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The Atlantic Monthly has published many
fine lyrics, but we do not remember any
nobler burst of song since the great na
tional crisis began than this solemn chant
which we find in the forthcoming Septem
ber number. It is worthy to be remem
bered with the stormy days through which
the Republic is now passing. Once read
it cannot be forgotten:
"UNDER THE CLOUD AND THROUGH THE SEA."
So moved they, when false Pharaoh's legion
pressed,
Chariots and horsemen following furiously,—
Sons of old Israel, at their God's behest,
Under the cloud and through the swelling sea.
So passed they, fearless, where the parted
wave,
With cloven crest uprearing from the sand,—
A solemn aisle before,--behind, a grave,—
Rolled to the beckoning of Jehovah's hand.
So led He them, in desert marches grand,
By toils sublime, with test of long delay,
On to the borders of that Promised Land,
Wherein their heritage of glory lay.
J. A. J. BUCH•NAN
And Jordan raptl along his rocky bed,
And Amorite spears flashed keen and fear
fully ;
Still the sante pathway must their footsteps
tread,—
Under the cloud and through the threatening
God works no otherwise. No mighty birth
But comes by throes of mortal agony ;
No man-child a ong nations of the earth
But findeth b ism in a stormy sea.
Sons of the Saints who faced their Jordan-flood
In fierce Atlantic's unretreating wave,—
Who by the Red Sea of their glorious blood
Reached to the Freedom that your blood shall
save
0, Countrymen ! God'e day is not yet done !
He leaveth not His people utterly!
Count it a covenant, that He leads us on
Beneath the Cloud and through the crimson
Sea
ANECDOTES OF THE LATE STEPHEN
A. DOUGLAS.
The following extracts are from a
well written article in the Atlantic
Monthly for August :
lIE GAINS THE SOBRIQUET OP THE "Touali
He was nearly seventeen years of
age, and, though not handsome, was
very intelligent and bright in appear
ance, so that he was able to compete
successfully for the smiles and favors
of a country lass who reigned the
belle of the village. This did not suit
the "mittened" ones, and they deter
mined to draw young Douglas into a
controversy which should end in a
fight—he, of course, to be the defeat
ed party. The night chosen for the
onslaught was the "singing school
night," and the time the homeward
walk of Stephen from the house of the
fair object of contention. The crowd
met him at the corner store. From
jests to jibes, from taunts to blows,
was then, an easy path; and in reply
to some unehivalrie remark concern
ing his lady-love, Douglas struck the
slanderer with all his might. Imme
diately a ring was formed, and kept,
until Douglas rose the victor, and
without further ceremony pitch
ed into ono of the lookers-on, and
stopped not until he, too, was soundly
thrashed, when, with flashing eye, and
clenched fist, he said:
"Now boys, if that's not enough,
come on, and I'll take you altogeth
er!"
At this juncture, the good old dea
con, who had been trying cider in the
cellar of the store, came along, and ta
king Stephen by the arm, said:
"'Well, Steve, you are a tough 'an!
What! whipped two and want more?
Come home, my boy; come home !"
He was allowed ever after to go and
come with his bright-eyed beauty, un
molested, and for years was known
there and in the neighboring town
ships as the " Tough 'Un."
It was during the sitting of his
Court, that the notorious Joe Smith
was to be tried for some offence
against the people of the State.—
Mob-law had taken matters somewhat
under its charge in the West; and the
populace, fearing that Smith in this
particular instance, might manage to
slip from the hands of the justice, de
termined to take him from the court
house and hang him. They even
went so far as to erect a gallows in
the yard, and having entered the
court-room, demanded from the sher
iff the person of the prisoner. Judge
Douglas was in his seat; the room
was filled with the infuriated mob and
its sympathizers; Smith sat pale and
trembling in his box, while the sher
iff, after vainly endeavoring to quell
the disturbance, fell powerless and
half-fainting on the steps.
"Sheriff," shouted theJudge,"clear
the court!"
It was easier said than done. Five
hundred determined men are not to
be thwarted by a coward, and such
the sheriff proved. It was a trying
momeztt. The life of Smith, per se,
grant 11.10ftrg•
A GRAND POEM,
grant Sim Hang.
ME
CLEARING A COURT-ROOM
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1861.
was not worth saving, but the digni
ty of the Court must be upheld, and
Douglas saw at a glance that he had
but a moment in which to do it.
"Mr. Harris," said he, addressing a
huge and sinewy Kentuckian, "I ap
point you sheriff of this court. Se
lect your deputies. Clear this court
house. Do it, and do it now."
He had chosen the right man.—
Right and left fell the foremost of the
mob, some were pitched from the
windows, others jumped thence of
their own accord, and soon the entire
crowd, convinced of the Judge's de
termination to maintain order, rushed
pell-mell from the court-room, while
Smith, who had unperceived made
his way up to the feet of the Judge,
laid his bead on his knee and wept
like a child.
"Never," said Douglas, " was I so
determined to effect a result as then.
Had Smith been taken from my Pro
tection, it would have been only when
I lay dead on the floor."
The fact that he had no power to
appoint a sheriff was not one of the
"points of consideration." "How
shall I execute my will?" was prob
ably the only question that suggested
itself to his mind at the time, and the
logic of the answer in no way troub
led him. The dignity of the bench
was always upheld by Judge Douglas
during the sitting of the court; but he
was no stickler for form or ceremony
elsewhere.
PITCHING IN
Mr. Douglas, while a Judge of the
Supreme Court of Illinois, was one of
a number of passengers who, on the
crack steamboat, Andrew Jackson,
were going down the Mississippi.—
The steamer was detained several
hours at Natchez, where she was sup
plied with wood and water, and dur
ing the delay, a huge, hard-fisted
boatman, somewhat the worse for a
poor article of strychnine whiskey,
made himself very conspicuous and
exceedingly obnoxious by the con
tinual iteration of his intense desire
to fight some one. lie was fearful
that he would "ruin" if his pugilistic
wants were not immediately attended
to, and in manner more earnest than
agreeable, asked one and all to "come
ashore and have the conceit taken
out" of them. From the descriptive
catalogue he gave of his own merits,
the passengers gathered that he was
"a roarer," "a regular bruiser," "half
alligator, half steamboat, half snap
ping turtle, with a leetle dash of
chain lightning thrown in," and were
evidently afraid of him; when the
Judge, who had been quietly smoking
on the deck, stepped out upon the
quay, and approaching the bully,
said, in a peculiarly dry manner—
" Who might you be, my big chick
en, eh ?"
"I'm a high pressure steamer," roar
ed the astonished boatma,n.
"And I'm a snag," replied Douglas,
as he pitched into him; and before
the fellow had time to reflect, he lay
sprawling in the mud.
SLIGHTLY ROUGH
Some time after this, he had occa
sion to visit Chicago, and his friends
were desirous that he should address
the people in defence of the principle
involved in the Kansas-Nebraska
On Saturday night he appeared be
fore his audience in the open square
in front of North Market Hall. His
opponents had been more active than
his friends. Ten thousand roughs,
determined to make trouble had as
sembled there; and when the speaker
appeared, they saluted him with
groans, cat-calls, ironical cheers, and
noises of all kinds. That sort of thing
in no way annoyed him. He was
used to it. On similar occasions he
had by wit and good humor succeed
ed in gaining a respectful and gener
ally an enthusiastic hearing, and he
expected to do so now. He was mis
taken. For four hours the contest
raged between them. He entreated,
he threatened, ho laughed at them,
scolded, bellowed with the entire vol
ume of his sonorous voice, but with
out success. They defied and insult
ed him, until a clock in the neighbor
ing church tower tolled forth the mid
night hour.
"Gentlemen," said Douglas, taking
out his watch, and advancing to the
front of the stand, "it is Sunday
morning. I have to bid you farewell.
I am going to church, and you—can
go to —." 'Whereupon he retired,
and the crowd followed, hooting, jeer
ing and screaming, until they left him
at the door of his hotel.
DOUGLAS AT THE INAUGURATION.
There had always been a feeling of
friendship sxisting between Mr. Lin
coln and Judge Douglas : and the
manner in which the latter acted just
prior to the inauguration, and the gal
lant part he sustained at that time,
as well as afterward, served to in
crease their mutual regard and es
teem. It was my good fortune to
stand by Mr. Douglas during the
reading of the Inaugural of President
Lincoln. Rumors had been current
that there would be trouble at that
time, and much anxiety was felt by
the authorities and the friends of Mr.
Lincoln as to the result.
"I shall be there," said Douglas,
"and if any man attacks Lincoln, he
attacks me, too."
TII3I PRESIDENT ON DOOOLAS
The Pri*nt wag, in return, a
warm friend of Mr. Douglas. I had
occasion to inquire of him if ho had,
as was reported in the newspapers,
tendered to Judge Douglas the posi
tion of brigadier general.
"No, sir," said Lincoln, "I have not
done so; nor had I thought of doing
so until to-night, when I saw it sug
gested in the papers. I have no reas
on to believe Mr. Douglas would ac
cept it. He has not asked it, nor
have his friends. But I must say,
that, if it is well to appoint brigadier
generals from the civil list, I can im
agine few men better qualified for
such a position than Judge Douglas.
It was he who first told me I should
have trouble at Baltimore, and point
ing on the way, showed me the route
by Perryville, Havre de Grace and
Annapolis as the one over which our
tro(ps must come. He impressed on
my mind the necessity of absolutely
securing Fortress Monroe and Old
Point Comfort, and, in fact I think
he knewall about it."
The President continued at some
length to refer to the aid, counsel and
encouragement he had received from
Judge Douglas, intimating that the
relations subsisting between them
were of•the most amicable and pleas
ant nature.
A PATRIOT'S DEATII
His death I will but mention. It
has plunged a loving family into sor
row, and taken fron► a party its lead
er. Thousands of sentences gratify
ing to his friends are - Written about
his greatness, and the sacredness of
his memory ; and no word will be ut
tered here to offend them. lie shall
himself close this paper, and I will be
the Medium of conveying in his behalf
a message to his fellow countrymen
—a message which he spoke in the
ear of his watchful wife tor the future
guidance of his orphan children.
Reviving slightly, he turned easily
in his bed, and with his eyes partial
ly closed, and his hand resting in that
of Mrs. Douglas, he said, in a low and
measured cadence—
Tell them to obey the laws and sup
port the Constitution of the. United
States."
EFFECTS OF CLIMATE ON SOLDIERS.
The Crimean war proved to En
glishmen the necessity for an army
sanitary Commission, which should
have the largest powers and privi
leges for the energetic prosecution of
measures by which the health of
troops may be preserved. We are
wisely taking advantage of their ex
perience. Our soldiers will tight bet
ter for knowing that their health and
comfort are looked after by men who
have the matter at heart, and who
are fitted by their studies and exper
ience to perform the work thorough
ly.
The enemy destroys scarcely ten
per cent. of 'an army. Government
returns show that of our forces in
Mexico, regular and volunteer, only
1,548 died in battle or of wounds re
ceived in battle, while 12,348 died of
disease, and 12,252 were sent home
on account of sickness. Ofthe French
army in the Crimea, 7,500 were slain
in battle, 50,000 perished by disease,
and 65,000 more were discharged as
invalids. Of nearly 94,000 English
soldiers in the Crimea, 4,419 were
slain in battle or died of wounds; but
16,298 died of disease at the seat of
war, and nearly 13,000 were sent
home sick. With the timely labors
of our sanitary commission we may
hope to show results much more en
couraging than these, in our army re
turns at the close of this war.
Meantime, as much has been said
of the perils ofnur Northern troops,
of the heats and fevers of the South
ern States, it will not be amiss to look
a little at the mortality tables of the
Mexican war. Here we find, what
the British have also discovered in
India, that men born in and coming
from colder climates bear fatigue and
exposure in torrid regions much bet
ter than troops native to the warmer
clime. The rebels threaten us with
their allies, the musketoes,
and, "Yel
low Jack ;" but as we shall presently
show, in Mexico, where Northern and
Southern men fought side by side,
the men of the free States bore the
rigors of the climate much better
than those of the slave States. The
record is a very curious one; and
proves that an army of "gentlemen"
is not altogether a desirable force for
anything but militia musters.
On April. 8, 1858, the Secretary of
War made a report to the United
States Senate of the losses of the vol
unteer forces employed in Mexico.—
From this it appears that seven North
ern States—Massachusetts New York
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana,
Ohio and Illinois—furnished in the
course of that war, 22,573 men. Of
this force the total from disease
was 2,931 m 4; less than one eight of
the whole. Nine slave states—Vir
ginia' North Carolina, South Caro
lina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Tennessee, and Kentucky—furnished
22, 899 men. The loss from this force,
by disease and death caused by dis
ease, was 4,315, or more than one
fifth—a very considerable difference
in favor of Northern troops.
When we go into particulars we
find that Massachusetts lost of 1,047
men, but 61 by disease while South
Carolina, furnishing 1,054 men, or
seven wore than 3Waachasette, lost
not less than 328 b?disease. Missis
sippi lost 769 men by disease, out of 2,-
319, while Indiana, furnishing nearly
double the number, namely, 3,470,
lost only 768. Georgia lost 362 men
by disease, out of 2,047, while New
York lost but 188, out of a total of 2,-
665. North Carolina sent 936 and
lost 233; while New Jersey sent 424,
and lost but twelve. Pennsylvania
sent 2,464, and lost 411; but Missis
sippi lost 769 out of 2,319. Illinois
furnished 5,973 men, and lost 850 ;
while Tennesse furnished only 5,090,
but lost not less than 1,186. Ala
bama lost 323, of a force of 3,011; Ar
kansas 136, of a force of I,323—rath
er more than ten per cent. in each.—
Kentucky lost 709 out of 4,800, but
Ohio, sending 5,530, lost but 641.
The Texan troops, fighting in a coun
try to whose circumstances and cli
mate they were thoroughly accus
tomed, lost yet more by disease than
the Missourians who came there from
the cold North. Of 7,313 men, Tex
as lost 360 by disease, while of 6,733
Missourians, only 242 were thus lost.
Astonishing as these comparative
results are, they might be predicted
from a knowledge of the men. The
Northern soldier is a man used to la
bor, who has earned his living and
supported his family by his strong
arms and honest industry. His mus
cle is firm—his mind is quiet—his
habits are such that discipline falls
lightly on him. He has been used
to endurance, and above all, he has
been to school and is an intelligent
being, capable of adapting his con
duct and his habits to his circumstan
ces. But what. are the armies of
"gentlemen" of whom rebel papers
boast so loudly ? They are men who
have spent their clays in idle boasting
and their nights in dissipation.—
Their relaxed muscles, their restless
minds, their ignorance, their lack of
self-control and - hatred of discipline,
make it difficult to form them into
soldiers. Mr. Russell, who has a
sharp eye for a soldier, does not, in
his last letter, conceal his preference
for the men in Fort Pickens over
those in the rebel camp outside.
It is plain that, should it be judgtd
advisable to pursue the Southern can
paign this winter, our men, taking
equal risks, may expect to suffer less
than the enemy from the climate, on
which the rebels depend as one of
their safeguards.
SHE WILL AND SHE WON'T.
Doesticks seems to be resuscitated
by marriage, though too much to im
itate his mother-in-law. Ho says:
"One reason why it is so difficult
to please a woman is that she seldom
knows herself what she wants. In
most eases it is hard to satisfy a wo
man as it would be to content a cap
tain who should tell you to steer his
ship and wouldn't tell you whether
he wanted to go to Jersey or Japan.
They wouldn't be satisfied whatever
you do.
"Especially in the matter of war.
"Particularly in the matter of the
present war. Your wife, or mother,
or sister, or whoever may be the
woman that owns you, refuses to be
content, no matter what you do.—
If you don't join a military company,
she sulks, insinuates you are a cow
ard, turns up her nose, and 'wishes
she was a man.' If you do join said
company, she scolds about the ex
pense; grumbles about the loss of
time, and growls whenever you go
to drill—though, in spite of her growl
ing, she always saves the choicest
part of dinner when you do come.
"Then she laughs at you, and
calls you a 'dressed-up monkey,' the
first time she sees you in unifdin ;
and then, as soon as you are gone out
of the house, she rushes over to Mrs.
Jones to tell what a 'splendid officer'
her husband is, and how magnificent
he looks in his new military dress.
"Then, if your regiment is ordered
away, and you insinuate that 'busi
ness affairs' will keep you at home,
all her fire blazes up in an instant, and
she upbraids you for 'backing out'
at the critical moment, and insinuates
that you are a 'play boy soldier;' and
then she wishes that she were a man
—she'd show folks how to fight.—
Then, when you finally make up your
mind to go to the seat of war, she
bursts into wet tears (which spot
your new uniform and tarnish the
gold lace on your sleeve), and thinks
you 'ought to be ashamed to go off
and leave your family.' She vows she
'don't believe you care a straw for
your wife, or a cent for your sweet
children;' she 'knows you would rath
er be anywhere than at home,' and
'wishes she were a man' she'd teach
the Presdent better than to send men
away from their families.'
" Then, when the day comes for
you to start, she vows that she will
'never speak to you again if you per
sist ingoing.' Then when you take a
paper out ofyour pocket and pretend
to read a furlough from the command
ant, excusing you, and giving you
leave to stay at home, she throws her
apron over her head sits down on the
floor, and howls around, to think
that she should have a coward for a
husband'—' that her husband should
be afraid to go to the wars: And
then,when you tell herthat its allainis
tokg, sad : thatiou are going after
she howls louder than ever because she
'knows you will be killed,' or she feels
it in her bones that you'll come home
with two wooden legs, and then how
can you take her to the Academy on
opera night? Then she resorts in
turn to every one of the immense list
of female tactics to keep you at home
—she wishes, she banters, she pokes
fun at you—she wishes she was a man
---she gets mad—she sulks—she threat
ens to go home to her mother—she
coaxes—she 'won't ever live with you
another day'—she scolds she entreats;
and, as a last resort, she faints; in this
case she always falls into your arms,
if you make an offer to catch her; if
you don't offer and if it's early in the
morning, and she hasn't made her bed
yet she'll fall on the bed; but if the bed
is made np nicely, she'll fall on the
carpet so as not to muss the bed; if the
fainting dodge don't work, and you
still are resolved to go, she vows she
'hates you and that she'll never speak
to you again, then, to prove the bitter
ness of her hate she goes off and packs
your haversack full of all the dainties
and delicacies of the season; then, after
all, at the very last moment, she
comes and throws her arms around
your neck, and whispers that she
'loves you )est ofall in the world,' and
that she'll 'be such a good girl till . you
come back,' and she'll 'take such good
care of the children,' and that 'you
musn't fret about her, and that she'll
write every blessed day, and that you
must write just as often as you can,
and that she 'loves you best, best,
best,' and a thousand little messages
only for you, but all kind and loving
and all told without 6, tear, for she
doesn't cry now until you are out of
the house; and when you are gone
she weeps like a shower bath for half
an hour, then suddenly stops short,
wipes her eyes, and doesn't waste an
other tear till she sees you again.
"Thats the way they all do ; and,
talk as peacefully as you can, she is
never satisfied in her heart till she
sees you in uniform."
Xittte gun.
Front Vanity Fair.
THE WAR FEVER IN BALDINBVILLE.
BY ARTEMAS WARD
As soon as I'd reeooperated my physikil
system, I went over into the village. The
peasantry was glad to see me. The school
master sed it was cheering to see that gi
gantic intelleck among 'em onct more.—
That's what ho called me. I like the
schoolmaster, and allers sends him terback
er when I'm off on a travellin campane.—
Besides, he is a very sensible man. Such
men must be eneouTaged.
They don't git news very often in Bald
insville, as nothing but a plank road runs
in there twice a week, and that's very much
out of repair. So my nabers wasn't post
ed up in regard to the wars. 'Squire Bax
ter said he'd voted the dimicratic ticket for
goin on forty year, and the war was a dam
black republican lie. So Stackpole, who
kills hogs for the 'Squire, and has .got a
powerful muscle into his arms, sed he'd
bet 35 he could lick the Crisis in a fair,
stand up fight, if he wouldn't draw a knife
on him. So it went—sum was for war,
and sum was for peace. • The schoolmas
ter, however, sed the Slave Oligarky must
cower at the feet of the North ere a year
had flowed by, or pass over his dead corpse.
"Esto perpetual" he added, "And sine qua
non also!" sed I sternly, wishing to make
an impression onto the villagers. "Re
quiescat in pace!" sed the schoolmaster.
"Too troo, too troo," I answered, "it's a
scanderlus fact!"
The newspapers got along at last, chock
full of war, and the patriotic fever fairly
burst out in Baldinsville. 'Squire Baxter
sed he didn't b'lieve in Coercion, not one
of 'em, and could prove by a -file of Eagles
of Liberty in his garret, that it was all a
whig lie, got up to raise the price of whis
ky and destroy our other liberties. But
the old 'Squire got putty rily when he
heard how the rebels was cuttin up, and he
sed he reckoned he should ekour up his
old muskit and do a little square fiftein for
the Old Flag, which had always been on
the ticket he'd voted, and he was too old to
bolt now.
The 'Squire is al/ right at heart, but it
takes longer for him to fill his venerable
biler with steam than it used to when he
was young and frisky. As I previsly.in
formed you, I am Captin of the Baldins
ville Company. I riz gradooally and ma
jestically from drummer's Secretary to my
present position. But I found the ranks
wasn't full by no means, and commenced
for to recroot. Davin notist a general de
sire on the part of young men who are is
the Crisis, to wear eppylits, I detarnained
to have my Company composed exclocsive
ly of officers, everybody to rank as Briga
deer Ginral. The follerin was among the
various questions which I put to recroots:
Do you know a masked battery from a
hunk of gingerbread?
Do you know a eppylit from a piece if
chalk?
If I trust you with a gun, how many
men of your own Company do you speck
you can manage to kill during the war?
NEW SERIES.--VOL. 3, NO. 15.
Have you ever heard of Ginral Price, of
Missouri, and can you avoid sintlar acci
dents in case of a battle?
nave you ever had the measles, and if
so, how many?
How air you now?
Show me your tung, &c., &c. Sum
of these questions were sarcusstical.
The company filled up rapid, and last
Sunday we went to the meetin house in full
uniform. I had a seris time gittin into my
military harness, as it was bilt for me
many years ago; but I finally got inside of
it, tho' it fitted me putty clost. How
soever onct into it, I lookt fine—in fact,
aw-inspirin. "Do you know me, Mrs.
Ward," sed I, welkin into the kitchen.
"Know you, you old fedi ? Of course I
do."
I saw at once that she did.
I started for the meeting house, and I'm
fraid I tried to walk too strate, for I cum
very near falling over backwards; my sword
got mixed up with my legs, and I fell in
among a choice collection of young ladies
who was standin near the church door a
seein the sojer boys come up. My cocked
hat fell off, and sumhow my coat-tales got
twisted round my neck. The young ladies
put their handkerchers to their mouths
and remarked, "Te he," while my ancient
female single friend, Sary Peaseley, bust
out into a loud larf. She exercised her
mouth so violently that her new false teeth
feltout onto the ground.
"Miss Peasely," said I, getting up and
dustin myself, "yit must be more careful
with them sore teeth of your'n, or you will
have to gum it again!'
Methinks I had her
I'd been to work hard all the week, and
I felt rather snoozy. I'm afraid I did git
half asleep, for on hearing the minister
ask, "why was man made to mourn?" I
said, "I give it up," having a vague itlee
that it was a conundrum. It was a onfor
tinate remark, for the whole meetin house
lookt at me with mingled surprise and in
dignation. I was about risin to a pint of or
der, when it suddenly occured to tte where
I was, and I kept my seat, blushing like
the red, red rose—so to speak.
The next mornin I rose with the lark.—
(N. B.—l don't sleep with the lark tho'.—
A goal.)
My little dawterwas execootin bailie ,
accompayn' herself with the hand•orgin,
and she wisht me to linger and hear her
sing:
"Hark, I hear a angel eingin, a angel
now is onto the wing."
"Let him fly, my child?' said I, a boa
lin on my armer, "I must go forth to my
Biz."
We air progressin pretty well with Pour
drill. As all air commandin officers, there
aint no jelusy ; and as we are all exceedin
smart, it aint wuth while to try to outstrip
each other. The idee of a company com
posed excloosively of commanders-in-chiefs
origgernated, I spose I skurcely need say,
in these Brine. Considered as a idee, .1
flatter myself it is putty hefty. We've get
all the taktiks at our tungs' ends, but what
we perfectly excel in is restin muskits.—
We kin rest muskits with anybody.
Our corpse will do its dooty. We go
to the ade of Coluutby—we fight for the
stars !
We'll be chopped into sassige meat be
fore we exhibit our coat tales to the foe.
We'll fight till there's nothin left of us
but our little toes, and even they shall de
fiantly wiggle! "Ever of thee,"
Anecdote of John G. Whittier.
On a recent anceasion, Whittier, the Qua
ker poet, was traveling with a friend over
a New Hampshire railroad, and Ming
conversation Mr. Whittier's friend, who is
also•a member of the Society of Friends,
told the poet that he was on his way to
contract for a lot of oak timber, which he
knew would be used in building the gun
boats at Portsmouth, and asked him
whether he thought it was exactly in con
sistence with the peace doctrines, of the
Quaker denomination. Without saying
anything calculated to decide the question,
the two arrived at their parting place,
when Mr. Whittier, shaking his friend's
hand, said : "Moses, if thee does furnish
any of that oak timber thee spoke of, be
sure that it is all sound."
A. WARD