copy. some paragraphs to-day ; but
they are enough show that the rupture
is complete—that the President accepts
the issue made by the enemy, and means
to fight it oat.
The President, as he appeared, was re
ceived with enthusiastic and long contin
ued applause. When it had subsided, he
spoke as follows:
TUE PRESIDICIT'S SPEECH.
Fellow citizens, for I presume I have a
right to address you as such, I come
to , tender to you my sincere thanks
for the approbation expressed by your
Committee in their personal addressand
in the resolutions submitted by them as
having been adopted by the meeting
which has been held in this city to-day.
These resoltitionS, us I . understand them,
are complimentary to the policy which
has been adopted by the' Administration,
and -has been `steadily pursued since it
came into power.iamfree to say to you it
is extremely gratifying to me to know that
on this occasion so large a portion of
my,fellow citizens approve and indorse
the policy which has been adopted and
which it is myintention shall be carried
out.' (Great applause.) That policy is
one which is intended to restore all the
States to their original relations to the
Federal Government of the United States.
(Renewed applause.)
* * * *
SLAVERY.
There was, in a portion of the Union, a
peculiar institution, of which some com
plained, and to which others were attach-
Cached. One portion of our countrymen
in the South advocated that institution,
while another portion in the North op
posed it.
EXTREME PAY:TIES.
The result was the forniation of extreme
parties, one especially in the South,which
reached a point at which it was proposed
to alssulVl3 i,he Union of the States tor the
purpose, as was said, of securing and pre
serving that peeuliar institution of the
South.
I say these things because I desire to
talk plainly and in familiar phraseology,
I assume nothing here to-day beyond the
position of a citizen ; one who has been
pleading for his country and the preserva
lion of the Constitution. (Immense cheer
ing.) These two parties, I say, were ar
rayed against e ich other,ancl I stand here
before you for the Union to-day, as I stood
in the Senate of the .United States in
1860 and 1861.
IN THE SENATE
I met there those who were making
war upon the Constitution, those who
wanted to disrupt the Govertnnent, and I
denounced them in my place then and
there, and exposed their true character. I
said that those who were engaged in the
work of breaking up the Government
were traitors. I have never ceased, on
all proper occasions, to repeat that senti
ment, and as far as my effort could go, I
have endeavored to carry it out. (Great
applause.) I have just remarked that
there were two parties, one of which was
for destroying the Government and sepa
rating the Union, in order to preserve
slavery, and,the other for breaking up the
Government in order to destroy slavery.
True, the objects which they sought to
accomplish were different, so far as slave
ry was concerned, but they agreed in the
desire to break up the Government, the
precise thing to which I have always been
opposed, and whether distmionists come
from the South or from the North, I
stand now as I stood then, vindicating
the Union of these States and the Consti
tution of my country. (Tremendous ap
plause.)
• •
PRESENT STATE OF AFFAIRS
The rebellion has been put down by the
strong arm of the Government in the
field, but is that the only way in which
you can have rebellion P Our strug
gle was against an attempt to dissever
the Union, but almost before the smoke
of the battle-field has passed away, before
our brave men have all returned to their
homed and renewed the ties of affection
and love to their wives and their child
ren, we find - almost another rebellion in
augurate& , We pit down the foim'er
belliim in order to prnvent,the separation'
of-the States; to'prevent them from flying
off, and thereby changmgAhe' character
of our government and weakening its
posier,' but , when' that struggle; on our
part has been and' that attempt ,
hail' been put 'down,. we find now ''an effort'
to ioncentrate all power:hi the hands of a
few - atrthe'-FeOral head; and-Ithereby
bring . abont'anonsolidatied of the Gov
ernmenti , which is - equally'objectionablo;
with a separatinti. IVO'cifernus
TilE VAITITERII IRAITOIIB.
I to u . kht - traatols - titid'treason
South. I ppp9sqd' I) . aviE!es,_ th e
:Zioinbs; and' rong
ere, which-you can readily fill without my
repeating the names. Now, when I turn
round and'at the other end of the line
find
.men - , - rcare not-by what name you
calfthem, who stilt stand opposed to the
restoration of the Vnion of these States, I
am free to Say to you that I am still in
the' field. :.(Great' applauss.) am Still
for the preservation of the Union. "I am
still in favor of this great Government of
ours going on and on, and filling out its
destiny. (Great applause. Voices—give
us three names at the other end.)
I am called 'moo, to name three at the
other end of 41ine. lam talking to my
friends and fellow-citizens; who are inter
ested with me in this Government, and I
presume I am free to mention to you the
names of those to whom I look upon as
being opposed to the fundamental princi
ples of this Government, and who are la
boring to pervert and destroy it. (Voices,
" Name them I" "Who are they ?") The
President—You ask me who they are. I
say Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania, is
one • I say Mr. Sumner, of the Senate, is
another; and Wendell Phillips is anoth
er. (Long continued applause.) (Voices,
%,Otive it, to Forney I") The President—
In reply to that, I will simply say I do not
waste my ammunition npon dead ducks.
(Great laughter and applause.) I stand
for my country; I stand fur the Constitu
tion. There I have always placed my feet
from my advent to public life. They may
traduce, they may slander, they may vi
tupetate me, but let me say to you, all
this has no influence upon me. (Great
applause.)
Let me say further, that I do not in
tend to be overawed by real or pretend
ed friends, nor do I mean to be bullied by
enemies. (Tremendous applause.)
• • • •
Men may talk about beheading and
about usurpation, but when 1 am behead
ed I want the American people to be the
witnesses. Ido not want it, by inuendoes
and indirect remarks in high places, to be
suggested to men who have assassination
brooding in their bosom, there is a fit
subject.. Others have exclaimed that, the
Presidential obstacle must, be gotten out
of the way. What is that but a make use
of a strong word inciting to assassination?
No doubt, I say, the intention was to in
cite assassination, so the obstacle which
the people had placed here could be got
out of the way. Are the opponents of
this Government not )et satisfied; are
thosewho want to .destroy our institutions
and to change the character of the Gov
ernment, not satisfied with the quantity
of blood that has been abed. Are they
not satisfied with one martyr in this place?
Does not the blood of Lincoln appease
their vengeance and their thirsts ill un
slaked ? Do they still want more blood ?
have they not honor and courage enough
to seek to obtain the end otherwise than
through and by the hand of an assassin.
lam not afraid of an assassin attacking
me where one brave and eourageons man
will attack another. I only dread him
when in disguise and where his footstep
is noiseless.
* * * *
THE ..N:ORTIIRIIN TRAITORS
HE Di NOT TO BE BULLIED
BEHEADING
If they want blood let them have the
courage to strike like men. I know they
are willing to wound but afraid to strike.
If my blood is to be shed because I vindi
cate the Union, and insist on the preser
vation of this Government in its original
purity, let it be shed; but let an altar to
the Union be first erected, and then, if
necessary, take me and lay me upon it,
and the blood that now wartus and ani
mates my existence shall lie poured out as
the last libation, as a tribute to the Union
of these States. (Great applause.) But
let the opponents of this Government re
member, when it is poured, that theblood
of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
This Union will grow, and it will continue
to increase in strength and power, though
it may be cemented and cleansed in blood.
I hal,:e already spoken to you longer than
I intended when I came out. - (Go on.)
• •
THE UNION-TRUE LOYALTY-THE
SOUTH SHOULD DE ALLOWED REPRESEN.
TATIVES.
I repeat I am for the Union, I am for
preserving all the States. lam for ad
mitting into the Councils of the nation
all the representatives who aro unmistak
ably and unquestionably loyal. A man
who acknowledges allegiance to the Govern
ment, and who swears to support the Consti
tution, must necessarily be loyal.
(We shall publish the speech entire
next weak.)
--'" The campaign of Virginia was
fought against the representative rebel
Lee. The present campaign is fought
against Andrew Johnson, who leads the
hosts of the Confederacy." (Cheers)
Wendell Phillips at a Republican meeting
in New York.
—The circular of General Grant, rela
ting to the suppression of newspapers for
articles - hostile to the government, and to
good' feelings between the sections makes
no diitinetion between the journals North
and South, and . would, if executed, wind
up half-the negro bureau organs.
The Supreine'Court at Washing
ton has decided, Chief - Justice Chase'
alone dissenting, to consider' oases arising
in the Southern States, 'those States be
ing no longer in' rebellionr : This decision
affirms,that no State is Out of The Union.
. , •
:Gem B. F. Butler. - 1 •
()fl i 2I: ' The ~ 4 1 2 preti
States:, that General 'Butler had paid 'to
Smith nßiothers, - of `lsiew' (Meting, the
eighty 'Viol:mind dollars' in - gold' which
they , alleged' hQ abstracted' froth their
vaults,' together with interesti'all the costs
and Sherifniloundage, Making an- aver=
ange•of over oneltuidroi and fifty thous
and dollars:,.'
7-4%. Tribune dispatch about the veto
says " the re is much excitement about the
matter in - political circles. It is thought
by many that the President has now
thrown himself completely into the arms
or the Copperheads."
A resolution of confidence in Presi
dent Johnson passed the New Jersey
Senate after the news of the veto. f t ,
was offered by a Democrat, but the Re.
publicans could not control theirmajority
to defeat it.
1-len.ry...3Vard 13eecbot%. delivered. a
lecture in Brooklyn on Tuesday, appro.
ving the President's policy; and urging
the immediate admismon of ;the Southern
States.
A caucus of tie Demoerotic mem
bers oftbe Ohio Legislatuie his endorsed
the President's,veto.
—Tile Republican, membeis of- the
Maine Legislatuie, in caucus, passed res
olutions endorsing their Senators in vo
ting for the Freedmen's Bureau bill over
the President's veto.
—A bill allowing negro testimony_ yes.
terday passed the North Carolina House
by a vote of sixty three yeasi to four nays.
—A table has been officially prepared
exhibiting the amount of moneys deposi
ted to the credit of the Treasurer of the
United States from all sources in the
States of Tennessee, Virginia, North Car
olina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Florida, L inisiana, Texas, Mississippi and
Arkansas. The total amount is nearly
$28,000,000 from April 1a5t,1865, to Feb
ruary Ist, 1866.
—The steamer Moravian brings later
foreign news. Arrests of Femans con
tinued in Ireland. The cattle plague is
still increasing in England.
—The President has written to Hon.
John Purcell, of Louisiana, that the mili
tary will not interli3re with the election of
city officers in New Orleans.
A colored' clergyman has been ar
rested at Chatham, C. W., for the mur
der of an illegitimate child. .1-le was hold
ing protracted religious meetings at the
time of his arrest.
—Resolutions favoring negro suffrage
and condemning the President were in
troduced recently in the New Jersey
Senate by Mr. Scovel, and defeated. lu
spite of the•one Republican majority.
A Washington paper remarks that the
pc ople of thq
, adjpiuinz States of 31a 1 ;y.
land and Vi '
rg'inia need laborerstirtill the .
soil, that it may bring forth its accustom
ed products.
But they ( annot get black labor. Why r
There are forty thousand negroesin the
District, the large majOrity of who'll' may
be seen walking about in idleness, or sail.
nitrg themselves in some sequesti red cor
ner, or huddling around some smoking
Faggots, receiving mutual warmth from
each other. Why then will they not la
bor ? Because the govenimpf,.
the Freedmen's Bureau, feeds, clothes,
furnishes physieiaus, and 'coffins when
they die, and as if that was not sufficient,
sends a minister to pray them out of this
world into another. They are supported
here in their idleness, while fields lay
waste where honest labor would be rt:-
warded. Was there ever greater injus
tice than this? Hear it ye honest sot El
of toil (unfortunately white) who labor
daily to earn a support for yourselves and
families ; hear it ye laboring millions who
pay enormous and grinding taxes for the
support of idleness and fostering of vice.
Wi I you support and countenance it by
voting for the men who pass appropria-
tion bills for . this purpose ? not, look
you to it that these mi n never disrace or
pollute our legislative halls agrin with
their pretience. Send only men, who far
ther the interests of the country and de
fend the purity of: ur institutions.
ELSTORY or TOE virozum.
BY PHILIP SMITH, B. A.,
One of the principal contributors to the Diettonarier of
Oreek and Roman Antiquities, Biography, arid Geog
raphy.
Since Sir Walter Raleigh solaced his im prisonment in
the Tower by the composition of his " History of the
World," the Literature of Ragland has never achieved
the work which be left unfinished. There have bees
" tlniverval Histories." Prim the bulk of an encyclope
dia to the most meagre outline, in which the annals of
each nation are separately recorded,' but without an at
tempt to trace the story ofDivine Providence and ha•
man progress. In one connected narrative. It is pro ,
posed to supply this want bye work, condensedenougb
to keep it within a reasonable size, and yet so fall as hl
be free from the dry baldness of an epitome. The ilter•
mare of Germany abounds in history—such as those of
Muller, Schlosser, Karl Von Rotteck, Duneker, and oth
ers,—which at once prove the demand forsuch a book,
and furnish models, in come degree, for its execution.
Bat even those great works are somewhat deficient in
that organic malty which is the chief aim of this "
tory or the World."
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story we propose to follow, from its beermingin the sa
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Bast,—throngh the engem ire Oriental Empires.—ta
riseof liberty and the perfection of heathen polity, arts.
and literature In Greece and Rome.—the change which
passed over the face of the world when the light of
Christianity sprung up—the origin and first apparent')
of those barbarian races whicheverthrew both division
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rose on the Empire's ruinsjnelading the picturesque
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modern liberty and civillzatlen.—and the extensions) ,
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and Christian missions, to the remotest
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