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From th New Yoik Evening Poet.
A WINTER NIGHT AMONG THE
HILLS.
BY HENRY T. BARKIS.
Cold blows the February blast.
Among these snow-capped-hills,
And cold the vestal moon now shines
Upon the frozen rills.
Tho bare trees stand like sentinels,
To guard these solitudes,
That reign with awful stillness
Through these wild and pathless woods.
The wildcat from his rock den
Comes with a piercing scream ;
His fierce oye in the moonlight
Flashes with fearful gleam
The mountain-wolf sends up her cry
Since morn she has not fed ;
And she is eager now to slay,
And "banquet on the Ucad."
The raccoon walks alone to-night
Within the frozen bog,
And leaves his foot-prints in the snow
Upon the maple log.
The deep-mouthed owl far up the glen,
Holds nndisputcd sway,
II o sits Night's loneliest chorister
Upon the beecheu spray.
The slender Doe has gone to rest,
1 ho tiresorie chase is o er ;
Our faithful hounds hare lost her track,
1 o bo reguined no nioro.
Night's lonely moments coldly fly
ilh stillness till supreme,
Save when tho owl's long, moody cry
Comes with the wildcat a scream.
A blazing fire, before our tent.
Mends out its brilliant light :
And from each near protecting rock
impels the frost of night.
A fut deer hangs against the tree
ills slender limbs are still :
No more his musky feot will paw
Upon the yellow bill.
Before the Cro our hounds now sleep
1 he mountain cbase is done
We rodo through wild untroduii dells
Until the Etng was won.
Drear is the night I cannot slocp
Among tuese irozen mils;
For nature's wildest Poetry
Al y soul s deep casket nils.
FIRST AND LAST L07E.
''I have half a mind to talk to yon
of old times, Philip. IjWuk you would hardly
lough at m. HeuveTFl if J orS ,
or any of them, should hear me say I ouce
loved a woman, I should never hear tho last
of it. What would you say to know thut I
am not a Ducueior.
"You, Granby f
"I am not a bachelor."
"You have u wife t"
'1 had a wife."
"Where is she I"
"Oone."
"Where I"
"To God, I trust. Yes, I trnst that mncli.
It may be so : it must be so. It can not bo
otherwise. She was too fair, too pure, too
much of angel mould to be forever lost. And
yet Lucifer fell. The bright star that led
the morning song ol old creation fell. God
help me I 1 know not where she is. 1 luiip.
"Is she dead ?" I whispered the question.
"Yes, dead long ago, and dust of the earth
now."
Another long pause ensued. He rose from
his seat and walked across to an old mahoga
ny writing-desk, or book-case, or closet a
curiously-carved piece of furniture and took
Iroru n drawer a small case of ebony, lie
paused to light a fresh cigar as he turned to
me with it in his hand. The smoke of it
curled thickly up into his right rye as he
hnded it to me to open. Perhaps, proba
bly, it was the smoke that caused the tear
that filled the eye. Perhaps it was not.
1 opened the case, and ho sat down with his
back to me, and his feet on the fender.
It was a magnificent sight that. Jewels
of the rarest and most splendid kind, dia
monds, rubies, and emeralds, and jewels that
I did not know the name of. There was the
cost of a crown or a kingdom to my astonished
eyes in the setting of the picture, but the
jewels did not outshine the face that was
among them, fairest and proudest of nil.
It wag the face of a quoen of a Mary of
Scots or more, perhaps, of old King Kene's
daughter, in her girlhood. Beautiful exceed
ingly, in all the rate beauty of seventeen
years of unclouded joy. Yet, as I looked at
the face, I saw a something I can not well
explain it that made me think that face was
made for tears and sadness. Joyous as it
was, fairly radiant with gladness, I still
thought that was but a paiuter's fiction, and
that sorrow would find o fit residence in those
glorious eyes. A torrent of dark brown hair
flowed over her shoulders, and bcr eyes were
lifted up just enough to express full delight;
but had they been lifted a little farther the
face would have been that of the angel that
loved his Lord best of all those who fell, and
loved Lucifer next, and was tempted to his
ruin, now looking up to his lost throDe and
unforgotten Master.
"1 said she was mv first lore and bit lust.
Listen, and I will tell you all.
"She was the daughter of a clergyman who
lived near our home. He was wealthy, and
had purchased a splendid place adjoining my
father's, which, you remember, came into my
possession when I was of age. I met her
first in one of my walks through my own
lands, which were not separated from her
father's by any fence or wall. She had strolled
turough the woods, as was ber custom, ac
companied only by her dog, a large, brod
chested fox-honud, as like us well could be to
your dog John, that yon are so proud of. He
knew that he bad a queen to guard, and so be
toU me by hi bearing when he approached
"! m respectful he was firm. The for
mailt of an introduction had not been com
plied with, and I must not come near. He
knew I was a stranger j and though I bowed
and lifud my hat, he was not to be appeased,
and I could not pass down the path except I
fought the dog. The lady laughed-, and I
Joined the laugh. It was introductioo
enough for us, but not so thought her more
than duenna-careful guardian. Wt eichan.
ged a Jook, a smile, a laugh ; and then I ex
pressed my regret at Dot being able to wel
come Miss Hanson (as I could not doubt that
it must bs she) with more of formality to bit
grounds.
rrlcd Calc.
"'You doubtless think I have taken pos
session with arms And troops,' said she, with
a glance at the dog.
" 'I could certainly wish that your array
was less formidable.1' said I : 'but, perhaps,
at another time it may bo so,' and I turned
aside.
"A formnl call at her house was my next
business, but she was not at homo. The
next week she was in tho wood again, and
without her guardian. It was not ntthe first,
the second, nor the third interview that I be
gan to love her. I cannot tell when it was.
I thought her at first, too fur above humnn
nature to be loved by a man, and at length
I found myself worshipping her. I use the
old wo'ds of lovers. I can find no others.
I did do reverence to her. I was a boy be
foro her. She was my whole life, my idol, in
every sense of the word, I did not know or
care that there was a God above us both I
worshipped but her.
"That picture is not flattering. She was
just such a iiorjon as yon see her there
young, and exquisitely beautif.il, uml Gt to be
a queen.
"She thought rlie loved me. Ye?. I know
she did. She h:ul not Rireti the world, !md not
been in company, had hnd no ntloNtions from
men, had been wit h her father tli'it ihi from
childhood, and plio doubtless believed tliat
she loved me truly, fuithfnlly.
"I can not tell 'you all that history of our
love, of the loi:;r days in tho deep forest, un
der the shadowy oaks mid sombre pities; of
tho evenings on the piazza, hidden from her
father's eye by the thick woodbine; of the
close clasps of hands, the soft pressure of
cheek to cheek, the thrilling touch of her
head to my shoulder, the long embraces, the
long kisses.
"I ssked her once if she had ever dreamed
of love before. I did not ask her if she had
loved ; she had told me often that she never
had.
"Sho answered frankly that she had once
thought Bhe loved, but that was a childish af
fair, long past. It was a boy schoolmate,
who had been educated in her father's family
before her father was rich, and who had
grown np with her. Ilo was but nineteen
when she saw him lust, and she but fourteen,
and she had forgotten him till 1 asked the
question.
"There was no hesitancy, no blushing, no
concealment. She told me that he had kissed
her often on ber cheek, uml forehead, and
lips and she had kissed hint perhaps ns often.
I confess that I winced a little : but her eyes
looked dowu any distrust those splendid
eyes.
" "Sho described Georgo Gray. He was a
good, gentle boy, with some lire and much
gaiety, and a keen, quick, active mind.
Mischievous at times, but always kind. She
seemed to like to talk about him, and I let
her talk.
"Weeks months a year passed by, and
our love grew daily. It was arranged that
she was to pass a year with her father's sis
ter, a fashionable lady iti the city, before our
marriage. Such washer father's peremptory
desire, and we yielded.
"I could not see her often while there, and
when I did see her it was in a full room, sel
dom alone, never where I could bold her in
my arms, never where I could hear her say 'I
love you 1' A few stolen kisses, which she
feared, more than I, might be seer, by somo
one, were nil the tokens of love we exchanged.
Aud yet I never doubted her for an instant.
I would rather have doubted tho sky. the
stars, any of the immutable objects around
us, than her love, which I believed had growu
to be a mountain.
"Let me hasten to the end. We were
married in all the splendor of wealth.
Crowds of friends congratulated us, and
among the crowd that were at tho wedding
was George Gray. He was the friend of her
aunt, and hnd been a frequent visitor at her
house. In fact, he had lived there for three
months before the marriage. I knew this
afterward, not then.
"Her aunt was a woman of fashion, a gay,
toulless woman, one of the detestable class
who live for tho enjoyment of to-day, forget
ting that there is to-morrow. Tho effect of
this companionship for u year had changed
her whole character. I did uot perceive it at
first, but it was soon made manifest. She
loved gay assemblies, and did not care wheth
er 1 accompanied ber. So within six months
after our marriage my dream of love was
over. We lived separately, not to the world's
eye, but in fact. We occupied separate
rooms, seldom met iu the house or in society,
never sat together, never folded each other
in our arms as of old, never pressed our lips
to each other's cheeks or lips, never looked
kindly in each other's eyes. It was all over,
all our young glad dreams, all our jnvous
hopes, all our brilliant fancies. 1 sat long
nights alone in my library when she though',
I was reading, but when I was struggling
with the agony of my life. Still 1 trusted
uer, still 1 Uelirveil her mine anil only mine,
still 6ho was ningniticeutly beautiful.
"One evening she. was to go to a large
fiarty. Iler carriage was at the door. I met
ler lit the entry. How splendidly she looked.
I paused in involuntary admiration of her,
and sho saw it and smih-d. I sprung forward
aud took her hand in mine. Hie h-.ilf with
drew it, and then loo'uul ut ir.e soareh:n;!ly.
She turned her face away. I raised n y li s
to bers. She gave me her cheek, and trem
bled as I kissed it. 1 saw her, and rviltlm
bered afterward. The ne.vt moment she
kissed mo once on my lips and was ji ine.
"I was to go that evenintr to see a friend
tea miles iu the country, and, though it was
nine o'clock, I started, and drove my horses
there within an hour. 1 was returning ut one
o'clock, the horses were loitering uloug. A
heavy cloud was in the west, and a storm was
at hand, so I gathered up the reins and drove
on rapidly. 1 bad not gone thus half a mile
when I beard a carriuge coming furiously
down the road before me, and, as it dashed
by, a flash of lightning made every thing as
visible as daylight. I saw the hound that was
never away from my wife's carriage following
this one. It startled me. I knew the dog
so well that the fact of his being there was
evidence beyond a question that his mistress
was there also. Like the flash thut had re
vealed so much, another flash in my soul re.
vealed a thousand fold more. I turned my
horses instantly, and put them to their
speed. There wero do such animals in the
county.
"They flew over the road. The storm was
coming, and we were going to meet it. The
light oiug flashes were more and more fre
quent, and I saw the other carriage just
ahead. I overtook it, and could bear some
one shout to the driver of it, and be put on
bis lash furiously. He used the road adroit,
ly, keeping me constantly behind him. It
was a tremendous pace, but I had my horses
well in band, and I knew the road well
enough to know that a mile ahead it crossed
a broad, desolate common, where J could
have a wide track upon which be could not
keep ahead of me.
"My miud was in a tempest for tha first
fire minutes of that chase, and then the tem
pest wgg over sod sll wj ct!n. I was dehb.
erate determined. The resolution of a life
time was done in that brief space, and I set
tled back into my seat and held my reins as
coolly and firmly as if I had been driving in a
race with a friend.
"As we opened on the common. I could see
that the pace was telling on the horses ahead
of me, and I watched my chance and took it.
As I flew alongside a pistol ball went by my
head, and I heard a woman scream at the
some instant : the next moment I saw them
both. It was she.
"I knew it when I saw tho dog. I had a
stout, strong wagon, and I did not hesitate.
The two carriages flew a hundred yards, side
by side, and then I locked the wheels togeth
er and threw my horses on their haunches.
The other carriuge went into a hundred pie
ces, and I wheeled my own around and wns
awoy. I did not drive rapidly, I let my hor
ses walk to cool themselves, and I was five
minutes in reerossing the common. Before
1 reached tho hill, I beard the long bay of
the hound, that most mournful cry that signi
fies the grief of a dumb animal. It thrilled
through me. The s for in was at hand.
Again the wail of the dog went over me. I
I paused. W as she not my wife 7 Was she not
yuting, benntilul, tempted 7 Could 1 let her
lie uut in the tempest on tho ground, on the
lonesome common ? Had she not lain in my
arms, on my breast, on my heart of hearts ?
'I turned the horses into a thicket and
went buck on foot. I left the road and took
to the common, until I approached the scene
of the disaster. Flash after flush oriightning
revealed to me the state of affairs there.
'The driver lay in the road, motionless and
apparently senseless. George Gray lay near
him ns motionless. She was sitting in the
middle or the traek among tho fragments of
the carriage, her head bowed on her hands,
her face concealed, and I could see that sho
shuddered constantly.
"Then came the tempest, ns if the flood
gates of heaven were opened, but she did not
move. She was soaked with the rain. Her
gay laces hung around her dripping und drag
gled, but she did not move. The thunder
was constant and terrible, but she did not
seem to hear it. I thought only of ber not
of myself though I, too, was standing un
sheltered in the storm. It was a pitiful siht
to look at her, the child of luxury and ease
the putted, fondled, beloved one sitting in
the mud rtnd mire, exposed to tho pitiless
ruin, heedless cf tempest or thunder, with sll
that wreck around her.
'I advanced to lift her from lirr place. She
did not heed my touch. She did not start,
nor give any evidence that she knew even
that she was touched. She seemed as sense
less us the bodies that lay in the road before
her, and as I lifted her by main force and
held her up ou her feet, ber head fell forward
on her breast, and ber heavy brenthing seem
ed more like sobs than respirations. I took
her in my arms. Again, once again, I felt as
I had felt of old when 1 held lwr, pnro and
nncomtiiminaled, in my arms, and the same
old thrill went through me when her head fell
on my shoulder. I enrried her awoy from
them, 'through the darkness and storm, hull' a
mile over tha common, to my wagon, and pla
cing her in it, held ber with my left arm, still
lying on my breast, as I drove furiously iuto
the city.
"1 carried her up to her room, I undressed
her with my owu hands, and laid her iu her
bed. She was still silent, senseless, dead all
but for that heavy brenthing, and the sobs
at intervals that seemed to burst frorit her
breast,
"I sent for my family physician, and told
him all. No one but he knew it, and he
agreed to keep the secret and attend her
faithfully. The servants knew nothing of it
till they were roused to wait on her, and the
whole affair was kept in profound silence.
"But she was forever lost ; the Doctor told
me within a week that the brain fever would
kill her or leave ber hopelessly insane. In
her ravings she seemed to be struggling with
some terrible enemy, lighting constantly with
a fiend, aud sometimes tho would call on me
for help in piteous accents that pierced ray
brain.
"At length the fever left her, and she lay
for weeks feeble but gaining strength, and, as
the physician had prophesied, ber intellect
was gone A year went on with a heavy
wheel. Oh, those long days of bitterness !
those nights of agony I
"Philip, I never believed that she was sin
ful in heart. I never believed that she was
wanton. I never for an instant admitted to
my soul the idea thut she had meant to
wrong me. I could not explain it. and she
wus not able to explain it to me ; but I be
lieved in my heart that there was some way
of removing all suspicion of her guilt, and I
waited my time pntieutly, but in heavy woe.
"Gray was not heard of from that day.
The driver of the carriage was found dead on
the road. The public accounted for tho
it rung circumstauee of a broken carriage mid
the dead man by supposing thut a flash of
lightning ona of those uiyterious agencies
thut sometimes strike und leave no trace of
the blow had destroyed them No one
.dreamed of cnnnectinir tho illness of tho
beautiful M is. Granby with that circumstance
"She failed as the year passed. Her phys
ical strentrlh grew weaker and weaker, and" I
con'd sometimes tee a corresponding gain in
her mental rowers Onco she smiled. She
had not smiied in mouths. It was like a mv
of light from heaven to me. Iliad watched
her day by day. sat by her. talked to her.
fondled her, kissed her, held her on my heart
hour by hour, but nil iu vain until now. She
had been silent, idiotic, until thut evening,
and that smih) was to mo a promise of heaven.
She smiled when I kissed her lips. It was a
token that she remembered me.
"I took her up to the old place, and often
drove out with her, through nil those old fa
miliar scenes. Hut she did not smilo again
until a time of which I shall tell you.
"It was a summer evening, pleasant, cool,
and calm. Her nurse had walked out with
her, for she was able to walk, and they bad
gone into the grove which was between my
house and her father's. 1 watched them from
my window, and shortly after they disappear
ed I observed at a distunco a man who seem
ed to be going toward the same grove. I ol
ways avoided having her eiien by strangers,
and I started to follow ber.
"1 overtook them at the Tory spot where I
had first seen her four years ago. As 1 walk
ed slowly along the memory of that day grew
on me, and I recalled all the beauty and splen
dor of my young love. Sho was scarcely loss
beautiful now, though sadly changed. I
heard a cry aud rushed forward. She stood
in the same spot where 1 first saw her, erect,
with flushing eve and outstretched band. A
man, George Gray, wag at ber feet, aud I saw
ber spuru him with ber foot. He sprang np
and looked iuto ber lace with eyes full of
rage and passion, and at that instant I struck
him. It was a furious blow, and be fell like
a log on the ground. And at the game mo
ment, with a ciy of terror and delight, the
sprang; into my arms.
"All tha years wars gone, (Jed, forgotten,
and wa were children again, full of love, gcd
joy, and hops in the eld forest.
"She clung around my neck, she wcpl In
mv face, she called me all the old pet names,
tho nnines of endearment that we used iu for-
mor days. We forgot the nurse, the crawl
ing worm at our feet every thing but our
wild, our overflowing joy.
"Philip, eternity can not contain more joy
than was compressed in that oae long cm
brace. "Hut sho was dying. The silver, cord was
loosened, and fatt tailing away. I enrried
her homo in my arms, as I once afore carried
her. She lay there now clasping me close in
her embrace, choking me with a tight fold,
but smiling ever, smiling like an angel that
sho was, and silent, but happy beyond all
words.
"That night she told mo all : how for a
year her heart was estranged from me, and
the tempter whispered her on to destruction.
How the resisted, day by day, yet yielded in
sensibly, but never dreaming of sin, nnd firm
ly resolved never to betray me. How all the
power of that young girlish love had returned
to beguile her, und she had been taught to
look on me as the stupid scholar who thought
more of his books than of her. and whoso
words of love were but studied phrases, learn
ed in volumes of other men's passions. Yes,
sho confessed all. humbly, but loveiugly, and
then told me of that last day.
i'Mie had dressed that night tor tne- party,
with the same thoughts and feelings she had
indulged for months. But my kiss in the en
try, and the look of my face and eyes, she
said, changed all the current of her mind.
she drove to the assembly her love forme be
gan to revive, and she thought of turning
back to tell me all. But I was to be away,
as she knew, und so she went on. But she
made the night shorter than usual, and left
early. As always before, Gray was at her
side, but ho was'not to her what ho was a
day before. The whole evening through her
mind wus revolving nil the events of tho year,
and she was overwhelmed with repentauco
and love.
"So sliu determined to hasten home to me,
and in her haste she did not observe that her
carriage took another direction, until Gray,
who was at her side, renewed his offers of
love in a bolder lone than ever before. She
told him that ho insulted her, and he laughed
and threw his arms around her. The scene
that ensued I shall not pause to relate. The
tempter was foiled by her new-born resolu
tion, and by my sudden meeting them. The
rest you know.
"It was all over now. One week of heaven
on earth, and she was going from me to tread
the path that lies in darkness, and alone. 1
could not think or it. I could not think of
that beloved child 'wulking the cold and star
less road of death' in solitude. Where would
she be wlieu my arms ceased to enfold her 7
What company in the silent land would fol
low on her footsteps ? Who would look into
her eye into her heart T Who would guard
her, cure for her, protect her ? She never
walked alone here ; could sho there ? Sho
never, never but once, was out alone in night,
or gloom, or storm, and that once how it
haunted me 1 that memory of her sitting si
lent in the darkness and the tempest 1
"It came at last- There was the same old
smile, the same life-giving smile on her fea
lures, lighting them as with a gleam of glory.
She clasped mc close, close in her arms. She
kissed my cheeks, my lips, my forehead, my
neck, my hands- I lay by her, with mv heoij
on her pillow ; and now we wept, and now
we smiled, now prayed ; now lay still, silent,
Calm, but in the stiflness of unutterable an
guish. She was radinntly beautiful ! An
gels in heaven are not so gloriously beautiful!
Aud she Philip, I dare not say again she
was an angel, or Gt companion for them but
look at thut portrait again, look into that
countenance, nnd tell me, tell me, did God
make that all that for dust and woe? Oh,
He must havo saved her ! He must have
heard tbut sobbing prayer 'Christ bnt'e
mercy, mercy J with wnicb her soul went out
into the unknown 1
"Yes, sho died. Still clinging to mc still
clasping her whito round arms around my
neck still pressing her lips, cold as they
grew, yet madly pressed, to mine still, with
the last strength of love and life, kissing my
eyelids und my forehead with soft, quick,
loving, despairing kisses till a sharp, swift
pang passed over her countenance, her grasp
fell off, and her head dropped heavily ou the
pillow, and my wife was gone gone pone !
" 'Where is she 7' you asked men, Philip.
God knows where !
"Was sho not beautiful ?"
He sat looking at tha miniature; and as
he looked at it, I could have believed it
smiled on him more lovingly than on nie.
A 'Duncan's Falls' correspondent, who
writes us from Mansfield, Ohio, send us the
following 'Colored Discourse, for 'the entire
authenticity of which he vouches without re
serve,' having taken is down from tho thick
lips of the reverend orator himself:'
'.Mytex,' bruderen and sisteren. will be
foun' in de fits' chapter oh Giuesis, uud do
tweiity-sebeu-verse :
So de I.ur nuke man Just like Ilese'f.
'Fow my bruderen. you see dat in di
linniiin' ob da world do Lou' make Adai
de be-
iiru
1 tole you how he make him : Uu muku 'im
out oh clay, un' he sot 'im on a board, an' ho
look at him, an' be say 'Furs-rate ;' an' when
he get dry, he brethe in 'i sit de brefT of lire.
Hu put him iu de gardeu of Eden, and he sot
'im in one corner ob de lot, an' he tole him to
eat all de upples, 'ceplin' dem in de middle ob
de orchard : dem ho wanted for bo winter-up-pies.
Byrne-bye Adam he get lonesome. So
lie Lor' make the. 1 tole you hoie ho make
her. He gib Adam lodlom, till he git sound
.sleep : den he gouge a rib out hu side, and
make Kbe : ou' be set Lbe in do corner ob de
garden ; an' bo tole her to eat all do apples,
'ceptin' dem iu de middlo ob de orchard : dem
he want for winter apples. Wtin day de Lor'
go out a bisitiu': do dubbil come bloug: he
dress himself in de skin ob de snake, und he
find Lbe ; an' he tola her : 'Kbe ! why for
you uu eat de nppla iu de middlo ob do or
chard Y Kbe say : 'Jem da Lor's winter-ap.
pies.' But debbil say s '1 tole you to eat dem
case deys de best upples in da orchard.' So
Kbe eat de apple tin' gib Adam a bite ; uu'
de debbil go away. Byme-by de Lor' como
home, uu' he miss de winter tipples ; an' he
cull : 'Adam 1 you Adam '.' Aduiu he lay low:
So de I .or' call again : 'You Adam !' Adam
say j 'Heal Lor', and de Lor1 say : ' rYho
stole de winter-apples Y Adam tole him he
don't know Kbe, lie expoc'l So de Lor' cull:
'Kbe !' Kbe she lay low : de Lor' cull uguin !
'Yoa Ehe 1 Kbe say : 'Ilea! Lor. Do Lor
aur: 'Who stole fie winter apples? 'Kbe
tola him she don't know Adam she expec'l
So de Lor cotch 'era boff, and he trow dem
ober de fence, au' be told 'em, 'Go work for
your libin' 1
Ia'Dt that negro, 'all over Y
The best capital for young men to start
with in life, 1s industry, good sense, courage
asd the fear of God. It is better than all the
e rd:t er ma that was ever reissd.
THE SAILOR TO HIS HOME.
'Twas there by the sen I wandered and wrpt,
W hen 1 thought ot my dear loved Home,
When I thought of the infnnt that slept
In a fond mother's bosom at home.
'Twas on the shore of that ocean I thought,
I heard the voices of childhood at homo
When rest from tbo troubles of manhood I
sought,
Far, fur uwuy from tho shelter of homo.
'Twas on the breast of that wild water durk,
I recurred to the days of a schoolboy at
homo
While drifting along in a surge-beaten bark,
Borne on to that haven, my dear humble
home.
'Twas there while I 1 ibfter.ed to old ocean's
roar
I looked but iu vain fur tie comfort of
home ;
The eagle's wild scream was heard on that
shore.
Instead of my sisters sweet voices ot home.
W. P. T.
Shumokin, Feb. 10, 18D6.
HJcfo license ?aliu
REMARKS OP MR. TAGQART,
Of Xorthumberland county, on 3fr. Drowne's
amendment to Senate bill Jo. 7. entitled on
act to repeal nn act to restrain the tale of
iiittixicating liqttnrs.
Delivered in Senate, February 12, 1S56.
If I had needed any proof of the fecbleiess
of the cause to which I am opposed, I have
certainly had it, and to the fullest extent, in
tho utter inability of Senators on this floor,
and especially of tho venerable and distin
guished Senator from Allegheny.) Mr. Wil
kins,) to defend it. If he, sir, w'ho for fifty
years has been a man of note in tho land";
laised by his ta'ents to nearly every high post
under the government; a member of tho
House of Representatives before you and I
were bom ; a member of Congress and a
Senator of the United States; a Judge of
two courts nnd one of them a Federal court ;
a Cabinet MinisW, and a Minister Plenipo
tentiary; if he, ir. with all bis Aram-iron
honors clustering thickly around him in the
pride and power of his unclouded intellect,
and may I not add here, in all tho skinning
and scalping ferocity of his sarcasm if b
sir, can adduce no argument, and raiso do
point, how ragged, wretched, helpless wist
be that causo Nay. if he had tho mental
stature of a God, he could not defend it. The
imperishable Truth comes across his path,
ond the giant becomes a pigmy in the hollow
of its hand.
Mr. Speaker, he has told ns that drunken
ness is a limited evil. Great God! so it is !
limited by the bounds or the earth, and the
habitations of the humau race, and limited by
nothing else. For it has penetrated wher
ever men hove made their homes to desolate
and destroy thorn. I appeal to history ; and
its voice, answering from the deep of nee?,
tells me it hns swept off whole nations, und
I laid waste the proudest cities of the earth.
1 It t a limited evil, but there is scarce a G re
side in the land it has not clouded a heart
thut it has uot saddened an eye that it hns
not filled with tears. I ask him. with his
four score years of experience, if it is not so 7
Has he never known the happiness of a bouse
hold blighted the pride of a father's soul
humbled, or a mother's heart wrung with
agony? If he has not, sir, you and I have
in instances more than we would care to tell.
Has he not seen it enter tho domestic circle
the hallowed sanctuary of home and scatter
its dearest joys us leaves ore scattered by the
winds of winter? winds alas! that iu this
case, no springtime ever comes to temper.
Has he not seen it full like a blight upon
those whom nature had endowed with every
rare gift of body and mind, and sink them
degraded and brutalized into drunkards' or
felons' graves ? And yet all this is nothing to
the filthy gold that commerce may wring
from wretchedness. It is a limited evil, but
kind Heaven protects us from such limita
tions. He has asserted, sir, that drunkenness con
duces to no enormous crimes. Does that
venerable Senator uot know that our peni
tentiaries scarcely contain an habitually sober
man? liocs ho not know that our police re
ports are filled with the names of drunkards?
Docs he not know that 9-10th of all crimes,
aud 19-20th of ull murders, are committed
through intemperance, and that the gallows
creaks almost daily with tho carcasses of
drunkards T If he do not, sir. it is time ho
should, and with oil the profound deference
that my irreverant nature is capable t'f, 1
proffer tho information.
I think it was Diogenes who said, ha hnd
often regretted speech, but newr silence.
The ancient Cynic sheuld havo made rxcep
tions to this rule. There ure time, sir, when
it is not only stupid, but criminal to be silent.
As far as 1 urn concerned, this is such a time.
If I failed to bo heard now, I should be false
to the faith of my boyhood, and a traitor to
my manhood's best and strongest convictions.
My memory caunot recall a time when these
were not my principles. When I wus a boy
at school, I could see the slimy truck of the
serpent ull around mo, Mid 1 will tell yon
what my memory can recall lbe forms" of
those who fell before it, whom its poisonous
breath struck down. I rcmemht r them too
welL I sat with them on the sumo botich
swam the same river, aud scaled the same
high hill aud now there is nothing left of
them, bnt a yhastly memory to bold me to my
fuilh ! Ay, sir, it will hold nie there not
merely for my own gclGsli safety, but lor the
sako of two little children, whom it is natural
I should sometimes think ubout, Rlld who
shall never become the serpent's prey while
1 have a voice to warn them, or a strung urm
to protect them.
Whoever will take the trouble to consult
the record will Cud that, less than u year ago
I voted for the law, which whii-key mongers
ana tlieir ruin-headed parasites have com
nonly denominated tho "Jug Law." 1 did
so, because I hoped thereby to promote the
cause of temperance, and the welfare of niy
fellbw-citiseus. The popiilur vote forbade
the enactment ( a Prohibitory luw, and
striving aud hoping to be right, we enacted
this. I am compelled reluctantly to admit,
it has uot quite answered my expectations
not on account of its own defects, but because
a majority of tba people are npposeJ to it.
and because in some sections it i totally dis
regarded, aud by common acquiescence' con
signed to an untimely grave. I believe the
majority of the people to be w rong in this
instance ; but it is useless to legislate in the
face of pnblio opinion. Iwg which the
people bate, no matter how IrnorstvtlT ihwy
hate them, will become a dead letter, in spile
of all that law makers ot law interpreters
may do to the contrary.
Although I voted for tho law of last sos.
sinn, 1 am now ready to vota for iti repeal,
but at no time and under no circuniBtan'e
for its unconditional repeal. In coming to
this conclusion I have not fonndrd my cal
culations upon tho dollars Pbd cents which
the owners of tuvorns, mukers of whiskey and
sellers of grog may gain or lose. Thcie are
considerations paramount to these, which
claim my thought and commond my sympa
thiesconsiderations that involve more vital
interests tho degradation of men, the sor
rows of wpmen, and the tears of little children.
And I trust in God 1 may never be broohtj
to disregard these, for the sako of the gold
that may bo wrung from human misery.
1 will vote for this repeal, nU that tavern
keepers mar make more money, but that onr
great cause mny not be injured by forcing pub
lic opinion, i lio popular voice luisconaemnea
this law, nnd I am sorry that it is so. The
nooular voice is iust as elamorons for a whole
some aud vigorous substitute, and 1 am glad
that it is so. In no quaiter cf the State i3
anything else expected or demanded. Siiiia
tho 14th of April, 1803, the very traffickers
themselves havo ceased their indiscriminate
bowlings ut everything iu tho form of restric
tions, and whimpered as gently as suckiug
doves for any chungo we may be pleased ta
give them. This is one cood result that has
grown out of tho enactment which Senutors
on this floor, in tho enthusiasm of their grati
tude to tho combination that sent them here,
havo spoken of so contemptuously. And 1.
for one, sir, urn anxious to take advantage of
this salutary change iu the sentiments of tho
advocates of whiskey. While it is unwise for
law-makeis to get too fur ahead of ppblio
opinion, it is sensulesg nnd unpatriotic to full
behind it. The legislator should not nttempt
to steer his bark against both wind aud tide
but like a skilful pilut, should take advantage
of the current, guiding it carefully nmoug
rocks und quicksands. While he avoids tho
hunicatio blusl,, that only ceasa to blow
when they havo destroyed thuir victims, ho
should not dread tho transitory storms of
inobbish clamor; for they will pass harmlessly
away, uud the sun will bh.ue again, and tho
more brightly for the uurktiess which his rays
were able to dispel. Let Justice, Courage
and Truth be stumped upon the (lag that
flouts above him, and when his. bark is safely
moored asd its cuigo brought to shove, they
who were fiercest; in their imprecations, will
be foremost and loudest in their praises. Let
us work upon tais principle, and step by step
wo shall gain upon the giant evil that for cen
turies has been desolating the wutld. and
scattering poverty, crime, disease and death,
with all their concomitant and icsejarabls
horrors around it.
Mr. Speuker the day is not very far off
when people will look back in astonishment
at thu lime when a traffic in ardent spirits was
legalized or even Mcrated among civilized
men. And although just now the law of re
action seems to require a bnvheard surge, the
great tide will toll on, till the f miest and
most univeisal scourge that, ever efilicted tho
world shall be obliterated from its face. It
is my hope and earnest belief that in ten
years from to-day, a licensed groggery, or a
greggery of any fort wili be unknown among
the forty ini'.lious of this republ.c ; nnd ia
other ten years, unknown among all the ca
tions of the earth.
There wus a time, sir. when to assert that
the globe moved around the sun was punished
with imprisonment aud threatened with tor
ture, and now it is not only the creed of
learned philosophers, but of bobrs nnd school
boys. As sure as the Almighty has eii'ted
man with intellect to comprehend the Truth,
so sure will Truth ultimately prevail. It
needs only time, and its own inherent omnip
otence, to insnro it3 triumph ; and its grand
est triumph will to dethrone Intempetanco,
aud blot out Rum Irom among the great
powers of tho earth. When this triumph
comes, sir, Beggary will be driven from tho
land Crime will no longer stalk abroad
prisons will hi unpeopled the gallows rob
bedand Madness howl in vain for its vic
tims. That time will come, sir. Truth ia o
mighty, Jthat if a single ray of itg light fall
among men, it will grow wider and deeper
and higher and brighter, till no vestige of
Krror remains. Au tipple fell from a tree in
sight of a man whom nature had endowed with
a massive bruin, and from that little circum
stance a theory was deduced which explained
the physical harmony of the Univesc tho
motions or innumerable w orlds. That man,
by the extraordinary share cf Deity that ha
possessed, was able to comprehend that tho
same principle which brought the apple to
the earth, held tha earth in its orbit, and
guided the planets in tbeir illimitablo tracks.
So mighty is Truth, give it but a foothold,
aud sooner or later it will subvert the errors
and superstitions of CCHO years. Progress
is stamped upon evtrvthirg that God baa
made, aud he is but a dullard aud a sloth who
holds backward in tho race.
But. sir, this idea U to be taken in connex
ion with another. Under a popular govern
ment, the will of the people from whom ema
nates all political power, mnst not bo disre
garded, or lau-lessnen trill be added to evilt
already cristing. This consideration, and thit
alone, impels ma to tho conrse 1 intend to
pursue in voting for a license law. I do not
cringe to popular clamor for any effect it may
havo upon myself or my politieul fortunes ;
und although I do not claim to bo entirely
destitute of the sentiment which, the vener
able Senator tells us. distinguishes man from
the crawling worm, I do not value those for
tunes highly enough to sacrifice niy manhood
upon their shrine. 1 bare never cast a vote,
nor nttered a word, in this chamber merely
to advance them, and so help mo God 1 I
never will. If it demands this sacrifice, mv
efforts must find nnothtr chanuel, and tny
ambition unother career. Whilo I am here,
sir, bribes shall not swerve me, threats shall
not oppul me. nor pers eettiou drive me frwn
my course. 'he suit is set, aiad tny hand is
upon the helmi If I am wrecked, te water
thut overwhelm mo shall be pure nnd stain,
les" And when my political carcase is
dashed upon tho tWe. I trust no man will
noiat to it ord say bt-huld the spots ui.il
blotches of corruption. Popularity is too
often the boou of knavea nnd fools, to b
uuiiguv wiin tn stirTctuier U a Ireeuiru a
proMle-t privilege independence of thought
and net ion. Uo who comes here to play the
doughface or the demcgrgue. ruav win the
transitory applause of thoughtless" men, but
he will lose that which be should hold much
more highly, his own self respect and the per,
manent regasd of those whose regard is worth
tho most.
Mr. Speaker, two sorts of petitions hr
come hero by hundreds one sort mors nu
merous than the other ; some of theea reek
ing with the soiell of rumj marked with
the stains of mm ; written on bar room eouu,
Urs. by hands made tremulous with row i
and I dre the assertion that nearly all t,f
" originated in the patriotumi of
trrex.era in rantmen who sounder judj,
menu hart bn wrp d, and fatso tetter